Co-Organizers
Speakers
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Christoph Heider
President at European Chamber of Commerce in Korea (ECCK)
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Christoph Heider joined the ECCK on June 1, 2013. Before joining the ECCK, Christoph Heider had been with Bayer AG, a German pharmaceutical company since 1997. He held various positions in Bayer, including CFO at Bayer Korea, Head of Accounting & Reporting at Bayer Japan as well as Regional Manager for Legal Entity Accounting APAC at Bayer AG in Germany. In 2016, Heider received Honorary Citizenship of Seoul. His other honorary assignments include being a board member of Heider-Kober Foundation in Munich, Germany as well as being a member of the European Union Domestic Advisory Group and the Korea-EU Civil Society Forum.
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Han, Jeoung Ae
Minister of Ministry of Environment, Republic of Korea
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Han Jeoung-ae, a third-term Assemblyperson of the Democratic Party of the Republic of Korea, took office as the 19th Minister of Environment in January 2021. She studied Environmental Engineering in Pusan National University and obtained her PhD in Industrial Engineering from University of Nottingham, UK. Before entering the politics, she had devoted herself to labor movement representing the Trade Union of the Korean Occupational Safety and Health Agency. Since first elected in 2012, she has been committed to promoting labor rights and environmental protection. Serving as the chair of the Environment and Labor Committee, the National Assembly Climate Change Forum, and the Policy Committee of the Democratic Party, she contributed to the inception of the Korean New Deal and the 2050 Carbon Neutral Strategy and engaged in Korea's international climate negotiations as well. As Minister, she is focusing on formulating carbon neutrality pathways, deploying green mobility, and accelerating transition to circular economy.
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Hong, Suyeol
Chief Researcher Resource Recycling Consulting
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Suyeol Hong has a PhD in Waste Policy from Seoul National University Graduate School of Environmental Studies and worked in Korea Zero Waste Movement Network from 2001 to 2012. As experts related to wastes, including net environmental systems and wastes, they propose policies and conduct civic education along with various research surveys. In order to provide information related to trash that they are curious about in their daily lives, they also opened a YouTube channel with Korean Federation for Environmental Movement. He is currently the head of the Resource Recycling Consulting and is serving as a director of the Recycling Social Cooperative.
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Ali Izadi
Head of Asia Pacific Research, Bloomberg NEF
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- Based in Seoul, Ali Izadi manages Bloomberg NEF's research teams across Asia Pacific, focusing on the transition of the region's economies to a cleaner more competitive future. The teams' reports and tools help clients identify opportunities and risks associated with the energy transition. Prior to his current role, Ali managed Bloomberg NEF's Intelligent Mobility team as well as Japan and Korea Research team. Prior to joining Bloomberg NEF in 2010, Ali had worked at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, as well as fuel cell manufacturer, Ballard Power Systems. Ali has an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia, and a Doctorate in Materials Science from Meijo University.
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Kim, Beob-jeong
Deputy Minister for Climate Change and Carbon Neutral Policy, Ministry of Environment
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- He has extensive experience in public administration and policies concerning the environment. He started his career in government departments in 1993. Since joining the Ministry of Environment, he has worked on a range of domestic and international environmental issues while serving in the positions of the Deputy Minister for Planning and Coordination, Secretary General of the NCCA (National Council on Climate and Air Quality of Korea), Director General for Air Quality Policy, Director and Director General for Climate and Air Quality Policy, etc. He obtained his bachelor's degree in International Economics at the Seoul National University and his master's degree in Environmental Studies at the University of Oregon.
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Kim, Hyoeun Jenny
Ambassador and Deputy Minister for Climate Change in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea
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- Amb. Hyoeun Jenny Kim is Ambassador and Deputy Minister for Climate Change in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea since July 2021. She is also chief negotiator of UNFCCC Paris agreement, representing her country. Before taking the role, she was Deputy Director-General of the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI). GGGI is a treaty-based inter-governmental organization supporting developing countries and emerging economies to achieve economic growth and environmental sustainability together through following new pathway of green growth. She was responsible for managing GGGI's in-country operations in more than 35 countries, supporting low carbon economic growth in line with Paris Climate Agreement and UNSDGs.
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Kim, Joojin
Lawyer & Managing Director, Solutions for Our Climate
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- SFOC's managing director Joojin Kim is a legal expert with extensive experience in the energy and environmental fields. Before founding SFOC, he conducted numerous energy-related projects as a lawyer at Kim & Chang, Korea's largest law firm. He continues to lend his expertise on Korean climate change and energy policy, having served as commissioner of the Greenhouse Gas Statement Disclosure Review Committee established under the Ministry of Environment and the Working Group for the 3rd National Energy Framework Plan. Joojin majored in international relations at Seoul National University, where he also earned a master's degree at its Graduate School of Environmental Studies. He received his Environmental Law LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center.
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Kim, Sung Woo
Head of Environment and Energy Research Institute, Kim & Chang
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Climate change & ESG expert with 27 years of professional experience from consulting, industry, and research organizations in strategy, investment, and policy well aligned with educational background of environment & business. KPMG consulting experience as Asia Pacific regional head of Climate Change & Sustainability in leading regional network of 12 countries. POSCO(a global steel maker) industry experience in environment & energy business development & investment. An external expert for Green Climate Fund, IETA Board Member, a member of high level Gov. Committees, and an adjunct professor with frequent publications, media exposure, speech at global conferences with teaching in executive MBAs based on comprehensive experience from corporate to consulting, engineering to financing, public to private, and industry to academy.
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Kwak, Byungjin
Chief of KAIST Finance MBA
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- Mr. Kwak has been teaching accounting at KAIST. His research interests are various topics in accounting such as disclosure, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, earnings management, and so on.
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Kwak, Su-Keun
Trustee of IFRS Foundation / Professor of Accounting at Seoul National University
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- Mr Kwak is a professor emeritus at Seoul National University and a Board member of Shinhan Financial Group. He also serves as chair of Advisory Committee to Korea Listed Companies Association. Mr Kwak had taught for 30 years at Seoul National University before he retired in 2018. He served as a Board member of Standard Chartered Bank Korea and a Non-standing Commissioner of the Securities and Futures Commission. He served as a member of the International Accounting Standards Board's predecessor body, the International Accounting Standards Committee, during 1991?1993. Mr Kwak has a PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and an undergraduate degree in Business from the Seoul National University.
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Lee, Hyun-Joon
Chairman of the ESG management committee
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- Hyun-joon, Lee graduated from Seoul National University in Business Administration and entered Ssangyong C&E in 1982. He served as the head of the dept. of Maintenance at Donghae plant. Afterwards, he committed the head of the innovation promotion team and the new business R&D team at headquarters. As Representative Executive Officer and Chariman of the ESG management committee, he leads Ssangyong C&E to achieve ESG management with social responsibility and vision of environmental enterprises.
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Lee, Kwang Hyung
President at KAIST
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- President Kwang Hyung Lee is a futurologist who pioneered multidisciplinary studies and research at KAIST. He advocated that the convergence of information, biology, and nano-technologies would be critical for future industries, playing a crucial role in establishing the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering in 2001 and the Moon Soul Graduate School of Future Strategy in 2013. He then served as the inaugural head of both faculties. President Lee has extensive administrative experience at KAIST, serving as Associate Vice President of the International Office, and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs since early 2001. He is also serving as a member of the Korea Presidential Education Committee. An ardent champion of entrepreneurship and startups, he has advised the first generations of KAIST startup entrepreneurs such as Nexon, Idis, Neowiz, and Olaworks. President Lee, drawn to creative thinking and flipped learning, is famous for watching TV upside down. Such pioneering ideas and his unusual thinking style were modeled in the 'eccentric professor' role featured on the TV hit drama of 'KAIST' from 1999 to 2000. An alumnus who earned his MS in industrial engineering at KAIST in 1980 after completing his undergraduate studies at Seoul National University, President-elect Lee joined the KAIST faculty in 1985 upon receiving his PhD in computer science from INSA de Lyon in France. A computer scientist as well as fuzzy theorist whose research area extends to AI, bioinformatics, fuzzy intelligent systems, and foresight methods, President Lee has published more than 70 papers in international journals and textbooks on system programming, fuzzy set theory and its applications, and three-dimensional creativity. He also invented a fuzzy elevator, subway operation controller, and AI transportation controller. A fellow at the Korea Academy of Science and Technology and the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, he was decorated by the Korean government and the French government in recognition of the innovative education and research initiatives he has pursued.
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Lee, Sang Yup
Vice President at KAIST
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- Vice President for Research Sang Yup Lee, a distinguished professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is a pioneering scholar in the fields of metabolic engineering and systems and synthetic biology. He has established systems metabolic engineering and developed various microorganisms capable of producing a wide range of fuels, chemicals, materials, and natural compounds, many of which for the first time. Some of the breakthroughs include microbial production of gasoline, diacids, diamines, PLA and PLGA polymers, and several natural products. His highly acclaimed scholarship led him to be listed as one of the Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) ranked in the top 1% by citations in their field by Clarivate Analytics for five consecutive years from 2017. He started his academic career at KAIST in 1994. A graduate of Seoul National University, majoring in chemical engineering, Vice President Lee earned his PhD in chemical engineering at Northwestern University in 1991 after completing his MS there in 1987. Distinguished Professor Lee served as the founding Dean of the College of Life Science and Bioengineering from 2008-2013 and the dean of KAIST Institutes (KI) from 2013-2014 and 2017-2021. The first Korean fellow ever elected at the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) in the US in 2017, Vice President Lee is one of 13 scholars elected as a foreign fellow of both the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in the US. Also, he was elected as a foreign member of Royal Society (RS) in UK, making him the only person in the world who was elected as a foreign member of all three major academies, NAS, NAE and RS. He was the chairman of the Global Agenda Councils (GAC) on Emerging Technologies, chairman of GAC on Biotechnology, and chairman of the Global Future Council on Biotechnology at the World Economic Forum. A founding member of the Board of Trustees at the Samsung Science and Technology Foundation, Vice President Lee works as editor-in-chief of major journals and books such as Metabolic Engineering, Biotechnology Journal, Discover Chemical Engineering, and Advanced Biotechnology Book Series. Since he was recognized with the First Young Scientist's Award in Engineering from the Korean government in 1998, he has received numerous awards at home and abroad such as the Marvin Johnson Award in 2012, the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering in 2014, the Korea Best Scientist Award in 2017, the Eni Award in Advanced Environmental Solutions in 2018 from the president of Italy, the NAEK Award of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and the Samson Prize from the Israeli prime minister in 2019.
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Lee, Se-hoon
Secretary General of Financial Services Commission
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- Mr. Se-hoon Lee, Secretary General of the Financial Services Commission (FSC), has played a leading role in developing financial policies, including policies on Green Finance. Prior to his appointment as the Secretary General, he served as the Director of the Financial Policy Bureau of the FSC and worked at the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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Oh, Se-hoon
Mayor of Seoul
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- Oh Se-hoon worked as a lawyer before entering politics after being elected as a member of the Korean National Assembly in 2000 at the age of 40. During his terms as the 33rd and 34th Mayor of Seoul from 2006 to 2011, he introduced "Creative Governance" in city administration and implemented the "Women Happiness" project, which led to Seoul receiving two UN Public Service Awards in 2009. Under his leadership, Seoul joined the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40 Cities) in 2006 and hosted the C40 Mayors Summit in 2009 as part of the city's efforts to tackle climate change. He is currently serving as the 38th Mayor of Seoul and is focused not only on leading swift and effective measures to tackle COVID-19, but also on tackling climate crisis. In June 2021, the '2050 Seoul Climate Action Plan,' which set out Seoul's strategies and plans to reach carbon neutrality by 2050, was approved by C40 Cities.
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Oh, Jeonghwa
Senior Vice President of Sustainability Division, Amorepacific
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Oyun Sanjaasuren
Director of External Affairs, Green Climate Fund (GCF)
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Dr. Oyun Sanjaasuren is the Director of External Affairs of Green Climate Fund, where she leads the fund's work on resource mobilization, partnerships, communications, and advocacy. Dr. Oyun served as the first President of the United Nations Environment Assembly, the Governing Body of UN Environment (2014-2016), and has been an active advocate for sustainable development, climate change and water security. She is an Advisory Board member of the Future Earth and served as Chair of the Global Water Partnership. Formerly, one of the leading politicians in Mongolia, Oyun served as a Member of Parliament (1998-2016), as Minister of Environment and Green Development (2012-2014) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2008). She is a founder of the Zorig Foundation, a leading Mongolian NGO that advances democracy and supports youth leadership and education. Oyun has a Ph.D in Earth Sciences from University of Cambridge, UK.