Ir Albert Lai () is the Climate Strategy Leader of Deloitte China and the former CEO of Carbon Care Asia, a mission-driven business in carbon strategy and sustainability innovation. He is the founding chairman of The Professional Commons, an independent public policy think-tank and the Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development, as well as founding Vice-Chairman of the

Civic Party The Civic Party (CP) is a pro-democracy liberal political party in Hong Kong. It is currently chaired by barrister Alan Leong. The party was formed in 2006 on the basis of the Basic Law Article 45 Concern Group, which was derived from the ...

. He also served as a member of the Commission on Strategic Development, and a member of the Strategy Sub-Committee,

Council for Sustainable Development The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led organization of over 200 international companies. The Council is also connected to 60 national and regional business councils and partner organizations. Its origins ...

, Hong Kong SAR Government. Lai has played an active role in the engineering sector and in the

environmental movement The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse philosophical, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues. Environmentalists a ...

. Having led the

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

NGO delegation to the

World Summit on Sustainable Development The World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002, took place in South Africa, from 26 August to 4 September 2002. It was convened to discuss ustainable developmentorganizations, 10 years after the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. (It was the ...

in 2002, he has taken a leading role in advocating the implementation of sustainable development strategies in Hong Kong. For over two decades up to 2019, he was one of the primary movers in a range of civil society initiatives in the fields of

environmental protection Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair dam ...

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

, heritage conservation,

poverty alleviation Poverty reduction, poverty relief, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty. Measures, like those promoted by Henry George in his economics clas ...

and

sustainability reporting Sustainability reporting refers to the disclosure, whether voluntary, solicited, or required, of non-financial performance information to outsiders of the organization. Generally speaking, sustainability reporting deals with information concerning e ...

in Hong Kong. He also led the Hong Kong NGO Delegation to the

United Nations Climate Change Conference The United Nations Climate Change Conferences are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). They serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties (Conference of the Parties, ...

in Bali in 2007, in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

in 2009 and in Paris in 2015. Lai is an engineer by profession and a Fellow of the UK Institution of Civil Engineers since 2016. He co-founded the China Water Company, an infrastructure investment firm backed by international investors, in 1996 and served as its Managing Director until 2004. Lai received a Bachelor of Science (Engineering) degree in 1980 and a Master of Social Science degree in Urban Studies in 1984 from the

University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the f ...

Public positions

* HKSAR Chief Executive

Election Committee The Election Committee is a Hong Kong electoral college, the function of which is to select the Chief Executive (CE) and, since 2021, to elect 40 of the 90 members of the Legislative Council. Established by Annex I of the Basic Law of Ho ...

, Member, Engineering Sector (since 2006) * The Professional Commons, Founding Chairman (2007-2011); Policy Convenor (since 2011) * Hong Kong People’s Council for Sustainable Development, Founding Chairman (2003 to 2008); Councillor (since 2008) *

Conservancy Association The Conservancy Association () is a Hong Kong non-governmental organisation founded in 1968. The organisation focuses on the protection of the environment and the conservation of natural and cultural heritage. It also seeks to enhance the qu ...

, Chairman (2000 to 2004); Director (since 2005) *

, Founding Vice-chairman (2006 to July 2012) * Engineers Without Borders HK, Convenor and Founding Chairman (2008-2010) * Hong Kong Council of Social Service, Vice-chairman, Policy Research & Advocacy Committee (since 2004) and Member of Executive Committee (2007-2009) * Conservancy Association Centre for Heritage, Founding Chairman (2004 to 2006);Director (since 2007) * Hong Kong Core Values Declaration, one of the three Initiators (2004) * Strategy Sub-Committee,

, HKSAR Government, Member (2003-2009) * Commission on Strategic Development, HKSAR, Member (2005 to 2007) * Stakeholder Council of Global Reporting Initiative,

Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population of 907,976 within the city proper, 1,558,755 in the urban ar ...

, Member (2004 to 2007) * Policy & Public Education Committee, Oxfam Hong Kong, Member (2006 to 2007) * People’s Panel for West Kowloon, Core Member (2004-2009) * Citizen Envisioning @ Harbour, Convenor (2004 to 2007) * HKU Court, Member (2004 to 2005) * HKU Convocation Standing Committee, Member (2002 to 2005)

References

External links

Personal Website
Cantonese people Alumni of the University of Hong Kong Hong Kong engineers Living people Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2007–2012 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2012–2017 Members of the Election Committee of Hong Kong, 2017–2021 Year of birth missing (living people) {{HK-politician-stub, Lai, Albert