Chenguang Zhang (Austin Zhang)

Austin Zhang is the Deputy Director of Sustainable Development at Inner Mongolia Yili Group, with 15 years of industry experience in sustainability.

His main responsibilities at Yili Group include developing sustainability strategies, monitoring strategy implementation, managing ESG information disclosure and overseeing ESG rating. Since joining Yili Group in January 2023, he has completed the company’s Sustainability Strategy for the next five years and enhanced its MSCI ESG rating from “A” to “AA”.

Before joining Yili, Austin worked in PwC’s sustainability and climate change team for eight years and in the ERM transaction services team for four years. During his time there, he worked closely with the supply chain management teams of multinational companies, helping them optimise the sustainable development of their supply chains, and conducted EHS/ESG due diligence for foreign mergers and acquisitions projects in China.