Robert Park is a managing director and APAC Head of Business Development, Securities Finance, State Street Global Markets. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for Business Development of Securities Finance in Asia, and before his current role, he was the Head of Enhanced Custody in Asia.

Before joining State Street in 2015, Robert held senior trading roles in equity and equity derivatives at Nomura, Lehman Brothers, and JP Morgan. Earlier in his career, he worked as a trader of fixed income at BNP Paribas and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Dr. Park teaches business strategy and finance to master's and MBA students at Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Professor of Practice. His research focuses on the strategic management and behavioral aspects of financial institutions. As a way of giving back to the community, he mentors a start-up business that develops catastrophe risk models to improve the accuracy of damage to buildings and structures from natural disasters.

He holds a doctoral degree in business administration from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, master’s degree in financial mathematics from The University of Chicago, a master's degree in finance from DePaul University in Chicago, and bachelor’s degree in economics from Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, Korea.