Ir Albert Lai (traditional Chinese: 黎廣德; simplified Chinese: 黎广德; Jyutping: lai4 gwong2-dak1) is the former Climate Strategy Leader of Deloitte China, the co-founder and CEO of Carbon Care Asia, a mission-driven business in carbon strategy and sustainability innovation.
Lai has played an active role in the engineering sector and in the environmental movement.
For over two decades up to 2019, he was one of the primary movers in a range of civil society initiatives in the fields of environmental protection, urban planning, heritage conservation, poverty alleviation and sustainability reporting in Hong Kong.
He also led the Hong Kong NGO Delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali in 2007, in Copenhagen in 2009 and in Paris in 2015.
He co-founded the China Water Company, an infrastructure investment firm backed by international investors, in 1996 and served as its managing director until 2004.