Benedict Koh
PhD, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Director, Centre for Silver Security |
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Benedict Koh is Professor of Finance (Education) and Associate Dean of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at the Singapore Management University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Silver Security at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics. Prior to joining SMU, he was Vice Dean and Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Koh started his academic career with NUS in 1985. Prior to joining the academia, he was a corporate banker at the Chase Manhattan Bank N.A.
Dr Koh had served as board member of NUS Academic Staff Pension Fund and associate editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Finance and Asia Pacific Journal of Management. He is active in management consultancy as well as executive training for banks, companies and government agencies. Some organisations that he had consulted or conducted training programmes for include the ABN-AMRO bank, Allianz, Capitaland, Citibank, DBS Bank, EDB, GE Life, GIC, Hong Leong Group Bhd, IBM, ING Bank, Johnson &Johnson, JTC International, KK Hospital, Keppel Land, Keppel O&M, Lubrizol, Manulife, MICA, MSIG, NCC, NHG, NOL, Norsk Hydro Group, Prudential, Raffles Medical Group, Royal Brunei Airlines, Schneider, SGH PGMI, SIA, Singhealth Group, SNEF, Swiss Reinsurance, UBS and Visa.
He has written numerous articles that were published in academic journals, books, Pulses, Singapore Stock Exchange Journal, investment magazines and newspapers. His teaching and research interests are in Corporate Finance, Investment Management, Personal Finance and Financial Markets. He has co-written two books on Personal Financial Planning and Managing Your Money. The former was rated as one of the best-selling non-fiction books in Singapore. His forthcoming book on Personal Investments will be published by Prentice Hall in 2011. |
Olivia S. Mitchell
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
Professor of Insurance and Risk Management;
Executive Director, Pension Research Council,
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Silver Security
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Dr Olivia S. Mitchell is Department chair and International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans Professor of Insurance and Risk Management, and the Executive Director of the Pension Research Council, at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. At the University, Dr Mitchell is also Director of the Boettner Centre on Pensions and Retirement Research, Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Centre and the Leonard Davis Institute, and Research Associate as well as Board Member of the Penn Ageing Research Centre. Concurrently, Dr Mitchell is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Co-Investigator for the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan. Dr Mitchell's main areas of research and teaching are international insurance, risk management, public finance, labour economics, and compensation and pensions. Her extensive publications analyse retirement provision systems as well as links between wealth, health, and retirement.
Dr Mitchell received the MA and PhD degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BA in Economics from Harvard University. Her Social Security study received the TIAA-CREF/Paul Samuelson Award for “Outstanding Writing on Lifelong Financial Security;” she was also awarded the Fidelity Pyramid Prize for research on financial literacy, and the Premio Internazionale Dell'Istituto Nazionale Delle Assicurazioni (INA) from Rome’s Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei on annuities. She has held visiting faculty positions at Cornell University, Harvard University, the Goethe University of Frankfurt, and the University of New South Wales. She served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security (www.csss.gov) and was Public Member of the US Department of Labour’s ERISA Advisory Council. She currently serves on the Wells Fargo Advantage Fund Trust Board; previously she served on the Boards of Alexander and Alexander Services, Inc. and the National Academy of Social Insurance. She has spoken for many groups including the World Economic Forum; the International Monetary Fund; the Investment Company Institute; the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans; and the President’s Economic Forum; she has also testified for the US Congress, the UK Parliament, the Australian Parliament, and the Brazilian Senate. She speaks Spanish and Portuguese, having lived and worked in Latin America, Europe, and Australasia.
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