Alex Wyatt

Alex Wyatt is the CEO of Climate Bridge, based in Melbourne. He is responsible for the strategic direction and business operations of the company. Alex is passionate about helping the world at large, and the Asia-Pacific region in particular, come to grips with the massive challenges of preventing climate change and protecting the environment. Alex is recognized as an expert on carbon and sustainability in China, Australia and around the world, and is a regular speaker on the international environmental conference circuit.

Alex speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese, and in 2009, he was included in the Advance Asia 50, recognising him as one of the fifty most influential Australians in Asia. He is also a member of the advisory board of GECKO, a Shanghai-based environmental charity, focussed on improving the level of environmental education amongst primary school students in impoverished areas of China.

Prior to founding Climate Bridge, Alex worked in the Shanghai office of McKinsey and Company, where he worked with state-owned and multi-national companies in the Chinese transportation sector, undertaking a number of different projects to help optimize rail, sea and trucking networks throughout China. Alex has also worked for the Boston Consulting Group and Hearne Scientific Software in Australia, where he helped to start and manage a variety of new business ventures. Alex holds law and computer science degrees from the University of Melbourne and an MBA and a Masters in Chinese Studies from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Zhang Zemin

Zhang Zemin is a Director of Climate Bridge based in Shanghai.  Zemin oversees all the activities of Climate Bridge’s China offices in Shanghai, Gansu, Hubei, Henan, Hunan and Hainan.  He is also the Chief Legal Representative of Climate Bridge’s various legal entities in China.  Zemin heads up Climate Bridge’s project development, project sourcing and project registration teams.  He is greatly respected in the China carbon market for his professionalism, expertise, and his unyielding passion to take the “green revolution” to the most far-flung corners of rural China. 

Zemin has almost 20 years of business experience in China.  Prior to joining Climate Bridge, he worked for London Asia Capital Plc, a UK AIM listed investment banking group, as the Investment Director for China Operations, where he oversaw and coordinated investments and exits by a number of LAC's investee companies in China.  He also has work experience at Beijing Yibin Management Consulting Co., where he was the Chief Operations Officer, the National Audit Office of China, Carrefour, and an American venture capital group.

Zemin holds an MBA from Oxford University, a Masters of Commerce from the University of New South Wales (Australia) and an undergraduate degree from the University of Wuhan, China.  He is also a China qualified accountant (CPA) and a member of the ACCA in Australia. 

Cameron Hepburn

Cameron Hepburn is a Director of Climate Bridge based in London. He provides policy guidance and advice on the opportunities arising from the evolving climate policy regime and contributes to Climate Bridge's European operations. He is well-known in Europe for his expertise in climate change economics, business and policy, and he has been active in the environmental and climate change areas for over a decade.

Cameron is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment at Oxford, where he teaches on the Masters programme in Environmental Change and Management. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He is recognized as a thought leader in climate economics and his research has been published in numerous leading international journals.

In 2006, he wrote two background research papers to the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, and Sir Nicholas Stern presented some of his central conclusions in Oxford in early 2007. Cameron is also a member of UK Defra's Academic Panel and has advised the UK government and the OECD on some of their most challenging environmental concerns. Cameron has been interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Analysis and More or Less, and the World Business Review on the BBC World Service. His work has been highlighted in UK broadsheets such as the Financial Times, and he contributed to a wide-ranging review of climate change in The Economist.

Cameron previously worked for McKinsey in Australia and Europe, where he focused on logistics and starting new businesses, and Shell Australia on environmental management. Cameron holds first class degrees in law and chemical engineering from Melbourne University, and a masters and doctorate in economics from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar).