As one of the first and youngest Fellows of the Philippine Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD), Atty. Kalaw has chaired ICD’s Family-Owned or Controlled Corporations Circle since 2007, where he was primarily responsible for creating and developing ICD’s Governance Framework for Family-Owned or Controlled Corporations as well as the Institute’s model for addressing sustainability at the board-level, now known as the Sustainability Strategy Spectrum. He has counseled and taught on corporate governance both locally and internationally, with the latter aspect particularly as a consultant to the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation. A Trustee of the Institute from May 2012 to June 2020, he also serves on its core faculty as Chair of the Thought Leadership Committee and is its current Corporate Secretary. In May 2021, he was installed as the Institute’s youngest Life Fellow. He also serves as Corporate Secretary of ICD’s sister learned society for public governance, the Institute for Solidarity in Asia, as well as the Center for Excellence in Governance. He is also a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, from which he obtained his Company Directors Course Diploma in 2010. In October 2022, Atty. Kalaw became the first Filipino to be elected a Fellow of the Family Firm Institute, the world’s leading learned society of family firm consultants, in both of that organization’s recognized discipline specializations: Family Firm Governance and Family Wealth Advising.

He presently serves as an independent board director of the shipping and logistics firm Gothong Southern, and is one of the few Filipinos who are fully certified in the Balanced Scorecard Strategic Performance Management approach by the co-founders of the process, Professors Norton and Kaplan of Harvard Business School. Accredited by the Global Reporting Initiative as its first Filipino Certified Sustainability Professional, he is also both a Certified Sustainability Practitioner and Certified Sustainability Reporting Assurer of the Institute of Certified Sustainability Practitioners as well as a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute of the United States.

Atty. Kalaw received his Master of Laws from Harvard Law School. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Management and his Juris Doctor degree, with 2nd Honors, from Ateneo De Manila University. He obtained his Master in Public Administration degree from the University of the Philippines and his Master of Business Administration degree jointly from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology Business School. He obtained a Master of Studies in Sustainability Leadership from the University of Cambridge. He currently serves on the faculty of the Ateneo Law School, where he teaches Corporate Governance as well as Governance, Law, & Development for the J.D. Program and Intellectual Property Management and Enforcement for the school’s pioneering LL.M. Program in intellectual property jointly sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.