Faculty

Dr Aaron Low

Dr Aaron Low is Chairperson of WMI Expert Panel for Investment Advisory and Product Strategies and has been teaching at WMI since 2003. Aaron is CEO of LUMIQ, Principal at Lumen Advisors and Board Chairman of the CFA Research Foundation (US). Aaron is currently a Board Director at Triumph Capital (Singapore), Guotai Junan Fund (HK) Value Funds, and the Journal of Futures Markets (US). He is also Advisor at Hashkey Capital, SMU and CFA Singapore.

Previously, Aaron was Head of Portfolio Management (Asia x Japan) at PIMCO managing global and EM investments. His investment teams won several Lipper and Morningstar investment awards for global bonds and emerging markets. Prior to PIMCO, he was Head of Fixed Income, Asia for RCM Global Investors (San Francisco), managing global balanced and fixed income portfolios. Aaron was Chairman, Board of Governors of the CFA Institute (US). He was Board Trustee for Singapore Government Pension Fund and was on the boards of WMI, iMAS, BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Center. He has served as Senior Advisor to Harvest Fund Management (Beijing), Bosera Asset Management (Shenzhen) and Minsheng Tonghui Asset Management (Shanghai).

Aaron has a PhD in International Financial Economics from Anderson School, UCLA, and completed graduate programs at Stanford and Chicago universities. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is Adjunct Professor at CEIBS, NUS, SMU, and also teaches at ESSEC and NTU.

Dr Ben Caldecott

Dr Ben Caldecott started as a Visiting Professor at the Wealth Management Institute in June 2023. He is the founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Finance Group at the University of Oxford Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. At the University of Oxford, he is the inaugural Lombard Odier Associate Professor of Sustainable Finance, the first ever endowed professorship of sustainable finance, and a Supernumerary Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford. Ben is also the founding Director and Principal Investigator of the UK Centre for Greening Finance & Investment (CGFI), established by UK Research and Innovation in 2021 as the national centre to accelerate the adoption and use of climate and environmental data and analytics by financial institutions internationally.

Ben specialises in environment, energy, and sustainability issues and works at the intersection between finance, public policy, and academe, having held senior roles in each domain. He has authored and edited a substantial number of publications related to sustainability and is an experienced media commentator and public speaker. His expertise and expert evidence have been recognised in high profile legal cases, including in the Federal Court of Australia and the High Court of England and Wales. He is a regular peer reviewer and has a number of trustee, board, and advisory panel appointments, including serving on the UK Climate Change Committee’s Adaptation Committee, DBS Bank’s Board Sustainability Committee, UK Export Finance’s Export Guarantees Advisory Council, and as a Trustee of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB).

He has conceived and initiated a number of initiatives related to sustainable finance. Ben founded and served as the inaugural Co-Chair of the Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment (GRASFI), an alliance of global research universities promoting rigorous and impactful academic research on sustainable finance. He established and leads the Sustainable Finance Theme at The Alan Turing Institute and initiated the Spatial Finance Initiative, which aims to mainstream geospatial capabilities enabled by space technology and data science into financial decision-making globally. He co-founded and serves on the board of the Commonwealth Climate and Law Initiative (CCLI), which is examining the legal basis for directors and trustees to consider, manage, and report on climate-related risk, and the circumstances in which they may be liable for failing to do so. He established and is the Faculty Chair of the Public and Third Sector Academy for Sustainable Finance (P3SA) at the University of Oxford, a global centre of learning on sustainable finance for the public and third sectors. Ben is also a Co-Director for the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery at the University of Oxford where he leads its work on finance.

Prof David Lee

David Lee Kuo Chuen is a Professor of Financial Technology and Blockchain at the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS), a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), a Council Member of the British Blockchain Association, and Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Fintech and Annual Review of Fintech.

Meanwhile, Professor Lee is also an internationally renowned scholar and industry opinion leader in the field of blockchain, an expert in the development of WEB3 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) application scenarios, the Chairman of the Global FinTech Institute (GFI), a co-founder of the Singapore Blockchain Association, a co-founder of the Blockchain Security Alliance, a CBDC advisor to the Asian Development Bank, Vice Chairman of the Economic Society of Singapore (ESS), a cryptocurrency advisor to the Asian Institute of Digital Finance (AIDF) of NUS, an advisor to the SUSS Node for inclusive FinTech (NiFT), an independent director of several listed companies in Singapore, an angel investor in blockchain, WEB3, inclusive finance and AI innovation, a senior advisor and Investment Committee member of Artichoke Capital which is backed by institutional limited partners, including sovereign wealth funds.

Professor Lee previously served as a Senior Advisor to the President of Singapore Management University (SMU), Dean of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economic (SKBI) in Singapore, a member of the Research Council of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Ping An OneConnect, an independent director of Lu Global in Singapore, and long taught at the Mayor’s Class in Singapore. In addition, Professor LEE served as an international consultant to the Distributed Trust Research Project at Stanford University, CEO of listed companies OUE Enterprise and Auric Pacific, a researcher at Harvard University – National University of Singapore (1991-1993), a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in 2015, the founder of hedge fund Ferrell Asset Management, and the founder of real estate developer Ferrell Residences.

Prof Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez

Professor Denise Kenyon-Rouvinez is the Principal Programme Director of WMI’s Family Office Programmes. She is also appointed Temasek Fellow at WMI and will also contribute to the development of research and thought leadership for Family Office, further contributing to WMI’s Family Office ambitions. Denise also teaches for the Master of Science in Asset and Wealth Management. She is a regular speaker around the world including at the World Economic Forum where she is a member of its Expert Network. Denise has received several awards for her research work and is also author and co-author of several books on the topic of family business. Denise is the former director of the Global Family Business Centre at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland, where she launched and ran their global family office programme and also served as The Wild Group Professor of Family Business, directing its Leading the Family Business and Leading the Family Office programmes. Denise was also previously Executive VP – Head of International Family Business & Philanthropy at Coutts Private Bank, and also worked for UBS and Credit Suisse.

Denise holds a PhD in Management from HEC Lausanne in collaboration with IMD. She is a certified coach working with the Solution Focused Coaching approach (based on brief therapies and positive psychology). She is an accredited Life Orientations (Lifo®) Licensee, Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) certified and a qualified Emotional Intelligence (EQ-I 2.0) assessor and trainer.

Ms Dien Yuen

A sought-after strategist, speaker, instructor, and practitioner of philanthropy, Dien has spent the past 25 years fostering innovation and creating impact for communities worldwide.

Dien co-founded Daylight Advisors to revolutionise the field and practice of philanthropic advising. Bringing together her expertise in gift planning, wealth management, professional development, and social impact, Daylight helps maximise philanthropy’s potential for transforming lives by advancing the training, research, professionalisation, and diversity of today’s philanthropic field.

Dien founded the Center for Philanthropy and Social Impact at The American College of Financial Services, where she also developed and taught courses as the Blunt-Nickel Professor in Philanthropy for the Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy® (CAP®) designation. While at the College, Dien launched the Advisors of Color CAP® Study Group, a support group for BIPOC advisors pursuing their designations. That initiative tripled the number of CAP-trained BIPOC philanthropic professionals in the field in less than three years. In addition, she developed and launched Purpose School, an immersive, interactive learning experience to help leaders explore the intersection of meaning and purpose in their lives.

Dien’s expertise and impact extend to Asia, where she is the lead faculty for philanthropy at Singapore’s Wealth Management Institute (WMI). She has taught in the inaugural Philanthropy Advisors Fellowship at the Asia Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN).

Overall, Dien has supported more than one thousand advisors seeking greater competence, confidence, and cultural dexterity in their work.

Earlier in her career, Dien worked for several wealth management firms and held executive positions in regional and global development organisations. Today she serves on the boards of Give2Asia, Giving Compass, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, and The 1990 Institute and is an advisor to the Asia Society Northern California and Global SF.

Mr Eddie Gan

Eddie Gan is a veteran banker with industry-recognised domain expertise in wealth management. Eddie is the Chairperson of WMI Expert Panel for Client Relationship Management and a member of our Faculty.

Eddie holds the title of IBF Fellow for Wealth Management, a distinguished title conferred upon industry specialists and veterans who have demonstrated mastery of a profession and exemplify thought leadership and commitment to industry development. He also served as a member of the IBF Private Banking Industry Workgroup to identify core competencies and skills and encourage the adoption of the IBF Standards as a benchmark in the training and development of finance professionals.

Eddie has more than 30 years of banking experience in wealth management and corporate banking. Most recently, Eddie was the Managing Director and Market Head at UBS Wealth Management where he led a market team of more than 100 client advisors, assistants and compliance support staff focused on serving family offices, ultra-high net worth and high net worth clientele. Prior to wealth management, Eddie was a corporate banker covering real estate financing.

Eddie possesses a MBA in Accounting from the University of British Columbia, Canada and a BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Dr Eric Sandosham

Dr. Eric Sandosham is a member of WMI Expert Panel and teaches our postgraduate and certification programmes including our Master of Science in Asset and Wealth Management, as well as our Certified Private Banker programmes. Eric is a veteran in business analytics and is a decision science advocate. He is a Co-Founder and Partner of Red & White Consulting Partners LLP and a former board member with the Singapore Land Authority.

In prior appointments, Eric was the Managing Director and Asia Pacific Head of Decision Management at Citibank where he led a team of 330 analysts embedded across 14 countries. He has spoken extensively on the topic of Analytics at conferences hosted by Asian Banker, Forrester, CNET and SAS. He founded the SAS User Group (Singapore) and served as the Chairman of the Executive Committee. He was awarded the Outstanding Science Alumnus Award by the National University of Singapore and the Industry Leader Award by the Analytics Hall of Fame. Eric possesses a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Business from Singapore Management University, a Master of Science in Statistics from National University of Singapore and a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Mathematics from National University of Singapore. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University Singapore and an affiliate faculty at Singapore Management University

Visiting Prof Gao Hao

GAO Hao (Tony) is the Director of Research Center for Global Family Business and an Associate Director of Research Center for Green Finance at PBC School of Finance, Tsinghua University. He is a Co-Editor-in-chief of Wealth Management Journal, and the Editor-in-chief of Family Governance Series and Family Wealth Series. He teaches in the Master, MBA, DBA and Executive Education Programs at Tsinghua University. He is the Faculty Chair of Investment Banking, Wealth Management and Private Banking and Family Business Management, and the Academic Director of Executive Education Programs on Family Business, Family Office and Philanthropy Leadership.

He is a member of Global Future Councils/Expert Network of World Economic Forum (WEF), a council member of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce’s Thinktank, a board member and the Public Policy Chair of STEP China Committee, a board member and research fellow of China Enterprise Reform and Development Society (CERDS), and an associate chair of China Will Registration Center’s Academic Committee.

His research focuses on family business, wealth management, corporate finance, family philanthropy and green finance. He has published 8 books, as well as 200+ academic papers, policy papers and case studies in leading academic, policy and professional journals. He has co-authored 10 cases in the Harvard Business School Case Collection, including the first Chinese family office case, the first Asian private banking case and the first Asian university foundation case.

Gao is the principle investigator of numerous research projects, including grants from People’s Bank of China (PBoC), China Ministry of Commerce, China Ministry of Education, China Ministry of Civil Affairs, China Banking Association, China Association for Public Companies, China Investment Corporation (CIC), Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (FSDC), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UBS and HSBC.

He advises both public and private sector frequently, including People’s Bank of China (PBoC), China Ministry of Finance, China Ministry of Commerce, China Ministry of Civil Affairs, National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and Hong Kong Government, as well as serving on the boards of several Fortune 500 Companies, leading financial institutions, and philanthropy foundations in China and the world.

Gao has won numerous research awards, including the China Society for Private-Sector Economy Best Research Award (5 times), the Lixiang Mao Family Business Research Award (3 times), as well as several Distinguished Teaching Awards. His research and viewpoints are profiled in leading media in China and abroad, such as CCTV, CGTN, CNBC, Financial Times, Economist, Bloomberg, Businessweek and Caixin.

He earned a bachelor’s degree (engineering), a Ph.D. degree (management) and two post-doctorates (finance and economics) from Tsinghua University, and a bachelor’s degree (economics) from Peking University. He holds Harvard Business School Corporate Director Certificate and Temasek Fellowship of Wealth Management Institute.

Prof Guido Gianasso

Prof. Guido Gianasso, PhD, is a Global Leadership expert. A Swiss-Italian national, he has thirty-five years of Management, Teaching and Consulting experience. He is Professor of Leadership at HEC Paris in Qatar. He was previously Professor of Global Leadership and Associate Dean at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.

Prof. Gianasso holds a PhD in Management at the University of Geneva. The focus of his Academia is on Global Leadership and Cultural Intelligence (CQ). He is a recipient of several teaching awards.

In addition to his role at HEC Paris, Guido Gianasso is Visiting Professor at the Universities of Geneva and Hong Kong and Honorary Consul of Romania in Geneva. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of the American University of Phnom Penh and consults with leading MNCs.

Before moving to Education, Prof. Gianasso worked for thirty years as senior corporate executive in the Banking and Air Transport Industries, helping Boards and CEOs driving major change programs. From 2003 to 2013 he was CHRO and Executive Committee member with the International Air Transport Association (IATA). During the same period, he also served as Managing Director of the IATA Training and Development Institute (ITDI), a large training organisation providing global learning solutions to 50,000 Air Transport professionals every year.

In his distinguished career, Prof. Gianasso served as Vice-President of the Diplomatic Club of Geneva (Geneva), on the Eurocontrol DR Supervisory Board (Brussels), as Senior Advisor to the Romanian Minister for Foreign Affairs (Bucharest) and on the IMD Executive Education Advisory Council (Lausanne).

Prof. Gianasso is fluent in English, French, Italian, Spanish, and Romanian.

Mr Henk De Glint

Henk De Glint teaches Client Relationship Management and Leadership courses at WMI. He is also a member of WMI’s Expert Panel for the Certified Private Banker Programme. He has been involved with the Institute since it’s beginning in 2003.

Henk is a senior wealth management professional and a respected leader in the financial industry with 30  years of extensive experience in private banking, capital markets as well as family and corporate advisory services in Asia.

Based in Singapore since 1994, he has held various senior private banking and leadership roles covering Singapore and South East Asia. Over the course of his career, he worked for ABN AMRO, MeesPierson (“the Private Bankers of Fortis”), UBS Wealth Management and JP Morgan Private Bank.

He formerly served on the Financial Services Working Group of the Singapore Government 2002 Economic Review Committee; “Positioning Singapore as a pre-eminent Financial Centre in Asia”.

Henk De Glint holds a Master in Economics (Business Administration), Cum Laude Honours, from Groningen University in the Netherlands.

Mr Kelvin Tay

Kelvin is the Chief Investment Officer (South Asia Pacific) at UBS Global Wealth Management, where he serves as a key voting member of the UBS WM Asia-Pacific Investment Committee. He provides strategic cross-asset investment research and insights to the asset allocation process. He is a senior investment leader, spearheading Asian multi-asset investments spanning traditional and alternative investments for 27 years, offering expertise in portfolio positions and performance.

Kelvin is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Business School, where he lectures on Macroeconomics, Cycles, Bubbles & Crises and Investment Products & Advisory Strategy in the Masters in Asset & Wealth Management programme. NTU is ranked 19th in the world by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, 2022. Kelvin was awarded the Teacher of the Year award in 2022.

Kelvin is also a Lead Lecturer at the Wealth Management Institute, where he teaches the Advanced Diploma in Financial Management, the Asset Management Accelerator Programme, the Certified Private Banker courses amongst others. Kelvin has been awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award by Wealth Management Institute (WMI) in 2019, 2020 and 2021, and was conferred the WMI Ambassador award in 2020.

Globally, Kelvin is one of our most sought-after speakers in UBS. He is a bi-monthly guest host on CNBC Asia and a regular commentator on international broadcast media such as Bloomberg TV, ChannelNews Asia…etc. He also contributes byline articles on a regular basis to The Business Times, Hong Kong Economic Times, The Edge and other publications.

Kelvin first joined UBS Wealth Management Asia in April 2006. Prior to joining UBS, Kelvin held numerous responsibilities at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management (Asia). As the Asian Equities Strategist, he was responsible for equity allocation and managed an Asian equities portfolio. He was also responsible for selecting underlying equities for the private bank’s structured products and for conducting funds research.

From 2002 to 2004, Kelvin was a regional telecoms analyst at JPMorgan Chase where he was consistently rated in the top 4 in surveys such as Asia Money and Institutional Investor. From 2000 to 2002, he was also a regional telecoms analyst with ABN AMRO (Asia) Ltd in Hong Kong, where his team was ranked No. 1 in the 2000 Greenwich survey. He was also ranked 3rd in AsiaMoney’s regional telecoms analyst survey in 2001. Prior to that, Kelvin worked at Overseas Union Bank in Singapore as a credit analyst in loan syndications & capital markets.

Kelvin received his MBA (finance specialisation) from Imperial College, University of London in 1999, where he was awarded a distinction for his Master’s Thesis. He also holds Bachelor of Social Science and Bachelor of Arts degree from the National University of Singapore.

Prof Lawrence Loh

Prof Lawrence Loh is a Visiting Professor at Wealth Management Institute. He is also Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability (CGS) at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore where he is Professor in Practice of Strategy and Policy.

At CGS, Prof Loh leads key sustainability initiatives for Asia-Pacific, ASEAN and Singapore. He steers the Singapore Governance and Transparency Index and ASEAN Corporate Governance Scorecard. Prof Loh also heads studies on business integrity and leadership diversity.

In the specific domain of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG), Prof Loh has extensive professional engagements in the Asia-Pacific region. He directs the CGS initiative that is commissioned by the Singapore Exchange to conduct sustainability assessments of all listed companies on the Exchange. He also heads the ASEAN sustainability reporting initiative covering 6 countries in collaboration with ASEAN CSR Network and steered the Asia-Pacific sustainability reporting assessment covering 14 jurisdictions with PwC. Prof Loh was a lead investigator on a study in sustainable banking for all listed banks in ASEAN in collaboration with WWF. Recently, he spearheaded a study on climate reporting in ASEAN with GRI as well as another on nature and biodiversity reporting in Asia Pacific at CGS.

Prof Loh is a regular commentator on governance and sustainability issues for leading global and local media. He has a citation and commentary count of 500-600 per year, including numerous front-page headlines, across media worldwide.

Ms Lim Cho Peng

Prior to joining WMI as a Faculty Trainer in Mar 2022, Cho Peng was the Chief Executive Officer of IPG Financial Services Pte. Ltd. (IPG).  IPG is the preferred wealth planning partner to the world’s most respected private banks and trusted advisor of life insurance solutions to affluent individuals and families worldwide. She joined IPG in 2006, initially as a Senior Vice President/Sales Consultant advising high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients across Southeast Asia on wealth, legacy and estate planning. In 2011, she assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer, followed by the role of CEO in 2018.

Cho Peng’s career in the banking and finance industry began in 1992 when she joined UOB after graduating from NUS with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Realising her passion and potential in wealth management, she later became a Private Banker with ANZ, followed by BNP Paribas from 1997 to 2005.

A keen supporter of the Singapore Children’s Society, Cho Peng is a mother to a young daughter and a fitness enthusiast who exercises daily. She is also passionate about teaching the youth on financial literacy during her free time.

Ms Loretta Yuen

Ms Loretta Yuen was appointed General Counsel and Head of Group Legal and Compliance in September 2010 and Group Managing Director in June 2015. She oversees the full spectrum of legal and regulatory risks, including anti-money laundering, across OCBC Bank and its subsidiaries, and provides advice on regulatory risks and legal issues involved in decisions to management, so that management can make informed strategic choices within an acceptable legal and regulatory risk profile.

Ms Yuen has over 20 years of legal and regulatory experience in banking and finance. She graduated with Second Class Honours in Law from the National University of Singapore and is an IBF Distinguished Fellow. In 2017, Ms Yuen was conferred the Outstanding Singapore Chief Legal Officer Award by the Singapore Corporate Counsel Association.

Mr Peter Triggs

Peter Triggs is a Tax, Trust and Wealth Planning veteran with more than 30 years’ experience across Asia, The Middle East and Europe. He is now a Partner in 1291, (a wealth structuring and insurance business) lectures in Wealth Planning at the Wealth Management Institute in Singapore, and has his own consulting company.

In previous capacities, Peter served as:

• Managing Director, Head of Regional Wealth Planning, and Head of International, Private Banking, DBS Private Bank in Singapore.

• Deputy CEO and Head of International Private Banking at Bank of China (Suisse) in Geneva.

• Managing Director, in various positions within Citibank Private Bank in London, Jersey, Geneva, Zurich and Singapore including:
  • Head of Citi Private Banking in Singapore and Malaysia
  • Head of Trust and Insurance in Asia

Prior to this, Peter was a Tax Principal for Deloitte in their London office. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Chartered Tax Advisor in the UK, a Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is qualified in Insurance and Investments in Singapore. He has an Honours degree in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Birmingham.

Mr Rob Coombes

Rob was appointed the Chief Compliance Officer, Affluent Coverage, Private and Priority Banking from 1st February 2021. This position is located in Singapore and includes responsibility for regulatory compliance, including financial crime compliance, across Standard Chartered’s Affluent business. From February 2018 Rob was the Global Head of Compliance & Financial Crime Compliance for Private Banking.

Prior to this role, Rob was the Global Head, Financial Crime Compliance, Corporate & Institutional Banking, Commercial Banking and Client & Product Risk Frameworks, based in Singapore where he was responsible for the identification and mitigation of financial crime risks, such as AML, CTF, ABC and FC risk framework for products, across the Bank.

Rob has worked at Standard Chartered for over 24 years in a variety of Compliance roles located in UK, Singapore, Thailand and China covering a variety of segments and products at the country, regional and global level. Prior to SCB, Rob was at The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

Rob has a deep knowledge of compliance, regulatory risk, financial crime compliance and a bank’s products and services, having spent over 30 years in this discipline.

Rob is a Singapore Permanent Resident and has a Masters degree in Financial Services Regulation from London University.