Mr. Michael Liebreich serves on a number of advisory boards, including the OECD Centre on Green Finance, Imperial College’s Masters programme in Climate Change, Management and Finance, etc. He is a former member of the high-level advisory group for the UN Secretary General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative, and has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Councils on Sustainable Energy and the New Energy Architecture.

Prior to founding New Energy Finance, Mr. Liebreich helped build over 25 companies as a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and executive, and before that he worked for McKinsey and Company.

Mr. Liebreich has an MA in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, where he won the Wyatt Prize for Engineering and the Ricardo Prize for Thermodynamics and an MBA from Harvard, where he was a Harkness Fellow and Baker Scholar. Mr. Michael Liebreich has won lifetime achievement awards from BusinessGreen and the UK Renewable Energy Association, and has been a two-time finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards.

Green Forum

Green Business Co-operation Day: Session 1 New Opportunities in the Eco Bay Area – Creating Green Energy Cities

Keynote Speeches :

• Mr. João Carlos Soares, Director General of Environment at Secretary of State for the Environment, Ministry of Coordinating for Economic Affairs of Timor-Leste (East Timor)
• Mr. Wu Daowen, Deputy Director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission (GDDRC) and Director of the Guangdong Energy Bureau (Mainland China)
• Mr. Wong Kam-Sing, Secretary for the Environment of the HKSAR Government (Hong Kong, China)
• Mr. Hoi Chi Leong, Coordinator of the Office for the Development of the Energy Sector of the MSAR Government (Macao, China)
• Mr. Zhang Hong, Deputy Inspector of the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission (Mainland China)

Moderator :

• Mr. António Trindade, Founding President of Macao Association of Environmental Protection Industry, President and CEO of Macau’s CESL Asia Investments and Services Limited (Macao, China)
  

Panellists :

• Mr. Li Mingliang, Deputy General Manager of Guangdong Energy Group Co, Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Benjamin Yue, Principal Advisor to the Executive Committee of Companhia de Electricidade de Macau (CEM) (Macao, China)
• Mr. Ge Yukang, Deputy General Manager of Guangdong Green Finances Investment Holding Group Limited (Mainland China)
• Ms. Denise Chen, Senior Vice President, Chief Sustainability Officer of Melco Resorts & Entertainment Limited (Macao, China)
• Ms. Zhang Ruiyang, Assistant Director of CPDFund Investment Management Company (Macao, China)

Green Business Pioneers Roundtable: Session 2 Corporate Innovation & Session 3 Sustainable Investment

Moderator :

• Ms. Meico Cheong, Assistant General Manager of Hong Kong Quality Assurance Agency (Hong Kong)

Speaker :

• Mr. Lli YuGuo , Chairman of Hebei Xianhe Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (Mainland China)
• Mr. Kong-Hua Ong, Technology Advisor of Shell Hong Kong Limited (Hong Kong)
• Mr. Liang SongMiao , Deputy General Manager, Senior Engineer of VONTRON Membrane Technology Co., Ltd. (Subsidiary of CRRC Group) (Mainland China)
• Ph.D. Fan Haisheng, Deputy Dean, Artificial Intelligence Institute Zhu-hai ORBITA Aerospace Science & Technology Co. Ltd. (Mainland China)
• Mr. Ye Zachary Ziqing, Guizhou Changjiang Automobile Co., Ltd. (Mainland China)
• Mr. Chen Yan, SUEZ NWS Limited (Mainland China)
• Mr. Rui Yong, President of Mizuda Group Inc. (Mainland China)
• Mr. Yuan Gang, Vice General Manager of Shenzhen Auto Electric Power Plant Co., Ltd. (Mainland China)

Session 4 The Ways Toward Ecological Civilization

Keynote Speech :

• Mr. Cao Jinqing,Director, Department of General Affairs of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of The People’s Republic of China (Mainland China)

Moderator:

• Mr. Leong Kun Fong，Ecology Restoration and Greening Consultant, University of Macau (Macao, China)

Speakers:

• Mr. Xing Changcheng, Deputy Director, Central Supervision Office of Ecological and Environmental Protection of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of The People’s Republic of China (Mainland China)
• Ms. Li WeiZhen, Director, Department of Water Ecology and Environment of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of The People’s Republic of China (Mainland China)
• Mr. Sun Shaofeng, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of The People’s Republic of China (Mainland China)

Session 5 Leveraging the Macao Platform, Fostering Green Finance to Promote the Development in the Greater Bay Area

Part I: Macro environment and development potential of Green Finance

Speakers:

• Ph.D. Mo Wangui, Deputy Director General of Institute of Financial Researck, the People’s Bank of China (Mainland China)
• Mr. He Xiaojun, Director, Local Financial Supervision Administration Bureau of Guangdong Province (Mainland China)
• Mr. Zheng Xiao Ping, Founder and Vice President of the China Urban Development Foundation (Mainland China)
• Mr. Yang Yiming, Director, Policy and Regulation Division, Local Financial Supervision Administration Bureau of Guangdong Province
• Prof. Jacky Yuk Chow SO, BNU Chair Professor in Finance, Director of Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management (Macao, China)

Part II: Innovative instruments of green finance

Speakers:

• Mr. Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bond Initiative (CBI) (United Kingdom)
• Mr. Wang Zhen, Director of Shanghai Science and Technology Exchange Center (SSTEC)(Mainland China)
• Ph.D. Daniel Zhu, Professor of Green Finance at Renmin University of China (Mainland China)

Session 6 Solutions for Green Development – Clean Water

Moderator:

• Mr. Pimenta Machado, Vice-President of the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA) (Portugal)

Speakers:

• Mr. Guan Yun Tao, Director of Research Center for Environmental Engineering and Management, Graduate School at Shenzhen, Tsinghua University (Mainland China)
• Mr. Walter Leung, Chief Engineer of Sewerage Projects Division, Drainage Services Department (Hong Kong, China)
• Mr. Zhang Yingjian, Deputy Director of Beijing Municipal Ecological Environment (Mainland China)
• Mr. Rui Cernadas, Representative of ECOserviços in Macau (Macao, China)
• Mr. Li Ming, Deputy Director of Guangzhou Water Authority (Mainland China)
• Mr. Brendo Meulman, Technical Director of DeSaH (the Netherlands)

Session 7: Green Chemical Forum-Solutions to Tackle Plastics Marine Debris

Part I: Overview of marine plastic pollution

Moderator:

• Mr.Pang Guanglian，Deputy Secretary of China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Federation

Speakers :

• Prof. Li DaoJi, Professor of East China Normal University (Mainland China)
• Mr. Rob Opsomer，Lead, Systemic Initiatives of Ellen MacArthur Foundation
• Mr. Jiao Xudong, Deputy Secretary of China Plastics Reuse and Recycle Association (CPRRA)

Part II: Focus on the Greater Bay area—how to prevent and reduce Marine plastic refuse

Moderator:

• Mr. Jin ZhongHao , Head of Markets Practice,WWF china (Mainland China)

Speakers:

• Ms. jiang nan qing , Secretary general of China Plastics Reuse and Recycle Association(CPRRA) (Mainland China)
• Mr. Ho Wai Tim, Chairman of Macau Society of Oceanography (Macao)
• Ms. Chen MinJian , Secretary General of the National Standardization Technical Committee for Plastic Products (Mainland China)
• Ms Lam Man Chung, Account Manager of Interface, LEED Green Associate
• Ms.ZhangYongwen, Project officer of Green Earth

Session 8 Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Session

Part I: Sharing by Representative of PPRD Delegation to Europe

Speaker: Mr. Jiang Xiaoting, President, Sichuan Province Environmental Science Association (Mainland China)

Part II: The Introduction of Environmental Protection Development in China

Speaker: Mr. Huang Binhui, Deputy Secretary General of China Association of Environmental Protection Industry (Mainland China)

Part 3: Pan-Pearl River Delta Region Eco-Corporate Pioneers Roundtable

Moderator :

• Mr. Guo TieCheng , Chairman of Jiangxi Waydiam Environmental Technology Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Sun HuiYao , Chairman of Fujian Microwater Environmental Protection Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Ms. Zhen XiaoYun , General Manager of Yunnan Lilu Environmental Construction Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Ms. Liao WenYun , General Manager of Hunan Wisdom Water Environmental
  Engineering Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Liang XuJia , Environmental Engineer of Guangxi Briwater Environment Investment Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Wu ZhanGjie , General Manager of Sichuan Changhong Green Environmental Technology Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Lv YongXing, Chief Technology Officer of Shenzhen Techand Ecology & Environment Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Yang Shuo , General Manager of Guizhou Green Environmental Engineering Co., Ltd (Mainland China)
• Mr. Li Man Tat , Macao Association of Environmental Protection Industry (Macao)
• Mr. Choe Chee Ping Jude, Vice president of Hong Kong Environmental Industry Association (Hong Kong)