By Muskan Arora

The $466.8bn
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board named Priti Singh as chief risk officer,
effective immediately.

Singh, also
a senior managing director, succeeds Kristen Walters, who is leaving CPP to be “closer
to home”, according to a July 17 press release.

Singh will
oversee the firm’s global risk management functions including incorporating risk
perspectives into all investments and operational actions.

Prior to
this role, Singh served as CPP Investment’s global head of capital markets and
factor investing.

Singh started
working at CPP as an analyst in January 2008, which marks almost seventeen
years at the firm.

Heather
Tobin has been promoted to take over Singh’s most recent role of senior
managing director, effective immediately.

Tobin will lead
the external portfolio management, systematic strategies, investment engineering
and analytics, and strategy, risk and operations groups.

Prior to
this role, Tobin worked as a managing director, head of investment portfolio
management with the CIO of CPP Investments.

Before
joining CPP Investments, Tobin worked as an analyst at International Finance
Corporation and as an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley for almost
two years.