James Spurgeon

James Spurgeon is the founder and director of Sustain Value, a consultancy firm he established in 2011 to advise financial institutions, investors, multi-national companies and governments on natural capital, multi-capitals and the blue economy. He is an environmental economist with 30 years consulting experience in natural capital valuation and financing, with considerable experience relating to tropical marine and coral reef ecosystems.

Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez

Ede Ijjasz has more than 30 years of senior technical and management experience at the World Bank, academia, and consulting. His expertise is in the areas of finance, infrastructure, global environment, sustainable development, cities, water resources, climate change, agriculture, blue economy, resilience, fragility and conflict, resettlement, PPPs, and ESG.

Michael Abundo

Michael Lochinvar Sim Abundo is currently the Assistant Director and Programme Manager for the Saab-NTU Joint Lab. The Saab-NTU Joint Lab conducts R&D in technologies like autonomy, data analytics, machine learning, and systems engineering, thus staying at the forefront of digitalization by introducing high-end digital technology into its many products is essential to Saab’s development.