Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

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Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

World Bank Group

Multilateral Investment Kevin W. Lu Guarantee Agency Director, Asia-Pacific Region

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Kevin W. Lu is Director for the Asia-Pacific region at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group. Lu serves as MIGAs senior representative in the region and manages the agencys regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. Lu is a member of MIGAs senior management team.

Multilateral Investment Guarantee AgencyPreviously Lu was MIGAs CFO and Director of the Finance
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and Risk Management Group. He has been an adviser to sovereign wealth fund clients of the World Bank, been responsible for investment portfolios totaling $16 billion, and participated in complex multilateral funding packages in excess of $25 billion for the World Bank's concessional finance business. Lu served on various Bank Group committees and working groups, including the Emergency Management Team, the Business Continuity Management Committee, and the Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. Before joining the World Bank, Lu was associated with Credit Suisse First Boston and Global Risk Advisors LLC, both in New York. He was also on the adjunct faculty of American Universitys Kogod School of Business.

Lu is a co-editor of Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century and a frequent speaker on emerging market finance at international conferences. He is a member of the Emerging Markets Advisory Council of the Institute of International Finance based in Washington, DC and a member of the World Economic Forums Global Agenda Council on China. In 2010, World Bank Group Lu was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he co-chairs the Task Force on Emerging Markets Investments. Lu is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal.

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

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