The Sustainability Edition of ASEAN Forward is a powerful exploration of how sustainability, gender equity, and technology intersect to shape ASEAN’s future.
It highlights voices who champion fintech and climate tech as tools to empower women in vulnerable communities, businesses to embed ESG into their core through inclusive leadership and Gen Z engagement.
In this edition, we look at AI as a human-centric enabler of climate resilience, grassroots innovation in creating both environmental and economic impact, with ESG as a collective mandate requiring regional solidarity, shared frameworks, and collaboration.
We call on leaders and ASEAN stakeholders that true sustainability requires proactive leadership, strategic partnerships, and a united cultural shift toward ESG accountability.
ASEANForward is a pan-regional magazine designed to foster cross-border collaboration and elevate thought leadership across Southeast Asia.
Tailored for business leaders, policymakers, and innovators, the magazine serves as a dynamic platform for sharing transformative ideas, success stories, and critical insights into the region’s challenges and opportunities in the realm of financial inclusion, risk, sustainability & the development of the digital economy.
ASEANForward aspires to shape strategic conversations, align cross-border efforts, and amplify shared visions. By encouraging partnerships and actionable frameworks, the magazine positions itself as a catalyst for regional growth and unity in ASEAN.
In this edition, our focus has been primarily on financial inclusion, our hopes, dreams and actionable strategies to bridge access to the underbanked and unbanked in ASEAN.