Module 5: ESG Leadership and Reporting Strategy

March 11, 2022 (FRI). 9:00am - 5:00pm (GMT+8)


Session One:


ESG reporting and emerging ESG regulations
    Discuss the major frameworks, standards, guidelines, and emerging regulations

Session Two:


Stakeholder engagement
    Discuss the key principles of stakeholder engagement

Session Three:


Materiality assessment
    Discuss the essentials of materiality assessment and learn the steps to construct a materiality matrix.

Session Four:


Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards
    Introduction to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards, the global standards for sustainability reporting

Pam Lee is currently the Executive Director in charge of ESG and Sustainability at BDO in Malaysia. She is involved in ESG and sustainability work for BDO clients and she is also in charge of driving the firm’s own internal sustainability efforts.

A holder of a Capital Market Services Representative’s License for Advising on Corporate Finance, she has worked on corporate finance engagements, including due diligence, corporate valuations, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and independent advice for related party transactions and takeovers.

She is a member of the Industry Expert Advisory Panel for Master in Sustainable Development Management of Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

Prior to her role as Executive Director in Advisory with BDO in Malaysia, she served as CFO for a private solar independent power producer in Malaysia. Before joining the commercial sector, her last role was as Director in Advisory in Corporate Finance in BDO. Her
involvement in corporate finance engagements include corporate valuations, fairness opinions, IPOs, purchase price allocation as well as independent adviser for related party transactions and mergers and acquisitions.

Her financial advisory and audit experience cover oil and gas, plantation, utilities, shipping, trading, manufacturing, services, poultry, concession, financial services, construction and retail. She is also experienced in managing external audits of listed
and non-listed clients, financial due diligence assignments, agreed upon procedures, overseas special audit assignments and GST advisory in Malaysia.

Pam was in Ernst & Young for over 3 years in audit. Her other career experience includes her stint as financial journalist for a business newspaper in Malaysia.