Master of Science in Financial Engineering
(On Campus)

Joseph Lim is a director of Vanden Advisors LLC, a valuation and advisory service. He was formerly a SVP in Marsh (Singapore), heading the Private Equity and M&A practice. Prior to that, he was Director of the Saw Center for Financial Studies and also an Associate Professor of Finance at the NUS Business School where he taught courses in Investment Analysis and Fund Management. He obtained a PhD in Finance from New York University, an MBA from Columbia University and a CFA from the CFA Institute. He is the past President of CFA Singapore and still serves as a board member. Joseph is a trustee on the board of the Singapore National Eye Centre Endowment Fund. He also serves on various other committees in the financial services industry.

Lutfey Siddiqi is Managing Director and Asia-Pacific Head of Foreign Exchange & Risk Advisory in the Investment Banking Division of Barclays Capital. Prior to assuming this role in September 2004, he was Global Head of FX Structuring based in London. Before joining Barclays, Lutfey was European Head of the Global Risk Strategy Group at Deutsche bank (ex-Germany). He had a MSc. from the London School of Economics (on full LSE Scholarship) where he specialised in Finance Econometrics. He obtained his BSc. jointly in Economics & Econometrics from the University of York with a First Class (ranked first) and the departmental prize for outstanding achievement in Statistics.

Education
• B.S., National Taiwan University
• Ph.D., Cornell University

Current interests
• Characterization of Probability Distributions > • Poincare-type Inequalities
• Financial Mathematics