The Impact Podcast: Recent Episodes
Tech For Impact
With a funding gap in meeting the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, Asia faces a clear imperative to leverage and mainstream blended finance. This powerful financial tool can be applied across different structures, geographies, and sectors.
Hear from Nandini Chaudhury, Principal, Head of South and Southeast Asia, CrossBoundary Group,
In this episode of the Impact Investing Musings series, Hao Liang, Associate Professor of Finance at Singapore Management University and Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre speaks about the challenges of measuring and managing impact.
Is "impact investing" the same as "ESG investing"? Or "ethical" investing? Or "stakeholder capitalism"?
In this episode we consider how social and ethical considerations have long been a part of investment, and how those ideas have matured and evolved.
Our guest is Wai Chew Chik, CEO of Heritas Capital, a Singapore-based, multi-fund impact investing platform.
What if you could benefit from someone else’s patents to drive your own creativity? Listen to our interview with Richard Jefferson, CEO of Cambia.
Yee Ting Wong, acting director for A*Star’s food, nutrition and consumer care cluster, spoke with Teymoor Nabili about steering high-tech food production to feed Asia’s growing population in a sustainable way.
Development 2.0 is the concept that development "can be done anywhere by anybody now,” says Bradley Busetto, Director of the UNDP Global Centre for Technology, Innovation and Sustainable Development in Singapore.
In this full-length conversation with TFI’s Teymoor Nabili, Busetto talks about his organisation’s work to connect citizens with the changemakers (entrepreneurs, designers, developers, and data scientists) who can help them accelerate development in the region.
Will Asia’s corporate sector be able to pivot towards sustainability in time to make real progress against the SDGs?
Naina Batra, Chairperson and CEO of AVPN, thinks this is possible – if investors and the public pressure companies to embrace sustainable practices.
In this episode of the Impact Podcast, she tells Teymoor Nabili how ESG investing can lead to “more than market returns” and how Asian family offices can use a full portfolio approach to have a larger impact with their wealth.
India’s energy needs are set to increase by 95% over the next decade - but are renewables enough to meet this demand?
TFI’s Teymoor Nabili spoke with Manoj Kohli, Country Head of SoftBank India and a 40-year energy industry veteran, to get the inside look at India’s transition to the renewable revolution.
They talk everything from solar parks to wind and hybrid power, and whether green power can keep India’s economy growing throughout the recovery.
Asia is developing at warp speed — but how can it do so without challenging the environment?
We sit down for a full-length interview with Dr. Parag Khanna, global strategy advisor, founder of FutureMap, and author of “The Future is Asian”, to discuss what must be done to ensure that future is sustainable.
He talks about accelerating hydrocarbon markets, subsidizing large-scale solar projects, and transferring technology out of China, India, and Japan and into ASEAN countries — and, most importantly, explains why Asia doesn’t need to wait for Western powers in order to do any of these things.
East Asian cities (Seoul is a prime example) are combining high technology with social innovation. So how can we harness this tech for the public good throughout the rest of Asia Pacific?
Geoff Mulgan, former CEO of the innovation foundation Nesta, lays out a roadmap for scaling simple technology to spur development.
Now a Professor of Creative Intelligence, Public Policy & Social Integration at University College London, Geoff is a leading global thinker and consultant in the fields of innovation and social impact.
TFI sat down with him this week for his insights on how investment in social enterprise will bring Asia into the future.