Day 2 (10 Dec) - Session hosted by CLP

Ir Prof. Anthony LO is currently the Director of Customer Success and Sales at CLP Power Hong Kong Limited. Prior to assuming this role, he held a number of senior management positions across the company, covering retail business, smart metering, and power grid development.

Ir Prof. LO has extensive experience in building services, green building design, and energy management. He has played an active role in formulating energy management strategies, exploring innovative technologies and energy-saving solutions, and driving the implementation of energy efficiency initiatives, carbon reduction measures, and renewable energy adoption. His work not only supports business customers in achieving their sustainability goals and addressing climate change, but also encourages the wider community to embrace a low-carbon lifestyle through public education.
In recent years, Ir Prof. LO has been dedicated to advancing green finance and climate resilience. Under his leadership, his team has delivered successful cases that connect sustainability-linked loans with energy management services across different business sectors. These initiatives help organisations translate financing opportunities into practical energy-saving and decarbonisation projects. He has also supported business organisations in implementing preventive measures to strengthen their resilience against increasingly severe weather events and the wider impacts of climate change.

Ir Gary CHIANG is the Principal Manager, Business Development & Support at CLP Power Hong Kong Limited, where he leads the development and implementation of Demand Side Management (DSM) programmes, Energy Efficiency & Conservation (EE&C) initiatives, and renewable energy schemes, including the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) and Renewable Energy Certificates (REC). He is actively engaged in driving customer decarbonisation, energy optimisation, and sustainable development across the commercial, industrial, institutional, and public sectors.

With over 20 years of experience in the engineering and energy industries, Gary has successfully delivered a wide range of building services and infrastructure projects in Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland. His career spans consultancy, contracting, and power utility sectors, providing him with a unique combination of technical expertise, project management capability, and strategic business insight. He has extensive experience in energy management, building services engineering, sustainability, demand-side resources, and large-scale programme implementation.

Beyond his corporate responsibilities, Gary is a respected industry leader and active advocate for professional development within the engineering community. He has served as Chairman of both the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Hong Kong Region and the Energy Institute (EI) Hong Kong Branch, contributing significantly to industry advancement, knowledge sharing, and the nurturing of future engineering professionals.

Jessica is the Head of Sustainability at MTR Corporation. She leads the development and implementation of the Corporation’s sustainability strategies, drives key initiatives, oversees sustainability reporting and disclosures, and supports sustainable finance initiatives. With more than 25 years of experience in environmental and corporate sustainability, Jessica is a seasoned sustainability professional who combines strategic leadership with deep technical expertise and strong stakeholder engagement. 

Jessica is an active contributor to the sustainability community and serves on various international and local sustainability-related committees. Her current external appointments include Vice-Chair of the Sustainable Development Committee of the International Association of Public Transport, member of the Community of Practitioners under the Reporting for Business Resilience Initiative of the World Economic Forum, member of the Environment & Sustainability Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Steering Committees of both the Climate Change Business Forum Advisory Group and the Nature and Biodiversity Advisory Group of the Business Environment Council. In addition, she is appointed as a Co-opt Member of the Sub-committee on Low-carbon Transition under the Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development of the HKSAR Government. 

Jessica also contributes to academia through her involvement in higher education and professional development. She serves as a member of the Programme Advisory Committee for an MSc sustainability programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and as a member of the Advisory Board for an MSc ESG Management programme at Lingnan University. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Examiners for the Hong Kong Sustainability Award organised by The Hong Kong Management Association.

Dr Paul KAU is the Managing Director of Earth & Environment Services for the Hong Kong and China region, and is WSP’s Asia Sustainability Committee Representative. He has carried out environmental health and safety (EHS) assessments, environmental impact assessments (EIA) and remediation projects throughout Asia for over 25 years, including the Variation of Environmental Permit (VEP) for MTRC’s Hung Shui Kiu Station and EIA for the Kai Tak Smart and Green Mass Transit System.

Paul has also worked on numerous carbon and water reduction road-mapping projects, been a guest lecturer at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Contaminated Land Management, committee member of the Hong Kong AGS Geo-environment Working Group and a consulting referee for the Australian CSIRO Research Publications.

Mr Yasushi KINOSHITA, Esq., FRICS, is Representative Member of Eminence Partners, an independent real estate investment advisory firm he founded in 2017, and Chairperson of Green Building Japan, a not-for-profit organization advancing sustainability in Japan's built environment.

Through Eminence Partners he advises foreign institutional investors and Japanese stakeholders on aligning their portfolios with global ESG standards, including LEED, WELL and SITES. As Chairperson of Green Building Japan he leads a coalition of professionals promoting the adoption of sustainability certifications across the country.

He brings nearly four decades of experience in real estate investment and structured finance. He served as General Manager of the Real Estate Principal Investment Division at Shinsei Bank, now SBI Shinsei Bank; as Representative Director and Deputy President of Touchstone Capital Management; and as COO and Managing Director of Secured Capital Japan (a.k.a. PAG Investment Management).

He serves on the Governance Council of the International WELL Building Institute, one of eighteen global leaders overseeing the integrity of the WELL standard, co-chairs IWBI's Investing for Health Advisory, and is a Commissioner of the Global Commission on Healthy Indoor Air. He is an Executive Committee member of ULI Japan and Co-Chair of its Sustainable Development Council, and serves The Counselors of Real Estate as Co-Chair of the Asian Chapter and Associate Editor (Asia) for Real Estate Issues. He speaks regularly at green building and ESG conferences and seminars in Japan and across the Asia Pacific region.

He is admitted to the Bar of the State of New York and is a LEED AP O+M, WELL Faculty, WELL AP and CASBEE AP. He holds an LLM from Cornell Law School and an LLB from Waseda University.

Mr BIAN Ji is Assistant President and CHO of China Overseas Grand Oceans Group Limited. He also serves as General Manager of Zhonghong Lowcarbon Technology Co., Ltd. With 18 years of management experience in the real estate and construction industry, he has been actively engaged in green and low-carbon buildings, ESG management, and technological innovation.

In the field of green building, Mr BIAN led the development of the Hohhot Heshandaguan Project, a landmark large-scale ultra-low-energy residential development in China's severe cold climate zone. The project was selected as a Zero-Carbon Building Technology Demonstration Project by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China and received recognition at the RICS China Awards.

In corporate carbon neutrality and ESG, Mr BIAN led the formulation and publication of the Group's Carbon Neutrality White Paper and promoted whole-life carbon emissions management for buildings, corporate greenhouse gas verification, and green finance initiatives, exploring how green finance can support the low-carbon transition of real estate enterprises.

In AI and digital innovation, Mr BIAN led the development of "Tianshu", an AI agent for building energy and carbon management that integrates deep-learning forecasting, multi-objective optimisation, and edge computing for energy consumption prediction and intelligent control. He has also driven the development of AI agents for ESG consulting and carbon emissions management.

Mr BIAN serves on the council and expert committees of several leading professional organisations, including China Association of Building Energy Efficiency, China Energy Conservation Association, and Chinese Society for Urban Studies. He is also an Adjunct PhD Supervisor at Tongji University and Industry Co-supervisor of MSc Capstone Project at Hong Kong University.

Dr Jeanne NG is currently the Executive Manager of Club-wide Sustainability at the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Dr NG holds a PhD in Environmental Management from the University of Hong Kong, and a BSc in Toxicology from the University of Toronto in Canada. She is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in the environmental and sustainability fields, specialising in air and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the development of corporate environmental and sustainability functions. She has held senior roles at CLP Holdings and several environmental consulting firms. She is the Founding Chair of the Hong Kong Institute of Qualified Environmental Professionals, which is a legalized professional body in Hong Kong and is currently also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong.