Alan is the CEO for ING Investment Management (ING IM) in Asia Pacific. He is also a member of ING IM’s global management board and of ING Group’s Management Council and is based in Hong Kong.

Prior to joining ING he was CEO of Alliance Trust PLC, which is a listed general financial services and investment management company in the United Kingdom, taking it from a FTSE250 company to being a FTSE100 company. He has spent over 20 years in Asia and the Middle East, with strong experience from Wardley (now HSBC Asset Management), Scimitar Investment Management (then part of Standard Chartered’s asset management operations) and Standard Chartered’s consumer banking division as Global Head of Investment Services. He also spent three and a half years as Asia Pacific’s regional head of Citigroup Asset Management based in Japan.

Alan is currently a Non Executive member of the Court of St Andrews University, he is an Honorary Professor of the school of Accounting and Finance at Dundee University and in 2007 received an honorary fellowship for multiculturalism from the Al Maktoum institute; University of Aberdeen, UK.