David serves as Chief Executive Officer of Verra where he oversees all aspects of the organisation, including ensuring the financial and operational health of the organisation and that the organisation’s certification programs meet high-quality integrity and transparency standards. David works to ensure that the standards Verra identifies, develops, and manages can be used by the private sector, countries, and civil society to achieve increasingly ambitious climate and sustainable development goals. David works closely with the Verra Board of Directors to chart the future course of the organization and also spearheads outreach to government, business, and environmental leaders around the world.

Meg leads Climateworks’ international and country context teams, with a focus on business development, strategic relationship management and political and policy context analysis across Australia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

She led the expansion of ClimateWorks’ footprint into Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including establishing a team in Indonesia. She has also led global and regional strategic relationship-building to position ClimateWorks as a partner of choice internationally.

Meg has extensive experience convening coalitions to deliver high impact projects, leading teams to develop innovative solutions at the nexus of climate change and international development, and facilitating processes to build consensus across a diverse range of stakeholders around the low carbon transition. 

Meg’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Film and Television (Melbourne University), a Certificate in Carbon Accounting (Swinburne University), and a Masters of Business Administration - Environmental Sustainability (Deakin University). She has also completed the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ course and is a Fellow with the Centre for Sustainability Leadership (CSL).

Ashley is a Director in the Strategy & Development Group at GenZero, where she leads the development of GenZero’s investment strategy and drives business development.

Before GenZero, she was Director in Temasek’s Sustainability Group, focusing on developing sustainability strategy in the areas of carbon markets, climate and nature, sustainability investing and sustainable finance. Prior to the Sustainability Group, Ashley was in the Investment Group and made investments of over US$5b across transactions in retail, restaurants, and personal care subsectors globally. Ashley started her career in investment banking at the CIMB Group.

Ashley graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Economics.

Tyler Christie is Managing Director for Decarbonization Partners, a BlackRock and Temasek JV that invests in the next generation of innovative decarbonization solutions and businesses, to accelerate global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

Tyler has been an investor, entrepreneur and advisor focused on climate change for over 20 years. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2022, he was an investor and advisor at EQT focused on venture and growth stage climate technology investments. Tyler also co-founded Natural Capital Advisors, investing in over 15 climate technology startups and funds and advising global organizations on sustainability, and Parla, a digital startup recently acquired by Holland & Barrett.

Tyler started his career as a data scientist using satellite imagery to measure and monitor land use and climate change working across Africa, Latin America and Asia for Conservation International. He holds an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Geography from Middlebury College.

Franck covers geopolitical risk across a range of sustainability issues, with a focus on climate change, biodiversity policy, water resources, and environmental litigation. As a member of Eurasia Group’s Energy, Climate & Resources (ECR) practice, Franck helps public and private sector organizations understand evolving sustainability trends and supports them in the design of solutions that turn political risks into opportunities. 

Prior to joining Eurasia Group, Franck held multiple energy and climate-related positions within the World Bank Group. Most recently, he was the Climate Adviser to the Managing Director of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). He also undertook research and consultancy work on carbon risk management for the European Investment Bank (EIB), clean and domestic energy solutions for the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), energy policy in North America for the Centre on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), and environmental crimes in Sub-Saharan Africa for the Earth Institute.  

Franck holds three bachelor’s degrees and four master’s degrees, including a Master of Public Policy (Energy, Resources & Sustainability) from Sciences Po Paris and a Master of Public Administration (Energy & Environment) from Columbia University. 

Franck has been quoted by various media outlets, including Bloomberg, the Economic Times, Responsible Investor, and the Business Telegraph.

Jenny Davis-Peccoud founded Bain’s global Sustainability & Responsibility practice in 2011. Throughout her 30 years at Bain, Jenny has advised multinational corporate clients across a wide range of industries, as well as government ministries, public bodies and global NGOs.

Her experience includes sustainability strategy, sustainable growth and value creation, sustainable business transformation, sustainable supply chains, and multi-lateral collaborations. She has also supported the early conception, incubation and launch of ambitious sustainability ventures.

Beyond her broad expertise, Jenny has a particular focus on food systems transformation, working across agriculture, packaged food companies, food retail and agri financing on the systemic solutions needed to drive impactful, lasting and sustainable change.

Jenny writes and speaks extensively in her areas of expertise. Her perspectives have been published in newspapers across the world, including The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Le Monde, NRC Handelsblad and The Business Times of Singapore, as well as in publications such as Harvard Business Review, European Business Forum, the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Forbes and weforum.org.

A US, French and British citizen, Jenny has led projects across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and North America, with almost 10 years of experience in Southeast Asia.

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.

As Chief Technical Officer at Gold Standard, Owen is responsible for the development of all innovations, standards, methodologies and tools. Owen led the development of the pioneering ‘Gold Standard for the Global Goals’, a first-of-its-kind impact-standard focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. Owen is currently the technical lead on the Climate Ledger Initiative’s ‘Next Generation MRV’ approaches that incorporate innovative technologies, along with major innovations in the carbon markets, corporate reporting and finance markets.

Dr Gokce Mete is Senior Expert in heavy industry transition and low-carbon hydrogen at South Pole and co-leads the Hydrogen for Net Zero Initiative (H2NZ) together with Perspectives Climate Group. H2NZ aims to unlock carbon finance for hydrogen projects by developing the first methodologies for the voluntary carbon market. She also leads the policy and advocacy efforts of South Pole in the low-carbon hydrogen space and is responsible for developing new low-carbon hydrogen business opportunities.

Gokce is co-founder of the Women in Green Hydrogen Network, author of over 30 publications, and has over a decade of policy and regulatory analysis, public affairs, project development and stakeholder management experience focused on climate change, just transition and sustainability in the energy, heavy industry and minerals sectors.

At Breakthrough Energy, Ann Mettler is working with European partners to accelerate cleantech innovation in the pursuit of climate neutrality and net-zero emissions. Previously, she served as Director-General at the European Commission where she ran the internal strategy department, reporting directly to the President.

Ann's career started at the World Economic Forum where she led the Europe department and spans more than two decades of experience in high-level public policy and strategy, operating at the intersection of technology, innovation, foresight, and entrepreneurship. An entrepreneur at heart, she set up her own think tank which she ran for more than a decade. Ann is a frequent speaker at high-level conferences and has been widely published and quoted in key media outlets, such as the FT, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, and International New York Times.

She holds MA degrees in Political Science and European law and economics, and graduated with distinction from the University of New Mexico, USA, and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn.

Axel Michaelowa holds a PhD in Economics and has worked on international climate policy instruments and the UNFCCC process since 1994. From 1999 to 2006, he was head of the Research Programme ”International Climate Policy” at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA). Since 2007 he is leading a research group on climate policy at the University of Zurich`s Institute of Political Science.

Axel is president of the Zurich Carbon Market Association. He is member of the board of Climate Strategies and the constituency of Research and Independent NGOs observing the UNFCCC negotiations. Axel was lead author on international mitigation policies in the 4th and 5th IPCC Assessment Reports between 2006 and 2013. He served on the CDM Registration and Issuance Team for the CDM Executive Board between 2006-2013 and evaluated over 175 CDM projects. He serves on the editorial boards of the peer reviewed journals “Climate Policy”, “Climate and Development” and “Greenhouse Gas Measurement & Management”.

Dr Shailendra Mishra is Global Head of Climate, Environment & Natural Capital at Olam Agri, based out of Singapore. He drives Olam Agri’s and Olam Group’s global corporate environmental sustainability strategy, which includes climate action, regenerative agriculture, and ecosystems workstreams that contribute to Olam’s vision to be nature-, climate-, and livelihood-positive.

Shailendra is a conservation and ecology scientist passionate about developing nature-based solutions. Dr Mishra holds a PhD from the National University of Singapore in climate and environmental science and deciphering the ecological drivers of tropical peatland oxidation leading to greenhouse gas emissions. He has extensive experience of ~12 years in the field of conservation, restoration, sustainable agriculture, above- and below-ground (soil) carbon, green finance, waste-to-valorisation, and climate change across APAC and EU regions.

Ms Ng Lay San is Head of carbon management solutions at Sembcorp, leading its corporate venture, GoNetZeroTM. GoNetZero™ is a one-stop renewable energy and carbon management partner to corporates, supporting them in achieving their decarbonisation goals.

Previously the global head of sustainability and strategic communications, Lay San had led the development and implementation of Sembcorp’s climate change strategy and sustainability agenda across the Group as well as the investor relations and communication functions at Sembcorp’s headquarters.

Lay San has over 20 years of experience spanning sustainability, strategic planning, investor relations and financial communications, corporate communications and issues management.

She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder, a management committee member of the Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS), the local chapter of the United Nation’s Global Compact and serves on the Climate Action Singapore Alliance.

Jesper is a Senior Partner in London and member of BCG’s Management Committee for UK and Benelux. He is BCG’s Global Leader for Sustainable Finance & Investing and was previously the leader of BCG’s Climate & Sustainability Practice in Europe. Jesper is responsible for BCG’s corporate partnerships with WWF and SBTi and was also part of the BCG team that supported COP26.

Jesper is an expert in climate strategy, carbon markets and nature-based solutions, and impact investing, working with both corporate clients and private equity and institutional investors.

Vivek has been passionate about climate for most of his career. In his current role as IFC’s Global Head and Director of Climate Business, Vivek works to connect the dots across the corporation to mainstream the climate lens into all IFC’s business and mobilise capital for climate business opportunities.

Prior to his current role, Mr Pathak was IFC’s Regional Director for East Asia and Pacific, where he led operations across 18 countries, reaching $4.2 billion in long-term investment in fiscal year 2020. Before that, he was IFC’s Director and Global Head of Credit and Investment Risk. He had also held multiple leadership roles managing portfolio, credit risk, and business development in frontier markets at IFC, Bank of America and ABN AMRO Bank.

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

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

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

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

Dr Sri has been a Senior Principal Investigator with Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory Ltd (TLL) since 2002. At TLL, his lab focuses on various aspects of plant biotechnology research to sustainably increase the yield and stress tolerance of plants like Jatropha, a low-cost biodiesel feedstock, rice and leafy vegetables.

Dr Sri was concurrently Chief Technology Officer at JOil Pvt. Ltd. from 2008 to 2021 where he spearheaded a breeding programme for the development of commercial Jatropha varieties. Dr Sri also headed JOil's Africa expansion, including the establishment of its first commercial scale Jatropha project in Ghana where he successfully and sustainably transformed marginal lands into viable Jatropha plantations involving both captive and outgrower plantations.

Prior to joining TLL, Dr Sri was with the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology and later the Institute of Molecular Agrobiology, Singapore, where he headed its Rice Functional Genomics programme. Dr Sri obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from University of Idaho, USA.

Frederick is the CEO of GenZero. He oversees the strategic direction of the company to achieve both climate impact and sustainable long-term financial returns.

Prior to his appointment at GenZero, Frederick held various leadership positions in Sustainability, Portfolio Management and Business Continuity Management in his 12 years at Temasek International. As Managing Director of Sustainable Solutions, he established the team and conceived capability programmes in clean energy, urban, and climate and nature solutions. He led key initiatives such as the establishment of Climate Impact X, a global marketplace and exchange for carbon credits, as well as Singapore’s first brownfield distributed district cooling retrofit project in partnership with SP Group. He also worked on value creation projects with some of Temasek’s large portfolio companies like SingTel and Mediacorp, and led corporate governance and stewardship initiatives within the Portfolio Management team. Frederick also took the lead in several community programmes. In 2014, he partnered Temasek Foundation to execute a nationwide delivery of mask kits during a severe haze episode and worked with ST Engineering on the development of the world’s first N95 masks specifically designed for young children.

Frederick holds several sustainability advisory positions, including being a Member of the SEforALL Governance Board and World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance. He is also a member on the Advisory Panel of the Centre for Liveable Cities which was established by Singapore’s Ministry of National Development and Ministry of Sustainability and Environment to create and share knowledge on sustainable cities.

Frederick holds a MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a BA and MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford University.

Nakul Zaveri is a partner at LeapFrog Investments and co-head of the firm’s climate investment strategy.

Nakul has over 20 years of experience spanning entrepreneurial, operational and investing activities. He brings relevant investing experience across Climate and Responsible Investment strategies including investing in renewables, climate tech, industrial/ enterprise efficiency, evolving consumer priorities, and related value chains.

Nakul guides LeapFrog’s climate strategy, focused on supporting pathways out of poverty for emerging consumers that also deliver rapid decarbonisation of all sectors of industry.  He is a member of the firm’s Executive Committee.

Previously, Nakul was Managing Partner at Relativity Investment Management, a sustainability focused investment manager, where he made investments in high-growth companies addressing risks and opportunities created by megatrends of climate change, demographic shift, and increasing use of technology. Prior to that, he was a senior investment professional with Global Environment Fund – a US-based mid-market private equity fund, and earlier, Climate Change Capital. 

Nakul has an MBA from the University of Oxford’s Said Business School and is a member of the Exeter College in Oxford. He completed his Bachelor of Commerce & Economics from University of Mumbai’s Sydenham College.