Petra Freddi is a senior director of business and program development at the Milken Institute Asia Center. She is responsible for deepening engagement across a network of supporters including financial institutions, investment funds, corporations and individual philanthropists. Freddi is responsible for three main constituent groups. She manages Asia's Global Capital Markets Advisory Council (GCMAC), a platform for the region's most prominent institutional investors to gather and discuss key issues and trends that affect their investment decisions. Her responsibilities also include the growth of the Institute's Family Program for ultra-high-net worth individuals, the Family Office CIO program as well as the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle in Asia that brings together the region's next generation of leaders. Prior to joining the Institute in 2015, Freddi spent over a decade working in finance, the last five years in investor relations and marketing at Apollo Management in Singapore. Freddi holds a master's degree from HEC Paris Grande Ecole as well as a master's degree from the Economics University in Prague.