Patsian Low Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Foster City, California, US

• Led Visa's Inclusive Impact & Sustainability team in Asia Pacific, driving digital financial inclusion initiatives for millions of underserved MSMEs and communities
• Collaborated with country teams across 18 markets to advocate for sustainability and corporate social impact strategies, aligning with business goals.
• Supported product teams as a local subject matter expert in financial inclusion and sustainability innovations.
• Financial literacy and MSME upskilling programs reached average 200K individuals/MSMEs in Asia Pacific per year
• Catalyzed employee volunteering rate from below 20% to over 55% in 3 years, mobilising almost 3,000 employees per year in Asia Pacific
• Support Visa Foundation $40M Asia-Pacific portfolio partner engagement in-region and its humanitarian relief and charitable giving policies

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Trainer in the Singapore Institute of Director Nonprofit Directors' Programme on Social Innovation/Entrepreneurship since 2016

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Collaborated with the Chair and CEO to plan and execute strategic priorities for AVPN.
• Designed AVPN's first action platforms for social investors in critical thematic areas like Gender Equality and Climate Action.
• Managed team of platform leads and policy analysts to engage AVPN members and stakeholders, all who represent potential capital that can be mobilised for impact. Stakeholders engaged include World Bank, BMGF.
• Mobilised up to USD10 Million per year towards gender equality and climate action
• Unlocked USD150M aggregate funding value as pipeline for social investment in Asia
• As Chief of Staff, acted as thought partner and deputy to CEO as organisation doubled during this period in both manpower and budget; growing membership size despite COVID restrictions.

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Senior advisory role in the strategic and operational implementation of AVPN's strategy in engaging policy and governments.
• Design and deliver action platform that connects, educates and advocates for policy community in Asia to collaborate with AVPN members and stakeholders in building the social economy.
• Built database of over 400 policy stakeholders that inform and affect the work of AVPN
• Policy thought leadership events to engage and integrate policy community into AVPN member and stakeholder outreach
• Launched Policy microsite which houses over 60 resources for policy community about the social economy
• Delivered annual programme cycle within annual Conference, India Summit, Southeast Asia Summit, including workshops and webinars on policy matters that affect Asia impact investment environment

Orchard, Central Singapore Community Development Council, SG

- Key partner to founder during early founding stages to establish multi-sector stakeholders interest in Pay-For-Success models in Asia. - Conducted workshops, training sessions, analytics, modelling and business development for potential social investors and government bodies.

New Brunswick, NJ, US

• Research, design and support implementation of Asia-Pacific community impact strategy, working with Just Cause Asia Pte Ltd as partner consultants
• Strategise roadmap and opportunities for impact for J&J companies and community investment across North Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
• Research and map current programmes and plan for transition strategy to align with new objectives
• Engage with CSR coordinators in local offices across the region for research and implementation
• Formulate impact thesis, theory of change and impact metrics that will guide local programme design
• Build capacity building strategy and resource library to improve impact-potential of J&J CSR coordinators region-wide

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Coaching and training services to the social entrepreneurs incubated in UNFramed’s Makanpreneur and Singtel Future Makers accelerator programmes.

• Managed multi-disciplinary teams to drive innovative projects and strategies in social entrepreneurship and impact philanthropy with private philanthropy networks
• Built strong networks of cross-sector stakeholders to enhance collaboration and impact within the non-profit sector at the mandate of government agencies
• Conceptualized and implemented programs for organizations like the AVPN and Johnson & Johnson.
• Consulted and guided corporates who are establishing their CSR strategies and corporate foundation structures for the first time

Singapore, Singapore, SG

• Trainer in Innovations in Impact & Financial Sustainability at the ACE Capstone Leadership Programme for Nonprofits, jointly produced by the Lien Center for Social Innovation and Social Services Institute, in 2018.

Singapore, SG

• Launched by National Volunteer & Philanthropy Center, Singapore
• Curate and facilitate capacity-building fellowship programme for CSR practitioners in Singapore.
• 2 cycles each lasting 5 months (commitment 11 business days) of 35-40 fellows each cycle.
• Develop learning outcomes and adapt programme design to meet NVPC requirements
• Engage and prepare external trainers to deliver sessions to achieve desired outcomes
• Develop proprietary training materials and deliver sessions to open and close the programme

SG

• Advise and support the delivery of regional charity research report on Ageing sector by Just Cause, commissioned by a corporate donor.

• Design community philanthropy approach to address gaps between education & employment in SE Asia
• Design a collaborative funding vehicle and strategy to mobilise APC members as donors
• Conduct desk research, literature review and landscape analysis of education-to-employment field in Philippines and Indonesia
• Engage an effective network of partners to execute fund programmes
• Engage high-net-worth members as prospective donors and invite their input into fund design
• Conduct workshops and outreach activities to achieve planning milestones

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, GB

• Worked with Corporate Citizenship to structure an impact assessment framework for select government agencies and conduct training for agency officers

Singapore, SG

•  Established outreach network to 200 social enterprises across Asia Incubated 100 SEs and funded 24 SEs Set up Asia’s first socially conscious lifestyle portal AsiaForGood.com Designed programmes to mobilise 4,000.
• Formulated strategy and operating plan for newly formed corporate foundation with corpus of S$50 million, first such Foundation in Asia with a commitment to social entrepreneurship.
• Designed and implemented the DBS Foundation grant programme which supported on average 12 SEs in 6 countries each year, outreach to over 100 SEs.
• Implemented programmes in Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, India and Indonesia with 10 partners.
• Published DBS Foundation-AVPN joint report on the best practices of SE incubator programmes in Asia.
• Established Singapore’s first lifestyle portal focusing on socially conscious living AsiaForGood.com, providing visibility platform for over 200 SEs regionally, with appearances in mainstream and social media.

Founding member of first interest group in Singapore for Microfinance. Elected President at Society's 1st Annual General Meeting (2010). The Microfinance Society (Singapore) was officially set up on 29 September 2009 in Singapore. Its mission is to connect, educate and engage people in the field of microfinance by creating a forum for innovation and.

Singapore, SG

Responsible for initiatives to promote Philanthropy in Singapore, part of NVPC's vision of Singapore as a Giving Nation. Includes Singapore's largest online donation portal SG Gives (www.sggives.org), and Independent Charity Analysis, which provides objective research and publication of analyst reports on Singapore-based charities. National Volunteer &.

Providing consultative and research support in social finance and microfinance sector, including authoring and editing academic publications, executive training for non-profit organisations, devising and executing microfinance initiatives for non-profit and/or research purposes.- Research and Facilitation work with Lien Centre for Social Innovation, 2008.

Social Venture Partners (SVP) brings together worlds that typically do not overlap: grant making, volunteerism, nonprofit capacity building, and philanthropic education. Every SVP is a network of engaged philanthropists who believe that they can have a positive impact on their communities and who use innovative strategies to address complex social issues..

Singapore, Singapore, SG

- Research, Co-writing and editing for "The World That Changes The World", editors Willie Cheng/Sharifah Mohammed October 2010. Published by John Wiley & Sons- Co-writer for “Media and the Nonprofit World - A Case study on WWF-Malaysia‟s Use of Media Tools to Champion Advocacy” (co-author: Anita Devasahayam, Trinetizen Media Sdn Bhd) October 2010, Social.

Independent Director on the Board for Singapore chapter of the Banking With The Poor Network, established as an International NGO in Singapore. The Banking with the Poor Network (BWTP Network) is Asia’s microfinance network that works towards building efficient, large-scale sustainable organisations, through co-operation, training and capacity building.

Geneva, CH

Part of international panel of mentors for the UNITAR Afghan Fellowship. Program provides support and coaching to a selective group of Afghan civil servants and international organisation staff members. Highlighted responsibilities include: - Presented "Tools for Performance Maximisation" lecture materials for 3 recurring cycles in webseminar series for.

This venture promoted and supported the sustainable and responsible development of social enterprising activities, where social and environmental benefits are no less important than economic outcomes. We believed in achieving this mission through creating opportunities for enterprises to become an integral and responsible part of society. Incubation.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Responsible for building and managing the Securities Finance division in Asia, including all aspects of relationship management through new business development. Built team from 2 to 15 people during this tenure, and brought in multiplicative revenue growth year on year. Geographic scope covered all of Asia-pacific ex-Japan, including Australia/New.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, DE

Securities Lending division, based in New York. Responsible over the years for relationship mangement, marketing, Product Development for global clients and markets.

Operate daily hedging model and profit/loss reporting for multiple interest rate derivative products, including swaps, spreadlocks, buy-sellbacks, etc. Bankers Trust Company was wholly acquired by Deutsche Bank in 1997.

Post Graduate Diploma, Sustainable Business

Post Graduate Certificate, Sustainable Business

Masters, Business Administration

Bachelors', Finance

Gce O Levels