Sook Yee Tai

Sook Yee Tai

Chair, NO.17 Foundation

Sook Yee Tai is Chair of the NO.17 Foundation and a Principal Advisor at TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a fourth generation family-owned group operating under a Well-being Mandate. She writes as a practitioner rather than a researcher, drawing on nearly four decades in business leadership and governance, including as group managing director of an industrial group spanning 16 countries. Her current work is on regenerative capital, sustainability reporting and the Life Flourishing Index, a measurement architecture intended to make human and ecological flourishing usable in investment decisions. A Certified Public Accountant (Malaysia), she serves as an independent director of listed and non-listed companies.

Articles by Sook Yee Tai

  1. Creating an Asian green economy

    Climate — Asia (Central, Eastern and Southern), Pacific and South-eastern Asia

    A green economy offers Asia greater resilience, new opportunities for growth, and a way to restore its depleted natural systems. Realizing it will require patient finance, closer public–private collaboration, and a firm focus on fairness