Dr. Kevin Lu is a Partner and Chairman of Asia at Partners Group, a global private equity firm over $150 billion AUM. He chairs the International Advisory Council of PG LIFE, the firm’s sustainability fund. He is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board. Prior to Partners Group, Kevin held senior management positions at the World Bank Group. Kevin is currently an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, Executive Fellow and Lecturer at Yale School of Management and a Senior Fellow at Milken Institute. He serves on the advisory boards of the World Bank's Global Infrastructure Facility and International Finance Corporation's Impact Management Principles, Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Financial Centre Advisory Panel, the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Investing, and the Steering Council of the UN Institutional Investor Partnership for Sustainable Development. He co-authored a book "Investing with Confidence: Understanding Political Risk Management in the 21st Century". He was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2010, and a Future Leader by the Institute of International Finance in 2014. Kevin has published commentaries in the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, Washington Post, Financial Times, and the Straits Times