Kalpana Desai

Ms Desai was Head of Macquarie Capital Asia, the investment banking division of Macquarie Group Limited from 2009 to 2013. Before serving at Macquarie, she was Head of the Asia Pacific Mergers & Acquisitions Group and a Managing Director in the investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong from 2001 to 2009. Earlier in her career, Ms Desai worked in the corporate finance divisions of Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London and Hong Kong and at J Henry Schroder Wagg in London and in the financial services division of Coopers & Lybrand Consulting in London. She was a Member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong from 2007 to 2014. She also served as a Non-Executive Director of Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. from 2015 to 2019. Ms Desai has over 31 years of international advisory and investment banking experience, including experience in mergers and acquisitions and global business markets. She is currently a member of the Corporate Governance and the Risk Committee.