Ian Hay
Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility
Ian Hay is the head of institutional risk at Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility supervising water, wastewater and contaminated land projects across Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He worked for HSBC corporate banking for 10 years in Europe and the Middle East, followed by nine years as head of sustainability risk in Asia.
Hay joined CGIF in 2021 responsible for leading the safeguards (sustainability) and integrity teams assessing clients issuing bonds guaranteed by CGIF.
Sarah Ng
ANZ
As a director in ANZ’s debt capital markets team, Sarah Ng advises the bank’s clients across South-East Asia and the Middle East on their debt issuances and liability management offerings. She has over a decade of banking experience, having led bond transactions for corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns in multiple markets and asset classes.
Ng is also responsible for championing sustainable capital market solutions for ANZ’s clients in Asia. She sits on the cross-industry Orange Bond Steering Committee as ANZ’s representative.
Shailesh Venkatraman
MUFG
Shailesh Venkatraman is the head of the debt capital markets origination team at MUFG covering South and South-East Asia across loans and bonds. He has 26 years of experience in banking and capital markets in Asia Pacific, and has been with MUFG for the past four years.
He started his banking career with Citigroup, spending 18 years there covering the debt capital markets, loan syndications, leveraged finance and acquisition finance business.
Prior to joining MUFG, Venkatraman was the head of corporate finance for Bank Mandiri, acting as an adviser to the corporate banking team.
Melissa Cheok
Sustainable Fitch
Melissa Cheok is an associate director of ESG research at Sustainable Fitch. Based in Singapore, she conducts research on cross-sector thematic ESG issues and analyses their implications on credit risk, with a particular interest in Asia and emerging markets. She regularly engages with institutional investors and corporate clients to advise on sustainable finance trends as well as regulatory developments and how these may impact business operations and financing flows.
Prior to joining Fitch, Cheok was a reporter at Bloomberg focused on emerging market and G-10 foreign exchange and sovereign bonds.
Eric Nietsch
Manulife
Eric Nietsch is head of sustainable investing, Asia at Manulife Investment Management, based in Singapore.
He chairs the Physical Risk and Resilience Working Group of the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) and is a member of the Investment Leaders Working Group of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).
Prior to joining Manulife in 2019, Nietsch led the sustainable finance initiatives for Asia Pacific at S&P. Preceding S&P, Nietsch worked on an equity portfolio at Barclays in New York, and on the special situations desk of the boutique investment bank StormHarbour Partners.
Gabriel Wilson-Otto
Fidelity
Gabriel Wilson-Otto is the head of sustainable investing strategy at Fidelity International and based in Hong Kong. Wilson-Otto leads the global development of sustainable investment frameworks, policies, proprietary tools, and product offerings.
Wilson-Otto joined Fidelity in 2021 from BNP Paribas Asset Management where he was the global head of sustainability research and had previously held the position of head of stewardship, Asia Pacific. Prior to BNPP AM, he was an executive director in Goldman Sachs’ global investment research division and head of GS SUSTAIN for Asia.
Tze Khai Poh
MAS
Poh Tze Khai is deputy director, financial products and solutions division, in the financial markets development department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
He oversees the development of the fixed income market in Singapore, being part of the financial products and solutions division.
Prior to this appointment, Poh handled various portfolios to support the development of Singapore’s financial centre, including the administration of the financial sector grant policy as well as financial sector tax policy, and has also served as MAS’s London representative from 2006 to 2009.
Bryan Woon
Bayfront/Clifford Capital
Bryan Woon is the head of capital markets structuring and distribution, markets & investor services at Clifford Capital. He is responsible for structuring and distribution activities, where he has led the execution and management of the group’s infrastructure asset-backed securities transactions since 2021. Woon was previously part of the corporate strategy team at Clifford Capital, where he was involved in collateral management and investor relations for the inaugural IABS issuance by Bayfront Infrastructure Capital I in July 2018.
Prior to joining Clifford Capital in 2018, he was with Citigroup in London and Singapore, primarily in debt capital markets.
Daniel Stanton
IFR Asia (moderator)
Daniel Stanton is the editor of IFR Asia and is based in Singapore. He has been with IFR Asia since 2009, during which time he has held roles including Asia bond editor and Asia equities editor.
IFR Asia has a team of reporters and editors in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai and Melbourne, covering onshore and offshore capital markets transactions across Asia Pacific.
Before joining IFR, Stanton worked for other financial publications in Singapore, Dubai and London.
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