- Asia Chairman to Milken Institute, an independent American economic think tank
- Chairman Constellar Holding Ltd, a Temasek portfolio company in the exhibition and convention business
- Served as Vice Chairman Asia and Operating Partner for Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore
- Asia Chairman to Milken Institute, an independent American economic think tank
- Chairman Constellar Holding Ltd, a Temasek portfolio company in the exhibition and convention business
- Served as Vice Chairman Asia and Operating Partner for Temasek, a global investment firm headquartered in Singapore
Mr. Robin Hu is Emeritus Asia Chairman of the Milken Institute and served as Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Timor-Leste from 2023 to 2026. At Temasek, he headed the Sustainability and International Policy groups and served as Vice Chairman for Asia and Operating Partner before becoming its senior advisor.
He chairs Mandai Nature, a non-profit dedicated to biodiversity protection and wildlife conservation across Southeast Asia, and is Chairman of Parkway Trust Management Limited, manager of the Singapore-listed Parkway-Life REIT. He also serves as a board director of the WHO Foundation.
Prior to Temasek, Mr. Hu was Group CEO of Hong Kong-listed South China Morning Post Ltd., where he led its digital transformation and subsequent sale to the Alibaba Group. In the 1990s, he led Singapore’s systems transfer for the Suzhou Industrial Park, the first Goverment-to-Government project between Singapore and China.
Having lived and worked across Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong, he brings a cross-regional perspective to questions of strategic competition, geopolitics, and capital allocation. His career spans information technology, media, investment, and public service.
Mr. Hu writes on strategic competition, capital flows, and Asia’s economic transition. His commentary appears in Nikkei Asia, Project Syndicate, South China Morning Post, Lianhe Zaobao, and the Hinrich Foundation, and reaches policymakers, boards, and capital allocators globally.
He serves on international advisory councils for the London-based think tank Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Bank of Singapore’s Chief Investment Office.
