Ng Kok Song was formerly Chief Investment Officer of GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. He is founder chairman of Avanda Investment Management and serves on the global advisory board of PIMCO. He is a board director of the Singapore Exchange and a governor of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy. Mr Ng was on the Strategic Committee of Agence France Tr?sor, the debt management agency of the Government of France who conferred him the award of “La Croix de Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur”.