Greg is currently the Managing Director, Head of Ingenico China. He has held senior executive positions at leading global banks in China, including Saxo, UBS, ANZ, Morgan Stanley, and State Street Bank, with a solid track record of pioneering, building, and managing technology centres in China that deliver innovation solutions and support digital transformation program for incumbent banks and FinTech. During his times working in China, Greg has also been involved in establishing a Microcredit/P2P (formerly AIG) start-up and consultancy business respectively. Prior to China, he has worked in US, Japan, and Hong Kong.
Greg is also a Senior Advisor for Shanghai Fudan University, specializing in FinTech, and the Co-founder of Financial Technology Talent Standardization Committee. In Feb 2021, he has created Inspiring China, a YouTube Channel that shares insights on technology, business, and lifestyle. www.youtube.com/c/InspiringChina. Previously, Greg was also the China columnist for Shanghai Daily, ComputerWorld and various newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and China.
Mr George LOH is the Associate Vice President (Strategic Partnership) in the Office of the President, National University of Singapore. George will lead the development of governance structures to support strategic programmes and partnerships and identify new opportunities in strengthening NUS’ brand presence and expanding our global footprint. He is also overseeing the NUS Research Institutes in Suzhou, Chongqing, Fuzhou and Guangzhou in China as well as developing research initiatives with government agencies, industry and international partners under the Office of Deputy President (Research & Technology).
George held various key appointments in over 30 years of public service from 1989-2020 in the Government of Singapore, which included the Defence Science & Technology Agency (DSTA), Ministry of Defence (MINDEF), the National Research Foundation (NRF) in the Prime Minister’s Office.
Joanna Waley-Cohen is Provost of NYU Shanghai, the first Sino-US joint venture in higher education, which is currently preparing to graduate its third cohort of students. As chief academic officer, Provost Waley-Cohen is responsible for setting the university’s academic strategy and priorities, and overseeing academic appointments, research, and faculty affairs. Prior to being appointed Provost, she was NYU Shanghai’s founding Dean of Arts and Sciences. She is also Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University, where since 1992 she has taught the history of China, serving as Chair of the History Department from 2009-2012.
Provost Waley-Cohen was educated at Cambridge University (BA. MA in Chinese Studies) and Yale University (PhD in Chinese history). Prior to earning her PhD, she worked as a lawyer in London. She is the author of The Culture of War in China: Empire and the Military under the Qing (2006); The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History (1999); and Exile in Mid-Qing China: Banishment to Xinjiang, 1758-1820 (1991) as well as many essays on the history of Chinese legal, political, military, and culinary cultures and on China’s interactions and exchanges with the West
Driven by the belief that change begins with a single step, Richard Brubaker has spent the last 20 years in Asia working to engage, inspire and equip those around him to take their first step.
To date, Brubaker has overseen the development and execution of more than 250 projects focused on solving the social, environmental and economic challenges that are faced in Asia.
Rich is regularly invited to speak at leadership, social innovation and sustainability-focused conferences to speak on issues of social innovation & entrepreneurship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility and leadership.
Richard holds a Masters in International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management, and serves as the Chairman of the Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai
With a dual-discipline background, Prof. Cecilia Chan possesses expertise in both engineering and education, particularly higher education. Her combined expertise in these fields has enabled her to lead and conduct research on topics such as assessment and feedback, experiential learning, and technology-enhanced learning, with a particular focus on artificial intelligence in education and the development and assessment of 21st-century skills (holistic competencies). Prof. Chan serves as the President of the Asian Society for Engineering Education and is an associate editor for both the Journal of Engineering Education and Studies in Educational Evaluation. Prof. Chan is working closely with UNESCO and universities around the world, providing consultations on AI literacy and policy. Her book “Generative AI in Higher Education: The ChatGPT Effect,” by Routledge delves into how AI partnered with human for curriculum design and assessment. In addition, Prof. Chan has developed AI Literacy online course for students and teachers. Please visit the trailer here: https://youtu.be/VCYTozYwlhc?si=Tcg8Xw5SdF2uusJu
