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

Ms Cheam is the Founder and Managing Director 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 a member of its Board Sustainability Committee. She is accredited with INSEAD’s Certificate of Corporate Governance and holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing. She is a Senior Accredited Director of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID) 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.

Ms Cheam specialises in advising Boards of a wide range of organisations on ESG 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 as a Governor on the Board of the Singapore International Foundation. She is also an advisory Board Member to NextWave Partners, 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 hostdiscussions across the globe on her areas of expertise.

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