Arifah Sharifuddin

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Arifah Sharifuddin is the Institute Director at the Tech for Good Institute, where she oversees the Institute’s strategic direction and operations to advance responsible, inclusive, and evidence-based digital development across Southeast Asia. In her leadership role, Arifah drives cross-sectoral collaborations, strengthens the Institute’s research and engagement agenda, and builds institutional capabilities to shape the region’s digital future.

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Securing the Future Harvest: Financial Innovation as Malaysia’s Food Security Imperative

In this article, Arifah Sharifuddin, Institute Director at Tech for Good Institute, outlines how Malaysia’s food security goals hinge on easing financial and risk barriers for smallholders.

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Securing the Future Harvest: Financial Innovation as Malaysia’s Food Security Imperative

In this article, Arifah Sharifuddin, Institute Director at Tech for Good Institute, outlines how Malaysia’s food security goals hinge on easing financial and risk barriers for smallholders.

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Mouna Aouri

Programme Fellow

Mouna Aouri is an Institute Fellow at the Tech For Good Institute. As a social entrepreneur, impact investor, and engineer, her experience spans over two decades in the MENA region, South East Asia, and Japan. She is founder of Woomentum, a Singapore-based platform dedicated to supporting women entrepreneurs in APAC through skill development and access to growth capital through strategic collaborations with corporate entities, investors and government partners.

Dr Ming Tan

Senior Fellow & Founding Executive Director

Dr Ming Tan is Senior Fellow at the Tech for Good Institute; where she served as founding Executive Director of the non-profit focused on research and policy at the intersection of technology, society and the economy in Southeast Asia. She is concurrently a Senior Fellow at and the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at the National University of Singapore and Advisor to the Founder of the COMO Group, a Singaporean portfolio of lifestyle companies operating in 15 countries worldwide. Ming was previously Managing Director of IPOS International, part of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. Prior to joining the public sector, she was Head of Stewardship of the COMO Group.


Ming also serves on the boards of several private companies, Singapore’s National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre, Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC), and on the Digital and Technology Advisory Panel for Esplanade–Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s national performing arts centre. Her current portfolio spans philanthropy, social impact, sustainability and innovation.