Mr Ang Eng Seng is GIC’s Chief Investment Officer for Infrastructure and Adviser to the Integrated Strategies Group (ISG). Before this, he was President of Europe and Head of ISG.
Prior to joining GIC in 1994, Mr Ang was a Director of the Auditor-General's Office in Singapore. From 1996 to 1998, he was seconded from GIC to China International Capital Corporation in Beijing, first as the Deputy General Manager and subsequently as the General Manager of its Direct Investment Department. He was Head of the Greater China Team for GIC Special Investments from 1999 to mid 2003, before becoming the Head of Europe Private Equity Group till 2009. He was concurrently Global Head of GIC’s Direct Investment Group and Head of the Infrastructure Group from 2009 to 2012.
Mr Ang holds an MA from Cambridge University. He is a qualified Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a charter holder of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Xavier Baraton is Global Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income, Private Debt & Alternatives. He joined HSBC in September 2002 to head the Paris-based Credit Research team and became Global Head of Credit Research in January 2004. From 2006, Xavier managed euro credit strategies before being appointed as Head of European Fixed Income in 2008 and as Global CIO, Fixed Income in 2010. In this role, Xavier moved to our New York office in 2011 and became regional CIO North America.
Having returned to Europe, he has taken on additional responsibilities as CIO for Alternatives and Real Assets in 2016 and for Private Debt in 2019. Prior to joining HSBC, Xavier spent six years at Credit Agricole CIB, including five years as Head of Credit Research. Xavier began his career in 1994 in the CCF Group. Xavier graduated from the “Ecole Centrale Paris” as an engineer with a degree in Economics and Finance in 1993 and holds a postgraduate degree in Money, Finance and Banking from the Université Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne University (France) in 1994.

Alessia Berardi is the Head of EM Macro and Strategy Research based in London. She is responsible for the top-down research analysis for the Global EMs.
Alessia joined the Global Research Team at Amundi Asset Management (formerly Pioneer Investments) in 2004. She began her career covering the main Developed Market economies (the U.S, Europe, and Japan) and since 2013, she has been leading the research team in London with a specific focus on Global Emerging Markets. She covers Emerging Markets across the regions. Her approach is model-driven, aimed at identifying the fundamental factors that eventually influence investment decisions. She monitors and forecasts economic factors, policies, trends and risks impacting the economic/business cycle and the financial markets.
She is responsible for the development of the Global Outlook for Amundi Asset Management, supporting investment decisions balancing innovative research with the practical ability to implement investable solutions. She is also involved in advisory engagements with institutional clients, building and maintaining clients relationship while bridging academic rigor with the ability to disentangle complex economic and financial matters.
Alessia has industry experience since 1998. She graduated in Economics from the University of Pavia in 1998. Alessia published pieces as part of the Economic Research Papers at the Bank of Italy on BVAR Techniques for the construction of quarterly and monthly forecasting models in 1997. She is a lecturer at the University of Genoa.

Kelly Christodoulou is the Listed ESG & Stewardship Manager, Investments at AustralianSuper. AustralianSuper is the largest pension fund in Australia with AUD 145 billion in FUM. Her role is to integrates material ESG issues across the Funds listed equities portfolio. Stewardship activities include directly engaging with Boards on company specific material ESG issues. Prior to joining AustralianSuper, she worked in London at the investment banking houses of Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley. Kelly is an Alternate for the Climate Action 100+ Steering Committee.
Kelly has a Master’s degree in Finance, a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Graduate Certificate in Social Impact and is a graduate from the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She was awarded the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees '2015 Fund Executive' and also awarded the Australian Federal Government’s Board Diversity scholarship prize.

Russell joined VFMC in May 2017 as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) where he is responsible for overseeing the management of more than $50b on behalf of a number of Victorian public authorities.
Russell joined VFMC from Mercer where he was the Global CIO (Mainstream Assets) since 2011 and CIO (Pacific) since 2003. This role saw him overseeing all discretionary equity, listed property, fixed income and multi-asset portfolios worldwide and was specifically responsible on a day-to-day basis for all portfolios based in the Pacific region. Russell also chaired the Mainstream Assets Global Investment Committee and Global Strategic Research Committees. Prior to this, he spent six years in Mercer Australia as an investment consultant and head of Investment Research.
Russell also gained eight years of investment and financial services experience working as manager of the investment research function for one of Australia's largest superannuation funds, UniSuper, and as head of Investment Performance Analytics for a major fund manager.
Russell holds a bachelor of economics from Macquarie University. He is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and a senior associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, and has lectured and tutored in investment subjects for both organisations.

Michael is Vice-Chair, Institutional Business and Global Head of Official Sector Institutions at HSBC Global Asset Management. Before joining HSBC in 2015, Michael had a twenty-five-years career in the official sector, for the most part at the Bank of England, and also at the International Monetary Fund where he was Private Secretary to the Managing Director, Michel Camdessus, between 1997 and 2000. At the Bank of England, he was Head of Sterling Markets Division, responsible for the implementation of monetary policy and liquidity-supplying operations to the banking system in the Global Financial Crisis, between 2007 and 2009. Michael then became Head of Foreign Exchange Division and Reserves Management, a position he held between 2009 and 2015. During that time, the UK's foreign exchange reserves doubled in size. In addition, Michael was responsible for the establishment of the BoE swap line with the People's Bank of China; for the UK Government's RMB bond issue in 2013- the first sovereign issue in RMB by a country other than China; and for the BoE's own regular US dollar bond issues. Michael was the BoE's representative on the BIS Markets Committee of central banks, and played a leading role in setting up FX swap lines between the major central banks during the euro area crisis, as part of the global financial safety net in that period. At the same time, Michael participated in meetings of the BoE Monetary Policy Committee as a member of the Secretariat, and was the lead presenter on financial markets to both the MPC and to the BoE's new Financial Policy Committee. Michael was also Chairman of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee, a senior-level forum for market participants, infrastructure providers and the relevant UI< authorities to discuss issues and developments in the wholesale foreign exchange market. Michael became the BoE's first Head of Market Intelligence in 2005, and maintained oversight of that function over the next ten years.
Michael obtained an MA and PhD in History and an MPhil in Economics at Cambridge University.

Charlie founded Institutional Investor's Middle East business. He also holds responsibilities in the Sovereign Investor Institute and for Institutional Investor’s partnership with ABG Advisory. In these roles, he connects government investment funds, pension funds and family offices with peers and alternative asset managers globally through the ManagerMatch platform and a series of private investor meetings.‎ He has 19 years of experience managing relationships with investors and asset managers around the world. He has been responsible for Institutional Investor's Asia business and worked in London, Hong Kong and New York. He is a member of CFA UK.

Mike Frith is the Chief Economist for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund where he has been since the start of 2015. The New Zealand Superfund was established in 2003 to help fund the growing future costs of New Zealand Superannuation, which is a State funded pension provided to anyone over 65 years of age.
Mike’s Economics team resides within the Portfolio Construction team at the Fund. However, the team’s responsibilities requires it to provide advice to investment professionals across the Fund on near- and long-term macroeconomic issues and trends and their implications for the Fund’s existing investment portfolio and active investment opportunities.
Mike has been Chair of the Fund’s Investment Committee since the start of 2017.
Prior to the Superfund, Mike worked for New Zealand’s Central Bank (the Reserve Bank of New Zealand) in monetary policy, reserves management, and financial system stability roles and as Head of the Reserve Bank’s Auckland office.

KS is a Director in the Investments Division of Khazanah Nasional Bhd, overseeing Monitoring & Operations. His previous work experience includes McKinsey & Co., private equity investments in the education industry, and stints in the development sector at the United Nations Development Programme and ACCION Investments in Microfinance. KS completed his undergraduate studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ms. Gu is a client portfolio manager of E Fund Fixed Income team. Prior to joining E Fund in 2018, she was a Vice President on the Total Return portfolio management team at PIMCO in Newport Beach, CA. During her tenure at PIMCO, she focused on managing portfolios in various strategies including Total Return, Global Bond Fund, Low Duration, Stockplus and Sector funds. She was involved in launching and managing PIMCO’s dedicated ESG strategies including PIMCO Total Return ESG Fund, PIMCO Low Duration ESG Fund and Global ESG separate accounts. Previously, she started her career as a fixed income risk manager at State Street Global Advisors in Boston, MA. She has 12 years of investment experience and holds a Master’s degree in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University and an undergraduate degree in Finance from Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics.

Hisham Hamdan is currently the Executive Director of Investments and Head of Khazanah Research and Investment Strategy at Khazanah Nasional Berhad. He was formerly with Sime Darby where he served for over six years and assumed several senior positions, covering strategy and business development, healthcare, energy & utilities and special projects. He also has 12 years of capital markets experience in equity research and investment banking. He started his career as a process engineer in the US. He holds degrees in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Management from Purdue University, US. He has also attended the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Programme.

Victoria is Head of Emerging Market Corporate Debt and is responsible for managing the Emerging Market Corporate Debt Strategy and the Emerging Market Investment Grade Corporate Debt Strategy at Ninety One.
Victoria joined Ninety One in 2011 from Nomura International. Victoria previously spent over three years working with emerging market trading desks and capital markets teams for Standard Bank and Nomura. She also spent two years running hedge fund and proprietary trading strategies for Rand Merchant Bank and Whitebeam Capital Management. Prior to this, Victoria spent over eight years working for Henderson Global Investors where she was responsible for running emerging market debt portfolios.
Victoria graduated from Leeds University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry with Molecular Biology. In addition, she has passed CFA® Level III.

Christian is a Senior Managing Director at the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO), an Ontario public fund manager with $70.3 billion in assets under management. Christian oversees IMCO’s private equity, public equity and global credit portfolios. His focus is to create organizational partnerships and source new opportunities to generate long term value for clients. With deep experience across the investing spectrum, including oversight for active mandates and nurturing shareholder value through relationship investing, Christian was formerly Managing Director and Head of Relationship Investments at CPPIB. Prior to this, he spent 11 years in the private equity and growth capital industry at Charterhouse Group and Planier Capital. Christian began his career in the Investment Banking division of Salomon Brothers in New York City. Christian graduated from the MBA program at Harvard Business School and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alastair Hills is a Senior Director at Institutional Investor Asia and the Director of the Asia Institute, Institutional Investor’s private membership for leading asset managers operating in Asia.
Alastair joined Institutional Investor’s London office in 2008 where he worked mostly with European pension funds before transferring to Hong Kong SAR in 2010. Alastair has spent the majority of his time in Asia working with sovereign wealth funds, pensions, insurers, private banks and family office investors across the region.
Prior to rejoining Institutional Investor in 2017, Alastair spent four years managing AsianInvestor’s conference and industry research divisions.
Alastair is a CAIA Charterholder and holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Maine and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Hong Kong. He also previously lived and worked in Japan.

Anne-Charlotte Hormgard, Senior Manager Sustainability at AP3 (Third National Swedish Pension fund). AP3´s Asset Management is organised in five departments Beta Management, Alpha Management, External Management, Alternative Investments and Portfolio Strategy. Sustainability is, together with Strategic Allocation and Quant, part of the Portfolio Strategy team. Sustainability is addressed across the organization and include all assets.
AP3 has investments in global equities and bonds, real estate, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, forestry and ILS. The investments are managed both internally, the major part, and externally. AuM is ca. EUR 34 billion.
She holds a BSc in Business Administration and Economics from University of Uppsala and a CEFA.

Andrew Howard is Global Head of Sustainable Investment at Schroders, which includes the firm’s sustainability thought leadership, ESG integration and stewardship. He joined Schroders in 2016 and is based in London.
Andrew was an Equity Analyst at Didas Research from 2013 to 2016, an independent investment research firm he founded. He was an Equity Analyst at Goldman Sachs from 2007 to 2013, where he headed the GS SUSTAIN research team in London identifying long term investment opportunities across global industries.
He also previously worked at McKinsey & Co as a consultant and Deutsche Bank as Head of European Mining Research. Andrew started his investment career in 1997 as an Analyst covering the Steel & Mining sectors at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Andrew is a Senior Advisor to Critical Resource and on the Advisory Panel of the Future-Fit Business initiative
Qualifications: MBA in Business Administration and Management from INSEAD; BSc in Economics from London School of Economics.

Florian Ielpo, PhD, Director, is Head of Macroeconomic Research within the Cross Asset Solutions team and Chair of the Macro Committee. He joined Unigestion in May 2015. Florian began his career in 2005 in the Asset Liability Management department at Dexia. In 2008, he joined Pictet Asset Management as an economist focusing on fixed income products and became a portfolio manager at BCV in 2011. Prior to joining Unigestion, Florian also worked for Lombard Odier Investment Managers as a portfolio manager from 2013 to 2015. Florian holds a PhD in Economics from the Sorbonne University. Florian also graduated in Economics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan and the Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique in Paris, France.

Dong Hun Jang joined Public Officials Benefit Association as Chief Investment Officer in November 2015. As the CIO, he has senior management oversight of the firm’s investments totaling around US$13 billion and leads the firm’s strategic expansion in overseas investment markets, reflecting the growing importance of asset size and portfolio diversification.
Dong Hun has more than 20 years of experience in the Korean investment industry including previous roles managing equity and PEF portfolios for the National Pension Fund, and as CEO of AllianceBernstein Asset Management (Korea).

Scott E. Kalb was appointed Chairman of the Sovereign Investor Institute (SII) in July 2016 after serving as Executive Director for three and a half years. He is the founder and CEO of KLTI Advisors, dedicated to working with the sovereign and government fund community on long-term investment solutions. Scott also is Founder and Director of the Responsible Asset Allocator Initiative at New America, promoting responsible investing and supporting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
During 2009-2012, Scott served as the CIO and Deputy CEO of the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC), Korea's US$157 billion Sovereign Wealth Fund. Assets under management grew from US$19 billion to US$60 billion during Scott's tenure. Prior to KIC, Scott worked in the financial industry for more than twenty-five years, including at firms Balyasny, Black Arrow Capital, Tudor and Citigroup/Smith Barney Asset Management. Scott has been a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Long-Term Investing since 2009 and serves on the Advisory Board of the Private Capital Research Institute, a Harvard based initiative. Scott lived in Asia for over fifteen years, speaks Korean and has an AM Degree from Harvard and a BA degree from Oberlin College.

Prakash Kannan is Chief Economist (w.e.f. July 1, 2019) and Head of Total Portfolio Management at GIC. He has more than 15 years’ experience in global macro research and strategy and is currently responsible for medium- term global macro and asset allocation strategy for the firm. He also serves as member of the Currency Risk Management Group.
Prior to GIC, he was with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) where he was a member of the World Economic Outlook team and participated in missions to Turkey, the United Kingdom, Norway and Cyprus. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as the European Economic Review, the Journal of International Money and Finance, and the BE Journal of Macroeconomics. He has also written several book chapters including in NBER Conference volumes and in the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. He started his career with the Central Bank of Malaysia (Bank Negara Malaysia) during the Asian Financial Crisis and has also worked with GTE (now Verizon) Pension Fund.
He has a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also a CFA charterholder. He currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI) at the National University of Singapore Business School and as Council Member of the Economic Society of Singapore.

Mr. Krishnan joined Wasatch Global Investors in 1994 and serves on the Board of Directors. He is also a Portfolio Manager, the head of emerging markets investing and a member of the global research team.
Mr. Krishnan earned a Master of Business Administration from Utah State University, where he also worked as a graduate assistant. He completed his undergraduate degree at Bombay University, earning a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a minor in Mathematics.
Mr. Krishnan is a CFA charterholder and a member of the Salt Lake City Society of Financial Analysts.
Ajay is a native of Mumbai, India and speaks Hindi and Malayalam. He enjoys traveling and cycling.

Ricardo da Costa Martinelli is the Head of the Investment Division at the Foreign Reserves Department at Banco Central do Brasil (BCB). Has worked as trader, strategist and portfolio manager for different fixed income desks at BCB in the last 18 years, covering the US, Europe, Canada, Japan and Emerging Markets. Previously, worked for 2 years at the House of Representatives as an economic assistant. Mr. Martinelli has a Ph.D. in Economics and solid experience in portfolio management, macroeconomics and finance.
In 2020 he has been appointed as representative for the BCB at NGFS’s subgroup on portfolio management.

Andrew joined QSuper within the Investment Strategy team in January 2014. In his role as Senior Portfolio Manager his primary responsibilities relate to directing the positioning of the fixed interest allocation within the fund.
Andrew has been an investment professional for over 15 years researching and managing global fixed interest exposures across interest rates, inflation and credit. His experience includes 10 years QIC and 5 years as an Economist at the Australian Treasury. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia.

Mr. Nelson is Director of Research and Strategy for AEW Asia Pacific with responsibility for directing the firm’s research activities in the Asia Pacific region. Based in Singapore, he is a member of the AEW Asia Investment and Risk Management Committees and a member of the firm’s Global Securities Allocation Committee. Mr. Nelson’s responsibilities include monitoring, evaluating and forecasting the macroeconomic environment, demographic trends and capital market conditions across the Asia Pacific region. He interprets this information for AEW’s senior professionals in order to provide decision support to the investment, asset management and portfolio management activities of AEW in the region. Prior to joining AEW, Mr. Nelson served as Head of Asia Pacific Property Research for Aberdeen Asset Management and as Head of Real Estate Intelligence for Jones Lang LaSalle, both based in Singapore. He has also held property market research positions at CB Richard Ellis and DTZ in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a graduate of University of Auckland and University of Texas at Arlington (M.S. in Real Estate).

Paul O’Brien is a Trustee and member of the Investment Committee of the Wyoming Retirement System. Before that he was Deputy Chief Investment Officer at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds. He helped lead both strategic and tactical asset allocation, portfolio construction, and research, as well as advising ADIA’s Investment Committee. He was also Head of Fixed Income Strategy. Previously Paul was a global fixed income portfolio manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management in London and West Conshohocken, PA. He worked with institutional investors around the world with a focus on interest rates and currencies. Prior to that, he worked as an economist for Morgan Guaranty Trust Company in Paris and in London as Head of Morgan’s European economics team. Paul started his career as Economist and then Section Chief at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, DC. He worked in the Division of Monetary Affairs and regularly briefed the Board on monetary policy issues and developments in financial markets. While at the Federal Reserve he was seconded to the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris.
Paul has a PhD in Economics from the University of Minnesota. He attended the US Naval Academy and received his undergraduate degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lise Renelleau is Director for Sustainable Investment Solutions in the research team at Rosenberg Equities focusing on the integration of ESG factors, climate and impact data. Renelleau initially joined AXA IM in 2004 as a Portfolio Manager within the client service team at Rosenberg Equities to roll out a range of customised defensive equity strategies. She joined the models team in 2006 and in 2008 led the development of smart beta factor strategies and the Sustainable Equity Fund. Prior to joining AXA IM, she had held a number of positions within the AXA Group since 1998 in Paris and Singapore. Renelleau holds a master’s in engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau and a master’s in statistics and finance, from Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique, Malakoff. She is a qualified actuary, CFA charterholder and a director for the Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE UK).

Greg assumed his role as Chief Risk & Strategy Officer for TransRe in February, 2013. He has 26 years’ industry experience, including roles in strategic planning, Head of Property and Marine for a US reinsurer, and Chief Underwriting Officer for a Bermuda reinsurance company. Greg earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Purdue University, an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago, and was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University.

Olivier Rousseau is executive director at Fonds de réserve pour les retraites (FRR). Before joining FRR in 2011, he was attached to the French Embassy in Sweden as an economic advisor, a position he took up after two years on the board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. Olivier Rousseau began his career at the French Treasury, eventually joining BNP Paribas where he spent 11 years working in international banking and finance in Paris and abroad. He graduated from the French National School of Administration (ENA) in 1986. He also holds a degree in political sciences and master degrees in law and economics from the University of Aix-en-Provence.

Babloo Sarin is a senior vice president, the head of the asset owners and official institutions segments in Asia Pacific. Prior to his current role, he was the global product head of accounting & middle office for State Street Global Services and the Asia Pacific head of product and strategic client solutions.
Having been with State Street for more than 15 years, Babloo has held various roles in Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China across fund operations, middle office, client service, investment analytics/risk and managing operations. Prior to his current role, he was the chairman and general manager of State Street Technology (Zhejiang) Co Ltd. He also previously held the role of chief operating officer for State Street Global Services in Asia Pacific where he was responsible for all regional clients’ service delivery across the asset servicing business. He has also supported business development across the region.
Babloo holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) degree and is a Qualified Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Australia).

Yu Shimizu has over 19 years of portfolio management and financial analysis experience. In 2012, he launched SPARX Japan Sustainable Equity Strategy and has been leading the strategy since then.
He joined SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd. in 2005 as an analyst and gained experience under a variety of Japanese equity strategies including Small & Mid Cap Strategy and Focus All Cap Strategy. He became a portfolio manager in 2012.
Yu grew up in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from Keio University with a B.A. in law, and joined Daiwa Securities Co., Ltd. in 1998. He then worked at Yasuda Capital Management Co., Ltd. (currently Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Company Ltd.) as an analyst from March 2001, and at UFJ Partners Asset Management Co., Ltd. (currently Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co., Ltd.) as an analyst from May 2004.
Yu is a Certified Professional Coach, a Chartered Member of the Security Analysts Association of Japan and a member of Japan Sustainable Investment Forum.

Irmak Surenkok is a portfolio specialist in the Equity Division at T. Rowe Price, representing the firm's regional and global emerging markets equity portfolio managers to institutional clients, consultants and prospects.
Ms. Surenkok has 17 years of investment experience. Prior to joining the firm in 2017, she was a director of research sales at Haitong International Securities and Eastspring Investments in Singapore. At Eastspring Investments, Ms. Surenkok started as an equity portfolio specialist and later became a portfolio manager investing in global emerging markets equities.
Ms. Surenkok earned a bachelor of commerce and administration, with honours, from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

John Tanyeri is Head of Infrastructure and Project Finance for MetLife Investment Management (MIM). In this capacity, he oversees a team of 20 credit analysts in the US and UK.
John spent three years in the UK from December 2013 to 2016 in an effort to build out the infrastructure origination platform. In 2016, he repatriated back to the U.S. and under his leadership, MIM is recognized as a leading lender.
Prior to joining MetLife in 1996, John worked in a variety of investing and finance functions at Salomon, Incorporated.
John holds a BS degree in Finance from the College of New Jersey and an MBA in Finance from the University of Tennessee.

Sunil H. Thakor, CFA is a Research Analyst and a Co-Portfolio Manager of the Sands Capital Global Leaders and International Growth strategies. Sands Capital is an active, long-term investor in leading innovative businesses, globally.
Mr. Thakor joined Sands Capital as a Research Associate Intern and became a full-time Research Analyst in 2006 following business school. Mr. Thakor later led the research efforts of the firm’s Global Financial Services Sector Team. In 2007, Mr. Thakor became Co-Portfolio Manager of the firm’s Global Growth strategy. He later helped create and launch Global Leaders (2017) and International Growth (2018), and serves as a Co-Portfolio Manager of both strategies.
Prior to joining Sands Capital, Mr. Thakor worked as an Analyst and Associate at Charles River Associates, Inc.
Mr. Thakor earned a BA from Colby College (1999) and an MBA from Columbia Business School from Columbia University (2006).

Raivo Vanags is responsible for foreign reserves management and domestic monetary policy operations; Deputy Head of the Investment Committee. Mr. Vanags has 22 years of investing experience and he has been with Latvijas Banka since 2002. He also represents Latvijas Banka at the European Central Bank's Market Operations Committee. He is the author of several working papers which are included as chapters in the European Central Bank's internal research dossiers and a chapter in the RBS Reserves Management Trends 2013 book (Central Banking Publications) and is a frequent speaker at sovereign reserves management conferences. Prior to Latvijas Banka, he was an equities analyst at Latvijas Zemes Banka, he was running a boutique equities and insurance brokerage house Vertspapiri and worked successfully on setting up a new bank, Regionala Investiciju Banka. Raivo holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration and Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and a M.Sc. in Economics specialising in Finance and Credit from the University of Latvia, and is a CFA charterholder.

Lincoln Webb is the Executive Vice President, Infrastructure & Renewable Resources at BCI, a multi-asset class investment organization with over C$180 billion under management. Based in Victoria, BC and supported by industry-leading expertise, BCI invests in all major asset classes. Lincoln leads the firm's Infrastructure & Renewable Resources Group, which manages a growing private market portfolio of CAD$18 billion - with investments across 30 countries and all major infrastructure sectors.
Prior to this work, he was global head of the firm’s private equity program – building a CAD$6 billion portfolio invested across developed and emerging markets. As a current member of the firm's Executive Management Team, Management Investment Committee, Investment Risk Committee, and Co-Chair of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Council, Lincoln is also engaged in setting strategic direction and overall management of the firm.
Lincoln holds an MBA (International Business), MCP (Architecture), CFA, and an Advanced Management Designation from INSEAD. He is also a past attendee of management programs at HHL (Germany) and Harvard Business School.
Currently, Lincoln serves on the Presidential and Supervisory Boards of Open Grid Europe - Germany's largest gas transmission utility, and the Boards of Czech Gas Networks, Glencore Agriculture, Mosaic Timberlands and Endeavour Energy. He is a past director of Global Container Terminals, Corix Utilities, Puget Energy in Washington State, DBCT Ports of Australia, Aquarian Water of Connecticut, Cleco Corporation, Thames Water, Teays River, and Transelec S.A., Chile’s largest electric transmission utility.