How Governance can Accelerate the Sustainability Journey
Good governance is a vital component of any organisation’s success. The basic tenets of good governance – honesty, accountability, transparency, integrity, effective leadership, efficient performance and ethical decision making, to name a few – play a vital role in managing risk and avoiding undesirable outcomes for businesses.
The importance of governance is now more widely recognised and its application has extended beyond traditional business scenarios into areas that promote better corporate citizenship, such as sustainability. Yet too often governance standards are either not met, or they fall short of what could reasonably be expected to prevent these ‘undesirable outcomes’. The consequences of getting it wrong can be reputationally ruinous, and expensive.
Ho Chee Kit
Senior Director, C&W Services Singapore
Chee Kit is an Asset Management Practitioner based in Singapore who heads up C&W’s Sustainability and Engineering Services Support in Southeast Asia. This includes leading the Building Engineering team whose focus is on sustainability, enhancing asset value by minimizing operating costs and improving efficiencies to protect the value of each investment. In addition, Chee Kit’s experience include sustainable facility and property management, green building design and construction, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas reduction, and brings his nuanced understanding of working across diverse regulatory environments, mixed asset classes, and balancing carbon reduction goals with other business objectives.
At Cushman & Wakefield, Chee Kit works with the Sustainability teams and colleagues to:
- Implement the growth strategy of APAC Sustainability & ESG services
- Embed sustainability knowledge and practices across our advisory and services businesses
- Provide Whole life cycle approach to physical asset management practices
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