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Tan Shi Zhou

Sustainability & ESG Consultant

SGS International Certification Services
NYAA Gold Award Holder (2019 Cohort)

Tan Shi Zhou is a sustainability professional and Restoration, advancing action to halt ecosystem
leader with over a decade of experience working degradation and accelerate nature-based solutions
on sustainability initiatives nationally, regionally, in line with SDGs.
and globally. His professional career in sustainability
spans across ESG consulting, sustainable campus Regionally, Shi Zhou serves as the Outreach Lead of
development, and in-house corporate sustainability. Asian Environmental Youth Network (AEYN), a pan-
Having received the NYAA Gold Award in 2019, he Asia network with over 700 members, where he co-
continues to exemplify the GAHA ethos of ‘Service organised the AEYN Mentorship Programme, which
Beyond Gold.’ delivered 1,000+ hours of professional mentoring
to over 160 mentees from across Asia. He was also
Currently, Shi Zhou is the Sustainability & ESG previously a youth panellist of the Southeast Asia
Consultant at SGS, where he delivers strategic ESG Sparkfund by the Global Fund for Children, where he
consulting and sustainability assurance for leading curated and developed a USD250,000 flexible grant
organisations across Asia-Pacific. Previously, as to support youth-led organisations and individual
the Senior Sustainability Executive at Nanyang youths from across Southeast Asia working on
Technological University, he oversaw sustainability environmental sustainability and climate justice
initiatives across education and housing, impacting challenges.
over 6,000 undergraduates annually, and over 16,000
residents on campus. As the Global Sustainability Nationally, Shi Zhou co-founded and served as the
Consultant at Razer, Shi Zhou developed a Vice-Chairperson of Climate Interfaith, a nonprofit
novel calculation methodology for product based in Singapore focusing on the intersectionality
carbon emissions, which the company has since of interfaith cohesion and climate action. Previously,
commercialised. he also served as the chairperson of the United
Nations Global Compact Network Singapore Youth
As Impact & Sustainability Lead at Flint Paper Battery, Organising Committee, co-founded and served as the
he spearheaded the company’s sustainability co-chairperson of the Inter-University Environmental
roadmap. He achieved global recognition, such as Coalition (IUEC), a collective network of sustainability
winning the Best of CES Sustainability Award 2025, student leaders from across Singapore, and served
the Logitech Future Positive Challenge, the IES Most two terms as the president of Earthlink NTU, one
Promising Sustainability Startup Award, and the of the largest student-led sustainability groups in
SGTech Student Techblazer Gold Award. Shi Zhou Singapore.
also founded ACCESS Sustainability, an insect-based
solution startup that has raised over SGD100,000+ to Shi Zhou has been recognised for his work as a
optimise waste management and strengthen food sustainability youth leader globally, in ASEAN and
production systems. in Singapore. He was awarded the Eco-Business
A-List Youth Award (2022), the Common Purpose
Beyond his professional roles, Shi Zhou is an active 25Under25 Global Legacy Award (2023), the ASEAN
volunteer in the sustainability space. He is currently Youth Eco Champion Award (2023), the ASEAN
the board president of Youth4Nature, a global Youth Icon on Sustainability (2024), and Singapore’s
youth-led climate-focused nonprofit working on the EcoFriend Award (2024). He was also selected to
intersectionality between climate and nature, where represent Singapore at the G20 Youth Summit (2024)
he steers strategy and governance, advancing climate and the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative
justice and biodiversity storytelling initiatives across (YSEALI) Professional Fellowship Programme (2025).
30+ countries. At the same time, he is also part of the
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, Through his professional expertise, grassroots
where he supported global youth engagement and leadership, and international advocacy, Tan Shi Zhou
strategic input for the UN Decade on Ecosystem continues to inspire and mobilise communities
toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

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