Desmond Koh

Desmond is Managing Director at BNP Paribas Wealth Management and his team serves private families and family offices in Southeast Asia.  Aligned with BNP Paribas' leadership in Sustainable Finance (Ranked #1 Best Bank for Sustainable Finance 2018 by Euromoney). Desmond leads a sustainability taskforce at the bank and runs "ConsciousCircle", a community of asset and wealth owners.

{Extract from LinkedIn} "Navigating 20 years of investment banking and wealth management, together with his experience as an entrepreneur portfolio manager managing investments for private families, Desmond has gathered wisdom (ie. made many regrettable mistakes) and cultivated strength to evangelise on what he terms 'Compassion Capital' – where every individual has the opportunity to positively impact people and planet, simply by making mindful compassionate decisions with ‘Capital', where capital refers not only to ‘financial' capital (i.e. investments, businesses, and consumption/spending), but also to "physical, mental and emotional" capital (i.e. time and energy, thoughts and emotions).

Desmond Koh Mun Kit (born 19 May 1973) is a former competitive swimmer from Singapore and represented the nation in numerous international competitions over a period of more than 10 years including 5 years as National Captain. Desmond represented the Republic in three Olympics (1988, 1992, 1996), three Asian Games (1990, 1994, 1998), one Commonwealth Games (1998), one World Championships (1991) and five Southeast Asian Games (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995). His younger brother, Gerald, also represented Singapore at the Olympics. Some of Koh's national swimming records stood for almost 20 years. His wife is Nadya Hutagalung, a well known personality and influencer, and a UNEP global ambassador.