As Pivot Bio’s Chief Executive Officer, Chris is focused on increasing farmer profitability and resiliency, as well as driving a dramatic improvement of the agriculture supply chain’s environmental sustainability by replacing synthetic fertilisers with new crop nutrition technologies.

Chris has invested in and helped build companies across the ag and food value chain from on-farm biological and digital solutions to midstream processing and logistics, down to food ingredient and brand manufacturers. With a distinct focus on agriculture, fertiliser efficiency and agtech, deep industry relationships, and capital market expertise, Chris has served as an investor and advisor to dozens of sustainable technology companies. 

Prior to joining Pivot Bio in 2023, Chris was Co-Head of Continental Grain's Conti Ventures, where he helped build the company’s portfolio as a diversified global investor in food and agribusiness. Chris launched his career in agriculture on Wall Street at Piper Jaffray & Co., EcoAlpha Asset Management and Craig-Hallum Capital Group. As an advocate for creating programs to support youth, Chris serves on the board of InnerCity Tennis. Chris holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.

Dr Sali Bache is an ocean governance and climate change specialist with two decades of experience in common property resource conservation, including representing Australia in intergovernmental negotiations, and advising organisations such as APEC, UN agencies and the IUCN. Her current work is focused on the ocean-climate nexus and in this capacity is engaged in the UNEP GEO-7 process. Most recently she established the Southeast Asia Framework for Ocean Action in Mitigation (SEAFOAM) program at Climateworks Center and is currently the Monash University Co-ordinator and Lead to COP28. Sali is an Associate of the Institute for Antarctic and Maritime Studies (IMAS) at the University of Tasmania. She has a PhD in Public Policy from the Australian National University, a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from Monash University and holds higher degree qualifications in Environmental Impact Assessment, System Dynamic Modelling and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

Amit Bando is Chief Economist and Senior Advisor for Just and Inclusive Economics at Ceres, where he promotes innovative financing of clean energy initiatives and climate change mitigation/adaptation options. Working with institutional investors (with over $60 trillion in assets under management), Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies in more than 60 nations, he specialises in policy design, market transformation, and impact evaluation of programs. A proven leader in motivating talented and diverse staff in multicultural environments, Amit also specialises in evaluation and policy design to provide results-focused, human centered, science-based and market-driven solutions for sustainable impact. Throughout his career working for USAID, NASA, and other U.S. government agencies, he has provided expert analysis related to minority, women, and under-represented populations. A popular speaker at global forums, Amit has authored several publications including the widely used Economic Evaluation of Environmental Impacts.

Dominic Barton is a global business leader, with a deep insight into geopolitics, corporate sustainability and governance. He serves as Chairman of Rio Tinto, a leading global miner, and LeapFrog Investments, a pioneer of impact investing. Most recently, he was Canadian Ambassador to China.  

Dominic spent over 30 years at McKinsey & Company, including nine years as Global Managing Partner from 2009 to 2018. He was also Asia Chairman for McKinsey between 2004 and 2009.

He has also served as Chairman of Teck Resources and as Non-Executive Director at the Singtel Group in Singapore and Investor AB in Sweden. He was also a board member of the Olayan Group, a private family-owned company.

Dominic has a keen interest in developing responsible investing strategies and impact investment metrics that stretches back decades. He was one of several co-founders of the non-profit organisation Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT Global), which has a mission to focus capital on the long term to support a sustainable economy. He was also Chairman of the IIRC, the benchmark global accounting standard for purpose-driven investments.

Over the course of his career, Dominic has authored more than 80 articles on the role of business in society, leadership, financial services, Asia, history, and the issues and opportunities facing markets worldwide. 

Kitty is a strong advocate of creating inclusive spaces in the energy sector to ensure that more women assume leadership positions. She has had a successful TV journalism career with Reuters and led Silicon Valley unicorn Impossible Foods in its strategy for entering and expanding sales of its plant-based meats in Asian markets.

Benedict Chia is Director General (Climate Change) from the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. He is responsible for economic research, the development of low-carbon technologies and futures work. Prior to that, he has served in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as well as the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.

Mr Benedict Chia is Director-General (Climate Change) from the National Climate Change Secretariat in the Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore. He is responsible for driving Singapore’s climate change efforts and policies across key inter-agency workstreams, while bringing on board technical expertise and providing strategic advice. Prior to that, Benedict served in the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, as well as the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources.

Julie is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Olam Group and Olam Agri, a leading agri-business with a mission to transform agriculture for a more sustainable and food-secure future. With a career spanning 20 years across Africa and Asia, Julie champions responsible private sector development as a means to socio-economic progress. At Olam, Julie spearheads the 2030 Sustainability Goals and strategies across its multiple businesses and geographies. She established her career in transformative social and community development initiatives in Sierra Leone, including rural development projects with German development cooperation GIZ and relief programmes at the International Rescue Committee. Julie currently serves as Chair of the African Cotton Foundation.

Ling Min is a Director in the Investment Group at GenZero, leading the company’s investments in nature-based solutions and carbon ecosystem enablers.

She was previously a Director in Temasek International’s Sustainability Group, accumulating more than 10 years of experience investing in global companies across diverse industry sectors, including transportation, logistics, industrials and real estate. She also led early-stage supply chain technology investments at Reefknot Investments, a joint venture fund between Temasek and Kuehne+Nagel.

Ling Min is currently a Board member of C-Quest Capital Asia Stoves, CHOOOSE and Rize. She is also a Board observer of Perennial.
  
She graduated from the Singapore Management University with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Bachelor of Business Management.

Dr Steve Howard is Vice Chairman, Sustainability, Temasek. He first joined Temasek as Chief Sustainability Officer in January 2021. Steve is a board member of GenZero, which he helped establish, and chairs the Investment Committee. He is also a founding board member of the Temasek-BlackRock joint venture, Decarbonization Partners, and is a member of the Investment Committee. In addition, Steve is Founding Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition and a member of the LeapFrog’s Global Leadership Council. He is also chair of the Advisory board of Tilt Collective, a global initiative promoting plant-rich food systems. He was, until recently, on the Administrative Board of SEforALL.

Before joining Temasek, Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011 to 2017. In 2015, Steve co-founded We Mean Business, a leading climate change coalition of organisations that helped support the Paris Agreement. Prior to IKEA, Steve was Founder and CEO of The Climate Group, a global NGO that has built networks of cities, states, regions, and businesses committed to a net-zero carbon world. Before the Climate Group, Steve consulted on sustainability working as a partner at ERM Group in London and a Director at URS Corporation.

Steve has worked with various NGOs and UN bodies on a wide range of global sustainability topics. Earlier in his career, Steve worked in WWF, where he established the Global Forest and Trade Network, chaired the UK Forest Stewardship Council and helped launch and chair The Forest Trust. Steve is trained as an ecologist and has a PhD in Ecophysiology and Environmental Physics based on research on agroforestry systems in Kenya.

Dirk Jan Kennes is the Asia Head of RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness at Rabobank since January 2022. Prior to this, he was Rabobank’s Global Sector Strategist for Farm Inputs since 2007.

Based in Hong Kong, Dirk Jan and his team conduct research across various food and agribusiness sectors, providing valuable insights to Rabobank’s clients. Their work includes in-depth reports on sector and commodity forecasts, current market trends, and future industry developments. The Asia RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness team is part of a global network of about 80 research analysts, allowing them to identify macroeconomic trends and industry dynamics in key Food & Agri sectors.

Dirk Jan brings a wealth of experience in the field of Food & Agribusiness. Before Rabobank, he held management positions at Kemin Food Ingredients, was business manager Feed at Corbion, and worked in marketing and sales management of feed and food ingredients at Akzo Nobel.

Dirk Jan holds a degree in agronomy with a focus on animal nutrition, and an MBA from Twente University in the Netherlands.

Professor Koh Lian Pin is Associate Vice President and Chief Sustainability Scientist at the National University of Singapore. He oversees and champions sustainability-related research at the University through a whole-of-university strategy that bridges academia, policy, industry and civil society. Prof Koh is presently also the Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho Temple Professor of Conservation, Vice Dean (Research) at the Faculty of Science, Director of the Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, and Director of the Tropical Marine Science Institute.

Bringing 18 years of international research experience in the field of sustainability and environmental science, Prof Koh returned to Singapore in 2020 under the National Research Foundation’s Returning Singaporean Scientists. Prof Koh is one of the most highly cited conservation scientists in Asia, a TED-Global speaker, Founding Director of ConservationDrones.org, and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. 

Audra has overall responsibility for strategic leadership for the Clifford Capital business. Since joining Clifford Capital at its inception in 2012 as Head of Origination and Structuring, Audra has spearheaded the growth of the Clifford Capital franchise as a specialised provider of project and structure financing solutions globally in support of Singapore-based companies in the infrastructure and maritime sectors. Prior to Clifford Capital, she spent 12 years with HSBC, where she played a key role in originating and structuring of numerous award-winning transactions for the bank’s clients in South-East Asia, both as financial advisor and lead arranger.

Audra has an MBA from New York University Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University.

Lit Ping Low leads PwC’s Asia Pacific Climate Change practice. She is an experienced climate policy and finance economist with over 20 years of experience providing advisory services to public and private sector clients on climate change, environmental and social issues. She has worked with governments, businesses and NGOs in over 20 countries, and in many sectors including real estate, infrastructure, financial services, food and beverages, retail, hospitality and conglomerates.

She has a track record of collaboration with international organisations including World Economic Forum, World Bank/IFC, UNFCCC, the Climate Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), New Climate Economy (NCE), Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), International Emissions Trading Association (IETA), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEPFI). She was also a Senior Specialist to the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Practice, advising governments on climate and disaster risk financing, from 2020 to early 2022.

Anuj is a Managing Director at Temasek where he leads its investment activities in the global Agri-Food space.

Over the last 2 decades, Anuj have led several investment strategies in emerging themes. He is deeply passionate about environmental sustainability and societal impact. 

Anuj joined Temasek in 2004 as a founding member of its India investment team where he covered Technology, Consumer Goods, Agri-Food and Power & Infrastructure sectors. In 2008, he co-led Temasek's foray into Africa and Middle East which he continues to oversee. In 2013, Anuj relocated to Singapore and started a team that helps innovative Agri-Food companies unlock their potential while making a difference in the world by offering sustainable solutions and delivering better diets.

Anuj started his business career as a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company in Mumbai where he advised companies and governments on strategic and operational matters. 

He has a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Milena Messori is heading the Corporate Finance and Global Activities Department at the European Investment Bank (EIB), which serves micro, small and medium-sized companies through a range of intermediated products, including investments in private equity, venture capital, impact and infrastructure funds, direct lending to corporates, project finance and advisory services, covering all emerging markets outside Europe. Milena joined the EIB in 2003 and has since covered various positions within the Bank, including Head of Division for Equity and Microfinance, Head of Unit for Product Development and Head of the EIB Bucharest Office. Prior to joining the EIB, Milena worked with the World Bank in Washington DC, where she was responsible for the financing of public sector projects in Eastern European countries. Milena holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Masters’ Degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. 

Helge is the Chief Sustainability Officer at DBS. He is responsible for developing DBS’ overarching sustainability framework and driving ESG initiatives across the bank. He also chairs the DBS Sustainability Council, which comprises senior leaders across business and support units.

Prior to joining DBS, Helge was Head of Asia Pacific, Sustainable Finance and Global Capital Markets at ING, where he worked for 10 years. In this role, he successfully grew the bank's regional business of sustainability-related advisory services and sustainable finance transactions across products. He was also part of ING’s global Sustainable Finance and Capital Markets management teams as well as the bank’s global Sustainable Finance Quality Board. Before that, he spent more than 12 years in various roles at Deutsche Bank AG and UniCredit Group being based in different cities across Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.

He also represents DBS in several global and regional working groups such as the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Industry Advisory Panel of the ASEAN’s Joint Sustainable Finance Working Group and the MAS-convened Green Finance Industry Taskforce.

Helge holds a Master’s Degree in Economics from Munich University (major in Developing Economics) as well as a postgraduate degree in sustainability from Cambridge University. He is also a CFA charter holder. 

Lia Nicholson is Head of Sustainability at Terrascope, an end-to-end decarbonisation platform. She is an experienced climate leader who has worked at the interface of national and local government, business, and civil society across the Caribbean, West Africa, Asia and the Pacific. In her previous role, Lia was a climate negotiator in the United Nations and senior advisor to Small Island Alliance (AOSIS) - a bloc of 39 countries facing existential climate risks, and considered the moral voice for climate action.

Lia spent several years with C40 Cities Climate Leadership in West Africa, where she supported mayor’s offices in Abidjan, Accra, Dakar and Lagos to prepare city-level GHG inventories and develop Paris Agreement-aligned climate plans. Lia received a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University, and met the late Queen of England in 2017 as the recipient of a Commonwealth leadership award.

Lia serves on the Technical Advisory Group of the Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi).

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for integrating ESG across Temasek’s global portfolio working with teams on portfolio company engagement and ESG investments. She also oversees the firm’s sustainability strategy to advance net zero, nature positive, and inclusive growth.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, majority of which was dedicated to building and leading the global environmental markets initiatives at Goldman Sachs and advancing innovative finance solutions to address climate change. She was most recently the head of Environmental Markets and Innovation and a member of the Sustainable Finance Steering Group. She joined Goldman Sachs in Mergers & Acquisitions and worked in investment banking in New York and Hong Kong. Prior to Goldman Sachs, she was a management consultant at McKinsey in South Korea and South Africa.

Kyung-Ah has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Yonsei University in Korea. She serves on the boards of ClimateWorks Foundation and Resources for the Future and is an advisory member for NYU’s Center for Sustainable Business. She is also a board director of Clifford Capital Holdings.

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.

Jack Roswell is the CEO and co-founder of Perennial. Previously, he worked with researchers at the University of Virginia and Peruvian Ministry of Culture to perform sub-soil imaging work at UNESCO sites. Jack has a background in remote sensing and regenerative agriculture as a former researcher at Brown University. Jack was also recently named on the Forbes 30 under 30 list for social impact, alongside Perennial being recognised as one of Time Magazine's top 200 inventions of 2022.

Dhruv Sawhney, Founder and CEO, came onboard to lead Rize after heading up Nuture.Farm, one of India’s largest digital platforms for facilitating sustainable agriculture. Under Dhruv’s leadership, Rize is building a full stack technology platform that will serve and support smallholding farmers’ needs and incentivise transition to sustainable low-carbon rice cultivation while improving their resilience. In addition to direct experience in decarbonising the rice value chain, Dhruv is also a successful startup founder having built his food supply chain business WOTU, which he continues to head after it was taken over and renamed HyperPure by Zomato in 2018. Dhruv has also spent many years in various leadership roles at GoJek, PayPal, Dell and Tata Consultancy Services.

Sophie is the CEO of CGAP, an international partnership, housed in the World Bank Group, dedicated to promoting inclusive financial ecosystems that enable a green, resilient, and equitable world for all.

Sophie has dedicated her professional career to the development of inclusive and sustainable financial ecosystems around the world, with more than twenty years of experience at the World Bank, where she has held different positions, including Director of Strategy and Operations at the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank and Director for the Caribbean region.

Previously, Sophie worked as an expert in financial sector development and stability in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Among others, she led various Financial Sector Assessment Programs (FSAPs) in various countries in Europe, Central Asia, and Latin America, and she was the Manager who led the World Bank's response to banking crises in various countries of the European Union during the global financial crisis of 2008-2011. Prior to joining the World Bank, Sophie worked in JP Morgan's Financial Institutions (FIG) team on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) in Europe, and for Halcrow Fox and Associates' Infrastructure team.

Sophie holds a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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.

Franziska Zimmermann is Managing Director for Sustainability at Temasek. She leads the development of Temasek’s overarching sustainability strategy to advance net zero, nature positive and inclusive growth. She also spearheads external engagements with relevant international institutions, global investor alliances as well as think tanks and business networks.

Since joining the firm in 2015, Franziska has played a pioneering role in establishing and implementing the firm wide ESG programme, defining an ambitious climate change agenda, forming an external sustainability advisory group as well as an engagement platform for portfolio companies on sustainability.

Before joining Temasek, Franziska held senior positions in publicly listed multinational companies across Europe and Asia where she gained critical insight into different industries, including agriculture, healthcare, consumer and industrials. She joined the private sector after almost a decade working with the Swiss government where she focused on advancing international trade and economic development cooperation.

Franziska holds a Master’s degree in Law from the University of Bern, Switzerland. She serves as a member of the ESG Committee of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID), the Executive Committee of the Singapore Sustainable Finance Association (SSFA), the Management Advisory Board of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Expert Panel on ESG and Sustainable Investing at Singapore’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI), and as a Fellow of the Transition Investment Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi.