About Mr. Michael Preiss

Trainer and Chair of Board of Governors for Emerging Markets at International Academy of Business and Financial Management

Mr. Preiss was born in Germany and raised in Switzerland.  He currently resides in Singapore.

Mr. Preiss has 17 years experience in global financial markets have worked in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Dubai and Singapore in various investment and research functions.   He held senior positions with HSBC Private Bank as well as Standard Chartered Bank . Most recently Mr. Preiss served as Chief Equity Strategist with Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore. 

At present he runs two hedge funds and asset management firms in Mongolia (www.mongoliaassetmanagement.com ) and in Africa (www.africanassetmanagement.com)

In addition he is a board member and economic advisor to Ceylon Asset Management in Sri Lanka (www.ceylonassetmanagement.com)

Mr. Preiss is a graduate of the European Business School with a major in Finance and international economics, having studied at the schools centers in London, Paris and Bologna, Italy in the respective local languages. In addition he studied in Japan, Korea, and China. In 1989 during the height of the Japanese Stock Market he lived a year in Japan with a local host family as an AFS (American Field Service) exchange student.

Mr. Preiss is a  regular guest commentator on Bloomberg TV, CNBC Asia and columnist for various finance magazines around the world.

Mr. Preiss has taught extensively on Finance and Wealth Management in Asia, Middle East and Africa.  He has also been an guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he taught on Technical Analysis as well as a course on Banking & Financial Institutions with a focus on China's Financial System. In Singapore he taught a course on Credit Derivatives at SMU (Singapore Management University)

Mr. Preiss has also been invited to teach and has designed courses for The Graduate School of The People's Bank of China, China's Central Bank.