Philippe Delhaise Philippe Delhaise was President of ThomsonBankwatch Asia Pacific. In this capacity, he was responsible for all ratings and research coverage of financial institutions across the Asia-Pacific. He supervised analysts in the eight ThomsonBankwatch Asia Pacific research offices. Mr. Delhaise is an expert on Asian banks and banking systems and is widely quoted in the media throughout the region. A French national with degrees in Engineering, Philosophy and Economics, Mr. Delhaise also received a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago. Mr. Delhaise has been living and working throughout Asia and the Middle East since the early 1970s. He served as General Manager in Hong Kong of Belgium’s largest bank. Upon leaving that position, he established a group of companies servicing the financial industry in Hong Kong and Singapore. One of these companies, Capital Information Services, an Asia-Pacific bank rating agency, was purchased by ThonsonBankwatch in 1994. He is currently President of Oriental International Strategies, a Hong Kong think-tank. Philippe Delhaise is the author of "Asia in Crisis - The implosion of the banking and finance systems" (Wiley Publishers - 1998) see article Autumn 1998 on China banking system | |||
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