Our People

Rajiv has close to over four decades of experience in academia, international public policy, investment banking, private equity and corporate and retail banking. Having earned a B.A. Honours from Oxford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, he spent his professional career at the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, Morgan Stanley, Warburg Pincus and IDFC Bank.

His expertise spans infrastructure finance, sustainable and impact investing, capital markets, international trade, and macroeconomic policy issues across Southeast Asia, China, Africa, the U.S. and India. He has played an active role in shaping the finance and policy landscape internationally through his writings and participation in numerous government committees and fora.

He was Executive Chairman of IDFC Ltd., a public private partnership focused on infrastructure finance, was Founder CEO of IDFC Bank, now known as IDFC First Bank. He set up IDFC Institute, one of India’s emerging think tanks and has made pioneering contributions to the development of India’s impact investing and micro-finance industries. He is currently Professorial Research Fellow at the Singapore Management University where he also serves on the Management Committee of the Singapore Green Finance Centre.

Dawn is the CEO of CIIP and Managing Director of Investments at Temasek Trust Capital. Dawn leads and sets the strategic direction and growth of CIIP, and manages the investment portfolio for Temasek Trust Capital.

As an experienced investor, she draws on over 20 years of investment experience in private equity, venture and fund-of-fund investments across Asia, the US and Europe. Prior to joining Temasek Trust, she helmed the Consumer unit at Temasek International, where she spent 19 years. Dawn started her investment career at Vertex Holdings, a venture capital fund in Singapore. She was previously at Asia Pacific Molecular Biology Network and Singapore’s National Science & Technology Board.

Lin-Net joined Temasek Trust in 2021, and currently holds her position at CIIP, as well as a concurrent role as Lead, Institutional Relations, at Temasek Trust.  Prior to this, Lin-Net held concurrent appointments as the Chief Executive of two foundations under the Temasek family.

She joined Temasek Foundation in 2016 after spending more than 20 years in the Administrative Service, which is part of the Singapore Civil Service. During this time, she held a wide range of positions, including as the Deputy Secretary in the then Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts and the Ministry of Trade and Industry, and the Chief Executive Officer of the Media Development Authority. Her responsibilities included championing infocomm, heritage and the arts in Singapore, formulating and reviewing Singapore’s foreign economic policy at various multilateral and bilateral fora, and developing and regulating the media sector in Singapore.

Lin-Net holds a Master of Arts from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  She sits on the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board, the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute Management Advisory Board at the National University of Singapore, and on the Boards of the Singapore Arts School and the Singapore Tyler Print Institute.

Prior to her role at CIIP, Chii Fen worked at Bain & Company across the UK and Southeast Asia markets, and was most recently part of the Global Sustainability Innovation Center (GSIC) in Singapore.

Her consulting experience spans topics such as sustainability, strategy, and transformation; and sectors across non-profit and social enterprise, agri-food, private equity, consumer goods, and insurance. Before joining the business world, Chii Fen was a Consultant for UNICEF, where she worked on projects related to well-being and bullying during childhood and adolescence within the context of education. Chii Fen holds a PhD. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. She believes businesses can be a force for good and is passionate about empowering those from less fortunate circumstances. She is an active mentor and pro bono consultant.

Prior to her role at CIIP, Sharon was at the Knowledge & Insights team at the Philanthropy Asia Alliance - a Temasek Trust initiative dedicated to catalysing collaborative philanthropy in Asia through dynamic multi-sector partnerships

Prior to joining the Temasek Trust ecosystem, she was Senior Vice President at GIC, focusing on change management for the workplace transformation programme, and leading the corporate sustainability efforts of the sovereign wealth fund.

Sharon also served as adjunct faculty at the Singapore Management University’s School of Social Sciences, teaching undergraduate psychology. She began her career in people development and corporate strategy.

Sharon graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in Psychology from Yale University, and obtained her PhD in Psychology from the Singapore Management University.

Sue-Ann works with regional and global partners to promote and develop impact investing knowledge and expertise in Asia and beyond. Concurrently, she supports impact reporting and carbon accounting efforts at Temasek Trust.

She is certified in Sustainable Finance by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and is an Accredited Trainer for the United Nations’ SDG Impact Standards. She is qualified through the Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications to deliver adult learning and assessments. She has trained corporates, bankers and asset managers, on sustainability and impact investment-related topics. 

Prior to her current role, Sue-Ann was at Keppel Corporation, an MSCI triple-A ESG rated global asset manager and operator, and at StarHub, one of Asia's most sustainable telecommunications companies, leading sustainability reporting efforts, supporting strategy and policy development around ESG issues spanning a spectrum of businesses, and serving as advisor to business units. 

Sue-Ann has also managed the corporate philanthropic portfolios of Keppel and StarHub, applying impact measurement and management strategies to achieve positive social and environmental outcomes.

At CIIP, Jonathan has been involved in projects in financial inclusion, sustainable supply chain transformation, sustainable agriculture, and applications of digital technology for sustainable development.

Prior to his role at CIIP, he held internship positions in the Investment and Impact Management and Measurement teams at ABC Impact in 2019 and 2020 and at Temasek Trust in 2021.

Jonathan holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Cambridge and Master of Arts in East Asian Studies from Yale University. He was a 2050 Fellow with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment and holds a Sustainable Investing Certificate, CFA Institute.

Jonathan spent a summer as an international scholar at Tsinghua University and has acquired professional experience at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Observer New Review, various non-profit organizations, the Yale School of Medicine, and as a secondary school teacher.

Outside of CIIP, he serves as Managing Editor of poetry.sg, a Member of the English Subcommittee for Poetry Festival Singapore, and on the editorial and reading boards for various literary journals. He is also involved in mentoring and community volunteering.

Prior to her role at CIIP, Levonne worked at Enterprise Singapore, the local government agency championing enterprise development. Her role involved engaging and supporting healthcare and biomedical companies, helping them to grow and internationalise. 

Levonne holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Southeast Asian Studies from the National University of Singapore, and is completing her Master in Public Health from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health. She is also an avid language learner, with intermediate to advanced proficiency in Japanese, Korean, and Thai. 

Outside of CIIP, Levonne is an active youth leader and volunteer. She was the President for AIESEC Singapore, the local chapter of the world's largest youth-run organisation. Since 2021, she has also been with the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum to engage active changemakers across the world.