Tim Craighead is a senior analyst and the headof Asian research for Bloomberg Industries, a dynamic platform for in-depth industry intelligence available on the Bloomberg Professional service at BI . His group aggregates Asia and Global data and publishes analysis for industries ranging across communications, consumer, financials, health care, industrials, materials and technology.

Mr. Craighead has more than 25 years of experience in investment research.Prior to joining Bloomberg Industries, he worked at firms such asKetchem Creek Capital Management and Goldman Sachs. Over his 21 year career at Goldman Sachs, Mr. Craighead managed the investment review committee process for the U.S. research department, ran product management and wrote a global themes research product. He began his career at Goldman Sachs as an equity research salesperson.

Mr. Craighead holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Chicago and abachelor’s degree in finance and economics from James Madison University, where he was valedictorian of his class.

Dr. Linbo He (Ludwig) is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Equity Investment Department at China Investment Corporation (CIC). The Private Equity Investment Department is responsible for CIC's overseas private equity fund and direct investment in non-commodity sectors, real estate and private debt. Previously, Dr. He had headed CIC's Fixed Income & Absolute Return Investment Department, Public Market Investment Department, and Asset Allocation and Strategic Research Department. Prior to joining CIC, Dr. He worked at a number of financial institutions in Germany including Commerzbank, HypoVereinsbank, Talanx Investment, etc. During that time he held senior management positions such as Head of Jumbo-Pfandbriefe Trading, Head of Fixed Income Fund Management and Member of Investment Committee. Dr. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from Peking University, Master of Managerial Engineering from Tsinghua University, both in China, and Dr. rer. pol. (in Corporate Finance) from Universitaet zu Koeln, Germany.

Lim Meng Ann has 20 years of experience in private equity, of which 10 were in leadership positions for Government of Singapore Investment Corp (“GIC”) and Actis, a London-based private equity firm focused on Asia, Africa & Latin America. Mr. Lim was with GIC between 1997 and 2007. During this period, he personally led a number of landmark private equity investments, such as CNOOC Ltd, China’s third largest oil and gas company. This investment is probably the earliest and biggest private equity investment in a central government level state-owned company. He also led GIC’s 2003 investment in Industrial Bank, a national wide joint stock commercial bank headquartered in Fujian, one of the earliest foreign investments in Chinese banks. He was Executive Vice President and Head of Greater China for GIC’s private equity investments when he left in 2007 to join Actis. As Partner and Regional Head for China and South East Asia, Mr. Lim steered Actis to be a pioneer of mid-market buyouts, anchored by strong sector-focused strategy and value adding capability. Among the notable Actis’s deals were XiabuXiabu, a hotpot restaurant chain with close to 400 stores in China, and 7 Days Inn, China’s second largest budget hotel chain with more than 2,000 hotels. XiabuXiabu was Actis’s first buyout deal in China, and was followed by 5 others. 7 Days Inn was invested by Actis twice, first to provide growth capital and later in a de-listing exercise from New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Lim was also member of Actis’s Global Executive Committee and Investment Committee. He left Actis in 2013 to pursue other interests. He is now an Adjunct Faculty at Singapore Management University, where he teaches private equity.

Mr. Lim holds a MBA from Strathclyde University, Scotland and BSc (Engineering) First Class Honours from University College London. He also attended Stanford Executive Program. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Colin Toh is Head of Commodities in Asia Pacific for Bank of America Merrill Lynch. In this role, Colin looks after the day-to-day Commodity business and oversees the Commodity team in the Asia Pacific region. Before Colin took on his current role, he was responsible for structuring and executing commodity investments and hedging solutions for asset managers, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, private investors and corporates as Asia Pacific Head of Commodity Investor Solutions. Prior to joining the firm, Colin was performing similar management roles at Goldman Sachs & Co. based in Hong Kong and Merrill Lynch Commodities based in Singapore. Earlier on in his career, Colin was a senior commodity structurer at Barclays Capital based in London. Colin started his career with the Monetary Authority of Singapore in the Reserve and Monetary Management Department, where his main responsibilities include conducting Monetary Policy via the Foreign Exchange Market / Money Market and issuing Singapore Government Securities in the Fixed Income Market. Colin was a recipient of the Director’s Scholarship from the University of Cambridge and the British Chevening Scholarship from the UK government. Colin holds a Masters of Science in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Cambridge. He graduated from the National University of Singapore with an Honours degree in Finance.

Fayanna joined Wind Information in 2010, then in charge of the business development in Asia Pacific Region, including but not limited to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea.

Wind Information Co., Ltd (Wind Info), headquartered in the Lujiazui Financial Center in Shanghai, is a leading integrated service vendor for financial data, information, and software. The company owns subsidiaries in international financial hubs, like Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA. Wind Info serves more than 90% of the financial enterprises in China, including securities firms, fund management firms, insurance companies, banks, and investment firms. Wind Info serves 75% of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) overseas. Additionally, most renowned financial research institutions and regulatory committees are on Wind Info’s client list. Wind Info has built up a substantial, highly-accurate, first-class financial database, which includes stocks, funds, bonds, FX, insurance, futures, derivatives, commodities, and macroeconomic and financial news.

Mr. Jack Wang is a Managing Director, Deputy CMO, and Head of Sales at CSOP Asset Management where he is responsible for firm's global distribution effort and has a special focus on the development of RQFII related products. He is also the current Chief Secretary for Chinese Asset Management Association of Hong Kong. Before joining CSOP, Jack was an Executive Director at Goldman Sachs Asia and responsible for Greater China multi-asset distribution. Prior to Goldman, Jack worked as an associate in Deutsche Bank with experience in both equity derivatives and credit derivatives market. Jack received a Bachelor of Science from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Hanson Wong is Chief Executive Officer of Belos Capital (Asia) Limited. Hanson previously served as the head of the Risk Management Group for Arrow Financial Services LLC (A Sallie Mae Company) that invested over USD 2 billion in capital for over USD 25 billion in face value of receivables. Hanson was instrumental in developing Arrow's debt purchase platform in the U.S., Canada and Europe and in Arrow's structured finance business in New York.

Prior to joining Arrow Financial New York Office in 2002, Hanson had spent 4 years in proprietary investing, strategic developing and restructuring in Hong Kong before earning his MBA degree (with distinction) from Thunderbird School of Global Management. While at Thunderbird, he also worked as the Asia-Pacific Strategy Consultant for MasterCard Worldwide Co-branding Group. Hanson earned his BA from Beijing Normal University, China and MPAcc from Monash University, Australia. Hanson graduated from 5th Executive Leadership Program in Global Finance at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a CFA charter holder and an FRM. He is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese. Besides his professional life, Hanson actively volunteered at New Life Methodist Church at Woodhaven New York and in New York Cares during his time in the US. Currently, Hanson mentors many students in both US and China.

Prior to this, Philip Zhai was a Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Investment Banking, China Coverage and a Managing Director of Macquarie Capital Hong Kong for their China operation. Before his career in investment banking, Dr. Zhai was Head of Investments at Shanghai Industrial Holdings Ltd., a Hong Kong listed red chip company with substantial investments in China infrastructure, property, consumer and technology space with 4 billion net asset under management. Dr. Zhai obtained his Ph.D. degree from Cambridge University and Bachelor degree in Materials Engineering from Tsinghua University

Dr. Xueping Wu is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance of the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are both theoretical and empirical, covering Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing and Capital Markets, and International Finance. His work has been published in top finance journals. To list a few, his papers have looked at return momentum analysis under conditional asset pricing, the generalization of the Myers-Majluf model, and bank rent extraction in Japan’s main bank system. His recent research seeks to establish a theory of growth type compatibility in corporate finance – a theory that explains why firms grow and seek financing in a persistent way with asymmetric informational imperfections. He has won several best paper awards, including the 1999-WFA Award for the Best Paper in Corporate Finance. He obtained his undergraduate and master degrees in management engineering in Tongji University (Shanghai), and his MBA and PhD in Finance from K.U. Leuven (Belgium).

Ms Ng Chuin Hwei is responsible for supporting AMRO economists in banking sector surveillance and financial stability issues in their surveillance work.

Prior to joining AMRO, Ms Ng served for 20 years in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in diverse central banking functions, with her last held position as Director in the Prudential Policy Department responsible for banking regulatory policy including prudential limits, policies on housing and unsecured credit, and deposit insurance.

She also served as a bank supervisor leading a team supervising foreign banks in Singapore from 2004 to 2008, in international relations handling ASEAN and Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issues from 2001 to 2003, and as an economist conducting surveillance on China and ASEAN from 1994 to 1999.

Ms Ng holds a B.A. (summa cum laude) in Economics from Yale University, and a Master in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in the USA.

Mr Shim is currently Senior Economist at the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific located in Hong Kong SAR. His primary responsibilities include conducting research on financial stability and market issues and organising high-level meetings for Asia-Pacific central banks. Before he was assigned to Hong Kong SAR in September 2007, he had worked for the BIS in Basel for three years as Economist at Financial Institutions and Infrastructure Unit of the Research and Policy Analysis Group, where he conducted research on financial stability, macroprudential issues, international banking, and Basel II.

He began his career as a Deputy Director in the Korean government in April 1996. Between February 1997 and July 1999, he worked at Korea Ministry of Finance and Economy as Deputy Director in charge of the deposit insurance system and financial sector restructuring during the Korean financial crisis. From December 2009 to November 2010, he was Advisor to the G20 Affairs Office of the Bank of Korea, and helped Korea chair the G20 process in 2010.

Mr Shim obtained a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from Seoul National University and Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University. He published in academic journals seven articles on optimal dynamic banking regulation, optimal IMF lending contract, distress selling and asset market feedback, the impact of CDS trading on the bond market in Asia, dislocations in the won-dollar swap markets during 2007-2009, and the impact of capital flow management policies on cross-bond market correlations. He has also made several BIS publications on topics such as "Comparative Assessment of Macroprudential Policies", “Can Non-interest Rate Policies Stabilise the Housing Market: Evidence from a Panel of 57 Economies”, “Database for Policy Actions on Housing Markets”, “Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit in Asia and the Pacific”, and “What can (Macro)prudential Policy do to Support Monetary Policy?”

Mr Wong Nai Seng is the Assistant Managing Director of the Policy, Risk and Surveillance Group, overseeing prudential policy, macro-surveillance and specialist risk supervision.

Prior to this appointment, Mr Wong headed Banking Department II, which is responsible for supervising foreign banks, remittance agents and money changers. During his time with MAS, Mr Wong has worked in various areas, including securities regulation, strategic planning, prudential policy, and macroprudential surveillance.

Lutfey Siddiqi is a member of the global executive committee for FX, Rates and Credit (FRC) at UBS investment bank - with overall responsibility for the Emerging Markets business. Concurrently, Lutfey is an Adjunct Professor at the Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore.

He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council (Financing & Capital) and the Young Global Leaders' community. Prior to joining UBS in September 2010, Lutfey worked at Barclays and Deutsche bank London.

A CFA charter-holder, he has a Masters in Economics from the London School of Economics, a first-class Bachelors in Econometrics from the University of York, and the International Baccalaureate from UWC Atlantic College.

Prior to being appointed as Chief Risk Officer, he served as the Assistant General Manager (Risk Management/ Compliance) and the Acting Chief Risk Officer.

Joined the Bank in 1986, Mr. Fernando has over twenty nine years of experience in banking & financial services and has expertise in diverse fields including branch banking, investment banking, international banking and treasury operation.

MEngaged in Risk Management related activities of the Bank for the last twelve years, Mr. Fernando was instrumental in establishing the Integrated Risk Management Division of the Bank. He has been awarded the FRM designation by the Global Association of Risk Professionals - USA. This designation is globally regarded as having gained risk management expertise. He is also a renowned resource person in Risk Management for the University of Sri Jayewardenepura Sri Lanka, Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka and the Centre for Banking Studies-Central Bank of Sri Lanka. On the invitation of Saudi Monetary Agency he successfully conducted several programs on Credit Risk Management to Saudi bankers at Institute of Banking Riyadh as well.

Mr. Fernando was a panel speaker in the conference conducted by IDC Financial Insights Singapore in February 2010.

Mr. Fernando holds a Bachelor of Science in Statistics from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and obtained his Master of Science in Management from the University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Bankers of Sri Lanka.

Mr. Fernando has now been appointed as the President of the Banking Sector Risk Professionals Association of Sri Lanka.

Being Chief Risk Officer and Deputy Country Head of Bank of China Limited, Singapore Branch, Mr Hu Xinquan is overseeing the Branch's credit risk, market risk, operational risk, legal & compliance risk, reputation risk and other risk-taking activities across the Branch. He is also accountable for credit approval of BOC Singapore.

Mr Hu has more than 20 years of experience in banking industry, specialized in risk management and credit financing. Before he was assigned to BOC Singapore in 2011, Mr Hu was responsible for risk policymaking and credit authentication to mainland branches’ approval of the bank. Mr Hu received his Bachelor of Law from Renmin University of China, and he is also awarded lawyer's qualification in China.

Elbert Pattijn is Chief Risk Officer and member of the Group Executive Committee of DBS Group Holdings Ltd.

Pattijn joined DBS in October 2007 as Managing Director and Head of Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB), responsible for DBS’ corporate and investment banking activities in the region. Pattijn brings with him more than 26 years’ experience in the banking industry.

Before joining DBS, he was Head of Debt Products Origination, Asia for ING Bank, where he was in charge of overseeing the Debt Capital Markets, Securitisation and Syndicated Lending product groups. Prior to this he was Head of Counterparty Risk, Country Risk, Risk Research and Modelling for ING Group in Amsterdam.

Previously, Pattijn held progressively senior positions at Barclays Bank and ABN Amro. A Dutch national, Pattijn holds a Master Degree in Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands.

Steven Kou is the Director of the Risk Management Institute. He is also a Professor of Mathematics at National University of Singapore. Formerly from Columbia University’s Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Professor Kou joined NUS as a Professor in Mathematics and Provost’s Chair in 2013.

Recognised internationally as one of the best in the research areas of Financial Mathematics/Engineering, Professor Kou’s most important works are on modelling jumps in asset pricing for equity, credit and fixed income markets and pricing of path-dependent options. His scholarly achievements have been recognised by the scientific community, as demonstrated by his receipt of the Erlang Prize (2002) from INFORMS, the leading association for professionals in the fields of analytics, management science and operations research. Professor Kou is currently also serving in the editorial boards of several top journals in his field, including Mathematical Finance, Mathematics of Operations Research, Advances in Applied Probability, and Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

Yen Chu Cheng is a Partner based in Oliver Wyman’s Singapore Office. He has over ten years of experience working with major financial institutions globally on finance and risk engagements. He joined the New York office following his graduation from University of Pennsylvania, before moving to the Singapore office in January 2009.

Yen Chu’s consulting work has focused on risk and capital management, both in the context of Basel requirements and strategic business applications. Recent significant projects include assisting clients with development, cascading and operationalization of risk appetite statement, linking of risk into strategic planning and budgeting processes, improvement of RWA usage and efficiency, as well as risk-adjusted performance management and pricing. Yen Chu has also worked with over a dozen banks globally to develop and validate risk analytical tools including credit, economic capital and pricing models.

Yen Chu holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Bachelor’ degree in Science in Economics (Finance) from University of Pennsylvania.

Dominic Lim is currently Managing Director and Director, Risk & Performance Management (RPMD) for the GIC Group. In his role, Dominic actively leads the department in thinking of ways to be more effective in influencing risk-return decisions and establishing a robust risk management framework across GIC. He oversees the allocation of risk capital and setting of value-added targets. The department also ensures that risks are properly identified, understood, made transparent and that there is no outsized risk that will permanently impair a strategy or the total portfolio.

Dominic joined GIC as Senior Vice President, Special Projects, RPMD, in 2012. He also led the Enterprise Risk & Performance division to develop GIC’s enterprise risk management framework. Prior to joining GIC, Dominic was Managing Director & Head, Market Risk Analysis & Reporting at UBS AG. Dominic started his career as an Audit Assistant with Ernst and Young Singapore. In 1996, he joined UBS AG where he held various key appointments including Head of Market Risk Control (Singapore), Credit Traded Products (Europe) and Market Risk Methodology. Dominic graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in 1994.

Dominic Lim is currently Managing Director and Director, Risk & Performance Management (RPMD) for the GIC Group. In his role, Dominic actively leads the department in thinking of ways to be more effective in influencing risk-return decisions and establishing a robust risk management framework across GIC. He oversees the allocation of risk capital and setting of value-added targets. The department also ensures that risks are properly identified, understood, made transparent and that there is no outsized risk that will permanently impair a strategy or the total portfolio.

Dominic joined GIC as Senior Vice President, Special Projects, RPMD, in 2012. He also led the Enterprise Risk & Performance division to develop GIC’s enterprise risk management framework. Prior to joining GIC, Dominic was Managing Director & Head, Market Risk Analysis & Reporting at UBS AG. Dominic started his career as an Audit Assistant with Ernst and Young Singapore. In 1996, he joined UBS AG where he held various key appointments including Head of Market Risk Control (Singapore), Credit Traded Products (Europe) and Market Risk Methodology. Dominic graduated with a Bachelor of Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University in 1994.