Esther An

Chief Sustainability Officer
City Developments Limited (CDL)
A pioneer CSR practitioner for over 20 years, Esther is instrumental in building up CDL’s sustainability leadership since 1995.

CDL is the first and only Singapore company listed on the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for 8 consecutive years and is currently ranked top real estate company. It is also the first to be included in leading global sustainability benchmarks such as the FTSE4Good Index Series since 2002, MSCI ESG Research (AAA rating) since 2009 and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes since 2011. Furthering its position as a sustainability leader, CDL successfully issued a green bond in April 2017, thefirst issuance in Singapore.

Acommittee member of the Global Compact Network Singapore, which is the local network of UN Global Compact for CSR, Esther is a member of the World Green Building Council’s Corporate Advisory Boardand the Urban Land Institute Women’s Leadership Initiative Singapore Steering Committee. Founder of Women4Green network, Esther’s latest appointments include: member of the UNEP Finance Initiative Property Working Group, GRI Corporate Leadership Group for Integrated Reporting and UNEP Sustainable Stock Exchanges’ Green Finance Advisory Group.