Dr. Ma Jun is the Chairman and President of Hong Kong Green Finance Association and the Founder and President of the Institute of Finance and Sustainability. He serves as the Chairman of the Green Finance Committee of the China Society for Finance and Banking, Co-Chair of the G20 Sustainable Finance Working Group, Co-Chair of the IPSF Working Group of Taxonomy, Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Green Investment Principles for the Belt & Road, a Member of China's National Environmental Expert Committee, and a Member of the Advisory Council of the European Climate Foundation.

Between 2018 and 2020, Dr. Ma was a member of the Monetary Committee of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), while serving as Director of the Center for Finance and Development at the PBC School of Tsinghua University. Between 2014 and 2017, he was the Chief Economist at the PBOC and a member of the central bank's Macro-Prudential Committee. Before joining the PBOC, he worked for 13 years at Deutsche Bank, where he was Managing Director/Chief Economist/Investment Strategist for Greater China. From 1992-2000, he worked as a senior economist and economist at the World Bank and the IMF, and earlier, as a research fellow at the Development Research Center of China's State Council. Dr. Ma received his Ph.D. in Economics from Georgetown University in 1994 and his master's degree in Management Science from Fudan University in 1988.

In 2015, Dr. Ma led the drafting of China's green finance guidelines and green bond standard. Since then, he has played a key role in developing the global consensus on green finance under the G20 framework, the Green Investment Principles of the Belt & Road, the IPSF Common Ground Taxonomy, and the NGFS work on biodiversity and financial stability.

Ronnie C. Chan is the Chair of Hang Lung Group Limited and its subsidiary Hang Lung Properties Limited, both publicly listed in Hong Kong. The Group expanded into mainland China in 1992, developing, owning and managing world-class commercial complexes in key tier one and tier two cities. He founded and chairs the China Heritage Fund, is a co-founding Director of The Forbidden City Cultural Heritage Conservation Foundation in Beijing and is former Vice President and former Advisor of the China Development Research Foundation in Beijing. Mr. Chan is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Chair Emeritus of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, and Co-Founder and Chairman of the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society. He serves or has served on the governing or advisory bodies of several think tanks and universities, which include the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the World Economic Forum, the East-West Center, the Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, the University of Southern California, the Indian School of Business, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Yale University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.