Juliana Koh
Director, Research
Juliana Koh leads research collaborations with industry and academia, conducts applied research, and integrates insights into training programs. The mission is to mobilise wealth for social and environmental impact through research and education by collaborating with the ecosystem of multigenerational wealth holders, business families, industry practitioners, financial institutions and regulators.
She is excited to explore the core values and virtues in the heart of business families and multigenerational wealth holders, using these insights to unite them and build purposeful and virtuous wealth to drive impact investing. Juliana is passionate about ageing, health, social justice, diversity, inclusivity, faith-based initiatives, climate and environmental impact, and preserving humanity in the AI era.
A seasoned qualitative researcher with over 20 years of experience across 28 countries in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, Juliana has worked in corporations, entrepreneurship, academia, and non-profits. More recently, she was a Senior Research Associate with the Singapore Management University at the Business Families Institute and the International Trading Institute. She began her career as a Project Director at Synovate (now Ipsos) before founding a boutique Qualitative market research firm Consumer Faces Pte Ltd.
Juliana graduated with a Double Master of Science (Behavioural Economics, Health Economics) from Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam and a Bachelor of Economics from the Australian National University. Her motto in life is to “Act justly, love tenderly, and walk humbly.” (Micah 6:8). She plays and prays.
Research contributions
This guide features eight diverse, multi-generational families in Asia who are intentionally deploying capital and leveraging business for good.
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