Management Team

Jacqueline Loh

Chief Executive Officer

Bio

Jacqueline joined Aidha on 2 August 2016. Jacqueline’s experience spans the private, public and non-profit sectors with roles in strategy, research, and programme and organizational development. She has worked internationally with the Delhi School of Economics, the World Bank, the Boston Consulting Group and the Ford Foundation, where her portfolio focused on microfinance and financial inclusion. Based in Singapore since 2003, Jacqueline worked with Canada’s International Development Research Centre’s regional office in Singapore and subsequently was the Centre Director of the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at SMU, spearheading its work on poverty in Singapore. Most recently, she has been working with the Agency for Integrated Care in the area of knowledge management and research. Jacqueline is no stranger to Aidha, having served on its board when Aidha was first established in 2006 as a spin-off from a programme of the Singapore Committee for UN Women (then known as UNIFEM Singapore) where she also sits on the executive committee. She has a BA (Hons) in Economics from the University of British Columbia, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD.

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Emily Butterworth

Marketing & Partnerships Director

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Emily joined Aidha on 16 July 2019. Emily is a strong believer in developing yourself with new opportunities and learning and so she is delighted to join Aidha! She has a wealth of experience and skills gained in different countries and sectors, including reporting on Corporate Social Responsibility for Tata Steel in India and working with schools to facilitate youth leadership through the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots programme in China. Working predominantly in the UK in charities and local cross-sector regeneration partnerships, Emily’s focus has been on community development, communications and managing services, projects, programmes and partnerships. Emily holds a Masters degree in Sustainability & Responsibility from Ashridge (Hult) and an MSc in Information Studies from Leeds Metropolitan University. She believes that empowered women help us all and will lead to wonderful wider changes for the future in all sorts of ways!

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Paula Samtaney

Campus Operations & Student Affairs Director

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Paula joined Aidha on 28 January 2019. Paula holds an MBA degree from Northumbria University Newcastle. With over 10 years of experience, she managed cross-cultural and cross-functional teams in Philippines, China, Macau and Singapore. She worked mainly in the manufacturing and BPO industries, in the areas of Operations, Supply Chain and Customer Support. Prior to joining Aidha, she worked as an SAP Domain Lead for an electronics manufacturing company. With a strong passion for leadership and a drive to promote empowerment, Paula is an Aidha mentor herself and believes education is the single most powerful tool for women to overcome the socio-economic barriers and transform their lives.

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Caroline Rogers

Programmes Manager

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Caroline comes to Aidha with more than seven years’ experience as an adult educator in Vietnam, South Korea, and the United States, bringing an expertise in developing engaging, accesible, and relevant course materials for multicultural and multilingual contexts. She views education as critical to empowering migrant communities in this era of a globalization, and is eager to contribute to Aidha’s work to uplift foreign domestic workers and all women. Caroline also volunteers with male migrant workers as a teacher-mentor, and she holds a bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College where she studied religion and mathematics.

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Vyshnavi Doss

Marketing & Partnerships Manager

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Vyshnavi joined Aidha in November 2021 after spending nine years in advertising in India and Singapore and seven years running an independent creative business. Her work has involved crafting insight-based brand communications for consumer goods giants reaching out to women in South Asian and Southeast Asian markets. As an independent business owner she has collaborated with artisans and small business owners in India and Indonesia. She also brings experience in project management and nurturing partnerships. Vyshnavi is passionate about nonprofit marketing that is sensitive and fair to those it seeks to serve.

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Anja Schuetz

Marketing Associate

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Anja has a master’s degree in media engineering from the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. Her work experience thus far has been focused largely on online and offline marketing and she brings a broad range of technical and project management skills to the Aidha team. In addition to being excited about possible digitalisation solutions for Aidha, she thoroughly enjoys working in a multicultural environment tackling issues of an international nature. Working and living in Singapore, Australia, Scandinavia and Germany allowed Anja to gain perspectives on how culture and geography shape opportunities. Anja views the work that Aidha is doing to be paramount, allowing foreign domestic workers to leverage on sacrifices already made to gain financial independence.

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Chong Chin Lin

Finance & Admin Manager

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Chin Lin joined Aidha on 5 August 2019. Chin Lin holds an Accountancy degree from Nanyang Technological University. Her work experience spans across audit, financial and regulatory reporting in the banking sector as well as risk operations management in the oil and gas industry. Chin Lin is excited to be part of the Aidha family where she can contribute to this amazing organization that believes in empowering women and transforming their lives through education.

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Elaine Juan

Volunteer & HR Manager

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Elaine joined Aidha on 26 May 2020. Over the last 6 years, Elaine has built a unique mix of experiences focusing on women’s causes in Singapore through counselling, volunteer as well as partnership management. She has worked closely with marginalised women from low income families, vulnerable adults, and survivors of violence. She has also developed programs with public, private, and civil sector partners to support the economic empowerment of vulnerable women through education, employment, and entrepreneurship. Being a trained counsellor, Elaine believes in providing tools and creating opportunities to enable individuals to empower themselves and make impactful changes in their lives. Elaine hopes to achieve exactly this through Aidha’s work with foreign domestic workers and women from low income families. Elaine has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from the University of Santo Tomas and a Graduate Diploma in Counselling from Nanyang Polytechnic.

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Amirah Ali

Communications Manager

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Amirah joined Aidha on 23 September 2019. Amirah has a business degree in Marketing from RMIT University. She has six years of marketing and corporate communications experience in both the public and private sectors. Amirah started her career in an academic publishing house, managing the marketing of academic journals. She moved on to serve in a local ethnic trade chamber where she picked up corporate governance and community building. She strongly believes that education has always been the wide avenue of opportunity and aims to see more women having access to it through organisations like Aidha.

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Dewi Wahyu

Campus Manager

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Dewi holds a management degree from Swinburne University of Technology and is currently pursuing her degree in Social Work from Singapore University of Social Science with over 5 years of experience in operations, customer support, and community building across a cross-cultural team in aviation, tourism, and real estate sectors. Prior to joining Aidha, she worked as a Community Lead for a startup. Dewi is excited to be part of the Aidha family as she believes in the importance of financial education as a tool in overcoming socio-economic barriers preventing economic inequality.

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Guo Dong Chew

Student Affairs & Campus Associate

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Guo Dong holds a Bachelor Degree in Psychology from University at Buffalo, and has always been passionate about helping people. Prior to joining Aidha, Guo Dong has worked as a youth working running after school programs for multiple schools, along with managing their after-school centres (ASCs). He has also planned and implemented several workshops to aid in the social and emotional development of the students in the schools. Guo Dong is looking forward to seeing the difference he can bring to the lives of foreign domestic workers and low-income women as well as providing the tools for them to grow and flourish in spite of their socio-economic status.

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Sirin Yeoh

Student Affairs & Campus Associate

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Sirin’s early experiences were in the film and video industry, where she spent over 6 years working on independent and commercial productions in Singapore and across the Asia Pacific region. She is an advocate for mental wellness and believes in sharing her personal recovery journey as part of the movement towards trauma informed care. Sirin joined Aidha in 2021 in pursuit of her long-standing interest in social services and supporting women on their path to personal freedom.

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