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Board of Governors Background Information Pack 2 Board of Governors Background Information Pack 2 ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNORS The Board of Governors of Asia School of Business is committed to the long-term success of the school. Zeti Akhtar Aziz Richard Schmalensee David Schmittlein S.P. Kothari (Co-Chair) Malaysia (Co-Chair) U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. Former Governor, Howard W. Johnson John C Head III Dean and Gordon Y Billard Central Bank of Malaysia Professor of Management, Professor of Marketing Professor of Accounting Emeritus and Professor of and Finance Economics, Emeritus Charles Fine Tony F. Fernandes Tito Titus Mboweni Azman Hj. Mokhtar U.S.A. Malaysia South Africa Malaysia President & Dean, Group CEO & Director, Non-Executive Director, Managing Director, Asia School of Business AirAsia Berhad Nampak Khazanah Nasional Berhad 3 Shahril Shamsuddin Martin Y. Tang Aswin Techajareonvikul Gita Irawan Wirjawan Malaysia Hong Kong Thailand Indonesia President & Group CEO, Director, MTDD Ltd. President & CEO, Founder & Chairman, SapuraKencana Petroleum Berli Jucker Public Co. Ltd. Ancora Group Berhad Enki Tan Philip Yeo Liat Kok Ng Kok Song Shinichiro Nakamura Singapore Singapore Singapore Japan Executive Chairman, Chairman, SPRING Chairman, President, GITI Tire Company Ltd. Avanda Investment Daiwa Steel Tube Management Industries Co. Ltd. May Lim Marjorie Yang Shaik Abdul Rasheed Rolando C. Gapud Malaysia Hong Kong Malaysia Philippines Managing Director, Chairman, Deputy Governor, Executive Chairman, Stanford Properties Esquel Group Central Bank of Malaysia Del Monte Pacific Ltd. Sdn. Bhd. 4 ZETI ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNOR AKHTAR AZIZ (Co-Chair) Malaysia Dr. Zeti served as Governor of Bank Negara Malaysia from May Former Governor, 2000 until April 2016. In her career at the central bank, she Central Bank of had an important role in successfully managing the repair and resolution of the financial system during the Asian financial crisis Malaysia and the consequent strong recovery of the economy in Malaysia. In the following decade, she also had an important role in the financial reform and transformation of the Malaysian financial system including overseeing the enactment of ten new major pieces of legislation for the financial sector. This period also saw the progressive liberalization of the Malaysian financial system. In the Asian region, Dr. Zeti was actively involved in strengthening cooperation and regional financial integration. In 2006, she chaired the regional task force that prepared the report for the future direction of central bank financial cooperation in the East Asian region. An important voice for the emerging world, she was a founding member of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Asian Consultative Council, and was also the first co- chair of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Asia. She was the Chair of the BIS Central Bank Governance Group. Dr. Zeti also had an extensive role in the global development of Islamic finance. She was also active in the global financial inclusion agenda. She is currently the Co-chair Board of Governors of Asia School of Business, established in collaboration with MIT Sloan. Dr. Zeti received her PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. 5 RICHARD ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNOR SCHMALENSEE (Co-Chair) U.S.A. Richard Schmalensee, Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors Howard W. of the Asia School of Business, is the Howard W. Johnson Professor Johnson Professor of Management and Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and served as the John C Head of Management, III Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management from 1998 Emeritus and through 2007. Professor of He was as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Economics, Emeritus Advisers from 1989 through 1991 and served for 12 years as Director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Professor Schmalensee is the author or co-author of 12 books and more than 120 published articles. His research has centered on industrial organization economics and its application to managerial and public policy issues, with particular emphasis on antitrust, regulatory, energy, and environmental policies. Professor Schmalensee is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the 2012 Distinguished Fellow of the Industrial Organization Society. He has served on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association and has been a Director of the International Securities Exchange and other corporations. He is currently a Director of the International Data Group and the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future. 6 DAVID ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNOR SCHMITTLEIN U.S.A. John C Head III David Schmittlein joined the MIT Sloan School of Management as Dean and Professor John C Head III Dean in October, 2007. Prior to his appointment at MIT Sloan, Dean Schmittlein has served on the faculty at The Wharton of Marketing School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1980 until 2007. While at Wharton, he was the Ira A. Lipman Professor and Professor of Marketing. He also served as Interim Dean during July 2007 and as Deputy Dean from 2000-2007. In addition, he was chair of the editorial board for Wharton School Publishing. Dean Schmittlein received a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Business from Columbia University and B.A. in Mathematics (magna cum laude) from Brown University. His research assesses marketing processes and develops methods for improving marketing decisions. He is widely regarded for his work estimating the impact of a firm’s marketing actions, designing market and survey research, as well as creating effective communication strategies. Dr. Schmittlein serves on the Governing Board of the Indian School of Business; the International Advisory Board of Lingnan (University) College of Sun Yatsen University; the Advisory Board for the School of Economics and Management of Tsinghua University; the International Advisory Board for the School of Management, Fudan University; and the Board of Trustees of The Conference Board. He has served on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Marketing and Branding. He has been a visiting professor in the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo University, and a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Washington University’s John M. Olin School of Business. Dr. Schmittlein is a member of the American Statistical Association and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS). 7 ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNOR S.P. KOTHARI U.S.A. Gordon Y Billard Mr. Kothari is Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance at Professor of the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With close to two decades at this premier institute, Mr. Kothari recently Accounting and completed a six-year stint as Deputy Dean at the Sloan School of Finance Management. He is also faculty director of the MIT-India Program http:// web.mit.edu/misti/mit-india/ and an editor of the world-renowned academic publication Journal of Accounting & Economics. Recently, in the year 2014 Mr. Kothari was a recipient of the American Accounting Association’s (AAA) Notable Contributions to the Accounting Literature award. His other awards include an honorary doctorate, Doctor Honoris Causa, from the University of Technology, Sydney in May 2013, and a Distinguished Alumnus Award from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, in 2013. Mr. Kothari holds a bachelor of engineering degree from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and has also earned his MBA (PGDM) from one of India’s finest institutes, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Mr. Kothari completed his PhD from University of Iowa, United States. His highly-cited research focuses on the US and international financial reporting practices, the pricing of financial information, investment analysis, and valuation. Mr. Kothari has served as global head of equity research for Barclays Global Investors (BGI), where he was responsible for research supporting BGI’s active equity strategies, from 2008-09. He actively managed equity portfolio which had in excess of $100 billion in assets, and the research team was comprised of approximately 50 PhDs based in San Francisco, London, and Sydney. In addition to all his achievements and management responsibilities, Mr. Kothari has frequently served as a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates, a business-economics and litigation support consulting firm. He has consulted with many large corporations, including leading US and international banks and asset management companies, Australian television broadcast corporations, US steel companies, E&Y, KPMG, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Kothari served on the Board of VVisions from 1998-2004 and is currently on the Board of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange) and FIA Technology Services. He is an expert on economic policy issues in India and has written numerous opinion-page editorials in The Economic Times. 8 ASIA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS BOARD OF GOVERNOR CHARLES FINE U.S.A. President & Dean, Charles H. Fine is the Chrysler LGO Professor at MIT Sloan and the Asia School of founding President and Dean of the Asia School of Business in Kuala Lumpur, a collaboration between the MIT Sloan School and Bank Negara Business Malaysia. He was a founding co-director of both MIT’s Communications Futures Program and the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT. For over 30 years, Professor Fine has taught MIT Sloan courses in Operations Strategy, Supply Chain Management, Quality Management, and Innovation. His research has focused on supply chain strategy and value chain road mapping, with a particular focus on fast-clockspeed manufacturing industries. Fine’s work has supported design and improvement of supply chain relationships for companies in electronics, automotive, aerospace, communications, and consumer products. At MIT Sloan, Professor Fine has taught primarily Operations Strategy and Supply Chain Management.
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