Yu-Leng Khor

Yu-Leng Khor has a master of science in economics from the London School of Economics and a bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Politics and Economics from Oxford University. Yu-Leng started her career in the financial industry in Malaysia with a pioneering online broker-banker and stints with Citygroup and other financial institutions in Singapore. Since 2003, she has worked as an international economic consultant and specialist on Southeast Asia, as lead on actionable reports for dozens of Fortune 500 companies, Asian corporations, Government agencies (including the EU Commission), NGOs, including the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil and family offices. She specialises in agribusiness (sugar, palm oil, rubber and more), infrastructure, trade and China-Asian economics. From 2014 until 2017, Yu-Leng worked extensively on the economics of commodity supply-chains, sustainability and smallholders, as the research head for Southeast Asia at LMC International Ltd. In addition to her ongoing work as a market and ESG analyst, she has been associated (sustainability) at the Singapore Institute of International Affairs, part of the founding group at Climate Governance Malaysia, research associate of the Institute of China studies at the University of Malaya, council member of the Malaysian Oil Scientists and Technologists Association and advisor at Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots (Malaysia). Since 2018, she is an independent non-executive director of Rohas Technic Berhad, active in regional EPC and fabrication for power transmission, telecommunications, and water infrastructure. She is a director of SIPEF as from 9 June 2021.