Ecosperity 2017 - Programme

Innovation and new technologies can be game-changing for the pace and scale of sustainable development. Advances in digital, big data, machine learning, lean management and the sharing economy can have remarkable impact on progress. In a hyper-connected world, sources of innovation can also come from anywhere and everywhere, across R&D labs, think tanks, academia, public and private organizations and startups. How can leaders from diverse disciplines and different spheres of the global economy collaborate with each other to share ideas, build capabilities and networks, and form powerful partnerships that can bring transformative change?

Speakers

Fu Chengyu

Chairman

UN Global Compact Network China Board

Fu Chengyu

Chairman

UN Global Compact Network China Board

Mr. Fu Chengyu is standing member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference National Committee. He is former Chairman of China Petrochemical Corporation (SINOPEC Group) and former Chairman of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC Corporation). Before joining SINOPEC in 2011, he was Chairman & CEO of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). He is also a member of the UN Global Compact Board and Chairman of Global Compact Network China Board.

Mr. Fu has 40 years of experience in the petroleum industry and earned quite some recognition in the industry. He was listed among “Most Influential People” by Time magazine in 2005, and awarded “Most Influential Business Leader in China” by Fortune in 2008 and “The Best-Performing CEOs in the World” by Harvard Business Review in 2009. In 2011, he was named “Executive to Watch in 2012” by Wall Street Journal, and “Businessperson of the Year” by Fortune. In 2012, he was elected “Petroleum Executive of Year 2012” by the Energy Intelligence Group. He received the “South-South and Triangular Cooperation Champion 2013” award by the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation, and the “Legend in Leadership” award by Yale School of Management in 2013.

Mr. Fu graduated from China’s Northeast Petroleum Institute in 1975 and received a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Southern California, USA in 1986.
Dr. Noeleen Heyzer

Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow

Singapore Management University (SMU)

Dr. Noeleen Heyzer

Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow

Singapore Management University (SMU)

Dr. Noeleen Heyzer, a social scientist, was an Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations and the highest ranking Singaporean in the UN system during her term.

She was the first woman to serve as the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific since its founding in 1947. Under her leadership (Aug 2007-Jan 2014), the commission focused on regional co-operation for a more resilient Asia-Pacific, founded on shared prosperity, social equity, and sustainable development. She was at the forefront of many innovations including for regional disaster preparedness, inclusive socio-economic policies, sustainable agriculture and urbanization, energy security and regional connectivity.

She was also the United Nations Secretary General’s Special Adviser for Timor-Leste, working to support peace-building, state-building, and sustainable development in fragile states.

As the previous Executive Director of the UN Development Fund for Women, she was widely recognized for the formulation and implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security.

Dr. Heyzer was a founding member of several international women’s networks and has served on numerous boards and advisory committees of international organizations, including the UNDP Human Development Report, the High-level Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding chaired by Nobel Laureate Prof Amartya Sen, appointed a jury member of US, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Innovation Award for Women’s and Girl’s Empowerment 2010, and on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore.

She holds a BA (Upper Hons) and a MSc from Singapore University, a PhD from Cambridge University, and has received numerous international awards for leadership.
Sir David King

Partner

SYSTEMIQ

Sir David King

Partner

SYSTEMIQ

Sir David King was born in Durban, educated at St John’s College Johannesburg and at Witwatersrand University, graduating with an Honours degree in Chemistry and a PhD. He has received 23 Honorary Degrees from universities around the world.

He was the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser from 2000 to 2007. He raised the need for governments to act on climate change and was instrumental in creating the UK’s £1 billion Energy Technologies Institute. He also created an in-depth futures process which advised government on a wide range of long term issues, from flooding to obesity. From 2013 to 2017, he served in the British Foreign Office as the Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative on Climate Change, making 96 official country visits over this period. He initiated the Climate Change – A Risk Analysis project with China and India over this period and was the thought leader behind Mission Innovation, the $30bn international thrust in Research funding for missing technologies needed to defossilise the global economy.

He was a Member, the President’s Advisory Council , Rwanda, and Science Advisor to UBS, 2008-12. He served as Founding Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford University, 2008 – 2012, Head of the Department of Chemistry at Cambridge University, 1993 – 2000, and Master of Downing College Cambridge 1995 – 2000. He has published over 500 papers on surface science and catalysis and on science and policy, for which he has received many awards, medals etc.

Sir David King is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1991; Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002; knighted in 2003; made Officier dans l’ordre national de la Légion d’Honeur in 2009.
Dr. Marco Lambertini

Director General

WWF International

Dr. Marco Lambertini

Director General

WWF International

Dr. Marco Lambertini is Director General of WWF International, having first worked with WWF as a youth volunteer in his native Italy. As the head of one of the largest and most respected nature conservation organizations, he works with world leaders, corporate executives and civil society to forge a future in which people and nature thrive. He sits on the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) – at the invitation of the Chinese Government and on the Board of the International Civil Society Centre. He is also the WWF representative at the World Economic Forum annual event in Davos.

He leads a global Network with over 50 years of environmental conservation successes, nearly 7,000 staff, five million supporters, 25 million followers on social media and activities in over 100 countries.

Prior to joining WWF, he served as Chief Executive of BirdLife International, a global partnership of over 120 civil society organizations in 120 countries. During his career Dr. Marco’s experience spans from field research to international policy, nature reserve management, environmental education, communications and campaigning, NGO development, ecotourism and integrated conservation and development projects in many countries all over the world.
Dr. Marco Lambertini has a degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the University of Pisa, with a thesis on ecotoxicology, and has published books ranging from Safari in Africa (Muzzio) to A Naturalist’s Guide to the Tropics (Chicago University Press).

Follow Dr. Marco Lambertini on Twitter at @WWF_DG.
Moderator

Sulian Tay

Managing Director, Investments

Temasek

Sulian Tay

Managing Director, Investments

Temasek

Sulian joined Temasek in 2012 where she is a Managing Director in the Investment Group based in Singapore and covering the energy and resources sector.

Prior to joining Temasek, Sulian was with Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director in Investment Banking (corporate finance and M&A). She joined Goldman in New York in 1999 and later spent time in Chicago, San Francisco and Hong Kong as well.

Sulian earned a BA in Mathematics and an MS in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.