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Joseph Cherian
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CEO, President, Dean and Distinguished Professor
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Finance
Joseph Cherian, a distinguished leader in academia and business, is CEO, President, Dean, and Distinguished Professor of the Asia School of Business. As Professor of Finance, he possesses a highly versatile, varied and distinguished international background, spanning academia, global financial markets, and strategic leadership in education. Professor Cherian’s academic career in teaching and researching finance, asset management and portfolio investments includes top global universities including Cornell University, National University of Singapore, and Boston University. Apart from teaching at the Asia School of Business, he most recently served as Visiting Professor of Finance of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.
Professor Cherian’s professional experience in the financial services sector spanned asset management where he managed US$67 billion in client assets as Global Head and Chief Investment Officer of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management. 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. He continues to be involved in the financial industry through advisory roles to governments and think-tanks in the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, in areas such as venture funds, asset management, pensions and capital market policies and reforms.
He was formerly an Executive-in-Residence and a two-term member of the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council at Cornell University and is now an Emeritus Member of the Dean’s Council. Joe currently serves as an Advisor to Asia Asset Management in Hong Kong, the Mercer-CFA Institute Global Pensions Index’s Advisory Board in Australia, and is a member of the Board of the Institute for Capital Market Research, an initiative by the Securities Commission Malaysia. He has had appointments at Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) Advisory Panel and the National Research Foundation’s Early-Stage Venture Fund Evaluation Panel; Professor Cherian continues to serve as an ad hoc advisor to the Singapore government.
Professor Cherian was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, a Scientific Advisor to Nipun Capital, a boutique hedge fund based in San Francisco, a consultant to Fullerton Fund Management, a Temasek subsidiary in Singapore, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and 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 PhD degrees in Finance from Cornell University.
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Joseph Cherian, a distinguished leader in academia and business, is CEO, President, Dean, and Distinguished Professor of the Asia School of Business. As Professor of Finance, he possesses a highly versatile, varied and distinguished international background, spanning academia, global financial markets, and strategic leadership in education. Professor Cherian’s academic career in teaching and researching finance, asset management and portfolio investments includes top global universities including Cornell University, National University of Singapore, and Boston University. Apart from teaching at the Asia School of Business, he most recently served as Visiting Professor of Finance of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at the SC Johnson College of Business, Cornell University.
Professor Cherian’s professional experience in the financial services sector spanned asset management where he managed US$67 billion in client assets as Global Head and Chief Investment Officer of the Quantitative Strategies Group at Credit Suisse Asset Management. 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. He continues to be involved in the financial industry through advisory roles to governments and think-tanks in the Asia-Pacific region, including Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore, in areas such as venture funds, asset management, pensions and capital market policies and reforms.
He was formerly an Executive-in-Residence and a two-term member of the Johnson Graduate School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council at Cornell University and is now an Emeritus Member of the Dean’s Council. Joe currently serves as an Advisor to Asia Asset Management in Hong Kong, the Mercer-CFA Institute Global Pensions Index’s Advisory Board in Australia, and is a member of the Board of the Institute for Capital Market Research, an initiative by the Securities Commission Malaysia. He has had appointments at Singapore’s Central Provident Fund (CPF) Advisory Panel and the National Research Foundation’s Early-Stage Venture Fund Evaluation Panel; Professor Cherian continues to serve as an ad hoc advisor to the Singapore government.
Professor Cherian was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Bursa Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur, a Scientific Advisor to Nipun Capital, a boutique hedge fund based in San Francisco, a consultant to Fullerton Fund Management, a Temasek subsidiary in Singapore, Singapore Exchange (SGX), and 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 PhD degrees in Finance from Cornell University.
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