Speakers

Ms. Changhua Wu
Director, The Climate Group, Greater China
Balance between Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

Changhua Wu is the Greater China Director of The Climate Group. A professional environment and development policy analyst with a focus on China, she leads the organization’s strategic development in the region and manages its Greater China operations.

As a member on the expert group, she has been working with His Right Honorable Tony Blair to support a constructive Copenhagen international agreement. Ms Wu leads the team to build up government and business strategic partnership and leadership to drive the scale-up of clean technology solutions in cities and regions. She is also a member of the International Management Team. Ms Wu has become the spokesperson for the organization on China, helping international community understand what China has been doing.

A China specialist for 16 years, Ms Wu now heads The Climate Group’s Global Demonstration initiative with a China focus that aims to forge public and private partnership with technology solution providers, financial institutions and city and regional governments to quickly scale up low carbon solutions in China. She speaks frequently to media and at various leadership forums to advocate China’s approach towards low carbon prosperity.

Before joining The °Climate Group, she was the Executive Director of China Operations of ENSR, working closely with multi-national corporations to support their business development in China and also their compliance with Chinese regulations. Before returning to China, she directed the Program for China Studies at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington, DC, and consulted for multinational organizations like the World Bank, UNEP, and UNDP. She was the 1993 Fellow of World Press Institute and 2004 Fellow of the Temple law school’s High-level US-China Roundtable on Environmental Law and Policy. She holds two graduate degrees, one in Law from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the other in Environmental Policy from University of Maryland.

吴昌华
气候组织大中国区总裁

吴昌华女士是国际性非营利机构---气候组织(THE CLIMATE GROUP)的大中国区总裁,负责该组织在中国的战略发展和管理运作。作为一名专注于中国环境与发展的政策分析人士,吴女士还是英国前首相布莱尔先生的专家顾问组成员,为2009年在哥本哈根联合国气候变化大会可能达成的全球气候协议献计献策。

吴女士带领着气候组织中国团队,通过和政府及企业的战略性伙伴合作,推广清洁技术在城市和区域范围内的规模化应用。作为气候组织全球管理团队的唯一中国人,吴女士成为了“中国事务”发言人,帮助国际社会更好地理解中国在应对气候变化方面的立场和努力。

中国在气候变化问题中的关键角色决定了吴女士在这个国际组织中的更多责任。作为气候组织“全球示范先行项目”的带头人,她在中国率先推动包括金融机构、企业、政府三方在内“低碳解决方案”,加速这些解决方案在城市范围内规模化的过程。吴女士通过媒体的采访和各种的论坛及会议向企业和政府的领导者推广这个理念。

吴女士拥有16年的中国环境专家职业生涯。在加入气候组织之前,她是安社环境与能源咨询公司(美国)的中国区总经理兼执行董事,与多家跨国公司紧密合作,协助它们在中国发展商业,并遵守中国的环境/健康/安全法规。回国之前,吴女士曾在位于美国首府华盛顿特区的世界资源研究所(WRI)领导着中国研究项目,并为一些著名国际机构,如世界银行(WB)、联合国环境规划署(UNEP)和联合国开发计划署(UNDP)等做顾问。吴女士是国际新闻学会1993年和坦普尔大学法律学院“中美高层圆桌会议—环境法及政策”2004年的访问学者。吴女士拥有两个硕士学位-中国社会科学院新闻所的法律学位和马里兰大学环境政策学位。



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Mr. Greger Flodin
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Mr. Bengt-Olof Grahn
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Mr. Ilkka Herlin
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Dr. William Hogland
Professor in Environmental Engineering and Recovery (PhD)
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Mr. Hannu Hoviniemi
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Mr. Niclas Ihrén
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Mr. Fredrik Jaresved
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Sustainability work at Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

Mr. Mart Jüssi
Member of Parliament, Estonia, Estonian Green Party
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Mr. Björn Karlström
Business Development Consultant, Electroengine Sweden
Chairman of the Zero & Low Emission Vehicles –seminar

Ms. Saara Kankaanrinta
Secretary-General of BSAG, Content Leader of Baltic Sea Action Summit 2010
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Dr. Samuli Korpinen
Project Manager, Helsinki Commission
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Mr. Peter Lacy
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Mr. Nils Lannefors
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Mr. Lars-Erik Liljelund, Ph.D.
Director General, The Swedish Prime Minister Office
Climate Change - Greenhouse Emissions Containment

Mr. Andreas Lindström
Project Officer, the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
CASE: Kaliningrad Oblast: Water Management Project

Mr. Johan Ljungberg
Senior Director, Nordic Investment Bank 
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Peter Lund
Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University of School of Science and Technology
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Mr. Tomas Otterström
Deputy CEO at GreenStream Network Plc
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Climate Strategies and Invements –seminar: Climate and investment opportunities: how can you invest in climate?

Ms. Susanna Perko
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Mr. Aape Pohjavirta
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Mr. Marcus Püttmer
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Dr. Anna-Maija Raeste
Eco- philosopher, surgeon, entrepreneur
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Columnist, Former Ambassador of Finland to OECD and to the Peoples Republic of China
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Mr. Trevor Sikorski
Director,, Commodities Research, Barclays Capital, London
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Andrew Skinner
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Ms. Sabrina Soussan
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Mr. Henrik Tegnér
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Role of Green Innovations in a Corporate Strategy

Mr. Jens Thomassen
Associate Director, HgCapital
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Ms. Sue Toigo
Chairman of Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates
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Mr. Kai Wartiainen
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Climate Active Building and Infrastructure

Dr. Petri Vasara
Principal, Pöyry Management Consulting Oy
Energy: More – and less – than meets the eye?

Professor, Dr. Markku Wilenius
Senior Vice President, Allianz
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Sustainable Leadership

Dr. Yi WANG
Professor, Deputy Director-General of the Institute of Policy and Management (IPM), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Deputy of the National People’s Congress of China
Balance between Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability

Mr. Po Chi Wu, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor and Co-founding Executive Director of the Global Innovation Research Center, Peking University and Co-founder and Managing Director of DragonBridge Capital, California, USA
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Ms. Sarah Wu
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Professor, Dr. Matthew Yuen
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