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Matt Kasdin

Matt began his career at Latham & Watkins across the firm’s New York, London, and Moscow offices, advising on over US$30 billion in project finance, cross-border M&A, and capital markets transactions for premier investment banking and private equity clients. He then served as Head of Legal & Policy at the United Nations Global Compact, where he shaped governance frameworks for the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative.

Matt moved to Singapore to serve as vice president at a family office managing billions of dollars, overseeing investments in education, healthcare, and microfinance across South and Southeast Asia and Africa. Since 2008, Matt has also advised Impact Investment Exchange, a pioneer in impact investing in APAC, where he is general counsel to this day.

He later joined a Singapore-based, NASDAQ-listed company where he built the ESG programme from the ground up, achieving Singapore’s number-one sustainability ranking and a Corporate Knights Global Top 25 position, and led the company through a high-profile reputational crisis involving human rights allegations covered by The New York Times.

He has held judicial clerkships at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the High Court of Zimbabwe, was a Fulbright Scholar working on legal reform projects in Bulgaria, and earlier wrote on human rights and environmental issues from Costa Rica.

Matt holds a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, where he was Executive Editor of the Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, and a Bachelor of Arts from UW-Madison, where he studied history and literature. He also studied international law at Vrije Universiteit in The Netherlands and was a Fulbright Scholar on the law faculty at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in Bulgaria.