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Dr. Lu Jian Zhong, currently Board Member of Global Reporting Initiative GRI and Deputy Director General of China CSR Think Tank，Deputy Chairman of Shanghai Foreign Invested Association。 

He performed many senior executive roles for more than 20 years in a variety of industry sectors and multinational companies, such as President General Affairs Essilor Greater China, President China of The Weir Group, and Global Partner of Brunswick Group, Executive Vice President of Singapore RGE Group (China) and Chief Representative, Chairman of RGE subsidiary Asia Symbol Paper & Pulp Ltd, Acting President of BHP Billiton (China). In his roles of leading China operation in the companies, he made significant contribution to help those companies establish and promote their business strategy, commercial development and growth, organizational development, operating excellency and continuous improvement, social responsibility, employee engagement and development, corporate branding and profiling, risk and crisis management as well as sustainability initiatives. He has been also performed as corporate coach and personal development coach inspiring many CEOs, senior executives, and entrepreneurs to exceed their limits and achieve break-through as well as helping their organizations to achieve higher goals of business growth and sustainable development.  

Dr Lu is a well-known pioneer of sustainable business strategy and well-respected industry thought leader, with profound and systematic practical expertise and theoretical methodologies. Dr. Lu is the founder of “Sustainable Business strategy Paradigm”, “Sustainable Business Strategy Design Model and Leadership Model for Sustainability”, “Hybrid Compass Model for ESG Strategy Evaluation Framework”, “CSR Thought Systematic Methodology”. He has acquired profound and pragmatic industrial expertise in stakeholder engagement, materiality identification, corporate strategy and roadmap design, business-society ecosystem development and shared value creation. His forward thinking and tireless action have deeply influenced and motivated many companies’ executives, young entrepreneurs, and students to join the sustainability journey.  

Dr Lu is also Deputy Director of Sustainability Council of China Academic Committee of Management, Member of PRME Committee China (UN Principles for Responsible Management Education), Member of the Examination and Curriculum Committee of Hongkong Institute of Education for Sustainable Development, invited expert of the China Federation of Industries and Economics Think Tank, member of Shenzhen Municipal Strategic Advisory Board for advanced manufacturing, Promoter of China 100 people CSR Forum, Founding Director of Ziya Business School. He was former co-Chair of Sustainable Business Committee of Shanghai American Chamber and Shanghai British Chamber, Chairman of British Chamber China ESG Awards 2022 and 2023, Chairman of the First Session of Supervision Committee of the Shanghai Foreign Investment Association, Chairman of the Asia Sustainable Supply Chain Summit 2023.  

Dr. Lu is a guest professor at Nankai University, invited speaker to many EMBA and MBA programs at Hongkong City University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University Management School and Zhejiang University International Business School, Shenzhen Institute of International Philanthropy, as well as gust speaker to many leading companies’ annual conferences (Yili Group, Allianz Group, StoraEnzo, DSM, etc.). He has been an invited key-note speaker for many of the most important annual international and regional sustainability conferences over the last 10 years. Dr. Lu is the column writer for “China Business News”, “Economy Observation”, and editor-in-Chief and co-author of the book “The Road of Vision” which is a publication illustrating the development and success of Essilor (China) in China market.  

Dr. Lu acquired PhD of Ecommerce (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) .