7-1 - Richard Martin - Managing Director - IMA Asia
Richard Martin is the Managing Director of International Market Assessment, an advisory firm that runs an Asia CEO Forum in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore; an India country program
in six cities in India; an Asia Program in Australia and supports country CEO programs in other Asian economies. He has been advising MNCs on the business environment in Asia since 1981
when he joined the Hong Kong office of Business International (BI). Following The Economist Group’s acquisition of BI he was the EIU director for Southeast Asia from 1985 before founding IMA
in 1990. He is based in Singapore and is a graduate of University of Sydney (Asian politics), SOAS and LSE (Southeast Asia Area Studies).