Chaired by Veronique Lafon-Vinais, Executive Director, Careers Development and Corporate Outreach, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the ACT Treasury Asia Panel was developed to provide the ACT team with on-the-ground intelligence and guidance. The panel consists of treasury professionals from some of the largest and most influential organisations across the region. These volunteers dedicate their free time to supporting the development of the profession and ensuring that the ACT is supporting the local needs of the treasury and finance community.
Veronique Lafon-Vinais, Executive Director, Careers Development and Corporate Outreach, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Veronique 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.