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Sachi Claringbould is Deputy Consul General and Head of Economic Affairs at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Shanghai.
Prior to her current role, she was Deputy Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament of the Netherlands in Geneva. Sachi joined the Foreign Ministry in 2010. Her experience includes working on security policy and multilateral affairs.
Prior to joining the Foreign Ministry, she worked as a senior reporter for a Japanese newspaper in London, and as a company lawyer for Sharp Electronics in Brussels. From 2006-2008 she worked at the Trade Section of the EU Delegation to Japan in Tokyo.
Sachi holds a law degree and an MA in Japanese Language and Culture, both from the University of Leiden. In 2009, she took an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge.

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Davine is an all-round litigator with an extensive track record in complex disputes. She handles commercial and corporate matters that are crucial to our clients, often relating to the financial sector, large transactions, or governance and stakeholder issues. Davine is also very experienced in execution and enforcement proceedings, attachments and injunctions, litigation funding issues, and various types of discovery processes. She amongst others acted for former SNS REAAL and SNS Bank in inquiry proceedings before the Dutch Enterprise Chamber following its nationalisation, for Rabobank in class actions pertaining to its interest rate swaps, and currently acts in several climate-related matters for De Brauw's key clients.
In addition, Davine heads De Brauw's cross-expertise Climate and Sustainability Group. She is highly knowledgeable on ESG-regulation, such as the CSRD and CSDDD. Davine has specific expertise in climate transition planning and climate scenario application, and due diligence frameworks under OECD Guidelines and CSDDD. In 2024, she co-wrote a booklet on CTPs: 2024: a pivotal year for climate transition plans (debrauw.com) and her practice includes significant advisory work in relation to climate target setting, transition planning, and due diligence obligations.
Davine obtained her LL.M from the University of Amsterdam in 2010 and has been with De Brauw since 2011 and was seconded to London magic circle firm Slaughter & May in 2018. She holds a certificate in Climate Risk from the UNEP FI programme, contributes to the Oxford University Net Zero Regulation and Policy Hub and sits on its Advisory Board, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Forum for ESG Legal Leaders. She regularly speaks on sustainability topics, such as the Informa conference in London on Climate Risk for the Financial Sector, and ESG in corporate law at the Grotius post-academic education track on Company and Corporate Law. Davine also lectures International Arbitration Law at VU Amsterdam.

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Walter has an extensive background in the fields of manufacturing, international trade and consulting. He has over 20 years of work experience in supply chain management for international and domestic enterprises.
Since joining Sedex, he has been responsible for opening Sedex’s first office in Asia (Shanghai, China), and actively maintaining and developing relationships with different players in the supply chain.
This has included engaging with different stakeholders in the Asia region, such as United Nations agencies, government departments and industry associations. Walter is also a guest lecturer on supply chain sustainability and ESG for universities.

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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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Thom Wetzer is Associate Professor of Law and Finance at the University of Oxford and the Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. His research explores how to align private initiative and the public good. Specifically, he studies how legal and financial mechanisms address, or fail to address, governance challenges generated by the presence of externalities, with a particular emphasis on climate change and financial stability.
Wetzer’s work combines traditional legal scholarship with multidisciplinary analysis and has been published in legal, economic, and scientific journals (including Science, Nature, and Nature Climate Change). He is also a co-editor of the Handbook of Financial Stress Testing (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Wetzer actively collaborates with and advises governments, central banks, international institutions, corporations, and NGOs – including the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United Nations, and law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. He is currently serving a two-year term as a member of the European Securities and Markets Authority's Working Group on Sustainable Finance. At Oxford, Wetzer also co-leads the Net Zero Regulation and Policy Hub, acts as a Co-Investigator of the Oxford Net Zero Initiative, and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking.
Wetzer has taught at various universities around the world, including Yale and Stanford, and has educated supreme court justices as well as senior leaders in the public, private, and NGO sectors. In 2023, he was the recipient of the Smith School's inaugural Teaching Excellence Award. Wetzer holds a DPhil (Clarendon Scholar) and an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and received a BA(Hons) and an LLB from Utrecht University. Previously, he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia Law School, Yale University, and Berkeley Law School, and worked at the European Commission and Goldman Sachs.

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Steven has lived and worked in China for over 15 years in the non-profit management industry leading and representing global trade associations, professional societies and business interest groups in the region. 
Steven is a Dutch national and a Permanent Resident of China. He is a lawyer and sinologist by training. He has a native level language proficiency in Mandarin, English, and Dutch.