Trina Liang-Lin is CEO of Halo Health Asia and the Chair of the World Food Future (WFF) conference. She is a pioneer and specialist in the Asian bond market securities sector and held senior positions in a number of global investment banks in Hong Kong, London and Singapore. Trina holds a Masters degree in Finance and Accounting from the London School of Economics and a Bachelors degree in Economics from the National University of Singapore.
She sits on the boards of the Community Foundation of Singapore, Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations (Vice-President), Victoria Junior College (Vice-Chair), Singapore Repertory Theatre, BoardAgender (Co-chair) and is an advisor to the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre (NVPC). Trina is past-President of both the Singapore Committee for UN Women and the Financial Women’s Association of Singapore (FWAS) and has previously served on the boards of Sentosa Development Corporation (Audit), the Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA) and the Economics and Employment committee of the government’s feedback unit, REACH.
In 2014, she was appointed Chairperson of the Philanthropy in Asia summit organized by NVPC. From 2015 she was appointed co-chair of the President of Singapore’s Volunteer and Philanthropy Awards (PVPA) – the highest recognition for volunteerism in Singapore. She together with her husband set up the Lin Foundation in 2016. In Nov 2018, she and her husband were named Forbes Asia’s 2018 Heroes of Philanthropy. Also in Nov 2018, Trina received Singapore Tatler’s Philanthropy Award.
In Aug 2018, Harper’s Bazaar Singapore named her on their Power List. She was voted Woman of the Year (Business & Finance) by Women’s Weekly in 2006 and Her World’s Most Inspiring Women under 40 in 2010. She was named both Straits Times’ 50 Young Singaporeans to Watch (2004) and 20 Women to Watch (2006).