Future Mobility Scenarios and Roadmap to 2030 and 2050

The world has changed, and companies these days need a board that has a board-level mental model of corporate energy affairs, and of what business energy use is really about.  Middle-management mental model thinking in the boardroom puts a company and its long-term investors at a distinct disadvantage.

Robert Allender took his 35 years of helping companies master their energy affairs and turned it into a board training work session to give boards that mental model.

As a professional board trainer, Robert gives boards a slate of new perspectives with which to judge the perpetual trade-offs between the business continuity challenges, the opex and capex challenges, and the more recently emerged challenges of decarbonisation, the energy transition, Scope 3, and the energy-and-carbon half of ESG reporting, all of which have energy use at their core.

Clients for Robert’s board training work session have come from across the world, but Hong Kong has been his home since 1989. He has a business degree from Cornell University, and has been a speaker and writer on corporate energy affairs (CEA) and related topics since 1992. He is regularly invited to serve as conference chair, awards judge, MBA guest lecturer, and association and charity director.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

In keeping with my personal mission of giving all listed company boards a board-level mental model of their company’s energy affairs, I hope 2026 is the year such a new perspective becomes a hallmark of Hong Kong listed companies, one that the city is widely praised for.  The flow-on benefits will accrue to simply everyone.

Prof. C C Chan holds BSc, MSc, PhD, HonDSc, HonDTech degrees. He has had over 50 years academic and industrial experience. He is currently the Distinguished Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is the Founding President of the International Academy for Advanced Study. He served as Visiting Professor of a number of well-known universities around the world, including MIT, University of California Berkeley, University of Cambridge, etc. He is Co-founder and President of the World Electric Vehicle Association, the President of the Electric Vehicles Association of Asia Pacific, and Past President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He serves as Senior Consultant to governments and industries worldwide. Prof. Chan is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Ukraine Academy of Engineering Sciences, IEEE, IET and HKIE. He received the IEE International Lecture Medal in 2000 and delivered lectures on electric vehicles worldwide. He was selected as one of Asia’s Best Technology Pioneers by Asiaweek; named as “Father of Asian Electric Vehicles” by Magazine Global View; named as “Pitamaha (Grandfather) of Electric Vehicle Technology” in India; received the “Environmental Excellence in Transportation Award” from the Society of Automotive Engineers U.S.A.; Honour of “China Automobile Industry Character”; Gold Medal of Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. He authored and coauthored 11 books, over 300 technical papers and holds 9 patents. His mission is to promote the global collaboration for the advancement of science and technology for global sustainable development.

Ir Roger Law is the Engineering Director at Citybus Limited, the major franchised public bus operator in Hong Kong, where he leverages over 25 years of infrastructure and equipment expertise to drive new energy transition and asset modernization of its fleet and supporting infrastructure.

With a distinguished career spanning metro networks and container ports, he now applies this multi-modal expertise to lead critical engineering advancements within the bus sector. Throughout his career, he has successfully led multi-hundred-million-dollar infrastructure developments, focusing on fleet electrification and automation, alternative energy systems, nurturing in-house maintenance capabilities and formulating asset management strategies.

Currently, he oversees the strategic engineering direction for major assets, championing the commercial viability and operational safety of the green energy transition. As an experienced engineer and a Corporate Member of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers and Engineers Australia, Ir Law is dedicated to transforming the public bus transport sector into low-carbon, future ready infrastructure systems.

Dr Jiayan is a battery technology and supply chain analyst of BloombergNEF covering APAC battery supply chain as well as analyzing battery technologies of the future. She is the lead author of BNEF’s annual reports Global Battery Manufacturers and China Lithium-Ion Battery Supply Chain Update, which draws together updates on players, demand, supply, price, margins and bottlenecks across the industry.

Before joining BNEF, she conducted research at Argonne National Lab in US. Jiayan has a PhD degree of Chemical and Environmental Engineering from University of California, Riverside.

Ms Fabia Tam is the Deputy Secretary for Environment and Ecology (Environment) of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. She is responsible for the formulation, evaluation and implementation of government policies, legislative proposals and programmes in areas of green transport promotion, air quality improvement, air pollution and noise control, environmental impact assessment and nature conservation.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

To work hand-in-hand with industry partners and the public to jointly promote the wide adoption of electric vehicles, striving towards the vision of zero vehicular emissions and carbon neutrality before 2050, realising sustainable development, and creating a better and more livable environment for all.