Mattie Bekink is responsible for the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network’s China strategy, including programme development and client servicing across China. She also provides support to all Economist Intelligence Corporate Network programmes worldwide with a China component.

Ms Bekink has extensive experience in the public, private and policy sectors. Prior to joining The Economist Group, she was the Executive Director of the Fulbright Commission in the Netherlands. She also ran an eponymous consulting business, advising senior executives from businesses, universities and non-profit organisations on China policy, strategy, public affairs, and corporate social responsibility. Ms Bekink practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, has worked with the US-Asia Law Initiative at NYU Law School and the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative China Program, and served in the legal department at General Motors China.

Ms Bekink has a BA in International Relations from Stanford University and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center.

Anne Chiou is the Director of Economist Intelligence Corporate Network in Hong Kong. She engages top executives throughout Asia in providing key insights and industry knowledge on strategic issues central to business developments in the region.

Ms. Chiou brings extensive regulatory, business and policy as well as non-profit expertise. Prior to joining the Economist Group, she was Head of Programs for Business and Policy at the Asia Society Hong Kong Center. She also worked extensively with senior banking executives as a regulator at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York during the Global Financial Crisis, supervising large international banks. Ms. Chiou also worked in banking policy at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority as well as supervising financial market activity under the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. Ms. Chiou also formerly worked with multiple fintech start-ups, advising them of regulatory trends in Asia. Ms. Chiou has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pomona College and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University.

Henk Ovink was appointed in 2015 by the Dutch Cabinet as the first Special Envoy for International Water Affairs. As the Ambassador for Water, he is responsible for advocating water awareness around the world, building institutional capacity and coalitions amongst governments, multilateral organizations, private sector and NGO’s, and initiating innovate approaches to address the world's stressing needs on water. “Worldwide, water is the number one global risk, the connecting challenge across the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and our best opportunity for inclusive and comprehensive action!”
Ovink is also Sherpa to the UN / World Bank High Level Panel on Water.

Henk Ovink served on President Obama’s Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force where he led the long term innovation, resilience and rebuilding efforts. He developed and led the ‘Rebuild by Design’ competition and initiated the National Disaster Resilience Competition. Before joining the Task Force Ovink was both Acting Director General of Spatial Planning and Water Affairs and Director National Spatial Planning for the Netherlands.

Henk teaches at Harvard GSD, the London School of Economics and the University of Groningen. His book - written together with Jelte Boeijenga - “Too Big. Rebuild by Design: A Transformative Approach to Climate Change” explores his climate and water work for the Obama Administration. In January 2018 Henk Ovink was awarded for his ‘transformative global water work’ an honorary membership from the Royal Instítute of Engineers of the Netherlands. At the World Urban Forum in February 2020 Henk was awarded the IHS Urban Professional Award 2020.

Vivek has been passionate about climate for most of his career. In his current role, he takes inspiration from two of his strongest beliefs – that the world needs urgent action to combat climate change, and that addressing climate change will generate huge business opportunities for the private sector and capital markets.

As IFC’s Global Head and Director of Climate Business, Vivek looks for these opportunities and works to mobilize capital needed to move them forward. He also leads business development, guides standard-setting and new product design, and connects the dots across the corporation to mainstream the climate lens into all IFC’s business.

Prior to his current role, Mr. Pathak was IFC’s Regional Director for East Asia and Pacific, where he led operations across 18 countries, reaching $4.2 billion in long-term investment in fiscal year 2020, and was one of the first at IFC to integrate climate into all aspects of the business. Before that, he was IFC’s Director and Global Head of Credit and Investment Risk. He had also held multiple leadership roles managing portfolio, credit risk, and business development in frontier markets at IFC, Bank of America and ABN AMRO Bank.

Shally Shanker, CFA, is the founder and Managing Partner of AiiM Partners, which invests in businesses leveraging technology to address climate change and generate measurable social, environmental and financial returns. The AiiM team has a combined 160 years of experience and uses the proprietary AiiM Methodology to identify and invest in high impact investments. The team’s portfolio strategy has benefitted 3 million people worldwide with 50% of the assets invested in women founders and CEOs.

Shally has over 20 years of investment management experience structuring and stewarding global portfolios.

Shally has been involved with the boards of 16 portfolio investments. She is actively engaged in supporting emerging solutions ranging from using data for advocacy to using technology to scale innovations. She is a mentor to women entrepreneurs as over the last decade, more than half of her portfolio has been comprised of women entrepreneurs and founders.

She was the Director of Mission Investing at the Schmidt Family Foundation and six years prior to that, she was the Investment Officer at The Schmidt Family Foundation and Vice President of Investments at Hillspire, LLC. In addition to her investment experience, she has also worked at the Stanford Solutions Science Lab at the Stanford School of Medicine building a community based intervention program for childhood obesity prevention among low income, at-risk communities.

She was invited to join the Queen's Commonwealth Trust Advisory Board. In addition, she is part of the Working Group for GenderSmart Investing, focusing on gender and climate investing.

Holly Lei has taken over as President of Covestro China based in Shanghai, effective July 1, 2019. With more than 20 years of experience in cross-cultural management around the world, Lei is the first local female leader for this position.

With a strong technical background in chemical engineering and material science, Lei started her career at Bayer MaterialScience (the predecessor company of Covestro) in 1999 as a technical representative, and has since held various management positions of increasing responsibilities focusing on sales, technical service and R&D in Greater China and the APAC region. As a seasoned leader strong at managing dispersed teams, she devoted her cross-industry insights and customer centric mindset to develop focus industries for Covestro’s Business Unit Polycarbonates in Greater China and the APAC region. In her role as Global Head of Electrical, Electronics & Appliances (EE&A), BU Polycarbonates, Lei helped Covestro strengthen its industrial leadership by enhancing the global CMF (color, materials, finish) capabilities, transforming Covestro from a material supplier to an innovation partner. Apart from her business success, Lei is also an affectionate people leader and excels at fostering an environment that allows people to flourish and develop to their fullest potential. As an avid ambassador of diversity and inclusion (D&I) at Covestro, she is actively involved in promoting D&I and equality in the workplace.
Lei holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Dalian University of Technology in China and a master’s degree in material science from Université de Sherbrooke in Canada. She has also received executive training at INSEAD Business School in France. Lei is also a supervisory board member of GEA Group AG, a board member of the Shanghai Chapter of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, and Vice Chairman of the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park International Experts’ Consultancy Forum.

Mr. Renou is currently the CEO of CMA CGM China and is mainly responsible for strategic development and business growth in China (including North China, Central China and South China).

Having joined the Group in 2000, Mr. Renou has worked in Asia for over 17 years, successively serving as Commercial Director of CMA CGM Indonesia, General Manager of CMA CGM Vietnam, CEO of CMA CGM India, General Manager of CMA CGM South China and then took the position of President of CMA CGM America in Oct 2017. Under his leadership and management, the business of CMA CGM America has developed rapidly and ranked first in the industry.

Mr. Renou holds a Master Degree in International Business at the Institut Suprieur de Commerce International de Dunkerque (ISCID) in France. He has more than 20 years of management experience in international shipping and logistics and has rich knowledge in the management of globally renowned multinational companies.

Steven is a lead partner of PwC China/HK’s ESG advisory business responsible for sustainability strategy and operations for various industries, especially on sustainable value chain topics. Steven was previously a lead partner of operations and supply chain management business at PwC China/HK Strategy& Consulting with around 20 years of combined strategy consulting and management experience. He has rich experience in Aerospace and Automotive, Consumer Market, Real Estate, Utility and Renewable Energy, TMT and PE related industries along with deep operational experience in the areas of growth strategy and target operating model development, end-to-end process design and optimization, program management, performance improvement and value maximization, channel management, route to market and promotion analysis and sustainability strategy and value creation topics. Steven holds a Master of Science degree from Manchester Business School, specializing in operations management.

Raefer Wallis is an Architect and the founder of GIGA and the RESET Standard.

GIGA is an independent third-party that combines the development of building standards with research and cloud technology.
GIGA specializes in helping companies solve new or special challenges related to ESG in real-estate. Best practice lessons are then refined, published and implemented at scale via the RESET Standard.

The RESET Standard is an international performance standard and certification program for healthy green buildings, based on data that is collected and assessed on a daily basis: be it building material data from reporting bodies or operational data from sensors.

Regularly invited to lecture around the world, Raefer’s work on ESG in real-estate has been featured by the NYT, Forbes, CNN, BBC, CBC, TED, WSJ, Guardian, Globe & Mail, Les Affaires, Clinton Global Initiative, Architectural Digest and many more.