Kevin Lu, PhD, is a partner and chairman of Asia at Partners Group, a global private equity firm with $96 billion in assets under management. He chairs the Impact Committee of PG LIFE and is a member of the firm's Global Executive Board. He is also the head of the Singapore office with 280 staff. Prior to joining Partners Group, Lu held various senior management positions at the World Bank Group. Lu is a distinguished fellow at INSEAD, and a senior fellow at the Milken Institute. Lu serves on the advisory boards of the World Bank's Global Infrastructure Facility and International Finance Corporation's Impact Management Principles, Monetary Authority of Singapore's Financial Centre Advisory Panel, and the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Global Future Council on Investing. He co-authored a book, Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century. He was named a Young Global Leader by WEF in 2010 and a Future Leader by the Institute of International Finance in 2014. Lu has published commentaries in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Financial Times, and the Straits Times.