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Tun Ismail Ali Chair, Universiti Malaya is pleased to invite you to attend our seminar by Tan Sri Andrew Sheng as detailed below:

Theme:
Finance and Rural Markets

 

Date:
25th April 2006 (Tuesday)

 

Time:
9:00 a.m. (GMT +8:00)

 

Venue:
Ballroom ll, 6th Floor, Renaissance Hotel Jalan Sultan Yahya, Kota Bharu, Kelantan

Tan Sri Andrew Sheng (3rd TIAC Chairholder)

Andrew Sheng is our Distinguished Honorary Research Fellow of the Tun Ismail Ali Chair, Universiti Malaya. He is also the Distinguished Fellow of the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong. He is Pro-Chancellor of Bristol University, U.K. as well as Chairman, George Town Institute of Open and Advanced Studies, Wawasan Open University, Malaysia.  Previously, Andrew Sheng served as President of the Fung Global Institute, Hong Kong, as Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong, and as a central banker with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Bank Negara Malaysia (the Central Bank of Malaysia). He has also worked at the World Bank and chaired the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In 2009, he became Pro-Chancellor of Universiti Tun Abdul Razak in Malaysia. He was adviser to the UN Environment Programme’s Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System. He holds the post of Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing and Faculty of Economics & Administration, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. A chartered accountant by training, he has a First Class Honours BSc in Economics and Honorary Doctorates from the University of Bristol and the University of Malaya. Andrew Sheng’s areas of expertise include international finance and monetary economics, financial regulation and global governance. He is a columnist for Project Syndicate, Asia News Network and leading economic journals and newspapers in China and Asia at large. He is author of 'From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator’s View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s'. He co-edited the book, 'Bringing Shadow Banking into the Light: Opportunity for Financial Reform in China', with Ng Chow Soon.