Who attended Her World's Woman Of The Year 2023: Celebs, entrepreneurs and changemakers

Highlights from this year’s by-invite-only event at the JW Marriott Hotel Singapore

By Chelsia Tan and Jeanne Ardella Tjakra - 15 Oct 2023

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Celebrating another year of inspiring women, the 32nd edition of Her World's Woman of the Year Awards was held at the opulent JW Marriott Hotel Singapore. This marquee event sees influential personalities –from fields spanning from art, business, medicine and entertainment – coming together to celebrate Singapore's outstanding crop of women who have made a significant impact to our society.

This year, we've expanded our honour roll of esteemed achievers with the additions of Professor Jackie Ying, founding executive director of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN), founder of A*STAR’s NanoBio Lab and co-founder of Cellbae, and Caecilia Chu, co-founder and CEO of Youtrip, who have been recognised as Her World's Woman of the Year and Young Woman Achiever respectively.

On receiving her award, Prof Ying shares that it was a dream to be able to return to Singapore and work in the country, as she had grown up here as a child. “I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute to the building of Biopolis, and the biomedical research enterprise. This award is a great honour that I would like to share with my staff and students at Nanobio Lab, the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, as well as our spinoff companies. This year marks a major milestone for me as I came back to Singapore 20 years ago. I thank the Singapore government for its great support of our research efforts.”

Caecilia Chu, Her World's Young Woman Achiever 2023, shares that the award encourages her to continue to inspire more women to pursue their ambitions "without letting gender define them".

"As a female leader in the traditionally male-dominated tech industry, the award encourages me to continue inspiring more women to pursue their ambitions without letting gender define them," she says.

Below, we've listed the event's inspiring and noteworthy attendees.

The Her World Woman Of The Year 2023 gala was organised with support from our official partner, The Hour Glass.

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Munah Bagharib, Actress & Host and Yana Gagarin

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Tay Ying, Actress

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Bipasha Minocha, Group Chief Marketing Officer, EtonHouse International Education Group

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Elizabeth Lee, Editor-in-Chief, Her World; Professor Jackie Ying, Her World's Woman of the Year 2023; Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment of Singapore; Ignatius Low, Editor-in-Chief, Lifestyle and Entertainment Media at SPH Media; Caecilia Chu, Her World's Young Woman Achiever 2023; Joanna Lee-Miller, Editorial Director, Lifestyle Media at SPH Media

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Casherine Goh, Vice-Chair; Kelley Wong, Advisor; Colette Zheng, Vice-Chair (7th ExCo) and Yvonne Mak, Chairperson; all from Young Women's Leadership Connection (YWLC)

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Lim Xixi, Actress

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Anna Haotanto, Founder, Zora Health

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Claudia Poon, Lawyer, and Pat Law, Founder, GoodStuph

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Dr Lam Kong Peng, Executive Director, A*Star Research, with Professor Jackie Ying, Her World's Woman of the Year 2023

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Mollie Jean De Dieu, General Manager, Longchamp (Singapore & Malaysia)

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Low Kai Ying and Preeti Nair, Comedian & Podcast Host

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Ng Gim Choo, Founder & Chairwoman of Etonhouse International Education Group and Her World's Woman of the Year 2022, with Ng Yi Xian, Group CEO of EtonHouse International Education Group

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James Barcelo and Farhanna Farid, National Weightlifter

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Amanda Lee Koe, Novelist, and Kirsten Tan, Filmmaker and Her World's Young Woman Achiever 2017

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Olivia Lee, Principal Designer & Founder, Olivia Lee Studio, with Hunn Wai, Founder & Director of Meta & Industrial design at Lanzavecchia + Wai

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Rachel Wee, Co-Founder, Ohhellobae

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Iman Fandi, Singer

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Terence Lee, Editor-in-Chief of NuYou and Sylvester Ng, Editor-in-Chief of Icon

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Tracey Philips, Founder of PPurpose

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Samantha Ng, Career Coach and Sima Saadat, Head of Marketing, APAC, both from General Assembly

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Elizabeth Lee, Editor-in-Chief of Her World, and Young Lim, Editor-in-Chief of Home & Decor

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Preeti Gupta and Cheryl Tay, Triathlete & Digital Content Producer

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Lum Seow Khun, Director, Public Sector Group, Microsoft Singapore

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Dr Rachel Ho, Aesthetic Specialist

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Raymond Goh, Editorial Director, Lifestyle Media at SPH Media; Estelle Low, Editor, Singapore Women's Weekly; Ray Ticsay, Senior Art Director, Her World

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Wu Ye-Min, Regional Director, The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue

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Tiziana Tan, Founder and CEO, Brain Juice Collective

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Diana K, Makeup Artist & Beauty Content Creator

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Rui Sin Ng, Communications Strategist; Melanie Tan, Data & Analytics Team Lead; Caecilia Chu, CEO and Her World's Young Woman Achiever 2023; Amanda Tang, Head of People, all from YouTrip

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Felicia Chirac and Tanya Rolfe, Co-Founder of Sophia

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Charlotte Mei, Nutritionist & Presenter

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Sylvia Chee, Projects & Communications Manager, Inspiring Girls Singapore (far left) and Sharon Koo, Director of Marketing Asia at Noble Panacea (far right)

Who attended Her World's Woman Of The Year 2023: Celebs, entrepreneurs and changemakers

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