She is Asia Director and Senior Advisor to the Secretary General of the World Energy Council, where she leads the Council’s engagement and partnerships across Asia and works with energy leaders across government, business and the wider energy ecosystem on the challenges shaping energy transitions.
Xiaowei also serves as Council Director of The Conference Board’s Asia Strategic Communications Leaders Council and is Co-founder of Retension, an intergenerational consultancy. She serves on the Board of the Marketing Society Singapore and the Advisory Board of the Global Green Economic Forum, and lectures on sustainability and energy transitions at Singapore Management University.
Previously, Xiaowei spent more than 26 years with Shell, leading External Relations teams at country, regional and global levels. Her career included assignments in China, the UK, the Netherlands and Singapore, most recently as Regional Vice President, External Relations, Asia Pacific. In 2025, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her contributions to the communications profession by the Institute of Public Relations of Singapore (IPRS).
Xiaowei is the author of two books on leadership, communications and sustainability. She holds a BA from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MSc in Political Economy from the London School of Economics.
现任世界能源理事会亚洲区总监兼秘书长高级顾问，负责理事会在亚洲地区的对外联络与合作事务，协同各国政府、企业及整个能源生态体系的行业领袖，共同应对能源转型面临的各类挑战。
刘小卫同时担任世界大型企业联合会亚洲战略传播领袖理事会理事，也是跨代际咨询机构Retension的联合创始人。任职于新加坡营销协会董事会、全球绿色经济论坛顾问委员会，并在新加坡管理大学讲授可持续发展与能源转型相关课程。
加入世界能源理事会前，刘小卫在壳牌工作逾26年，先后在国家、区域及全球层面负责对外关系团队。曾派驻中国、英国、荷兰、新加坡多地，离职前担任壳牌亚太区对外关系副总裁。2025年，新加坡公共关系学会（IPRS）为表彰刘小卫在传播行业做出的贡献，授予其终身成就奖。
刘小卫著有两本关于领导力、传播与可持续发展的著作。本科毕业于北京外国语大学，持有伦敦政治经济学院政治经济学理学硕士学位。