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Byford Tsang

Sustainability & Climate Strategy | ESG Reporting

€868/day
London, GB
15+ years
Reporting
Sustainable development
ESG
Data analysis
Corporate strategy

Average response time: 1 hour

About Byford

Byford Tsang is a sustainability and strategy adviser with experience across ESG analytics, climate policy, and geopolitical risk. He has led sustainability reporting, supply chain environmental assessment, and climate risk analysis for multinational clients using TCFD, SASB, GRI, and science-based targets. His background includes sustainable finance and environmental data at S&P Global, supply chain sustainability consulting in Asia, philanthropic climate grantmaking, and current policy advisory work on climate, energy, and industrial strategy in Europe and China. He combines technical sustainability expertise with understanding of regulation, geopolitics, and market implications.

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual

  • Cantonese

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • European Council on Foreign Relations
    Senior Policy Fellow, Asia Programme
    January 2024 - Today (2 years and 5 months)
    London, UK
    • • Informs and shapes European discussions on how to reconcile green transition with competitiveness, economic security, trade policy and geopolitical risks, with quotes and commentaries featured on FT, Politico, South China Morning Post, Foreign Policy, Reuters
    • • Designs and leads policy roundtables, workshops, and conference sessions on clean tech geopolitics and industrial policy
    • • Engages senior policymakers, industry representatives, think tanks in Brussels, Berlin, Rome, Warsaw and other European capitals to test assumptions, gather intelligence & strengthen advisory outputs
    • • Authors policy reports and analyses on China's climate, clean tech, trade and industrial policies, and their implications to European energy, economic and security objectives
    Chinese
  • E3G
    Senior Policy Adviser, Climate Diplomacy & Geopolitics Team
    January 2020 - January 2024 (4 years)
    London, UK
    • • Led research on EU and China climate policy with direct-reports, manages team budget and leads outreach to governments and funders to raise funds for the team
    • • Worked with leading foreign policy think tanks in Europe and China to shape the role of climate in Eu China relations, including European Council on Foreign Relations, European Policy Centre, Institut
    Jacques Delors, Institut Montaigne, Energy Foundation China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences
    • • Provided comments and analyses on China's climate politics regularly on a variety of media outlets, including the FT, Reuters, Associated Press, Politico, Foreign Affairs, and Wall Street Journal
    • • Facilitated policy discussions on EU's and China's climate policies between think tankers and
    policymakers at the European Commission, the European Parliament, German Bundestag, Germany's Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action and the UK's COP26 Presidency's Office
    • • Produced policy briefings to inform European and Chinese policymakers, on topics including China's coal & renewable energy policies, EU's carbon tariff, China's climate financing in the Global South
    Chinese Writing Data analysis
  • S&P Global
    Senior Analyst, Trucost
    January 2017 - January 2020 (3 years)
    London, UK
    • • Team leader of supply chain sustainability practice, managing projects to assess and report climate, environment and social data across value chains for clients in EU, US and Asia in accordance with GRI, SASB, SBTi and TCFD frameworks; supporting commercial teams on proposals and sales pitches
    • • Research manager of the first Metals and Mining Climate Risk Analysis at S&P Global, an initiative to assess physical and regulatory risks from climate change across 1,100 coal and metal mines globally
    • • Managed teams across London, New York, Mumbai to deliver projects for clients in EU, US and Asia
    Sustainability Strategy ESG Sustainable development CSRD Reporting
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Education

  • Master of Science in
    London School of Economics and Political Science
    2010
    Master of Science in
  • Bachelor of Social Science
    Chinese University of Hong Kong
    2009
    Bachelor of Social Science
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Skill set

CSRD
Scope 3
Sustainability Strategy
Regulatory Strategy
Sustainable Production

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