Andrew Phang is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. A lawyer by training, he practised law in Australia and Malaysia before joining an investment bank in Malaysia. During the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, Mr Phang was invited to become a member of the project team that established Danaharta, Malayia’s national non-performing loans resolution agency, and was subsequently part of its senior management team. He served as non-executive director of the Credit Management and Counselling Agency, a subsidiary of the Central Bank of Malaysia.