She is Asia Director and Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the World Energy Council, responsible for strengthening the Council’s presence and partnerships across Asia. She also serves as the Programme Director for The Conference Board’s Asia Strategic Communications Leaders Council, convening senior executives to address emerging communications challenges.
Xiaowei previously spent over 26 years with Shell, where she led External Relations teams at country, regional, and global levels. Her international career included assignments in China, the UK, the Netherlands, and Singapore, where she most recently served as Regional Vice President for External Relations, Asia Pacific until July 2021.
Beyond these roles, Xiaowei is actively involved in advancing sustainability and leadership. She serves on the Board of the Marketing Society Singapore and the Advisory Board of the Global Green Economic Forum (GGEF), is a certified Gallup StrengthsFinder coach, and lectures on Energy Transitions and ESG at Singapore Management University.
She is the author of two books on leadership, communications, and sustainability—her first published in China in 2023, and her second in English by Marshall Cavendish in 2024. A frequent speaker, she was featured at the inaugural Singapore City Reading Festival in 2023.
Xiaowei holds a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. Fluent in Chinese and English, she brings a distinctive cross-cultural perspective to her work shaping the energy transition and sustainability agenda.
她现任世界能源理事会秘书长亚洲事务总监及高级顾问，致力于提升理事会在亚洲的影响力与战略合作。同时担任美国企业联合会亚洲区战略传播领导力委员会项目主任，汇聚区域高管共同探讨传播新趋势与挑战。
此前，小卫在壳牌集团工作二十六年多，在中国、英国、荷兰和新加坡等地任职，领导对外关系团队，涵盖国家、区域与全球业务。离开前，她是壳牌亚太区对外关系副总裁（至2021年7月）。
现今，小卫还积极推动可持续发展与领导力成长。她担任新加坡市场营销协会董事会成员及全球绿色经济论坛（GGEF）顾问委员会成员，是认证的盖洛普优势教练，并在新加坡管理大学讲授能源转型与ESG课程。
她著有两本关于领导力、传播与可持续发展的书籍，分别于2023年在中国出版，及2024年由新加坡马歇尔·卡文迪什出版社出版。2023年，她亦受邀在新加坡首届城市读书节做演讲嘉宾。
她拥有北京外国语大学学士学位与伦敦政治经济学院政治经济学硕士学位，精通中英文，能够跨文化推动能源转型与可持续发展议题。