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title: Women in Finance Asia Awards Shortlist Announced
description: This year's WIFAA program will be held on Thursday, May 20.
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# [Women in Finance Asia Awards Shortlist Announced](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/women-in-finance-asia-awards-shortlist-announced)

 Written by [GlobalTrading](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/author/globaltrading) | Apr 21, 2021 6:54:24 PM

Markets Media Group, owner of GlobalTrading, is pleased to present the shortlist for the [2021 Women in Finance Asia Awards](https://www.marketsmedia.com/women-in-finance-asia-2021/). We have received over 150 submissions and we are excited to announce the winners on May 20th at 10AM HKT.

| First Name | Last Name | Title | Company |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aya | Asanuma | Sales Representative, Japan | MarketAxess |
| Vaisshali | Babu | Associate Director; Head, Relationship Management, Product & Market Intelligence | BNP Paribas Securities Services |
| Felicity | Chan | Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia Equity Syndicate | Credit Suisse |
| Kathryn | Chantler | F&BM Lead - AM APAC Funds & Institutional | J.P. Morgan Asset Management |
| Karen | Contet | Founder CEO AngelHub.io - Founder Chief Hustler WHub.io - Founding Board Member FinTech Association HK | AngelHub |
| Melissa | Cooper | Head of Low Touch/DMA Sales | Credit Suisse |
| Laurianne | Curtil | MD, Head of PB Sales | Goldman Sachs |
| Nasrine | Ghozali | Chief Risk Officer / Fund Management | Oasis Management Co Ltd |
| Fiona | Hau | Head of Talent Acquisition, APAC | Citadel Securities |
| Akiko | Hiruta | Director, Senior Trader for Trading, Lending and Liquidity Group in Tokyo | Blackrock Asset Management |
| Deborah | Ho | Country Head for South East Asia, Managing Director | Blackrock Asset Management |
| Sonal | Jain | Group Chief Data and Analytics Officer | Validus |
| Joanna | Jin | Global Chief of Staff, Consumer and Wealth Management | Goldman Sachs |
| Hui Sien | Koay | Product Strategist Global Fixed Income, Director | BlackRock |
| Anri | Koike | APAC Platform Sales | Citi |
| Rowena | Kwok | Head of Corporate Communications Asia Pacific, Managing Director | BlackRock |
| Joanna | Kwok | Portfolio Manager | J.P. Morgan Asset Management |
| Elsa | Lau | Head of Asia Sales (ex Japan) | Tradeweb |
| Jeanna | Lee | Executive Director | Nomura |
| YiLin | Lee | Credit Product Manager APAC | Tradeweb |
| Diana | Lim | Managing Director, Head of Southeast Asia & Frontier Markets Corporate Finance | Credit Suisse |
| Debra | Lim | CEO Instinet SIngapore | Instinet |
| Xiao | Lin | Managing Partner | Trilogy |
| Lucy | Liu | Portfolio manager Global Emerging Markets Equities, Director | BlackRock |
| Natalie | Lo | Equity Trader | SSGA |
| Laure | Ly | Head of International Relationship Management, Hong Kong SAR | BNP Paribas Securities Services |
| Juliette | Macresy | Executive Director | Vigeo Eiris |
| Francesca | Nam | Head of South Korea Execution Services | Citi |
| Ako | Nishi | Executive Director | J.P. Morgan Asset Management |
| Joanne | Ong | Senior Trader | M&G Investments |
| Archana | Parekh | Managing Director | Millenium |
| Sharon | SHI NING | Managing Director/Executive Director | G. H. Financials (Hong Kong) Ltd |
| Janette | Shim | Associate Director, Client Solutions EMS Account Mgt APAC | FactSet |
| Eliza | Tan | Associate, Prime Solutions and Financing - Repo Trader | BNP Paribas |
| Serene | Tan | Asian Equities Trader | Robeco |
| Chloe | Thomas | Head of Operations APAC | J.P. Morgan Asset Management |
| Jo | Tong | COO for Equities and Financing GBLs, Trading and Regulatory, Global Markets APAC | BNP Paribas |
| Sherleen | Tong | Head of Asian Operations | Instinet |
| Vicky | Tsai | Citi China Securities Services Head | Citi |
| Yvonne | Tsui | General Counsel, APAC | Citadel |
| Simone | Turtle | Trader | Virtu Financial |
| Sonal | Varma | Managing Director, India Chief Economist and Head of Economic Research, Asia ex-Japan | Nomura |
| Yvonne | Voon | Director, Head of Southeast Asia & Frontier Markets Real Estate | Credit Suisse |
| Michelle | Wang | Managing Director | Morgan Stanley |
| Samantha | Wee | Associate Director | CLSA |
| Michele | Wee | CEO, Vietnam | Standard Chartered Bank |
| Kate | Weidenhofer | Head of Australia | Liquidnet |
| Annie | Wong | Portfolio Trading | Citi |
| Nancy | Wu | Head of Equity, Taiwan | Citigroup Global Markets Taiwan |
| Jessie | Xu | Equity Trader | FMR |
| Cheng Ping | Yu | Executive Director | Goldman Sachs |
| Xia | Yu | Dealer Sales Representative, Hong Kong | MarketAxess |
| Ee Leen | Yueh | Shanghai Trading Desk, Director | Blackrock Asset Management |

This year’s Women in Finance Asia Awards, the third-annual WIFAA program, will be held on Thursday, May 20. Click [here](https://www.marketsmedia.com/women-in-finance-asia-2021/#2020) for a list of 2020 and 2019 winners.

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