• Ng Kok Song

  Group Chief Investment Officer, GIC
  Founder Chairman, WMI

  

  Ng Kok Song, Group Chief Investment Officer of GIC, has been involved with the investment of Singapore’s foreign reserves for 40 years, beginning with the Ministry of Finance (1970–71), then the Monetary Authority of Singapore (1972–86), and GIC since 1986.

  Mr Ng was the founder chairman of the Singapore International Monetary Exchange in 1983, which is now part of the Singapore Exchange. He is also the founder chairman of WMI, a board member of the Singapore Labour Foundation, and an adviser to Agency France Tresor.

• Cynthia Teong

  Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, WMI

  

  Cynthia is WMI’s Executive Director and CEO. Prior to WMI, Cynthia was Citigroup’s Managing Director and Head of Local Debt Capital Markets (DCM), Asia Pacific, where she was instrumental in building Citi’s Local DCM business.

  Cynthia’s 18-year career at Citi began in 1990 when she joined the organisation as Vice President. She played a pivotal role in establishing Citi Singapore’s Fixed Income business. Cynthia was on the MAS Steering Committee for many years and was deeply involved in the early development of Singapore’s debt capital markets. In 2003, she assumed the role of Singapore Market Manager and headed Citi’s debt origination team before her promotion to Head of Local DCM, Asia Pacific in 2005.

  Prior to Citi, Cynthia was a Vice President with Credit Suisse First Boston for four years and headed Sales and Trading for its Singapore Fixed Income business.

• Jacqueline Wong

  Chief Executive Officer, Temasek Trust
  Director, WMI

  

  Jacqueline (Jackie) joined Temasek Trust as CEO in March 2011. Previously a senior partner with leading executive search firm Egon Zehnder International, Jackie was the Asia Pacific leader of their Financial Services Practice as well as the Global leader of their Sovereign Wealth Funds Practice. In her earlier career, she was an investment banker with Manufacturers Hanover Trust (now JP Morgan Chase) in Hong Kong and New York, and subsequently held senior executive positions with Hill and Knowlton and Whirlpool Corporation.

  A graduate of Yale University, Jackie also attended the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development (PMD) Program and Program on Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management.

  Concurrent with her position as Temasek Trust’s CEO, Jackie is also the CEO & Executive Director of Temasek Management Services.

• Aaron Low

  Principal, Lumen Advisors LLC
  Director, WMI

  

  Dr Aaron Low is a Principal of Lumen Advisors LLC in San Francisco and Director of Lumen Funds where he co-leads investment strategies in the Lumen Global Fund on global stocks, bonds and currencies. He is responsible for managing Lumen’s Asian operations.

  Aaron currently chairs the Global Capital Markets Policy Council of the CFA Institute and is Deputy President of CFA Singapore. He serves on several advisory boards, including the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Center, the Investment Management Association of Singapore (iMAS) and WMI. Aaron also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Singapore Government Pension Fund. He is also on the Board of Editors of the Journal of Futures Markets (JFM) and is an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore.

• Benedict Leh

  Chief Operating Officer, WMI

  Benedict is WMI’s Chief Operating Officer. Prior to WMI, Ben spent 14 years as an investment banker at Citigroup and Credit Suisse. His last role was Director, Head of Citi’s syndicate desk responsible for all local currency fixed income issuance for all Asia Pacific countries. Prior to that, Ben was with Citi’s Debt Capital Markets (DCM) origination team and the Corporate Finance team in Singapore. From 2000 to 2001, Ben was with Credit Suisse in Hong Kong as part of its Asian G3 DCM origination team.

  Ben left Citi in September 2008 to pursue a career in public services. From 2009 to 2010, he was Director for Development at the National University Health System (NUHS) where he headed two IPC charities and philanthropic development projects within NUHS covering needy patients and students, medical training and research, as well as related infrastructure development.

  Ben graduated from the National University of Singapore with a BBA (Hons.) First Class and is also a CFA Charterholder.

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