Ms Grace Fu graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours), and subsequently obtained a Masters of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. She spent the early part of her career in the private sector. She last held the position of Chief Executive Officer, PSA Southeast Asia and Japan, overseeing the business performance of PSA’s port terminals in Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and Japan.

Ms Fu joined politics in 2006 and is an elected Member of Parliament representing Yuhua Constituency. She held appointments in various Ministries including National Development, Education, Information, Communications and the Arts, Environment and Water Resources, and Foreign Affairs. In 2015, Ms Fu was appointed Minister for Culture, Community and Youth. In July 2020, Ms Fu was appointed Minister for Sustainability and the Environment. In January 2024, Ms Fu concurrently assumed the responsibility as Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations. 

Mr Cheng Wai Keung joined Temasek as a Director in September 2011, and was appointed Deputy Chairman since November 2013.

Mr Cheng is Chairman and Managing Director of Wing Tai Holdings Limited, which holds interests in the property, hospitality and retail sectors in the region. Mr Cheng also holds directorships on a number of companies.  He is the Chairman of Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd, Vice Chairman of Singapore-Suzhou Township Development Pte Ltd and Director of  MOH Holdings Pte Ltd.  Mr Cheng also sits on the Board of Supervisors of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Development Group Co., Ltd (People’s Republic of China).

Mr Cheng served as a director in various industries both locally and overseas. He chaired the boards of power and utilities, media and broadcasting companies, as well as multinational corporations engaged in global shipping and logistics, and international hospitality businesses.

Mr Cheng also served on many government bodies, including the Economic Development Board, Singapore Trade Development Board and Singapore Productivity and Standards Board. He also sat on national committees involved in automation, economic development, SME development, productivity improvement and land policy. 

Away from his public sector contribution, Mr Cheng is active in community service through his involvement with grassroots organizations in nearly 30 years.  He was Justice of The Peace appointed by the Singapore President from 2000 to 2020, and was awarded the Public Service Star (BBM) in 1987, the Public Service Star (Bar) (BBM-Lintang) in 1997 and the Distinguished Service Order (DUBC-Darjah Utama Bakti Cemerlang) in August 2007 by the Singapore Government in recognition of his service.

Mr Cheng was also awarded the Alumni Service Medal in 2006 in honour of his achievement in service to the University of Chicago, from which he graduated with Masters of Business Administration in 1973. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University in 1971. 

Mindy Lubber is the CEO and President of the sustainability nonprofit organisation Ceres. She has been at the helm since 2003, and under her leadership, the organisation and its powerful networks have grown significantly in size and influence.

As a well-known global thought leader, Lubber has inspired capital market leaders to consider all material financial risks and opportunities—including those related to climate change, water scarcity and nature loss—in decision-making. She serves on the Steering Committee of powerful global initiatives including Climate Action 100+, Net Zero Asset Managers initiative and other efforts driving change in capital markets and seeking to achieve the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement.

Mindy is frequently quoted in mainstream business and financial media outlets and pens regular opinion columns for Forbes.com and Reuters.com on a range of sustainability issues. She has also received numerous awards and recognitions for her leadership including the ’Champions of the Earth award, the United Nations highest environmental honor; the Barron’s Magazine’s annual list of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance every year since 2020; the Climate Visionary Award from the Earth Day Network, the William K. Reilly Award for Environmental Leadership from American University; the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship from the Skoll Foundation; and the Nonprofit Times 2022 Power & Influence Top 50. Under her leadership, Ceres has been repeatedly named a top 100 women-led business in Massachusetts by Globe Magazine.

Prior to Ceres, Lubber served as a Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President Bill Clinton. She also founded Green Century Capital Management and served as the director of the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG).

Rohit Sipahimalani joined Temasek in 2008 as Head of Telecommunications, Media & Technology. In 2012, he was appointed Co-Chief Investment Officer and has since held various roles across the organisation before being appointed to his current position. 

Prior to joining Temasek, Rohit spent 11 years with Morgan Stanley holding senior positions across its Mumbai and Hong Kong offices before his appointment as Managing Director & Head of South East Asia Investment Banking in Singapore.

Rohit started his career with Citibank, India and McKinsey & Co in India.

Henrik Henriksson is CEO of H2 Green Steel, a company investing in a large-scale facility for production of green steel in northern Sweden. Before that, Henriksson was President and CEO of Scania, where he led the shift towards more sustainable transport systems, based on his conviction that companies must transform to sustainable solution to survive, and that there is no contradiction between sustainability and profitability.  

Henriksson is a Board Member of AB Electrolux, Creades AB and SAAB AB. Henriksson is also author of the book Sustainability Leadership - A Swedish Approach to Transforming your Company, your Industry and the World. Henriksson and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.

Michael O’Kronley was named CEO of Ascend Elements in March 2020 and has served on the company's board since 2017. Before Ascend Elements, he was Head of Corporate Strategy at A123 Systems. He has worked in the automotive and EV battery industries for over 25 years. Mr. O’Kronley holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Engineering from the University of Michigan. 

Dominic Barton is a global business leader, with a deep insight into geopolitics, corporate sustainability and governance. He serves as Chairman of Rio Tinto, a leading global miner, and LeapFrog Investments, a pioneer of impact investing. Most recently, he was Canadian Ambassador to China.  

Dominic spent over 30 years at McKinsey & Company, including nine years as Global Managing Partner from 2009 to 2018. He was also Asia Chairman for McKinsey between 2004 and 2009.

He has also served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden. He was also a board member of the Olayan Group, a private family-owned company.

Dominic has a keen interest in developing responsible investing strategies and impact investment metrics that stretches back decades. He was one of several co-founders of the non-profit organisation Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT Global), which has a mission to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable economy. He was also Chairman of the IIRC, the benchmark global accounting standard for purpose-driven investments.

Over the course of his career, Dominic has authored more than 80 articles on the role of business in society, leadership, financial services, Asia, history, and the issues and opportunities facing markets worldwide. 

Scott manages Tribeca’s Singapore office and Corporate Advisory business. Tribeca Capital is the Advisory arm of the Tribeca group, which includes a 25-year-old multi-billion dollar Investment Management business and a Private Wealth arm – together creating a boutique merchant banking platform based in Australia & Singapore. The Advisory business is focused on helping both private and public companies reach their potential by providing shareholder-aligned advice and leveraging the extensive relationships and capital markets experience in the group. The business is sector agnostic but primarily active in the decarbonisation thematic, natural resources generally, as well as tech, biotech and healthcare selectively. With a career spanning three decades across a number of global financial centres, Scott is a longstanding resident of Singapore and a graduate of the University of Alberta in Canada.

Adam is the Chief Responsible Investment Officer (CRIO) at the £3.4 billion Church of England Pensions Board. He is the co-Director of the Investment Team with the CIO. In developing the Pensions Board approach to climate change, he founded the $60 trillion in AUM backed Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) which established the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre at the London School of Economics. TPI assess publicly listed companies and sovereign debt issuers on their governance of climate risk and alignment to the Goals of the Paris Agreement.

He is the Chair of the multi-stakeholder Global Investor Commission on Mining 2030 that commenced work in September 2023 with the support of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Cape Town together with investors with $13 trillion in AUM. The Commission has been established to create a consensus across the finance sector for a vision of socially and environmentally responsible mining. The Commission will also focus on the intersection between mineral extraction and conflict.

Following the Brumadinho Tailings Dam disaster in Brazil in January 2019 that killed 272 people, Adam set up and Chairs the $25 trillion backed Mining and Tailings Safety Initiative to lead the investor response to the disaster.

Danielle Martin joined ICMM in September 2020. She is the Co-Chief Operating Officer and Director for Social Performance. Her key areas of focus include social practice improvement, community resilience, human rights and Indigenous Peoples and diversity, equity and inclusion. She also oversees the minerals resource governance and tax projects.

Danielle has previously worked in extractives for more than 25 years in the area of social performance, focusing on stakeholder engagement, community and economic development, and impact assessment and measurement. She has worked across a number of jurisdictions on projects and in communities in developed, transitional and developing economies.

She has an MA in Sustainable Development from the University of Sydney, and a BA Honours in Media and Communications.

Tim Gould was appointed the Agency’s Chief Energy Economist in 2021. As Chief Energy Economist, he provides strategic advice on energy economics across a wide range of IEA activities and analysis. Mr Gould is also Head of the Division for Energy Supply and Investment Outlooks, in which capacity he co-leads the World Energy Outlook, the IEA’s flagship publication, and oversees the Agency’s work on investment and finance, including the World Energy Investment report.

Mr Gould joined the IEA in 2008, initially as a specialist on Russian and Caspian energy, and in recent years has designed and directed the World Energy Outlook together with the IEA’s Chief Energy Modeller while contributing to the Outlook as a principal author. Prior to joining the IEA, Mr Gould was Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the Energy Charter and has ten years of experience in Eastern Europe, primarily in Ukraine. He graduated from Oxford University and has a post-graduate diploma from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University

Prof. Ji ZOU, as CEO & President of Energy Foundation China, overall manages the organisation.

He previously served as a deputy director general of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy and International Cooperation, focusing on China’s low-carbon development strategy and policy, and also led international climate negotiations and collaboration as a key member of the Chinese climate  negotiation team. 

From 2009 to 2012, He served as the first China Country Director of the World Resources Institute, during which he led the institute in exploring projects in climate change, clean energy, and sustainable and livable cities.

Since 2017 when he was on board as the leader of Energy Foundation China, he has pursued in renewable development and energy efficiency improvement in China and Southeast Asia.

Prof. Zou holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and a master’s in Technical Economics, both from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in Resources and Environmental Economics from Renmin University.

Connie Chan is Head, Financial Services at Temasek, responsible for investments and portfolio management globally in the financial services sector, including banking, insurance, payments and other financial technology.

She also leads Temasek’s Sustainable Finance initiatives, including the setup of Pentagreen Capital, a JV with HSBC focused on debt financing for marginally bankable sustainable infrastructure projects, and Temasek’s participation in the Green Investments Partnership under MAS’ Financing Asia’s Transition Partnership (“FAST-P”), a Singapore blended finance initiative in collaboration with key public, private and philanthropic sector partners that aims to mobilise up to US$5 billion to de-risk and finance transition and marginally bankable green projects in Asia.

Connie graduated from the University of Chicago with honors in Economics and also studied Economics at Trinity College, Cambridge University in the U.K.

Dale Hardcastle leads Bain’s regional efforts in decarbonisation, climate investing and carbon markets across Southeast Asia.

Dale is co-director of Bain’s Global Sustainability Innovation Center (GSIC) in Singapore, a sustainability-focused center established to help companies accelerate the time to impact in their sustainability strategies and profitable path to a low-carbon economy.

He also leads Bain’s efforts to connect capital and scale carbon markets through innovative approaches for corporates, investors and resource holders and work with leading conservation organisations and sovereign and institutional investors.

This work to enable corporate climate action is backstopped by two decades of experience working across leading global energy and natural resource companies, food systems, mobility, private equity and technology players.  He has led scale transformation efforts – including those to address the energy transition, corporate venturing, de-carbonisation, sustainability, and the venture innovation.

Dale has worked on multiple strategic associations in APAC and globally with the World Economic Forum and the World Business Council on Sustainable Development on sustainability efforts.

Mr Koh oversees Sembcorp’s operations for solar, energy storage systems, water and gas and related services in Singapore. In the rest of Southeast Asia, he is in charge of a diversified portfolio of energy assets. He is also responsible for driving the strategic direction and business growth of the energy businesses across the region.

Mr Koh has deep knowledge of the energy and water sectors with extensive experience in managing infrastructure-related businesses, supported by a strong financial background. Prior to his current appointment, he was the group chief financial officer of Sembcorp from 2010 to 2018, and was instrumental in shaping and expanding the company’s growth and investments overseas. 

Mr Koh holds a first-class honours in Accountancy from the National University of Singapore and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Marat brings close to two decades of experience including over 15 years in infrastructure, energy and real assets investments and financing. Prior to Pentagreen, Marat was head of the Asia "Upstream" unit at International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group) within the manufacturing, agribusiness and services industry group, tasked with developing bankable projects across sustainable mobility, decarbonisation, waste and circular economy and other climate-smart real assets in Asia. 

Previously Marat was Senior Director of Infrastructure at Clifford Capital in Singapore and held roles in the HSBC Resources and Energy project finance group in Hong Kong and the KPMG Global Infrastructure group in London.

Marat holds a BSc in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Southampton in the UK and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Hon. Maria Antonia Yulo Loyzaga is the current Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines. Since her appointment, she has been designated by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. as Head of the Philippine Delegation conferences including COP15 in 2022 and COP28 in 2023. She is the Chairperson of the Cabinet Cluster on Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation, and Disaster Risk Reduction (CCAM-DRR) and the designated representative of President Marcos to the Climate Change Commission (CCC) as Chairperson.

Ms. Loyzaga was the President of the National Resilience Council (NRC), a science and technology-based public-private partnership aimed at the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Ms. Loyzaga holds a Master of Arts degree in Government from Georgetown University and Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the Ateneo de Manila University.

Piyush Gupta has been the Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group since 2009.

Prior to joining DBS, Piyush had a 27 year career at Citigroup, where his last position was Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Piyush is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Singapore Management University, Vice-Chairman of the Institute of International Finance, Washington, and Vice-Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Executive Committee. In addition, he is a member of Singapore’s Advisory Council on the Ethical Use of AI and Data. He sits on the boards of Singapore’s National Research Foundation, and the Singapore’s Council for Board Diversity. Piyush is a term trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA). Previously, he has been a member of the Singapore Emerging Stronger Taskforce, aimed at defining Singapore’s future in a post-Covid world, the UN Secretary General’s Task Force on Digital Financing of the Sustainable Development Goals, and the McKinsey Advisory Council.

Piyush has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Mr Ngiam Shih Chun is the Chief Executive of the Energy Market Authority, which ensures a reliable and secure energy supply, promotes effective competition in the energy market, and develops a dynamic energy sector in Singapore.

Mr Ngiam was formerly the Deputy Secretary (Industry) at the Ministry of Trade and Industry from 2012 to 2018 where he helped shape Singapore’s industrial and economic policies. In 2016, he co-led the Secretariat for the Committee on the Future Economy to develop key strategies to generate economic growth and create good jobs for Singaporeans. He has held various appointments in the Emeritus Senior Minister's Office, the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and Ministry of Home Affairs. Mr Ngiam is currently a board member of the Energy Market Authority, Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and St Andrew’s Community Services. He holds a Master’s degree in Science (Financial Engineering) from National University of Singapore in 2002 and a Master’s degree in Science (Management) from Stanford University, USA, 2006. Mr Ngiam was awarded the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2016.

Audrey Tan is an assistant news editor at The Straits Times, a news outlet based in Singapore. She has been reporting on the environment for about a decade, covering issues related to climate change, biodiversity conservation, and international climate negotiations. She has a special interest in how Southeast Asia is affected by the planetary crises of climate change and nature loss, and how the region is responding to the planetary emergencies. In 2022, she was part of a team that received a grant from the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Journalism Fund Southeast Asia to pursue an investigative piece on the region’s post-pandemic bushmeat trade, and its implications for forest and human health.

Baba Brinkman is a rap artist and science communicator, best known for his “Rap Guide” series of science-themed plays and albums. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, and based in New York since 2011, Baba has toured the world and enjoyed successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and off-Broadway, where he was the 2019 Artist in Residence at Manhattan’s historic Soho Playhouse Theater.

Called “Astonishing and brilliant” by the New York Times, Baba is a Scotsman Fringe First Award winner for Exceptional New Play Writing, and a two-time Drama Desk Award Nominee, for “Outstanding Solo Performance” and “Unique Theatrical Experience”. He performed live on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” and shared stages with science luminaries including Stephen Hawking and Neil deGrasse Tyson. 
 
Baba founded Event Rap in 2021, recruiting a team of skilled rappers to deliver the company’s unique set of services.