Webinar SG
This webinar will be hosted by Zoom
SINGAPORE
WLI Webinar Series with Melissa Kwee, CEO of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre. Hosted by the ULI Singapore Women's Leadership Initiative.
ULI Singapore's WLI (Women's Leadership Initiative) Webinar Series addresses the challenges and celebrates successes of women in the workplace today. In such challenging times, we are embracing new ways of meeting to bring our members together online. This webinar series gathers prominent female leaders to discuss prevailing hot topics in the industry and serves as a regular virtual platform to profile women professionals in the ULI community.
Moderated by WLI Singapore committee member Mireille Wan, Senior Director, Consulting of JLL, this edition features an intimate live conversation with well-known community activist, volunteer leader and businesswoman Melissa Kwee, Chief Executive Officer of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre. As the spokesperson for a wide range of causes, Melissa has been involved in mobilising resources and people to aid in community development. Melissa has set up some key leadership programmes such as Project Access and Halogen Foundation, on top of a mentoring programme called Beautiful People. These signature programmes benefit both genders, including school children in Singapore. (Source: Her World).
ULI members will have an opportunity to hear Melissa’s contagious optimism and strategic ideas on driving corporate giving in Singapore; social causes where the real estate industry can make an impact, and the vision of building Singapore to be a City of Good. Engage in an interactive Q&A with Melissa to find out why she has chosen to give her time and efforts back to the community, the hardest part of her job and what we can do to inspire and equip girls and young women to be role models for positive change.
Speakers
Melissa
Kwee
Chief Executive Officer,
National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre
Melissa Kwee is the third Chief Executive Officer of the National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre (NVPC).
Her career has involved her bridging the public, private and community sectors as anthropologist, researcher, programme designer, social innovator and as a catalyst in the private sector. She has founded, run and served on the boards several nonprofit organisations and ground-up initiatives relating to youth, women, the arts, the prisons, community development, healthcare and education. She is also Chairman of MHPL, a Pontiac Land company.
She received the Singapore Youth Award in 2007 and Asean Youth Award 2008 for her leadership and service and was appointed as a Justice of the Peace in 2018.
Melissa was educated at Harvard College and graduated magna cum laude in Social Anthropology. She also received a Fulbright Scholarship to study ethnic-based community leadership in Nepal.
She believes that genuine friendships are the purpose of life and is passionate about building a culture of giving and other-centeredness where people give their best for others. She enjoys family time, learning from children, peers, elders and strangers, and discovering new stories in the #cityofgood.
Head of SEA (Corporate Consulting) and Joint APAC Head (Portfolio Strategy),
JLL
Mireille is the Head of SEA (Corporate Consulting) involved in projects relating to Workplace Strategy and Change Management where there is an increasing demand for a more agile way of collaborating within the office. Corporate clients embark on this new way of working to optimise the efficient use of real estate; create engaging workplaces to attract and secure the right talent; and implement sustainable workplace change.
Mireille is also the Joint APAC Head (Portfolio Strategy) helping corporate clients to match their business goals with their real estate portfolio in order to achieve the desired outcomes. Such outcomes would be optimising the real estate footprint and attendant costs, thereby mitigating risks.
Mireille has worked in the real estate markets – both private and public sectors - in Singapore, South East Asia, China and Australia, covering a wide range of property asset classes. The conventional asset classes include luxury residential, prime office and retail; industrial and logistics. Moreover, her coverage of the alternatives sector includes hospitality (hotels and serviced apartments), recreational (cinemas, bowling alleys, theme parks, golf and country clubs, private farms and marinas), education (international school) and medical (private hospitals, medical centres and nursing homes).