Jenny Ni HR Director, Dow China
Jenny Ni is the HR Director for Dow China and responsible for the development and execution of strategic HR plans in support of the geographic organization. Jenny joined Dow in 2006 as Workforce Planning Leader for Asia Pacific and subsequently extended her responsibilities to include India, Middle East and Africa. Later on she had taken additional role of Diversity & Inclusion Leader for Asia Pacific. Jenny then moved to be Asia Pacific HR Director for various Dow Business Divisions. In those roles, Jenny had partnered with the business leaders and led HR team to complete the HR integration for the M&A and also provided Strategic HR solutions to support business growth. Prior to joining Dow, Jenny was Business HR Director in FMCG company.

Jenny has the broad experience in HR management for 20 more years, specially in the area of strategic Workforce Planning; Organization Change and Development; Talent Attraction and Development, Leadership Development and M&A Management. She also acts as the Interviewer for MBA/EMBA admission and Coach at various business schools. She is the certified facilitator for DDI leadership course and member of CPHR.She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Arts and a Post Graduate certificate in HR management from East China Normal University and an EMBA from China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

About Dow
Dow (NYSE: DOW) combines the power of science and technology to passionately innovate what is essential to human progress. The Company is driving innovations that extract value from material, polymer, chemical and biological science to help address many of the world's most challenging problems, such as the need for fresh food, safer and more sustainable transportation, clean water, energy efficiency, more durable infrastructure, and increasing agricultural productivity. Dow's integrated, market-driven portfolio delivers a broad range of technology-based products and solutions to customers in 175 countries and in high-growth sectors such as packaging, infrastructure, transportation, consumer care, electronics, and agriculture. In 2016, Dow had annual sales of $48 billion and employed approximately 56,000 people worldwide. The Company's more than 7,000 product families are manufactured at 189 sites in 34 countries across the globe.

Dow entered China in the 1930s. It became its second largest international market globally. In 2016, the Company’s sales volume grew 10 percent in Greater China. Dow is committed to long-term development in Greater China by enhancing its local innovation and manufacturing capabilities and building the regional business into a global hub. Today, Dow operates 10 business centers, 17 manufacturing sites across China, and has approximately 5,000 employees. The Shanghai Dow Center (SDC), opened in 2009 in the Zhangjiang High-Tech Park in Shanghai, is the business and innovation hub for Dow in the Asia Pacific. It’s also Dow’s largest integrated R&D center worldwide, bringing together corporate R&D expertise with market-focused application development. The center has more than 700 highly skilled scientists working in over 80 world-class laboratories.

Dow has long been committed to corporate citizenship in China, delivering tremendous impact through a variety of projects in areas of Sustainability, Science Education, and Community Success. As a respected leader in sustainability and Responsible Care, Dow helps raise the industry standard in China by sharing its best practices with local small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through a number of capacity building projects in partnership with government and non-government organizations. Meanwhile, Dow has initiated a variety of projects to introduce sustainability to young people.

  • It has partnered with Junior Achievement (JA) China since 2008 to implement the “Our City” program, a selective course that has allowed 450,000 primary school students so far to learn about the role of sustainability in the urban economy;
  • The Dow Chemistry Labs were opened in Tianjin and Heilongjiang Science & Technology Museums, providing children with a better understanding of how chemistry affects our lives and society;
  • Dow also sponsors the Chinese Chemistry Olympiad to encourage high school seniors to explore the power of chemistry;
  • Through its partnership with the China Youth Development Foundation (CYDF), Dow has donated the funds to rebuild 13 Project Hope Schools across China.

Dow has received numerous awards in recognition of its excellent corporate culture and strong commitment to corporate citizenship, including the 2013 - 2016 China Outstanding Corporate Citizenship Award from the China Committee of Corporate Citizenship, and, for tenth consecutive years, the “China’s Top Employer” certificate presented by the Top Employers Institute.