Critics, experts in demand for sustainability panels
Companies are engaging them as external advisers to pick out ESG issues on the horizon
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Wong Pei Ting
MORE companies are making the effort to avoid having their sustainability decisions made in an echo chamber – by having on tap some of the sharpest and most educated minds.
Such is the case with former Temasek climate strategist Neo Gim Huay, Mandai Nature’s immediate past chief executive officer Kavita Prakash-Mani, and Filipino-American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Ressa.
They are among those offered positions on multinational companies’ sustainability advisory panels, where they are encouraged to air their concerns to board members and top management in meetings typically scheduled two to four times a year.
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