Flora Zhao

Director at Partners Group

Flora Zhao is an independent member of the Board of Directors of Partners Group Holding AG. She is the Chairwoman of the Nomination & Compensation Committee and a member of the Investment Oversight Committee. As part of her mandate, she oversees Partners Group's transformational investing approach and contributes to strategic board-level initiatives with a focus on entrepreneurial governance for the benefit of the firm's portfolio companies, especially in Asia and in infrastructure-related assets. She has over 30 years of executive experience with global Fortune 500 companies across the energy infrastructure value chain in Asia. Currently, she serves as a Senior Advisor to Temasek International and is also a member of the Singapore Future Economic Council's Resource and Environmental Sustainability Committee. Previously, she was President of Gas Asia at BP where she was responsible for the gas and LNG business in the eastern hemisphere. Prior to that, Flora was a Managing Director at AES Corporation, a NYSE-listed global power company comprising power generation, distribution and alternative energy businesses. She began her career at the Construction Bank of China. Flora holds a Bachelor's of Engineering from Zhejiang University, China and a Master's of Construction Management from the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. She also completed the Senior Executive Program at the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business, USA.