Fostering Ecodesign for Sustainable Production and Consumption

Ir Prof. Dan Tsang is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Pao Yue-Kong Chair Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilisation at Zhejiang University in China. Dan was a Professor and MSc Programme Leader at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Visiting Professor at the University of Queensland in Australia and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in the US and IMETE Scholar at Ghent University in Belgium, and postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London in the UK. He has more than 20 years of R&D experience, published more than 500 articles in top 10% journals, and was selected as Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists and Clarivate’s Highly Cited Researchers in the academic fields of Engineering as well as Environment & Ecology. Dan’s team aspires to develop green technologies for long-term decarbonisation and promote resources circularity and sustainable development. Dan also serves as the founding Editor-in-Chief of npj Materials Sustainability, Chairman of the Hong Kong Waste Management Association (HKWMA), and Chairman of Waste Management Subcommittee of the Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE) of the Hong Kong SAR Government.

Ms Katherine Chan, MBA
Director, Business Development
The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel

Ms Chan has extensive experiences in the full supply chain of textile and apparel industry globally. Her knowledge covers textile chemicals, yarn spinning and textile manufacturing and was in roles overseeing design to garment productions to retail in the USA, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Ms Chan has worked with textile factories in Asia and the Americas in product development as well as manufacturing. She was involved in R&D, marketing, operations and quality assurance.
Before joining HKRITA, Ms Chan was with BASF as global product manager as well as global marketing, strategic projects and regional product managements for different chemical segments. During the years, she has worked with global teams and management for chemical manufacturing around the world including Europe, the USA, Asia and Middle East.
Ms Chan received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from University of Wisconsin, Madison, an AAS degree in Fashion Buying and Merchandising from Fashion Institute of Technology, both in the USA and MBA from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

HKRITA will be launching an ambitious initiative called “The Open Lab.” The Open Lab aims to provide agile solutions for the textiles, apparel, and fashion industries in addressing climate change. It will serve as a collaborative space located in Hong Kong and will be launched in September 2024. We invite partners to join forces in developing technologies that drive sustainability initiatives at the forefront of the fashion and textiles industry. The intention is to fund projects and rapidly scale outcomes, making resources widely available to tackle the challenges posed by climate change.
https://www.theopenlab.one

Amy is responsible for defining local sustainability strategy and driving actions towards the Decathlon united decarbonization goal. Besides the role of Sustainability Leader, Amy has an extra role as a the city operation leader. This duo role facilitates her in staff sustainability engagement and collaboration across all functions.

She is also a CLIMATE FRESK facilitator who is passionate in raising people’s awareness and understanding on Climate Change matter.

My Sustainability Goals for 2024:

To foster the development of Decathlon HK circular economy and raise people awareness on climate change. 

Judy Ho is the Sustainability Manager at Swire Coca-Cola HK where she drives sustainability programs and decarbonization actions in the Hong Kong market as outlined in the Swire Coca-Cola 2030 Sustainable Development Strategy. She is also an appointed member of the Environment and Conservation Fund Committee (ECF) by the Chief Executive of HKSAR, where she advises the ECF trustee on the manner and extent of use of the ECF.

Sustainability Goals for 2024:

To achieve genuine circularity by developing packaging solutions that fully incorporate eco-design principles.

Linda oversees sustainability strategy for L’Oréal Hong Kong and its 18 unique beauty brands in the market, including Lancôme, Kiehl’s, YSL Beauty, shu uemura, L’Oréal Paris and La Roche-Posay, to name a few. L’Oréal Group’s sustainability commitment, “L’Oréal for the Future”, covers specific KPIs on net zero, sustainable consumption and social impact.

With 20 years of strategic communications and engagement experience, Linda has held different senior leadership positions in leading global companies. Before her current roles, she was Corporate Affairs Director for L’Oréal North Asia overseeing external and internal communications across Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and Korea. Before joining L’Oréal, Linda was External Affairs Director Hong Kong and Taiwan for Reckitt Benckiser and Mead Johnson Nutrition for 6 years. At the start of her career, Linda spent 9 years with Edelman where she provided strategic communications counsel to many multinational companies as well as the Hong Kong Government.