Simon Cooper

Simon is an Independent Non Executive Director of Nordea (Member of the Board, Risk Committee and Audit Committee) and Olam (Member of the Board, Sustainability Committee and Risk Committee.) He also serves as Chair of the Advisory Board of Singapore Management University, Lee Kong Chian School of Business.Simon is an experienced global CEO and Non-Executive Director with more than 35 years’ experience leading global teams and living and working in a range of markets in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.Simon has held a variety of senior roles around the world - at Standard Chartered as Global CEO of Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking (CIB) and CEO Europe and Americas, and at HSBC, a variety of roles including Group Managing Director and Global CEO of Commercial Banking, CEO HSBC Middle East and North Africa and CEO HSBC Korea. Most recently he was based out of Standard Chartered’s global business hub in Singapore and led its wholesale banking division, which helps many of the world’s largest multinationals and financial institutions trade, invest and manage their risk. As a member of the global management team, he also had responsibility for the group’s activities in Europe and the Americas. Simon is passionate about building equitable working cultures that attract the best talent in the global marketplace, whose expertise and output reflect the diversity of the firm’s clients base and the communities where they operate. As part of pursuing that ambition, he served as Chair of Standard Chartered's global diversity and inclusion council and as a trustee of the Standard Chartered Foundation. He was born in Leicester, England. He graduated from Jesus College, University of Cambridge with an MA in Law and is an alumnus of Columbia and INSEAD Business Schools.