Tony Cheng, Executive Vice President, Head of Asia for RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA), leads and provides executive oversight for RGA Asia operations. He is a member of RGA’s Executive Committee. Tony, who joined RGA in 1997, has nearly a quarter-century of life insurance industry experience. He joined RGA in 1997 as Chief Actuary of Malaysian Life Reinsurance Group Berhad, RGA’s joint venture with the Life Insurance Association of Malaysia. He moved to RGA’s headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri (U.S.), in 1999, and then relocated to Hong Kong in 2002. In 2004, Tony was named Chief Executive Officer of the Hong Kong office, responsible for all business activity in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, and in 2011, was appointed Senior Vice President, Asia, an expanded role incorporating overall management of RGA Asia. Tony received a Bachelor of Economics (B.Ec.) degree from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis’s John M. Olin School of Business. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia (FIAA) in 1997. An active participant in the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong, Tony was elected its President in 2008 and served as a council member of the Society from 2005 to 2015. He has also served as Chair of its Experience and Life Committees. The security