International Advisory Board

Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Member, GIC Investment Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

G. Leonard Baker is a Partner in Sutter Hill Ventures. He advises GIC’s Investment Strategies Committee and sits on the Investment Board. He was a trustee of Yale University, where he chaired the Finance Committee and served on the Yale Investment Committee from 1990 to 2015. Mr Baker is a board member of Stanford Management Company, advises the David and Lucile Packard Foundation Investment Committee, and is a board member of the US Environmental Defense Fund. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 2005, he was conferred the Public Service Star Award in Singapore for his contributions in the areas of education and investment management.

Mr Baker holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Yale and a Master in Business Administration from Stanford.

Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Member, GIC Investment Board

Léon Bressler is the Managing Partner of Aermont Capital LLP, formerly Perella Weinberg Real Estate UK LLP, since its inception in 2007. He is a member of the GIC Investment Board. Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners, Mr Bressler was the Chairman and CEO of Unibail (now Unibail-Rodamco). Under his leadership, Unibail grew to become Europe’s largest real estate investment trust. Mr Bressler began his career with Chase Manhattan Bank in Paris, before joining the Midland Bank Group where he became the Chairman of the Executive Board of Midland Bank SA. He has also held positions as CEO of the Lanvin Group and Managing Partner of Worms & Cie.

Mr Bressler is a graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and has a degree in Law.

Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Dr Mohamed El-Erian is Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz and President Elect of Queens’ College Cambridge. He is an advisor to the GIC Investment Strategies Committee. Previously, he was CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO from 2007 to 2014, and former chair of President Obama’s Global Development Council. He was President and CEO of Harvard Management Company, Managing Director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup, and Deputy Director at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Dr El-Erian writes regularly, and is a Financial Times Contributing Editor and Bloomberg View columnist. He has two New York Times’ best sellers – the 2008 “When Markets Collide” and the 2016 “The Only Game in Town”—and was named four years in a row to Foreign Policy list of Top Global Thinkers.

Dr El-Erian holds a Bachelor of Economics from Cambridge University, as well as a Masters and PhD in Economics from Oxford University.

Member, GIC International Advisory Board

Uday Kotak, Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank, has led the group in a broad range of financial services for over 33 years. The Group’s vision for equitable prosperity extends beyond financial services. The Kotak Education Foundation works with some of India’s most economically underprivileged communities, attempting to alleviate poverty through education and livelihood programmes. Mr Kotak is a member of the International Advisory Panel of Monetary Authority of Singapore, and has served as Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee constituted by SEBI. He has been awarded the “Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in 2014 and “Economic Times Business Leader of the Year Award” in 2015.

Mr Kotak holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, and a MMS degree from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Carsten Stendevad is a member of Bridgewater’s senior management team and also serves as an advisor to the GIC Investment Strategies Committee and a Member of the Board of Novo Holdings (the investment arm of Novo Nordisk foundation). Previously, he was CEO of ATP, where he was responsible for all investment, pension, and administrative activities. Under his leadership, ATP redesigned its investment strategy with a new approach to portfolio construction and increased focus on direct investments in real assets, all while delivering strong investment returns. Previously, Mr. Stendevad was a Managing Director in Citigroup’s Investment Bank in New York, with global responsibility for its corporate finance advisory team. Earlier in his career, he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company and an analyst at the Central Bank of Denmark.

Mr. Stendevad holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a recipient of the Order of Dannebrog awarded by HMQ Margrethe II of Denmark.

Member, GIC International Advisory Board
Member, GIC Investment Board
Advisor, GIC Investment Strategies Committee

Glenn Hutchins is Chairman of North Island and a co-founder of Silver Lake. He is a director of AT&T and of Virtu Financial; Co-Chairman of the Brookings Institution and CARE; on the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics Basketball Team and the Obama Foundation; and a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Center for American Progress.

He also founded the Hutchins Family Foundation to manage his philanthropic initiatives in academic research and public policy. Previously, Mr Hutchins served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and health-care policy.

Mr Hutchins holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.