JOSEPH CHERIAN

Someone who is dispassionately interested in the intersection of investment science and evidence-based applied research that can be used to inform policy making.

Joe Cherian conducts applied research on a variety of financial topics, including:

·         asset management, life-cycle savings and investing

·         infrastructure & climate (blended) finance

·         digital currency, blockchain & the new economy

·         issues related to macroeconomics, sustainable finance & the political economy

BIO

Professor Joe Cherian is Deputy CEO and Professor (Practice - Finance) at the Asia School of Business and Visiting Professor of Finance at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. He was formerly an Executive-in-Residence and a two-term member of the Johnson Dean’s Advisory Council at Cornell University, and now an Emeritus Member of the Council.  Joe was most recently a Practice Professor of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, where he was the Founding Director of the former Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI).

Prior to NUS, Joe was Managing Director, Global Head and CIO of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York where he had direct responsibility for over US$67 billion in client assets managed globally to a quantitative discipline. While at Credit Suisse, he served on the Global Executive Committee, as well as various senior management, investments, and risk committees of the Asset Management division. He joined the financial industry in New York after an academic career in the US, including as an Associate Professor of Finance at Boston University.

Joe currently serves on the advisory boards of Asia Asset Management in Hong Kong, the Securities Commission Malaysia’s Institute for Capital Market Research, and the Mercer-CFA Institute Global Pensions Index in Australia / USA. He has had advisory appointments at Singapore's Central Provident Fund (CPF), the National Research Foundation's Early-Stage Venture Fund (Evaluation Panel), and the Singapore National Eye Center’s (SNEC) Medical Director’s Council. 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 also served on the Journal of Alternative Investments’ Editorial Board in the US.

Joe holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from MIT, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Finance from Cornell University. He is a citizen of Malaysia, a permanent resident of the US and Singapore, and maintains residence in Tokyo and Shanghai.