Ms Jessica Cheam is an Independent Non-Executive Director of ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited. Ms Cheam is also a member of the Audit Committee, the Board Risk Committee and chairs the Sustainability Committee.

Ms Cheam is the Founder and CEO of Eco-Business, Asia Pacific’s leading independent media and business intelligence organisation dedicated to sustainable development. She is recognised as a sustainability pioneer with two decades of experience in media, sustainable development and environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues globally.

Ms Cheam is also an Independent Non-Executive Director of SGX-listed Wilmar International Limited and the Chair of its Board Sustainability Committee. She holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing and is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), an SID Senior Accredited Director, and serves as its ESG committee member. She is also a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Malaysia and the United Kingdom’s Institute of Directors. She is accredited with INSEAD’s Certificate of Corporate Governance.

Ms Cheam specialises in advising Boards of a wide range of organisations on ESG and business strategy, and has a particular specialisation in the intersection of corporate governance with sustainability, technology and diversity. She is the Chairperson of EB Impact, a Singapore-registered charity focused on youth and education programmes and serves on the Board of Governors of the Singapore International Foundation and Temasek Polytechnic. She is also a member of the External Advisory Panel for Environmental Sustainability for the Ministry of Defence of Singapore, and is a member of the International Women’s Forum Singapore.

She is the published author of ‘Forging a Greener Tomorrow: Singapore’s journey from slum to eco-city’ and also directs and produces documentaries. She was a Singapore Press Holdings scholar and has been recognised in many regional and international media and sustainability awards, including Women of the Future Southeast Asia Awards and LinkedIn’s Power Profiles, and is frequently invited to speak at and host discussions across the globe on her areas of expertise.

She studied at the University of Warwick and the University of London’s Goldsmiths College, completed a Cambridge University Judge Business School executive programme on Data and Business Analytics, and the INSEAD International Directors Programme.