Sammie Leung is the PwC’s regional subject matter expert of ESG and climate services covering markets include Hong Kong, Mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan. Sammie is the founding member of the Hong Kong China team of 600+ ESG professionals where the PwC ESG practice categorises the key services into four key areas: Sustainable Finance, Responsible Investment, Climate Change and Sustainable Value Chains.

Sammie assists clients in setting science-based target, decarbonisation strategy design and implementation. Sammie also works closely with clients in their TCFD adoption journey, which include identify, assess, quantify, manage, and disclose climate-relating risks and opportunities.

In addition to advising 100+ companies in ESG disclosures, Sammie has in-depth understanding with how the financial services sector integrate ESG and climate-related factors as their risk assessment and investment processes.

Sammie is the partner in charge of developing PwC’s proprietary digital assets include the PwC ESG Reporting Tool and Climate-relating risks assessment Tool (enabled science-model scenario analysis / NGFS framework)

In addition to client serving, Sammie serves the wider community through active participation of knowledge sharing event and the following capacity:
• Sustainability & Climate Taskforce of the Hong Kong Financial Reporting Council
• ESG Working Group of the Hong Kong Securities Institute
• Green Finance expert, Academy of Finance
• ESG Working Group and Policy Working Group of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association
• Audit Committee member of Tung Wah College

Priscilla Luk serves as Managing Director, Head of Global
Research & Design, APAC, at S&P Dow Jones Indices
(S&P DJI). She is responsible for the conceptualization and
design of new indices using a combination of analytical,
commercial, and regulatory considerations. Priscilla also
regularly publishes research on new and existing products,
and represents S&P DJI at media engagements,
conferences, and other client events.
Prior to joining S&P DJI in 2012, Priscilla spent over ten
years in equity research providing analysis on asset
allocation and equity investment strategies. Previously,
Priscilla was an Asian equity strategist with Deutsche Bank
AG and also served as a partner and the director of
research at First Horse Capital, a global equity hedge fund
management company. Prior to this, Priscilla worked as
global and Asian strategist at Mirae Asset Securities.
Priscilla also worked as a global equity strategist and Asian
equity strategist at Citigroup Global Markets. She joined
Citigroup from CLSA Asia Pacific Markets where she was a
quantitative research analyst. Priscilla started her career in
the quantitative research division at Credit Suisse in 2001.
Priscilla graduated with a B.Sc. in quantitative finance from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Ms Taie Wang is currently the Chief Sustainable & Emerging Business Officer at Hang Seng Indexes Company, responsible for the business development of emerging business lines, including ESG and Smart Beta indexes, data, analytics and solutions. Before joining the company, she was the Deputy Head of Research at a global asset management firm. Taie has over 18 years of experience in the financial industry and led self-indexing, ESG and Smart Beta research and strategy development. In 2015, she developed the Gender Diversity Index, which led to the launch of SHE, the world’s first ETF that promotes gender equality. Taie has published extensively in peer reviewed international journals such as the Journal of Portfolio Management and the Journal of Index Investing. She holds a MS in Finance and MS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BS degree with a double major in English for Science and Technology and Industrial Economics from Tianjin University. Taie is a Chartered Financial Analyst.