What We Believe
A cooler, greener,
kinder future.
Success does not require damage.
Why We Exist
Accelerating the Transition
The transition to a low-carbon economy is not optional. It is underway. The question is whether organisations will move through it with intelligence or be moved by it.
ESG Institute exists to accelerate that transition. We work with countries, chambers and companies to build the intelligence that turns climate commitments into bankable action.
Not through compliance. Not through reporting. Through seeing what is coming, understanding what it means for the business model, and acting before the cost of inaction compounds.
The frameworks that existed measured what companies disclosed. Nobody was measuring whether they were actually ready. That gap between disclosure and readiness is where long-term value is won or lost.
ClearSight exists because that gap shouldn't.
Our Origin
How We Got Here
Jane Douglas
Acting High Commissioner, Australia
Joanne Flinn
Founder & Chair, ESG Institute
Dr Amy Khor
Senior Minister of State, Singapore
Jonathan Cheung
Co-Founder, ESG Institute
ESG Institute launched in February 2023 with the backing of the Singapore government and the Australian High Commission. Senior Minister of State Dr Amy Khor and Australian Acting High Commissioner Jane Douglas served as Guests of Honour. Five institutional partners stood behind it from day one: the Singapore Institute of Directors, AustCham Singapore, AmCham Singapore, the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and the Asia Stewardship Center.
The room that day included representatives from Temasek, CapitaLand, Deloitte, Visa, the Embassy of the United States, the Royal Commonwealth Society, the Hinrich Foundation, the St Gallen Symposium, and the Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco. The panel brought together voices from across the system: governance, investment, procurement, and transformation.
That room told a story. This was not one person's idea. This was a conviction that serious people across sectors and borders could see was needed.
Since then:
In 2024, ESG Institute became a certified B Corp. Because the structure should walk the talk.
In 2025, AustCham Singapore named ESG Institute StartUp of the Year at their annual Business Awards.
In 2026, Thinkers50 named Joanne Flinn to their global Radar. One of 30 thinkers shaping the future of management.
Today, the ClearSight methodology covers over 1,000 companies across 20 stock exchanges. And in the March 2026 market correction, the Calculator's exposure scores were validated in real time. The exchanges with highest modelled exposure triggered circuit breakers. The exchange with lowest exposure attracted inflows.
The tools to see clearly are not missing from the market anymore.
"Embedding sustainability practices and principles into your organisation is a business imperative. GreenSight provides the roadmap."
The Methodology
Built at the Table
The ClearSight™ methodology was shaped by executives who sit on both sides of the transition. The people who price risk and the people who live it.
Most frameworks are built by one side or the other. Rating agencies build from the investor side. Consulting firms build from the corporate side. ClearSight™ was built with both, in the same room, working from the same data, challenging each other's assumptions.
Risk & Investment Side
Marshall Lee
Marsh McLennan · Asia COO
Sadiq Currimbhoy
Merrill Lynch · Private equity, resilience research
Gautham Gupta
S&P · Data and analytics
Matthew Kasdin
UNGC & Principles for Responsible Investment
Abitha Ganesan
Standard Chartered Bank · Product design
Abe Jacobs
Ecolabs · People and culture
Corporate & Value Chain Side
David Fogarty
CBRE · Built environment
Rupesh Jain
Maersk · Global logistics
Ivan Lu
Unilever · Manufacturing and consumer goods
Nikita Asthana
Olam · Agricultural supply chains
Jair Smit
Witteveen+Bos · Infrastructure engineering
Grace Kerrison
LinkedIn · Cross-sector talent and networks
Andrew Cameron
Accor · Global hospitality
Bill Bryant
Stolt Nielsen · Maritime logistics
Across Both Sides
Shing Shian Ngiam
Johnson Controls · Reputation and value chain operations
Karin Aue
Chemistry, circularity, and sustainable materials
Eighteen people. Both sides of the table. That's why the Three-Lens Framework sees what single-perspective tools miss. It was built by people who live in all three lenses.
Academic Foundation
Grounded in Research
Professor Rafael Ramirez
Oxford Saïd Business School
Wrote the Greensight foreword. Pioneer in scenario planning and futures methodology.
Dr Alexander Budzier
Oxford
Co-author of Boards Risk It All. Research on governance, AI risk, and transformation programme failure.
Professor Andrew MacLeod
King's College London
Advisory Board member. Governance scholarship and validation.
The Organisation
The People Behind the Work
Joanne Flinn
Founder & Chair
Thinkers50 Radar 2026. Former PwC Country Head. Head of Change on the IT ExCo at DBS Bank. Author of Greensight. Built the ClearSight™ methodology from 35+ years of transformation leadership, from boardrooms to billion-dollar portfolios. Also an artist: under the name Booth Aster, she creates wings from silk and repurposed materials, exhibited at TEDx Singapore.
Chris Pile
CTO
Former GM Firemark Labs (IAG). VP Technology Asia (RGA). Builds the ClearSight™ platform: the intelligence infrastructure that makes transition risk visible at portfolio scale. Human expertise, agentic AI.
Jonathan Cheung
Co-Founder
Former Citibank executive. Leads the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply (CIPS) in Asia. Brings financial services depth and value chain expertise to the ClearSight™ methodology.
Matt Kasdin
Legal Counsel
Former counsel to the United Nations Global Compact and Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). Matt brings international governance frameworks into the ClearSight™ methodology, and protects it across every jurisdiction where it's licensed.
Guided By
Advisory Board
The people we listen to.
Prof. Andrew MacLeod
King's College London
Hema Prakash
Former Managing Director, Global PE Fund
Kris Wadia
Former Partner, Accenture