Mr Teo Chee Hean is Singapore’s Senior Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security. He is Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Climate Change, and oversees the National Climate Change Secretariat. He also oversees the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, National Security Coordination Secretariat, and National Population and Talent Division under the Prime Minister’s Office.

He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2009 to 2019, and has served as the Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Defence, Minister for Education, and Minister for the Environment. He also served as Minister of State in the Ministries of Finance, Communications and Defence. Prior to entering politics in 1992, he was the Chief of Navy holding the rank of Rear Admiral.

Mr Teo graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Management Science from the University of Manchester. He holds a Master of Science (Distinction) in Computing Science from Imperial College and a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University.

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad is Malaysia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) and Member of Parliament for Setiawangsa. He is also the Vice-President of the People’s Justice Party (KEADILAN).
 
A law graduate from King’s College London, he was Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s Private Secretary before being elected as Selangor State Assemblyman for Seri Setia in the 2008 General Elections. He was appointed as the Political Secretary to the then Selangor Chief Minister.
 
He then became Deputy Speaker for the Selangor State Legislative Assembly and then State Executive Councillor (State Minister). In the 2018 General Elections, he was elected to Malaysia’s Parliament, representing Setiawangsa. With the formation of the Unity Government, he was appointed Minister of Natural Resources, Environment and Climate Change in 2022.
   
He is the author of several books, including Saving the Planet: Climate and Environmental Lessons from Malaysia and Beyond.

Sir Danny Alexander joined HSBC in November 2024 and is CEO of HSBC Infrastructure Finance and Sustainability, CIB. In this role, Danny leads on infrastructure finance and project finance advisory opportunities associated with the transition to net zero in HSBC’s strategic markets. Danny also leads on sustainable finance and clean tech initiatives and oversees partnerships such as Pentagreen Capital, HSBC’s joint venture with Temasek that targets marginally bankable clean energy and adaptation projects in Southeast Asia.

Previously Sir Danny was Vice President, Policy and Strategy, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). He joined the AIIB – the first new multilateral development bank of the 21st century and the first to be headquartered in Beijing - at its inception in 2016 and led the Bank through its start-up and growth phases. Sir Danny was responsible for AIIB’s strategic direction, including its thematic sectoral and country priorities. He led the Bank’s ambitious climate agenda and oversaw AIIB’s environmental and social and other operational policies. He represented AIIB at the G20 Finance Ministers meetings, climate COPs, and other international meetings. He led the Bank’s partnership with the World Bank and other multilateral, bilateral, and private sector partners.

From 2010-2015, Sir Danny was Chief Secretary to the Treasury in the United Kingdom Cabinet. He led the Liberal Democrat negotiating team that established the Coalition that governed in that period, and was one of the four member ‘Quad’ that provided the core political leadership of that government. In government, he was responsible for the UK’s deficit reduction, pension reform, and national infrastructure plan. He was a member of the National Security Council. He was MP for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey from 2005 to 2015. He was Knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 2015 for his services to government.

He holds a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford and is an honorary fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford. He was born and brought up in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. 

Bruna is Manager at the COP30 Extraordinary Unit in the Brazilian Ministry of Environment and Climate Change where she is currently leading the preparation of the COP30 Action Agenda to engage businesses, investors, subnational governments and society in global climate action to implement the Paris Agreement. An international relations professional with a master's degree in management and public policies, Bruna has over 16 years of experience in international climate cooperation and monitoring of multilateral environmental agreements. She coordinated delegations and advocacy for Local and Subnational Governments of South America at COPs in Doha, Lima, Paris, and Madrid. She received the British Empire Medal - BEM awarded by Queen Elizabeth II for services rendered to COP26 in Glasgow, leading the COP engagement strategy with Brazil and as Deputy Director of Climate, Nature, and Energy at the British Embassy in Brazil, she coordinated a new Bilateral Partnership for Green and Inclusive Growth.

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.

Susan Chan, Senior Managing Director, is the Head of Asia Pacific at BlackRock. Ms. Chan serves on BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee, as well as the firm’s Asia Pacific Executive and Steering Committees.

Ms. Chan is responsible for leading the Asia Pacific region and overseeing the full range of business, client, investment and operational platforms serving wealth and institutional investors via BlackRock’s active, index, ETFs, alternatives and technology offerings. 

Ms. Chan was previously Deputy Head of Asia Pacific, Head of Greater China, and Head of Trading, Liquidity & Lending for Asia Pacific. She also oversaw the Sustainable & Transition Investing group in Asia Pacific. She joined the firm in Hong Kong in 2013 as Head of iShares Capital Markets and Products for Asia Pacific, before becoming Head of ETFs and Index Investing, a role she held until 2021. 

Prior to joining BlackRock, she was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong where she was Head of Equity Structuring, Strategic Equity Transactions and DBx Asia Pacific. Before Deutsche Bank, she was Managing Director at Barclays Capital Asia Limited where she held various leadership positions in equity derivatives with the most recent being Head of Equity and Funds Structured, Asia Pacific.

Ms. Chan received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Finance in 2023. She also serves as a member of the Financial Infrastructure and Market Development Sub-Committee, under the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. 

Ms. Chan is a graduate of Boston University, Boston, Mass.

Mr Chang Yuliang joined Temasek in July 2017 and is currently Managing Director, Investment (China). He mainly covers public market investments in sectors such as consumer, industrials, and financial services.

Chang Yuliang was previously the Chief China Equity Strategist of Deutsche Bank AG, Hong Kong Branch, covering A-share and H-share investment strategy research. Before this, Yuliang also worked on strategy research at Hony Capital’s Hong Kong office.

He began his career with Goldman Sachs, followed by China International Capital Corporation (CICC), and altogether spent 8 years advising global institutional investors on investment strategies in China public equities.

Chang Yuliang received a MSc in Finance from Stockholm School of Economics, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wuhan Polytechnic University. Yuliang was certified as Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) in 2009.

Amita Chaudhury is the Group Head of Sustainability at AIA, the largest pan-Asian life insurance group, where she is responsible for overseeing the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy and driving organisation-wide efforts to embed ESG into business operations and culture. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board of the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. 

Amita has 20+ years of experience working in local, regional, and global roles in India, Singapore, London, and New York, of which the last 13 years were in sustainability. Prior to AIA, she spent 11 years at Unilever as Global Diversity & Inclusion Director and Head of Sustainable Business for Southeast Asia & Australasia, and was seconded from Unilever to the United Nations Global Compact for a year.

In 2018, Amita was recognised by the World Business Council of Sustainable Development as a “Leading Women in Sustainability”. She is on the Executive Committee of Singapore Sustainable Finance Association and Advisory Committee of Climate Governance Initiative (Hong Kong chapter), and was a member of the Expert Advisory Group Member with Science Based Targets Initiative from 2022-2024.

Mr Chia Der Jiun was appointed Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on 1 January 2024.  He was previously Permanent Secretary (Development) at the Ministry of Manpower.

Prior to his appointment at MOM in 2020, Der Jiun had spent 18 years at MAS in a range of functions covering monetary policy implementation, reserve management, macroeconomic surveillance, and banking supervision and regulation. At MAS, he was last Deputy Managing Director (Corporate Development) with responsibilities for risk, finance, payment system and currency operations, HR and organisation transformation. Der Jiun also served as Executive Director for Southeast Asia at the International Monetary Fund from 2011 to 2013. He holds a BA(Hons) in Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from INSEAD.

Dr Joseph Curtin is a Managing Director on the Power & Climate team, which is aimed at scaling up energy access and accelerating an inclusive energy transition in emerging markets. Joe currently leads the Foundation’s coal to clean programme, including the Coal to Clean Crediting, Coal Pipeline, JET-P and the Energy Transition Accelerator initiatives. He also leads the Foundation’s programmes focused on human capital and institutional development for energy transition in Africa.

Prior to joining the Foundation, he was a member of the Irish Government’s Climate Change Advisory Council and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of International and European Affairs. He previously worked for the OECD evaluating the climate policy performance of countries across the world, for the National Economic and Social Council (an advisory body to the Irish Prime Minister) and at University College Cork. He has contributed on coal transition, climate mitigation, climate finance and international climate negotiations to the New York Times, BBC, Foreign Policy, the Financial Times, the Atlantic, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, and has published on these topics in leading academic journals.

He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics, and he has a Ph.D. on climate finance from University College Cork.

Gina Domanig is the Managing Partner of Emerald Technology Ventures. In 2000, she founded the business as the first independent cleantech venture capital fund in Europe. She is the co-chair of innovation at the World Energy Council and serves on the advisory boards of the Danish Innovation Fund and the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Food and Water Security. She is on the board of directors of Actnano Ltd, GeoDigital International Inc, Urgently Inc. (ULY NASDAQ), Die Mobiliar and the Basel Agency for Sustainable Energy (BASE) Foundation.

Featured in Forbes 50 over 50, Gina has over 30 years of international business experience including banking, M&A, strategic development, and venture capital. Prior to Emerald, she was senior vice president at Sulzer, a Swiss multinational, responsible for strategic planning and M&A. She holds a B.A. in Finance from Arizona State University and MBA degrees from Thunderbird and ESADE in Barcelona. 

J. Carl Ganter is managing director of Circle of Blue, the center for frontline reporting, research, and analysis on water resource issues and their relationship to food and energy in the changing climate. He is co-creator of the global initiative, Designing Water’s Future: A new operating system for fresh water. Ganter is the past vice chairman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security and served as a member of the Forum’s Global Future Council on the Environment and its New Vision for Agriculture and Water initiatives. Carl is an award-winning journalist, broadcaster, and photojournalist, and received the Rockefeller Foundation Centennial Innovation Award for systems impact. He is a fellow of the Explorers Club. BA (Hons) in American Studies, and MSJ in Investigative Reporting, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University.

Bill Gates is chair of the Gates Foundation and founder of Breakthrough Energy and TerraPower. In 1975, he co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend, Paul Allen, and today he is chair of the Gates Foundation. Bill is also the founder of Breakthrough Energy, an effort to commercialise clean energy and other climate-related technologies, and TerraPower, a company investing in developing groundbreaking nuclear technologies.

At Breakthrough Energy, he’s putting his experience as an innovator and problem-solver to work to address climate change by supporting the next generation of entrepreneurs, big thinkers, and clean technologies. Bill uses his experience partnering with global leaders across sectors to help drive the policy, market, and technological changes required for a clean energy transition.

Through his private office, Gates Ventures, he focuses on Alzheimer’s research and other issues such as healthcare, interdisciplinary education, and technology.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is an internationally recognised public policy expert, author, columnist, and institution builder. He is the founder-CEO of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, one of the world’s 20 best climate think-tanks.

Arunabha advises governments, industry, civil society, and international organisations around the world. He currently serves on Government of India’s G20 Finance Track Advisory Group and advises the Sherpa Track for India’s G20 Presidency in 2022-23. In 2022, the UN Secretary-General appointed him to the High-level Expert Group on the Credibility and Accountability of Net-Zero Announcements by Non-State Actors.

Dr Ghosh is currently Vice-Chair of the UN Committee for Development Policy, and is a member of several international expert advisory groups: Global Commission on the Economics of Water; High-Level Group of Economists, constituted by the French president for the One Planet Lab; and the High-Level Consultative Group for the U.S. Department of State’s Energy Transition Accelerator.

Rodi Guidero is the Executive Director of Breakthrough Energy, a global platform to accelerate energy innovation and build the industries of the future, without emissions. Rodi also serves as a Managing Partner of Breakthrough Energy’s venture capital arm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures.

As Breakthrough Energy’s leader, Rodi oversees the strategic vision for the organisation’s work to deploy over $5 billion in committed capital, support over 160+ leading companies, and collaborate with public and private sector leaders to build a clean energy economy. Breakthrough’s programs include frontier science, pre-venture nondilutive funding, venture capital company-building, project funding, and policy, partnership, and strategic communications work. Breakthrough Energy companies are positioned to transform every sector of the global economy to be more affordable, more reliable, more secure — and emissions-free.

In addition to his work at Breakthrough Energy, Rodi remains part of Bill Gates’ private office, managing strategic investments and fostering key business relationships that align with Bill’s vision for a cleaner and more resilient future.

Previously, Rodi worked at BMGI (now Cascade Investment), where he managed Bill’s investments in early-stage technology companies and venture capital funds. Before joining BMGI, he served as general counsel for two Silicon Valley-based venture capital firms, gaining deep experience in technology and investment strategy.

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.

Anthony is a well-known global leader in the fields of climate finance, law, international policy development, philanthropy and sustainability where he has worked since 1990. He speaks and write widely on these topics. In 2014 Anthony was invited by the then UN Secretary General to address the UN Climate Summit from the UN General Assembly Hall. In additional to his role at Howden he is currently the Chair at the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR), Adjunct Professor at the Singapore Institute for Technology, Chair of the Climate Action Advisory Board, Co-Chair of the Carbon Tracker Advisory Board, Member of the Climate Bonds Advisory Board and member of the Editorial Board of the journal Carbon & Climate Law Review (CCLR). He is a former Executive Fellow at the World Economic Forum's Centre for Nature and Climate, Executive Director at the Mission Possible Partnership, CEO at the Carbon Tracker Initiative, Global Head, Climate Finance and Sustainability & Partner at the Global Law Firm, Norton Rose Fulbright and General Counsel to the €1bn climate fund at Climate Change Capital.

His experience, passion, consistent delivery and profile have helped him to develop a leading reputation in these fields. He brings a long-term, strategic perspective to all his roles. Combining this with his legal expertise, proven diplomacy skills, work in the energy, banking, finance and NGO sectors, scientific training and collaborative style he is a highly effective leader who has proven his ability to identify key new areas of relevance for the corporate sector and to grow multiple organisations and new business lines in response.

Dr Steve Howard is Vice Chairman, Sustainability, Temasek. He first joined Temasek as Chief Sustainability Officer in January 2021. Steve is a board member of GenZero, which he helped establish, and chairs the Investment Committee. He is also a founding board member of the Temasek-BlackRock joint venture, Decarbonization Partners, and is a member of the Investment Committee. In addition, Steve is Founding Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition and a member of the LeapFrog’s Global Leadership Council. He is also chair of the Advisory board of Tilt Collective, a global initiative promoting plant-rich food systems. He was, until recently, on the Administrative Board of SEforALL.

Before joining Temasek, Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011 to 2017. In 2015, Steve co-founded We Mean Business, a leading climate change coalition of organisations that helped support the Paris Agreement. Prior to IKEA, Steve was Founder and CEO of The Climate Group, a global NGO that has built 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 Group in London and a Director at URS Corporation.

Steve has worked with various NGOs and UN bodies on a wide range of global sustainability topics. 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.

Mr Jiang is the Vice President and Board Secretary of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL), where he has led the completion of several equity and debt financing projects.

Mr Jiang is also responsible for the establishment of CATL's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) governance system and disclosure of ESG practice, and serves as the Director of the Sustainability Management Committee, committed to advancing the CATL's long-term goals in the field of sustainable development and fulfilling the Company's social responsibilities.

Mr Jiang holds a master's degree from Peking University and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has served as a sponsor representative for multiple projects. His previous roles include Associate Director, Director, and Executive Director of the Investment Banking Department at UBS Securities Co., Ltd., and Director of the Board Office at China Development Bank Securities Co., Ltd.

Shashank Kumar, an alumnus of IIT Delhi (’08), co-founded the full-stack, business-to-farmer (B2F) agritech platform DeHaat, in 2012, and currently serves as its CEO. DeHaat is a one stop destination for small farmers, catering to all their agricultural needs. Under his leadership, DeHaat is grown into one of India’s largest full-stack AgriTech platform, serving over 13Mn farmers and 15,000+ micro-entrepreneurs across 12 Indian states. 

During his entrepreneurial journey, Shashank has been felicitated with multiple recognitions including ‘Economic Times 40 Under Forty, 2022’, ‘BW Disrupt 40 Under 40, 2017’ & ‘Forbes 30 Under 30, 2014’. In 2014, he was recognised by Times Now in their list of Amazing Indians and in 2013, he was awarded the honour of ‘Ashoka Fellow’, recognising the world’s leading social entrepreneurs. Shashank has also been instrumental in leading his team to numerous milestones including prestigious awards like NDTV Rural Infra Pioneer Award (2024) & The Hindu BusinessLine Changemaker of the Year (2022) amongst others.

Rachel Kyte was appointed UK Special Representative for Climate on 21 October 2024.

She is Professor of Practice in Climate Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and dean emerita of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Rachel was previously Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and CEO of Sustainable Energy for All.

She has also served as World Bank Group Vice President and Special Envoy for Climate Change, as well as Vice President for Sustainable Development at the World Bank, and for Business Advisory Services at the International Finance Corporation. 

Rachel has held non-executive director, trustee and board member roles with a number of private and public financial institutions, as well as non-profit organisations, focused on climate and development.

James Lam has over 20 years of experience in the planning, design, supervision and management of large-scale infrastructure and reclamation projects including port and coastal infrastructure, reclamation, climate resilience and buildings.

He specialises in civil (geotechnical and coastal) engineering design, procurement and project management of the development of ports, wharves, land reclamation, control centre, infrastructure (roads, drains, sewers) including soil investigation, dredging, caissons, containment bund, soil improvement, shore protection, structures and pile foundations.

James is currently Chair of the Singapore Water Association Coastal Protection Chapter and is managing the various Climate Change Adaptation Studies in Singapore, which focuses on coastal and inland flood resiliency. He is also highly conversant with Contract Administration and Project Management and was awarded the Outstanding Project Manager Award 2022 (Special Project Category) by the Society of Project Managers Singapore.

James holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil & Structural Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

Linda-Eling Lee is the Institute’s founding director and a leader in the field of sustainable finance.

She most recently led global ESG and climate research at MSCI, where she built one of the world’s top teams of analysts dedicated to understanding long-term drivers of sustainable value. Linda has authored multiple research papers on sustainable investing and twice been named by Barron’s to its annual list of the Top 100 Women in Finance. She serves as a director of US SIF: Sustainable Investment Forum and is a Fellow of the Finance Leaders Fellowship of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Linda joined MSCI in 2010 following the acquisition of RiskMetrics, where she led ESG ratings research and headed consumer sector analysis. She received her doctorate in organisational behavior from Harvard University, holds a master’s from the University of Oxford, and has a bachelor’s in East Asian Studies from Harvard College.

Mr Lim Boon Heng was appointed Chairman of Temasek Holdings on 1 August 2013, after having served as its Director since 1 June 2012.

Mr Lim is the Chairman of NTUC Enterprise Co-operative Ltd. He was previously a Cabinet Minister within the Prime Minister's Office. Mr Lim’s career spans the private and public sectors, having led Singapore’s National Trade Union Congress, and having served as a Member of Parliament (1980 to 2011) and Cabinet Minister for Trade and Industry. Before entering the public sector, Mr Lim spent a decade at NOL (Neptune Orient Lines).

Mr Lim holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Naval Architecture from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

Keith oversees Temasek’s Ecosperity Office, the firm’s key platform for sustainability engagement and advocacy convening global leaders from the private and public sectors, academia and civil society to push the agenda on sustainable development. This includes Ecosperity Week, Southeast Asia’s biggest sustainability conference to drive policy and solutions-oriented discourse aligned with the firm’s strategic business priorities. 

Concurrently the firm's Director of Public Affairs, Keith is responsible for all aspects of strategic as well as deal-focused communications around Temasek’s sustainability and ESG-centred investment and corporate activities.   

A former news journalist with a passion for purpose-led storytelling, Keith is a strong advocate of transparency and authenticity in modern brand communications. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Sustainability Media Academy, a non-profit, first-of-its-kind platform that focuses on training the next generation of Asian media practitioners to tell the evolving climate story across the region. Keith was also a member of Alliance for Action on Corporate Purpose, led by Singapore’s National Volunteer & Philanthropy Centre, to co-design and co-develop the National Framework and Blueprint on Corporate Purpose. 

Anika McManus is ESG Managing Director for Australia and Asia Pacific of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock. She is based in Sydney. 

Ms. McManus oversees GIP’s results-focused and data-driven approach to ESG across its portfolio of assets in Asia Pacific, applying GIP’s rigorous ESG due-diligence framework to potential acquisitions, and working directly with the assets to promote and integrate best practice Environmental, Social and Governance considerations throughout the life-cycle of an investment, with a view to enhancing the long-term value of these investments and delivering tangible improvements where feasible and appropriate. Key assets Ms. McManus works closely with at the Board, Executive and ESG team level include Malaysia Airports, Sydney Airport, Port of Melbourne, NSW Ports, Pacific National rail, Perdaman urea and ammonia plant currently under construction, and various LNG assets.

Ms. McManus has over 30 years’ experience in a diverse range of senior leadership roles including sustainability, indigenous relations, government relations, environment, safety, strategy development, communications, leadership coaching, cultural change, workplace relations and Non-Executive-Directorships across various industry sectors including Resources, FMCG, Industry Associations, Aerospace and Not-For-Profit. She is on the Board of Directors for the Port of Melbourne, and was previously on the Board of Directors for the Gold Industry Group.

Prior to joining GIP, Ms. McManus was Director Corporate Affairs, Environment & Sustainability at Graymont. Her previous roles include Group Manager External & Indigenous Relations at Evolution Mining and Group Sustainability Leader at LionCo.

Ms. McManus holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Sydney and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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.

 Mr Ravi Menon has a portfolio of work in sustainability, innovation, and inclusion. 

Mr 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 plays a leading role in Singapore’s efforts to foster collective action internationally and transition planning locally towards a low-carbon future. He is also Chairman of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) Asia-Pacific Advisory Board and a member of the GFANZ Principals Group. 

Mr Menon is Chairman of the Global Finance & Technology Network, a not-for-profit company which harnesses technology and fosters innovation for more efficient, resilient, and inclusive financial ecosystems globally. He is also a Trustee of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Chairman of its Innovation and Enterprise Committee; and a Senior Fellow at the Civil Service College. 

Mr Menon is Chairman of ImpactSG, a start-up charity which aims to grow a community of purposeful givers in Singapore and Asia. He is also a Board Member of The Majurity Trust, a philanthropy which deploys cause-based funds to address social needs; and a Trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association, a community self-help group.  

Prior to his current roles, Mr Menon served for 36 years in the Singapore Public Service. 

As Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (2011-23), Mr Menon oversaw monetary and macroprudential policies, reformed the financial regulatory framework, and developed Singapore as a green finance centre and a global FinTech hub. On the international front, he served as Chairman of the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board Standing Committee on Standards Implementation. 

As Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (2007-11), Mr Menon helped to steer the economy during the global financial crisis. As Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (2003-07), he oversaw fiscal policy and government reserves. 

Mr Menon is a recipient of the Meritorious Service Medal from the Singapore Government, the Distinguished Alumni Award from NUS, and the Distinguished Leadership and Service Award from the Institute of International Finance in Washington.  

Mr Menon holds a Master's in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from NUS.

Amy Merrill is the Chief Executive Officer of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), the independent global governance body that sets and enforces threshold quality standards for the voluntary carbon market.

Between 2011 and 2021, Amy led the UNFCCC support to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, leading negotiations and drafting that resulted in the Article 6 implementing rules at COP26 (2021). Amy was also the senior lawyer for the Kyoto carbon mechanisms and the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement compliance committees. Before UNFCCC, Amy was a leading carbon and climate finance lawyer in the City of London, working with MDBs and investment banks. After UNFCCC, Amy was senior legal counsel at a natural capital asset manager and then worked as interim COO at ICVCM on secondment from the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Amy is a UK lawyer with more than 20 years’ experience.

Rushad Nanavatty leads Third Derivative, the global nonprofit RMI's climate tech accelerator. Third Derivative sources, selects, and scales the most promising technology solutions we need to solve our hardest climate and energy challenges. Established in 2020, Third Derivative's portfolio includes 268 of the most promising climate tech startups globally, drawn from 22 countries each with gigaton-scale emissions abatement potential. Following our portfolio companies' acceptance to Third Derivative, they have collectively raised over $2.6 billion, with more than a third of them progressing to commercial deployment, and with a growing presence in Southeast Asia and a focus in Singapore, India, and the Middle East. Rushad previously led RMI’s Urban Transformation work, helping cities meet their goals for emissions reduction, livability, resilience, and equity. Rushad also co-led the Global Cooling Prize, a global innovation competition supporting cooling solutions. Prior to RMI, Rushad was the founding COO of WeGen Energy — a startup developing off-grid energy solutions and virtual power plants in the Philippines and Vietnam — and spent six years at McKinsey & Company in its sustainability, infrastructure, and private equity practices, leading projects in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.

Daniel Oehling is a core member of the Principal Investors & Private Equity (PIPE), Climate & Sustainability, and Industrial Goods practices at Boston Consulting Group.

Daniel works with investors and industrial conglomerates on developing their climate and sustainability investment strategies, decarbonizing their investment portfolios, and measuring and sustaining their climate efforts.

Daniel has extensive experience across climate change and energy transition topics.

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for integrating ESG across Temasek’s global portfolio working with teams on portfolio company engagement and ESG investments. She also oversees the firm’s sustainability strategy to advance net zero, nature positive, and inclusive growth.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, 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 most recently 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 a management consultant 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 boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Resources for the Future and is an advisory member for NYU’s Center for Sustainable Business. She is also a board director of Clifford Capital Holdings.

Andrew Ponec is co-founder and CEO of Antora Energy. Antora builds and deploys American-made thermal batteries to power always-on industrial operations with low-cost energy.

Prior to founding Antora, Andrew founded the solar energy company Dragonfly Systems. Dragonfly developed and commercialised novel power electronics for utility-scale solar power plants, and was acquired by SunPower in 2014. Ponec led Dragonfly’s team through concept generation, prototyping, validation testing, manufacturing, and installation.

Andrew received his B.S. in energy systems engineering from Stanford University, where he researched advanced photovoltaics and power electronics

Riccardo Puliti, an Italian national, is IFC’s Regional Vice President for Asia and the Pacific and oversees all investment and advisory operations across the region.  Mr. Puliti is focused on leveraging the World Bank Group to scale sustainable private sector led growth by supporting innovative products and transformative technologies. His key priorities for the region include enhancing financial and digital inclusion for underserved communities, closing the gender divide, increasing climate financing, helping countries transition to cleaner sources of energy, and bridging infrastructure gaps.

Previously, Mr. Puliti was the Vice President for Infrastructure at the World Bank. In this role, he led the Bank's global efforts to build effective infrastructure in emerging markets and define the World Bank Group’s strategic business priorities such as the climate change action plan. Mr. Puliti also served as the World Bank’s Regional Director, Infrastructure for Africa, where he led operations and provided strategic direction. Working alongside IFC and MIGA, he helped in the increase in private sector mobilisation. Riccardo joined the World Bank Group as Senior Director of the Energy and Extractives Global Practice in November 2016 and led a team of 500 professionals, developing policies and financing in the global energy and extractive industries.

Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Mr. Puliti was the Managing Director in charge of Energy and Extractive Industries at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He began his career at Istituto Mobiliare Italiano and later worked at Banque Indosuez and NM Rothschild and Sons in M&A and equity capital markets.

Mr. Puliti holds an MBA from Instituto Superior de Estudios de la Empresa (IESE) and postgraduate studies at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and Imperial College.

Gautier is Managing Director of Natural Capital activities at Mirova in France with two decades of experience in sustainable finance. From 2004 to 2016, he led climate finance initiatives at Natixis through the European Carbon Fund, a $150 million fund focused on supporting emission reduction projects in emerging markets under the Kyoto Protocol. In 2013, he played a key role in scaling up renewable energy investments at Mirova and founded its natural capital department in 2016. He currently oversees $600 million in assets, focusing on sustainable land use with the LDN Fund and nature-based solution projects through the Climate Fund for Nature, amongst others.

Gautier holds an engineering degree with a focus on environment and energy from the Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse and graduated from Sciences Po Paris in 2004.

Anshari is a Director in the Strategy and Development Group (Policy & Analytics) at GenZero, and he is responsible for providing thought leadership on policy, regulations and standards in support of GenZero’s investment activities.

Before GenZero, he was a climate change negotiator with the National Climate Change Secretariat under the Prime Minister’s Office. He had represented the Singapore Government at various multilateral fora such as the UNFCCC, UNCBD, IPCC and ASEAN. In total, Anshari has accumulated over 10 years of experience in multilateral negotiations and policymaking.

Anshari has coordinated whole-of-government initiatives such as Singapore’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution and carbon markets strategy. He was also the lead carbon markets negotiator for Singapore, and has co-chaired expert level negotiations on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement (international market and non-market based cooperation).

In terms of external appointments, Anshari currently sits on the Board of Verra. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Science (Life Sciences).

Dilhan Pillay joined Temasek in September 2010. He was appointed Executive Director and CEO of Temasek Holdings on 1 October 2021 and is concurrently the CEO of Temasek International, a position he has held since April 2019.

Dilhan has held various leadership roles in Temasek, including Head of the Investment, the Portfolio Management and the Enterprise Development Groups. He has also led the Temasek market teams in Singapore and the Americas.

Dilhan serves as the Vice Chair of FCLTGLOBAL and is a board member of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also a member of the Financial Centre Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, the Singapore Judicial Service Commission, the Singapore Research, Innovation and Enterprise Council, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, the China Securities Regulatory Commission International Advisory Council and the Future Economy Advisory Panel. Dilhan is also a member of the World Bank Group Private Sector Investment Lab and the President’s Challenge Council of Singapore.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws and obtained a Master of Law from the University of Cambridge.

Mary L. Schapiro is Vice Chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) and Vice Chair for Global Public Policy at Bloomberg L.P., where she also serves as Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman. She previously served as Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and CEO and Chair of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) – the only person to have led all three U.S. financial regulatory agencies.

Schapiro chaired the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) from its launch until its remit was fulfilled in 2023. She currently chairs the Climate Data Steering Committee and the Global Capacity Building Coalition. She serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley and CVS Health, is a trustee of Franklin & Marshall College and the Humane Rescue Alliance and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a J.D. from George Washington University and a B.A. from Franklin & Marshall College.

Simon Stiell was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in August 2022. From 2013 to June 2022, he served in a number of ministerial roles in the Government of Grenada, including as Minister for Climate Resilience and the Environment for five years. He also served as member of Grenada’s Upper House of Parliament, the Senate, where he was Leader of Government’s Business throughout this period. Prior to his return to Grenada, Simon had a successful career spanning fourteen years within the technology sector, holding senior executive positions in several industry leading companies.

Masayuki (Masa) Takanashi is the Group Chief Sustainability Officer (CSuO) of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. He is responsible for the Group’s corporate strategy and business promotion related to sustainability.

Before taking up his current assignment in April 2023, he spent a year as the General Manager of the Corporate Sustainability Department, responsible for the Group’s corporate strategy on sustainability including target setting, governance control, risk management and disclosure as well as new business development and CSR activities.

Until April 2022, Masa was stationed in London for 5 years and held multiple positions including General Manager for Financial Institutions and General Manager for Loan Capital Markets.

He also has experience working in the Group’s Investor Relations team for 6 years of which 3 years he acted as the Head of the team.

Masa joined SMBC (former Sumitomo Bank) in 1993 and worked in various areas such as real estate finance and aircraft finance before moving to Investor Relations. He also spent a couple of years on secondment both with the Japanese Foreign Ministry and a boutique PE firm.

Masa earned an MBA from New York University in 2003 and a BA in Law from Waseda University in 1993.

Su Shan is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group. DBS is the largest bank in Southeast Asia with a market capitalisation of SGD 100 billion (May 2024).

Su Shan was previously the Deputy CEO and Group Head of Institutional Banking, and before that, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management for close to a decade. She was also the President Commissioner for PT Bank DBS Indonesia from 2014 to 2024.

Su Shan has over 35 years of experience in consumer banking, wealth management and institutional banking. Besides Singapore, she has experience in major financial centres such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Before joining DBS, Su Shan was Morgan Stanley’s Head of Private Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. She has also worked at Citibank and prior to that at ING Barings.

She served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2012 to 2014.

In 2018, she was nominated by Forbes Magazine as a “Top 25 emergent Asian Woman Business Leader”. In the same year, she was also named “Retail Banker of the Year”, by the Digital Banker in their inaugural Global Retail Banking Innovation Awards. She was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement” award at the WealthBriefingAsia 2018 Awards.

In 2019, The Asset named Su Shan as one of the six women in Asia who are likely to influence and feature prominently in shaping the banking and associated financial services industry in Asia.

Su Shan sits on the advisory board of Dyson’s family office, Weybourne Holdings. She was previously on the board of the Central Provident Fund of Singapore (CPF Board), Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust, EvolutionX Debt Capital Pte Ltd (a fund focused on growth debt, founded jointly by Temasek and DBS), and The Singhealth Fund Limited, which provides financial support to needy patients.

Su Shan graduated with a Master of Arts from Lincoln College, Oxford University where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Sue-Ern Tan is the Head of the International Energy Agency Regional Cooperation Centre based in Singapore. The Centre is the first outside of the IEA’s Paris headquarters in its 50-year history. The Centre focuses on the Southeast Asia region and beyond and provides policy guidance, technical assistance, training and capacity building across areas such as scaling-up the deployment of renewables and other clean energy technologies, increasing cross-border power trade, and improving access to finance for clean energy investment

Prior to joining the IEA, Sue-Ern worked at Shell plc in senior climate and energy roles at Shell’s headquarters in London and The Hague and most recently in Singapore as the Head of Policy and Advocacy. Sue-Ern practiced as a lawyer, worked as Ministerial adviser on energy in the Australian Government and was the Deputy CEO of a minerals trade association in Australia.

Sue-Ern graduated from University of New South Wales in Australia with a Commerce and Law Degree and is an Eisenhower Fellow representing Australia in the 2017 International Program.

Woochong Um is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP), a multi-sector coalition committed to ending energy poverty and advancing an equitable transition to renewable energy. GEAPP empowers emerging economies across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean by accelerating access to clean, sustainable power—driving economic growth, resilience, and inclusive prosperity for millions.

With over 30 years of extensive experience in international development, Woochong previously served as Managing Director General of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he forged transformative global partnerships and pioneered financing solutions to advance sustainability and community resilience. A leader in climate and renewable initiatives, he seamlessly integrated environmental action across sectors to promote lasting impact.

Woochong began his career in the private sector at Pfizer and Pitney Bowes. He holds an MBA from NYU and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Management from Boston College.

Seonghoon Woo is the founding CEO of Amogy, driving its mission to decarbonise heavy industries through innovative ammonia-to-power technologies. Holding a PhD in Materials Science from MIT with a Minor in Finance, Seonghoon was recognised as Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia and Presidential Young Scientist in South Korea in 2018. Under his leadership, Amogy has raised more than $270M from top investors like Amazon, Aramco and Temasek, and achieved milestones like the world’s first ammonia-powered zero-emission vessel. Amogy has recently expanded its operations in Asia to accelerate the ammonia-driven clean energy transition in the region.

Franziska Zimmermann is Managing Director for Sustainability at Temasek. She leads the development of Temasek’s overarching sustainability strategy to advance net zero, nature positive and inclusive growth. She also spearheads external engagements with relevant 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 establishing and implementing the firm wide ESG programme, defining an ambitious climate change agenda, 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 where she gained critical insight into different industries, including agriculture, healthcare, consumer and industrials. She joined the private sector after almost a decade working with the Swiss government where she focused on advancing international trade and economic development cooperation.

Franziska holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She serves as a member of 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.