RUNDOWN:
17:45     Registration
18:00     Opening Remarks
18:05     Fireside Chat
18:35     Audience Q&A
18:55     Closing Remarks
19:00     Networking Drinks
19:30     End

ASHK Members: HKD150
Non-Member Ticket: HKD200

Asia Society Hong Kong Center is proud to host a fireside chat with Nicolas Aguzin, former Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Limited (HKEX) and Asia Society Global Trustee, to discuss his views on the state of global financial markets and the role of Hong Kong as an international financial center with Veronique Lafon-Vinais, Associate Professor of Business Education, Department of Finance, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Amid anxieties surrounding China’s economic slowdown and the chaotic state of the world, where can we find bright spots for economic growth? As China increasingly looks to the countries of the Global South for trade and investment opportunities, how will the role of Hong Kong as China’s international financial center change? What are the prospects for greater stability and economic growth in the coming years? Join Asia Society to explore these questions and more.

Nicolas Aguzin joined HKEX as Chief Executive Officer on May 2021 from J.P. Morgan, where he was most recently Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan’s International Private Bank. Mr. Aguzin has been based in Hong Kong since 2012.  His term at HKEX was completed in March 2024.

From 2013 to 2020, Mr. Aguzin was CEO, J.P. Morgan, Asia Pacific where he was responsible for all the firm’s business across 17 markets. Mr. Aguzin presided over some of the firm’s major expansion efforts during the period, including establishing itself in China as one of the few international financial institutions with a full range of services and capabilities; including a fully owned locally incorporated commercial bank, a majority-owned securities company, an asset management company and a futures and options company. Concurrent with his Asia CEO role, Mr. Aguzin also ran J.P. Morgan’s Investment Banking division in Asia. During his tenure, the bank rose to become one of the leading investment banks in the Asia Pacific region.

Mr. Aguzin joined J.P. Morgan in 1990 in Buenos Aires as a financial analyst. Between 1990 and 2005, he held a variety of roles in New York and Buenos Aires, and in 2005 he was appointed as CEO, Latin America. In 2008 and 2009, in addition to his responsibilities as CEO, Latin America and Head of Latin America Investment Banking, he served as Senior Country Officer for Brazil.

Mr. Aguzin holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S. and is fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.

Ms. VeroniqueLafon-Vinais is a seasoned financial market professional with over 20 years of banking and capital markets experience.  She has worked in all the major financial markets and has extensive experience in all the major debt markets.

Veronique joined Credit Agricole in Paris in 1980 after graduating from HEC; she moved to First Chicago (now part of JP Morgan) in London in 1984 then to Chicago in 1990. In 1991 Veronique joined Union Investissements, the M&A and corporate finance subsidiary of Credit Agricole in Paris to work on various M&A and corporate finance advisory projects. Veronique moved to Hong Kong in 1994 joining First Chicago as Managing Director, Head of Financial Markets, Asia Pacific. She joined Standard Chartered Bank plc as Head of Treasury Origination in 2000 and retired from banking in 2001.

She is now dedicating herself full time to education and teaching as Associate Professor of Business Education, Department of Finance, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), where she teaches in the MBA/MSc programs as well as in the Undergraduate Programs, and professional training and consulting for the finance industry. She is the Executive Director, Career Development & Corporate Outreach for the School of Business and Management at HKUST, Associate Director for the UG programs, Co-Director of the BSc in Sustainable and Green Finance,  Associate Director of the tri-degree World Bachelor in Business Program, and Project Director for the HKUST-NYU Stern MSc in Global Finance.

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