INAUGURAL CORPORATE GOVERNANCE CONFERENCE 2018

Mr. Sucharitakul is the Secretary-General of the SEC, Thailand. Concurrently, he serves as a member of the State Enterprises Policy Committee. Mr. Sucharitakul joined SEC at its establishment and devoted 13 years of his career to capital market development and supervision. He left the SEC in 2005 to take on several positions in private and public organizations, where he gained extensive experiences in policy making, consultancy and management.

Some of his previous posts include member of the Board of Governors of the Stock Exchange of Thailand, director of Thailand Futures Exchange, director of the Federation of Thai Capital Market Organizations, director of the Thai Institute of Directors Association, director of KASIKORNBANK Plc., executive chairman of KASIKORN Securities Plc. and KASIKORN Asset Management Company Limited, advisor to the President of Muang Thai Life Assurance Plc., and independent director of Big C Supercenter Plc. He rejoined the SEC in his current role in May 2015. Mr. Sucharitakul earned an LLM in Commercial Law from University of Bristol, and an LLB (with honors) from University of Essex, the United Kingdom

Mr. David Gerald was a former Magistrate, Coroner, Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel in the Singapore Legal Service, is the Founder, President and CEO of Securities Investors Association (SIAS) which is the largest retail investor body in Asia. He has had a legal career spanning over 30 years and founded SIAS in 1999 to successfully contest the freezing of shares of 172,000 Singapore investors in Malaysian companies by the Malaysian government.

Mr. Gerald is heralded as the champion of corporate governance and investor rights in Southeast Asia and for this reason Forbes Global featured him on their global cover page.

In 2009, Mr. Gerald received the Special Achievement Award by Singapore Exchange for championing individual investor's interest, advocating corporate governance and investor education.

In 2011, under his leadership, SIAS was awarded the Gold Standard Award for Good Governance by Public Affairs Asia, Hong Kong, an award usually reserved for governments and statutory bodies.

Dr. Roger Barker is Managing Director of Barker & Associates, a corporate governance advisory firm. Between 2008 and 2016, he was Director of Corporate Governance and Professional Standards at the Institute of Directors (IoD). In October 2015, he was appointed as a UK representative on the European Economic and Social Committee, the EU consultative body. He is also Senior Consultant at the Institute of Directors, Senior Advisor to the Board of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) and Chairman of the ecoDa education committee. He is a board member of European Women on Boards ASBL and a visiting lecturer at the Said Business School (University of Oxford), Cass Business School and UCL (London). He has worked as an external adviser on corporate governance for a number of large companies and international organisations, including the EBRD, IFC and the Asian Development Bank.

Dr. Barker’s book - Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe - was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also the author of the IoD’s main guide to the role of the board, The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success (Kogan Page, 2010). During the first part of his career, Dr. Barker spent 13 years as an investment banker, in London and Zürich, with UBS and Bank Vontobel. He is the holder of a Doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, where he was a Lecturer at Merton College, and also has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics, finance and political science from the universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff.

Dr. Bandid Nijathaworn is presently President and CEO of the Thai Institute of Directors, Visiting Professor, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan, and member of the Council of trustees and the board of directors of Thailand Development Research Institute. Dr. Bandid is a well-known economist with a long working experience in macroeconomic and financial issues, including at the IMF where he joined as a young professional in the IMF Economist program. He is widely recognized as a keen commentator on regional and global policy issues and contributes actively to policy discussion and capacity-building in the ASEAN region.

In June 2012, he was invited to join the IIF’s Joint Committee on the Strengthening of the Framework for Sovereign Debt Crisis Prevention and Resolution and the Special Committee on Financial Crisis Prevention and Resolution, and was Chairman of the Thai Bond Market Association from May 2011 to April 2014. Dr. Bandid left the Bank of Thailand in November 2010—where he joined in 1990 and held the positions of deputy Governor for monetary stability and for financial stability since 2004-- to work on improving Thailand’s corporate governance and manage the country’s private sector anti-corruption initiative under the capacity of President and CEO of the Thai Institute of Directors. He writes regularly for the Bangkok Post and for his weekly column in a leading Thai business daily on economic and governance issues. He frequently lectures and chairs high-level policy and investors meetings throughout Asia including Japan and Singapore

Dr Christine Chow has 20 years of experience in portfolio management, research and investment consulting. Her PhD thesis on engagement and responsible investment was short- listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence. She leads engagements in Asia and manages a team of ESG analysts. She specialises in the technology and financial services sector, also covering some US-based big tech companies.

Christine is a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of the School’s Investment Sub-Committee. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for putting together and teaching the first tri-sector funded (government, private family office and university) MBA course on social innovation and impact investment. She was a member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2014-2016) and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews (2012 – 2013).

Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.

A Hong Kong resident since 1991, former investment banker David Webb retired in 1998 to focus on his investments and establish Webb-site.com, a non-profit platform for better corporate and economic governance, which now has over 25,000 subscribers to its free newsletter. The site includes Webb-site Reports, with news, analysis and opinions on HK affairs, and Webb-site Who’s Who, a database on HK organisations and people, including Webb-site Total Returns on all HK-listed stocks since 1994 and all directors and advisers of HK-listed companies since 1990, all free. He has been a member of HK’s Takeovers and Mergers Panel since 2001 (a Deputy Chairman since 2013), and was an elected independent director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd from 2003 to 2008. In the 1980s he was a best-selling author of games and books for the first generation of home computers. He is an Oxford maths graduate, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders (2005-2011), and former Chairman of Hong Kong Mensa.

As a private investor in HK-listed small-caps for over 23 years, filtering for both valuation and governance quality to avoid the lemons more often than average, he has substantially out-performed the market and amassed shareholdings currently over the 5% disclosure threshold in 20 companies.

Uantchern is the CEO, Asia Pacific for Black Sun, an international market leader in stakeholder communications. Through inspiring communications that reach, engage and influence stakeholders, Black Sun helps to create more valued businesses.

Prior to joining Black Sun, Uantchern was the founding Chief Executive of the Singapore Accountancy Commission, a statutory body under the Ministry of Finance tasked to develop and lead initiatives in transforming Singapore into the leading global accountancy hub. While at the SAC, Uantchern spearheaded programmes for the development of Chartered Accountants of Singapore, CFOs, Internal Audit Leadership, and Chartered Valuers & Appraisers of Singapore.

As an advocate of accountancy education, Uantchern serves on the Business Services Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute of Technical Education,the Industry Advisory Committee (Bachelor of Accountancy) of the Singapore Institute of Technology, and the Bachelor of Accountancy Programme Advisory Committee of Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Uantchern was the President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Singapore from 2009 to 2012 and is currently a Governor of its Board. He also volunteers on the management committee of the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) as its Vice President. He also serves as a District Councillor of the Central Singapore CDC.

Dr Christine Chow has 20 years of experience in portfolio management, research and investment consulting. Her PhD thesis on engagement and responsible investment was short- listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence. She leads engagements in Asia and manages a team of ESG analysts. She specialises in the technology and financial services sector, also covering some US-based big tech companies.

Christine is a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of the School’s Investment Sub-Committee. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for putting together and teaching the first tri-sector funded (government, private family office and university) MBA course on social innovation and impact investment. She was a member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2014-2016) and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews (2012 – 2013).

Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.

Uantchern is the CEO, Asia Pacific for Black Sun, an international market leader in stakeholder communications. Through inspiring communications that reach, engage and influence stakeholders, Black Sun helps to create more valued businesses.

Prior to joining Black Sun, Uantchern was the founding Chief Executive of the Singapore Accountancy Commission, a statutory body under the Ministry of Finance tasked to develop and lead initiatives in transforming Singapore into the leading global accountancy hub. While at the SAC, Uantchern spearheaded programmes for the development of Chartered Accountants of Singapore, CFOs, Internal Audit Leadership, and Chartered Valuers & Appraisers of Singapore.

As an advocate of accountancy education, Uantchern serves on the Business Services Academic Advisory Committee of the Institute of Technical Education,the Industry Advisory Committee (Bachelor of Accountancy) of the Singapore Institute of Technology, and the Bachelor of Accountancy Programme Advisory Committee of Singapore University of Social Sciences.

Uantchern was the President of the Institute of Internal Auditors in Singapore from 2009 to 2012 and is currently a Governor of its Board. He also volunteers on the management committee of the Securities Investors Association (Singapore) as its Vice President. He also serves as a District Councillor of the Central Singapore CDC.

Dr Christine Chow has 20 years of experience in portfolio management, research and investment consulting. Her PhD thesis on engagement and responsible investment was short- listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence. She leads engagements in Asia and manages a team of ESG analysts. She specialises in the technology and financial services sector, also covering some US-based big tech companies.

Christine is a member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a member of the School’s Investment Sub-Committee. She was an adjunct professor in the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for putting together and teaching the first tri-sector funded (government, private family office and university) MBA course on social innovation and impact investment. She was a member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2014-2016) and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews (2012 – 2013).

Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.

Dr. Roger Barker is Managing Director of Barker & Associates, a corporate governance advisory firm. Between 2008 and 2016, he was Director of Corporate Governance and Professional Standards at the Institute of Directors (IoD). In October 2015, he was appointed as a UK representative on the European Economic and Social Committee, the EU consultative body. He is also Senior Consultant at the Institute of Directors, Senior Advisor to the Board of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations (ecoDa) and Chairman of the ecoDa education committee. He is a board member of European Women on Boards ASBL and a visiting lecturer at the Said Business School (University of Oxford), Cass Business School and UCL (London). He has worked as an external adviser on corporate governance for a number of large companies and international organisations, including the EBRD, IFC and the Asian Development Bank.

Dr. Barker’s book - Corporate Governance, Competition, and Political Parties: Explaining Corporate Governance Change in Europe - was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He is also the author of the IoD’s main guide to the role of the board, The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success (Kogan Page, 2010). During the first part of his career, Dr. Barker spent 13 years as an investment banker, in London and Zürich, with UBS and Bank Vontobel. He is the holder of a Doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, where he was a Lecturer at Merton College, and also has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in economics, finance and political science from the universities of Cambridge, Southampton and Cardiff.

Shinbo Won, Director, is a member of the Investment Stewardship Team responsible for BlackRock's proxy voting and engagements in the Asia Pac region, covering South Korea, ASEAN and India. In his role, he actively participates in the discussion on corporate governance, stewardship and ESG with the issuer, industry and regulatory community. He is based in Singapore.

Prior to joining BlackRock, he was Head of Asia ex-Japan Research at ISS, having led a geographically diverse team that provides proxy research and recommendations for more than 5,000 companies in 14 Asia-Pacific markets outside Japan, while stewarding the development of ISS' benchmark voting policies for those markets.

Shinbo holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and BA Economics from Yonsei University.

As a private investor in HK-listed small-caps for over 23 years, filtering for both valuation and governance quality to avoid the lemons more often than average, he has substantially out-performed the market and amassed shareholdings currently over the 5% disclosure threshold in 20 companies.