People & Purpose
Overview
Leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to build more resilient and gender-equal economies by investing in inclusive workplaces. We will explore how pioneers are making this happen, what expectations businesses face from stakeholders and the future of gender equality in companies here in Hong Kong and across Asia Pacific.
Learnings
- Taking stock of workplace gender equality. Where are we? What are the challenges?
- The big question: What role can companies play in developing more equitable care systems?
- Capturing opportunity: How can we advance women’s rise to leadership positions?
- Building resilience: How do we apply a gender lens to re-skilling and redeployment?
- Looking ahead: Embedding gender parity into the future of work.
Post Event Actions
- To correctly measure gender wage gaps, companies need to disentangle productivity differentials from outright gender discrimination.
- To become assertive about gender diversity, companies need to treat it as an integral part of their business strategies.
- Create awareness around unconscious bias. To focus on improving companies’ cultures to increase inclusion and enhance employee experience and engagement.
Speakers
MODERATOR
Adam Harper
Founder & Managing Director
Ashbury
Adam Harper
Founder & Managing Director
Ashbury
Adam Harper is the Founder and Managing Director of Ashbury. The firm integrates communications strategy with original content creation for financial sector clients, with a strong emphasis on ESG and technology. Adam was previously HSBC’s Head of Communications for Greater China and Regional Head of Communications for Global Banking and Markets, Asia-Pacific. He has lived in Hong Kong since 2004 and is a graduate of the University of Cambridge.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
Helping clients tell unmissable stories about how they are contributing to more sustainable economies and markets.
Ivy Au Yeung
Chief Executive
OCBC Wing Hang Bank
Ivy Au Yeung
Chief Executive
OCBC Wing Hang Bank
Ivy is an international banker with more than 35 years’ experience in various senior positions in global and regional banks focusing on HK, Greater China & Asia markets. She is now CEO of OCBC Wing Hang, leading the team to serve both individual and corporate customers to achieve their financial goals.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
- Driving understanding & acceptance of Diversity & Inclusion in every opportunity.
- Driving climate change action in my workplace.
Jasmine Ling
Head of Sustainable Finance, Asia Pacific Commercial Banking
HSBC
Jasmine Ling
Head of Sustainable Finance, Asia Pacific Commercial Banking
HSBC
Jasmine currently heads the Sustainable Finance team for HSBC Commercial Banking in Asia. She has spearheaded the set-up of the Sustainable Finance proposition for Commercial Banking in the region since 2017 and before that has over 10 years of corporate banking experience covering multinationals and Chinese state owned enterprises.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
Keen to connect with people with shared interest on sustainability in the local/regional community to drive awareness for our future generation.
Christine Yu
Founder and Managing Director
Lapidary Limited
Christine Yu
Founder and Managing Director
Lapidary Limited
Christine Yu is Founder and Managing Director of Lapidary, which invests in and incubates early to mid-stage, for-profit and mission-focused companies across a variety of social and environmental impact mandates in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong. In the impact venture building space Lapidary focuses on the sustainable fashion arena, having launched its first wholly-incubated apparel brand, AndAll (www.weareandall.com) in 2020. AndAll is a line of size inclusive shirting made with respect for people and planet.
Passionate about financial inclusion, financial literacy and the gender lens space, Christine is launching two startups focused on these impact mandates. She has also co-founded a non-profit organization focused on closing the gender investing gap called Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$ (www.gjwhf.org). She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago and an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
My Sustainability Goals for 2021:
I want to continue to make better sustainable, circular choices every day in all aspects of my daily life– from the clothes I wear, the food I eat, the things I consume and the footprint I create.
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