David is the Senior Advisor for Data and Artificial Intelligence at UnionBank of the Philippines. He is also the Managing Director at Aboitiz Data Innovation. Concurrently David is an external advisor to Singapore'sCorrupt Investigation Practices Bureau (CPIB)in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) and to Singapore'sCentral Provident Fund Board(CPF)in the capacity of Senior Advisor (Data Science). Prior to his current roles, David was monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)first appointed chief Data Officer and Head of Data Analytics Group reporting to the agency Deputy Managing Director for Financial Supervision and subsequently Special Advisor (Artificial Intelligence) reporting to Deputy Managing Director for Markets and Development. In these roles, he led the development of the AI strategy both for MAS and Singapore’s financial sector as well as driving efforts in promoting open cross-border data flows. David has extensive exposure and experience in both industry and academia and he has consistently applied advanced technology with an analytical mindset to shape and deliver new innovation. David holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the field of Machine Learning from theUniversity of Southampton and graduated from Royal Holloway, the University of London with First Class Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Out in the "field", David is more likely to consider himself a data artist instead of a pure data scientist.