Who we are

Our Foundation is stewarded by leaders with deep experience across philanthropy, governance, finance, human rights and leadership.

FUND HOLDERS

Marianela Santos

PHILANTHROPIST & BUSINESS LEADER

KALPA VENTURES

BUSINESS - PHILANTHROPY - ESG - FINANCE

Marianela is a serial businesswoman from Mexico. She serves as the CEO of Kalpa Ventures, a Mexican family fund that support inclusion and sustainability enterprises and initiatives. This includes the AI-Green Data Centers initiative, which is building the first AI-Nvidia Factory in the LATAM region to meet key sustainability parameters under the SDG 2030 agenda.

Arfat Selvam

RETIRED CORPORATE LAWYER & PHILANTHROPIST

FORMER MANAGING DIRECTOR,DUANE MORRIS & SELVAM LLP / SELVAM LLC

  • In addition to her businesses, she leads a number of social initiatives:

    • Chairs the Hecho con Capacidad A.C. Foundation, dedicated to promoting workplace inclusion for people with intellectual and motor disabilities.

    • Former President of the Social Responsibility & Sustainability Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce Monterrey Chapter.

    • Director of social enterprises such as Uno a Uno Taller Protegido, where 50% of employees live with an intellectual disability, as well as, Health Angel Monitor Systems, dedicated to supporting specialized telemedicine programs for low-income Mexican migrants in California, United States.

    • Founder and CEO of the "Coahuila Valley" Foundation ecosystem, based in Coahuila, Mexico, which promotes social mobility by educating young Mexicans in STEM, Manufacturing 5.0, and Information Technology.

    • Recipient of the Yiacantecutli National Award from the American Chamber of Commerce Mexico for promoting inclusion, sustainability, and anti-corruption in the Mexico-US business community.

Judit Pach

ADVISOR TO THE CEO OF MET ASIA ENERGY

FORMER AMBASSADOR OF HUNGARY TO SINGAPORE, BRUNEI, INDONESIA, TIMOR-LESTE AND ASEAN

MENTOR AND ADVOCATE FOR WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP AND YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

DIPLOMACY & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Judit Pach is a former ambassador and international affairs leader with more than twenty years of experience connecting people, institutions, and ideas across cultures and sectors. Beyond her professional career, Judit is an active mentor and advocate for women's leadership and youth empowerment. She regularly supports emerging leaders through mentoring and speaking engagements, serves as a judge for international women's leadership awards, and contributes to initiatives that help women build confidence, leadership skills, and opportunities to thrive.

  • Judit Pach is a senior executive, former ambassador, and advisor with more than two decades of experience at the intersection of international relations, economic diplomacy, strategic partnerships, communications, and business development.

    She currently serves as Advisor to the CEO of MET Asia Energy, the Asian platform of a Swiss integrated energy company, where she supports the company's growth across Asia through strategic partnerships, market development, investment opportunities, and cross-border cooperation between Asia and Europe.

    Prior to joining the private sector, Judit represented Hungary in Southeast Asia for more than a decade. She served as Ambassador of Hungary to Singapore and Brunei Darussalam, and previously as Ambassador to Indonesia, Timor-Leste and ASEAN. Throughout her diplomatic career, she worked to strengthen political, economic, scientific, educational, and innovation partnerships while promoting dialogue between governments, businesses, universities, and civil society organizations. She also served as Hungary's Governor and Executive Committee Member of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF), advancing cooperation between Asia and Europe on issues including education, leadership, sustainability, and people-to-people connectivity.

    Earlier in her career, Judit held senior leadership positions within the Hungarian government, including roles supporting the President of Hungary and the Prime Minister's Office, with responsibilities spanning international communications, public affairs, economic diplomacy, and stakeholder engagement.

    Alongside her professional career, Judit has been a long-standing advocate for women's leadership and youth empowerment. She serves as a judge for the prestigious Women of the Future Awards Southeast Asia and Global Women of Influence Awards, mentors emerging leaders through the pro bono platform VLookUp.ai, and regularly contributes to initiatives supporting women in leadership, entrepreneurship, diplomacy, and public service. Throughout her career, she has mentored students, young professionals, and aspiring leaders across Europe and Asia, with a particular focus on empowering women to navigate leadership roles in traditionally male-dominated sectors.

    Judit's contributions have been recognized through national awards from Hungary and state decorations from Lithuania, Belgium, and Poland. She holds degrees in international business and languages and has completed executive education in leadership, management, and public affairs. Her work continues to focus on building bridges between sectors, cultures, and regions while supporting the next generation of leaders.

EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT

CORPORATE LAW

Arfat has over fifty years' experience as a corporate lawyer in corporate finance having been at the forefront of the development of the financial services and capital markets in Singapore. Her wide array of experience includes mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructures, takeovers, funds raising in the capital markets, privatisations, financial services, cross border investments, financial services and international joint ventures.

  • Arfat has been closely involved in the legal changes driving the legal financial services sectors in Singapore. She was a member of the Company Law Reform Committee, which made major recommendations affecting the companies and securities laws in Singapore. Arfat has been cited in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2018 edition as a recommended lawyer in Corporate and M&A – Local Firms in Singapore.

    Notable positions include:

    • Managing Director of Duane Morris and Selvam LLP and Selvam LLC until March 2026

    • President of The Law Society of Singapore in 2003

    • Former Director of the Stock Exchange of Singapore Limited.

    • Member of the Senate of the Academy of Law,

    • Board of Legal Education

    • Formerly on the Board of the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority. 

    • Director of Pro Bono SG until March 2025

    • Board Member of Club Heal.

    • She was admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore in 1969. 

    • Won a Public Service Medal by the Republic of Singapore in 2024. 

    • Awarded the International Bar Association Pro Bono Award in November 2025.

    Profile: https://www.duanemorris.com/attorneys/arfatselvam.html

    IBA Press Release: https://www.ibanet.org/Singapore-Arfat-Selvam-has-won-the-2025-IBA-Pro-Bono-Award

Natasha Latiff

CO-FOUNDER & MEMBER OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES

INTERNATIONAL LAWYER FOCUSED ON WOMEN’S ACCESS TO JUSTICE

CO-FOUNDER OF TWO AWARD-WINNING NON-PROFIT ORGANISATIONS

INTERNATIONAL LAW - HUMAN RIGHTS - GENDER JUSTICE - AFGHANISTAN

Natasha Latiff is a Singaporean lawyer and human rights advocate with more than 17 years’ experience advancing access to justice and reparations for survivors of gender-based violence in conflict and fragile contexts. She is the Co-Founder and Director of two non-profit human rights organisations – SAHR, which supports women civil society leaders and lawyers and across the Global South, and Women for Justice, a women-led organization providing essential services for women and survivors in Afghanistan.

Rachel Kang

PROGRAMS & OPERATIONS ASSOCIATE

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

GLOBAL SHAPERS COMMUNITY, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

  • Natasha has designed and oversaw programmes that deliver legal aid and psychosocial support to women survivors of violence and women in conflict with the law, while building community-based justice mechanisms under extreme political and legal conditions. She has secured and managed projects funded by donor governments, UN agencies, and major foundations, including USAID, the United States Institute of Peace, UN Women, UNICEF, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and has overseen compliance, monitoring and evaluation, and quality assurance for these portfolios.

    As a practitioner, Natasha has represented survivors in complex cases of sexual and gender-based violence in South Sudan, Afghanistan, Vanuatu, and other contexts, often negotiating directly with governments, public institutions, and corporations to secure remedies and institutional reforms. She has led remediation efforts in high-profile cases involving serious violations. Her findings have informed policy changes, law reform, creation of mechanisms, and reporting to UN Treaty Bodies and Special Procedures.

    At SAHR, she led a Gender Justice Accelerator that accompanied civil society leaders to use and shape law and policy to increase women’s access to justice in cases of gender-based violence.

    Natasha brings deep organisational leadership experience to the Fund due to her 15+ years fundraising, donor reporting, and rigorous survivor-centered, trauma-informed and intersectional quality standards in service delivery.

    Admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore, Natasha holds an LL.B from the University of Warwick and an LL.M (Distinction) from SOAS, University of London.

    She also holds a certificate in Global Leadership and Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education.

    She is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, an International Women’s Forum Fellow, and an Ashoka “Special Relationship” changemaker, and has received multiple awards and scholarships for her human rights work.

Yalda Aoukar

CO-FOUNDER AND MANAGING PARTNER, BRACKET CAPITAL

YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

DIPLOMACY & GOVERNMENT RELATIONS - INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS

Yalda Aoukar is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bracket Capital, a global private markets investment platform with offices in Los Angeles, London, and Doha.

After a successful career in investment banking and private equity across London and the Middle East, she co-founded Bracket Capital in 2016. As one of the very few female General Partners and founders in venture capital worldwide, Yalda has led the firm to top-tier performance, deploying more than $1.5 billion into disruptive, high-growth technology companies across AI, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Healthtech, Spacetech, and other frontier sectors. Her work focuses on identifying and backing category-defining companies at the growth and late stages, supporting founders who are reshaping global industries.

  • Yalda also serves as President of the Bracket Foundation, the firm’s philanthropic arm, where she champions the use of technology for social good, particularly in online child safety. In 2019, she launched a pioneering initiative exploring how artificial intelligence can combat online child abuse, which led to a strategic partnership with the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and a multi-year collaboration with the UAE government to equip law enforcement with advanced technological tools to protect children in digital environments. Yalda proudly sits on the board of Umanitek, a Swiss-based AI company whose Guardian agent uses a decentralized knowledge graph to enable privacy-preserving collaboration between platforms, NGOs, and law enforcement to help detect and prevent harmful content online.

    A committed advocate for women’s empowerment and inclusive innovation, Yalda advises governments and policymakers on digital transformation across key sectors including biotechnology, food security, AI integration, and education technology. She sits on the board of the UN’s AI for Safer Children Initiative, which she helped launch in 2020, and serves on the advisory board of the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) Accelerator.

    Named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader in 2024, Yalda holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She divides her time between London, Los Angeles, and the Middle East, driven by a commitment to advancing breakthrough technologies and building a safer, more innovative, and more equitable future.

LAW - GOVERNANCE - YOUTH LEADERSHIP - RESEARCH

Rachel Kang is a senior at Vanderbilt University studying Human & Organizational Development and Legal Studies. She supports the establishment and strategic development of the Fund, with a focus on grantee research and assessment, partnership engagement, communications, governance coordination, and institutional development. Her work is grounded in a broader commitment to international human rights, gender justice, humanitarian policy, and access to justice for women and children.

  • Rachel has contributed to research, policy analysis, and institutional development initiatives related to legal reform, survivor-centered approaches, human rights protection, and civil society engagement.

    At Vanderbilt University, her academic work focuses on public policy, organizational leadership, international protection of human rights, law, and governance. Her coursework has included international human rights law, public policy analysis, statistics and quantitative methods, organizational leadership, and emerging adulthood and social systems.

    She previously interned in the United States House of Representatives, where she supported legislative and policy-related work, constituent engagement, and congressional operations. During this time, she also supported interpretation and engagement for visiting South Korean National Assembly delegations during diplomatic and public service events in Washington, D.C. Her policy interests include foreign affairs, international law, East Asia and the Pacific affairs, healthcare access, and institutional accountability.

    Rachel has also supported policy and research initiatives through the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center, contributing to research and analysis focused on policies that improve outcomes for children and families. Her work has included examining evidence-based approaches related to early childhood systems, family wellbeing, and public policy implementation.

    Rachel also serves as the incoming Curator of the Nashville Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, where she supports youth-led civic engagement, social impact initiatives, and community partnerships. She has contributed to initiatives focused on medical debt relief, public interest advocacy, and youth leadership development.

    Her broader interests include philanthropy, social impact strategy, international cooperation, and strengthening institutional approaches to justice and equity through long-term, locally grounded partnerships.

ADVISORS

Sanaa Souidi

MANAGING DIRECTOR - HEAD GLOBAL FACULTATIVE REINSURACE AT SWISS RE

YOUNG GLOBAL LEADER, WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

REINSURANCE - INVESTMENT - BUSINESS - EDUCATION

Sanaa is an accomplished reinsurance executive with over 15 years of experience in the global reinsurance industry. Sanaa leads Global Facultative Reinsurance at Swiss Re. She oversees property, casualty, financial lines, and special risks facultative business worldwide. Based in Zurich, she is also a member of the P&C Reinsurance Management Team.

  • Previously, Sanaa led the risk & analytics function at Swiss Re Group Risk Management, where she led internal model development, risk and solvency reporting to the Board, regulators, rating agencies, and analysts, as well as insurance and investment risk-taking frameworks.

    Before joining Swiss Re, Sanaa was a Catastrophe Underwriter at PartnerRe. She holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School and is a qualified actuary.

    Recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2023, she also serves as an Ambassador for the Jadara Foundation, demonstrating her commitment to education and community development.