Genevieve Ding heads up APAC Sustainability for JPMorgan, leading the firm’s regional sustainability engagement strategy, working in close partnership with in-market leaders across APAC and engaging with stakeholders to support the climate- and sustainability-related banking and investment needs of clients.
Prior to joining JPMorgan, Genevieve was with Amazon/Amazon Web Services (AWS), leading Carbon Credits and Nature-based Solutions across APAC for Amazon’s Worldwide Sustainability team and responsible for constructing and managing Amazon’s portfolio of carbon projects in APAC, including establishing partnerships with ecosystem players to unlock climate finance and scale high-integrity carbon credits. Previously, she was Head of Sustainability Policy Strategy for APAC at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working with local and international AWS leadership to closely engage key government officials and wider policy stakeholders on technology policies for sustainable innovation. This includes overseeing sustainability innovation efforts for data centre infrastructure and cloud services in Singapore and Asean, and facilitating energy and carbon innovation for AWS. She sits on the International Advisory Boards of the International Blue Carbon Institute, and Climate Impact X, and a Singapore Institute of International Affairs’ Emerging Leader. She is a member of Women in Carbon and was Co-Chair of the Asia Cloud Computing Association’s Sustainability Committee.
Prior to joining AWS, Genevieve was a Public Service Commission scholar and spent almost 15years in the Administrative Service of the Singapore Government in four ministries and agencies. She served in the Singapore Foreign Service as a diplomat in Beijing overseeing China’s economy and trade policies, before and taking up the role of Head, Economic Strategy at the Ministry of Finance where she was Singapore’s climate finance negotiator and developed Singapore’s first carbon pricing frameworks, including the first carbon tax drawer plan. She has almost two decades of experience in sustainability, and worked closely with Singapore’s political leadership in the Foreign Affairs, Finance, and National Development ministries to develop pioneering national policies on climate finance and carbon pricing, climate change mitigation and adaptation; and national R&D, energy innovation, tech and enterprise policies to improve Singapore’s economic competitiveness in a sustainable way. She is also Strategic Advisor on Sustainability to Teja Ventures, Asia’s first gender lens venture capital fund.
Outside of work, Genevieve is a proud mother of three! She is also an advocate for social and women’s issues as founding Chapter Leader for Lean In Singapore and as a Grassroots leader in the community and schools, and thoroughly enjoys solo traveling to document social issues.
Genevieve holds multiple BAs from Duke University in the US in Political Science, Philosophy and Economics, an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford (concentration in Global Financial Governance), and a Certificate in Climate and Energy Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She also has a Certificate in Documentary Filmmaking from New York Film Academy, and a yoga teacher certification.