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ABOUT THE EVENT

Though Investors have begun incorporating Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics as core value drivers for purposeful investment, what does it mean when businesses are expected to “walk the talk” and do business the right way?

This session brings together experts participating from across the value cycle to provide an overview of how ESG investments are meaningfully done, how the convergence of global ESG requirements and reporting standards may finally help pave the way to assess sustainability and other factors, and the pitfalls for businesses if their ESG statements are not aligned with their business model and corporate culture.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Anne Copeland
CEO & Sustainability Advisor
Copeland & Partners Limited

For 35 years, Anne Copeland has assisted corporates and the financial sector to adopt best practices by providing ESG due diligence, risk management, strategy development, implementation and reporting, training and stakeholder engagement services across Asia. She is an advisor with Copeland & Partners and Sedgwick Richardson, an independent assessor for ADB, and a Board Advisor for Arowana Impact Capital, The Mekong Club and Lumivoce. Previously, Anne was the APAC E&S Specialist for IFC, a lecturer at HKU and a TEDx speaker.

She co-founded CanCham’s SD Committee, is a Co-chair of the Women’s Network and a Director of the Chamber. She was a TWF Mentor and Advisory Council member, a founding member of the HKSAR Council for Sustainable Development’s Strategy Sub-committee, and one of the first 31 members of the GRI Stakeholder Council. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto and McGill University.

 

Alexander Lehmann
Senior Associate
Independent Economics

Dr. Alexander Lehmann is a non-resident fellow at Bruegel, the top-rated Brussels think tank, where his work focuses on EU financial sector policies, sustainable finance, and crisis management – issues on which he has advised numerous emerging market central banks, governments and multilateral and EU institutions. He is concurrently a senior associate at Independent Economics, the London macro advisory firm and serves on the Sustainability Standing Committee of ESMA, the EU’s capital markets supervisor.

 

Gerald Lam
Senior Associate, Investigations Compliance & Ethics
Baker & McKenzie

Gerald Lam is a senior lawyer in Baker McKenzie’s investigations, compliance and ethics group, and specializes in international risk and investigations. He is also a member of the Firm's Asia Pacific ESG Advisory Working Group.

Gerald focuses on investigations and regulatory compliance matters relating to anti-bribery and corruption, economic sanctions, ESG, money laundering, and white-collar fraud. In addition, he also regularly acts as specialist compliance counsel in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financing and lending arrangements, and other corporate transactions.

He has led a number of internal and government-initiated investigations involving potential violations of anti-corruption and bribery laws, economic sanctions, money laundering and fraud involving multiple jurisdictions, including the U.S., Hong Kong, China, Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.  He is a solicitor qualified in Hong Kong, and an attorney of the State of New York (pending admission).

 

Olga Sviatochevski
ESG for Global Markets - Head of Strategy and Business Development
CITI

Olga is part of the Global Markets Environment Social and Governance (ESG) team, heading up Business Development and Strategy.

Previously she headed up the EMEA Corporate Strategy team looking at wholesale banking across all geographies in EMEA and working with the EMEA OpCo and business leads to drive strategic change. She joined Citi in 2014.

Prior to Citi, Olga was a strategy consultant at Booz & Company focusing on financial services and oil & gas sectors. She has worked across EMEA and APAC. 

She holds an MBA from London Business School and BCom (Finance) / LLB (Honours) from University of Melbourne.

 

Rajeev Chib
Asia CAO Financial Institutions Sales & Solutions
CITI

Dr. Chib is a seasoned Capital Markets professional with 28 years international experience with leading international banks based in Hong Kong, New York and Toronto. He is the Asia CAO - Financial Institutions Sales & Solutions at Citi based in Hong Kong.

In addition to his role within banking, Dr. Chib is passionate about Responsible Finance, ESG and Diversity & Talent. He is an Adjunct Professor at the City University of Hong Kong teaching Leadership at the graduate level with a focus on Authentic Leadership, leading in adverse situations and personal branding. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong teaching International Business to graduate students. He serves on the Advisory boards at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management and Arts & Science faculty.

Dr. Chib received his Doctorate degree in Business Administration in October 2020 from City University of Hong Kong in Organizational Behaviour and leadership with a focus on the younger generation within Financial Services. He has a MBA (Executive MBA) and a BSc. in Quantitative Economics (with honors) from the University of Toronto.

 

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