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Vijay Singh is vice president of risk management for PPL Corporation. He oversees a full spectrum of corporate risks throughout PPL, including business risks associated with energy, interest rates, foreign currency exchanges, credit, insurance and project development.
Singh chairs the company’s Risk Management Committee, which is composed of senior officers of key business functions at PPL. He also serves as an officer of PPL Services Corp., a subsidiary that provides support services to operating companies.
Before coming to PPL in December 2002, Singh was vice president and risk control officer at ConAgra Foods in Omaha, Neb., where he was responsible for monitoring commodity, interest rate and currency risk. Previously he was director of pricing and quantitative analysis, and a senior financial economist at Cinergy Power Markets and Trading in Florence, Ky.
Prior to that, he was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Pittsburgh, Georgia Tech and George Mason University. He also was a senior financial analyst at the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Hong Kong and a consultant for Phil-Fuji Xerox Corp. in the Philippines. He also held various positions with the State Bank of India in Delhi, India.
Singh holds a Ph.D. in finance from Ohio State University; a master’s degree in finance and international business from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, the Philippines; and a bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from the University of Delhi in New Delhi, India.
He serves on the board of trustees of the Good Shepherd Home, Allentown. | 