Jessica Cheam

Ms Jessica Cheam is a non-executive Director of ComfortDelGro Corporation Limited. She is an independent Director of the Company. Ms Cheam is also a member of both the Nominating Committee and the Investment Committee.

Ms Cheam is the Managing Editor of Eco-Business, a media platform for the region to discuss and advance sustainability issues. Ms Cheam serves as Strategic Advisor to Blue Planet Environmental Solutions, and is founding Director for Embodhi (Singapore), a non-profit for women empowerment in Asia, and founding Director for EB Impact, non-profit for sustainable development training. She is also a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors, and currently chairs the Climate Action SG Alliance – an initiative supported by the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources to advocate climate action and raise public awareness on climate issues.

She has also won many journalism awards, including the Earth Journalism Awards at the UN climate change meeting in Copenhagen in 2009, Young Journalist of the Year by Singapore Press Holdings in 2010, and the ASEAN Green Technology Journalism Award in 2011. In 2015, she received the Sustained Environmental Reporting by a Journalist Award at the Asian Environmental Journalism Award for her efforts in contributing to environmental journalism over the last decade. She was also the winner of the Women of the Future Southeast Asia Awards for the media and communications category in 2018.

She is the published author of 'Forging a Greener Tomorrow: Singapore's journey from slum to eco-cities'. She is also an adjunct research associate for the Centre for Liveable Cities, a Singapore think tank focussed on creating and sharing knowledge on liveable and sustainable cities. She studied at the University of Warwick and University of London's Goldsmiths College.