Speaker Categories: Energy Transition

朱岩 Ian Zhu

Founding Member, NIO Capital

朱岩先生现任蔚来资本管理合伙人，投资委员会成员，主导新能源汽车、人工智能、车联网、物流、先进制造等领域的投资。他带领团队投资了宁德时代（300750.SZ）、容百科技(688005.SH)、途虎养车（9690.HK）、Momenta、Pony.ai（PONY.NASDAQ）、能链集团、嬴彻科技、黑芝麻智能（2533.HK）、主线科技、Seyond图达通、博云等明星企业。

朱岩先生深耕新能源及智能汽车领域投资近20年，是中国最早探索该领域的投资人之一，致力于发掘和培养全球汽车、能源和科技产业新格局的缔造者。加入蔚来资本之前，朱岩先生已积累了丰富的投资实践和企业管理经验。朱岩先生曾作为管理合伙人负责投资及管理的项目包括Lucid（LCID.NASDAQ）、精进电动（688280.SH）、地平线（9660.HK）等。

朱岩先生毕业于斯坦福大学商学院，获MBA学位。朱岩先生本科就读于北京大学，获物理学学士和经济学双学士学位。

Mr. Ian Zhu is a founding member of NIO Capital and played a key role in building the firm’s investment team, setting up its venture and growth funds, and establishing its operations. His investment focus includes smart electric vehicles, low carbon energy networks, mobility and logistics services and manufacturing innovations. He led NIO Capital’s investments in CATL (300750.SZ), Ronbay (688005.SH), TUHU (9690.HK), Momenta, Pony.ai (PONY. NASDAQ), Newlinks Technology, Inceptio Technology, Black Sesame Technologies (2533.HK), TrunkTech, Seyond, BoCloud, among others.

Mr. Zhu has extensive experience in investment, fund management and business management. Prior to joining NIO Capital, he was a Managing Partner and Investment Committee member of Tsing Capital, where he led investments in Lucid (LCID.NASDAQ), Jing-Jin Electric (688280.SH) and Horizon Robotics (9660.HK). Ian also worked in both start-ups and large technology companies like AT&T, where he managed diverse functions, including sales, business development, engineering and R&D.

Mr. Zhu holds a master’s degree in business administration from Stanford Graduate School of Business and dual bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics from Peking University.

张乐 Zhang Le

President, MCM International Group China

作为MCM国际设计公司中国区总裁，张乐女士专注于生态产业规划与可持续乡村振兴领域。她深度参与开展过全国200余个项目实践，包括重庆鲁能江津美丽乡村项目，成功将旅游开发、文化传承与生态实践融入乡村产业升级。其核心工作聚焦于推动农业与多元收入模式结合、推广现代农业技术、通过教育赋能和治理创新提升社区能力，以及保护传统文化遗产。在张女士的引领下，MCM持续推动创新可持续的乡村发展模式建设，使其始终屹立于中国乡村振兴实践的前沿。

As President of MCM International Group China, Ms. Zhang specializes in ecological industry planning and sustainable rural revitalization. With hands-on experience in over 200 projects nationwide, including the Chongqing Luneng Jiangjin Beautiful Rural Project, she integrates tourism, cultural heritage, and ecological practices to enhance rural industries. Her focus areas include aligning agriculture with diverse income streams, promoting modern farming techniques, empowering communities through education and governance, and preserving cultural traditions. Under her leadership, MCM advances its mission to create innovative and sustainable rural development models, positioning her at the forefront of China’s rural revitalization efforts.

Bradford Willis

Senior Associate, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Bradford M. Willis is a Senior Associate at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. He focuses on integrated policy and financing strategies to accelerate the transition of energy, industry, and natural resource systems around the world. Most recently, he was a Special Advisor to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, where he focused on developing sustainable investment mechanisms, shaping regional transition pathways, and bridging public-private action to unlock and scale just, climate-aligned economic transformation.

He began his career working on energy transition and net zero related topics for major utilities and energy service providers across North America, Europe, the Middle East, & Africa. In 2021, He began working with the World Economic Forum’s Transitioning Industrial Clusters Initiative supporting the regional decarbonization of hard-to-abate industry. In the lead up to COP28, he was Seconded to the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions to lead their Clean Power & Green Hydrogen before transitioning to high-level advisory on cross-sectoral breakthrough targets for key industries and enabling policy/finance mechanisms.

He now advises private sector leaders, national and subnational governments, and multilateral organizations on the structural shifts needed to align investment, infrastructure, and policy with 21st-century climate and development goals. He works across industries, geographies, and intersecting spheres of political and economic influence to bridge sustainable development, finance, and global polycrisis responses.

Satya Tripathi

Secretary-General, Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet

Mr. Satya Tripathi is a development economist, lawyer, and changemaker with over 40 years of varied experience and currently serves as the Secretary General at the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet – an organisation that drives green transformation and sustainable enterprise modelling by leveraging private finance, aiming to achieve the climate goals by 2030. 

He has served with the United Nations for almost two decades, as the UN Assistant Secretary-General, head of New York Office at UN Environment and Secretary of the UN, and was instrumental in establishing the Tropical Landscapes Finance Facility (TLFF) in Indonesia in 2016 and the Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) in 2017 to garner ‘private finance for public good’ at mega-scale to achieve transformative social and environmental impact for millions of people in developing countries. 

Axel Tan

Director, Investments, OCTAVE Capital

Axel has over 12 years of experience deploying venture investments in transport, logistics, agrifood tech, wellbeing, and sustainability. He has built venture capital teams from the bottom up, designing strategies to enable family offices, corporates, and ecosystem partners to seek transformative innovation.

Prior to joining OCTAVE Capital as Investment Director, Axel was Venture Partner at IMC Ventures and set up the Octave Wellbeing Economy Fund, where he oversaw investments across the maritime, logistics, and wellbeing sectors. Earlier in his career, Axel founded Momentum Venture Capital, a transport-focused corporate VC arm where he built a global portfolio of investments. This maiden fund found success in IPO and early exits, as well as joint ventures, new business formation, and an industry-wide innovation platform.

Axel actively supports the startup ecosystem as a mentor, angel investor, and panellist in venture and innovation forums.

He holds an Executive MBA from INSEAD and Tsinghua University.

Sue-Ern Tan

Head of the IEA Regional Cooperation Centre, International Energy Agency

Sue-Ern Tan is the Head of the International Energy Agency Regional Cooperation Centre based in Singapore. The Centre is the first outside of the IEA’s Paris headquarters in its 50-year history. The Centre focuses on the Southeast Asia region and beyond and provides policy guidance, technical assistance, training and capacity building across areas such as scaling-up the deployment of renewables and other clean energy technologies, increasing cross-border power trade, and improving access to finance for clean energy investment 

Prior to joining the IEA, Sue-Ern worked at Shell plc in senior climate and energy roles at Shell’s headquarters in London and The Hague and most recently in Singapore as the Head of Policy and Advocacy. Sue-Ern practiced as a lawyer, worked as Ministerial adviser on energy in the Australian Government and was the Deputy CEO of a minerals trade association in Australia. 

Sue-Ern graduated from University of New South Wales in Australia with a Commerce and Law Degree and is an Eisenhower Fellow representing Australia in the 2017 International Program. 

Jeffrey Tan

Senior Operations Officer, International Finance Corporation (IFC)

As one of the leads for energy projects in the region, he has been actively involved in expanding energy infrastructure, focusing on developing sustainable power sources to meet growing demand, supporting the region’s energy transition, exploring new decarbonization solutions, while advancing energy access. His team supports project development working with the private sector through financial support, technical analysis, capacity building, as well as advocating for policy enhancement in sectors ranging from renewable energy generation and energy storage to solutions such as green hydrogen or carbon capture and storage.

Jeff has two decades’ experience in the energy sector, especially in renewable energy, spanning project management, project and business development, as well as strategy and M&A. A civil engineer by training, Jeff also holds an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Jackie Surtani

Regional Director, Asian Development Bank, Singapore Office

Jackie Surtani is Regional Director and Head of the Singapore Office at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), where he leads collaboration with the Government of Singapore and the financial sector, focusing on climate-related private and public sector projects across the region.

Previously, Mr. Surtani served as Director of Infrastructure Finance at ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department, covering East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. He led landmark projects in broadband satellites, renewable energy in Indonesia, and cross-border power in Lao PDR and Vietnam, as well as electric transport investments.

Before rejoining ADB in 2017, Jackie was Regional Chief Risk Officer at Siemens Financial Services, and earlier held senior project finance roles at Chase Manhattan Bank, Credit Suisse, and KBC Bank, where he built and led the Asian Project Finance business for 14 years.

With over 33 years of experience in infrastructure lending, Jackie holds a BSc in Business Finance and Economics (First-Class Honours) from the University of East Anglia and an MPhil in Management Studies from the University of Oxford.

Beni Suryadi

Senior Manager of APAC and Strategic Partnership, ASEAN Centre for Energy

Lisa Sachs

Director, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Lisa Sachs is Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and Associate Professor at the Columbia Climate School. She is a globally recognized expert on how laws, policies, and business practices shape global investment flows and impact sustainable development and climate goals. Since 2012, she has led CCSI’s work with governments, multilateral institutions, and civil society organizations worldwide—across sectors and disciplines—to design and implement pragmatic solutions to complex global challenges. She holds a BA in Economics from Harvard University, a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a JD from Columbia Law School.