Seck Wai-Kwong serves on the boards of GIC and OCBC Bank and is a member of the Singapore Public Service Commission.

Wai-Kwong had a forty-year career in financial services (asset management, investment banking, securities services, and commercial banking) having lived and worked in New York, San Francisco, Boston, Hong Kong and Singapore. He retired in September 2023 from Eastspring Investments Group (the pan-Asia investment arm of Prudential plc) where he was Group CEO. For eight years prior to that, he was based in Hong Kong as Chief Executive Officer, Asia-Pacific at State Street Bank and Trust Company, a global custody bank. 

Prior to joining State Street in September 2011, he was Chief Financial Officer of the Singapore Exchange for eight years. Previously he held senior-level positions in the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC), Lehman Brothers and DBS Bank.

Wai-Kwong earned a Master of Business Administration with Distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Economics with first-class honours from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His alma mater made him a Monash Fellow in 2015 and a Vice-Chancellor Professorial Fellow in 2017. In 2023, the President of the Republic of Singapore conferred upon him the Public Service Star. 

Wai-Kwong has been a keen student and practitioner of leading organizational change for more than twenty years. In 2003 he spent his sabbatical as a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School where he researched and taught on leadership and the building of Great Companies. He has taught Leading Change at executive programs organized by universities in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States. 

He takes a long walk every morning accompanied by a podcast, loves to e-read non-fiction and hopes to take better photographs.