About Us

ICSD

Local Advisors

Dr. William Yu

CEO of World Green Organisation (WGO)

Energy economist and climate professional by training and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge.
Committee Member of Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development
ESBN Task Force Member of The Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) of the United Nations.
Faculty of The Hong Kong Green Building Council.
Member of the Air Quality Objectives Review Working Group of HK Environmental Protection Department.
Member of the Appeal Board Panel, Town Planning as well as Sustainable Development Council, HK SAR Government.

Mr. Hauman Yeung

Hauman Yeung is the Director of Corporate Advisory at Ascent Partners. He got a master's degree in finance from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been involved in the environmental movement in Hong Kong since 1988 and has worked on several ecological restoration projects funded by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Bank in Loess Plateau and Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. He worked with United Nations UN ESCAP to help Bhutan to issue their first-ever sovereign Green Bond in 2020. He is currently engaged by United Nations UN ESCAP as a Special Consultant to organize the project "Asia Pacific Green Deal".

Hauman co-founded the company Ascent Partner Advisory Service Limited in the year 2008. Ascent Partners is a leading provider of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporting Services. Since he started the ESG department in 2016, the firm managed to produce more than 400 ESG reports for listed companies in Hong Kong, and now become one of the market leaders in the ESG field.

Mr. Joe Lee

Managing Director, INTAD
Governance Expert in Anti-Fraud and Anti-Corruption

Mr. Lee is a seasoned anti-corruption and anti-fraud professional. He served as the Director of Corruption Prevention in the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong from 2019 to 2023, and is now the Management Director of INTAD Limited.

Mr. Lee's journey in anti-corruption and anti-fraud began in 1994 with the ICAC, where he devoted a 29-year career in the provision of consultancy, operational audit and training services to public and private sector organizations, focusing on governance and internal control, management of staff integrity, corruption and fraud risk management and anti-corruption/fraud system and measures. Under Joe’s leadership, the ICAC’s anti-corruption work was brought to a new height: it was the key driver of the setting of integrity and anti-corruption regulatory requirements and guidelines for sectors such as banking, insurance, property management, and listed companies by their respective regulators; built collaborative relationship with trade/professional bodies of industries such as catering, hospitality, retail, purchasing, and construction to develop guides on integrity and ethical conduct, anti-corruption/fraud and internal control systems; developed senior-level certificate courses for banks, insurers, property management companies, etc.

As the World Economic Forum says in its paper Investing in Integrity in a Complex World: The Role of Anti-Corruption in ESG amid the ESG Revolution: corporate integrity is fundamental to ethical ESG performance and reporting. Leveraging on his expertise and carrying on his mission, Joe has set up INTAD Limited, which aims at providing tailored consultancy, operational audit and training services to business entities to support them to achieve their ESG goals through building a high standard of integrity and ethical organizational culture and implementing effective anti-corruption/fraud systems, and to advise foreign governments on prevention of corruption.

Mr. Lee holds a Bachelor of Computer Science, a Master of Business Administration, and a Master of Corporate Governance degree. He is a Certified Internal Auditor, Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified ESG Planner, member of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors and the Hong Kong Computer Society.

Professor Peter K. W. Fong (Principal Consultant)

B.S.Sc (CUHK) / M.U.P., PhD (NYU)

Current Appointments:

President Hong Kong Public Administration Association
Editor-in-Chief Public Administration & Policy Journal, published by Emerald, UK
Adjunct Professor Professor & DBA Dissertation Supervisor, University of Wales TSD, UK
Advisory Professor College of Architecture & Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai

Past Experiences:

Director, EMBA & Executive Programmes, HKU Business School
Executive Vice President & Professor, City University of Macau
Teaching Fellow, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
Visiting Scholar, Department of Urban Studies & Planning, MIT, USA
Studies Director, Civil Service Training & Development Institute, HKSAR Government
Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning & Design, HKU
Honorary Professor, Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Shenzhen
Visiting Professor, School of Public Administration & Policy, Renmin University of China
Adjunct Professor, School of Management, Tianjin University
Honorary Professor, China Training Centre for Senior Civil Servants, Ministry of HRM & SS
Deputy Executive Director, HK Institute of Education for Sustainable Development
Director & Consultant, Delta Asia Financial Group in HK & Delta Asia Bank in Macau
Consultant, The World Bank, China Department, Washington D.C.

Professional Qualifications:

Fellow (FHKIP), Hong Kong Institute of Planners
Member (MPIA), Planning Institute Australia
Member (CMILT), Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

Professor Ilex Lam

Executive Chairman, iEnterprise

Current Appointments:

Co-Director of Lab for Innovative Financing and Transformation (LIFT)
Public and International Affair Department, City University of Hong Kong
Executive Chairman of iEnterprise Group of Companies

With an exceptional wealth of experience spanning over three decades in executive positions in investment and financial sector, Prof. Lam brings a distinguished career dedicated to providing investment management and advisory services to a diverse range of global financial institutions including Supernational Organisations such as United Nations, Asia Development Bank, central banks and sovereign wealth fund and superannuation investors in Asia. Since 2012, he has emerged as a driving force in promoting social entrepreneurship and the impact investing movement in Hong Kong and Asia.

Prof. Lam has earned widespread recognition and prestigious accolades at both the corporate
and individual levels. Notable among these achievements are:

2009-2011 Best Fund Manager Awards
2010 One of the Most Outstanding Innovative Entrepreneur in China
2011 One of the Top Ten Most Outstanding Impactful Entrepreneurs in Investment Management Business in China
2019 Economic Person Award for Sustainable Cultural Tourism Industry during China's "Reform and Opening Up Forty Years"
2023 Outstanding Performance in SME ESG Best Practice
2023 The top accessible Designer Award for iEnterprise (The first social enterprise with a diverse and inclusive team received four outstanding awards in the Digital Accessibility Recognition Scheme)

Prof. Lam has served as Chairman of the ESG and Impact Investing Research Committee of the Greater China Alternative Managers Association. He also served as a Senior Advisor to UNDP SDG Innovative Impact/Finance, Advisor to both the Information Accessibility Research Association in China and the Future City Summit/Good City Foundation in Asia, and Coorganiser of Social Enterprise Summit in HK. As a typical pracademic, he advocates life-long learning and practice, and has co-authored notable publications including "The Essence and Measurement of Organization Efficiency" (2016), "Sustainable Investment – Impact in Asia" (2020), and "The Illuminating Journey of ESG" (2023).

In 2012, Professor Lam established iEnterprise, an organization dedicated to conducting applied research on Tripartite Collaborative Models. These models involve a distinctive partnership that brings together social business operations, commercial enterprises, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to establish "Impact Enterprises." The primary objective of these enterprises is to unlock untapped productivity within disadvantaged communities that may have been previously overlooked. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor and co-founded the “Lab for Innovative Financing and Transformation” within the Department of Public and International Affairs at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests revolves blended and innovative finance models for societal betterment and the development of measurement and valuation frameworks for these initiatives. He is instrumental in the hands-on execution of the "Inclusive Smart City" development. He works closely with organizations such as HKEX, the HK Legislative Council, HK Equal Opportunity Commission and HK Smart City Consortium striving to promote “technology for good “ and ensure that the needs of the underprivileged are incorporated in the journey of smart city development.

Ms. Cecilia Fong

Managing Director, Metro Ascent Capital

Ms. Cecilia Fong is currently the Managing Director and Responsible Officer of Metro Ascent Capital which is a licensed corporation under the Securities and Futures Ordinance of Hong Kong. Cecilia has more than 20 years’ experience in providing financial advisory services in relation to corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and leveraged finance transactions. She has previously worked in HSBC and Macquarie Bank where she focused on project financing and investment in infrastructure, energy and utilities sectors in Asia.

Earlier in her career, Cecilia worked for Kvaerner Plc (previously called Trafalgar House) which was a listed global engineering and construction group where she specialized in the development of Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects in Asia and the UK.

Cecilia has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Sheffield and a Master’s degree in Finance (with Distinction) from the University of Lancaster. She holds CFA and CPA professional qualifications. She is a qualified Certified ESG Planner from the ICSD and holds an Advanced Executive Diploma in ESG Strategy and Innovation for Net-Zero in Hong Kong.

Sr. Wing Yuen, Au (Oswald)

ESG Technical Advisor

Oswald has more than 20 years’ of experience in business consulting covering Hong Kong, the PRC, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, United States, Canada, etc.

Oswald is a qualified valuer and accountant for IPOs and M&A ,with extensive experience in business valuation. He has signed for over 100 valuation reports prepared for IPOs and transactions. Oswald is also an International Certified Public Accountant and have abounding knowledge in the field of financial reporting. Therefore, he has sophisticated knowledge in the compliance requirements from the regulators, and capital market activities. Oswald is also qualified as a certified carbon auditor and the first batch of National Trader on Carbon Emissions in Hong Kong.

Under his leadership, Riskory Consultancy Limited became the official strategic partner in sustainability of Canon Hong Kong. The carbon emission targets of Riskory Consultancy Limited have also been validated by the Science-based Target Initiative (SBTi).

Professor Paulina Wong

Research

Prof. Paulina PY Wong is currently an Assistant Professor in the Science Unit at Lingnan University. She is also the Centre Fellow(s) of the Institute of Policy Studies and the LEO Dr David P. Chan Institute of Data Science. She has many years of industrial and academic research experience in New Zealand, USA and Hong Kong mainly on ecological and practical applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Her areas of specialization include urban climate, air/noise pollution, GIS, and environmental health. In recent years, her research has been extended to GeoAI modelling, urban sensing, mobile geospatial technologies, sustainability education and ESG. She is a certified GIS Professional and ESG Planner (CEP®). She obtained her BSc and MSc (with first-class honours) from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and her PhD from the University of Hong Kong.

Prof. Wong also serves on a number of professional associations such as the Council member and Vice-chairman of the Spatial Data Infrastructure Committee of Smart City Consortium (SCC), Honorary Secretary of Hong Kong Geographic Information System Association (HKGISA) and Founding Committee member of Hong Kong Alliance of BA&E Information Management Associations (HKABAEIMA) to foster GIS, Open BIM and Smart city development. She is also the editorial board member, review editor and guest editor of several quality international journals.

Miss Selina Kam

Sustainability and ESG
Selina is the sustainability committee member of Pico Far East Holdings Limited, a listed company in HKEX. Her role is to provide sustainability and ESG reporting related advice. She was engaged in corporate sustainability initiatives since 2007, organizing corporate social supports to local communities with young talents and future leaders.

Newspaper interviews
She has received interview by HK Economic Times on HR issues e.g. engaging young generations. She also interviewed by South China Morning Post and Oriental Daily on the latest trend in Customer Service and building positive Customer Experience.

Public Programs and Talks
She has been invited by HK General Chamber of Commerce, Federation of Hong Kong Industries, HK Retail Management, Asia Pacific Professional Managers Associations to deliver talks on various topics, e.g. Latest Trends in Sustainability and ESG, AI for Talent Development, Talent Engagement, Succession Planning, Crisis Management, Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making, Performance Management, Retail trends and Strategies, etc. She also leads several public workshops for HKMA on Managing the Training Function, Customer Experience, Train the Trainer, Problem Solving and Decision Making, Time Management, etc.

HR, Talent Management and Succession Planning
As the corporate HR director of a listed company, she helps set up Talent Strategy, conduct Succession Planning and built the structure for Talent Management, and launched the Human Capital Audit using McKenzie Model. In the past, she has been responsible for the ASP talent development programmes for HSBC. She was also the part-time lecturer of Hong Kong Management Association on Building a Learning Organization, Developing Talents and Succession Planning Executive Diploma, HR Management Professional Diploma from 2013 to 2019.

Financial Planning and Investment
She developed various investment services and the 1st Financial Planning workshop for HSBC ASP executives from 2001 to 2004.

Academic Background
She is a doctoral candidate and holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Sustainable Business at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge, besides a master’s degree. She got her bachelor’s degree from Western University in Canada.

Other Qualifications
She has CFPCM, NLP, MBTI, PPA (DISC), SLII accreditations, International Investment Advice Certificate (IIAC) from London Securities Institute, and she is a qualified assessor in conducting one to one assessment with well-developed competency models.

Awards
Selina has received the Distinguish Trainer’s Award in 2007, and Citation for Career Development Award on Regional Graduate Development Programme in 2009 from HKMA.

Emily S. WONG

Media

Emily S. WONG holds a LLM (HKU), LLB (UK), and a Master of Business Administration (I.T.) (Aust) and chartered marketers of MCIM (UK) and AIMM (Aust.), and a Certified ESG Planner CEP® (HK). With over 20 years working experiences, Emily has worked in the computer industry and information technology, specializing in the creation of computer hardware and software, new product development from conceptualization to commercialization, wireless transmission, optical tracking, virtual reality and augmented reality, and optical tracking. She oversaw the development of OTT platforms while working as a vice president for a TV network. Additionally, she has marketing expertise from key China cities to the US, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

Emily is the author of 「揀飲擇食」 The Meals Matter, a book about the science of cookery that has garnered favorable reader comments, online versions of the content are also accessible in audio format. In 2018, she was diagnosed with autoimmune disease when her inflammatory illness first began to attack her eyes, so she decided to think about pursuing a new route in life since then. She founded a charitable group in 2019 to help mothers and kids in a remote fishing community in Myanmar.

Eventually, she formed a nonprofit group dedicated to creating a better, more equitable world. In order to contribute to the UN's SDG 3 Health and Wellbeing, encourage better health, provide easy access to healthcare advice on the internet, and teach people how to prepare simple cooking so they can better care for themselves and their families. The provision of program material involves working with licensed medical specialists and pros from other industries, artificial intelligence is used to enhance narrative and video creation in general.

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