Mr Chong is a graduate from the University of Hong Kong. He obtained a Master's degree in Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
He served in the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer. He also served as an Executive Director of Oxfam Hong Kong and a member of the Board of Directors of Oxfam International. Mr Chong is active in promoting civil society in Hong Kong. He is the President of the Hong Kong Blind Union. He has also been a member of the Education and Publicity Subcommittee of the Council for Sustainable Development, which is an advisory committee to the Hong Kong SAR Government on sustainability issues.
Mr. Kevin Li, Researcher, CarbonCare InnoLab 李育成先生 (低碳想創坊研究員)
Kevin Li has more than 20 years’ experiences working with development and environmental non-governmental organisations covering the issues of water, land, climate change and poverty reduction. He also experiences in taking different roles, ranging from research, grant-making, online communications to working with partner organisations on development projects in Asia region.
Mr Zhao Ang, Co-Director & Co-founder, Rock Environment and Energy Institute (REEI)
趙昂先生 (北京磐之石環境與能源研究中心聯合主任及創始人)
Zhao has worked on climate change and energy transition policy for more than 15 years. He has published in China Environment Series, Environmentally-Aware Business Models and Technologies, International Journal of Applied Logistics, the Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Environmental Resource and Energy Review and others. Mr Zhao holds a B.A. in Chinese from Peking University and a M.Sc. in Environmental Policy from London School of Economics and Political Science. He likes reading, podcasts and jogging.
Dr Chao Chia-wei, Chair, Taiwan Environment & Planning Association
趙家緯博士 (台灣環境規劃協會理事長)
Chia-Wei Chao is the Adjunct Assistant Professor of The International Degree Program in Climate Change and Sustainable Development, National Taiwan University and also the Chair of Taiwan Environment and Planning Association. He received his PhD degree in Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering from the National Taiwan University in 2013. His research focus are sustainability transition and industrial ecology. Dr Chao has been actively involved in the climate and energy policy since 2007, to provide evidence-based policy suggestion for environmental NGOs. Taiwan Environment and Planning Association is a newly found environmental NGO, the main task is to establish a transdisciplinary platform to maximize the synergies between ecosystem service and renewable energy development.
Ms Mika Ohbayashi, Director, Renewable Energy Institute (REI) 大林美嘉女士 (日本自然能源財團事業局長)
Mika Ohbayashi is Director at Renewable Energy Institute* since its foundation in August 2011. Before joining the Institute, she worked in Abu Dhabi for the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) as Policy and Project Regional Manager for Asia Oceania. She is one of two founders of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) and served as Deputy Director for 8 years following its establishment in 2000. She also worked as Advisor for Climate Change Projects and Policies for UKFCO at the British Embassy to Japan. She started her career in the energy field by joining Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center in 1992. In 2017, She was awarded the ISES Global Leadership Award in Advancing Solar Energy Policy- in honour of Hermann Scheer by the International Solar Energy Society. *The Institute’s English name was “Japan Renewable Energy Foundation (JREF)” from 2011 - 2016.
Dr Daphne Mah, Director, Asian Energy Studies Center, HKBU 馬雅燕博士 (香港浸會大學亞洲能源研中心主任)
Dr Daphne Mah is Director of Asian Energy Studies Centre, and Associate Professor at Department of Geography at Hong Kong Baptist University. She obtained her MSc in Environmental Management from the University of Nottingham in the UK, and completed her PhD study at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on social aspects of smart energy transitions, specializing in interdisciplinary research that cuts across the fields of energy technologies (smart grids, solar power, wind energy, nuclear power, and building energy efficiency), energy governance, and sustainability policy studies, with a geographical focus on East Asia covering empirical cases in China, South Korea, and Japan. She is a co-founding editor of Journal of Asian Energy Studies, and the founding convener of the Hong Kong Solar Partnership.
Ms Gahee Han, Researcher, Solutions for Our Climate, South Korea 韓佳熙女士 (韓國氣候解決方案組織研究員)
Gahee is a researcher at Solutions for Our Climate working on power market & grid program. Her recent project involves a resource planning analysis for South Korea’s power system. Previous to SFOC, she worked on Climate Technology Centre & Network projects at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and conducted greenhouse gas reduction research in a lab environment. She received her BSc in environmental engineering from Ewha Womans University.
Ms. Seukyoung Lee, Researcher, Solutions for Our Climate, South Korea 李世璟女士 (韓國氣候解決方案組織研究員)
Seukyoung is a researcher in SFOC’s coal power program and Korea Beyond Coal campaign’s international network contact person. Her recent work includes projects on domestic and international coal phase out policies, energy transition and employment impacts, and health impacts of fossil fuel generation. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University and a Master of City Planning from Seoul National University Graduate School of Environmental Studies.
Professor Jusen Asuka, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University 張壽川（明日香壽川）教授 (日本東北大學東北亞研究中心)
Dr Jusen ASUKA is the Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He had also worked for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Hayama, Japan as the director of the climate change group from April 2010 to March 2013. He holds a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, a MBA from the INSEAD, and a M.S. from the Graduate School of Agriculture, University of Tokyo. His primary areas of interest are about energy policy and environmental policy (e.g. climate policy, air pollution policy) and international environmental/energy cooperation. He is regularly involved in expert networks as well as policy making on energy/climate policy issues of Japan. His recent, specific interests are to promote the green recovery and energy transition which Japan is lagging behind other countries. Climate justice is his favorite topic as well. He is a football fan and still plays regularly.
Dr Furuya Shota, Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies, Japan 古屋將太博士 (日本環境能源政策研究所研究員)
Dr Shota Furuya is a researcher at Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies (ISEP) based in Tokyo. He received PhD in community energy planning at Aalborg University in Denmark. He has worked on community based renewable energy development in Japan. He focuses on the process in which different local stakeholders share a sustainable and creative future vision. His main research field is social acceptance of renewable energy and he facilitates stakeholders' understanding and collaboration for sustainability. He has been co-chair of the International Renewable Energy Agency Coalition for Action Community Energy Working Group since 2018.
Ms Hwang Shute, Chair, Green Advocates Energy Co-operative, Taiwan 黃淑德女士 (台灣綠主張綠電合作社理事主席)
Shute is the Supervisor of Homemakers Union Consumers Co-operative
and Chairman of Green Advocates Energy Co-operative. She completed her master of Public Health degree in the University of Michigan and joined Homemakers United Foundation 29 years ago. Since then, she has begun engaging in NGO starting from being a volunteer, and has become an entrepreneur of co-operative start-up. Through engaging in environmental movements, she started learning more about the subjects of organic farming, fair trade, energy resources and aging.
Dr Laurence L Delina, Division of Environment and Sustainability, HKUST Laurence L Delina博士 (香港科技大學環境及可持續發展學部)
Laurence L Delina is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Environment and Sustainability at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests are on sustainable development with a focus on rapid mitigation of climate change and accelerating sustainable and just energy transitions. He is the sole author of more than thirty journal articles on these topics and four books on climate action and energy transition. He recently co-edited a volume on climate change governance in Southeast Asia and consulted for the United Nations, Oxfam, and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung on energy issues in the region and in wider Asia-Pacific. Laurence was a Balik (Returning) Scientist at the Philippines Department of Science and Technology, a Rachel Carson Fellow, and a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He received his PhD from the University of New South Wales (Sydney).
Ms Anjali Viswamohanan, Senior Policy Manager, Asian Investor Group on Climate Change Anjali Viswamohanan女士 (亞洲投資者氣候變化聯盟高級政策經理)
Anjali is leads on policy engagement for the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC). She has over 7 years of experience working on the energy-related aspects of climate action, primarily in Asia. Prior to AIGCC, she worked with two leading climate think-tanks on developing policy and research on the financial aspects of the energy transition. She is a lawyer by training and has also worked with some of the top law firms in India on facilitating investments into the energy and infrastructure sectors in India.
