Craig Katerberg is the Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer for Budweiser APAC (HK: 1876), a $45bn USD brewer with 24,000 colleagues and 47 breweries across the region, which is one of the largest companies of the Hong Kong stock market. Craig is responsible for various functions for the company, including external affairs, legal, compliance, crisis management, government affairs, ESG and communications. He also serves on the Board of Directors for various public and private companies, including Guangzhou Zhujiang Brewing Company (SZ: 002461).

Craig led the M&A team that was responsible for the public listing of Budweiser APAC on the Hong Kong Exchange in 2019 as a subsidiary of AB InBev, the European brewer that has over 600 years of brewing heritage and an extensive global presence. He has served previously as General Counsel for Anheuser-Busch and as General Counsel for Carlton & United Breweries, among other roles, and has been based in China, the United States, Europe and Australia during the last 10+ years with AB InBev.

Craig has consummated over $130B USD of complex transactions in the beverage sector, negotiating and integrating several of the largest global M&A transactions in the beverage sector, including for operations in Australia, China, India, Korea, the US, among other countries.

Craig enjoys building strong teams by finding excellent people, working hard with them to set and reach uncomfortable goals, and helping the business grow in the right way. He thrives in cross cultural environments, in promoting talented people better than himself, and in finding solutions that work for multiple people, often in challenging environments.

Prior to his career in beer, Craig worked in public and private practice where he served the City of New York under Mayor Bloomberg in the field of economic development and at law firms in New York, Brazil and Peru. In 2021, Lawyers Alliance for New York recognized Craig with its Business Law & Leadership Award.

Craig is a US citizen who speaks English, Spanish and some Portuguese. He holds degrees from the University of Chicago and from Northwestern University School of Law, and enjoys learning immensely.

Chloe leads WWF’s advocacy program on sustainable finance taxonomies in Asia Pacific, including practical applications for debt capital market instruments such as green bonds and loans, climate transition bonds, and sustainability-linked bonds. She represents WWF on the Advisory Council of the Green Bond Principles and Social Bond Principles Executive Committee and co-authored WWF’s publication “When Finance Talks Nature” which provided recommendations to G20 regulators on developing effective and credible taxonomies.

Chloe also leads WWF’s regional effort for impact investing and blended finance, to originate and foster greater investments in sustainable development and nature-positive activities. She is a firm believer that the private sector has a pivotal role to play in accelerating actions towards an equitable, net-zero and nature positive future.

Chloe has over 16 years of experience in impact investing, mergers and acquisitions and growth strategies in Sydney, London and Greater China. Chloe is a qualified Chartered Accountant and holds a Master’s degree in Corporate Environmental Governance and a CFA Level 4 Certificate in ESG investing.

Matthew is based in Hong Kong and joined J. P. Morgan in 2022, in a regional role advancing sustainability in the bank's financing activities and throughout its operations across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining J. P. Morgan, Matthew lead the Asia Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA)’s Public Policy and Sustainable Finance division, leading advocacy and market development efforts on behalf of 160+ member firms comprising international investment banks, asset managers, professional services firms and market infrastructure providers operating across Asia Pacific’s capital markets.

Matt’s experience spans financial services, international commerce, technology, strategy, corporate governance, sustainability and environmental engineering. Since 2007, he has worked in a variety of business, industry relations and strategy roles at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Thomson Reuters. He has also held corporate planning and strategy roles at PepsiCo International and Cadbury Schweppes, and business and policy advisor roles within the Australian Commonwealth Government.

Matt has Master of Commerce (Strategic Value Management), Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) and Bachelor of Engineering (Environmental – Hons) degrees. He became a Graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) in 2018.

Dr. Christine Loh is Chief Development Strategist, Institute for the Environment at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a lawyer by training and a commodities trader by profession. In the 1990s, she became a prominent legislator, before establishing a non-profit policy think tank to help find policy solutions. She is a former Undersecretary for the Environment in the HKSAR Government (2012-17) and the special consultant to the Chief Executive on mainland environmental policies (2019-20). Dr Loh has a long history in driving the discussion on sustainability, and combines knowledge in natural resources, climate change, development as well as geopolitics.

Dr Loh had served on the board of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, and is currently on the boards of CDP Worldwide, Global Maritime Forum, New Forests Pty Limited, and Towngas Smart Energy Company Limited. She is a member of BASF’s Stakeholder Advisory Council and was the Sustainability Advisor to Hong Kong Science and Technology Park in 2022. She has authored many academic and popular works and received many awards.

Mr. Edward Chui is the Hong Kong Director at the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network.

Mr Chui has worked in the Greater China region for over 20 years. Before coming to The Economist Group, he was a consultant with Chesapeake Pacific Capital Management overseeing a range of thought leadership projects on the ultra-high net worth, family office, philanthropy, and next generation wealth succession. He was also Vice President at The Private Bank at JP Morgan in Hong Kong working with senior management in the expansion of the Asia Pacific business through special programs and wealth management publications for clients. Mr Chui also possesses extensive experience in the media and technology sectors having worked at Star TV, a subsidiary of News Corp, Alter Ego Networks in Silicon Valley and EF Education focusing on the China mobile business.

Mr Chui has a BA in Government from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.