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).

Sanjaasuren is a Member of the Parliament of Mongolia. She was elected first in 1998 and has been re-elected in the terms of 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012. She served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during 2007-2008 and Minister of Environment and Green Development during 2012-2014. During the term of 2004-2008, she respectively held the positions of Vice-Speaker of the Parliament, Leader of the Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Caucus and Chairman of Sub-Committee on Millennium Development Goals and poverty reduction.

You has been with ADB since 1993 when he joined as a Young Professional. He subsequently worked in the Office of the General Counsel for 13 years and then served as the Senior Advisor to the Managing Director General. Before joining ADB, he was a banking and corporate associate in law firms in New York City and Seoul, Republic of Korea. He is a member of the New York Bar, and is a graduate of Harvard College (A.B. in Economics) and Harvard Law School. 

Chan is also a co-founder of Cleantech Marketplace Forum and Green Trade Hub, an O2O platform for B2C and B2B eco-products plugging them into the East Asia Business Exchange. Chan is a practicing management consultant and a certified Green Productivity Consultant and Trainer by APO. He is an accredited trainer and serves on the advisory board of WIPO Green, and as ADB Senior Green Business Development Advisor (Consultant) for its Green Business Forum.

Locsin assumed the position of Director General at the SDCC in July 2014. Prior to this, she assumed various positions including Head of the Office of Co-financing Operations (OCO); Deputy Director-General, South Asia Department; Deputy Director-General, RSDD; and Director of OCO. Prior to joining ADB in 1997, she worked at the International Finance Corporation, United States, and the World Bank for 7 years.