Debra TAN

    中国水务危机组织总监

    议题:

    中国如何应对粮食、水源和空气问题？

    Ms Debra Tan heads China Water Risk, a nonprofit initiative dedicated to highlighting and addressing business and environmental risks arising from China’s water crisis. She was responsible for the build-out of the initiative’s free-access website, funded by ADM Capital Foundation, RS Group and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. She has also written extensively about the food-water-energy nexus and conducted research for financial institutions on the topic. She has given numerous talks as well as moderated and participated in panel discussions and conferences around water issues.

    Ms Tan started her career in finance, spending over a decade as a chartered accountant and investment banker specialising in mergers & acquisitions and strategic advisory. She has lived and worked in Beijing, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, New York and Singapore. After leaving banking, she went on to pursue her interest in photography and within a year held her first solo exhibition sponsored by a global bank. She also ran and organised hands-on philanthropic and luxury holidays for a small but global private-members travel network and applied her auditing, financing and photography skills in the field for various charitable organisations and foundations.