Speaker Categories: Nature Restoration

Solla Zophoniasdottir

Learning Services Orchestrator, Climate-KIC

Solla Zophoniasdottir is the Learning Services Orchestrator at Climate-KIC, with over 15 years of experience facilitating organizational change and developing learning initiatives for climate action. Renowned for her expertise in change management and systems innovation, Solla empowers diverse organizations to build skills and shift mindsets for transformative impact in the climate space.

朱岩 Ian Zhu

Founding Member, NIO Capital

朱岩先生现任蔚来资本管理合伙人，投资委员会成员，主导新能源汽车、人工智能、车联网、物流、先进制造等领域的投资。他带领团队投资了宁德时代（300750.SZ）、容百科技(688005.SH)、途虎养车（9690.HK）、Momenta、Pony.ai（PONY.NASDAQ）、能链集团、嬴彻科技、黑芝麻智能（2533.HK）、主线科技、Seyond图达通、博云等明星企业。

朱岩先生深耕新能源及智能汽车领域投资近20年，是中国最早探索该领域的投资人之一，致力于发掘和培养全球汽车、能源和科技产业新格局的缔造者。加入蔚来资本之前，朱岩先生已积累了丰富的投资实践和企业管理经验。朱岩先生曾作为管理合伙人负责投资及管理的项目包括Lucid（LCID.NASDAQ）、精进电动（688280.SH）、地平线（9660.HK）等。

朱岩先生毕业于斯坦福大学商学院，获MBA学位。朱岩先生本科就读于北京大学，获物理学学士和经济学双学士学位。

Mr. Ian Zhu is a founding member of NIO Capital and played a key role in building the firm’s investment team, setting up its venture and growth funds, and establishing its operations. His investment focus includes smart electric vehicles, low carbon energy networks, mobility and logistics services and manufacturing innovations. He led NIO Capital’s investments in CATL (300750.SZ), Ronbay (688005.SH), TUHU (9690.HK), Momenta, Pony.ai (PONY. NASDAQ), Newlinks Technology, Inceptio Technology, Black Sesame Technologies (2533.HK), TrunkTech, Seyond, BoCloud, among others.

Mr. Zhu has extensive experience in investment, fund management and business management. Prior to joining NIO Capital, he was a Managing Partner and Investment Committee member of Tsing Capital, where he led investments in Lucid (LCID.NASDAQ), Jing-Jin Electric (688280.SH) and Horizon Robotics (9660.HK). Ian also worked in both start-ups and large technology companies like AT&T, where he managed diverse functions, including sales, business development, engineering and R&D.

Mr. Zhu holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics from Peking University.

张乐 Zhang Le

President, MCM International Group China

作为MCM国际设计公司中国区总裁，张乐女士专注于生态产业规划与可持续乡村振兴领域。她深度参与开展过全国200余个项目实践，包括重庆鲁能江津美丽乡村项目，成功将旅游开发、文化传承与生态实践融入乡村产业升级。其核心工作聚焦于推动农业与多元收入模式结合、推广现代农业技术、通过教育赋能和治理创新提升社区能力，以及保护传统文化遗产。在张女士的引领下，MCM持续推动创新可持续的乡村发展模式建设，使其始终屹立于中国乡村振兴实践的前沿。

As President of MCM International Group China, Ms. Zhang specializes in ecological industry planning and sustainable rural revitalization. With hands-on experience in over 200 projects nationwide, including the Chongqing Luneng Jiangjin Beautiful Rural Project, she integrates tourism, cultural heritage, and ecological practices to enhance rural industries. Her focus areas include aligning agriculture with diverse income streams, promoting modern farming techniques, empowering communities through education and governance, and preserving cultural traditions. Under her leadership, MCM advances its mission to create innovative and sustainable rural development models, positioning her at the forefront of China’s rural revitalization efforts.

Nakul Zaveri

Partner, LeapFrog Investments

Nakul Zaveri is a partner at LeapFrog Investments and co-head of the firm’s climate investment strategy. Nakul has over 20 years of experience spanning entrepreneurial, operational, and investing activities.  He brings relevant investing experience across Climate and Responsible Investment strategies including investing in renewables, climate tech, industrial/ enterprise efficiency, evolving consumer priorities, and related value chains.

Nakul joined LeapFrog in 2022 and in his current role guides LeapFrog’s climate strategy, focussed on supporting pathways out of poverty for emerging consumers that also deliver rapid decarbonisation of all sectors of industry. Previously, Nakul was Managing Partner at Relativity Investment Management, a sustainability focussed investment manager, where he made investments in high-growth companies addressing risks and opportunities created by megatrends of climate change, demographic shift, and increasing use of technology.

Siti Maryam Yaakub

Senior Director, Conservation International

Dr. Siti Maryam Yaakub, Senior Director of the International Blue Carbon Institute at Conservation International, leads the institute’s global efforts in translating blue carbon science into tools and methodologies for climate mitigation and adaptation. Based in Singapore, she spearheads initiatives aimed at fostering multidisciplinary expertise and cultivating a resource hub for knowledge exchange.

Siti is a marine ecologist and works across tropical marine and coastal habitats. Her work and research interests broadly lie in the areas of ecosystem restoration and nature-based solutions for adaptation and mitigation in marine environments. Within this, she is specifically interested in using seagrass habitats as a model system for understanding ecological thresholds to stress, ecosystem resilience, and the effects of human activities and climate change on the marine environment.

Brian CH Wong

DPO & Assistant Sustainability Director, GP Energy Tech International Pte. Limited

Brian oversees the sustainability matters of the company, including sustainability governance setup, framework adoption, target setting and monitoring as well as sustainability and climate risk reporting according to international standards. 

He advocates and advises on carbon reduction strategies on both organizational and product levels to help achieve the company’s net-zero emission target by 2050. He is in charge of organization and product sustainability certification as well as social responsibility system and sustainability assessment such as EcoVadis, UL’s Zero Waste to Landfill Certification and amfori BSCI social responsibility standard. 

He is currently a member of the amfori Member Advisory Committee which provides strategic input from a business perspective for amfori standards. 

Robin Willoughby

Chief Strategy Officer, Tilt Collective

Robin Willoughby brings 20 years of experience as a director and leader in international affairs and environmental organizations with expertise on human rights, development, and sustainability issues. Robin was previously Co-founder and Managing Director at Madre Brava and has worked at the United Nations in New York; served as Head of Policy and Campaigns on Food and Climate Change at Oxfam GB; led research on energy and the environment at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) and directed the UK campaign work of environmental organization – Mighty Earth. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters.

Bradford Willis

Senior Associate, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Bradford M. Willis is a Senior Associate at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. He focuses on integrated policy and financing strategies to accelerate the transition of energy, industry, and natural resource systems around the world. Most recently, he was a Special Advisor to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, where he focused on developing sustainable investment mechanisms, shaping regional transition pathways, and bridging public-private action to unlock and scale just, climate-aligned economic transformation.

He began his career working on energy transition and net zero related topics for major utilities and energy service providers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, & Africa. In 2021, He began working with the World Economic Forum’s Transitioning Industrial Clusters Initiative supporting the regional decarbonization of hard-to-abate industry. In the lead up to COP28, he was Seconded to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions to lead their Clean Power & Green Hydrogen before transitioning to high-level advisory on cross-sectoral breakthrough targets for key industries and enabling policy/finance mechanisms.

He now advises private sector leaders, national and subnational governments, and multilateral organizations on the structural shifts needed to align investment, infrastructure, and policy with 21st-century climate and development goals. He works across industries, geographies, and intersecting spheres of political and economic influence to bridge sustainable development, finance, and global polycrisis responses.

曹慰德 Chavalit Frederick Tsao

Chairman, TPC (Tsao Pao Chee)

Chavalit Frederick Tsao is the fourth-generation steward of TPC (Tsao Pao Chee), a family business with more than 120 years of history, established in the late 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. He was born in Hong Kong, China, and after completing his education at the University of Michigan, Chavalit joined the family business at the age of 20 and became the chairman at the age of 37. He also served as the chairman of Intercargo, where he established innovative platforms to promote collaboration within the maritime sector.

Chavalit’s background and experience gave him unique insights into global sustainability challenges and founded East West Cultural Development Centre in 1995 to research this topic. He discovered that integrating ancient wisdom and modern science creates a holistic approach to cultivating leadership for this era.

曹慰德是曹宝记（TPC）第四代掌门人，曹宝记（TPC）是曹氏家族于19世纪末期的清朝创立的品牌，已拥有超过120年跨越四代的传承历史。曹慰德出生成长于中国香港，自美国密歇根大学毕业后，于20岁时加入了家族企业，并于37岁时接管了家族企业。他亦曾任国际干散货船东协会（Intercargo）的主席，通过搭建创新平台促进海事领域内的合作。

历经深刻的文化浸润，曹慰德的人生阅历让他得以洞察全球可持续性挑战的解决方案，他于1995年成立了东西方文化发展中心并深入此课题的研究。他发现，培养服务幸福时代的领导力需要将古老东方智慧与现代科学相结合，构建一套整体体系。

Satya Tripathi

Secretary-General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet

Mr. Satya Tripathi is a development economist, lawyer, and changemaker with over 40 years of varied experience and currently serves as the Secretary General at the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet – an organisation that drives green transformation and sustainable enterprise modelling by leveraging private finance, aiming to achieve the climate goals by 2030. 

He has served with the United Nations for almost two decades, as the UN Assistant Secretary-General, head of New York Office at UN Environment and Secretary of the UN, and was instrumental in establishing the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) in Indonesia in 2016 and the Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) in 2017 to garner ‘private finance for public good’ at mega-scale to achieve transformative social and environmental impact for millions of people in developing countries.