Chair

He is responsible for the oversight and management of Legal across Asia Pacific and is the Deputy head of Global Markets Legal with direct responsibility for the EMEAand APAC Markets legal teams. Roger serves as a member of both the Extended Legal Management Team, CIB Legal management team and the Asia PacificManagement Committee.

Across more than 20 years at J.P. Morgan, Roger has held various roles of increasing seniority with the firm in South Africa, London, Singapore and Hong Kong acrossthe Corporate & Investment Bank, Legal, Sales & Marketing and Risk Management and Compliance. Roger began his career in South Africa as an attorney. He holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Economics and Law. Roger was admitted as anAttorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1996.

Co-Vice Chair

In this role, Charles is responsible for all Markets businesses, with key focus in developing and implementing global product delivery strategies for the region, leading senior regulatory and client relationships, and establishing and maintaining strong risk management discipline and culture. Since joining Salomon Smith Barney in 1998, he has held numerous sales and trading leadership roles across multiple geographies, championing the distribution and trading businesses to record revenues and market leading positions.

Charles serves as Alternate Chief Executive of Citibank NA Hong Kong. He is a member of Citi Hong Kong Executive Committee, a Board Member of Citigroup Global Markets Asia Limited, and chairs the board for Citigroup Global Markets HK Limited. Charles represents Citi as Executive Board Member at the Treasury Markets Association (TMA) of Hong Kong, Board Executive Committee Member at the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA), and a Board Member at the Hong Kong Exchange OTC Clearing Hong Kong Limited. Previously he also served as a member of the Hong Kong Government Equity Market Liquidity Taskforce.

Charles holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Engineering degrees from the University of Cambridge, and an EMBA degree jointly from the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Charles is a CFA charter holder.

Co-Vice Chair

Mr. Zhou received his LLM from the University of Southampton. He is a qualified solicitor in People’s Republic of China, England and Wales and Hong Kong.  Before joining CICC, Mr. Zhou worked in a large international law firm and a leading PRC law firm.

Mr. Zhou was on the Board of Directors of Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association between 2015 and 2021. He is the Co-Chair of its China Capital Market Committee. He also sits in the Asian Board of the International Capital Market Association.

Mr. Zhou was voted as the Hong Kong In-house Counsel of the Year by Thompson Reuters ALB in 2018. He was granted with the General Counsel of the Year award by China Business Law Journal and the In-House Contribution Award by the International Financial Law Review in 2022.

Chief Executive Officer 

Reporting to the Board of Directors, he leads the association’s vision and strategy as it advocates on behalf of its over 160 member firms for the efficient growth and development of Asia’s capital markets.

Prior to his role at ASIFMA, Peter took over as Managing Director of the Private Wealth Management Association (PWMA) in December 2016, and was also named CEO in July 2021. Established in 2013, PWMA is an industry association whose mission is to foster the growth and development of the private wealth management industry in Hong Kong.

Previously, Peter worked for UBS AG, where he served as Head of Regulatory Advisory & Relations, Asia Pacific and before that as Head of Group Governmental Affairs for Asia Pacific. Until 2011, Peter was a senior editor, reporter and columnist in Hong Kong with The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for more than 20 years. He was the Journal’s Hong Kong Bureau Chief from 2005-2011 and before that was Managing Editor of the Journal’s Asian edition.

Peter graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and German.