Lavan Thiru
 Lavan Thiru    (central banker?) | |
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| Nationality | Singapore |
| Alma mater | Nanyang Business School |
Event 201 "player". Took part as representative of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. His boss Tharman Shanmugaratnam is a member of the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees. | |
Lavan Thiru is a senior employee at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MSE), the central bank.
As an employee of the MSE, he represented his boss Tharman Shanmugaratnam at the COVID-19 dry run Event 201 pandemic exercise. Shanmugaratnam is Chairman of the MSE and member of the World Economic Forum's Board of Trustees.
Career
Thiru started his career in the Ministry of Finance, overseeing budget policy formulation for the various ministries. He then spent 10 years in tax policy formulation both in the Ministry of Finance and the Monetary Authority of Singapore."[1]
Lavan Thiru joined the Monetary Authority of Singapore in June 2006 and is per 2020 its Chief Representative in the New York Representative Office. He assumed this role in November 2016. Previously, he was the head of the Financial Products and Investment Solutions Division, part of the Financial Markets Development Department of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. In that role, he oversaw the development of Singapore financial markets. He was also responsible for developing initiatives related to infrastructure and trade finance.[1]
Thiru spent more than a year on secondment to Clifford Capital, a specialist provider of structured finance solutions established with support from the Government of Singapore, to act as a catalyst for companies that have a meaningful presence in Singapore, in support of their investments or exports overseas.[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Event 201 | 18 October 2019 | 18 October 2019 | New York US | A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security/World Economic Forum/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored large scale simulation of a global coronavirus pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held October 2019. |
| Financial Flows and Infrastructure Financing | 20 March 2014 | 21 March 2014 | Australia |
