Executive-only • Curated admission • Limited seats | Dates: 17–19 March 2027 | Venue: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Climate strategy • Sustainability • Governance • Net-zero systems

Advisory Board 9th Executive Congress on Climate, Sustainability & Net-Zero Systems

The Advisory Board helps shape the strategic direction, sustainability relevance, and executive quality of this congress—guiding themes, curating participation, and strengthening high-level dialogue across climate strategy, decarbonisation, ESG, resilience, circular economy, energy transition, and net-zero implementation.

Theme & agenda guidance Climate strategy relevance Curated executive participation Outcome-driven dialogue
Global Advisory Board

Advisory Board Members

A selected advisory group of climate scientists, sustainability experts, earth systems researchers, policy voices, and transition-focused academic leaders supporting congress quality, relevance, and strategic direction.

Climate science Sustainability strategy Net-zero systems Earth systems Environmental innovation
EH

Professor Edgar Hertwich

NTNU, Norway

Industrial ecology, resource efficiency, sustainable consumption, life-cycle assessment, and low-carbon systems.

LH

Professor LIU Huan

Tsinghua University, China

Climate systems, sustainability transitions, carbon neutrality, resilient infrastructure, and net-zero development pathways.

MK

Professor Meredith A. Kelly

Trustees of Dartmouth College, USA

Climate change, glacial records, environmental reconstruction, ice-sheet history, and long-term climate risk.

JC

Professor Julie Cosmidis

Oxford Earth Sciences, UK

Earth systems, microbial processes, geobiology, environmental adaptation, and climate-related planetary science.

YL

Professor Yanlan Liu

The Ohio State University, USA

Ecosystem carbon dynamics, climate feedbacks, nature-based solutions, land-atmosphere interactions, and carbon monitoring.

SR

Prof. Simon Redfern

NTU Singapore

Sustainability science, planetary systems, energy transitions, earth materials, and climate-resilient innovation.

YZ

Professor Yan Zheng

University of Birmingham, UK

Water quality, environmental systems, climate-health connections, sustainability policy, and resilient resource management.

CS

Professor Christopher Sumby

University of Adelaide, Australia

Sustainable materials, chemical systems, environmental applications, resource innovation, and low-impact technologies.

MT

Prof. Utsumi Motoo

University of Tsukuba, Japan

Environmental science, aquatic systems, resource sustainability, ecological monitoring, and climate adaptation research.

CD

Professor Chang Dong-Seon

Center for Creative Convergence Education, South Korea

Creative convergence, systems thinking, behaviour change, science communication, and sustainability education.

LL

Professor Li Lo

National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Climate science, environmental systems, sustainability planning, regional resilience, and applied climate research.

ZY

Professor ZHAN Yan

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Sustainability leadership, climate governance, regional environmental strategy, and institutional transition pathways.

Interested in joining the Advisory Board?

Senior experts, institutional leaders, and sustainability professionals may contact the secretariat for advisory participation, programme input, or strategic collaboration.