Jacob Hook

Partner
APR

Jacob Hook is a Partner in Oliver Wyman’s Sydney office, where he leads our Public Policy practice across the Asia Pacific region and works in our Corporate and Institutional Banking and Wealth Management practices. Jacob has extensive experience consulting to leading public and private financial sector institutions across Asia Pacific and Europe and worked in our Singapore office for five years before transferring to Australia.

Jacob’s expertise includes national financial sector strategy, regulatory architecture and organizational development, as well as securities, exchange, and wealth and asset management regulation. He also works on strategy issues for leading wholesale banks, asset managers, and wealth managers.

Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Jacob worked for the superannuation division of National Mutual (later AXA) in Australia as well as a consultant for private and public sector entities in South East Asia.

Jacob holds a BA (Honors) in Political Science from Victoria University in New Zealand, an MALD in International Finance and Banking from the Fletcher School, Tufts University. He is the author of numerous published reports on the financial services sector in Asia Pacific and a regular speaker at industry events. Jacob also regularly contributes to the public policy debate on topical issues within the financial sector in Australasia and the broader Asia Pacific region.