Kalmond joined The Climate Group in the summer of 2007 to establish and head its operations in Hong Kong and now manages the organisation’s strategic development in Hong Kong and the PRD Region.
Kalmond developed a passion for the environment in Hong Kong through his years of service at Friends of the Earth (HK) for a wide range of community and corporate programmes. He has over a decade’s experience of working with NGOs, businesses, governments and academics in pursuit of environmental sustainability.
He was Assistant Director of the Centre for Environmental Management Education and Development at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University under the World Resources Institute’s BELL (Business, Environment, Learning & Leadership) Program. It aimed at promoting sustainability in business education and supporting the integration of environmental topics into business school curricula and research management initiatives throughout China and the Asia Pacific Region. Subsequently he worked for CK Life Sciences Int’l, Inc, a member of the Cheung Kong Group. He managed strategic projects pertaining to the sustainability of the environment with government and non-government organisations.
Kalmond holds an HonBSc degree in Ecology and Environmental Studies from the University of Toronto, Canada and an MSc degree in Environmental Science at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. Prior to joining The Climate Group, he received the Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Awards as a PhD researcher at Queen Mary, University of London from 2005 to 2007 for a research project on holistic waste management and carbon sequestration. |
