Contributors

Our contributors are listed below. Please click on their names to see a list of all their contributions. If you would like to contribute to China Water Risk, please contact us.

About Ada Kong

Ada Kong, Campaigner of Greenpeace East Asia. She specializes in hazardous substances pollution in China. By doing on-site investigation, policy analysis and campaigning to the public, she works to eliminate hazardous chemicals and push forward better chemicals management policy in China.

About Alan Jenkins

Alan Jenkins is the Director of the Water Science Programme at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. He is active in many national and international committees including representing the UK on the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme and leading the Pilot Programme on Hydrological Extremes for the EU Water supply and sanitation Technology Platform.

About Alec Tang

Alec Tang is a Senior Consultant within ERM’s Global Sustainability and Climate Change practice based in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a Chartered Environmentalist with a broad environmental science background and close to ten years of experience in the global environmental industry. His work has encompassed a variety of roles in academia, the public sector and private consultancy and spanned numerous disciplines including: water quality science; water supply & treatment technologies; water resource management; sustainable drainage solutions; contaminated site management; environmental impact and risk assessment; and sustainable business strategy. Alec plays a central role in the establishment and growth of ERM’s Global Water Sustainability practice, driving forward the development of the product offering, whilst also delivering a range of specific water sustainability projects, from water efficiency audits and water footprinting, through to water risk identification and management. Alec currently sits on Standards New Zealand’s International Review Group for LCA that is actively involved in the development of the ISO water footprint standard. In addition, Alec connects with the wider Sustainability and Climate Change team, utilising his varied experiences and expertise to support the delivery of projects relating to energy and resource efficiency; sustainable buildings and communities; and climate change management, mitigation and adaptation.

About Alexandra Harney

Alexandra Harney has been writing about Asia, primarily China and Japan, for more than a decade. Alexandra is the author of The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage, published by the Penguin Press in 2008. A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, Alexandra speaks, writes and reads Mandarin Chinese and Japanese. She spent seven years as a correspondent and editor at the Financial Times in China, Japan and the UK. She has also written for The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Slate, The Times of London, Foreign Policy, The China Economic Quarterly and the Economist Intelligence Unit. From her base in Hong Kong, Alexandra consults for global investors to help them understand the issues and opportunities in the region.

About Amanda Sauer

Amanda Sauer is a Senior Associate with the ENVEST objective of the Markets and Enterprise Program. Amanda specializes in research and analysis on the financial impacts of environmental issues on industries and their supply chains. Her research focuses on the regulatory and physical impacts of climate change and water scarcity on the energy, extractive, chemicals, automotive, forest products, and consumer products sectors. Amanda’s research has been featured in the Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR’s Market Place, the International Herald Tribune, as well as numerous journals and trade publications. Amanda has an Economics degree from Cornell University and a MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a practicing artist and professor of photography at Northern Virginia Community College.

About Amnon Levy

Amnon Levy is the COO of IDE Technologies, a pioneer and world leader in water technologies specializing in the development, engineering, production and operation of advanced desalination as well as innovative industrial solutions.

About Andy Wales

ANDY WALES is Global Head of Sustainable Development for SABMiller, one of the world’s largest brewers. He is a board member of a number of key global water initiatives, and also leads a strategy encouraging local enterprise development across Africa, Asia and Latin America. He was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009 and in 2010 was appointed a London Sustainable Development Commissioner.

About Angela Ni

Angela Ni is a 2010-2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellow based in Yunnan, China. Ms. Ni’s research project is on the environmental health implications of China’s water conditions, focusing on scaling up alternative sanitation technologies and livestock wastewater treatment. Ms. Ni has five years experience in public health. Her fields of expertise are water and sanitation, behavior change communication and health promotion, and environmental health policy analysis. In China’s environmental health sector, Ms. Ni offers a range of experience collaborating with rural communities, government, and nonprofit organizations. Ms. Ni is also a guest blogger for the PLoS Medicine’s Speaking of Medicine blog. Ms. Ni holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.

About Angel Wong

Angel Wong is a Chartered Environmentalist with an academic and research background in civil and environmental engineering. Based in Hong Kong, Angel is engaged in numerous projects across Asia, providing sustainable water and environmental management solutions for the public and private sector. Angel is an Associate and Senior Environmental Planner with AECOM; a global provider of professional technical and management support services.

About Bobby Ng

Mr Bobby Ng is now the Assistant Director of Water Supplies Department and is responsible for the strategic planning of water supply systems and water resources as well as ensuring water quality. He has 30 years of experience in water supplies from source to consumers’ tap. This includes the planning, design and construction of a number of major water supply scheme and treatment plant in Hong Kong. He also engages in the cross border transfer of raw water from Mainland China to Hong Kong.

About Brione Bruce

Brione Bruce is the Marketing and Communications Manager at Asia Clean Capital (ACC), a clean energy business that helps clients to cut building heating and air-conditioning costs, while significantly reducing energy use, carbon emissions and water consumption. ACC designs, installs and operates Ground Energy systems that deliver heating, air conditioning and hot water to buildings. Through the company’s unique Green Utilities business model, ACC finances, owns and operates Ground Energy systems and sells discounted, renewable energy to clients over long-term contract. Ms Bruce has over five years of experience working on sustainability projects in Asia, Europe and North America. In her previous role as a Research Analyst at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors (now MSCI) she analyzed companies’ environmental, social and governance policies and performance and developed sector-specific ratings for institutional investors. She also spent a year working for the Pesticide Action Network, an environmental NGO based in Penang, Malaysia, where she was the organization’s key participant in the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), a multi-stakeholder group focused on sustainable palm oil production.

About Changjin Sun

Changjin Sun, Ph. D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, former Director of the Center of Ecological and Environmental Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has over 20 years of employment experience in China in the fields of forestry, environment, natural resources management, security investment and timberland investment. He was a co-founder of a mission-oriented forestry company; provided consulting and advisory services to the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Global Environment Facility, China Forestry Asset Exchange, CCICED of the State Council of China, and the Chinese ministries of commerce, environment and forestry; did research in China for major international research institutions and development aid agencies. Currently residing in Vancouver, consulting on security analysis, bioenergy and forestry.

About Chaoni Huang

Chaoni Huang joined Trucost in October 2012, heading up Trucost’s business development in Asia. Prior to Trucost, Chaoni was a senior ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) analyst at MSCI (London and Beijing), specializing in corporate management of environmental and social risk factors of the financials sector. In addition to her sector focus, Chaoni was instrumental in MSCI’s team and research expansion in emerging markets. Chaoni has an honours degree in Economics from the University of Warwick in the UK and is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.

About Chengzi Chew

Chengzi runs the serious gaming unit in DHI, an international not-for-profit research and consulting company specialising in water environments. He focuses on using serious games together with scientific numerical models, real life data and scenarios to solve water problems. Chengzi started his career in the consulting business, providing solutions in the coastal and marine sector and designing software solutions for the management of water data. He holds a Master of Science in Hydro-Informatics and Water Management from the Erasmus Mundus Master Program, EuroAquae.

About China Water Risk

We believe regardless of whether we care for the environment that water risks affect us all – as investors, businesses and individuals. Water risks are fundamental to future decision making and growth patterns in global economies. Water scarcity has emerged as a critical sustainability issue for China's economy and since water powers the economy, we aim to highlight these risks inherent in each sector. In addition, we write about current trends in the global water industry, analyze changes occurring both regionally and globally, as well as providing explanations on the new technologies that are revolutionizing this industry.

About Chris Nolan

Chris Nolan in his capacity as extractions industry expert with Business for Social Responsibility has participated in field prohjects with several mining and oil and gas companies in Asia, focused specifically on stakeholder engagement, strategic community development and local economic policies. Prior to joining BSR, Chris worked as an independent consultant based in Jakarta, working on stakeholder engagement in Indonesia, Thailand and Timor-Leste and facilitating economic policy exchanges between the governments of Timor-Leste and El Salvador.

About Dr. Christina Dean

Dr. Christina Dean is the founder and CEO of Redress, a Hong Kong based environmental NGO working to promote environmental sustainability in the fashion industry by reducing textile waste, pollution, water and energy consumption. Redress achieves this by conducting educational sustainable fashion shows, exhibitions, seminars, competitions and research. Prior to establishing Redress in 2007, Christina was a journalist and prior to this a practicing dental surgeon. In 2010, Christina was listed by US online magazine Coco Eco as one of ‘2010’s Most Influential Women in Green’. In 2009 she was listed by UK Vogue as one of the UK’s ‘Top 30 Inspirational Women’.

About Christine Boyle

Christine Boyle is a recent Fulbright Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Science’s Centre for Chinese Agricultural Policy and a doctoral candidate in University of North Carolina’s programme in environmental planning. Her research examines the relationship between fiscal policy and irrigation infrastructure management in northern China. Christine’s expertise focuses on irrigation governance, the fiscal policy of water distribution, in both urban and rural sectors, and strategies to mitigate the impacts of municipal and industrial development on local water quality. Christine has written and presented widely on China’s water policy, water resource governance, and understanding water-energy interdependence. Noted for her focus on global and local water policy issues, she received a National Academy of Science fellowship in 2005, and National Science Foundation’s East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute Fellowship to China in 2006.

About Christine Loh

Christine Loh is the founder and CEO of Civic Exchange, an independent, non-profit public policy think tank. Loh has an English law degree and a Masters of Law degree in Chinese and Comparative Law. She has been awarded the degree of Doctors of Law, honoris causa, by her alma mater, the University of Hull. Loh spent 14 years in the commercial world, having held top regional posts in a US multinational company in commodities trading, and subsequently in strategic management for a Hong Kong company. She was appointed to the Hong Kong Legislative Council in 1992, and then ran two successful elections in 1995 and 1998. She has anchored public affairs radio shows, and writes extensively in academic as well as general publications on a variety of subjects. She is well known for her work on environmental protection. Since starting Civic Exchange, she has also written and commented extensively on economics and political economy as well as corporate social responsibility. Loh sits on the boards of a number of high profile local as well as international non-profit organizations, including the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Asia Society’s International Advisory Panel, and the Rocky Mountain Institute, USA. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Young Persons Award (1988), Communicator of the Year (1994), Global Young Leader – World Economic Forum (1995), Asia’s Rising Stars – Businessweek (1998) and (2000). Her background in law, business, politics and media has helped her to be a leading voice on public policy in Hong Kong. In her private life, she is an art collector, video filmmaker and writer.

About Claire Hau

Claire is working as the Sustainability Relations Responsible, Global Production for H&M. In this role, she is working mainly with relations, communication, training and education for sustainability in production globally. Claire started off her career at H&M with a strong focus on environmental issues; namely on water in China and Bangladesh- to understand the situation and support pragmatic ways for improvement across the supply chain. More recently, she has been working with Chemicals, where she has been heavily involved in supporting H&M in realizing its commitment ‘Towards Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals by 2020’. Prior to joining H&M, Claire studied fashion design in the UK. During her studies, she developed a deep passion for sustainability, where she felt that there has to be a better way to make change, starting from the drawing board. She later obtained a Master in Global Fashion Supply Chain Management in Hong Kong, and exchanged abroad in France and USA.

About Clive Saffery

Clive Saffery has been with the Swire group for 29 years, most of which has been based in Asia and with the last 17 years in Swire's beverages division. Prior to his present appointment, Mr. Saffery was Executive Director, Sales and Marketing China (2000-2006), General Manager of Swire Coca-Cola Taiwan (1995-2000), Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Swire Coca-Cola USA (1993-4) and Commercial Director, Swire Coca-Cola Hong Kong (1989-1992). Mr. Saffery had worked in Swire's shipping division in both Hong Kong and Japan before his attachment to the beverages division.

About Cy Jones

Cy Jones leads the Water Quality Trading Initiative for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The goal of this initiative is to advance market-based efforts to reduce nutrient pollution impacting the Chesapeake Bay watershed and to promote the development of a framework for interstate nutrient trading. Prior to joining WRI, Cy had a 24 year career with the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission in Laurel, Maryland, where he managed the regional and regulatory affairs of the water and sewer agency. He spent the intervening two years since retiring from WSSC as a Senior Technologist with the engineering firm of CH2M HILL, where he worked on developing nutrient trading programs in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Cy has a BA in Zoology and a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of Iowa.

About Daniel Cheng

Mr. Cheng is the Managing Director of Dunwell Enviro-Tech (Holdings) Ltd. and Deputy Chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Industries, President of HK Environmental Industry Association and board member of Business Environment Council in HK. He is also Chartered Fellow of HK Institution of Engineers, past Chairman of HK Waste Management Association, Friends of the Earth (HK). In addition, Mr. Cheng is currently Council Members of HK Productivity Council and Vocational Training Council, member of the Energy Advisory Committee, Trade and Industry Advisory Board, Innovation and Technology Fund and SME Committee of Hong Kong Government. With Mr. Cheng’s commitment and success of the environmental business that he was selected as winner of The Young Industrialist Awards of Hong Kong 1995, Innovative Entrepreneur of 1996, Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Industrial Engineers Award in 1999, received the Medal of Honour in 2007 and the JP Honour in 2011 from HKSAR government.

About David Zweig

David Zweig (Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1983) is Chair Professor of Social Science, Associate Dean of the School for Humanities and Social Science (SHSS), and Director of the Center on Environment, Energy, and Resource Policy. His research interests include China’s ‘resource diplomacy’, China’s human resources, Chinese politics and political economy, Sino-American relations, international and political economy, and East Asian international relations. His numerous research grants include “Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony” (HK$685,000, RGC, 2010–13), “Hong Kong People on the Mainland: A Force for Integration?” (HK$799,017, Central Policy Unit, 2007–13), and “Hong Kong’s Contribution to China’s Modernization” (HK$600,000, Shui-On Group, 2006-7). He won the SHSS Outstanding Teaching Award in 1999 after finishing second in 1998. Recent publications include Internationalizing China: Domestic Interests and Global Linkages, Globalization and China’ Reforms (ed. with Chen Zhimin), and “Images of the World: Studying Abroad and Chinese Attitudes towards International Affairs” (with Han Donglin).

About Debra Tan

Debra heads the China Water Risk team. She was tasked with taking The Asia Water Project pilot to the next level and was responsible for the direction and build out of China Water Risk portal for ADM Capital Foundation. Debra started her career in finance, spending over a decade as a chartered accountant and investment banker. She has lived and worked in Beijing, HK, KL, London, New York and Singapore. Debra left banking to explore her creative side. She has since pursued her interest in photography and within a year had her first solo exhibition sponsored by a global bank. She also ran and organized hands-on philanthropic and luxury holidays for a small but global private members travel network and applied her auditing, financing and photography skills in the field for various charitable organizations and foundations. Debra believes that we can all make a difference, if only we see the ‘big picture’.

About Emil Efthimides

Emil Efthimides manages Bloomberg’s Environmental, Social and Governance data project. He has 16 years’ experience with Bloomberg’s equity fundamentals, having managed European research and the company’s Quality Assurance department. He also developed the company’s oil and gas and mining fundamental data prior to his current assignment. He has an MBA in Finance from Fordham University in New York and the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

About Fiona Lawrie

Australian Fiona Lawrie grew up in Singapore, from whence her love of all things Chinese began. In 2005 Fiona was the recipient of the Australia China Council’s Year in China Program scholarship to study Mandarin at Liaoning University, Shenyang. A BA in Mandarin and International Relations followed, combining her two passions. In 2008 Fiona was selected to participate in the Brightest Young Minds Summit, held in Australia. And in 2007 she was invited to participate in the inaugural Australian young leaders delegation invited to China by Premier Wen Jiabao. Fiona is frequently invited to emcee a variety of business and community events both in Australia and China. Most recently she has presented at TEDx Beijing: Ability of Youth to Make a Sustainable Difference. Currently residing in Beijing, Fiona is the Chief Operating Officer at Thirst.

About Gilbert Lennox-King

Gilbert Lennox-King is Business Development Manager and co-founder of Energenz, a resource efficiency consultancy that focus on increasing profits for clients through reducing energy and resource waste across a range of organisations. Energenz identify and implement energy and water efficiency solutions that make financial sense for large energy consuming asset owners. For more information on Energenz, visit www.energenz.com.hk

About Goh Chee Kiong

Goh Chee Kiong is a Director of the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), responsible for leading the development of the Cleantech industry since 2003. The Cleantech industry has been identified as a key economic growth area for Singapore, and includes clean energy, environment and water. He took on the additional role as Director, Building & Infrastructure Solutions division in 2012. He is actively involved in many national Cleantech and Urban Solutions initiatives spanning related government agencies. For instance, he leads the industry development efforts within the inter-agency Energy Innovation Programme Office (EIPO) and Environment & Water Industry Programme Office (EWI).

About Greg Koch

Greg Koch is the Director of Global Water Stewardship in the Environment & Water Resources Department at The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, he manages the Company’s global water stewardship strategy. Working with a system of over 300 bottling partners, he leads a team that develops and implements standards for plant performance, watershed management and partnerships with organizations that share the Company’s commitment to effective water stewardship. Greg’s experience at Coca-Cola includes two years as the executive assistant to the Vice President of Environment & Water Resources. He has managed the Company’s global due diligence and wastewater programs and led several strategic water resource partnerships with public and private entities. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, Greg was an environmental consultant on engineering design.

About Dr. Guo Youzhi

Dr. Guo Youzhi is the Secretary-General of the Desalination Association of China, a 250 member strong association of experts in Desalination and Water Treatment. Dr. Guo is a frequent speaker on desalination policy and membrane technologies at global water events and conferences.

About Harsh Saini

Harsh Saini, Senior Vice President for Compliance and Sustainability at Li & Fung

About Hugo Plunkett

Hugo Plunkett is currently on his gap year where he is spending 5 months working in Hong Kong for ADM Capital and HSBC after which he will be working at a social rural enterprise in India. During his time at ADM Capital he spent two weeks with the China Water Risk team where he was able to pursue his interest in the environment and how it impacts the global economy and our everyday decisions. Hugo studied Economics, Politics and Maths at school and will explore these topic further at university.

About Hyeon-Ju Rho

Hyeon-Ju Rho, China Country Director, joined ABA’s Asia Division in February 2007 as a deputy country director of the China programme. Prior to this, she was a visiting scholar at Peking University Law School, researching the development of public interest litigation in China on a Ford Foundation grant. Before moving to China, Hyeon-Ju worked as staff attorney at the Urban Justice Center in New York City and as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She has a J.D. from New York University Law School, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and a B.A. from Swarthmore College. Contact: [email protected]

About Ina Pozon

Ina Pozon has worked on water and energy issues in Asia for the past 10 years. Pozon worked for ADM Capital Foundation in the role of Programme Manager for the Asia Water Project, which she helped to develop and operate in its pilot form. Whilst working for the foundation, she provided support to the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE) in building the Green Choice Alliance supply-chain management programme. She previously worked at WWF on IPE’s Air Pollution Map and was their International’s coordinator for its Asia Pacific Coal Initiative.

About Isabel Hilton

Isabel Hilton is the editor of Chinadialogue, an independent, non-commercial, bilingual website devoted to the publication of high quality information and debate on the environment. She has an MA (hons) in Chinese from Edinburgh University and, after two years postgraduate work in Edinburgh, studied in China for two years, first at the Beijing Foreign Language and Culture University and then at Fudan University in Shanghai. She began her career in journalism with Scottish Television, then worked for the Daily Express and the Sunday Times before joining the launch team for The Independent in 1986. In 1992 she became a presenter of the BBC’s flagship news programme, The World Tonight and a columnist for The Guardian. In 1999 she joined the New Yorker as a staff writer. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Granta, the New Statesman, El Pais, Index on Censorship and many other publications. She has reported from China, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and has written and presented several documentaries for BBC television. Since 2001 she has been a presenter of the BBC Radio Three’s cultural programme, Night Waves. She has authored and co-authored several books and holds an honorary doctorate from Bradford University.

About Jason Kibbey

Jason Kibbey is the Executive Director of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition. Until recently, he was the CEO and co-founder of PACT, an apparel company combining design, sustainability, and philanthropy. He served as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Freedom to Roam, a non-profit initiative that brings together people, organizations and businesses to enhance and protect wildlife corridors and landscape connectivity in North America. While at business school, he worked at Patagonia developing Freedom to Roam. He started his career as an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, where he worked on turnaround and product strategies for high-tech companies. Jason graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Environmental Economics and Policy and Religious Studies and received his MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in May 2008.

About Jill Dumain

As Director of Environmental Strategy for Patagonia, Jill Dumain travels extensively through Europe and the United States working collaboratively on industry-wide environmental initiatives and interfacing with other companies committed to environmental responsibility. She is Chair of the Eco-Working Group in the Outdoor Industry Association and served as Chair of the Board of the Organic Exchange from 2006 through 2009.

About Jim Coburn

Jim Coburn is a senior manager at Ceres and directs a programme aimed at improving corporate disclosure of material climate risks and opportunities in securities filings. Ceres is a national coalition of investors, environmental groups and other public interest organizations working with companies to address sustainability challenges such as climate change. Ceres directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk, a group of more than 90 investors from the U.S. and Europe managing nearly $10 trillion in assets.

About Professor Zou Ji

Professor Zou Ji is currently the Deputy Director General of the China National Center for Climate Strategy Study and International Cooperation (CCSC). At the time of the interview, Professor Zou was heading the WRI China program. Zou Ji is Professor of Environmental Economics and Management at Renmin University in Beijing. For the past 26 years he has worked as a professor, researcher and policy analyst focused on energy and climate change in China. He also served as a negotiator for China at U.N. Climate Talks during 2000-2009. Professor Zou has a B.S in environmental engineering, an M.S. in engineering economics from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in environmental economics from Renmin University. He has held visiting scholar positions at Harvard University and the London School of Economics.

About Jon Boon

Jon Boon has worked in the pipeline industry since 1979; he is immediate Past Chairman of the CHKSTT and past Chairman of the UKSTT. His career has involved work on Concrete, Polyethylene, PVC and composite pipe systems with a significant part of his working life focussed on trenchless rehabilitation. He is now Asia Regional Manager of Pure Technologies Ltd a pipeline leakage detection and condition assessment company. While at the Water Research Centre he was responsible for the management & publication of research into plastics pipes for the UK Department of Trade and Industry and the publication of the various British Water Industry Specifications. Jon has worked in all aspects of the industry including research, product development, installation and sales. He is a Graduate of The Queen’s University Belfast, a Member of the Institute of Materials and Mining Metallurgy, a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist. Jon is a British Citizen and is married with four children.

About Jon Lukomnik

Jon Lukomnik is the managing partner of Sinclair Capital L.L.C., a strategic consultancy to the investment management industry, corporations, and institutional investors and Program Director of the Investor Responsibility Research Center. Lukomnik serves as a director of Sears Canada and the Van Eck family of mutual funds. As deputy comptroller for the City of New York from 1994 to 1998, he was investment advisor for defined-benefit plans with some $80 billion in assets. He then served as managing director, head of strategic planning and business development for CDC Investment Management Corporation, where his team increased assets under management from $1.3 billion to $3.5 billion in less than two years. Mr. Lukomnik previously chaired the Council of Institutional Investors, and co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network. He is co-author of the award-winning "The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors Are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda" (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).

About Josephine Price

Josephine Price is an Asian based business women with a background in law and private equity and over 20 years experience in investment in emerging markets. She is one of the co-founders of the village people project and has a strong interest in using the skill sets developed in private equity in projects that serve the broader community. Josephine also acts as adviser to Asian-based private equity groups, is a non-executive director of Petra Foods, a Singaporean listed chocolate and cocoa ingredients business and is a trustee of the Croucher Foundation

About Josephine Wu

Josephine Wu joined Yu Ming Investment in August 2009 and manages a fund of US$150 million. She oversees the fund’s strategy and asset allocation as well as identifies investment opportunities both in listed and private equities. Prior to joining Yu Ming, Josephine was a General Partner at a New York based hedge fund, L-R Global Partners, L.P. In 2007, she established the Asia office for L-R and co–managed both public and private investments in the region. Josephine has been investing in water companies since 2006, focusing specifically in companies listed in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.

About Julian L. Wong

Julian L. Wong is the founder and author of The Green Leap Forward, a leading blog on China’s energy and environmental issues. He is also the founder of the Beijing Energy Network, a grassroots professional network that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration in the energy and environmental community in China. Until recently, Julian was a senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, a policy think tank in Washington, DC where he worked primarily on climate change, energy, and environmental policy issues relating to China. Prior to joining CAP, Julian was a Fulbright scholar in Beijing researching China’s renewable energy policies, and a corporate lawyer at the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York and Hong Kong. Julian has been a frequent commentator on Chinese energy policy in the media, and has testified before the U.S. Congress twice in the past year. Julian grew up in Singapore and received his J.D. and M.A. in environmental policy from DukeUniversity, and a B.A. in biology from Pomona College.

About Ma Jun

Ma Jun was named as one of the 100 most influential persons in the world by TIME magazine in 2006. He is well known for his book, China’s Water Crisis released in 1999, which has been compared to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. He directs the IPE (Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs), which developed China’s first public database on air and water pollution.

About Kathy Kukreja

Kathy Kukreja is General Counsel at Lotus Capital Finance Ltd. She started her career as a Barrister in Hong Kong in 2000 before moving into finance in 2006. Kathy has lived and worked in Hong Kong , Singapore, London and Tokyo and has always believed water to be a calming counter-point to the pressures of everyday life in the big city.

About Katie Tsang

Katie creates editorial content in China Water Risk’s social media platforms to raise awareness on China’s water issues, as well as manages and analyzes trends and statistics arising from these platforms. She is also responsible for translating China Water Risk’s interactive slides “Big Picture” into Chinese. Previously she lived in Canada for six years, and the nature loving country made her realize that we can all do our parts to make the planet a better and more sustainable place to live.

About Katy Yan

Ms. Yan coordinates International Rivers' efforts to protect China's transboundary rivers and strengthen the capacity of Chinese activists. She also manages the Intern and Volunteer Program, provides advocacy and analytical support to groups fighting destructive carbon-financed dams, and supports International Rivers' education and outreach efforts. She is publisher of World Rivers Bulletin, International Rivers' Chinese language newsletter, and author of Protecting Rivers and Rights: The World Commission on Dams Recommendations in Action. Ms. Yan received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Earth Systems from Stanford University.

About KY Shin

K. Y. Shin is the Executive Director of Culligan Asia Pacific. With over 800 Culligan dealers in over 90 countries, Culligan is the worldwide leader in water treatment solutions.

About Laura Ediger

Laura Ediger, Environmental Manager at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), is closely involved with water quality and energy efficiency issues in southern China and is also connecting food and agricultural companies with their suppliers to improve water management. Prior to joining BSR, Laura conducted research in China on land use, migration, forestry and agriculture, and was a research fellow at the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Beijing. Laura also worked as a consultant in Southeast Asia on the impacts of hydropower and extractive industries and has conducted research and project work in several Asian countries for the World Agroforestry Centre, the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxfam America.

About Leslie Lowe

Leslie H. Lowe is the Energy & Environment Program Director at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), a coalition of nearly 300 faith-based institutional investors representing over $100 billion in invested capital. ICCR members bridge the divide between morality and markets by envisioning a civic economy that integrates ethical, environmental and social values. Inspired by faith and committed to action, ICCR members work to build a just and sustainable global community.

About Liam Salter

Liam Salter, managing director at Reset Limited HK, is responsible for forging innovative new approaches to tackling climate change in Hong Kong and Southern China, structuring technology, finance, marketing and communication solutions. Previously Liam was the Head of WWF Hong Kong’s Climate Programme, and Director of WWF’s international operations in Asia-Pacific on climate issues, where he managed a ten-country team. At WWF Liam co-led the design of the Gold Standard, now the world’s leading certification system for high quality carbon credits. He also initiated the Low Carbon Manufacturing Programme (LCMP), the world’s first carbon rating system for export manufacturers and the Low Carbon Office Programme (LOOP), a carbon management system for office tenants. He has presented on climate change issues at conferences internationally.

About Dr. Lijin Zhong

Dr. Lijin Zhong as Senior Associate leading the water team in WRI’s China office. Prior to coming to WRI, Dr. Lijin Zhong served as the Deputy Director of the Tsinghua University Water Policy Research Center in the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. She has nine years of experiences in the fields of environmental engineering, environmental planning and management, environmental impact assessment, and environmental policy and institutional reform. During that time she focused on the water sector and provided environmental policy consulting services to various Chinese ministries including the Ministries of Construction and Environmental Protection, the National Development and Reform Commission, and international organizations such as the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank. With this expertise and experience, she is intimately familiar with China’s water policies and institutional systems. Dr. Lijin Zhong has B.S. and M.S. degrees in environmental engineering from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in environmental policy from Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

About Lincoln Poon

Lincoln is the Global Brand Manager for Pinneco Research Limited, a pioneer in fiber-insulation innovation, delivering superior product solutions and eco-engineering. As a key global advocate for environmental conservation, Pinneco is committed to eco-friendly product development in strict accordance with the world’s leading environmental standards.

About Lindsay Cooper

Lindsay Cooper is a co-founder of Arisaig Partners, a fund management company headquartered in Singapore with USD1.7 billion of funds under management. Previously, he was with Crosby Securities Asia Ltd, Hong Kong (1993-1996); Price Waterhouse, Hong Kong; Ernst & Young, Edinburgh; Chartered Accountant; BCom (Business Studies & Accounting) University of Edinburgh.

About Lisa Genasci

Lisa Genasci is the CEO and founder of ADM Capital Foundation (ADMCF) which provides support to some of Asia’s most marginalized children and works to combat intransigent environmental challenges facing the region. Before working in the non-profit sector, Lisa worked for ten years with the Associated Press, three as a correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro, three on the foreign desk and four as a financial reporter in New York. She created and for three years authored a column on women and workplace issues, ‘On the Job,’ which was widely distributed in U.S. and foreign publications. In Hong Kong she wrote business stories for CNN and worked as a freelance features reporter for local publications. She currently writes a blog on Asian philanthropy and on some of the region’s most significant environmental and poverty challenges.

About Louisa Mitchell

Louisa Mitchell is a freelance social and environmental policy researcher. She was recently a research director at leading UK think tank Policy Exchange, has contributed to publications for the London School of Economics and has written for The Financial Times. Prior to that she was the Director of The Whitley Fund for Nature, an international environmental award programme run out of the UK and was the first Director of ASrIA, the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia run out of Hong Kong. She was previously an investment banker working extensively in the US and Asia, particularly China. She read Oriental Studies (Chinese) at Cambridge University and has a Masters of Science in Social Policy Research (Methods) from the London School of Economics.

About Magali Simon

L Magali Simon Regional Head Asia Pacific, Water Solutions BASF East Asia Regional Headquarters Professional career Ms. Magali Simon joined BASF in 2003, and has held responsibility for supplier management and raw materials procurement, first at the BASF headquarters in Ludwigshafen, Germany and later BASF South East Asia, Singapore, and BASF East Asia Regional Headquarters, Hong Kong. In 2011, she became Regional Head of Water Solutions Asia Pacific at BASF East Asia Regional Headquarters in Hong Kong, providing leadership in guiding BASF’s global Water Solutions strategy in the Asia Pacific region. BASF is one of the leading suppliers in the water solutions field.

About Malcolm Cooper

Malcolm Cooper is the Principal of Athena Research Consultancy and an Associate of Z/Yen. He holds a D.Phil from Oxford University, and has held a variety of senior research posts in the City over the past 20 years.

About Marcus Norton

Marcus Norton is the Head of Water and Investor Initiatives, Carbon Disclosure Project. He joined the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) in 2009 to launch and manage CDP’s water program. The program builds institutional investors’ and businesses’ awareness and understanding of the financial risks and opportunities associated with water and catalyses action towards sustainable corporate water management. He also leads CDP’s engagement with the investment community. Marcus’ background is in corporate law with Allen & Overy and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, and in government with the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs where he wrote environmental laws and advised ministers and officials on matters of EC and public law. He sits on the board of the Alliance for Water Stewardship and holds an MA from the University of St Andrews, an LL.M from University College London and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

About Margaret Kutt

Margaret Kutt is the manager for Sustainable Projects at Esprit. A Hong Kong native she has worked in the fashion industry abroad as well as locally and took on the newly created position 2 years ago. In that time she has been a catalyst in promoting cooperation between her company and the non profit Redress, to foster sustainability in fashion by supporting the Ecochic Design Award and the ensuing “Recycled collection” designed by the competition winner exclusively for Esprit. Under her supervision future collaborations with the Royal College of Art in London and Esmod in Berlin will also follow a sustainable agenda and see an expansion in the sector for the brand worldwide.

About Mark Harper

Mark is project manager of China Water Risk. Mark has worked for nearly a decade managing corporate/NGO partnerships focused on environmental engagement and corporate sustainability. He was previously the programme manager for Earthwatch Institute and Flora & Fauna International. Mark has extensive experience organizing hands-on conservation and educational projects for corporates, schools and communities. He has lived and worked in Sri Lanka, Oxford, Hong Kong, Boston and London. Separately, Mark actively pursues his interest in environmental conservation, by volunteering to monitor great white sharks in California to conducting research on rhino census in South Africa. Mark believes that change is only possible through the collective action of the corporate and investment communities.

About Martijn Hoogerwerf

Martijn Hoogerwerf is Chief Strategy Officer of China Europe Bio-Energy Consortium, a Hong Kong and Beijing based project developer, manager and owner of large-scale waste-to-biofuel projects in China. Having been based in Hong Kong since 2006, Martijn brings a decade of banking experience to his role at China Europe Bio-Energy Consortium, having held positions previously in The Netherlands, New York and Athens, Greece. Martijn holds an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the Dutch State University of Groningen, The Netherlands and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

About Matt Turner

Matt Turner is Director of Global Stakeholder Initiatives and Future 500’s Water Programme. A nongovernment organization (NGO) with offices in San Francisco, Tokyo and Beijing, the Future 500 draws together global corporations and NGOs of all stripes on behalf of sustainability and corporate responsibility leadership initiatives. Future 500’s water initiative seeks to find common ground between corporations and civil society to advance multi-stakeholder solutions to systemic water challenges. Through collaboration rather than conflict, Future 500 looks to forge relationships that lead to positive change. Turner formerly worked as a corporate responsibility consultant for The Coca-Cola Company, where he collaborated with both internal and external stakeholders on key social issues and initiatives involving ethical sourcing, union relations, public relations and crisis management. He has an MSc in International Affairs from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a BA in Government and International Studies, from the University of Notre Dame.

About Melissa Brown

Melissa Brown is Managing Director at IDFC where she looks at private equity and Fund of Funds investments in Asia. She was, until recently Executive Director of ASrIA, Asia’s leading SRI membership association. For over 5 years she has been the leading spokesperson for environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues for the investment community in Asia. She was lead author and editor of benchmark studies on ESG and climate change trends in Asia and has spoken widely at conferences on the Carbon Disclosure Project, which she managed in Asia. Prior to joining ASrIA, Melissa spent 15 years undertaking Asian equity research including roles as the Regional Utilities Analyst for both JP Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney.

About Mike Kilburn

Mike Kilburn joined Airport Authority Hong Kong as Senior Manager, Environment in September 2012. He is responsible for developing a strategy to position HKIA as the world’s greenest airport. He is also responsible for developing the Authority’s sustainability strategy and producing the first sustainability report (in June 2013).

About Mona Ip

Mona loves water – that includes drinking it and taking showers, though she really is trying to reduce her shower time. She has been working in the sustainability sector in Hong Kong for the past three years, focused primarily on green building consulting and helping companies to assess and improve their environmental impacts. Currently, Mona is helping to launch a specialized green product sourcing business GreenLink Global www.greenlinkconnects.com. Her previous experience includes stints in Mainland China and in Poland working with the Canadian government. In her spare time, aside from writing about water Mona likes to spend time in it – swimming, playing or in a dragon boat – or on its frozen form, playing hockey.

About Nathaniel Bullard

Nathaniel Bullard is Director of Content at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, currently based in Hong Kong. Nathaniel is a clean energy expert, with experience across multiple sectors and markets. He is an accomplished analyst, with particular expertise in solar power, new asset and corporate financing mechanisms, and international trade in clean energy goods and services. His recent research highlights include the US-China trade relationship, crowdfunding for clean energy, and emerging energy markets in Asia. Nathaniel is a regular commentator for the sector and has been cited in The Economist, The New York Times, Forbes, Technology Review, and Scientific American, and has appeared regularly on Bloomberg Television. Nathaniel has an MA in International Energy Policy and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), and an AB, magna cum laude in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University. He is also a 2012 Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow.

About Olivia Jensen

Olivia Jensen is the Asia Editor of Global Water Intelligence and is based in Singapore. She is an economist and for the last ten years she has specialised in the water sector, working as an academic, consultant and journalist. She wrote her PhD at the London School of Economics on public-private partnerships for water supply. She has worked extensively in and on China - before joining GWI she lived in Shanghai for three years where she headed the office of a foreign consulting company. Olivia has published widely on water issues, from peer-reviewed papers to comprehensive reports, and has provided consulting services to the World Bank, OECD and UNEP Finance Initiative, among others, as well as advising numerous private clients.

About Payal Parekh

Payal Parekh works with International River’s Climate team to raise awareness that dams are emitters of methane; to stop international carbon offsetting schemes; and to promote climate adaptation strategies that protect rivers and the communities dependent on them. Before joining International Rivers in 2008, her experience included working in solidarity with the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a social movement in India fighting the damming of the Narmada River, investigating the Indian government’s plans to interlink rivers, and providing technical environmental assistance to Indian NGOs and social movements. Most recently, she was a Marie Curie research fellow at the University of Bern in Switzerland conducting scientific research on carbon cycle – climate interactions. Payal holds a Ph.D. in Oceanography from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

About Dr. Peiyuan Guo

Dr Guo Peiyuan is the co-founder and general manager of SynTao, a Beijing-based consulting firm on corporate social responsibility (CSR). He is an environmental engineer by training and obtained his PhD in management from Tsinghua University’s School of Public Policy and Management. He has worked for several international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organisation. His area of research includes CSR, corporate sustainability and sustainable finance. Guo has advised a number of large Chinese corporations on CSR strategy, reporting and training, and helped global responsible investors on corporate engagement.

About Dr. Peter Bosshard

Dr. Peter Bosshard is the Policy Director of International Rivers. A Swiss citizen, he has worked to strengthen the social and environmental standards of governments, financiers and private investors for more than 20 years. As part of his responsibilities, he manages a program to strengthen the environmental standards of Chinese dam builders and financiers.

About Philippe Lacamp

Philippe joined the Swire Group in 1992. He has had a broad range of corporate experience within the group and currently heads up Sustainable Development for Swire Pacific and John Swire & Sons, covering a range of industries including shipping and marine services, property development, aviation, beverages and agri-business. The main focus of the role is to reduce the group’s overall environmental impact and drive energy efficiency, while coordinating industry leadership positions for group divisions on specific environmental issues. Immediately prior to this role, Philippe had been seconded to Cathay Pacific Airways and established and ran the aviation group’s Corporate Risk Management department. He has held a number of head office positions and overseas management positions with Cathay Pacific, including Germany, Sri Lanka, France and Canada.

About Piet Klop

Piet Klop is a Senior Fellow with the World Resources Institute’s Capital Markets Research team. Piet’s research includes environmental considerations in investment decisions and portfolio management, as well as investments in clean energy, water and biodiversity. He also manages strategic relationships with European financial institutions, including banks and pension funds. Piet works at WRI on secondment from the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he holds the position of Senior Economist in the Department of Environment and Water, with responsibility for developing new markets for climate, water and biodiversity services in partnership with the private sector. Piet has 20 years of experience with environmental issues and holds Masters degrees in Applied Environmental Economics and Land & Water Management.

About Rick Ridgeway

As Patagonia Vice President of Environmental Initiatives and Special Media Projects, Rick Ridgeway is committed to the company’s mission of using business practices to solve the environmental crisis. Ridgeway helms Patagonia’s environmental grant-making and education programs. He also manages Patagonia Productions, the company’s book publishing and film-making division and oversees its special multi-year environmental projects. One project, Freedom to Roam, helps provide protection for wildlife corridors.

About Ron Dizy

Ron Dizy leads ENBALA. A veteran of high-growth technology companies, Ron focuses on the company’s overall strategic direction, value and growth. Ron most recently served as a partner at Celtic House Venture Partners, one of Canada's leading venture capital firms. Prior to joining Celtic House, Ron served as a portfolio manager for the venture capital group at the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and co-founded Altera Systems, a consulting firm focused on business applications of artificial intelligence. Ron holds a BASc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto.

About Scott Brix

Scott Brix is the Director of Marketing with DuPont’s Textile Enzyme Group. Scott has over 20 years of commercial experience in the application of enzymes to food, beverages, cleaning, grain, biomass utilization, textile and garment finishing. His management experience includes building and leading sales, marketing, business development and technical service teams around the world. Scott hails from a science and engineering background with a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Texas A&M University

About Shally Venugopal

Shally Venugopal is a Research Associate in the Capital Markets team at the World Resources Institute. Her research focuses on the financial implications of climate and resource change from the perspective of the corporate and investor community. Prior to joining WRI, Shally worked in Morgan Stanley’s Microfinance Institutions Group where she was responsible for client and capital markets coverage of South and Central Asian Microfinance Institutions, and in Morgan Stanley’s Public Finance Division, covering U.S. domestic public sector infrastructure clients. Her prior experience includes working at the Penn Institute for Urban Research, L.E.K. Consulting and Bearfoot Investments.

About Shenggen Fan

Shenggen Fan has been director general of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) since 2009. Dr. Fan joined IFPRI in 1995 as a research fellow, conducting extensive research on pro-poor development strategies in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He led IFPRI’s program on public investment before becoming the director of the Institute’s Development Strategy and Governance Division in 2005. He is the Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Food Security. Dr. Fan received a PhD in applied economics from the University of Minnesota and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Nanjing Agricultural University in China.

About Sophie le Clue

Sophie is a Director of ADMCF and is responsible for the Foundation’s environmental investments, including the identification/evaluation of projects and aligning financial investment with strategic philanthropic objectives. Sophie has worked for the past 20 years in the field of environmental protection and conservation, principally in the Asia Pacific region. She started her career in the UK working in London for an international engineering consulting firm as an environmental consultant, before moving to Hong Kong in 1992. Since then, Sophie has directed and managed consultant teams working on a range of projects for both public and private sector organizations, including environmental impact assessments, environmental management, policy and strategy development, as well as undertaking research projects in the Asia Pacific region.

About Steve Clark

Steve Clark is the Senior Vice- President of SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT Asia, Executive Director of Sino French Water Development Co. Ltd. as well as Chairman of the Board of the Macao Water Supply Co. Ltd. After engaged in the water business for over 20 years in England, Mr. Steve Clark obtained rich knowledge and experience in assets investment, operation and management in the water and sewage sectors. In 1996, he started his career in China as Executive Director of Macao Water; in 2000 he was appointed as Executive Director of Sino French Water, dedicated to the management and development of the group’s water business in the China region. Under his leadership, the company has been steadily developed and the number of joint ventures has been increased from 6 in 2000 to currently 26, serving a population exceeding 15 million inhabitants.

About Stuart Orr

Stuart has been with WWF since 2006 and works with the private sector on a range of water related activities, from water footprint to public policy engagement. Stuart has published numerous papers on water measurement, agricultural policy and water-related risk, and is currently co-drafting policy guidelines for the private sector as part of the UN CEO Water Mandate. Stuart has also recently joined the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for water. Previous to life with WWF, he researched agricultural rice systems in West Africa and worked for many years in the private sector in Asia and the US. Stuart holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the School of International Development at the University of East Anglia and is currently based in Switzerland where he works at WWF-International as a Manager in the Freshwater Team.

About Su Liu

Su Liu is the Great China Manager and Policy Researcher of Civic-Exchange, a Hong Kong based independent and non-profit public policy think tank. Her work in Civic Exchange covers mainly water related policy research and China related project coordination. Su was a former public opinion researcher (Deputy Managing Director of the Gallup Organization HK), and a communication strategist (Deputy Managing Director of Wirthlin Worldwide Asia).

About Talke Schaffrannek

Mrs. Talke Schaffrannek has been the Regional Head of Industry Target Groups, Food & Agriculture of BASF Asia Pacific. She has been based in Shanghai since 2010. Previously, she gained experiences in various companies in South Africa, France and Germany. She joined BASF in Ludwigshafen in 2004 as product manager for an operative business unit, worked in strategic marketing and later was responsible for the business case and change management for the global Diversity and Inclusion project. In her free time, Talke supports a microcredit project for women in Northern Nigeria.

About Tien Shiao

Tien Shiao is an Senior Associate with the Markets and Enterprise Program at World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank based on Washington DC. She manages the application and road testing of the Aqueduct project for corporate and investor audiences. Aqueduct measures and maps water-related business risks for companies and investors. Prior to WRI, Tien was a drinking water engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute, a research sub-contractor for the US EPA. She was also a fellow at the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute investigating market opportunities for a patent-pending drinking water technology. Tien holds a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University, a Master in Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor in Civil and Environmental Engineering from University of Michigan- Ann Arbor.

About Tom Cooper

Tom Cooper, Corporate Water Programs Manager for Intel Corporation. Tom’s responsibilities are concentrated on Intel’s water policy and strategies as well as sustainable water and wastewater program development, long range goal setting and related water conservation initiatives. He has been with Intel for ~13 years and has 25 years of experience in EHS programs with major industrial corporations/institutions including Lockheed-Martin, GE, PG&E, NASA-Ames Research Center and Chemical Waste Management. He has a BS in Environmental & Systematic Biology from California Polytechnic State University, and an MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco.

About Veronique Tjon

Veronique is the Regional Marketing Manager, Asia Pacific for Control Union Certification, an internationally accredited Inspection and Certification Body. She is responsible for the marketing activities in Asia Pacific. In her current position, Veronique has gained vast knowledge in the requirements and requests of brands, retailers and manufacturers concerning sustainability and certification. Born in The Netherlands and having been in Hong Kong since 4 years, Veronique's prior experience was in the field of factory and supplier compliance in China. Control Union Certifications carries over 130 certification programs worldwide.

About Wai-Shin Chan

Wai-Shin joined HSBC in 2011 as the Director for Climate Change Strategy in Asia Pacific. The role involves helping HSBC's clients prepare their portfolios for the effects of climate change, as well as internal consulting for different business functions within the bank. Before HSBC, Wai-Shin worked as a fund manager where he was centrally involved in the integration of Environmental Social Governance issues. He is a former Executive Director of ASrIA (Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia) and was an equity analyst for many years. Wai-Shin holds a degree in Mathematics and Physics from Durham University and is a CFA charterholder.

About Wang Canfa

Professor Wang Canfa is a professor at the University of Political Science and Law in Beijing and has published more than 50 books and 140 papers on environmental law. He has led many aspects of the development of environmental law in China over two decades and has been involved in the drafting and revision of over 30 national and local environmental laws, regulations and administrative decrees. In 1998, he established the Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims, which was the first organization of its kind in China to provide free legal support. The center has worked on more than 250 cases of environmental pollution to benefit over 10,000 victims. Since 2001, Professor Wang Canfa also has helped over 500 lawyers and 400 judges with training in environmental law and casework. He continues to push for new environmental legislation in China.

About Lin Yanmei

LIN Yanmei, Programme Officer, joined the ABA Rule of Law Initiative’s China programme in June 2007. She is responsible for managing and implementing projects in the areas of environmental litigation and enforcement, participatory governance in land management, urban planning and migrant integration, as well as civil society and NGO development in China. She has worked as a lecturer and researcher for the China Institute of Environment and Resources Protection in Minority Areas at the Central University for Nationalities. She holds a B.A. and Master of Law from Fudan University and an LL.M. from New York University School of Law. Contact: [email protected]

About Professor Yin Daqiang

Professor Yin Daqiang is the Vice-Dean of the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai. He is a specialist in Mutation Research, Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Chemosphere and Environmental Pollution with numerous publications in these fields. Previously, he was Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences of Nanjing University, as well as a visiting scholar at the Water Research Center, UK and the School of Environment, Duke University, USA.

About Ying Shen

Ying is China Water Risk’s consultant based in Beijing. She conducts research & analyses on water related issues and writes editorial content for website. Prior to joining China Water Risk, Ying was the Chief Representative Officer of a European consulting firm in Beijing. She has worked on a wide variety of climate change, environmental and loan/technical assistance projects funded by the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China, the National Basic Research Program of China, European Commission, the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and British Embassy in China amongst others. Ying has a Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree also in Environmental Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University.

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About Wu Yixiu

Yixiu Wu works as a toxics campaigner for Greenpeace China. Greenpeace China’s toxics campaign is tackling industrial water pollution issues in China and urging industry leaders to commit to phasing out toxic chemicals. Prior to joining Greenpeace, Yixiu Wu worked for five years as a freelance journalist for various media, including China Radio International and BBC Radio, covering a wide array of social and environmental issues in China and Southeast Asia.