Maureen DeRooij

Maureen is the CEO of The Executive Forum Singapore. The Forum provides senior regional leaders and non-executive directors the opportunity to actively engage with key thought- leaders and experts on strategic, geo-political and economic developments relevant to their businesses. A career corporate banker of 30 years, her most recent position was CEO Asia-Pacific of ABN AMRO Bank. She served on the boards of ABN AMRO Asia Fund Services, its Hong Kong Clearing business and its Asia Security Services. Externally she served on the Corporate Advisory Council of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, the Singapore Banking Council, the European ASEAN Business Alliance Board, and the Investment Committee of the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce. Maureen previously worked for Standard Chartered Bank as Global Head of Natural Resources and Commodities, and later as Group Chief Operating Officer for the Wholesale bank’s Client Business. Prior to this she worked for over 10 years in the United States based in Chicago and New York for ABN AMRO and Citigroup. Ms. DeRooij served nine years on the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University's Lee Kong Chian School of Business and is currently a Dean’s Fellow collaborating on a book on Corporate Environmental Sustainability in Southeast Asia. Periodically she works with CEOs and boards on strategic leadership issues including the transition towards balancing increasing sustainability demands with the continued need for profitability and shareholder value. In addition, she serves on the Boards of BBP and ADI as well as the International Council (NIC) of the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine and is an elected Council Member of the Singapore Economic Society. A recognized speaker on topics at the cross section of Finance, Sustainability and Asia she speaks at Bloomberg, Financial Times and The Economist events and guest lectures at various universities in Singapore. Ms. DeRooij holds a master's degree in Corporate Law (LLM) from the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden in the Netherlands and an MBA degree from the University of Chicago (Booth). She completed the Cambridge Prince of Wales Business and Sustainability Programme in 2006.