Michael Preiss, CWM (Chartered Wealth Manager) serves as Associate Director, Investment Advisory Group at HSBC Private Bank, serving clients in the Middle East and South Asia.

Advisor on Global Board of Standards on Wealth Management and Private Banking curriculum for the Middle-East and Asia with the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM).

He is also a Director and Economic Advisor to East India Asset Management in Sri Lanka, Index Committee member, involved in launching the Celyon Index Fund, the 1st Index fund on the Colombo Stock Exchange.

He also is a Director and Research Fellow at The Asian Bond Market Forum, a Hong Kong based non-profit think-tank. The ABMF provides policy research on the development of Asian local currency bond markets and advises on bond-market issuance programs and infrastructure development. In this role, Mr. Preiss is working with Thailand's Ministry of Finance, as one of the founding members of the Asian Bond Market Development Secretariat in Bangkok.

Mr. Preiss is a graduate of the European Business School with a major in Finance and international economics, having studied at the schools centers in London, Paris and Bologna, Italy in the respective local languages. In addition he studied in Japan, Korea, and China.

A regular guest commentator on Bloomberg TV, CNBC Asia, and the BBC as well as India's New Delhi Television, a columnist for finance magazine's in Hong Kong and China, as well Singapore's Business Times and the Bangkok Post where he contributed the regular "Ahead of the Curve" column. In addition, he is a columnist for Forbes Arabia, the Arab language edition of Forbes Magazine.

He has also been an guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he taught on Technical Analysis as well as a course on Banking & Financial Institutions with a focus on China's Financial System.

He also taught at the School of Finance - Renmin University in Beijing and has been invited to design a course curriculum on "Fixed Income Securities" for the Graduate School of The People's Bank of China, China's Central Bank.

He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Singapore Management University where he teaches courses on finance and Credit Derivatives as part of the Executive Education Programmes.