Leap ─ Journey of a Young Global Leader from Singapore

Hell Week with the US Navy Seals. Trekking 100 km across the Taklamakan Desert. Doing business in Myanmar and Laos. Volunteering in Cambodia. Read how this Singaporean – a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum – did it all!

• Read of his army experiences with the SAF Commandos and Hell Week with the US Navy Seals
  
  
• Join him in his 100km trek across the Taklamakan Desert in China
  
  
• Get insights into doing business in Myanmar, and volunteering work in Cambodia
  
  
• Join him as he meets world leaders such as Aung San Suu Kyi and Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

Yap Kwong Weng is the founder and CEO of Leap Southeast Asia, a company he formed to build businesses in across the region. He is concurrently the Managing Director of Leap Group Holdings Pte Ltd, a joint venture initiative with Leap Group Co Ltd in Myanmar. He is a shareholder and director of Triip,me, an online travel company based in Vietnam that has been selected by CNN as one of Asia's 10 best start-ups in 2014. Previously, he was the COO of Parami Energy Group, a leading Myanmar Oil & Gas company.

He holds a BA in Communication (Honours) from the State University of New York at Buffalo, an MBA from the University of Manchester, an MPA from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, and has completed a PhD in Crisis Management from the University of Glasgow. He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Young Outstanding Singaporean of JCI, and a Rotary Peace Fellow of Rotary International.