Parallel session themes:

• Break-out room 1:
  Corporate Sustainability and Green Innovation
• Break-out room 2:
  Green Finance and Investment
• Break-out room 3:
  Sustainable Supply Chain Management
• Break-out room 4:
  Public Policy and Regulation for Green Growth
• Break-out room 5:
  Green Technology and Digital Transformation

Parallel sessions themes:

• Break-out room 1:
  Corporate Sustainability and Green Innovation
• Break-out room 2:
  Green Finance and Investment
• Break-out room 3:
  Public Policy & Regulation for Green Growth
• Break-out room 4:
  Behavioural Economics and Consumer Preferences

Final conclusions
and closing remarks

Prof. Harald Sander
Professor in Economics and International Economics

Dr. Diederik de Boer
Director a.i. MSM
Director Expert Centre on Emerging Economies
Associate Professor Sustainable Business Development

Frans Timmermans served as the political leader of the Dutch Labour and Green left parties alliance (GroenLinks-PvdA) from 2023 to 2025, and as parliamentary leader in the House of Representatives. Earlier in his career, he was a member of the House of Representatives for the Labour Party (PvdA) from 1998 to 2007 and again from 2010 to 2012.

From 2014 to 2023, Mr. Timmermans was First Vice-President of the European Commission. In the Juncker Commission, he was responsible for Better Regulation, Interinstitutional Relations, the Rule of Law, and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as well as sustainable development. In the Von der Leyen Commission, he led the European Green Deal and the EU’s climate policy agenda.

Mr. Timmermans served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the second Rutte cabinet from 2012 to 2014. Before that, he was State Secretary for European Affairs in the fourth Balkenende cabinet. Earlier in his career, he worked as adviser and private secretary to Max van der Stoel, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.

Dr. Shuming Zhao is the Senior Distinguished Professor and Honorary Dean of the School of Business, and Dean of Xingzhi College Nanjing University, the People's Republic of China.  He serves as President of the International Association of Chinese Management Research (IACMR, Third Term), Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Management, Lifetime Honorary President for Jiangsu Provincial Association of Human Resource Management and Vice President of Jiangsu Provincial Association of Professional Managers.  Since 1994, Dr. Zhao has acted as a management consultant for several Chinese and international firms.  Dr. Zhao is also an independent director of Scully Royalty Co. Ltd. (NYSE: SRL) And Daqo New Energy Corp. (China).  Dr. Zhao has successfully organized and held 11 international symposia on multinational business management，24 National Human Resource Management Faculty Development Conferences, and 13 China Human Resource Management Forums.

Dr. Shuming Zhao received bachelor’s degree on English Language and Literature from Nanjing University in China in 1977, master’s degree in education and Ph.D. in Higher Education and Human Resource Management from Claremont Graduate University in the USA in 1983 and 1990. He worked as Visiting Professor and Post-doctorate Fellow at Florida Atlantic University in 1990-1991. Since 1997, Dr. Zhao has been a visiting professor at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the College of Business, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA, Guest Professor at Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, USA; Honorary Professor of SolBridge International School of Business, South Korea, and Honorary Professor of School of Business, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China.  Dr. Zhao has lectured in countries including the United States, Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Viet Nam.

Dr. Zhao has published more than 20 books, two of which have won the national first-prize awards from the Ministry of Education of China and more than 500 academic papers in the top journals in China and overseas.  He received the 18th World Outstanding Chinese Award on September 8, 2024.  He was re-appointed as Dean of Nanjing University’s Xingzhi College on September 28, 2025.