Japfa Ltd
Mr Bhaskaran was appointed to the Board on 18 April 2019 and last re-elected on 15 April 2021. He is currently a Partner of the Centennial Group. As founding CEO of its Singapore subsidiary, Centennial Asia Advisors, he co-ordinates the Asian business of the Group.
Mr Bhaskaran is also Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. From 1989 to 2001, Mr Bhaskaran was with Société Générale’s Asian investment banking division where he supervised Asian economic and investment strategy and where he was also a member of the Executive Committee. From 1982 to 1989, Mr Bhaskaran worked for the Singapore government, supervising a team that prepared strategic political and economic assessments of Asia for senior Singapore government officials.
Mr Bhaskaran served as Chairman of a high-level government committee that reviewed the regulation of moneylenders in Singapore in 2014 and 2015. He is also Member of the Competition Appeals Board, Singapore; a Member of the Regional Advisory Board for Asia of the International Monetary Fund; Trustee of the Asia Foundation in Asia; Member of the Board of Advisors, School of Economics, Singapore Management University; Council Member in Singapore Institute of International Affairs (SIIA); and, Vice-President, Economics Society of Singapore. He currently serves on the Boards of CIMB Investment Bank, IFS Capital, Jebsen & Jessen SE Asia Limited and Luminor Capital.
Mr Bhaskaran graduated with an honours degree in Economics from Magdalene College, Cambridge University in 1980 and a Master in Public Administration from John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1987. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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Japfa Ltd
Japfa Ltd is a Singapore-based agri-food company. The Company's principal activities are those of investment holding and provision of management services. The Company's segments include animal protein, dairy, consumer food and others. The animal protein segment includes production of various animal proteins, including poultry, swine, beef and aquaculture, as well as animal feed, across the Company's focus markets, including Animal Protein Indonesia, which refers to the animal protein operations of its subsidiary, PT Japfa Comfeed Indonesia Tbk, and Animal Protein Other, which refers to the animal protein operations in Vietnam, India, Myanmar and China. The dairy segment includes production of raw milk in China and Indonesia and downstream milk products, such as fresh milk and cheeses to consumers in Indonesia and other countries in Asia. The consumer food segment uses the animal protein products that are produced in-house as raw materials for downstream consumer food segment.