Group Head Corporate Sustainability, Yinson; President, Malaysia Carbon Market Association

Dr Renard Siew is the Group Head of Corporate Sustainability for Yinson where he is responsible for advancing the organisation’s work in the field of climate change and sustainability. He’s also the inaugural President of the Malaysia Carbon Market Association (MCMA).

Prior to this, he was involved in the implementation of the sustainability agenda for a number of public-listed corporations (Sime Darby, CIMB, MRCB) and was a researcher at the Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) contributing thought leadership in: sustainability/ integrated reporting, GHG reporting and verification, ESG integration, socially responsible investment (across different asset classes: equities, infrastructure and property/real estate), climate change and sustainable construction for the building / infrastructure sector. Renard is a graduate of Cambridge University, UNSW and the Harvard Kennedy School.

He was the Co-Chair of the Climate Change & Disaster Risk Management Working Committee and UNEPFI’s Collective Commitment on Climate Action (Developing Countries). In 2020, he was appointed an SDG Champion-Climate Action by the World Economic Forum (WEF). He is a member of the WEF Expert Network Group, serves on the WEF Global Future Council on SDG Investment. He was accepted into the Forbes Fellowship Programme and attended the inaugural UN Climate Action Summit in New York in 2019.