AmCham Capital Markets & Financial Services Committee (CMFSC) Meeting – August
For AmCham Members Only
For AmCham Members Only
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Virtual and physical attendance are available.
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Michael Kokalari
Chief Economist, VinaCapital
Michael Kokalari, CFA serves as VinaCapital’s Chief Economist, where he is responsible for providing thought leadership and technical acumen on a wide range of global and local macroeconomic issues with a view towards maximizing investment performance.
Mr. Kokalari has worked in Vietnam for 12 years, prior to which he was a derivatives trader in Tokyo & London where he ran multi-billion dollar trading books for JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse First Boston, Lehman Brothers, and Paribas. Mr. Kokalari co-authored the CFA guide to Credit Derivatives, and was a contributor to “Risk Management: Foundations for a Changing Financial World”, along with Nobel Prize winners Myron Scholes and William Sharpe of Stanford University.
Mr. Kokalari holds Masters Degrees in Business, Engineering, and Mathematics from Stanford University, and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at the Harvard Business School.
4:00 PM | Roll call / Introductions |
4:05 PM | Topic: Impact of potential US recession on Vietnam
Guest Speaker: Michael Kokalari, Chief Economist, VinaCapital Moderator: Eric Levinson, Co-Chair AmCham CMFS Committee, Deputy Managing Director Head of Business Development, VinaCapital |
4:35 PM | Q&A |
4:50 PM | AOB |
4:55 PM | Update from Mary Tarnowka, Executive Director, AmCham Vietnam |
5:00 PM | Closing |