Dr. Christine Chow, Ph.D Associate Director, Hermes Equity Ownership Services Ltd
Experience: Finance | Investment | Consulting
Expertise: Corporate Governance | Stakeholder Management | Investment Strategy | Private Equity| Venture Capital | Impact Investment
Dr Christine Chow has 20 years of experience in portfolio management, research and investment consulting. Christine's PhD thesis on shareholder engagement for responsible investment was short - listed for a United Nations award in Sweden for industry relevance and academic excellence. She covers Asia ex Japan , and is the theme lead on human and labour rights and pollution and waste management issues in corporate engagement.
Christine is an elected member of the Court of Governors of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a memb er of the School’s Investment Sub -Committee. She was also an adjunct professor in the Department of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for putting together and teaching the first tri -sector (government, private family office and university) MBA elective course on social innovation and impact investment.
She was a member of the Greater China Committee of the Hong Kong Retirement Funds Association (2014-2016)and a visiting scholar at the University of St Andrews in Scotland (2012–2013).
Christine has worked at a number of multinational corporations such as Merrill Lynch, Schroders and Hewitt. In the 1990s, she was responsible for establishing strategic partnerships in fund management for the Schroders Group, especially in Mainland China. Christine is a graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne. She also completed an executive education course on financial engineering at Stanford University.
