Lutfey Siddiqi

Lutfey Siddiqi is an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a Visiting Professor-in-Practice at the London School of Economics (LSE IDEAS), where he is also an Emeritus Governor.

Between September 2024 and February 2026, Lutfey Siddiqi served as Special Envoy to the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, with the rank equivalent of cabinet minister. In this role, he led or supported initiatives in economic diplomacy, trade and tariffs, labour reforms, migrant workers, ports and logistics, investment facilitation, banking reform, and IMF/World Bank liaison.

He is a member of the advisory boards of LSE’s foreign policy think tank IDEAS, the LSE Systemic Risk Centre, the Inclusion Initiative (LSE Behavioural Science), and the Centre for Governance and Sustainability at NUS.

He previously served on the governing boards of ShareAction, UWC Atlantic College, and New City College (NCC Group), London.

Lutfey was a Managing Director and member of the global executive committee for FX, Rates and Credit at UBS Investment Bank, with responsibility for emerging markets. In addition, he was the founding head of UBS Knowledge Network and an inaugural member of the UBS Group Sustainability Council. Prior to that, he ran Asia-wide businesses for UBS and Barclays, based in Singapore, with teams spanning Japan, Australia, Korea, India, Greater China, and ASEAN. He started his banking career with Deutsche Bank.

Lutfey was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012, where he has served on its Global Future Councils since 2014 and spoken on the official Davos programme for several years. He is currently co-chair of the council on “Investing in Gender Parity.”