Annie Koh is Associate Professor of Finance and Dean of Office of Executive and Professional Education at the Singapore Management University. She also holds the position Academic Director, International Trading Institute@SMU. She received her PhD in International Finance from New York University (Stern School of Business) in 1988 where she was a Fulbright scholar. A frequently sought after conference speaker, panel moderator and expert commentator, Annie’s research interests are in Family Office and Family Business Research, REITS, Investor Behaviour, Alternative Investments, and Enterprise Risk Management. She has extensive experience in consulting and executive education for the corporate and public sectors, training professionals in leadership, management, directorship and private banking.

Instrumental in bridging academia and the industry, Annie has spearheaded many major partnerships between SMU and the business world such as the Human Capital Leadership Institute in partnership with the Ministry of Manpower, the International Trading Institute for commodities research and training, the Financial Training Institute for competency training, the BNP Paribas Hedge Fund Centre and the UOB-SMU Entrepreneurship Alliance. Annie was also behind the successful Business Advisors Programme where retrenched professionals are matched with small local enterprises for short-term consultancy stints as well as the Foundation Training Programme to prepare fresh graduates for career in local enterprises, a testament to her sharp pulse on the needs of the economy. Her strong connections to business leaders opened doors for corporate donors such as Credit Suisse and Emirates National Oil Company to contribute to SMU.

She played major contributing roles to several academic programmes in SMU such as the MBA, the Master of Science in Applied Finance and the Master of Science in Wealth Management and Graduate Diploma in Healthcare Management & Leadership and Advanced Diploma in Private Banking. Annie sits on several advisory boards, governing councils and steering committees in SMU as well as the financial services and government sectors. Her paper, An Analysis of Extreme Price Shocks and Illiquidity Among Systematic Trend Followers (2010), co-written with Bernard Lee and Cheng Shih-Fen was published in the Journal of Futures Markets and the Social Science Research Network. Current projects she is working on include studies on REITS and Investor Behaviour, cases on Family Business and a primer/casebook on Commodity Finance. Other academic articles of hers have been published in The Review of Future Markets, SIMEX Papers and Pulses. Annie is also author for International Enterprise Singapore’s book on Financing Internationalisation – Growth Strategies for Successful Companies (2004) which has been translated into Chinese.