APRU Global Sustainability Course: Waste & The City (September 2023)

The seminar course introduces graduate students to global sustainability concepts and applications from leading experts in academia and the industry. Students will learn the key points of the United Nations Sustainability and Development Goals (UN SDGs) focusing on the environment and economy, specifically those that pertain to waste and urbanization. They will also learn how leaders work with key stakeholders in implementing sustainability in their organizations. By exposing students to real-world Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG) reports produced by corporations in various industries, they will practice critical thinking and analytical skills.

The course will provide students with the opportunities to interact with leaders from around the world in real-time video conferencing. By conducting the case studies in teams with peers from across institutions and regions, students will develop professional competencies in cross-cultural communication, interpersonal skills, teamwork, while fostering equitable and inclusive partnerships. The course will prepare the students for future exchanges with members from various backgrounds and cultural contexts.

Course Format and Delivery

The course will be conducted on a virtual platform synchronously and asynchronously. The synchronous sessions will consist of guest lectures, group presentations, and case study discussions. The asynchronous sessions will be preparations for the group work and any additional activities to be determined by the participating universities.

Course duration: 10 or 11 weeks

  • September 13 – November 15, 2023: 10 weeks of APRU seminars and presentations, 2 hours per week
  • (Optional) November 22, 2023: 1 week to participate in an APRU Global Sustainability symposium/workshop

Virtual platform: NTU BlackBoard and Zoom

Eligibility & Assessment
 
This course is open to graduate students from APRU member universities and APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes and Sustainable Waste Management Programs’ partner institutions without additional fees for this semester.

Students are encouraged to participate actively.

Registration & Certificate

Registration of Interest (Closed)

Please register here by August 31, 2023 .

  • Due to the limited course capacity of 60 students, this registration of interest serves as a pre-screening step. Upon indicating your interest, you may be asked to furnish additional information. Final confirmation of your registration will be sent approximately one week prior to the course start date.
  • You will have access to the course materials once your registration is confirmed.

Certificate of Participation

Please note the Certificate of Participation will be issued to students of the APRU members and affiliated universities who attend 80% of the seminars (scheduled from September to November) and actively participate in the discussion sessions. Please indicate your intention and commitment to fully participate here.

Topics
  • General: UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and Environmental, Social, Corporate Governance (ESG)
  • Waste: Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG), agriculture, plastic, medical, and water
  • Urban Development: urban planning, urban sanitation, ecology, and climate change
  • Others: oil & gas, technology, and transportation
  • Each of the topics may also include environmental impacts, value, and energy recovery

Download the flyer to find out more information.

Speakers
Sierin Lim
Associate Professor, Bioengineered and Applied Nanomaterials Lab, Nanyang Technological University

Sierin Lim is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and the Associate Dean for Global Partnerships at the Graduate College, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and did a postdoc at University of California Irvine. She is the founder of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore) Student Chapter and Women@NTU Initiatives. She has received several awards including the Asia Pacific Networking Research Fellowship from the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (2012), L’Oréal-UNESCO Singapore for Women in Science National Fellowships (2013), Tan Chin Tuan Fellowship for Exchange in Engineering (2016), Outstanding Woman in Biomedical Engineering Venus International Women Awards (2019).

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David Lallement
Assistant Professor, Asian School of Environment, Nanyang Technological University

Prof. Lallemant joined the NTU faculty from Stanford University, where he was a researcher and founder of the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative. He holds a PhD from Stanford University (2015), master’s degree from UC Berkeley (2010) and a bachelor’s degree from MIT (2007). His academic background is in earthquake sciences and engineering, predictive modeling, geostatistics, reliability analysis and others, used to conduct novel and impactful research to promote resilient societies.

 

Prof. Lallemant is also active in post-disaster response and recovery, which forms the basis for his research on post-disaster assessment and community resilience. He worked for two years in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and has been involved with the response and recovery following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and 2015 earthquake in Nepal. He regularly consults for the World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR).

 

His awards include the 2018 National Research Foundation Fellowship ($3M grant for 5-year research), the Shah Family Fellowship on Catastrophic Risk, the John A. Blume Fellowship in Earthquake Engineering, the Development Impact Award and the World Bank Vice Presidential Unit Award (for work conducted in Haiti).

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Tao Chen
Associate Professor, College of Business, Nanyang Technological University

Tao Chen joined Nanyang Business School (NBS) as an Assistant Professor in 2014 and was promoted to an Associate Professor in Finance with tenure in 2020. His research interest focuses on how financial market participants influence corporate policies, particularly issues related to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) and how FinTech and financial innovation affect financial inclusion and risk.

 

He has published his work in Journal of Financial Economics (×2), Management Science (×3), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Banking and Finance (×2), Journal of Corporate Finance (×2), Journal of Empirical Finance, and Accounting and Finance.

 

His educational background includes a Ph.D. in Finance in 2014 from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), a Master of Philosophy degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), and a Bachelor’s degree from Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU).

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Christina Schönleber
Senior Director, Policy and Research Programs

Christina Schönleber, Senior Director, Policy and Research Programs at the Association of Pacific Rim Universities has extensive expertise in translating research to impact. She holds responsibilities for developing and growing APRU’s strategic policy impact to address pressing regional challenges through the association’s key program areas working closely with leading scientists and policy makers in the Asia Pacific. Christina joined APRU from the innovation and enterprise leadership of the Royal College of Art and the University of Kent. As Head of Knowledge Exchange at the RCA in London, she set up and implementing the college’s strategic capabilities in applying latest knowledge and expertise to solve societal, environmental an economic issues. She led the development and submission of the RCA’s first major Innovate UK application gaining funding for multi stakeholder/ multi year collaboration on driverless vehicles and set up new strategic partnerships with major international corporations such as Huawei and Tata Consultancy Services. At the University of Kent, Christina led the university’s strategic enterprise development in key areas of science and social science. In this role, she set up the university’s first student start up and enterprise schemes, forged new cross disciplinary research collaborations with key partners in the security and information sectors and developed lasting strategic partnerships with government and industry. Following this she worked as a business development consultant in Hong Kong, developing Sino-German business links.

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Yong Sik Ok
Professor, Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering at Korea University and Chair & Director of APRU Sustainable Waste Management Program

Director, APRU Sustainable Waste Management Program Director, Korea Biochar Research Center Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea Dr. Ok is a full professor and global research director of Korea University, Seoul, Korea. He has published over 900 research papers and books, 92 of which have been ranked as Web of Science ESI top papers (90 have been selected as “Highly Cited Papers” (HCPs), and two as “Hot Papers”). He has been a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (HCR) since 2018 in Cross Field, Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. In 2019, he became the first Korean to be selected as an HCR in the field of Environment and Ecology. Again in 2021, he became the first Korean HCR in two fields: Environment and Ecology, and Engineering. He is working at the vanguard of global efforts to develop sustainable waste management strategies and technologies to address the rising crisis in electronic and plastic waste, and pollution of soil and air with particulate matter. Dr. Ok has also served in a number of positions worldwide including, as an honorary professor at the University of Queensland (Australia), a visiting professor at Tsinghua University (China), an adjunct professor at the University of Wuppertal (Germany), and a guest professor at Ghent University (Belgium). He maintains a worldwide professional network by serving as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology, an Editor of Environmental Pollution, a member of the editorial advisory board of Environmental Science & Technology, and an editorial board member of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, and several other top journals. He currently serves as the Director of the Sustainable Waste Management Program for the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the Co-President of the International ESG Association. Moreover, he has served on the Scientific Organizing Committee of P4G Nature Forum: Climate Change and Biodiversity, and Nature Forum: Plastics and Sustainability. Dr. Ok has also served as the chairman of numerous major conferences such as Engineering Sustainable Development series (ESD series), organized by the APRU and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 2021, Dr. Ok hosted the first Nature conference among South Korean universities in Seoul on waste management and valorization for a sustainable future together with Chief Editors of Nature Sustainability (Dr. Monica Contestabile), Nature Electronics (Dr. Owain Vaughan), and Nature Nanotechnology (Dr. Fabio Pulizzi). Prof. Ok will host the first Nature Forum on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) for Global Sustainability: the “E” Pillar for Sustainable Business.

E-mail: [email protected]

http://yongsikok.korea.ac.kr

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-020-00128-6

https://www.nature.com/articles/d42473-020-00539-5

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Yekang Ko
Associate Professor at the School of Architecture & Environment, University of Oregon and Director of the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Program

Yekang Ko is an Associate Professor in Landscape Architecture at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on environmental planning, specialized in urban energy planning, green infrastructure, and physical planning and design for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Her teaching and professional projects are based on community service learning and outreach, collaborating with governments, non-profits, professionals and educators locally and internationally. Before joining UO, Yekang taught at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas at Arlington where she was selected as the 2013 Community Service Learning Faculty Fellow and the 2016 Professor of the Year award for Excellence in Higher Education. Yekang received her Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning from UC Berkeley, Masters of Area Studies (Asia-Pacific Region) from the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies at Kyung Hee University and B.S. in Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering from Korea University. Email: [email protected] News Yekang Ko profiled in Oregon Quarterly Conflict of Greens, Oregon Quarterly, July 6, 2018 Selected Publications Ko, Y., Jang, K., and Radke, J.D. 2017. Toward a solar city: Trade-offs between on-site solar energy potential and vehicle energy consumption in San Francisco, California, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (In Press) Adil, A.M. and Ko, Y. 2016. Socio-technical evolution of Decentralized Energy Systems: A critical review and implications for urban planning and policy. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 57: 1025–1037. Lee, J., Ko, Y., and McPherson, E.G. 2016. The feasibility of remotely sensed data to estimate urban tree dimensions and biomass, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 16: 208-220. Ko, Y., Lee, J., McPherson, E.G., and Roman, L.A. 2015. Long-term monitoring of Sacramento Shade program trees: tree survival, growth, and energy-saving performance. Landscape and Urban Planning 143:183–191. Ko, Y., Lee, J., McPherson, E.G., and Roman, L.A. 2015. Factors affecting long-term mortality for residential shade trees: Evidence from Sacramento, CA. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening 14: 500–507. Ko. Y. 2014. The effect of urban trees on residential solar energy potential. Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture 42(1): 41-49. Ko, Y. and Radke, J.D. 2014. The effect of urban forms on residential cooling energy use in Sacramento, California. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 41(4) 573 – 593. Ko, Y. 2013. Urban form and residential energy use: a review of design principles and research findings. Journal of Planning Literature 28(4): 327 – 351. Yoon, J. and Ko, Y. 2013. STS Student Learning Model: an effective approach to identifying environmental problems and solutions. The International Journal of Science in Society 4(2):133-147. Ko, Y., Schubert, D.K., and Hester, R.T. 2011. A conflict of greens: green development versus habitat preservation; the case of Incheon, South Korea. Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 53: 3, 3- 17.

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Shane Snyder
Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and is the Executive Director of the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute, Nanyang Technological University

Topic: Environment, Water, and Sustainability – Story from Singapore and beyond

 

Shane Snyder is a Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering and is the Executive Director of the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. Professor Snyder also maintains his affiliation with the College of Engineering at the University of Arizona. He has also worked as a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore (2011-2017).

 

For over 20 years, Shane’s research has focused on the identification, fate, and health relevance of emerging water pollutants. He has been invited to brief the Congress of the United States and served on the national expert panels , including the EPA’s Science Advisory Board drinking water committee and the US EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors Sustainable Water committee. He is a Fellow of the International Water Association and a member of the World Health Organization’s Drinking Water Advisory Panel. He was also a member of the US National Academy of Science’s National Research Council Committee on Water Reuse and served on the WHO’s guiding committee on development of potable reuse guidelines.

Today, Shane dedicates much of his time advancing safe water and sanitation within underserved communities in South and Southeast Asia. The philanthropic team led by Shane has benefited more than two million people by translating academic research into practical environmental solutions. He is passionate in advancing sustainable water technologies to protect both public and environmental health.

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Jay Hyuk Rhee
Professor, School of Business Administration, Korea University

Professor Jay Hyuk Rhee has been a professor of business administration at Korea University since September 2001. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in business administration at Korea University, and a Ph.D. at Ohio State University in the United States.

 

At Korea University, he is a member of the ESG Committee, director of the ESG Research Center, director of the Social Enterprise Center, and a member of the Latin American Research Institute. Dr. Rhee is a co-chairperson of the International ESG Association, the chairman of ESG management committee of the Korea Teachers’ Pension, advisory committee member of the Korea Listed Companies Council, director of sustainability division of working group on industrial policy research.

 

His research interest includes sustainability assessment (ESG), corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainable development objectives (SDG), management strategies and global strategies. He has published papers in a number of top academic journals, including Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS), the world’s most prestigious international journal in the field of international business, and won the Korea International Society’s Best Paper Award. He has published books including “Social Value and Sustainability: ESG and Global Strategy,” “Beyond CSR to SDGs,” “The Role of Corporate Sustainability in Asia Development: A Case Study Handbook,” “Green Leadership in China: Management Strategies from China’s Most Responsible Companies,” “Hyundai-Kia Motors’ marketing case in China, and “Current Status and Implications of Management Education in Korea.”

 

He surveyed and analyzed the CSR status of Chinese and multinational corporations in China and published the results in the Fortune China. Cooperating with the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, he is currently developing K-ESG, a guideline to evaluate sustainability of Korean companies.

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Chingwen Cheng
Director of Stuckeman School and Professor of Landscape Architecture, Pennsylvania State University

Dr. Chingwen Cheng is the Director of Stuckeman School and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University. She is dedicated to Climate Justice Design, integrating nature-based solutions in participatory planning and design to enhance community resilience and address environmental and climate justice. Her research focuses on the intersection of environmental justice, sustainability, and green infrastructure performance. Dr. Cheng has developed a Climate Justicescape framework to identify priorities for nature-based solutions, while actively avoiding actions that perpetuate systemic injustice. She is the President of CELA and a member of ASLA’s Climate Actions Committee advocating for climate justice in policies, practices, and education. 

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Kory Russel
Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon

I teach courses in sustainable design, environmental science as well as water and sanitation. My primary research focuses are on planning, designing, and implementing sustainable water and sanitation (WASH) services in low- and middle-income countries. I helped to co-found and currently lead the “re.source” sanitation research initiative, originally funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Re.source is focused on exploring extremely low-cost, resource recovery and sanitation solutions. (Integrated Mobile Sanitation Solutions in Peri-urban Settings: Haiti, re.source).

 

I have conducted extensive research on the topics of non-networked water supply and sanitation in Mozambique and Haiti. Where I worked on a large rural water improvement impact evaluation in Nampula, Mozambique. I specifically studies the caloric energy women expend when fetching water. My primary research topics include 1) water, energy, and resource recovery from waste streams; 2) sustainable delivery of water services in rural and urban settings; 3) development and analysis of entrepreneurial-based sanitation service delivery models and 4) informal urbanization.

 

I am the current Chair of the Container-Based Sanitation Alliance. The CBS Alliance was formed in November of 2016. It is a coalition of CBS practitioners around the world with extensive experience in developing and providing CBS services. The goal of the Alliance is to formalize the CBS approach, help sanitation services to reach scale, and achieve sustainable impact in urban areas around the world. Container-Based Sanitation was officially added to the list of improved sanitation options by Joint Monitoring Programme in 2019. Find out more at cbsa.global.

 

I am also a co-founder of the Landscape for Humanity initiative at the University of Oregon. L4H works with landscape as the fundamental framework for creating spatial change that supports social and environmental justice. L4H does this through design, research and real-world projects.

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Stephan Benecke
Senior Consultant at Sphera

15+ years of experience in assessing environmental impacts of electronics life cycles and identifying hotspots throughout the supply chain. Professional background in implementing global environmental regulations on product level serving the Information and Communication Technology industry in Europe and North America. Strong knowledge of legal frameworks and regulatory developments, e.g. WFD, RoHS, REACH, ErP, WEEE. Experience managing cross-functional teams of up to five people. Successfully developed and initiated new services in the field of Circular Economy, incl. Life Cycle Assessments and Product Carbon Footprint calculations in conformity with ISO14044/ISO14067 to support EcoDesign strategies for clients’ product portfolios. In-depth engineering background in electronics design, material sciences and reliability assessment with a track record of integrating circularity aspects into electronic products. Familiar with wafer fabs, back-end, electronics and mechatronic assembly environments. Hands-on experience in management of operations in product testing and analysis.

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Amit Midha
Dell's President, Asia Pacific & Japan and Global Digital Cities

Amit Midha is a global strategic business leader with significant Asia experience. Amit has built and transformed businesses in various roles in China, US, India, and Singapore. He is well versed in multiple cultures and has established strong global relationships. He is a technologist at heart with deep expertise in Datacenter, Enterprise Software, Edge, and Data Science. Amit Midha is responsible for Dell’s growth in the Asia Pacific & Japan (APJ) region, overseeing a multibillion- dollar business spanning 40+ countries with a multi-cultural workforce. Amit is passionately focused on developing strong talent and technology leadership to support the digital transformation journey for Dell’s customers and partners. Amit also leads Dell Technologies’ Digital Cities business globally, driving the transformation of cities and engagement with governments and corporations.

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Kim Seung Jin
Project Sourcing and Development Lead, Alliance to End Plastic Waste

Seung Jin Kim B. Sc., B. Eng., PhD. Originally born in Seoul, Korea, my family migrated to Sydney Australia in 1993. I completed my secondary and tertiary education in Australia and proceeded to complete PhD in the Life Cycle Engineering field at the University of New South Wales. During the research, I investigated the impact of changing technologies on product functionality and resulting economic and environmental impacts throughout the whole product life cycle to develop a more pragmatic design assessment method.

In 2014, I joined Suez Australia (a global Waste management and Water treatment services company) working in both technical and operational roles in Municipal Solid Waste processing including plastics and project delivery in waste processing infrastructure. I had a brief break from the waste industry in 2017-18 while working in an Industrial IoT start-up for digitisation projects in the manufacturing sector. Having seen where the actual wastes end up and the current state-of-art in waste processing, I am now more passionate about solving the end-of-life issues of modern-day lifestyle.

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Simon Caspersen
Co-founder & Communications Director, SPACE10

Communications Director at research and design lab SPACE10, which I was part of founding in 2014. Here we work to enable a better everyday life for both people and the planet.

 

I have a background as a communication strategist and documentary filmmaker.

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Clint Navales
Vice President of Communications (Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa), P&G

Clint Navales is the Vice President of Communications (Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa) of P&G. He graduated with a degree in Environmental Science from Ateneo de Manila University, Philipines. He started his career in P&G in 1998 as Global Product Stewardship Manager and advanced through the communications leadership ladder to the Vice President in 2019. Clint has many practices which includes product safety, regulatory affairs, environmental sustainability, gender equality, consumer relations, corporate social responsibility, external stakeholder & media relations, and brand & corporate communications.

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Kirsty Salmon
Vice President for Advanced Bio & Physical Sciences for Low Carbon Energy, bp

Kirsty Salmon, Ph.D. is the VP for advanced bio & physical sciences for low carbon energy at bp. Kirsty has a PhD in Microbiology and Immunology from McGill University, completed postdoctoral work at UCLA and held a research faculty position at UC Irvine where she ran the Computational Biology Research Lab focused on research on the cusp of academia and industry. Kirsty left academia in 2008 to become the Director of Renewable Fuels for a start-up company (Verdezyne) and in 2011 joined bp as its Head of Research for bp Biofuels. In 2015 she became the director of the newly formed bp Biosciences Centre in San Diego, and in 2018, Kirsty led the study on what the circular economy means for bp which led to Aim 19 in bp’s new sustainability frame. Currently, Kirsty is responsible for a new team in bp that is focused on sustainable, early-stage low carbon technology development and fundamental science research for the company.

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Rahul Singh
Assistant Director of Global Marketing & Strategy, Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Rahul Singh is an expert at connecting the three Is – idea, insight, and
individual who sums up his life as ABC – author, banker, and community builder. He advises companies & start-ups on their ESG journey towards Sustainable Development Goals and has pushed for inclusion of Conscious Capitalism & ESG in university curriculums. He has authored several books on purpose including “You know the glory, not the story”, “Engineering to Ikigai”, and “An atheist gets the Gita”. His book on Corporate purpose “ESG: Putting purpose back in Money” is scheduled for release in late 2023.

Having an illustrious career in banking, he is the Assistant Director of Global
Marketing & Strategy at Nanyang Technological University Singapore, Principal of Corporate Advisory Group at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur, and Academic Council Member of Jaipuria Institute of Management.

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Kara Lavender Law
Research Professor of Oceanography, Sea Education Association

Kara Lavender Law is a Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea
Education Association (SEA; Woods Hole, MA). For more than 15 years she has
researched plastic debris in the ocean, initially focusing on the physical processes that carry, transport and transform plastics in the marine environment, with more recent work focused “upstream” on the generation, pathways and treatment of plastic waste, ultimately aiming to prevent plastic leakage to the environment.

Dr. Law has co-chaired working groups on plastic marine debris at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR), and served on the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee that published the 2022 report, Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastics Waste. Dr. Law received her Ph.D. from Scripps Institution of Oceanography/University of California, San Diego in physical oceanography, and a B.S. in mathematics from Duke University.

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Jennifer Lynch
Research Biologist, National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)

Jennifer Lynch’s research interests are to improve the quality of
measurements in the field of marine environmental toxicology and chemistry. She has performed organic analytical chemistry research for the National Institute of Standards and Technology since 2003. In 2019 she became the Co-Director of the Hawaii Pacific University (HPU) Center for Marine Debris Research (CMDR). The CMDR was established in 2019 in Hawaii, which is one of Earth’s most plastic polluted regions.

Dr. Lynch’s current research focuses heavily on quantifying and chemically characterizing plastic marine debris to optimize methods to help answer questions about plastic debris sources, fate, transport, and effects. She
also leads the Biological and Environmental Monitoring and Archival of Sea Turtle tissues (BEMAST) project, as part of the NIST Biorepository. The BEMAST collection currently holds over 3,000 sea turtle tissue samples from across the Pacific Ocean for health and contaminant research, including ingested plastic debris, archived in liquid nitrogen vapor temperatures. She has published extensively on the measurement and effects of persistent organic pollutants, including legacy organochlorines, flame retardants, and perfluoroalkyl acids, in reference materials, sea turtles and other organisms. She has authored 53 peerreviewed publications and three book chapters, served on the thesis committees of 21 graduate students, and holds affiliate positions at Hawaii Pacific University and University of Hawaii. Dr. Lynch is motivated to study pollution exposure and effects in the ocean and educate others through technology transfer to perform quality science that can inform policy and improve environmental measurement. Her research is part of NIST’s Circular Economy program, which supports the nation’s need to transition away from a model in which materials are extracted from the environment, manufactured into products, used, then discarded (a so called “linear economy”) toward one in which the atoms and molecules that make up those products repeatedly cycle within the economy and retain their value.

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Andréanne Doyon
Director of the Planning Program in the School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University

Andréanne Doyon is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the
Planning Program in the School of Resource and Environmental Management
(REM) at Simon Fraser University (SFU). Her current research fits within the fields of governance and planning, and sustainability transitions (socio-technical) and transformations (socio-ecological). She explores systems and methods that
enable, or are barriers to, change, and seeks to advance planning, equity, and
climate change responses through her work. Andréanne is a trustee of the Fuel
Poverty Research Network, a steering committee member of the Association of
Pacific Rim Universities Sustainable City and Landscape Hub, and a member of
the Women and Inclusivity Sustainable Energy Research network.

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Yoora Cho
Executive Director, International ESG Association

Yoora Cho holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Ecology Engineering and in Chinese Language and Literature from Korea University. She completed her doctoral studies at the Department of Environmental Ecology Engineering at Korea University. In 2018, she conducted research on the remediation of soil heavy metal contamination as a visiting researcher at Wuppertal University in Germany. She has been involved in multidisciplinary research in environmental science, collaborating with research teams from China, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, Japan, and other countries. Since 2021, she has been conducting research on the decomposition and long-term soil characteristic changes of residual plastic in soil, focusing on key areas of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) management such as the circular economy of plastics, sustainable management, soil quality assessment of plastic-contaminated soil,
environmental degradation assessment of biodegradable plastics, and life cycle assessment of waste.

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Joe Palazzo
Technical Program Manager - Environmental Sustainability, Google

Joe Palazzo is a carbon footprinting practitioner in Google’s consumer hardware division. Prior to becoming a sustainability professional, Joe pursued a career in semiconductor process engineering with Globalfoundries and Cree. His work on chemical-intensive processes sparked an interest in sustainability and a transition to full time work in the field via the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Under the direction of Professor Roland Geyer at UCSB, Joe earned a PhD that centered around the development of advanced life cycle
assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting methodologies. He was recruited out of his doctorate to work at the intersection of his two fields, developing consumer electronics carbon footprinting tools, methods, and industry consortia at Apple and Google. Joe also holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and has performed and recorded music in professional environments as a percussionist.

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Stephanie KC Hung
Chief Information Officer, Asian Development Bank

Stephanie KC Hung is an innovative and dynamic leader, Stephanie is
the Chief Information Officer of the Asian Development Bank and Director General of the bank’s Information Technology Department (ITD). Stephanie is responsible for ADB’s digital strategies and transformation, and its IT infrastructure, operations and talent spanning across more than 30 countries field services in digitally enabled ADB development operations in 49 member countries are from within Asia and the Pacific and 19 outside.
Stephanie has many years of working experience in technology sector at IBM, HP, Microsoft, startups, and ST Engineering servicing clients from enterprises in airlines and airports, banking, and financial services institutions, manufacturing and consumer packaged goods industry, to education, healthcare, public safety, national security and government sectors, accumulated many complex projects and industry knowledge in the business IT alignments and digital transformation journeys. She has garnered sales and negotiation, product development and marketing, service delivery and operations, entrepreneurship, corporate financial and risks management; provided business advisory to startups in new ventures and enterprises in driving the digital transformation, advanced analytics, cybersecurity, software defined cloud and edge computing, sustainability, and digital resilience. In ADB, she serves to create values through digital transformation enabled ADB to drive climate change actions, economic growth, gender equality, fostering financial inclusivity, sustainability and prosperity in the development member countries that ADB operate.

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Jason Plamondon
Regional Sustainability Manager of APAC, Equinix

Jason Plamondon spent over 2 decades within the energy sector, managing sustainability strategy and initiatives globally, across the environmental, social, and governance space, including renewable energy projects. After nearly 23 years with Shell, Jason stepped into the data technology industry and has taken on the role of Regional Sustainability Manager for Equinix. Jason has a passion for ESG integration and a belief that meaningful participation of all interested stakeholders is the means to a sustainable future.

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Vineeth Menon
PhD Candidate, Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Vineeth Menon is a 3rd Year PhD student at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).
Vineeth has more than 8 years of experience in the marine industry in his role of
Technology and New Product Development. His research focuses on techno-economic and environmental assessment of alternative fuels and their contribution for a decarbonized future in marine propulsion.

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The course is led by Sierin LIM, Associate Dean of Global Partnerships at NTU Graduate College, and hosted by Nanyang Environment and Water Research Institute under NTU Graduate College Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme.

 

The course is offered in collaboration with APRU Sustainable Waste Management led by the Program Director Yong Sik OK at Korea University and APRU Sustainable Cities & Landscapes led by the Program Director Yekang KO based in University of Oregon.

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