Speakers

Panel Discussion 1: Closing Gender Gap in STEM

Moderator:
Geraldine (Geri) Kan 
Head, Communications, Asia Markets
HP Inc

Bio: Geraldine (Geri) Kan leads HP’s Communications function in the Asia, driving corporate, crisis, as well as executive communications along with media and analyst relations. She is also part of HP’s Worldwide Corporate Communications team, focusing on globalizing corporate campaigns and thought leadership platforms. 

A strong believer in the importance of Diversity and Inclusion, she is the Executive Sponsor of HP Singapore Women’s Impact Network (WIN) – a business interest group aimed at building women leaders, no matter at what level. She sits on the Board of NTU’s POWERS (Promotion of Women in Engineering, Research, and STEM) programme, and is also in the 2021 edition of the Singapore 100 Women in Tech list. 
Prior to HP, Geri headed the Corporate practice at Communications agency Golin – where her clients included McDonald’s, Morgan Stanley and SATS. Geri obtained her undergraduate degree in Communications at UCLA and her graduate degree at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, the latter as the first recipient of the S Rajaratnam Scholarship.


Tan See Leng
Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry

Bio: Dr Tan See Leng was appointed as the Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry on 15 May 2021. Prior to this, Dr Tan was the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Trade and Industry and Second Minister for Manpower from 27 July 2020. 

A veteran medical practitioner, Dr Tan was Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at IHH Healthcare Berhad, one of the largest listed integrated healthcare providers globally, from 2014 to 2019. He was also concurrent CEO and MD of Parkway Pantai from 2011 onwards till 2019 when Parkway Holdings was merged with Pantai Holdings. During Dr Tan’s tenure, the group doubled its revenue and expanded its presence to 11 countries with 84 hospitals employing over 50,000 employees. 

Dr Tan has served on the boards of several medical committees including the Singapore Ministry of Health’s Medishield Life Review Committee. He also sat on the Advisory board of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at the Singapore Management University and has guest lectured at international symposiums including the Harvard Business School’s seminar on healthcare entrepreneurship. Under his leadership, IHH Healthcare Berhad has won numerous awards, including Best Managed and Best Overall Corporate Governance Poll awards by Asiamoney. He has also earned awards from his own medical community in Singapore, including the Albert and Mary Lim award from the College of Family Physicians and the Merit Award from the Singapore Medical Association.

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Andy Sim
Vice President & Managing Director, Singapore
Dell Technologies

Bio: Andy Sim oversees the company’s growth and operations in Singapore, with primary responsibilities for leading the sales strategy, go-to-market, business development and enhancing relationships with customers across public and private sectors, partners and alliances.
Andy has over 30 years of industry experience with global companies, including Dell Technologies, Samsung, Cisco Systems, Silicon Graphics, 3M and HewlettPackard. His unmistakable passion, coupled with experience across a wide range of regional leadership roles, puts him in a unique position to drive the business in an ever-evolving and dynamic technology landscape.
He has held multiple roles at Dell Technologies in the last eight years, most recently heading up the corporate, enterprise and public sector business in Singapore. Andy has also led the enterprise solutions business in South Asia and Korea and the networking business across Asia-Pacific and Japan, making him well versed in priority technology areas including hybrid cloud, edge, telecom, AI and as-a-service offerings

Geraldine Chin
Chairman and Managing Director
ExxonMobil Asia Pacific

Bio: Ms. Geraldine Chin is the Chairman and Managing Director of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. 

Prior to her appointment on 1 Jan 2021, she was the Asia Pacific Sales & Trading Manager (Fuels and Lubricants) where she was responsible for Product Trading, Sales, and Supply. She was also a Director of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Private Limited, ExxonMobil Asia Holdings Private Limited and Sinopec Senmei (Fujian) Petroleum Company, and Executive Vice President of EXTAP, a division of ExxonMobil Asia Pacific Private Limited. 

In her 32-year career with ExxonMobil, she has held various positions including retail, commercial, trading, strategy and planning, human resources and manufacturing in Singapore and in research in the United States. 

Ms. Chin is involved in company-wide activities, serving on the steering committees of key ExxonMobil volunteer programs and in-house councils for the leadership development of women and Asians.

Teo Tang Wee
Associate Professor in the Natural Sciences and Science Education (Academic Group), NIE, NTU Singapore
Co-Head of the Multi-centric Education, Research and Industry STEM Centre (meriSTEM@NIE)

Bio: Teo Tang Wee is an Associate Professor in the Natural Sciences and Science Education (Academic Group), National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also the Co-Head of the Multi-centric Education, Research and Industry STEM Centre at NIE (meriSTEM@NIE). 

She graduated from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 2011. She is an equity scholar in STEM education. Her research focuses on issues of inclusivity in classrooms with underachievers and students with special education needs. She also studies gender issues in STEM education. She is an editorial board member of Asian Women and an Associate Editor of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Science Education and Pedagogies: Am International Journal. She teaches the NTU elective AGE 18Q Gender Issues in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.



Sierin Lim
Chair of POWERS & Women@NTU
Associate Dean (Global Partnerships), Graduate College
Associate Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
Co-Deputy Executive Director, NTU Institute for Health Technologies (HealthTech NTU)

Bio: Sierin Lim is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, and an Associate Dean (Global Partnerships) at the Graduate College at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She joined NTU after a postdoc at the University of California Irvine. Her Bioengineered and Applied Nanomaterials Laboratory (BeANs Lab) at NTU focuses on the design and engineering of hybrid nano/microscale devices from biological parts by utilizing protein engineering as a tool for applications in medicine, electronics, cosmetics, and food. 

She is the founding chair of Society of Women Engineers Singapore, POWERS, Women@NTU, Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore) Student Chapter, and is one of the STEM ambassadors at Singapore Committee for UN Women. She is also serving on the editorial board of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology and Engineering Biology.




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Mousumi Bhat
Vice President, Corporate, SWE@SG

Bio: Mousumi Bhat has spent 25 years as a Semiconductor technologist and has held several key leadership positions within the industry. Her experience in semiconductors covers end to end operations including R&D, Process Integration and Yield Engineering, Frontend and Assembly and Test Operations, Customer Management, Quality and Supplier Management. Her main strength is transforming organizations, people and processes. She serves on the Advisory Board for SEMI SEA.

Mousumi’s professional career has taken her to Europe, US and Asia has made her keenly aware of the importance of creating an inclusive workplace. She is able to leverage on her personal experience to drive awareness in organizations with the goal to foster Inclusion. She is currently serving in the Advisory boards of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at Micron, Ladies Who Tech, Kendra Scott at UT Austin and SWE Singapore Chapter.

Santosh Kumar
Founder of Soul Probe

Bio: Santosh Kumar facilitates the difficult and crucial conversations we need for culture and mindset change in organizations and in society at large. He helps individuals, organisations and society to heal, restore, reconcile and blossom to their fullest potential by bridging Ancient Wisdom with Modern Science from both the East & the West.
 
An ex-strategist at the Singapore Economic Development Board, Santosh worked on redesigning Singapore’s economic development philosophy and strategy. He left the public service to help start OPPi, a civic tech platform that channels the voices of citizens to decision making tables to help usher in a democracy that is more participatory and consensus-based globally. He is interested in healing the growing divisions and polarisation in our society. From 2020 to 2022, Santosh has facilitated online conversations nationally on race, religion, gender, climate change, digital divide, poverty, vaccine hesitancy and mental health. 
 
Santosh teaches Innovation and gives talks on the future of democracy, education, trauma-informed community development, ancient wisdom, economics and economic development and organisational design.


Juhi Singh
President of SWE@NTU

Bio: Juhi is a final year PhD student at the Interdisciplinary Graduate School, Nanyang Technological University. Her research focuses on developing adhesive platforms aimed at the treatment of mucosal diseases in the oral cavity. She holds a Master of Pharmacy degree from Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), India. Apart from her research interests, she is also actively involved with the student community at NTU and currently serves as President of SWE@NTU and Publicity Manager for IGP-SC.


Claire Hsieh
Vice-Chair of NTU Women in Tech

Bio: Claire is an undergraduate at Nanyang Technological University who works with peers in the Women in Tech community to provide them with networking and career opportunities with professionals in the technology sector. Claire is an advocate for diversity and inclusion, especially females, in the global workforce. Starting off as Social Media and Marketing Director at NTU Women in Tech nearly 2 years ago, Claire was inspired by encouraging university seniors, professors, and industry mentors to pursue her career interests regardless of her gender and background. Claire is currently a final year undergraduate with a double major in psychology, linguistics, and multilingual studies.

Nirvi Badyal
Chair of HeForShe NTU

Bio: Nirvi is a Master of Engineering student in Nanyang Technological University where she is pursuing her research in cyber security field. She also leads and supervises the HeForShe NTU club, with support from other officers. Her work focuses on building a new roadmap towards an inclusive approach that encourages men and boys as partners for women's rights while acknowledging their stand to benefit from greater equality. Nirvi hopes to continue changing the traditional notions of masculinity to advance gender equality and women's empowerment.