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Candidate for the position of Student Trustees

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Dr Charles Phua

Seasoned corporate governance professional since 2014, global top 100 professional-author grade management consultant, professional strategist/board director/advisor to corporates and nonprofits, and Ox SU Trustee (2024) seeking another term to provide continuity to SU Transformation, Conference of Common Rooms amongst other new initiatives. My Commitment is to build on continuity to find win-win solutions for a better supported learning experience at Oxford SU!

Student Trustee Candidate Statement Form
A professional strategist of 25 years with PhD in Public Policy with degrees in international relations, education, accounting, systems thinking, corporate governance, risk management, ESG and law amongst others, I run my own strategy consulting practice, am amongst global 100 professor-author grade management consultant CMC-Academic Fellow selected by International Council of Management Consulting Institute (comprising 68,000 consultants), and elected Fellow at 11 global professional associations including corporate governance, risk compliance, marketing, tech, management, accounting. I am program leader for chief strategy officer, chief tech officer, chief data, analytics AI officer and chief operating officer programs and have trained more than 1,200 senior executives over 31 batches. Let’s get connected too: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charles-chao-rong-phua-smaa/
I have served in Boards since 2014 and accorded Senior Accredited Director by Singapore Institute of Directors and INSEAD certified international board director. Past boards are mostly audit/finance/risk committees in UK, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore. My past charity Board experiences included: Scouts National Council (Singapore), Open University Association (UK), stars for C-1 suite leaders (Swiss), Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia). I contributed to youth/student scene: Commonwealth Youth Forum, University of London Union Council/Senate student member and Singapore’s version of Duke of Edinburgh Award. I believe in citizen participation in policymaking and ran the inaugural nonprofit (2014-2016) and later government versions (2019-2020) of national youth incubator involving 4,000 youths in Singapore.
Having served as Trustee in Ox SU (2024), I seek another term to provide continuity for SU Transformation, Conference of Common Rooms by listening deeply, strategizing win-win for students and SU and offer oversight during implementation to maximise our interests. I hope to maximise interests for both on campus and distance learning students. Online engagements for public participation in policymaking is vital and I seek to support that PROCESS as an internationally certified facilitator (including virtual). My policy and strategic acumen will allow me to support OUR interests in Board of Trustees meetings. My accounting, law and risk management board experiences will allow me to discharge Trustee’s legal fiduciary duties competently. I am a member of Institute of Directors/equivalent in US, UK, Ireland, Gulf GCC, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia and Singapore. As a Board corporate governance professional, I apply my strategy-innovation-entrepreneurship skills to impact and offer my skills and acumen to support our collective cause.