Tamara Singh

Managing Director, Singapore & Senior Advisor at Regional Programmes The Nature Conservancy

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Tamara Singh is Managing Director for The Nature Conservancy Singapore and Senior Advisor, Regional Programs in Asia Pacific. She earned her stripes at Centrica Plc, BP Oil International, Deutsche Bank and Macquarie Bank, before returning home to Singapore, having led teams across energy and financial services, governing trading floors in London, New York and Asia Pacific.

On home ground, Ms. Singh served Westpac Banking Corporation and then her country. Whilst supporting GIC’s mandate for the nation, she contributed to digital transformation, innovation and sustainability initiatives, building relationships across the financial ecosystem worldwide. This ignited her to structure a career centred on enabling sustainable organizations to scale, while championing impactful change.

Ms. Singh also works across industries to better the finance ecosystem and further enterprises through sustainable business practices. Appointed Sherpa to APEC’s APFF Sustainable Finance Development Network and the Global Finance & Technology Network, Tamara champions Corporate Transition toward attainment of the SDGs.

Outside of these commitments, Tamara holds board positions with commercial entities and non-profits including Advancement for Rural Kids, a US 501(c)(3). She coaches leaders of organizations and advises start-ups navigating sustainability and scale. In academia, she is a Fellow of ESSEC’s iMagination Center and a leadership coach at INSEAD. She graduated with degrees in law and applied accounting from University of Nottingham and Oxford Brookes University, respectively, and holds an executive master's in business administration from INSEAD.