Michael Preiss to speak at Global Compact Network Ceylon Sustainability Knowledge Hub

The quarterly Sustainability Knowledge Hub (SKH) organised by the Global Compact Network Ceylon will feature Michael Preiss, a Board Member for the Middle-East and Asia with the International Academy of Financial Management (IAFM) and Advisor on its Global Board of Standards on Wealth Management and Private Banking curriculum as the keynote speaker. Michael also serves as Economic Advisor to Ceylon Asset Management.

He will speak on the Sustainability Indices and Global Trends at the SKH to be held on the 11th of August from 5.15 pm onwards at the CIMA Auditorium in Colombo.

Global Compact Sustainability Knowledge Hub events which aim to “Drive Economic Growth Sustainably” by equipping the Sri Lankan corporate sector with the necessary knowledge and skills required to practice corporate sustainability.

The forum is organised by Global Compact Network Ceylon, the local network of the world’s largest corporate citizenship initiative, the Global Compact.

Michael Preiss served as Director and Research Fellow at The Asian Bond Market Forum, a Hong Kong based non-profit think-tank. The ABMF provides policy research on the development of Asian local currency bond markets and advises on bond-market issuance programs and infrastructure development. In this role, Michael was working with Thailand’s Ministry of Finance, as one of the founding members of the Asian Bond Market Development Secretariat in Bangkok.

A guest commentator on Bloomberg TV, CNBC Asia, and the BBC as well as India’s New Delhi Television, a columnist for finance magazines in China and Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, as well Singapore’s Business Times where he contributes the regular “Executive Money” column. In Malaysia, he contributes the regular:  Strategic Investing / with Michael Preiss, column in The EDGE Malaysia.

Michael is a graduate of the European Business School with a major in Finance and International Economics, having studied at the schools centers in London, Paris and Bologna, Italy in the respective local languages. In addition he studied in Japan, Korea, and China. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he taught on Technical Analysis as well as a course on Banking & Financial Institutions with a focus on China’s Financial System. He also taught at the School of Finance – Renmin University in Beijing and has been invited to design a course curriculum on “Fixed Income Securities” for the Graduate School of The People’s Bank of China, China’s Central Bank.

The Sustainability Knowledge Hub is open for senior management, sustainability champions, the corporate and the public sector.

The Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption.  Global Compact today stands as the largest corporate citizenship and sustainability initiative in the world, with over 8700 corporate participants and stakeholders from over 130 countries.