Dr. Anthony Neoh, QC, SC, was former Chairman of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (1995-1998) and Chief Adviser of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (1998-2004).  He has been in practice at the HK Bar since returning to Hong Kong from Beijing, He is active in research on legal and financial history and lectures frequently on current issues of financial regulation. 

Paul is Managing Director for Life & Health Products for the Asia Pacific region. He oversees pricing and underwriting for all lines of life & health business in the region. Paul joined Swiss Re in 2003 from Ernst & Young after consulting to Swiss Re on implementation of their economic reporting framework.

In 2006, following the acquisition of GE Insurance Solutions, Paul was appointed as Managing Director and Head of Life & Health Products for UK, Ireland & Africa. Paul drove through Swiss Re's successful re-entry to the guaranteed critical illness market following the acquisition of GE's Insurance Solutions.

Paul moved to Hong Kong in 2010 to take on his current role. He has been active since then in successfully driving a more assertive strategy and risk appetite for Swiss Re in the Asia Pacific region. Paul is also involved in a range of industry and professional bodies and is a regular contributor to conferences and periodicals.

Ms Annie Choi joined the Hong Kong Government in 1986 and assumed the position of Commissioner of Insurance in September 2009. She has worked in a number of policy bureaux and departments, including the Home Affairs Department, Civil Service Bureau, Health and Welfare Bureau, Innovation and Technology Commission, Environment and Food Bureau, as well as the Environment, Transport and Works Bureau. Between June 2007 and August 2009, Ms Choi was the Deputy Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development, overseeing policies and legislation on consumer protection and postal services, support for local trade and industry, as well as economic and trade issues related to the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Ms Choi obtained her bachelor and master degrees in Laws as well as Postgraduate Certificate in Laws from the University of Hong Kong. She also did postgraduate studies in Public Administration at the Oxford University, UK and Tsinghua University, PRC.

Simon Walpole is a Principal and Practice Leader for Deloitte Actuarial and Insurance Solutions (Hong Kong) Limited. He joined Deloitte in September 1992 and was based in Europe until he came to Asia in 2002. Since 2010 he has been Deloitte Actuarial's Practice Leader for Greater China and South East Asia.

Simon has extensive experience in assisting Asian and European clients in embedded and appraisal valuations, including numerous merger and acquisition assignments, product development, business planning, and assessing business and strategic options.

Mitchell Wiener is a Senior Social Protection Specialist for the World Bank, and it currently posted to the Bankâ?Ts Jakarta office. He also serves as the Bankâ?Ts pension leader for the East Asia and Pacific region. Mitch is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (1981) and an Enrolled Actuary (1983) and has more than 35 years of total experience as a practicing consulting actuary in the United States and abroad. For the past 16 years he has worked with the World Bank and other development partners on social and financial sector reforms, pension and insurance regulation and actuarial profession development, primarily in the former Eastern Europe, and Central and Southeast Asia.

Cynthia Hui is the Executive Director (Supervision) of the Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) Schemes Authority of Hong Kong. The MPF System is a mandatory, privately managed, and fully funded defined contribution system of retirement savings. Cynthia's Division supervises the private industry that manages the retirement funds of the MPF System in Hong Kong. Cynthia is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

Prior to joining the Authority in 2005, she has over 15 years of commercial experience in the fields of life insurance, superannuation and general insurance in Australia. While in the life insurance industry, Cynthia has held senior actuarial positions such as corporate actuary, chief actuary and appointed actuary at major life insurance companies.