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Bettina Schoen-Behanzin entered Freudenberg Group in October 2012. As Regional Representative Asia she has been leading the Regional Corporate Center, based in Shanghai, China and is providing guidance and support for strategic planning and business development for the Freudenberg Business Groups in the region. From March 2008 to September 2012 she served as Managing Director of Wittur Elevator Components, China. She assumed the role of Managing Director of Rittal Electro-Mechanical Technology, China from 2000 to 2008, after having been the General Manager of Rittal in China as well as Sales and Marketing Manager of Rittal in Singapore. She had joined the Rittal Headquarters in Germany in 1992.

Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has acquired a Master degree in Sinology, Business Economics and Political Science at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany. Furthermore, she did Post-Graduate Studies of Chinese and Economics at Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Speaking Chinese fluently, Bettina Schoen-Behanzin has around 25 years of working experience in Asia, mostly in China, leading operational business as well acting in corporate functions. From April 2014 to April 2016 she served as Director of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai, being reelected in April 2016 and April 2018 as President of the Board of the German Chamber Shanghai. In 2019, she was the first German woman to receive Shanghai Municipal Government’s Magnolia Gold Award.

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James Le is the vice president of Marine Division in China, Alfa Laval group. He has taken overall responsibility for business in marine & engine power application in China and successfully driven strategic growth and market penetration in China’ shipbuilding market, and now leading a market repositioning strategy of Alfa Laval China towards sustainable shipping and maritime decarbonization.

James has over 20 years’ experience of international general management in top maritime business, including Alfa Laval and Aalborg, as well as several years’ experience as a lead mechanical engineer in MARIC, CSSC. He holds an MBA degree from Maastricht School of Management.

James started his maritime career in Marine Design and Research Institute of China, CSSC into a Lead Mechanical Engineer, and then took several senior leadership roles including general manager of Aalborg industries in China and Division Manager of Alfa Laval Singapore before he took current role since 2017.

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During her 18 years at Bosch, Susan worked as the head of Sustainability and EHS in China, Korean, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, coordinated the Sustainability strategy and projects implementation in the region, as well as Sustainability reporting. She had extended her expertise and capability in international assignments in Germany, taking the role of Corporate Office EHS with the responsibility of strategy, targets, standards and reporting within the Bosch group. Currently she is the consultant of Sustainability and EHS in Bosch China, and the Vice Chair of the CSR forum at the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

Since 2020, the Bosch Group with its more than 400 locations worldwide has been climate neutral (scopes 1 and 2). Susan led the project team and coordinated the implementation in China.

Since 2003 she has been the member of Steering Committee of Shanghai Multi-National EHS Association.

Prior to Bosch, Susan served in a major global semiconductor company, taking EHS management position in China and international job rotations in the United States, Malaysia and Philippines.

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Hugues de la Marnierre has been appointed Group Country Head for Societe Generale in China since November 2020. Meanwhile he remains Chief Executive Officer of Societe Generale (China) Limited.

Hugues was Group Country Head for Societe Generale in Switzerland since July 2016, in addition to the previous role he had since September 2013 as CEO of SG Zurich. He was previously Global Head of Client Management for SG CIB, since April 2011. Hugues joined Societe Generale in 2009 as Global Head of Client Management for Global Markets.

He started his career in 1987 as a manager for a Derivatives Trading company. In 1989, he founded BNP dB 3A, an equity derivatives trading specialist then joined NatWest markets in 1991 as Head of Risk and Derivatives. In 1993, he was appointed Head of Equity Derivatives for the Americas at Crédit Lyonnais. Hugues de La Marnierre moved to London in 1997 as Global Coordinator for Equity Derivatives Marketing at Paribas. In 2000, he became Global Head of Sales at Commerzbank, before joining Natixis in February 2008 for a similar position. Hugues de La Marnierre holds a Certificate of Advance Studies and a Master from UniversitéParis Nanterre.

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Mr Peng Jilai is the General Manager and Partner of SynTao Consulting Beijing Office, Director of China CSR Map (CCM), a certified trainer for Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and lecturer of SynTao Academy.
Mr Peng has over 15 years of CSR/ESG consultancy experience and has served many clients in the automobile, FMCG, healthcare, financing, ICT and IDC industries. He is professional in developing sustainability strategy and ESG management systems, CSR internal & external communication, CSR training, CSR/ESG reporting, CSR program planning, monitoring and evaluation.
Besides business consultancy, Mr Peng is heavily involved with corporate-NGO cooperation and has successfully developed a dozen of cross-sector partnership. He is also proficient with charity project implementation and evaluation and he particularly focus on child development, gender, rural revitalization, environment & climate change, health & nutrition issue. Mr Peng provides advisory service for a dozen of large foundations and NGOs.
Before joining SynTao, Mr Peng worked for four years as Project Coordinator with GIZ on Sino-German CSR Project. Mr Peng earned his bachelor degree in English Language and Literature from Capital Normal University.

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Tiantian is a Senior Business Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Sino-EU government relations industry. Skilled in Corporate Social Responsibility, International Relations, Programme Design and Policy Analysis across the food and beverage sector, auto sector as well as the satellite industry.
During her role leading the CSR Forum of the European Chamber, she organised European Chamber 10th Anniversary Conference in 2015 and coordinated with more than 30 member companies’ speakers, led (edited, designed, coordinated) and managed the CSR White Paper project which includes the liaison and coordination of more than 10 Member States Consulate Generals in Shanghai and 20 sponsor companies in 2016; Organised the European Chamber Shanghai Chapter first Sustainable Business Awards and designed seven series of CEO Talks; Organised the Dutch Minister of Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation CSR Dialogue at the European Chamber in April 2018 and the 2018 SBA in September; Established Shanghai Local Media (Shine: Shanghai Daily App) cooperation with European Chamber and launched European Chamber Sustainable Column at Shanghai Daily in 2017; Led the European Chamber CSR Team teach at Shanghai University for its MBA students on CSR together with the Swedish CSR Ambassador in summer 2017, 2018 and 2019; Led the CSR delegation join the European Commission Multi-Stakeholder Meeting in Brussels and coordinate the member speech delivered on CSR in China on February 2015 (First time in the history of the Multi-Stakeholder meeting to host delegates from China and hear China CSR practice).