Ms Grace Fu is Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and concurrently Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. Prior to her current appointment, she was the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, and held various positions at the Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of National Development. She is also the President of the Singapore National Olympic Council. Ms Fu began her career with the Overseas Union Bank and was the Chief Executive Officer of PSA Southeast Asia and Japan before joining politics as an elected Member of Parliament.

Ravi Menon is Singapore’s first Ambassador for Climate Action and Senior Adviser to the National Climate Change Secretariat at the Prime Minister’s Office. He is Chairman of the GFANZ Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and Chairman of the Global Finance & Technology Network. Previously, he served for 36 years in the Singapore Public Service, including as Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore from 2011 to 2023. Ravi holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

Mr Chua Kwan Ping is currently the Deputy CEO of the Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre (APSAC), which is a not-for-profit organisation based in Singapore. In his current role, he leads and supervises the Policy & Project team to steer the APSAC’s policy research programme office and its international collaboration and engagement activities around the region. In addition, he also supports the CEO in corporate planning and corporate functions, including communication strategy, partnership development and financial management.

Prior to joining APSAC, Mr Chua was the Senior Director for Air and Sea Transport at the Singapore Ministry of Transport where he was responsible for both the development of aviation and maritime policies to ensure that Singapore continued to be the major air hub and maritime gateway in the region. He was a board director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Maritime & Ports Authority of Singapore. Mr Chua had also held appointment as Director, Finance and Development at the Singapore Ministry of Education where he oversaw the budget of the Education ministry and was responsible for infrastructure projects, including building of new schools.

Mr Chua holds a Bachelor of Arts (Economics), Master of Science (Engineering), and Master of Arts from Stanford University, USA. He also attended the General Management Programme at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Ryan Gilliam is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Fortera, a next-generation cement company transforming how one of the world’s most essential building materials is produced. Under his leadership, Fortera has commercialized its ReCarb® process, which mineralizes captured CO2 to produce ReAct® low-carbon cement while integrating with existing cement manufacturing infrastructure.

A materials scientist and serial entrepreneur, Ryan has spent more than 20 years developing and scaling technologies across advanced materials, chemicals, energy and industrial manufacturing. His work is grounded in the belief that breakthrough technologies achieve meaningful impact when they can compete on performance and economics while scaling within existing industrial systems.

In addition to Fortera, Ryan founded Verdagy, an advanced electrolyzer company for large-scale green hydrogen production, and Chemetry, which developed lower-energy chemical manufacturing technologies.

Ryan holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Toronto. He is an inventor on more than 100 patents, has authored peer-reviewed research with over 3,500 citations, delivered a TED Talk on carbon mineralization, and was named to TIME’s 2024 Climate 100.

Rueban Manokara is the Global Lead of the Carbon Finance and Markets Taskforce, WWF and concurrently Director, Carbon Finance. He oversees the policy development and implementation efforts related to carbon finance within WWF’s network and leads flagship climate programmes run from Singapore. Rueban coordinated the development of Singapore’s carbon market policy and served as a Technical Advisory Body member of the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation, the carbon reduction programme administered by the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organisation and also served in the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore as Singapore’s lead negotiator for Article 6 at the UNFCCC. Rueban continues to play a role in shaping carbon market standards as a member of the Forest Stewardship Council’s Carbon Credit Working Group and the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). Rueban has a Master of Law from the University of Oxford.

Eugene Wong is the Chief Executive Officer of SFIA, an independent institute established to catalyse ideas on Sustainable Finance at the policy level in ASEAN, as well as propel action in support of those policy ideas. SFIA is the Host of the ASEAN Taxonomy Board and Consultant to ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (“ACMF”) and ASEAN Working Committee on Capital Market Development (“WC-CMD”)’s Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group (“JSFWG”) and convenor of their Industry Advisory Panel on Sustainable Finance.

Eugene was previously the Managing Director, Corporate Finance & Investments of the Securities Commission Malaysia (“SC”). He also served as a member of the Audit Oversight Board in Malaysia and was an Adviser to the Malaysian Accounting Standards Board. He oversaw the SC’s ASEAN related initiatives and was a Chair of the Deputies of ACMF and the Co-Chair of its Sustainable Finance Working Group. The ASEAN Green Bond Standards, ASEAN Social Bond Standards and ASEAN Sustainability Bond Standards were issued during his tenure as Chair of the Deputies of the ACMF. In addition, he was a Co-Chair of the WC-CMD.

Eugene represents SFIA as an observer to the International Capital Market Association’s Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles, Sustainability Bond Guidelines and Sustainability-linked Loans Guidelines Group and an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Asia School of Business.

Prior to joining the SC, Eugene held positions in a merchant bank, a stockbroking company and in the corporate finance division of an international accounting firm.

Eugene is a Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, Fellow of CPA Australia and a Chartered Accountant of the Malaysian Institute of Accountants and holds a B. Comm. from the University of Melbourne.

Capt Chatur Wahyu embarked on a sea career in 1987 and served as a Master in 1999. He joined Singapore Maritime Academy as a Lecturer in 2000 and received the Excellence in Teaching Award from Singapore Polytechnic in 2005. He obtained his LLM (Maritime Law) from the University of Southampton, England, in 2007. He served as an Elected Member of the Board of Studies of Singapore Polytechnic from 2012 to 2016. He was accredited as an Associate Mediator for the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC) in 2013 and currently sits in its Panel of Maritime Mediators. He had mediated numerous disputes at the Small Claim Tribunal in the State Courts and Syariah Court on a pro bono basis.

He was appointed as Director of SMA and Deputy Senior Director of Engineering (BEM) in 2023. He is currently serving as a member of the National Maritime Safety at Sea Council (NMSSC) and WSH Council (Marine Industries) Committee. He was conferred the title of Honorary Fellow by the Singapore Nautical Institute (SNI) in Nov 2024. He had served as a speaker and panellist at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan (Nov 2024), and at the IMO HTW11 Meeting in London, UK (Feb 2025), to highlight the academy’s leading role in training on alternative marine fuels.

Kok Kin leads Cora Environment, driving integrated waste management, recycling, Energy-from-Waste, and sustainable solutions in Singapore. With over 30 years of experience, he held leadership roles at SP Group and Sembcorp Industries, spanning projects, operations, maintenance, risk management, governance, and corporate planning.

Kok Kin serves as Chairman, Waste Management and Recycling Association of Singapore, Member, Singapore Polytechnic Board of Governors, and Member, Environment and Resources Standards Committee, Enterprise Singapore.

Kok Kin holds a B.Eng. (Electronic and Electrical) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer and Certified Professional Risk Manager.

Based out of Singapore, Rahul Sheth is a Managing Director and Global head of the Sustainable Bonds team within the bank's Debt Capital Markets platform and has been responsible for leading pioneering and award-winning ESG bond transactions for clients across the bank’s footprint.

With nearly two decades of banking experience spanning Debt Capital Markets and broader financial markets, he has held senior roles across origination, structuring and client advisory. In his current role, he advises SSAs, Corporates and FIs in setting up Sustainable and Transition finance frameworks to enable access to ESG focussed investors. He has also spearheaded the bank's foray into more esoteric ESG structures including guaranteed structures and Outcome Bonds across a variety of thematics including Article 6.2 compliant carbon linked structures. He has led ESG structuring advisory for the sovereigns of Thailand, Turkey, the Philippines, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana and Mauritius amongst others and the SWF of Saudi Arabia.

He maintains an active dialogue with ESG focused funds, regulators and market participants. He is a regular speaker and author on sustainable finance forums and most recently served on ICMA’s Advisory Council.

Prior to joining Standard Chartered in 2010, Rahul worked with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Fixed Income Structured Solutions team in Australia, and prior to that, with Citibank.

Rahul holds a master’s degree in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Business Sustainability Management from the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is a Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.

Kristina Anguelova is a sustainable finance and climate policy leader with experience working across Europe, Asia and Latin America. She is currently the Policy and Partnerships Advisor with The Nature Conservancy, where she engages governments and partners in enabling high-integrity nature-based climate solutions from both the policy and investment angles. Previously, she served as Head of Asia Sustainable Finance at WWF, overseeing verticals on sustainable finance policy, taxonomies and capacity building across commercial banking, asset management and financial regulation stakeholder groups.

Kristina specialises in translating environmental ambition into practical financial implementation, with expertise spanning sustainable finance frameworks, regulatory policy and climate investment. She is also a lecturer in sustainable capital markets and part of an expert consultation group on transition finance with one of Europe’s multilateral banks. Kristina holds an MBA and is a Fellow at the University of Hong Kong’s Asia Global Institute (AGI).

Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012).

Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelors and Masters degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Daniel is Associate Professor of Practice in Carbon Markets at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU). His interests are in climate risk and carbon markets, which he teaches at the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels. He has also published business case studies on carbon markets with the Asian Business Case Centre.

As Centre Director, he leads the Carbon Markets Academy of Singapore (CMAS), a collaboration between NTU, Enterprise Singapore and the Singapore Economic Development Board to develop talent for the carbon services and trading sector in Singapore and the wider region. Beyond its executive programmes, CMAS works to make carbon markets more accessible to a broader audience through its Carbon Insights Series of practitioner talks, and through visual storytelling and interactive formats.

Before joining NTU, Daniel spent close to 18 years in industry across the energy and decarbonisation value chain, in roles spanning commodity trading, acquisitions and divestments, and capital project delivery.

Tommy Ricketts is the CEO and co-founder of BeZero Carbon. BeZero was founded in 2020. Its global team combines expertise within climate and earth science, financial research, data science, and public policy. Prior to founding BeZero Carbon, Tommy was a VP in Global Research at Bank of America and worked as a political strategist in London and Brussels.

Rich Gilmore is one of the world’s leading climate and conservation finance professionals and a trusted voice in global carbon markets. As CEO of Carbon Growth Partners, he has conceived, designed and delivered more than US$400 million in climate and natural capital investments, including over US$220 million deployed into the voluntary carbon market, and led Australia’s three most substantive natural capital transactions.

A blue carbon specialist with 30 years of experience across financial markets, climate change and conservation, Rich works at the frontier of high-integrity carbon finance, from mangrove protection in Southeast Asia and Latin America to structured finance for nature at scale. He is a former Director of the NGO Mangrove Action Project, is trained in Ecological Mangrove Restoration, and previously served as CEO of Earthwatch Institute.

He has led teams to win the Prime Minister’s Australian Environmentalist of the Year Award and the Google Impact Prize, and was twice named in Australia’s Power 100. Rich holds a Master’s in Environmental Management from UNSW and serves as a Director of sustainable agriculture investment firm Tiverton Global.

Ilkay is Arup Türkiye’s Cities, Planning and Design and Property Leader, driving the delivery of sustainable, resilient and future-focused solutions across the built environment. With extensive experience in architecture, urban planning, design management, and multidisciplinary project leadership, Ilkay has successfully delivered large-scale and complex projects across a wide range of sectors.

She is recognised for integrating sustainable design principles into the planning and delivery of projects, creating places that balance environmental responsibility, economic viability, and social value. Throughout her career, she has led multidisciplinary teams in developing innovative and context-responsive solutions that enhance urban environments, strengthen community resilience, and support long-term sustainability goals.

In addition to her extensive experience in Türkiye, she has played a key role in delivering major projects across Central Asia, bringing a strong international perspective to her work. Passionate about shaping better cities and communities, Ilkay advocates for a holistic ‘total design’ approach that combines technical excellence, creativity, and collaboration to create resilient, inclusive, and future-ready places. Through her leadership, she continues to contribute to a more sustainable and socially resilient future for people and communities.

Özgür Altun is Director of Sustainable Finance at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA), where he leads work on sustainable bonds, transition finance and sustainable finance regulation. Since joining ICMA in 2019, he has advised the Green Bond Principles and associated working groups, coordinated responses to major sustainable finance policy initiatives, and co-authored several ICMA publications.

He served as ICMA’s Sherpa to the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance from 2021 to 2023 and regularly represents the association at international conferences, workshops and in the media. He also designs and delivers ICMA training on sustainable bonds and transition finance. Özgür previously worked at EIB, CEB, and law firms in Istanbul and Brussels. He holds an LL.M. in Banking Law and Financial Regulation from the London School of Economics and an LL.B. from Galatasaray University.

Gerard has over 14 years of experience in the energy sector, with a strong track record in project development, business development, and the advancement of large-scale energy, power, and utilities infrastructure projects. Through his professional experience with well-established publicly listed developers, he has gained valuable commercial and strategic perspectives across the energy value chain, combining industry insights with a practical understanding of project development and business execution.

In his current role at Sumitomo Corporation, Gerard leads the company's business development initiatives in alternative marine fuels and LNG midstream and downstream businesses across the Asia-Pacific region. His work focuses on advancing emerging marine fuel solutions, developing strategic partnerships, and identifying opportunities across the energy value chain to support the maritime industry's energy transition. Drawing on his extensive industry experience and commercial acumen, he seeks to bridge new business opportunities with practical implementation, contributing to the development of sustainable energy solutions and the company's long-term growth in the region.

Kok Chung is the Executive Director of the Singapore Environment Council (SEC), an NGO that promotes environmental sustainability via standards setting, consumer action and training and education.

Prior to joining the SEC, Kok Chung was the Deputy Director-General of Environment Protection of Singapore’s National Environment Agency. He was concurrently the Director of the Resource & Sustainability Group, responsible for promoting environmental sustainability. The group’s work included: a) mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, b) sustainable management of wastes and, c) improving energy efficiency. He had also previously served at the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, Ministry of Trade and Industry, Ministry of Defence, the Competition Commission and the Civil Service College.

Farah Naz is a global leader, public speaker, and award-winning climate change strategist with over 20 years of international experience in the built environment, gained in the USA, UK, Southeast Asia, and most recently the UAE.

Farah seeks to restructure the underlying systems that shape behaviours, policies, and outcomes, supporting systemic change that prioritises environmental responsibility, resource efficiency, and long-term ecological balance. In her innovative role, she focuses on the implementation of best practices and the adoption of concepts, procedures, and technologies related to the Energy–Water–Food Nexus, the Five Capitals Model of sustainability, liveability, and inclusive, integrated innovation frameworks that collectively represent the foundation of future cities and communities.

As the Global Climate Advisory Director at SJ Group, Farah leads the firm’s climate advisory offering and driving strategic climate action through low-carbon, resilient, and people-focused solutions for cities, infrastructure, and communities. She is a Chartered Engineer, trained architect, and Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE). She is also a member of the World Green Building Council’s Board of Directors.

Farah has led sustainability strategy for landmark projects including the UK’s first net zero carbon school, the Museum of the Future (UAE), Expo 2020 Sustainability Pavilion (UAE), Louvre Abu Dhabi (UAE), and Bee’ah Headquarters (UAE). She was also Technical Director for COP28, driving carbon-neutral delivery for the UAE COP28 Team and UNFCCC.

She is the author of several books including Net Zero City (UAE/UK)—a multidisciplinary framework for achieving net zero—as well as Mission Zero (UAE), a children’s book promoting climate awareness. Farah is the recipient of the CIBSE Silver Medal (2025, UK), Influential Woman of the Year (2024, UAE), and Green Consultant of the Year (2023, UAE). She continues to advance climate-responsive design and systems thinking across global cities and infrastructure. She is also an academician of the Academy of Urbanism and an affiliate member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Winston Chow is Lee Kong Chian Professor of Urban Climate based at Singapore Management University’s (SMU) College of Integrative Studies (CIS), and also is the research pillar lead for urban systems at SMU's Urban Institute. He was Principal Investigator for the multi-institute Cooling Singapore initiative from 2017-2026, and currently leads inter-disciplinary research on how Singapore’s urban climate risks will change as its climate warms, as well as examining measures to reduce these risks.

He teaches Undergraduate, Masters and Executive Development courses on climate change and urban sustainability at CIS, and also mentors CIS students on sustainability issues. In 2023, he was elected as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and he will help lead the Seventh Assessment Cycle for the IPCC during a critical decade of global climate action.

Prof. Lynn Loo is the Chief Executive Officer at the Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation.

Under her leadership, Lynn has led GCMD to launch several initiatives to close technical and operational gaps in deploying ammonia as a marine fuel, establishing the assurance framework for drop-in green fuels, unlocking the carbon value chain to demonstrate onboard carbon capture and storage systems and the offtake of LCO2, and deploying energy efficiency technologies to improve fuel efficiency of ships. To date, GCMD is working with 140 centre- and project-level partners.

Prior to joining GCMD, Lynn was the Director of the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University.

Lynn is currently Theodora D. ’78 and William H. Walton III ’74 Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering at Princeton University. She is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Physical Society and the Materials Research Society.

Matt Kaczmarek is Managing Director, Head of Emerging Market Credit Strategy for Global Infrastructure Partners, a part of BlackRock, and head of BlackRock's Los Angeles Office. Matt leads the firm's partnerships to advance infrastructure debt investment in emerging market and developing countries, facilitating economic growth and climate change mitigation and adaptation. He works closely with the firm's public and nonprofit development finance partners.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Matt held senior economic policy appointments in the Administration of former U.S. President Barack Obama, including on the National Security Council in the White House and at the Treasury and State Departments. Matt received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and MA from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Angela is the Deputy Chief Executive (Flood Resilience) at PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency, where she leads national efforts to strengthen flood and coastal resilience. She oversees the development of policies, infrastructure programmes and operational strategies to safeguard Singapore against inland flooding and the long-term impacts of sea level rise. She also heads PUB’s Flood Resilience Cluster, which brings together planning, design and operational functions to deliver integrated stormwater management and coastal protection solutions.

With extensive experience spanning engineering, operations, human resources and capability development, Angela has held several key leadership appointments within PUB. She previously served as Director of the Water Supply Network Department, overseeing the planning, operation and maintenance of more than 6,000 km of water infrastructure. She has also served as Director of Human Resources and Director of the Singapore Water Academy at PUB.

Angela graduated as a civil engineer from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University and obtained an MSc in Environmental Engineering in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her contributions have been recognised with national honours, including the Public Administration Silver and Bronze Medals, as well as the May Day Medal of Commendation Award.

Ryan Yuen is the Managing Director of PUB Consultants (PUBC), the international business arm of PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency. He also serves concurrently as the Managing Director of Singapore International Water Week (SIWW), one of the largest international water shows in the world focusing on urban water, flood and coastal innovation and solutions, and as Deputy Director of the Industry and Technology Collaboration Department at PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency.

As a trained Civil Engineer, Ryan has held various portfolios during his career. He started his career in the Singapore public service, before heading up the position of Asia-Pacific Regional Director and Global Events Director for the International Water Association. Prior to his current position, Ryan also served as a Director in the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and a solid waste management company in Singapore.

Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Institute for Environment and Sustainability at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore.

He received his PhD in Environmental Policy from Duke University. His research focuses on the design and evaluation of climate and environmental policies, with particular interests in demand-side climate mitigation, energy transition, carbon markets, water governance, and natural resource management.

By combining environmental economics with rigorous empirical methods, he studies how individuals, firms, and governments respond to environmental risks and policy incentives, with the aim of developing evidence-based solutions for sustainable development. His research has been published in leading journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Climate Change, Nature Communications, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Development Economics.

His work has informed international policy discussions through organizations including the World Bank, FAO, and the Asian Development Bank Institute, and has been featured in international media such as the BBC, SCMP, Fortune magazine, Lianhe Zaobao and The Straits Times.

Hwang Yu-Ning Chief (Urban Innovation & Excellence) and Executive Director, Centre for Liveable Cities, Ministry of National Development

Yu-Ning is Singapore's first Chief (Urban Innovation & Excellence) at the Ministry of National Development (MND). She also serves as Executive Director of the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC) and oversees MND's International Relations & Cooperation Division and Municipal Services Office.

Over her career in public service, she has helped shape Singapore's approach to urban planning, sustainability and liveability. As CEO of the National Parks Board, she advanced the nation's City in Nature vision by championing science and technology, strengthening marine conservation, and introducing the Parks for Health Framework to promote well-being through access to nature. Previously, as Deputy CEO and Chief Planner at the Urban Redevelopment Authority, she led Singapore's 2021 Long-Term Plan Review, pioneering a more consultative, scenario-based approach to long-term planning centred on sustainability and resilience.

Beyond government, Yu-Ning served as a Global Governing Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and was the inaugural Chair of the Singapore Institute of Certified Planners' Accreditation Panel. She holds a degree in architecture from the National University of Singapore and a master’s in urban planning and public policy from Harvard University.

Pernille Dahlgaard is an international business executive with 25+ years of leadership experience in multinational companies. She has focused on transformation and innovation in the maritime industry in global corporations as well as by providing support to emerging companies as strategic advisor – always with an eye to preparing the industry for the future.

Pernille has worked all her life in a truly international setting and has lived in 6 countries across the globe. She has served on the Board of Directors of established companies, start-ups and social corporations as well as a mentor for INSEAD students and alumni. Further, she is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at INSEAD.

Currently, Pernille Dahlgaard is the Chief Impact Officer at the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping. In this role, she plays a pivotal part in driving the global transition towards sustainable shipping by leading efforts that improve decision-making and innovation through strategic planning, data analysis, regulation and bridge building between governments and the private sector.

Marc is a Managing Director and Senior Partner in BCG Southeast Asia. He leads BCG’s Industrials work across Social, Climate and Sustainability topics in the region. His work looks at how long-term sustainability imperative and the energy transition is transforming physical and financial markets, societies and the economies of Southeast Asia overall, working with the corporate, public and philanthropic sector.

Jukka Siukosaari acts as Senior Vice President, Public Affairs & Geopolitics at Neste, the world’s leading producer of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel. Siukosaari is an experienced Finnish diplomat and corporate executive. In addition to serving in various positions in the Ministry for Foreign affairs and the Office of the President of the Republic, his ambassadorial postings included Copenhagen, London, Tokyo and Buenos Aires.

Leon Zheng is currently an Assistant Director at the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). He oversees the policy and promotion of alternative marine fuels which includes development of technical standards for LNG and ammonia bunkering.

He also acts as the MPA representative on the technical committee for cryogenic and gaseous fuel for Singapore.

Ms. Abigail Ng is Chief Sustainability Officer, where she oversees sustainability strategies and steers developmental and regulatory initiatives across MAS. Her work focuses on developing a vibrant sustainable and transition finance ecosystem, while driving collaborations with regional and international counterparts.

Prior to this appointment, Ms. Ng served as Executive Director and Head of the Markets Policy & Consumer Department, where she led the formulation of policies in the capital markets to promote fair, orderly, and transparent markets; achieve equitable outcomes for investors; and shape corporate governance standards. She also headed departments responsible for supervising market infrastructure including exchanges and central counterparties, and oversaw the regulation of securities offerings and takeover and merger transactions.

Ms. Ng represented MAS at various international fora, including the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) where MAS chairs the Working Group on promoting corporate sustainability disclosures. She was deeply involved in the work at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) dedicated to improving sustainability-related disclosures by securities issuers, and on the Fintech Taskforce examining policy issues related to digital assets and tokenisation.

Before joining the MAS, Ms. Ng was with the Singapore Legal Service in the State Courts and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, and is admitted as Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Celeste Koh is Country Manager, Singapore, at Sustainable Living Lab (SL2), a Singapore-headquartered sustainability and innovation group. She leads SL2's Singapore office and works alongside the team behind Repair Kopitiam, the community repair movement SL2 initiated in 2014. She believes communities are drivers of change, not passengers, and that zero waste lasts when people own it and policy, industry and community pull in the same direction.

A sustainability practitioner for 3 decades, Esther has been instrumental in building up the Sustainability leadership for CDL, which has been ranked Top amongst real estate companies on the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World, released at World Economic Forum at Davos.

Esther published the first sustainability report in Singapore in 2008 and issued the first green bond by a Singapore company in 2017. Conferred the 2018 SDG Pioneer for Green Infrastructure and A Low Carbon Economy by the UN Global Compact, and named amongst 25 Trailblazing Women against Climate Change by Reuters in 2023 as well as the inaugural TIME100 Climate Leaders in Business 2023 list, Esther sits on the boards or advisory platforms of international organizations including:
- World Green Building Council Corporate Advisory Board
- UN PRI Real Estate Advisory Committee
- UN ESCAP Sustainable Business Network Executive Council
- Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, TNFD Taskforce Member
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Supervisory Board
- IFRS Corporate Reporting Best Practice Group APAC – Chair
- Urban Land Institute (ULI) Randall Lewis Center Advisory Board for Sustainability in Real Estate
- ULI Asia Pacific Executive Committee
- ULI Asia Pacific Net Zero Council
- Asia Pacific Real Estate Assets Association (APREA) Board of Directors and Chair of ESG Committee
- GRESB Foundation Board
- MITSolve Climate Advisors
- Nanyang Business School Advisory Board (since 2025)

In 2017, she founded Women4Green and Youth4Climate networks to empower women and youths to champion climate action and sustainable development.

Frederick is the CEO of GenZero. He oversees the strategic direction of the company to achieve both climate impact and sustainable long-term financial returns.

Prior to his appointment at GenZero, Frederick held various leadership positions in Sustainability, Portfolio Management and Business Continuity Management in his 12 years at Temasek International. As Managing Director of Sustainable Solutions, he established the team and conceived capability programmes in clean energy, urban, and climate and nature solutions. He led key initiatives such as the establishment of Climate Impact X, a global marketplace and exchange for carbon credits, as well as Singapore’s first brownfield distributed district cooling retrofit project in partnership with SP Group.

Frederick serves in multiple sustainability advisory roles, including on the SEforALL Governance Board, the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance, and the IETA Council. He is also a member of the World Cities Summit Knowledge Council, convened by Singapore’s Centre for Liveable Cities, which advances knowledge exchange on liveable and sustainable urban development.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom is a leading global landscape architect and the founder of LANDPROCESS and the Porous City Network. She pioneers climate-resilient, nature-based solutions in Southeast Asia, with transformative projects including Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm at Thammasat University, Chao Phraya Sky Park, and the regenerative design of Thailand’s Government Complex.

A Harvard graduate, TED Fellow, and Yale World Fellow, she is the first landscape architect to receive the UN Global Climate Action Award. Her work has been recognized on the TIME100 Next, BBC 100 Women, and Bloomberg Green 30 lists. In addition to serving as a member of the World Economic Forum's Commission on Nature-Positive Cities, she holds an honorary doctorate from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and an appointment as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large—one of Cornell University’s highest academic honors. Her work seamlessly integrates ecological survival with social equity in rapidly changing urban landscapes.

Tadashi Sawamura leads the Carbon Management Department at Mitsubishi Corporation. With extensive experience in the mineral resources and energy sector, he is committed to supporting customers in their decarbonization efforts. The Carbon Management Department, under his leadership, focuses on offering high-quality carbon credit to customers.

More broadly, Mitsubishi Corporation provides a range of decarbonization solutions, including renewable energy, low-carbon fuels, and carbon credits, tailored to customers’ evolving needs. Through these efforts, he contributes to practical and market-based approaches that help customers advance their sustainability goals.

Flora Ji is Head of Asia and Head of Asset Management at Rubicon Carbon, a portfolio company of TPG Rise Climate Fund. She leads Rubicon’s expansion across Asia and oversees global asset management, building and stewarding a portfolio of high-integrity carbon projects to meet growing customer demand and scale trusted climate solutions.

Flora brings two decades of international experience across energy, carbon markets, and sustainability. Before joining Rubicon, she built an international career at Shell spanning dealmaking, government negotiations, asset management, and low-carbon business development. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Nature-Based Solutions, where she built and led Shell’s global NBS portfolio across multiple continents.

She has deep expertise in carbon markets, ecosystem conservation and restoration, and the structuring of cross-sector partnerships to scale climate solutions. Her work focuses on developing and delivering high-integrity projects in collaboration with governments, financial institutions, corporates, and local partners, generating climate, nature, and community benefits.

Flora is a strong advocate for integrating sustainability into core business strategy and building commercially viable carbon solutions that bridge finance, policy, and on-the-ground execution.

Flora holds an MBA from IMD in Switzerland and currently serves as an Investment Committee member of Convergence.

Hatairat Vangphumyai is an Assistant Director in the Bond Department. Her responsibilities include developing policies and measures to promote sustainable finance within the capital market, covering areas such as ESG bonds, taxonomy, and transition finance. Actively engaged in both local and regional initiatives, she contributes to efforts such as the ASEAN Taxonomy and the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF), helping to align regional strategies and advance the growth of sustainable finance across ASEAN.

Alvin holds concurrent roles at Temasek as Director, Sustainability (Ecosperity) and Director, Macro Strategy at Temasek. He leads Ecosperity, Temasek’s flagship sustainability thought leadership and advocacy platform in the former role and co-leads Europe and UK macro coverage in the latter.

Alvin focuses on macro and thematic investing across asset classes. Given Europe’s lead in climate focus, his role has evolved to incorporate climate change. In addition to conceptualizing and executing the firm’s first investment in a green transition-themed equity basket, Alvin co-leads climate scenarios coverage. He has also represented the firm at events including UN PRI in Person as a panelist on climate scenarios.

Prior to the Macro Strategy team, Alvin held corporate finance roles at Temasek and KPMG. He possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy (First Class Honours) from Nanyang Technological University under the KPMG scholarship, is a CFA charterholder, and is currently reading a Masters in Sustainability Leadership at University of Cambridge.

Chris is the Head of Carbon Markets Development at Standard Chartered, building the Bank's environmental trading and financing business and growing its profile as a global leader in sustainable finance. This involves advising clients and governments, supporting trade bodies, originating carbon related transactions and building trading infrastructure.

He supported SCB's Group CEO, Bill Winters, in his role as Chair of the Taskforce for Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM) and is now a board member of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Markets (IC-VCM). He is also a board member of Carbonplace, a global carbon credit settlement platform, and a member of the Climate Impact X (CIX) Advisory Forum.

Chris is involved in a number of initiatives to grow the carbon market including the UK Carbon Market Forum, the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA), Singapore’s Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) and the ASEAN Common Carbon Framework (ACCF). He also is the Bank’s representative on the Coalition to Grow Carbon Market’s Business Advisory Group as well as on the Advisory Panel of ABAC’s VCM Pathfinder Initiative.

Mr. Allen Ang is a dedicated sustainability leader with over 20 years of experience in green building applications and strategic project management. He plays a key role in advancing City Developments Limited (CDL)’s sustainability strategy and driving its transition towards net zero across a diversified global portfolio.

As the 9th President of the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), Mr. Ang contributes to advancing Singapore’s green building ecosystem by fostering collaboration among developers, solution providers and policymakers. In this capacity, he supports industry-wide efforts to accelerate sustainable transformation and strengthen capabilities in low-carbon development.

Mr. Ang brings a practitioner’s perspective to sustainability leadership, combining corporate strategy, project execution and industry engagement to advance practical and scalable climate solutions.

Isabella is a distinguished Board Director and senior professional with over 40 years of diverse experience across industries such as sustainability, environment, engineering, oil and gas, marine, aviation, IT, biotech, logistics, manufacturing, insurance, and finance, spanning 87 countries. She is a Board Director of Singapore Business Advisors and Consultants Council (SBACC), Chairman of the PMC Certification Board, and holds leadership roles at One Twenty Six Pte Ltd, Eunoia Junior College, and the Advisory Board Centre (Australia).

Formerly, she served as CEO and VP for Shell Marine Products, President and CEO of SembCorp Environmental Management, and held key positions at the Singapore Economic Development Board. Isabella has sat on numerous global boards, including AIG Asia Pacific, Aurecon Australia, and Coats PLC UK, and served on the Singapore National Environment Agency Board for six years. She is a Certified Chair, Senior Accredited Board Director, and the Founding Chairman of WMRAS, with extensive expertise in environment management and business.

Benedikt Signer is Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of the Southeast Asia Disaster Risk Insurance Facility (SEADRIF) Insurance Company. Mr. Signer has worked with over 30 countries on climate and disaster risk finance.

He spent over a decade at the World Bank, including the Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Program, where he coordinated risk finance initiatives across Southeast Asia and co-led the design, establishment, and implementation of the Global Risk Financing Facility.

For over 30 years, Roman Kramarchuk has been leading efforts to analyze the impacts of policy changes and technology advancements on the evolution of the energy sector. With S&P Global and before that with PIRA Energy, Roman launched and developed analytics offerings providing outlooks around global/regional carbon pricing and environmental markets & policies. He had led and contributes to long term scenario outlooks, with special focus on clean energy technologies (i.e. hydrogen, biofuels, electric vehicles/alternative transport, renewables, stationary storage) and the displacement of fossil fuels. Roman is currently focused on developing and ensuring integrated narratives across the clean energy, scenarios and carbon offerings.

Prior to joining PIRA, Roman was at the U.S. EPA, developing key power plant and industrial emissions regulations at the Clean Air Markets Division. With PG&E and before that at PA Consulting / PHB Hagler Bailly, he modeled and evaluated strategies regarding power sector fuel choice and capital investments. Roman also worked on international projects to develop power markets and regulatory capacity in Ukraine, Armenia and India. At the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Roman analyzed trends in industrial production. He has an M.P.P. from the Harvard Kennedy School and a B.A. in economics and B.S.E. in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

Conor Madigan is the co-founder and CEO of Aether Fuels, a climate tech company developing flexible, economical, and highly scalable solutions for producing drop-in sustainable aviation fuel and sustainable marine fuel, leveraging Aether’s breakthrough Aurora technology. He incubated Aether in 2022 together with Xora Innovation, a deep tech venture fund backed by Temasek. Conor previously founded and ran Kateeva, one of the world’s leading suppliers of OLED manufacturing equipment, which helps make the screens on most smartphones. He has a B.S.E. degree from Princeton, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees from MIT, all in Electrical Engineering.

Florian Goppel is Co-CEO of myclimate, the Swiss climate protection foundation that has been developing and financing climate projects worldwide since 2002. Today, myclimate runs more than 200 climate protection projects in 48 countries, combining carbon market expertise with corporate climate consulting and education. Florian joined myclimate in 2021 as Head of Department Carbon Markets after several executive positions in the IT and telecommunications industry.

In 2023 he became Co-CEO, sharing the leadership role with his colleague Pascal Wieser (since November 2025). He is a board member of the Zurich Carbon Market Association and advisor to the EU's Horizon programme. At COP, he oversees myclimate's new climate-market partnerships across Southeast Asia, including a new venture taking shape in Singapore.

Denis Ang, PhD, MPA, MBA, is Deputy Director (Sustainability) at Singapore’s Ministry of Transport (MOT), where he contributes to advancing Singapore’s sustainable transport agenda. His work sits at the intersection of transport policy, climate action and strategic planning, with a focus on translating sustainability ambitions into practical outcomes.

Previously with Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, Denis helped strengthen the public sector’s capacity to deliver climate action. His work included coordinating cross-agency decarbonisation roadmaps, establishing a Centre of Excellence for Climate Change and Sustainability Training, and developing frameworks and programmes to build sustainability capabilities across government.

Drawing on his experience in sustainability policy, organisational transformation and cross-agency collaboration, Denis brings a whole-of-government perspective to the challenge of delivering sustainable mobility. He is particularly interested in how integrated transport planning, public engagement and effective policy implementation can encourage more sustainable travel choices, strengthen public transport and active mobility, and contribute to a lower-carbon, more liveable city.

Marie joined IATA in 2022 as Chief Economist. In January 2023 Marie added the responsibility for IATA’s Environment and Sustainability activities to her Chief Economist role, and joined the Management Committee as Senior Vice President.

Marie joined IATA from Lombard Odier where she was Head of Global Trends and Sustainability. Her 30-year professional life includes roles for both investment banks and private banks, including HSBC in London, Merrill Lynch in Paris, and Indosuez in Geneva. Outside of the financial sector Marie worked for IKEA, and she also founded and managed her own company in the equine industry.

Marie holds an MBA from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and a PhD in International Economics from the Graduate Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. She speaks Swedish, English, and French fluently.

Ms. Rapheal Erasmus, Managing Director, leads Strategy and Capital Formation at Pentagreen Capital and brings more than 20 years of experience at Citi across investment banking, infrastructure finance and sustainable finance. Prior to joining Pentagreen, Rapheal was Asia-Pacific Head of Citi’s Sustainability and Corporate Transitions team, advising corporates and sovereigns on transition strategies and sustainable finance solutions. Previously, Rapheal was Managing Director in Citi’s EMEA Project and Infrastructure Finance team in London, where she led innovative and market-leading financings, with a particular focus on renewable energy and the energy transition.

Across her career at Citi, Rapheal advised on M&A, debt financing, structuring and distribution across multiple asset classes, jurisdictions and products, spanning infrastructure, energy, structured finance and real estate in both public and private markets. Rapheal holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.

Concepción Boo Arias is a seasoned public relations specialist and award-winning communication expert with over 20 years of experience in crafting global strategies, crisis management, and reputation enhancement. She currently serves as Head of Global Partnerships & Enablement at Maersk's Public & Regulatory Affairs team. She leads a team of 6 people and is responsible for identifying, developing, and managing strategic alliances that drive business growth, enhance brand presence, and create long-term value, including Strategic Relationship Management; Business Development & Growth; Cross-functional Leadership; ESG Engagement and Market Intelligence & Trends.

Her analytical prowess spans ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) criteria, finance, politics, and technology. Concepción excels in organizing and leading global and local meetings on time-sensitive global issues, including maritime transport, logistics, climate change, decarbonization, and the global supply chain.

Amy led UNFCCC support for the development of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement from 2011–2021, including negotiations and drafting of the implementing rules adopted at COP26. She was also senior lawyer for the Kyoto carbon mechanisms and compliance committees. Previously a leading carbon and climate finance lawyer in London, Amy has over 20 years’ experience and is a qualified UK lawyer.

Amy leads Marsh’s global Energy and Power sector. In addition to her responsibilities in Energy & Power, Amy also leads Marsh’s Climate & Sustainability strategy. With extensive experience supporting some of the largest and most complex organisations in managing risks, Amy possesses a deep understanding of diverse risk management approaches. This expertise allows her to offer valuable insights and multiple perspectives in insurance and risk management discussions.

Experience: Amy began her career as an environmental consultant, advising regulatory agencies on environmental issues. She later joined Marsh as an environmental insurance broker, gaining valuable client-side experience during a secondment with a major publicly listed company to better understand risk and insurance from a client perspective. In 2008, Amy joined the Energy & Power business and served as its Chief Client Officer. Over her nearly 25 years with Marsh, she has worked with integrated oil companies, national oil companies, and independent operators. Her broad and deep experience in helping complex clients manage risks enables her to provide nuanced, strategic advice across a wide range of risk management scenarios.

Dawn is the CEO of CIIP (Capital Innovation for Impact) and Managing Director of Investments at Temasek Trust Capital. Dawn leads CIIP, a non-profit industry insights and action unit of Temasek Trust, and manages the investment portfolio for Temasek Trust Capital.

As an experienced investor, she draws on over 20 years of investment experience in private equity, venture and fund-of-fund investments across Asia, the US and Europe. Prior to joining Temasek Trust, she helmed the Consumer unit at Temasek International, where she spent 19 years. Dawn started her investment career at Vertex Holdings, a venture capital fund in Singapore. She was previously at Singapore’s National Science & Technology Board.

Dr Muto joined Mizuho Financial Group in April 2025 to spearhead the sustainability
integration and business development of the Financial Group. Her professional career
includes the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF), Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

At JICA she was Vice President of Development Finance, Partnership, and Mobilization. In this role, she led JICA’s work on blended finance in partnership with other development finance institutions, multilateral development banks, and private financiers. She also represented Japan as Vice-Chair of the OECD Development Assistance Committee’s Working Party on Development Finance Statistics.

Eric Usher heads the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative, UNEP FI, a global partnership between the UN and the finance sector bringing together over 550 banks, insurers and investors from around the world to shape sustainable finance. Eric oversees governance, strategy and day-to-day management of UNEP FI’s work programme and global network development. Over the years UNEP FI has established some of the most important sustainability-oriented frameworks within the finance industry, including the Principles for Responsible Banking (PRB) and Principles for Sustainable Insurance (PSI).

Since joining UNEP FI in 2015, Eric has focused on accelerating the deep integration of sustainability issues into financial practice. These include addressing risks and impact associated with climate change, biodiversity loss and social issues, as well as building out the frameworks that support the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Eric sits on several industry bodies including as UN representative on the Board of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), and as a member of the governing boards of the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA), the IFRS Sustainability Consultative Committee and the impact fund REPP.

Eric has over twenty years of experience in the low carbon sectors, spanning technology commercialization in Canada, solar rural electrification in Morocco and financial sector development across emerging markets. During 2011, Eric worked on the establishment of the Green Climate Fund and led efforts to create its Private Sector Facility. Eric has been an editor of the Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment report published annually with Bloomberg and was lead author for finance of the IPCC Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources.

Clarence Woo is Managing Director of the Global Centre for Green Fuels (GCGF), a Singapore-based think tank that advises policymakers, regulators and organisations on green fuel policies and solutions. He leads GCGF’s work helping governments and industries develop cost-effective, feasible green fuel strategies.

Under his leadership, GCGF championed ethanol as a marine fuel alongside methanol. GCGF was the first organisation to propose and support an IBIA submission to the IMO (MEPC 83) for a marine ethanol fuel standard. Clarence now represents Singapore on the ISO working group for maritime ethanol standards (ISO 6583). GCGF convenes the Maritime Ethanol & Methanol Alliance (MEMA), an industry platform accelerating safe adoption of ethanol and methanol in shipping.

With over 30 years in oil, gas and petrochemicals, Clarence has advised governments across Asia, the Middle East and Africa on clean energy policy and fuel standards. For over two decades, he was Executive Director of the Asian Clean Fuels Association (ACFA), becoming a leading regional voice on cleaner fuels. Earlier, he managed sales at Ethyl Corporation and Mobil Oil.

Clarence sits on the Advisory Boards of the Asian Downstream Summit, the Sustainable Aviation Futures (SAF) Congress series, and many other green fuels conferences. He has spoken and moderated at over 50 international conferences.

Shilpa has more than 22 years of experience in Corporate and Investment Banking, with more than a decade of involvement in ESG Strategy, Sustainable Financing & Advisory.

Shilpa has extensive experience in advising clients on ESG which includes corporate profiling for investors, labelled financing across both debt capital markets and lending. She has also led the role of ESG strategy advisory to corporates preparing their IPO journey.

In her current role at DBS, Shilpa represents Sustainable Finance, the business side of Sustainability to the Board.

Shilpa is the SG Asia Taxonomy Co-Lead under the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA) and has been a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Advisory Group – a global initiative which brings together leaders from Government and private sector on carbon pricing policies.

Shilpa is one of the main DBS representatives of  ICMA's Climate Transition Finance and Impact Reporting for Social Bonds working groups, where DBS actively participates as a member and observer of the Principles.

Prior to joining DBS, Shilpa led Corporate Development & Sustainability for Asia Pacific at BNP Paribas, providing comprehensive ESG advisory and banking solutions. She has a proven track record of deepening client relationships and building strong franchises.

Shilpa has worked in India as well as Hong Kong within both corporate and Investment Banking space prior to moving to Singapore in 2015.

Shilpa first started her banking career in 2002 with Citigroup in India.

Heng Dean is the Executive Director of the ARC Coalition, which seeks to aggregate corporate demand for high-integrity carbon credits and channel financing towards the projects that generate them.

Heng Dean was previously a Managing Director with climate change investment and advisory firm Pollination, where he set up the Singapore office covering its business in South East Asia.

Prior to Pollination, Heng Dean spent 11 years with investment firm Temasek, where he worked on stakeholder engagement as well as climate issues, including helping to set up GenZero, an investment platform wholly-owned by Temasek that focuses on carbon markets and decarbonization.

Heng Dean also previously held several advisory roles, including with Singapore nature tech company Arkadiah, PT Triputra Agro Persada, and Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara, which is the Indonesian affiliate of The Nature Conservancy.

Heng Dean started his career with the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was a First Secretary at the Singapore Embassy in Jakarta. He is an alumnus of the London School of Economics and INSEAD.

Mark Fletcher is Head of Zurich Resilience Solutions (ZRS) for Asia Pacific, based in Singapore, where he leads Zurich’s resilience and risk advisory activities across the region.

With nearly two decades of experience in insurance and financial services, Mark brings together expertise in resilience, commercial insurance and financial management. Having held senior regional and global roles across the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Hong Kong and Singapore, his experience provides him with a broad perspective on how risk translates into financial, operational and strategic considerations for organisations.

In his current role, Mark leads Zurich’s resilience and risk advisory activities across Asia Pacific, encompassing climate resilience, risk engineering, and other emerging risks. His experience across financial, commercial, and resilience roles provides him with a broad perspective on the relationship between climate risk, business decision-making, and investment. His work includes advancing the use of climate risk insights and forward-looking data to help organisations better understand their exposures and identify practical measures to strengthen resilience.

Mark is a qualified ACCA professional and holds a BA (Hons) in Business (Accounting and Finance) from Nottingham Business School.

Assyl is the Head of the Sustainability Office for the Global Wholesale Banking division at OCBC, where she plays a pivotal role in driving the bank’s net zero and sustainability strategy for both corporate and institutional clients across all markets globally. Her team leads the coordination of OCBC’s net zero commitment, develops practical and credible sustainable banking solutions, and engages clients on managing transition and diverse ESG risks.

She joined OCBC from Standard Chartered Bank where she was with the Transition Finance team. Previously, she was part of the Energy Analysis team at BHP where she delivered on upstream costs analysis, oil and gas markets analysis, and energy transition analysis across the energy and mining value chains.

Prior to BHP, she worked at Temasek (Singapore) in the Financial Institution Group (FIG) Investment team and JPMorgan (London, Hong Kong, Singapore) in Financial Institution Group (FIG) advisory and Mergers & Acquisitions team.
Assyl holds a BA in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford and an Executive MBA from INSEAD.

Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund. Her work is focused on using inclusive processes and economic approaches to achieve ambitious climate solutions that deliver equitable benefits to people around the world. Angela joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked on climate change, energy and development issues.

She also served as the EU lead negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access. Prior to that, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy.

Michael Wen is Executive Vice President and head of corporate finance products. His main responsibilities in products include loan syndication, leveraged finance, ESG/sustainable linked finance, and project finance & advisory. Besides, he also supervises financial sponsors coverage team which serves renowned private equity funds.

Prior to rejoining Cathay United Bank, Michael was the GM of Natixis, Taipei, a boutique French investment bank. Michael has more than 30 years’ experience in capital markets related businesses with HSBC, Citibank, Industrial Bank of Taiwan/IBT Securities and China Securities (renamed as KGI Securities) in Taiwan.

Michael holds a PhD degree from WISE, Xiamen University, a MBA degree from Peter F Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University and an EMBA degree from National Taiwan University.

Toh Wee is a Senior Consultant at Maritime Advisory, SEAPI, leading ESG, sustainability, and financial projects. As an ESG/Corporate and Environmental Sustainability Consultant, he excels in market research, strategic advisory, and project management, focusing on newbuilding engineering and shipyard management. He has developed Sustainable Maritime Financing for financial institutions and issued Second Party Opinions for sustainability-linked financing.

Toh Wee has contributed to creating an end-to-end emissions calculator for supply chains, enhancing transparency and accountability. His background includes nine years in engineering design for offshore support and drilling units, two years in anchorage repair, ship recycling, and industrial gas production, and R&D in alternative fuels for the maritime sector. He has also served as a structural and project engineer for various offshore structures, including Jack-up, Semi-submersible, Drillship, and Offshore wind farms.

Oi-Yee Choo is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Climate Impact X (CIX), a global environmental markets exchange headquartered in Singapore. She is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of CIX, as well as developing and executing the company’s vision and mission to accelerate environmental impact at scale.

Oi-Yee is a seasoned, visionary leader with a background spanning 25 years in financial markets. She brings a wealth of experience in building and leading high-performing businesses across sectors, with a proven track record in fintech, innovation and capital markets.

Oi-Yee was most recently CEO of ADDX, a blockchain-based private capital markets exchange in Singapore licensed and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Under her leadership since 2020, ADDX strengthened its partnerships with global blue-chip companies and grew its platform to surpass US$1 billion in tokenised securities, one of the largest worldwide.

Prior to ADDX, Oi-Yee spent over 20 years in investment banking, leading major capital markets transactions for clients across Asia, Europe and the US. She has held leadership roles at Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Nomura and UBS.

As Director (Policy) of the Maritime Decarbonisation Division at the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), Hanqiang leads Singapore's strategies and policies to decarbonise the maritime sector in line with the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) net-zero target. His work spans exploring alternative fuel pathways, mobilising partners, and deploying policy levers to drive meaningful change.

Hanqiang also serves as Vice-Chair of the IMO's Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC), a position he has held since his unanimous election in 2023. A seasoned negotiator, he has chaired numerous IMO meetings on environmental protection and the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from ships. He has played pivotal roles in key IMO milestones, including the adoption of short-term GHG reduction measures, the landmark 2023 IMO Strategy on Reduction of GHG Emissions from Ships, and ongoing negotiations on mid-term measures.

Over more than a decade with MPA, Hanqiang has held diverse roles spanning international relations, port development, and port regulations. These include leading policy work on international organisations and oceans governance, as well as serving as First Secretary (Maritime) at the High Commission of the Republic of Singapore to the United Kingdom, where he represented Singapore at IMO-related meetings as Singapore's Liaison Officer to the IMO.

Hanqiang holds a Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics, with minors in Political Science and Mathematics, from Washington University in St. Louis. He also holds two Master's degrees — a Master's in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago, and a Master's in Climate Change, Management and Finance (with Distinction) from Imperial College Business School.

Dr Aniq Ahsan is the co-founder and CEO of MOYA Analytics. He also serves as the modelling lead and technical advisor for the Global Mitigation Potential Atlas (GMPA). Aniq leads teams developing models and decision-support tools for long-term decarbonisation and energy systems planning. He works with the UN, ASEAN, as well as various companies and governments, including Singapore, to assess decarbonisation options, understand trade-offs, and translate complex data into practical decisions about energy transitions and climate mitigation.

An A*STAR scholar, Aniq graduated top of his undergraduate class in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford, where he went on to earn his PhD in transboundary energy systems modelling. His research experience spans more than a decade, covering materials science, transport modelling, and energy systems simulation and optimisation.

Aniq focuses on helping companies and countries trust the data behind their decisions, turning confusion and anxiety about decarbonisation into clarity about their options and confidence to act.

Dr. Christopher Marks has worked in the financial markets and financial sector advisory, across the public and private sector, for more than 25 years. He is Managing Director, Head of Growth Markets, Global Blended Finance and ECA EMEA at MUFG Bank.

Prior to MUFG, Christopher served as Senior Advisor at the African Development Bank, resident in Abidjan and reporting to the Group Chief Risk Officer and the Acting VP for Infrastructure, Private Sector and Regional Integration / Director of Financial Sector Development. He was responsible for the origination, structuring and execution of synthetic structured finance and capital markets transactions for the AfDB’s balance sheet and African sovereign and quasi-sovereign clients. He also consulted as Expert - Capital Markets/Sovereign Debt Management for the IMF.

Dr. Marks was previously Global Head of Debt Capital Markets at BNP Paribas in London and a member of BNP Paribas’ Global Fixed Income Business Committee, having spent 15 years at the bank. In this role he managed a team of 120 professionals based in 13 countries on 5 continents, responsible for all capital markets origination and execution, including associated structuring, across all sovereign, public sector, corporate, high yield, special situations loan-bond and financial institution client segments worldwide.

Munib is the Chief Executive Officer of FAST-P Asia Pte Ltd, overseeing the strategic direction and execution of Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (FAST-P), a blended finance initiative launched by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. FAST-P brings together international public, private and philanthropic partners to support Asia’s decarbonisation and climate resilience.

Munib has 30 years of Investment Management experience. Prior to leading FAST-P, he founded Singapore’s first B Corp-certified fund management firm, and had spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, where he served as CIO of Asia Equity and co-Portfolio Manager for a global mandate with US$14 billion under his watch.

Munib is a CFA Charterholder with a Master of Science in Environmental Management from the National University of Singapore. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance (First Class Honours) from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for advancing Temasek’s sustainability strategy to build a climate resilient, net zero portfolio and to enable nature positive and inclusive growth. She works with Temasek's investment teams to shape the portfolio, integrate sustainability into investment decisions, and engage portfolio companies to deliver long term sustainable returns. She also partners with teams across Temasek and the ecosystem to catalyze sustainable solutions, advance thought leadership, and support institutional sustainability initiatives.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, the majority of which was dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs and advancing innovative finance solutions to address climate change. She was the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation and a member of the Sustainable Finance Steering Group.

She joined Goldman Sachs in Mergers & Acquisitions and worked in Investment Banking in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was at McKinsey in South Korea and South Africa.

Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea.

She serves on the board of ClimateWorks Foundation and is a non-executive board director of Clifford Capital Holdings. She is a Fellow of the 2023 class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Chikako serves as Board Director as well as Executive Committee Member of SUMITOMO MITSUI TRUST GROUP (SMTG). She oversees corporate sustainability and commitment to carbon neutrality by SMTG. She is also responsible for integrating sustainability business across SMTG. She has 20 years experience in international development finance and sustainability at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, being involved in the development of the World Bank’s first green bond and climate products. Before joining SMTB, Chikako led advisory services on sustainability at one of the Big Four companies.

Qiu Yi works on building new areas of economic opportunity for Singapore from the changing ways the world produces, consumes and manages resources. Across Carbon Services, Green Growth and Agrifood, she works with companies and partners to turn these shifts into new businesses and capabilities that can be anchored and grown from Singapore.

Over nearly two decades with EDB, Qiu Yi has worked across industry development, investment promotion and industry manpower development, with a recurring focus on identifying what Singapore should build next and bringing together the companies and capabilities to make it happen. Prior to her current role, she managed strategic relationships with global pharmaceutical companies and worked on the development of Singapore’s biopharmaceutical manufacturing sector. She has also led EDB teams covering Semiconductors and Lifestyle industries, and developed national programmes to build workforce and leadership capabilities for Singapore’s industries.

From 2011 to 2014, Qiu Yi was based in Chengdu, where she established EDB’s first office in Western China and led investment promotion efforts in the region.

Dohn Alfred E. Aquilizan is Assistant Director for International Affairs at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of the Philippines, where he heads the Secretariat for the 2026 ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF). He also leads the SEC’s Sustainable Finance Team and helps shape the Commission’s strategic direction in sustainable finance.

In that role, he represents the SEC in several regional initiatives. He is Alternate Board Representative to the ASEAN Taxonomy Board. With the Monetary Authority of Singapore, he co-chairs the Mitigation Co-Benefit and Adaptation for Resilience (mARs) Guide Task Force. He also represents the SEC on the ACMF Sustainable Finance Working Group.

At home, he led the development of the Philippine Green Equity Guidelines, the first of their kind in Southeast Asia. He also contributed to the Philippine Sustainable Finance Taxonomy Guidelines and to the Philippines’ adoption of the ASEAN labelled bond standards.

He holds degrees in Political Science and Law and is a practicing lawyer in the Philippines.

As Coordinator of the ACT Initiative at ADEME, the French Agency for Ecological Transition, Simon Allain oversees the strategic development and implementation of ACT at the global level. He leads collaborations with international partners, guides methodological developments, and ensures the alignment of ACT with global frameworks for corporate climate action.

Kavitha Menon joined SSFA in October 2023 as its Director. As the head of SSFA, she is responsible for ensuring that the association achieves its mission of building a vibrant and inclusive ecosystem for sustainable finance in Singapore. Apart from the day-to-day running of the association, Kavitha’s role involves stakeholder engagement, membership recruitment, thought leadership, and enabling collaborations across the financial sector, non-financial sector, and government organisations to advance sustainable finance in Singapore. Prior to her current role, Kavitha was the Global Head of Equity Research team at Foord Asset Management in Singapore where she headed their ESG integration process. She has over 15 years of experience in equity investment management, specialising in Global Financials, based out of Singapore and India. Kavitha has a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was a John F. Kennedy Fellow and Edward S. Mason Fellow. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and has a Master’s in Business Administration (Finance) from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (India) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) from Anna University (India). Kavitha is passionate about sustainable finance. Having analysed investments using a risk-return framework for all these years, she is keen to delve into ‘impact’ to marry investor returns with social and environmental good and drive that change in the financial markets.

Sevgi Aytaş serves as Head of the Department of Environmental Competence Services at Türkiye’s Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. She has extensive experience at the Ministry, having worked for many years in hazardous waste management.

Her public sector background in environmentally sound waste management and environmental competence provides a valuable foundation for contributing to COP31 discussions on resource efficiency, the circular economy and sustainable production.

Akira Kurita is Director for Sustainable Finance in International Affairs at Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA), where he leads strategic initiatives connecting finance, sustainability, and geopolitics. He played a leading role in the launch of the Asia GX Consortium in October 2024, a regional platform established in partnership with ASEAN financial authorities and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), working closely with financial institutions in Asia and GFANZ to accelerate transition finance across the region.

Mr. Kurita brings extensive experience in international development and financial diplomacy. As Policy Advisor to the Deputy Minister for Planning and Finance in Myanmar (2016–2019), he contributed to building the country’s capital market infrastructure. He also served as a diplomat at the Embassy of Japan in Egypt (2014–2016), advancing Japan’s financial cooperation in the Middle East.

Domestically, Mr. Kurita has held several key roles in shaping Japan’s financial regulatory framework. He contributed to the development of the Economic Security Promotion Act for the financial sector, and led reforms in corporate disclosure, credit rating agency regulation, and the promotion of open banking. He also participated in the TEPCO investigation at the Cabinet Secretariat following the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Mr. Kurita is a qualified lawyer in Japan and holds a degree from London Business School.

Kosintr (Pok) Puongsophol is a Principal Economist at the Economic Research and Development Impact Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), specializing in sustainable finance and capital market development across ASEAN+3.

He leads ADB’s Green, Social, Sustainable, and Other Labeled (GSS+) Finance Initiative, a strategic platform under the ASEAN+3 Asian Bond Markets Initiative and the ASEAN Catalytic Green Finance Facility. His work focuses on catalyzing innovative sustainable finance transactions, strengthening sustainable finance ecosystems through sustainability disclosure frameworks and taxonomy implementation, and advising governments on policy and regulatory reforms to deepen and scale sustainable finance markets across the region. To date, he has supported more than 20 issuers in mobilizing over US$15 billion in local currency sustainable finance transactions across ASEAN+3.

Prior to joining ADB, he spent nearly a decade at Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission, where he was responsible for corporate finance and international relations and represented the SEC in regional and international capital market discussions, including the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum.

As Managing Director for Sustainability, Franziska leads the development and implementation of Temasek’s overarching sustainability strategy and frameworks to advance net zero, nature positive and inclusive growth. She also spearheads external engagements with international institutions, global investor alliances as well as think tanks and business networks.

Since joining the firm in 2015, Franziska has played a pioneering role in defining an ambitious climate change agenda, establishing and implementing the firmwide ESG programme, forming an external sustainability advisory group as well as an engagement platform for portfolio companies on sustainability.

Before joining Temasek, Franziska held senior positions in publicly listed multinational companies across Europe and Asia in the agriculture, healthcare, consumer and industrials industries.

Franziska holds a Master’s degree in Law. She serves as a member of various industry bodies and academic institutions focused on climate, sustainable and transition finance. These include the ESG Committee of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID); the Executive Committee of the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA); the Management Advisory Board of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at the National University of Singapore (NUS); the Expert Panel on ESG and Sustainable Investing at Singapore’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI); and as a Fellow of the Transition Investment Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Céline Bilolo oversees TÜV SÜD's global sustainability services and drives ongoing enhancements to the company's environmental and social impact. Her unique perspective allows her to bridge different environmental challenges and solutions, ensuring that we positively impact communities around the world.

With a background in sustainability consulting and impact investing, she brings deep expertise in building sustainability organisations and managing international projects. Prior to joining TÜV SÜD, she oversaw investments in social enterprises across sub-Saharan Africa for a pharmaceutical company's impact fund.

Dr. Bilolo holds a finance degree from Augsburg University, an MBA from the University of Dayton, and earned her doctorate with honors from the University of St. Gallen and Oxford's Saïd Business School, focusing on legitimacy, public value, and capital allocation.

Wey-Len oversees EDB’s strategy for the Green Economy, which includes developing the energy & chemicals, agrifood, renewables and sustainability services sectors. Additionally, he leads the planning of land and energy resources needed for industries to grow in Singapore.

Wey-Len is also responsible for EDB’s investment promotion strategy for Asia, the Middle East and Africa, engaging global enterprises looking to expand their diversified business interests from Singapore.

Since joining EDB in 2003, he has held a variety of leadership roles, including Senior Vice President and Head of the Energy & Resources and the Environmental Sustainability divisions.

He was previously based in the USA from 2007 to 2011 and 2013 to 2015 where he led the investment promotion efforts of EDB’s San Francisco & Houston centres.

Jackie Jiang is Head of Blended Finance at Clifford Capital Asset Management and Portfolio Manager for the Energy Transition Acceleration Finance (ETAF). She leads blended finance strategies to mobilize commercial capital for sustainable infrastructure debt investments in emerging markets, partnering with public sector institutions, catalytic investors, development finance institutions (DFIs) and multilateral development banks (MDBs).

Prior to joining Clifford Capital, Jackie spent 14 years with the World Bank Group, including IFC and the World Bank, focusing on infrastructure investment and financing, public-private partnerships (PPPs), and climate finance across Asia, the Middle East and other emerging markets. Earlier in her career, she worked at Daiwa Capital Markets and Ernst & Young. Jackie holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree from the City University of Hong Kong and is a CFA charterholder.

Seb Henbest is Group Head of Climate Transition at HSBC, supporting the development, evolution and integration of the bank’s climate strategy and working with its most emissions-intensive clients to accelerate their transition to a net-zero future. He joined the bank in 2022.

Prior to this he spent 14 years at BloombergNEF, most recently as Chief Economist. In that role he oversaw the firm's energy economics group and energy transition scenario analysis and was lead author of BNEF's flagship publication, the New Energy Outlook. Before that he was Director of BNEF's Europe, Middle East and Africa division and Head of Research for BNEF in Australia, establishing the firm's Sydney offices in 2009.

Seb is a senior spokesperson on the energy transition, speaks regularly at industry conferences and events, and is quoted widely in print media.

He has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC TV, Sky News, BBC, Bloomberg TV and ABC Radio.

In 2012, he gave evidence to House of Representatives Economics Committee in Australia on the pricing dynamics of linking Australia's Carbon Price Mechanism with the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

He is a 2015 Rex J Lipman Fellow and was previously an advisor to the GCC region Clean Energy Business Council.

Seb studied physics and theoretical astrophysics at Adelaide University and atmospheric science at Monash University in Australia, before moving to the UK where he read International Relations at Clare Hall, Cambridge, specializing in emissions trading and environmental markets.

Jill Warren is Director of Advocacy and Engagement at SLOCAT, a multi-stakeholder partnership of more than 100 organisations that brings the transport sector together to speak with one voice. Prior to joining SLOCAT she was CEO of the European Cyclists’ Federation from 2020-2025. Notable achievements include co-founding the Partnership for Active Travel and Health (PATH), leading numerous international multi-stakeholder advocacy campaigns; and receiving the Leadership in Cycling Promotion Award from the Cycling Embassy of Denmark in recognition of her advocacy work that led to the historic European Declaration on Cycling in 2024.

Graeme leads Climate & Sustainability across Asia Pacific within Marsh Risk as well as Marsh’s Global COE on Climate. Globally, the team of climate experts helps our clients understand the risks and transformation imperative that managing climate change will have on their business, their assets, and value chains. He also leads the regional node of our global climate strategy team which involves supporting new product development, insurance market engagement, and contribution to thought leadership and policy position papers.

Graeme joined Marsh Risk from Marsh McLennan Advantage where he managed research into climate resilience and emerging risks in collaboration with high-level organisations including the WEF and OECD. Prior to this he held a range of academic and consulting positions including on climate risk and resilience with the World Bank.

Nathaniel Keohane is President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), a widely respected, nonpartisan non-profit organization that works with policy makers and leading businesses to accelerate the transition to a thriving, just, and resilient net-zero-emissions economy.

Dr. Keohane is a globally recognized expert on climate policy, carbon markets, and the economics of climate change. He has more than 20 years of energy and environmental policy experience in academia, government, and the non-profit sector, including at Environmental Defense Fund, where he held a range of roles including Chief Economist and most recently Senior Vice President for Climate; in the White House, as Special Assistant to President Obama for Energy and Environment in the National Economic Council (2011-2012); and, earlier in his career, as Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management. Dr. Keohane serves on the Harvard Board of Overseers; the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute, Emergent, and Climate Catalyst; the Bank of America National Community Advisory Council; and advisory boards of KKR, New Systems Ventures, and the NYU Institute for Policy Integrity. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and a B.A. from Yale.

Jamey Mulligan is Head of Carbon Neutralization at Amazon. His team is responsible for Amazon’s quality standards, strategy, and procurement for carbon removal and other high-quality carbon credits as part of The Climate Pledge. He previously worked at the World Resources Institute and US Office of Management & Budget.

Scobie has over 20 years of experience across voluntary carbon markets, international trade, cross-border commodity transactions, and structured finance. Previously Global Head of Origination, Structuring and Sales for Macquarie Group's Global Carbon Business, Scobie authored the business plan for, and led the establishment of, Macquarie's structured voluntary carbon business.

He has served on the Taskforce on Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Market, the Sustainable Markets Initiative Working Group on Carbon Markets, and the Environmental Defense Fund & High-Tide Foundation Steering Committee on Mobilising Voluntary Carbon Markets. Scobie holds a Bachelor of Science (Biological Sciences), a Bachelor of Laws (Honours), and a Master of Laws (International Law), all from the Australian National University, as well as an Executive MBA from Oxford University. He is a qualified lawyer in England and Australia.

Valerie Hickey is Director for Environment at the World Bank Group, leading global work on nature, natural resource management, pollution, and the circular economy. Previously, she served as Global Director for Climate Change following a decade managing climate and environment portfolios in Latin America, Europe, and Central Asia.

Valerie joined the World Bank in 2003, working initially on environment and rural development in East Asia and the Pacific. She has worked across regions, including fragile states, and led analytical and technical work on biodiversity, blue economy, and wildlife crime. She holds a Ph.D. from Duke University.

Claire is a Vice President in the Investment Group at GenZero, where she plays a key role in shaping portfolio construction and investment strategy. Working closely with the Head of Investments, Claire drives the firm’s efforts to achieve its dual objectives: delivering positive climate impact alongside long-term sustainable financial returns. Before joining GenZero, Claire spent ten years at Temasek International, where she gained extensive experience in both direct investment and fund investment.

During the first four years of her tenure, she specialised in the Global Transportation and Logistics sector, where she contributed to the development of investment strategies and the execution of investments in both publicly traded and privately held logistics companies. In subsequent years, Claire focused on investments in Southeast Asia, leading origination efforts, transaction execution, and portfolio management for direct investments across a broad range of sectors, including Consumer Internet, Healthcare, Education, and Logistics. Claire graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a Bachelor of Accountancy and a Bachelor of Business.

Constance Chalchat is the Chief Sustainability Officer of BNP Paribas Global Markets and is a member of the BNP Paribas Global Markets Board. Over the last 10 years, her mission has been to shape and support the development of BNP Paribas CIB sustainable offer, which led the Group to become one of the world’s leaders in Sustainable Financing. Her work now bridges institutional investor strategy, sustainable, transition and adaptation finance, with particular expertise in blue bonds, innovative structuring, and AI for Sustainable Finance.

A PADI divemaster and ocean conservation advocate (@ilovesealife), Constance is the author of “Hidden Wonders of Paros” published in 2024 in Greece. She is also a member of ORRAA Blue Bond Accelerator Advisory Board, to which she brings a rare dual perspective: the systems-level rigor of capital markets and the groundtruth urgency of someone who has witnessed firsthand what is at stake beneath the surface.

Ali Mohamed is the Special Envoy for Climate Change in Kenya’s Executive Office of the President. He has held senior government roles, including Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Mineral Resources and Special Programmes, and Director of UN and Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He previously chaired the Africa Group of Negotiators under the UNFCCC and currently co-chairs the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force and the Coalition to Enhance Demand in High-Integrity Carbon Markets.

Rachel Kyte is the UK Special Representative for Climate, Professor of Practice in Climate Policy at the University of Oxford and Co-Chair of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Her previous leadership roles include World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All and UN Special Representative.

She is also Dean Emerita of the Fletcher School at Tufts University. Her work focuses on climate policy, sustainable development and mobilising finance for climate action.

Peter Bakker is a distinguished business leader who since 2012 has led the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) as the President & CEO. WBCSD is the premier global, CEO-led community of over 220 of the world’s leading sustainable businesses working collectively to accelerate the system transformations needed for a net zero, nature-positive, and equitable future. Prior to WBCSD, Peter was the CEO of TNT NV, the global transport, postal and logistics company.

TIME Magazine recently named Peter as one of the Top 100 Climate Leaders in Business. He was also a recipient of the Clinton Global Citizen Award (2009), the Sustainability Leadership Award (2010), the Prix Voltaire International (2023) and the David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award (2026). He received the royal order Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau in 2018 in recognition of his long-lasting commitment to engaging business in tackling global sustainability issues.

Peter holds several corporate sustainability advisory board positions, including as a Board Member of GenZero, Advisory Board Member for Integrity and Sustainability at Mercedes-Benz Group, Supervisory Board Member for the Capitals Coalition and High-Level Advisory Board Member for the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UN FSS+4).

Mr Calvin Chong is the Divisional Director for Energy & Climate Policy at the Ministry of Sustainability & the Environment. He oversees policy formulation, regulatory design, research and industry development for energy transition, climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and nuclear safety issues. He is the Singapore Government representative for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and represents Singapore’s interests in climate change, particularly on environmental integrity and regulations at domestic and international fora.

Calvin’s career in public service spans more than 15 years, covering policy, strategy, and international roles. He was previously Director for Strategic Resource Management at the Ministry of Home Affairs. He has also served in the Ministries of Digital Development and Information, Education, Trade & Industry, and the National Security Coordination Secretariat at the Prime Minister’s Office.

Calvin holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York, a Master of Philosophy in Modern Society and Global Transformations from the University of Cambridge, and an Edward S. Mason Program Mid-Career Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School.

Patricia Zurita is Conservation International’s Executive Director and Chief External Affairs Officer, steering the organization — through public- and private-sector partnerships, fieldwork and scientific research — toward its mission of securing the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Zurita first joined Conservation International in 2003, working for seven years on projects related to policy and economics in the Andes region and leading the organization’s Conservation Stewards program. She returned to Conservation International in 2023 to serve in this new strategic leadership position.

During her hiatus from Conservation International, Zurita was director of the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (a joint program with Conservation International, the World Bank, the French Development Agency, the European Union and the government of Japan). She then served as chief executive officer for BirdLife International, helming the organization for eight years and becoming the first woman from a developing country to lead an international conservation NGO.

Zurita earned her master’s degree in environmental management and natural resource economics from Duke University and her bachelor’s degree in environmental science from Universidad San Francisco de Quito.

A native Ecuadorian, Zurita is now based with her husband and twin daughters in Conservation International’s Arlington office.

Eu-Lin leads the Sustainability & Climate Change practice across PwC Singapore and set up the PwC Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainability Excellence. She is a member of the global sustainability leadership team at PwC and drives the themes of sustainability risk, reporting and finance in Asia Pacific. Prior to assuming the Sustainability & Climate Change practice head role at PwC Singapore in 2016, she was a financial services specialist partner.

Eu-Lin graduated with a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University and is an alumna of Harvard Business School. As a practicing Singapore Chartered Accountant, she believes that accountants can play an important role in fighting climate change and advancing sustainability in business and in the community.

She contributes to boards and committees where she serves or chairs the audit, risk committee and sustainability committees. She serves on boards including the National Environment Agency, National Institute of Early Childhood Education and the United Nations Global Compact Singapore. She is the Co-Chairman of the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment SG Eco Fund and serves on the Monetary Authority of Singapore Corporate Governance Advisory Committee.

She served as the Chairman of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants Sustainability Committee which supports in capacity building, technical review of sustainability reporting standards and engaging the accounting community on emerging sustainability issues. She also served on the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA)-Singapore Exchange (SGX) RegCo Sustainability Reporting Advisory Committee and is currently serving on the ACRA Interim Sustainability Reporting Standards Committee.

Joel is Director (Planning) at the National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) under the Strategy Group in the Prime Minister’s Office. He oversees the strategic planning and climate change science and technology teams with NCCS. In his current capacity, he supports the Singapore government in coordinating our overall climate strategy, organising adaptation and resilience efforts to address climate risks, and in uncovering new technological options to address climate change. He has also previously held various positions in the Singapore Economic Development Board, including being EDB’s Regional Director based in the US in charge of investment promotion for the East Coast, and driving Strategic Planning efforts within EDB.

Yiran joined the National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) in the Prime Minister’s Office in March 2024. She is in charge of developing and coordinating Singapore’s overall climate mitigation and transition policies to achieve net zero emissions. Prior to joining NCCS, Yiran spent around three years at the Ministry of Trade and Industry. She started as the Deputy Director of the Strategic Planning unit, and worked closely with teams across the ministry to chart out the direction for Singapore’s economic development. She subsequently took on the position as Special Assistant to the Minister for Trade and Industry, and the role of Head, New Energies Office, to drive Singapore’s efforts in developing low-carbon energy sources such as hydrogen, solar energy, and nuclear energy.

Yiran has also held appointments in the Ministry of Transport, where she supported the transition of Singapore’s public bus system from a privatised model to a contracting model, and the Ministry of Education, where she worked on policy and administrative matters relating to Singapore’s public universities. Yiran graduated from Northwestern University, with a double major in Economics and Political Science. She also holds Master’s degrees from Sciences Po and Fudan University.

Mr Benedict Chia is Director-General (Climate Change) from the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. He is responsible for driving Singapore’s climate change efforts and policies across key inter-agency workstreams, while bringing on board technical expertise and providing strategic advice.

Prior to that, Benedict has served in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as well as the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.

Bronwen is an international expert on walking and walkable communities, giving walking a voice on the international stage and within local communities, cities, and professional arenas. She has extensive experience in strategic transport planning, community and political engagement, on-street analysis and policy and project delivery with a focus on equitable and sustainable transport.

As CEO of Walk21 she works closely with international agencies to address global challenges and ensure walking is part of the solutions for climate change, road safety and public health, the Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda. She leads on the annual international Conference series and strategic development of knowledge products, practical tools, and professional development opportunities.

She particularly likes to work in creative partnerships to inspire politicians and practitioners about the value of walking and to build momentum for investment by national governments and multi-lateral agencies.

Stuart Rowland founded Revalue to create scientifically rigorous nature-based carbon credits that reduce, remove and durably store carbon. Revalue has the highest-rated credit approach in the market today, a portfolio of projects across more than five countries, and has assessed more than 300 projects across the globe.

Stuart has spent more than a decade on how to scale nature-based ventures across the tropics, and on designing what the future carbon market should look like. He was a Director at SYSTEMIQ, building its South East Asia office, including as Regional Director for a £120m incubator focused on financing nature ventures. He is a systems thinker, with expertise in delivering complex portfolios and programmes at scale.

Formerly a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company in London, he worked across Europe and North America. Stuart was also an entrepreneur in the UK's Entrepreneur First accelerator, holds a degree in physics from the University of Oxford, is a lifelong tech nerd, lives in Indonesia, and tries to spend as much time in nature as possible.

Melissa Moi is the Head of Sustainable Business in the Corporate Sustainability Office at UOB. In her role, she supports the delivery of a sustainable business strategy across UOB’s footprint and business units including the management and mitigation of ESG risk, development of sustainable business strategies, and supporting the bank’s collaborations within the larger sustainability ecosystem.

Prior to joining UOB, Melissa spent a decade at Bank of America where she led the firm’s ESG efforts in Asia Pacific. Her role included client facing advisory on sustainability, driving a sustainable finance strategy in the region as well as the implementation of corporate ESG initiatives across risk, social investment and environmental footprint.

Melissa has also spent a decade in the NGO sector in the education and healthcare sectors in Canada and Asia in both program implementation and organizational leadership roles.

Melissa is a member of the Board of Directors of the Children’s Medical Foundation, a charity focused on improving healthcare for newborn babies in rural China. She holds a Master’s Degree in Human Systems Intervention from Concordia University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa.

Sandeep Roy Choudhury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Value Network Ventures (VNV), a leading project developer mobilizing carbon finance for community-rooted climate adaptation at scale — reaching 7+ million households and restoring 1+ million hectares across 15+ countries. A trusted partner to governments, Fortune 500 companies, and climate investors, he brings 20+ years in climate finance and carbon markets.

Beyond VNV, Sandeep has co-founded the Carbon Initiative Forum and Mangroves.Now, and leads Sustainext, Spring Health Water, Renergii, and Bôndy Africa. He also serves on several boards and advisory bodies, including IETA, BBF, POD, EPC, and the UN Global Compact's CEGET.

Jamie is the World Bank Group’s Director for Climate. He leads the Group’s climate strategy, innovation and delivery to support public and private sector clients in achieving their smart development goals. Jamie’s group-wide climate department works with operational teams across all regions and sectors of operation in IBRD/IDA, IFC and MIGA.

Jamie joined IFC in 2005 and has led and contributed to a range of innovation and new business growth across IFC’s investment, advisory, and support operations. Prior roles at IFC include Global Director for Climate Business, Director of Strategic Business Development, Director of Environmental and Social Risk and Policy and Chief Investment Officer for Renewable Energy.

Jamie has a BA and MA in Zoology from Cambridge University, UK, and both a Master’s in Environmental Economics & Policy and an MBA from Yale University, USA.

Praveen is a Partner & Singapore Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader at Ernst & Young LLP providing sustainability advisory and assurance services.
He has worked with corporates, governmental agencies and multilateral development banks on areas such as climate change and net zero strategy, carbon tax assessments, sustainability advisory, green finance and the ISSB Disclosure framework.
Praveen is a member of the Working Group on GHG and Product Life Cycle and Sustainable Finance Work Group at Enterprise Singapore. He is an appointed member of the Expert Board for Appeals under the Carbon Pricing Act at Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment. He is also a qualified lead verifier and independent reviewer for the Singapore Carbon Tax Assurance program of the National Environment Agency.
In 2018, he received the Enterprise Singapore Merit Award for his significant contributions to the Singapore Standardisation Programme in the field of climate change. He holds an MBA from NUS Business School and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.

Mallé has more than 22 years of professional experience in the development and private sector in resource mobilization, project development and implementation. Since joining GGGI in 2018, he has held several senior leadership roles, including Regional Director for Africa and subsequently Regional Director for Asia, where he oversaw the expansion and delivery of our country programs across two of our highly dynamic regions through their Green Growth Transition from policy to investment by working with the governments, private sector, financial windows, MDBs, and impact investors. Prior to joining the GGGI, Mallé worked for Management Consulting firms as the Managing Director focusing on development issues in Africa, Europe and USA defining, leading, and implementing a range of economic and social development initiatives throughout the continent. He has participated in 100+ projects across over 30 countries' various key sectors, working with the largest donors as well as the private sector. In this role, one of Mallé‘s key achievements was to orchestrate a development partner’s approach that raised a combined USD 8.5B for partner countries. In 2023, Mallé was recognized as Outstanding Leadership for Economic Development Organization of the Year, CEO TODAY MAGAZINE. Mallé holds an MSc in Management, an MBA in International Development, and a Doctorate in Environmental Organization and Methods Applied.

Dato’ Ir. Ts. Razib Dawood is the Executive Director of the ASEAN Centre for Energy (ACE), where he provides strategic leadership in advancing regional energy cooperation and supporting ASEAN Member States in implementing the ASEAN Plan of Action for Energy Cooperation (APAEC) towards a secure, sustainable, and inclusive energy future for the region.


He brings over 30 years of extensive experience in the energy sector, spanning national power utilities, independent power producers, renewable energy consultancies, and regulatory institutions in Malaysia and Australia. His professional background encompasses a wide range of technical and leadership roles, including construction engineer, project manager, systems planning engineer, power system study specialist, technical advisor, and regulator.


Dato’ Razib began his career at Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and later gained significant experience in the private sector and international energy consultancy. He has held several senior leadership positions at the Energy Commission (Suruhanjaya Tenaga) of Malaysia, including leading Electricity Market Operations and serving as Chief Operating Officer, Acting Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Executive Officer. He also previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Malaysia Nuclear Power Corporation under the Prime Minister’s Department.

Janice Cheong is Head of Policy at the Global Wind Energy Council and serves as a Policy Advisor to the Global Offshore Wind Alliance.

She leads GWEC’s global policy advocacy and government engagement, driving work across key cross-cutting priorities including industry development and supply chains, investment frameworks, and market design. Working closely with regional and country teams worldwide, Janice advances coordinated policy action to secure stable, investable, and scalable frameworks for the wind industry.

Janice has private sector experience across the technology industry, political risk consulting and security and intelligence operations. She holds a Bachelor’s degree (Hons) in International Relations from King’s College London and a Master of Science in Security Studies from University College London.

Joan Ko is Arup’s Global Climate and Sustainability Services Leader and a recognised expert in decarbonising cities and infrastructure. With over 20 years’ experience as an environmental engineer, Joan leads multidisciplinary teams that integrate design, economics, and environmental considerations to deliver practical pathways to net zero. Her work spans national policy, organisational strategy, and infrastructure investment, with a focus on translating global climate goals into local action.

Joan has directed major decarbonisation initiatives, including Australia’s lowest-cost pathways to net zero housing, precinct-scale carbon-neutral masterplans, and decarbonisation strategies for energy and transport assets. She has advised governments and industry on the circular economy and carbon governance, and authored policy papers for industry associations across transport, finance, and development.

Joan also contributes to the broader sustainability agenda as Deputy Chair of the Victoria State Government’s Sustainability Fund, which invests in climate resilience and circular economy projects. Her participation at COP31 reflects her leadership in shaping climate-aligned infrastructure and her commitment to accelerating decarbonisation globally.

Atty. Felix William “Wimpy” B. Fuentebella is an Undersecretary of the Philippine Department of Energy, with experience in energy policy, planning, investment promotion and public affairs. He chairs the ASEAN Senior Officials Meeting on Energy under the Philippines’ 2026 chairship of ASEAN. A lawyer and former member of the House of Representatives, he previously served in senior positions in housing and urban development.

He holds a Business Administration degree from the University of the Philippines and completed his law degree at San Sebastian College–Recoletos.

From leading an IT start-up to an international career with Siemens AG and Siemens Energy, Dr. Latifa Yakhloufi-Konstroffer brings an entrepreneurial perspective to finance.

Having worked across countries and industries, she combines broad finance expertise with experience in strategy, business transformation and people leadership.

Morten Dyrholm is a Global Senior Vice President at Vestas Wind Systems with extensive experience from the wind industry and a leading expert in sustainable energy policy and regulations. For the last 20 years, he has played a growing role at Vestas – originally in China and then globally – in government and public affairs and business development, helping Vestas expand into new markets and supporting the development of effective wind and renewable energy policy in countries around the globe.

Currently based in Denmark, Morten is the Head of Vestas’ Global Marketing, Communications, Sustainability and Public Affairs functions, as well as being former Chairman of the Global Wind Energy Council.

Carlos Martin Rivals is a senior executive and recognized leader in floating offshore wind, with more than 15 years of experience spanning project development, technology selection, supply chain strategy, and project finance. He is currently General Manager for Floating Offshore Wind and Market Development at Dajin Offshore, a leading global foundations fabricator. He also sits on the Board of GWEC.

Previously, he was founder and CEO of BlueFloat Energy, building it into a global developer in floating wind projects. Carlos was Project Director for WindFloat Atlantic at EDPR, running the project from early phases till FID, in close collaboration with Principle Power. He holds a Civil Engineering degree and an MBA from INSEAD. He is an Associate Professor of Strategy at IE Universit

Arun Sharma AM is an Advisor to the Chairman and Group Head for Sustainability and Climate Change for the Adani Group. In this role he is responsible for developing the decarbonisation pathway for each of the Group’s businesses and has played a key role in international advocacy for green hydrogen and its derivatives in the energy security and net zero pathway for Indian industry.

He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), where he served as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2004 to 2019. He is the Chair of the Council of QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute.

Professor Sharma has played a leading role in the development of Australian technology and research capability. He was co-founder of National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA) – now part of CSIRO’s Data61. He was Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales, where he co-founded the Australian Federal Government-funded Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Internet Technology. At QUT, he oversaw the establishment of research programs in robotics, data science, and sustainability-linked technologies such as cellulosic ethanol, bio-commodities, renewables, and hydrogen. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queens Birthday Honours for services to Computer Science and Information Technology.

Amisha is GOWA’s Executive Director, appointed to build and lead GOWA. She leads the alliance’s diplomatic and strategic policy direction and oversees operations. Amisha has over 20 years of global experience in energy and marine renewables and building initiatives and driving policy programs. She has worked across Europe, Asia, MENA, and the Americas, advising governments on offshore wind strategy and energy policy.

Prior to GOWA, Amisha was Group Head of Public Affairs and Policy at Mainstream Renewable Power and held senior roles at Principle Power, Statkraft, ESB, and the Energy Industries Council where she built and led a global renewables division focused on trade. She has also served on several international industry boards and taskforces including Offshore Wind California, Renewable UK SB, the Marine Alliance BlueTech Cluster and currently FESSIA.

Danielle Lim is a Research Assistant at the NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions and the Lead for Research, Programmes and Stakeholder Management at NUS Sustainability Academy, where she supports research and engagement efforts at the intersection of science, policy, and climate action. She leads Climate Change and Sustainability 101 for Public Officers (with the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment) and international educational programmes. She is also part of the NUS TEAlab, conducting MSc research on the evolution of pollinators in an urbanised society, and was recently selected for the 2026 Climate Youth Development Programme and the COP31 Singapore Delegation. Danielle is passionate about bridging gaps between science, industry, and governance. She believes climate action fails when it forgets culture and community and sees her role as keeping it honest about that - attentive to environmental policy design, cross-border cooperation, and the socio-cultural factors that shape policy feasibility. Her goal is to serve as a translator of intention, connecting diverse perspectives to drive purposeful and inclusive climate action.

Fatma Şahin was born in Gaziantep in 1966. In 1987, she received a BS degree in chemical engineering from Istanbul Technical University. From 1988 to 2001, she worked as a plant engineer and plant manager at one of the leading companies of Turkey. At the general elections held in November 2002, she was elected to the Parliament. At the general elections held on 22 July 2007, she was re-elected to the Parliament. During her tenure as parliamentarian, she was the member of Turkish-EU Joint Parliamentary Commission and the chairman of Morals and Decency Murders Commission and Research Commission of Violence against Children. Fatma Şahin is the first woman Deputy of the Parliament for Gaziantep and Southeastern Anatolia region. She also assumed the different duties at the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) such as vice-chairman of the Party and the member of Central Executive Committee. She acted as Women Branches Chairwoman of AK Party between 2007 and 2011. After the 2011 general election she was appointed as Minister of Family and Social Policies as the only woman Minister at the Cabinet. She was elected as Mayor of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality at the local elections on March 30, 2014. She was the Former President of Union of Turkish Municipalities, President of Asian Mayors Forum (AMF) for 2018 – 2021 terms, Vice-President of UCLG (United Cities and Local Governments) and President of UCLG-MEWA (United Cities and Local Governments Middle East and West Asia Section) for 2016 – 2019 terms. She became the first Turkish Mayor who received an invitation to OECD Champion Mayors Coalition for Inclusive Growth. She was re-elected as Mayor of Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality at the local elections on March 31, 2024. She is married with two children.

Eugène Klerk joined Standard Chartered in April 2023 and serves as Head of Sustainability Insights, based in London.

In this role, Eugène leads the development and coordination of the firm’s sustainability insights and thought leadership. He has published extensively on nature, the blue economy, carbon, the circular economy and the energy transition, examining both the challenges and the solutions shaping these themes. His latest work explores the environmental risks and opportunities associated with the rapid growth of data centres and artificial intelligence.

Marisa Drew was appointed as the Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) for Standard Chartered Bank in July 2022.

Based in London, Marisa is responsible for the Group’s sustainability strategy, establishing our key sustainability platforms and partnerships, overseeing our net zero and other public commitments and driving our sustainability advisory and financing activity with clients.

Dr. Papathanasiou leads more than 100 professionals within the Energy Global Department of the World Bank Group, providing strategic direction and overseeing knowledge and learning, corporate reporting, trust funds, and partnerships.

With more than 25 years of experience at the World Bank Group, he has worked extensively on energy and infrastructure across Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, South Asia, and East Asia and the Pacific. His work spans energy policy development, diverse power generation technologies—including thermal, hydropower, solar, wind, and geothermal—and the leadership of complex utility reforms and large public private partnership transactions.

An electrical engineer by training, Dr. Papathanasiou holds an MSc in Environmental Technology and a PhD in Energy and Environment from Imperial College London.

Marco is Chief Sustainable Impact Officer at the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) which he joined in 2019. He oversees strategic portfolio construction for impact objectives, impact assessment (risks and opportunities) of all PIDG investments, sustainability and impact disclosures and PIDG thematic work on climate change, nature and inclusion.

Marco has 20 years of experience working in frontier markets driving sustainability and impact through private investment. Since 2021 he sits on the Climate Resilience Committee of The Urban Resilience Fund (TURF) managed by Meridiam; he advises investment entities and fund managers in Africa and south East Asia.

He previously worked for the UK Department for International Development where he led their Impact Investing team, and in management consultancy with assignments for corporates and multilateral organisations. He held leadership positions with social enterprises in West and East Africa and worked in business development services and policy in the UK.

Marco spent 10 years between Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania and Albania worked extensively in Africa and Asia.

He has an MSc from the University of London – SOAS and an Executive MBA from IMD in Lausanne.

Ms Tan Seow Hui is a seasoned global executive with over two decades of commercial and sustainability leadership across energy, aviation, healthcare, and consumer goods sectors.
As the CEO of the Singapore Sustainable Aviation Fuel Company Ltd. (SAFCo), she leads the organization in developing a scalable and integrated Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) ecosystem that accelerates adoption, catalyses local and regional supply, and supports the sustainable growth of Singapore’s air hub.
Prior to joining SAFCo, she led Shell's commercial strategy, market development and marketing for low-carbon solutions including SAF, Carbon Credits, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and Hydrogen. She was instrumental in the inception and launch of Avelia, the world's first blockchain-enabled SAF Environmental Attribute programme, setting new aviation decarbonisation benchmarks.
Ms Tan holds both a Master of Engineering and a Master of Arts in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cambridge and has further completed the Business Sustainability Management programme at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Mr. Christopher Ong is currently the Managing Director of DHL Express Singapore, a position he has held since November 2018. Responsible for driving sustainable growth in this key market, Chris has been focused on delivering great service quality through a highly motivated workforce. A strong advocate of corporate stewardship, Chris regularly shares his views on topics like sustainability, SME strategies, trade and logistics at business forums. Currently, Chris also sits on DHL’s New Energy Global Steering Board to drive growth in this sector, and the Council for a Competitive Climate Transition as the Logistics Industry representative. Chris joined DHL in 2006 and was responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnerships and Planning, First Choice (Six sigma) and GoGreen corporate programmes for Asia-Pacific. In October 2011, he was appointed Country Manager of DHL Express Vietnam before he took on the role of Managing Director for Malaysia and Brunei in March 2014. Prior to joining DHL, Chris worked at Temasek Holdings, where he was involved in transactions in the Transport, Logistics, Telecom, Media, Technology, and Manufacturing sectors. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Tufts University, US.

Nithiya Laila is a Singapore-based culinary anthropologist, television presenter, and producer. She is the showrunner and host of The Earth is Cooked (How to Eat to Save the World), a documentary series set in major cities around the world that explores how leading conservationists, scientists, and chefs navigate the challenge of eating for both people and planet. At its heart, the series asks a simple question: if you've spent your life trying to save the planet, what ends up on your plate? Nithiya is also the presenter of Edible Wild, a ChannelNewsAsia television series exploring wild foods, indigenous ingredients, and traditional ecological knowledge across Asia-Pacific metropolises. She is the founder of SG Seed Exchange, a community initiative dedicated to preserving and sharing native and edible plant species, and Brunch Bandits, an experiential dining platform that uses food and storytelling to spark conversations about about culture, biodiversity, and sustainability. An Asian Academy Creative Awards winner for Best Lifestyle Presenter (Singapore) and a Tatler Gen.T Leader of Tomorrow.

Dr Steve Howard is Vice Chairman, Sustainability, Temasek International. He first joined Temasek as Chief Sustainability Officer in January 2021. Steve is a leading authority on climate change, sustainable business, and sustainable investment. He is a serial social entrepreneur and has led or co-led the establishment of many high-impact organisations and initiatives over three decades. Steve is passionate about tackling climate change and inequality and using business and finance as a force for good. He is a sought-after speaker and has given two TED Talks. He has advised leaders across international business, government and intergovernmental organisations.

Steve is a board member of GenZero, which he helped establish, and chairs the Investment Committee. He is also a founding board and investment committee member of the Temasek-BlackRock joint venture, Decarbonization Partners. In addition, Steve is Founding Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition which he co-founded in 2015, a leading climate change and business coalition which helped secure the Paris Climate Agreement. He is a member of LeapFrog’s Global Leadership Council and chair on their climate advisory board. He is also chair of Tilt Collective, a global initiative promoting plant-rich food systems which he established in 2023.

Before joining Temasek, Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011 to 2017 where he launched their agenda-setting People and Planet Positive strategy. Prior to IKEA, Steve was Founder and CEO of The Climate Group, a global NGO where he launched Climate Week NYC and established networks of cities, states, regions, and businesses committed to a net-zero carbon world. Before the Climate Group, Steve consulted on sustainability working as a partner at ERM and a Director at URS. He was, until recently, on the Administrative Board of SEforALL. He previously co-chaired the WEF Global Future Council on Environmental Security and chaired the Global Agenda Council on climate change.

Earlier in his career, Steve worked in WWF, where he established the Global Forest and Trade Network, chaired the UK Forest Stewardship Council and helped launch and chair The Forest Trust. Steve is trained as an ecologist and has a PhD in Ecophysiology and Environmental Physics based on research on agroforestry systems in Kenya. He is a keen runner and recently ran a marathon a day for six days.

Zarak is an Executive Director and Head of Strategic Sustainability Solutions at Standard Chartered. He is based in London and works within our Global Banking team with clients across products and markets to originate and structure financing solutions that support decarbonisation and sustainable development. Additionally, Zarak is also Head of Carbon Finance for the bank.

Zarak joined Standard Chartered in 2013 and has held front-line Corporate & Investment Banking roles across London, Hong Kong and Pakistan. Prior to his current responsibilities, he served as Head of Office to the Group Chief Executive and was a member of the Group’s Net Zero Steering Committee. In Hong Kong, he covered investor and private bank clients across North Asia, as well as public sector and development organisations.

Zarak has more than 13 years of origination experience spanning lending, capital market solutions, trade, treasury management, transition finance and carbon finance. Relevant transaction experience includes innovative outcome bonds, carbon project finance and nature-linked financing structures.

Dirk Forrister is President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), a non-profit business association dedicated to market-based climate policies. With over 300 member companies, IETA is respected globally as a thought leader and advocate for strategies to harness the power of markets to deliver climate protection.

Dirk brings a long history of public and private sector engagement in energy and environmental policy. He spent a decade as Managing Director at Natsource LLC, the manager of carbon funds valued at $1.2 billion. Earlier in his career, Mr. Forrister served as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force in the Clinton Administration, and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Public Affairs. His environmental markets career began when he advised US Congressman Jim Cooper, a leader in crafting the US acid rain trading legislation in 1990.

Helena Voorhuis is a Dutch-Burkinabé climate and energy policy advocate, with a background spanning environmental policy, energy transitions and international climate diplomacy. Having grown up across Benin, Burkina Faso, Rwanda, Belgium and the Netherlands, she has a particular interest in connecting perspectives across African, European and Asian contexts.

She is Partnerships Co-Lead for Generation Climate Europe’s COP31 team, Chair of International Affairs at Youth for Climate Netherlands and Chair of Energy Club Delft. She attended COP30 as a youth delegate supported by Save the Children and followed the Just Transition negotiations at COP30 and SB64 in Bonn. Her work has also included youth engagement around UNFCCC processes and participation in European Commission climate policy dialogues.

Alongside climate diplomacy, Helena has worked across research and applied projects. She conducted research with PwC on AI in the ASEAN context and developed a project with AIDA Consulting reaching vulnerable households through energy displays. Her academic research has included decentralised solar energy in Nigeria, clean cooking and energy access, while her current work examines critical materials in Dutch drinking-water treatment.

Helena holds a BSc in Environmental Sciences from Wageningen University and is currently completing an MSc in Engineering and Policy Analysis at TU Delft, with a focus on policy modelling, complex systems and multi-actor decision-making.

Rana is a senior International Relations student at Özyeğin University with a focus on environmental diplomacy. She has been engaged in climate advocacy for three years and currently serves as a Climate Envoy for Özyeğin University. She also co-chairs the Adaptation to Climate Change Committee within the Climate Envoys platform, with a particular focus on raising environmental awareness and empowering young people.

Rana attended COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan as an observer, participating in high-level sessions and side events on climate finance and just transition, and taking part in discussions with international organisations.

Her professional experience also includes working on climate negotiations and international policies at Türkiye’s Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, where she closely followed international negotiation processes. Her work sits at the crossroads of international relations and climate action, driven by a conviction that diplomacy, youth engagement, and public awareness are indispensable forces in building societies that are both more resilient and more environmentally conscious.

Chun Perng (Alex) Chong is a Malaysian climate advocate and MSc Energy Systems student at the University of Oxford, specialising in cross-border power integration and electricity market regulation in Southeast Asia. His work spans grassroots climate action, energy systems research, and policy development.

At Tsinghua University, he served as President of the Net Zero Future Association and initiated the Zero Carbon Coin, a campus sustainability initiative that incentivised climate action through the reuse of bottle caps. He currently leads the development of a national policy report on green workforce development in Malaysia under the Perdana Fellows Alumni Association. He previously served as a COP29 Youth Ambassador and is a member of Malaysia’s delegation to COP31.

Ying Tong is Co-Founder of The Interchange, a Singapore circular economy social enterprise that turns waste with limited recycling pathways, such as PP woven rice bags and drink cartons, into everyday items people actually want to use. A video producer by training, she treats waste as a perception problem. Change how people see a material, and you change what it is worth.

Alongside her co-founder, she leads operations, business development and community engagement, and is also hands-on in the research and design behind each product. Through its Research, Design and Fabrication protocol, The Interchange runs Stitch Up!, a workshop series that teaches corporates and the public to sew waste into functional items, and The Making Room, a free weekly open studio for adults facing job loss or between jobs. Its research arm, The Lab, shares findings openly so others can build on them.

Her climate journey began on the ground, growing crops and raising chickens at a community farm in City Sprouts Henderson, where she saw how rising temperatures stress both plants and livestock. She now runs Kampy, a climate adaptation hub demo site at the same location, and is a youth delegate with the Singapore Pavilion at COP31.

Guilherme Canela is the Director for the Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation at UNESCO. He also serves as the Secretary for the Information for All Programme Before that he held the position of chief of the section of Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists at UNESCO headquarters in Paris for 5 years. For 8 years, he held the position of Communication and Information Regional Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNESCO Montevideo Office. During those years, he performed as Regional Coordinator of the UNESCO Initiative for the Promotion of Democracy and Freedom of Expression in judicial systems in Latin America He has a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Brasília (UNB) and a Master’s Degree on Political Science from the University of São Paulo (USP).

Jon Truby, Ph.D, is UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence Law & Sustainability and Programme Head of AI & International Law at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore. As Principal Research Fellow and previously visiting Research Associate Professor, his work focuses on the governance of artificial intelligence, data and digital technologies, with particular attention to sustainability, international law and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr Truby leads research at the intersection of AI governance, digital decarbonisation and nature-positive technology policy. His scholarship examines how AI and data governance can support climate action, anti-corruption law, human rights, the rule of law and wider sustainable development outcomes. He is Chair of the International Law Association Committee on AI & Technology Law and a participating expert of the OECD.AI Expert Group on AI Compute and Climate.

He has served on a range of AI policy and governance committees, including the UNESCO Group of Friends on the Ethics of AI, as well as committees concerned with AI and data governance, data management and data privacy. His research and policy work engage with the legal, institutional and sustainability challenges created by emerging technologies across global, regional and national governance systems.

Dr Truby was previously an Academic Visitor at the Oxford University Institute for Ethics in AI and a Visiting Fellow researching AI law at Newcastle University Law School. From 2010 to 2023, he was a member of the law faculty at Qatar University College of Law and served as a University Research Centre Director. In that role he delivered pioneering research output in AI and emerging technologies governance, including frequent high-impact publications, research roundtables and continuing legal education programmes.

Before joining the UN Economic Commission for Africa, Ochieng served as the Global Director for the Center for Equitable Development at the World Resources Institute (WRI). Prior to that he served as Director of the African Natural Resources Centre at the African Development Bank (AfDB) in Abidjan.

A development and environment expert, Mr. Ochieng, has also held appointments with various universities, policy thinktanks and development institutions. These include as Associate Professor of the Practice of Global Development Policy at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University (US); Lecturer in Sustainable Agriculture, Land and Water at Lancaster University (UK) and Executive Director of the African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) in Nairobi Kenya.

He is also a former Technical Coordinator of the Business, Economics and Biodiversity program of IUCN’s Eastern and Southern regional office in Pretoria, South Africa and a Research Fellow with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Mr. Ochieng's works have been published in peer-reviewed journals, including World Development, Journal of International Economic Law, Journal of Modern African Studies and Natural Resources Forum. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Development Studies from Oxford University and a Masters in Development Studies from Cambridge University.

Danielle leads on climate change law and policy as well as cyber law and governance issues at the CIL. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor (MSc (Environmental Management) Programme) at the National University of Singapore where she teaches a course on Environmental and Sustainability Management – Law, Governance and Practice. Danielle YEOW – NUS Law

Danielle is a member of the Singapore Domain Name Dispute Policy Panel, Singapore Mediation Centre and a member of the International Law Association (ILA) Business and Human Rights Committee. She was formerly the Deputy Director General of the International Affairs Division of the Singapore Attorney-General’s Chambers; and Deputy Chief Executive of the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. She also served as a Council Member of the Singapore branch of the ILA between 1st Jan 2017 and 31 Dec 2023.

Danielle’s experience spans across a range of public international law issues including trade and investment, environment and climate change, international security including international cyber norms, human rights, law of the sea and sanctions and compliance matters. She has advised and represented the Singapore Government at international negotiations and dispute resolution. Danielle was lead counsel in multiple negotiations at bilateral, regional and multilateral levels, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade negotiations. In the same capacity, she also helmed recent UNFCC and Paris Agreement climate change talks and a WTO panel proceeding (as a third party). In addition, she was an advisor to the Singapore government in the Case concerning Land Reclamation by Singapore in and around the Straits of Johor (Malaysia v Singapore) before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Danielle is a member of the panel of arbitrators appointed under the UK-Singapore Free Trade Agreement and was recently appointed as panelist in a dispute under the WTO. She served as an elected alternate member of the Implementation and Compliance Committee established under the Paris Agreement (Jan 2020 – July 2021) to promote compliance and facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement. She chaired the General Assembly of Parties to the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) in 2009 and was appointed a WIPO expert on mission in 2009. In addition, Danielle was a member of the Genetic Modification Advisory Committee established by the Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry (2016 to July 2021); and a Member of the Intellectual Property Hub Master Plan (Singapore) Steering Committee and Co-Chair of Subcommittee 2 appointed by the Singapore Ministry of Law.

Danielle’s previous roles included that of Deputy Chief Executive/Deputy Director-General at the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, District Judge, Justices’ Law Clerk and criminal prosecutor.

Danielle is admitted as an Advocate & Solicitor (Supreme Court of Singapore) and Barrister-at-Law (England & Wales) (Middle Temple). She is a Senior Advisor with DGA – Albright Stonebridge Group and a Consultant with KGP Legal (member of the Inter-Asia Law Alliance).

Golestan (Sally) Radwan (B.Sc., MBA, M.Sc.) is a Computer Scientist with expertise in AI and emerging technologies.

Prior to UNEP, Sally served as Advisor to the Egyptian Minister of ICT, where she led the development and implementation of Egypt’s national AI strategy. During this time, she served as an expert and delegate of Egypt to several international organizations working on AI Policy and Regulation, including UNESCO, WIPO, ITU, and OECD. She also championed and led two working groups within the African Union and League of Arab States to unify regional efforts around Responsible AI. Sally previously held several executive positions in the technology industry for over 17 years, working in Germany, Austria, the UK, and the US for companies including Novell GmbH, Avaya Inc., and NTT Data Europe.

She earned a B.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Cairo University, an MBA from London Business School, and an MSc in Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Management from City University of London. She is finalizing her PhD thesis, focusing on AI explainability and its ethical considerations in metagenomics at the Royal Holloway University of London.

Secretary Juan Miguel T. Cuna is a lawyer by profession and is a member of both the Integrated Bar of the Philippines and the Philippine Bar Association.

He began his career in public service and devoted all his working years in government in various capacities, to date. Through the years, he has acquired specialization in the fields of Philippine Law, local government legislation, public administration and management, policy formulation, program/project management, operations, and environment and resource management.

He was a Director at the Presidential Legislative Liaison Office, Office of the President, Malacaṅang from 1998 until 2001. He also tried his hand at politics and won as City Councilor for the 5th District of Manila for two consecutive terms.

In 2008, he joined the Executive Branch of the government by working at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Upon assumption to office at DENR, he was designated as Assistant Secretary for Legal Services. In 2010, he became the Director of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), a line bureau of the DENR. In 2014, he was one of the only three recipients from the Philippines to undertake a one-year Fellowship-full scholarship from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States where he obtained his Master in Public Management.

Upon completion of his studies in 2015, the DENR management entrusted him with a bigger responsibility by designating him as Assistant Secretary for Environment and concurrent Director for EMB. A year after, he was designated as Assistant Secretary for Field Operations – Luzon. During the second semester of 2017, he was promoted to the position of Undersecretary, with a rank of Career Executive Service Officer I. He was then designated as Undersecretary for Field Operations and Environment. In 2020, he was designated as Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs – an assignment he held briefly before returning as Undersecretary for Field Operations and Environment. In 2022, he became the Undersecretary for Field Operations – Luzon, Visayas, and Environment.

His adeptness in environmental governance has given him the trust to represent the Philippines internationally. He has served as the Head of the Philippine Delegation to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Global Mercury Partnership Advisory Group (PAG) and Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Mercury; Parties to the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer; Fourth Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4); Sound Management of Chemicals and Wastes; and Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in East Asia (EANET).

In addition, he became the Country Representative to the UNEP Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia (UNEP-COBSEA); Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) and The Session of the Intergovernmental Meeting (IG); and UNEP Global Mercury Partnership on Waste Management.

As he mastered his craft in safeguarding the environment, he continues to share his knowledge and contribute information, as a Resource Person or Keynote Speaker in several fora, both local and international, on various topics such as the State of the Philippine Environment, Environmental Laws, Environmental Quality Management, Environmental Impact Assessment, Solid Waste Management, Climate Change, and Sustainable Consumption, among others.

He was the Undersecretary for Field Operations – Luzon and Visayas and Supervising Undersecretary for Environment and Mines – Luzon and Visayas prior to his Malacañang appointment as DENR Acting Secretary.

Lori Kerr joined FinDev Canada as Chief Executive Officer in June 2021. A Canadian national, she is a widely experienced international development finance professional with more than two decades of leadership in private investment in emerging markets with a focus on sustainable infrastructure, climate finance, and blended finance.

Ms. Kerr joined FinDev Canada by way of the Global Infrastructure Facility at the World Bank in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for corporate strategy, thought leadership, partnerships, and international engagement for the largest global fund advising developing country governments on the preparation and structuring of commercially viable infrastructure projects.

Previously, Ms. Kerr served as Senior Director at Climate Finance Advisors developing low-carbon, climate-resilient investment strategies and blended finance solutions to mobilize private capital in developing countries. She also spent 18 years at the Inter-American Development Bank Group serving in management and senior investment roles where she spearheaded strategic initiatives to support the expansion and development impact of private sector activities as well as private sector transaction origination, structuring, and asset management. Ms. Kerr also spent 14 years as an Adjunct Professor of International Project Finance and Investment at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Washington, D.C.

Ms. Kerr holds an Honours Bachelor degree from the University of Western Ontario and an International MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University.

Laurence is the Head of Nature and Climate Solutions in the central Sustainability Team of Olam Agri. She has a background in environmental and agricultural sciences with a PhD from the University of Western Australia. She was based for 11 years in Uganda where she did research on scalable climate smart solutions in smallholder supply chains. She was working for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture from the CGIAR. In 2020, after doing an MBA, Laurence moved to Singapore. After doing some consultancy work, she joined the Nature-based Solutions business as a technical manager at Shell. She was supporting the investment decisions of carbon projects in agriculture. In 2024, she joined Olam Agri.

Josh Parker leads Corporate Sustainability at NVIDIA. An engineer and a lawyer, he believes following the data wherever it leads is critical for an effective sustainability program. He previously built and led the sustainability program at Western Digital, a computer storage company, and practiced patent law at the law firm Baker Botts.

Blandine Ferrier is Environmental Officer, at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). She has more than 20 years of experience in aviation environmental management and supports States in the implementation of ICAO environmental programmes related to climate change, CORSIA, Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF), and aviation decarbonization.

Dominic Waughray is Executive Vice President at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), where he leads its work on climate, nature and inequality, including the Partnership for Carbon Transparency (PACT). He is also Executive Co-Chair of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol. Before joining WBCSD, he built and led the World Economic Forum’s sustainability agenda for 16 years.

Dr Michelle Tigchelaar is an interdisciplinary climate scientist with more than a decade of experience advancing evidence-based adaptation and mitigation solutions in food systems. As Lead Scientist at WorldFish, she heads the organization's impact agenda on Climate Resilience and Environmental Sustainability, and within CGIAR Climate Action she coordinates multi-center research connecting climate science to policy and decision-making. Her peer-reviewed research on climate impacts has been published in leading journals including Science, Nature Food, and PNAS, and has been widely covered by major media outlets. Her recent work has helped shape global dialogue and partnerships, such as the Aquatic Blue Food Coalition, that advance the integration of aquatic foods into multilateral processes, global climate commitments, and national climate strategies. She holds an MSc in Climate Dynamics from Utrecht University and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Hawaii.

Dato' Ir. Muhamad Nazri brings over 32 years of leadership experience across strategy, sustainability, generation and network, with a strong track record in delivering business results while advancing TNB's international footprint. He has led complex transformations across diverse geographies, including the Middle East and South Asia, demonstrating a proven ability to navigate cross-border regulatory, commercial and operational environments. His leadership has consistently translated strategy into tangible outcomes, restoring financial performance, strengthening asset portfolios and embedding disciplined execution across domestic and overseas operations. He previously served as Managing Director of TNB Power Generation (TNB GenCo) and TNB Repair and Maintenance (REMACO), and led key international initiatives that expanded TNB's global presence. These include securing major long-term MRO contracts in Kuwait, completing projects and overseeing operations of one of Malaysia’s early IPP ventures in Saudi Arabia, as well as driving turnaround and performance improvements in Pakistan and Cambodia. In parallel, Dato' Ir. Muhamad Nazri has established strategic partnerships with global players to unlock growth in hydrogen, ammonia and biomass co-firing and advanced energy solutions, positioning TNB for resilient and competitive growth amid the energy transition.

Inger Andersen is Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya.

Between 2015 and 2019, Ms. Andersen was the Director-General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Ms. Andersen has more than 30 years of experience in international development economics, environmental sustainability, strategy and operations. She has led work on a range of issues including agriculture, environmental management, biodiversity conservation, climate change, infrastructure, energy, transport, and water resources management and hydro-diplomacy.

Between 1999 and 2014, Ms. Andersen held several leadership positions at the World Bank including Vice President of the Middle East and North Africa; Vice President for Sustainable Development and Head of the CGIAR Fund Council.

Prior to her 15 years at the World Bank, Ms. Andersen worked 12 years at the United Nations, first on drought and desertification, beginning with the UN Sudano-Sahelian Office. In 1992, she was appointed UNDP’s Water and Environment Coordinator for the Arab Region.

Ms. Andersen holds a Bachelors from the London Metropolitan University North and a Masters in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Eleni “Lenio” Myrivili is the global chief heat officer and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Climate Resilience Center and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She was jointly appointed to the role by United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and the center in 2022.

Myrivili is also a member of the European Union Mission Board for Adaptation at the European Commission, is a heat resilience advisor to the Global Covenant of Mayors, serves on the advisory board for the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report, and a member of WEF’s Global Future Council for the Future Economics of Equitable Transition. She recently became a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Urban Research, where she was honored with the 2023 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize. Most recently, Myrivili was recognized among Nature’s ten people who helped shape science in 2023 as well as Earth.org’s ten women leading the fight against climate change.

In 2014, Myrivili was elected to city government and appointed as Athens’ deputy mayor for urban nature, urban resilience, and climate adaptation. During her tenure and then subsequently from a senior advisor position, she served as Athens’ chief resilience officer and chief heat officer, contributing to the city’s leading role in international urban climate adaptation efforts. Following her term in city government, she also became a 2020 resident Loeb fellow at Harvard University, was contracted as a heat expert by the World Bank, and co-chaired the Steering Committee of the Resilient Cities Network.

Myrivili’s climate-resilience expertise has earned her international recognition, including an opportunity to speak at TED talk Global and an invitation to speak to the House of Commons in British Parliament, while she features in prominent media outlets like CNN and NHK World, the New York Times, Monocle, and Politico, where she was part of the media company’s list of the twenty-eight of most influential Europeans in 2022. Formerly, she was a tenured university professor and holds a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University.

Martin Krause serves as Director of the Climate Change Division.

He has been working within the United Nations system for 30 years on climate, environment and energy issues, living in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. Prior to joining the United Nations Environment Programme, he was the Director in the Technical Cooperation Department at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where he was the substantive senior advisor on climate adaptation and responsible for quality assurance, communication and finance.

From 2002 to 2015, Mr. Krause led the regional teams of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on environment, climate, and energy, based in Pretoria, Bangkok, and Istanbul. His main areas of expertise include climate policy and finance, energy access and renewable energy, and programme cycle management. He has worked extensively with global environmental funds, mobilizing resources, and designing, implementing and monitoring technical cooperation projects with national governments.

Krause began his career as a Junior Professional Officer in UNDP’s Argentina office in 1994. In 1997, he relocated to New York, where he served as the Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator of the Environment Unit within UNDP. Later, he was involved in designing and implementing the first generation of climate adaptation programmes in Africa and pioneering climate finance approaches in rural renewable energy programmes.

Krause obtained an MSc in Geography from the Free University of Berlin, a postgraduate degree in Development Policy from the German Development Institute and a BA in Political Sciences/International Relations.