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Time2023-05-25 | 14:30 - 16:30
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Venue:European Chamber Shanghai Office
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Fee:Members: 240 |
Non Members: 480
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The European Chamber Sustainable Business Awards (SBA) rewards excellence in sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and raises awareness about sustainable business practices and responsible operating models. As part of the SBA, the Sustainable VIP Talk series aims to bring corporate leaders together to explore effective sustainable business development.
The SBA 2023 will be officially opened for new submissions from 25th May (application forms will be available for download). The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to attend the Sustainable Business Awards 2023 Launch: VIP Talk with AB InBev Budweiser APAC and Case Sharing of Stora Enso China. The cases of the former winners of Outstanding Environmental Performance and Resilient Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure Leader will be presented and the 2022 judges will join the discussion. This session will be moderated by Ms Tiantian Qi, Senior Business Manager, Government Affairs Department, European Chamber.
Registration deadline: 23rd May
How to pay:
when registering for the event or on-site
Advisory Council members: two free tickets for each member
Invoice: digital 普票 will be issued to registrants who applied when doing the registration, in 10 work days from 25th May.
Agenda
14:00-14:30 Registration and Networking
14:30-14:35 Opening Remarks, by Ms Holly Lei, Shanghai Chapter Vice Chair, European Chamber
14:35-15:10 Keynote Speech, by Mr Terry Yao, Procurement Director of Sustainability, Budweiser APAC
(Including a 15-minute dialogue with the judges from 2022, Dr Jianzhong Lu, Deputy Chairman of Shanghai Foreign Invested Association, and Mr Jilai Peng, General Manager and Partner of SynTao Consulting Beijing Office)
15:10-15:45 Panel Discussion on the Winner Case of Outstanding Environmental Performance
Panellists (the judges from 2022):
Ms Camille Fourmeau, Economic Attaché, Deputy Economic Counsellor, Consulate General of France in Shanghai
Mr Xidelong Guo, Independent Advisor
15:45-16:00 Call for SBA 2023 Applicants by Mr Jilai Peng, General Manager and Partner of SynTao Consulting Beijing Office
16:00-16:05 Closing Remarks, by Ms Tiantian Qi, Senior Business Manager, Government Affairs Department, European Chamber
16:05-16:30 Networking
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Speakers
Ms. Holly Lei
Ms. Holly Lei
Holly Lei (Senior Vice President, Covestro Group, President of Covestro China) is the first local female leader for this position in Covestro China.
Lei started her career at Bayer MaterialScience (the predecessor company of Covestro) in 1999 as a technical representative, and has since increased responsibilities focusing on sales, marketing and R&D . She held various management positions in China, the APAC region and globally, and devoted her cross-industry insights and customer centric mindset to develop Covestro’s business globally.
As a seasoned leader strong at managing dispersed teams, 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, equity and inclusion (DEI) at Covestro, she is actively involved in promoting Female leadership in the workplace and DEI culture with outstanding contribution and social influence.
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, Vice Chair of the Shanghai Chapter of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, and she was granted with several awards, such as 2020 China Women in Tech by Forbes, 2021, 2022 & 2023 China Most Powerful Women by Fortune, etc.
Mr. Terry Yao
Mr. Terry Yao
Mr. Terry Yao has a wealth of experience in multiple procurement categories, especially focus on sustainability in recent years. In June 2016, Mr. Yao joined in AB InBev, and has been successively served at several roles. In January 2021, he was appointed as the Procurement Director of Sustainability for Budweiser APAC. He orchestrated strategies to achieve 2025 Sustainability Goals in the Asia Pacific, with focus on sustainability mindset in the day-to-day business. He successful led Budweiser Wuhan brewery became the first carbon neutral brewery across ABI global. Mr. Yao obtained a Master‘s Degree in Kristianstad University, in Digital Communication, Sweden 2007.
Dr. Jianzhong Lu
Dr. Jianzhong Lu
Dr. Lu Jian Zhong, board member of Global Reporting Initiative GRI and Deputy Director General of China CSR Think Tank, deputy chairman of Shanghai Foreign Invested Association. He performed many senior executive roles for more than 20 years in a variety of industry sectors and multinational companies, such as President General Affairs Essilor Greater China, President China of The Weir Group, and Global Partner of Brunswick Group, Executive Vice President of Singapore RGE Group (China) and Chief Representative, Chairman of RGE subsidiary Asia Symbol Paper & Pulp Ltd, Vice President of RGE Subsidiary Sateri Group Ltd., Acting President China of BHP Billiton Group. In his roles of leading China operation in the companies, he integrated corporate social responsibility and sustainability into company’s strategy and day to day operations realizing social value alongside financial value, he helped the companies achieve business growth, operational excellence, and corporate image as well as talent development. Dr. Lu acquired solid professional expertise in enterprise management, commercial operations, leading corporate strategy, business growth, market expansion, organizational and leadership development, corporate branding and strategic communications, employee engagement, and company culture advancement.
Dr Lu is a well-konwn pioneer of sustainable business strategy and well-respected industry thought leader, with profound and systematic practical expertise and theoretical methodologies.
Mr. Jilai Peng
Mr. Jilai Peng
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.
Ms. Camille Fourmeau
Ms. Camille Fourmeau
Ms. Camille Fourmeau is a young graduate appointed at the Economic department of the French Consulate in Shanghai to support French companies’ development in China and ensure dialogue with local authorities and institutions. Her recent activities include accompanying industries in the field of green building, green technologies, and green innovation.
Ms. Camille Fourmeau holds a degree in Environment, Politics, and Society from University College London and in Environmental Science from Ecole Polytechnique, a renowned French engineering school. She worked on several subjects linking environmental issues and international relations, especially through the analyses of energy transition strategies in the Asia – Pacific region.
Mr. Xidelong Guo
Mr. Xidelong Guo
Guo Xidelong, currently working as an independent advisor, supporting several non-governmental organizations and projects on developing their sustainable finance related strategies and implementation plans. Prior to this work, he worked as the head of Corporate and Supply Chain department at Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) China, developing climate and energy transition strategies and tactics including, providing policy advocacy and technical support to policy makers, promoting Chinese companies for a higher quality environmental climate -related information disclosure consistent with the requirements of the TCFD framework, and building capacities to investors in for aligning their portfolios to the Paris Agreement pathway. Besides, Mr.Guo worked as a Climate/ESG investment specialist at Greenpeace EastAsia, and as a consultant on Sustainability on Emerging Market Project at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and at PwC.
Ms. Tiantian Qi
Ms. Tiantian Qi
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).
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