Mr. John Roger Winfield
Chairman, Independent Non-Executive Director
Mr. John Roger Winfield ("Mr Roger") was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Board of Al Rajhi Bank Malaysia on 15 January 2021 and subsequently appointed as Chairman effective 17 March 2021. He is of British nationality.
Mr. Roger’s banking career has spanned over forty-eight years. After an initial induction period in London with Lloyds Banking Group ("Lloyds"), he was asked by Lloyds to take up a role in South Korea in 1984 and subsequently in Japan, Taiwan, and Singapore. In 1992, he joined Deutsche Bank in Singapore, and then from 1999 to 2004, he was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for Deutsche Bank in Mauritius, which he established from scratch, including obtaining separate banking and trust company licences. After joining HSBC at the start of 2005, he moved to the United Arab Emirates in 2006 and then, from March 2015 until his retirement in early 2021, Roger was the Chief Executive Officer of HSBC Kuwait.
In addition to his two Country CEO roles, Mr. Roger has worked in various areas of banking throughout his career, including senior positions in commercial banking, trade finance, project finance, financial institutions, wholesale market risk, and private banking. Notably, he served as the Regional Head for the Southern Gulf region at HSBC.
Some of his accreditations includes President, Association of Offshore Banks, Mauritius (2000 and 2001), appointed by Minister of Finance, Republic of Mauritius to be a Non-Executive Director for the Financial Services Promotion Agency, Mauritius (December 2001 to December 2004); elected as Charter Member of TiE Dubai (The Indus Entrepreneurs) in June 2008; appointed as HSBC’s representative to the British Business Group, Northern Emirates, United Arab Emirates in March 2014 and acted in the capacity of Deputy Chairman and Treasurer on the Board of Governors, The English School (TES), Kuwait from March 2015 until January 2021.
