His Excellency Dato' N. Parameswaran
High Commissioner of Malaysia to Singapore

Simon Stevenson  
Professor Of Finance, Co-Director, Centre For Real Estate Finance
Cass Business School

Simon Stevenson joined Cass in the summer of 2005 and is currently Course Director of the Real Estate MSc Programmes at Cass and a co-director of the Centre for Real Estate and Finance. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Banking and Finance and Director of the Centre for Real Estate Research at the Smurfit School of Business, University College Dublin.

Professor Stevenson's primary research interests are in the fields of Real Estate Investment, Housing Economics and International Portfolio Management. He had published over 50 papers in journals such as the Journal of Housing Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance & Economics, European Journal of Finance, Emerging Markets Review and the Journal of Real Estate Research. Simon has received best paper awards three times at the annual meeting of the American Real Estate Society and also at the 2001 European Real Estate Society annual conference.

Professor Stvenson was awarded the 2006 International Real Estate Society Achievement Award "for outstanding achievement in real estate research, education and practice at the international level". He is the editor of the newly launched Journal of European Real Estate Research, the official journal of the European Real Estate Society.

Simon has also recently taken over as editor of Briefings in Real Estate Finance, an industry focused journal. Professor Stevenson is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Real Estate Portfolio Management and the Journal of Real Estate and Development Economics Research and has served on the Board of Directors of the European Real Estate Society (1998-2005, 2007 onwards) and the International Real Estate Society (1999 onwards). Simon has been Programme Chair of the European Real Estate Society annual conference twice, once in 2007 when the conference was hosted by Cass, and prior to that in 2005 when the conference was held in Dublin. He is currently President of the International Real Estate Society, and an external examiner on the MSc Real Estate Programme at the University of Reading and in the past has been at the National University of Singapore and Dublin City University.

Professor Tony Key
Department Of Real Estate Economics
Cass Business School

Tony Key joined Cass as Professor of Real Estate Economics in January 2003. Prior to this he was Director of Research at Investment Property Databank since 1988, undertaking the development of Real Estate research and Information Services including Forecasts, Market Analysis and Risk Assessment. He also led the introduction of new Real Estate Index and Benchmarking services in Scandinavia and Canada. Through the 1970s and 1980s, Tony worked on urban and regional development projects in government, at the Centre for Environmental Studies, and was a Partner of Property Market Analysis.

Professor Key is a member of the Investment Property Forum's Research Steering Group (2003) and Advisory Panel for its Advanced Education Programme. He has also chaired the Society of Property Researchers / IPD RealWorld Conference since 2005. Tony's high profile within the real estate industry is also highlighted by his frequent appearances at industry events and research contracts for organisations such as Babcock & Brown, British Property Federation, Capital Economics, Credit Suisse First Boston, Investment Property Forum, Investment Property Databank and Strutt & Parker. Tony is also a consultant to Capital Economics, Protego Real Estate Investors and Dorrington plc. In the academic arena, he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Property Research and Journal of Property Investment and Finance and an external examiner at the University of Cambridge and University of Aberdeen.

Robert Prior-Wandesforde
Senior Asian Economist
HSBC

Robert joined HSBC in 1994. He was based in London for 12 years where he covered various Continental European economies, becoming HSBC’s chief eurozone economist at the inception of the single currency in 1999. Robert relocated to the Singapore office in June 2006 and is now responsible for the coverage of the Indian, Indonesian, Malaysian, Singapore and Vietnamese economies for the Group. He holds a First and Masters degree in Economics from Warwick University in the UK.

Terence Wong 
Senior Vice President, Research Department
DMG & Partner

Terence Wong is Head of Research (Retail) at DMG & Partners Securities Pte Ltd. He was formerly the CEO and Chief Investment Analyst of SIAS Research Pte Ltd, a Singapore-based independent equity research company.

He has received numerous commendations for his work. He warned investors against the technology bubble in an article to the Singapore Exchange magazine Pulses (March 2000) one month before the tech meltdown. He was also ahead of the curve on the hard disk drive (recommended in Jan 2002), construction (May 2005), and small cap (Dec 2005) sectors, all of which were recommended well before the massive run-ups. 

Terence has been featured on financial programmes on BBC, CNBC, ChannelNewsAsia and MediaCorp TV (Channel 5 & Channel 8), and is well-quoted in both international and local media, including Asian Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Reuters and The Business Times. In addition, his analysis and commentaries have been published in The Straits Times, The Business Times and Pulses.

Since 2004, he has spoken in over 60 investment seminars organized by the Singapore Exchange, Asia Seminar, CapitaLand, Lim & Tan Securities, Nanyang Technological University, National University of Singapore, NextView, NTUC, Shell, Securities Investors Association (Singapore), SIAS Research, ShareInvestor and Westcomb.

Terence graduated from Simon Fraser University in Canada with a Joint Honours in Business Administration (Finance) and Economics. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder.

Philip Chew  
Head of Property Derivative - Singapore
GFI Colliers

Philip joined the property derivatives team at GFI in May 2007, bringing over 20 years of banking experience to the group. He started his career trading bonds in London, initially with Wood Gundy, a Canadian broker, then with Credit Suisse First Boston and Banque Paribas. He was head of Government Bond trading at Mitsubishi Finance in London before being assigned to Mitsubishi Banks newly formed Securities company in Tokyo to cover all non-Japan financial instruments. He then moved to Nomura Securities in Tokyo, trading non-Japanese government bonds and credit. In 2003 Philip joined GFI, initially working on credit and then moving to look at new products as diverse as freight derivatives and Islamic Finance. He now works with a team of 5 people, based in Hong Kong, Australia and Singapore to raise the profile of property index derivatives in Asia amongst potential users, be they banks, funds and property funds. GFI Group acts as an inter-dealer broker for institutional clients and has on the property derivative side a joint venture with Colliers International (www.colliers.com) in Hong Kong. GFI group initiated this product and is the global leader in this market, with Property Derivative desks in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney.

David Askham  
Investment Director
Prudential Property Investment Management

Ravi Hansoty  
Director – Head of India Investments
Citigroup Property Investors

Ravi Hansoty is Director and Head of India Real Estate Investments at Citigroup Property Investors (“CPI”). 
Mr. Hansoty joined CPI in 2005 and is primarily responsible for all real estate investment business in India for CPI Capital Partners Asia Pacific L.P., Real Estate Fund.

Mr. Hansoty has over 12 years of real estate investment experience and has transacted over US$2 billion in real estate transactions including direct asset acquisitions, developments and distressed debt secured by real estate.  Prior to joining CPI, Mr. Hansoty has worked with Morgan Stanley Properties in Seoul and The John Buck Company in Chicago.

Victor Lor  
Director
UBS AG Investment Bank

Shaun Sakhrani
Associate Director, Structured Capital Markets
HSBC

Shaun Sakhrani is an Associate Director, Structured Capital Markets, South East Asia for HSBC based in Singapore. In this role, Shaun has responsibility for the origination and structuring of securitisation and structured debt solutions for issuers in the region. Shaun has been with HSBC for 7 years in a number of roles globally, primarily in structured capital markets, with additional experience in ratings advisory, debt restructuring and tax-driven structured finance.Shaun played a leading role in the first ever Government securitisation in Thailand and the first ever securitisation of prime retail and office properties in Singapore.

Shaun graduated with first class honours from the London School of Economics (BSC Accounting & Finance) and is a member of the Hong Kong Society of Financial Analysts.

Edmund Tan
Senior Vice President
Macquarie Pacific Star Prime REIT Management

Mr. Tan oversees investments for Macquarie MEAG Prime REIT (MMP REIT). He has 15 years of investment experience, having held senior positions in several international investment banks and fund management houses in Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia and Malaysia; including at NM Rothschild Ltd, Barclays Capital, HSBC Hong Kong and Bechtel Group. Before his last position as Senior Vice President of Pacific Star Group’s Asia Real Estate Income Fund, Mr. Tan ran his own consulting firm and founded a successful retail joint-venture.

Mr. Tan holds an MBA in International Business and Export Management from the City University Business School in London and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of London. He has been a Barrister-at-Law of the Honorable Society of the Middle Temple in London since 1989.

Fritz Wyler
Senior Vice President, Operations & Leasing, Asia
AMB Property Corporation

Fritz opened AMB Property Corporation's first office in Asia four years ago in Tokyo, Japan. He has recently relocated to Singapore to head AMB’s office there while continuing his pan-Asia responsibility for its operations and managing key global customer accounts.  AMB is global developer and owner of industrial real estate, focused on major hub and gateway distribution markets throughout North America, Asia and Europe.  In Asia, AMB is an active investor and developer of  logistics properties in China, Japan, Korea, and Singapore with expansion plan into India.

Ian Hally
Head of Asia Strategy & Indirect Investment, Property
Morley Fund Management, Singapore