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19 June 2019

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Biographies

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Cyrille Arnould became Head of the Global Energy Efficiency Renewable Energy Fund team in 2009. Previously, he was a Senior Officer in the Africa Caribbean and Pacific department where he oversaw the development of private equity and microfinance portfolios. Prior to joining the EIB, in November 2003, Cyrille was a Senior Investment Officer at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) SME department, which he joined after four years with IFC’s Financial Markets Group, Sub-Saharan Africa Department. He was

previously IFC’s Senior Investment Officer based in Russia. Before joining IFC, Cyrille worked in Russia for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), first as Investment Manager for Smolensk Regional Venture Fund and then as Principal Banker in Moscow. Cyrille holds a Diploma from the Political Science Institute and a Master’s in Law both from the University of Strasbourg and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr Cyrille ARNOULD

Head of Global Energy efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF), European Investment Bank

Bertrand Badré is CEO and Founder of Blue Orange Capital, an investment fund with the objectives to finance the Sustainable Development Goals with market level financial returns.

Previously, Mr. Badré was Managing Director of the World Bank Group and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the World Bank Group in 2013, Bertrand was the group chief financial officer at Société Générale.

He also served as group chief financial officer of Crédit Agricole from 2007 to 2011. Between 2004 and 2007, Bertrand was a managing director of Lazard in Paris. In 2003, he was invited to join President Jacques Chirac’s diplomatic team and was closely involved in the preparation of the G-8 summit in Evian. In that capacity, he served as the president’s deputy personal representative for Africa and as a spokesman for the working group on new international financial contributions to fight poverty and fund development, which produced the Landau Report.

In 2002, he was a member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure chaired by Michel Camdessus. In 1999 Badré joined Lazard, in London and New York. From 1995 to 1999, he

served in the French Ministry of Finance where he led a number of control, audit, and consultancy missions for the French National Audit Office.

He is chair of the Global Future Council onInternational Governance, Public-PrivateCooperation and Sustainable Development and an advisor for the World Economic Forum.

He is the chair of the Audit Committes of FIA (Federation of International Automotive) and of WealthSimple, a leading Canadian Fintech. He is a board member of GETLINK (Eurotunnel).

He just published “Can finance save the world? How to regain control over money to to save common good” and reference to own Global Foundation work.

Bertrand is a graduate of ENA (Ecole Nationale d’Administration) and Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. He also studied history at Paris IV University (La Sorbonne), and graduated from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Paris) business school.

Mr Bertrand BADRÉ

CEO, Blue Orange Capital

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Dennis Bracy counts himself fortunate to hold two fascinating jobs simultaneously: 1) heading Avatar Studios, a media production company in the US, and 2) spearheading the team organising the US-China Clean Energy Forum.

As Chairman of Avatar Studios (www.avatar-studios.com), he heads a company that produces television programs, videos and websites for clients around the world. In the 1990s, Bracy led the team that developed (for Microsoft) the first prime-time television series co-produced by foreigners in China (My Computer Family) and he continues to produce several documentaries and videos every year.

Combining a long-time commitment to strengthening US-China relations and a passion for finding solutions to global energy and environmental issues, Bracy has led the US team for the US-China Clean Energy Forum (www.cleanenergyforum.org) since the inception of the organisation in 2007.

Over the past 20 years, he has served as a key advisor to CEOs, Senators, Governors and Members of Congress and is considered a leading strategist on public affairs issues.

His previous professional positions include president of Hill & Knowlton Technology, vice president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation, and press secretary for the Watergate trials.

Mr Dennis BRACY

CEO, US-China Clean Energy Forum

Mr Brandis has had a distinguished political career in Australia as a member of the Federal Parliament. His appointments have included Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Leader of the Government in the Senate, Federal Minister for the Arts, and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate.

Mr Brandis holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford, a Bachelor of Laws (First-Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (First-Class Honours) from the University of Queensland.

Hon George BRANDIS QC

Australian High Commissioner to the UK


Cristina Bruce is a Government Relations and policy professional. She has experience in assessing political risk, developing political networks and stakeholder engagement, international advocacy and public affairs campaigns. Areas worked on include business development, political network/ influence development, and political assessment in the Middle East, Europe, Southern Africa and Latin America. She has direct experience of working with the extractive, NGO, multilateral and governmental sectors.

She is currently Head of International Relations at Anglo American, a multinational mining company headquartered in London. She has particular

expertise in Anglo American’s operations in Latin America as well as their work on climate change, gender and inclusion, the future of work and innovation.

Former roles have been as an account manager in international advocacy and business development at Portland and at the British Foreign Office, in the South America and Middle East teams. She was Vice Chairman of Canning House, the UK-Latin America think tank in the UK for six years.

BSc in Politics from University of Bristol and an MSc in International Relations and History from LSE. She lives in London and has two young children.

Ms Cristina BRUCE

Head of International Relations, Anglo American

James Bunn was the founding CEO of the ground breaking Fox Sports Australia and the formerChairman of TXA (the technology arm of Channels 7, 9 & 10) where he delivered the world’slargest network digitisation project. He Chaired the pre-Netflix Channel Networks streamingventure with France Telecom in the UK and launched the Digicel Play platform (ex-Dublin) across 18 Pacific countries.

As a serial Chief Executive, Director and Management Consultant / Advisor he has delivered strategic leadership in sectors dealing with specific operational challenges or embedding transformational change in the face of disruption.

James has delivered initiatives with a particular focus on international trade at scale acrosssectors including sports; not for profit; education; membership organisations; broadcasting /telecommunications; property / real estate; technology/engineering; construction;manufacturing / food processing; digital media production; aged and child care; be that locally,nationally or globally.

James presently divides his time between Sydney and London, and travels frequently to the AsiaPacific, EMEA region and the USA.

Mr James BUNN

Media producer and individual member of the Global Foundation


As Group Head of Government and International Relations at Anglo American, Froydis manages company’s strategic approach to establish and maintain constructive relationships with Governments and civil society. She also is deeply involved in positioning and advocacy on public policy issues of strategic importance to the Group, ensuring integrated government relations planning, geopolitical risk and scenario analysis across the organisation.

Froydis has been involved in the extractives sector for close to 20 years and throughout her career has challenged conventional thinking and always seeks to make a lasting positive difference.

Originally a geologist and engineer, Froydis began her career in the European Commission working on Climate Change and subsequently became a speechwriter in the US Senate. The allure of

industry brought Froydis to Shell for more than 10 years, in a number of technical offshore, project and corporate positions around the world including in Nigeria, Russia, Iran and the US. She was a member of the very first sustainability team for Shell.

Froydis joined Anglo American as head of External Affairs – looking after integrated planning for “mega projects”, in Alaska, Brazil and Peru and she subsequently became Head of Safety, Sustainability, Corporate Affairs and Compliance for the global Exploration team.

On a personal note, Froydis has always supported women in industry and mentored a number of women, through involvement in a number of education and women’s charities. She used to train guide dogs for the blind and is a qualified basketball and hockey referee.

Ms Froydis CAMERON

Group Head of International and Government Relations, Anglo American

Pilita Clark is an associate editor and columnist at the Financial Times where she writes a weekly column on corporate life, as well as other opinion pieces and feature articles.

She has worked for the FT since 2003 where she has been the paper’s deputy news editor, aerospace correspondent and environment correspondent.

Her reporting on the environment has been widely recognised and in 2019 she was named Environment Journalist of the Year for the third year in a row at the British Press Awards.

She was previously a Washington correspondent for Australian newspapers and a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

Ms Pilita CLARK

Associate Editor, Financial Times


Richard Curtis is a Writer and Director. He wrote the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and went on toreceive an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay. Other film work includes NottingHill, Bridget Jones’s Diary, Mr. Bean, Love Actually, The Boat That Rocked, About Time and mostrecently Trash, Esio Trot and Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. His television credits include; Blackadder, Mr. Bean and The Vicar of Dibley and in 2007 he was awarded the BAFTA Fellowship.

In the other half of Richard’s life, he is the Co‐Founder and Vice‐Chair of the UK charity Comic Relief. In 1988, Comic Relief launched its Red Nose Day fundraising initiative, including a live TV broadcast for the BBC, which brought together some of the biggest celebrities of the day. Since then, Richard has produced more than 16 live nights of television and Red Nose Day has raised

more than £1 billion for projects in the UK and around the world.

In 2015, he launched Red Nose Day in the United States, in partnership with NBC and Walgreens, which has raised over $140 million to date.

Richard was a founding member of Make Poverty History and worked both on that campaign and onLive 8 in 2005. In 2014 he founded Project Everyone to help to launch and promote the UN’s Global Goals for Sustainable Development, a series of ambitious targets to end extreme poverty, fightinequality and injustice and combat climate change by 2030. In January 2016 Richard was formally appointed as a UN SDG Advocate and in 2017 he was awarded the Cannes LionHeart Award for his charity and campaigning work.

Mr Richard CURTIS

United Nations SDG Advocate; Co-Founder of Project Everyone and Comic Relief

Mark Cutifani was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Anglo American Plc on 3 April 2013. He is a qualified mining engineer with more than 40 years of broad experience of projects, operations, marketing, business development and finance. Mark is also the Chairman of De Beers Group of Companies, a non-executive director of Total SA, and a non-Executive Director of Anglo American Platinum Limited.

Mark has considerable experience in mining, having been associated with the industry since 1976 and has a practical working knowledge of most of the commodities produced and sold across the globe. He has had line experience and responsibility for mining and industrial businesses across six continents. Prior to joining Anglo

American, he held the position of Chief Executive Officer at AngloGold Ashanti based in South Africa, and before that he was the Chief Operating Officer for Inco and then Vale’s global Nickel business, based in Canada.

Prior to his Vale role he held senior executive positions with the Normandy Group, Sons of Gwalia, Western Mining Corporation, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines and CRA [Rio Tinto]. Mark is a mining engineer by training with several published papers and presentations. In his 40 years in operations, business development and corporate roles he has had line responsibilities across more than 30 countries, producing more than 20 commodities.

Mr Mark CUTIFANI

Chief Executive, Anglo American


Pratik Desai leads strategic engagement efforts for the WBA, working to grow and strengthen a diverse, balanced, and inclusive community of global allies and partners who believe in and understand the potential of benchmarks to drive transformative change. Previously, he managed private sector engagement and policy efforts for the United Nations Foundation and held positions in program development, operations, and communications and outreach with TechnoServe,

The White House, and the Council on Foreign Relations. A native of Gweru, Zimbabwe, Pratik is a graduate of Boston University, where he earned a B.A. in international relations and political science. He is passionate about the power of cross-sector partnerships and strongly believes that business has a critical role to play in advancing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.

Mr Pratik DESAI

Strategic Engagement Lead, World Benchmarking Alliance Ambassador

Dino Patti Djalal is a career diplomat and ambassador, best-selling author, academic, youth activist, Indonesian Presidential hopeful, and former Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs.

He was born into an Indonesian diplomatic family and he joined Indonesia’s Department of Foreign Affairs in 1987. In his own career as a diplomat, he quickly rose through the ranks, with postings in London, Dili and Washington DC.

In 2002, he was appointed Director for North American Affairs. In 2004, when President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono began his term, Dino was appointed Special Staff of the President for International Affairs. In that capacity, Dino assumed many roles: Presidential spokesperson, foreign policy adviser to the President, speech writer. Dino kept this job for 6 years until 2010, making him the longest serving Presidential spokesperson in Indonesia’s modern history.

From 2010 to 2013, Dino served as Indonesia’s ambassador to the United States, where he succeeded in elevating bilateral relations to a Comprehensive Partnership.

In early 2014, Dino joined the Convention of the then ruling party Partai Demokrat to select a Presidential candidate – he campaigned as an independent for the Presidency.

Dino was appointed Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs in 2014.

Dr. Dino has authored 9 books. Most well known is “Harus Bisa”, which became a national best seller in Indonesia with some 2 million copies sold, and translated into English, Mandarin, Korean, Russian, French, Arabic, Japanese.

Dr. Dino is also Chairman of the Board of Directors, World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia. He is also widely known as the father of Indonesian Diasporas.

Dr Dino DJALAL

Founder and CEO, 1000 Abrahamic Circles Project; Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Republic of Indonesia


Mike Fitzpatrick has worked in the financial services sector for more than 40 years. Committed to sustainability, Mike and his associated interests have made a range of sustainable investments in renewable energy generation and technology development, as well as energy efficiency and sustainability.

Mike holds a number of non-executive directorships, including Infrastructure Capital Group, Carnegie Clean Energy Limited and Latam Autos Limited. He is a former Chairman of Pacific Current Group (10+ years), an incubator of fund management companies.

Infrastructure Capital Group is a leading Australian based mid-market infrastructure fund manager with almost A$1.8 billion in equity investments with almost A$500 million allocated to renewable energy. Carnegie Clean Energy is a leading developer of utility scale solar projects as well as zero emission wave energy technology development.

In 1994 Mike founded Hastings Funds Management Ltd (‘Hastings’), the pioneering infrastructure asset management company where he was Managing Director until he sold his interest

in 2005. Hastings was then one of the largest managers of infrastructure and alternative assets in Australia (including infrastructure, high yield debt, private equity and timberland) managing investments of approximately A$3.8 billion.

Prior to establishing Hastings, Mike was a director of CS First Boston. He also previously held positions with Merrill Lynch and First Boston in New York, the Victorian Treasury and Telecom Australia.

Mike is a former chairman of Victorian Funds Management Corporation, the Australian Football League and the Australian Sports Commission, a former director of Rio Tinto Limited and Rio Tinto plc, a former member of the Melbourne Park Tennis Centre Trust, a former director of the Carlton Football Club and a former director of the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.

Mike has a Bachelor of Engineering with Honours from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Arts from Oxford University where he was the 1975 Rhodes Scholar from Western Australia.

Mr Mike FITZPATRICK

Director, Infrastructure Capital Group


Peter has been the Managing Director of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) since January 2014. The CGF is an industry network comprising some 400 of the world’s largest and leading consumer goods companies – including retailers, manufacturers and related service providers. The combined revenues of these companies total EUR 3.5 trillion and they directly employ nearly 10 million people, with a further 90 million jobs along the supply chain. The CGF’s job is to help its members drive efficiency and positive change in the world by collaborating together and with external stakeholders. It focuses currently on environmental sustainability, social sustainability and human rights, product safety, health and wellness, and the impact of the digital revolution on all of the above. It is led by a Board consisting of over 50 chief executives of its member companies.

Peter has over 30 years of experience in consumer industries globally. From 1984-2011 he worked

for McKinsey & Company, advising both retail and consumer goods clients on issues of strategy, organisation, operational improvement, change management, and capability building. He led the firm’s Europe, Middle East & Africa consumer goods practice for over 10 years, and worked as a consultant with both large multinationals and local family-owned companies, in most regions of the world.

Peter has also served in non-executive roles with a variety of consumer-facing organisations. He is currently Chair of Spring Impact, a charity dedicated to scaling social impact and a Trustee of Fare Share a UK food waste charity. He is also on the board of Frill Holding AB, a health-focused food company.

He was educated at both Cambridge University, England and Stanford University, USA.

Mr Peter FREEDMAN

Managing Director, Consumer Goods Forum

Chris is a partner at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney where he sits on the firm’s board, and heads the energy and international law practices. He advises government and private clients in energy, energy security and public international law internationally. He has worked in over 55 countries. This includes advising East Timor on certain aspects of its maritime boundary dispute with Australia, Papua New Guinea on energy security related matters, two Asian states on their claims in the South China Sea and a Middle Eastern authority on its maritime entitlements. Pro bono, Chris helped to secure the freedom of journalist, Peter Greste, from jail in Egypt. He provided support to counsel assisting to resist the capital punishment of Chan and Sukumaran in Indonesia.

Chris has guest lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of St Andrews, and

has been a sessional lecturer at the University of Western Australia. His views on energy security and international law have been sought by global media (including the BBC World Service, Reuters, Bloomberg and News Corporation).

He holds a Master of Letters from the University of St Andrews (in International Relations) as a Chevening Scholar, a Master of Laws (International Law) from the University of Sydney and Bachelor degrees in Law (Honours) and Commerce from Griffith University. He was an Ambassadorial Scholar to the University of Salamanca.

He is a member of the Legal Advisory Task Force to the Energy Charter Treaty in Brussels and a founding director of the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.

Mr Christopher FLYNN

Partner, Gilbert + Tobin


Emilio Gonzalez joined Pendal Group in 2010 and is the company’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Pendal Group is a global active asset manager with investment expertise in Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, United States, Asia; global and emerging market equities, multi-asset portfolios as well as Australian cash and fixed income strategies. As at 31 March 2019, assets under management was AUD101bn.

Prior to Pendal, Emilio was the Group Executive of Global Equities at Perpetual Limited. Prior to this, Emilio was Group Executive of Australian & Global Equities at Perpetual where he was also responsible for distribution.

Previously Emilio was Chief Investment Officer at Perpetual Investments for six years, where he was responsible for the asset management division.

Emilio served on the Board of the CFA Institute for seven years and was the first Australian to chair the CFA Institute in the 2008 financial year. Emilio is also a director of The Banking and Finance Oath.

Emilio holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) degree from the University of Wollongong and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Mr Emilio GONZALEZ

Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Pendal Group

At the World Benchmarking Alliance, I facilitate conversations around our benchmarks, research and core narratives. My role focuses on the development of our public policy and communications strategy, as well as strengthening core narratives to support stakeholder engagement, branding and outreach at events. Prior to joining the WBA, I completed my master’s degree in Anthropology at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

My fieldwork consisted of a qualitative study of environmentally displaced communities in Bangladesh, visiting temporary migrant camps surrounding Dhaka and conducting a series of interviews on the personal experiences of displacement. In the past I have worked for a number of different NGOs and charities in Zimbabwe, Nicaragua, Bangladesh and UK.

Mr Matt GWYN

Engagement & Content Strategist, World Benchmarking Alliance


Steve Howard is a global strategist and business advisor.

As Secretary General of the non-profit Global Foundation, Steve has led the necessary global push for the adoption of ‘co-operative globalisation’, a positive strategy for inclusive, ‘win-win’ economic development and a sustainable global economy. Many world leaders, including Pope Francis, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Christine Lagarde, Pascal Lamy and Mark Carney, have personally participated in and endorsed this and related initiatives.

Through this unusually collaborative and low-key approach, Steve has helped to shape global affairs with practical outcomes over the past 20 years.

He led the successful renaissance strategy for Melbourne, in Australia in the 1990’s, including a national strategy for private sector investment in public infrastructure, now adopted as a business model, worldwide. He continues to advise on complex infrastructure projects and funds in emerging markets.

In 1998, he co-founded and has since led the Global Foundation, for which an early centerpiece was the restoration of relations between Australia and the European Union and France in particular.

Steve is respected in China for his contribution to China’s global engagement over the past 20 years. Highlights have included: his role in bringing China, the US and Australia together on global climate change policy; and more recently, his integral role in the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the first international institution led by China. He visits China regularly for high-level dialogues embracing security, international relations and multilateral economic development.

He studied in Australia and then London, under a British Government scholarship. Steve was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Merit for his contribution to France-Australia relations in 2004

Mr Steve HOWARD

Secretary General, the Global Foundation

Dr Keyu Jin is someone who seamlessly crosses over from East to West, she is well-placed to address this topic. Chinese-born , Harvard educated, and a tenured Professor of economics at London School of Economics, Keyu Jin is making her mark as a commentator, author and advisor, worldwide.

For the past 4 years, Keyu Jin has also been a leading contributor to the Global Foundation’s global roundtables, helping us to shape world views around our pivotal concepts of co-operative globalisation and the need for a ‘dialogue between civilisations’, engaging China, Asia and the West.

Dr Keyu JIN

Professor, London School of Economics


Sue Kench is the Global Chief Executive of King & Wood Mallesons. She leads the development andimplementation of the firm’s international growth strategy and is responsible for integrating the firm’sinternational operations.

Together with the Global Chairman, Sue oversees the firm’s International Management Committee and the Global Executive team which are responsible for setting the firm’s strategic priorities and international businessplans.

Sue has a reputation for driving positive change, aligning and engaging diverse groups around a shared vision and creating a culture where everyone has a voice.

Her leadership was recognised by the Financial Times when she received the ‘Australian innovative leader award’ at the FT Asia Pacific Innovative Law Firm awards in 2018. She was also named in the 2018 Australian Financial Review’s 100 Women of Influence.

Sue was appointed Global Chief Executive in 2017 following four years as Chief Executive Partner Australia where she led a very successful growth agenda.

Ms Sue KENCH

Global CEO, King & Wood Mallesons

Mr. Knott is Chairman of GHD, an employee owned global professional services company with 10,000 people around the world and revenues of AUD 1.9 billion. He previously led the company’s operations in Asia–Pacific, spanning New Zealand, Philippines, Chile, and China. He has played a key role in mergers and acquisitions, which have diversified the company’s earnings across the United States, Canada, Asia–Pacific, and the United Kingdom. Today, approximately 60 percent of GHD’s revenues are generated outside Australia.

Mr. Knott has more than 30 years’ experience in the design and project management of major water and transport infrastructure, defence, telecommunications, and property and buildings projects.

He has been named Honorary Fellow of Engineers Australia, the highest grade of membership awarded for outstanding achievement.

Mr Rob KNOTT

Chairman, GHD


Rob Lake works in the interconnected areas of sustainability, investment and people.

Rob is the founder of Authentic Investor, an initiative that explores how we can re-connect values and value by enabling people in investment and finance to bring their whole selves to work. Authentic Investor convenes retreats and other events where people with different roles and of different ages meet first and foremost as human beings to have conversations on the things that matter most.

Rob also works as an advisor to institutional investors, helping them shape their strategy

to respond to the challenges of sustainability, ensuring that it is anchored in their purpose and values as organisations. He has worked with investors worldwide, and has also been an advisor to UNEP and the OECD.

He is an executive coach, helping people get the best of out of their work, their life, and themselves.

In previous roles was at the UN Principles for Responsible Investment, APG Asset Management, Henderson Global Investors and various sustainability NGOs.

Mr Rob LAKE

Founder, Authentic Investor

Widely respected as one of the world’s leading thinkers, Pascal Lamy continues to enjoy a high-profile career, following his leadership of the WTO for 8 years, until 2013 and, earlier, as European Union Trade Commissioner.

Among other interests, he presently chairs the Paris bid for Expo 2025, represents France in the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council and is a member of Chatham House’s group on EU-China

partnership. He has also been a mentor to the recently elected President of France, Emmanuel Macron.

Pascal Lamy is a recipient of the Global Achievement Award of the Global Foundation and a leading contributor to the Foundation’s annual Rome Roundtable and related activities over many years.

Mr Pascal LAMY

President, Paris Peace Forum; former Director General, World Trade Organisation


Hans van Leeuwen is the London correspondent for The Australian Financial Review, covering politics, business, economics and markets across Europe. He rejoined the paper last September, following 10 years as a senior policy adviser at the Australian High Commission in London, where his briefs included national security issues and British domestic politics.

During earlier stints at the AFR in Australia his roles included federal press gallery reporter, financial services writer, leader writer and sub-editor.

During his 20-year career he has also been an economics correspondent for Bloomberg, the associate editor of The Diplomat magazine, and an editor and journalism trainer at Vietnam News in Hanoi. He has a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and an MA in international studies from Sydney University.

Mr Hans VAN LEEUWEN

Europe correspondent, Australian Financial Review

Simon has had a wide ranging business leadership career in the UK and internationally, advising clients in the strategic planning, creation and operation of built asset portfolios.

As a Group Executive member of GHD, Simon is currently leading GHD’s transformation and growth in the Europe Middle East region, serving clients across multiple sectors through integrated consulting, technical and digital solutions.

Simon had a long standing career with EC Harris & Arcadis, most recently as an EMEA Board member. He represents various policy advisory bodies in the UK and is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Mr Simon LIGHT

General Manager for Europe and Middle East, GHD

Brian Loughnane was Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia from 2002 until February 2016. In that time he ran four national campaigns as Coalition Campaign Director. He is currently a business and political strategic advisor. Brian was previously State Director of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party from 2000-2003.

He commenced his business career with Shell Australia in 1982 and worked in the oil and gas industry for 14 years until the mid-1990’s.

Brian has extensive international political experience with major centre-right parties around the world. In 2016 he was asked to conduct a review of campaign operations for the Conservative Party of Canada. He is Assistant Chairman of the International Democrat Union and a member of the International Advisory Board of the International Republican Institute.

In January 2018, Brian became an Officer in the Order of Australia.

Mr Brian LOUGHNANE

Business Advisor; former Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia


Adam is the Director of Ethics and Engagement for the Church of England Pensions Board, as well as Co-Chair of the Transition Pathway Initiative and a Board Member of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, (IIGCC). He is also the co-lead, on behalf of CA100+, for engagement with Royal Dutch Shell that led to the 2018 joint statement on climate targets agreed between Shell and institutional investors.

Following the Brumadinho Tailings Dam disaster, Adam is co – lead of the Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative with John Howchin, from the Swedish Ethics Council.

Adam founded and now Co-Chairs the Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) an asset owner-led and asset manager-supported global initiative which assess companies’ preparedness for the transition to the low carbon economy (and publishes this through the London School of Economics). Adam is also the lead for the Church of England on the Mining and Faith Reflections Initiative (MFRI) a forum that convenes dialogue between mining company CEO’s and Church leaders.

Adam also serves as a member of the Royal College of Physicians Investment Advisory Board and on the Pension and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) Stewardship Advisory Group.

Mr Adam MATTHEWS

Director of Ethics and Engagement, The Church of England Pensions Board

Pauliina leads the World Benchmarking Alliance’s advocacy, engagement and outreach strategy, building and strengthening relationships with diverse stakeholders, including investors, companies, civil society and governments, working to ensure that the Alliance is inclusive and relevant globally. The WBA is a new global initiative, providing free, comparable data on the performance of companies aligned to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Benchmark data empowers everyone to better understand how business is shaping their world and provides a roadmap for action. When data is used in this way, it can fast become a very powerful lever for system-wide change.

Pauliina joined the WBA from Aviva, a global insurance company and asset manager, where she was Head of International Government Engagement. At Aviva, Pauliina drove forward international policy development and advocacy campaigns on sustainable finance and trade and investment, working closely with multi-lateral institutions such as the UN, G7 and G20. Pauliina ran the company’s global stakeholder and political engagement strategy, to change the rules at the highest level so that capital is deployed to drive sustainable growth. Prior to this Pauliina was Head of Public Affairs at the global insurer, Royal and Sun Alliance, based in London.

Ms Pauliina MURPHY

Engagement Director, World Benchmarking Alliance


Mr Murray operates a private consulting firmspecialising in infrastructure development.

In this capacity he is a consultant at King &WoodMallesons, a global law firm. He has beenan executive consultant at the leading engineeringconsultancy GHD Pty Ltd, where he was ProjectDirector for the master planning of Sydney’s newinternational airport. He was involved with themaster planning for the Beijing 2008 and London2012 Olympic Games.

Mr Murray is a former Director General (Secretary)of the New South Wales Department of Transportin Australia, prior to which he was ExecutiveDirector Transport for the Sydney 2000 OlympicGames.

His early career comprised 28 years in theAustralian Army; this service involving a number ofoverseas-based roles at the strategic level.He has held a number of corporate directorships

over the last 20 years. He is currently Chairman ofLatrobe Magnesium Limited. He recently completed appointments as Chairman of Omni Tankers Pty Ltd and of St Aloysius’ College, Sydney.Mr Murray is also Chairman of the Board of TheGlobal Foundation, having been a member of theFoundation’s Advisory Council for more than fifteenyears.

He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Instituteof Logistics and Transport and the AustralianInstitute of Company Directors. He is a graduateof The Royal Military College, Duntroon, The RoyalMilitary College of Science in the UK, DeakinUniversity, and of The Australian ManagementCollege, Mt Eliza.

Mr Murray resides in Sydney with his wife and hastwo adult children.

Mr Jock MURRAY AO

Chairman, the Global Foundation

Born in Australia to Malaysian parents, Selena grew up in rural Victoria where her fascination with theuniverse led her via Monash University to a PhD in string theory at the University of Cambridge. Herfocus on “where do we come from?” and “what will we become?” soon turned into “what do we wantto become?” and “how do we make that happen?”. An MBA at the Collège des Ingénieurs led to a 15-year career at the Areva group, a global leader in the nuclear power industry where her activitiesranged from leading a France-US technical collaboration on nuclear non-proliferation to creating a regional office in Singapore to advise South-East Asian countries on developing nuclear power safely and sustainably, and more recently to constructing very large (~1600 MWe) nuclear power plants in France, Finland and the UK.

Selena is a keen advocate of systems thinking and “cross-everything” working: cross-discipline,cross-sector and cross-culture! In addition to coaching her teams at Areva, she has volunteered in strategic planning and organisational change for grassroots associations in rural Benin and Malaysia, financial planning for domestic workers in Singapore, and increasing self-esteem for less privileged teenagers in France. Her guiding aspiration is to create sustainable and positive change in all that she does: situations and people, profit and nonprofit, big and small.

Dr Selena NG

Advisor to the Global Foundation, France


He was installed in May 2009, and in the same year was elected President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.

In 2014, he was appointed by Pope Francis to lead the work of the Church against human trafficking and modern slavery. He is President of the Santa Marta Group, which gathers together Catholic bishops, police chiefs and government officials from over 30 countries around the world in a partnership to work towards the eradication of these twin scourges.

In May 2018, along with the Santa Marta Group, he received the UN Path to Peace Award for his work combatting human trafficking and modern slavery.

Vincent Nichols was ordained to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of Liverpool on 21 December

1969. He studied at the Venerable English College, Rome, the University of Manchester (MA) and Loyola University, Chicago (Med).

He served for eight years as General Secretary of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and was ordained Bishop of North London in 1992. In 1998 he was appointed Chairman of the Bishops’ Conference Department for Catholic Education and Formation and also Chairman of the Catholic Education Service. He was installed as Archbishop of Birmingham on 29 March 2000.

He was created Cardinal in 2014, and in that same year became the first Chancellor of St Mary’s University, Twickenham. He holds the Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion, Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.

HE Cardinal Vincent NICHOLS

Archbishop of Westminister; President of the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of England

Jesse Norman is the MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire, and Minister for Roads at the Department for Transport.

He read Classics at Oxford and completed an MPhil and PhD in Philosophy at University College London. Before entering politics, he ran an educational project working in Communist Eastern Europe, and was a director at Barclays. He has been an Honorary Fellow at UCL, a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, and a Visiting Fellow at All Souls, Oxford.

First elected to Parliament in 2010, he was a member of the Treasury Select Committee. In June

2015 he was elected Chair of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee. In 2016 he was appointed as Energy Minister at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, before moving to the Department for Transport in 2017.

Jesse was Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year 2012, The House Backbencher of the Year 2012, and Dod’s Rebel of the Year 2013.

He writes regularly in the national press. His books include “Edmund Burke: Politician, Philosopher, Prophet” and most recently “Adam Smith: What he Thought, and Why it Matters”.

Mr Jesse NORMAN MP

Paymaster General and Financial Secretary to the Treasury


David is a consultant to King & Wood Mallesons, having previously been senior partner of the firm based in Beijing for nearly 6 years from 2008 – 2013, and prior to that a Managing Partner in Australia.

He has over 30 years’ experience as a specialist in the areas of cross-border investments, debt capital markets and corporate finance. He has a particular interest in the development of China’s financial markets and cross-border capital flows. He chairs the Australian Renminbi Working Group, a private sector led initiative that seeks to raise awareness of the opportunities to RMB for trade, finance and investment and is on the advisory board of the Australia-China Belt and Road Initiative.

He has a strong interest in encouraging young Australians to gain Asian experience and skills, and in 2016 was appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as a “New Colombo Plan Business Champion”. He is on the Council of Australian National University Foundation and is a member of the executive committee of Australia China Business Council (Victoria). He is a former Chairman of the Australian Chamber of Commerce, Beijing and served as a member of the Australian Government’s Australia China Council for 4 years until end of 2016.

Mr David OLSSON

China Practice Consultant, King & Wood Mallesons

Oliver Pawle joined Korn Ferry in 2007 and is the Chairman of the Board practice, focusing on Chairman, Non-Executive and CEO appointments. Prior to his current position, he had a career in investment banking most recently as Vice Chairman of UBS. He lived and worked as an investment banker in Singapore, New York and London.

Oliver is a member of the advisory boards of Delancey Real Estate and Digitalis, a fast growing digital security company. He is also the

non-executive global chairman of FTI Strategic Communications, a leading global consulting company. Oliver is the Founder and Chair of Trustees of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation which is the UK’s leading entrepreneur foundation. He is on the Development Board of TUSK, a conservation charity and on the International Board of L’Arche, a charity which supports people with learning disability. His interests include Development Economics especially in Africa, public policy, opera, golf and racehorse breeding.

Mr Oliver PAWLE

Chairman, Board and CEO Services, Korn Ferry


Stephanie has overseen the growth of the IIGCC since she started with the group in 2005. TheIIGCC is the European forum for investor collaboration aimed at mobilising capital for the low carbon transition by working with business, policymakers and fellow investors. IIGCC has 170members, including many of the largest European pension funds and asset managers, across 12countries and represents €23 trillion in assets under management.

IIGCC runs several formal programmes focused on policy engagement, corporate engagement

and the integration of climate change into the investment process. Stephanie chairs the PolicyProgramme and sits on the Steering Committee of the CA100+ initiative.

Prior to joining IIGCC, Stephanie worked in investment banking for over 7 years, including assenior economist at Morgan Grenfell and Deutsche Bank in London. She holds an MSc inEnvironmental Studies and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford Universityand an MA in Economics from Exeter University.

Ms Stephanie PFEIFER

CEO, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

Leah Pisar is Chair of the Aladdin Project, which seeks to combat extremism by teaching the universal lessons of the Holocaust and building bridges of knowledge among Jews, Christians and Muslims. An expert in transatlantic relations, she also writes, teaches and is a frequent news commentator.

Currently writing a family memoir, she also regularly narrates, with her mother, the text written by her late father, one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, for Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony no. 3 “Kaddish,” with leading world orchestras.

She served on the staff of President Clinton’s National Security Council and at the Department of State and U.S. Embassy in Paris. Her book “Orage sur l’Atlantique: la France et les Etats-Unis face à l’Irak” was published in France in 2010.

She holds a BA from Harvard College, a masters from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques and a PhD from the University of Paris. She serves on the boards of the Franco-American Fulbright Commission, the French Institute/Alliance Française, the Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship and the National Security Network.

Dr Leah PISAR

President, Aladdin Project


Abraham (Abe) Radkin is the Executive Director of the Paris-based Project Aladdin and International Coordinator of the Global Hope Coalition. He is a special advisor to UNESCO on intercultural dialogue.

After education at Repton School and Bristol University, Abe worked for the United Nations and later became diplomatic advisor to Lord Russell Johnston, then President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). He was invited by Lord Slynn of Hadley to act as his advisor while he worked on human rights and judicial reform in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe.

In 2008, Simone Veil, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder and Prince Hassan of Jordan spearheaded a new

initiative under the patronage of UNESCO to teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust in Africa, the Middle East and Asia, and also promote better ties among Jews and Muslims. Abe Radkin was appointed as the executive director of the new organization, the Aladdin Project. In July 2013, Abe Radkin received a medal from then Israeli President Shimon Peres for his efforts to promote Holocaust education and awareness in the Muslim world. He also received the 2014 Daniel Pearl Award of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at the National Conference of the ADL in Los Angeles in November 2014.

Abe has been invited as guest speaker or expert witness by the European, Commission, the European Parliament, and the United States Congress.

Mr Abraham RADKIN

Executive Director, The Aladdin Project

Dr Charles Reed did his undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics and his PHD at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Before becoming the Church of England’s advisor on international and development affairs he worked for the European Commission in Brussels and Burson Marsteller in London. As part of his current responsibilities, he is the Director of The Clewer Initiative, the Church of England’s response to modern slavery, an initiative which he set up in 2016. In 2014

he helped create the International Panel of Parliamentarians for Freedom of Religion or Belief and continues to work with IPPFoRB building the capacity of parliamentarians around the world to be champions and advocates of freedom of religion or belief. He is a member of a several think tanks including the RIIA, RUSI and IISS. He has published widely on the ethics of war and other related topics.

Dr Charles REED

Director, Clewer Initiative, Church of England


Raphael Vermeir is an independent international consultant to the mining, oil, gas and energy sector.

He is the Chairman of IP Week 2020 (International Petroleum Week 2020) and a senior advisor to Anglo American, BCG, AML, Strategia Worldwide, BCW and OSV Finder.

Until November 2015 he was VP Government Affairs International for ConocoPhillips. Vermeir joined ConocoPhillips in 1979, working in marine transportation and production engineering services in Houston, Texas. He then handled upstream acquisitions in Europe and Africa and, from Paris, managed Conoco’s exploration activities in continental Europe. To London, where he led the business development activities of refining and marketing in Europe and then to Istanbul as managing director of Turcas.

Back in London in 1999 he drove strategic initiatives in Russia and the Caspian and

completed major A&D deals in the North Sea. After heading an integration team during the merger of ConocoPhillips, he became head of external affairs Europe in late 2007. He was appointed to his VP role in Sept 2014.

He is a trustee of the St. Andrews Prize for the Environment and the Classical Opera, board member of Malteser International and sat on the board of Oil Spill Response Ltd. He chaired the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers for four years until 2011.

A native of Belgium, Vermeir earned a degree in electrical and mechanical engineering from the Brussels Ecole Polytechnique.

He is a Fellow of the Energy Institute, a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects and received his CBE for services to the Energy Industry.

Mr Raphael VERMEIR CBE

Chairman of the IP week 2020; Senior Advisor, Anglo American

Born in 1967, Senior Research Fellow, Chief Expert, the Executive Vice Chairman of Board of Directorsand Secretary General of National Institute for Global Strategy (NIGS), CASS since the end of 2015. My major study covers the belt and road, China’s global strategy, counterterrorism issue, Middle East issue, etc.

During the period of my position, I published about 400 pieces of papers, books and reports. Some of his works were awarded by CASS and some governmental institutions. I also acts as the chief of several important governmental study projects and has academic positions of national institutions in China.

Professor Linggui WANG

Vice Chairman & Secretary General, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Co. Ltd


LLouise Watson has over 25 years’ experience in corporate reputation management and leadership communications. Louise’s work is recognized as innovative and leading-edge.

Louise developed the blueprint for privatization communications and mass-market float public relations in Australia as communications adviser to Australia’s first privatization, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 1991.

Louise is recognised as a leading adviser to Australian companies and their Chairmen, CEOs and Executive Teams. She has advised some of Australia’s largest corporations on leadership, corporate reputation management, issues management and strategic positioning and investor relations.

In 2002, Louise established Symbol Strategic Communications, which is recognised as

one of Australia’s leading boutique financial communications advisory firms. Previously, Louise had established the Corporate and Finance practice of The Rowland Company (then owned by Saatchi & Saatchi PLC) in 1989 and developed the practice to be the largest and leading financial communications practice in Australia. Rowland was acquired in 2000 by Edelman of New York and Louise became Chairman of its Corporate and Finance Division.

Louise is a Non-Executive Director of CARE Australia. Previously, she was an Advisory Board member of boutique investment bank, Grant Samuel and Associates, for seven years; a non-executive director of the Odyssey House McGrath Foundation charity for nine years and a committee member of the Prime Minister’s Supermarket to Asia Council Communications Working Group.

Ms Louise WATSON

Member of the Board, the Global Foundation; Managing Director, Symbolic Strategic Communications


Steve leads Aviva Investors’ Global Responsible Investment team, which is responsible for integrating environmental social and corporate governance (ESG) issues across all asset classes and regions of c£320bn of assets under management. The team has achieved an A+ ranking in governance and strategy from the UN Principles for Responsible Investment; and a Tier 1 assessment for Stewardship from the UK Financial Reporting Council (the UK’s independent regulator responsible for promoting high quality corporate governance and reporting).

Steve has recently been appointed to the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on sustainable finance and is also a member of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosure. Steve co-founded and now Chairs the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark. He also co-founded the Sustainable Stock Exchange initiative as well as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Coalition, which is aiming to catalyse a UN Convention promoting enhanced corporate transparency and integrated reporting. He is also an Ambassador for the International Integrated Reporting Council.

He was a member of the UK Government delegation to the UN Rio+20 meeting in 2012, and a member of the European Commission’s expert groups on corporate governance and corporate responsibility. His work became a case study in the Harvard Business School MBA in 2012. Steve has received the Leadership in Sustainability award from the Corporation of London and the British Chamber of Commerce. In 2011 he received the Yale Rising Star in Corporate Governance Award, and he was among the Financial News Top 100 Rising Stars in 2009. Steve was on the board of the UK Sustainable Investment & Finance association (UKSIF) from 2003 to 2010, serving as its Chairman from 2006. He was also part of the expert group that wrote the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment.

Steve is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst institute, with a degree in Economics and a PhD in sustainable finance. He is a faculty member at the International Corporate Governance Network as well as the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Professor Steve WAYGOOD

Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors


Dr. Jonathan Woetzel is a Senior Partner in the Shanghai office and the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute. He helps cities and regions create sustainable growth, supports the transformation of Chinese companies into global leaders and leads research on China, Asia, and global economic and business trends.

Jonathan has been based in China since 1986 and has been instrumental in establishing and growing McKinsey’s presence in China. He is responsible for convening the Firm’s work with city and regional authorities in more than 40 geographies around the world. He leads McKinsey’s Cities Special Initiative and co-chairs the non-profit think tank Urban China Initiative—a collaborative project of Tsinghua University, and McKinsey & Company—that aims to develop and implement solutions to China’s urbanization challenge. Jonathan is also the Asia-based Director of the McKinsey Global Institute where he leads research on productivity, urbanization, infrastructure, inequality and regional economies. An expert on energy, sustainability, and economic master planning, Jonathan’s public sector work is extensive. He also works in the private sector, most often on topics

related to corporate strategy, operations, and organization. He has served clients in industries such as energy, metals and mining, healthcare, telecommunications, and transportation.

Jonathan actively participates in a number of international forums, particularly in the area of US-China relations, including the World Economic Forum, US-China Clean Energy Forum and the Joint US-China Coalition for Clean Energy. He lectures at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Business and the China-Europe International Business School.

Published widely in both Chinese and international publications, Jonathan has written five books on China, including Capitalist China: Strategies for a Revolutionized Economy (Wiley & Sons, 2003). He also co-authored, with Jimmy Hexter, Operation China: From Strategy to Execution (Harvard Business Press, 2007), with Jeffrey Towson, One Hour China (Towson Press, 2013) and with James Manyika and Richard Dobbs No Ordinary Disruption (Public Affairs, 2015).

Dr Jonathan WOETZEL

Senior Partner at McKinsey; Director McKinsey Global Institute, Global Leader of the Cities Special Initiative


Charles was one of the founders of Blueprint and a key contributor to the thinking behind the Blueprint approach which asserts that people are not solely self-interested and that business is not solely driven by profit. Under his leadership Blueprint has moved from being a small initiative launched in 2012 with a conference that looked at how corporate purpose and personal values could be united to serve society, to an independent charity – underpinned by The Blueprint Trust - that is engaged with a growing number of major global companies and whose ambition is to help corporates be truly purpose driven, acting to deliver clear benefits to society as well as delivering long term sustainable performance.

From the outset Blueprint has sought to bring together all strands of society. Charles has worked

across business, government, an economic think tank and, latterly, policy for a major faith institution has helped make this a reality. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at KPMG in London and holds a BA in Physics and Philosophy and a Postgraduate Diploma in Theology from Merton College, Oxford. Charles worked as a senior research officer at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and as a Clerk at the House of Commons where he was Clerk to the Trade and Industry select committee. He went on to become assistant general secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, where he was principal advisor to the Bishops on domestic public policy issues. Charles is married with four children and lives in Brighton.

Mr Charles WOOKEY

CEO, Blueprint for Better Business

Mr. Wu has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors of CAS Holdings Co., Ltd. since June 2014. He has also been the Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Executive Director of Biosino Bio-Technology and Science Corporation, a HKEX listed company, since January 2007. He served as the Vice Chief of the Vision Office of the CAS Planning Bureau from November 1991 to October 1992. From October 1992 to April 1998 he was the Chief of the Public Relations Coordination Office of the CAS General Office. He then served as the Deputy Head of the CAS Institute of Biophysics

from April 1998 to June 2005. He was also President of Biosino Bio-Technology and Science Corporation from September 2003 to July 2014.Mr. Wu obtained his Master’s Degree in Science and completed the EMBA program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Lebin WU

Chairman, Chinese Academy of Sciences Holdings Co. Ltd


Dr. Xiang Bing is the Founding Dean and Professor of China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB). CKGSB is China’s first privately-funded and faculty-governed business school with headquarters in Beijing, teaching sites in Shanghai and Shenzhen and representative offices in Hong Kong, London and New York.

Prior to joining CKGSB, Dr. Xiang was a Professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management, where he pioneered the school’s Executive MBA program. He was also one of the seven founding faculty members of China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Previously, Dr. Xiang served on the faculty of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is a leading authority on the reform of state-owned enterprises, the role of the private sector, China business, innovations in China, globalization of Chinese companies, and global implications of China’s transformation.

He has been an independent board member of a number of companies listed in Hong Kong,

mainland China and the US (including two Global Fortune 500 companies). He is also a member of boards of trustees for United Way Worldwide (US) and Asia House (UK), as well as a member of the International Advisory Council of Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC). Dr. Xiang has served as keynote speaker or panelist at some of the most influential forums and conferences in China and around the world. Recent speaking engagements have included Sydney China Business Forum, World Economic Forum, Asia Society, Committee of 100 (US), Deutsche Bank, The Conference Board, Yale CEO Summit, Harvard Kennedy School, The Economist, Financial Times, Global Pension Forum, Boao Forum, Asia House (UK), Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum and APEC Global Innovator Conference.

Dr Bing XIANG

Founding Dean & Professor, China Business and Globalization at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

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