Jacob Hook is Oliver Wyman's managing partner for Asia Pacific. He was previously head of Oliver Wyman's public policy practice for Asia Pacific and market leader for Australia. Jacob has extensive experience consulting to leading public and private financial sector institutions across Asia Pacific and Europe and worked in Oliver Wyman's Singapore office for five years before transferring to Australia. Jacob's expertise includes national financial sector strategy, regulatory architecture and regulatory organizational development, as well as securities, exchange, and wealth and asset management regulation. He also works on strategy issues for leading wholesale banks, asset managers, and wealth managers. Jacob holds a B.A. (Honours) in political science from Victoria University in New Zealand, and an M.A. in international finance and banking from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the author of a number of published reports on the financial services sector in Asia Pacific and a regular speaker at industry events. Jacob is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.