Joelle Chen, the Asia sustainability head of property agency Lendlease, has joined LaSalle Funding Administration in an equal function.
The Singaporean calls time on three and a half years with Lendlease, the place she was initially Singapore sustainability director and promoted to move of sustainability in January final yr.
Chen strikes to LaSalle as head of sustainability, Asia Pacific, a task which covers the agency’s key regional territories, which embody China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Australia and Singapore, the place she shall be primarily based. LaSalle is an funding administration agency solely targeted on actual property.
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She shall be answerable for defining LaSalle’s regional sustainability technique, targets and philosophy, co-chair the corporate’s APAC sustainability committee and run its sustainability taskforce.
Chen’s function at Lendlease is not going to get replaced for now, with the corporate’s Melbourne-based group sustainability head Cate Harris absorbing the Asia head of sustainability place. Harris will work with help from native sustainability groups in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan.
Amongst LaSalle’s sustainability commitments is to halve Scope 1 and Scope 2 landlord-controlled operational carbon emissions and Scope 3 emissions by 2030, and obtain internet zero by 2050. Roughly 40 per cent of LaSalle’s property below administration are at present in line to realize internet zero, a proportion the corporate expects to develop because it nudges shoppers to make their very own commitments.
Previous to Lendlease, Chen was Singapore programme director for Beca, an engineering and structure consultancy. An architect by background, Chen began her profession with RDC Architects. She has additionally labored for Singapore’s Financial Growth Board, latterly as head of sensible sustainable cities. She was additionally regional head of World Inexperienced Constructing Council, a non-profit that works to decarbonise the constructed surroundings.
