Speakers

Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of companies, NGOs and experts working to achieve a net zero economy by 2040. He regularly advises climate and government bodies – including the COP Presidency – and is often featured in global media as an expert on the energy transition. In addition, he holds roles in industry: he is the Chairman of insurer group Chubb Europe; Chairman of UK bank Oaknorth Ltd.; and on the Board of AESC Japan, the manufacturers of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. He is also adviser to Watershed Technologies Inc. During his public policy career, Lord Turner chaired the Financial Services Authority (2008-2013) and led the redesign of global banking and shadow banking regulation. From 2008 to 2012 he chaired the Climate Change Committee, an independent body advising the UK’s government on their path to a zero-carbon economy. The recommendations from their first report “Building a low-carbon economy” were adopted in full. During his time as chair of the UK Pensions Commission (2002-2006) he recommended the creation of a new system of defined contribution pensions with an ‘opt-out’ element that proved transformative. He also chaired the Low Pay Commission (2002-2006) and was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (1995-2000).

Amelia Ransome is a Principal Consultant at South Pole, where she leads the firm’s Climate Transition Plan offering. She works closely with corporate clients to develop and implement net zero strategies, helping them to define and progress their decarbonisation goals while building long-term climate resilience. Amelia provides strategic guidance on emission reduction pathways, climate resilience strategies, and transition planning, helping businesses integrate sustainability into their core operations and long-term growth strategies.

Before joining South Pole, Amelia was part of PwC’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice, where she gained experience in sustainability reporting standards and frameworks. Her work included mandatory compliance reporting, international assurance and audit standards, and voluntary initiatives such as CDP and SBTi. Amelia holds a degree in Economics & Spanish from the University of Leeds.

Chun Yin Mak is the Global Senior Vice President at Univers, where he is responsible for leading AI transformation and the company’s core AIoT platform business. Univers provides the world’s leading AI-powered intelligence and business value delivery platform, enabling organisations to achieve net zero, optimise energy use, and drive operational excellence and efficiency. Chun and his teams are reimagining and reshaping how businesses leverage data-driven, people-powered insights and advanced AI technologies to enable sustainable, high-impact transformation amid today’s energy and intelligence transitions.

With over 25 years of experience at leading global firms including Accenture, IBM, Dentsu, and now Univers, Chun has been at the forefront of large-scale digital reinvention across the Asia Pacific, Greater China, and North America. He has supported over 250 clients in delivering breakthrough transformations by applying advanced AI technologies such as generative, predictive, analytical, and conversational AI, alongside workflow reengineering, agentic automation, hybrid cloud solutions, experience design, and organisational restructuring.

Richard Mattison leads the Sustainability and Climate product development, innovation and business strategy across MSCI. He works closely with Chairman and CEO Henry Fernandez, President Baer Pettit and other leaders across the company to drive innovation and scale throughout the ESG and Climate product franchise. Richard has over two decades of experience in sustainable finance, previously serving as President of S&P Global’s sustainability unit and as CEO of Trucost Plc, a climate analytics company which S&P Global acquired in 2016. Throughout the course of his career, he has advised various financial institutions, companies and governments on how to integrate sustainability and climate change analysis into their decision making. Mattison was a member of the EU’s High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and a member of the People’s Bank of China’s Green Finance Taskforce, both of which were instrumental in guiding policy in those jurisdictions. He is currently a Senior Advisor to the Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Richard holds a doctorate in neuroscience and a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences from The University of Edinburgh.

Faustine is a recognised thought leader and experienced partnership builder in the field of the energy and industry transitions. She pioneered work on heavy industry and transport decarbonisation, and initiated the creation of the Mission Possible Partnership (MPP), an alliance focused on supercharging the decarbonisation of some of the world’s highest-emitting sectors in heavy industry and transport. Since 2019, she steered the build-up of the organisation, including the development of MPP’s industry-backed Sector Transition Strategies which map sectoral pathways to net zero emissions by 2050 endorsed by more than 200 leading industrial companies, the creation of MPP’s Global Project Tracker, and MPP’s work on clean industrial hubs and green commodity markets. Faustine was pivotal in the creation of the Industrial Transition Accelerator (ITA), a global multistakeholder collaboration launched at COP28 by the COP28 Presidency, UNCC, and Bloomberg Philanthropies, which aims to significantly grow the pipeline of commercial-scale, clean industrial projects across heavy industry and transport. She serves as the ITA’s Executive Director. Prior to that, Faustine was the first Director of the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC), from 2016 to 2022. She spearheaded the ETC’s analysis on how to achieve net-zero energy systems globally by mid-century, and developed an extensive network of global leaders across energy, industry, finance, and civil society. She continues to serve as Vice-Chair of the ETC. She was also a Partner at the international systems-change firm Systemiq, where she created and led the Energy Transition practice. Earlier in her career, Faustine worked as a political advisor in France. She is an alumna of SciencesPo Paris and of the London School of Economics. She is also an OnPurpose Fellow.

As UK CEO of Offshore Wind at Masdar, Husain Al Meer is responsible for leading Masdar’s investments in the Global Offshore Wind (OSW) sector and the UK market as well as managing Masdar’s relationship in the UK (including with the Government of the UK and the UK Embassy in the UAE).     Husain’s mandates include managing Masdar’s existing OSW portfolio (London Array Offshore Wind Farm, Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm, Hywind Floating Offshore Wind Farm and the accompanying battery storage solution, Batwind), maturing Masdar’s 2GWh battery storage pipeline in the UK, progressing OSW M&A transactions and participating in OSW seabed right auctions.     Prior to his current role, Husain was seconded into Equinor (previously Statoil) for 6 years to work as Contract Advisor for both the Dudgeon and Hywind projects. During his time at Equinor, Husain also worked as the Deputy O&M Plant Manager for Dudgeon and was involved in the early development of the 3.6GW Dogger Bank Project and the 2GW Empire Project.     In 2019, Husain was appointed as Masdar’s representative on the UK-UAE Business Council and Deputy Chair of the energy working group. He is also a member of the London Array Board of Directors, a member of the Dudgeon Extension Board of Directors, a member of Joint Economic Committee of UAE-UK, UAE-South Korea and Energy Committee for UAE-Japan.     Prior to joining Masdar, Husain worked in the electricity and water sectors at the Abu Dhabi Distribution Company. He held two strategic positions in the Assets Management Directorate (in the Electricity Planning and Assets Performance departments), which shaped his knowledge and experience in the life cycle of assets from inception through to their disposal or replacement.

Jo Paisley is President of the GARP Risk Institute, the thought leadership arm of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Set up in early 2018, the Institute now focuses on climate and nature risk management thought leadership. She hosts the GARP Climate Risk Podcast. Her career began at the Bank of England where she worked in a variety of roles, across macroeconomics, statistics, supervision and risk. Her last role was as a Director of the Supervisory Risk Specialists Division within the Prudential Regulation Authority, where she was heavily involved in the design and execution of the UK’s first concurrent stress test in 2014. She left the Bank in 2015 and joined HSBC as their Global Head of Stress Testing. She has also worked as an independent stress testing consultant, advising firms on how to get the most value out of stress testing.

Keith has wide experience across a range of sectors and businesses – as an investment banker and trusted advisor to CEOs and Boards, an impact investor, an entrepreneur, and CEO of a global NGO.

Keith was the Global Co-Head of the Sustainability & Corporate Transitions Group at Citi (2019-2024). Previously he was Head of Investment Banking, and a Board member of Goldman Sachs in Australia.

He was the CEO of The B Team (2014-17), an NGO comprising a group of CEO’s of global companies, leading entrepreneurs, and civil society leaders to drive a better way of doing business for the wellbeing of people and the planet.

Keith is the Founder & CEO of Switzerland-based impact investing company, NEUW Ventures SA.

He is a Board member of the Villars Institute, the EO Wilson Biodiversity Foundation, and the Australian Climate Leaders Coalition.

He is a passionate explorer, mountaineer, skier, cyclist and sailor. In 2016, he became the first person to cycle on a new route to the South Pole, having skied to the North Pole earlier in the year. In 2024, he was the leader for a sailing expedition across the Northwest Passage on the Abel Tasman yacht.

Leonardo C Fleck has experience in sustainability and conservation with a focus on markets, finance, technology, biodiversity, and climate change Leo joined Banco Santander Brasil in January 2022 where he leads the bank’s sustainable innovation initiatives including in the Amazon biome Previously, Leo worked for ten years with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California in 2012 where he led the design and implementation of a new global program aimed at reducing ecosystem degradation associated with international commodity trade, encompassing projects in the United States, European Union, China, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina, and Indonesia Leo also served on the Climate and Land Use Alliance (CLUA the largest philanthropic alliance focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from land use Prior to joining the Moore Foundation, he was lead economist and Brazil program lead at Conservation Strategy Fund, where he oversaw projects across Latin America spanning REDD+, ecotourism, landscape planning, agriculture, energy and transport infrastructure, and protected areas He was part of the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity initiative ( and lectured environmental economics and corporate sustainability internationally, including at Stanford University Leo earned an M B A from UNA University in Brazil, an M Sc in conservation biology from the University of Kent in England, and a BS in biological sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil Leo is also a Stanford Certified Program Manager.

Mary L. Schapiro serves as Vice Chair and head of the Secretariat for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), an independent, private-sector-led initiative focused on mobilizing capital and removing investment barriers in the global transition. She is also Vice Chair for Global Public Policy at Bloomberg and Special Advisor to the Founder and Chairman. In addition, she chairs the Climate Data Steering Committee (CDSC) and the Global Capacity Building Coalition (GCBC). Through these roles, she drives global climate action by fostering high-quality climate data transparency and building capacity for a sustainable transition.
Ms. Schapiro’s distinguished career includes serving as the 29th Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the first woman in the role, as well as Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and CEO of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). A leader in climate finance, she has chaired the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and serves as Vice Chair of the Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI), driving global decarbonization efforts.

Michael Ding holds several board appointments in Asian-headquartered companies. He sits on
the Board and chairs the strategy and investment committee at Envision, a global leader in
green technology. He is also a Board Member and Global Executive Director at Univers – a
Singapore-headquartered software company that owns the world’s largest decarbonization
system, as well as Non-Executive Director at AESC, a global tier one EV battery manufacturer
headquartered in Japan.

Michael plays an instrumental role in mapping out the globalization footprint for the companies
– establishing key partnerships with both policy makers and business leaders across the U.S,
Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as Asian regions. This has enabled the rapid expansion of
Envision, Univers and AESC in the international markets, with operations and customer base
spanning across all continents.

Prior to his current appointments, Michael was Senior Managing Director at Accenture where
he championed digital transformation. He has over 25 years of experience in the areas of
strategy and planning, system operations and management, power market design and digital
and sustainability transformation.

Envision ranked second on Fortune’s “Change the World” list and also recognized with the
EcoVadis Gold Medal and the CDP “A-List”. It ranked among the top 10 smartest companies by
the MIT Technology Review and won the COP28 Changemaker Awards for both its hydrogen
project and the world’s first net zero industrial park. Univers has been recognized as Digital
Leader for 3 consecutive years by IMDA in Singapore and an ESG Leader at the 2022 SEAL
Business Sustainability Awards. It has been certified Great Place to Work for three consecutive
years.

Ms. Nigar Arpadarai is an independent member of the Milli Majlis, representing one of the central constituencies of Baku city since 2020. She was elected to parliament after 15 years of professional experience in international organizations, sports and telecommunications. She is a member of two parliamentary committees – the Foreign and Inter-Parliamentary Relations Committee and Family, Women and Children Committee. Ms. Arpadarai is also the Chairperson of the Working Group on Azerbaijan-Portugal Inter-Parliamentary Relations in the Parliament of Azerbaijan. Prior to becoming a member of the Parliament of Azerbaijan, she was the Director of the Marketing and Communications Department and the official spokesperson of the Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix since its inception in 2016. Ms. Arpadarai is the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Azerbaijan National Anti-Doping Agency (AMADA). She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law and international relations from Baku State University.

Professor Piers Forster Professor Forster is the Interim Chair of the Climate Change Committee. He is also the Director of the Priestley Centre for Climate Futures and Professor of Physical Climate Change at the University of Leeds. As an atmospheric physicist, Piers researchers both the causes of climate change and climate feedbacks in the Earth system, to understand temperature and rainfall changes and improve their projections. He has played a significant role authoring Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, including the Fourth (2007) and Fifth (2013) and Sixth (2021) assessment reports and the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C (2018). As well as his research career, he established the forest protection and research charity the United Bank of Carbon. He has a number of roles advising industry and government, including membership of the Sustainable Aviation Advisory Board.

Robin commenced as CEO of GRI in February 2025, joining from The B Team where she was Chief of Strategy and Impact. She previously worked for 18 years for Transparency International, including director-level positions overseeing policy, advocacy and research.

Robin has lectured in business and sustainable development for the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. Early in her career she held roles in the USA with Morgan Stanley, the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, and the Center for War Peace and New Media.

Robin is Chair of B Lab Germany’s Supervisory Board; a Board Member of the Open Government Partnership (USA); an Advisory Council member of Fair Share of Women Leaders (Germany); and a member of the B20 Integrity and Compliance Taskforce.

Originally from the US, Robin has lived in Europe for most of her professional life and is based in Berlin. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and studied History at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ruth Davis OBE was appointed UK Special Representative for Nature on 15 November 2024.

Ruth studied English Language and Literature at Oxford University. She later received a Masters degree in Plant Sciences from Reading University, and a diploma in Horticulture Science from Kew Gardens.

Ruth is an Environment Specialist and Advisor. She has more than 20 years’ experience of high-level influencing on nature and climate change, in the public and private sector,

Ruth was previously Deputy Director for Policy and Advocacy at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Prior to that, she was Political Director at Greenpeace UK, leading campaigns on climate and energy, fair and sustainable fishing, and the protection of the Arctic.

She has also advised the UK Government in several roles, including  its COP26 Nature Campaign. She writes extensively about the philosophy, politics and practice of environmentalism

Steve Kelly is President and General Manager of 1PointFive International, a subsidiary of Oxy’s Low Carbon Ventures division, responsible for developing 1PointFive’s DAC and CCUS business in locations outside North America. Steve joined Oxy in 1995 and has held increasingly senior positions in Qatar, Houston and Oman, most recently as President and GM of Oxy’s businesses in Qatar and Oman from 2012 to 2022. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Dolphin Energy Ltd. and the Board of Trustees of H2Global. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from UCL.

Steve leads the Research and Methodology Team at S&P Global Sustainable1 developing the methodologies underpinning S&P Global’s suite of sustainability-related datasets and analytical solutions that power the transition to a more sustainable future. This includes the S&P Global ESG Scores based on data collected via the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) and S&P Global’s range of environmental, climate and nature, and regulatory and reporting capabilities. As Global Head of Research and Methodology, Steve has successfully overseen the development of numerous groundbreaking sustainability-related products, including datasets focused on climate transition and physical risk, nature risk and biodiversity, and regulatory reporting such as the EU Taxonomy and SFDR. With over 15 years’ of industry experience, Steve is a regular speaker and commentator on sustainable finance issues globally.

Susan Taylor Martin is the Chief Executive Officer at BSI. She is also the Non Executive Director at Whitbread. Susan also worked as President, Thomson Reuters Legal; Member, Group Executive Committee at Thomson Reuters, Analyst & Associate at Smith Barney Harris Upham Europe Ltd. She completed her MBA from Harvard University and masters from University of Cambridge.