2023 JUDGE PROFILE

Willa Lau
Director, External Communications, Retirement, Asia
Manulife Investment Management
With an extensive background in corporate and financial communications, consultancy and journalism, Willa Lau now brings her wealth of experience and knowledge to the Manulife Investment Management Asia communications team. She leads the development and evolution of full-blown communications strategies in collaboration with local, regional and global business owners for the retirement organization. She also specializes in providing strategic counsel on executive/ corporate positioning, reputation management and media relations. Previously, she worked in marketing communications at AllianceBernstein, as well as seven years in FleishmanHillard and Weber Shandwick with her most recent role as Vice President for Financial Service Practice. She started her career as a financial journalist and worked at Ming Pao Daily News and Oriental Daily News.