Digitalization and sustainability are both widely discussed, but their nexus is underexplored and poses significant challenges for governments and industry alike. While digitalization would carry environmental implications, it also has the potential to contribute to sustainability.
What are the major issues faced by the governance system in aligning digitalization with sustainability? How should we harmonize sustainability and digitalisation? Based on the case study of central bank digital currency, solutions will be sought mainly through the paradigm of adaptive governance.
SPEAKER
Professor Heng WANG
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
Heng Wang is a Professor of Law at Yong Pung How School of Law at Singapore Management University (SMU). Before joining SMU, he was a professor at UNSW Sydney.
Heng is a recipient of major grants and awards, including being named Australia's research field leader in international law by The Australian newspaper’s Research 2020 magazine. Heng has advised or been a (keynote) speaker at events organized by international organizations and institutions at events organized by international organizations and institutions (e.g., APEC, BIS, Bundesbank, HCCH, ICC, ICSID, IMF, INTERPOL, UNICTRAL, World Bank, WTO), and the private sector.
His current research focuses on digitalization, sustainable development, and the future of international economic relationships.
Commentators
Professor Rolf H. Weber
Faculty of Law
University of Zurich
Prof. Dr. Rolf H. Weber is Professor of international business law at Zurich University acting there as co-director of the Research Program on Financial Market Regulation, the Center for Information Technology, Society, and Law and the Blockchain Center. Furthermore, he was Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University and he is practicing attorney-at-law in one of the largest independent Swiss law firms in Zurich. Prof. Weber is board member of the Swiss Blockchain Federation and a member of the Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELIN).
Mr. Adrian Ng
Country Representative
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Singapore Branch
Adrian Ng is the Country Representative for Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Singapore Branch. He is responsible for formulating strategies for the legal entity identifier promotion, establishing relationships with regulator, certificate authority, business registry, association and monitoring relevant legal or political trends and collaborating with other business units. Adrian has more than twenty years of experience in digital identity, payments, connectivity across Asia Pacific. He held various positions in the areas of core banking, cash management, trade finance, real-time gross settlement, instant and cross border payment solutions.
CHAIR
Assistant Professor Stefanie Schacherer
SMU Yong Pung How School of Law
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