Speakers

Meet the speakers for the Hong Kong event:

Keynote speaker:

Professor Louis Cheng
Dr S H Ho Professor of Banking and Finance, and Associate Dean (Research), School of Business
Director of Research Centre for ESG The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong

Fund manager speakers:

Gregg Guerin
Senior Product Specialist
First Trust

Gregg is a graduate of the Booth School of Business where he received an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in Finance, Economics, and International Business. While there he studied the Efficient Market Hypothesis, its known anomalies and Behavioural Finance. Gregg is passionate about Innovation and Exponential Technologies and the benefits of Thematic Investing. He has been discussing the benefits of factor-based and thematic investments for 15 years.

Jean-Charles Sambor
Head of Emerging Markets Debt
TT International

Jean-Charles "(JC)" Sambor is TT’s Head of Emerging Markets Debt. Before joining TT, JC worked at BNP Paribas Asset Management for almost eight years as Head of EM Fixed Income and was Lead Portfolio Manager of the EM Debt strategies. Prior to this, JC was CEO of IIF (Institute of International Finance) Asia Pacific Ltd and Regional Director. He also worked at TCW and Everest Capital. JC started his career as an Emerging Markets economist with Société Générale. He is an alumnus of UCLA and received an MA in International Financial Economics from UPMF. JC is also an alumnus of École Normale Supérieure and received an MA in Philosophy from Sorbonne University.

Marcin Lewczuk
Co-Portfolio Manager
GIB Asset Management

Marcin Lewczuk is a Co-Portfolio Manager with 15 years of experience investing in Emerging and Frontier Markets. His key research responsibilities encompass Latin America, CEEMEA, and North Asia, with secondary coverage of China. He is also responsible for making portfolio management decisions for the strategy, as well as engagement with companies that fall under his coverage. Marcin joined GIB Asset Management in 2021, most recently from Mobius Capital Partners, where he was a Partner. Before that, he was Lead Manager of the first quartile Morningstar-ranked Templeton Eastern European Fund at Franklin Templeton, alongside being part of the Global Emerging Markets Equities team and Greg’s Emerging Markets active ownership group and private equity strategy. Marcin holds an MA from the Warsaw School of Economics and an MBA from INSEAD and is a CFA Charterholder.

Panel speakers:

Jack Siu
Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management, Asia
Lombard Odier
Lina Lim
Regional and Hong Kong Head of Discretionary and Funds, Asia Pacific, Wealth and Premier Solutions
HSBC
Sheethal Dalpathraj
Head of Managed Product Specialists – JANA and Asia South
Citi Wealth
YT Kum
Head of Managed Solutions Advisory, North Asia
UBP