[Virtual] America Through the Eyes of Economists featuring Dr. Simon Baptist, Visa

Event Details

Following the U.S. Presidential Inauguration, AmChamSG is continuing a new limited virtual series of America Through the Eyes of Economists hosted by our CEO, Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei.

Our guest on Monday, 10 February at 10am will be Dr. Simon Baptist, Vice President, Visa Business and Economic Insights and Principal Asia-Pacific Economist at Visa. Dr. Baptist will share insights on how America looks through his eyes, how the partnership between the U.S. and Singapore/Southeast Asia will evolve, and how companies can prepare for the months and years ahead.

The first half of the virtual session will be broadcast on LinkedIn Live followed by a closed-door Q&A open only to registered guests.

To see previous episodes of America Through the Eyes of, check out

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWeP-REiwMW0w65RH_GtM_BDP23lJ2oCi.

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Speakers

Dr. Simon Baptist

Vice President, Visa Business and Economic Insights Principal Asia-Pacific Economist at Visa

Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei

CEO of AmCham Singapore

Simon is the Principal Economist for APAC at Visa, responsible for analysis and thought leadership on economics and business in the region. An engaging and renowned economic communicator who can make economic ideas actionable and relevant to stakeholders across financial services, corporates and government, he briefs boards and executives, gives keynote presentations at large events, and has regularly appeared on international broadcast media.

His career so far has involved close to two decades of progressively more senior experience as a professional economist. Prior to Visa, he was the Global Chief Economist at the EIU, the world’s leading private sector economic forecaster, where he developed a global reputation delivdering economic and geopolitical insight. He also spent time as a lecturer at Oxford University and an economics consultant focussing on climate change, productivity and development economics.

He has a doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford, where his research investigated productivity and technology in emerging market manufacturing firms. This postgraduate study followed degrees in Economics and Science from the University of Tasmania. He has published a number of academic articles, including in World Development, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, University of Oxford working paper series, and Global Journal of Emerging Market Economies, as well as leading or contributing to a large number of EIU publications, such as the Global Economic Outlook, and wrote the ‘From Our Chief Economist’ newsletter for nearly 10 years.

Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore — the largest and the most active international business association in Singapore and Southeast Asia representing over 650 companies. Hsien is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, member of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Advisory Board, Vice President of the Precision Public Health Asia Society, board member of TalenTtrust, member of the United Women Singapore STEM Advisory Panel, and member of the 2023 FIRST Global Challenge host committee.

Prior to AmCham, Hsien was Vice President, Medical and Scientific Affairs, Medtronic Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for the Medtronic Innovation Centers in Japan and Korea, training and education, and the company’s health systems transformation strategy in the region. Hsien has extensive experience in scientific affairs, corporate and healthcare communications, advertising, public relations, and government affairs.

Hsien has lived and worked in the US, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, UK, and is now based in Singapore. She holds a BA (with honors) in Human Biology from Stanford University and a PhD in Epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health where she was the recipient of a US National Institutes of Health Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology Training Grant. Her doctoral thesis explored the genetic epidemiology of end-stage renal disease and type 2 diabetes. She completed her post-doctoral fellowship at National Taiwan University Hospital in the Department of Internal Medicine.

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