NUS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Hui Ou-Yang

Prof Ou-Yang is the Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance at CKGSB. He also serves as Associate Dean for the MBA Program and the Academic Director for the EMBA Programs. His academic research focuses on the development of asset pricing and corporate finance models. He had previously served as an associate professor at Duke University and an assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Prof Ou-Yang was voted the best teacher by Duke’s Global EMBA Class of 2004. He won the Barclays Global Investors/Michael Brennan Runner-Up Award for the best paper published in the Review of Financial Studies in 2003 as well as the best paper award (joint with Henry Cao) presented by the Society of Quantitative Analysts in 2005.

Before joining CKGSB, Dr Ou-Yang served as a managing director at UBS where he headed the Quantitative Solutions/Algo Strategies division. His work focused on alpha-generating trading strategies and quantitative portfolio strategies, as well as on the development of structured products. His team developed various structured products, such as “Hedging and Outperforming Inflations in China, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand”, “Asset Allocation using Macro Signals” and “Relative Value Commodity Strategies”. In addition, he provided customized solutions for major UBS clients such as utility companies, airlines and banks. Ou-Yang also served as a managing director at Lehman Brothers and Nomura Securities, where he headed Quantitative Strategies and Quantitative Credit Research. He was heavily involved with many of Lehman’s credit/interest rate structured products as well as beta products, such as replicating Lehman’s bond indexes and replicating the global hedge fund index.Dr Ou-Yang holds a PhD in finance from UC Berkeley and a PhD in chemical physics from Tulane University. He received his postdoctoral training in chemical physics from the California Institute of Technology, where he worked under Nobel Laureate Rudy Marcus.

David Hardoon

Dr David Hardoon is the Chief Data Officer and Head of the Data Analytics Group (DAG) at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

The DAG leads MAS’ efforts to harness the power of data analytics to unlock insights, enhance the supervision of financial institutions, and make regulatory compliance more efficient for financial institutions.

Prior to his current engagement, Dr Hardoon was co-founder and Executive Director at Azendian Solutions Pte. Ltd. where he was responsible for the advanced analytics practice and the positioning of business analytics advisory and services to clients across different business sectors across the region.

Dr Hardoon received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with first class honors at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002 and a PhD in Computer Science in the field of Machine Learning from the University of Southampton 2006. He is currently an Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Computational Statistics & Machine Learning, University College London

Edmund Koh

Edmund Koh became a member of the GEB and was appointed President UBS Asia Pacific of UBS Group AG and UBS AG in January 2019. He is also Head Wealth Management Asia Pacific since 2016 as well as Country Head Singapore since 2012. He joined UBS in February 2012 as Group Managing Director, heading the UBS Wealth Management South East Asia and Asia Pacific Hub. Edmund, a Singaporean, is also a member of the UBS Global Wealth Management Executive Committee and Global Head of Affluent. Mr. Koh has more than 30 years' experience in senior roles in financial services. Prior to UBS, he was at Taiwan-based Ta Chong Bank where he served as President and Director from 2008 to 2011. From 2001 to 2008, Mr. Koh was Managing Director and Regional Head, Consumer Banking of DBS Bank in Singapore. In 2001, he became CEO of Alverdine Bank; two years earlier he held the same position for Prudential Assurance, both companies based in Singapore. Edmund holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Bhagwan Chowdhry

Bhagwan Chowdhry began his teaching career at UCLA Anderson in 1988. During his tenure he has also been a visiting professor and lecturer at a variety of institutions, including the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Indian School of Business. He is a current visiting scholar at the Stellar Development Foundation.

His research interests are in international finance and corporate finance and strategy, topics on which he has published several papers in economic and finance journals. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of finance and economic journals, including Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, American Economic Review and Journal of Political Economy, and has organized and taught executive education programs on financial derivatives, corporate risk management and valuation in Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Microfinance, financial technology and impact investing are his recent teaching, research and applied interests. He has supervised several MBA student projects in microfinance and FinTech in the last several years and has taught undergraduate seminar classes and an MBA elective on the subjects. That commitment may be best illustrated with his proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account, guaranteeing that everyone in the world will have access to financial services in a few decades.

Professor Chowdhry is a frequent contributor to the Huffington Post and is the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and executive editor of a new publication, Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe), that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and Ph.D. students, journalists, policy makers and other academics.

Pulak Ghosh

Pulak Ghosh is Professor of Decision Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). He also the Chair Professor of Excellence and secondary member at the Center Public Policy at IIMB. Previously he held positions at Georgia State University and Emory University.

His main research and teaching interest are in Big data, Machine learning, Business Analytics, AI, Economics, and its use in policy and Social value creation. Govt. of India awarded him the prestigious CR Rao award in 2015 and Econometric Society awarded him the Mahalanobis Award in 2016.

Prof. Ghosh is a distinguished fellow at Niti Ayoog (formerly planning commission), was in the Advisory group of Big data at the United Nations (UN) Global Pulse. Serves in the advisory board member of National Stock Exchange, Insolvency and bankruptcy board of India, Reserve bank of India Academy, RBI board subcommittee on IT. He is also a member of the committee to set up policy for India on Artificial Intelligence.

Pulak has consulted and advised several companies including Fortune 500. Currently, Pulak is a senior advisor for McKinsey on Big data and Fintech. Recently, he has been named as one of the top 5 data scientist in the world (of Indian origin) by Techradar.

Jeffrey Jaensubhakij

Dr Jeffrey Jaensubhakij was appointed as Group Chief Investment Officer on 1 January 2017. He joined GIC in 1998 as a Senior Economist covering the US economy. He has held asset allocation portfolio responsibilities as Co-Head of Asset Allocation Strategy in the Economics and Strategy Department, and from 2003 to 2011 was Head of Total Return Equities and the US Equities teams based in GIC’s New York Office. In 2011, he was appointed President, Europe, responsible for coordinating GIC’s investment activities in Europe across public and private asset classes. He was appointed President, Public Markets and Director of Public Equities in 2013, and Deputy Group Chief Investment Officer in 2016.

Dr Jaensubhakij holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, as well as a Masters and a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Susan Podlogar

Susan Podlogar is MetLife’s chief human resources officer. She is an executive vice president and a member of the company’s Executive Group. She joined MetLife in July 2017 and oversees its global Human Resources strategies and practices with the goal of attracting, developing and retaining a workforce that creates value for MetLife customers and shareholders every day. Before joining MetLife, Podlogar was global vice president of Human Resources for Johnson & Johnson and a member of the Human Resources Executive Committee. During her 16 years with Johnson & Johnson, she held a series of sector and corporate leadership roles in Human Resources (HR) in which she introduced HR strategies and practices that helped strengthen the company’s business model, accelerate the pace of innovation and evolve its talent capabilities and culture. During her tenure at Johnson & Johnson, Podlogar was also responsible for the company’s Global Total Rewards & Performance organization. In that role, she led the transition to new global compensation plans and the adoption of consistent performance and development standards for the company’s 128,000 employees. These changes better aligned pay and performance practices with behavioral and business outcomes. She also instituted progressive work-life practices to meet the needs of a changing workforce. In addition, she introduced new management tools, including an externally benchmarked organizational analytics unit that generated descriptive and predictive analyses of workforce attributes.

Podlogar has been active in the Society for Human Resource Management throughout her career and currently serves on its Certification Commission. She is committed to mentoring the next generation of HR professionals and often lectures on HR subjects at universities. She earned an MBA from the University of South Florida, summa cum laude, with concentrations in Finance and Management, and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, also summa cum laude, with a double major in Labor and Industrial Relations and Business Administration.

Stephen Bird

Stephen Bird is Chief Executive Officer of Global Consumer Banking. His global responsibilities include all Consumer and Commercial Banking businesses in 19 countries, including Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Credit Cards, Mortgages and Operations and Technology supporting the business. He is a member of the Citi Operating Committee.

Previously, Mr. Bird was CEO of Asia Pacific, responsible for all of Citi's consumer and institutional businesses across 17 markets in the region. As CEO, he established Citi as Asia's leading bank, pioneered digital innovations and accelerated Citi's expansion in China. In China, Citi doubled its branch network, was the first global bank to issue sole-branded credit cards and was one of the first foreign banks to open a branch in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

Under his leadership, Citi was named "Best Bank in Asia" by FinanceAsia for six consecutive years. From 2009 to 2012, he served as joint CEO of Citi Asia Pacific with responsibility for North Asia, served as Head of Consumer Banking in Asia Pacific from 2006 to 2008, responsible more than 30 million customer accounts across the region, and served four years in Citi Japan as CEO of Credit Cards and Consumer Finance. Earlier, he was Head of Operations & Technology for Citi Latin America, covering all of Citi's businesses in 23 countries.

Mr. Bird joined Citi in 1998 in Singapore as the Asia Pacific Head for Operations & Technology. He successfully built Citi's technological and operational capability to deliver outstanding customer service and market-leading Internet and mobile capability. Citi's award-winning e-commerce capabilities continue to win customer and industry recognition. He relocated to Latin America in 2001.

Prior to Citi, Mr. Bird held senior management positions in GE Capital and British Steel in the United Kingdom. At GE Capital, Mr. Bird launched its 6 Sigma program and established a client focus and continual improvement culture in GE Capital Fleet Services before becoming its Director of U.K. Operations. He is a recipient of GE's "Pinnacle Award" for pioneering work in establishing joint commercial ventures between GE Capital's different businesses serving the financial needs of the U.K. automotive sector.

Mr. Bird is an alumnus of Citi's Chairman's Executive Forum and GE's European Advanced Leadership program. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Asia Society and the U.S.-China Business Council. He is both a graduate and Honorary Fellow of University College Cardiff.

David G. Booth

The core conceptualist and philosophical leader of the firm, David G. Booth founded Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981 and continues to focus on the firm's key corporate initiatives and strategic long-range planning as Chairman and Co-CEO. Many of his original concepts underpin Dimensional's overall strategy, and his problem-solving innovations for clients set the firm apart from its competitors.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business was named in honour of him, where he also serves as a lifetime member of the school’s business advisory council. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1971. He also holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas.

Piyush Gupta

DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia, with a growing presence in Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. Headquartered in Singapore, the bank has been recognised for its global leadership, and was named the “Best Bank in the World” by Global Finance in 2018.

DBS is at the forefront of leveraging digital technology to shape the future of banking, and was named the “World’s Best Digital Bank” by Euromoney in 2016 and 2018. In addition, the bank has been accorded the “Safest Bank in Asia” award by Global Finance for nine consecutive years from 2009 to 2017.

Prior to joining DBS, Piyush was Citigroup's Chief Executive Officer for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Piyush is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of International Finance, Washington and Chairman of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board. In addition, he sits on the boards of Enterprise Singapore, Singapore’s National Research Foundation, The Institute of Banking and Finance and Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship Fund. He is also the Chairman of The Association of Banks in Singapore and a term trustee of the Singapore Indian Development Association (SINDA).

Piyush has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad.

Piyush was named Singapore Business Awards' Outstanding Chief Executive of the Year in 2016. In 2014, he was named as the Singapore Business Leader of the Year by CNBC and in 2013, he was accorded the CEO Leadership Achievement Award for Singapore and Asia Pacific by The Asian Banker.

Richard J. Holwell

The Hon. Richard J. Holwell served as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York from 2003–12, before stepping down to found Holwell Shuster & Goldberg. During his tenure on the federal bench he presided over two of the most significant securities fraud matters to reach trial: the insider trading trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, and a securities class action brought against Vivendi that raised several novel points of law regarding the application of U.S. law to alleged securities fraud involving a foreign plaintiff. Before his confirmation to the federal judiciary by the U.S. Senate, Judge Holwell practiced with Michael Shuster and Daniel Goldberg at White & Case, where he served on the Management Board and as the firm’s Executive Partner for Disputes. In an illustrious career preceding his time on the bench, he represented clients in highly complex commercial litigation matters involving securities, antitrust, and bankruptcy issues; in numerous investigations undertaken by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission; and in a leading appellate practice. In August 2012, he was appointed to the three-member NFL appeals panel, along with retired federal Judge Fern Smith of San Francisco and Georgetown professor James Oldham.

Steven E. Koonin

Steven E. Koonin was appointed as the Founding Director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress in April 2012. That consortium of academic, corporate, and government partners will pursue research and education activities to develop and demonstrate informatics technologies for urban problems in the “living laboratory” of New York City.

He previously served as the U.S. Department of Energy’s second Senate-confirmed Under Secretary for Science from May 19, 2009 through November 18, 2011.

As the Chief Scientist at BP from 2004 to early 2009, Dr. Koonin developed the long-range technology strategy for alternative and renewable energy sources. Steve joined the California Institute of Technology’s faculty in 1975, was a research fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute during 1976-1977, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow during 1977-1979. He became a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech in 1981 and served as Chairman of the Faculty from 1989-1991.

Dr. Koonin was the seventh provost of Caltech from 1995-2004. In that capacity, he was involved in identifying and recruiting 1/3 of the Institute’s professorial faculty and left an enduring legacy of academic and research initiatives in the biological, physical, earth, and social sciences, as well as the planning and development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope project.

Alan B. Krueger

Alan Krueger has published widely on the economics of education, unemployment, labor demand, income distribution, social insurance, labor market regulation, terrorism, and environmental economics. Since 1987 he has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the Founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center. He is the author of What Makes A Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism and Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education, co-author of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, and co-author of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies?

Professor Krueger served as Chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers and a Member of the Cabinet from 2011 to 2013. He also served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009-10 and as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor in 1994-1995.

He was Vice President of the American Economic Association in 2017, and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association (2005-07) and International Economic Association. Since February 2017, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of BNP Paribas USA. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Russell Sage Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the American Institutes for Research, as well as a member of the editorial board of Science (2001-09), editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (1996-2002) and co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2003-05).

He was named a Sloan Fellow in Economics in 1992 and an NBER Olin Fellow in 1989-90. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996, and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2005. He was awarded the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and Management in 1997 (for distinguished contributions to public policy analysis by someone under the age of 40) and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the Indian Econometric Society in 2001. In 2002 Professor Krueger was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2003 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics with David Card in 2006. He was awarded the Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2017.

From 2000 to 2009 he was a regular contributor to the "Economic Scene" column and Economix blog in the New York Times.

He received a B.S. degree (with honors) from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations in 1983, an A.M. in Economics from Harvard University in 1985, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1987.

Rajiv Lall

Dr. Rajiv Lall is Chairman, IDFC First Bank. He was the Founder MD & CEO of IDFC Bank. Earlier, he was CEO and then Executive Chairman of IDFC Ltd. from 2005.

A veteran economist and business leader for the past 35 years, Dr. Lall has been an active part of the finance and policy landscape both in India and internationally. Over his diverse career he has straddled leadership roles both in business and in public policy. His expertise spans international and macro-economics, banking, capital markets, infrastructure finance, private equity/venture capital and social impact investing, with a particular focus on emerging markets including India and China.

In his public policy related roles, Dr. Lall has served on numerous committees of the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India including: Raghuram Rajan Committee on Financial Sector Reforms; RBI Working Group on NBFCs; RBI Committee on Household Finance; High Powered Expert Committee for Urban Infrastructure; High Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure; and Expert Committee on Modernisation of Indian Railways. He has also served as India’s representative to the G-20 Working Group on Infrastructure. He is Chairman of IDFC Institute, a “think-do” tank focusing on political economy issues related to India.

On the business front, he was President of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce & Industry. He is a member of various CII Committees; the City of London’s Advisory Council for India; the Board of the Asia Business Leaders Advisory Council, Canada; and the Board of the US-India Business Council (USIBC).

Outside of business fora, Dr. Lall is Chairman of Social Finance India; on the Advisory Board of Columbia University, Global Centers, South Asia; and a member of the Founders Circle, Brookings, India. He is also Founder Chairman of Lok Foundation and a Board Member of the Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation.

Prior to joining IDFC, Dr. Lall was variously, a Partner with Warburg Pincus, New York; Head of Asian Economics Research with Morgan Stanley, Hong Kong; and economist at the World Bank, Washington D.C., and Asian Development Bank, Manila; faculty member at the Department of Economics, Florida Atlantic University.

He is an active public speaker and columnist for various international daily news. He is author of numerous publications and articles.

Dr. Lall earned his BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and holds a Ph.D. in Economics and from Columbia University.

Stanley Loh

Stanley Loh has been Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the People’s Republic of China since 12 March 2012. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with responsibilities for ASEAN, Northeast Asia, Europe, International Organisations, International Economics, Technical Cooperation and Public Affairs.

Mr Loh was Head of Mission in Taipei, Press Secretary to the Prime Minister and later Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong, Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington DC, Director-General for Middle East and Counsellor in the Singapore High Commission to Malaysia.

Ambassador Loh is a member of the Lien Ying Chow Fellowship Council and Patron of the Singapore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in China (SingCham).

Harish Manwani

Mr. Manwani is the Global Executive Advisor to Blackstone Private Equity group and also serves as Director on several international boards. Before joining Blackstone in 2015, Mr. Manwani was the Chief Operating Officer of Unilever responsible for managing the P&L across all of Unilever’s global markets. Mr. Manwani spent almost thirty-eight years with Unilever, holding various senior general management positions in different parts of the world, including overseeing Unilever’s businesses in Latin America, North America, Asia and Africa. Mr. Manwani serves on the Board of Directors of Nielsen Holdings plc, Qualcomm Incorporated, Pearson plc, Whirlpool Corporation and The Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited in India.

In 2008, Mr. Manwani received the CNBC Asia Business Leader of the Year Award and in 2012, he was conferred the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government. He has also served on ‘Singapore’s Committee on the Future Economy’ (CFE).

Ravi Menon

Ravi Menon is Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (MOF). He began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years at MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions.

He spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Gold), he has served on a variety of boards in the public, private and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, he is a member of the Financial Stability Board Steering Committee and chairs the International Monetary and Financial Committee Deputies process.

He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

Anthony Neoh

Anthony Neoh is Dean's Visiting Professor at NUS Business School and a senior member of the Hong Kong Bar, active in civil appellate, international litigation and arbitration cases. He was a civil servant in the Hong Kong Government from 1966 to 1979. In 1979, he commenced private legal practice at the Hong Kong Bar. He returned to public office from 1995 to 2004. He was Chief Advisor to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 1998 to 2004 at the personal invitation of former Premier Zhu Rongji. In 2003 (by agreement with CSRC) he resumed private legal practice. He remains a member of the International Advisory Board of CSRC. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (1995–1998). He was also the first Asian to be elected Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (1996–1998).

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990. A law graduate of London University, he was called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn in 1976. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1990–1991) and was later Visiting Professor from Practice (2001–2002). In 2004, he was appointed Nomura Visiting Professor of International Finance from Practice by Harvard Law School, a position he was eventually unable to take up. He was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Chinese University in 2003. He was appointed Dean's Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore Business School in March 2011. His research interests are in legal and financial history, and the regulation of financial markets and services.

Fredric S. Newman

Fredric S. Newman is a Founding Partner of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, a commercial litigation firm in Manhattan, New York. He is a legal generalist with decades of experience in commercial litigation, business advice, corporate transactions, employment counselling and alternative dispute resolution. He was named a “Leading Lawyer” for general commercial litigation in New York, one of only 76 individuals so honoured, in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009). As a counsellor, he advises corporate owners, senior executives and entrepreneurs on business and personal issues. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of a private reinsurance company. He was appointed CEO of a public company in dissolution by its major creditor, and was the general counsel and secretary of a public reporting subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics in Civil Litigation. In 2009, he was a Visiting Professor of Arbitration at a law faculty in Latvia. He has lectured and been published on a variety of legal topics, most recently as the author of a section of Moskin/Rossman on Commercial Contracts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from Harvard College and Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. He also received an EMBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Thomas Nides

Tom Nides is Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. He focuses on the Firm’s global clients and other key constituencies around the world, serves as a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Operating Committee, and reports to Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman.

Prior to rejoining the Firm in March 2013 in his current role, Mr. Nides was Deputy Secretary of State, serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Department. Appointed by President Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 2010 and sworn in on January 3, 2011. For his service, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award in January 2013 – the nation’s highest diplomatic honor.

Previously, Mr. Nides was the Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley from 2005 to 2010. He was an executive officer and served as a member of Morgan Stanley’s Management Committee and Operating Committee. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr.Nides served as Worldwide President and Chief Executive Officer of Burson-Marsteller and as Chief Administrative Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment banking division of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group.

Mr. Nides began his career on Capitol Hill, as Assistant to the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives and Executive Assistant to the Speaker of the House. Mr. Nides later served as Senior Vice President of Fannie Mae and as Chief of Staff to the United States Trade Representative.

Mr. Nides serves on numerous non-profit boards including the International Rescue Committee, the Partnership for Public Service, the Atlantic Council, and the Urban Alliance. Foundation. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the former Chairman of the Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a leading non-partisan think tank. He was appointed to the Chairman position in September 2013 by President Obama. Prior to serving in government, Mr. Nides was the Chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, on the Board of New York Cares Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Zoo.

Mr. Nides, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, is married to Virginia Moseley, Senior Vice President of CNN. They have two children.

Mikko S. Niemelä

Mr Mikko Niemelä is the CEO of Cyber Intelligence House, a leading cyber intelligence agency which he established in Singapore in 2015 to help organisations and individuals detect and monitor their cyber exposure. He is also the Founder of Silverskin, a cyberattack company he established to help organisations test and improve their cyber resilience.

Mikko has more than 15 years of experience in cyber security having served as an analyst and consultant on security testing, information systems audits, security leadership and management, incident response and digital forensics, cyber defence, and exploit development. He has analysed the exposure of more than 6,000 organisations and helped more than 140 organisations assess and mitigate risk of their cyber exposure.

Mikko was ranked as one of the Top 100 Cybersecurity Influencers by Onalytica in 2015. He has lent his cyber intelligence expertise to assist with cybercrime investigations and the training of law enforcement agencies such as INTERPOL, armed forces and a number of intelligence agencies, as well as advising the European Central Bank in its efforts to improve cyber resilience. He also collaborates with OMFIF (Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum) in joint research and provides support for its members.

Mikko was formerly the programme director for the Hands-on Cybersecurity Manager programme at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He is a regular speaker and participant at conferences, forums and dialogues on cybersecurity, which most recently included the Cyber Fraud and Technology Conference 2018 by the Singapore Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Technical Talk on the Darkweb and Deepweb by the Singapore Chapter of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association).

Mikko holds a degree in computer science and possesses the following Global Information Assurance Certifications (GIAC), the highest standard in cybersecurity certifications: GIAC Systems & Network Auditor (GSNA), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Web Application Penetration Tester (GWAPT), GIAC Security Leadership (GSLC) and GIAC Law of Data Security & Investigations (GLEG). He also holds a certificate in Global Management and Corporate Governance from INSEAD.

He is currently pursuing his doctorate degree in their implications of cyber exposure and cyberattacks in decision making at both the management and board levels. Mikko also holds a patent in cryptography and is the author of the book Anatomy of a Cyberattack, which is used as part of course curriculum at NUS Business School and INSEAD.

Nandan M. Nilekani

Nandan Nilekani is the Co-Founder and Chairman of EkStep, a not-for-profit effort to create a learner centric, technology based platform to improve basic literacy and numeracy for millions of children. He was most recently the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) in the rank of a Cabinet Minister. Nandan Nilekani was previously Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited, which he co-founded in 1981.

Born in Bengaluru, Nilekani received his Bachelor’s degree from IIT, Bombay. Fortune Magazine conferred him with “Asia’s Businessman of the year 2003”. In 2005 he received the prestigious Joseph Schumpeter prize for innovative services in economy, economic sciences and politics. In 2006, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan. He was also named Businessman of the year by Forbes Asia. Time magazine listed him as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2006 & 2009. Foreign Policy magazine listed him as one of the Top 100 Global thinkers in 2010. He won The Economist Social & Economic Innovation Award for his leadership of India’s Unique Identification initiative (Aadhaar). In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from E & Y. CNBC- TV 18 conferred India Business leader award for outstanding contributor to the Indian Economy-2017 and he also received the 22nd Nikkei Asia Prize for Economic & Business Innovation 2017.

Nandan Nilekani is the author of “Imagining India” and co- authored his second book with Viral Shah, “Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations”.

Ms Anita Raghavan

Anita Raghavan is a contributor to The New York Times, Barron’s and the author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice: The Rise of the Indian-American Elite and the Fall of the Galleon Hedge Fund. Her book was short-listed for the 2013 Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year. Ms. Raghavan has appeared on 60 Minutes and spoken before the Commonwealth Club and the Asia Society. She has also delivered endowed lectures at many U.S. universities, including Cornell’s SC Johnson College of Business and NYU Stern.

Ms. Raghavan was the former European Bureau Chief of Forbes magazine. Prior to Forbes, she was at The Wall Street Journal where she won a New York Press Club award for coverage of the near-demise of hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management and an Overseas Press Club Award for best business reporting from abroad.

Owen D. Thomas

Owen D. Thomas joined Boston Properties as Chief Executive Officer and Director in April 2013. He was Chairman of Lehman Brothers Holdings from 2012 until March 2013 and continues to serve as a Director. Prior to Lehman, Mr. Thomas was with Morgan Stanley for 24 years serving in a number of different roles, business units and locations, including Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Asia, President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Chairman of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. He also served on Morgan Stanley's Management Committee from 2005 until 2011.

Mr. Thomas is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, a Director of the Urban Land Institute Foundation, an officer and member of the NAREIT Executive Board, a Director of the Real Estate Roundtable, a Director of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, a Trustee of Woodberry Forest School and is a former Chairman of the Pension Real Estate Association. He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Samuel Tsien

Mr Tsien is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC). He is also Chairman of OCBC Wing Hang Bank (China) Limited and a member of the board of directors of various other companies in the OCBC group. He is a Director of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd and Vice Chairman of the Association of Banks in Singapore and IBF Council. He is also a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Financial Centre Advisory Panel (FCAP) and Payments Council.

Chris Wei

Chris is currently the Global Chairman for Aviva Digital and Executive Chairman for Aviva Asia and Friends Provident International (FPI).

In July 2015, Chris was appointed to the newly created role of Global Chairman, Aviva Digital. In this role, he leads Aviva Group’s global drive in digital, and has transformed the 321-year-old insurer into a leading InsurTech disruptor. In addition to leading the Group Marketing function, he is also responsible for driving the implementation of Aviva Group’s True Customer Composite strategy.

As Executive Chairman, Chris works closely with senior leaders on setting strategic directions and managing the operations of Aviva and FPI across Asia. He is also actively involved in making decisions on initiatives that have significant implications for the business, customers, employees and other key stakeholders across the region.

Before joining Aviva in October 2014, Chris was Group CEO and Executive Director of Great Eastern Holdings Ltd (listed on SGX) and many of its key subsidiaries from February 2011. During his tenure, Chris was responsible for successfully growing the company’s business and further entrenching its leadership position in its home markets of Singapore and Malaysia. Chris also served as Deputy Chairman of Lion Global Investors (a leading South-East Asian asset management firm), and was a Director of Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Ltd (listed on SGX).

Prior to this, Chris was the Executive Vice President and Group Chief Marketing Officer of AIA Limited. He also previously held the position of CEO at AIG United Guaranty Insurance (Asia) Limited and held various positions at ING Canada and Allstate Insurance Company of Canada where his roles included Chief Risk Officer.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Toronto in Canada majoring in actuarial science. Chris is an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. In January 2019, Chris was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Council of the International Insurance Society.

David Yermack

David Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation and Chairman of the Finance Department at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law, Director of the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research law and economics program.

In 2014 Prof. Yermack began teaching a full semester course at NYU on Digital Currency and Blockchains with his Law School colleague Prof. Geoffrey Miller. The course was the first in the world on this topic taught at a major research university, and it now draws more than 100 students annually. NYU Stern launched a FinTech MBA specialization in 2016. and this program will offer more than 10 FinTech courses in an interdisciplinary joint venture between its Finance and Information Systems departments this year.

In addition to his recent research on blockchains and digital currencies, Professor Yermack has published some of the most cited papers in the fields of executive compensation and corporate governance. He has also written papers on such diverse topics as options in baseball player contracts, incentive compensation for clergymen, tobacco litigation, fraudulent charitable contributions, CEOs’ mansions, and the fashion industry. Professor Yermack was awarded AB (1995), MBA (1991), JD (1991), AM (1993) and PhD (1994) degrees, all from Harvard University. He has been appointed as a visiting professor at 12 international universities, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Philadelphia, and has given invited research seminars at more than 100 universities and institutes worldwide.

William Dudley

William C. Dudley became the 10th president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on January 27, 2009. In that capacity, he serves as the vice chairman and a permanent member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the group responsible for formulating the nation's monetary policy.

Previously, Mr. Dudley served as executive vice president of the Markets Group at the New York Fed, where he also managed the System Open Market Account for the FOMC. The Markets Group oversees domestic open market and foreign exchange trading operations and the provisions of account services to foreign central banks.

Prior to joining the Bank in 2007, Mr. Dudley was a partner and managing director at Goldman, Sachs & Company and was the firm's chief U.S. economist for a decade. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 1986, he was a vice president at the former Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Mr. Dudley was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 1981 to 1983.

Mr. Dudley received his doctorate in economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982 and a bachelor's degree from New College of Florida in 1974.

In 2012, Mr. Dudley was appointed chairman of the Committee on the Global Financial System of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Previously, Mr. Dudley served as chairman of the former Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems of the BIS from 2009 to 2012. He is a member of the board of directors of the BIS.

Sunny Verghese

Sunny George Verghese is the Co-founder and Group CEO of Olam International Limited and is responsible for strategic planning, business development and overall management of the Olam group of companies worldwide. Olam is listed on the main board of the Singapore Exchange (SGX) and ranks amongst the top 40 companies in Singapore in terms of market capitalization.

In 26 years, Sunny and his team have built this business to S$19 billion in Sales Revenues for 2015. Today, Olam operates in 70 countries, delivering 47 products (organised into 16 platforms) to more than 16,200 customers in 70 destination markets and employs around 62,500 people worldwide.

Sunny is presently Chairman of the Board of the Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI), Singapore. Sunny was appointed Director on the Board of International Enterprise Singapore in 2002, and served as its Chairman from 2008 to 2013. Sunny also served on the Board of Trustees of the National University of Singapore from 2009 to 2013. He was also the first Chairman of CitySpring Infrastructure Management Pte Ltd from 2006 to 2010.

Sunny holds a post graduate management degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) and has also completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) from the Harvard Business School.

Chris Wei

Chris is currently the Global Chairman for Aviva Digital and Executive Chairman for Aviva Asia and Friends Provident International (FPI).

In July 2015, Chris was appointed to the newly created role of Global Chairman, Aviva Digital. In this role, he leads Aviva Group’s global drive in digital, and has transformed the 321-year-old insurer into a leading InsurTech disruptor. In addition to leading the Group Marketing function, he is also responsible for driving the implementation of Aviva Group’s True Customer Composite strategy.

As Executive Chairman, Chris works closely with senior leaders on setting strategic directions and managing the operations of Aviva and FPI across Asia. He is also actively involved in making decisions on initiatives that have significant implications for the business, customers, employees and other key stakeholders across the region.

Before joining Aviva in October 2014, Chris was Group CEO and Executive Director of Great Eastern Holdings Ltd (listed on SGX) and many of its key subsidiaries from February 2011. During his tenure, Chris was responsible for successfully growing the company’s business and further entrenching its leadership position in its home markets of Singapore and Malaysia. Chris also served as Deputy Chairman of Lion Global Investors (a leading South-East Asian asset management firm), and was a Director of Singapore Reinsurance Corporation Ltd (listed on SGX).

Prior to this, Chris was the Executive Vice President and Group Chief Marketing Officer of AIA Limited. He also previously held the position of CEO at AIG United Guaranty Insurance (Asia) Limited and held various positions at ING Canada and Allstate Insurance Company of Canada where his roles included Chief Risk Officer.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) from the University of Toronto in Canada majoring in actuarial science. Chris is an associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. In January 2019, Chris was appointed as Chairman of the Executive Council of the International Insurance Society.

James S. Wiener

James S. (“Jim”) Wiener is a Senior Executive Vice President of BNY Mellon and thecompany’s Chief Risk Officer. He is also a member of the company’s Executive Committee, and is the Executive Committee sponsor for Gen-Edge, an Employee Resource Group focused on meeting the needs and capturing unique generational perspectives across BNY Mellon. Gen-Edge is one of six ERGs that reflect BNY Mellon's commitment to diversity and workplace excellence by supporting employees with shared interests.

Reporting to BNY Mellon's Chief Executive Officer and the Board of Directors' Risk Committee, Mr. Wiener oversees as Chief Risk Officer the compliance and credit, operational and market risk functions. He is also focused on continuing to build the company’s risk management capabilities, including integrating enterprise risk data, reporting, analytics, modeling and strategy efforts. Mr. Wiener joined BNY Mellon in November 2014 from Oliver Wyman Group, where he was senior partner and leader of the North American Public Policy Practice and a member of the firm’s management committee. In that role, he led the firm’s consulting focus on capital planning requirements under the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (CCAR), Dodd-Frank derivatives reform, prudential standards for foreign banking organizations, and resolution and recovery planning. Mr. Wiener joined Oliver Wyman in 1994, and held a series of increasingly senior roles, including as senior partner and leader of the North American Finance and Risk Management Practice, where he led the firm’s largest practice area globally.

Mr. Wiener has extensive experience working with the largest and most complex global financial institutions and is a widely recognized expert on financial services, capital markets and risk management.

He earned a B.A. in physics from the University of Pennsylvania and Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University.

V Ramakrishnan

Ramakrishnan (“Ramki”) was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of Tata Consultancy Services in February 2017. Ramki has over 35 years of experience in various aspects of finance including management of financial operations, governance, compliance and internal controls. In the past few years, he has been responsible for the financial oversight of TCS’ worldwide branches and subsidiaries, and also been managing various post-merger and acquisition integration activities, roll-out of several finance initiatives and building TCS’ finance talent pool.

He has led external assessments of other Tata Group companies under the Tata Business Excellence Model (TBEM) and was recognized as a ‘Star Assessor’ three years in a row. Earlier, as Head of TCS North America’s finance function for over seven years, Ramki closely partnered with business in the rapid growth of TCS’ operations in the region. Prior to joining TCS in 1999, he was the Head of Finance and Company Secretary of Tata Elxsi Ltd. He started his professional career with Tata Motors and has also worked in the consumer electronics industry. Ramki is a graduate in commerce from Loyola College, Chennai. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost Accountants of India.

Joydeep Sengupta

Joydeep is a Senior Partner with McKinsey & Company. He heads McKinsey's Global Client Council in Asia. He is also a leader in their global banking practice.

Over the last two decades, Joydeep has served leading financial institutions across multiple markets including the UK, Europe, Australia, China, Japan and South-East Asia. Joydeep has deep expertise in architecting and executing large scale performance transformations, and has partnered with banks and insurers on several multi-year transformation journeys. To enable this, he brings a combination of deep expertise in functional areas such as strategy, organization, digital, risk, change management and CEO counseling, with expertise in several business areas, including retail banking, CIB and Insurance. Joydeep’s recent work includes supporting the transformation of leading banks and insurers in Asia with a focus on innovation and changes in business models and culture, driven by the new digital economy.

Joydeep is one of McKinsey’s foremost leaders in the area of financial system development and financial market development. Over the last two decades, he has served several Central Banks and Regulatory bodies on wide-ranging themes, including with the Monetary Authority of Singapore on Financial Centre development, with central banks of India, Thailand and Indonesia on financial sector development, capital markets, talent management and governance, among others. Joydeep has authored several publications in the areas of digital banking, CIB, retail banking, infrastructure and organizational change. Joydeep is also deeply involved in helping boards and board members enhance their performance, and has served on several committees to enhance the quality of governance of companies in Asia.

Samuel Tsien

Mr Tsien is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited (OCBC). He is also Chairman of OCBC Wing Hang Bank (China) Limited and a member of the board of directors of various other companies in the OCBC group. He is a Director of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd and Vice Chairman of the Association of Banks in Singapore and IBF Council. He is also a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Financial Centre Advisory Panel (FCAP) and Payments Council.

Amitabh Chaudhry

Amitabh Chaudhry is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at HDFC Life. He has been with the company since January 2010. HDFC Life is today recognized as the premium brand in the insurance space and is one of India’s largest private life insurers. Before joining HDFC Life, he was the MD and CEO of Infosys BPO Ltd and was also heading the testing unit of Infosys Technologies Ltd.

He played a critical role in building the BPO from its inception to an extremely profitable business with presence in eleven centers across seven countries. He started his career in 1987 with Bank of America and worked in diverse roles ranging from Head of Technology Investment Banking for Asia, Regional Finance Head for Wholesale Banking and Global Markets and Chief Finance Officer of Bank of America (India). He moved to Credit Lyonnais Securities in 2001 where he headed the Investment Banking franchise for South East Asia and Structured Finance practice for Asia before joining Infosys BPO in 2003.

Mr. Chaudhry completed Engineering in 1985 from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani and PGDBM in 1987 from IIM, Ahmedabad. He serves on the Board of Manipal Global Education Services Limited, a market leader in corporate and college education in various emerging markets and Shriram Transport Finance Co Ltd, one of the largest non banking auto finance companies in India. He is also an Independent Director with Credila (an HDFC Ltd. Company) India’s first dedicated education loan provider.

Chuck Scully

Charles Scully is Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer for MetLife in Asia. Scully was appointed to this position in February of 2011, and in this role he has executive management responsibility for MetLife’s investment efforts in Japan, Korea, China, India, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Australia, Nepal and Vietnam. The total assets under management in the region are in excess of US$100 billion.

MetLife is a global provider of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. Serving approximately 100 million customers and 90 of the FORTUNE 100® companies as clients, MetLife has operations in nearly 50 countries and holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Scully has 30 years of investment management experience in various roles. In the 10 years prior to his current responsibilities, he was in charge of MetLife’s structured finance business and was the senior portfolio manager for the firm’s US$75 billion structured finance portfolio. In this role he was responsible for MetLife’s investments, both research and trading, in residential mortgage backed securities (agency & non-agency), commercial mortgage backed securities and asset backed securities (public and private).

His other past management responsibilities included launching MetLife’s collateralized debt obligation (CDO) asset management business, sector analysis of global asset backed securities, asset liability management and privately placed debt analysis and origination.

Scully is on the Board of Directors for Sino-US United MetLife, the firm’s joint venture insurance operation in China in partnership with Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. He is also is on the Board of Directors for MetLife Insurance Company of Korea, Ltd.

He holds a MBA in Finance, Applied Economics and Corporate Accounting from the William E Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the State University of New York College at Potsdam, New York.

Gu Shu

Mr. Gu was appointed as President of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited in October 2016. He joined ICBC in 1998, and has served as General Manager of Finance & Accounting Department, Board Secretary and General Manager of Corporate Strategy & Investor Relations, Head of Shandong Branch, and Vice President of ICBC.

LV Zhongtao

Mr. Lv has served as Head of Technology Division, Shanghai Branch, General Engineer and General Manager of IT Department and Software Development Center of ICBC. Mr.Lv is the chief architect for the recent two “Three-Year Plan for IT Development Strategy” and head of major projects such as the new infrastructure of “three centers in two cities” and the “IT-Based Banking”.

Zhu Min

Mr. Zhu Min is currently the President of National Institute of Financial Research. He was a Deputy Managing Director of IMF from July 2011 to July 2016. Previously he served as Special Advisor to the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2010 to 2011. Before that, Mr. Zhu was a Deputy Governor of the People’s Bank of China, and prior to his service at China’s Central Bank, he served as a Group Executive Vice President of the Bank of China. Mr. Zhu also worked at the World Bank and taught economics at both Johns Hopkins University and Fudan University.

Mr. Zhu received a Ph.D and an M.A. in economics from Johns Hopkins University, an M.P.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and a B.A. in economics from Fudan University.

Vikram S. Pandit

Vikram S. Pandit is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Orogen Group, an operating company he created with Atairos Group that makes control and other strategic investments in financial services companies and related businesses.

Mr. Pandit spent his career in financial services and has been a participant in and a catalyst for some of the tremendous changes the industry has experienced over the last several decades. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1983 and ultimately became President and Chief Operating Officer of the company's institutional securities and investment banking businesses. Mr. Pandit left Morgan Stanley to become a founding member and chairman of the members committee of Old Lane, LP.

When Old Lane was acquired by Citigroup in 2007, Mr. Pandit became Chairman and CEO of Citi Alternative Investments and later led Citi's Institutional Clients Group. He became CEO of Citigroup in December 2007 and led the company during the most challenging economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression, successfully recapitalizing, restructuring and revitalizing the company before he left in October 2012.

Mr. Pandit is a member of the Board of Directors of Virtusa Corporation, Fair Square Financial Holdings, JM Financial Credit Solutions Ltd., and Bombardier Inc. Mr. Pandit is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School. Mr. Pandit earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in engineering from Columbia University and received his Ph.D. in finance from Columbia in 1986.

Richard J. Holwell

The Hon. Richard J. Holwell served as a federal judge in the Southern District of New York from 2003–12, before stepping down to found Holwell Shuster & Goldberg.

During his tenure on the federal bench he presided over two of the most significant securities fraud matters to reach trial: the insider trading trial of Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, and a securities class action brought against Vivendi that raised several novel points of law regarding the application of U.S. law to alleged securities fraud involving a foreign plaintiff. Before his confirmation to the federal judiciary by the U.S. Senate, Judge Holwell practiced with Michael Shuster and Daniel Goldberg at White & Case, where he served on the Management Board and as the firm’s Executive Partner for Disputes.

In an illustrious career preceding his time on the bench, he represented clients in highly complex commercial litigation matters involving securities, antitrust, and bankruptcy issues; in numerous investigations undertaken by the Department of Justice, Securities and Exchange Commission, and Federal Trade Commission; and in a leading appellate practice. In August 2012, he was appointed to the three-member NFL appeals panel, along with retired federal Judge Fern Smith of San Francisco and Georgetown professor James Oldham.

Steven A. Kandarian

Steven Kandarian is Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of MetLife, Inc. He became President and CEO in May 2011 and Chairman in January 2012. The company ranked 39th on the most recent Fortune 500. He joined MetLife in 2005 as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer (CIO). From 2007 to 2012, he also led MetLife’s enterprise-wide strategy, which identified key areas of focus for the company. His direction contributed to MetLife’s global expansion and led to significant cost savings as well as efforts to address the insurance needs of the underserved U.S. middle market. As CIO, he oversaw the company’s $450 billion general account portfolio and led a number of initiatives that strengthened the portfolio and contributed to MetLife’s bottom line. He enhanced the company’s focus on effective risk management and diversified MetLife’s investment portfolio, in part through the $5.4 billion sale of Peter Cooper Village/Stuyvesant Town in 2006. Under his leadership, MetLife identified the housing bubble early and reduced its exposure to sub-prime mortgage-backed securities, raised the overall quality of its corporate credit portfolio, and increased its focus on low loan-to-value commercial and agricultural mortgages. His efforts helped MetLife emerge from the 2008 credit crisis with the financial strength to complete the company’s $16.2 billion purchase of Alico. From 2001 to 2004, he was Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC). During his tenure, he made the public case for comprehensive reform of the pension funding rules to put the defined benefit system and the PBGC on a sound financial footing, helping to lay the groundwork for the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006. Previously, he was Founder and Managing Partner of Orion Partners, LP, a private equity firm. Earlier he was Managing Director of Lee Capital Holdings. He began his career as an investment banker with Rotan Mosle, Inc. He is a board member of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Institute of International Finance, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Neuberger Berman, and the Partnership for New York City. He is also a member of the Business Council, the Business Roundtable, and the Financial Services Forum. He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Clark University, Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, and MBA from Harvard Business School.

David Yermack

David Yermack is the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation and Chairman of the Finance Department at New York University’s Stern School of Business, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1994. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at the NYU School of Law, Director of the NYU Pollack Center for Law and Business, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research law and economics program.

In 2014 Prof. Yermack began teaching a full semester course at NYU on Digital Currency and Blockchains with his Law School colleague Prof. Geoffrey Miller. The course was the first in the world on this topic taught at a major research university, and it now draws more than 100 students annually. NYU Stern launched a FinTech MBA specialization in 2016. and this program will offer more than 10 FinTech courses in an interdisciplinary joint venture between its Finance and Information Systems departments this year.

In addition to his recent research on blockchains and digital currencies, Professor Yermack has published some of the most cited papers in the fields of executive compensation and corporate governance. He has also written papers on such diverse topics as options in baseball player contracts, incentive compensation for clergymen, tobacco litigation, fraudulent charitable contributions, CEOs’ mansions, and the fashion industry. Professor Yermack was awarded AB (1995), MBA (1991), JD (1991), AM (1993) and PhD (1994) degrees, all from Harvard University. He has been appointed as a visiting professor at 12 international universities, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and Philadelphia, and has given invited research seminars at more than 100 universities and institutes worldwide.

Arun Kohli

Arun Kohli is Chief Operating Officer for EMEA responsible for developing and implementing business strategy and overseeing the business operations of the region. He is also closely involved in developing the Firm’s strategic alliance with MUFG.

Arun joined the firm in 2007 within the Firm’s Strategy & Execution team based in New York, where he led a number of strategic initiatives for the Firm before moving to Hong Kong in 2012, where he spent four years serving as the Chief Operating Officer for Asia Pacific.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Arun worked within the Financial Institutions practice at McKinsey, New York serving as Associate Principal.

He attended the University of Delhi where he graduated with Honours in Engineering and received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School, graduating as a Palmer Scholar.

In addition, Arun serves as a Director on the Board of CAMRI (Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments) at National University of Singapore Business School.

Steven E. Koonin

Steven E. Koonin was appointed as the founding Director of NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress in April 2012. That consortium of academic, corporate, and government partners will pursue research and education activities to develop and demonstrate informatics technologies for urban problems in the “living laboratory” of New York City.

He previously served as the U.S. Department of Energy’s second Senate-confirmed Under Secretary for Science from May 19, 2009 through November 18, 2011.

As the Chief Scientist at BP from 2004 to early 2009, Dr. Koonin developed the long-range technology strategy for alternative and renewable energy sources. Steve joined the California Institute of Technology’s faculty in 1975, was a research fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute during 1976-1977, and was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow during 1977-1979. He became a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech in 1981 and served as Chairman of the Faculty from 1989-1991.

Dr. Koonin was the seventh provost of Caltech from 1995-2004. In that capacity, he was involved in identifying and recruiting 1/3 of the Institute’s professorial faculty and left an enduring legacy of academic and research initiatives in the biological, physical, earth, and social sciences, as well as the planning and development of the Thirty-Meter Telescope project.

Stephen Roach

Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management. He was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s Chief Economist for the bulk of his 30-year career at Morgan Stanley, heading up a highly regarded team of economists around the world.

Mr. Roach’s current teaching and research program focuses on the impacts of Asia on the broader global economy. At Yale, he has introduced new courses for undergraduates and graduate students on the “The Next China” and “The Lessons of Japan” and co-teaches the highly acclaimed “Macro Debate.” His writing and research also addresses globalization, trade policy, the US-China economic relationship, and the challenges of post-crisis economic policy strategies.

Stephen Roach has long been one of Wall Street’s most influential economists. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. Roach’s opinions on the global economy have been known to shape the policy debate from Beijing to Washington.

His latest book, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China (Yale University Press, 2014) examines the challenges, risks, and opportunities of what is likely to be the world’s most important economic relationship of the 21st century. His previous book, The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization (Wiley, 2009), analyzes Asia’s economic imbalances and the dangers of the region’s excess dependence on overextended Western consumers.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, Mr. Roach served on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and was also a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. Mr. Roach is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Investment Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the China Advisory Board of the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Economics Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin.

Daniel Hong

Mr. Daniel Hong joined Tencent in 2016 and now serves as deputy General Manager of Financial Technology (FiT).

Currently， Mr. Hong is in charge of business analysis function within FiT Business Line, facilitating the collaboration between Tencent FiT and external institutions & invested companies in financial service sector. He is also driving internet-based product innovation in securities and insurance market. Before joining Tencent, Mr. Hong worked with Bain & Company, one of the top 3 global strategy firms, and served leading MNC and local companies in both financial service and consumer product sector. Before that, he worked with Accenture, participating and co-leading the giant project of Shanghai Stock Exchange New Generation Trading System (NGTS) design and implementation.

Mr. Hong has more than 12 years of management and innovation experience in strategy development, merge & acquisition, consumer loyalty & behavior analysis, performance improvement, BPR and organization restructuring, etc. Mr. Hong has in-depth understanding on cross-sector innovation, e.g. “Fintech” .

Esther Lee

Since joining MetLife in January 2015 as its Executive Vice President, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Esther has been driving the transformation of marketing at the nearly 150-year-old company. Through championing a business model that focuses on delivering value to the customer, she is leading MetLife marketing away from “sales support” to a strategic customer-led business driving function. She is also leading the evolution of the MetLife brand in a more modern direction, introducing its first global brand platform, “MetLife. Navigating life together”, in nearly 30 years. Her prior marketing leadership roles have been Senior Vice President, Brand, Marketing and Advertising at AT&T and Senior Vice President, Chief Creative Officer at The Coca-Cola Company.

Her contributions to the industry have been recognized with leadership awards from AWNY, AAF, NAAAP, Asian Women in Business and the Asia Brand Congress for her achievements in the field of business and brand building. In 2012, Lee was named to the “Power Players” category of the Advertising Age list of “100 Most Influential Women,” and the Advertising Club of New York honored her as an “Advertising Person of the Year.”

Kamal Quadir

Kamal Quadir applies technology to allow people to advance economically, which in its wake bring about social progress. Currently, Kamal is the CEO of bKash, a leading mobile money service owned by BRAC Bank, Money in Motion, IFC and Gates Foundation, which offers millions of unbanked people access to financial services through basic cell phones in Bangladesh.

Earlier he founded CellBazaar, a communications company that has introduced electronic marketplace in Bangladesh. Under Kamal's leadership CellBazaar reached 4.5 million users and won the Best Use of Mobile for Social and Economic Development Award 2008 from GSM Congress and Asia Telecom’s Innovation of the Year 2008 Award.

The initiatives he has worked on are interventional tools for the poor to access state-of-the-art technologies to leapfrog into some form of inclusivity, be that financial access or electronic marketplace.

Kamal is a founding member of Open World Initiatives, a Lausanne, Switzerland based organization of young thinkers. He is involved with Anwarul Quadir Foundation which recognizes innovations in developing countries. He received the Tech Award in 2007 for “Applying Technology to Benefit Humanity.” He is a First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute. In 2009 the World Economic Forum and TED have respectively selected him as a Young Global Leader and a TED Fellow. Kamal is an accomplished artist whose work is in the collection of Bangladesh National Museum. He has a BA from Oberlin College and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Suresh Kumar

Suresh Kumar is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for BNY Mellon, where he is leading the Client Technology Solutions organization to become the industry leader in delivering innovative technology solutions that enable our clients and employees to succeed.

Mr. Kumar serves on BNY Mellon’s Executive Committee, the organization’s most senior governing body, as well as the company’s Senior Leadership Team. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of iNautix Technologies, a BNY Mellon Company that provides offshore development services.

Before assuming his current role, Suresh was Chief Information Officer for BNY Mellon’s Financial Markets & Treasury Services (FM&&TS) group and Pershing LLC. Prior to his appointment as CIO for Pershing, he served in that role with CSFBdirect and DLJdirect. As part of the team at DLJdirect, Suresh was instrumental in the company’s success in establishing a global presence in Japan, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Dubai, and pioneering the delivery of online brokerage services via the Prodigy Network, America Online and ultimately the World Wide Web.

Suresh is a member of the board of Symphony Communication Services LLC, a secure communication and workflow technology company. He also serves as an advisory board member at Pace University’s Seidenberg School. Suresh has previously served as a member of the HP FSI Advisory Board and the of the Technology Advisory Committee of the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and Technology Management Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA). Suresh is also former Chairman of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Technology Advisory Committee.

Suresh earned a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the New York Institute of Technology. Suresh was named “CIO of the Year” in 2006 by the New Jersey Technology Council and was named to CIO Insight magazine’s annual list of “Top 100 CIOs” in 2007. Suresh was also named to Computerworld's "Premier 100 IT Leaders " for 2012 and was selected as the 2015 IVI Leader in IT Value by the Innovation Value Institute (IVI). In 2016, CIO magazine inducted Suresh in to the CIO Hall of Fame.

Helen Qiao

Helen Qiao is a Managing Director who joined the Firm in 2015 as Chief Economist for Greater China and Head of Asia Economics Research, based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, Qiao spent more than 6 years at Goldman Sachs as Senior China Economist and 4 years at Morgan Stanley as Chief China Economist. Previously, she worked at the World Bank Group (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development) in Washington DC and Lehman Brothers in Tokyo.

Qiao has written a wide range of thematic research papers on China. Her work has been published in media and in academic journals, such as The Journal of Policy Modeling. She has been ranked top three in the Institutional Investor research team surveys in 2013 – 2015 consecutively and named Chief Economist of the Year by CBN Financial Value Ranking in 2012 and 2014. Qiao holds a BA degree in international trade from the Renmin University of China, and Master’s Degree and a PhD in economics from Stanford University.

Ravi Venkatesan

Ravi Venkatesan is the Chairman of the Board at Bank of Baroda and co-Chairman of Infosys Ltd. He is also the founder Chairman of Social Venture Partners India, a partner at Unitus Seed Fund and a fund advisor at Kalaari Capital. Ravi serves on the boards of Rockefeller Foundation, and several advisory Boards. He is the author of an acclaimed book "Conquering the Chaos: Win in India, Win Everywhere " published by Harvard Business Review.

Prior to this, as Chairman of Microsoft India between 2004 and 2011, Ravi helped build India into Microsoft's second-largest presence in the world. He was instrumental in creating Microsoft India’s Project Shiksha, a computer literacy program which has so far trained over 40 million school children in India. Ravi was previously the Chairman of Cummins India and led its transformation into India’s leading provider of engines and power solutions. He helped establish the Cummins College of Engineering, India's first engineering college for women, in Pune. Ravi has served on the boards of Harvard Business School, AB Volvo, Bunge and Thermax.

Ravi has a BS from IIT Bombay, an MS from Purdue University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He is a recipient of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay’s Distinguished Alumnus Award and Purdue University's Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award. He was voted as one of India's best management thinkers by Thinkers50 and is one of Linkedin's Top Global Influencers.

Ravi brings a wealth of experience in corporate leadership, globalization, innovation and private sector approaches to social change in addition to a deep understanding of the political economy of India.

David G. Booth

The core conceptualist and philosophical leader of the firm, David G. Booth founded Dimensional Fund Advisors in 1981 and continues to focus on the firm's key corporate initiatives and strategic long-range planning as Chairman and Co-CEO. Many of his original concepts underpin Dimensional's overall strategy, and his problem-solving innovations for clients set the firm apart from its competitors.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business was named in honour of him, where he also serves as a lifetime member of the school’s business advisory council. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago in 1971. He also holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kansas.

Gao Xiqing

Gao Xiqing was the President and Chief Investment Officer of China Investment Corporation (CIC). He was Vice-Chairman of National Council for Social Security Fund of China between February 2003 and 2007, and Vice-Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) between 1999 and February 2003. He currently holds adjunct positions at School of Law, Tsinghua University, University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), and Duke University School of Law. From 1986 to 1988, he practiced law with a major Wall Street firm before returning to China.

As a co-founder of Stock Exchange Executive Council, he was instrumental in the founding of CSRC and the establishment of Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges in the early 1990s. As one of the founding members of CSRC, he served as its General Counsel and Director of Public Offerings from 1992 to 1995. From 1997 to July 1999, he served as Vice-Chairman and CEO of BOC International, the investment banking arm of Bank of China in Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Arts equivalent in 1978 and Master of Laws in 1981, both from UIBE. As a Richard Nixon Scholar, he attended Duke University School of Law and obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1986.

David Gledhill

David Gledhill is Group Chief Information Officer, as well as Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS Bank, a leading Asian bank and “World’s Best Digital Bank”. Under his leadership, the bank has consistently delivered business value through the innovative use of technology. In 2017 he was the recipient of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan CIO Leadership Award, becoming the first CIO from an Asian company to have won.

David brings with him over 25 years of experience in the financial service industry and has spent over 20 years in Asia. Prior to joining DBS in 2008, he worked 20 years at JP Morgan, holding senior regional positions in Technology & Operations.

As Head of Group Technology & Operations at DBS, David manages about 10,000 professionals across the region and is focused on strengthening the bank’s technology and infrastructure platform to drive greater resilience, organisational flexibility and innovation. Executing against DBS’ strategy to be at the forefront of digital transformation, David also plays a lead role in driving the bank’s innovation agenda, which encompasses design thinking, agile methodology, data analytics, fintech partnerships, hackathons etc. He also oversees procurement and real estate initiatives.

David is a Director of Singapore Clearing House Pte Ltd and a member of IBM Advisory Board, as well as a member of National Super Computing Centre Steering Committee. He is also Board Advisor to Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Information Systems. A British citizen, David holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computing and Electronics, from the University of Durham in the United Kingdom.

S Dhanabalan

Mr S Dhanabalan is currently a Member of the Council of Presidential Advisers; Member, Presidential Council for Minority Rights; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Temasek Trust; a Board Director of GIC Private Limited (formerly known as Government of Singapore Investment Corporation); and Chairman of Mandai Park Holdings Pte Ltd.

He was Chairman of Temasek Holdings (1996 – Jul 2013), Chairman of Singapore Airlines (1996-98), Chairman, DBS Group Holdings Ltd (1999-2005) and Director, Government of Singapore Investment Corporation Private Ltd (1981- 2005).

Mr Dhanabalan started his career in the Singapore Civil Service in 1960 and later served, from 1961 – 1968, in the Economic Development Board, the government investment promotion agency. He was part of a small group that established the Development Bank of Singapore where he served from 1968–1978. He entered politics in 1976 and was a Member of Parliament from 1976 to 1996. While a Member of Parliament, he was Minister for Foreign Affairs (1980-88), Minister for National Development (1987-92) and Minister for Trade and Industry (1992-93). During this period, he was also concurrently Minister for Culture (1981-84) and Minister for Community Development (1985-86).

Steven Scheurmann

With 25 years of experience across Asia Pacific & Japan, Mr. Scheurmann has held senior management, governmental, pre-sales, and project direction positions for large MNCs, a leading finance and banking consultancy firm, and a major ERP software supplier to the mining, oil and gas industry.

Mr. Scheurmann is currently responsible for leading and working with a team of subject-matter experts and business partners that address the challenges associated with: Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Combating Financing of Terrorists (CFT) and Politically-Exposed Persons (PEP).

His team works with end-customers leveraging deep insights, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, preventing Cyber Crime, real-time fraudulent transactions and the associated challenges of adopting mobile solutions. While one of the objectives is to address the risk and exposure attributable to technology adoption, the team understands the importance of helping organisations leverage technology to grow the business and deliver a truly special customer experience.

Euleen Goh

Ms Euleen Goh is Non -Executive Chairman of SATS Ltd, a leading provider of Food Solutions and Gateway Services.

She is also a non-executive board member of Royal Dutch Shell plc, CapitaLand Limited, DBS Group Holdings Ltd, DBS Bank Ltd, Singapore Health Services Pte Ltd and Temasek Trustees Pte Ltd and a Trustee of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs Endowment Fund. She also chairs the Governing Council of the Singapore Institute of Management and the Board of DBS Foundation Ltd.

A Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, she also holds further professional qualifications in banking and taxation. Ms Goh is also a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Directors.

Ms. Goh held various senior management positions in Standard Chartered Bank, travelling widely throughout the Group’s operations in the course of her duties. Following her retirement, she has held non-executive appointments on various boards including Singapore Airlines Limited, Aviva plc, Singapore Exchange Limited, MediaCorp Pte Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank Thai pcl and Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad. She is the former Chairman of Singapore International Foundation, International Enterprise Singapore and Accounting Standards Council, Singapore as well as a former member of the Management Advisory Board of the NUS Business School. She was also formerly Rector of Cinnamon College, National University of Singapore.

Ms Goh was named as Her World Woman of the Year 2005. She was awarded a Public Service Medal in that same year and a Public Service Star in 2012.

R. Gopalakrishnan

R. Gopalakrishnan is Non-Executive Director of Tata Sons, the Tata group promoter holding company, and several Tata companies. He also serves as Independent Director at Akzo Nobel India, Castrol India, and Hemas Sri Lanka. He has been a professional manager from 1967, with 31 years in Unilever, then 17 years in Tata. Over the last 25 years, he has served as Chairman of Unilever Arabia in Jeddah; as Managing Director of Brooke Bond Lipton and Vice Chairman of Hindustan Lever in Bangalore; and as Executive Director of Tata Sons in Mumbai. He retired from his executive positions in Tata in 2011. He currently advises companies and mentors leaders as President of Mindworks. He also speaks extensively and writes thought leadership pieces. He is a past president of the All India Management Association. He studied Physics at St Xavier's Kolkata, Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, and attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Harish Manwani

Mr. Manwani is the Global Executive Advisor to Blackstone Private Equity group and also serves as Director on several international boards. Before joining Blackstone in 2015, Mr. Manwani was the Chief Operating Officer of Unilever responsible for managing the P&L across all of Unilever’s global markets. Mr. Manwani spent almost thirty-eight years with Unilever, holding various senior general management positions in different parts of the world, including overseeing Unilever’s businesses in Latin America, North America, Asia and Africa. Mr. Manwani serves on the Board of Directors of Nielsen Holdings plc, Qualcomm Incorporated, Pearson plc, Whirlpool Corporation and The Economic Development Board (EDB) of Singapore. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Hindustan Unilever Limited in India.

In 2008, Mr. Manwani received the CNBC Asia Business Leader of the Year Award and in 2012, he was conferred the Public Service Medal by the Singapore Government. He has also served on ‘Singapore’s Committee on the Future Economy’ (CFE).

Ravi Menon

Ravi Menon is Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (MOF). He began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years at MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions.

He spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Gold), he has served on a variety of boards in the public, private and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, he is a member of the Financial Stability Board Steering Committee and chairs the International Monetary and Financial Committee Deputies process.

He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

Piyush Gupta

Piyush Gupta is Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group. Prior to joining DBS, Piyush was Citigroup’s Chief Executive Officer for Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Piyush is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of International Finance, Washington and a member of the Board of Trustees of Asia Society. In addition, he serves as the Deputy Chairman of SPRING Singapore and sits on the boards of The Institute of Banking and Finance and Dr. Goh Keng Swee Scholarship Fund. He is also Chairman of Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board, and a council member of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research.

Gerald L. Hassell

Gerald L. Hassell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation, a global investments company dedicated to helping institutions, corporations and individual investors manage and service their financial assets throughout the investment lifecycle. He spent his entire career with BNY Mellon, beginning in The Bank of New York's management development programme. He has had direct management responsibility for the company's broad range of investment services businesses, including asset servicing and issuer, broker-dealer, treasury and clearing services, as well as operations and technology. He was named to The Bank of New York's executive committee in 1994, and named President and elected to its Board of Directors in 1998.

In 2011, he was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon. He is also on the Board of Directors of Comcast Corporation. Until recently, he chaired the Board of Visitors of The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and now serves on the Board of Trustees of Duke University. In addition, he is on the Board of Visitors of Columbia University Medical Center and the boards of the New York Philharmonic, the Economic Club of New York and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum.

He is also a member of The Financial Services Roundtable and Financial Services Forum, and is Vice Chairman of Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York. He holds an MBA in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Duke University.

Hsieh Fu Hua

Hsieh Fu Hua is the Chairman of UOB and its subsidiary Far Eastern Bank. An independent and non-executive director, he is a member of the Executive, Nominating, Remuneration and Board Risk Management Committees. Currently an adviser to PrimePartners Group which he co-founded, he is also a director of GIC and Chairman of Tiger Airways Holdings. He previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Singapore Exchange, and as a member of the Temasek Holdings board. Active in the community, he also serves on the boards of several non-profit organisations and chairs National Gallery Singapore, National Council of Social Service, and Stewardship and Corporate Governance Centre. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honours) from the University of Singapore.

Huang Haizhou

Huang Haizhou is Deputy CEO, Managing Director, and Management Committee Member at China International Capital Corporation (CICC). He joined CICC in 2007 as Managing Director, and has served as Co-Head of Sales and Trading; Executive Chairman of the Capital Market Committee; Chief Strategist, Co-Head of Research; and Executive Chairman of the Research Coordination Committee. He is presently Head of Sales and Trading. He has over 20 years of experience in serving clients in the financial industry and governments; as well as economics, finance and policy research. He was Head of Greater China Research at Barclays Capital from 2005 to 2007. From 1998 to 2005, he was a Senior Economist at the International Monetary Fund, and prior to that, taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the London School of Economics.

As a Special Term Professor of Finance, he has taught at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management (2002–2005), and since 2014, at PBC School of Finance. He is a Vice President of the China Society of World Economics, a Member of the China Finance 40 Group (CF40), a Member of the Expert Committee of China's 13th Five-Year Plan, a Member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council, and a Member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. He holds a PhD in Business from Indiana University, USA, as well as Master and Bachelor degrees in Engineering from China.

Khoong Hock Yun

Khoong Hock Yun is Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Development) and Chief Data Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA). He joined IDA's senior management team in 2000 around the time of its founding, and is responsible for IDA's 'Build' agenda: to generate economic growth for Singapore. This includes developing and building the infocomm industry, infocomm manpower, and critical national infocomm infrastructure, such as the Nationwide Broadband Network (NBN). He also oversees IDA's strategic and corporate planning, enablement of industry sectors with infocomm, as well as the mandate to develop the Smart Nation Platform (SNP).

Other transformational initiatives led by him include Wireless@SG, National Authentication Framework, National Cloud Computing Office, Singapore Internet Exchange, an upcoming Data Centre Park, and Singapore's first cloud-based infrastructure implementation for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games in 2010. He previously served at the Ministry of Defence as Programme Director, developing simulation systems, as well as command, control and communications systems. He brings with him deep industry experience, having spent over 11 years at Mentor Graphics Corporation, where he was Strategic Business Group Director responsible for areas such as R&D, product engineering, consulting services, and the management of product development organisations in Singapore, Europe and the United States. A Harvard Business School alumnus, he has Master Degrees in both Engineering and Business Administration.

Chanda Kochhar

Chanda Kochhar is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank. She is widely recognised for her role in shaping India's retail banking sector, her leadership of ICICI Group, as well as her contributions to various forums in India and globally. She began her career with ICICI in 1984 and was elevated to the Board of Directors of ICICI Bank in 2001. She was instrumental in establishing ICICI Bank in the 1990s, and subsequently headed the infrastructure finance and corporate banking business in ICICI. In 2000, she took on the challenge of building the nascent retail business, focusing on technology, innovation, process reengineering and expansion of distribution and scale. From 2006 to 2007, she successfully led the Bank's corporate and international banking businesses. From 2007 to 2009, she became Joint Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer. She currently chairs the boards of the Bank's principal subsidiaries, which include India's leading private sector life and general insurance companies. In addition to her responsibilities at ICICI Group, she is a member of the India–Japan Business Leaders Forum and the US–India CEO Forum.

She is also President of the International Monetary Conference, an organisation that annually brings together chief executives of approximately 70 of the world's largest financial institutions, along with officials from government institutions. She is Deputy Chairperson of the Indian Banks' Association, and is on the boards of Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations, National Institute of Securities Markets and Institute of International Finance. She has been a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade & Industry, the Board of Trade and High-Level Committee on Financing Infrastructure. She was also co-chair of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in 2011. She holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Carleton University, Canada. In 2011, she was conferred the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honours.

Edmund Koh

Edmund Koh was appointed Head of Wealth Management Asia Pacific on 1 January 2016, a business which manages invested assets of over CHF 260 billion across the region. He joined UBS in February 2012 as Group Managing Director, heading the UBS Wealth Management South East Asia and Asia Pacific Hub. Edmund, a Singaporean, is also a member of the UBS Global Wealth Management Executive Committee and Global Head of Affluent, as well as Country Head of UBS in Singapore.

Edmund's distinguished career in Asia's financial services industry spans more than 20 years, during which time he garnered a deep understanding of Asian markets and developed a strong track record in leading and building successful businesses in Asia. Prior to joining UBS, Koh was President and Director of Ta Chong Bank and before that was Managing Director and Regional Head of the Consumer Banking Group at DBS Bank.

Edmund has always been committed to talent development and training. He spearheaded the UBS Youth Finance Academy in 2015 to commemorate both the 50th anniversary of UBS in Asia, and Singapore's 50th anniversary. Additionally, Edmund also supports the various UBS community investments in education and social entrepreneurship such as mentoring programs for youths that are focused on communication, leadership and resilience as well as performing and visual arts programs for special needs children. He also encourages skill-based volunteering initiatives aimed at providing capacity building support to UBS's community partners.

Edmund holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Uday Kotak

Uday Kotak is the Founder and CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank (Kotak). The Bank has a consolidated net worth of around US$ 7 billion and around 45,000 employees. For Uday, who believes that the true measure of performance is value creation, the scorecard is telling: investors who kept faith with the enterprise over the past 32 years have seen 40% CAGR on their investments over this period.

Today, Kotak is among India’s most efficient, high-performing and trusted banks. Uday’s strategy for growth is defined by quality, simplicity and prudence. This conviction and a respectable distance from market exuberance has ensured that the bank is well capitalized and its asset book is of high quality.

The group’s vision for equitable prosperity extends beyond banking and financial services. The Kotak Education Foundation works with some of India’s most economically depressed communities, attempting to alleviate poverty in a sustainable way through education and livelihood programmes. Uday holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Alan B. Krueger

Alan Krueger has published widely on the economics of education, terrorism, unemployment, labour demand, income distribution, social insurance, labour market regulation and environmental economics. Since 1987 he has held a joint appointment in the Economics Department and Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. He is the founding Director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center. He served as Chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers and a Member of his Cabinet from November 2011 to August 2013. He also served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009–10, and as Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor in 1994–95.

He is the author of What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism and Education Matters: A Selection of Essays on Education, co-author of Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage, and co-author of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Russell Sage Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, and the American Institutes for Research, as well as a member of the editorial board of Science (2001–09), editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives (1996–2002) and co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association (2003–05).

He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association (2005–07) and International Economic Association, and Chief Economist for the National Council on Economic Education (2003–09). He was named a Sloan Fellow in Economics in 1992 and an NBER Olin Fellow in 1989–90. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996, and a fellow of the Society of Labor Economists in 2005. He was awarded the Kershaw Prize by the Association for Public Policy and Management in 1997 and the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal by the Indian Econometric Society in 2001. In 2002, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2003 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. He was awarded the IZA Prize in Labor Economics with David Card in 2006. From 2000 to 2006 he was a regular contributor to the "Economic Scene " column in the New York Times. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree (with honours) from Cornell University's School of Industrial & Labor Relations, as well as an AM and PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Ajay Kumar

Ajay Kumar is the Director General of the National Informatics Centre (NIC). NIC is the premier e-governance service provider for the Indian government with presence in all Ministries of Central Government, all State Governments and Union Territories, and all District Administrations. NIC provides core e-governance infrastructure in the country, including cloud, data centre, networks and email.

It also runs thousands of applications for various government departments and organisations. As Additional Secretary to the Government of India, he also coordinates the promotion of the Electronic Design and Manufacturing industry in India, and has initiated several programmes to develop and promote innovation in the Electronics and ICT sector.

Li Jiange

Li Jiange is Vice Chairman of Central Huijin Investment Co., Ltd., Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Sun Yefang Foundation and Co-Head of Tsinghua University National Institute of Financial Research. He was Chairman of ShenYin & WanGuo Securities Co., Ltd., Chairman of China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC), Vice President of Development Research Centre of the State Council, Vice Minister of the State Council Office for Restructuring the Economic System, Vice Chairman and then Executive Vice Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission, and Chief of Staff of the Securities Commission of the State Council. He was previously the Deputy Director General of Policy Research Office of the State Planning Commission, followed by Deputy Director General and then Director General of the Department of Policy and Regulation of the State Economic and Trade Commission.

He is concurrently Professor and Supervisor for PhD students at the Graduate Schools of both Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the People's Bank of China. He is also Professor at Management School and Taiwan Institute of Tsinghua University. He won the Sun Yefang Prize for Economics in 1991, 1997 and 2001, and has been trustee of Sun Yefang Foundation of Economics and Member of its Awarding Committee since 2002. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation in 2009.

Lim Chow Kiat

Mr LIM Chow-Kiat is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of GIC. As Chief Executive Officer, Mr LIM holds the responsibility for the overall performance and capabilities of GIC. He joined GIC in 1993 as a portfolio manager. He has held various leadership roles, including most recently as Group Chief Investment Officer, and previously as President of Public Markets, President of Europe and Director of Fixed Income Currency and Commodity.

Mr LIM is a member of the Singapore’s Committee on the Future Economy (CFE). In addition, he is a trustee of Nanyang Technological University, Deputy Chairman of Wealth Management Institute, member of Strategic Committee of Agence France Tresor and board member of Focusing Capital on the Long Term Global. He is also Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Lee Kuan Yew Education Fund as well as the Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism.

Mr. Lim graduated with first-class honors in accountancy from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is a chartered financial analyst (CFA).

Rajiv Lall

Dr. Rajiv B. Lall is Founder MD & CEO of IDFC Bank since 1st Oct 2015. He was the Executive Chairman of IDFC Limited until September 2015. He has about three decades of experience with leading global investment banks, multilateral agencies and in academia. His areas of expertise include project finance, private equity/venture capital, international capital markets, trade, infrastructure and macroeconomic policy issues with a focus on emerging markets including India and China in particular.

A veteran economist and business leader for the past 35 years, Dr. Lall straddles the policy making and finance worlds. He currently chairs the National Committee on Infrastructure Financing of CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) a leading business chamber in the country. He is a member of the Managing Committee of ASSOCHAM; the CII National Council on Financial Sector Development and the CII National Committee on Banking.

Internationally, he is a member of the Advisory Board of Columbia Global Centers, South Asia, set up by the Columbia University, New York. He is also on the International Advisory Board of the Centre for the Advanced Study of India (CASI) at the University of Pennsylvania; and a member of the City of London's Advisory Council on India. He was the President of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry and has chaired the Global Agenda Council on Infrastructure of the World Economic Forum. Dr. Lall was India's representative to the G20 Workgroup on Infrastructure and was also a member of the Planning Commission's Steering Committee on Urban Development Management.

Dr. Lall has a number of publications and articles to his credit. He has been a regular columnist with the Business Standard, a leading financial daily in India. He has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Lim Siong Guan

Lim Siong Guan has been Group President of GIC since 2007. GIC manages Singapore's foreign financial reserves. He was the Chairman of Singapore's Economic Development Board from 2006 to 2009. A former head of the Singapore Civil Service, he was Permanent Secretary in the ministries of Defence, Education and Finance and in the Prime Minister's Office, and led various major government agencies. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, instructing on leadership and change management in the public sector. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Singapore Civil Service College, a member of the International Board of the Stars Foundation of Switzerland, and a member of the Advisory Panel of SwissRe. He is the author of the bestselling book on leadership and governance, The Leader, The Teacher & You.

Asheet Mehta

Asheet Mehta is a Director in McKinsey & Company's New York office, where he has served a broad range of players across the financial services industry and the public sector. He leads the Financial Services Practice in the Americas and co-leads the Financial Services Practice globally. He has deep expertise in financial services, having served clients that include universal banks, wholesale and retail banks, insurance and credit card companies, as well as wealth and asset managers.

Client engagement topics include corporate strategy, organisation, marketing, operations, technology, as well as risk and regulation across the full range of wholesale and consumer financial products and services. He is the former President and current board member of Partnership with Children, a not-for-profit that serves at-risk children in New York City's Public Schools. He has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and an MBA with High Honours in Finance and Production Management from the University of Chicago.

Ravi Menon

Ravi Menon is Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He was previously Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade & Industry (MTI) and Deputy Secretary at the Ministry of Finance (MOF). He began his career at MAS in 1987. During his 16 years at MAS, he was involved in monetary policy; econometric forecasting; organisational development; banking regulation and liberalisation; and integrated supervision of complex financial institutions.

He spent a year at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, as a member of the secretariat to the Financial Stability Forum. A recipient of the Public Administration Medal (Gold), he has served on a variety of boards in the public, private and people sectors in Singapore. On the international front, he is a member of the Financial Stability Board Steering Committee and chairs the International Monetary and Financial Committee Deputies process. He holds a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) in Economics from the National University of Singapore.

Thomas Nides

Tom Nides is a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. He focuses on the Firm’s global clients and other key constituencies around the world, serves as a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Operating Committee, and reports to Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman.

Prior to rejoining the Firm in March 2013 in his current role, Mr. Nides was Deputy Secretary of State, serving as Chief Operating Officer of the Department. Appointed by President Obama, he was confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 2010 and sworn in on January 3, 2011. For his service, Secretary Hillary Clinton awarded him the Secretary of State’s Distinguished Service Award in January 2013 – the nation’s highest diplomatic honor.

Previously, Mr. Nides was the Chief Operating Officer of Morgan Stanley from 2005 to 2010. He was an executive officer and served as a member of Morgan Stanley’s Management Committee and Operating Committee. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Nides served as Worldwide President and Chief Executive Officer of Burson-Marsteller and as Chief Administrative Officer of Credit Suisse First Boston, the investment banking division of Zurich-based Credit Suisse Group.

Mr. Nides began his career on Capitol Hill, as Assistant to the Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives and Executive Assistant to the Speaker of the House. Mr. Nides later served as Senior Vice President of Fannie Mae and as Chief of Staff to the United States Trade Representative.

Mr. Nides serves on numerous non-profit boards including the Board of the Asia Society, the Atlantic Council, the International Rescue Committee and the Urban Alliance Foundation. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is the former Chairman of the Board of the Woodrow Wilson Center, a leading non-partisan think tank. He was appointed to the Chairman position in September 2013 by President Obama.

Prior to serving in government, Mr. Nides was the Chairman of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, on the Board of New York Cares Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board of the National Zoo.

Mr. Nides, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, is married to Virginia Moseley, Senior Vice President of CNN. They have two children.

Anthony Neoh

Anthony Neoh is Dean's Visiting Professor at NUS Business School and a senior member of the Hong Kong Bar, active in civil appellate, international litigation and arbitration cases. He was a civil servant in the Hong Kong Government from 1966 to 1979. In 1979, he commenced private legal practice at the Hong Kong Bar. He returned to public office from 1995 to 2004. He was Chief Advisor to the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) from 1998 to 2004 at the personal invitation of former Premier Zhu Rongji. In 2003 (by agreement with CSRC) he resumed private legal practice. He remains a member of the International Advisory Board of CSRC. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (1995–1998). He was also the first Asian to be elected Chairman of the Technical Committee of the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (1996–1998).

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1990. A law graduate of London University, he was called to the English Bar by Gray's Inn in 1976. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School (1990–1991) and was later Visiting Professor from Practice (2001–2002). In 2004, he was appointed Nomura Visiting Professor of International Finance from Practice by Harvard Law School, a position he was eventually unable to take up. He was awarded Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Chinese University in 2003. He was appointed Dean's Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore Business School in March 2011. His research interests are in legal and financial history, and the regulation of financial markets and services.

Fred Newman

Fred Newman is a founding partner of Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney, LLP, a commercial litigation firm in Manhattan, New York. He is a legal generalist with decades of experience in commercial litigation, business advice, corporate transactions, employment counselling and alternative dispute resolution. He was named a "Leading Lawyer " for general commercial litigation in New York, one of only 76 individuals so honoured, in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business (2009). As a counsellor, he advises corporate owners, senior executives and entrepreneurs on business and personal issues. In addition, he has served on the board of directors of a private reinsurance company. He was appointed CEO of a public company in dissolution by its major creditor, and was the general counsel and secretary of a public reporting subsidiary of a Fortune 50 company.

He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on Professional Responsibility, Legal Ethics in Civil Litigation. In 2009, he was a Visiting Professor of Arbitration at a law faculty in Latvia. He has lectured and been published on a variety of legal topics, most recently as the author of a section of Moskin/Rossman on Commercial Contracts. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) from Harvard College and Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School. He also received an EMBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

Ng Kok Song

Ng Kok Song is Chairman of Singapore-based Avanda Investment Management which manages global and Asian investments for long term institutional clients. He also serves on the board of Makena Capital, a California-based investment company. He is also on the global advisory board of PIMCO.

He was Chief Investment Officer of GIC (Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) until 2013 when he completed a 42-year career in the investment of Singapore’s foreign reserves. Before joining GIC in 1986, Mr Ng was at the Ministry of Finance (1970-71) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (1972-1986). The Singapore Government awarded him the Meritorious Service Medal in 2012. In 2013, the CFA Institute conferred on him the Thomas L. Hansberger Award for Leadership in the global investment profession. Mr. Ng was a member of the Strategic Committee of Agency France Tresor from 2001 to 2012 for which the Government of France conferred on him the award of “La Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur” in 2004.

Kok Song was founder Chairman of SIMEX in 1984, now the derivatives arm of the Singapore Exchange SGX, where he is presently a Board director. Kok Song has also been the founder Chairman of Wealth Management Institute (WMI) since 2004.

Kok Song graduated in Physics from the University of Singapore (1970) and in Management from Stanford University (1980).

Raghuram Rajan

Raghuram Rajan is the 23rd Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Prior to that, he was Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India and the Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He was also Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003–2006). His work spans a broad range of areas in financial economics, ranging from the role of banks in creating liquidity to the nature of corporations and their financing. He co-authored Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists with Luigi Zingales in 2003. He then wrote Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy, for which he was awarded the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010. He is a member of the Group of Thirty.

He was the President of the American Finance Association in 2011 and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003, he was awarded the inaugural Fischer Black Prize by American Finance Association for the best finance researcher under the age of 40. Other awards he has received include: Global Indian of the Year award from NASSCOM (2011), the Infosys prize for Economic Sciences (2012), the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics (2013), and the Central Bank Governor of the Year Award by EuroMoney (2014). In 2015, he was named Governor of the Year by Central Banking Publications. He holds a Bachelor of Technology (Electrical) degree from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, an MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Peter Seah

Peter Seah is Chairman of DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank. He is also Chairman of the Compensation and Management Development Committee, Executive Committee and Nominating Committee, as well as a member of the Audit Committee and Board Risk Management Committee. In addition, he is Chairman of DBS Bank (Hong Kong) and also chairs its Board Risk Management Committee. He is the present Chairman of Singapore Health Services, LaSalle College of the Arts and National Wages Council.

He was a banker for 33 years before retiring as Vice Chairman and CEO of the former Overseas Union Bank in 2001. He serves on the boards of StarHub, STATS ChipPAC, GIC, Level 3 Communications Inc., Asia Mobile Holdings, Fullerton Financial Holdings and STT Communications.

Stephen Bird

Stephen Bird is Chief Executive Officer of Global Consumer Banking. His global responsibilities include all Consumer and Commercial Banking businesses in 19 countries, including Retail Banking and Wealth Management, Credit Cards, Mortgages and Operations and Technology supporting the business. He is a member of the Citi Operating Committee.

Previously, Mr. Bird was CEO of Asia Pacific, responsible for all of Citi's consumer and institutional businesses across 17 markets in the region. As CEO, he established Citi as Asia's leading bank, pioneered digital innovations and accelerated Citi's expansion in China. In China, Citi doubled its branch network, was the first global bank to issue sole-branded credit cards and was one of the first foreign banks to open a branch in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone.

Under his leadership, Citi was named "Best Bank in Asia " by FinanceAsia for six consecutive years. From 2009 to 2012, he served as joint CEO of Citi Asia Pacific with responsibility for North Asia, served as Head of Consumer Banking in Asia Pacific from 2006 to 2008, responsible more than 30 million customer accounts across the region, and served four years in Citi Japan as CEO of Credit Cards and Consumer Finance. Earlier, he was Head of Operations & Technology for Citi Latin America, covering all of Citi's businesses in 23 countries.

Mr. Bird joined Citi in 1998 in Singapore as the Asia Pacific Head for Operations & Technology. He successfully built Citi's technological and operational capability to deliver outstanding customer service and market-leading Internet and mobile capability. Citi's award-winning e-commerce capabilities continue to win customer and industry recognition. He relocated to Latin America in 2001.

Prior to Citi, Mr. Bird held senior management positions in GE Capital and British Steel in the United Kingdom. At GE Capital, Mr. Bird launched its 6 Sigma program and established a client focus and continual improvement culture in GE Capital Fleet Services before becoming its Director of U.K. Operations. He is a recipient of GE's "Pinnacle Award " for pioneering work in establishing joint commercial ventures between GE Capital's different businesses serving the financial needs of the U.K. automotive sector.

Mr. Bird is an alumnus of Citi's Chairman's Executive Forum and GE's European Advanced Leadership program. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Asia Society and the U.S.-China Business Council. He is both a graduate and Honorary Fellow of University College Cardiff.

Shikha Sharma

Shikha Sharma is Managing Director and CEO of Axis Bank Limited, India's third-largest private sector bank, and the eight-largest bank in terms of total assets. Prior to joining Axis Bank in 2009, she was with ICICI Group, where she started her career, and worked across various verticals like Project Finance, Retail Banking and Investment Banking. Her last assignment in ICICI Group was as Managing Director and CEO of ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Company, a leading life insurance company in the private sector.

She is a recipient of many business awards, including having been named one of India's Most Valuable CEOs by Businessworld and India's Best Woman CEO by Business Today, both in 2013. She has also been listed in prominent publications, such as Forbes' Asia's 50 Power Businesswomen list in 2012 and 2013; Fortune magazine's global list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2011; Financial Times' list of the Top 50 Women in World Business in 2011; and FinanceAsia magazine's Top 20 Women in Finance in 2011.

Leo Puri

Mr. Leo Puri is the Managing Director of UTI Asset Management Co. Ltd.

In his career of more than 30 years, Mr. Puri has previously worked as Director with McKinsey & Company and as Managing Director with Warburg Pincus. Mr. Puri has worked in the UK, USA and Asia. Since 1994, he has been based in India.

At McKinsey, he has advised leading financial institutions, conglomerates and investment institutions in strategy and operational issues. He has contributed to the development of knowledge and public policy through advice to regulators and government officials.

At Warburg Pincus, he was responsible for leading and managing investments across industries in India. He also contributed to financial services investments in the international portfolio as a member of the global partnership.

Mr. Puri has a Masters degree in P.P.E. from University of Oxford, and a Masters degree in Law from University of Cambridge.

Mr Puri has held non-executive board positions at Infosys, Bennett Coleman & Co., Max New York Life and Max Bupa Health Insurance.

Masaaki Shirakawa

Masaaki Shirakawa was previously Governor of the Bank of Japan. He was appointed as Governor in April 2008, and left the Bank in March 2013. He was also Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) between January 2011 and March 2013. Currently, he is professor at Aoyama-Gakuin University and a member of the Group of Thirty—a private, non-profit, international body composed of senior policymakers from central banks, supervisory agencies, the financial sector, and academia.

Masaaki Shirakawa joined the Bank of Japan in 1972. At the Bank, he held various key positions, including Executive Director in charge of monetary policy. Other professional experiences include professorship at the Kyoto University School of Government from July 2006 to March 2008.

Masaaki Shirakawa was born in September 1949. He studied economics at the University of Tokyo (B.A.) and at the University of Chicago (M.A.).

Duvvuri Subbarao

Duvvuri Subbarao is currently Distinguished Visiting Fellow at NUS Business School and the Institute of South Asian Studies, and a Special Visitor under the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Eminent Visitor Programme. He served as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for five years (2008–2013). Prior to that, he was Finance Secretary to the Government of India and Secretary to the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council.

In a career spanning more than 40 years, he has rich hands-on experience in public finance management. As Lead Economist in the World Bank (1999–2004), he advised developing countries on public finance management and fiscal decentralisation. He has written and spoken extensively on issues in macroeconomic management, public finance and financial sector reforms. During his tenure at RBI, he was recognised as a leading exponent of central banking issues from an emerging market perspective. He obtained his Master of Science in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Master of Science in Economics from Ohio State University, and PhD in Economics from Andhra University. He was a Humphrey Fellow in Public Finance at MIT.

Owen D. Thomas

Owen D. Thomas formerly served as Board Member at CAMRI, NUS Business School, where he still serves as Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow. He joined Boston Properties Inc. as Chief Executive Officer and Director in 2013. Boston Properties, a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, is one of the largest owners, managers and developers of first-class office properties in the United States. He was appointed Chairman of Lehman Brothers Holdings from 2012 until 2013 and continues to serve as a Director.

Prior to Lehman, he was with Morgan Stanley for 24 years serving in a number of different roles, business units and locations, including Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Asia, President of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate, and Chairman of Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities. He also served on Morgan Stanley's Management Committee from 2005 until 2011. He is a Director of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, a Director and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, a Trustee of Woodberry Forest School, a member of the NAREIT Executive Board and is a former Chairman of the Pension Real Estate Association. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

T. S. Vijayan

T. S. Vijayan is Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA). He plays a key role in various initiatives for enhancing insurance awareness and making insurance affordable to all sections of the population. He has also taken various measures for optimum utilisation of technology in the insurance space. He represents the Asian region on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS), apart from being a member of its Technical and Implementation committees. Prior to joining IRDA, he worked in various capacities in the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), established under a statute of the Parliament of India while nationalising the life insurance business in 1956. LIC was the sole life insurance provider in the country prior to the opening up of the sector in 1999. He finally took over as Chairman of LIC of India in 2006, and was in that position for five years. He holds a special graduate degree from Kerala University.

Axel A. Weber

Axel A. Weber is Chairman of the Board of Directors at UBS. He was President of the German Bundesbank from 2004 to 2011, during which time he also served as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German Governor of the International Monetary Fund, and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors. He was a member of the steering committees of the European Systemic Risk Board (2011) and the Financial Stability Board (2010–2011).

He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2011–2012) and a member of the German Council of Economic Experts (2002–2004). He was a Professor of International Economics and Director of the Centre for Financial Research at the University of Cologne (2001–2004); and a Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the Centre for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt (1998–2001). He was a Professor of Economic Theory at the University of Bonn (1994–1998). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation. He graduated with a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Constance and holds honorary doctorates from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Constance.