Christopher has been a RIMAS Governing Council Member since 2014.
Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risk Chapter
The ESG Risk chapter demonstrates an organizational commitment to sustainability.
The ESG Risk Chapter is the first of its kind to be set up in RIMAS.
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The activities of the chapter will be organizing workshops, seminars to promote the concept of sustainability risk management, responsibility, and leadership among our members in the association. ESG Risk Management, and the benefits thereof, are better understood and many large companies now have personnel who are specially assigned sustainability risk management duties. Some companies in fact have established ESG risk management divisions in order to provide risk services to their clients.
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There is a bright future for risk management practitioners as the benefits of sound ESG risk management strategies become increasingly recognized throughout the business community.
Chapter's Leaders
Chairman, ESG Risk Committee
Mr. Dennis Lee
Chief Risk and Compliance Advisor, Spera Group
Mr Dennis Lee has a span of 37 years in areas of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Compliance, Business Continuity Management (BCM), and Group Insurance (GI) during which he served as Chief Risk Officer, Group Head and Vice President in ERM/BCM/Compliance/GI for SGX Main Board listed company and in large corporations across various sectors such as logistics & e-commerce services, financial services, insurance companies, leisure & hospitality, healthcare, e-commerce logistics, education and physical security industries. Most are largely Temasek Linked Corporations with big footprints and geographical presence in many locations across the globe.
He is now with Spera Group as Chief Risk and Compliance Advisor and is actively conducting training workshops & conferences in ERM (Strategic & Operational Risks) in Kuala Lumpur with MindZallera (FRESH UPSKILLS TRAINING SDN BHD).
His past work histories can be summarised as follows:
Group Head – ERM, Compliance & Insurance (Certis Cisco Grp) – (2023 – 2024)
Group Head - ERM, BCM & Insurance (Singapore Post Limited) – (2019-2023)
Risk and Compliance Director (Amicorp Trustees Limited) – (2017-2019)
Partner, ERM/BCM (BCP Asia Limited) – (2016 -2017)
Chief Risk Officer (National University of Singapore) – (2007-2016)
Chief Compliance Officer (Aviva Limited) – (2005-2007)
Head of Risk Management & Compliance (GK Goh Securities Limited) – (2002-2004)
Head of Compliance (AIA Limited, Singapore) – (1999 -2001)
Head of Compliance (Fuji Bank Limited, Singapore) – (1987-1999)
Mr Lee was a Council member of the Risk and Insurance Management Association of Singapore (RIMAS) with fellowship certification (FERM). He is also a Working Group expert member on Risk Management (ISO31009) Management Systems Standards Committee (MSSC), Spring Singapore
Mr Lee earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (with honour) from the National University of Singapore and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Leicester. He is also a certified trainer under ACTA and Certified Risk Management Assurance (CRMA) with the Institute of Internal Auditors.
He regularly speaks at various conferences in ERM (Strategic & Operation Risks), Compliance and Business Continuity and Corporate Governance subject matters.