We invite you to join us in this year’s conference, which will build around the grand theme of ‘Costs and Opportunities of Commitment to Net-Zero’. The event will provide a platform for open, scientifically grounded objective discussion of the complex issues that require deeper understanding to make net-zero a reality. The timing of this discussion is critical. With many parties focusing on 2050 as the target year for achieving net-zero, the objective is already within the time-horizon of major infrastructure projects currently being evaluated and planned. Our event will bring together industry leaders, policy makers and regulators, financial institutions, legal experts and other related professionals, from practice and academia in two days of conversation.
Programme Outline
09:00 AM: Registration (Breakfast will be provided)
09:50 AM: Welcome Speech by Prof Sumit Agarwal, SGFIN Managing Director
09:55 AM: Opening Remarks by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat
10:05 AM: Presentation by Keynote Speaker: Prof Michael Greenstone
11:05 AM: 1st Panel Session – Developing Energy Infrastructures to Decouple Emissions from Real-Economic Activity
12:00 PM: 2nd Panel Session – Regulatory and Legal Developments in Global and Regional Transitions to Net Zero
01:00 PM: Buffet Lunch
02:30 PM: 3rd Panel Session – Growing ‘Beyond Compliance’: Keeping Up and Going Beyond Changing Standards in the Built Environment
03:30 PM: Tea Break
03:45 PM: 4th Panel Session – Leveraging Digital Innovations to Achieve Sustainability Ambitions
04:45 PM: Event Wrap Up
05.00 PM: Networking Session
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
MICHAEL GREENSTONE
Director of Energy Policy Institute
Founding Director of Energy and Climate Institute
Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Topic: Economics of the Global Energy Challenge
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as faculty director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago and was recently announced as the founding director of the University’s new energy and climate institute. He was previously the director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.
During the Obama Administration, he served as the Chief Economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he proposed and then co-led the development of the United States Government’s social cost of carbon. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a Carnegie Fellow (aka the “Brainy Award”), and a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Formerly, Greenstone was the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT and directed The Hamilton Project.
Greenstone’s research, which has influenced policy in the United States and globally, is focused on the global energy challenge that requires all societies to balance the needs for inexpensive and reliable energy, protection of the public’s health from air pollution, and minimizing the damages from climate change. Recently, his research has helped lead to the United States Government quadrupling its estimate of the damages from climate change, the adoption of pollution markets in India, and the use of machine learning techniques to target environmental inspections. As a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change. He created the Air Quality Life Index® that converts air pollution concentrations into their impact on life expectancy and co-founded Climate Vault, a 501(c)(3) that uses markets to allow institutions and people to reduce their carbon footprint and foster innovation in carbon dioxide removal.
Greenstone received a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and a B.A. in Economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.
PANEL 1: Developing Energy Infrastructures to Decouple Emissions from Real-Economic Activity
MICHAEL GREENSTONE
Director of Energy Policy Institute
Founding Director of Energy and Climate Institute
Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School, University of Chicago Director, Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (BFI) and Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Professor in Economics, the College, and the Harris School, as well as the Director of the Becker Friedman Institute and the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He previously served as the Chief Economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he co-led the development of the United States Government’s social cost of carbon, and on the Secretary of Energy’s Advisory Board. Greenstone also directed The Hamilton Project, which studies policies to promote economic growth, and has since joined its Advisory Council. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a former editor of the Journal of Political Economy. Before coming to the University of Chicago, Greenstone was the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT.
Greenstone’s research, which has influenced policy globally, is largely focused on uncovering the benefits and costs of environmental quality and society’s energy choices. His current work is particularly focused on testing innovative ways to increase energy access and improve the efficiency of environmental regulations around the world. Additionally, he is producing empirically grounded estimates of the local and global impacts of climate change as a co-director of the Climate Impact Lab. He also created the Air Quality Life Index™, which provides a reliable measure of the potential gain in life expectancy communities could see if their particulates air pollution concentrations are brought into compliance with global or national standards. Greenstone’s research suggests that particulates air pollution is the greatest current environmental threat to human wellbeing.
Greenstone received a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a BA in economics with High Honors from Swarthmore College.
Director of Energy Policy Institute
Founding Director of Energy and Climate Institute
Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics
University of Chicago
Managing Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance and Professor of Real Estate, NUS Business School
Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Science
President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research
Sumit Agarwal is the Low Tuck Kwong Professor at the School of Business and Professor in the departments of Economics, Finance and Real Estate at the National University of Singapore. Previously, he held positions as a Professor of Finance at Georgetown University, senior financial economist in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and a senior vice president and credit risk management executive in the Small Business Risk Solutions Group of Bank of America.
Dr. Agarwal's research interests include issues relating to financial institutions, household finance, behavioral finance, international finance, real estate markets, urban economics and capital markets. He has published over eighty research articles in journals like the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking among others. Additionally, he has co-written a book titled Kiasunomics and co-edited a collected volume on Household Credit Usage: Personal Debt and Mortgages.
He is the co-editor of Real Estate Economics and an association editor at Management Science and Journal of Financial Services Research. He writes regular op-ed’s in the Straits Times and Forbes and is featured on various media outlets like the BBC, CNBC, and Fox on issues relating to finance, banking, and real estate markets. Sumit’s research is widely cited in leading newspapers and magazines like the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Economist, and the U.S Presidents Report to Congress. He also runs a blog on household financial decision making called Smart Finance.
Dr. Agarwal has won various prestigious awards like the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Outstanding Researcher Award at the National University of Singapore, the Paul Samuelson TIAA-CREF certificate of excellence, the Terker Family Prizes in Investment Research Award from the Wharton School of Business, the Glucksman Institute Research Award from New York University and grants from the Russell Sage Foundation and the NBER/Sloan Foundation.
Dr. Agarwal has been invited to present his research at many renowned universities such Columbia University, Northwestern University, University of California Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Maryland, as well as institutions and central banks namely the IMF, World Bank, European Central Bank, European Union, Dutch Central Bank, Riksbank, OCC, and the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, New York, and Philadelphia. He has consulted with the World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, OCC, the Reserve Bank of India and Bank of America.
He has also served as an adjunct professor and a scholar at the finance department at George Washington University, DePaul University, the Indian School of Business, HKUST, BIS and the World Bank. Agarwal received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Managing Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Professor of Finance and Professor of Real Estate, NUS Business School
Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Science
President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research
ISABEL CHATTERTON
Regional Head of Industry, Infrastructure & Natural Resources (Asia Pacific)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Isabel is the Regional Head of Industry, Infrastructure and Natural Resources, Asia and Pacific, based in Singapore. For seven years prior to her current role, Isabel was the Regional Manager for PPP Transaction Advisory Services, initially for South Asia based in Delhi, and subsequently in Singapore as her mandate expanded to cover all Asia Pacific for the last four years. Isabel spent four years in IFC’s Subnational Finance unit where she worked in deal origination, structuring and supervision of debt and structured finance products in more than six countries in LAC.
Before joining IFC, Isabel held various positions in World Bank operations in the urban sector in the Middle East and North Africa region, the water sector in Latin America, and the transport, power and urban sector in South Asia. Before joining the World Bank in 2001, Isabel worked in emerging markets and Western Europe for WS Atkins in the UK as Senior Management Consultant; working on infrastructure finance in Thailand, Argentina, Barbados, Qatar, the UK, and Europe.
Isabel, a civil engineer by training, holds an MBA and a PhD from the University of Birmingham (UK).
Regional Head of Industry, Infrastructure & Natural Resources (Asia Pacific)
International Finance Corporation (IFC)
DAVID BROADSTOCK
Senior Research Fellow and Energy Transition Research Lead
Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Dr David Broadstock is Senior Research Fellow and Energy Transition Research Lead with Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) housed within the National University of Singapore (NUS). Through these roles David regularly interacts with financial institutions, government agencies, research foundations, policy makers and industry leaders to develop and implement impactful research into the successful deployment of transition finance to support sustainable economic development for Singapore.
David is an economist with around 15 years of experience, most of which in Asia. He has worked within academia, consulting and strategic policy research (thinktanks) and is specialized in the areas of energy and environmental economics, with recent research concentrating on areas of green and sustainable finance. David places a special emphasis in the emerging area of ‘transition finance’, seeking to better appreciate how trust and confidence behind net-zero commitments can be fostered and sustained so as to facilitate an organized, timely and scalable flow of capital to achieve national decarbonization ambitions without sacrificing on economic competitiveness.
As an academic David has published in high level journals spanning accounting, finance, management and economics, and enjoys a healthy citation profile. David is Editor for The Energy Journal, Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate Finance, and sits on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management, and Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances. David frequently engages with media, and has been interviewed or quoted by Bloomberg News, CNA (TV, radio and online), Reuters, ABC News, BBC News, The Los Angeles Times, Straits Times and CGTV, among others.
Senior Research Fellow and Energy Transition Research Lead
Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
PANEL 2: Regulatory and Legal Developments in Global and Regional Transitions to Net Zero
TIMOTHY GOH
Partner
Dechert LLP
Timothy Goh advises clients on a broad range of cross border corporate and commercial matters, including private equity, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, joint ventures, fund establishment, and secondaries.
Mr. Goh has worked in the ASEAN region and the Middle East for private equity, venture capital, start-ups, multinational companies, multilateral development banks and development finance institutions, and sovereign funds.
Mr. Goh also has experience advising on sustainable finance matters including environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters, green bonds and green financing, green funds, climate change and sustainability, public and government finance, regulatory compliance, sustainable debt and equity investments in emerging markets.
In recent editions of The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Mr. Goh has been recommended for his work in corporate and M&A with clients noting that he is an 'exceptional negotiator', 'very technically competent', 'always available, a problem solver, informative', and 'solution driven'. Clients praised him for providing 'insight on practicality' and 'guidance on how to navigate thorny issues that are often legal and commercial in nature', and that they 'always feel safe if [their] transaction is being handled by him'.
Partner
Dechert LLP
FRANZISKA ZIMMERMANN
Director, Sustainability & Climate Change Strategy
Temasek
Franziska Zimmermann is Director for Sustainability & Climate Change Strategy 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 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) as well as the Expert Panel on ESG and Sustainable Investing at Singapore’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI).
Director, Sustainability & Climate Change Strategy
Temasek
LEE WEILIN
Head, Sustainability
Partner, Banking and Finance
Rajah & Tann Asia
Weilin is a ranked practitioner in Chamber Asia Pacific and is recommended in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for banking and finance work. The IFLR1000 Leading Lawyers has also named Weilin as a Highly Regarded Lawyer.
Weilin is a partner with the Banking and Finance Practice Group and has more than 16 years of experience advising banks and financial institutions and multinational corporations in high value transactions, cross-border secured financings based on onshore-offshore financing structures with intercreditor arrangements, acquisition/leveraged financing, borrowing base facilities and public takeover financings.
Weilin currently heads up the multi award-winning Sustainability Practice Group at Rajaj & Tann and together with the Sustainability Practice team of specialist lawyers, regularly advise on a range of sustainability related issues across industries and sectors. She is an EFFAS Certified ESG Analyst.
Head, Sustainability
Partner, Banking and Finance
Rajah & Tann Asia
MICHAEL TANG
Head, Listing Policy & Product Admission and Head, Sustainable Development Office
Singapore Exchange Regulation
Michael is the head of Listing Policy & Product Admission and the Sustainable Development Office at Singapore Exchange Regulation (SGX RegCo), a subsidiary of Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) that undertakes frontline regulatory functions. In his two roles Michael oversees listing policy and rules development, the admission of securities products and sustainability-related issues on the regulatory front. He leads efforts to promote sustainability across stakeholder groups. Michael graduated from the National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Laws degree and is admitted to the Singapore bar.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the NUS Business School’s Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS), a Management Committee member of Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS) and a member of the Environmental, Social and Governance Committee of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID). Michael contributes to international standards setting efforts, participating as a member of the Sustainability Reference Group of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants (IESBA) and as a member of the Capital Markets Technical Committee of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
Head, Listing Policy & Product Admission and Head, Sustainable Development Office
Singapore Exchange Regulation
SEAN TSENG
Legal Consultant (Energy Systems, Asia)
ClientEarth
Sean is part of the Energy Systems, Asia team. His work focuses on the use of corporate and financial laws to promote climate ambition within the private sector in Asia. This involves working on legal strategies that embed the consideration of the climate into business and investment decision-making, whether that is through the avenue of director’s duties, climate disclosure obligations, or shareholder engagement. Sean joined ClientEarth in January 2022.
Before joining ClientEarth, Sean was a disputes resolution lawyer in one of the top law firms in Singapore. His work spanned from corporate and commercial disputes to advisory work on environmental-related issues. Sean is also an Adjunct Research Fellow for the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and is the incoming convenor for the Environmental Law module at NUS Faculty of Law.
Sean has a Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree from the National University of Singapore (2:1) and is qualified to practise as a lawyer in Singapore. He also holds a Master of Law (LLM) from University College London (Distinction), from which he graduated at the top of the Environmental Law and Policy specialism.
Legal Consultant (Energy Systems, Asia)
ClientEarth
PANEL 3: Growing ‘Beyond Compliance’: Keeping Up and Going Beyond Changing Standards in the Built Environment
Joelle Chen
Head of Sustainability, Asia
Lendlease
Joelle leads the implementation of Lendlease’s sustainability strategy in Asia, leveraging technical capabilities, organisational best practices and external partnerships to deliver its Mission Zero and social value targets.
She is a trained architect and draws on ~20 years of experience in stakeholder engagement and ecosystem development in sustainable built environment. She was the first Asia Pacific Head for World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), spearheading net zero carbon and healthier buildings in the region. Her time at WorldGBC saw 25% more APAC Green Building Councils commit to net zero transformation in their countries.
Joelle previously headed the Smart Sustainable Cities team at the Singapore Economic Development Board, driving public-private partnerships through innovation platforms i.e. “Living Labs” such as NTU EcoCampus and HDB Smart Hub.
She holds a Masters in Architecture from the National University of Singapore, and a MBA from the Singapore Management University.
Head of Sustainability, Asia
Lendlease
JASPER WONG
MD, Head of Real Estate & Hospitality and Construction & Infrastructure
Sector Solutions Group
United Overseas Bank
Jasper is currently the Head of Real Estate & Hospitality, Construction and Infrastructure, Sector Solutions Group for UOB. He has strategic coverage focusing on developing sector-specific solutions in the real estate, hospitality, construction, infrastructure, solar and energy efficiency segment, leveraging industry insights, data analytics and value chain analyses across UOB’s wholesale banking business.
Before taking up this role, Jasper was the Head of Infrastructure & Project Finance for Asia in UOB. He has over 25 years extensive project and structured finance experience in the region focusing on power, renewables, oil and gas, petrochemical, infrastructure and telecoms financing.
Prior to joining UOB, Jasper worked in the transportation industry as the director of Structured Finance Asia for Bombardier Transportation.
MD, Head of Real Estate & Hospitality and Construction & Infrastructure, Sector Solutions Group
United Overseas Bank
GIOVANNI COSSU
Head of Sustainability
CapitaLand Development
Giovanni Cossu is Head of Sustainability at CapitaLand Development (CLD), the development arm of CapitaLand Group. Mr. Cossu's responsibilities encompass advancing CLD's green competency throughout the entire life cycle of building and precinct projects, as well as championing all sustainability initiatives and ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) efforts. Over his career, Cossu served as a sustainable development consultant in Singapore, China and Europe. In Singapore, Cossu led strategic sustainability initiatives and developments, and oversaw integration of net-zero, health, and well-being targets into various asset classes. Among his achievements is Singapore's first new-build net-zero energy building, SDE4, located at the NUS College of Design and Engineering.
Head of Sustainability
CapitaLand Development
Associate Professor, NUS Business School
Deputy Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Academic Director, Msc (Sustainable and Green Finance)
Associate Professor Zhang Weina is with the Department of Finance at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. She is also the Academic Director of MSc in Sustainable and Green Finance Programme and the Deputy Director of Sustainable and Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) at NUS. She obtained her Master of Science and Ph.D. in Finance from Kellogg School of Management at the Northwestern University, USA.
Weina’s current research and teaching focus on sustainable and green finance, fixed income securities, asset pricing and investment. She examines how ESG are priced in financial securities. She also explores the informational efficiency in various financial markets and the impact of different policies on financial instruments. She currently teaches courses such as Sustainability and Finance, Sustainable and Green Investment at the master's and undergraduate's levels. She also teaches lifelong learning modules and conducts executive trainings in the related areas.
Weina has published dozens of academic papers including Management Science and Review of Finance. She has also published more than 30 business cases with IVEY. Her papers have received several best paper awards and she is also a recipient of many teaching excellence awards both at the NUS Business School and the University levels.
Associate Professor, NUS Business School
Deputy Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Academic Director, Msc (Sustainable and Green Finance)
Professor, NUS Business School
Co-Director, Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS)
Joseph Ooi is Professor of Real Estate in NUS Business School, National University of Singapore (NUS) where he is serving as Programme Director of the Executive Certificate in Real Estate Finance (ECREF). He is the immediate Past President of the International Real Estate Society, which is a federation of six regional real estate academic societies.
Joseph has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers in top real estate finance and economics journals, such as Journal of Law & Economics, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Journal of Regional Science, Regional Science & Urban Economics, Urban Studiesm, Real Estate Economics and Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics. A frequent winner of best paper prizes at international conferences, Joseph received the NUS Young Researcher Award (2005), NUS SDE Dean’s Chair (2015), and the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate & Land Economics Fellowship (2017) for his outstanding and impactful scholarly accomplishments.
Joseph is also a highly versatile scholar who excels at teaching a broad range of subjects at different levels. He has conducted training workshops for real estate-related organisations and government agencies. Joseph has won many teaching excellence awards, including the NUS Outstanding Educator Award, which is the highest teaching accolade in NUS.
Joseph served on the executive committee of Urban Land Institute (ULI), Singapore and is on the editorial board of most peer-reviewed real estate journals. He was external examiner and reviewer for University of Reading (2011-2014) and University of Auckland (2021), and board director of AsianRealEstateSociety (2012-2018). Joseph received the International Real Estate Society’s Achievement Award in 2008 for his outstanding contribution to research, education and practice at the international level.
Joseph obtained his B.Sc. (Estate Management) and M.Sc. (Real Estate) degrees from NUS and his PhD in Real Estate Finance from the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST).
Professor, NUS Business School
Co-Director, Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies (IREUS)
PANEL 4: Leveraging Digital Innovations to Achieve Sustainability Ambitions
DANIEL CHAN
Director
Ascent Solutions Pte Ltd
Daniel leads the Professional Services department in Ascent Solutions, comprising the Project Management Team, Field Services Team, Data Analytics Team, and the Ascent Global Support Centre for IoT solutions and products. He is also responsible for ensuring Ascent’s products and solutions are delivered to its customers in a holistic and timely manner, as part of customer success. Daniel is concurrently the Data Protection Officer of the company.
Prior to joining Ascent Solutions, he had over 12 years of experience in the Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) and the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). Daniel is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI as well as a certified Associate Protection Professional (APP) by ASIS International.
Director
Ascent Solutions Pte Ltd
Professor & Vice Dean (Research)
NUS School of Computing, Department of Computer Science
Dr. Bingsheng He is currently a Professor and Vice Dean (Research), School of Computing, National University of Singapore. Before joining NUS in May 2016, he held a research position in the System Research group of Microsoft Research Asia (2008-2010) and a faculty position in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
He got the Bachelor degree in Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1999-2003), and the Ph.D. degree in Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (2003-2008).
Bingsheng has served as a PC member for international conferences in databases (e.g.,ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, IEEE ICDE), cloud computing (e.g., ACM SoCC) and parallel and distributed systems (e.g., SC, HPDC and IPDPS), and as a demo co-Chair in VLDB 2017, PC co-Chair in IEEE CloudCom 2014/2015 , HardBD2016, IEEE BigData Congress 2018 and ICDCS 2020. He has served in editor board of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (IEEE TPDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (IEEE TKDE), Springer Journal of Distributed and Parallel Databases (DAPD), and ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR). He has got editorial excellence awards for his service in IEEE TCC and IEEE TPDS in 2019.
His current research interests include Big data management systems (with special interests in cloud computing and emerging hardware systems), Parallel and distributed systems and Cloud Computing. His papers are published in prestigious international journals (such as ACM TODS and IEEE TKDE/TPDS/TC) and proceedings (such as ACM SIGMOD, VLDB/PVLDB, ACM/IEEE SuperComputing, ACM HPDC, and ACM SoCC). He is affiliated with both the Systems and Networking group and the Database group at NUS.
He has got a number of awards including IBM Ph.D. fellowship (2007-2008), NVIDIA Academic Partnership (2010-2011) and Nanyang Education Award (School) 2014. He has got a number of paper awards and honorable mentions in international prestigious conferences and journals including VLDB 2023 (industry track), IEEE TPDS 2019 best paper award, ACM SIGMOD 2008, VLDB 2013 (demo), IEEE IC2E 2016, 2017 IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla ICCAD Best Paper Award, and PACT 2018 (see Awards).
He is an ACM Distinguished Member (2020).
Professor,
Vice Dean (Research)
NUS School of Computing, Department of Computer Science
LIN WUJUAN
Deputy General Manager, Research & Development Center
Hitachi Asia Ltd
Wujuan Lin heads the Digital Solution Group, Research & Development Center at Hitachi Asia Ltd. He is responsible for the creation of social innovation across ASEAN countries. His current work covers technology and solution development in various sectors, including building and energy, logistics and transportation, finance, and public safety.
Deputy General Manager, Research & Development Center
Hitachi Asia Ltd
ROBERT FIELD-MARSHAM
Project Manager, Net Zero Planning & Execution
Evercomm Singapore
Evercomm is an engineering and technology company for sustainability.
At Evercomm, Rob helps companies navigate their journeys to reduce their GHG emissions, by providing digital tools and services to credibly measure and manage emissions, and identify, assess and invest in low-carbon technologies.
Rob has worked in B2B across software, professional services, and most recently in manufacturing, where he focused on developing services to measure, communicate, and improve the sustainability of packaging outcomes, including for greater circularity, and lower carbon footprints.
Project Manager, Net Zero Planning & Execution
Evercomm Singapore
Dean's Chair & Associate Professor, NUS Business School
Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Johan SULAEMAN is the Director of the Sustainable and Green Finance Institute at NUS (SGFIN). He is a Dean’s Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at the NUS Business School. He recently served as the founding Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Finance) Programme and as the Research Director of the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI). He is a Scientist at the AIDF (Asian Institute of Digital Finance), a Fellow of the ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research), a Research Member of the ECGI (European Corporate Governance Institute), and has served on the editorial boards of international finance and economics journals.
He teaches in various educational programs, including executive education, in courses involving core financial concepts, portfolio theory, equity, fixed income, options, futures, investment strategies, and risk management. His current research interests focus on sustainability and impact measurement in the context of the financial sector, as well as the effects of geographic factors on various economic outcomes. He also works on research questions related to the effects of ownership structure on corporate decisions, the role of various economic agents in disturbing and maintaining market efficiency, and discriminations in labor markets and the financial and corporate sectors.
His research appears in top economics and business journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science. His papers have also been presented at leading conferences, including the American Finance Association and Western Finance Association annual meetings, and the NBER Summer Institute. He obtained his PhD in Finance from University of Texas at Austin (McCombs).
Dean's Chair & Associate Professor, NUS Business School
Director, Sustainable and Green Finance Institute
Please note: Programme, speakers and event details are subject to changes.
Dress Code
Business Attire
Venue
Carlton Hotel Singapore
Empress Ballroom 4 & 5, Level 2
76 Bras Basah Road
Singapore 189558
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