Lee Woon Shiu is Managing Director and Group Head of Wealth Planning, Family Office and
Insurance Solutions in DBS Bank. Previously, he was Managing Director and Head of Wealth
Planning Trust & Insurance with Bank of Singapore and its predecessor ING Asia Private Bank for
close to 15 years since 2004. He started his banking career with Merrill Lynch in 2000 after
working as a cross border Mergers & Acquisitions and Capital Markets lawyer in Freshfields Drew
& Napier and Coudert Brothers.
Woon Shiu has had a successful track record of leading and transforming wealth planning teams in
delivering innovative estate & succession planning and insurance solutions to high net worth
families globally for over two decades, with specific expertise in driving significant growth
and building award-wining and sustainable wealth planning and life insurance businesses across
developed, emerging as well as nascent markets in Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, winning
accolades for Best Bank of Wealth Transfer/Succession Planning and Family Offices along the way.
Woon Shiu has also been cited as a Top Gun in family offices advising billionaires in
recognition of his expertise in advising multi-generations of ultra-high networth families in
the region on the establishment and implementation of their family governance and philanthropy
strategies.
He is concurrently serving as Board Member of DBS Trustee Limited and DBS Foundation where he
spearheads the efforts in driving venture philanthropy strategies among high networth and
affluent segments at DBS Bank, and also as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Nanyang
Technological University's Wealth Management Institute where he lectures private bankers,
lawyers as well as trust and insurance practitioners and also serves as expert panel member for
Wealth Planning & Family Offices. In recognition of his efforts and contribution, Woon Shiu was
awarded the Most Innovative Teaching Award by the Nanyang Technological University. He has also
lectured at universities in China and his views as a leader in the field of family offices
wealth structuring and life insurance solutions are regularly featured in international media
and at global and regional conferences where he is a frequent speaker.
Woon Shiu graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) 2nd Upper Division from the National
University of Singapore where he was a Law Society of Singapore Book Prize Winner. He is an
Advocate & Solicitor of Singapore, a Solicitor of England & Wales and an accredited Trust &
Estate Practitioner.