Director, Climate Change and Green Growth
Professor Anthony Nyong has about 30 years of experience in environmental and natural resources management, renewable energy and green growth. Positions he has held at the African Development Bank include Coordinator of the New Deal on Energy; Head of the Renewable Energy Flagship, Head of Gender, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Unit; and Head of the Compliance and Safeguards Division. Before joining the Bank, he was a Senior Climate Change Specialist at the International Development Research Centre of Canada and a Professor of Climate Change at the University of Jos, Nigeria. He was a Coordinating Lead Author for the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and a member of the IPCC Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis.
CEO
Keefe Harrison is the founder and CEO of The Recycling Partnership, a $100M+ nonprofit dedicated to protecting the planet by fixing recycling and activating a circular economy in the US. An international speaker, media pundit, and environmental author, Keefe is 20-year veteran of the space, dedicated to engaging companies in making measurable, lasting change in communities. Before recycling, Keefe worked on a logging crew in North Carolina, researched sea turtles in Costa Rica, and studied reindeer husbandry in Finland.
Chief Executive Officer
Leslie Johnston launched Laudes Foundation as its first Chief Executive Officer in January 2020, bringing over 20 years of management experience across multiple sectors. At Laudes Foundation, she is leading the development of its initial vision, strategy and operating model to deliver on its aspiration for global markets that value all people and respect nature. Previously, she headed C& A Foundation as its Executive Director, repositioning it as a global catalyst to make fashion a force for good. Leslie currently serves on the boards of Fashion for Good B.V. (NL), the European Venture Philanthropy Association (BE), COFRA Foundation (CH), GoodWeave International (US), and the Organic Cotton Accelerator (NL).
Managing Director and Head of APAC, Sustainability Solutions
Malavika leads Engie Impact’s work out of APAC. Malavika is a well regarded sustainability professional with over 20 years of experience. Her experience includes projects in clean energy, smart cities, climate change, and sustainable agriculture. She has worked with the private sector, governments, and the development sector, lived and worked both in the West (UK, Europe, and US) and in Asia (Southeast Asia, India).Malavika developed her keen interest in climate change in the early part of her career with McKinsey and Company as a part of their Climate Change Special Initiative in London, working on carbon abatement strategy for European utilities and governments. She was involved in McKinsey’s first global greenhouse gas abatement cost curves study which was widely published and quoted.
Co-founder and Director
Mariko is Co-Founder and Director of Social Innovation Japan and runs Japan's first free water refill platform, mymizu. A former journalist, she has planned, managed and delivered international, multi-stakeholder projects for government, corporations and social ventures, including as Programme Manager for a UK government campaign to facilitate innovation partnerships between the UK and Japan and as Overseas Marketing lead for Earth Company, an award-winning social enterprise. She now leverages her experience to build greater cross-sector engagement with social and environmental issues via Social Innovation Japan (SIJ), co-founded mymizu, a circular economy initiative borne out of SIJ, and is the Tokyo lead for the Circular Economy Club.
Director, Sustainability
Pamela leads the Fung Academy’s knowledge generation, application, and dissemination in support of the Fung Group’s business success and readiness for the future. As such she directs the Academy’s research & development activities and experiments which form the base of the Group’s strategic response to key disruptions in its business operating environment, including technological change, the rise of sustainability, trade/geopolitical uncertainty and the changing nature of consumption.
Regional Director - South and West Asia
Sanjay Sridhar is the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group’s Regional Director for South and West Asia. With 94 member cities worldwide, C40 Cities is a global network of the megacities of the world and is helping cities and its political leaders make the case for climate action through best practice learning and deep-dive technical handholding. Sanjay has more than 22 years of work experience in 3 continents (North America, Europe, and Asia) in areas of architecture, urban development and planning, heritage and conservation studies, sustainable design, urban governance, and public policy. He also has a keen interest to work at the intersection of technology, governments, business ecosystems and environmental sustainability at a global scale.
Chair of Circular Economy Taskforce
Professor Seeram Ramakrishna, FREng is the Chair of Circular Economy Taskforce at the National University of Singapore (NUS), which is ranked as the number one university in Asia and among the world’s top 20 universities.His senior academic leadership roles includes NUS University Vice-President (Research Strategy); Dean of NUS Faculty of Engineering; Director of NUS Enterprise; Director of NUS Industry Liaison Office; Founding Co-Director of NUS Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Initiative, NUSNNI; and Founding Chairman of Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore, SERIS. He co-founded a successful international organization- the Global Engineering Deans Council, GEDC.
Co-founder and CEO
Venan A. Sondo is a Sustainable Business & Management Professional with over 14 years of experience in sustainable business and climate consulting, especially with integrating ESG in traditional business environments. He holds a BSc from the Brandenburg University of Science & Technology in Germany, and an MSc (with Distinction) from the Oxford Brookes University in the UK.
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