Koleen Davila-Palaganas serves as Vice President for Sustainability at SM Investments Corporation, the leading conglomerate in the Philippines with interests in property, retail, banking and a portfolio of equity investments in logistics, mining and leisure property developments. She was instrumental in driving the sustainability reporting among SM group’s listed companies and served as a proponent in launching the GRI Sustainability Summit in the Philippines, hosted by the SM group. She was awarded by CSRWorks as one of Asia’s Sustainability Superwomen for 2019 and currently serves as a GRI Stakeholder Council member. On a personal capacity, she serves as the founder of SustainablePH, a community for sustainability advocates in the country, raising awareness on sustainability. She also serves as a board member of Child Hope Philippines. Prior to SM, she served in various roles focused on sustainable development in Europe, Central Asia, Asia and the Pacific. She completed her Master’s Degree in International Cooperation for Sustainable Development at the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain as a full scholar of AECID (Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional al Desarrollo).