Adrian Ng is the Country Representative of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), Singapore Branch. He leads the strategy and stakeholder engagement across ASEAN and Oceania, advancing the adoption of the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) and building relationships with regulators, business registries, and certificate authorities. Adrian engages policymakers and monitors regulatory developments to support GLEIF’s global mission. He works closely with banks, data providers, and service providers to strengthen trusted digital identity and legal entity identification across the region.

Adrian brings nearly twenty years of experience in digital identity, payments, and financial connectivity across Asia Pacific. His background spans core banking, cash management, trade, treasury, real-time gross settlement systems, instant and cross-border payment infrastructures.

Prior to GLEIF, Adrian served as Ecosystem Engagement Director at IDEMIA, where he helped grow their digital business by developing  dialogues with key stakeholders. At Currency Research, he connected  policy-makers with sponsors of the Central Bank Payments Conference, Global Payment Summit, and Currency Conference. He also spent three years with D+H (formerly Fundtech) as Product Specialist and Partnership Manager, supporting transaction banking, financial messaging, and payment solutions.

Adrian holds a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) is a not-for-profit organization that manages and oversees the global system of Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs).