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Inside Asia Podcast
by Steve Stine
Welcome to Inside Asia, conversations with Asia’s leading movers, shakers, thinkers, and provocateurs. Each week, we bring you an extraordinary tale of a country, a trend, a sector, or an idea. It’s informed and engaging conversation, and invaluable insight into the innovations and entrepreneurs who are shaping and changing the region.
Episodes
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Reimagining “Community” (w/ Kai Soto)
I open this episode with a question: What is community? It’s changed, I’d argue. Not by definition, so much. But in terms of what people have come to expect from it. And I’m putting emphasis here on the word “expect.” In our digital world, joining a community can be as basic as adding one’s...
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The Hard Problem of Carbon Emissions and Developing Asia (w/ Jeff Delmon)
After a slow start, delegates to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP26, found momentum. That’s cause for hope. Even the reps from Green Peace seemed satisfied. The question on everyone’s lips now is: What’s next? Will the world go back to business-as-usual…
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In Search of Impact Heroes (w/ Tomo and Aska Hamakawa)
This week we head south to the equator and to the Indonesian island of Bali where two individuals are working to make a difference. Tomo and Aska Hamakawa are Co-Founders of Earth Company. It’s stated mission: “To empower and inspire change-makers who realize social change for our future...
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Asia’s Turning or Tipping Point? (w/ Cindy Hook)
At this very moment, representatives from some 197 nations have arrived in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss prospects for net zero carbon emissions by mid-century. The so-called COP26 gathering represents a pivotal moment and a real test of the world’s ability to cooperate in the face of climate…
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Sustainable Talent (w/ Jeanne Ng)
As climate countdown continues apace, we look this week at a central bottleneck – that if not addressed – could confound even the best intentions. I’m talking about talent, and the tens of thousands of sustainability-related jobs that will go unfilled in coming years unless the public and private...
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Are We Facing a Global Mental Health Crisis? (w/ Anurag Banerjee)
My guest this week is Anurag Banerjee. He’s sounding the alarm on mental well-being. Anurag isn’t a medical professional, a healthcare expert, or a policy-maker. He’s a miner…of data, that is. And through the organization he founded and runs, he’s excavating insights that point to leading trends...
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Purpose Nomads (w/ Zayd and Akshita Khoury)
It’s been said that the global pandemic has offered us a rare moment of existential reflection. When not battling the disease or avoiding infection, it has allowed time for us to consider what’s most important. Young professionals are no exception. Data shows that increasingly “the best and...
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Seeding Purpose (w/ Elizabeth Hernandez)
When was the last time you thought about where your food comes from? And I don’t mean from your local supermarket… Well, according to the U.N. Food & Agriculture Association, 70% of food consumed globally comes from so-called “smallholder” farmers. There are an estimated 570 million of them, and...
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The Age of the Employee-Centric Workspace (w/ James Soback)
In this most recent episode of Inside Asia, I speak with James Soback, Director of Sustainability and Hospitality Advisory for OMNE/WX, a firm pushing the edge of the “work-from-anywhere” culture. It’s safe to say that thanks to Covid, work will never be the same. What it will ultimately look…
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Driving Purpose Through Partners (w/ T.C. Ng)
There are few businesses in the world that have a sales and distribution network as vast and varied as the tech giant, Hewlett Packard. HP has been building and selling personal and enterprise technology for over 80 years. And during that time, it has assembled an ecosystem of business partners...
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The Ocean Economy (w/ Jack Kittinger)
When you think of the ocean, what comes to mind? Rolling waves and the soft pounding of the surf? Boating? Fishing? Cocktails at sundown? While you’re relaxing and enjoying these sights and sounds, remember this: The ocean doesn’t rest. In fact, it never stops working. Indeed, without our oceans...
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Riding the ESG Wave (w/ Steve Okun)
If you hear the acronym “E-S-G” being bandied about, it’s for a reason. The world is waking up to the fact that traditional business practices are no longer enough to meet the needs of the 21st century. ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. Together, they form the foundation for a...
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Sustainable Angels (w/ Mark Inkster)
This week on Inside Asia, we take a look at the world of seed investing. I’m not talking about farming, although, in some ways, I am. I’m talking about the way good, early-stage ideas attract seed capital to get their ventures off the ground. And while I don’t have the data to support it, I…
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Putting the Purpose in Strategy (w/ Tom Malnight)
My guest this week is Tom Malnight. He took time to speak with me from Lausanne, Switzerland, where he serves as Professor of Strategy at IMD Business School. We live in an era when time-tested business practices are all of a sudden being called into question. The same goes for strategy; that...
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Advisory Boards Come of Age (w/ Louise Broekman)
There’s not a person or organization out there that couldn’t do with some good advice, particularly in times like these. Perhaps, therefore, it’s no surprise that organization’s the world over are reaching out and establishing Advisory Boards as a way of bringing outside expertise in. This rush…
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Future Food (w/ Isabelle Decitre)
My guest this week is the Founder and CEO of ID Capital, a Singapore-based firm with a focus on food. It’s an age-old industry now receiving high-profile attention from investors, inventors, and activists. It seems like everyone, these days, has something to say about the future of food. Here to...
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MNCs Weigh New China Risks (w/ David Hoffman)
Is global enthusiasm for China investment cooling? That’s the question I pose in this week’s episode. My guest is David Hoffman, Senior Vice President for The Conference Board in Asia, and Managing Director of the China Center for Economics and Business. We got together on the back of an article...
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The Way of the Storyteller (w/ Anna Ong)
Everyone loves a story. This statement is as true today as it likely was 5,000 years ago. We, as a species, are drawn to stories like bees to honey. Why is that exactly? Here to discuss it with me is Anna Ong, Founder of "What’s Your Story?", a Singapore-based outfit that uses storytelling to…
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Powering People Through Inclusion (w/ Jane Horan)
I know I’ve been relentlessly flogging the Corporate Purpose theme these past few months. I’ll be honest, I can’t help myself. It’s a big part of what I do these days. But more importantly – and I mean this – it’s a topic that simply cannot be ignored. If anything, Covid-19 has shown us that we…
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A Case Against Cronyism (w/ Razeen Sally)
Conversations – most would agree – are best had in person. Yet, our recent bout with Covid has shown that sometimes technology is necessary to keep that conversation flowing. When restrictions lifted several months back, I was quick to return to in-person meetings, on location. It was nice while…
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Valuing Our Forests (w/ Koh Lian Pin)
My guest this week is Koh Lian Pin, a Singapore-based conservation scientist, and also one of nine nominated members of the Singapore Parliament. He’s staked his career on identifying ways to preserve our planet’s natural resources. His dream, as he says, is to see agri-business and forests in a...
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Capitalism’s Right of Passage: Part 2 (w/ Pietro Ventani)
A couple of weeks ago I was sitting in the member’s lounge of a local club I like to visit, and my Italian economist friend, Pietro Ventani comes up to me, sits down, and pushes a piece of paper across the table. “I’ve been thinking about this,” he says. “There’s more to it.” What he’s referring…
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Has Asia Lost It? (w/ Vasuki Shastry)
This week on Inside Asia, we reach across the Pacific to speak to Vasuki Shastry. He’s a Washington D.C.-based Senior Fellow at the US Chamber of Commerce and an Associate Asia Pacific Fellow at the policy institute Chatham House in London. We reached out to talk about his new book, provocatively...
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Capitalism’s Right of Passage (w/ Pietro Ventani)
This week on Inside Asia, we’re tackling a big topic – Capitalism. You might argue that it’s a system as tightly imbedded in our daily lives as any other. There’s hardly a place on Earth that isn’t affected by it. In most places, it governs the basic exchange of goods and service, provides the...
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The Still Angry Clean Energy Guy (w/ Assaad Razzouk)
My guest this week is Assaad Razzouk, Group CEO at Sindicatum Renewable Energy and host of The Angry Clean Energy Guy podcast. We’re talking about the need for new market forces to drive sustainability and reduce carbon output. In Assaad’s view, we’ve been playing around the perimeter for too…
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A Purpose-driven Career & Life After Work (w/ Todd Miller)
“Purpose” as a business operating principle, has been elevated as a key priority for hundreds, if not thousands of organizations worldwide. The idea that all stakeholders are important, and not just shareholders is a new, novel, and some say, notorious concept. Convincing people within an...
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Backing Women Entrepreneurs in a Time of Change (w/ Debbie Watkins)
This week (and every week) we celebrate women, and women entrepreneurs in particular. Increasingly, female founders are launching new and innovative ventures with growing support from investor communities that for too long have been male-biased. Don’t believe me? Look at the numbers. From wage...
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Corporate Communication and the Generational Divide (w/ Rachele Focardi)
My guest this week is Rachele Focardi, author and expert on multigenerational divides. It’s a topic that continues to plague corporations that now, more than ever, need to attract and retain great talent. Rachele, Founder of XYZ@Work and author of Reframing Generational Stereotypes, sat down with...
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Food to Feed the Planet (w/ Josh Tetrick)
My guest this week is Josh Tetrick, Co-Founder and CEO of San Francisco-based Eat Just, Inc. And no, it’s not an episode about life beyond this planet but life on the only planet that really matters – our planet. It’s also a "chicken or the egg" story. But in this instance, the chicken and the…
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Corporate Morality and the Pursuit of Social Justice (w/ Mac McKenzie)
Do corporations have a moral obligation to society? That’s the subject of this week’s episode of Inside Asia. My guest, Mac McKenzie, is Co-founder of the Bridge Partnership Asia and the Bridge Institute. It’s safe to say that over the course of history, companies have been viewed through the…
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Inside Asia – A New Season For a New Era
It’s 2021. A new year brings new hope. For those of you who’ve generously followed Inside Asia for the past two seasons, we thank you for listening and for your loyal support. Over the course of the past 30 months, we’ve produced nearly 170 episodes, bringing to you insights through conversation...
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A Finer Future (w/ Hunter Lovins)
Something special happened in recent days, and in a slight departure from our regular format, I bring you a discussion held with one of the great environmental thinkers of our time, Hunter Lovins. It was on the occasion of one of our regularly scheduled gatherings of the Asia Corporate Leadership...
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Machines that Listen (w/ Walt Mayo)
This week on Inside Asia, we take a look at just one more way in which artificial intelligence is ingraining itself in our daily lives. With so much hype around AI, it’s hard to know what to think of it. In one moment, AI applications can appear benevolent, even helpful. And in the next, it can…
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The New ESG Movement (w/ Iain Donald and Silke Goldberg)
What a difference an election makes. Or at least, that’s the hope. It’s as if the world has been holding its breath and now – after no shortage of political drama – Joe Biden has emerged as the new President of the United States. Why’s that important? Because the world is suffering –...
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Money Games: Negotiating Private Equity (w/ Weijian Shan)
When the influence of private capital exceeds that of a sovereign state, it raises an important question: Where does real power reside? Increasingly, it seems, money makes the world go round. At a time when stocks are over-valued, bond yields are flat, and property prices are inflated, private...
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Contemplating the Future of US-China Relations (w/ Jim McGregor & Craig Allen)
In the run-up to this year’s US Presidential election, the only Asia topic that appears to loom large is China. And during these days, no self-respecting US politician can talk about this rising Superpower without saying something disparaging. Indeed, there’s hardly a businessman, legislator, or...
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The Economics of Corporate Purpose (w/ Bob Quinn & Anjan Thakor)
2020 has been a headline year, dominated by news of a global pandemic, US elections, Brexit and China’s rise to power. On the business front, Corporate Purpose has emerged as the theme of the year. It comes on the back of an August 2019 statement released by the US-based Business Roundtable,...
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Japan and the Problem and Promise of Automation
If the world has a problem, technology will solve it. That’s the stance taken by many technologists and industrialists who trust that human innovation – when put to the test - will prevail. It’s the “human” part of the equation, however, that is increasingly in question. In Japan, for instance,...
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Digital Currencies and the China Question (w/ Zennon Kapron)
After living in the shadow of Western-style development for the greater part of the last 200 years, China is in the throes of crafting it’s own vision of what it means to be a modern economic power. That doesn’t always sit well with other countries – and particularly the U.S. – a nation grown...
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US Voter Turnout and Americans Abroad
This is Steve Stine from Inside Asia. Just 45 days from today Americans will go to the polls and cast a vote for the next president of the United States. By all counts, this is proving one of the most essential electoral decisions in modern US history. The outcome will fundamentally change the...
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The Future of Food (w/ Isabelle Decitre)
My guest this week is Isabelle Decitre, CEO of Singapore-based ID Capital. She’s a future-of-food advocate, an investor, and convener of food innovators. For many, there’s nothing more all-consuming and enticing than the topic of food. In these maddening times, food offers comfort, conjures up...
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Asia’s Shift in Consumerism (w/ Vaughan Ryan)
This week, we take a hard look at how consumption patterns in Asia have shifted as a result of the global pandemic. With me this episode is Nielsen’s Managing Director of Consumer Intelligence, Vaughan Ryan. I met Vaughan virtually during a recent Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry...
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Mindfulness Inc. (w/ Davina Ho)
My guest this week is Davina Ho, Co-Founder and Chief Well-Being Officer at Hasiko, a Singapore-based advisory and training organization. She says that pre-Covid, stress levels in the workplace were on the rise. The global pandemic has only exacerbated the problem. So much so, she argues, that…
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US vs. China: A Tale of Two Systems (w/ Clay Chandler)
My guest this week is Clay Chandler, Executive Editor for Fortune here in Asia. Based out of Hong Kong, he’s a long-serving member of the region’s journalistic community, holding stints with The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Time Inc. At Fortune, he’s created a niche in delivering...
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The New Nature Economy (w/ Fraser Thompson)
My guest this week is Fraser Thompson, Founder and Managing Director of AlphaBeta, a Singapore-based consulting firm specializing in strategy and economics. Fraser and his colleagues teamed up with the World Economic Forum to highlight sector-specific ways in which business might profit, while...
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US Voters and the World: Don’t Know and Don’t Care (w/ Steve Okun)
On this week’s episode of Inside Asia I’m in conversation with Steve Okun, political pundit and senior advisor with McClarty Associates. For years now, and with each new US political cycle, Steve steps up to offer an outside-in view of how things are shaping up. Understanding how politics shape...
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Building the Imagination Muscle (w/Tony Estrella)
These days, we busy ourselves 24/7 with emails, text messsges, spreadsheets and reports. Human contact is becoming obsolete, and Covid-19 and its social distancing requirements makes Zoom calls the last step in severing us from our friends and work colleagues. What’s left? The imagination,...
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Finding Resiliency in Emerging Asia (w/ James Crabtree)
My guest this week is James Crabtree, an Associate Professor at the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy and a frequent commentator across news outlets here and abroad. In a recent Foreign Policy article entitled “The End of Emerging Markets,” James outlined many of his concerns as efforts are…
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Solar’s New Shine (w/ Gavin Adda)
This week my guest is Gavin Adda, CEO of Total Solar Asia. He is one of the true-borns who embraced solar and its potential nearly 15 years ago. This week, we take a look at the burgeoning solar industry. To be frank, it’s been a slog in many parts of Asia, where the appetite and economics for...
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Purpose Incorporated (w/ John Wood)
My guest this week is John Wood, Founder of Room-to-Read, one of the world’s most successful education and gender equality non-profits. He wasn’t always in the business of building and filling libraries in the poorest parts of the world. For years prior, he served as a senior executive with...
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Welcome to Inside Asia, conversations with Asia’s leading movers, shakers, thinkers, and provocateurs. Each week, we bring you an extraordinary tale of a country, a trend, a sector, or an idea. It’s informed and engaging conversation, and invaluable insight into the innovations and entrepreneurs who are shaping and changing the region.
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