Hong Kong FinTech Week 2020

ESG Matters Presents

Fintech for
SDG and ESG Excellence

A Virtual Fireside Chat

03 November 2020

About the Event

With the current pandemic situation, the importance of ESG and sustainability has really come to the forefront of discussion. As part of the upcoming Hong Kong FinTech Week this November, we are excited to have arranged a Fireside Chat session with speakers from around the world. In this event, we would like to highlight the crossover between FinTech and sustainability at our ESG Event. As ESG and the SDGs are such broad subjects, we have decided to select 3 specific SDGs as areas of focus for this event. The first section will center around Climate Action and feature speakers from green blockchain platforms, sustainable investment platforms, and more. The second section will concentrate on Healthcare and Education, with speakers from insurtech, training and education, and more.

Moderated by

Dr Glenn Frommer

Founder
ESG Matters

Hosted by

Philbert Tong

Assistant Head of Product & Technology
ESG Matters

Special Guests

Dr George Lam

Chairman
Cyberport

Dr David Chung

Undersecretary
ITB, HKSAR

Charles Ng

Associate Director-General
InvestHK

Speakers

Cecilia Repinski

Founder & CEO
Green Assets Wallet

Bio

Cecilia Repinski

Founder & CEO, Green Assets Wallet

Cecilia Repinski has worked in sustainable finance since the early 2000s, always with one foot in scientific research and innovation, and the other in practice. Today, she combines two of the defining forces of finance: sustainability and financial technology.

Cecilia is the Founder and CEO of the Green Assets Wallet, the global trust platform for scaling green debt through blockchain and other emerging technology. In 2017, Cecilia set up Stockholm Green Digital Finance, a not-for-profit tasked to demonstrate creative solutions to scale green finance and investment through the application of fintech solutions.

Previously, Cecilia has served on the board of SweSIF, led scientific research programs on sustainable finance, advised Stockholm Sustainable Finance Centre and other researchers on sustainable finance, to name a few. She finally arrived at harnessing technology to more fully unlock the potential of finance to deliver on the sustainability transition.

Pelle Pedersen

Chief Impact & Growth
Doland

Bio

Pelle Pedersen

Chief Impact & Growth, Doland

Pelle Pedersen has spent the last 8+ years working with sustainable investing. He is the former Head of Responsible Investment at PKA pension and sits on numerous boards all related to sustainability. Pelle has also spent the last 5 years giving lectures on impact investing at CBS and was also a part of the expert panel commissioned by Finance Denmark providing recommendations on how finance can support a sustainable economy. Currently, he is the Chief of Impact and Growth at DoLand, a Danish company focused on sustainable investment strategies and building an investment platform for sustainable investing.

Adrian Sou

Co-Manager
Haitong Bank S.A.

Bio

Adrian Sou

Co-Manager, Haitong Bank S.A.

Mr Adrian Sou has 20 years of industrial experiences with Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas and Haitong International, mainly in the areas of financial product structuring, as well as ultra-high-net-worth and institutional coverage. Currently, Mr Sou is in charge of establishing a sustainability finance business with Haitong Bank in Asia. Due to his early academic background in engineering, he frequently provides internal advisory on environment-related issues to investment banking colleagues, assisting them in the promotion of green finance policies to clients, as well as the identification of green financing opportunities among them.

Roy Lo

Managing Partner
ShineWing Hong Kong

Bio

Roy Lo

Managing Partner, ShineWing

Roy has extensive experience in auditing, business merging and acquisitions, business appraisal, risk management, listing arrangement and more, and is familiar with the operations and regulations of different industries and fields. He has been involved in numerous IPO projects, successfully assisting many companies with listing on the HKEX. He regularly contributes articles on corporate governance and internal control to newspapers, professional publications, and other media. A compliance reviewer of the Best Corporate Governance Awards of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants consecutively from 2013 – 2019, Roy also assumes the role of Chairman of the Accountancy Training Board of Vocational Training Council, Honorary Treasurer of UNESCO Hong Kong Association, Deputy President of The Hong Kong Independent Non-executive Director Association, Deputy President of The Association of Hong Kong Accountants and many more. Roy is currently responsible for various auditing and IPO projects at ShineWing.

Michael Chan

Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Bowtie Life Insurance Company Limited

Bio

Michael Chan

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Bowtie Life Insurance Company Limited

Michael Chan is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Bowtie, Hong Kong’s first virtual insurance company. Michael has over 12 years of experience working in insurance, reinsurance and investment banking. Michael led the Advanced Analytics practice of PwC New York and has extensive experience in data modeling and analytics including developing AI models to study policyholders’ behaviors as part of the new in-force management programs for complex insurance products in the US.

Michael is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a member of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong (ASHK) and a holder of the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) qualification.

Michelle Mak

Leader, Partnerships & Education
Dun & Bradstreet

Bio

Michelle Mak

Leader, Partnerships & Education, Dun & Bradstreet

Michelle is the Leader of Partnerships, Alliances, Enterprise Learning and Customer Education, at Dun & Bradstreet Hong Kong, a global provider in data and insights. She has been dedicated to integrating the next-gen human capital solutions into data technology, while being responsible for establishing strategic relationships as one of the champions of Accelerate, an international D&B Partner Programme. In 2020, she established alliances and a partnership ecosystem for D&B HK with government agencies and start-ups including Cyberport, InvestHK, HKQAA, with a mission to spur innovation in the organization and technology environment in a sustainable manner.

Having lived in 4 countries, 3 continents, Michelle co-founded an award-winning social enterprise, Make The Change, in Singapore in 2013, which offers Creative Services for NGOs and Social Enterprises through Education & Mentorship, Community Development and CSR Engagement. Since establishment, MTC has rendered design and community development services to many NGOs, Education institutions and Corporates.

Albert Oung

Founding President
World Green Organisation

Bio

Albert Oung

Founding President, World Green Organisation

Albert Oung is a Myanmar-born Chinese Green Entrepreneur and Environmentalist with over 36 years of global experiences emphasising in the Green Economy, transforming and commercialising common practices into sustainable and responsible business models. Albert is the Founder and CEO of the Green Inc. Group, the Founding Chairman of the “Hong Kong Myanmar Chamber of Commerce” and Founding President of the “World Green Organisation”, “Green Institute” and “Green Channel”. By developing his idea of “Greenism”, he adopted a holistic approach to provide integrated green solutions by combining Environment, Social and Economic issues. Albert is also appointed as the Chairman of the Green Economy Task Force of the United Nations Environment and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific / Sustainable Business Network (UNESCAP / ESBN).

Adams Wong

Senior Business Manager
HKQAA

Bio

Adams Wong

Senior Business Manager, HKQAA

Adams is an expert of project management, sustainability and business development with more than 10 years of relevant working experience; he is a Senior Business Manager, Manufacturing & Service Business in HKQAA with leading a sales team and project teams. Adams has in-depth expertise in sector/industry developments and stakeholders’ engagement, such as the Government, NGO and Charity, Innovation and Startups, Education Services, Fintech and Green Finance sectors to name a few.

His expertise also extends to different International Standards and good practices which covers quality management, environmental management, occupational health and safety, Green Finance, Supply Chain management sustainability and ESG. Adams has successfully led numerous projects and actively contributed to the development of the new assessment schemes, such as Eco-friendly Series, Start-ups and Startup Plus registration schemes, Establishing Hygiene Health and Safety System (Quality Education Fund), SME Development Fund, and more.

Sebastian Olguin Sørensen

Management Consultant, Financial Services
Implement Consulting Group

Bio

Sebastian Olguin Sørensen

Management Consultant, Financial Services, Implement Consulting Group

Sebastian is a management consultant in Implement Consulting Group’s financial department within transformations and regulatory implementation. Sebastian has spent his entire professional career focusing on sustainability in the financial sector. This has given him extensive experience in ESG and sustainable finance, including the integration of regulatory and ESG data requirements into core processes and policies. Sebastian has in-depth expertise in the Nordic state of ESG integration across financial institutions.

Sebastian is the co-author of the newly launched report “Deciphering the Nordic Impact Map: How sustainability can be a driver for success for Nordic fintechs”, which map out the 200+ new solutions existing in the Nordic fintech space, categorize and match them to the related 17 Sustainable Development Goals.