Amit Chandra

CEO of Bain India & Archana Chandra, CEO at Jai Vakeel Foundation and Research Centre - India

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Husband and wife give 75% of their earnings each year to causes from education to health care. He was one of the founding donors to Ashoka University and has funded a new children's hospital in Mumbai that will be the country's largest. Archana Chandra, CEO of the Jai Vakeel Foundation & Research Centre has volunteered with the organization for over 10 years,

Stephen Robert Tindall

Founder of New Zealand retailer The Warehouse, The Warehouse Group, and the Tindall Foundation - New Zealand

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The Tindall Foundation is a private philanthropic family foundation working throughout Aotearoa New Zealand helping to build a stronger, sustainable nation so that families, communities and our environment thrive now and in the future. Stephen and Margaret Tindall founded The Tindall Foundation (TTF) in 1994. Today, they support over 700 organisations a year, giving annual donations of around $10 million to help families, communities and the environment. It contributes to organisations and community groups through donations, social loans and social investments, and in non-financial ways through advocacy, influencing, convening, connecting and capacity building. In appreciation of the diverse needs of communities, aims to be a flexible and responsive funder. Since 1995 donations and commitments have totalled over $185 million, Local Donation Managers have distributed over $60.7 million in Tindall Foundation funds in the last 24 years. Stephen and Margaret have five children who started their own fund, Next Gen, in 2015. They are working together as a group to give donations to youth development organisations using the creative arts (which lies outside TTF’s focus areas) as a mechanism for helping young people.

Ralph Sarich

Founder Orbital Engine Company - Australia

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Sarich donated a considerable amount of the profits from the Orbital Corporation into the community, including commitments of approximately A$ 65 Million to various charitable organisations. The construction of the $ 37.7 Million, five-level, 8,900 square meter Ralph and Patricia Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute (SNRI) building commenced in February 2015 and includes assessment and treatment rooms, tissue culture laboratories and facilities for neuro science research, physiology research, experiments and cryogenic archival storage. The SNRI would not exist if not for the generosity of the Sarich family who donated $20 million towards the project. The SNRI building creates an environment that fosters research of various neuroscience related diseases to improve the health of the community.

Budi Hartono

- Indonesia

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Djarum Foundation is a non-profit organization founded by two brothers, Michael Bambang Hartono and Robert Budi Hartono, with the mission to bring Indonesia forward by increasing the quality of its human resources and maintain the sustainability of its natural resources. Before the organization was officiated on 30 April 1986, the Hartono brothers have done several social activities as a form of attentiveness towards education, environment, sports, and culture in Indonesia. Those activities were initiated to provide assistance for the people living in Kudus in 1951. Today, Victor Hartono, the son of Robert Budi Hartono, serves as the President Director of Djarum Foundation. Djarum Foundation strongly holds their philosophy, “born from within and grow with the environment”, in order to bring Indonesia forward. In the interest of realizing the founders’ mission, Djarum Foundation activities are focused towards five duties: Social, Sport, Environment, Education, and Culture. These five duties are the meaning of Djarum Foundation.

Vineet Nayar

Former CEO of HCL Technologies & Founder, Sampark Foundation - India

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Sampark Foundation was set up by Anupama Nayar and Vineet Nayar, former Vice Chairman and CEO of HCL Technologies with a belief that 'frugal innovation' and its effective implementation in partnership with the government can drive large-scale improvement in learning outcomes. This thought prompted its founders to dedicate their lives to advancing the cause of primary education in the country. The foundation has already reached 7 million children in 76,000 schools across 6 states.

Harald Link

Chairman and CEO B.Grimm - Thailand

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On the 12 October 2016, Her Royal Highness Ashi Kesang Choden Wangchuck of Bhutan agreed with B.Grimm to establish the Gross National Happiness Centre of Thailand. The agreement marks the world's first Gross National Happiness Centre outside of Bhutan since being established in 1972. A key mission of the centre is to "pursue and achieve collective happiness by building a more peaceful, sustainable and harmonious world." He also built the largest polo club in Thailand, supports more than 13,000 schools and is saving tigers around the country. Being a prominent supporter of various foundations and organizations under the Royal Family’s patronage, B.Grimm Group and the Link family have continuously been dedicating to promote numerous worthy livelihood and Education programs as our key contribution to Thai society. Our contributions have made a tremendous difference in the lives of our employees and their families, community members, children in need, handicapped and many more. Among the companies in B.Grimm Group whether in office buildings’ or factories’ working environments, efficient use of energy and natural resources is not only encouraged but are strongly implemented. The group also provides strong support and considerable sponsorship to a wide range of education programs.

Charles Chen

Chairman, Yeon Holding Group; President, Chen Yung Foundation; Vice Chairman, Taian Insurance - Taiwan

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Mr. Chen is the Co-President of Chen Yung Foundation and Formosa Cancer Foundation in Taiwan. He also sits on the boards of a number of other non-profit organizations, including Children Liver Foundation, Earth's Love Foundation, Taiwan Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Research Foundation, among others. His $5 million gift in 2013 to Taipei's Fu Jen Catholic U. helped fund the construction of a 1,000-bed hospital that will open next year.

Anton Mari H. Lim Veterinarian

businessman. - Philippines

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The Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation was formerly referred to as the Philippine Funds for Little Kids, which started as a national movement in late 2010 to help children who had to swim to get to school and who lived in the mangrove village of Layag-Layag, Brgy. Talon-Talon, Zamboanga City. From the first boat that was turned over in March 2011, more than 4,600 yellow boats have been built to bring more children safely to school while their parents use them in between to improve their livelihood. Each boat has the name of the donor painted on the side. Aside from the yellow boats, the foundation has branched out to building and maintaining a day care center, building classrooms and schools, dorms, providing scholarships, providing school bags and other school supplies, conducting medical/dental missions, and empowering the community as a whole through applicable environmental and livelihood programs. We are also now present in 129 communities around the Philippines – the Philippines being an archipelago composed of 7,107 islands.

Li Zhao Hui

Businessman, and Chairman of Huamin Charity Foundation - China

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In terms of project objectives, the main energy and financial resources will be placed in three major areas: first, in education, the current project is to promote fair education opportunities by financing the employment of poor college students; second, in the elderly, through the establishment of elderly apartments and other forms and Cooperate with financial institutions such as insurance to realize the innovation of the pension system. We are actively participating in research projects on pension issues organized by relevant state ministries and commissions, in order to find the correct positioning of charity institutions in the pension industry, and make due contributions to the state and ethnic pension, especially the poverty pension. The third is some major public welfare activities involving national, national and social core values. Such as supporting the development of Sinology, anthropological research, theoretical research on charity, supporting related civil affairs and so on. The Huamin Research Center was established in 2012 through collaboration between the Huamin Charity Foundation and Rutgers University, and is based out of Rutgers School of Social Work. The Center’s mission is to develop and disseminate knowledge through research and exchange that promotes professional development of non-profit organizations and strengthens individual, family, and community well-being in China.

Jack DeBoer

Founder of Residence Inn and the DeBoer Foundation. - Myanmar

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For more than twenty years, the DeBoers have partnered with World Vision Myanmar to help relieve the effects of poverty in Myanmar, “one child at a time.” The DeBoer Foundation soon began to explore how it could develop the leadership and management skills of emerging Myanmar leaders. The DeBoer Fellowship took shape, created for highly talented Myanmar men and women who missed educational and vocational opportunities during the previous decades. The first DeBoer Fellowship class launched in January 2014 in Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. The DeBoer Fellowship is a pioneer in leadership development in Myanmar. The program is designed to empower and equip highly motivated and proven citizen leaders to Go Do Good.