NYC Climate Week 2025

Amy Chiang is Topsoe’s Chief Sustainability and External Affairs Officer. As a part of Topsoe’s Senior Leadership Team, she oversees both the company’s external efforts to accelerate the energy transition and its internal sustainability strategy. Amy’s leadership responsibilities span Sustainability, Public Affairs, Product Stewardship, Communications and Branding, and Public-Private Partnerships.   

For more than 25 years, Amy has been a leading expert in aligning public policy, business strategy and innovation to help drive the energy transition. Working in both the public and private sectors, she has built enduring partnerships and forged working relationships that have helped shape global policy changes and business strategies that have been the foundation of progress over the last few decades.   

Amy served as Director of International Affairs in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, where she guided efforts around creating breakthrough international agreements. She was Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Representative Sherwood Boehlert and a professional staff member in the House Science Committee.   

 She spent more than a decade in the private sector, leading global government relations strategy in areas including sustainability, climate change, global trade and technology. In addition, she has worked in management consulting and on Wall Street as a currency derivatives trader.    

Amy earned a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an International MBA (IMBA) from the University of Chicago.   

Roeland Baan joined Topsoe as President and CEO in 2020 with a clear focus on establishing the company as a leader in technologies and solutions for the energy transition. He is leading the company’s nearly 3,000 employees across a dozen countries in rewriting the future of fuels production.   

 “To reach net zero, we need to forge partnerships across the value chain and focus on leveraging the solutions we have at hand. We are dedicated to helping our customers and partners achieve their decarbonization and emission reduction goals through our world-leading technologies and solutions for transforming renewable resources into fuels for a sustainable future.”  

Roeland engages in dialogues and forums with other key opinion leaders to identify and deploy solutions that enable the global energy transition. He often shares his perspectives on matters ranging from decarbonization of energy-intensive industries to electrolyzer capacity, new technologies that support carbon emission reductions, and the challenges and regulatory frameworks needed to achieve a fair and inclusive green energy transition.   

Roeland has more than 40 years of experience developing businesses, supporting customer relationships, driving growth, building cohesive organizations and amassing deep operational and strategic knowledge across the energy, fuel and steel industries. Prior to joining Topsoe, he was President and CEO of Outokumpu, a producer of stainless steel, and before that CEO of rolled and extruded products at aluminum manufacturer Aleris. Roeland also held leadership positions at Arcelor Mittal, SHV NV and Shell.   

He serves as Chairman of SBM Offshore NV and is member of the Syensqo Board of Directors and the Hydrogen Council Board.  

Roeland earned a M.S. in economics from Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.