ANREV ESG Webinar Series - Session 1

17 Mar 2020 @ Web Access

This webinar was the first instalment in a serie, which looked at material issues in the sustainability performance of real estate investments. In this series, presenters from leading organizations will take you through their ESG practices, as well as touching upon key components of GRESB’s Real Estate Assessment.

In line with GRESB’s assessment, the webinar series delivered in three different sessions, covered all the assessment’s components;

Session	Date	Component	Presenters
1	Tuesday, 17 March 2020	Management	APG Lendlease
2	Thursday, 26 March 2020	Performance	Lasalle CITIC Capital
3	Tuesday, 14 April 2020	Development	Investa White Peak (TBC)

At this session, Amélie Delaunay, Director of Research and Professional Standards at ANREV joined by Ruben Langbroek, Head of Asia Pacific at GRESB provided an introduction of ANREV’s ESG initiatives, as well as on GRESB’s Real Estate Assessment; followed by presentations by Jonathan Waite, Manager of Global Responsible Investments and Governance at APG Asset Management and Chewy Chang, Sustainability Manager at Lendlease, who touched upon the ESG practices of their respective organizations.

Date	:	Tuesday 17 March 2020
Time	:	11:00 – 11:30 (HK Time GMT +8)
Presentation and recording	:	Plesae visit Publication page
Attendee	:	This webinar is open for ANREV members only

Presenters bios:

	Jonathan Waite Manager, Global Responsible Investment & Governance, APAC APG Asset Management Asia Jon is a Chartered Engineer and began his career designing some of Europe’s most sustainable buildings, after eight years he moved to Hong Kong to develop and implement sustainability and energy strategies with a global financial institutions in Asia. He has recently completed a Masters in Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cambridge, which included a dissertation on Climate Risk and Resilience for Commercial Real Estate in Asia.
	Chewy Chang Sustainability Manager Lendlease Funds and Asset Management Chewy joined Lendlease in 2016 and is responsible for the implementation and monitoring of environmental, social and governance (ESG) related activities that support the Responsible Property Investment Strategies of Lendlease’s managed real estate funds. Before joining Lendlease, he held sustainability and real estate advisory roles for companies in Australia and the United States. Chewy holds a Bachelor of Architecture (hons) and Master of Property Development from UNSW Sydney.
	Amélie Delaunay Director, Research & Professional Standards ANREV Amélie Delaunay is the Director of Research and Professional Standards for ANREV. She is responsible for the development and implementation of ANREV’s Research, Performance Measurement and Professional Standards programmes in Asia Pacific, including market information and performance indices, global surveys and promotion of best practices for the industry. Amélie has more than 17 years of experience in the real estate industry and a strong real estate consulting background initially with Ernst & Young. She has been based in Asia for more than 13 years. Educated at the Sorbonne in Paris, where she was awarded a post graduate degree in Urban Geography, Town Planning and Real Estate, Amélie also has an Advanced Master's Degree in Urban and Real Estate Management from ESSEC Business School in Paris. Amélie is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
	Ruben Langbroek Head of Asia Pacific GRESB Ruben Langbroek is Head of Asia Pacific for GRESB. Mission-driven and investor-led, GRESB is the environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmark for real assets. GRESB works in collaboration with the industry to provide standardized and validated ESG data to the capital markets. More than 100 institutional investors, with over USD 22 trillion in AUM, use GRESB data to monitor their investments, engage with their managers, and make decisions that lead to a more sustainable real asset industry. Ruben is responsible for the strategic development of GRESB in Asia Pacific, by strengthening and further developing GRESB’s relationship with institutional investors, investment managers, asset operators, and industry associations. Ruben has extensive experience in the real asset investment sector and has been working in the Asia Pacific region for the last decade. He previously worked at a Dutch fund manager, and at JLL in the Netherlands, Hong Kong and in Singapore. Ruben holds Master degrees n Building Engineering and in Real Estate, Investments.