About this Event
Join us on April 17, 2024 to hear from Joseph Cherian, as he shares a novel approach to Sustainable Financing, The Kitchen Sink Approach, at the MIT Node Distinguished Speaker Series.
Light dinner will be included.
We're excited to see you!
ABOUT THE TALK "FINANCING SUSTAINABLE FINANCE: THE KITCHEN SINK APPROACH"
Attaining Net Zero by 2050 involves huge sums of money. Approximately US$9.2 trillion in annual spending on physical assets in energy and land use systems over the next 26 years. That’s a whole lot more than infrastructure finance, which was the last big headline cause by the human race - eleven years ago, McKinsey Global Institute estimated US$3.3 trillion per annum was needed in global infrastructure investment spending between 2013 to 2030. In his talk, Joe Cherian will propose a novel sustainable, blended financing mechanism that draws on nature-based carbon sequestration and offsets in order to achieve some of the Net Zero emission targets.
ABOUT JOSEPH CHERIAN
Joe Cherian is Deputy CEO and Practice Professor at the Asia School of Business and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University (Visiting). He was most recently a Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Prior to NUS, Joe was Managing Director, Global Head and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse in New York where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets managed to a quantitative discipline. He was a two-term member of the Johnson School’s Dean’s Advisory Council and is now an Emeritus Member of the Council. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Asia Asset Management in Hong Kong, the Securities Commission Malaysia’s Institute for Capital Market Research, the Mercer-CFA Institute Global Pensions Index's Advisory Board, as well as Xen Capital, a boutique global digital wealth & alternatives asset manager in Singapore. Joe has had appointments at Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF) Advisory Panel and the National Research Foundation's Early-Stage Venture Fund Evaluation Panel. He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia, and a consultant to Fullerton Fund Management, a Temasek subsidiary, and Singapore Exchange (SGX) in Singapore. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Cornell University.
SCHEDULE | APRIL 17, 2024 (HONG KONG TIME)
06:30 PM - Registration & Networking
07:00 PM - Dinner & Sharing | Speaker: Joseph Cherian
08:30 PM - End of Event
WHERE:
In-person: MIT HK Innovation Node, 1/F, Hong Kong Productivity Council, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
Enquiries: [email protected]
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node, 1/F, Hong Kong Productivity Council, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (SAR)
HKD 250.00