Dewi Bramono is the Deputy Director of Sustainability and Stakeholder Engagement of APP Indonesia. Bramono is responsible in driving and monitoring the implementation of standards and global best practices that improve the sustainability of APP’s operations in Indonesia. She is a key contributor to the development of policies, guidelines and systems required to help the organization in achieving its sustainability goals throughout its operation and that of its suppliers.

Marc Buckley is a serial entrepreneur and has owned 12 companies and been involved as a partner in 6 International family businesses. He comes from 5 generations of German organic farmers and 3 generations of European Hydroponic gardeners. He is an International expert in the Agriculture, Food and Beverage Industry. Marc is an International Climate Speaker trained by Al Gore, TEDx speaker, Kinnernet Speaker, Green Brand Educator, and a Industry Innovation Expert.

Shouqing Zhu leads and coordinates WRI’s work related to promoting sustainability in the financial system in the People’s Republic of China, which focuses on improving the environmental and social performance of Chinese investments, both overseas and domestic. He has served as a team leader for the Green Finance Task Force of the People’s Bank of China, the international coordinator for the Green Finance Task Force of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED), and team leader for PRC green finance studies of the Asian Development Bank.

Md. Fazlul Hoque has 20 years of experience in the Knitwear industry, and was the president of the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers & Exporters’ Association for 6 years. He was also the President of Bangladesh Employers Federation and Director of the International Apparel Federation. In these roles, he has travelled extensively and has developed a strong understanding of the requirements of major markets and customers. Plummy Fashion Ltd.

Geoffrey Muldoon handles responsibility for managing a regional multi-national coastal fisheries a program and for establishing and building an Asia-Pacific regional seafood platform to bring together regional and international seafood producers and buyers and use market-based tools. He has accumulated more than a decade of experience working in fisheries and aquaculture sectors across the Asia-Pacific and joined WWF in 2008, firstly as a Strategy lead coordinating the Coral Triangle Programs Coastal Fisheries initiative.

Yasushi Hibi has been the Managing Director of Conservation International (CI) Japan since 2003. He leads CI’s efforts in Japan in engaging the Japanese government and the private sector in global sustainable development. In addition, Hibi has taken up responsibilities as Vice President for Asia Policy to consolidate CI’s regional policy engagements in the Asia-Pacific, developing partnerships with multilateral institutions and governments in the region. Before joining CI, Hibi worked for Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Since 1993, Spitzer has developed ventures that combine financial objectives with social and environmental goals, including Plantation Timber Products (PTP), which he built into the People’s Republic of China’s largest sustainable forestry company. With 700,000 tree farmers and state-of-the-art processing facilities, PTP transformed the People’s Republic of China’s wood products industry and demonstrated the economic viability of green initiatives in a competitive marketplace. He also serves as Chairman of a waste water treatment company in the People’s Republic of China.

Mark Laska is one of the United States foremost authorities on ecological restoration, environmental strategies, wetland mitigation and conservation banking, natural resource damage evaluation and restoration, and is an ecologist and entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience. Laska is an environmental industry pioneer, driving innovation on the frontiers of restoration ecology and sustainability. Laska is the Founder (2001) of Great Ecology one of the fastest growing environmental consulting businesses in the US.

Having been in the hi-tech industry for the past 22 years and starting his first business at 19, Rajendra is the only Malaysian to have received the world’s most prestigious IT award from the United Nations. In May 2016, the UN/ITU awarded him for the best E-Environment technology during the World Summit of Information Society in Geneva by the Secretary General for his invention, the Eco2 data center cooling technology. In October 2016 he won the Chairman’s Award at the Global ICT Excellence Awards by WITSA in Brasilia.

Following an extensive career focusing on environment and development in government and international organizations, Erik Solheim was elected to become Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme on May 13, 2016. Prior to joining UNEP, Solheim was the chair of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).