Speakers at this Event

Son-U Michael Paik is the CEO at GRC Solutions Korea. With over 25 years of experience as an attorney and consultant, Michael specializes in working with Clients to design and build AI-assisted systems for governance, risk management and compliance (GRC), as well as environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues.  Michael holds a JD from Columbia Law School and an MBA from Yale's School of Management, and is certified as a GRC Professional and Auditor by OCEG, a global leader in governance, risk management and compliance education & certification.  He is also a MindStudio Certified AI-App Developer.

Mr Naveen Ahlawat presently leads the Power to X vertical of Jindal Steel & Power, he is responsible for the development of Green Steel, Green Hydrogen, CCSU initiatives across the group.  He has accumulated over 13 years of experience in various fields including manufacturing of speciality chemicals, coal gasification & co-products marketing, integrated steel plants (brown & green field)

Naveen started his career as process engineer with Jubilant Organosys Limited and subsequently moved to Reliance Industries as operations manager in petrochemical vertical.  He became part of the executive team, leading to the world’s first coal gasification based DRI plant in Angul, Odisha.

Naveen spearheaded group procurement function in Jindal Steel and Power via various disruptions in supply chain in the last 4 years, to ensured availability of the material since the beginning of the Covid-19 pamdemic.  Jindal Steel & Power is the only steel company in India that has posted 12 percent growth in Q1 & Q2 of 2020-2021.

Naveen graduated as a chemical engineer with Hons from Government Engineering College, Thrissur, in Kerala and received his MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.

Patrick Buergi is a sustainability entrepreneur and expert with 22 of experience in carbon markets, climate policy, corporate sustainability and impact investing. He is a co-founder of both the myclimate Foundation in 2002 and South Pole in 2006. 

In mid 2022, Patrick relocated to Tokyo to lead the establishment of South Pole’s presence in Japan. In addition, Patrick also acts as a Senior Innovation Advisor within South Pole working across a portfolio of innovation and R&D initiatives, including Net Zero strategies, carbon removals (CDR), regenerative agriculture, plastic stewardship and digital growth opportunities, for example.

Xinyi Shen is a Researcher and the China Team Lead at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). In this role, she is responsible for leading analytical research on China's power systems, the steel industry, and air pollution. Currently, her research is focused on decarbonising the steel sector, and she has published several briefings on monitoring the development of China's steel sector.

Prior to joining CREA, Xinyi served as the Global Campaigner at the Global Air Pollution Unit of Greenpeace East Asia. She holds a bachelor's degree in environmental science from Zhejiang University and a master's degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, she is also pursuing an MBA degree at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business.

Coming from a finance & economics background at Warwick University, Øyvind has been an integral part of Vestre's strategic plans to become the world's most sustainable furniture company. Starting as a controller back in 2016, he has been part of the company from a small Nordic player, to a truly international actor. Today he heads up the sustainability efforts of the company, from raw materials to new business models.