Yvonne Zhang

Yvonne leads the Sustainability & Climate Change practice for Southeast Asia markets within Deloitte Risk Advisory from Singapore. She has been working with corporates, regulators, exchanges, financial institutions and civil society to unlock value in doing business sustainably. Leveraging her commodities expertise and digital experience, she is uniquely skilled in assisting clients in carbon value chains, responsible sourcing, supply chain de-risking, impact investments, green financing and digital assets.

Legally trained with early exposure to project finance, Yvonne built a 15-year career in commodities markets as a product specialist and market maker. She had successfully built and launched 8 new products in 5 years. From her role in Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group she was responsible for innovative products such as the Bitcoin futures index, Kilo Gold for delivery in Hong Kong, Silver benchmark auction system, Aluminium regional premium contracts and optimisation in the order matching engine, quant trading infrastructure and data vending businesses. She led a FinTech venture supported by Enterprise Singapore and global commodity trading houses to provide non-bank trade finance solution with built-in risk mitigation, executed with smart contracts run on a public blockchain.

Yvonne is an expert contributor to international standards in sustainability reporting, financial data transfer (payments & wallets) and blockchain interoperability.