Mr Chee Hong Tat is currently the Minister for National Development. He also serves as Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Board of Directors, Chairman of the Chinese Community Liaison Group and an Adviser to the Board of Directors of Business China.

Mr Chee was first elected as a Member of Parliament for the Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in 2015 and was re-elected during the 2020 and 2025 General Elections. Before joining politics, he spent 17 years in the Public Service, and had served as the Principal Private Secretary to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Chief Executive of the Energy Market Authority and Second Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

Before taking on his current role, Mr Chee had served as Minister for Transport, Second Minister for Finance, and Senior Minister of State for Health, Communications & Information, Education, Trade & Industry and Foreign Affairs. He was also Deputy Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress from May 2021 to June 2022.

Mr Chee was born in 1973 and is married with four children. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science (Highest Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honours) in Economics. He obtained his Masters of Business Administration from Adelaide University in 2006. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Trades Union Congress in April 2021 and was conferred an Honorary Fellow by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore in January 2023.

Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono — widely known as AHY — is the Coordinating Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development in President Prabowo Subianto’s “Red and White Cabinet”. He previously served as Minister of Agrarian Affairs and Spatial Planning/Head of the National Land Agency in the “Indonesia Onward Cabinet”.

AHY graduated top of his class from SMA Taruna Nusantara in 1997 and from the Indonesian Military Academy in 2000, receiving the Bintang Adhi Makayasa, the highest award for overall achievement. He served in the Indonesian Army elite units for 16 years, carrying out a broad range of assignments both at home and overseas—including a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. He was later appointed as Commander of the 203rd Mechanized Infantry Battalion, part of the Capital Security Command.

In 2016, AHY transitioned from the military to politics, running as the youngest candidate in the Jakarta gubernatorial election. A year later, he founded The Yudhoyono Institute, a think tank built on three pillars: Liberty, Prosperity, and Security. He also established the AHY Foundation, which works in education, health, the environment, and disaster relief.

His contributions in defense and security, politics, democracy and public policy have earned him numerous national and international honors.

AHY holds three Master’s degrees:

1. M.Sc. in Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2006)
2. Master in Public Administration, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, United States (2010)
3. Master of Arts in Management and Leadership, George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology, Webster University, United States (2015)

He also completed advanced professional military education in the United States, graduating first in his class at the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, and later attending the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth.

As part of his commitment to building Indonesia’s human capital, AHY earned a Doctorate in Human Resource Development from Airlangga University in 2024. His dissertation, Transformational Leadership and Human Resource Orchestration toward Indonesia Emas 2045, reflects his vision for the nation’s progress.

AHY is married to Annisa Larasati Pohan, and they have a daughter and a son, Almira Tunggadewi Yudhoyono and Arjuna Hanyokrokusumo Yudhoyono.

H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein is the Chairman and CEO of LGT Group since 2020 and he has been CEO of LGT Group since 2006. Prince Max holds a  master’s degree from Harvard Business School. Since the beginning of his tenure at LGT in 2006, the international private banking and asset management group has increased its assets under management from approximately CHF 70 billion to CHF 386 billion. LGT is fully controlled by the Liechtenstein Princely Family and employs over 6000 people in more than 40 locations worldwide. He is also Founder and Chairman of Lightrock and a member of the Foundation Board of LGT Venture Philanthropy.

Deputy Minister Mika Nykänen acts as state secretary to both Minister of Employment Matias Marttinen and Minister of Climate and the Environment Sari Multala.

Mika Nykänen is a Master of Administrative Sciences from the University of Tampere. He has previously worked as Chief Executive of Helsinki Region Transport, as Director General of the Geological Survey of Finland, as Director at the Technology Industries of Finland, as Managing Director of Finnish Steel and Metal Producers Association and as Managing Director of the Finnish Shipowners’ Association, among other things. Nykänen has also served as Special Assistant to the Speaker of Parliament.

He has held several positions of trust, including as Board Member of EMTA (European Metropolitan Transport authorities) in 2021–2024, as Chair of the National Battery Strategy Working Group, as Board Member of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), as Member of the High Level Steering Group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials (EIP), as Member of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Consultative Commission on Industrial Change (CCMI), as Board Member of the European Community of Shipowners Association (ECSA), as Board Member of the Finnish Seafarers’ Pension Fund, and as Member of the Supervisory Board of the rail company VR Group.

Matt Kean was appointed as Chair of the Authority on 5 August 2024 for a term of 5 years. He was previously the Member for Hornsby in the NSW Parliament from 2011 until 2 August 2024. 

Matt was most recently the NSW Shadow Minister for Health. He was Deputy Leader of the NSW Liberal party from August 2022 until March 2023. Throughout his 13-year political career, Matt also held ministries of Innovation and Better Regulation, Treasury, Energy and Environment. 

As Treasurer and Energy Minister of NSW, Matt championed climate action that is in the best interests of households and businesses. In 2020, he delivered the Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap: A 20-year plan for NSW’s energy infrastructure. The roadmap spurs private investment in renewable energy while reducing emissions and power bills for the people of NSW.

Matt commenced in the role of Director, Regulatory Affairs and Strategic Partnerships at Wollemi Capital on 15 August 2024.

He studied a Bachelor of Business at the University of Technology Sydney and is a Chartered Accountant by profession.

Dilhan joined Temasek in September 2010. He was appointed Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of Temasek Holdings on 1 October 2021. In his current role, he has oversight of all entities under Temasek Holdings, including Temasek Singapore, Temasek Global Investments, Temasek Partnership Solutions, and Temasek International.

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.

Prior to Temasek, Dilhan was the Managing Partner of WongPartnership LLP. He has over 20 years of legal experience, mainly focusing on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and corporate law.

Xavier started his career at Louis Dreyfus Communications (later known as Neuf Cegetel) in Paris in 2001, before joining Louis Dreyfus Commodities in Geneva as Attaché to the CEO, where he was in charge of the business plan and carried out several projects in Asia. He then joined Direct Energie in 2007 where he was in charge of Business Development before founding Neoen in 2008. Xavier graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jean-Jacques Barbéris is General Management and Executive board member at Amundi. Jean-Jacques is head of Institutional and Corporate Clients Coverage and supervises the ESG department. Jean-Jacques is also chairman of Amundi Germany and of CPR asset management.

Before joining Amundi, Jean-Jacques acted as advisor for Economic and Financial affairs in the staff of the French President of the Republic, where he served from 2013-2016. Prior to this, he was a member of staff of Pierre Moscovici, French Minister of Economy and Finance.

Between 2009 and 2010, Jean-Jacques chaired the European group of experts on climate finance in the negotiations at UNFCCC. During that time, he also participated in different studies on the economics of climate change, such as Jean Tirole’s report published before the Copenhagen UNFCC conference in 2015.

Jean-Jacques started his career in the French Treasury Directorate General where he served from 2008 to 2012.

Jean-Jacques was a lecturer in advanced economics at Sciences-Po Paris From 2009 to 2012. He is also chairman of the French think tank “En Temps Réel”, dedicated to European politics.

Jean-Jacques is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum since 2019.

He is also a vice-chairman of Finance for Tomorrow, the French financial association devoted to sustainable finance.

Bold was appointed Chief Commercial Officer in September 2024, with responsibility for sales and marketing, procurement, marine, logistics, and business development. 

Since joining Rio Tinto in 2013, he has held senior leadership roles across operations, Marine, Iron Ore Sales & Marketing, and Copper. 

A member of the Executive Committee since 2016, Bold previously served as Chief Executive of Energy & Minerals and Copper, and led the commercial development of the Simandou project in Guinea, which commenced operations in November 2025.

Jason Bordoff is the Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where he is a Professor of Professional Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Columbia Climate School, where he is Co-Founding Dean Emeritus.

He previously served as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama and Senior Director for Energy and Climate Change on the Staff of the National Security Council. Prior to that appointment, he held senior policy positions on the White House’s National Economic Council and Council on Environmental Quality. Earlier in his career, he was a scholar at the Brookings Institution, served in the Treasury Department during the Clinton Administration, and was a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

One of the world’s leading energy and climate policy experts, Bordoff’s research and policy interests lie at the intersection of economics, energy, environment, and national security. As a member of the Columbia SIPA faculty since 2013, he teaches and mentors the world’s future energy and climate leaders in government, business and civil society.

In 2013, Bordoff created the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP), which is now widely recognized as among the world’s leading energy policy research institutes, advancing evidence-based and actionable energy and climate solutions through research, dialogue, and education. (Learn more here.) In addition to serving as CGEP’s Founding Director, Bordoff co-led and created the nation’s first graduate school devoted to tackling climate change, the Columbia Climate School, from 2021 to 2023. Bordoff is a columnist for Foreign Policy Magazine and has authored numerous essays and articles for Foreign Affairs. He frequently publishes articles in leading outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, and appears on NPR, CNN, NBC, Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS, and the BBC as a commentator.His Foreign Affairs article with Meghan O’Sullivan, “Green Upheaval: The New Geopolitics of Energy,” was selected as one of the “Top Ten” print articles published in that journal in 2022.

Bordoff also has extensive experience advising the private sector and non-profit organizations. He is a Senior Advisor at Permira, a global investment firm. He chairs the Aspen Institute-Columbia Global Energy Forum and serves on numerous advisory boards and leadership councils, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Sustainable Energy for All at the United Nations, The Nature Conservancy of New York, Foreign Policy 4 America, the New York Energy Forum, and the World Economic Forum’s “Future of Energy Stewardship” and “Mobilizing Investment for Clean Energy in Emerging Economies” programs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Oxford Energy Club, and the National Petroleum Council (a federally chartered advisory committee to the Secretary of Energy).

Bordoff graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was Treasurer of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also holds an MLitt degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University.

April Chin serves as the Co-CEO at Resaro, an AI assurance company specialising in independent, third-party testing of mission-critical AI systems.

April's commitment to Responsible AI began in 2019 at BasisAI, where she played a pivotal role in driving the adoption of governance-by-deployment approaches in AI solutions among enterprises. She has also led multidisciplinary initiatives on the operationalisation of AI governance frameworks into executable processes for business and technology teams.

Drawing from over a decade of experience as a former Singapore Administrative Service officer, April has collaborated closely with senior government officials and C-suite leaders to shape future-ready policies that are anchored on governance principles. As a thought leader in this field, April shares her expertise as a Futures Fellow at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and as an Advisor-Expert at the Chandler Institute of Governance.

Wan Thonh is Head of Coverage for Singapore and ASEAN. In this role, she is responsible for overseeing client relationships and driving business growth by ensuring seamless delivery of the Bank’s services, solutions and product offerings to its Corporate and Investment Banking clients.

Wan Thonh has over 25 years of experience in the banking industry, holding a number of senior leadership roles in international banks across transaction banking, capital markets and strategic advisory for corporate and institutional clients.

Based in Singapore, Wan Thonh is a member of the Corporate Coverage Management Team and Executive Committee of Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore) Limited. She is also Chairperson of the Board of Directors of Standard Chartered Bank (Thai) PCL. She is a Singaporean and holds a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the National University of Singapore.

Wilson Chung is a Managing Director at DigitalBridge Investment Management. Mr. Chung is based in Singapore and focuses on identifying and evaluating Asia Pacific investment opportunities across datacenters, mobile towers, fiber infrastructure and other related asset classes.

Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Chung was a Senior Vice President in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital.  He led Macquarie’s balance sheet investments in digital infrastructure in Asia, with a focus on building platforms and developing greenfield datacenters and other digital infrastructure assets. Prior to that role, Mr. Chung held various other positions in private equity, investment banking and telecommunications.

Mr. Chung holds a Bachelor of Laws (honours), and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Melbourne.

Lauren Dunford is the Co-Founder and CEO of Guidewheel, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, TED speaker, and regular speaker at Davos and Stanford. She believes how we make things matters—for people and for the planet. A leading voice on "physical AI," Lauren is bringing intelligence to the machines that power the real economy. Backed by top investors and scaling rapidly across five continents, Guidewheel already helps 400+ manufacturers—including Johnson & Johnson, Hershey, and Cargill—boost productivity by up to 2X while cutting energy costs and emissions by 15-20%.

Dr Steve Howard is Vice Chairman, Sustainability, Temasek. He first joined Temasek as Chief Sustainability Officer in January 2021. Steve is a leading authority on climate change, sustainable business, and sustainable investment. He is a serial social entrepreneur and has led or co-led the establishment of many high-impact organisations and initiatives over three decades. Steve is passionate about tackling climate change and inequality and using business and finance as a force for good. He is a sought-after speaker and has given two TED Talks. He has advised leaders across international business, government and intergovernmental organisations.

Steve is a board member of GenZero, which he helped establish, and chairs the Investment Committee. He is also a founding board and investment committee member of the Temasek-BlackRock joint venture, Decarbonization Partners. In addition, Steve is Founding Chair of the We Mean Business Coalition which he co-founded in 2015, a leading climate change and business coalition which helped secure the Paris Climate Agreement.  He is a member of LeapFrog’s Global Leadership Council and chair of their climate advisory board. He is also chair of Tilt Collective, a global initiative promoting plant-rich food systems which he established in 2023.   

Before joining Temasek, Steve was Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Group and served on IKEA’s Executive Group Management from 2011 to 2017 where he launched their agenda-setting People and Planet Positive strategy.  Prior to IKEA, Steve was Founder and CEO of The Climate Group, a global NGO where he launched Climate Week NYC and established 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 and a Director at URS. He was, until recently, on the Administrative Board of SEforALL. He previously co-chaired the WEF Global Future Council on Environmental Security and chaired the Global Agenda Council on climate change.

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. He is a keen runner and recently ran a marathon a day for six days.

Dr. Sarah B. Kapnick is the Global Head of Climate Advisory in the Commercial and Investment Bank at J.P. Morgan. She oversees the Firm’s climate through leadership strategy and advises the bank's clients on intersecting topics around finance, climate science, and national security. She has received several recognitions for her work at J.P. Morgan and her Climate Intuition series, including being named to the 2025 TIME100 Climate, Bloomberg Green “Ones to Watch” and Fin-Erth lists. She was previously with the bank’s Asset and Wealth Management division.

Prior to her current role, Dr. Kapnick was Chief Scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). She previously spent a decade at NOAA leading climate risk research and development.

Dr. Kapnick earned a Ph.D. in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. in Mathematics from Princeton University.

Kim-See LIM is Chief Investment Officer at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). Ms. Lim, is a global investment professional who has been responsible for originating, executing, and managing multibillion-dollar equity and debt portfolios in emerging markets across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

With a global career spanning more than 30 years, Ms. Lim has held senior leadership positions as well as corporate board positions at private companies in emerging markets. She has successfully led multi-cultural teams to formulate and execute investment strategies across the consumer services, infrastructure, and financial.

As Chief Investment Officer, Ms. Lim oversees AIIB’s investment operations with public sector clients in South Asia (except Afghanistan and Pakistan), South East Asia, the Pacific Islands, and Sub-Saharan Africa; and financial institutions and funds clients in all AIIB Members.

Before joining AIIB in July 2025, Ms. Lim was Regional Director for East Asia and the Pacific at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), where she oversaw the formulation and implementation of IFC’s investment strategy and advisory business in East Asia and the Pacific.

Ms. Lim is passionate about sustainable finance, inclusive growth, and innovation. She is fluent in English, Cantonese, and Bahasa. Ms. Lim has an MBA from University of Maryland, USA and undergraduate degree in Economics and Finance from Flinders University, South Australia, Australia.

Ben King is responsible for Google’s sales and business development operations both within the countries and strengthening Singapore’s position as a regional hub. Ben also leads various adjacent APAC and SEA wide teams — he looked after the APAC Agency and Industry Relations team from 2023-25, and now manages the broader SEA Agency and Partners Team (including Creative, Creator, Tech and Platforms partnerships teams), and APAC Travel Vertical Search.

Prior to this appointment, Ben ran sales and business development operations for Google Thailand between 2015 and 2019. He has also worked with various Google businesses across a diverse range of countries in South and Southeast Asia including Bangladesh, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Before joining Google in 2012, Ben worked at Microsoft Advertising Australia. Joining the business shortly after its launch in the country, he held a number of roles as the business grew into a significant player within the performance marketing space.

Ben is part of the Sentosa Development Corporation Board, sits on the board of advisors for the School of Computing and Information Systems of the Singapore Management University, and sits on the SGTech Council in the capacity of co-opted councilor.

Ben has a BA in Media and Communications from the University of Sydney, Australia, majoring in Media, History and Ancient History.

Dr. Ma Jun is a prominent advocate for sustainable development and green finance, with significant influence both domestically and internationally. In mainland China, he serves as Chairman of the Green Finance Committee and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability.

In Hong Kong, he leads the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA) and contributes to various committees focused on green finance and sustainable development. Internationally, he chairs the Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI) and co-chairs several global green finance initiatives. With over three decades of experience, Dr. Ma has held key roles, including Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, Chief Economist at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), and positions with Deutsche Bank, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

As a pioneering leader in green finance, Dr. Ma has played a ground-breaking role in advancing China’s green finance ecosystem. He organized the country’s first green finance guidelines and bond taxonomy and initiated regional pilot programs. Globally, he has been instrumental in shaping the G20 Green Finance Framework, the Green Investment Principles for the Belt and Road Initiative, and the International Platform on Sustainable Finance (IPSF) Common Ground Taxonomy. His contributions to initiatives such as the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) on biodiversity and the CASI platform have further solidified his reputation. Under his leadership, his teams have supported over 20 governments and financial institutions in developing green finance strategies, earning him numerous international accolades.

Dr. Ma earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1994 and a master’s degree in Management Science from Fudan University in 1988.

Michael Liebreich is managing partner of EcoPragma Capital and CEO of Liebreich Associates. He is an honorary fellow of the Energy Institute and visiting professor at Imperial College London. Former roles include member of the UK’s Taskforce on Energy Efficiency, chairing the subgroup on industry and an advisor to the UK Board of Trade, an advisor to the UN on Sustainable Energy for All, a member of the board of Transport for London and founder of BloombergNEF. Michael is a sought-after keynote speaker and panelist on all matters relating to the net zero transition. During the pandemic of 2020 where travel was restricted, Michael started a podcast and YouTube channel called Cleaning Up, where he hosts in-depth conversations with leaders and experts in climate change and its potential solutions. Michael serves on too many advisory boards to list, he is a prolific speaker and writer, and is known to make the occasional angel investment.

Chikako serves as Board Director as well as Executive Committee Member of SUMITOMO MITSUI TRUST GROUP (SMTG). She oversees corporate sustainability and commitment to carbon neutrality by SMTG. She is also responsible for integrating sustainability business across SMTG. She has 20-years experience in international development finance and sustainability at the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank, being involved in the development of the World Bank’s first green bond and climate products. Before joining SMTB, Chikako led advisory services on sustainability at one of the Big Four companies.

Catherine McKenna is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Climate and Nature Solutions. She is Canada’s former Minister of Environment and Climate Change and former Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. She is Chair of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Expert Group on Net-Zero Commitments for companies, financial institutions, cities, and regions. Catherine founded Women Leading on Climate and hosts its new podcast. She is a member of Temasek’s Global Sustainability Advisory Panel and Singapore’s International Advisory Panel on Carbon Credits. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the Grantham Institute at the London School of Economics, a Distinguished Fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy and an advisor to the Lawson Climate Institute. She serves on the advisory boards of several private sector companies and is a frequent global speaker on climate action, net-zero leadership, and women’s empowerment. Catherine was named a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur by the French government, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, and holds an honorary Doctor of Science degree from McMaster University. She is the author of Run Like a Girl, a memoir about ambition, resilience, and fighting for change. She is a mother of three children and an avid open-water swimmer.

Shannon Miller is CEO and Founder of Mainspring Energy, the leading manufacturer of linear generators. Mainspring began commercial deployments of its fuel-flexible, local power generators  in 2020 and today has hundreds of megawatts in advanced development and field operations for leading Fortune 500 companies, data centers, and utilities across the U.S. A former National Science Foundation Fellow, Shannon was awarded the U.S. Department of Energy C3E Award 2022 in the Entrepreneurship category and named Energy Central “Champion in Innovation” in 2023 in recognition for her energy industry leadership. She holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University. 

Mr. Mizuno is a globally recognized financial executive and a leading advocate for sustainable investment. As Founder and CEO of Good Steward Partners, LLC, he continues to promote responsible financial practices and long-term value creation across markets and sectors. He currently serves as Special Advisor to Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), Independent Board Member of LiveWire Group Inc., and Mission Committee Member at Danone S.A. 

Previously, Hiro served as Special Envoy of the UN Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investment, Special Advisor to CEO of MSCI Inc., Board Member of Tesla, Inc., Executive Managing Director and CIO of Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). 

Earlier in his career, Hiro held leadership roles in private equity and banking, including as Partner at Coller Capital in London and in various international positions at Sumitomo Trust & Banking Co., Ltd., working across Japan, Silicon Valley, and New York.

Beyond his executive roles, Hiro remains deeply engaged in global initiatives focused on climate change, biodiversity, and financial innovation working closely with leading institutions to drive systemic change in capital markets and advance sustainability goals.

Hiro also contributes actively to academia as Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School, Executive in Residence at Oxford Saïd Business School etc.

Scott Morris joined ADB on 1 November 2023 and has significant prior leadership experience in both government and the non-profit sector. He is currently  responsible for overseeing ADB’s operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific.

Mr. Morris is an expert on development finance and debt policy with more than 30 years of experience in international economic policymaking and research. Prior to joining ADB, Mr. Morris was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD) in Washington, DC. At CGD, he led work on multilateral and bilateral development finance, including the role of concessional finance in supporting low-income and climate-vulnerable countries.

Mr. Morris previously served in senior roles in the US government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Development Finance and Debt in the US Treasury. In this role, he oversaw the participation of the US in multilateral development banks, including ADB, as well as US participation in the Paris Club. Prior to his US Treasury appointment, he managed the international and monetary policy portfolio of the Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives.

Mr. Morris holds a master of public policy studies (international economics) from the University of Michigan, Institute for Public Policy Studies, in Michigan, US. He obtained his bachelor of arts degree in government from Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, US.

Bob Mumgaard leads the strategic vision and direction of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, the world's leading, largest, and best capitalised fusion energy company. Under his leadership, Commonwealth Fusion Systems is paving the way for clean, abundant fusion energy to drive the energy transition. 

Since co-founding Commonwealth Fusion Systems with a mission to commercialise the high-field approach to fusion, Mumgaard has grown the company to 800 employees and raised more than $2 billion from the world’s leading climate investors including Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Khosla Ventures, The Engine, oil majors including Eni and Equinor, and long-term strategic investors including Temasek and Tiger Global, among others.

Mumgaard performed his PhD work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he contributed to the design of several small superconducting tokamaks for a variety of physics missions using high temperature superconductors (HTS). Prior to co-founding Commonwealth Fusion Systems, as an MIT fellow, Mumgaard focused on how entrepreneurship, risk-retirement strategies, and partnerships could increase the speed of fusion from laboratory to market. He organised and led a team identifying strategies to utilise private finance and traditional academic resources to speed the path to fusion energy resulting in a collaboration model with MIT and the launch of Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

Mumgaard holds a PhD in Applied Plasma Physics and a MS in Nuclear Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Mechanical Engineering and BS in Engineering Physics from the University of Nebraska.

Amit Narayan is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, scaled, and exited multiple technology companies. He is currently the Founder and CEO of GridCARE, a pioneering company focused on unlocking existing power capacity on the electric grid, and Founder and CEO of Aina Climate AI Ventures, a venture fund and company creation studio dedicated to catalyzing AI-driven solutions for planetary-scale climate impact.

Previously, Amit founded and led AutoGrid from inception in 2011 through its acquisition by Schneider Electric in 2022. AutoGrid Flex has been consistently ranked #1 globally for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs), deployed in over 20 countries and managing more than 8 GW of capacity.

Earlier, Amit was Director of Smart Grid Research at Stanford University and a founder and executive in semiconductor design automation. He holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur.

Ms. Abigail Ng is Chief Sustainability Officer, where she oversees sustainability strategies and steers developmental and regulatory initiatives across MAS. Her work focuses on developing a vibrant sustainable and transition finance ecosystem, while driving collaborations with regional and international counterparts. She represents MAS on the ASEAN Taxonomy Board, and is an Advisory Board Member of the Singapore Green Finance Centre, and on the Management Advisory Board of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute.

Prior to this appointment, Ms. Ng served as Executive Director and Head of the Markets Policy & Consumer Department, where she led the formulation of policies in the capital markets. Ms. Ng represented MAS at various international fora, including the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF) where MAS chairs the Working Group on promoting corporate sustainability disclosures. She was also deeply involved in the work at the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) dedicated to improving sustainability-related disclosures by securities issuers.

Before joining the MAS, Ms. Ng was with the Singapore Legal Service in the State Courts and the Attorney-General’s Chambers, and is admitted as Advocate & Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Singapore.

Daniel Oehling is a core member of the Principal Investors & Private Equity (PIPE), Climate & Sustainability, and Industrial Goods practices at Boston Consulting Group.

Daniel works with investors and industrial conglomerates on developing their climate and sustainability investment strategies, decarbonizing their investment portfolios, and measuring and sustaining their climate efforts.

Daniel has extensive experience across climate change and energy transition topics.

Kyung-Ah is Chief Sustainability Officer at Temasek. She is responsible for advancing Temasek's sustainability strategy to climate resilient, net zero portfolio and to enable nature positive and inclusive growth. She also oversees the integration of ESG across Temasek's global portfolio, including new investments and engagements with portfolio companies to deliver long-term sustainable returns.

Kyung-Ah has over two decades of experience in the finance industry, the 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 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 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 board of ClimateWorks Foundation and is a non-executive board director of Clifford Capital Holdings. She is a Fellow of the 2023 class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Amar Rahman, PhD, MBA is the global leader of Zurich Resilience Solutions’ specialist Climate and Sustainability team, focused on helping business and communities to adapt to the current and future impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. 

Amar brings over three decades of expertise in civil engineering consultancy, academic research, and extreme weather resilience strategy to ZRS customers. He has built a diverse team of climate data scientists and climate risk consultants to help customers identify and quantify their exposure to evolving climate risks, and to implement adaptation measures that build long-term resilience.

Prior to joining Zurich Insurance, Amar held several roles in the civil engineering sector, specializing in large-scale infrastructure projects, including bridges, energy infrastructure and desalination plants. 

Johan Rockström is Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Professor in Earth System Science at the University of Potsdam and Professor in Water Systems and Global Sustainability at the Stockholm University. He is an internationally recognized scientist on global sustainability issues and led the development of the Planetary Boundaries framework for human development in the current era of rapid global change. Professor Rockström is a leading scientist on global water resources, with more than 25 years experience in applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 150 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability. He is i.a. chair of the Earth Commission, the Earth League, Chief Scientist of Conservation International, and elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Salim Samaha is a Partner at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock. He leads the GIP Transition Fund and serves as Chair of the firm’s Midstream and LNG sectors. Mr. Samaha is a member of GIP’s Investment and Operating Committees and is based in New York.

Prior to joining GIP, Mr. Samaha was a senior banker in the Global Energy Group of Credit Suisse’s Investment Banking Division. He previously worked as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers in its Global Power and Project Finance Group.

He currently serves on the boards of Rio Grande LNG and Columbia Pipeline.

Mr. Samaha holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree in finance and accounting from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He is a guest lecturer and member of McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management Expert Panel.

Amil began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he spent nearly a decade in London and Hong Kong. He joined the emerging markets desk, investing and trading derivatives across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2010, he relocated to Hong Kong, a cross-asset structuring team. Working primarily with corporate and private equity clients, Amil structured equity and credit solutions for investment and asset-liability management. In 2014, he was appointed head of Asia ex-Japan Equity-Linked Capital Markets. 

Amil joined Temasek in August, 2015, in Public Market Investment Strategies (“PMIS”), to manage and expand Temasek’s use of derivatives for yield enhancement, hedging and investment purposes. Amil now co-leads the PMIS team, which has expanded to encompass the a number of the firm’s public market focused investment portfolios, as well as the PM trading teams.  

Amil holds an M.A. in Economics from Cambridge University, U.K.

Before founding Westbeck, Will was a partner and Head of the Natural Resources team at CQS from 2008 to 2015. He managed several resource funds with combined AUM around $1 billion, including the City Natural Resources High Yield Trust for six years. During this time, he received several industry awards, including the 2011 Investment Week Best Specialist Investment Trust, the 2012 Investors Chronicle Best Commodity Trust, and the 2012 Investment Week Best Commodity and Resources Trust. Prior to CQS, Will managed the L/S commodity strategy at Landsbanki Securities (2004–2007). He was head of market making in UK FTSE 250 stocks at Panmure Gordon (1999-2004). He held various positions across 13 years at UBS (1986-1999) and started his career at Morgan Grenfell.

Mr Teo Chee Hean was appointed Chairman of Temasek Holdings on 9 October 2025, after joining the Board as Deputy Chairman in July 2025. He also serves as Senior Advisor in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) of the Republic of Singapore.

Mr Teo was appointed Singapore’s Senior Minister from 2019 to 2025 and served as Deputy Prime Minister from 2009 to 2019. He also concurrently served as Coordinating Minister for National Security from 2011. In these roles, he oversaw the National Security Coordination Secretariat, the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group, the National Population and Talent Division and the National Climate Change Secretariat under the Prime Minister's Office.

Mr Teo's career spans political office and the defence sector. He had served as Minister for Home Affairs, Minister for Defence, Minister for Education, and Minister for the Environment, as well as Minister of State in the Ministries of Finance, Communications and Defence. He entered politics in 1992 as a Member of Parliament in Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and was subsequently re-elected six times in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC. Before being elected to political office, he served in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) where he held various command and staff appointments in the Republic of Singapore Navy and the Joint Staff, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral as Chief of Navy in 1991.

Mr Teo had previously served on the GIC Board where he also chaired the GIC International Advisory Board. He has also served on the boards of IRAS, PSA, Nanyang Technological University and Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Mr Teo holds a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Management Science from the University of Manchester, a Master of Science degree (with distinction) in Computing Science from Imperial College London, and a Master’s in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, where he was named a Littauer Fellow.

Connor Teskey is CEO of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading global alternative asset manager, headquartered in New York, with over $1 trillion of assets under management across infrastructure, renewable power and transition, private equity, real estate and credit. He is also the head of Brookfield’s Renewable Power & Transition group, responsible for investments and operations across a range of energy infrastructure investments. He is a member of Brookfield’s Executive Committee. Mr. Teskey joined Brookfield in 2012 and has held a variety of investment and management roles. Prior to Brookfield, he worked in corporate debt origination at a Canadian bank. Mr. Teskey holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Lord Adair Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of companies and energy experts driving analysis and action toward net-zero emissions across all sectors. An independent member of the House of Lords, he is also an Honorary Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Energy Institute. He advises governments and climate bodies worldwide, including the COP Presidency and ministers across Europe, Asia, and Australia, and is a frequent media commentator on the energy transition.

Lord Turner holds several industry roles, including Chairman of Chubb Europe, OakNorth Bank, board member of AESC Japan, and advisor to Watershed. Previously, he chaired the Financial Services Authority, leading post-crisis regulatory reform, and the UK Climate Change Committee, whose recommendations shaped national decarbonisation policy. He also led the Pensions Commission and Low Pay Commission, and served as Director General of the CBI.

Lord Turner is the author of “Between Debt and the Devil” (Princeton 2015)

Shriti Vadera is the Chair of Prudential plc, the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab, which advises on leveraging the World Bank’s interventions to scale up private finance mobilisation for development and climate change, and Chatham House’s Panel of Strategic Supporters and Advisers.  She is Chair of The Royal Shakespeare Company and Co-Chair of the UK’s Creative Industries Council.  She was previously the Chair of Santander UK, a director of AstraZeneca and senior independent director of BHP. 

Shriti has over 40 years of experience spanning public and private sectors, in the UK and internationally. She started her career as an investment banker for 15 years with a particular focus on emerging markets.  She joined the Council of Economic Advisers, HM Treasury in 1999, leading on policy areas for business, productivity, private finance, and international development issues.  From 2007-2009, she was a UK government minister in the Cabinet Office, Business Department and International Development Department.  She was best known for leading the UK government’s response to the financial crisis, as a key architect of its pioneering bank recapitalisation and funding plan in 2008, and helped design the outcomes of the G20 London Summit in 2009.

Jeb Victorino is an Investment Director with Climate Fund Managers, the leading blended finance climate-centric private equity fund manager with over US$ 2 billion dollars of AUM. At Climate Fund Managers, Jeb promoted blended finance investments in both climate mitigation and climate adaptation projects in Southeast Asia.

Jeb is also CEO of CFM Argos, which manages the Malaysian Climate Infrastructure Fund, a Shariah-compliant climate infrastructure private equity fund.

Originally from Manila, Jeb was primarily involved in major power asset privatizations in the Philippines. He has spent almost 20 years in infrastructure investing in emerging markets, pioneering private equity investment in some of the very first wind and solar energy projects in countries like Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.

Kohei Wada is a Partner in McKinsey & Company’s Tokyo office and a leader in the firm’s Sustainability and Public Sector Practice in Japan and across Asia. He advises governments, financial institutions, and energy companies on sustainability and energy transition topics, with particular expertise in climate adaptation, mitigation, and transition strategy. His recent work includes supporting governments on its nationally determined contribution (NDC), helping define targets and transformation roadmaps for both climate adaptation and mitigation. He also works closely with financial institutions to quantify climate risk, embed climate considerations into risk and credit processes, identify opportunities in climate adaptation, and shape climate finance and transition strategies across Asia-Pacific.

In addition to his consulting work, Kohei worked at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), where he was responsible for policy design to support the energy transition and power market liberalization. His work included the design of key market mechanisms such as the capacity market and carbon trading market, contributing to the development of Japan’s evolving energy policy framework.

Kelvin Wong is Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Energy, Renewables and Infrastructure at DBS Bank.

He has over 25 years of professional experience including 22 years of experience in corporate and project finance in Asia. His professional experience as an energy regulator, business consultant and corporate financier (including project finance / M&A and equity fund raisings) offers unique insights to the energy and infrastructure sectors in the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to his role in DBS Bank, Kelvin held senior appointments at Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Standard Chartered Bank. He had also served at KPMG Corporate Finance Pte Ltd and the Energy Market Authority of Singapore. During his years of involvement in the energy and infrastructure sector, he has advised on M&A transactions as well as advised and arranged billions of dollars of financings (including sustainability linked financings and carbon credits) for the renewable energy, conventional power, oil & gas, and telecommunication sectors in Asia Pacific. 

Kelvin has spoken at numerous industry seminars and forums and had once served as the APLMA Singapore PF committee Chairman as well as the ISCA Project Finance Oversight committee member. Kelvin is on IEA’s Finance Industry Advisory Board and is a peer reviewer of multiple IEA publications including the annual Southeast Asia Energy Outlook and the World Energy Investment.

As Managing Director for Sustainability, Franziska leads the development and implementation of Temasek’s overarching sustainability strategy and frameworks to advance net zero, nature positive and inclusive growth. She also spearheads external engagements with 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 defining an ambitious climate change agenda, establishing and implementing the firmwide ESG programme, 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 in the agriculture, healthcare, consumer and industrials industries.

Franziska holds a Master’s degree in Law. She serves as a member of various industry bodies and academic institutions focused on climate, sustainable and transition finance. These include 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.