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Angelina Lai
Chief Investment Officer
St. James's Place Asia & Middle East

Angelina is a qualified actuary and her career spans across the UK, Europe, United States and Asia working in life insurance, bancassurance and wealth management, with a focus on Asset & Liability Management, investment and capital matters.
 
Angelina is passionate about sustainability and is a volunteer with a number of different organisations in various roles including being the editor for a sustainable finance newsletter, a research group on carbon pricing and sequestration, and she is involved in public education events on topics of ocean conservation and plastic pollution.

A. Rama Krishna
Founder & Chief Executive Officer,
ARGA Investment Management

Rama has over 30 years’ experience in managing global equities. Before founding ARGA in 2010, Rama was President - International, Managing Principal, Member of Executive Committee, and Portfolio Manager at Pzena Investment Management in New York. In addition to launching and managing the US Large Cap Value strategy in his early years at Pzena, he led the development of the International Value and Global Value strategies and co-managed the Emerging Markets Value strategy.

Previously, Rama was at Citigroup Asset Management, where he was Chief Investment Officer and Head of Institutional and International. He also represented the asset management business on the Citigroup Management Committee and managed the Global Emerging Markets Equity strategy.

Rama earned a joint M.B.A./M.A. in Asian Studies with a Japan Specialization from the University of Michigan in 1987 and a B.A. (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, The University of Delhi in 1984.

Alex Holmes
Regional Director, Asia-Pacific,
Economist Intelligence Unit

Alex Holmes heads up EIUʼs analysis and forecasts for Asia Pacific markets and is based in Singapore. His career to date has been focused on macroeconomic research, both deep country-level analysis and delving into the cross-cutting themes affecting Asia.

Being in a region where external trade plays such an oversized role in the economy, Alex takes a particular interest in related issues, including structural supply chain reconfiguration, the global electronics cycle and models of export-led development. Alex regularly appears in the media and has also co-hosted a business video-podcast produced by Bloomberg.

Prior to the EIU, Alex was Lead Economist at Oxford Economics, following stints at Capital Economics, ICAP, Barclays Bank and the UK Government Economics Service. He holds a BSc in economics from the University of Sheffield and an MSc in financial economics from the University of London.

David Copsey
Portfolio Manager, Multi Asset Solutions Group,
Goldman Sachs

David joined Goldman Sachs in 2008 in the Operations Division, supporting the Private Wealth Management Business. He then moved to a role in the Portfolio Control and Analysis team, working alongside the Institutional Business. In 2014, David joined the Multi Asset Solutions Group and has spent the last decade in this team.

David graduated from Loughborough University with a BA in International Business.

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