Kyung-Ah Park

Kyung-Ah is Head, ESG Investment Management, and Managing Director, Sustainability, at Temasek. She is responsible for integrating ESG across Temasek’s investment portfolio, working closely with investment teams on portfolio company engagements and ESG investments, to drive portfolio resiliency and sustainable value. She also oversees and supports the firm’s sustainability strategy, to advance the net zero pathway and inclusive growth.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, majority of which was dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs. She was most recently Managing Director and the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation in the Sustainable Finance Group. She also served as a member of the firm’s Sustainable Finance Steering Group and was the head of the Center for Environmental Markets. She joined Goldman Sachs in Mergers & Acquisitions in New York and was an Executive Director in the Advisory Group in Hong Kong and a Vice President in the Industrials Group. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a management consultant at McKinsey in Seoul, Korea and Johannesburg, South Africa. Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea. She serves on the boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Resources for the Future and is an advisory member for New York University’s Center for Sustainable Business. She is also a non-executive board director of Clifford Capital Holdings