Christina Ellerker
Director, Regulatory Reform of Citi Bank Asia Pacific Government Affairs
Prior joining Citi, Christina was an Executive Director with the Office of Government Affairs at Goldman Sachs where she developed, managed and executed the firm’s government relations and public policy agenda in Asia Pacific. Before that, Christina was Head of Moody’s Asia Pacific Government and Public Affair where she oversaw matters with respect to regulations and interaction with regulators in the Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) region.
Christina was an Executive Director at and part of the team that set up the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) where she was responsible for working with financial institutional members to promote the growth and development of Asia’s debt capital markets through advocacy with the regulatory community and fostering market best practices.
Christina, who is lawyer by profession, has also worked variously with leading Australian and Malaysian law firms and with News Corporation Asia, as corporate legal counsel. She plays an active role in ASIFMA (Public Policy Committee Member, co-Chair of the Data and Cybersecurity Working Group, former Alternate Board Member), the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (AMCHAM HK) (former Financial Services Committee Vice-Chair), ISDA (Asia Pacific Legal & Regulatory Committee) and was active in the APEC Business Advisory Council and the APEC Asia Pacific Financial Forum as well as the US ASEAN Business Council. Christina is an active advocate of diversity issues – she convened and chaired the Women in Finance Asia Forum and was a presiding judge of AMCHAM HK Women of Influence Awards.
Christina graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Sydney University, Australia and a Bachelor of Science from the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is admitted to practice as a solicitor in New South Wales, Australia and a barrister and solicitor in Malaysia.
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Edan Lee
Managing Director of Olympus Capital Holdings Asia (Hong Kong) Limited Shanghai Representative Office
Edan Lee is a Managing Director of Olympus Capital Asia and joined the Firm in 1998. He has led transactions in Greater China and Southeast Asia. The Firm is an independent private investment firm that has been successfully investing in middle market companies across Asia for over 20 years. Since its founding in 1997, Olympus Capital Asia has invested more than $2.6 billion of equity capital on behalf of its funds and co-investors in over 65 portfolio companies throughout Asia. The Firm’s private equity strategies center on achieving Sustainable Development objectives including themes related to Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Financial Services, and Sustainable Energy/Water.
Prior to joining Olympus Capital Asia, Mr. Lee served as Project Director in China for The AES Corporation, a Fortune 500 company, in the mid-1990s, where he developed and financed some of the most significant foreign joint ventures at the time.
Previously, Mr. Lee was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in the US and in Australia. Mr. Lee holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and BS and BA degrees from Rice University.
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