New World Voices With Lin Zhang, Chief Sustainability Advisor of The Natural Step China

With today’s increasingly developing complexities, we’re having to step out of our comfort zones and learn to accept a level of uncertainty until the answers arise. Lin delivers a down to earth approach to finding solutions that address climate change via asking better questions and thinking about things on a deeper level inside of our imagination.

Lin Zhang is the Chief Sustainability Advisor and Head of Advisory and Innovation Services of The Natural Step China. She has rich and deep experiences in sustainability projects across various industries, different sized multinational and national business/organizations, from international brands to local manufactures, from Fortune 500 to family-owned local dying mill.

Lin is also an industry tutor at China-UK Low Carbon College, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and start-up mentor for Impact Hub Shanghai. She often speaks at Chinese Sustainability Conferences and other relevant events.

Before joining The Natural Step, she had 10+ years in ASIC and Telecom industries both as an R&D engineer and project manager (Switchcore, Ericsson), as well as vice president of Corporate Development (Packet Architects). Lin holds double master degrees, in EE (system on chip) & business (Sustainable Business Leadership) both from Lund University, Sweden.