Columbia SIRI Global Leadership Council

Vincent Shen Vincent Shen (沈司琦) is a founding partner of the New Wangdao Impact Fund, a US$500 million Singapore-domiciled fund managed by New Wangdao Capital, which he leads alongside Acer founder Stan Shih and former TSMC CFO Lora Ho.

The fund carries the New Wangdao philosophy — the Leader's Way for the 21st Century — into capital: leadership measured not by profit alone but by creating value, balancing interests, and sustaining both across generations. Its five strategies form a Five Phases (五行) generating cycle rather than a list — Education (Wood) forms people, who create Deep Tech (Fire), which opens new ground for Reliable Energy (Earth), carrying the breakthroughs of Biotech (Metal), which flow into Healthcare (Water), returning to nurture the next generation. Every investment is governed by Stan Shih's SWD Stewardship — sustainability as the direction, win-win as the method, value creation as the purpose.

Vincent brings three decades across global finance, healthcare entrepreneurship, and university technology transfer: Managing Director at Merrill Lynch (Asia), builder of Taiwan's largest oncology enterprise, Oxford Saïd alumnus, and Columbia SIPA Senior Research Scholar working on blended finance. Through SIMFO, a partner in the NVIDIA Inception VC Alliance, he connects the fund's deep-tech portfolio to the frontier of global AI infrastructure.

Tatiana Parisi de Andrade is an economist and sustainable finance professional working at the intersection of capital, strategy, and sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon. At Instituto Amazônia+21 in São Paulo, she helps originate and structure economically viable projects and investment solutions that connect public, private, and philanthropic capital with regional priorities.

Before joining Instituto Amazônia+21, Tatiana built experience in finance, corporate strategy, and project execution, including equity research at Goldman Sachs, management manager at Vale and the leadership of complex organizational initiatives in the private sector.

Tatiana holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and serves on SIPA’s Advisory Board. She also completed executive education in strategy execution at INSEAD. She is committed to advancing partnerships and financial models that combine economic opportunity, environmental conservation, and lasting impact across the Amazon. 

Steve Lydenberg is currently a SIRI Senior Fellow at the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. 

Over the past 50 years, he has worked with Domini Impacts Investments (Partner, Strategic Vision), The Investment Integration Project (Founder), KLD Research & Analytics (Director, Research), Trillium Asset Management, and the Council on Economic Priorities. 

He has authored and co-authored five books on socially responsible investment, including “21^st Century Investment: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change” (with William Burckart) and “Corporations and the Public Interest: Guiding the Invisible Hand”. Among his articles and white papers are “Reason, Rationality, and Fiduciary Duty” (Journal of Business Ethics) and “From Transparency to Performance: Industry-Based Sustainability Reporting on Key Issues” (with Jean Rogers and David Wood). 

He has a BA in English from Columbia College, an MFA in Theater Arts from Cornell University, and is a Chartered Finance Analyst holder. 

Shuhei Morofuji is the Founder and CEO of Reapra Group, a Singapore-based venture builder and investment group established in 2014, focused on developing sustainable businesses through research and practice. Its mission is to contribute to the betterment of society by creating industries.

In 2003, Shuhei founded SMS Co., Ltd., one of Asia's leading healthcare information platforms, which has since expanded to more than 13 countries and developed over 30 revenue streams. He served as CEO for 11 years, leading the company's growth, international expansion, and listing on the First Section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Following his retirement from SMS, he established Reapra Group and expanded its investment activities across Southeast Asia and Japan.

Shuhei is also active in education and philanthropy. In 2015, he founded Katsuiku Kyoiku Zaidan, an education foundation focused on developing the skills and mindsets needed to navigate and thrive in a rapidly changing world. In 2021, he founded Unson Zaidan, an organization that aims, through research and practice, to realize not only the wealth of the present but also the wealth that will continue to the next nine generations. Shuhei graduated from the Faculty of Economics at Kyushu University.

Osvald Bjelland is a Norwegian entrepreneur, investor, global business executive, and cultural leader with a deep interest in people- and planet-positive models of growth. He is the founder and Chairman of Origination AS and the Origination Foundation, where he works to build a community of leaders from business, policy, the arts, and civil society committed to investing in service of people and the planet with long-term strategic foresight, with a particular focus on frontier markets.

He is also the founder and former Chairman and CEO of Xynteo, a strategic advisory business focused on energy transition and systems change. Bjelland founded The Performance Theatre, a global platform bringing together business leaders, Nobel Laureates, scientists, policymakers, and artists to explore solutions to major societal challenges.

Bjelland is a Senior Fellow for the Sustainable Investing Research Initiative (SIRI) at Columbia University. He has also been a visiting business fellow at Oxford University and a visiting scholar at Stanford University. He holds a PhD from the University of Leeds, an MBA from Henley Business School, and a BA from BI Norwegian Business School.

Mike is global co-head and co-chief investment officer of the External Investing Group (XIG) within Asset and Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs. XIG invests in leading private equity, hedge fund, real estate, credit, public market and ESG managers as a limited partner, secondary-market investor, co-investor or management company partner. Mike also serves on the group's investment committees across private equity, real estate, hedge fund and impact investment strategies. Mike earned a BA in International Affairs from the University of California, Davis, an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MIA from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a CFA charter holder.

Mamoru Taniya has nearly 40 years of experience in finance and over three decades of experience as an angel investor, supporting the founding and growth of numerous startups while actively engaging with NGOs and NPOs. His work spans finance, entrepreneurship, education, and social impact. He has also been actively involved in initiatives that seek to foster innovation and create positive social change.

At Solomon Brothers, he became one of the youngest Managing Directors in Asia, leading investment operations across Japan and the broader region. He later founded Asuka Asset Management, one of Japan’s pioneering independent alternative asset management firms, and co-founded Mercuria Investment with the Development Bank of Japan, focusing on private equity investments.

With a “co-creation” approach to building ventures from the concept stage, he has helped launch several innovative businesses, including Lifenet Insurance, Japan’s first online life insurer; Money Design, Japan’s first robo-advisory platform; Recika, a blockchain business; and SDG Impact Japan. He currently serves as Chairperson of MNES, R Project, and Discover Japan.

He was the founding representative of UWC ISAK Japan, Japan’s first international boarding school, and serves as Vice Chair of the Tokyo Committee of Human Rights Watch and as a Trustee of the International House of Japan. He holds an LL.B. from the University of Tokyo.

Leonard M. Levie is Chairman and Founder of American Industrial Acquisition Corporation (AIAC), a global industrial investment and operating company. Over the course of his career, he has built and led a diversified portfolio of industrial businesses across sectors including advanced manufacturing, aerospace, specialty materials, pharmaceuticals, and industrial products, with operations spanning North America, Europe, and Asia. His experience combines long-term investment with hands-on engagement in the development and transformation of industrial businesses.

Beyond his business career, Leonard is deeply engaged in institutions dedicated to exploration, international dialogue, economic development, and philanthropy. He serves as a Trustee and Poet Laureate of The Explorers Club, reflecting his longstanding commitment to discovery, scientific inquiry, and the advancement of human knowledge. He is also affiliated with leading organizations focused on international cooperation and the global economic system, including the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Leonard's professional and civic interests extend across business, exploration, culture, and philanthropy. In addition to his work in industrial investment and operations, he has been involved with a range of institutions focused on exploration, international affairs, economic development, and the arts. He serves as a Trustee and Poet Laureate of The Explorers Club and is affiliated with organizations including the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, and the Council on Foreign Relations. His interests include scientific exploration, international cooperation, economic development, and the relationship between business and broader societal and institutional developments.

Ketan Patel is the founder and chairman of ‘Force for Good’, established in support of the UN Secretary General’s roadmap for sustainable development, examining and engaging 125 leading global financial institutions and 100 leading technology companies.

Ketan co-founded and leads the investment firm, Greater Pacific Capital (GPC), which invests in high growth enterprises making an impact locally and internationally, profitably and sustainably.

Ketan was formerly a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, heading the Strategic Group, providing strategic counsel to governments and businesses worldwide, including the US, EU, China, India and Japan. Previously, he was a partner and board member at KPMG, leading the Strategy and Business Transformation business.

Ketan is a fellow and member of the board of trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science; senior team member of the Human Security for All campaign of WAAS and UN Trust Fund for Human Security; and member of the board of Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation. His research work focuses on great power systems and transitions, the changing world order, sustainability, mass inclusion and the eradication of slums.

Ketan is the author of “The Master Strategist” (Random House, 2005), foreword by Nelson Mandela. He studied Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and holds an MBA, ACMA, and a post-graduate degree in neuroscience from King’s College, London.

Ken Shibusawa founded Shibusawa and Company, Inc. in 2001, a strategic advisory firm focused on alternative investments, ESG/SDGs alignment, and human resource development. In 2008, he also founded Commons Asset Management, a mutual fund dedicated to delivering long-term investment opportunities to Japanese households and promoting a long-term perspective in investment.

Ken has extensive market experience at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, as well as Moore Capital, a global macro hedge fund, where he served as Representative Managing Director of the Tokyo Office. Through his investment and advisory work, he has been actively engaged in advancing responsible investment and the alignment of capital with long-term economic and societal goals. He is a Director of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) and a Steering Committee member of UNDP SDG Impact.

A published author, Ken writes frequently in magazines, journals, and internet media on investment, economic, and societal issues. He was educated in the United States from second grade through college, earning a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas in 1983, and later an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1987.

John Kluge Jr. is a social entrepreneur, impact investor, and author working at the intersection of refugee economic inclusion and regenerative enterprise. He is the founder of the Refugee Investment Network (RIN), which mobilizes private capital to support refugee entrepreneurs and host communities worldwide, and Co-Founder & CEO of Thistlerock Mead Company, America's first net-zero meadery, built on a regenerative flower farm in Virginia's Monticello AVA. He serves on the boards of the Montpelier Foundation, Norwegian Refugee Council USA, and the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum. He has spoken at the United Nations, World Economic Forum, Vatican Impact Investing Summit, and Milken Institute Global Conference. He is co-author, with Christine Mahoney, of Banking on Belonging: Why Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs Benefits Everyone (Columbia University Press, 2026), co-author of Charity and Philanthropy for Dummies (Wylie, 2014), and author of John Kluge: Stories (Columbia University Press, 2008). 

John Fennebresque is Managing Principal of Fennebresque & Co., LLC, a Charlotte-based FINRA-registered investment banking advisory firm, and a principal at SusCap Advisors, a carbon markets and blended finance advisory firm. He has three decades of investment banking experience across infrastructure finance, project finance, and M&A, having advised on more than 60 transactions totaling $6.6 billion. John began his career in Structured and Project Finance at Bank of America and Credit Suisse before founding Fennebresque & Co. more than two decades ago. He also holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

John has been a long-standing advisor to GreenTrees, the world's largest afforestation and reforestation carbon project, with work spanning capital markets strategy, commercial relationship structuring, and carbon credit verification. His practice focuses on the intersection of environmental finance, voluntary carbon markets, and blended finance. His experience also includes a senior operating and investment role at GreenTrees, giving him both financial and operational perspectives on carbon markets and nature-based investment.

Fiona Reynolds is an independent director and advisory board member working across the business and investor sectors on ESG and sustainability issues. Fiona served as the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) for just under a decade, stepping down at the beginning of 2022.

Fiona is the Chair of the UN Global Compact Network Australia; she also serves on the Board of Frontier Advisors and the Australian Sustainable Finance Institute. She is on the Advisory Boards of Affirmative Investment Management, and ROC Partners. She chairs the ESG Advisory Board for Qualitas and is on the think tanks Climate Catalyst, and the UBS Sustainability and Impact Forum, as well as the Advisory Committee for the NSW Commissioner for Anti-Slavery and the Australian Human Rights Institute.

Fiona has 28 years’ experience in the financial services, superannuation and pension sectors. She joined the PRI from the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST), where she spent seven years as CEO.

Fiona was named one of the 20 most influential people in sustainability globally by Barron’s magazine and has twice been named one of Australia’s one hundred women of influence by the Australian Financial Review.

Christian Déséglise is a Member of the Board and Executive Committee of Mundi Ventures. He previously spent more than two decades at HSBC, where he held senior global roles across sustainable finance, infrastructure, emerging markets, asset management, and sovereign wealth funds, most recently serving as Group Head of Sustainable Infrastructure and Innovation.

Christian is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), where he has taught Emerging Markets and Sustainable Finance since 2009. He is also co-founder and co-director of Columbia’s BRIC Lab, which studies the rise and transformation of emerging economies. His work sits at the intersection of finance, emerging markets, sustainable development, and the mobilization of private capital.

Christian has held numerous international leadership and advisory roles, including leading the FAST Infra initiative to mobilize private investment in sustainable infrastructure, serving on the One Planet Lab, and co-chairing the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on SDG Investments.

He is also co-founder, with his wife Geneviève Maquinay, of Foundation Caring for Colombia, which supports underserved communities in Colombia. Christian holds degrees from Sciences Po and La Sorbonne Nouvelle and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia SIPA.

Cherie Nursalim is Vice Chairman of GITI Group, a diversified group with interests in real estate development, manufacturing, and consumer lifestyle across the Asia Pacific region. She is also Special Advisor to the Government of Indonesia and serves on the Advisory Board of Nanyang Business School at Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore), as well as advisory boards of Columbia University and the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is a board member of the Global Blended Finance Taskforce and Partnering for Green Growth (P4G), and chairs the Southeast Asia Chapter of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network.

Ms. Nursalim has been a longstanding advocate for sustainable development, with particular engagement in blended finance, ocean and blue-economy finance, and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence. She has helped advance initiatives that bring together governments, business, philanthropy, and investors to mobilize capital for sustainable development, including through the Tri Hita Karana Forum and her work on blended finance. She is co-founder of the United in Diversity Foundation and the Tri Hita Karana Forum, and serves on the boards and advisory councils of a number of international organizations focused on sustainability, climate, technology, and development.

Ms. Nursalim holds a BA in Engineering Science and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is a Harvard Kennedy School World Economic Forum Young Global Leader alumna.

AlexiAndrea Borden is Director of a private charitable foundation supporting organizations and initiatives across the environmental, social, cultural, arts, educational, and health sectors. An environmental artist and photographer, landscape and interior designer, documentary producer, and consultant to non-profits in the developing world, she brings together interests in conservation, exploration, culture, and social impact. 

Borden’s work has taken her to sacred sites, remote places, and wildlife habitats around the world, with a particular interest in environmental preservation and indigenous traditions. Through her artistic and documentary work, she explores the relationship between people, place, and the natural environment. She has also worked in television and as a TV agent and has supported projects that bring greater visibility to environmental and cultural issues.

Borden is a member of The Explorers Club and serves on its Council of Impact Advisors, contributing to efforts at the intersection of exploration, conservation, science, and global impact. She is currently advocating for the creation of an International Firefighting Force to strengthen international capacity to respond to increasingly severe wildfire and environmental emergencies. Her philanthropic and professional interests reflect a longstanding commitment to advancing environmental stewardship, cultural understanding, and innovative approaches to global challenges.