Presentations

Selected talks and presentations (since 2015)

2025

Keynote speaker: ‘Making finance fun in the fintech economy’, Interim Conference of the Swiss Sociological Association’s Economic Sociology Network, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland, 4 September.
Invited speaker: ‘Reshaping state-finance-tech nexus through central bank digital currency: The case of mBridge in Hong Kong’, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 13 March.
Invited speaker: ‘Navigating the challenges of digital growth and decarbonisation through the lens of data centres’, School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, 7 March.

2024

Co-presenter: Policy and industry workshop on green data centres (with Felicia Liu), Centre for Climate Finance & Investment, Imperial College London, UK, 7 November.
Invited participant: ‘Value and wealth in GFN and GPN: the case of gold as commodity’, 2024 GFN- GPN Workshop, Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus, China, 1-3 March.

2023

Co-presenter: industry workshop on ‘Sustainable financing for green data centres’ (with Winston Chow, Felicia Liu and Bertrand Seah), Jones Lang LaSalle (CapitaSpring), Singapore, 20 November.
Keynote speaker: ‘From fintech to finlife’, Intersections of Finance and Society Conference 2023, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 15 September.
Co-presenter: ‘Growth and trajectory of data centres in Singapore: Finance, development and sustainability pathways’ (with Felicia Liu and Winston Chow), Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual Conference 2023, London, UK, 30 August.

2022

Invited speaker: ‘How ‘green’ is green FinTech? A critical enquiry into the growth of data centres in Southeast Asia’ (with Winston Chow), Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg, 13 September.
Invited speaker: ‘The political economy of new financial technologies’, Forum on Post-Covid Digital Finance, UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, 30 March. [Held online]
Invited speaker: ‘FinTech in Southeast Asia: Observations Across Production and Consumption Dynamics’, LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, 3 March. [Held online]

2021

Invited speaker: ‘Emerging Economic Geographies of FinTech’, China Development Studies Elite Seminar Series 2021, The University of Hong Kong, 28 April. [Held online]
Co-presenter: ‘Ecologies of Green Finance in Islamic Financial Centre Development: The Case of Green Sukuk in Malaysia’ (with Felicia Liu), CURDS External Seminar Series 2021, Newcastle University, 15 April. [Held online]

2020

Co-presenter: ‘FinTech and the gamification of finance’ (with Paul Langley), FinGeo Online Workshop on Evolving Geographies of FinTech, 24-25 November. [Held online]
Co-presenter: ‘Creating, capturing and protecting value and wealth: The role of Singapore in the global gold chain’ (with Lotte Thompson and Stefano Ponte), Copenhagen Business School Centre for Business and Development Studies and Institute of Development Studies CBDS-IDS Virtual Seminar Series 2020, 1 October. [Held online]
Co-organiser and Chair: Webinar ‘FinGeo Forum: Doing financial geography research during and after Covid-19’, 8th & 9th July. [Held online]

2019

Panellist: Industry forum on ‘Financing net zero: How can investment meet the climate challenge?’, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK, 5 December.
Industry seminar: HSBC Local Insights Presented by NUS GPN Centre, 31 July, Singapore.
Presenter: ‘FinTech: The dis/re-intermediation of finance?’, 2019 Annual Meeting of the AAG, 3-7 April, Washington D.C., USA.
Invited speaker: Webinar on ‘Investment banking networks in Asian financial centres’, Young Scholars Initiative, Institute for New Economic Thinking, 28 February.

2018

Invited speaker: ‘Singapore as international financial centre: Integrating economic and urban development’, 2018 International Forum on Cantonology and Global City Development, Guangzhou, China, 10-11 November 2018
Presenter: ‘Finance’s hydra: towards an economic geography of FinTech’ (co-authored with Michael Samers), 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography, 24-28 July, Cologne, Germany.
Presenter: ‘Philanthro-capitalism, social enterprise, and global development’ (co-authored with Dennis Stolz), Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) Annual Meeting, 23-25 June, Kyoto, Japan.

2017

Invited participant: Workshop on ‘Emerging Geographies of Transnational Monetary Power’, 18-19 September, Centre for Rising Powers, University of Cambridge, UK.
Invited participant: Workshop and seminar on ‘International financial centres after the global financial crisis and Brexit’, 15-16 June, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford.
Invited participant: Workshop on ‘Asia/Global Production Networks’, 8-9 June, City University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University.
Presenter: ‘Regional dynamics of investment banking in Asia: An analysis of M&A activities (co-authored with Kurtulus Gemici), 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, 5-9 April, Boston, USA.

2016

Invited lecture: ‘Finance and the state: A developmentalist view from Asia’, 14 December, Lecture Series, Winter 2016/2017: Frontier Regions of Global Finance, Department of Human Geography, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.
Panellist: ‘Becoming financial: everyday spaces, practices and actors’, 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, 29 March-2 April, San Francisco, USA.