Speakers

Senior Strategist
Brevan Howard

Abhijit Chakrabortti joined the Brevan Howard Hong Kong office in 2021 as a Senior Strategist. Prior to this, Abhijit worked at the Duquesne Family Office from 2011 – 2020.

Previously, Abhijit held senior positions in Global Equity Strategy Research at Morgan Stanley from 2007 - 2009 and in the Global Research Team at JP Morgan from 2000 - 2007.

In 2023 Abhijit relocated to our Abu Dhabi office.

He was admitted as an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1993.

Product Manager, AM Digital Assets & DLT
UBS Asset Management

Andrew is a Product Manager in UBS Asset Management’s Digital Assets & DLT team. He focuses on go-to-market strategy, platform development, and risk management for fund tokenization initiatives. Most recently, he played a key role in the launch of UBS Asset Management’s first tokenized investment fund.

Prior to this role, Andrew was an Executive Director in UBS Group Strategy APAC, where he supported cross-divisional strategies and contributed to several of UBS’s digital asset initiatives in the Asia Pacific region.

Head of Investments
UBS Asset Management

Barry Gill was appointed Head of Investments in November 2019 and is a member of the UBS Asset Management Team.

He was Head of Active Equities within UBS Asset Management from early 2016 and, before that, joined O’Connor in 2012 as a member of the management group where he ran a concentrated long/short strategy.

Prior to joining O’Connor, Barry was head of the Fundamental Investment Group (Americas) for nearly six years within UBS Investment Bank, investing and trading the firm's principal capital.

Barry moved to the US in 2000 from London to rebuild the long/short principal investing effort within Equities following the creation of O’Connor as a hedge fund business.

In his five years in London at SBC and UBS, he was co-head of Pan-European Sector Trading, a proprietary book, and co-head of European Risk Program Trading for two years, preceded by two years as the head of the French trading book. Barry joined SBC's European derivatives desk as a graduate trainee in 1995.

Head of China Equities
UBS Asset Management

Bin Shi is a member of the Emerging Market and Asia Pacific Equities team, located in Hong Kong. He is the lead Portfolio Manager for the China equity strategies.

Prior to joining UBS Asset Management, Bin spent three years as Head of International Business, portfolio manager and analyst with Boshi Fund Management Co., one of the largest domestic mutual fund companies in China. Prior to that, he worked in the US for eight years as portfolio manager and analyst for several US mutual fund firms.

Bin joined UBS in January 2006 and has managed the Greater China Fund since April 2006. He also manages the China Opportunity, China A and All China strategies since inception in July 2010, March 2007 and May 2018 respectively.

Partner, APAC Credit & Emerging Markets, & Co-head of Yield Multi Credit
Apollo Global Management

Prior to joining Apollo in 2018, Brigitte was Global Head of Emerging Markets Corporate Credit at Barings Asset Management, where she established its dedicated EM Corporate Credit funds and co-led the blended EM Debt Total Return strategy.

Previously, she spent five years at PIMCO where she oversaw the strategies for EM Corporate Credit, Global Credit and Multi-Sector Fixed Income.

Before PIMCO, Brigitte had senior roles at both Deutsche Bank and Moody’s with responsibility for structured credit and mortgage-backed securities in Latin America. She started her career in Brazil working as a Credit Analyst and origination.

Brigitte received a BA from Mackenzie University of Sao Paulo and enrolled in a graduate management program from Harvard University.

Chief Investment Officer
BH Digital

Chris leads Brevan Howard’s digital investment team. Over a 20+ year career, Chris has held senior roles including at Coinbase, where he was Global Head of Trading and Financing, managed capital at large hedge funds including Brevan Howard, Citadel and Millennium, and founded and successfully sold a tokenisation business. Chris started his career at Merrill Lynch in 2000. He obtained his BSc in Pharmacology from the University of Bristol in June 2000.

Founder and Managing Director
Global SWF

Diego is based in New York / Singapore. He is a world-renowned expert on Sovereign Wealth Funds, having acted as practitioner and advisor for many years and published several articles in leading academic journals. He has worked as a consultant of the World Bank and of the United Nations and supported the establishment or reformulation of a number of SWFs around the world.

In the past few years, he has reshaped the SWF industry by establishing several key initiatives including the Global SWF Data Platform, the GSR Scoreboard for best practices among institutional investors, and the SWF Academy to nurture the future leaders of the world’s top sovereign and pension funds.

Prior to establishing Global SWF, Diego spent five years building up PwC’s footprint in the SWF industry as the Director and COO of the global practice, based in Abu Dhabi and New York. He has also worked for KPMG and Santander and has lived in Europe, the Middle East, Hong Kong, Singapore, Brazil and the US.

A Spanish-American dual citizen and Singapore resident, he earned his Master of Finance from the London School of Economics (LSE) after graduating in the Universities of Madrid and Milan. Diego is a prolific open water and ice swimmer and has raced in all seven continents including Antarctica. He is the author of the book "Continents Seven: Values for sports, business and life, learned around the world".

Head of Hedge Funds, Unified Global Alternatives
UBS Asset Management

Edoardo Rulli is the Head of Hedge Funds at Unified Global Alternatives (UGA), based in London. UGA combines the manager selection capabilities from across UBS’s Asset Management and Global Wealth Management businesses to serve the needs of its UHNW, institutional and wholesale clients globally.

Edoardo is responsible for managing and overseeing investments of third-party active investment strategies across hedge funds. He leads the global Hedge Funds investment team and oversees all aspects of portfolio management, asset allocation and manager selection.

Edoardo was previously the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Head of UBS Hedge Fund Solutions (HFS), where he was also a member of the HFS Management and Senior Investment Forums, and Chair of the Review Committee. Edoardo was also a member of UBS Asset Management Investments Management Committee.

Edoardo is a Senior Manager Function Holder for UBS AM (UK) Ltd. He also sits on the UBS Optimus Foundation (UK) Limited Board, which supports organizations that are working to transform educational outcomes in the UK.

Prior to re-joining UBS in 2016, Edoardo was Head of Research at Falcon Money Management where he joined as partner in 2009.
Prior to that in 2008, he was a Director at UBS A&Q AIS, the predecessor unit of HFS, in London.

Before that, Edoardo was a Senior Analyst at Tremont Capital Management in London in 2004, a multi-billion fund of funds.

Edoardo started his career as an analyst in 2001 at Rasini & C., researching European and Asian hedge funds.

Advisory Board Member
Global SWF

APAC Advisory Board Member, Singapore Economic Forum – APAC Summit & EU-ASEAN Centre
Advisory Board Member, Global SWF (& SWF Academy in partnership with LBS and INSEAD since 2023)
Advisory Board Member, International Advisory Council of Sovereign Investors

Dr Khoo has over 28 years of experience in the design and implementation of enterprise-wide investment, banking and risk management models, systems and processes incl. ESG/Responsible Investing. He gained deep practical insights from a career spanning across financial institutions in the USA, Canada, UK and Singapore, including the UK-listed Man Group where he was the Principal Scientist (while still at NTU), designing and running an algorithmic AI-based hedge fund on a supercomputing platform, at American Bourses Corporation which provided robo-based analytical solutions and financial info-utilities to traders and investors in the USA and N Asia, at ATOS Origin, RHB Capital, Singapore Exchange, Standard Chartered Bank, Temasek Holdings, Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), CAI, the global investment arm of Changi Airport Group (CAG) and AEPW (Alliance to End Plastic Waste), primarily as the Head of Risk Management or at Group CRO level.

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. He was also a co-founder of the NTU Centre for Financial Engineering and the MSc in Financial Engineering programme in collaboration with CMU, Pittsburgh in 1999, when he was an academic at NTU from 1993 to 2000.
He also helped establish AIMCo’s Responsible Investing Unit in 2011, where he was the Head of ERM/GRC and Proxy Voting as well. At AIMCo, as the Deputy CRO, he was also a member of the investment committee involved in approving investments via relationship investing/stakeholder engagement, e.g., in Environmental Resources Management (ERM) and Glass Lewis.

For the last few years, with his experiences in responsible investing and governance, he has also been leading some training and development initiatives in sustainability-related project and impact financing and education incl. sustainable investing seminars for the institutional investment management and banking industry at SMU, AEPW, private and wholesale banks in the ASEAN region, KL-based ASB (Asia School of Business) and the SWF Academy at the London Business School (Dubai and London) previously and INSEAD (from 2025 in Abu Dhabi and S’pore) campuses.

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, which included teaching on the effects of climate change on human society and biodiversity. He also published A Guide to the Flora and Fauna of Schools in Singapore in 1991 and participated in a Malayan 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.

Recent Publications/Awards

1. Guan Seng Khoo and Annie Koh, “Enhancing Transition Finance via Blended Finance: A Landscape Review”, Nomura Journal of Asian Capital Markets, p. 16-21, Autumn 2024
2. Khoo Guan Seng and Mak Yuen Teen, “What Should Be on the Board Agenda for Climate Risks”, Singapore Business Times, p.15, 13 Sep 2023
3. Guan Seng Khoo, “Family Office Only Workshop: How family offices and family businesses harness sustainable financing to generate alpha during the energy transition”, Apex Invest APAC 2025: Connecting Private Capital Across APAC, 19-20 May, 2025, Capella Hotel, Sentosa
4. Khoo Guan Seng and Mak Yuen Teen, “Board Oversight of Climate Risk and Opportunities”, SFIA 2023

Chief of Investment Strategy
Qatar Investment Authority

Kevin Zhu is currently the Chief of Investment Strategy at Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), responsible for overseeing the development and implementation of overall global investment strategy for the State of Qatar Sovereign Wealth Fund.

Kevin has almost 25 years of experience in the financial services industry, including both central banking and total portfolio investment framework and strategy design for large institutional investors.

Prior to joining QIA, Kevin was Senior Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Construction for OPTrust, one of the largest public sector pension funds in Canada. Kevin was leading Total Fund portfolio management functions, including portfolio construction research and innovation, capital and risk allocation across asset classes and strategies, total portfolio management framework design, and dynamic asset allocation strategies. Prior to OPTrust, Kevin held the position of Director, Strategy & Asset Mix at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

Prior to this appointment, Kevin was Senior Economist at the Bank of Canada focusing on monetary policy research and model development. He holds a MA in Economics from Carleton University and is a CFA Charterholder. In 2017, Kevin was named to Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute’s Public Investor 100. In 2023, Kevin’s team at OPTrust won the Institutional Connect’s Investment Team Award within Canadian financial industry.

Chief Executive Officer
The Institute of Sovereign Investors

Global Chief Investment Officer with 30+ years of private and public sector investor roles and global policy experience. Kristian was the inaugural CEO of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and worked at the IMF, ECB and Danish Central Bank with focus on sovereign asset management managing $100+ billion assets.

He was the Chief Investment Officer at Jyske Invest Fund Management and headed reserve management at the Central Bank of the UAE, where his team became the 2022 Reserve Manager of the Year for its work on investment policy, SAA and work on the internal and external fund management framework.

Kristian is a frequent speaker, panelist and global thought leader at major global events. He holds an MBA from Aarhus University and a BSc in Finance from Copenhagen Business School.

Lead Digital Assets APAC and UBS Tokenize
UBS

Laurens Schepens is part of the UBS Center of Excellence for Digital Assets, where he is the Product Lead for UBS Tokenize and the regional Digital Asset Lead for APAC. Throughout his career, Laurens has gained extensive experience building innovative products and services across capital markets by combining emerging technologies, operations, and product strategy. He holds a Master in Management from Vlerick Business School and a Bachelor in Business Law from ZHAW School of Management and Law.

Head Global Strategy, Sovereign Institutions
UBS Asset Management

As Head of Global Strategy Max analyzes the market trends affecting the investment behavior of central banks, sovereign wealth funds and other state-controlled investment institutions and work closely with investment teams in providing investment advice and developing tailored investment solutions for this client segment. Max established himself as a global thought leader on the macroeconomic, financial and political trends in sovereign wealth management. He has often been called in by leading institutions as an expert on global economic and financial matters. Max has recently published The New Economics of Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Wiley Finance Series, a book providing a thorough guide to sovereign wealth funds, covering the drivers of the industry, how it operates and grows, the interest from and in Western markets and the pivotal role that sovereign wealth funds play in the world economy.

In his 16-year international professional career, Max has been Head of governmental affairs for UBS in Europe, Middle East and Africa, EMEA Senior Economist and consultant advising governments and corporates in emerging markets on behalf of international institutions.

Max holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rome where he lectured and a Msc in Economics from the University of London. He is a member of the Executive Committed of the Asset Management Investment Council (ICMA) and a Fellow at the Centre for International Markets, Money and Regulations at Bocconi University.

Head Analytics and Quant Modelling (AQM)
UBS Asset Management

Matthias is the head of Analytics & Quantitative Modelling (AQM) in Investment Solutions at UBS Asset Management. In his role, Matthias is responsible for leading analytics, alpha signals research and portfolio construction tool efforts in Investment Solutions.

Previously, Matthias was Chief Investment Officer at FLYNT Bank AG, and has worked in various roles in the CIO Office at UBS Wealth Management, at UBS Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank, and the KOF Swiss Economic Institute of the ETH Zurich.

Matthias holds a Ph.D. in applied macroeconomics and behavioral finance from ETH Zurich, a Master of Science from Oxford University and two Bachelor of Arts degrees from the American University of Paris.

Matthias is also a lecturer at the University of Zurich and gives executive class lectures at the Swiss Finance Institute. His research has been published in various leading academic journals.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer
AlphaGeo

Parag Khanna is Founder & CEO of AlphaGeo, the leading AI-powered geospatial analytics platform. He is the internationally bestselling author of seven books including MOVE: Where People Are Going for a Better Future (2021), preceded by The Future is Asian: Commerce, Conflict & Culture in the 21st Century (2019), as well as a trilogy of books on the future of world order beginning with The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (2008), followed by How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (2011), and concluding with Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016). He is also the author of Technocracy in America: Rise of the Info-State (2017) and co-author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization (2012). Parag was named one of Esquire’s “75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century,” and featured in WIRED magazine’s “Smart List.” He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and Bachelor and Master’s degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Born in India and raised in the UAE, New York and Germany, he has traveled to more than 150 countries and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.

Managing Director, Private Equity
KKR

Rohan Suri (Mumbai) joined KKR in 2012 and is a Managing Director on the Private Equity team. Mr. Suri currently serves on the Board of Directors of Infinx, Ness Digital Engineering, Vini Cosmetics, Incred Finance, Shriram General Insurance, and has also led or co-led investments in Reliance Retail, Jio Platforms, Alliance Tire Group (ATG), Max Healthcare, Max Financial Services, HDFC Ltd., Five Star Finance and SBI Life Insurance.

Prior to KKR, he was with Bain & Company in their New Delhi and San Francisco offices. Mr. Suri holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where he was an Industry Scholar, and a B.E. Honors from the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, from where he graduated as a Chancellor’s Gold Medalist.

Economics & Strategy - Head of Asia FX & Rate Strategy
UBS Investment Bank

Rohit is a senior Emerging Markets FX and rates strategist based in Singapore. He regularly writes about macro themes in Asia ex-Japan FX and rates markets, and contributes to key macro strategy publications on global EM. He carries more than 10 years of experience in Asia. Prior to joining UBS in 2016, Rohit worked as a EM Asia fixed income Strategist with Barclays Singapore and Morgan Stanley Hong Kong. Rohit holds a Bachelors of Technology degree in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi.

Economy and Strategy, Head of EM and Asia Equity Strategy
UBS Investment Bank

Sunil is Head of EM and Asia Equity Strategy at UBS. Sunil has been on sell-side equity research roles since 2006. Sunil spent about 13 years at Credit Suisse’s Indian operations, covering sectors as diverse as financial services, telecoms and IT services. He has been featured in top 3 rankings in external surveys in the sectors he has covered. Since 2019, Sunil has been writing equity strategy research. Sunil joined UBS in 2020. Sunil is an MBA (PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech (Computer Science) from National Institute of Technology, Trichy.

Head of UGA Solutions, Unified Global Alternatives
UBS Asset Management

Ulrich Keller heads UGA Solutions within Unified Global Alternatives, based in Zurich. UGA combines the manager selection capabilities from across UBS’s Asset Management and Global Wealth Management businesses to serve the needs of its UHNW, institutional and wholesale clients globally.

Ulrich’s team is responsible for creating multi alternative portfolios for clients, specializing in both customized portfolios for achieving specific client outcomes, as well as multi alternative co-mingled products emphasizing access to co-investment opportunities.

He serves as Chairperson of the UGA Solutions Investment Committee.

Ulrich joined UBS in 2023, following the acquisition of Credit Suisse. He was previously CIO of Liquid Alternative Investments, Investment Solutions and Products (IS&P) within Credit Suisse, a premier provider of alternative investment services for institutional and private clients globally. He was overseeing all investment due diligence efforts as well as portfolio management, including customized portfolio solutions and investment due diligence advisory services across alternative asset categories.

Ulrich also started a direct infrastructure investment capability (Energy Infrastructure Partners) and led this business as Chairman of the entity and was also a member of the Investment Committee.

Ulrich joined Credit Suisse from UBS in 2011. In the latter role he spent 11 years in various positions including Head and CIO of the Alternative Funds Advisory (AFA), the Swiss unit of the alternative investments business within UBS Asset Management.

He is a Gödecke Research Prize laureate, which is an industry-backed award for applied research in mathematical finance.

Partner and Portfolio Manager
Symmetry Investments

Vikas Agarwal is a Portfolio Manager and Partner based in Singapore. An FX specialist, Mr. Agarwal trades across all major liquid asset classes, with a particular focus on Asia and emerging markets. Prior to joining Symmetry, Mr. Agarwal was a Managing Director for TRG Management from 2011 to 2015, where he was responsible for investments in Asian currencies and interest rates. Between 2006 and 2011, Mr. Agarwal worked for JP Morgan on its fixed income and FX trading desk, and as a strategist focusing on the Indian market. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mr. Agarwal was a strategist at Doric Research since 2005. Mr. Agarwal started his career as a fixed income strategist with ICICI Bank’s Treasury department in 2004.

Global Head of Sovereign Institutions
UBS Asset Management

Willem is Head of Global Sovereign Markets & Institutional Client Coverage APAC (ex Japan), with responsibility for all sovereign institutional client activity globally. This includes SWFs, Central Banks, national pension funds and other government agencies.

Willem is a Member of the Management Committees for UBS Asset Management in EMEA and the Institutional Business globally.

Willem joined UBS Asset Management in 2017 as Head of Global Sovereign Markets.

Willem began his financial career in 1990 working in Equity Sales, initially for Lehman Bros, followed by Morgan Stanley, both based in London. He spent 21 years at Morgan Stanley in a variety of roles, both as a senior coverage person and manager including co-Head of Cash Equity Sales in Europe with specific responsibility for Continental Europe. He was a member of the Operating Committee in Morgan Stanley's European Equity Division.

Specialist, UBS-AM, Global Liquidity & Cash Management APAC
Executive Director

Zieshan joined UBS Asset Management in October 2017 and is responsible for the distribution of UBS Asset Management Global Liquidity capabilities in APAC. Zieshan moved to Singapore from London in July 2022.

Prior to joining UBS Asset Management, Zieshan worked in Product and Client Service roles for Goldman Sachs Asset Management for four years.

Zieshan started his career in EY’s Wealth and Asset Management practice.