Grant Bailey is CEO for ING Investment Management Asia/Pacific, a position he assumed on 12 August 2010. Grant, who has been with ING IM for nine years, prior to this role, he was the Regional General Manager and had responsibility for the investment management businesses in Hong Kong, China, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Grant originally started with ING in Australia where he was the CEO of ING IM Australia from 2003 until 2007 before moving to Dubai to establish ING IM’s Greenfield investment operations in the Middle East.

Prior to ING IM, Grant was with Citigroup Asset Management where he held various senior positions including CIO and CEO for Australia and New Zealand, and Managing Director and Head of Investment for Asia Pacific based in Singapore.

Before moving into investment management, Grant was Chief Economist for Citibank Australia following a fourteen-year career with the Australian Treasury where he worked in a number of areas including international finance, fiscal policy, debt management and a posting to the Australian Embassy in Washington in the late 1980s as Counsellor (Economic).

Grant holds an Honours Economics Degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia.

He is married with two adult children.