Tamara draws on her expertise in Financial Systems, Digital and Sustainability to consider global systems and the nudges that may help to render them more sustainable. She enjoys a portfolio career that allows her to devote her energy to her profession and her passions.
Tamara earned her stripes at Centrica Plc, BP Oil International, Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Bank, before returning home to Singapore in 2012 having led teams across energy, financial services and fund management, governing trading floors in London, New York and Asia Pacific.
On home ground, Tamara served Westpac Banking Corporation and then her country. Whilst supporting GIC’s mandate for the nation, she contributed to digital transformation and sustainability initiatives, building relationships across the financial ecosystem worldwide. This ignited her to structure a portfolio career centred on enabling sustainable organisations to scale, while championing impactful change.
At present, Tamara works at all levels across industries to both better the finance ecosystem and to further enterprises through sustainable business practices. While a venture builder for a bulge bracket bank, she focused on designing and developing scalable solutions to take the financial system forward for the betterment of all. Appointed Sherpa to APEC’s APFF Sustainable Finance Development Network, Tamara is a champion of Corporate Transition towards attainment of the SDGs. Outside of these commitments, Tamara holds Board positions with the People Centered Internet, a 501(c)3 non-profit organisation, Conjunct Consulting, South East Asia’s first social change consultancy, and Advancement for Rural Kids. She coaches leaders of organisations and advises start-ups navigating sustainability and scale. In academia, she is a Fellow of ESSEC’s iMagination Center and leadership coach at INSEAD.
She leverages her experience and degrees in Law and Applied Accounting to boost the organisations and causes she works with. Tamara attained her Executive Masters in Business Administration from INSEAD whilst pregnant with her second child, which she confesses to being “efficient but not necessarily recommended”. She recharges through appreciating food and drink in excellent company, then exercising and dieting in solitude. She is devoted to her two young sons, who have stretched her out of her comfort zone and into efforts to master ball sports and patience.
2023 Thought Leadership
Pay It Forward - Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Singapore Fintech Festival
“Global Perspectives - The role of government and policy-makers in driving
transition finance”, SGX Global Transition Finance Summit
“People Centered Health Data Collaboratives”, UNGA Science Summit, 2023 Panellist
“Strong Sustainability by Design”, IEEE Standards Association, Planet Positive 2030 Committee Member & Contributor
“Perfect - 6G and the SDGs”, Sustainability Enabled by Beyond 5G (B5G) and 6G System, Wireless World Research Forum, Keynote Speaker
Workshops on Financing Sustainable Innovation in the APAC Region, hosted by ABAC SFDN IFC and SBF, Moderator
“ESG in Business: Data Management, Reporting and Stakeholder Management”, Panellist
“Embracing Equity”, Northern Trust closed door IWD event
2022 Thought Leadership
OMFIF Asia Forum, Moderator, Sustainability Panel
“Technology Transformation and Innovation Trends in Trading Operations”, Singapore FIX Conference 2022
"Greentech and Operationalising ESG", ASIFMA Tech & Ops Conference 2022
Speaker, Meta VC Summit
“Leveraging Private Sector Investment to Promote MSME Transition”, APEC Business Advisory Council (password xx9bF7r.)
“ESG Investing and Social Criteria for Today’s Business”, STARS Programme, Hong Kong Startup Council
Speaker, Apportunity
Expert, G7 T7 Process – Sustainable Economic Recovery and Climate & Environment Taskforces. Policy briefs for Central Bank Digital Currencies, MSME Resilience and Digital Utilities (Digital Public Infrastructure and Digital Public Goods).
Speaker, Climate Hack 2022, Singapore International Foundation
“Collaboration: Strength in Numbers & Consistency in Outcomes” and “Innovation & technology – the fourth industrial revolution”, Responsible Asset Owners Symposium
“Legal Scaffolding for Scientific Research in a Digital World”, EU-Africa Summit 2022
2021 Thought Leadership
“Gender Evasion”, WSIS Forum Brainstorming and Knowledge Cafe
“Paving the Way for Financial Markets 3.0”, Business Times, Singapore
COP26: UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub, Panellist
“CIX has a Chance to Invigorate Carbon Trading”, Tech for Impact
“Asset Management in the New Normal”, Infrastructure Investor, Global Investor Offsite
Global Digital Currency Forum 2021, Keynote
“The Role of Cloud in Capital Markets”, ASIFMA Tech & Ops Conference 2021
Africa-Europe Science & Innovation Summit
SME Finance Forum 2021, Opening keynote
“New Approach to MSME Financing in Asia Pacific”, OMFIF. Reproduced by the International Monetary Institute and Business Times, Singapore
“Moving Beyond Climate Risk: Investing Into the ‘S’”, The Role of Capital Markets in Implementing the Global Sustainability Agendas
“What Female Leadership Looks Like in Asia”, She’s Got This Global Summit
"Moving Beyond Climate Risk: Investing Into the 'S'”, Global Roundtable
