Dr. Niven Huang was born and grew up in Hualien, and graduated at Ph.D. & M.S., Graduate School of Chemical Engineering, CYCU. He has been the Managing Director of KPMG Sustainability Consulting Co., Ltd., in Taiwan since July of 2013 and was appointed in 2021 as the Head of ESG, KPMG Asia Pacific. He was the Chairman of the Advisory Board of ASrIA (The Association of Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia), which is based in Hong Kong, from 2012-2015. Niven is a pioneer in Taiwan for CSR, ESG, sustainability reporting, corporate sustainability strategy, sustainable finance, and carbon management. Before joining KPMG, he was the Secretary General of the Business Council for Sustainable Development in Taiwan (BCSD-Taiwan) for 16 years. He sits in various committees of government and company in sustainable development and is frequently invited to give speeches on corporate sustainability in domestic and international events.