Day 1
Opening Speech
Yong Sik Ok
Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University
- President, International ESG Association (IESGA)
- Director, APRU Sustainable Waste Management Program
- President-Elect, European Society (ISTEB Committee)
- Chair, ICOBTE(Europe) / ICHMET(USA) (Hosted in Korea, 2025)
- Member, Seoul Forum
- International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) for Applied Energy Symposium MIT A+B Co-organized Harvard University
- Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia / Adjunct Professor, University of Wuppertal, Germany
- APRU Sustainable Waste Management: https://apru.org/our-work/pacific-rim-challenges/sustainable-waste-management/
Iman Harymawan
Full Professor, Department of Accounting, Universitas Airlangga
- Head, Center for Environmental, Social, and Governance Studies (CESGS)
- Former Consultant, UN Development Programme
- Editor in Chief, Asian Journal of Accounting Research
- Head, Research Center, Faculty of Economics and Business (CPEBR)
Keynote Session : Sustainability in Nusantara
William Mitch
- Member, Bio-X
- Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
- Awardee of Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology in 2013
- Elected Vice-Chair of the 4th Disinfection Byproducts Gordon Conference in 2015
Yong Sik Ok
Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University
- President, International ESG Association (IESGA)
- Director, APRU Sustainable Waste Management Program
- President-Elect, European Society (ISTEB Committee)
- Chair, ICOBTE(Europe) / ICHMET(USA) (Hosted in Korea, 2025)
- Member, Seoul Forum
- International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) for Applied Energy Symposium MIT A+B Co-organized Harvard University
- Honorary Professor, University of Queensland, Australia / Adjunct Professor, University of Wuppertal, Germany
- APRU Sustainable Waste Management: https://apru.org/our-work/pacific-rim-challenges/sustainable-waste-management/
Paralel Session : Managing Sustainability – Lessons Learned from Nusantara
Ali Abbas
- Deputy Director of Industry Innovation and Commercialisation, Sydney Nano
- Director of Waste Transformation Research Hub
- Director of Laboratory for Multiscale Systems
- SOAR Fellow at the University of Sydney
- Founding Director of the Waste Transformation Research Hub
Keynote Session: Sustainable Investment in Nusantara
Darwin Cyril Noerhadi
Chairman Creador Indonesia at Creador Private Equity
- Commissioner at Hermina Hospital Group
- President Commissioner at PT Mandiri SekuritasSenior Managing Director at PT Creador
Paralel Session : Critical Mineral & Battery Recycling
Jörg Rinklebe
Jörg Rinklebe
Professor, University of Wuppertal
- Highly Cited Researcher, 2019-2022
- President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), 2022-2023
- Past-President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), 2024-2025
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Longbin Huang
Full Professor and a Program leader in The University of Queensland
- Member of APRU Sustainable Waste Management Program Member of The University of Sydney Nano Institute
- Committee of Australian Soil Science Society
- Committee of Soil Science Society of America
- Committee of American Society of Mining and Reclamation (ASMR)
- Member of Editorial Board, BIOCHAR
Daniel Tsang
Daniel Tsang
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Honorary Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
- Chief Advisor, FGI Group
- Editor-in-Chief npj Materials Sustainability
- Editor Journal of Environmental Management
- Editor Waste Disposal and Sustainable Energy
- Editorial Board Carbon Research
- Editorial Board Biochar
Paralel Session : Mitigating Climate Change from Industry Perspective
Claudia von Hammerstein
Claudia von Hammerstein
Associate at McKinsey & Company
- Co-leader, Sustainability & Health, McKinsey Health Institute
- Co-leader, Life Sciences Services and Sustainability in Life Sciences, McKinsey and Company
- Partner in Life Sciences & Healthcare, Geographical Leader in South East Asia
Day 2
Keynote Session : Sustainability Adaptation and Resilience
Jay Hyuk Rhee
Professor, School of Business Administration, Korea University
- President, International ESG Association (IESGA)
- Chair, ESG Management Committee of the Korea Teachers’ Pension
- ESG Committee, National Institute of Forest Science
- Advisory Committee Member, The Korea Listed Companies Council
- Member, Korea University ESG Committee
- President, Korea University ESG Research Institute
Iman Harymawan
Full Professor, Department of Accounting, Universitas Airlangga
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- Head, Center for Environmental, Social, and Governance Studies (CESGS)
- Former Consultant, UN Development Programme
- Editor in Chief, Asian Journal of Accounting Research
- Head, Research Center, Faculty of Economics and Business (CPEBR)
Lawrence Loh
Professor, Business School, National University of Singapore
- Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability, NUS Business School
- Deputy Head of Department (Strategy and Policy), NUS Business School
- Professor and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Al Ghurair University
Paralel Session : Corporate Responsibility for Plastic Pollution Reduction – Governance Strategies for Transparency and Accountability
Azlan Amran
Professor Graduate School of Business Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Professor of Graduate School of Business
- Dean at the Graduate School of Business
- Corporate Social Reporting Expert
- Technical Committee for ISO 26000 Malaysia
Sung Yeon Hwang
Sung Yeon Hwang
Professor, Department of Plant & Environmental New Resources, Kyung Hee University
- Director, International ESG Association (IESGA)
- Member of Directors, Korean Bioplastics Association
- Former Head, Center for Bio-based Chemistry, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT)
- Former Associate Professor, University of Science and Technology, Korea
Day 3
Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) – Special Session (Training)
William Mitch
- Member, Bio-X
- Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
- Awardee of Excellence in Review Award, Environmental Science and Technology in 2013
- Elected Vice-Chair of the 4th Disinfection Byproducts Gordon Conference in 2015
Jörg Rinklebe
- Highly Cited Researcher, 2019-2022
- President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), 2022-2023
- Past-President of the International Society of Trace Element Biogeochemistry (ISTEB), 2024-2025
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia