Podcasts by Inside Asia Podcast

Reimagining “Community” (w/ Kai Soto) from 2021-12-02T16:51:15

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 her...

The Hard Problem of Carbon Emissions and Developing Asia (w/ Jeff Delmon) from 2021-11-15T20:46:20

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.

Th...

In Search of Impact Heroes (w/ Tomo and Aska Hamakawa) from 2021-11-09T18:44:06

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 ...

Asia’s Turning or Tipping Point? (w/ Cindy Hook) from 2021-11-02T20:43:37

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 from 2020-05-08T19:43:44

If this conversation with MyDoc CEO, Dr. Snehal Patel is any indicator, the Coronavirus pandemic has given the healthtech sector and unasked for boost. From Singapore to China, telemedicine is t...

China’s Enduring Start-ups (w/ Rich Robinson) from 2020-04-30T23:41:42

Earlier this week, the city of Wuhan discharged from hospitals the last of its patients infected with Covid-19, while nationwide, only three new cases were reported. In the latest official count...

Superpower Interrupted from 2020-04-23T18:45:11

Prior to the outbreak, the greatest force in this part of the world was China. It’s awesome 40-year sprint to rise from ecominic backwater to international Superpower is the stuff of legend. For...

A Case for Conscious Capitalism (w/ Andrew Hewitt) from 2020-04-13T18:34:42

My guest this week is Andrew Hewitt, founder of GameChangers 500, an organization bent on identifying and ranking global organizations looking to make a difference. Andrew and his GameChanger co...

Asia’s Balancing Act (w/ Frank Lavin) from 2020-04-09T20:18:06

My guest this episode is Frank Lavin, former Citibank executive, US Ambassador to Singapore, and the Founder and Chairman of ExportNow, a business designed to deliver US-brand products to China....

Angel Warrior (w/ Prabha Dwabha) from 2020-03-30T17:03:07

My guest this episode is Dr. Prabhavati Dwabha, the passion and vision behind Ramana’s Garden, which for the past 20 years has offered refuge for abused and abandoned children from all parts of ...

Covid-19 and the Rural Health Gap (w/ Edward Booty ) from 2020-03-26T19:09:48

My guest this week is Edward Booty, Founder and CEO of Asia-based reach52, a company established three years ago to provide health screening and distribution services for remote communities in A...

The Medicine of Consciousness (w/ Dr. Bruce Lipton) from 2020-03-16T19:01:57

What are you doing – you alone – to safeguard your personal health and well-being? It’s a question that keeps popping up for me.

Ultimately, who’s responsible for healthcare? Governments?...

Risky Business (w/ Dane Chamorro) from 2020-03-15T16:45:55

This week I’m in conversation with Dane Chamorro, senior partner at Control Risks. The firms charter is to help organizations succeed in a volatile world, and nothing has created volatility more...

Cashing Out (w/ Cary Horenfeldt) from 2020-02-24T19:42:45

My guest this week is Cary Horenfeldt, a self-styled digital payments expert. He’s an advisor to Bain & Company and consultant to an ever-growing FinTech community in Asia and beyond.

Bas...

Going Viral (w/ Ben Rolfe) from 2020-02-10T19:01:21

On Saturday, February 8, deaths attributed to the Coronavirus surpassed those from the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003. It’s the speed of the spread of this particular disease that’s cause for concer...

China 2020 Foresight (w/ Jim McGregor) from 2020-02-06T17:05:05

This week, we’re back with a program favorite, Jim McGregor. For Jim, China has been a stomping ground for more than 30 years and he brings to our conversations the thing we appreciate the most ...

Building a Better Boardroom (w/ Elisa Mallis) from 2020-01-30T18:20:39

This week I’m in conversation with Elisa Mallis, Vice President and Managing Director at the Center for Creative Leadership. She’s talking about Corporate Boards in Asia and how the time has com...

Food Inc. (w/ Sasha Conlan) from 2020-01-16T17:55:11

This week I’m in conversation with Sasha Conlan, Founder and Owner of Singapore-based Sasha’s Fine Foods. We’re back in Singapore, and it’s that funny time of year where we find ourselves sandwi...

Mindfulness: A Corporate Panacea? (w/ Sriven Naidu) from 2019-12-12T19:00:36

This week, I’m in conversation with Sriven Naidu. Sriven works in higher education and professional development consulting. He’s based in Singapore and has found a discernable increase in intere...

In Search of the Singapore Soul (w/ Nick Fang) from 2019-12-06T20:08:37

In this week’s episode I’m in conversation with Nick Fang, Managing Director of Black Dot, a Singapore-based media consulting and advisory firm. In our conversation we banter about the idea of w...

Asian Contagion (w/ Ben Rolfe) from 2019-11-01T06:35:04

In this week’s episode I’m in conversation with Ben Rolfe, CEO of the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance. While most of us are out and about, getting on with living and working, a small but e...

Revisioning the Silk Road (w/ Alex Pflaum) from 2019-10-17T19:17:13

My guest this week is young explorer and accomplished photographer, Alex Pflaum. In our conversation we turn back time and wander into the wily world of the ancient Silk Road, where Alex spends ...

Grappling with Cultural Miscommunication (w/ Kyle Hegarty) from 2019-10-11T07:25:02

My guest this episode is Kyle Hegarty, Singapore-based entrepreneur with an expertise in sales training and development.

For years Kyle has worked with multinational and Asia-based sales ...

A New Island Mentality and the Quest for Sustainability (w/ Gove Depuy) from 2019-09-20T01:46:04

My guest this week is Gove Depuy, sustainability consultant, community-based planner, project leader and an advocate for bio mimicry. What are we talking about? Islands, and the growi...

Titans of Tech (w/ Rebecca Fannin) from 2019-09-13T00:26:14

My guest this episode is Rebecca Fannin, founder of Silicon Dragon Ventures and author of the new book, Tech Titans of China. She’s been on the program once before. Exactly one year ago we spoke...

Family Impact (w/ Rob Garrett) from 2019-09-06T01:22:40

My guest this week is Rob Garrett, Innovation and Impact Investment specialist and Managing Partner at Hezar Ventures.

We hear a lot these days about the escalating global wealth gap. How...

The Science of Sleep (w/ Tony Estrella) from 2019-08-30T02:13:23

My guest this week is healthtech advisor, novelist, and lucid dreamer, Tony Estrella. We live in stressful times. Maybe not more stressful than times of yore when our ancestors lived in fear of ...

Asia's Future is Now (w/ Oliver Tonby) from 2019-08-22T22:32:38

My guest this episode is Oliver Tonby, Chairman of McKinsey & Company in Asia Pacific. As the firm’s top representative in the region, Oliver has developed a unique perspective on Asia, informed...

Re-imagining Health (w/ Anne Hockett) from 2019-08-15T23:16:47

I have a very special guest this episode, our hundredth episode of Inside Asia! Anne Hockett is a healthcare professional and wellness advisor. She’s lived and operated across Asia for more than...

Asia’s Impact Investing Landscape (w/ Paul Meyers) from 2019-08-01T16:35

My guest this episode is serial entrepreneur, tech optimist, venture capitalist, and long time friend, Paul Meyers. WI first met Paul in 1997. He sat behind a custom-built desk-top terminal with...

Education ROI (w/ Brian Rogove) from 2019-07-25T18:07:37

Brian Rogove, Founder and CEO of Singapore-based A-Star Education is in the for-profit education business. And when you consider the premium that Asian families place on education, it’s easy to ...

The Portfolio Life (w/Curtis Chin) from 2019-07-18T20:33:31

In this weeks episode we meet politico, public relations specialist, former ambassador, private equity advisor, digital nomad, and public commentator, Curtis Chin. Curtis is many things to many ...

The Great China Divide (w/ Jim McGregor) from 2019-07-11T20:34:11

China is not the nation it once was. It’s grown up, become stronger; more resilient and self-assured. Its influence in matters of global geopolitics is absolute and bending the knee to the US is...

The importance of story-telling (w/ Neil Bearden) from 2019-07-04T20:05:07

Neil Bearden is an INSEAD Professor, investor, decision scientist, and children’s book author. Neil is many things, but above all others, he’s a story-teller. On this week’s episode h...

Sustainable Education (w/ Glenn Chickering) from 2019-06-20T18:06:32

This week’s guest is Glenn Chickering, Head of Faculty at the Green school on Bali, Indonesia. Students there live and breathe the environment and all things sustainable. Raise the subject of cl...

The Artist's Way (w/ Gregory Burns) from 2019-06-13T20:24:25

Gregory Burns is an artist, story-teller, and Olympian. It’s an unlikely combination of talents and the fabric of a man who’s made Singapore his home. The 19th century American writer and Natura...

AI and the Ad Industry’s Death Rattle from 2019-06-06T19:27:05

This week’s guest is Ian Chapman-Banks, CEO of Sqreem, an AI-enabled adtech company working to take on the US 1 trillion-dollar global advertising business - a sector ripe for disruption.

The Angry Clean Energy Guy (w/ Assaad Razzouk) from 2019-05-23T18:53:21

Take a quick poll among your friends and associates on what they consider to be one of the greatest challenges of our day, and increasingly, liberals and conservatives alike will say climate cha...

Education Overhaul (w/ Crystal Lim-Lange) from 2019-05-19T17:59:58

This week we turn to the subject of Education. It ranks alongside food, shelter, and job opportunity as a foundation requirement for any progressive society, yet, the very tenants of traditional...

Why Sustainability Trumps Consumption from 2019-05-09T17:12:42

Anurag Banerjee is the Founder and CEO of Quilt.ai, an artificial intelligence, or AI-enabled consulting firm that mines data for the greater good.

Anurag’s group recently released its “...

Indonesia: The Dreaming Giant from 2019-05-02T19:31:36

Richard Borsuk is a veteran journalist, long-time resident of Southeast Asia, and a leading expert in Indonesian political economy. When I first met Richard in the early 1990s, Indonesia felt li...

Lebanon: Asia's Wild, Wild West from 2019-04-25T17:13:22

This week’s episode brings us to Lebanon, a country of six million people precariously situated between arch rivals - Israel to the south and Syria to the north. It’s also a part of what some sa...

The Komodo Islands and EcoTourism from 2019-04-13T04:30:05

This week we take a break from the big themes of tech, trade, environment, and other topics driving Asia’s transformation, in order to explore a small group of islands at the eastern end of the ...

John Stanton: co-founder of Chosen from 2019-04-05T05:14:21

John Stanton is a venture capitalist and co-founder of Chosen, a leadership experience company that seeks to re-shape the way high impact entrepreneurs and executives think, live and engage with...

Aaron Fishman: East Bali Cashews from 2019-03-28T18:54:53

This week’s guest is Aaron Fishman, Founder and CEO of East Bali Cashews. In our conversation, we explore what it takes to make a labor and capital intensive cashew processing business fly and w...

Steve Leonard: Founding CEO, SGInnovate from 2019-03-21T17:47:08

Increasingly, technology defines our future. Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, robotics, machine-learning, blockchain, 3D printing, and much munch more. It all speaks to a world preparing to un...

Diana Wu - The Future of Work (clip) from 2019-03-20T02:06:21

Diana Wu : The Future of Work from 2019-03-14T16:43:31

My guest this week had an euphonious moment when a close friend and work colleague unexpectedly took her own life. That set in motion a series of questions about life and the world of work that ...

Stanley Samuel : Solving Asia’s Water Crisis from 2019-03-07T07:50:59

Water permeates all things. It’s the backbone ingredient to the food we eat, the clothes we wear, and the sanitation we’ve come to rely on. According to Stanley Samuel, it’s high time to re-eval...

Raja Samu Samu VI : The King of Kings from 2019-02-28T18:56:41

This week’s guest is Raja Samu Samu VI of Maluku, the current Secretary General of the Association of Indonesian Rajas and Sultans - along with his public relations and project advisor, Rex Sumn...

Stephen Langton: Remaking Boards from 2019-02-21T16:33:37

Whatever your impression about the conventional "Board of Directors", its make-up, breadth and accountability are all about to change. That’s the view of this week's guest, Stephen Langton - hea...

Parag Khanna : The Future is Asian from 2019-02-14T16:53:27

There are periods of time when the stars align for every part of the world, and Asia has those stars aligning today, says Dr. Parag Khanna, founder and managing partner of FutureMap, a data- and...

Ravi Agrawal: India's Smartphone Revolution from 2019-02-10T21:45:57

Just as the automobile transformed the lives of Americans 100 years ago, so the smartphone is having the same effect on the country of India. That’s the view of Ravi Agrawal, Managing Editor of ...

Bob Manning: US-China Relations from 2019-01-21T14:11

If you’re wondering why we spend so much time on the program addressing US-China relations, it’s because we believe it serves as a bellwether for a shifting world order. While China flexes its n...

Elizabeth Economy: US China Tensions, Huawei, and Xi Jinping's Coming Challenge from 2019-01-10T01:43

Tensions between the United States and China continue to simmer amid trade negotiations, global influence, and the recent arrest of Huawei's CFO in Vancouver.

For context on where th...

Sam Tsui: China's Overseas Investments from 2018-12-22T20:44

This episode I’m speaking with Sam Tsui, Managing Director of Evolution Advisors, a boutique advisory and investment firm specializing in helping corporates and investors find and and execute on...

Stephanie Dickson: Green is the New Black from 2018-12-11T17:29

Fashion is an industry that depends on fast and frequent shifts in taste. To keep up with consumer demand, brand-name makers of clothing and accessories have developed a habit of using cheap, so...

Anurag Banerjee: The Social Impact of Artificial Intelligence from 2018-12-05T21:23

This episode we focus on the utopian side of artificial intelligence. It’s not a subject you hear much about these days, and this program is no exception. Our guests have had a lot to say about ...

Mark Clifford: Hong Kong's Changing Landscape from 2018-11-26T17:47

This episode our topic is the changing Hong Kong landscape. My guest is Mark Clifford, Executive Director of the Hong Kong-based Asia Business Council. Over the last twenty years Mark has served...

Clay Chandler: China's Digital Discontinuity and the Efficacy of the Great Firewall from 2018-11-17T22:44

My guest this episode is none other than Clay Chandler, Executive Editor, International for Time Inc, and Asia Editor for Fortune. He’s also the author of the special "Sino-Saturday" edition of ...

Julien de Salaberry: Innovating HealthTech in Asia from 2018-11-10T19:24

Returning to the program this episode is Julien de Salaberry, Founder and CEO of Galen Growth Asia. He and his partners at Galen Growth identify and catalyze connections between investors and he...

Jim McGregor: A New Paradigm - US China Cold War from 2018-11-06T07:16

In the wake of deteriorating relations between China and the United States, I decided it was time to give our old friend Jim McGregor a call. He needs no introduction to regular listeners. Autho...

Ken Mandel: The Dilemma of Ad Tech from 2018-10-29T05:12

This episode I’m at the American Club Union Bar in Singapore with digital media and advertising sector veteran, Ken Mandel. The topic of our conversation:  the past and the future of advertising...

Richard Vevers: Chasing Coral from 2018-10-12T17:22

My guest is one of the most dedicated and articulate environmental activists working today, Richard Vevers, Founder and CEO of The Ocean Agency.

Suzanne Shugg: Telemedicine Solutions to Sleep Disorders in Asia from 2018-09-30T19:25

How did you sleep last night? It’s a simple question that should admit of a simple answer. Sleep, after all, is a relatively uncomplicated act. Night falls and you brush your teeth. You lie down...

Assaad Razzouk: Clean Energy in Asia from 2018-09-21T06:44

My guest this episode is clean energy entrepreneur, investor and commentator, Assaad Razzouk. He is Group Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Sindicatum Sustainable Resources, a global clean energy i...

Thomas Morgan: Film in Asia from 2018-09-13T05:58

Longtime listeners of the Inside Asia podcast will know this is not documentary filmmaker Thomas Morgan’s first appearance on the program. About a year ago I sat with him on a roof-top bar in Singa...

Chris Graves: Behavioral Science in the Age of Trump from 2018-09-06T08:26

We're taking liberties this episode to reach beyond our traditional stomping ground in Asia. We're talking about the essential nature of communications and its central role in maintaining peaceful ...

Silicon Dragon: China, Tech Race, Jack Ma, Leadership from 2018-08-31T16:04

Rebecca Fannin wrote Silicon Dragon: How China is Winning the Tech Race more than 10 years ago, at a time when both China’s tech companies were on the rise—and the future was unclear. She’s my gues...

William Overholt: Asia's Miracle Economies and the Question of China's Liberalization from 2018-08-23T07:19

William Overholt and I first met almost thirty years ago, way back in 1991 when I was a cub reporter with the Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong. He was then working in investment banking, thou...

James Barrat: The Intelligence Explosion - AI and the Coming Cross-over Point from 2018-08-10T05:18

This is not the take on artificial intelligence (AI) that you’re going to find in the popular media or on corporate websites. Most everyone is thrilled about what AI can and might do someday soon. ...

Wendy Cutler: US China Trade War from 2018-08-06T06:24

We’ve been talking about the impending US/China trade war now it appears our worse fears are coming true. President Trump has followed through with $250 billion in tariffs impacting over 6,000 Chin...

Singapore Hospital Hack from 2018-07-31T20:43

Most of our listeners will have already heard about the Singapore Hospital Hack. A brief refresher: at some point on the 27th of June, the Singaporean healthcare database was breached in what is be...

Bill Cornwell: Solving Family-Business Factor in Asia from 2018-07-23T05:50

Third generation family-owned empires are at the epicenter of Asia’s growth story—the foundation upon which many national economies have been built over the past fifty years. But with the advent of...

Timothy Reuter: The Drones are Coming from 2018-07-14T20:10

The drones are coming—though they’re not here just yet. But they’re on their way. The recreational photo-junkies who use them to buzz beaches and mountain resorts are the tip of the iceberg. Probab...

The Trump-Kim Summit from 2018-07-03T21:44

In this episode we’re looking back at the Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump meet-up in Singapore. It now feels like the distant past. And that’s the point. This news cycle is more like a news cyclone. T...