Ivy Wong Abdullah

Malaysian environmental conservation leader, currently serving as CEO of Permian Global in Malaysia, where she drives large-scale conservation finance and forest protection efforts. Previously, she led the Environment Impact Area at Yayasan Hasanah, Khazanah Nasional’s CSR foundation. She brings over 25 years of experience spanning NGOs, government agencies, private sector and philanthropy, focusing on biodiversity, forestry, climate finance, and sustainability. A 2020 AVPN Impact Invest Fellow, 2016 Asia Fellow of Low Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) Global Partnership Program and a 2016 Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) on Climate and Energy.

It is about aligning success with positive social and environmental outcomes and delivering progress at scale and pace needed. It is going beyond numbers, delivering impact is about changing systems and people, doing good with conviction, sincerity, empathy, humility and building trust, collaboration and partnership in pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve together.