Research For Impact
Interdisciplinary | Independent | Inclusive
Social, behavioural, & systems research
OUR CORPORATE TEAM
Dr Joanne Yoong, Founder & CEO
Joanne Yoong is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of RFI. In this role, she is principally responsible for the conduct of RFI’s work in accordance with its organizational values, and for the short and long term corporate strategy. She provides leadership to the management team and oversight and support to the RFI team as a whole while representing the organization in dialogue with sponsors and collaborators.
Get in touch with Joanne at joanne@rforimpact.com
Dr Suan Ee Ong, COO
Suan took on the role of COO at Research For Impact to help guide her teammates to deliver high quality, data-driven health and social research. She oversees RFI’s suite of research and evaluation projects and provides guidance on research management, study design, protocol development and ethics, data collection, analysis, and reporting. She also works closely with the CEO and CFO on strategic matters, including business development, stakeholder engagement, and capacity-building.
Get in touch with Suan at suan@rforimpact.com
Yik Lin Khoo, CFO & Co-COO
Yik Lin’s career has spanned the public sector to MNCs to SMEs to startups, covering a wide range of responsibilities, such as strategy, policy, finance, client management, programme design and project management. As a Vice-President at the Bank of New York Mellon, a Group CFO at Shooting Gallery Asia, the General Manager at FireForge Games (Singapore) and most recently as a Principal Senior Director at Temasek Foundation, he has built and managed many high-performance teams with a strong and positive organisation culture. He hopes to contribute similarly at RFI.
Get in touch with Yik Lin at yiklin@rforimpact.com
Dr Sherria Ayuandini, Director (Evaluation Strategy and Implementation)
In more than 17 years of Sherria’s career, she has worked with national governments and international organizations in Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa, both in advisory and leadership positions. In the past 5 years, Sherria assumed back-to-back roles as a global lead, providing strategic directions and operational guidance in Europe, Africa, South America and the Middle East. Her leadership style is constantly shaped by each multinational and interdisciplinary team that she led. She learned that a plan is only as good as the modifications it is willing to accommodate through listening to different voices and wisdom.
Get in touch with Sherria at sherria@rforimpact.com
Oliver Yuen, Director (Finance)
A natural fit for his economist portfolio, Oliver oversees and monitors the company’s cash flow and financial transactions, as well as produces financial projections. He strives for good documentation and insightful analysis, as well as to provide accurate and updated information to facilitate rational decision-making.
Get in touch with Oliver at oliver@rforimpact.com
Gayle Amul, Director (Communications)
Gayle took on the leading communications role at RFI to help establish RFI’s social media presence. She manages the public dissemination of RFI’s research outputs - from peer-reviewed journal articles to commissioned white papers and reports. She also curates relevant social media content that contributes to RFI’s mission to make research and evaluation more accessible, inclusive and transformative.
Get in touch with Gayle at gayle@rforimpact.com