Rachel Teo is a sustainability leader who served as Head of Sustainability and Total Portfolio Sustainable Investing at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, from 2022 until August 2023. With 18 years at GIC starting in 2005, she advanced through roles in economics research, global macro strategy, and the Futures Unit, driving climate scenario analysis, sustainable investment integration, and thought leadership on net-zero transitions. Named among Institutional Investor’s Top 50 Women in Investment Management in 2021, she holds a first-class honours degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore and a Master’s in International Politics from the University of Warwick.

Teo led GIC’s Sustainability Committee, embedding ESG factors into investment processes, engaging portfolio companies on climate risks, and publishing research on scenarios like “Too Little Too Late.” She served on the MAS Green Finance Industry Taskforce, as Technical Advisor to Sustainable Finance Asia Institute, and ExCo member of Investment Management Association of Singapore. Post-GIC, she joined a Silicon Valley family office as Head of Asia Climate Change, focusing on emissions reduction strategies.

Active in industry bodies including Sustainable Finance Institute Asia’s Technical Advisory Panel, Teo advocated for blended finance, green taxonomies, and decarbonization in Asia. Her work emphasized long-term risk-adjusted returns through sustainability, influencing tools adopted by peers like Mercer.