Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025
Modern HR Leaders are leading the way with their strategic planning, leading transformation and resilience, and cultivating agile and future-ready leaders for the generations. In Asia, best HR leaders led employee engagement initiatives that boosted employee satisfaction scores by 30%, negotiated with benefits providers to improve employee packages, and cut costs by 10% while enhancing benefits. These leaders demonstrate strong multitasking, organisational skills, and emotional intelligence, generating substantial value and leaving a lasting impact on organisations. TradeFlock’s Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025 edition recognises top HR leaders in Asia, emphasising their remarkable skills and qualities such as integrity, empathy, compassion, and business acumen. This special edition of TradeFlock features exclusive, in-depth interviews that explore the journeys, financial management philosophies, and growth strategies of Asia’s top HR leaders. Join us as we highlight their inspiring stories, practical insights, and leadership principles that establish them as key architects of Asia’s people management expertise.
As a psychologist with 27 years of experience, Dato Mohd Khalis, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, is reinventing human capital leadership with both empathy and strategy in the modern corporate world.
Fiona Anderson, Head of Human Capital at Arcapita, is guiding the firm’s human capital strategy with insight, empathy, and unwavering ethical clarity. Creating a global impact, she redefines human capital leadership with a first leadership methodology.
Latifa Mohammad, an accomplished group executive vice president, is reshaping leadership in human capital within the maritime and logistics sectors. She exemplifies how human resources can be a key driver of organisational growth and operational excellence.
Maria Mubeen demonstrates that a workplace can foster both business success and employee growth through excellence in customer service, effective employee training, and operational efficiency. She combines strategic insight, adaptability, and people-first leadership to create a thriving environment.
As Vice President of Human Resources for Hilton Hotels & Resorts in the MEA&T, Marie-Louise oversees people and culture strategies. Her role blends strategic planning with human empathy, positioning the organisation for expansion and empowering staff to provide outstanding guest experiences.
Meshref Dughaim Alshammary, a seasoned strategic and transformational leader, demonstrated how data-driven insights can align human capital with organisational goals, consistently balancing analytics with empathy and creating high-performing, agile teams.
Mursosan, a trailblazer and CPO, creates workplaces where employees feel valued, understood, and connected to purpose. “We just want to be seen,” a frontliner told Mursosan Wiguna, inspiring his passion for people leadership and blending local wisdom with global practices to motivate the team.
As EVP and CHRO at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Placiod Jover leads initiatives that align talent, culture, and business with the company’s “Pivot to Growth” strategy. Using technology and a human-centred approach, he makes data-informed decisions that meet employees’ needs.
As Global HR Director at Advanta Seeds, Radha Krishna has expertise in talent management, rewards, engagement, development, change management, M&A, and workforce planning across various sectors, including oil & gas, hospitality, chemicals, agri-inputs, farm machinery, automation, and retail.
Wassim Eid, President of People and Culture, is navigating talent retention and redefining people and culture in Middle East luxury retail across multiple countries, embedding inclusive leadership, and fostering wellbeing in high-pressure environments.
As a psychologist with 27 years of experience, Dato Mohd Khalis, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, is reinventing human capital leadership with both empathy and strategy in the modern corporate world.
Fiona Anderson, Head of Human Capital at Arcapita, is guiding the firm’s human capital strategy with insight, empathy, and unwavering ethical clarity. Creating a global impact, she redefines human capital leadership with a first leadership methodology.
Latifa Mohammad, an accomplished group executive vice president, is reshaping leadership in human capital within the maritime and logistics sectors. She exemplifies how human resources can be a key driver of organisational growth and operational excellence.
Maria Mubeen demonstrates that a workplace can foster both business success and employee growth through excellence in customer service, effective employee training, and operational efficiency. She combines strategic insight, adaptability, and people-first leadership to create a thriving environment.
As Vice President of Human Resources for Hilton Hotels & Resorts in the MEA&T, Marie-Louise oversees people and culture strategies. Her role blends strategic planning with human empathy, positioning the organisation for expansion and empowering staff to provide outstanding guest experiences.
Meshref Dughaim Alshammary, a seasoned strategic and transformational leader, demonstrated how data-driven insights can align human capital with organisational goals, consistently balancing analytics with empathy and creating high-performing, agile teams.
Mursosan, a trailblazer and CPO, creates workplaces where employees feel valued, understood, and connected to purpose. “We just want to be seen,” a frontliner told Mursosan Wiguna, inspiring his passion for people leadership and blending local wisdom with global practices to motivate the team.
As EVP and CHRO at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Placiod Jover leads initiatives that align talent, culture, and business with the company’s “Pivot to Growth” strategy. Using technology and a human-centred approach, he makes data-informed decisions that meet employees’ needs.
As Global HR Director at Advanta Seeds, Radha Krishna has expertise in talent management, rewards, engagement, development, change management, M&A, and workforce planning across various sectors, including oil & gas, hospitality, chemicals, agri-inputs, farm machinery, automation, and retail.
Wassim Eid, President of People and Culture, is navigating talent retention and redefining people and culture in Middle East luxury retail across multiple countries, embedding inclusive leadership, and fostering wellbeing in high-pressure environments.
