EXPERT DATABASE
Expert Database
Access GIF's curated network of independent specialists, academic experts, and market practitioners available for advisory engagements, research collaboration, and investment committee consultations.
Dr. Priscilla L. Tan
Energy Transition · ASEAN Infrastructure
📍 Singapore · Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Currently leads green bond issuance and just-transition frameworks at the AIIB. Her work focuses on a specific and underserved problem: how coal-dependent economies in ASEAN can attract private capital for energy transition without stranding existing debt structures. PhD from NUS Energy Studies.
Bruno Kessler
Swiss Banking · European Regulation
📍 Zürich · Former Swiss National Bank, Research Division
Spent eleven years in the SNB's monetary policy and financial stability teams before moving to independent advisory work. Engagements typically cover Basel IV capital adequacy implications, Swiss wealth structuring for non-domiciled family offices, and EUR/CHF hedging strategy for long-dated mandates.
Grace N. Asante
Development Finance · Sub-Saharan Africa
📍 Accra · African Development Bank (AfDB)
Twelve years at the AfDB structuring concessional loans and project finance across West and East Africa. Her particular focus is agricultural value chain finance — an area where most institutional investors lack the local knowledge to underwrite properly. Fluent in French, English, and Twi.
Ravi Mehta, CFA
Private Equity · South Asia & GCC
📍 Mumbai · RGF Capital Partners
Twenty years sourcing mid-market PE deals in India, Pakistan, and the Gulf. His edge is in family-controlled business transitions — the deals most institutional GPs find operationally difficult. CFA charterholder; previously with ICICI Venture.
Prof. Kenji Mori
AI in Finance · Quantitative Methods
📍 Singapore · NUS Business School
His research sits at the intersection of machine learning and institutional asset pricing — specifically how factor models behave under data scarcity in frontier markets. Has consulted for three Singapore-based asset managers on algorithmic risk attribution systems. Not a blockchain advocate; his digital assets work focuses on settlement infrastructure, not speculation.
Dr. Gloria R. Santos
Securities Law · Cross-Border Fund Formation
📍 New York · Columbia Law School
Previously with the SEC's Division of Investment Management, where she worked on private fund adviser rulemaking. Now in private practice advising GPs and LPs on fund structuring across US, Cayman, and Luxembourg jurisdictions. Her focus is practical compliance, not theoretical frameworks.
Yuki Ishikawa
Central Banking · Monetary Systems
📍 Tokyo · Former Bank of Japan Senior Economist
Fourteen years at the Bank of Japan covering monetary policy research and APAC central bank coordination. Advises on JPY currency dynamics and the structural implications of Japan's yield curve control policy for cross-border investment mandates.
Fatima Al-Chalabi
Infrastructure Finance · Development Lending
📍 London · Former World Bank Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Fifteen years structuring multilateral infrastructure financing and blended finance instruments across emerging markets. Led project finance assignments in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and MENA during her time at the World Bank Group.
Prof. David M. Klein
Macroeconomics · Sovereign Debt
Cambridge, MA · MIT Sloan School of Management
Specialises in monetary policy transmission and sovereign debt dynamics. Consulting economist to the Federal Reserve Board (2009–2016); author of three widely cited papers on cross-border capital flow modelling.