OUR INTERNATIONAL PANEL
Ms. Caroline Link
International Advisor
Caroline Link is the daughter of Harald Link and Princess Assunta von Liechtenstein. Her father is the chairman of B.Grimm, one of Thailand’s oldest business institutions, carrying a 143-year-old tradition of “Doing Business with Compassion.”Caroline carries several management roles within B.Grimm, including President of B.Grimm Joint Venture, Director of B.Grimm Power, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Healthcare & Industrial Businesses, and Chairman of B.Grimm Real Estate. She also manages the company’s human resources, communications and social engagement strategy. Caroline shares her family’s long-love for philanthropic work and actively engages in various programmes and projects, both personal and via B.Grimm. Areas close to her heart are education, environment and culture. B.Grimm is the initiator and pioneering partner of the GNH Centre Thailand, as well as the Centre’s pilot company in implementing GNH in the business sector.
Mr. Ian Triay
International Advisor
Serves as Honorary Consul General of Bhutan in Spain, a position he has held since his original formal appointment in 2004. He has been a frequent visitor to Bhutan and provided support to the Bhutanese Government in different areas including Education (King´s Scholarship for outstanding Bhutanese students) and Culture (organised the highly successful Exhibition of Bhutanese Art in Spain) inter alia. He is also President of the GNH Centre Spain launched in 2019 after the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding in 2017 with HRH Princess Kezang Choden Wangchuck, President of GNH Centre Bhutan. Mr Triay is a UK National and has studied at the City University of London and Harvard Business Schools among others, specialising in Business Management and Finance. His professional career started in major multinationals including Procter and Gamble and British Leyland and he then developed his long-term career in a major international banking Group (Lloyds TSB Group) mainly in the UK and Spain,as a senior executive. He lives in Madrid and is married with two children at University.
Mr.Danny Almagor
International Advisor
Danny Almagor is the co-founder, alongside his wife Berry, and Executive Chair of Small Giants. He served as the inaugural Social Entrepreneur in Residence at RMIT and is the founder and former CEO of Engineers Without Borders Australia. Danny is also the co-founder and Chair of the Impact Investment Group. His entrepreneurial journey includes the founding of more than a dozen for-profit and non-profit organizations, such as The Sociable Weaver, The Impact Club, and Beyond Creative. He has held board positions for a variety of initiatives, including Tom Organic, The School of Life, The Cape ecovillage, Pacific Biotechnologies, Smiling Mind, and the Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan.
Danny holds qualifications in Aerospace Engineering, Business Administration, and outdoor education. In addition to his professional pursuits, he is passionate about cooking, reading, rock climbing, discussing philosophy, gardening, traveling, and spending time with his three children.
Dr Satinder Singh Rekhi
International Advisor
Is the CEO and promoter director of R systems International Ltd (www.rsystems.com). He is a veteran and a well known entrepreneur in the field of Information Technology. Having graduated from the prestigious IIT – Kharagpur (India) with a Bachelor’s Degree in technology, he also possesses an MBA degree from the California State University (USA), and has attended several leadership programs from the University of Berkeley and Harvard Business School. Dr Rekhi is a champion in teaching and spreading happiness and wellbeing and strongly believes in a simple motto – Happy People Are More Successful. He has sponsored teaching research and studies in the Science of Happiness in California State University, Sacramento and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. As part of his philanthropic initiative, the Rekhi Foundation aims to work towards helping women and young girls, especially from less privileged background in pursuing their dreams. In 2021, Dr. Rekhi supports the GNH Centre Bhutan as an international advisor.
Ms. Cassandra Treadwell
International Advisor
Cassandra Treadwell is the Founder and CEO of one of Australia’s leading international NGOs “So They Can”. Since 2009, Cass has been on a mission to end child poverty through education. She has become a leading voice in sustainable development in Africa. Cass holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Arts in Medical Law and Ethics and started her career as Medico Legal Counsel at Capital & Coast Health New Zealand, before becoming a Fellow of Medical Law and Ethics at North Shore Hospital Sydney. Cass lives and leads by the African philosophy, Ubuntu - I am, because of you. By recognizing the interconnectedness of each and every one of us, she uses her influence to harness global collective action to eradicate extreme poverty. In 2022, Cass was awarded the Women’s Refuge Services Inspirational Woman of the Year. In 2015, she was a New Zealander of the Year finalist, and she has also presented at TEDx. In 2023 So They Can was awarded full accreditation by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, which places them in the top 1% of Australia’s charities for their work providing quality education to 33,000 children every year.