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Together, Because
Together, Because
Co-founder, ArtSee
Nabillah Jalal is a musician, educator, and community champion. She is the founder of NJ Studio, a boutique music school, and a partner at Artusik, a company that seeks to unlock the rich heritage of Nusantaran music through education, outreach and music creation and performance.
Nabillah is also the co-founder of ArtSee, a multi-level music mentoring programme that gives underserved youths access to music education.
Beyond music, Nabillah also serves the community through roles such as serving on the Steering Committee of Mendaki’s Community Leaders Forum Labs, as Language Ambassador for the Malay Language Council, and through grounds-up initiatives for causes such as migrant worker welfare. A recognised youth leader, she also gives voice to National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre’s Youth Advisory Group and was Singapore’s head of delegation at the 2023 G20 Youth Summit. Nabillah is the first Malay Singaporean to have graduated from the Royal College of Music with Honours and was the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Goh Chok Tong Youth Promise Award (Distinction).
For more than 30 years, Claus Meyer has been a gastronomic entrepreneur. Besides his countless companies employing more than 1000 staff, Meyer is an affiliated professor and distinguished alum at Copenhagen Business School, affiliated professor at Technical University of Denmark, and Social Impact Fellow at University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Through countless initiatives within the food and restaurant industries, Meyer has inspired generations to expect the next meal to be delicious and healthy – and to consider eating an agricultural act. Inspired by his learnings from building noma with Rene Redzepi, and from initiating the Nordic Cuisine Movement, Meyer went on to pursue his dream to help unfold culinary potentials outside of Scandinavia.
The Melting Pot Foundation was initiated by Meyer in 2011, who believed his his professional experience in the culinary world could be applied to a philanthropic framework. As a registered nonprofit foundation, Melting Pot aims to drive social change through culinary entrepreneurship, both locally and globally, in countries as diverse as Denmark, Bolivia, the USA and Morocco. Melting Pot Foundation’s goal is to leverage hospitality as a tool that brings benefits, and joy, to the greatest possible number of people possible through Food and Culinary Centres and an agile mix of programs designed to serve the communities they are in.
Ming Xiu is the Founder & Executive Director of Campus PSY (Singapore), a registered non-profit organization that aims to promote mental health awareness and peer support among youths and young adults in the schools and workplaces.
He currently serves on the NVPC Youth Advisory Group and the Steering Committee of the Singapore Mental Well-being Network, the national partnership arm supporting the Interagency Taskforce on Mental Health and Well-being. He also co-chairs the Youth (Institutes of Higher Learning) Workgroup, under the National Mental Health Anti-Stigma Committee, “Beyond the Label” Collective.
In 2022, Ming Xiu was conferred the President’s Volunteerism & Philanthropy Awards (PVPA) – Leaders of Good (Youth) Award and the Singapore Youth Award (SYA) in 2019 for his contribution to the community.
He has also represented Singapore at various international programs, such as the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Professional Fellows Program 2023 with the U.S. Department of State, advocating for youth engagement in mental health and social impact.
