Asia in Crisis Tapa dura - 1999

About the Author: Philippe Delhaise grew up in Belgium where he obtained degrees in Engineering, Economics and Philosophy. He later earned a MBA degree at the University of Chicago. He was a bank manager for fifteen years in Beirut, Tehran, Tokyo, Singapore and Hongkong before establishing several companies in Hongkong and Singapore servicing the banking industry. Among them was Asia's first regional bank rating agency, Capital Information Services, that became the basis of the Asia division of Thomson BankWatch. In his present position, Philippe Delhaise heads a team of analysts who monitor over 300 banks in 16 Asian countries for the benefit of the international investment and financial community. He has produced numerous research papers on banking risk in Asia. His many speaking engagements around the world for various Asian bankers associations have confirmed him as a specialist of financial risk in Asia. Philippe Delhaise has written articles for the Asian Wall Street Journal and is frequently interviewed or quoted by leading financial news agencies such as Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and the Financial Times. Always on the road, Philippe Delhaise regularly stops over at his office in Hongkong and at his home in Paris, where the single father raises two teenage daughters.