Mr. Haoliang Xu is UN Assistant Secretary-General and the Assistant Administrator and Regional Director for the Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

Mr. Xu joined UNDP in 1995 and has worked in the Asia and Pacific and Eastern Europe and the CIS Regions respectively. He has worked in UNDP New York headquarters (1997-99), Iran (2000-02), Timor-Leste (2002-04), Pakistan (2004-07) and served two terms in Kazakhstan (1995-97, 2007-10). Before taking the current position, he was UNDP Resident Representative and UN Resident Coordinator in Kazakhstan (2007-10) and Deputy Regional Director for Europe and the CIS in New York (2010-13).

Before joining the United Nations, Mr. Xu worked as an assistant lecturer in Tongji, University in China, and was a computer-aided design engineer with Louis Berger International Inc. in the USA and South Korea.

Mr. Xu is a national of the People’s Republic of China. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Bridge Engineering from Tongji University, a Masters in Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University. He is fluent in English and Russian. Mr. Xu is married with one child.

The founder and CEO of Thirst, Mina is a global leader, an entrepreneur and adventurer, passionate and committed to making a difference in the world. Following a 15-year successful career as a world leader in climate change, including cofounding Peony Capital, Mina established Thirst, an organizational initiative of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum.

The goal of Thirst is to have consumers drive companies to change the way they use and consume water, and to create corporate/consumer collaborations to find smarter ways to achieve that goal. Since its launch in 2012, Thirst has educated almost 500,000 students in China, established 170 clubs across China, run innovation competitions for students and reached over 250 million people with its messages.

Mina is also an ultra-distance athlete, having started running only at the age of 22 after a severe injury. In 2016 she became the first person to run 40 marathons across 7 deserts on 7 continents, which she completed within 7 weeks. An incredible journey whose messages reached over 4 billion people – and all for one reason: to raise awareness about the water crisis.

Named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010, Mina is a recipient of a Future Leadership Award from the Australia Davos Connection, named as one of Australia’s “50 for the Future”, was a finalist for the Australian Female Alumni of the Year and named as one of Australia’s 100 most influential women.

In recognition of her achievements, in 2016, Fortune Magazine named Mina as one of the 50 greatest leaders in the world.

Ada Wong, Head of Public Affairs and Communications Asia, joined FrieslandCampina Asia in 2014 and leads the development and implementation of the Company’s public affairs strategy for Asia.

She is an experienced global communications and corporate affairs professional, and has more than 15 years’ experience in corporate affairs within world-leading global companies including Philip Morris International and Diageo.

Ada has a strong track record in developing regional strategic stakeholder engagement programmes, working with internal and external audiences including government officials, trade associations and industry bodies, non-profit organisations, research agencies and the media.

Alison Eskesen is the Director of Knowledge and Accountability at Grow Asia, a multi-stakeholder partnership platform that catalyses action on inclusive agricultural development in South-East Asia.

Alison was previously the Director of Research and Programs at Shujog, a social enterprise focused on building Asia’s impact investing ecosystem. At Shujog, she provided leadership on the design and implementation of technical assistance programs, whilst measuring the impact of affiliated businesses and social enterprises.

Alison spent the majority of her career at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where she mobilized domestic capital for local development projects through structuring and negotiating innovative financing mechanisms. While at USAID, Alison established and managed programs focused on strengthening urban governance and upgrading urban poor settlements.

Alison holds a MA from Columbia University and a BA from Colgate University. She was also a Fulbright Scholar in Paraguay.

Mr Goledzinowski works closely with the Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB) Joint Agency Task Force, to ensure that international elements of OSB, including deterrence and resettlement, are effectively coordinated across government. He also leads Australia’s international engagement to help address human trafficking and slavery, and is Co-chair of the 45-country regional grouping known as the Bali Process.

Mr Goledzinowski is a career diplomat with over 30 years’ experience in the Australian foreign service and various international organisations. He has previously serving in Wellington, Pretoria, Port Vila, Geneva, Baghdad and New York.

Career highlights have included working as Senior Adviser to Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and, a decade earlier, as Adviser to Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. He was Head of International Coordination in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq in 2003-4. He also worked with the World Bank as Head of the World Bank Office in Baghdad.

Mr Goledzinowski spent several years in the United Nations, including as Chief of Staff to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. In 2014 Mr Goledzinowski was selected to oversee the Multinational Observer Group monitoring Fiji’s return to democracy elections.

Mr Goledzinowski is a holder of the Order of Australia (AM), the Australian Overseas Service Medal, the Australian Defence Force Medal and the U.S. Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Exceptional Public Service.

Angeline is the Head of Corporate Citizenship in Asia Pacific for Credit Suisse. Her role is to develop corporate volunteering initiatives and drive strategic philanthropic giving for the bank in the region. Under her leadership, Angeline plays a critical role in communicating Credit Suisse's philanthropic efforts both internally and externally.

Angeline brings over 17 years of experience in not-for-profit organizations and as a regulator. She started her career as a regulator with the Securities Commission Malaysia. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, she was the Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Financial Planners of Hong Kong. Angeline was also previously a Board member at the Hong Kong Chapter of Variety Children’s Charity. She holds a Master in Law from City University Hong Kong and a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is a Harvard Mason fellow.

Angeline Martyn is Senior Director and Head of New Partnership Development for the Corporate Engagement Centre Singapore. Angeline collaborates with corporations to align opportunities for social and business impact, develop a partnership vision and activities and forge long-term, mutually beneficial partnerships. She has been with Save the Children since 2012.

Prior to joining Save the Children she was on the leadership team at Friends of UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) working to advance the health and dignity of women worldwide and Director of Communications at Day One, the Sexual Assault & Trauma Resource Center of Rhode Island. She has also spent time in the government and corporate sector.

Angeline’s academic pursuits at the University of Oxford in Comparative Social Policy grounded in women’s economic empowerment, her design of advocacy and policy agendas to end gender-based violence in the US and her efforts to make maternal and newborn death obsolete, alongside her population work are demonstrative of her success in the global health arena.

Annie Chan graduated from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and has extensive experience in the retail industries. Before joining The Body Shop, she was the General Manager of Fila Marketing (Hong Kong) Limited. Annie joined The Body Shop Hong Kong and Macau as General Manager in Oct 2007. In 2015, she was appointed as the General Manager of The Body Shop, Hong Kong and Singapore. During the period with The Body Shop, Annie has led the team to activate many international campaigns at market level including HIV and Stop Sex Trafficking.

Balan Shanmuganathan is the Senior Director of EHS & Sustainability at Seagate Technology. He has more than 20 years of EHS experience and has been working on corporate social responsibility issues for the last 10 years. He is currently based in Penang, Malaysia, and has completed work assignments in Northern Ireland and the United States in the past. In his current role at Seagate, Shanmuganathan has responsibility for both product and operational sustainability. He is also very active in the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) and is currently chair of the Risk Assessment workgroup in the EICC.

Carine Lai project manager of the Asian Urban-Wellbeing Indicators at Civic Exchange. She has an MSc in urban planning, with a special interest in liveability, wellbeing and urban design. She is also a graphic artist specialising in infographics and data visualisation. Carine is the co-author of From Nowhere to Nowhere: A Review of Constitutional Development Hong Kong 1997-2007 and Reflections of Leadership: Tung Chee Hwa and Donald Tsang (1997-2007).

Carlo is the President of Kering Asia Pacific since December 2014.

Before that, Carlo has been Vice President of Human Resources of the Group in Asia Pacific since 2011, supporting business growth through deployment of HR strategies at regional level as well as rolling out corporate HR initiatives in the region. During his tenure at Kering, Carlo has taken up several senior multi-faceted roles where he was named Group General Counsel for Asia Pacific in 2007 and Vice President of Human Resources for Kering Asia Pacific in 2013. Carlo has been an in-house lawyer for over 20 years and he holds a Law Degree from university of Padova Italy.

Chaitanya is also part of the BofAML’s Disability Advocacy Network and leads the communication for the chapter. In his role in the bank, he heads the International AIM Compliance function to prevent insider trading for locations outside of the Americas. Chaitanya has been associated with the network since inception and is a strong believer in having equal employment opportunities for differently-abled employees.

Professor Christine Chow is responsible for the financial services, technology and extractive sectors in Asia Pacific. She has 19 years of experience in portfolio management, research and investment consulting. Christine's PhD thesis on shareholder engagement for responsible investment was short-listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence.

Christine is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for putting together and teaching the first tri-sector (government, private family office and university) MBA elective course on social innovation and impact investment. She is a governor of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of the School’s Investment Sub-Committee. She was also a member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2014-2016).

Christine has worked at a number of multinational corporations such as Merrill Lynch, Schroders and Hewitt. In the 1990s, she was responsible for establishing strategic partnerships in fund management for the Schroders Group, especially in Mainland China. Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She also completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.

Daniel Gilman has worked for the United Nations since 2007. He is currently based in Bangkok with the UN OCHA Office for Asia and the Pacific (ROAP). He supports disaster response and preparedness, focusing on strategic and operational engagement with private sector, civil society organizations, as well as governments and regional organizations, with a focus on South Asia.

Daniel had formerly worked in the Policy Analysis and Innovation Section of UN OCHA, promoting the development of humanitarian innovation, as well as other emerging issues. He was on the team that produced the OCHA policy report “Humanitarianism in the Network Age”, and looked at a range of issues including information security and privacy in humanitarian emergencies, the use of UAVs in humanitarian emergencies, and approaches to financing humanitarian research and development. Before joining UN OCHA, he worked with the Department of Political Affairs at the UN Security Council.

Darian McBain is an engineer, scientist and science communicator with a focus on sustainable supply chains. Darian has spent her career working with business, government and non-government organisations on managing the environmental and social impacts and risks of business activities and contributing to a more sustainable society.

Darian is currently the Global Director of Sustainable Development for Thai Union, the world's largest canned tuna manufacturer. Prior to joining Thai Union Darian ran a business consultancy in Australia advising business, government and NGOs on strategy and sustainability. She has worked in the UK for the National Health Service and the United Nations. Darian also worked with WWF in its market transformation program and in addition to working with a wide range of industries, ran a social media campaign to increase the awareness of sustainable palm oil.

Darian is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer with Integrated Sustainability Analysis at the University of Sydney on social and environmental footprinting and holds a PhD on social indicators for global supply chain analysis. In addition to her PhD from the University of Sydney, Darian holds a Masters of Science in Business Strategy, Politics and Environment from the University of London, and a Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental) from the University of New South Wales.

David Harmon is the Vice – President for Global Public Affairs at Huawei Technologies. He has been based at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen in China since November 2014. David is responsible for putting in place strategies within the ICT and digital agenda policy areas that enhance relations between Huawei Technologies and governments around the world. He is a regular speaker at conferences around the world on issues related to the best global practices in the field of the governance of the ICT sector and on future ICT trends.

Between 2010 – 2014, he worked in Brussels as a member of the cabinet of the European Commissioner for research, innovation and science. In this capacity, he advised the European Commission on the best strategies that it should put in place within an international context concerning research, innovation and science matters. He was also the sherpa for the European Union at G8 summit meetings that dealt with these important policy issues.

Between 1998 – 2010, David worked in Brussels as a political advisor in the European Parliament. He covered a diverse range of policy issues including in the areas of trade, the digital agenda, foreign affairs and industry. He was also director of press and communications for the main government party in Ireland for three referenda campaigns that dealt with the ratification of different European Union treaties in the years 2002, 2008 and 2009.

David is a qualified lawyer, having graduated from the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in 1998.

Denise is a Managing Director and Head of Consumer & Retail Investment Banking, Asia Pacific-ex Japan, based in Hong Kong. Her responsibilities involve overseeing Barclays’ banking activities across Asia Pacific ex-Japan in the consumer and retail sectors.

Prior to joining Barclays in 2009, Denise spent six years at Lehman Brothers, based in New York, and was a member of the global consumer and global power investment banking teams. She joined Lehman Brothers in July 2002 as an analyst in the Fixed Income Division.

Denise is a co-chair of REACH, Hong Kong, Barclays’ internal employee network committed to supporting the firm’s disability agenda, and was a board member of the Hong Kong International School (HKIS) Alumni Association from 2014 until 2016.

Denise holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.

Diana Escoda is the Asia Pacific R&D Vice President for The Coca Cola Company, based in Shanghai. In this role, Mrs. Escoda leads the development and implementation of the innovation program for the Asia Pacific region as well as for the Global Dairy and Tea categories. The AP R&D organization under her leadership is formed by a team of scientists and engineers located in two main facilities, Shanghai, and Tokyo, and two satellite/manufacturing labs in Australia and Delhi.

Her responsibilities include the development of new winning propositions in the product, package and equipment area as well as driving business continuity through the qualification of new suppliers, ingredients and formulas to guarantee the optimum quality and supply continuity of our products.

Mrs.Escoda started in The Coca-Cola Company in 2012 as General Manager for the Asia Pacific R&D group and took over additional responsibilities, including the leadership of the Japan R&D organization, in 2015.

Previously, she worked for more than 20 years in Procter & Gamble in different positions and categories in the R&D field and across a diverse mix of developed and developing markets. She has lived in North and South America as well as Europe and Asia during her R&D career enabling her to meet a very diverse spectrum of cultures, consumers and business dynamics.

She holds a degree of Chemical Eng. from the Simon Bolivar University, a specialization in Surfactants from Los Andes University and a Master in Business Economics from the Simon Bolivar University in Venezuela.

On a personal side, Diana is happily married, has four kids and is an avid participant of endurance sports in her free time.

Elaine Ng, CFA joined the MSCI ESG Research team in Sept 2015 as Executive Director, Client Coverage for Asia. Based in Hong Kong, she is responsible for promoting MSCI’s ESG Research suite of investment solutions to clients in the region.

Elaine was formerly a member of MSCI’s Analytics team since joining in June 2011. She has over 15 years of experience in the financial sector and has spent the last 11 years specializing in investment analytics. In her previous role, she was responsible for the retention of the risk management analytics book of clients across Asia. Over the span of her career, she has been involved in product development and delivery of analytical solutions to institutional clients, investment managers and hedge fund clients.

Elaine has a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from National University of Singapore and a Masters of Applied Finance from Singapore Management University. She is also a CFA Charterholder.

Elmarie Potgieter is an education transformation architect with extensive international experience in systemic change in public education systems. Prior to her role with MCII, she led the design and implementation of the Malaysian Trust Schools Programme, the PreSTasi transformation programme and GUSTO, a collaborative project with Teach for Malaysia and Yayasan AMIR. Elmarie is the author of The Trust School Standards and Practices, and led the process of developing SOM, a framework for the assessment of holistic student outcomes in Malaysia. Elmarie has studied under international thought leaders and is a passionate advocate for Emotional Intelligence and Brain-based learning. She is well-known for highly impactful professional development programmes and is currently writing a book on education transformation, “The Optimist: A handbook for educational change makers”

Emily Chew oversees the integration of environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) issues into investment portfolios at Manulife Asset Management. Previously, in her role as Head of Asia-Pacific ESG Research at MSCI, she led a team of specialist analysts across the region producing ESG research for large institutional investors, with a focus on large- and mid-cap Asia-Pacific companies. At MSCI, Ms. Chew’s work to expand ratings research coverage to key East Asian markets and publish thought leadership contributed to establishing the relevance of ESG investment trends for regional and global institutional investors.

Ms. Chew commenced her career as a capital markets lawyer with Baker & McKenzie. She sits on the Listed Equities Sub-Committee of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, and was selected for Asia Society’s 2015 Young Leaders Program.

Erinch currently leads the private sector team at Oxfam Great Britain. Since 2011, Erinch has been working at Oxfam on the role of the private sector in tackling poverty and injustice. During his time at Oxfam, Erinch has also led Oxfam's policy and campaigning team on food and climate justice.

Erinch specialises in the links between business and poverty, with a focus on agriculture and the rural economy. He's advised policy-makers, businesses, campaigners and programme managers on how to leverage business and markets to better tackle poverty. In supporting programmes, Erinch works with Oxfam's Enterprise Development Programme and the Gendered Enterprise and Markets programme to ensure the programmes are helping shape the broader market system. He has lead Oxfam's work on scoring the policies of the world's largest food and beverage companies in the Behind the Brands campaign and continues to work directly with companies across multiple sectors to help them better understand their poverty impacts and develop new business models.

Before joining Oxfam, Erinch worked for the Australian government (AusAID), where he was the development advisor on Australia's trade negotiation team in Indonesia. Prior to entering development, Erinch worked as a market strategist at Procter & Gamble and ran a start-up furniture business in Australia. His background includes stints as a trainee solicitor, business consultant and radio host. Erinch regularly lectures on sustainable business at various universities, including Cambridge, Oxford, Birmingham and Sheffield. Erinch also sits on a number of advisory committees, including the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative and the UN Global Compact's Poverty Footprint Project. His academic background is in Law and Finance.

Fiachra is the founder and CEO of Global Eye. He has a background in criminal intelligence across Asia and Africa, and specialises in understanding, tracking & countering illicit transnational networks. He has extensive experience developing innovative means to tackle wildlife trafficking by developing and leveraging cross-sectoral linkages. He also holds a Master of Science in Conservation Biology and in the early part of his career worked in conservation ecology across Africa and Australia. Fiachra is a member of the OECD Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade.

Gary translates and realises engineering opportunities into commercial prospects. He is an expert in sustainability of the built environment, ranging from strategy, planning, design, procurement, operation and policy.

Renowned for his influencing method and unique blend of sustainability and energy knowledge in the built environment, he possesses the ability to spearhead design and operation of buildings in a most versatile and effective manner. His integrative approach harmonises multi-disciplinary engagement ensuring all elements of a building resolves in an optimal manner to impact the business’ bottom line. His understanding in business operation, management and engineering allows him to gain trust from C-level management to field-level engineers.

Gary’s aim on projects is to yield rewarding outcomes and tangible long term business savings for clients’ building development and operation.

Genevieve Hilton has worked in corporate affairs and sustainability in Asia Pacific since 1994, primarily in Vietnam and Hong Kong. She has worked at BASF since 2008. In her current role she is responsible for stakeholder engagement, crisis readiness, online communications, media relations, sustainability reporting, corporate publications, and channel management for 18 markets in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining BASF, she was most recently Senior Vice President, Client Services, at Ketchum Greater China. She is also Vice President, Professional Development for the Hong Kong Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators, and is the recipient of the IABC Excellence Award for contribution to the communications profession in Asia Pacific.

Dr Guillaume Drillet has 15 years of experience working within the field of aquatic ecology in the public and private sectors. Dr Drillet holds a Master degree on management of coastal resources in Normandy (France). Expatriated for 15 years, Dr Drillet has lived and participated in many national and international research projects on plankton ecology and physiology in Denmark, France, Scotland, Singapore, Taiwan, Slovakia and in the USA. He took a PhD funded by the European Network of Excellence (Eur-oceans) and the graduate school of stress studies in Denmark. In 2011, Dr Drillet received a Young Elite Scientist Award from the Danish Ministry of Independent research for his work on copepods as live feed.

Dr Drillet is based in Singapore for the last 6 years and work at DHI Water and Environment where he supported the development of the Ballast Water Technology and Innovation Center as well as the DHI Environmental Laboratories.

Dr Drillet is section head of a team dealing with ecological processes, ecological modelling, ballast water issues and aquaculture. He is also lecturing at Temasek Polytechnic and was recently elected the Chair of the GloBal TestNet, a network of test facilities evaluating systems for ballast water treatment.

Fiona is the co-lead of BofAML's Disability Advocacy Network and heads up BoAML’s Asia Litigation and Regulatory Enquiries team. Fiona lost her right leg below the knee in the Asian tsunami of 2004 while she was training to be a solicitor. She went back to work soon afterwards on crutches with the support of her law firm in London and later, when she made the pleasant discovery that cycling to work was far preferable to standing in a busy train every morning, she started her cycling career. This led to a number of long bike rides, including through Vietnam and Cambodia and later across the Andes in Peru, during which Fiona raised over GBP50,000 for Exceed, a UK charity that helps to train prosthetists and orthotists in developing countries.

Hardik oversees research for global equities in Utilities, Real Estate, Commercial Services and Construction industries and actively engages with companies and clients on key ESG issues. Hardik is also involved in writing thought leadership pieces on ESG topics relevant to Asia with the most recent being: Investing in a "Modi-fied" India.

Hardik was Voted #1 research firm analyst who understands the challenges & opportunities facing companies in the IRRI Survey, 2015. Some of Hardik’s key speaking assignments include 2016 Responsible Finance Summit, 2015 International Singapore Compact CSR Summit,  EPF Think Week 2015 and TBLI Conference Asia 2015.

Hardik previously worked as an ESG associate at MSCI Inc. and as a Senior Consultant with Ernst and Young’s climate change and sustainability services team.

Holy RANAIVOZANANY is the Head of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Huawei. She is responsible for community investment programs supported and implemented by Huawei in more than 170 countries, including the strategy, communication, profile-raising events and stakeholders’ engagement.

Prior to joining Huawei in 2011, she was in charge of CSR in Africa, Middle-East and Asia for Orange, a French telecommunications operator. She held several positions at Orange, including as a Culture Change and Human Resources project manager and as a Marketing Analyst for Orange UK.

Holy Ranaivozanany holds a Master’s Degree in Marketing Management from EDHEC Business School in France. She is the recipient of the CSR Leadership and Excellence Award from the World CSR Day, recognizing the contribution made by individuals to drive Sustainability and CSR through the business.

Hope Ewing is senior director, Corporate Communication at Visa in Asia Pacific. She oversees the company’s efforts in financial literacy, corporate responsibility & philanthropy and employee communication in the region.

Prior to this role, Hope managed Visa communication in Southeast Asia. Before joining Visa, she was Managing Director, Singapore and Hong Kong for Ruder Finn Asia. She has held a range of leadership roles in agencies, with postings in Sydney, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore and Taipei.

Hope graduated from New York University Stern School of Business with Bachelor of Science degrees in Management and Marketing. She is based in Singapore.

Mr. Spaulding is recognized globally as a preeminent thought leader and authority on supply chain social, environmental and business performance. Mr. Spaulding is the Chief Executive Officer of ELEVATE – a global professional services firm that specializes business driven sustainability.

ELEVATE develops and implements progressive and more impact-oriented corporate supply chain responsibility programs which improve working conditions, minimize risk and drive business performance.

On a day-to-day basis, Mr. Spaulding advises senior executives at more than 75 global businesses and is regularly featured as a speaker at major events and in a range of top-tier media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Bloomberg and CNN.

Previously, Mr. Spaulding worked at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), KPMG and Sears Holdings. At Sears Holdings, Mr. Spaulding was the former Director of Global Compliance where he pioneered the largest effort to promote greater transparency and continuous improvement among thousands of manufacturing facilities globally.

Mr. Spaulding has a Masters from Yale and Bachelors from American University. Mr. Spaulding lives in Hong Kong with his wife and three boys.

Janice Lao is an environmental scientist and economist by training. She leads the sustainability team at MTR Corporation, catalyzing and coordinating sustainability initiatives – environment, workplace, customer and supply chain - and encompassing its different businesses from rail operations, property, construction and international/other businesses.

She has received international recognition for her work and leadership in this field including the 2014 FWN Global Most Influential Women of the Year – Emerging Leader; 2015 Global Sustainable Leadership Award; and a fellow of the Pioneers for Change Fellowship Programme in the United Kingdom.

Her expertise lies in embedding a strategic sustainability approach into business. She has worked internationally at Unilever, World Resources Institute, ERM, Cathay Pacific and Swire. She graduated with an MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford and a diploma in business from the University of Oxford Said Business School.

Jim is an Executive Director and been based in Asia since 2011. An experienced Management Consultant, Chartered Surveyor, Jim holds an MBA from Reading University. He has worked extensively across the UK, Asia, North America and the Middle East on both property and infrastructure programmes.

Jim is a specialist in providing advice on transformation projects for clients with challenging portfolios or capital programmes; notable examples include Heathrow Terminal 5 and the iconic St.Pancras Station in London. In addition to consulting Jim has held several senior client side posts including Head of Supply Chain at the Hong Kong Jockey Club and latterly Arcadis Global CRE Director where he was responsible for developing an improvement programme of over 500 offices across six continents.

Jim is Currently the Arcadis Client Development Director for the Pearl River Delta Region. He holds a leadership role within the Global Arcadis Urban Clients programme which focuses on finding sustainable solutions to the urban challenges facing cities today.

Jude has been spearheading the launch of Conservation International’s (CI) new program in Hong Kong since May 2014, which works to accelerate the city's leadership in urban and corporate environmental sustainability.

Prior to this role, as Senior Director of Strategy Analysis based in Washington, DC, Jude facilitated CI senior leadership's development of the organization's new global strategy: to help societies adopt the conservation of nature as the foundation of sustainable development and enduring human well-being.

Jude transitioned to the environmental community after 8 years as a management consultant and business development professional for PricewaterhouseCoopers, internet tech startup Entransit, and international law firm Curtis, Mallet-Prevost.  

Jude holds a B.A. In Politics from Princeton University and a Master in Environmental Management from the Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Karen Westley is the Vice-President for Business Innovation for Shell’s Integrated Gas business. She is an American who grew up in Kenya. She has a BS in Human Biology from Stanford University and an MSc from Yale University in Tropical Ecology. She spent six years working for a large international humanitarian organization: CARE International. She then joined the Shell Foundation in 2001, as part of the start up team, designing and implementing the Foundation’s strategy and managing energy and poverty programmes. She joined the Social Performance Management Unit in Shell International in 2005 and worked on social impact assessment, community engagement and social investment, developing policies, carrying out social performance reviews and working directly with operations to improve their social performance. She also set up NGO partnerships to complement work/skills in the business with skills and perspectives from outside organisations. She then held the Social Performance Manager and Head of Social Investment roles in Shell, covering all businesses and locations. In 2013 she took on a new challenge - setting up a team and capability to manage the non-technical risks and opportunities associated with Shell’s global gas business. In her current role she develops new value propositions acorss the gas value chain.

Kim Salkeld is the Head of Efficiency Unit, HKSAR Government and Secretary-General of the Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Fund. The Fund has been established under the Commission on Poverty with the aim of building an ecosystem of support for innovations in business and services that help to address poverty and disadvantage in the community.

Kim has been a civil servant in Hong Kong since 1980. He has lived in the UK, Singapore and the US and has a degree in ancient and medieval history.

Linden has over 20 years of environmental and corporate social responsibility experience, including the development of carbon management strategies, preparing tailored environmental management systems and preparing Corporate Social Responsibility reports.

Linden joined Etihad Airways at the beginning of 2009 with the responsibility for developing the overall strategy for environmental management for the airline. She is currently implementing initiatives for key areas such as emissions and waste management and supporting the development of alternative sustainable fuels, as well as managing the charity and humanitarian program and developing a strong culture of environmental and social awareness throughout the business.

A key aspect of her strategy is developing and implementing animal protection policies throughout the business. She instigated the commitment of the airline to the United for Wildlife initiative and has partnered with the Born Free Foundation to help ensure that tourism activities promoted by the airline do not negatively impact the welfare of animals.

She is the Chair of the IATA Wildlife Taskforce.

Liam Salter is Founder and CEO at RESET Carbon Ltd., a Hong Kong and Thailand-based environmental service provider founded in 2009. RESET’s work focuses on developing and implementing commercially driven environmental management programs for Asian and international corporate clients focusing on issues such as carbon and energy, water and supply chain management.

Previously Liam was the Director of WWF’s International’s Asia-Pacific Climate Programme, where he built and managed a ten-country team. At WWF Liam also co-led the design and set-up of the Gold Standard Foundation, which is now a leading certification system for carbon offsets and other forms of climate finance. In 8 years at WWF, Liam and his team also built carbon benchmarking systems for export manufacturers and commercial office tenants, supported grassroots anti-coal campaigns, developed low-carbon energy scenarios, set up a renewable energy trade association and lobbied at UN negotiations on climate change.

Liam holds a Masters of Science in Environmental Technology from Imperial College, London.

In 2015, Magnus Olsson has been appointed as the Country Manager at H&M of Greater China (Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau). Prior to this position, he worked in various positions and countries within H&M; he has been with the company for more than 20 years.

Manon Bernier is the Regional Manager for Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Volunteer Programme (UNV). She is in charge of setting up and managing the new UNV regional office which has the specific mandate of supporting programme and partnership development in the region.

From 2012 to 2015 Manon was leading the area of volunteer learning and knowledge management for UNV, developing innovative solutions to enhance the quality and impact of the volunteer experience. From 2007 to 2012, she was Portfolio Manager for Latin America, managing more than 700 UN Volunteers and developing new innovating partnership promoting volunteerism as a tool to engage communities in development.

Prior to the UN, Manon was working for the private sector. From 2000 to 2005, she worked for the artistic multinational Cirque du Soleil. As Project Manager for their social corporate responsibility programme, she developed and implemented specific programmes in Latin America, Asia and Africa, using arts as a way of intervention with youth at risk.

Manuel is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and serves as Global Head of Public Affairs and Policy. In addition, he serves as Head of Corporate Citizenship and International Relations in the Chairman’s Office and as Managing Director of the Credit Suisse Foundation.

Manuel holds a doctorate degree from the University of St. Gallen (Dr. rer. publ. HSG), Switzerland, was a Swiss National Science Foundation scholarship recipient and a Visiting Scholar at both Columbia University Law School in New York and Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. He also completed an Executive Program at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, MA and studied at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po).

Manuel is member of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital, the WEF’s Steering Committee on Promoting Global Financial Inclusion and the United Nation’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Business Advisory Council (EBAC) Task Force on Banking and Finance.

Mark Watson is Head of Sustainable Development at John Swire & Sons (HK) Ltd. having previously been Head of Environmental Affairs at Cathay Pacific Airways Limited from 2008. Throughout his career, which includes postings in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, he has provided strategic advice to governments, aid agencies and multinationals on sustainability issues. At Cathay Pacific, Mark led on global initiatives to reduce the airline’s emissions, and authored Cathay Pacific’s Sustainable Development Strategy. He now leads the sustainable development portfolio of both Swire Pacific and John Swire & Sons, which includes aviation, property, marine, beverages, trading and industrial and agribusiness.

Mark is the Senior Vice President - Sustainability for the Sime Darby Group. Sime Darby operates in over 20 countries, and is a leading producer of certified sustainable palm oil, Malaysia’s largest property developer and a global Caterpillar and BMW dealer.

In previous roles with Sime Darby, he led the development of the Group’s annual sustainability reports, established targeted stakeholder engagement programmes on sustainability issues, helped define Sime Darby’s sustainability strategy, and managed the Group’s climate change agenda. Mark also supported the High Carbon Stock (HCS) Study Secretariat.

An Environmental Engineer by profession, he was previously an Associate Director with PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Sustainability and Climate Change practice. Mark has also worked in the mining, forestry and property industries.

Matt Clifford is the Head of Energy and Sustainability team for JLL across North and South Asia, which includes managing a team of specialists across five cities and three countries. He is responsible for overall project quality and delivery across the ESS business. Matt and his team specialise in Green building certification, including LEED (Pan-Asia), BREEAM, Green Mark (Singapore), Green Star, NABERS (Australia) and more. They also focus on energy management across the design and operation of real estate assets, as well as data and compliance management.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Mandarin Chinese specialism) from the Australian National University. He also obtained a Post Graduate Diploma of Management from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and an Advanced Chinese Language Certificate from the Beijing Language and Culture University.

Matt is a also Green Star Accredited Professional.

Mike Kilburn has led AAHK’s work on sustainability and environmental policy since he joined the Authority in September 2012. In this position he has overseen the production of AAHK’s first three sustainability reports is responsible for the development of AAHK’s sustainability strategy. He is also responsible for evolving an environmental strategy that will assist in AAHK’s pledge to make HKIA the world’s greenest airport.

Mr Kilburn is the current Chairman of Airports International Council (ACI) Asia-Pacific Regional Environment Committee and Vice Chair of the ACI World Environment Standing Committee.

Prior to joining AAHK, Kilburn was Head of Environmental Strategy for public policy think tank Civic Exchange from 2008 – 2012, where he managed research on biodiversity and air quality that led to the development of new legislation and policy on these issues.

Kilburn has a degree in Chinese and Management Studies from the University of Durham, UK and a professional background in public relations consultancy.

Moray is a Sustainable Land Use, Climate Change and Supply Chain Specialist with 20 years’ experience in private, public and NGO sectors. With a background in Land Economics and a Masters degree in Environment and Development he has experience from Latin America, Africa and South East Asia.

Moray was centrally involved in the creating and testing of Indonesia’s initial Timber Legality Assurance System, and with WRI worked to define and map ‘low carbon land‘ for sustainable palm oil.

On the senior management team at Olam he works to ensure that the Corporate sustainability strategy is material and relevant to each product business; to ensure that internal policies and codes-of-practice are relevant and properly implemented; to meet specific customer demands for sustainability; and to maximise public goods and knowledge though partnerships.

Navin Amarasuriya represents the fifth-generation leadership at the B.P. de Silva Group. His current role sees him working on RISIS, a Singaporean brand founded in 1976. He oversees in-house manufacturing that includes jewellery, sculpture and corporate gifts that are inspired by motifs of Asia. RISIS is a subsidiary of the B.P. de Silva Group which was established on Singapore in 1872. He has a diploma in Animation from Nanyang Polytechnic (Singapore) and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Manchester (United Kingdom).

Born in Canada and based in Hong Kong since 2001, Nissa believes that education, engagement, and collaboration are the keys to sustainability.

As Cofounder and Editor in Chief of Ecozine, Asia’s premier award-winning guide to sustainable living, Nissa is committed to using popular media to focus the world’s attention on environmental issues and inspire change for the better, and currently manages the production of a quarterly print magazine, thriving digital platform, and world-class events.

She is also the Cofounder and Event Director of the well-loved Hong Kong Cleanup, currently the largest environmental volunteer event in the region, having engaged over 270,000 participants to date, and cleaned up more than 20 million pieces of trash off Hong Kong's coastlines and country park trails.

Nissa's environmental and business achievements have been recognized in the media as well as the Women of Hope Awards, Spirit of Hong Kong Awards and InvestHK’s Canada Success Stories.

Oliver Niedermaier is the Chairman and CEO of TAU Investment Management, a private equity firm created to invest in the transformation of the world’s supply chains. Prior to launching TAU, Oliver served as an Operating Partner at Advent International, a global firm, was on the Global Executive Committee of Computershare and built a technology company earlier in his career. Oliver received a PhD in Strategic Management from University of Munich (LMU) where he still serves as the Advisory Board Chairman of the LMU Entrepreneurship Center. He is also a Board Director of the World Policy Institute. Oliver was appointed a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum in 2010. He splits his time between Hong Kong and New York.

Pablo Largacha is Vice President, Public Affairs & Communications of Coca-Cola Asia Pacific. Before moving to Singapore, he led the Company's Public Affairs & Communications teams in several Latin American markets, where he was responsible for building and maintaining Coca-Cola's reputation as one of the most admired companies and largest private employers in Latin America.

Previously, Mr. Largacha had worked for the Corporate Public Affairs team in the Company's headquarters in Atlanta, where he was responsible for meeting with investors, trade unions, government agencies, shareowners, NGOs and academics to help advance the Company’s global workplace and human rights practices.

Mr. Largacha started his career with the Coca-Cola system in his native Colombia back in 1997, first as Legal and Public Affairs Manager for the Company’s local bottler, and then as Public Affairs & Communications Manager for the Coca-Cola Company. He holds a Law degree from Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia, and an International Masters degree in Business Administration from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company, with more than 500 brands, led by Coca-Cola, one of the world's most valuable and recognizable brands.

Pascale Guiffant is an Agronomy Engineer specialised in Social Water Management, she also holds an Executive Master from Sciences Po Paris.

She joined SUEZ in 2001, working for Johannesburg Water Management where she defined the water and sanitation services development plan for informal settlements. Then she joined and led the program "Water for All" related to “access to water and sanitation services” projects for disadvantaged populations on all SUEZ contracts.

In 2008, she co-created the Societal Engineering Direction where she has developed policies and methodologies related to Stakeholders Dialogue as well as partnerships with civil society. Subsequently she led the International Communications Department of SUEZ : she notably worked on strategic issues of communication and reputation.

She is currently Sustainable Development and Reputation Deputy Director of SUEZ.

Philip serves as a Programme Director at Verité, where he bridges research, training and advocacy with a thematic expertise on labour migration, forced labour and the rights of migrant workers in supply chains. He leads Verité’s advisory work with the United Nations, International Labour Organisation and the Global Forum on Migration and Development. Prior to joining Verité, Philip worked with the ILO and authored several resources on business and social responsibility. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

The IFRC Partnerships Team in Asia Pacific leads on nurturing and developing greater collaboration with decision maker and opinion leaders, the private sector, academics, and civil society organisations with a view to maximising IFRC resource development and influence across the region, in support to Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, in emergency and for longer-term plans. The AP partnership team also ensures quality control on IFRC relationships with, and reporting to, partners and coordinates efforts to enhance IFRC value proposition in promoting high accountability standards. The team also coordinates in Asia Pacific the One Billion Coalition for Resilience.

As global Head of Communication, Mr Kremer has led IFRC efforts to position, and provide visibility to, the Red Cross Red Crescent as partner of choice in humanitarian action at national, regional and global levels. He has also provided guidance and leadership to effectively manage Red Cross Red Crescent’s unique brand, to engage people and partners and to mobilize support.

From May 2011 to January 2012, Mr Kremer also took the position of acting global head of Resource Mobilisation with the overall responsibility to implement the newly adopted Federation-wide Resource Mobilisation Strategy.

Rachel Fleishman leads the regional new business development team for BASF in Asia. Her team draws on the company’s vast technical and market expertise to help BASF customers achieve their innovation and sustainability goals. She also convenes a network of BASF business and innovation professionals to bridge the gap between the laboratory and the market, innovating in Asia for Asia.

Prior to joining BASF Ms. Fleishman held management positions at several government, business and non-profit organizations, including the Climate Change Business Forum, the Clinton Global Initiative, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU, Sprint, and the Pentagon. She holds a BA from Tufts University, an MA from the University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs and an MBA from Kellogg, at Northwestern University. Ms. Fleishman serves on the board of the United Jewish Congregation of Hong Kong and supports several environmental and philanthropic organizations.

Ramagopal Rao is Vice President of Fuji Xerox Global Services, where he leads the development of services business and offers knowledge and document management services to customers.

Ramagopal has a 33-year history with the Xerox/Fuji Xerox company. Prior to his current role, he served as Managing Director of Fuji Xerox Hong Kong. He took on a dual role managing the human resources services for the company, which was accorded the “Best Employers in Asia” award in 2001.

He also spent six years at Xerox Modicorp in India, where he emerged as one of the top direct marketing and sales professional.

Ramagopal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Chemistry from University of Mumbai (formerly known as University of Bombay) in India. In addition, he earned his MBA from the Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM) and an Executive MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Rebecca is Director of Sustainability at MGM and responsible for overseeing MGM's environmental sustainability program, specifically managing projects for: energy and water conservation, waste and recycling, green building, green procurement and employee engagement. At MGM, we believe an environmentally-responsible business is a better business that not only brings clear business opportunities to MGM but also the local community through our employees who are supported to adopt environmentally-responsible behavior at work and at home. Rebecca works across departments from Hotel Operations, Food & Beverage and Facilities Management, to Design and Development, HR and Procurement, in an effort to integrate sustainability considerations into operations. Through MGM’s environmental sustainability program, MGM has reduced energy consumption by 28% since 2008, water consumption by 13% since 2012, and waste sent to the incinerator by 7% in 2015 alone.

As a result of MGM's commitment to energy management, MGM was awarded the ASHRAE Regional Technology Award in 2015, as well as the Macao Energy Saving Contest Award in 2012-2014. MGM has also been award the Gold status in the Macao Green Hotel Award (2014 & 2015) for its commitments to environmental management in the hospitality industry.

Prior to working at MGM, Rebecca was a sustainability management consultant in PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change teams in Sydney and Australia.

Roland Lim is the Hong Kong Bureau Chief for Channel NewsAsia and from his base in Hong Kong, also reports on Southern China and Macau.

With more than 16 years in broadcasting, Roland has extensively covered Hong Kong post-Handover and its integration back to China. These include milestones like the long-term street protest Occupy Central, the 1st July rally of 2003 when half-a-million dissatisfied Hong Kong residents took to the streets, the global financial crisis and its effect on Asia's economies, and the SARS and bird flu health outbreaks.

Some of Roland’s high profile interviews have included Nobel prize winner and former Vice-President of the United States Al Gore, former Hong Kong Chief Executives Tung Chee-Hwa and Donald Tsang, Director General of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo, as well as numerous top business leaders such as Richard Li of PCCW, and Mark Tucker of AIA.

He also presents the Hong Kong market report daily on Asia Business First, Channel NewsAsia’s premier business show, giving a look-ahead on what to expect for the trading day, highlighting the movers and shakers.

Apart from his roles as a journalist, and producer for special current affairs stories, Roland was also previously the editor for one of the channel’s weekly business programme called Corporate Watch, now known as Money Mind.

Roland has an accounting degree, and prior to joining Channel NewsAsia, was a corporate tax accountant at KPMG Peat Marwick.

Ronnie Tham is the Director responsible to lead sustainable sourcing strategy at Walmart's Global Sourcing organization. Based in China, he directs Walmart's strategic corporate initiatives around factory energy efficiency, renewable energy and environmental sustainability in the global supply chain. He spearheads the sustainability programs that support the goals of selling sustainable products and reducing costs in energy and waste. Since joining Walmart in 2009, Ronnie also held leadership roles in strategy, transformation, social and environmental compliance programs.

Prior to Walmart, Ronnie worked as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he helped companies across the region in strategy development, corporate planning, organizational transformation and change management. He graduated with an MBA (with Highest Honors) from Waseda University in Tokyo as a Monbukagakusho Scholar and earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting and finance at University of Warwick, UK.

Rory Hunter is an Australian citizen based in Hong Kong. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Song Saa Resorts, and the developer and operator of the multi-award-winning Song Saa Private Island in Cambodia’s Koh Rong Archipelago (www.songsaa.com). Rory is a pioneer of sustainable development in Southeast Asia and continues to lead the private sector in the preservation of Cambodia’s unique coastal and marine environments. In 2006, he established Cambodia’s first-ever marine protected area, named the Koh Rong Marine Reserve. In 2013, he cofounded the Song Saa Foundation (www.songsaafoundation.org), an independent NGO dedicated to the environmental and social welfare of the Koh Rong Archipelago and beyond.

In 2014, Rory was a guest speaker at the G20 Summit in Brisbane, where he shared Song Saa’s story and his vision of ‘Tourism’s New Frontiers’. In recognition of his professional accomplishments, and his commitment to society and sustainability, Rory was selected by the World Economic Forum in 2015 to join the Forum of Young Global Leaders. Prior to his career as a social entrepreneur, Rory was a successful advertising executive and worked for global firms including Saatchi and Saatchi. He is a Graduate of Harvard Business School and has an economics degree from the University of Sydney.

He is a passionate skier, sailor and multi-sport athlete who in 2015 completed New Zealand’s challenging 243km Coast to Coast race. Rory is married to Song Saa Resorts co-founder Melita Hunter and they have a son Naryth.

Ms. Sara Dai is the Regional President of Asia Pacific for Novozymes. She is also responsible for regional leadership affairs across regions, with a focus of expanding regional strength and innovation, and enhancing Novozymes culture in all regions.

She had over 20-year senior management experience with a number of Fortune 500 companies. Prior to joining Novozymes, Sara worked as an Executive Director of Strategy & Product Management and marketing in Praxair Asia. She also worked as Regional Vice President responsible for Praxair China Strategies and investment, business P&L management and development. Sara also had several years’ experience from General Electric and Cummins Investment leading marketing and strategic investment projects. Sara holds a bachelor degree in polymer materials, and an MBA from Central European International Business School in 2000.

Sarah has been with Flex since 2011. She began her CSR career in 2005 and moved to China six years later to start a career with Flex, a global Fortune 500 company. In her capacity as CSER senior manager for one of Flex’s verticals, she is responsible for compliance and community engagement for the business unit, one of which is a ‘barrier free’ program, an initiative to hire people with disabilities.

Sarah has a Masters degree from Leopold Franzens University (Austria), a CSR Professional Masters from AIT (Bangkok), a Bachelor in International Business from School of Applied Sciences (Austria) and is currently a PhD candidate from St.Gallen University (Switzerland).

Sandy leads Cisco’s social investment strategy and programs for the Asia Pacific and Japan region.

Cisco’s approach to social investment focuses on applying the company’s unique technology expertise, solutions, and people to create strategic, relevant and sustainable programs that support People, Society and Planet.

Over the past 26 years, Sandy has held a variety of roles in the corporate sector including sales, business consulting and general management. Joining Cisco in 2000 enabled Sandy to apply her business experience to create sustainable CSR programs and to develop corporate shared-value (CSV) strategies for the company in the region.

Sandy regularly speaks at regional events and conferences on CSR, CSV and the role of ICT in sustainable development.

Sandy has lived in Australia, Singapore, and currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.

Sean Murphy is an employee of Cisco Systems, Inc. Australia and has a vision impairment. He has a genetic eye condition called Retinitis Pigmentosa. Around sixteen, he lost majority of his sight. He is married with two beautiful daughters and lives in the bushy Northern suburbs of Sydney Australia.

He joined Cisco in July 2008 to work in the Technical Assistance Centre (TAC) as a Customer Support Engineer and his current role is an Accessibility software Engineer. Sean is the APJC/India regional lead of the Cisco Disabilities Awareness Network, a global Employee Resource Organisation. In 2010 Sean won the USA Career Magazine disable employee of the year.

A quote from one of Sean’s many presentations that he has done within cisco, sums his attitude up nicely - “don’t look at me differently, rather look at the similarities between us”.

Shannon Fleming is the Head of Fundraising at ActionAid Australia, based in Sydney. She joined ActionAid in 2014 as a member of the senior leadership team, and her award winning fundraising campaigns have delivered a 254% annual increase in public fundraising revenue. She is excited about the next phase of growing ActionAid through social enterprise projects to increase the impact and reach of ActionAid’s global work in eliminating injustice and poverty.

Prior to joining ActionAid, she worked as a consultant to non-profit organisations around the globe, helping to develop systems, business processes and fundraising strategies that optimised efficiencies and growth in order to increase the impact of their fundraising investment. She also previously worked as the Community Partnership Manager at Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) Australia and in the Community Giving department of one of Canada’s largest financial institutions.

Shannon graduated with a Master of Public Affairs (distinction) from the University of Sydney, where she focused her studies on civil society governance and corporate social responsibility.

Shuo Yan is Grab's first social impact hire, where he works on improving the lives of Grab's partners and making transport accessible for all. He was responsible for launching GrabSchool - life and innovation skills workshops for the children of Grab drivers across the region. He also assists with Grab's partnership with the World Bank, which features an OpenTraffic platform that encourages governments in Southeast Asia to use Grab’s real-time GPS data for traffic planning & management.

Shuo Yan went to Georgetown University before obtaining his MPA from SIPA, Columbia University. He is a long-time grassroots volunteer, serves on both the Georgetown Club of Singapore Board & the Columbia Alumni Entrepreneurship Committee, and is a member of the Thousand Network.

Susan is the Regional Head of the Macquarie Group Foundation for Asia. She is responsible for managing regional charity partnerships; pro bono volunteering; and employee engagement and fundraising across Macquarie’s 14 offices in Asia. She also has oversight of Macquarie’s CSR commitments in India Prior to her current role, Susan worked in Marketing & Communications at PwC, raising awareness and engagement of PwC’s Corporate Responsibility, as well as broader internal communications. Susan’s experience also includes work in the non-profit and government sectors, in Sydney, Canberra, Beijing and Hong Kong. She is a conversational Mandarin and Danish speaker, and holds a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Tatsuya Kanai is Senior Advisor in the Office of Cofinancing Operations at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Mr. Kanai spearheads ADB’s strengthened efforts to collaborate with the private sector in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. He reaches out to potential partners in Asia and the Pacific and the rest of the world to find innovative ways for them to participate in ADB projects through financing, capacity, and technical expertise CSR Asia Summit participants.

Since joining ADB in 2008, Mr. Kanai has also served in the Central and West Asia and the Strategy and Policy Departments. Prior to his career at ADB, Mr. Kanai spent over 20 years in senior management roles across several agencies of the Japanese government, notably the Ministry of Finance and the Financial Services Agency.

Mr. Kanai holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tokyo and a Master of Economics from Cambridge University.

As Research Director for Eco-Business, Tim advises companies that are looking to better understand their markets in the region. He and the team usually focus on areas such as growth strategies, market sizing and customer sentiment. Tim also specialises in developing thought leadership whitepapers on sustainable business issues for clients looking to engage both the Eco-Business community and their wider markets. Tim has worked as a writer, marketer and researcher in Asia since 1992 with organisations such as the EIU and Ipsos. His opinion pieces and articles have been published in The Business Times, the Straits Times and other publications. He is a regular speaker and conference moderator for industry and client events.

Prior to this, Tim saw active service in the Middle East as an officer in the British Army. He has campaign medals for service in Iraq and Cyprus (UN). He has an MBA from Henley Business School.

In his spare time he enjoys racing and cruising his sailboat around Southeast Asia with his family.

Tim Foote is the International Trade-Lane Senior Manager and Head of Go Green at DHL eCommerce Asia Pacific.

In his Go Green role, Tim works closely with other business units’ Go Green chiefs to implement programs that reduce the company’s overall carbon footprint, such as a carbon accounting system for Asia Pacific.

Working closely with Shark Savers, a Wild Aid program, Tim was instrumental in advocating for a corporate-wide policy that, since 2013, has banned the serving of shark fin at DHL corporate functions. In 2015, partnering with the TRAFFIC wildlife trade monitoring network, he organized a training workshop for DHL eCommerce frontline employees to improve their knowledge and skills to detect and stop illegal wildlife smuggling through the DHL channel.

Tim holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Logistics and Transportation from the University of Tennessee. His career with Deutsche Post, parent company of DHL, spans more than a decade. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2008, he held various logistics operations management positions with the company in Atlanta, USA, and Bonn, Germany.

After 14 years in investment banking, Dr Violet Lo decided to devote her time to Inclusive Business & Leadership, Impact Investing and Social Innovation. In 2014, she founded Inclusive Business Lab, a global initiative aiming to bring dignity to the society including the less advantaged by creating opportunities through the global value chains “from seeds to stores”, hence addressing the systemic poverty and rich-poor gap issues.

Violet received her PhD in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1998, where she was a Croucher Foundation Scholar.

From 1998 to 2011, she worked for investment banks in London, New York and Hong Kong, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and Tokyo-Mitsubishi International, specializing in strategic investments, portfolio allocation and capital management for multinational financial institutions in UK, Europe, USA and Pan-Asia (China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia).

Since 2012, she has been advisor for multinational CSR, charitable foundations and was board director of a micro-finance company in China.

Dr. Yannick Kuehl is the Regional Director, East & South Asia, of TRAFFIC, a strategic alliance of WWF and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). TRAFFIC ensures that trade in wild animals and plants is not a threat to the conservation of nature. Dr. Kuehl is based in Hong Kong and directs TRAFFIC's conservation programme in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, India and Nepal. He obtained his BSc at Humboldt University in Berlin, MSc in 2007 and PhD in agricultural economics in 2010 at the University of Hohenheim. His doctoral thesis focused on sustainable resource use on the North China Plain. He was later based in Beijing for three years as a forest and climate change expert for the International Network for Bamboo and Rattan and the German Development Cooperation (GIZ). Dr. Kuehl has been working on sustainability challenges in Asia for nearly 10 years. Since January 2014 Dr Kuehl has been leading the implementation of TRAFFIC programme in research, policy development, communications and capacity-building in East and South Asia.

Yuan leads GRI’s activities in the Greater China Region and advances reporting at the regional level, responds to the needs of local stakeholders, builds capacity and value, and encourages the flow of knowledge and participation from the regions into GRI's global network and activity.

After joining GRI in early 2013, Yuan has managed and supported a variety of GRI’s global and regional projects such as the G4 translation and roll-out in Chinese speaking regions, G4 Monitoring Program, GRI’s linkage documents projects with local reporting guides and requirements, a pilot reporting project among Chinese SMEs (small and medium enterprises), and a research report on the Sustainable Development of Chinese Enterprises Overseas. Yuan manages governmental and corporate relations of GRI in the Greater China Region, as well as partnership with key stakeholders such as GRI’s GOLD Community members, stock exchanges, governmental organizations, industrial associations, and etc. for policy innovation and upgrading.

Yuan holds a BA and MSc in International Relations from Leiden University in the Netherlands.

Jiantao Zhang joined The Coca-Cola Company in 2015. In his current role, he leads the Public Affairs, Communications and Sustainability team to support Coca-Cola’s business agenda in China, Korea and Mongolia.

Jiantao began his career in a central government agency in China, including many years of experience on China’s foreign investment initiatives based in Hong Kong before 1997. He has also served 15 years at the Mars Foods Group, in different areas including marketing, new business development, communications, public policy, legal and operation, eventually becoming the only Board Director from Asia and Vice President of Mars Foods (China) Co. Ltd. Before joining Coca-Cola, Jiantao was President of Amazon China Investment Co. Ltd., responsible for China business strategy & development, policy research and lobby, leading the Kindle and Amazon cloud computing business in China.

Jiantao received his bachelor’s degree from Shanghai International Studies University, and he is an honorable graduate from the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University.