Joydeep has deep expertise in a range of business areas including retail banking, wholesale banking and organization-related topics. He has worked with Asian banks and insurers on business unit strategy, service operations, risk and regulation and sales excellence and channel management.

His recent work includes supporting the performance transformation of several leading banking groups in Asia with a focus on sustainable change management and helping with bank and banking sector restructuring issues facing Asian banks. He is currently a member of several policy-making groups in Asia on financial sector and capital market reform issues.

In addition to serving clients, Joydeep has authored several publications in the areas of asset management, banking reform, economic crisis and infrastructure development. Prior to McKinsey, Joydeep held several managerial positions with HSBC.

Joydeep holds a Post Graduate Diploma in business management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Delhi.

Today, CIMB is Malaysia’s second-largest financial services group and ASEAN’s fifth-largest by assets. Backed by a staff force of around 39,000, the Group has operations in 15 countries, but positions itself as an ASEAN franchise. Under Nazir’s stewardship, CIMB has won many awards, including best investment bank and best Islamic bank in Asia and best bank in Malaysia. Nazir himself was recognised as Malaysia’s top executive/CEO on several occasions. He was the youngest recipient of FinanceAsia’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2009 and was awarded Euromoney’s ‘Outstanding Achievement Award’ in 2012. In 2015, he was the recipient of Asia House’s ‘Asian Business Leaders Award’.

Nazir is a Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. A strong advocate of the ASEAN integration, Nazir is the inaugural Chairman of the World Economic Forum’s ASEAN Regional Strategy Group and ASEAN Regional Business Council. He led the establishment of the ASEAN Business Club, which comprises CEOs of large ASEAN multinationals, and the CIMB ASEAN Research Institute. He is also a Founding Board Member of Endeavor Malaysia, a non-profit organisation that helps spur the development of entrepreneurs, and was instrumental in the formation of CIMB Foundation, the Group’s corporate responsibility arm. He is also the Honorary President of the Malaysia-China Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Asian Philanthropy and Society.

Nazir graduated from the University of Bristol with a B.Sc. (Hons) and obtained an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge. In 2009, he was the Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies.