Thomas played an integral role in the set-up of ASEAN Corporate Social Responsibility Network (ACN) in 2010 and as CEO, continues to provide oversight and strategic direction for the organisation. ACN was established to promote and enable responsible business conduct in ASEAN Member States. ACN is the responsible and inclusive business champion with the ASEAN Business Advisory Council. They developed a Code for Responsible and Inclusive Business and is building up the ASEAN Responsible and Inclusive Business Alliance (ARAIBA) to be the region’s network of businesses supporting responsible business conduct. Thomas is driving this initiative. Thomas has extensive experience in CSR and responsible business conduct, serving on various initiatives in the region and globally. He did research on sustainability related issues, including, sustainability reporting, business integrity and human rights. He was the founding Executive Director of the Singapore Compact for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), now operating as the Global Compact Network Singapore. Thomas had been active with trade unions, co-operatives, the consumer movement and social enterprises and also served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore.

Paul Thompson joined the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC) in 2004 and is presently Director, Global Accountancy Profession Support, having previously served as Director, SME & SMP Affairs, where he led IFAC’s initiatives to support the development of small- and medium-sized practices (SMPs) and the value they add to small- and medium-sized entities (SMEs). Mr. Thompson now leads the Global Accountancy Profession Support business line for IFAC, which encompasses the Global Knowledge Gateway, SMP/SME, and professional accountants in business. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Thompson worked for Touche Ross & Co., London, where he specialized in the audit of financial institutions. He then went on to lecture on financial reporting and analysis at the undergraduate and MBA levels at universities in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and Malaysia. He has contributed to a number of publications in academic journals and the professional press in the areas of bank lending, financial reporting, corporate governance, and corporate social reporting.

John Thompson serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment in the Department of State’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES). In this position, he is responsible for policies and programs in the areas of environment, conservation, wildlife trafficking, water resources, and global change.

From 2017-2019, Dr. Thompson served as Director for International Environment at the White House National Security Council and National Economic Council. Dr. Thompson oversaw White House international policy development on a full range of environment and oceans issues, including wildlife trafficking, conservation crimes, air quality, climate change, whales, and fisheries. He played a leading role managing White House engagement on these issues during the 2018 and 2019 Leaders meetings for the G7 and G20.

Dr. Thompson joined the Department in 2000 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow and spent the subsequent 18 years working in the OES environmental policy office and its front office.

Dr. Thompson holds a PhD in environmental engineering from Purdue University, focusing on advanced technologies for drinking water disinfection. He holds master’s degrees from Purdue in aeronautical as well as environmental engineering and a bachelor’s degree in physics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Ms. Jennifer Thomson is the Chief Financial Management Officer of the World Bank, leading the Bank’s financial management network in working with countries to strengthen their public financial management institutions and accounting and auditing capacity, as well as the transparency, economy, effectiveness and efficiency of Bank-financed projects. Since joining the World Bank Group in 2004, Ms. Thomson has worked on Bank operations in the South Asia and East Asia Pacific regions and in the policy and country services unit of the Bank. She represents the World Bank in the INTOSAI-Donor Cooperation initiative and in other global partnerships. Ms. Thomson began her career in the Australian National Audit Office and held senior financial management positions in a variety of roles in supporting development initiatives the South East Asia and Pacific regions. Ms Thomson is member of CPA Australia and the Institute of Public Administration of Australia.

Richard Thorpe is Adviser on Accounting and Auditing at the Financial Stability Board based at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel. He is responsible for all accounting, auditing and public reporting policy, including the FSB’s work on converged accounting standards, on risk disclosures, and on enhancing audit quality in the audits of Globally Significant Financial Institutions. He is also responsible for work on long-term investment, and contributes to work on capital standards for insurers and on corporate liability structures. Richard joined the FSB in January 2013, and before that was Head of Accounting and Audit Policy at the UK Financial Services Authority, where he led work on enhancing audit quality and public disclosures, as well as all aspects of accounting policy across banking, insurance and securities regulation. Richard is a UK chartered accountant who has worked in financial services regulation for over 30 years.

Didrik Thrane-Nielsen holds a position as Project Director financial reporting at EFRAG in Brussels. At EFRAG he is responsible among other for the EFRAG research project on Intangibles and the IASB projects related to financial instruments, equity instruments, equity method and goodwill and impairment. Before joining EFRAG in July 2021 Didrik was a Partner within Global Accounting Consultation Services of PWC, working out of Oslo and specialising in IFRS for financial instruments. Before joining PWC in 2001 he worked 6 years with Enron on energy risk management. Didrik holds an MBA in Accounting and Auditing. He is lecturing in the master program at BI Norwegian Business School. For eight years he was Vice Chair of the IFRS section of the Norwegian Accounting Standards Board.

Tiastary has worked in the Indonesian Customs since 1995, and has been stationed in six different Customs Offices across Indonesia in a variety of duties and positions. Over the course of that time, in between responsibilities with regard to the Harmonized System, Customs Valuation and cross border procedure, Tiastary is also active in activities that relate to the Indonesia Customs program that strives to increase work performance through gender empowerment strategies. In the last 2 years, Tiastary has been working at International Customs Affair (Directorate for International Customs and Excise Cooperation) has given her experience with working alongside her WCO colleagues across the world.

Dr. Arnoldo André Tinoco is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the Republic of Costa Rica. A position he has held since 8 May 2022.

Previously, he served as a professor of International Law at the University of Costa Rica.

Between 2010 and 2013, he held the position of President at the Costa Rican Chamber of Commerce, and from 1997 to 2022, he acted as the Honorary Consul of Norway in Costa Rica. He is also an attorney and a founding partner of Lexincorp Costa Rica.

He holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Hamburg, Germany.