Creating Solutions for Low Emission Road Transport

Lawrence Iu is Executive Director at Civic Exchange. As a professional environmental strategist, he has profound experience in crafting climate change models and impactful public policies. His current focuses are on policy action in Energy, Building Energy Efficiency and Mobility. He has successfully built a platform with public, corporate and government stakeholders to craft an inclusive transition plan with strong buy-in.

In his previous roles in a multinational corporation and a higher institution, Lawrence led environmental sustainability and occupational health & safety projects across Asia Pacific and coordinated emerging technology management, circular economy and green chemistry research.

My Sustainability Goals for 2023:

Despite these difficult times, we must remain forward looking and anticipate the time of recovery. Even more so, we are now in a favourable position to make fundamental policy decisions to rethink our economic model, making it fit for a low carbon missions world, and to set course for a better, sustainable, and more liveable future for Hong Kong.

Professor Edward (Eddy) Chan is a leading expert in Environmental Conservation and Control from the perspective of the automotive industry. With significant experience in researching and developing a wide range of vehicles from HGV, refuse trucks, public buses to cars running on a diverse renewal energy sources. Since the 1990s, Prof Chan has researched and experimented with applications of renewable energy sources for powering vehicles such as solar, hydropower, hydrogen, biodiesel and of course electric.
Highlights in Prof Chan’s career includes writing the control algorithm for emission control of Land Rover Discovery 2.5 TDI and developing adaptive control of suspension in Land Rovers that shaped the design of vehicles to what it is today.
Prof Chan returned to Hong Kong as a dad of two young children and turned his focus to educating the future innovators of tomorrow. Becoming the Head of the Automotive Engineering Department at HK IVE (Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education).
Other career highlights include setting up and running the first ever EU endorsed and certified Heavy Vehicle Emissions Testing Centre in Asia, acquiring over HK$40M investment from the Hong Kong Jockey Club and over HK$36.7M research funding from the Environmental Protection Department of the HKSAR Government. He also helped to set up the road side emission measurement system for the EPD of HKSAR government. This has enabled groundbreaking data and research and education for understanding the harmful effects of vehicle emissions which has been used to influence actions across Asia.
On behalf of HKSAR Government, Prof Chan advised the Malaysian government on the importance to shift to renewable energy sources for their public transportation and regulation of vehicle emissions in their countries and trained their key environmental officers on understanding vehicle emissions and alternative energy sources.
In recognition of his contributions to the field, he was awarded a professorship with the University of Technology Sydney.
Key titles currently held:

• Secretary General and then Executive Vice Chairman, Federation of Automobile Services Industry Hong Kong (FASHK)
• Vice President, Hong Kong Bio- and Eco- Energy Industry Association (HKBEE)
• Vice Chairman, Hong Kong Electric Vehicle Association (HKEVA)
• Vice Chinaman, Society of Automotive Engineers Hong Kong (SAEHK)
Recent Publication records:

[1]Y. Huang, N.C. Surawski, Y.S. Yam, C.K.C. Lee, J.L. Zhou, B. Organ, E.F.C. Chan. Re-evaluating effectiveness of vehicle emission control programs targeting high-emitters. Nature Sustainability 2020; 3: 904-907. (IF=19.346, JCR Q1)
[2]Y. Huang, C.K.C. Lee, Y.S. Yam, W.C. Mok, J.L. Zhou, Y. Zhuang, N.C. Surawski, B. Organ, E.F.C. Chan. Rapid detection of high-emitting vehicles by on-road remote sensing technology improves urban air quality. Science Advances 2022; 8: eabl7575. (IF=14.136, JCR Q1)
[3]Y. Huang, E.C.Y. Ng, J.L. Zhou, N.C. Surawski, X. Lu, B. Du, H. Forehead, P. Perez, E.F.C. Chan. Impact of drivers on real-driving fuel consumption and emissions performance. Science of the Total Environment 2021; 798: 149297. (IF=7.963, JCR Q1)
[4]Y. Huang, Y. Yu, Y.S. Yam, J.L. Zhou, C. Lei, B. Organ, Y. Zhuang, W.C. Mok, E.F.C. Chan. Statistical evaluation of on-road vehicle emissions measurement using a dual remote sensing technique. Environmental Pollution 2020; 267: 115456. (IF=8.071, JCR Q1)
[5]Y. Huang, E.C.Y. Ng, N.C. Surawski, Y.S. Yam, W.C. Mok, C.H. Liu, J.L. Zhou, B. Organ, E.F.C. Chan. Large eddy simulation of vehicle emissions dispersion: implications for on-road remote sensing measurements. Environmental Pollution 2020; 259: 113974. (IF=8.071, JCR Q1)

Saraansh is Director of eMobility for CLP Power Hong Kong where he leads a team enabling the electrification of transport for CLP Power’s customers and stakeholders. Before this, Saraansh held roles at the CLP Group focusing on business development of new opportunities across the Asia-Pacific region.

Prior to CLP, Saraansh worked for SSE Plc in the UK within their commercial division where he held several roles from strategy to business development which included areas such as electric vehicles, storage, and energy services.

Saraansh has also worked for Toshiba Corporate Research & Development where he focused on smart grid-related projects across the UK and Europe. He holds a first class Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Oxford and an Engineering Doctorate from the University of Bristol.

Eva Deng is Overseas Business Operation Director at DST China, she is responsible for the end-to-end supply chain management of electric vehicles (EV), spare parts, digital sets and services for the business in Singapore,Middle East and ASEAN.

DST China is the top commercial EV digital operation provider in China. Eva has more than 10 years of experience in the export and operation of Chinese and international commercial vehicles in the OEM and JV company of JMC, Isuzu and Ford, and she is familiar with product portfolio, export logistics,certification processes and market competitive strategy. Eva also has seven years of overseas working experience in the segment of commercial vehicles including ICE and EVs in Europe and Latin America.

Eva completed a dual bachelor’s degree in Spanish and in International Business at Nanchang University, and took French as an elective degree, in that period exchanged study at the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain,while also studied corporate management at the Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia for one year. She has also completed her Master of Business Administration at Wuhan University and conduct joint learning courses as outstanding student at Stanford University.

Mr Ralph Xu is now the Deputy Head, Green Transportation at APAS R&D Centre. He joined APAS R&D Centre with his solid background of automotive industry and electric vehicle development. He has been working in automotive industry for 18 years, with profound experience in R&D, manufacturing and quality control.
Mr Xu obtained bachelor’s degree of engineering in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and started his career in automotive industry as quality engineer in Honda’s local joint venture. He is equipped with broad knowledge of vehicle engineering, component design and development, and good understanding of automotive suppliers. Along with the booming of EV market, he started the EV development career in DENZA, the joint venture of Daimler and BYD from 2011. Throughout 10 years, as R&D manager, he participated in the development of 4 BEV and 1 PHEV models. He has vast experience on EV project planning, product development, testing and validation. He provides a unique insight of NEV industry with the knowledge of electric vehicle integration, HV system and EV testing. He is now responsible for R&D projects in APAS R&D centre focusing on new energy transportation including EV and hydrogen energy technology.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

Various new energy well demonstrated in Hong Kong’s transportation system;
Green hydrogen will be introduced to Hong Kong