Mobilising Hong Kong’s Climate Talent to Deliver: Our Role in Asia’s Climate Transition

Tim Wong is the ESG & Sustainability Hub Lead at AECOM Hong Kong, driving innovation in sustainable infrastructure and carbon management. With over 18 years of experience in both civil engineering and ESG, Tim has worked on major climate-resilient transport and water projects across the Greater Bay Area and Southeast Asia.

Starting his career in 2008, Tim applied ESG principles to infrastructure projects even before the concept was widely recognized – most notably on a drainage tunnel project in northwest Hong Kong Island. He is a certified carbon auditor, ESG planner, and analyst, and has been a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) since 2013.

A strong advocate for sustainable practices, Tim serves on the Hong Kong Green Building Council’s infrastructure rating system committee. He was named Young Engineer of the Year by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers in 2020 and represented Hong Kong at the UN’s COP28 climate conference in 2023. He is an Adjunct Professor at Academy of Innovations in City University of Hong Kong since 2025.

My Sustainability Goal for 2026:

• Enhancing social outcomes
• Deploy Nature based solutions for tracking and disclosure
• Carbon management for built environment and corporate operation

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 2026:

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.

Winnie Lai is Vice Chairperson of the Institution of Civil Engineers Hong Kong Association (ICE HKA) and Business Manager at AtkinsRéalis. She is a Chartered Civil Engineer who works across industry, professional institutions and the wider community, bringing together diverse stakeholders to support the advancement of the engineering profession. Through her work with ICE HKA, she champions the role of engineering in addressing societal and sustainability challenges. Drawing on experience across engineering delivery, business strategy and governance, she brings a cross-sector perspective on the relationship between technical expertise, leadership and long-term societal outcomes.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1. Advance the contribution of engineering to sustainable and resilient communities.

2. Support more diverse and accessible pathways into the engineering profession.

Andrea Lam is a Director in Infrastructure & Capital Projects at Alvarez & Marsal, with over 10 years of experience advising infrastructure owners, investors and Governments across Greater China, Southeast Asia, Australia and the Middle East. Her experience spans across infrastructure classes including power and decarbonisation, healthcare, rail & maritime transport and logistics, and social infrastructure.

With a dual background in Chemical & Process Engineering and Finance, Andrea bridges technical execution with public-private-partnerships (PPPs), commercial structuring, and project finance. She specializes in translating policy and strategic ambitions into bankable, actionable infrastructure projects.

She has led high-impact initiatives, including green infrastructure transition analyses across multiple jurisdictions, strategic projects for the Hong Kong Development Bureau, Health Bureau, and Home & Youth Affairs Bureau, as well as supported the ASEAN Secretariat under the Australian Government’s Partnerships for Infrastructure Programme.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1. Promoting Sustainable Infrastructure & Procurement Best Practices for the Northern Metropolis:
Promote capacity-building initiatives, modern methods of construction, and develop procurement frameworks that drive long-term operational resilience and minimize lifecycle carbon footprints across future infrastructure developments in Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis.

2. Supporting Cross-Border Climate Finance & PPPs across Asia:
Leverage Hong Kong’s role as a regional financial and professional hub to bring private capital to infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia through efficient risk allocation and PPPs.

Galina Panina is a Corporate Psychologist, Global Speaker, and Organizational Resilience Expert with over 16 years of experience helping leaders and teams thrive through high‑stakes transformation. With a unique background bridging clinical psychology, political science, and global communications, she works at the intersection of human behavior, leadership performance, and AI‑driven organizational change.

Galina specializes in decoding the psychological dynamics that shape corporate success—how people react under uncertainty, how teams adapt when leadership shifts, and how organizations can reduce “human friction” during transformation. Her work integrates behavioral profiling, cross‑cultural intelligence, and resilience frameworks to help companies navigate rapid change without losing alignment, trust, or performance.

She has trained executives and internal speakers for global organizations including Shell, Nike, Orange, Leroy Merlin, and Workplace Options, and has delivered high‑impact sessions at world‑class stages such as the World Communication Forum in Davos. Her experience spans multinational corporations, diplomatic environments, and large‑scale events such as the Sochi 2014 Olympics and the Gas Exporting Countries Forum.

Currently based in China, Galina provides strategic training and executive coaching in English, Russian, and French, supporting leaders across Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Her work focuses on preparing organizations for the next era of human‑centric AI, where psychological adaptability becomes a core business competency.

My Sustainability Goals for 2026:

1. Strengthen human adaptability in fast‑changing organizations
Equip leaders and teams with psychological tools to remain stable, collaborative, and high‑performing during leadership transitions, restructuring, and rapid strategic shifts.

2. Reduce human friction in transformation processes
Implement profiling‑based communication frameworks that help organizations minimize resistance, misunderstandings, and emotional overload during change.

3. Advance human‑centric AI integration
Support companies in building psychologically safe environments where employees can adopt AI without fear, burnout, or loss of identity.

4. Build resilient cross‑cultural teams in APAC
Provide Asia‑focused insights that help multinational teams navigate cultural complexity and maintain cohesion under pressure.

5. Promote sustainable people‑strategy alignment
Ensure that wellbeing, performance, and transformation goals remain connected, even when the organization is evolving at high speed.