
Dawn Yip
Coordinating Director, SG Partnerships Office
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

Dawn has supported numerous public engagements as designer, facilitator and trainer for facilitators. These include the current Forward Singapore exercise; and previously Our Singapore Conversation, the Emerging Stronger Conversations, the Conversation on Women’s Development, and post-National Day Rally and Budget dialogues.
Dawn has consulted and taught in the fields of foresight, public engagement and organisation development. She has also been visiting faculty with the Singapore Management University’s Master of Tri-Sector Collaboration. She was previously with the Singapore Government’s Administrative Service, holding positions in the Ministry of National Development, Ministry of Health, Prime Minister’s Office, Civil Service College, and Ministry of Trade & Industry. Dawn is a Harvard University alumnus and a Singapore President’s Scholar.
2023 Speakers

Serlina Huang
Head, Community Partnerships

Esther An
Chief Sustainability Officer

Pratibha Kurnool
Head of Social Impact, APAC & Global Community Impact
Cognizant

Laetitia Lienart
Head, Corporate Citizenship & Foundations APAC
Credit Suisse

Tamara Weaver
Director, Community Engagement

Bryan Choong
Principal Consultant, Impact & Strategy
Empact

Yap Keng Hwee
Deputy CEO
Empact

Karen Kee
Deputy Director, International and Community Development

Ivy Tse
Chief Executive Officer
Halogen Foundation Singapore

Soren Beaulieu
Regional Content & Strategy Director

Dawn Yip
Coordinating Director, SG Partnerships Office
Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth

Patrick Tay
Member of Parliament, Pioneer SMC
Assistant Secretary General, NTUC

Jessie Lim
Regional Director (Europe), Network and Partnership Development

Chin Sau Ho
Senior Director, Community Partnerships & Communications

Chia Ai Ling
Director, Communications & Community Engagement
SG Enable

Malminderjit Singh
Chief Operating Officer

Tan Wei Zhi
Regional Head of Impact & Engagement Asia
Standard Chartered Bank

Veera Swaminathan
Chief Executive Officer
Sustainable Living Lab

Andrew Buay
Vice President, Group Corporate Sustainability

Dickson Lim
Head of Philanthropy & Community Impact, Singapore