World Ocean Summit Asia-Pacific 2022 | The Economist Newspaper Limited | 28 November 2022 | Resorts World Convention Centre, 8 Sentosa Gateway, Singapore 098269

The Asia-Pacific is the region that is perhaps most vulnerable to climate change and ocean degradation, being heavily dependent on the seas for food provision and economic development. Challenges with pollution, climate change impacts, biodiversity loss and patchy governance, among others, make the transition to a sustainable ocean economy in the Asia-Pacific complex and occasionally even daunting. At the same time, the global conversation on the ocean typically happens elsewhere.

Entering its second year, the summit will cover the length and breadth of the sustainable ocean economy with sessions on governance, climate change, finance, supply chains, innovation and technology, shipping, tourism, fishing and aquaculture. A key theme for the summit will be marine pollution and addressing the problems of plastics and chemicals in the ocean.

2022 Speakers

Surangel S. Whipps, Jr.
President, Palau

Vivian Balakrishnan
Minister for foreign affairs, Singapore

Enrique A Manalo
Secretary of foreign affairs, Philippines

Esther An
Chief sustainability officer, City Developments Limited

Cho Seung-hwan
Minister for ocean and fisheries, Republic of Korea

Sabra Noordeen
Special envoy for climate change, Maldives

Sakti Wahyu Trenggono
Minister of maritime affairs and fisheries, Indonesia

Peter Thomson
UN secretary-general’s special envoy for the ocean

Mari Pangestu
Managing director, development policy and partnerships, World Bank

Hoesung Lee
Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Gauri Singh
Deputy director-general, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Solo Mara
Secretary-general, Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) Secretariat

Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan
Coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, Indonesia

Stuart Minchin
Director-general, Pacific Community (SPC)

Santiago Wills
Ambassador of Colombia to WTO, Chair of WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations, WTO

Sharon Kwok Pong
Actress and director, AquaMeridian Conservation & Education Foundation

Mohd Kushairi Mohd Rajuddin
Executive director, regional secretariat of Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (CTI-CFF)

Naoko Ishii
Director, Centre for the Global Commons, University of Tokyo

Ilana Seid
Ambassador and permanent representative of Palau, UN

Dechen Tsering
Regional director, UNEP

Mitsuyuki Unno
Executive director, Nippon Foundation

Minako Iue
Chief executive and chair, Sailors for sea, Japan

Jeremy Sutton
Managing director, Swire Shipping

Atsushi Sunami
President, Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Darian McBain
Chief sustainability officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Rajeev Menon
President, Asia Pacific (excluding Greater China), Marriott International

Gavin Adda
Chief executive, Renewables Distributed Generation (DG), Asia Pacific, TotalEnergies

Seema Arora
Deputy director-general, Confederation of Indian Industry

Jeremy Nixon
Chief executive, Ocean Network Express (ONE)

Tiza Mafira
Executive director, Gerakan Indonesia Diet Kantong Plastik (GIDKP)

Tomoyuki Koyama
Senior managing executive officer, NYK Line

Essam Yassin Mohammed
Interim director-general, WorldFish and acting senior director, Aquatic Food Systems, CGIAR

Sjoerd Fauser
Founder and chief executive, Archwey

Kenneth Leung
Director and chair professor, state key laboratory of marine pollution, City University of Hong Kong

Melissa Walsh
Sustainable ocean finance lead, Minderoo Foundation

Qingfeng Zhang
Chief rural development and food security thematic group, ADB

Wez Norris
Chief executive, Australian Fisheries Management Authority

Paolo Domondon
Chief programme officer, Global Fishing Watch

Chaoni Huang
Managing director, head of sustainable capital markets, global markets APAC, BNP Paribas

Andy Hovey
Chief product officer, Starboard Maritime Intelligence

Josh Thomas
Chief executive, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority

Annupa Ahi
Head of Asia, TOMRA

Michael Walls
Managing director, marine and cargo leader, Asia, Marsh

Ellen Martin
Chief impact officer, Circulate Capital

Prabodha Acharya
Chief sustainability officer, JSW

Melvin Chen
Head of power and renewables consulting, Asia-Pacific, Wood Mackenzie

Simon Kuik
Head of research and development, SembCorp Marine

Charles Haskell
Decarbonisation programme manager, marine, Lloyd's Register

Theresa Mundita Lim
Executive director, ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity

Zhang Han
Global sustainability director, packaging and specialty plastics, Dow

Benjamin Wong
Head of maritime cluster, InvestHK

Jas Chambers
Chair and co-founder, Ocean Decade Australia

Toshikazu Shiomi
Vice-president, Ocean Network Express

Shereen Zorba
Head, UNEP Science Policy Business Forum

Tez Sogo
Chief operating officer, FRD Japan

Neda Eneva
Chief marketing officer, Archwey

Kilaparti Ramakrishna
Director, Marine Policy Center and senior advisor to the president on ocean and climate policy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Kim Currie
Marine chemist and head, New Zealand Ocean Acidification Observing Network

Narasimha Murthy
Senior executive director, National Fisheries Development Board, India

Linda Yanti Sulistiawati
Senior research fellow, Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law, National University of Singapore

Guy Michael Williams
Nature lead, Asia-Pacific and global, Deloitte

Torgny Holmgren
Executive director, Stockholm International Water Institute

Youna Lyons
Chair of the board, Advisory Committee on Protection of the Sea (ACOPS)

Michael Aw
Founder, Ocean Geographic

Amelia Fyfield
Counsellor and director ASEAN, CSIRO

Ruth Konia
Mangoro market meri programme manager, Melanesia program, The Nature Conservancy

Ariel Muller
Managing director, Asia, Forum for the Future

Anup Mathews
Business head, Godrej Construction and head, Greener India Council, Godrej & Boyce

Helga Vanthournout
Strategic advisor, ADM Capital Foundation

Yutaka Michida
Professor and director, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute (AORI), University of Tokyo

Yoni Shiran
Partner, Systemiq

Allinnettes Go Adigue
Head, ASEAN region hub, Global Reporting Index

Kirana Agustina
Engagement specialist for National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP), World Resources Institute

Punyasloke Bhadury
Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

Pushkala Ratan
Asia-Pacific climate lead, Financial Institutions Group, IFC

Patrick Martin
Associate professor, Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University

Anjali Acharya
Senior environmentalist, World Bank

Nicholas Hardman-Mountford
Head of oceans and natural resources, The Commonwealth

Stephen Widdicombe
Director of science and deputy chief executive, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

Joi Danielson
Partner, Systemiq

Gloria Estenzo Ramos
Vice president, Philippines, Oceana

Patrick Yeung
Senior expert consultant, ocean and plastic, WWF-China

Donald Chan
Managing director, Asia-Pacific, CDP Global

Debra Tan
Director and head, China Water Risk

Theerawat Samphawamana
Director of planning division, Mekong River Commission

Stan Wan
Executive chairman and chief executive, Piping Hot

Tristan Ace
Chief programme officer, AVPN

Pamela Qiu
Partner, Control Risks

Simon Baptist
Chief economist, Economist Intelligence Unit

Ritu Bhandari
Manager, policy and insights, Economist Impact

Andrew Staples
Regional head, APAC, policy and insights, Economist Impact

Gillian Parker
Senior manager, policy and insights, Economist Impact

Dominic Ziegler
Senior Asia correspondent, The Economist

Charles Goddard
Editorial director, Economist Impact

Jessica Brown
Partner, The Action Exchange and head of engagement, Back to Blue Initiative

2022 Sponsors

PLATINUM SPONSOR:
• Ocean Network Express

GOLD SPONSOR:
• Archwey

SILVER SPONSOR:
• Tomra

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Dow
• Mary Kay
• Starboard Maritime Intelligence
• sembcorp marine

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Hongkong Maritime and Port Board
• Invest HK