Kevin Lu

Dr. Kevin Lu is MIGA’s Regional Director for the Asia Pacific. In this capacity, Dr. Lu serves as the senior representative of MIGA in the region, manages relationships with key regional clients and partners, oversees regional business development activities, and runs MIGA’s regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo. Dr. Lu is a member of MIGA’s Senior Management Team. Prior to his appointment in Asia, Dr. Lu was MIGA’s CFO and Director of the Finance and Risk Management Group where he was responsible for MIGA's finance, risk, investment, budget, and reinsurance/syndication functions. He has been an advisor to sovereign wealth funds clients of the World Bank. In his tenure at the Bank Group, Dr. Lu has 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. Dr. Lu served on various Bank Group committees and working groups, including Emergency Management Team, Business Continuity Management Committee, and Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group. Before joining the World Bank, Dr. 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 University’s Kogod School of Business. Dr. Lu is a co-editor and an author of Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century (Washington DC, 2009). He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on China, the Emerging Markets Advisory Council of the Institute of International Finance, and the Nanyang Technology University MBA Business Advisory Council. In 2010, Dr. Lu was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.