Dato' Sri Nazir Razak
Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer
Dato' Seri Mohd Nazir bin Tun Abdul Razak was born in 1966 and he is a Malaysian banking executive. He is the managing director and chief executive of CIMB Group, one of the largest financial services providers in Malaysia. Nazir is the youngest son of second prime minister Tun Abdul Razak and a brother of the sixth and current prime minister Najib Razak.
Dato’ Sri Nazir Razak is the Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Group, and Deputy Chairman of CIMB Bank, CIMB Investment Bank and President Commissioner of PT Bank CIMB Niaga Tbk. Dato’ Sri Nazir graduated from the University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree and obtained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge. He joined the corporate advisory department of Commerce International Merchant Bankers Berhad (now known as CIMB Investment Bank) in 1989 and managed various fund raising, privatization, listing and corporate restructuring exercises. In 1993, he transferred to the bank’s stockbrocking arm where he rose to the position of Executive Director. He moved back to CIMB Investment Bank as Deputy Chief Executive on 1 June 1996 and became Chief Executive on 1 June 1999. He assumed the position of Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of CIMB Group on 7 November 2006.
Dato’ Sri Nazir was named one of Asia’s 50 most influential figures of the last decade (1996-2006) by FinanceAsia magazine in 2006. He was also ranked second by Institutional Investor in its Asia’s Best CEO (Bank) survey in 2008. He became the youngest recipient of FinanceAsia’s ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ in 2009, and was also named the ‘Best Top Executive in Malaysia’ by Asiamoney in 2009 and 2010, ‘Best CEO’ by FinanceAsia in the Asia’s Best Managed Companies Poll 2011 and ‘Best CEO for Investor Relations’ in the Malaysia Investor Relations Awards 2011. In 2012, he received the ‘2012 Outstanding Achievement Award’ from the ‘Euromoney Awards for Excellence 2012’, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to Asian financial markets, ‘Best CEO for Investor Relations’ in the Malaysia Investor Relations Awards 2012 and ‘Asian Corporate Director Recognition Award’ at the Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards 2012.
Dato’ Sri Nazir is a member of the Investment Panel and Chairman of the Investment Panel Risk Committee of the Employees Provident Fund. He holds directorships in various CIMB Group companies, Malaysian Electronic Payment System (1997) Sdn Bhd and is an Executive Committee member of the Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre. He is a Trustee of the Rahah Foundation and the Pride Foundation.
He does not have any family relationship with any other directors and/or major shareholders of the Company, except being the brother of Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib Tun Hj Abdul Razak, the Chairman of Khazanah Nasional Berhad.
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(7 October 2013)
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