FRANCIS YEOH

WHY HIM? Yeoh is famous around the world for both his business acumen, as leader of his family’s YTL Corporation, and his philanthropy. A lover of the arts, he reportedly gave Rome’s struggling opera house €1 million in 2015. He also received the Capri Legend Humanitarian Award in 2016. After the passing of his father, Yeoh Tiong Lay, in December 2017, YTL gave donations in his memory worth MYR10M (about US$2.4M) to a series of charities.