Risk Governance Speaker Singapore: What I Speak On and Why It Matters to Boards

Boards, regulators, and insurance executives across Singapore and Asia are grappling with a shared governance problem: the risk environment is changing faster than governance frameworks were built to handle, and the question of how to close that gap quickly and without creating compliance theatre is where the most useful speaking engagements now sit. My advisory practice at the intersection of actuarial risk, enterprise risk governance, and board oversight gives me a practitioner's perspective on these topics, drawn from statutory CRO roles at AIG Asia Pacific and Basel Medical Group, from CEO experience leading a Nasdaq listing, and from years as an independent board adviser across Singapore and Asia. The governance topics I am asked to address most often, climate risk, AI governance in financial services, risk appetite frameworks, capital strategy, and the ORSA as a board governance tool, all share the same underlying challenge: directors need enough technical fluency to govern what management is presenting, not just enough to receive it. I speak at board retreats, regulatory conferences, and professional development programmes in keynote, panel, and workshop formats.

I speak at board retreats, regulatory conferences, industry associations, and professional development programmes. The audiences range from NEDs and audit committee chairs to C-suite executives and regulators. What connects those audiences is a shared challenge: the risk environment is changing faster than governance frameworks, and the question of how to close that gap, quickly, practically, and without creating compliance theatre,is genuinely difficult.

Topics I address in Singapore and across Asia

• ◆Climate risk governance for boards: what mandatory disclosure actually requires of directors, how to integrate climate risk into the enterprise risk framework, and what personal accountability now looks like for Singapore directors
• ◆AI governance in financial services: the model governance gap between InsurTech adoption speed and board-level oversight capability, and how to close it without creating a bottleneck
• ◆Risk appetite as a governance tool: why most risk appetite frameworks do not influence decisions, and what the organisations that get it right are doing differently
• ◆The CRO and the board: how the relationship between the risk function and board-level governance should work, and what breaks it
• ◆ESG readiness versus ESG compliance: the gap between producing sustainability reports and being genuinely prepared to manage ESG risks as they materialise
• ◆Capital strategy and board governance: why capital decisions belong in the boardroom, and how to build the literacy that allows boards to engage with them

“When I stand up to speak, I am not presenting theory. I am bringing two decades of having held the roles, CRO, CEO, board adviser,that the people in the room are navigating.”

Format and audience

I work in keynote, panel, workshop, and board retreat formats. For governance audiences, I find that interactive workshop formats, where directors can bring their own situations and test frameworks against real examples,produce the most durable learning. For conference and regulatory audiences, I speak in keynote format with enough analytical specificity to be useful rather than inspirational.

If you are planning a board retreat, a governance conference, or a leadership development programme in Singapore or across Asia and are looking for a speaker who can bring both the practitioner's perspective and the actuarial depth that these governance topics require, I am available for engagements from mid-2026.

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Raymond Cheung is a Chartered Actuary, C-suite executive and board adviser with more than 20 years of experience across Asia in risk management, insurance, ESG and corporate governance. He is the CEO of CER Consultancy and an accredited trainer at SMU Academy and the Singapore College of Insurance.