Meera Sanyal

Meera H. Sanyal is Country Executive - ABN AMRO Bank, India & Chairperson ACES.

Meera started her career in 1984 with Grindlays Bank PLC (now a part of the Standard Chartered Group). In 1987 she joined Lazards and was Head of International Finance & Advisory Services. 

She joined ABN AMRO in 1992 as Head of Structured Finance, responsible for setting up the Corporate Finance & Project Finance business in India. In 1997 she took over as Head of Corporate Finance Advisory for Asia, based in Singapore, and handled several restructuring mandates post the 1997 Asian crisis. She assisted with the bank’s Valuation and Acquisition of Bank of Asia (Thailand) and Bank of America’s Consumer Operations in Taiwan, Singapore and India.

As the COO for India in 1999 she undertook the integration of Bank of America’s retail operations and also led the implementation of the Core Banking and Internet platforms for the Consumer Bank in India. She was responsible for setting up and establishing ACES - ABN AMRO’s global shared services BPO – in India in 2001, and was appointed its Managing Director. In January 2006, she became the Regional Head of Services for ABN AMRO Bank Asia, responsible for Operations, Information Technology and Corporate Services for 16 Asian countries and ACES.

Meera is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, UK and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. She has done her advanced management program from the Harvard Business School. In addition to English and 3 major Indian languages, she is fluent in French and Russian and has studied German, Mandarin and Japanese.

Meera is an active participant in various Sustainable Development initiatives of the Bank that focus on children, women and environment. She is the Chairperson of ABN AMRO Foundation India, and on the Board of Directors of AIESEC India.

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