Lutfey Siddiqi

Lutfey Siddiqi is an Adjunct Professor at NUS RMI, having been a part-time member of the faculty since the inception of the institute. Concurrently, he is a Visiting Professor-in-Practice at the London School of Economics (IDEAS).

Until May 2016, Lutfey was a Managing Director and member of the global executive committee for FX, Rates and Credit at UBS Investment Bank with responsibility for emerging markets. In addition, he was the founding head of UBS Knowledge Network, a member of the UBS Group Sustainability Council, the Investment Bank Innovation Board, and a designated 'opinion leader' contributing to cross-divisional white-papers and media outreach. Prior to that, he ran Asia-wide businesses for UBS and Barclays based in Singapore, with teams spanning Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Greater China and ASEAN.

Lutfey was recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012 where he has served on their global future councils since 2014, contributed to the annual risk report since 2013 and spoken on the official program at Davos for several years.

He is a member of the advisory boards of LSE Systemic Risk Centre, the Centre for Governance (CGIO) at NUS business school, and the governing boards of UWC Atlantic College and New City College London. A CFA Charter-holder and former board member of CFA Singapore, he is an inaugural member of the CFA Future of Finance content council.

He has a Masters in Economics from LSE, a first class BSc (hon.) in Econometrics from the University of York, and has completed leadership courses at Harvard, Oxford, IMD and the LKY School of Public Policy. He also holds the Financial Times diploma for non-executive directors.

Apart from core modules, Lutfey teaches and convenes on applied topics in risk management, global macro investing, fixed income and currency markets, emerging markets including central bank policy, financial regulations, institutional change, leadership and board governance.

Twitter: @Lutfeys