Che-Min Peh, an Icon of Change in Singapore

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Icons of Change International Awards 2025 Che-Min Peh (‘Min’) Vice-President of Growth and Strategy, Marsh (Singapore) Former Sustainability Consultant, SLR Consulting (Singapore) Former Management Consultant, Bain & Company (Singapore) Former Senior Lead, Professional Services Practice, Singapore Economic Development Board Bachelor of Business Administration, National University of Singapore (First Class Honours) MSc in Environment & Development, London School of Economics (UK, 2025 Candidate) Angel Investor, Epic Angels – APAC & LATAM’s Largest Female-only Angel Network Sustainable Development Goal 13 – Climate Action Changemaker for Climate Risk Management, Sustainability Strategy, and Inclusive Innovation (Singapore) --- When Che-Min Peh—known to colleagues and peers simply as “Min”—speaks about climate action, she does so with a clarity that cuts through the noise. To her, sustainability is not an abstract ideal or a compliance exercise; it is a strategic imperative that determines whether organizations thrive or falter in the decades ahead. Her professional journey across government, consulting, corporate leadership, and investment has been guided by one unifying belief: resilience must be designed, not left to chance. At Marsh, the world’s largest insurance broker and risk advisor, Min serves as Vice-President of Growth and Strategy. It is here that her expertise in climate risk management has come into sharp focus. She designs frameworks that help corporations map out their vulnerabilities to global warming—from rising sea levels to regulatory shocks—and turn these insights into concrete action plans. Her climate scenario analyses are not just technical exercises; they are wake-up calls that move boardrooms from hesitation to determination. Colleagues often describe her workshops as transformative moments, where fear about climate risks evolves into conviction about resilience. Her career foundation is as diverse as it is strategic. At the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), Min cut her teeth working on national-level investment strategies, helping Singapore attract global professional services firms and create high-value jobs. That early exposure taught her how economic growth and sustainability must go hand in hand—a lesson she carried into her next roles. As a management consultant at Bain & Company, she advised multinational clients in energy, agribusiness, retail, and oil & gas, weaving sustainability into growth strategies. Later, at SLR Consulting, she honed her specialization in ESG reporting and sustainability frameworks, guiding hospitality, retail, and real estate companies through their journeys toward responsible business practices. Each role expanded her perspective: from macro-level policy to enterprise-level strategy, from global corporations to local communities. Today, she complements this professional arsenal with academic rigor as an MSc candidate in Environment & Development at the London School of Economics.

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00:00Hi, nice to meet you. I'm Min, and I'm very honored to be nominated as an icon of change

00:09alongside countless others who are doing very meaningful and impactful work. I guess my claim

00:15to fame here would be my work in the climate and sustainability space. I am a climate and

00:22sustainability professional helping to contribute to SDGs 11 and 13 towards sustainable cities

00:31and communities in a more inclusive and resilient future. In today's world, it can be easy to doubt

00:40global momentum towards sustainable development goals. And this is where it's important to remember

00:46that despite certain loud voices, continued commitment to climate goals actually persist

00:52across many parts of the world. For example, just this year, Singapore announced huge clean energy

00:58investments where I'm from. And also, in fact, the recent climate week at New York was the biggest

01:05ever. So the work continues, and we always need more hands. The space where I work in, climate and

01:14sustainability consulting is relatively new in the world and especially in Asia has grown very quickly

01:21over the past five or six years. I consider myself very fortunate to be able to bring all my work

01:29experience and skills and knowledge to this space. Concretely, what we do is to help businesses

01:36shape a more sustainable future both for the business as well as to stakeholders, so the natural

01:44environment and to society around the business. This adopts both for climate mitigation, so shaping a more

01:53lower carbon future, as well as from an adaptation perspective, so responding well to the changes in the world

02:03around the business. This is all really interesting work, working on complex problems with smart people

02:12towards outcomes that are more than just financial.

02:19And this is just one space. There are many interesting, fast evolving spheres that are growing in the climate

02:29and sustainability world. And everyone can bring something to the table. And in this space, it's very interesting that

02:42you will find yourself sometimes humbled by the scale of the problems that you see. And then compare that with the

02:50magnitude of the impact that you think you would be making through your work, be it in a professional full-time capacity or

02:59volunteer or otherwise. But it's all these actions that actually add up to make a cumulative impact that hopefully brings us to

03:10tipping points that actually bring society towards sustainable development pathways that we hope to see for a better world for future

03:19generations and also for our own. So through my sharing here and looking at all the other fascinating work described on this

03:32platform, Icons of change, I hope you find ways to engage with the world and help to be the change that you'd like to see in this world.

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