AI Influence Profile
Chia Der Jiun
Managing Director, MAS (until 2026-05)
Positioning
Managing Director of MAS since 1 January 2024 (term ends 31 May 2026). 18 years at MAS prior; former IMF Executive Director for Southeast Asia. Sets MAS's external posture on AI and FinTech.
Official channels
Signature Work (3)
Project MindForge / AI Risk Management Toolkit
Since2025-11MAS-led consortium of 24 banks/insurers/capital-markets firms; phase 2 of Project MindForge wrapped in November 2025 with the AI Risk Management Toolkit for finance — covering traditional AI, generative AI, and agentic AI.
Source →BuildFin.ai platform
Since2025-11Announced by Chia at SFF 2025: a new platform connecting tech providers, research institutes and financial institutions to tackle complex financial problems together.
Source →10-year AI + tokenised-finance roadmap
Since2025-11Two 10-year themes laid out in his SFF 2025 keynote: (1) responsible AI adoption and (2) building a tokenised-finance future.
Source →Public Statements (2)
“Agentic autonomy must come with sufficient guardrails.”
“This tokenised future cannot be built by a single party. It will require collaboration between private and public sectors, within and across jurisdictions.”
Recent Talks (2)
Parliamentary AI record (0)
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