GREAT Smart Cities Friday Seminar Series - ESG- The Changing Landscape
“Environmental, Social and Governance” (ESG) is playing an increasingly important role in today’s world, there have been more stringent regulations in place to monitor companies’ ESG disclosures, and louder voices from customers to incorporate ESG into companies’ performances. With the growing attention to the topic, Sammie Leung, Partner from PwC Hong Kong ESG Services, will share her insights and market experiences to help students better understand the ESG landscape and how it affects companies around the world.
Sammie Leung is a Partner of ESG Services in PwC Mainland China and Hong Kong. As the subject matter expert, she has long been engaged in ESG and climate change related issues. With a team of 400+ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) professionals, the nationwide practice offers four key services: Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment, Climate Change & Sustainable Value Chains.
Sammie’s team serves 100+ companies, and different policy makers such as HKEX, SFC & HKMA in sustainable finance; together with providing services across different industry sectors, such as Finance Services, Telecommunications, Real Estates, Consumer Markets etc, in ESG disclosure advisory work, including reporting in accordance with major reporting frameworks such as Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and Hong Kong Stock Exchange ESG Guide.
Sammie assists corporate clients in setting science-based target, decarbonisation strategy design and implementation. She also supports clients start or enhance their Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) journey by through identification of climate-related risks, performing science-based scenario analysis, measuring, and disclosing corresponding financial impacts.
Sammie also helps the investor community by developing and enhancing their ESG investment practices from the investor perspective of ESG information, and integrate ESG factors into their risk and investment processes.
For asset managers and owners, Sammie led the SFC survey on integrating Environmental, Social and Governance Factors and Climate Risks in Asset Management in 2019. Her project experience also covers ESG integration framework design, ESG strategy, climate-related risk integration and assessment for different types of investment houses.
Sammie serves multiple roles in professional associations on ESG related matters, including the Academy of Finance (AoF), the Hong Kong Green Finance Association (HKGFA), the Working Group of Centre for Green and Sustainable Finance under the Cross-Agency Steering Group – Working Group – Capability Building. She has been serving as a member of the External Audit Committee of a tertiary education entity in Hong Kong for over seven years.
Sammie is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Accountants (HKICPA) and the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).