Mr Lee is Chairman of Beca Asia, a leading engineering consultancy in Singapore, and an Executive Director of the Beca Group, New Zealand. A New Zealand citizen and Singaporean permanent resident, he obtained his BE (1st class Hons) from the University of Auckland in 1977 and has lived and worked in New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. In the 1990s, Mr Lee led the expansion of the Beca Asia business into Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia, and in the 2000s, into China. His international work experience also includes Vietnam, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.

Mr. Lee is a Board Member of the Building and Construction Authority and the Professional Engineers Board. He currently chairs a number of industry committees, including the BCA Green Mark Advisory Committee which oversees the benchmarks for green building awards in Singapore; the Technical Evaluation Panel for Ministry of National Development’s S$50m R&D fund for applied research into environmentally sustainable technologies in construction and co-chairs the BCA International Panel of Experts for Sustainability in the Built Environment.

Tony is Victoria's Building and Plumbing Industry Commissioner - roles in which he is responsible for regulating the state's $25Bn building and plumbing systems and advising the Minister for Planning on all building control and plumbing industry matters. He is also Chair of the World Green Building Council and Chair of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). Over the past decade Tony has been a leader of the national and international sustainability debate, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, advocating sustainable building as a means of reducing greenhouse emissions whilst improving economic growth and creating green jobs. As a member of the Australian Building Codes Board, Tony has overseen the implementation of new energy-efficiency standards into the national building code. He continues to play a key role in the transformation of the Australian property market to sustainable practices. Tony is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. He is a past Chairman and Director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Australia’s largest arts festival. In 2009 he received the Australian Financial Review’s ‘True Leadership’ Award and in March 2010 he received the inaugural ‘Leadership in Sustainability’ Award from the Australian Institute of Architects.

Jane Henley is the Chief Executive Officer of the World Green Building Council (WGBC). Green Building Councils operate in over 70 countries to facilitate the global transformation of the building industry towards sustainability. WorldGBC is a coalition of these country councils, making it the largest international organization influencing the green building marketplace.

Jane was on the founding board then the founding CEO of the New Zealand Green Building Council in 2006. Jane has been a director of the World Green Building Council, since 2007 until becoming the CEO in 2010. Jane is a director of the United Nations Sustainable Building Climate Initiative board, an active speaker and passionate about business leading change.

Jane is committed to driving market transformation that is underpinned by sound economic practices that simultaneously deliver financial, social and environmental benefits.

As Senior Vice President of Global Policy and Law, Roger Platt is responsible for managing policy and legal aspects related to the international expansion of the LEED green building certification program. Platt’s role includes managing an global portfolio of policy development relationships, including the World Green Building Council Policy Committee and the United Nations Environment Programme, among others, supporting policy initiatives in countries where LEED is becoming a rating system tool for delivering high performance buildings.

Platt also oversees USGBC’s proactive engagement in U.S. Policy and legislation development among federal and state agencies, on the Hill, in state capitals, city halls and county commissions across the country, as well as through the alliances USGBC has forged with other NGOs and public-private initiatives. This includes advancing USGBC’s views to these constituencies on the benefits of green schools, green affordable housing, sustainable communities, and mitigating the impact of buildings on climate change.

Platt joined USGBC after 15 years as senior vice president and counsel with the Real Estate Roundtable, which represents the leaders of America’s top public and privately owned real estate entities on public environmental and non-profit organizations to advance responsible public policy.

Before joining the Real Estate Roundtable, he was a consultant to President Clinton’s then newly formed Corporation for National and Community Service. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is a member of the California and District of Columbia bar associations and a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), where he chaired the ULI sustainable Development Council form 2001-2004, and current serves as chair of the ULI Responsible Property Investment Council.

Paul became the first CEO of the UK-GBC in May 2007. Previously he worked for WWF-UK where he was Director of Campaigns, and formerly Campaign Director for WWF's One Million Sustainable Homes campaign and co-founder of One Planet Living ®. Paul is Chairman of the Zero Carbon Hub and is a member of the Zero Carbon Homes 2016 Task Force.  He is also a member of the Low Carbon Construction IGT, Technology Strategy Board’s Low Impact Building Programme Steering Group and the Igloo Regeneration Sustainability Committee.  He was previously a member of the Sustainable Buildings Task Group, Code for Sustainable Homes Steering Group and the Egan Review of Skills for Sustainable Communities. On an international level he is a Board member and Treasurer of the World Green Building Council and Chairs the World GBC International Policy Task Force.

Paul lives in Shropshire with his partner and two young sons. 

Robin is GBCA's Executive Director for Advocacy and International. Robin originally joined the technical team as a Technical Manager, became Executive Director for Green Star in May 2008, and moved to the Advocacy and International role in July 2010.

Robin was born and raised in London and after completing an honours degree in Valuation and Estate Management at Bristol, worked within the property sector around London specialising in heritage property and the environment. Always a passionate gardener, he then worked with a London-based landscape designer before moving to Sydney to undertake a Masters in Real Estate at UNSW, concentrating on sustainable development. After several years running a landscape management, horticulture and green keeping business around Sydney's Eastern suburbs, he joined the GBCA in January 2007.

Robin is currently steering the GBCA's Advocacy agenda at local, State and Territory, and Federal government levels, and organises the GBCA's Advocacy Committee in setting the strategic and advocacy goals for each quarter. Robin is leading the International work undertaken with other GBCs and affiliates world-wide, as Australia plays a key collaborative role with established GBCs such as the UK, US and emerging GBCs across Asia-Pacific. In addition, Robin mentors newly emerging organizations such as the Israel GBC.

He teaches Green Star courses around Australia, represents the GBCA on sustainability committees and regularly presents at conferences to encourage the industry towards better practice. He brings to the GBCA a broad knowledge of the international property market, a passion for sustainability and extensive experience of working in landscape management within Australia.

Alfonso Ponce-Alvarez, was born in Mexico in 1978, he joined the marketing and international affairs department at the French building research center, CSTB, in 2005. He holds the secretariat of the Sustainable Building Alliance (SB Alliance), an international network that reunites the most well know building environmental assessment methods (LEED, BREEAM, CASBEE, DGNB, HQE, etc.) and focuses on their convergence.

Alfonso is a board member of the United Nations Environment Program’s Sustainable Building and Climate Change Inititaive (UNEP-SBCI) and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Thomas Mueller is a Founding Director of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) and became President & CEO of the Council in 2005. In this role, he leads the Council in its efforts to transform the building and real estate industry in Canada.  He is a member of the Board of Directors of the World Green Building Council and the Green Building Certification Institute; and, a frequent contributor to government and industry consultations, conferences and other events on green buildings and sustainable communities.

More recently he participated in Energy Efficiency Working Group (Environment Canada); the Commercial Buildings Initiative (National Roundtable of the Environment & Economy); and is currently contributing to Quality Urban Systems of Tomorrow (Quest) led by the Canadian Gas Association; the Federal Building Labeling Initiative (Natural Resources Canada); and the Dean’s Advisory Committee, University of Waterloo, Faculty of Environmental Studies.

Romilly Madew is an experienced green building advocate, whose achievements include:
• A lead negotiator in the ground-breaking agreement to develop an international common carbon metric for buildings.
• Chairs the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) Cities of the Future and Sustainable Framework task groups; member of the Climate Change and Distributed Resources task groups.
• Steering committee member of the Built Environment Meets Parliament (BEMP) initiative and the Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development.
• Chair of the Council Development Committee for the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), the international umbrella organisation of green building councils; committee member of the WorldGBC International Policy Task group.
• Member of the Australian Government’s Built Environment Sustainability Roundtable.
• Lead role in establishing the WorldGBC’s Asia Pacific Green Building Network.
• National winner of the Telstra Business Women’s Awards 2009 (Community and Government).
• Ambassador for the 1 million women campaign to engage Australian women to take practical action on climate change.

Romilly lives on the Northern Beaches, Sydney, with her husband and three children.

Other achievements include:
• Former board member of the ACT Government’s Land Development Agency.
• Former Executive Director of the ACT Division of the Property Council of Australia, as well as the Council’s National Executive Director of Sustainability.
• Represented the GBCA at the Australian Government’s Australia 2020 Summit.
• Involved in the development of the 2006 Sustainable Building Pathways report.
• Author of the Dollars and Sense of Green Buildings 2006.
• Included in the ABC Carbon 50 list of Australia’s most influential advocates for climate change awareness and action.

Notes on the Green Building Council of Australia: The GBCA was established in 2002 to develop a sustainable property industry in Australia and drive the adoption of green building practices. The GBCA has more than 850 member companies and operates Australia’s only national voluntary comprehensive environmental rating system for buildings - Green Star. Since 2008, the GBCA has broadened its focus to support the development of green building councils in the Asia Pacific region.

Er Lau is currently the Managing Director of the HDB Building Research Institute (BRI).Prior to this appointment he was Deputy CEO (Building). The HDB BRI is the research arm of HDB and it envisioned to be the global leader in housing research, innovations and solutions for a sustainable living environment.

Er Lau is credited for the development and implementation of prefabrication and precast technologies that played a key role in ensuring the overall success of Singapore’s public housing programme. He also spearheaded the push to upgrade the local construction industry through the extensive use of these innovative prefabrication and precast design and construction methods for the development of high-rise buildings. As a result of these, HDB 's construction site labour productivity is about 3 times higher than the private sector.

Under his dynamic leadership, HDB won many international and prestigious awards e.g. American Concrete Institute Award for Concrete Excellence in 1994, ASEAN Engineering Award in 1994 and 2001 and IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008. In addition, HDB also bagged the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) Award for Excellence in Site Safety Performance (UK), numerous Best Buildable, Construction Excellence Awards, Platinum Green Award from BCA.

In his professional fraternity, Er Lau is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Chartered Engineer as well as an Accredited Checker. He is currently the President of the Professional Engineers Board (PEB), Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (Singapore), Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (UK) and Fellow of the Institute of Structural Engineers (UK). In 2004, Er Lau was specially appointed by the Minister of Manpower to be one of the assessors of the Committee of Inquiry formed to look into the incident at the MRT circle line worksite that led to the collapse of the Nicoll Highway on 20 April 2004.The Committee's report has provided the blue-print to strengthen the whole safety system for the construction industry.

Er Lau has been conferred several local and international awards such as the Star Award in 1999 by PSB for significant contribution in the Singapore National Standardisation Programme, the Standards Council Merit Award in 2000 by PSB for substantial contribution towards the development of standards and promotion of standardisation programme in Singapore, the United Kingdom Derrington Construction Award in 2001 for technical excellence in prefabrication for Public Housing Upgrading and the NUS Engineering Faculty’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (2003) for his contribution to engineering development in Singapore.

Er Lau has published several books eg ‘Blueprint of Successes for Public Housing' and “The Green Housing Book”. This first book documented a complete picture for the entire building life cycle performance. It begins from design stage to construction stage, proceeds to maintenance stage and leads on to research and development. R&D will then provide new inputs back into the cycle and elevate the entire process to a higher platform and this cycle continues as a spiral of excellence. The second book is a collation of HDB's green efforts, experience and knowledge in designing environmental sustainable development. He believes in sharing the knowledge with the industry.

For the past 10 years, Cate has been actively involved in the design, planning and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sectors.

As the Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s Australian Businesses, Cate is responsible for managing the implementation of sustainability across all the Lend Lease Australian businesses, including Investment Management, Retail and Communities, Bovis Lend Lease, Lend Lease Development, Delfin Lend Lease, Vivas Lend Lease and the Retirement By Design and Lend Lease Primelife businesses, empowering and engaging her team of Sustainability Managers and the businesses in demonstrating the value proposition of sustainable property development, management and investment, which in the current economic environment, has never been more critical or made more business sense.

Cate’s role builds upon her previous appointments as the Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s Asia Pacific Investment, Management and Development Businesses and as the Sustainability Manager for the Investment Management business of Lend Lease, in which Cate was responsible for driving the strategic implementation of sustainability across new and existing wholesale funds globally (Aus, Asia, UK and US), contributing to the achievement of the Lend Lease vision to become a sustainable organisation.

Previously, as Associate Director ESD at Hyder Consulting, Cate was responsible for building the Melbourne Sustainable Design Group and the coordination of multi-disciplined teams across Hyder’s Australian Offices, providing sustainability consultancy services for built environment projects around Australia. Her work prior to that with Victorian local and State Government resulted in the development and implementation of several key initiatives, including the Doncaster Hill Sustainability Guidelines and the Moreland STEPS and Sustainable Design Scorecard.

Cate is an active participant of the new Green Building Council of Australia’s Asia Pacific Committee, the Property Council of Australia’s National Sustainability Roundtable and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Property Working Group, developing resources to facilitate sustainable responsible investment globally.

Cate was also announced as a winner of the 2009 Australian Financial Review - BOSS Magazine Young Executive of the Year Award. http://www.afrboss.com.au/youngexec.aspx

Bruce is a Town and Regional Planner (Wits) and MBA (UCT’s GSB) by training. He spent several years in the town planning profession, moved into housing and property development, and then into property asset management and corporate strategy. Later, he co-founded Spire Property Services and assembled Paramount Property Fund where he was an Executive Director, listing it on the JSE in 2001. He is currently Managing Director of Spire Property Group, which provides property management services to private clients.

From his involvement in some significant development projects, Bruce recognised that the lack of knowledge about green building in SA was limiting our efforts in terms of global warming and international best practice and, after meetings with the Green Building Council of Australia, agreed to champion an initiative to set up the Green Building Council of SA. Bruce is currently Executive Chairman of the GBCSA, and a director of the World GBC, and sits on the World GBC Executive Committee.

Niclas Svenningsen is the head of the Sustainable United Nations (SUN) at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), based in Paris, France. He is also responsible for UNEP’s work on sustainable buildings and construction, as well as UNEP’s urban program, and sustainable public procurement program. He has a background in civil engineering, environmental law and journalism. He has spent the past 20 years working on various sustainable development issues in the developing world both for UN and as an independent consultant In his free time he is renovating his small house in Sweden where all good and bad ideas for sustainable buildings are tested.

Mrs Sirinthorn Vongsoasup has 20 years of experience with energy conservation in buildings, developing measures to promote energy efficiency and green buildings and establishing standards and labeling for electrical equipment and construction materials.

Trained as a mechanical engineer (B. Eng) with a Masters of Science in Technology of Environmental Management, she also has 10 years of experience in design and engineering preparation for the auto parts industry.

Prof. Wang is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the China Green Building Council （China GBC）and is also the Assistant President of China Academy of Building Research (CABR).

He has been involved with numerous research projects which included research on key technologies for controlling biological contamination and improving indoor environment quality; demonstration projects on application of retrofitting technologies for existing buildings and research on the application of building energy simulation software in the development of energy design code for commercial buildings in China.

Prof. Wang plays a key role in the development of several national codes and evaluation standards for industrial and civil buildings. He has also contributed much effort to the compilation of the Annual Report of China Green Building from 2008-2010 and is also the secretary general of the editorial board. He is currently involved with the compiling the list for the 2011 China Green Building Annual Report.

Clay Nesler is the Vice President, Global Energy and Sustainability for the Building Efficiency business of Johnson Controls. In this role, he is responsible for overall energy and sustainability strategy, policy, programs, innovation and communications on a global basis. He is also a member of the Johnson Controls sustainability leadership team responsible for setting overall sustainability strategy and policy across the corporation.

Since joining Johnson Controls in 1983, Clay has held a variety of leadership positions in technology, new product development, marketing and strategy in both the United States and Europe. He has been active in ASHRAE as an author, speaker and technical committee chair. Clay serves on the Wisconsin Governor's Task Force on Global Warming, the Energy Efficiency Forum Executive Council, the Leadership Group of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Advisory Committee for the Climate Registry.

Clay received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is listed as a co-inventor on ten U.S. Patents. He is the inventor of the award-winning Solutions Navigator ™ collaborative planning tool used by hundreds of organizations around the world to support sustainability, technology and infrastructure planning efforts.

Yuko Nishida is a Planner for the Policy planning Division, Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). She is specialized in urban sustainable development issues, currently in charge of policy making regarding climate change.

Prior to her current position, she worked as an Urban Renewal Planner and Coordinator at the Bureau of Construction from 1983 to 1994. She was a researcher at the Institute of in-house Training Institute of Tokyo Metropolitan Government from 1994 to 1998. During this period, she was also a visiting research associate at the United Nations University from 1996 to 1997.

Since 1998, Yuko assumed her current position at the Bureau of Environment. She received her Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Harry Verhaar is Senior Director Energy & Climate Change at Philips Lighting, heading the global Energy Efficiency program (also called 'Green Switch').

He has in the past four years been the architect of the lighting strategy on energy and climate change, which has resulted in a pro-active industry position on phasing out of old lighting technologies for street-lighting; office & industry lighting and residential lighting. This program has over the last two years obtained significant global media exposure, and has recently been included in the EU Heads of State declaration on March 9th 2007. The Philips call to phase-out incandescent lighting has generated global support (by the European Commission; the International Energy Agency, and a growing number of countries and states, i.e. Australia, California, EU27, S-Africa, etc.).

Previously Harry Verhaar was responsible for the marketing activities of the professional lamps activities in Europe. Prior to that he has lived for five years in São Paulo Brazil, of which the last two as commercial manager of the professional lighting activities in Latin America. Before that he has held various positions in product marketing management and product and technology development for Philips Lighting in Turnhout, Belgium, and Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Lisa Bate is an Architect, Interior Designer, LEED AP, Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and is the current Chair of the CaGBC. Lisa is a Past President of the Ontario Association of Architects and the only architectural representative to the Canadian National Roundtable for Sustainable Infrastructure. She is a Partner of B+H Architects, a leading Canadian architectural, planning, interior design and landscape architectural practice of over 250 staff headquartered in Toronto with offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Vietnam, India and the UAE. Lisa combines her holistic design skills with extensive experience in directing the momentum of client services and project management from feasibility studies, risk investment analysis to high performance building returns. For 23 years, Lisa has provided design and management services on a broad range of institutional, multi-residential and commercial project types.

Prof. WU, Zhiqiang received his Dr.-Ing degree in 1996 from Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is now Assistant President of Tongji University, and Chief Planner of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China. He also serves as Co-Chair of International Steering Committee of World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), Permanent member of UNESCO-UIA World Architectural Education Council, Director of Planning Education Steering Council of China, Vice President of Urban Planning Society of China, Vice Director of China Green Building Council, etc. In 2001, Prof. WU organized 1st World Planning School Congress (WPSC) as general secretary. More than 1000 participants from 46 countries attended the congress. In answer to his proposal, Global planning education Associations Network (GPEAN) together with its website（www.gpean.org）was established at the end of the congress.

As the Chief Planner of the Shanghai Expo, Prof. WU fulfilled full range of site investigations and analysis from topography to existing buildings and constructions with his team members. He has been with interdisciplinary experts working on several research projects including comfort outdoor thermal environment, natural wind field simulation, etc, which intends to experiment the whole site for future urban sustainable development. In order to memorize local industrial culture, he proposed to preserve the plants and facilities of the factories in the expo site with total area of 250000 m2. It is the first time in EXPO history to use preserved buildings as pavilions.

Prof. WU is an active scholar, planner and dedicated educator in the field of architecture and urban planning. Through his professional years, He has always been actively involved with the urban planning and design practice around China and abroad, including New Town Planning of Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Dujiangyan Post-disaster City Reconstruction Plan.

Dan Epstein is Head of Sustainable Development and Regeneration for the Olympic Delivery Authority, where he is responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive sustainability for the London 2012 Olympics, which aspires to be the greenest Olympics ever.

Dan manages a team which sets targets, provides technical support, and assures all the major construction projects on the Olympic park including major venues, highway, bridge, utility and landscape construction with a total value of £9billion.

Prior to this Dan was Head of Environment for English Partnerships, the UK’s Public Sector Regeneration Company, responsible for disposing of land for large scale urban development. At English Partnerships, Dan was responsible for overseeing the development of policies, strategies and standards for the partnerships development programme of 9000 homes per annum across England.

Dan has been working in the environmental and sustainable development sector since 1984. He started his career in Nepal where he spent 7 years working as a bio-engineer and forester repairing landslides on major road and water projects and teaching Nepalese, Chinese and Indian engineers bio-engineering.

He has also worked in the UK on a number of land reclamation and regeneration schemes in the North of England developing briefs for sustainable buildings, landscape and infrastructure.

Dan has helped establish the sustainability consultants Beyond Green and was the sustainability champion for the growth of Ashford, one of the UK government’s 4 housing growth areas.