Margaret Kim is the CEO of Gold Standard, a leading standard that allows climate and development initiatives to quantify, certify and maximise their impact towards climate security and sustainable development. ​ ​

Kim has over 15 years of experience in international management roles including at the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) where she held various posts including the Head of Green Climate Fund liaison and Head of Strategy and Integration. ​Prior to this role, she occupied leadership roles in the private sector in business development and corporate strategy at a leading biotechnology company.​

Mikkel Larsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Climate Impact X (CIX). He is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of CIX, as well as developing and executing the company’s vision and mission to accelerate environmental impact at scale through carbon markets.

Mikkel was one of the early pioneers of the international Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and of Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce, a public-private partnership to establish the country as a climate services and carbon trading hub. Prior to his current role, he was Group Chief Sustainability Officer and chair of the Sustainability Council at DBS Bank. He has also held leadership positions at UBS, Citigroup and KPMG in Europe.

Mikkel is involved in numerous international sustainability-related councils and committees. These include: the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market; World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCS Alliance); and World Wildlife Fund Advisory Council (Singapore), amongst others.

Daniel was appointed the Chief Sustainability Officer in 2022 to develop, implement and review domestic and international climate change targets, policies and strategies across CAAS and the Singapore aviation sector. He also represents Singapore on the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environment Protection.

Daniel is concurrently Senior Director (Aviation Development Group) where he oversees long term policies and plans to maintain Singapore’s competitiveness as an international air hub. These include air transport policy, industry development initiatives, oversight of airport infrastructure development and planning, as well as service and economic regulation of airport operations.

With almost 20 years of aviation experience, Daniel has held appointments in the Corporate Development, Air Transport and Aviation Industry Divisions of CAAS.

He graduated magna cum laude with a double major in Economics and Government from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA.

Louisa is the Legal Assistant Vice President in the Corporate Services Group at GenZero.

Before GenZero, she was with the Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice at Linklaters in Singapore, where she advised clients on acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and private equity investments. Prior to that, she was with the Corporate M&A and Equity Capital Markets teams at Allen & Gledhill LLP.

Louisa graduated from University College London with a LLB (Hons) in Law and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.

Gaurav is a Professor and the Pritzker Endowed Chair in Sustainability at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, and the California Nanosystems Institute.

Gaurav has published over 200 publications and has an h-index of 55. He is also the Director of UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management (ICM): a cross-campus technology translation institute. Gaurav is the Co-Founder of SeaChange Inc., the Grand Prize Winner of the Temasek Foundation’s 2021 Liveability Challenge, the Co-Founder of Concrete-AI Inc., Nextli Technologies Inc., and x/44, as well as the Founder of CarbonBuilt Inc., a Grand Prize Winner of the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE, and a GlobalTop10 Innovation selected at The International Cool Earth Forum 2018.

Gaurav has served as an expert providing: a) testimony to the U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, and the California State Senate, and b) strategic consulting, core R&D, and innovation support to Fortune500 corporations, government agencies, foundations, and industry organizations globally. Gaurav earned his B.S. (2006), M.S. (2007), and Ph.D. (2009) from Purdue University.

Kimberly is Managing Director and Head of the Investment Group at GenZero. She leads GenZero’s portfolio construction and investment strategy to achieve our dual goals of positive climate impact and long-term sustainable financial returns.

Prior to her appointment at GenZero, Kimberly spent twelve years at Temasek International, focusing on investments in the transportation and logistics sector where she helped to build a multi-billion global logistics portfolio. With a particular focus on China and Southeast Asia, she led deal origination and execution resulting in notable investments including LF Logistics and ZTO Express, market leaders in various parts of the e-commerce logistics value chain. She also played a key role in landmark transactions involving core Singapore transportation assets which required complex technical execution and broad-based stakeholder management.

Most recently, Kimberly developed and led a new mobility strategy to build exposure to the electrification and digitalisation of transportation, the enabling supply chain and supporting infrastructure.

Kimberly holds a MA in International and Development Economics from Yale University, and a BA and MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford University.