Anuja Agarwal joined ACGA in September 2024 and she is currently helping in Advocacy and Research for Japan and India. Anuja finished her MBA from IIMA in 2004 and has worked on Wall street for the last 20 years. She also ran a small startup on financial literacy where she was featured on Forbes, SCMP, Radio HK. She is passionate about integrating ESG strategies with fundamental views and has experience in PRI Disclosures, Stewardship and Proxy voting. She has been a mentor for Amber Foundation, 100WF and a Board advisory for a reusable cutlery company Recube.hk. She is on the scholarship committee for Zubin Foundation She is a ESG CFA certificate holder and a Talent4Impact Fellow. She is a fitness freak and has completed Greenpower (50k), Moon trekker (42k), UNICEF (20k) races.

Amar Gill (喬昇安) is responsible for directing research, advocacy and educational work in 12 Asia-Pacific markets, as well as for overall management of the association.

Amar has been a passionate advocate of good governance in the region for over 20 years, and was an ACGA council member from 2005 to 2008. From 1995 to 2018, he was with CLSA, a Hong Kong-based regional securities company, where he was responsible for thematic research. Amar was coauthor of the CLSA-ACGA CG Watch reports from 2001 to 2014. He won equity research awards from publications including Asiamoney, Euromoney and Institutional Investor, and rose to become Head of Asia Research. Before joining CLSA, he held positions at Chemical Bank in Singapore as well as Southern Bank and Rashid Hussain Berhad in Malaysia.

Amar joined BlackRock in 2018. He was Head of Investment Stewardship for APAC, leading BlackRock’s largest regional stewardship team and overseeing engagement and voting in the region. In 2023, Amar led the team that produced a report entitled Board Independence in Asia Pacific: A stewardship perspective, highlighting the significant governance issues in markets characterized by dominant controlled companies. He has been a member of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission’s Public Shareholder Group since 2020.

Amar graduated with a first class degree in philosophy, politics and economics, and completed a master’s thesis in ethics at Oxford University, UK.

As Head of Research and Advocacy, Helena leads the research team and coordinates advocacy efforts across the Asia region, working closely with the ACGA’s Secretary General and secretariat team. Dr. Helena Fung (馮伊蓮娜) joined the ACGA in April 2025, prior to which she worked for the London Stock Exchange Group as Head of Sustainable Finance and Investment, Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for strategy, expansion and product development across the region, focused on indexes, data and analytics solutions. A core part of her role was regulatory engagement with policy makers and standard setters and stock exchange partnerships focusing on sustainability initiatives. Helena relocated to Hong Kong in 2014 from London - a key hub for ESG investments, where she worked for the responsible investment arm of Hermes Investment Management, enabling pension funds and asset managers to integrate sustainability criteria into passive and active portfolios. Helena’s experience includes ESG integration, equity analysis and advising on philanthropy for family office, asset management and institutional clients. She has been working in ESG and Sustainable Investment since 2008, including providing advisory research on stewardship implementation for pension funds and family office clients, drafting responsible investment policies and integrating sustainability policies into both active and passive portfolios. Helena has postgraduate qualifications in law and holds a professional investment qualification and a Ph.D. from the University of Glasgow. 

Irina Medukha (馬愷麗) joined ACGA in March 2021 as our new Chief Operating Officer. Irina manages all aspects of the finance and operations of ACGA. She assists in business development, including membership marketing and sponsorship, and provides input to strategic planning and oversees the management of ACGA events and conferences.

Irina comes from the international trade and consumer goods sector and worked for listed and private companies in China and Hong Kong, including a sizeable private equity portfolio company. She has been based in Asia for over 15 years and brings a wealth of experience in business and market development, launching services, events and projects for international clients, including companies listed on the Fortune 500 as well as from emerging markets, engaging with industry bodies and managing cross-functional teams and working across borders.

A native of Russia, Irina holds a Bachelor degree in Regional Management and Cross-Cultural Communications from the Far Eastern Federal University of Vladivostok and an MBA from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She studied Mandarin at Sun Yat-Sen University in Guangzhou, achieving advanced HSK Level 7, and completed partial MBA coursework at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in the US.

Jovy Chan (陳鈺清) joined ACGA in February 2022 as an Accountant. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance. She is a certified public accountant with over 10 years’ working experience in accounting and auditing. Prior to joining ACGA, Jovy worked in different business entities, including CPA firm, engineering consultancy, trading and design companies

Lake Wang (王湖) joined ACGA in October 2023. He supports ACGA’s research on corporate governance and ESG development in 12 Asia-Pacific markets, with a focus on Greater China.

Before joining ACGA, Lake worked for an equity hedge fund for over five years. Additionally, he conducted research at global professional services firms and in academia.

Lake has an MPhil in sociology from the University of Cambridge (Distinction), an MPhil in communication from Hong Kong Baptist University, and a Bachelor of Arts in advertising from Sichuan University, China.

Mikky Li (李詠敏) joined ACGA in June 2017 and is responsible for ACGA's daily office management and administration, as well as managing the logistics for ACGA member events, conferences, and Council meetings.

Mikky honed her administration skills during her time as Centre Manager of Compass Office, one of the biggest serviced office providers in Hong Kong, where she lead a team handling the administrative and secretarial needs of more than 100 clients and senior management.

She comes from a strong hospitality background, earning her bachelor’s degree in Hotel Management from the Les Roches, School of Hotel Management in Switzerland. Her hotel experience includes stints with the Kowloon Shangri-La and the Ritz-Carlton Millenia, Singapore.

Stephanie Lin (林依云) joined ACGA in October 2021  to support ACGA’s ongoing research into corporate governance and ESG development in 12 markets across Asia-Pacific, with a special focus on Korea, Singapore and the Philippines.

Previously, Stephanie worked in the consulting and financial industry for five years. As a business consultant, Stephanie advised multinational investment and corporate clients on regulatory, legal and reputational risks.

Stephanie was born in China and grew up in California, US. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Master of Arts in International Relations from New York University.

Zoe Tsang (曾顏茵) joined ACGA in July 2024 as the Executive and Administration Assistant, providing direct support to the Secretary General and handling other administrative tasks. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and began her career in the advertising industry with 4As advertising agencies in Hong Kong. She then transitioned to marketing roles at The Bank of East Asia, DBS Bank, and a notable multi-brand fashion chain store. Before joining ACGA, she served as an assistant to the director at an award-winning interior design firm.

Christopher Leahy (利希圖) is a founder of Blackpeak, a leading investigative research and advisory firm founded in Asia and with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, New York, Washington DC and London. Prior to working in the investigative field, he was a journalist, holding positions as Asian Editor for Euromoney and a contributing editor for Asiamoney.

Chris began his career as a stockbroker, and later an investment banker, working in the UK and Asia with leading financial institutions such as Warburg Securities (now UBS), BNP Paribas Peregrine and Crosby. For the past 26 years, he has been based in Asia.

He began writing for ACGA in 2003, specialising on Southeast Asia and contributing to ACGA’s bimonthly members’ newsletter, Asia Regional Briefing. He has written the Indonesia and Philippines chapters in ACGA’s CG Watch report since 2007 and has contributed to other markets as well, including Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. He has spoken at numerous ACGA member events over the past decade and has represented ACGA as a speaker at many conferences around the region.

Melissa Brown (白朗莹) is a partner at Daobridge Capital, a China-focussed advisory firm and a specialist consultant for ACGA. She has analysed Asian investments for more than 25 years, initially as a sell-side equity analyst and research director for Barclays Capital, JPMorgan, and Citigroup, and later led research into ESG as executive director of the Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia from 2003 to 2008. Melissa is an experienced power sector analyst and currently works with the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), focussing on Asia’s transition to clean energy.

In addition, she currently serves as a director of Sustainalytics, a global ESG research provider and is a government-appointed council member of the Hong Kong Institute of CPAs and a member of the Securities and Futures Commission Takeovers Panel. She was previously an elected member of the UNPRI Advisory Council and also served on the Listing Committee of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) for six years from 2006 to 2012.

Melissa has collaborated with ACGA on a number of projects including its regulatory submissions on IPO due diligence, ESG reporting standards, and weighted voting rights.

Nana Li (李睿) is Head of Sustainability & Stewardship, Asia-Pacific at Impax Asset Management. Prior to joining Impax, Nana was Research and Project Director at ACGA and has worked with the Association from 2014. Her primary responsibilities at ACGA included researching corporate governance developments in Hong Kong and China. She was the primary author of the China chapter of CG Watch 2016-2020. Since 2018, Nana has been the Chair of ACGA’s China Working Group, a role she continues to fill today.

Besides her research work, Nana supported ACGA’s advocacy and educational work, giving presentations at events including the OECD, EMIA, GRI, CLSA, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, ICGN, AmCham Shanghai, BritCham Shanghai and the CFA Institute.

Nana sits on the Financial Capital Committee of the International Corporate Governance Network, the ESG Committee of the Women in Finance Asia and the Caixin China ESG30 Forum.

Nana has an MBA from the University of Chicago (Honors), a Master of Finance from the University of Hong Kong (Dean’s List), and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales (Distinction). She is a CFA charterholder and has finished the HKICPA Qualification Program.