Who will present in WDES？
Speakers and VIP Guest:
Dr Khoo Guan Seng
28+ years in investment, banking, risk management, AI-based financial systems, global experience, PhD in Computational Physics, sustainability initiatives leader.
Dr Khoo Guan Seng has over 28 years of experience in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide investment, banking and risk management models, systems and processes, including responsible investing. He gained deep practical insights from a career with financial institutions in the US, Canada, UK and Singapore, including the Man Group, where he was the Principal Scientist, designing and running an algorithmic AI-based hedge fund; and American Bourses Corporation, which provided robo-based analytical solutions and financial info-utilities to traders and investors. He has also served at ATOS Origin, RHB Capital, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered Bank, Temasek Holdings, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), Changi Airports International, and the Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW). He holds a PhD in Computational Physics (Material Science) from the National University of Singapore, with post-doctorate R&D in AI-based data mining and applications in Japan and the US.
When he was the Head of ERM/GRC at AIMCo, he was also the Head of Proxy Voting and a member of the investment committee involved in approving investments via relationship investing/stakeholder engagement, e.g., in Environmental Resources Management and Glass Lewis. He also helped establish AIMCo’s Responsible Investing Unit in 2011. Over the last few years, he has led initiatives in sustainability-related project and impact financing and education, including at AEPW, and in sustainable investing seminars for the investment management and banking industries, at SMU, Salmon Thrust and London Business School’s SWF Academy.
As an academic at Nanyang Technological University, he co-designed the first environmental science module (as a free elective for all NTU undergrads) in 1997 and co-founder of the Centre for Financial Engineering & MSc Financial Engineering programme. He has also participated in a Malaysian Nature Society scientific expedition to the Endau-Rompin forest reserve in Malaysia in 1989 to investigate and research the changing state of biodiversity due to climate change and human interactions.
