Why AFG Exists
Enduring responsibility begins with leadership itself.
As wealth, technology and private capital play an increasingly influential role in shaping society, expectations of leadership are also rising.
Regulation and public scrutiny have their place. But enduring responsibility begins with leadership itself — through long-term thinking, thoughtful self-regulation, ethical judgement, and an awareness of wider societal impact.
Alliance for Good is a values-based partner for those with exceptional capacity to shape the world. We are firmly pro-enterprise, pro-innovation, pro-capital and pro-human flourishing.
Our premise is simple: extraordinary success and extraordinary stewardship should go hand in hand.
Regulation and scrutiny have their place. Enduring responsibility begins with leadership itself — through long-term thinking, thoughtful self-regulation and ethical judgement.
A Private Alliance with Public Purpose
Private accountability, alongside the public kind.
AFG creates a trusted environment where public accountability is complemented by private, peer-to-peer accountability.
What are we building?
The purpose behind the enterprise, the capital, and the technology — examined honestly among peers who face the same question.
Who benefits?
Who the value reaches, who it bypasses, and whether that distribution is intended or incidental.
What are the long-term consequences?
Second-order effects measured in decades and generations, not quarters.
What responsibility follows from success?
The obligation that scale creates — and what acting on it actually requires.
What the Alliance Stands For
Four commitments.
Accountability
Through personal leadership, peer dialogue and public responsibility.
Self-regulation
Thoughtful self-regulation and responsible self-governance.
Enterprise
Enterprise and innovation in service of human flourishing and societal progress.
Stewardship
Long-term stewardship of capital, technology and influence.
Who Is Already Part of the Alliance
The signal is the standard.
AFG derives its value from the quality of those who engage and the standard they collectively uphold. Participation is intentionally selective.
Family office principals
Billionaires and ultra-high-net-worth wealth owners.
Founders & entrepreneurs
Global investors building at scale.
Technology & AI leaders
Those shaping systems at societal scale.
Philanthropists & stewards
Next-generation stewards and long-term capital allocators.
Forum Leadership
Chairman.
The Business & Philanthropy Forum is chaired by two family principals whose houses have shaped enterprise and philanthropy across Asia for generations.
Benjamin Fok Chun-yue
Chairman, Business & Philanthropy Forum
Mr. Benjamin Fok Chun-yue is a second-generation member of the Fok Ying Tung family and Director of the Fok Ying Tung Foundation, carrying forward one of Asia’s most distinguished family legacies in business, philanthropy, and social development. His father, the late Dr. Henry Fok Ying Tung, was one of Hong Kong’s most prominent real estate developers, whose pioneering investments laid the foundation for the family’s enduring business and philanthropic legacy. Over several decades, Mr. Fok has played a leading role in stewarding the family’s business and philanthropic interests while advancing long-term initiatives across Hong Kong and Mainland China.
Daniel Teo Tong How
Co-Chair, Business & Philanthropy Forum · Chairman, Hong How Group
Daniel Teo Tong How is chairman and managing director of Singapore’s Hong How Group, with investment and property interests across Asia, Australia, Europe and the United States. He is a past president of the Real Estate Developers’ Association of Singapore and a former world president of FIABCI. A founding member of the Singapore Cultural Foundation, he was appointed honorary chairman of the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) in 2018.
Our Founder
John Wei Zheng
Founder & CEO, Alliance for Good
John Wei Zheng is the founder and director of Alliance for Good in Singapore. He is also an independent board director of Singapore Global Trust, Chairman of the Mission Action Group at the Asia Family Office Association, and an Obama Foundation Asia Pacific Leader.
As an adjunct lecturer, he has taught strategic philanthropy and nonprofit management at the China Global Philanthropy Institute, founded by Bill Gates and Ray Dalio. With over 15 years in philanthropy advisory and impact investment, he has worked with families, family offices, and private foundations across Asia, the U.S., and Europe.
He began his career working in rural China on education and poverty alleviation programmes, later serving as a UN Officer for UNICEF in China. He was a fellow with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, and has structured and managed charitable trusts and foundations in the U.S., Hong Kong, Singapore, China, and other key offshore jurisdictions.
Opening New Doors Together
Achievement opens the door.Stewardship shapes the future.