Ragil Ratnam
Ragil Ratnam is a Strategic Leadership Advisor and Executive Coach based in Bangkok. He has more than 25 years of global, multicultural corporate and academic experience on 4 continents. He runs an independent Leadership Advisory Practice and is an Orchestrator with Duke Corporate Education. Through Coaching, Leadership Development, and Strategy Facilitation, he has helped clients in a range of industries including Banking, Technology, and Manufacturing as well as Public Sector organisations such as UNICEF and the World Bank Group.
He is a qualified Clinical Psychologist with additional training in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Hypnotherapy, and a variety of assessment tools. His corporate experience includes successfully leading functional HR departments including Recruitment, Learning and Development, and Talent Management. With this background and using his personal experiences living and working in multiple cultures, he has developed tools and processes based on Empathy and Sense-making, that help leaders guide their organizations through digital transformation allowing them to survive and thrive in the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Born in Sri Lanka, Ragil grew up in Zambia and is now a South African citizen. In his career he has lived in the US, the UK, Singapore and now based in Thailand, working across Asia including recent and current projects in in Bhutan, Indonesia, China, India, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Danau Tanu (PhD) is an anthropologist and the author of Growing Up in Transit: The Politics of Belonging at an International School, which is based on her doctoral research. Currently, she is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and an editor of Inside Indonesia. Danau has published in-depth, ethnographic studies on ‘Third Culture Kids (TCKs)’, international schools and mixed-race identities among other topics. Her research is driven by a desire to uncover the hidden voices among TCKs while trying to understand her own experiences of being born in Canada with Chinese Indonesian and Japanese heritage and growing up in several countries. In 2019, out of her passion for making research on TCKs accessible to the public and exploring the diversity of the TCK experience, she joined Isabelle Min and several others whom she met at FIGT 2019 to start an online forum called, ‘TCKs of Asia’.
Ezinne is a change agent, diversity leader, innovator, and ally. Her professional career began in the financial services industry, though she quickly set her sights to the media and entertainment industries. During her 11-year tenure at Viacom Media Networks (MTV), Ezinne served in various roles in auditing, compliance, project management, change management, diversity & inclusion and employee engagement. This thought leader is now using her talents in the fashion industry to drive inclusion & diversity in H&M’s North American market, the first in this role. Ezinne’s proven track record for executing with excellence, driving innovative results, and championing progressive change, speak for themselves. She uses her experience and network to support organizations that empower young girls and service underrepresented communities. Her world view is one that upholds the values that mandate equality, access, and opportunity for all humanity.
