De Rui Wong

Senior Vice President Sustainability Office - GIC

De Rui is Senior Vice President of the Sustainability Office at GIC, a global long-term investor established in 1981 to manage Singapore’s foreign reserves.

He leads research on sustainability-related themes such as climate change, nature, supply chains, and inequality that materially impact GIC’s investment portfolio. These issues are often overlooked by investors because they take time to manifest, and their impact is difficult to quantity. By collaborating with industry partners, peers, academia, and GIC’s investment teams, De Rui develops investment integration tools, analytics, and strategies for GIC to be future-ready for these long-term trends.

Effective communication is key in bringing investors on their sustainability journey. De Rui leverages his past experience as a macro strategist and equity analyst to translate complex sustainability concepts into insights that investors understand. He is a Board Committee Member of the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) and co-chairs its Paris-Aligned Investing working group that shares and advances emerging investor solutions for facilitating the transition to a net zero emissions economy.

In recognition of his passion and expertise in advocating for sustainable investing, he was awarded AsianInvestor’s Top 10 Sovereign Wealth Fund Executives in Asia for 2024.

De Rui holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from Northwestern University.

To find out more about what De Rui does in Sustainability, you can connect with him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/de-rui-wong/