RUNDOWN

05:45 pm    Registration
06:00 pm    Opening Remarks
06:05 pm    Presentation
06:35 pm    Q&A
07:10 pm    Closing Remarks

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Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to present the inaugural program in our Scholar-in-Residence Series featuring ASHK Scholar, Professor Christine Loh. The ASHK Scholar-in-Residence Program is an initiative to appoint and engage leading thinkers based in Hong Kong to contribute significant research and original analysis in areas of critical importance to Asia. As part of this program, the Scholars will give public talks and briefings to present and discuss research findings, analysis, and policy recommendations.  

In the first of a two-part program, Professor Loh will begin her exploration of China’s environmental journey and its road to decarbonization by focusing on China’s environmental policy history since the 1980s.  In conversation with Tasos Zavitsanakis, Managing Director of UBS AG and Co-Head, APAC Sustainable Finance Office, Professor Loh will discuss the environmental challenges China has faced over the past forty years, concluding with where China finds itself at this point in time, including Hong Kong’s role over the decades.

Professor Christine Loh, SBS, JP, OBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite, is Chief Development Strategist at the Institute for the Environment, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), engaging in teaching and research. Her teaching experience includes a course on Non-Market Risks at the Anderson School of Management, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2018-22. She is Visiting Scholar at the Anderson School of Management’s Center for Global Management (2023-24).

She was Under Secretary for the Environment in the HKSAR Government (2012-17). Between April 2019 and March 2020, she was the Special Consultant to the Office of the Chief Executive of the HKSAR Government on the ecological civilization aspects of the Greater Bay Area Outline Development Plan. She has also been a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council. Loh has been active in public policy and politics since the 1980s. She founded and was the CEO of the non-profit think tank, Civic Exchange (2000-12), and helped to establish several charitable foundations, and non-profit organizations in Hong Kong related to the environment, equal opportunity, and arts and culture. Professor Loh is a published author of books and many academic and popular works.

Professor Loh is currently a board member of CDP Worldwide, Global Maritime Forum, New Forests Pty Ltd, and Towngas Smart Energy Company Limited. She holds an English law degree from the University of Hull, England, and a Master of Law degree in Chinese and Comparative Law from the City University of Hong Kong. She has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Law, honoris causa, by the University of Hull in 2001, and Doctor of Science, honoris causa by the University of Exeter in 2016.

Tasos Zavitsanakis, Managing Director of UBS AG and Co-Head, APAC Sustainable Finance Office

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