Since 1992, BEC has provided a cross-sector platform for senior government officials and top business leaders to share and contribute input to policies that shape the agenda for sustainability and competitiveness. Highlighted below are some of our keynote speakers:
- Mr Louis Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), United Kingdom
- Mr Larry Beasley, Co-director of Planning, City of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada
- Mrs Anson Chan, JP, former Chief Secretary, HKSAR Government
- Ms Chen Ying, Board Member of United Nation Global Compact
- Dr Edgar Cheng, Chairman, Council for Sustainable Development
- Mr Paul Clements-Hunt, Head of Secretariat, UN Environment Program Finance Initiative, Switzerland
- Mr Edoardo Gai, Head of Sustainability Services, SAM Research
- Mr Sean Gilbert, Director of Technical Development, Global Reporting Initiative
- The Rt Honourable John Gray, former Chairman of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank Corporation
- Mr Martin Hancock, Chair, United Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), UK
- Ms Ann Heywood, Chairman, President's Sustainability Committee, RICS, United Kingdom
- Prof David Jackman, Chairman of the British Standards Committee for Sustainable, Primary Author of BS8900, Co-Founder of Ethics Foundation
- The Honourable Sir Michael Kadoorie, Chairman of CLP Holdings Board
- Mr Fred I Kent III, President, Project for Public Spaces, New York, USA
- Mr Rob Law, former Director of Environmental Protection Department, HKSAR
- Mr Bowen Leung, Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, HKSAR
- The Honourable Mr Leung Chun-ying, GBS, JP, Convenor of Executive Council, HKSAR Government
- Mr Lin Mu-Sheng, Guangdong Provincial Vice Governor
- Mr Steve McAdam, Founder and Director, Fluid, London, United Kingdom \
- The Rt Honourable Chris Patten, former Governor of Hong Kong
- Mr Pan Yue, President of China Environmental Culture Promotion Association
- Mr Peng Hua-Gang, Director of Research Office, State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council
- Mr Alfred Sit, Assistant Director for Electrical and Mechanical Services Department, HKSAR
- Mr John Strickland, former Chairman of the Hongkong Shanghai Bank Corporation
- Mr EkKia Tan, Chairman of Shell Companies North East Asia
- Sir Crispen Tickell, former Sustainable Development advisor to the UK Government
- The Honourable Mr Donald Tsang, GBS, JP, Chief Executive of HKSAR (while in the role of Financial Secretary)
- The Honourable Dr Tung Chee Hwa, former Chief Executive, HKSAR
- Ms Jirong Wang, Vice Minister, State Environmental Protection Administration, PRC
- Ms Fiona Waters, Director, GHK, Hong Kong, China
- Mr Peter Woo, Chairman of Wheelock and Company
- Mrs Lily Yam, JP, former Secretary of the Environment and Food, HKSAR
- The Honourable Mr Edward Yau, JP, Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR
- Ms Gloria Jun Zhang, Chief Operating Officer, Horizon Research Consultancy Group, Beijing, China
- Prof Zhang Guo-You, Vice President of Peking University Council