Beyond 2026: Bridging Worlds

Mr Chee Hong Tat is currently the Minister for National Development. He also serves as Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore Board of Directors, Chairman of the Chinese Community Liaison Group and an Adviser to the Board of Directors of Business China.
 
Mr Chee was first elected as a Member of Parliament for the Bishan-Toa Payoh Group Representation Constituency (GRC) in 2015 and was re-elected during the 2020 and 2025 General Elections. Before joining politics, he spent 17 years in the Public Service, and had served as the Principal Private Secretary to Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Chief Executive of the Energy Market Authority and Second Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
 
Before taking on his current role, Mr Chee had served as Minister for Transport, Second Minister for Finance, and Senior Minister of State for Health, Communications & Information, Education, Trade & Industry and Foreign Affairs. He was also Deputy Secretary of the National Trades Union Congress from May 2021 to June 2022.
 
Mr Chee was born in 1973 and is married with four children. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science (Highest Honours) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Bachelor of Arts (Highest Honours) in Economics. He obtained his Masters of Business Administration from Adelaide University in 2006. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Trades Union Congress in April 2021 and was conferred an Honorary Fellow by the Institution of Engineers, Singapore in January 2023.

Mr. Jason Moo was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Bank of Singapore in March 2023.He joined Bank of Singapore from Julius Baer, where he was Head Private Banking Southeast Asia and Branch Manager Singapore.
 
Prior to joining Julius Baer in 2020, Jason worked at Goldman Sachs for more than two decades and has held several senior roles, including CEO of Goldman Sachs Singapore and Head of Southeast Asia and Australia for Private Wealth Management (PWM).
 
Before relocating back to Singapore, he was based in Hong Kong as Head of Market Solutions Group and Head of Alternative Capital Markets Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he worked in the Equities Merchandising Group in New York. He joined Goldman Sachs as a financial analyst in PWM in Singapore upon graduation.
 
Jason earned a BA in Economics and East Asia Studies, with a focus on Japan, from Brown University, USA.
 
He serves on the Board of Governors of Raffles Institution.

Mr Jacky Ang was appointed Global Chief Operating Officer (GCOO) at Bank of Singapore in September 2023. As GCOO, he supports the Chief Executive Officer in the strategic steering of the Bank and spearheads the Bank’s transformation efforts. Mr Ang also has oversight of the Bank’s governance and operations, as well as other key functions including client experience, marketing and communications. 
 
Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, Mr Ang held various leadership roles in corporate governance, new business development and wealth management services. He has more than 26 years of experience in the banking industry and has worked in three leading Asian financial hubs – Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
 
Mr Ang graduated from the University of London with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Economics (Banking and Finance). He is a graduate of the inaugural Asian Financial Leadership Programme in 2016.

Ms. Lael Brainard is Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown University Psaros Center and Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School Mossavar-Rahmani Center. Brainard previously served as Director of the National Economic Council, Vice Chair and Governor of the Federal Reserve Board, Undersecretary of the Treasury, and G7 Sherpa. Brainard also served as Chair of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Standing Committee on Assessing Vulnerabilities and of OECD Working Party 3. Brainard has been involved in U.S. monetary, fiscal, and trade policymaking, as well as the resolution of several financial crises. Brainard was Assistant and Associate Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School, and she founded the Brookings Global Economy and Development program. She received a doctorate in economics from Harvard, where she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship.

Ms. Jean Chia is Bank of Singapore’s Global CIO, responsible for the CIO Investment Institute which covers macro insights, portfolio strategy and investment strategy for multiasset portfolios for wealth and asset management. Jean is responsible for Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM), Advisory Portfolio Management (APM), Funds Selection and Alternatives Investment at Bank of Singapore. Jean is a member of Bank of Singapore’s Global Management Committee and chairs the Bank’s Investment Committee and Sustainable Investment Governance Committee. She chairs the board of directors for BOS International Fund, Luxembourg and is part of the OCBC Wealth Panel.
 
Jean has over 25 years of experience in Private Banking and Asset Management. She was previously Head, Equities Advisory & Sales, responsible for the equities and derivatives business at Bank of Singapore, and Head of Client Advisory Services, Investment Products & Services at UBS Wealth Management, Singapore. Prior to UBS, she was Vice President, Head of Grassroots Research at Allianz Dresdner Asset Management (now known as Allianz Global Investors).
 
Jean graduated with an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from University of Oxford, UK. She currently serves on the Development Advisory Board of St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford.
 
Jean holds a Sustainable Finance certification from Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership (CISL). She is a Financial Women’s Association of Singapore (FWA) Female Champion and the Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Fellow for Private Banking and Wealth Management. Jean is a Director on the Board of Mandai Nature, the conservation arm established by Mandai Wildlife Group and Temasek.

Mr. Mansoor Mohi-uddin is a macroeconomist and financial market strategist with two decades experience covering institutional investors around the world. Mansoor speaks to policymakers and central bankers and maintains links with think-tanks in Washington and Beijing. He appears on CNBC and Bloomberg Television, his work features in The Economist and he has written for the Financial Times.
 
Mansoor was most recently at the Royal Bank of Scotland’s investment arm, NatWest Markets, where he was the Asia region’s Macro Strategist and previously the bank’s Global Head of FX Strategy.
 
Prior to joining RBS, Mansoor spent 17 years at UBS in London, Zurich and Singapore where he was also Global Head of FX Strategy from 2002 to 2014.
 
Mansoor holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
 
He was tutored by Professor Charles Goodhart, a former Chief Adviser at the Bank of England.

Mr. Eli Lee is Managing Director, Chief Investment Strategist at Bank of Singapore and plays a leading role in developing strategic and tactical portfolio asset allocation and thematic strategies across global asset classes and alternative investments for the overall banking group and portfolio management teams. He is a central member of Bank of Singapore’s Investment Committee, which determines the bank’s overall investment direction, and is an internal member of the BOS-CIO Global Advisory Council.
 
He was previously Head of Investment Strategy, during which he and his team spearheaded the transformation of the group’s investment allocations to alternative investments and oversaw the optimisation of target allocations for the group’s medium and long-term portfolio strategies.
 
Before that, he was the Head of Equities Research and advanced the development of the group’s global equity coverage platform across US, Europe and Asia and investment processes in equity alpha generation.
 
Prior to joining Bank of Singapore and the OCBC Group, he was an investment analyst in the fixed income department at the Wellington Management Company in Boston. He began his career as an associate in Charles River Associates, a consulting firm in Boston specialising in arbitration in the financial sector.
 
Eli also sits on the Wealth Panel of OCBC Group and serves as a member of the Investment Committee for The Salvation Army Singapore. Eli graduated from Harvard University with a master’s degree in Statistics.

Mr Loh Boon Chye joined Singapore Exchange (SGX Group) as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) on 14 July 2015. He is also an Executive and Non-Independent Director on the SGX Board. As CEO, he drives SGX Group’s growth strategy, with the aim of transforming SGX Group into a world-class multi-asset exchange.
 
Over the years, Mr Loh has played a key role in the development of Southeast Asia’s capital markets, having held a number of senior advisory positions. Apart from his directorship on the SGX Board from 2003 to 2012, he also sits on the Board of GIC Pte Ltd. He is Chairman of the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics Advisory Board and the World Federation of Exchanges.
 
Mr Loh leads SGX Group’s efforts in sustainability and climate action. He serves as an independent advisory committee member in the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative. He is also an advisory board member for the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ)’s Asia-Pacific Network and a member of the GFANZ’s CEO Principals Group.
 
With a career in the financial industry that spans three decades, Mr Loh was formerly the Deputy President and Head of Asia Pacific Global Markets at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch from December 2012 to May 2015. He was also the bank’s Country Executive for Singapore and Southeast Asia and a member of its Asia Pacific Executive Committee. From 1995 to 2012, Mr Loh was with Deutsche Bank AG, where he held various leadership roles including Head of Corporate & Investment Banking for Asia Pacific and Head of Global Markets for Asia.
 
Mr Loh is a council member and Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore. He was also previously Chairman of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee, as well as Deputy President of ACI Singapore.
 
Mr Loh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the National University of Singapore.

Mr. Venki Ramakrishnan is an American and British molecular biologist who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He currently works at the world-renowned MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England and from 2015-2020, he served as President of the Royal Society, one of the world’s oldest scientific organizations. He is best known for his work on protein synthesis, the process by which genetic information is used by the ribosome to make the thousands of proteins that make life possible. This process is fundamental to all life and its dysfunction leads to many diseases as well as to aging. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and was knighted by the British government in 2012. In 2022, he received one of Britain’s highest civilian honors, the Order of Merit, which is restricted to 24 people across all fields.
 
In addition to his academic work, Ramakrishnan is a science partner of the venture capital fund Ahren Innovation Capital, and on the boards of the AI-based drug development company, Isomorphic Labs, and the British Library. He recently co-founded RNAvate, an RNA therapeutics company based on stable, next-generation RNA molecules. In the public arena, he played a leadership role when he was president of the Royal Society, including dealing with the consequences of Brexit and helping convene the Society’s response to provide advice during the covid pandemic and did a significant amount of public engagement including articles in the press and appearances on national media.
 
Ramakrishnan is the author of two popular books: Gene Machine (2018), a very frank scientific memoir about the race for the structure of the ribosome that led to the Nobel Prize; and Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest For Immortality (2024), which looks at the biology of aging and efforts to combat it.

Mr. Govind Alagappan is President of Gradiant, a global technology leader in water and wastewater sector at the forefront of sustainable industrial transformation. With operations in over 20 countries, Gradiant serves Fortune 100 customers across semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, Food & Beverage, energy, and manufacturing — sectors where water is not just a utility, but a strategic asset.
 
Under Govind’s leadership, Gradiant has rapidly transformed from a high-growth innovator to a leading global platform with a valuation exceeding US$1 billion, achieving 5x revenue growth over the past three years. He leads the firm’s global commercial strategy, capital deployment, and inorganic growth — including a string of cross-border acquisitions and the scaling of its AI solutions that monetize ESG performance.
 
Gradiant is backed by global investors including Warburg Pincus, M&G, EDBI, and Centaurus Capital, reflecting growing conviction that sustainability-driven investments delivers resilient returns. Govind works at the intersection of Technology, capital, and ESG, shaping a next-gen industrial model where sustainability is no longer a cost center — it’s a growth engine.
 
Govind brings a capital markets lens to industrial sustainability — where decarbonization, water circularity, and infrastructure resilience intersect with growth, returns, and compounding value.

Ms. Clélia Melaye serves as Head of Insight & Foresight in the President’s Office for CHANEL Southeast Asia Australia & New Zealand. Based in Singapore, she leads the development of market, brand and consumer research capabilities across the SEAA region, providing actionable intelligence that shapes the House’s strategic decision-making and future growth.
 
With more than 15 years of experience leading insight practices across UNILEVER, CHANEL and AMAZON, Clelia has worked in different industries but with the same passion for building knowledge that fuels business decisions.
 
After seven years with CHANEL’s Global Insight Team in France building research capabilities across 16 markets, she further expanded her perspective as Head of Research for Southeast Asia at Amazon Prime Video. Clelia returned to CHANEL in 2024, bringing a unique blend of global best practices and local market understanding. She is known for transforming insights into action, driving change through interactive workshops and close collaboration with leadership to ensure consumer intelligence shapes business actions.
 
Beyond her corporate commitments, Clelia is a recognized academic expert in the research field, teaching market research at leading business schools such as NUS and EDHEC.
 
This connection to academia ensures she brings the latest behavioral concepts into the research practice she implements at CHANEL.

Ms. Low Pei Han, CFA, is the Head of Equity Strategy at the Chief Investment Office of Bank of Singapore and she leads a dynamic team dedicated to delivering insightful, actionable equity ideas to institutional and private clients.
 
With over 15 years of experience in the finance industry including her days as a sell-side analyst at OCBC Investment Research, Pei Han brings a wealth of knowledge and a proven track record of identifying investment opportunities across various sectors and markets. She has won awards (Top Stock Pickers, Top Earnings Estimators, Asia’s Best Analyst in Oil and Gas) from the Refinitiv StarMine Analyst Awards by LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group), as well as The Wall Street Journal.
 
Pei Han is a CFA charter holder. She attained her undergraduate degree from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and her master’s degree from the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

Ms. Christine Cheong currently serves as Vice President at Bank of Singapore, where she plays a dual role in advancing the firm’s sustainability agenda. As a member of the Funds Selection team, she focuses on ESG strategies and the development of the bank’s proprietary ESG fund methodology. In parallel, Christine leads the newly established Sustainability Partners team, which aims to catalyze sustainable wealth creation by connecting capital with purpose. Through a holistic solutioning approach, her team empowers clients to shape a resilient future for themselves, their families, businesses, and communities.

Christine also serves as secretariat to the Sustainable Investment Governance Committee and has oversight of the bank’s Sustainability Forum. With over a decade of experience spanning private banking, fund selection, and strategic business development, she has worked closely with C-suite leaders to design long-term strategies and drive impact.
 
She holds a double major in Economics and Political Science and is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) holder. Outside of work, Christine is passionate about wellness, design, and exploring destinations off the beaten path.

Mr. Benjamin Towell is a Registered Architect, Chartered Surveyor, and Chartered Environmentalist. He serves as Executive Director of the Global Wholesale Banking Sustainability Office, where he leads the team driving the sustainable built environment agenda and the transition of SMEs. In this role, he delivers advisory services, innovative solutions, and financial products that support clients on their sustainability journey.
 
Recognised for his candid approach and deep technical expertise, Benjamin plays a pivotal role in advancing the transition efforts of OCBC’s global clientele. He is actively engaged by Green Building Councils, professional bodies, and standard setters. He was recently appointed to the Technical Council of CRREM, the governing body responsible for the independent development, maintenance, and approval of CRREM decarbonisation pathways. Earlier in his career, he held key roles at the Building and Construction Authority, contributing to the evolution of the Green Mark scheme and related national policies.
 
A frequent speaker and published author, Benjamin has written extensively on green building certification, decarbonisation, and sustainability. He is the author of the Singapore Institute of Architects’ Green Book and has recently co-authored several influential guides with the Alliance of Green Building Organisations, as well as the Unlocking Capital series in partnership with the World Green Building Council.

Mr. LG Lim is responsible for Bank of Singapore’s product strategy and the expansion and innovation of the bank’s offerings across key areas such as investment research and strategy, portfolio management, lending structuring and advisory, and wealth planning and trust. He is concurrently OCBC Bank’s Head of Group Wealth Products.
 
He is an industry veteran with 30 years of experience in the investments and advisory space, across transactional, advisory and discretionary products, as well as wealth planning. Prior to joining Bank of Singapore, he had senior management responsibilities across various roles at UBS Wealth Management, where he was most recently the Asia-Pacific Head of Wealth Planning and Singapore Head of Investment Products and Services.
 
During his 25- year stint with the Swiss bank, he played pivotal roles in developing product strategy across Asia Pacific and establishing product platforms in Taiwan, Japan and China. He was conferred the IBF Fellow award in 2016 in the area of wealth management by the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF). The IBF Fellow title recognises industry veterans who exemplify thought leadership and commitment to industry development.
 
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics (2nd Upper Honours) from The London School of Economics.