Bachelor in Business Administration and MBA in International Administration from "l'École des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Montréal", Mr David worked for the past 30 years in the international field. He has occupied many positions in the Canadian International Development Agency in Canada and foreign countries:

From 1973 to 1987, he has been involved in many aspects of the Canadian Aid Program as a management consultant, a senior policy analyst and in a number of management positions. He was involved in the conception of programs in various fields as well as in the delivery of projects, mostly in Africa.

	From 1987 to 1990, he was Counselor, Consul and Regional Director for West Africa at the Canadian Embassy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
	From 1990 to 1995, he was Director General, Policy, Strategic Planning and Operations in the Canadian Partnership Branch, which support and promote the involvement of Canadian institutions, universities municipalities, NGOs and the private sector through cost-sharing arrangement
	From 1995 to 2000, he was Director General of the Industrial Cooperation Division (CIDA Inc.), a program supporting foreign direct investments from Canada to developing countries
	He joined Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in August 2000 as the first Executive Director of the newly created CMHC International. He has played a key role in expanding the international involvement of CMHC in many fields related to housing (housing finance, housing policies, housing market analysis and research, etc...) He is a member of the Management Committee of CMHC
	In 2001, he joined the Executive Committee of the International Union of Housing Finance (IUHF).

Kevin Edmunds is Deputy Director of the Business Environment Council (BEC), a private, not-for-profit and membership-based business association dedicated to sustainability (and secretariat to the HK-BEAM Society). With over 10 years professional experience in Europe and Asia, Mr Edmunds' particular interest lies in the environmental performance of buildings.

Mr Edmunds has overseen the assessment and improvement (in design, construction and operation) of over 200 developments in Asia and Europe. In the early 1990's he helped develop and implement the UK Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method, before secondment to Hong Kong in 1996 to establish the Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method. He has also completed long term monitoring of energy and the indoor environment of over 100 buildings (both residential and commercial), extensive energy and environmental audits for a wide range of portfolios, and the simulation of building performance using computational design tools. His technical and market research includes the Life Cycle Analysis and Costing of buildings, Demand Side Management planning and Time-of-Use electricity rates.

Mr Edmunds graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Manchester (UK, 1989), a masters degree in environmental management from Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK, 1992), and completed his ISO 14001 Advanced Auditor training in Shanghai (1997).

Graduated with a master's degree in Energy Conservation and Management in 1992, Mr. Chan has over ten years of working experience in environmental management and building related consultancy assignments.

He is the lead assessor for HK-BEAM, the Hong Kong Building Environmental Assessment Method which adopts a life cycle analysis approach to appraises the overall environmental performances of buildings. Mr. Chan has provided advice upon sustainable buildings and green facility management for 85 local premises, submitted for voluntary certification to HK-BEAM.

In addition to his role in HK-BEAM, Mr. Chan is also responsible for research, training and consulting projects including the development of Environment Management Systems. To date, he has overseen the development and implementation of Environmental Management Systems for numerous private and public sector clients which have successfully achieved ISO14001 certification, including the Housing Society which is the first developer in Hong Kong to be ISO14001 certified. Mr. Chan has also lead projects which involved life cycle impact appraisal of building products and the identification of environmentally friendly alternatives for government departments. Currently, he is the project management of Housing Authority study which includes the development of a decision making tool from a life cycle assessment and life cycle costing perspective.

Professor Ray Forrest
Professor of Urban Studies & Head of School
Centre for Urban Studies
University of Bristol
UK

Ray Forrest is Professor of Urban Studies and Head of the School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol. He is co-director (with Professor Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow) of the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also a founding member of the recently created Asia Pacific Network of Housing Researchers. His research and teaching interests include housing and social policy, the sociology of housing, neighbourhood change and the political economy of cities. He has published widely on housing and urban issues. His books include Selling the Welfare State: The Privatisation of State Housing (with Alan Murie); Home Ownership-Differentiation and Fragmentation (with Alan Murie and Peter Williams); Housing and Family Wealth-Comparative International Perspectives (with Alan Murie) and Housing and Social Change-East / West Perspectives (with James Lee).

Dr Yip Ngai Ming
City University of Hong Kong,
HKSAR

Yip Ngai Ming is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong. He has a social work degree from University of Hong Kong and a PhD from York University in the UK. He has completed a research project on tenant participation of Hong Kong and is currently conducting another research looking at the fifty years of public housing development in Hong Kong. Both projects are supported by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong. He also has written on the neigbhourhood of contemporary Hong Kong, Hong Kong as a global city as well as on housing management in the private sector. Academic papers related to such research have been published on Urban Studies, Housing Studies and Sociology Review. He is currently collaborating with Dr. Adrienne La Grange of City University and Prof. Ray Forrest of Bristol University in the UK on a comparative study of the neighbourhood in Hong Kong, GuangZhou and Taipei.