Richard WELFORD is one of the founders and the chairman of CSR Asia based in Hong Kong. He is also a director of ERP Environment, a UK-based publisher.

Richard has twenty years of experience working in the fields of environmental management and social responsibility. He was one of the early pioneers in developing social audit and reporting methodologies with UK-based organisations such as The Body Shop, IBM and Eastern Electricity in the 1990s. From 2002 to 2010 Richard was a professor at the University of Hong Kong and headed up the Corporate Environmental Governance Programme. He has sat on the Swire Environmental Committee as an external adviser for the past four years and has undertaken consultancy work with a number of leading companies, including the MTR Corporation, Disney, CLP, Nike, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, HP, HSBC, Citigroup and Adidas.

Richard’s work has had a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability and social justice. Richard has worked with Cathay Pacific and the Swire group developing a climate change strategy. He has also worked on policies and implementation plans covering conservation and biodiversity. For Shangri-La Hotels he is developing initiatives not only covering environmental sustainability but also aspects of human rights and local community engagement. He has been an advocate of human rights auditing as a means of ensuring social justice and has undertaken assessments of the Freeport Human Rights audit in Papua.

Stephen FROST is one of the co-founders and an executive director of CSR Asia. He is also an assistant professor at the Department of Asian and International Studies at the City University of Hong Kong. He is in high demand as a speaker internationally, has consulted for numerous companies, governments and multilateral organisations, and is widely published. He is regularly interviewed by local and international media organisations, and he sits on the advisory boards of major corporations and CSR initiatives internationally.

Stephen has been involved in CSR in the Asia-Pacific region since 2000, when he moved to Hong Kong. Since that time, he has focused on issues surrounding supply chains and workplace standards. He has worked with numerous local and multinational companies on a host of other issues, ranging from consulting on the implementation of CSR systems to factory training and stakeholder dialogue.

He developed and taught the first CSR modules in MBA programs in Chinese universities, developed and taught the first undergraduate CSR course in Asia, and along with his co-founder offered the first public training of CSR in the Asia-Pacific. He helped develop an innovative factory training program for Chinese factories, and led a team to develop capacity building for Chinese organizations to deliver service to companies in supply chains. He is a recognised pioneer in CSR in Asia.

Erin LYON is an Executive Director of CSR Asia based in Singapore. Erin is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales, having trained with and worked for the international law firm, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer both in Europe and Asia. Erin has been working in Asia for over seven years and has lived and worked in Indonesia as well as Singapore.

Erin has advised Asian, US and European companies on Corporate Social Responsibility. Recent clients have included HP, Dell, DHL, Bursa Malaysia (the Stock Exchange of Malaysia), CDL and Singapore Petroleum Company with projects including CSR disclosure, stakeholder engagement, community investment, ISO26000 and sustainable supply chains. Erin has a strong interest in the development of CSR in Asia and has worked with clients to assess the changing regulations and voluntary agreements that are developing in Asia and the impact they have on operations. She also focuses on the development of CSR disclosure in Asia and is responsible for the Asian Sustainability Rating^TM. Erin is also an elected member of the GRI Stakeholder Council.

As well as advising companies and other organizations, Erin is an adjunct at the Singapore Management University School of Law, lecturing in Ethics and Social Responsibility and she has also taught Corporate Governance at SAICSA.

Rikke NETTERSTROM is an Executive Director of CSR Asia based in Malaysia. Rikke has over 15 years multi-sector experience in corporate responsibility strategy, stakeholder engagement and communications. At CSR Asia, her focus is on Board-level engagement to promote responsible business practices at major Asian and international companies.

Prior to this, she was responsible for environmental and social issues for two of the world’s sustainability leader - The Body Shop International plc and Novozymes A/S, preparing strategies for over 50 markets globally. As an investment analyst and a public affairs consultant, she provided advisory services to multinational companies within a range of sectors, including consumer goods, agrichemicals and financial institutions. She has worked extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas, delivering workshops at Board and senior management level in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the US. Rikke was closely involved in the creation of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil as an Executive Board member, and recently served as Interim Secretary General of the organisation. She holds an MSc in International Business from Copenhagen Business School and postgraduate qualifications from Thammasat University, Thailand.

Brian Chi-kuen HO is the Director of CSR Asia’s China offices and manages business operations in mainland China. He has extensive experience in handling projects on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and focuses on stakeholder engagement, sustainability reporting and management of corporate-NGO partnerships. Before joining CSR Asia, he worked as a researcher at the City University of Hong Kong and the Assistant Editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences. He received his Bachelor of Social Sciences from City University of Hong Kong and a Master of Social Sciences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of South Australia.

Mara CHIOREAN is the Acting Country Director of the Hong Kong office. She is responsible for developing relationships with key clients, business development and leading on consultancy projects especially in the areas of sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, climate change and supply chain services. She also contributes to CSR Asia’s training modules and research. Since she joined CSR Asia, she worked on consultancy projects with companies such as Swire Properties, Swire Pacific, Cathay Pacific, Bank of China Hong Kong, Sun Hung Kai Properties, Hopewell Holdings and others.

Mara is a Romanian and lived in Germany, Italy and Singapore before arriving in Hong Kong. Her background is diverse, having worked in both private sector (market research, telecommunications) and not for profit sectors in education and SRI (sustainable and responsible investment). Before joining CSR Asia she was working with ASrIA (Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia) where she contributed to the Carbon Disclosure Project 2010 Asia ex-Japan. She has extensive experience in training in the NGO sector in Romania. She has a masters degree in Environmental and Energy Management at Bocconi University in Italy, and was an Economics graduate in Romania.

Jenny COSTELLOE is country director of CSR Asia in Singapore. She has extensive corporate experience, including twelve years of communications roles in the oil and gas sector, which included communicating and reporting CSR activities.

Jenny advises companies and other organisations on CSR, working recently with BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Aviva and Singapore Petroleum Company, amongst others. She has lived and worked in Singapore for several years. Jenny has a BSc in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Bath,UK, a professional diploma in Marketing Communications and is currently studying an MBA at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

Beyond work and study, Jenny enjoys travel, foreign cuisine and contemporary art.

Makiko AKABANE is the Director of CSR Asia Japan office. She has over ten years’ in corporate social responsibility in multi-sector and multi-national companies. Specializing in the areas of environmental responsibilities and corporate philanthropy, she has started up CSR sections of four multi-national companies included Starbucks Coffee Japan, salesforce.com foundation, Nikko Asset Management, and LUSH Japan. She has received the President Award from Starbuck Coffee Japan in 2002 and the Award for Excellence in Corporate Volunteering Initiatives from the Sawayaka Welfare Foundation in 2006. Her award winning CSR strategy is featured as successfully integrating CSR into business. She also has experience to launch the CSR sections in Singapore and CSR projects in Thailand, South Korea, and China.

Makiko has a BA in Political Science and a BS in Biology from Waseda University (Japan) and studied in Graduate Schools in the University of California Riverside, Tufts University (US) and Keio University (Japan).

Leena WOKECK is the Director of the CSR Asia Center at the Asian Institute for Technology (AIT) in Bangkok (CSRACA).

Leena’s expertise is in the area of sustainable development, responsible business strategy, and sustainability reporting. She has worked with sustainability experts, CSR practitioners, and international and civil society organizations worldwide, and advised organizations of various sectors and sizes on CSR strategy development, stakeholder engagement, and reporting processes. Having previously worked for the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), she has in-depth knowledge of the GRI reporting framework.

Since moving to Bangkok in 2009, her focus is now mainly on working with companies in Asia and especially Southeast Asia on the implementation of effective and innovative sustainability solutions. Through the unique set up between academia and practice of the CSRACA she leads research projects on cutting edge issues and trends for the role of the private sector in sustainable development in Asia and works on developing and delivering training and executive education programs.

Leena holds an MSc in International Relations and Transnational Governance from the VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, a BA in International Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK, and has studied Cultural Anthropology and International Law at the University of Cologne, Germany.

Michelle BROWN is the Director of the European office and based in the UK. She has 15 years of experience across sectors working on sustainable development and has also lived in Hong Kong, mainland China, Vietnam and Canada working on these issues.

Michelle has worked with a range of companies and organisations on CSR strategy and implementation, impact assessment and evaluation, stakeholder engagement, community involvement and development and human rights. Clients have included the adidas-Group, CLP, Cairn Energy, CARE, PepsiCo, Procter and Gamble, the Asian Development Bank, Oxfam and the United Nations. She also works as a consultant with the ILO/IFC Better Work programme in Vietnam. Previous to moving to the UK, Michelle headed up CSR Asia’s community investment work based out of Hong Kong where she developed a Community Investment Scorecard to fit with other measurement systems for companies to better understand the impact for the business and the community. She is a skilled trainer and facilitator and has been involved with a range of projects aiming to build internal capacity to manage difficult issues.

In addition to her work at CSR Asia has been working on a PhD at the University of Hong Kong focussed on CSR and impact assessment in developing countries.

Lisette van RHIJN As Director of Community Investment, Lisette is responsible for CSR Asia’s Community Investment advisory and for the Community Investment Round Table (CIRT). She has worked with companies such as Hong Kong Disneyland, Cathay Pacific, Credit Suisse and Starbucks on their community investment strategies and related topics.

Prior to joining CSR Asia in Hong Kong, Lisette worked for NCDO, an Amsterdam-based NGO. For NCDO Lisette managed the private sector program, which aimed to stimulate the Dutch private sector to engage in innovative sustainable business initiatives in emerging economies. In this capacity she worked with European companies like Rabobank, KLM, Heineken and AkzoNobel, on impact measurement and Bottom of the Pyramid projects. She developed the MDG Scan, an online self-assessment scan for companies to measure the contribution of their core business and community investment to the Millennium Development Goals.

Lisette holds an MSc in Construction Management and worked previously for five years as Construction Manager for Corus, the Anglo-Dutch steel company. Prior to that, she worked as a construction project manager on several city development projects in the Netherlands.

Lai Yong WONG is the senior consultant of CSR Asia Japan office. Prior to joining CSR Asia, she gained extensive experience in working with CSR arms of major corporations and educational institutions to set up on-site childcare centers and other childcare related services, in line with their diversity and inclusion policy. Her experience also includes setting up government subsidized childcare and educational facilities in Japan. She has a Childcare Professional Qualification certified by the Japanese Government.

Prior to moving to Japan in 1997, she was leading procurement control processes at a major Japanese electronics company`s plant in Malaysia. Her professional interest lies in social enterprise and bottom of pyramid strategies. She is also actively involved in pro bono work to support social entrepreneurs and educational institutions in the social enterprise field. She is an invited speaker on social enterprise and pro bono activities at a Malaysian university.

Lai Yong has a PhD in Business Administration from Yokohama National University (Japan). She holds a B.A. in Economics from University Malaya (Malaysia) and an MBA from Keio University (Japan). While pursuing her MBA, she also attended the Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles as an exchange student.

Gabriel CHONG is a Senior Project Manager at CSR Asia Malaysia. Since joining CSR Asia, he has worked on reputational risk research, community investment opportunities, sector benchmarking, stakeholder engagement and surveys. He also supports work on writing of sustainability reports, training, and organising the CSR Wednesday briefings in Malaysia.

Gabriel holds a Bachelor in Communications and a Masters in Social Work. He has managed projects addressing social issues ranging from mental healthcare, urban poverty to HIV/AIDS while living in the US, UK and Malaysia. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Gabriel was the Communication Officer at the Malaysia office of Wetlands International. He taught social work at a Malaysian university, conducted and published research papers. Gabriel took a brief sabbatical from the NGO community and spent two years in the corporate sector.

Mabel WONG is the Community Investment Senior Project Manager, working primarily on Community Investment related projects.

Mabel has over 7 years experience in the NGO sector focusing on children’s issues, in particular, children in need of special protection such as street children, children in conflict with the law (juvenile justice) and child soldiers. Her last four years was spent in an Asia-Pacific regional role networking with senior government representatives, NGOs, corporates and UN bodies, providing technical assistance to countries starting up national child protection initiatives.

Mabel holds a BA (Political Science and Psychology) NUS and a MPA (Policy, Public and Non-Profit Program) from the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University.

Mia OVERALL is a Senior Program Specialist at the CSR Asia Center at AIT in Thailand. Her background is in pro-poor development, sustainability and CSR. She has worked on a number of sustainability topics including food, agriculture, climate change and water. Her expertise in CSR includes stakeholder engagement, supply chain improvement and corporate use of voluntary standards in their CSR/business strategies. She has extensive international experience and has worked with senior policymakers across Latin America and private sector clients of various sizes.

Before joining CSR-Asia, Mia worked at AccountAbility, where she concentrated her efforts on scaling-up the impact of voluntary sustainability standards and advising companies on stakeholder engagement. Prior to that, she worked for the World Bank on sustainability projects in Latin America. Her portfolio included projects related to climate change adaptation and including small farmers in value chains. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Food Program (WFP) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN in Rome and for the Growing Sustainable Business Initiative of UNDP.

She holds an M.A. in International Economics and Development from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in International Relations from Stanford University.

Nichapat NA THALANG is CSR Asia’s Senior Research Coordinator, based at the CSR Asia Center at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. She is responsible for developing CSR Asia’s research portfolio, driving thought leadership, coordinating research and engagement projects between CSR Asia’s offices across the region, and enhancing CSR Asia’s research capacity by building on the partnership with AIT.

Nichapat has several years of experience managing donor-funded research and development projects in South East Asia, especially focusing on capacity building needs and activities. She also has experience in working on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and market and trade mechanisms for development. She brings a special interest in innovative business solutions that effectively contribute to sustainable development as well as business models at the base of the pyramid.

Nichapat has a Master’s degree in Cooperation and Development from IUSS, Pavia, Italy. She also holds a B.A. in International Relations from Thammasart University, Bangkok, Thailand.

Tristan EDMONDSON is a Senior Project Manager in the Europe office and based in London. Before joining CSR Asia he completed a master's degree in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London. His thesis was based on a project for New Look, the UK's second largest women's fashion retailer, communicating the advantages of energy efficiency to their Chinese supply chain.

Until 2010 Tristan worked in Beijing running a small consultancy producing market intelligence on China's clean technology industry. Prior to living in China he worked for a British security company in the Middle East and Central Asia. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and has a master's degree in Chinese Studies, majoring in Chinese politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, and a bachelor's degree in Government from the London School of Economics.

Anita WONG is a Project Manager in the Hong Kong office, responsible for undertaking consultancy projects and trainings especially in the areas of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, stakeholder engagement, reporting and communications in China and Hong Kong. She is helping to develop a CSR Guide for SMEs in Hong Kong which is funded by Sustainable Development Fund. In addition, she also involved in Oxfam Corporate Social Responsibility Survey of Hang Seng Index Constituent Companies 2009 to understand companies CSR best practices. Moreover, she has also conducted stakeholder engagement for clients such as HP, Citi, Siemens and Swire Properties.

In the last three years, she has been involved in a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office-funded program to help British companies understand local stakeholders in China and in a corporate-NGO partnership programme to improve labour conditions in the Chinese supply chain for brands such as Nike, adidas, and HP. She also manages projects on sustainability in Greater China; including stakeholder engagement and sustainability reporting. She holds a degree in China Business Studies.

Sharmel ALI is a Project Manager based in Malaysia.

Prior to joining CSR Asia, Sharmel was a Sustainability Consultant working for SD3 Global, a leading London-based sustainability consultancy. Sharmel also has significant private sector experience through his employment with Citigroup (Malaysia) and Carphone Warehouse Plc (UK). He has worked on a variety of sustainability engagements including producer responsibility, sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement and strategy for clients in the private blue-chip, SME and public sectors. Sharmel has an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London where he specialised in Business and Sustainability and attained a distinction for his thesis on sustainability management systems.

Poland LI is a Project Manager in the Guangzhou Office where she is responsible for managing supply chain projects, especially on the Chinese supply chain capacity building. She also conducted non-financial risk assessment for investors in China and worked as a consultant for Chinese factory on social responsibility. Before joining CSR Asia, she was responsible for Social and Environmental Affairs in a factory supplying to the adidas Group.

She is certified SA8000 auditor and safety engineer, and completed IFC’s Labour Academy-Performance Standard 2 Course.

Matthew GUENTHER is a Project Manager in the Singapore office. Prior to joining CSR-Asia, Matthew was working as a researcher for a non-profit energy and environment think tank. Some of his past projects include a biofuels roadmap for New York State and as well as a guidebook to mandatory hourly pricing for combined heat and power users. He decided to make the switch to corporate social responsibility because he believes that businesses have a unique position to influence societal and environmental issues. He hopes to offer companies ideas on how to be innovators of positive change.

Matthew spends a considerable amount of his free time travelling and exploring. While travelling he brings with him the philosophy that the only way to find oneself is to first get lost.

He spent four years in Ankara, Turkey where he graduated from Bilkent University with a B.A. in International Relations. He also holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from the Bard Center for Environmental Policy.

Claudia WOO is a Project Manager of CSR Asia in the Hong Kong office. She is involved in all aspects of CSR, such as CSR research, sustainability reporting, community investment, and stakeholder engagement. Her PhD dissertation looked into the development and stakeholder perspectives of company advertising which contains socially beneficial messages. It involved various research methods, namely, case study, personal interviews with corporate respondents, focus groups with consumer respondents, and content analysis of TV advertisements.

Before joining CSR Asia in Hong Kong, she worked for the Asia Case Research Centre (ACRC) of The University of Hong Kong. She wrote real-life business cases and relevant teaching notes related to companies operating in Asia, concerning various business topics, such as accounting ethics, green marketing, supply chain management, and cross-cultural studies. She has also lectured in Multimedia University, Malaysia before pursuing her PhD degree. While doing her PhD, she had worked as a part-time tutor in the Cardiff University and was involved in freelance market research.

Iris LUI was born in Hong Kong and raised in the UK. Her education and work experience has helped her to establish her role in CSR Asia to undertake consultancy projects and training especially in the areas of corporate social responsibility strategy, community investment and stakeholder engagement in China and Hong Kong. Iris graduated from the University of Manchester, UK, in B.soc.sci (Hons) Sociology and an MA in International Relations (International Politics).

Prior to joining CSR Asia, Iris worked for the NHS in the UK to carry out compliance on the diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients, and provided analysis reports in accordance to the UK national validation and audit procedures. More recently, Iris worked for a pioneer think tank, researching and advocating on issues of importance to Hong Kong ranging from minimum wage, housing affordability, poor housing, reverse mortgage and captive insurance. During her work experience, she was able to work closely with business leaders and senior professionals and gained a valuable insight into how the business community can come together and work for the betterment of Hong Kong.

Emily D’Ath is a Project Manager at the CSR Asia Beijing office. Since joining CSR Asia, Emily has worked on sustainability reporting and research projects focusing on corporate foundations and community investment in China. Emily also assists with regional and China specific community investment work and business development in Northern China.

Before joining CSR Asia, Emily worked in Shanghai and Sydney for a cross-cultural consulting company. Emily is an experienced project manager with practical and research experience in sustainable development and corporate social responsibility. She has worked in Australia, China, Laos, Thailand and Malaysia. Emily completed her Social Science degree at Macquarie University in Australia.

Esther TEH is a Project Manager based in Malaysia. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Esther lectured in the field of Communications at a private local university. Throughout her academic career, she has been researching on corporate social responsibility (CSR), especially in the Asian scene. Esther’s keen passion on CSR sparked from being actively involved in community service activities for over 13 years.

Esther is finalising her MBA degree from Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) in Selangor, Malaysia. Esther received the Yang Fu Jia Scholarship to pursue an MA in International Communication Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. She has a BA in Communications, majoring in Public Relations, also from UTAR. Esther received a scholarship from the Japan Foundation and spent her gap year participating in an intercultural exchange program (American Field Service) with Mastubara, Osaka Prefectural High School in Osaka, Japan.

Alicia YE is a project manager stationed in Shanghai, China, responsible for business development, community investment related projects, stakeholder engagement, reporting and communications.

Before joining CSR Asia, she had worked in health sector for nearly four years. She has previously interned at CSR Asia, getting involved in projects on community investment and stakeholder engagement in Beijing office. She holds a bachelor degree of medicine and in 2010 she completed a master degree programme of public health at Lund University in Sweden.

Carolyn LIM is a Project Manager in the Singapore office. Prior to joining CSR Asia, she was in the private sector, having worked in the palm oil industry on sustainability issues, such as biodiversity loss, climate change and supply chain. Carolyn started her career as an investor relations professional and her clients included listed small and mid-cap companies in the consumer technology, food and engineering sectors.

Carolyn holds a degree in History from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s of Public Relations and Advertising from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Zheng Ying CHONG is a Project Manager in the Singapore office. She recently graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in Development Studies from the University of Melbourne, where she completed a thesis on social businesses. Her interest lies primarily in the potential contribution corporations can make in the developing world and the formation of Public-Private Partnerships for social and community development.

Chris YE is a project coordinator of CSR Asia Guangzhou office. Graduated from School of English for International Business in Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, she has rich experience on bilingual translation and event organization. With more than one year working experience on CSR, she has been involved into various projects covering stakeholder engagement, supply chain capacity building, CSR education, sustainability reporting, non-financial risk assessment, CSR awareness promotion, and so on. She also manages the Guangzhou CSR Salon, a platform for regular communication on specific CSR topics shared by the local community.

Yike QIN is a Project Coordinator in the Hong Kong Office. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Yike was working in the home appliances sector as a business development executive. He graduated from China Agricultural University with a BEng degree in Environmental Engineering. He also holds an MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden. Between 2009 and 2010, he did an internship in the EU-China Biodiversity Programme, which was funded by European Union and implemented by UNDP China and MEP China. His MSc thesis looked into how agricultural production affects forest conservation and how sustainable livelihoods can be achieved in a mountainous rural community.

Yike is finalizing his second MSc degree in Engineering Business Management from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Together with his previous academic background in environment, he hopes to gain a wider and deeper insight into corporate social responsibility issues.

Rex WONG Rex is a Project Officer of CSR Asia in the Hong Kong office. His major areas of responsibility include providing professional support to sustainability reporting, stakeholder engagement, events planning and graphic design. He holds a bachelor degree in Business and Management.

Scott LAM is the office administrator based in the Hong Kong office responsible for administrative and support services for the company. Scott joined CSR Asia from the manufacturing and trading industry. He also works part time as an editorial assistant for four ERP academic journals.

Songpon (Brian) SAENGPUN supports the CSR Asia Center at AIT as an Assistant Administrative Officer. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration with a major in Management Information Systems from Rajamangala University of Technology Thunyaburi, Thailand. Before joining the CSR Asia Center at AIT, he spent two years working for Sodexo at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT).

Yan SIN is an IT and admin assistant in the Hong Kong office, responsible for managing CSR Asia websites and providing administrative support services to staff. She has a BBA in information systems management from Hong Kong Baptist University. Before joining CSR Asia, Yan worked as an administrative assistant for an NGO.

Angel NG is an Events and Marketing Manager of CSR Asia in the Hong Kong Office. She joined CSR Asia in August 2010 with a proven marketing background with an international exhibition organizer in Hong Kong. With over 5-year experience on conference management, event marketing and public relations, Angel is responsible for CSR Asia’s annual conferences, trainings, corporate marketing and media partnerships.

Isabella CHEN is an Events and Marketing Coordinator based in Guangzhou office. She joined CSR Asia in August 2010. She is responsible for coordinating CSR Asia's monthly briefing session - CSR Salon in China, CSR Asia's monthly newsletter in Chinese. She also help the arrangement of conferences, trainings and events held in China.

Karen KO is the IT Specialist in the Hong Kong office, responsible for editing the CSR Asia Weekly, managing CSR Asia websites and overseeing all IT-related projects in CSR Asia's offices globally. She has a BSc in Computing and Information Systems from the University of London, is a Microsoft Certified Professional, and an IBM Certified System Administrator. Prior to joining CSR Asia, Karen worked in IT for CISD (Asia), which provides computing support for the Itochu Corporation (the biggest trading company in the world).

David THOMAS is the Program Coordinator for the Professional Masters in Corporate Social Responsibility (PMCSR) that CSR Asia has launched in collaboration with the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in Thailand. He is based at the CSR Asia Center at AIT. He has worked extensively in the education sector in South East Asia and recently completed a Master in Business Administration at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is a passionate advocate of CSR and is excited about the important contribution the MCSR will make to sustainable development in the region. When not working, David enjoys spending time at the beach and supporting his beloved Essendon Bombers Australian Rules Football team.

Karen Diane LEGASPI is the Office Manager stationed in Singapore, responsible for administrative and support services for the company. She joined CSR-Asia from Robinsons Land Corp. – Commercial Centers Division, a major real estate player and operating one of the most successful mall chains in the Philippines. She has worked as Marketing Communications Officer for six years and Operations Officer for a year for the company in Cebu City Office. Aside from work, Karen basks in travelling and cooking.

Rohayu RAMLI is the Office Manager in the Kuala Lumpur office, responsible for administrative and support services for the company. Ayu joined CSR Asia from BioX, an international CDM and Biodiesel Group, and has worked in the hotel management industry administrating projects and human resources activities. Currently she is pursuing her study in a part time basis to enhance her knowledge that can be utilized in her career and for self development.

Wit Hmone TIN LATT has joined the CSR Asia Center at AIT (CSRACA) in November 2010 as an Office and Program Manager.

She has extensive professional experience working with both public and private sector organizations in the region on regional capacity building programme administration and development, project planning and management, program management, event management and coordination, and budgeting and financial management. She has organized regional technical trainings and workshops and annual conferences in collaboration with several leading research institutions and Internet related organizations in the Asia Pacific, Europe and the US. Prior to joining the CSRACA, she worked as a Program Manager with AIT’s Internet Education and Research Laboratory (intERLab), a multidisciplinary unit serving as a regional center for Internet Infrastructure and Human Resources Development, for more than 6 years.

Hmone holds an MBA (International Business) from the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand.