How Will Renewable Energy Components Recover from the Supply Chain Crisis?

Prior to COVID-19, offshore wind was expected to compete with fossil-fuel-generated energy and significantly impact the energy transition. However, due to the current supply chain component shortage, the likes of Vestas and SGRE have more than 30 gigawatts of new global capacity at risk. There are numerous challenges, but many companies are dealing with them […]

Survey: Impact of COP26 and Net Zero Strategy

In general terms, enterprises seem to be aware of the issues surrounding climate change, the need to reduce CO2 emissions, and the need to ensure environmental protection. In the UK, government has laid out a Net Zero Strategy that plans to reduce emissions to net zero in 2050. However, there is mixed knowledge of what […]

Looking at the Southeast Asian Logistics Landscape

Due to COVID-19, what had been a decidedly dull investment sector — logistics — suddenly has become very sexy. While COVID brought attention and more business to the sector, underlying trends that existed pre-COVID continue to propel it. Chief among these have been wage increases in China, which have led many manufacturers to move their […]

The Current Economics of Carbon Capture and Storage

As climate concerns mount, controlling greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has become a priority of governments, businesses, and the public. Fortunately, techniques involving carbon capture and storage (CCS) are on the verge of a long-expected takeoff in usage. Growth of CCS Over the past year, the world has seen a 30% jump in potential CO2 capture […]

Analyzing the Indian E-Commerce Logistics Market

India’s online shopping market is huge and fast-growing. The nation’s current 100 million online shoppers should grow to 350 million by 2025, with daily shipments growing from the current 8 million currently to about 25 million — a 40% compound annual growth rate. Not unexpectedly, this growth will pose several challenges for e-commerce logistics in […]

eBook | The Road Ahead for Electric Vehicles

Signs continue to grow that electric vehicles (EVs) will outnumber combustion engine vehicles sooner than we might think. Mercedes-Benz plans to become all electric by the end of the decade, and Hyundai plans to double its portfolio of fuel cell vehicles from three to six within two years. The Chinese auto manufacturer BYD sold 40,116 […]

Survey: Petrochemical Market Overview

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the petrochemicals market has been severe, and as a result, the first half of 2021 saw performance fall below expectations across certain segments of this space. However, experts in the field are optimistic that a return to pre-COVID-19 levels is possible by the first half of 2023. Petrochemical […]

Opportunities in Industrial Water and Wastewater

In the past, the water and wastewater industries were relatively slow moving. Their technologies traditionally have been used for decades and trends that have marked the business for many years — water conservation, reduced chemical usage, and reduced energy consumption — are likely to continue. But the fast-changing pace of technology is having its impact. […]

Survey: COVID-19 Impact on Airlines and Aircraft Lessors

The early impact of COVID-19 on airlines was significant. Nonessential air travel was shut down, flights were grounded, and personnel were furloughed. The industry reached its low point in March and April of 2020, and it’s been a slow climb back ever since. As of August 2021, the airline industry has not yet returned to […]

E-Commerce Logistics Challenges in Southeast Asia

With COVID-19 spawning a boom in e-commerce throughout Southeast Asia, delivery players in the region are grappling with ways to maintain and build on their success. To gain insights into developments in the region, Jasmine Joh from the financial services team at GLG Singapore recently spoke with Chang Wen Lai, co-founder and CEO of Ninja […]

Investment Opportunities in Municipal Water

The municipal water and wastewater industry is conservative and not easily open to technological innovation, but huge opportunities exist for companies and their investors, says Dr. Bertrand Dussert, a technology and business professional in the water and wastewater treatment industry and former Global Treatment Strategy Manager at Xylem, Inc. To learn more, Monica Dealy of […]

Speaker Biographies

Hilary Malone PhD, has over 25 years of experience in global drug development, regulatory &government affairs, manufacturing and commercialization within the biopharma industry. Hilary hassignificant board level and executive committee experience including large scale organizationalrestructuring/transformation/integration, major M&A, biotech start-up, capital raising, investorrelations and pre-IPO.​

Hilary is currently CEO of Stylus Medicine, a private genetic medicine biotech company. Previously sheserved as CEO of a Series-A neuroscience company. Prior to these roles, Hilary served as COO & EVP atValo Health Inc., Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP at Sanofi Inc., and Chief Regulatory Officer & SVP atPfizer and Wyeth. Previous experience also includes senior regulatory and drug development roles atReata Pharmaceuticals Inc., AstraZeneca plc and GlaxoSmithKline plc.​

Hilary also serves on the Board of Directors of Hansa Biopharma and Adthera Bio. Hilary holds a PhD inMolecular Neuropharmacology and a BSc in Physiology.

Dr. Thomas Lönngren is Director at his own company PharmaExec Consulting AB. He is the Chairman of the Board of directors at Egetis Therapeutics AB, Sweden. Dr Lönngren also serves as board member at Compass Pathways PLC, London UK and NDA Group, Sweden. He acts as advisor to the following companies and organizations: NDA group, Sweden, Sweden, Artis Venture, San Francisco, US, Fujimoto Japan, Skin2Neuron Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia, US, Special advisor to the Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science (CIRS), London UK. From 2001 until2011, Mr.Lönngren served as the Executive Director of the European Medical Agency. He was previously Deputy General Director of the Swedish Medical Product Agency until 2000. He has a degree in pharmacy and MSc in Social and Regulatory Pharmacy from Uppsala University. He is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Great Britain, Honorary Doctorate from the University of Uppsala, Honorary Doctorate from University of Bath, UK.

Speaker Biographies

Marie-Anne Aymerich

Marie-Anne has built a portfolio of senior advisory and non-executive roles, following a successful international career in the FMCG and Luxury sectors. She is a non-executive director of Haleon, a FTSE100 company listed in 2022 after the demerger from GSK. She is also chairwoman of Haleon Environment and Societal Sustainability committee. She is the executive director of the Pierre Fabre Group where she also sits on the Strategic Committee, and she is a Board Member of The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, one of the world’s most prestigious chamber orchestras. She is also an angel investor and focuses her time and investments on start-ups with the strongest purpose and impact.

Marie-Anne is also a regular lecturer at HEC Paris on purposeful leadership, and she has created a serious game called “Planet Purpose” to upskill people on sustainability and purpose. Throughout her 35year executive career she delivered a strong track-record of business performance and growth in brands and portfolio in both developed and emerging economies.

As a senior leader with Unilever, she led a number of different personal care categories across France, Spain and the USA – including managing the Dove brand worldwide and culminating in leading Unilever’s global Oral Care division. She also worked for LVMH as Brand General Manager of Dior Perfumes and Cosmetics worldwide. Marie-Anne was also Vice-President of Imagine for Margo – Children with Cancer for ten years, a charity she helped found in 2011 with the goal of eradicating children’s cancer. The charity is the #1 charity focused on child cancer in France and has fundraised more than €14m since its creation. Marie-Anne is a graduate from HEC Paris. She is married and has two children aged 29 and 26.

Patrick Jephson

Patrick Jephson is a consultant, journalist, broadcaster and New York Times bestselling author, based in Washington D.C. He is a published authority on corporate and personal branding and crisis communications, addressing conferences worldwide as well as events at the U.S. State Department, the American University and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.

With more than twenty-five years’ experience in the government, luxury and family office sectors, Patrick’s portfolio has included globally admired brands as well as national agencies and NGOs. He has also worked on reputation and legacy briefs with European, Middle Eastern and Asian families, including royalty. He now writes, presents, and advises on factual and drama TV programs, appearing on every major American and many international networks. He was recently an expert consultant to the award-winning Netflix series The Crown and provided live commentary on the Coronation of King Charles.

Patrick owes much of his practical communications and protocol experience to Princess Diana, who chose him to be her equerry and only private secretary/chief of staff. He served the Princess for eight years, responsible for all aspects of her public life, global humanitarian initiatives, and private organization. Having worked for an internationally high-profile woman (and as the father of two professionally successful daughters) he feels a special affinity for cross-cultural, gender and perception issues.

Patrick was born and raised in Ireland and holds a master’s degree in political science from Cambridge University. As an officer in the British Royal Navy, he served all over the world before being selected for royal duty. He is a citizen of the U.K., U.S.A., Ireland, and Canada.