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Luo Ping Mr. Luo, Director General, China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC), has a supervisory policy career working for both the People’s Bank of China and the CBRC. Prior to his current position, he was Deputy Director General of International Department. Mr. Luo has been actively involved in the development of supervisory standards and policies. In recent years, he has been working energetically to promote advanced risk management practices for credit risk and operational risk in China. Mr Luo holds a master degree in banking and finance and has worked for two international financial institutions over the years. Mr Luo also serves as a visiting professor at the Academy of Social Science and University of International Business and Economy. |
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Marc Saidenberg Marc R. Saidenberg is a senior vice president in the bank supervision group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he heads the financial sector policy and analysis function. In this capacity, Mr. Saidenberg is responsible for assessing financial sector developments and risks and for leading the development and implementation of supervisory policy on issues related to risk management, liquidity and capital adequacy. Mr. Saidenberg also represents the Bank on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and is the co-chair of the Committee's Working Group on Liquidity. Mr. Saidenberg rejoined the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2008. Mr. Saidenberg was previously employed at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York beginning his career as an economist in the Research and Statistics Group in September 1995. In December 2000, he was appointed an officer in the Bank Supervision Group of the New York Fed to lead the economic capital competency center and in December 2001 was promoted to assistant vice president. He was assigned to credit risk in the risk management function in December 2002. In January 2004, Mr. Saidenberg was assigned to the large complex banking organizations relationship management department and was promoted to vice president in July 2004. Mr. Saidenberg left the Bank to work for Merrill Lynch and Company in November 2005 where he served as a managing director in the Finance and Treasury functions. Mr. Saidenberg holds a B.A. from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Dr. Andrew Aziz Dr. Andrew Aziz is Executive Vice President at Algorithmics, and is responsible for leading the business and product direction of Algorithmics' suite of buy-side risk and insurance solution offerings. Andy has held a number of senior positions at Algorithmics including Vice President of Products and Executive Director of Financial Engineering. Prior to joining Algorithmics, Andy was an instructor of finance at both York University and Wilfrid Laurier University, and held positions at Bank of Nova Scotia and Bank of Montreal. Andy holds several degrees, including a PhD in Finance from York University, an MBA in Finance from Queens University and a BSc (Honors) in Chemistry from McMaster University. Andy also provides risk management training for PRMIA accreditation. |
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Erik But Erik focuses on asset classes of Equity and Equity Derivatives. He is responsible for market and product development through high end analytical training and workshop. To maintain Bloomberg’s leadership, he also keeps enhancing Bloomberg’s professional capabilities by providing market feedbacks to meet the challenges of rapidly changing financial world. Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. in Cash and Derivatives Trading Department, taking up duties in product development, investor marketing and relationship management. Erik started his career in a US institutional fund management company as quantitative analyst, specializing in quantitative investment strategies. He earned both Master degree of Economics and Bachelor degree of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong. |
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Doug Caldwell Doug Caldwell is Chief Risk Officer, ING Asia Pacific responsible for leading the risk organization for ING Insurance in Asia. Doug has been with ING for over 11 years with roles including Head of Asset Liability and Capital Management for ING US, Head of Corporate Insurance Risk Department with ING Group in Amsterdam focusing heavily on economic capital development and modeling, market consistent valuation, and overall actuarial and risk topics, and ING Reinsurance in the US. In 2006/07, Doug led the ING global project to build a complete, automated Economic Capital system based on replicating portfolios of all insurance assets and liabilities. Prior to joining ING, Doug worked as a US actuary focusing on financial reporting and modeling for ARM Financial Group and Ernst&Young. Doug is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst (CERA), and holds a degree in Mathematics from Auburn University." |
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Jack Callahan Jack Callahan has served as Director, OTC Products since April 2011. He is responsible for working with buy side market participants on preparedness for OTC Interest Rate Swap and Credit Default Swap clearing. He also works closely with the CME Group Product Managers to help execute the company's OTC business strategies. Previously he served as Associate Director, Interest Rate Products, where he played a leading role in launching the company's Interest Rate Swap clearing solution. He holds a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from Harvard Business School. |
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Binay Chandgothia Binay is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager with the Asset Allocation Group for Principal Global Investors and has more than 18 years of experience in portfolio management across equities, fixed income and asset allocations. Before joining the Asset Allocation Group in April 2011, he was the Chief Investment Officer for Principal Global Investors (Hong Kong) Limited where he was responsible for overseeing investments of the group in the Hong Kong region. He joined the Firm in 2000 and was the deputy Chief Investment Officer of Principal's Indian Mutual Fund operations before moving over to Hong Kong in 2005. Prior to that, he spent 7 years in portfolio management with India’s largest banking group (State Bank of India). |
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Philip Cheng Professor Cheng is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has taught at the Beijing University and the Graduate School of City University of New York in finance, investment and other business management topics. |
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Stacy L. Coleman Stacy Coleman is a Vice President in the Financial Institution Supervision Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she has responsibility for the Operational Risk Department. In this capacity, she is responsible for assessing financial institutions' management of operational risks, providing cross-institutional assessments, and assisting in developing sound practice guidelines and new examination procedures in response to the changing risks in the financial industry. She currently serves as the Bank's representative to the Standards Implementation Group on Operational Risk under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Ms. Coleman has been in the Federal Reserve System since 1993. Between 1993 and 2007, Ms. Coleman worked at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. and focused on policy development in the areas of payments system risk and banking supervision. From 2004 to 2007, she served as the Board's representative to the Accord Implementation Group for Operational Risk under the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. From 2007 to May 2010, Ms. Coleman worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond and was responsible for overseeing the Bank's discount window lending and for ensuring that risks were accurately identified and addressed across the Richmond Fed's supervised institutions. |
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Mark Cox Mark has over 12 years of financial services expertise spanning each phase of the trade lifecycle (Pre-trade, At-trade, and Post-trade) and extensive experience in clearing including operations, risk management, business system design, settlement, banking and asset management. He was one of the lead architects of the implementation of the historic clearing agreement with the Chicago Board of Trade in 2003. Since then he has held roles of increasing responsibility in operations, risk management and collateral and settlement functions including the development of CME's Asian and European clearing and market risk functions. Mark was assigned to New York in August of 2008 to manage the integration of clearing functions as part of the CME Group acquisition of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) and Commodities Exchange (COMEX). From March 2009 to the present Mark has served as the director of the New York based CME Clearing Solutions and Services group. The group is responsible for the design and delivery of clearing services for CME's Credit Default Swaps, FX, and Commodity OTC clearing initiatives globally. In that role, Mark was recently the lead architect for the launch of CME Clearing's Credit Default Swaps clearing solution in December 2009. Mark is also responsible for all clearing aspects of the CME Group's Global Alliances and support of the development of CME Clearing Europe. |
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Lieven Debruyne Lieven Debruyne is Chief Executive of Schroder Investment Management (Hong Kong) and Regional Head of Intermediary Business for Asia. He started his investment career in 1993 in the United States with MeesPierson Capital Management. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 as Asian fund manager and was promoted to Chief Investment Officer in 1998. In 1999 and 2000, Lieven worked in Paris for the same firm, rebranded as Fortis Investments. Lieven joined Schroders in London in 2000 as Head of Asian product management and business development. In 2005, he moved to Hong Kong for the second time and was appointed Head of Intermediary Business for Asia. Mr. Debruyne holds a Master of Science in Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Business Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong He is a Member of the Financial Services Advisory Committee of The Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Corporate Advisory Council of The Hong Kong Securities Institute and the Executive Committee of The Hong Kong Investment Funds Association |
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Felix Fung With over 13 years of risk management experience, Felix is currently the Head of Risk Management in Bank Sinopac. He is responsible for managing overall risk management including market risk, credit risk, operational risk and asset and liability management. Prior to his current position, he was the Head of Risk Management in KGI. He especially contributed to the setting up of risk team for OTC Derivatives business and holds workshops on “Managing operational risk using system thinking” and “Chaos Theory application on Investment management and Risk Management”. Felix holds several degrees, including a MFin in Financial Engineering and Risk Management, MSc in Information Management and BA in Accountancy. Moreover, He is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Fellow Associate of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and Fellow Associate of Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants (HKICPA) |
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Jon Gregory Dr Jon Gregory is a partner at Solum Financial and specialises in counterparty risk and CVA related consulting and advisory projects. He has worked on many aspects of credit risk in his career, being previously with Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas and Citigroup. He is author of the book "Counterparty Credit Risk: The new challenge for global financial markets". |
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Richard Harris Richard Harris is the Chief Executive of Quam Asset Management, an independent boutique fund manager investing in the Future Markets of Asia. Quam has just launched the first open-ended Mongolia Fund. He has 25 years in the investment markets and over 32 years of work experience. He is has lived in HK for 40 years, but has had spent many years on assignments in Europe and the US. He has considerable experience in Investment Management business-building in many countries. He was previously Chief Executive of Port Shelter Investment Management, through which he was consulting to investing institutions, Fund Boards, expert witness panels, family offices and the HK Securities and Futures Commission; as well as assisting the multi-asset manager, Grace Financial, as Founding Managing Partner. Mr. Harris was Director of Citigroup Private Bank specialising in Asia Region asset allocation, manager selection and portfolio construction (2004-8). He established Enterprise Private Capital in London in 2000, which launched an early-stage private equity fund that was subsequently sold to a competitor. From 1997, he was Director of Newton Investment Management (now BNY Mellon Group) in London where he chaired the divisional Global Investment Committee for private clients. Richard was CEO of Jardine Fleming’s Private Bank in Hong Kong (now within J.P. Morgan) prior to which he managed JF active, research-based institutional pension, derivative and mutual funds worth over US$1 billion (from 1990 onwards). He began his investment career on the sell-side in 1986 with the stockbroker, Enskilda Securities, and established them in Hong Kong in 1988, serving on the Skandinaviska Enskilda Bank (HK) Management Committee. He began his career in 1978 as a Chartered Engineer in Hong Kong and was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineer’s prize for the best young engineer of 1982. Richard Harris holds a First Class Honours degree from the London School of Economics / King’s College and a Masters' degree in Engineering Geology from Imperial College, London University. He also holds a MBA from Harvard Business School; a certificate in Chinese from Peking University; and took Strategic Leadership at Stanford Business School. He has been registered by the authorities to provide investment advice and management in both the UK and HK. Richard Harris was raised in Asia and Southern Africa, and has lived in China (Beijing), Europe and the US. He has extensive media and campaign experience from his time in UK politics (1996-7) and he is a regular Guest Host on CNBC and in industry conferences, as well as writing a column for the China Daily and Quamnet. Richard is still playing rugby, after 47 consecutive seasons; is an aerobatic aircraft private pilot; and is married with two adult daughters. |
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Jacky He Jacy He, Derivatives Product Specialist - Asia Pacific, Hong Kong Jacy has been with Bloomberg for over 5 years focusing on fixed income derivatives markets in both US and Asia Pacific. In her current role, she is responsible for CNY and CNH product research and development. Her previous experience includes working as a consultant in New York on Interest rate derivatives structuring desks at Barclays, UBS, Lehman Brothers and Morgan Stanley. Jacy graduated with a BA from Northwestern University, Illinois US and an MBA degree from The University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong |
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Francis C.M. Ho Francis Ho is responsible for CLP Group Treasury including financing, derivatives, fund management, financial risks management, credit ratings, banking relationships and compliance of treasury activities. |
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Gideon Ho Mr Ho is the Chief Executive Officer of Austen Capital Management Limited and affiliated companies. The group specializes in the provision of bespoke investment products through the use of financial engineering. Mr Ho is one of the Asian pioneers in fund structuring and managed account business. Prior to setting-up Austen Capital, Mr Ho played a key role in establishing the multi-billion managed account platform for Societe Generale and Deutsche Bank, lately ranked by HFM Week magazine as the top two managed account platform as of 31st March 2011. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2007, Mr Ho worked for BNP Paribas Investment Partners as a structured fund manager, being part of the team managing hundreds of billions of assets, before moving from Societe Generale. Mr Ho is instrumental in the development of Asian based structured fund products and has been a pioneer in the development of continuous capital protection products in RMB and actively managed structured fund. Mr Ho graduated with a Master degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from the University of Oxford and with a Master degree in finance from Imperial College London |
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Wilkie Lai Wilkie Lai has been in the Risk Management industry for over 13 years. Before joining TriBridge Investment Partners as Chief Risk Officer, Mr. Lai has headed up different risk management functions for various financial institutions in Hong Kong. He has been with Bank of China (Hong Kong) focusing on bank-wide market risk management functions, as well as Banca Intesa S.p.A. Hong Kong Branch focusing on overall risk management functions. Prior to working as an internal risk manager, Mr. Lai spent 6 years with Reuters, the global information company, in their Trade and Risk Management practice focusing on treasury and middle office advisory and solutions for financial institutions across Asia. His consultancy engagement also included working for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in process reengineering for financial institutions. Mr. Lai read law at and received his Juris Doctor degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, holds a M.Sc. degree in Information Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a B.A. degree in Computer Science from the University of California. |
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Aurel Lavedrine In February 2010, Aurel Lavedrine was appointed Chief Risk Officer for Asia Pacific of Crédit Agricole CIB based in Hong Kong. Prior to that position, Aurel set up in May 2004 the Asian arm of Credit Portfolio Management of Calyon based in Hong Kong. He also supervised the Principal activities of the Bank in distressed assets for the Asia Pacific Region. He was Chief Risk Officer for Asia Pacific after joining Crédit Agricole Indosuez in 2000. Previously he spent most of his career with Banque Paribas and held several management positions, particularly on the US desk, both at Head Office and in New York. He has extensive experience in M&A and Private Equity, Project Finance, Fund Management and Risk Management. His educational background is in Engineering (Ecole Centrale de Paris), Business Administration (Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris) and Business Law. |
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Clifford Lee Clifford started his banking career in 1991 with Citibank Singapore and proceeded thereafter to assume a wide range of senior positions in leading financial institutions the likes of Peregrine Fixed Income (Director, Global Head of Syndicate), WestLB (Director, Head of Asia Origination) and BankBoston (Managing Director, Head of Structured Finance) before joining DBS Bank in 2004 to build up its Asian Fixed Income business. By having a career very focused on the Asian Debt Markets starting from the mid 1990s, Clifford has originated, structured and distributed straight/complex/equity-linked debt transactions across the Asian region in both G3 as well as local currencies. He is presently the Head of Fixed Income in DBS Bank, overall in charge of the Bank’s bond origination and distribution functions, and has served on several working committees focused on the development of the Asian bond markets. Clifford holds a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. |
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David X. Li Mr. David (Xianglin) Li (李祥林) is currently a managing director and chief risk officer at CICC. He is responsible for the risk management group and quantitative analytics group. Previously Mr. Li served as Global Head of Credit Derivative Quantitative analytics from June 2004 to April 2008. Before that, he worked at Citi Group as Global Head of Credit Derivative Research from October 2001 to May 2004, in AXA Financial as Vice President of Risk Management from March 2000 to October 2001, in the Risk Metrics Group (RMG)/J. P. Morgan as partner from January 1999 to March 2000, in CIBC as executive director in the Financial Products Group from August 1996 to December 1998, in RBC as Manager in Risk Management from May 1995 to July 1996, and he taught at the University of Manitoba as assistant professor in actuarial science/finance from July 1994 to May 1995. Mr. Li obtained his PhD degree in Statistics and master's degree in actuarial science from the University of Waterloo in 1995 and 1993 respectively, master's degree in business administration (MBA) from Laval University in 1991 and master's degree in economics from Nankai University in 1987, his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yangzhou University in 1983. |
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Brian Lo Brian Lo heads up the Market & Liquidity Risk department under Risk Management Group of DBS. His teams are responsible for the risk framework, policy, control and putting up infrastructure for risk measurement, pricing model validation and risk model development for market and liquidity risk. He reports to the Group CRO. Prior to joining DBS in 2002, Brian had worked with BNP Paribas, Citibank and AIG in quantitative risk management roles. Brian graduated from University of Hong Kong and had his PhD from Penn State University USA. Brian is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor of Singapore Management University. |
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Martin Loxley As Commercial Director, Martin Loxley is responsible for running Omgeo’s Collateral Management business, including business development, financial planning and business strategy. Under his leadership, Mr. Loxley and his team provide comprehensive collateral management workflow and reconciliation solutions to Omgeo’s clients and the marketplace. |
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Frank Packer Dr. Frank Packer is the Head of Financial Stability and Markets for Asia and the Pacific at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). He is currently stationed at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in Hong Kong. Prior to his reassignment in 2009, Frank was the head of Financial Markets in the Research and Policy Analysis group of the Monetary and Economic He has a Ph.D. in finance and economics from Columbia University; other |
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Darren Measures Darren Measures is an Executive Director, Head of Risk for Asia Pacific region of JPMorgan Worldwide Security Services, based out of Hong Kong, a position he recently transitioned into. Prior to that he was Head of Clearance & Collateral Management Client Sales & Management in New York, a position he held since November 2007. From 2004 through 2007, Darren was the global product manager responsible for the launch of the Derivatives Collateral Management product and US Equity TriParty Repo. He had moved to the US from London in 2000 in order to run the Western Hemisphere operation after working on the Investment Bank's OTC derivatives collateral management program. Darren joined JPMorgan in 1999 with significant experience in sales, credit and market risk management garnered during tenures at Citibank, SBC and UBS. These experiences developed his knowledge of OTC libor, government, equity and credit derivative products. He is a working member of the International Swaps and Dealers Association's Collateral Committee. |
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Marco Montanari Marco Montanari has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. He is responsible for both db X-trackers ETFs and db-X funds platforms for Deutsche Bank in Asia. Before relocating to Asia, Marco was based in London where he was responsible for setting up the Fixed Income db X-trackers ETFs platform and for structuring db-X funds for Deutsche Bank’s institutional clients in southern Europe. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2006, Marco spent six years at Société Générale in Paris where he was in charge of ETFs structuring in the Lyxor Asset Management financial engineers team and for products listed on the Italian Stock Exchange. With more than 180 db X-trackers ETFs and USD50 billion assets under management, Deutsche Bank is one of the world’s largest ETF providers. db X-trackers ETFs are listed on different exchanges all over Europe and are available in Asia on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong and the Singapore Stock Exchange where Deutsche Bank is the largest ETF provider in terms of product offerings. The platform is well recognised by the industry as proven by its collection of regional and local prestigious awards including “Exchange-traded funds, Asia Pacific” by AsianInvestor two years in a row, 2011 and 2010, and “ETF Provider of the Year, Asia” by Structured Products Asia 2010. db-X funds is a leading global provider of structured fund wrappers with more than 70 funds worldwide and assets under management of USD17 billion. Leveraging the research and trading capabilities of Deutsche Bank, db-X funds provides a comprehensive range of innovative investment strategies accessible in open-ended fund format with daily liquidity. It has been a pioneer in quantitative investment management solutions since 2002, using state of the art synthetic replication techniques combined with robust risk |
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Vivek Pathak Vivek Pathak has extensive emerging markets experience in Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia. He has been with IFC since 1998. Over the past 12 years he has worked across a range of sectors, regions and functions, spanning new business, portfolio, restructuring and credit. He has worked on frontier markets like Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. Currently, he is a Director and Global Head of Credit Review Department. His previous assignments include Chief Credit Officer for Asia - Pacific based in Hong Kong, Portfolio Manager for Middle East and North Africa and Country Credit and Risk Head for ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Thailand. |
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Manish Singhai Manish Singhai is the CIO for Asian Equities at Aviva Investors, a leading global money manager, and is based in Singapore. Manish joined Aviva Investors in 2010 from Arjava Capital, a hedge fund founded by him, where he successfully managed an Asian market-neutral strategy for two years. Prior to Arjava, he was with AllianceBernstein (AB) for ten years, five of those as the Asia ex-Japan CIO for the Alliance Growth Equities division. Before AB, Manish spent five years on the sell-side, notably as the Head of Asian Telecoms Research at Caspian Securities, an emerging markets boutique broker, and at ABN AMRO Securities. Manish is a management graduate from IIM Calcutta, a CFA Charterholder, and has a B.Tech. in Electrical Engineering from IIT Delhi. |
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Lei Lei Song Lei Lei Song. is a senior economist of the Asian Development Bank. He works in the area of regional economic and financial monitoring at the Office of Regional Economic Integration. Mr. Song has more than 14 years of professional experience in research specializing in applied macroeconomics including macroeconomic modeling, unemployment and inflation, and international economics. Prior to joining ADB he was with the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research as a Research Fellow for six years. He was a Visiting Academic at the Australian Treasury in Canberra in 2006. Mr. Song started his career in 1991 as a Research Fellow at the China Development Institute in Shenzhen. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Melbourne, Australia. |
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Mark Stamper Mark manages the risk management and actuarial shared services teams for AXA Asia including operational, life, general insurance and financial risk teams and has an ongoing responsibility for risk management and life actuarial standards throughout the region. He has previously worked for Swiss Re both in Hong Kong where he was a Senior Client Manager & Actuary and the United Kingdom where he was a Marketing Actuary. With over 17 years of industry experience he has also worked in the United Kingdom for Tillinghast and Commercial Union (now Aviva). |
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Dr. Hing S. Tang Dr. Tang serves as Managing Director and runs the Quantitative Strategy Business Unit (QSBU) at BOCI-Prudential. The QSBU is a unified platform to provide insightful and robust quantitative investment solutions to clients in the region. The Portfolio Management team under QSBU is responsible for developing scientific investment and trading strategies based on deep economic insights and managing global portfolios across all asset classes. Currently the mandates range from absolute return strategies, global asset allocation, trading algorithms, active country equity and fixed income funds, enhanced index funds to exchange traded funds (ETFs). The Business Development team under QSBU is responsible for developing the institutional business with focus on Greater China and Asia. Before joining BOCI-Prudential, Dr. Tang served as Director, Investments at Barclays Global Investors North Asia Ltd ("BGI"). At BGI, he was responsible for portfolios management, active strategies research and business development. Moreover, he acted as the main advisor to leading institutions, fund houses and regulators in China, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore. Prior to BGI, Dr. Tang was a portfolio manager at State Street Global Advisors managing various active and passive portfolios. He was also involved in various active strategies research. During the past 14 years, Dr. Tang possessed proven track records in the active/passive management of global portfolios and retirement funds in the region. He is also a well-recognized figure in the Asian ETFs industry. He had managed or launched some popular ETFs, including the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (TraHK), the iShares FTSE/Xinhua A50 China Tracker and the W.I.S.E. - CSI 300 China Tracker®. Asset under his management accumulated over USD 6b. |
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Edwin Yuen Edwin C. L. Yuen heads the Basel Implementation Office in Bank of China (Hong Kong), is responsible for the implementation of the overall Basel II Program for retail banking, corporate banking, and IRB regulatory capital calculation for the BOCHK Group consisting of Bank of China Hong Kong, Nanyang Commercial Bank, Nanyang Commercial Bank (China), Chiyu Bank and BOC Credit Card International. He joined BOCHK four years ago and led the successful FIRB compliance accreditation with HKMA on January 1, 2011. Prior to his current position, Edwin was appointed by the UK FSA as senior examiner for Basel accreditation. He was the Head of Risk Analytics for Standard Chartered Bank based in Singapore, responsible for the successful global implementation of its Basel II Program with the UK FSA for the wholesale banking division. He held various senior positions in Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) in Toronto, Canada and United Overseas Bank in Singapore. Edwin is a Basel II implementation expert with over 10 years Basel experience and two successful IRB implementations. He has more than 20 years experience in risk analytics and computer system development and implementation experience. Edwin holds MBA degree, post-graduate Diploma in Management and B.Sc. degree with honours, all from the University of Hong Kong. |
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Sigurd Volk Sigurd is currently the Regional Chief Risk Officer for Allianz SE's life and non-life insurance companies in the Asia Pacific region. He is responsible for all risk management related matters, including market, credit, actuarial and operational risk management. He is also responsible for Solvency II implementation in the region, which includes the rollout of Allianz' internal solvency model. Prior to his time in Thailand, Sigurd served in various positions at Allianz, both at the Munich headquarters and the regional head office in Singapore. He is a graduate of Maastricht University, Netherlands, holding a Master’s degree in international business, with a concentration in finance and statistical forecasting models. |
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Philip Wee Philip Wee has been advising on major currency trends in DBS Bank since 2000. Philip works closely with the bank's various divisions to service DBS's diverse retail, corporate and institutional clients. Owing to DBS's growing presence in Asia, Philip regularly conducts customized one-on-one meetings with clients and seminars not only in Singapore, but across the region. Apart from providing hedging and investment advice, Philip has worked closely with clients to improve their currency hedging models and built currency baskets for hedging purposes. Owing to the frequency of crises in today's complicated global financial markets, Philip strongly believes in investor education. Here, Philip consciously seeks to provide a sound understanding of the evolving international monetary system when conducting seminars or in training DBS's staff. Philip was previously a Treasury Economist at Standard Chartered Bank, and an Economist at NatWest Markets and HSBC. In all, he has about twenty years in analyzing economic and market trends. |
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Elaine Wong Elaine Wong is the Managing Director of Professional Services at Moody's Analytics in Asia Pacific. She is the Practice Leader of the Risk Management Services Team and also the person in-charge of the Professional Development Services in Asia. Her main responsibilities include business development and project execution related to Moody's services around model development, validation and calibration, credit portfolio performance and implementation of credit risk management systems. She is also responsible for business development of Moody's Analytics global training solutions. She previously worked in various credit risk management functions at HSBC plc., Barclays Capital, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Bank of Hawaii. For her 4 years, prior to joining Moody's Analytics, she was responsible for day-to-day project management of credit risk modeling efforts and model implementation related to Basel II. |
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Ka Man Wong As Council of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong, Ka-Man leads up the Investment and Risk Management area to promote best practice convergence and current / emerging issues shared among the industry. She is currently the Chief Risk Officer of Sun Life Hong Kong Limited, overseeing the enterprise risk management function across the range of market, insurance, operational and strategic risk aspects. Prior to the current role, Ka-Man was Principal Consulting Actuary of Towers Watson, providing actuarial consulting advice for life insurance and financial institutional clients in the Asia-Pacific region and key European countries. Her areas of expertise include risk & value management, strategic consulting covering thought leadership, market entry, product strategies, IPO/mergers/acquisitions as well as high court-sanctioned independent actuarial portfolio transfers. Before that, Ka-Man took an Asian regional role in Manulife Financial who oversees the Canadian insurer's business across Asia. Ka-Man is a frequent speaker in conferences in the Asia region, where she is also playing several prominent roles in a number of regional actuarial bodies. She is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) and holds a first class honours Bachelor degree in Actuarial Science. |
