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.

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

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

Mr 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.

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.

Marc Benioff is Chair, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce is the #1 provider of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software globally.

Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognised as one of the World’s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune, one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review and as the CNN Business CEO of 2020. For his leadership on equality, Benioff has been honored by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award.

A member of the World Economic Forum (WEF) Board of Trustees, Benioff co-founded 1t.org — the global movement to conserve, restore and grow one trillion trees — and the WEF Friends of Ocean Action. He also serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF's Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco.

Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures — a leading investment firm with over 200 investments. Benioff is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change.

Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees.

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.

Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All and Co-Chair of UN-Energy. She is a global leader and advocate for the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7), which calls for access to reliable, affordable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030, in line with the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Ms. Ogunbiyi is one of the Commissioners for the Global Commission to end energy poverty which is an initiative driven by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Rockefeller Foundation. She is the Co-Chair of the COP26 Energy Transition Council which was established ahead of COP26 to bring together leaders in the power sector across politics, finance and technology to speed up the transition from coal to clean renewable energy in developing countries. Post-COP26, it was agreed that the ETC will continue at least until COP30, guided by the strategic vision articulated in the Glasgow Power Breakthrough to make clean power the most affordable and reliable option for all countries to meet their power needs efficiently by 2030. She is also a member of the Development Advisory Council of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), member of the Clean Cooking Alliance advisory board and a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Oxford – Future of Cooling Programme, among others.

Prior to joining SEforALL, Ms. Ogunbiyi was the first woman to be Managing Director of the Nigerian Rural Electrification Agency where she was responsible for successfully negotiating the Nigerian Electrification Project which is a USD 550 million facility (World Bank USD 350m and African Development Bank USD 200m) to rapidly construct solar mini-grids and deploy solar home systems across Nigeria to close energy access gaps.

Ms. Ogunbiyi’s previous public sector roles in Nigeria included Senior Special Assistant to the President on Power, Head of the Advisory Power Team in the Office of the Vice President of Nigeria, General Manager of the Lagos State Electricity Board, and Senior Special Assistant to the Lagos State Governor on Public Private Partnerships. Ms. Ogunbiyi also worked with the UK Department for International Development [now Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)] as a consultant on public-private partnerships. 

Mr Russell Tham is Head of Strategic Development, and Joint Head of Enterprise Development Group, focusing on building new businesses and investing globally in early-stage high potential Science & Technology ventures respectively. He joined Temasek in May 2020 after 2 years at ST Engineering where he was President of New Enterprises and Ventures.

Previously, he worked at Applied Materials, a Silicon Valley headquartered technology MNC, from 1994 to 2018 where he last held the position of President, Applied Materials Southeast Asia and concurrently held global corporate level business development responsibilities for new markets. He led the regional business and oversaw the company’s Singapore infrastructure expansion into manufacturing, supply chain, R&D and product development for global markets. Having joined Applied Materials in 1994, he assumed the position of Regional General Manager, Southeast Asia from 2004 to 2009 after serving in various positions between 1994 to 2003. He went on to concurrently hold various global leadership roles.

Mr Tham serves on the board of AEM and Nanofilm Technologies, both SGX listed companies, Xora Innovation and Surbana Jurong Private Limited. He is a board member of Infocomm Media Development Authority, IMDA and a member of the Singapore Government’s Future Economy Council, FEC.

Mr Tham holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Alfred is Co-founder and CEO at Alpha-ESS. Committed to providing advanced energy storage products and smart energy management solutions to customers, Alpha-ESS is the first Chinese high-tech enterprise to launch integrated photovoltaic lithium energy storage products for household use.

Under Alfred’s leadership, the company has been awarded the Best System Integration Solution Supplier in China's energy storage industry for three consecutive years. At present, the company's business has expanded to more than 60 countries and regions around the world, bringing the benefits of clean energy to millions of people. Alpha-ESS's mission is to maximise the benefits of clean energy to everyone in the world and to contribute to the goal of carbon neutrality.

Alfred holds a bachelor’s degree in Optical Information Technology from Nankai University and a master's degree in Applied Physics and optoelectronics from the University of Hanover in Germany. He is proficient in German and English and familiar with European culture and market operations.

Caroline Chua leads BloombergNEF’s analysis of the Southeast Asian power and renewable energy markets, with a focus on market and policy analysis, forecast and strategic market insights in the fast-growing region.

Before joining the company, Caroline has experience across rooftop solar, power generation and retailing with Singapore-based energy companies where she was involved in corporate strategy and portfolio management.

Caroline holds a Bachelor of Science with First Class Honors in Business Administration (Financial Analysis & International Business).

Alicia has led investment and strategy in global developing markets for nearly 25 years, managing private equity funds, market entry and finance strategy for multinational companies across Asia including the Middle East. She has focused on infrastructure, renewable energy, specialty chemicals, mining services, and technology. Before co-founding InterContinental Energy in 2014, she was a founding partner of Asia Pacific Capital Fund II and the Mongolia Opportunities Fund.

Previously, Alicia led International Strategy and Acquisitions at Elan Biopharmaceuticals and was Vice President of Prudential Asia Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund. She was also a Founding Principal at NetFuel Ventures (acquired by the University of Chicago) and has held international strategy and investment positions at Gemini, Lend Lease, and AirTouch International (Vodafone).

Alicia holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Alicia sits on the Board of Advisors for SEC Hydrogen, the Executive Committee of the Ammonia Energy Association, and multiple philanthropic groups.

As an experienced international business leader, Daryl Wilson joined the Hydrogen Council in October 2020 as the coalition’s new – and historically first – Executive Director. Collaborating closely with the Hydrogen Council’s Board and Co-chairs, Daryl supports the organisation in building the industry marketplace and leading the work on global advocacy, representing the Hydrogen Council amongst international organisations, national and regional hydrogen associations, as well as in relevant investment-focused fora.

Daryl has an impressive track record of building successful organisations and operating at the intersection of environmental and sustainability issues across sectors. He was most recently the global CEO of Hydrogenics, a fuel cell and electrolysis technologies provider with manufacturing sites in Germany, Belgium and Canada and service centres in Asia, Europe and North America.

Prior to Hydrogenics, Daryl held a variety of roles in environmental technology, operations, manufacturing, human resources, product development, and organisational change at companies including Toyota and Dofasco.

Daryl has an MBA degree in Operations Management / Management Science (McMaster University) and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering (University of Toronto). He is currently based in Ontario, Canada.

Bernd Heid is a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company and is based in Cologne, Germany. Bernd joined the firm in 2000 and is the global leader of the McKinsey Hydrogen Service Line and McKinsey’s Platform for Climate Technologies. He has led numerous projects along the full hydrogen value chain and leads McKinsey’s partnership with the Hydrogen Council, which he helped to initiate and where he co-authored, among others, the “Hydrogen Scaling-up report”, the “Cost Roadmap”, the “Hydrogen Insights Report” and the “Hydrogen Net Zero Report”.

Bernd also co-leads the firm’s collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Bernd has been appointed as an advisory board member of the Center of Hydrogen Innovation (CHI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS).

Bernd holds a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the RWTH Aachen and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as well as a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management.

Ian Chapman became CEO of the UK Atomic Energy Authority and Director of the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in October 2016. He has held a number of international roles in fusion, including membership of the Princeton Plasma Physics Advisory board, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Plasma Physics advisory board and chairing the IAEA International Fusion Research Committee.

His research has been recognised with a number of international awards, including the Institute of Physics Paterson Medal in 2013, the European Physical Society Early Career Prize in 2014, the American Physical Society Stix Award in 2017, the Royal Society Kavli Medal in 2019 and the Institute of Physics Glazebrook Medal for leadership in 2021. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in 2013 and became a visiting Professor at Durham University in 2015.

Talmon Marco is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in starting and managing high-tech companies. He was, among others, the co-founder and CEO of the mobile messaging app Viber (sold in 2014 to Rakuten for $900MM), a ride-sharing service Juno (sold in 2017 to Gett for $200MM), and co-founder and president at iMesh.

Currently, Talmon is Co-Founder and CEO at H2Pro, a revolutionary green hydrogen startup founded in 2019. The company’s cost-effective way to produce green hydrogen is based on a novel electrolysis-like technology that revolutionizes water splitting, aiming to produce green hydrogen for USD 1 per kilogram before 2030.

Talmon is also a partner at Penta Lab - a hands-on incubator that he founded together with the team that started Juno, Viber and iMesh. Talmon holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and Management from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

John Redfern is an expert investor, advisor and serial entrepreneur in the data analytics, oil service and energy tech verticals. John spent his career in executive roles at multiple international oil companies and oil service companies including as a Director at Hess in London, President of Accumap in Calgary and President of IHS Energy in Denver.

Prior to Eavor, John spent 13 years in China co-founding a series of start-ups, the most recent of which is LocalGravity, a leading retail data analytics platform in China.

John holds a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen’s University in Kingston, Law degrees from McGill University in Montreal, and an MBA degree from INSEAD in France.

Ally Yost serves as Chief of Staff at Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) where she brings over a decade of experience working on the commercialisation of scientific and engineering breakthroughs. Yost leads business development strategy and company financing strategy and investor engagement.

Prior to CFS, Ally was a founder and Principal at The Engine, the venture fund spun out of MIT, helping to build out the foundational initiatives of The Engine and investing in the climate, human health, and hardware infrastructure sectors. While there, she also co-developed an entrepreneurial curriculum focused on Tough Tech commercialization dedicated to scientists transitioning to entrepreneurs. Prior to The Engine, Yost worked with another MIT spin-out, Accion Systems, leading all of the R&D and manufacturing of key thruster components for the company’s novel electric propulsion for satellites. She also worked as a research scientist with GoogleX and on spacecraft propulsion for NASA.

Yost earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Ernest J. Moniz was the thirteenth US Secretary of Energy from 2013 to January 2017, advancing clean energy technology innovation as central to climate change mitigation, nuclear security, and cutting-edge scientific research capabilities and negotiating the Iran nuclear agreement alongside the Secretary of State.

Dr Moniz joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty in 1973, founded the MIT Energy Initiative and is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus. He is CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and of the Energy Futures Initiative. He has served on boards and advisory groups of numerous companies, non-profits, research institutions and government agencies in the energy, science and security arenas.

Dr Moniz received a Bachelor of Science degree summa cum laude in physics from Boston College and a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University. Among his awards are the Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator (Portugal), the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (Japan), the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Department of Defense, election to the American Philosophical Society, the inaugural American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Excellence in Public Policy and Public Affairs and the inaugural Aspen Institute Award for Energy Policy.

Haslinda Amin is Chief International Correspondent for Southeast Asia and anchor for Bloomberg Television. She is also host and Executive Producer of talk show ‘High Flyers’ which is the longest-running program on Bloomberg TV.

Based in Singapore, Amin has been at the heart of market-moving news and stories that have driven the region’s transformation. She has reported on major events including the 2008 financial crisis, several elections across Asia including India and Indonesia which are among the world’s most populous, the 2016 Jakarta attacks and the 2010 bloody anti-government clashes in Thailand. Amin has also helmed Bloomberg’s coverage of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting, the World Economic Forum, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Board of Governors Meeting and the ASEAN Milken Global Summit.

Amin has interviewed a wide range of top newsmakers for Bloomberg Television, including Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, Chief Executive of Hong Kong SAR Carrie Lam, United States Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross, Former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohamad and former Thai Premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Other notable interviews include Paul Volcker, Joe Biden, Mike Pompeo, Timothy Geithner and Stanley Fischer.

Amin began her career covering Southeast Asian politics more than a decade ago. She serves on the board of UN Women Singapore and has been nominated numerous times for Best Current Affairs Anchor at the Asian TV Awards. She graduated from the National University of Singapore, majoring in Political Science and English Language. She speaks Bahasa Indonesia.