Robin Hu

Mr Robin Hu serves as Singapore’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Timor-Leste from 2023 to 2026. He is Emeritus Asia Chairman of the Milken Institute. He headed Temasek’s Sustainability and International Policy groups and served as its Vice Chairman for Asia and Operating Partner before becoming its senior advisor. He chairs Mandai Nature, a non-profit organisation dedicated to biodiversity protection and wildlife conservation across Southeast Asia. He is also Chairman of Parkway-Trust Management Limited, manager of the Singapore-listed Parkway-Life REIT. He is also 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. Having lived and worked across Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong, he brings cross-regional perspective to questions of strategic competition, geopolitics, and capital allocation. His career spans information technology, media, finance, and public service. Mr. Hu writes on strategic competition, capital flows, and Asia’s economic transition for Nikkei Asia, Project Syndicate, South China Morning Post, Lianhe Zaobao, and the Hinrich Foundation. He serves on international advisory councils for London based financial think tank the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF) and Bank.