ECREF – Real Estate Portfolio & Risk Management

Christopher Gee

Chris has worked in the investment banking, analysing the real estate sector (developers and REITs) in various markets in the Asia region for the past eleven years. He was rated the top Singapore analyst in the Institutional Investor surveys from 2005 to 2010. He was the Head of Asia Real Estate Equities Research for J.P. Morgan from end 2006 to early 2012. Chris joined J.P. Morgan in Singapore in August 2002 as Head of Equities Research from ING Financial Markets, where he was the head of equities research for Singapore and Malaysia from 2000. He holds the CFA charter and trained as a chartered accountant with Price Waterhouse in London in early 1990s.

Chris is now the Head of the Governance and Economy Department at the Institute of Policy Studies where he works on housing, health and retirement adequacy policy issues related to an ageing population. He is also a non-executive director of CapitaRetail China Trust Management Ltd, the manager of Singapore’s first China shopping mall REIT.

Han Hwee Chin

Han Hwee Chin is Managing Director (Global Investments and Portfolio Strategy) in the real estate arm of GIC. GIC manages a well-diversified portfolio with high quality assets across various property sectors.

At GIC, Hwee Chin manages the design, composition and risk management framework of the real estate portfolio from a top-down, bottom-up approach to help formulate investment strategies across global markets and property sectors and provide directional recommendations on portfolio composition. Hwee Chin also provides independent reviews of deal assessments to the Investment Committee. Hwee Chin is on the GIC Sustainability Steering Committee and manages the real estate ESG framework that includes ESG integration into investment management strategy, investment opportunities evaluation and building portfolio climate resilience.

Hwee Chin graduated from the National University of Singapore with a first-class honours degree in Real Estate and has an MBA (Dean’s List) from the University of Western Australia. She started her career with JTC Corporation and joined the Ministry of Trade and Industry (Singapore), before moving to GIC.

Paul Kwee

Paul Kwee is Head of Industries Risk, CCIB. In this role which he has held since April 2023, Paul is responsible for credit risk management of the various global industry portfolios under CCIB.  In addition, Paul is responsible for driving the integration of Climate Risk considerations into credit risk decisioning and providing thought leadership to CCIB credit on Transition Technologies/ Finance.

Paul has been with the Bank for 14 years. He was previously Chief Credit Officer for China from October 2017, responsible for managing the credit risk of SCB’s CCIB corporate portfolio in China.  Before that he was Chief Credit Officer of Commercial Real Estate (CRE), where he was the credit approver and risk manager for the Bank’s CRE portfolio in Asia and the Middle East for 8 years.  Prior to joining Standard Chartered Bank, he was the Director and Head of ASEAN Real Estate at Citigroup in Singapore.

Paul who is Singaporean, holds an Engineering degree from the Ohio State University, USA and an MBA (Accountancy) from the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He recently completed an Advanced Certificate in Sustainability & Sustainable Business with the Singapore Management University.  Paul has an interest in Climate Risk, particularly in how carbon measurement in the CRE industry in Singapore can be improved.

LOO HOCK LEONG

Hock Leong is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Parkway Trust Management Limited, the manager of Parkway Life REIT.  He brings with him 30 years of extensive banking and corporate experience. In Parkway Trust Management Ltd, he has helped to raise/set up more than S$2 billion of debts and medium term notes for the various acquisitions opportunities. Prior to joining Parkway Trust Management Ltd, he was the Senior Vice President, Corporate Advisory of Global Financial Markets with DBS Bank Ltd. He has provided advisory services on corporate treasury management to large corporations in area of corporate finance and merger & acquisition. He has extensive experience in financial structuring of interest rate and foreign exchange risk management solutions for these clients.

Hock Leong graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Hons) degree in 1995. In 2000, he obtained a Masters of Applied Finance from the Macquarie University with three distinguished awards: Best Overall Performance, Best in Derivatives Valuation and Best in Legal & Tax Risk in Finance. He also possesses a professional qualification in accounting from Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (‘ISCA’) and is a Chartered Accountant with ISCA.  Mr Loo completed the Advanced Management Programme with Harvard Business School in 2022.  He holds the accreditation of Senior Accredited Director by Singapore Institute of Directors (‘SID’). He is also a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional.

Vinamra Srivastava

Vinamra is Chief Sustainability & Sustainable Investments Officer at CapitaLand Investment (CLI), responsible for formulating and integrating the Group’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategy, policies and best practices into its business and operations, fostering a culture of sustainability, and helping to deliver long-term economic value to stakeholders. He is also responsible for leading CLI’s sustainable real assets investments including renewable energy and climate-tech venture capital.

Prior to this role, Vinamra served as the CEO, India Business Parks, CLI, where he led the development and growth of the company’s business parks portfolio in the country. Vinamra also led multiple sustainability projects across India in the areas of renewable energy and digital technologies to enhance energy and water efficiencies. Before that, he headed the Corporate Strategy & Development function in Ascendas-Singbridge.

Before joining CapitaLand in 2015, Vinamra was a management consultant at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Cisco Systems and Arthur D. Little, where he specialised in growth strategy, market entry and infrastructure investments advisory in projects across Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Vinamra holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from University of Pune, and a Master of Business Administration from Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad in India.