Desmond Koh
Desmond Koh Mun Kit (born 19 May 1973) is a former competitive swimmer from Singapore and represented the nation in numerous international competitions over a period of more than 10 years including 5 years as National Captain. Desmond represented the Republic in three Olympics (1988, 1992, 1996), three Asian Games (1990, 1994, 1998), one Commonwealth Games (1998), one World Championships (1991) and five Southeast Asian Games (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995). His younger brother, Gerald, also represented Singapore at the Olympics.[1] Some of Koh's national swimming records stood for almost 20 years. His wife is Nadya Hutagalung, a well known personality and influencer, and a UNEP global ambassador.
{Extract from LinkedIn} "Navigating 20 years of investment banking and wealth management, together with his experience as an entrepreneur portfolio manager managing investments for private families, Desmond has gathered wisdom (ie. made many regrettable mistakes) and cultivated strength to evangelise on what he terms 'Compassion Capital' – where every individual has the opportunity to positively impact people and planet, simply by making mindful compassionate decisions with ‘Capital', where capital refers not only to ‘financial' capital (i.e. investments, businesses, and consumption/spending), but also to "physical, mental and emotional" capital (i.e. time and energy, thoughts and emotions).
He strives to plant these seeds of positive intentions into the hearts and minds of investors and private families, with the goal of catalysing collaborations for impact and change in portfolios and businesses.
Desmond is the Managing Director at an international private bank and his team serves private families and family offices in Southeast Asia. Aligned with BNP Paribas' leadership in Sustainable Finance (Ranked #1 Best Bank for Sustainable Finance 2018 by Euromoney). Desmond leads a sustainability taskforce at the bank and runs "ConsciousCircle", a community of asset and wealth owners.
A 3x Olympian (swimmer) and Mindfulness practitioner, Desmond is actively exploring Consciousness and The Human Potential. He strives for peak performance states and has experienced his best life performances when the internal "mind-body-spirit" trio is delicately balanced and operating in true harmony. He openly shares this ideology with the motivation of benefiting others and to positively impact the world around him.
He conducts meditation sessions, mindful life coaching, and speaks on "Mind and The Human Potential."
He sits on Boards of several non-profit entities in Singapore and USA, focused education and health."
He graduated from the University of Southern California with a (B.S. in (Electrical Engineering)) and was subsequently awarded a Rhodes Scholarship,[2][3] to study at Oxford where he obtained an MPhil in Management Studies (Finance and Economics). Desmond is a proponent of continued education and has completed courses in Sustainability at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership and also Design Thinking at Luma Institute.
National records
Koh broke four national records, including:
- 200m Breaststroke - 2:21.87, 29 July 1992 (Current record: 2:21.06, 21 June 2007)
- 400m Individual Medley - 4:28.95, 27 July 1992 (Broken by Quah Zheng Wen with a timing of 4:21.70 on 16 March 2012 43rd Singapore National Age Group (Senior) Swimming Chanmpionships 2012)
References
- "Marathon swim for charity", Straits Times, 12 Nov 2007
- "Oxford Bound" Archived 6 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine USC News, 8 May 1995.
- Yoki Chow, "Education and Sports - The Perfect Balance", British Council Singapore, URL last accessed 2006-12-07.
External links
- Singapore Swimming Association
- https://web.archive.org/web/20070402141721/http://www.sportinc.net/ Koh's blog
- "Desmond Koh". Archived from the original on 19 June 2009.