Profiles

As executive director of Infrastructure Asia, Lavan Thiru works closely with both the private and public sector in Singapore and Asia and the Pacific, focusing on project origination and development to enable more sustainable infrastructure in the region. He has been actively involved in various initiatives in infrastructure financing, including spending over a year at Clifford Capital, a specialist provider of structured finance solutions. He started his career in the Ministry of Finance, overseeing fiscal policy formulation. Prior to his appointment at Infrastructure Asia in April 2021, he held various leadership roles at the Monetary Authority of Singapore focused on financial market development. He was most recently the chief representative based in the MAS New York Representative Office. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a specialization in financial analysis, with honors, and his master’s degree in Accountancy from Nanyang Technological University’s Nanyang Business School.