Hong Kong Speakers
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Jiffriy Chandra
Managing Partner, CIO
Income Partners Asset Management (HK) Ltd
Jiffriy Chandra is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer - Special Situations at Income Partners and is responsible for all Special Situations investment and portfolio construction (including dealing), managing the investment team and process management. He has been with Income Partners since 1998. His specialization is in high yield corporate credits focusing on bottom up corporate finance analysis and structuring. In his current position, he is actively involved in structuring private mezzanine transactions, leading debt restructuring efforts and conducting in depth due-diligence of key investments.
Mr Chandra graduated from the University of California - Berkeley with a degree in Finance and Accounting. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A).
Henry Chen
Principal, Head of Greater China
Permira Advisers
Henry Chen is head of the Hong Kong office, Permira's sole office in non-Japan Asia. Permira is a leading European private equity firm with a global reach. Today the firm has over 20 billion (US$24 billion) under management. The firm's teams are based in Frankfurt, Guernsey, Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Menlo Park, Stockholm and Tokyo. Since 1985, the Permira Funds have completed over 190 private equity transactions.
Prior to joining Permira, Mr Chen spent nine years at the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs, where he co-headed the General Industrials Group, Asia ex-Japan, which covered consumer retail, health care, industrials and transportation sectors. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he was a corporate finance lawyer with Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and Hong Kong.
Mr Chen received bachelors and masters degrees from Harvard University, USA and received a Juris Doctorate degree from Harvard Law School, USA.
Neil Harvey
Managing Director, Head of Asset Management Asia Pacific and Head of Global Emerging Markets, Asset Management
Credit Suisse
Neil Harvey is a Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific and Head of Emerging Markets globally for Asset Management, based in Hong Kong. He is a member of Asset Management's global Management Committee and the Bank's Asia Pacific Operating Committee.
Mr Harvey chairs the EmergingMarkets Council which is the management committee for the Bank across itsInvestment Banking, Private Banking and Asset Management Businessesglobally in Emerging Markets.
Ben McLannahan
Asia Lex Writer
Financial Times
Ben McLannahan was appointed Lex writer for the Financial Times in August 2007, covering a range of different sectors including media, oil, hedge funds and credit markets. Previously, he was the London correspondent for Institutional Investor from March 2006 to August 2007, covering capital markets and investment banking.
Between 2001 and 2006 McLannahan was a senior editor for CFO Europe within the Economist Group, covering accounting, reporting, IR and capital management. He was also a contributor to Intelligent Life magazine. Between 1998 and 2001 McLannahan was a senior reporter for Legal Business magazine and before that he was an English teacher in Japan.
McLannahan has an MA in English Literature from Cambridge University.
Nick Scott
CIO, Asian Equities
Blackrock
Nick Scott joined BlackRock in January 2007 as Chief investment Officer for Asian Equities, based in Hong Kong. In this role, he is responsible for building BlackRock's Asian investment platform and capabilities. Before joining BlackRock, Mr Scott was CEO and CIO for Prudential Asset Management, Hong Kong. Prior to re-locating to Asia in April 2000, Nick was Head of Asian Equities in London with M&G Investment Management. He also previously worked for Morgan Stanley International and UBS in London, covering equity derivatives and US equities, respectively. Mr Scott has over 18 years of investment experience including 10 years covering Asian capital markets.
Martin Wolf
Chief Economics Commentator
Financial Times
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 "for services to financial journalism". Mr Wolf is an associate member of the governing body of Nuffield College, Oxford, honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, an honorary fellow of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and a special professor at the University of Nottingham. He has been a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, since 1999 and a member of its International Media Council since 2006. He was made a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, by Nottingham University in July 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science (Economics) of London University, honoris causa, by the London School of Economics in December 2006. He was made a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by Warwick University, in July 2009.University Press, 2008).
Damien Wood
Managing Director, Head of Asia Credit Research
Credit Suisse
Damien Wood is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking division, based in Sydney. He is a member of the Fixed Income Research department. Mr Wood is responsible for the Non-Japan Asia Credit Research team and covers Asian and Australian banks.
Mr Wood joined Credit Suisse in 2004 from ING Barings, where he was head of Asia Credit Research.
The team was ranked #1 in TheAsset 2007 survey for Asian credit research, with Mr Wood attaining the #1 ranking for individual analysts, and he was ranked #2 in 2008 and 2009.
Mr Wood holds an M.B.A. from the University of Queensland, a Graduate diploma in Applied Finance from the Securities Institute of Australia and a Bachelor of Financial Administration from the University of New England.
