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One of the most senior Fellows and an incumbent trustee of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Atty. Kalaw is primarily responsible for creating and developing ICD’s Governance Framework for Family-Owned or Controlled Corporations and has counseled and taught such both locally and internationally, with the latter aspect particularly as a consultant to the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.

He is the only Filipino triple-certified (1) as both a sustainability trainer by the Global Reporting Initiative and a sustainability reporting specialist by the Institute of Certified Sustainability Practitioners; (2) in the Balanced Scorecard strategy management process by the Palladium, the firm of Professors Kaplan & Norton (the Harvard Business School faculty who conceptualized this leading performance methodology); and (3) as certified Compliance & Ethics Professional - International by the Society of Corporate Compliance & Ethics.

He presently serves as an independent board director of the shipping and logistics firm Gothong Southern. Atty. Kalaw’s 5 graduate degrees include a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School, a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge.