PROFESSOR, PEKING UNIVERSITY & HSBC BUSINESS SCHOOL IN SHENZHEN VISITING PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF EUROPE FORMER SECRETARY GENERAL, COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS OF THE EU Gerhard Stahl (born in Ludwigsburg, Germany on 2 December 1950) is since August 2014 Professor at the Peking University HSBC Business School in Shenzhen in China. In addition he teaches as visiting
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, URBAN DISCOVERY HONG KONG Ester van Steekelenburg (MSc Urban Planning, University of Amsterdam, PhD Urban Economics, University of Hong Kong) has over 15 years of international experience in urban regeneration and heritage revitalization. Ester lives in Hong Kong where she heads Urban Discovery a Hong Kong based social enterprise that works with
CHAIRMAN OF INVOTECH Prof. Li is currently the Vice Chairman of the Business and Professional Federation, the Chairman of Invotech, and a former member of the Central Policy Unit of the HKSAR Government. He is an advisory board member of Washington University in St. Louis, at the Center for Family Business at the Chinese University,
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG REGISTERED ARCHITECT, HKIA, HKIDA, RAIC, HKICON, MHKIUD As the Director of the Community Project Workshop and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, the University of Hong Kong, Tris’ interests encompass the fields of Architecture, Urban Planning, Professional Practice, Contemporary Building Construction and Community Engagement Process.
VICE PRESIDENT & MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF INTERNATIONAL ENERGY SOLUTIONS AB Ebbe Nordell is Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors of International Energy Solutions AB. He has been working internationally in different positions for Swedish firms Kema Nober Group, Swedhort and Tecator as well as Norddeutsche Laborbau Hamburg. He is a
DIRECTOR OF THE ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF MALMÖ Kerstin Åkerwall is Director of the Environment Department of the City of Malmö.
AFFILIATED RESEARCHER ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY SYSTEMS STUDIES OF LUND UNIVERSITY CLIMATE STRATEGIST OF CITY OF MALMÖ Joakim Nordqvist is an affiliated researcher with Environmental and Energy Systems Studies, Lund University, currently focusing on urban sustainability issues. He also holds a position as climate strategist with the City of Malmö. As a researcher at Lund University, Mr. Nordqvist received his PhD in
PROJECT MANAGER OF CITY OF MALMO Monika Månsson is Project Manager at the City of Malmö. She works as a Communications Officer at the Environment Department and has a coordinating role in climate Malmö. She has also involved in environmental cooperation between Malmö and Hong Kong (the ‘Malmö – Hong Kong Sustainability Charter).
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO OF DESIGNING HONG KONG LIMITED DISTRICT COUNCILOR OF POKFULAM CONSTITUENCY, HONG KONG Paul Zimmerman arrived in Hong Kong in 1984 and founded the Bridge Design in 1987, an identity and corporate literature design company, which he sold in 1997 to the events producer, Caribiner International. He built the combined entity into a leading communications
VISITING SCHOLAR OF THE EUROPEAN UNION ACADEMIC PROGRAMME HONG KONG Dr. Christina West has worked as an Assistant Professor and Senior researcher in the Department of Economic Geography at the University of Mannheim and the Department of Geosciences at the University of Koblenz/Landau in Germany. Dr. West has undertaken research on various aspects of urban