Tan heads CWR, a non-profit that aims to “mainstream” water & climate risks into financial decision-making & corporate strategies. She built CWR from an idea into a ‘go-to’ resource in the global climate water risk conversation. Today, CWR’s decade+ of work on assessing & valuing risk exposure to rising water scarcity & coastal threats is highlighted in TCFD’s Knowledge Hub, technical guides for disclosure (IFRS/CDSB, SBTN, CDP) and various textbooks. Her research & reports unpacking water risks with financial institutions & government-related organisations in China are considered groundbreaking and instrumental in understanding not just China’s but future global water challenges. CWR was part of China’s Environmental Risk Analysis Task Force as well as a founding member of Hong Kong’s Green Finance Association, both spearheaded by global green finance guru Dr. Ma Jun. As a thought leader in the climate-water space, Tan continues to passionately push for new ways forward to redefine water risk and drive “waternomics” and “development unusual” in a changing climate. Worried about accelerated ice melt, she has also steered CWR to tackle mountains-to-oceans “river risks” as well as engage banks/corporates on “stress testing right” to see impacts from fast rising seas across Asia Pacific. Now, she is urging a “climate water risk rethink” for a water secure & resilient future “we must deliver rapid carbon cuts to “slow down” rising water risks to protect our coastal cities & common waters – we have no economy, no food, no energy and no life without water”. Tan is a prolific speaker and is widely cited by media, IGOs, banks to the IPCC. She is also published by SpringerNature, Palgrave McMillan & China policy journals and was a contributing author to the Water chapter in the IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts Adaptation & Vulnerability report. Before venturing into the water space, Tan spent over a decade in finance. She spends her spare time exploring Himalayan glaciers. Thought leader in climate & water risks | seeks to inspire grand change | part time ice explorer but full-time worrier of melting ice