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Ravi Menon

Former Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Search every verified Ravi Menon interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Ravi Menon, former Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and now the country's Ambassador for Climate Action, has recently spoken on climate finance and the entanglement of global economic and security issues. At the 2026 Bloomberg Sustainable Business Summit in Singapore, he described climate change as "the deepest form of entanglement" in the global economy, arguing that it represents the most severe potential supply chain disruption. He advocated for blended finance and carbon markets as key mechanisms to unlock private capital for climate projects in Asia, citing Singapore's Financing Asia's Transition partnership as a platform-level test of this approach. In a separate podcast interview, Menon argued that Asia's energy transition cannot simply focus on expanding renewables while leaving existing coal infrastructure in place, noting that 60-70% of Asia's electricity comes from coal-fired plants and that energy demand in the region is expected to double by 2050. In a July 2026 lecture on "The New Geo-Economics in a Quantum World," Menon discussed the convergence of economic and security dynamics, including the use of tariffs, export controls, and industrial policy for strategic purposes. He attributed populist backlash against globalization to domestic policy failures rather than globalization itself, and identified the freezing of Russia's central bank reserves and ejection of Russian banks from the Swift messaging system in 2022 as a watershed moment in the use of financial systems as coercive tools. In earlier remarks from a 2019 interview, Menon discussed Singapore's fintech ecosystem and regulatory sandboxes, expressed openness to Facebook's Libra proposal for generating new thinking on digital currencies, and said he did not see a compelling need for retail central bank digital currencies at that time. He also cited technology-related risks as a primary concern for financial stability.

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“I think that is one of the big burdens that has been placed on central bankers across the world that because of what they did fabulously during the global financial crisis and subsequently in holding up the global economy and the global financial system, there's now tremendous unrealistic expectations placed on central banks that every rough patch that we run into monetary policy is going to get us out of it. I think”

“We welcome the innovation. I think Facebook's proposal has generated tremendous amount of new thinking which I think is essential for the future. And all that you said earlier on about the interest that central banks are showing in digital currencies have been given a big boost by what Facebook has done. On the face of it, Facebook's proposition is that it wants to make cross-border payments cheaper, faster, and bett”

“I think the current energy crisis or energy crunch and the world is facing, uh, for all its, uh, downside effects. Uh, from a climate perspective is a net positive, uh, because I think increasingly now, the energy security agenda and the climate agenda are converging.”

“I think the mother of all supply chain disruptions will be the climate, because that is the deepest form of entanglement in, uh, in that the global economy has set up. Supply chains are so intertwined.”

“The populist backlash against globalization you see in many countries is not at its root a verdict on globalization itself. It is a verdict on domestic policy failure — the failure to ensure that the gains from an open world economy were widely shared, that those displaced by trade and technology were supported, and that the promise of a better life through hard work remained credible.”

“The fifth flash point is finance. The most damaging if it tips into a genuine fracture. The freezing of Russia's central bank reserves and the ejection of Russian banks from the Swift messaging system in 2022 was a watershed moment. It was the first time the coercive power embedded in the global financial system was deployed against a major economy.”

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