Leading with Purpose in the age of geopolitics and technological disruption.

Speakers and faculty

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  Felix Oberholzer-Gee

  Baker Foundation Professor, Harvard Business School

  A member of the HBS Strategy Unit since 2003, he teaches competitive strategy in the MBA and executive programmes and is the author of Better, Simpler Strategy. His research looks at how firms create value in digital and media markets.

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  Mary Callahan Erdoes

  CEO, Asset & Wealth Management, JPMorganChase

  Leads JPMorganChase’s asset and wealth management business, which oversees more than US$7 trillion in client assets, and sits on the firm’s Operating Committee. She joined the firm in 1996 and ran its Private Bank before taking her current role in 2009. HBS MBA 1993.

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  Willy Shih

  Professor in Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  Teaches in the Technology and Operations Management Unit and writes widely on global supply chains and manufacturing. Before joining HBS in 2007 he spent 28 years in industry at IBM, Digital Equipment, Silicon Graphics, Eastman Kodak and Thomson.

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  Liu Erfei

  Founder Partner, Asian Investment Capital (China)

  Founding partner and chief executive of the investment firm he set up after thirteen years at Merrill Lynch, where he was Chairman of Merrill Lynch China and then Country Executive for China at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Earlier he led the China or Asia businesses of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Smith Barney and Indosuez. HBS MBA 1987.

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  Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

  Chairman, Ayala Corporation (Philippines)

  Chairman of Ayala Corporation, the Philippines’ oldest conglomerate, with businesses in real estate, banking, telecommunications, water, power and healthcare. A member of the Harvard Business School Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award in 2007. Harvard AB 1981, HBS MBA 1987.

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  Dr. Victor Fung

  Group Chairman, Fung Group (Hong Kong)

  Group Chairman of the Fung Group, the Hong Kong-based trading, logistics and retail group that includes Li & Fung, and Chairman of the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong. A former chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Airport Authority Hong Kong and the International Chamber of Commerce, he taught at Harvard Business School before returning to Hong Kong in the 1970s. Harvard PhD in business economics.

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  Shirley Lu

  Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  A member of the Accounting and Management Unit and of the HBS Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab. Her research examines corporate sustainability disclosure, including climate targets, green bonds and ESG ratings.

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  Dr. Zaini Ujang

  Former Secretary-General, Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia

  An environmental engineer who served Malaysia for 37 years, including as Secretary-General of the Ministry of Environment and Water and of the Ministry of Higher Education, and as Vice-Chancellor of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Merdeka Award laureate. HBS AMP 2009.

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  Ridha D.M. Wirakusumah

  Founding CEO, Indonesia Investment Authority

  Founding CEO of Indonesia’s first sovereign wealth fund, which he built from its launch in February 2021 to US$10 billion under management; Harvard Business School teaches INA as a case study of the “new breed” of sovereign fund. He chaired the B20 Finance and Infrastructure Task Force in 2022, and was earlier CEO of Bank Permata and Maybank Indonesia and Head of Indonesia Coverage at KKR. Now Founder and CEO of Huutan Capital Partners.

  Full bio

  Dr. Ridha D.M. Wirakusumah is a financial sector leader with more than 30 years of CEO and senior leadership experience across sovereign wealth management, banking, private equity and consumer finance in Indonesia and the wider Asia-Pacific region.

  He was the Founding Chief Executive Officer of the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA), Indonesia’s first sovereign wealth fund, from its establishment in February 2021. Over his five-year term, he built INA’s investment strategy, governance, risk framework and team from zero. Assets under management doubled from USD 5 billion to USD 10 billion, and INA closed 30 transactions deploying around USD 5 billion across infrastructure, renewables, healthcare, digital infrastructure and advanced materials. Landmark transactions included a USD 2.75 billion toll-road platform with ADIA and APG, a USD 7.5 billion seaport alliance with DP World, and a USD 400 million lithium battery-materials plant, the largest outside China. INA also brought first-time institutional investors into Indonesia, including BlackRock, Silk Road Fund, Masdar and SK Plasma, and built partnerships with 43 global institutions from 16 countries.

  Governance was a defining feature of his tenure. INA adopted the Santiago Principles as a member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds. In the 2026 Global SWF scoreboard, its governance score rose to 92% from 72% the previous year, ranking INA 18th among the world’s 200 largest sovereign investors and second in Asia. Harvard Business School selected INA as a case study of the “new breed” of sovereign wealth fund, and he presented the case at Harvard.

  In 2022, he chaired the B20 Finance & Infrastructure Task Force under Indonesia’s G20 Presidency. The task force brought together 115 business leaders from 25 countries, including Bill Winters of Standard Chartered, Mark Tucker of HSBC and Marc-André Blanchard of CDPQ.

  Before INA, he was President Director & CEO of Bank Permata (2017–2021). There he led the turnaround of a top-ten Indonesian bank and its divestiture to Bangkok Bank, one of Southeast Asia’s most significant cross-border banking transactions. He was previously Head of Indonesia Coverage at KKR, where he led the firm’s first investment in Indonesia, and President Director & CEO of Maybank Indonesia, which he turned from a loss to a USD 65 million profit within two years. Earlier, he served as President & CEO of AIG Consumer Finance Asia Pacific. He spent 11 years at General Electric, including as President & CEO of GE Consumer Finance Asia, where he turned a USD 20 million loss into USD 190 million of net income. He began his career at Citigroup and Bankers Trust.

  He is now Founder & CEO of Huutan Capital Partners and a Senior Advisor to Setara Berdaya Group. He holds a DBA from City University of Hong Kong, an MBA and a BSc (cum laude) from Ohio University, and completed the Advanced Management Program at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He is based between Jakarta and Hong Kong.

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  Suchitra Lohia

  Executive Director, Indorama Ventures (Thailand)

  Executive Director and Deputy Group CEO of Indorama Ventures, the Bangkok-listed global chemicals producer, where she chairs the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee; a director of the company since 2009 and Chairperson of the IVL Foundation. HBS Owner/President Management Program.

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  Dr. William Marks

  Executive Fellow, Harvard Business School

  An Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Technology and Operations Management Unit with a focus on life sciences, entrepreneurship and AI. An active early-stage investor, adviser and mentor to founders, he previously invested at Polaris Partners and worked at Boston Consulting Group.