SMU-VIETSTAR ASEAN Fellowship in Energy Sustainability

Overview​​​​​​​

The ASEAN Fellowship in Energy Sustainability Programme is jointly developed by SMU and Vietstar to enhance sustainable leadership capacity of ASEAN leaders.

Announced at the Vietnam Singapore Board Forum (VSBF 2024), the programme aims to equip leaders to analyse and evaluate strategic decisions to promote innovative sustainable business practices and accelerate energy transition in businesses.


Course start date: 10 March, 2025

ASEAN Fellowships in Energy Sustainability Programme

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand ESG frameworks - Learn about the fundamentals of ESG and understand how these principles apply specifically to the energy sector.
  • Risk Management - Develop frameworks for assessing and managing energy transition risks through an ESG lens
  • Stakeholder Engagement - Build better stakeholder engagement of communities, governments and investors involved and affected by the energy transition
  • Measuring Impact - Learn to measure and report on sustainability initiatives, ensuring accountability and transparency
  • Innovation and Technology - Explore new sustainable technologies and business models that is shaping the energy sector
  • Investment and Funding - Understand the criteria of Green Finance crucial for energy firms to attract sustainability-focused investors
  • Strategic Decision-Making - Be prepared to integrate ESG factors into strategic decisions for energy transition initiatives aligned with sustainability and stakeholder expectations

Topics and Structure

Training Venue: Singapore

Topics Covered:
  • Identifying key success factors and redefining competitive business strategy in energy sector
  • Organizational values and Strategic Value Analysis for Competitive Advantages
  • Understand how sustainability issues are considered as part of strategic planning
  • Strategy Formulation
  • Strategy Implementation
  • Evaluation and Control of the strategy and management
  • Engagement with key stakeholders

Training Venue: Vietnam

Topics Covered:
  • The key competencies of sustainable and transformational leaders
  • PPP- the Tripple Bottom Line: People, Planet, Profit
  • Purpose-driven leadership and incentive systems for sustainability
  • Seeing context and system
  • Leadership backbone, styles and resilience
  • Diagnosing sustainability challenges
  • Change and Innovation for Sustainability Outcomes
  • Building a Sustainable Business
  • Leading ecosystem change
  • Relevant Party Engagement

Training Venue: Korea
Topics Covered:
  • Overview of Green Technologies & Clean Energy
  • Green tech leadership
  • Innovation strategies for Energy Transformation
  • Clean energy: conversion processes in renewable technologies like hydro, wind and solar and their practical application in fields such as green mobility
  • Tech & Sustainability Integration: Merging technological advancements with climate science principles for impactful business transformation
  • Hands-On Green Tech Applications: Engaging in practical, real-world applications of green technology in close collaboration with industry leaders and partners

Training Venue: Vietnam
Topics Covered:
  • Risk aspects from a sustainable perspective
  • The risks inherent to the energy business and the energy cycle
  • The global production and use of different sources of energy
  • Energy failures and problems
  • Mitigation activities during energy interruption
  • The major sources of energy and their markets
  • The physical and financial energy markets
  • The use of real options in the energy cycle
  • Energy Risk Management: Uncertainty and Investment Decisions
  • Some practical perspectives on Risks and Opportunity Analysis

Training Venue: Vietnam
Topics Covered:
  • Overview of what green financing is about
  • The history of green financing
  • Public, private and non-profit investment in relation to green financing
  • Global financial flow with climate and nature objectives in emerging and developing markets
  • The benefits of green financing for the energy sector
  • How to make changes in the energy sector to become greener
  • The challenges of going green and how to overcome them

Training Venue: Singapore
Topics Covered:
  • Overview of green financing
  • History of green financing
  • Public, private and non-profit investment in relation to green financing
  • Global financial flow with climate and nature objectives in emerging and developing markets
  • Benefits of green financing for the energy sector
  • How to effect change in the energy sector to become greener
  • Challenges of going green and how to overcome them

Senior Lecturers and Speakers

Mr Rahul is Vice President, Digital Solutions Design at GE Digital and Managing Director of Software Solutions Development at GE Power & Water. He also served as Chief Technical Officer of GE Energy from 2007-2014. Currently, his specialization mainly focuses on the following areas: Remote Monitoring and Diagnostics (RM&D), Industrial Internet, Big Data Analysis, Failure Root Cause Analysis, Customer M&D platform development.

Mr Rahul Chadha
Vice President, Digital Solutions Design, GE Digital

Professor Shantanu is Deputy Dean of Business School Lee Kong Chian at SMU.
He holds the position of Deputy Dean of Programs at SMU. He is also an Associate Professor of Executive Management at SMU and INSEAD.

Professor Shantanu Bhattacharya
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU


Mr Giresh Prabhat is the General Manager in Asia Pacific in GE Vernova. He takes responsibility for leading, defining, building and implementing B2B commercial growth strategy. Before joining GE Vernova, he held Regional Director Asia Pacific in Uniper Energy Asia Pacific.

Mr Giresh Prabhat
General Manager, APAC, GE Vernova


Professor Hao Liang is currently Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre . He is a research member of European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). He also serves as a member of the Scientific Committee of Geneva Centre for Philanthropy and the Technical Committee for Sustainable Finance of Enterprise Singapore. Professor Liang was two-time winner of the prestigious Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing (2014 & 2019).

Dr Hao Liang
Associate Professor of Finance & Co-Director of Singapore Green Finance Centre

He is a Managing Director; Global Practice Leader, Executive Compensation; Talent & Rewards Business Leader, ASEAN & South Asia of Willis Towers Watson. He is the global leader of Willis Towers Watson. He leads a team of over 500 exceptional consultants, across 40 countries who are trusted advisors to clients on issues related to board, performance management and incentives, board effectiveness, organisation transformation, future of work and human-capital governance.

Mr Shai Ganu
Member of the World Economic Forum's Climate Governance Global Community of Experts

Mr Hnn-Hui leads Heidrick & Struggles CEO & Board of Directors Practice in Southeast Asia. He provides advisory services on leadership challenges, team effectiveness and board reviews serving clients in Energy & Cleantech, private capital and family owned businesses in APAC. He has placed CEOs, CXOs and Directors for companies operating in Asia faced with transformation. Amongst others, he has served Shell, BP, GE, PETRONAS, PTT JV, Telenor.

Mr Hnn-Hui
CEO & Executive Director of Heidrick & Truggles, SEA


He acted as CEO Jurong Port (8/2014 -9/2022) and he initiated and led the JP’s 10 year transformation journey to be a Next Generation Multipurpose Port. He has held many important positions such as: Executive Director & Chief Admin Officer Portek International Pte Ltd, Vice President, Equity Capital Markets, Investment Banking at DBS Bank; Head of Branch, Public Affairs, Ministry of Defence; Manager, Business Development at Keppel Teleco

Mr Ooi Boon Hoe
Former CEO of Jurong Port

Who should attend?

  • Leaders and Senior Executives in the Energy sector
  • Professionals in sustainability, environmental, business management and related fields
  • Organisations seeking to train their employees in sustainable practices


Course start date: 10 March, 2025

Register now to get 30% off programme fees.


For more info, learn more here.
Email: project@vietstar.edu.vn / Tel: (+84) 90 450 1369 (Ms Ngoc)
Email: ochcmc@smu.edu.sg / Tel: (+84) 96 634 4464 (Ms Thao)