Elaine Lam Su-Yen 2024

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Rapid digitalisation and the net-zero transition have revolutionised our industry in an interdependent world. We need an agile, skilled workforce with global perspectives, to mine new businesses and serve our clients.”

IBF Distinguished Fellow (2024), Corporate Banking

Elaine Lam Su-Yen

Head of Global Corporate Banking, OCBC Bank

Biography

Ms Elaine Lam was appointed Group Managing Director and Head of Global Corporate Banking of OCBC in April 2016. She has global responsibility for OCBC’s corporate banking business which spans industry groups including real estate, infrastructure, energy, utilities, transportation, technology, conglomerates, industrials, public sector, regional coverage groups and Greater China Business Office as well as OCBC’s corporate banking business in the overseas branches and subsidiaries. She is also responsible for driving the Structured/Project Finance and Partnership & Innovation groups within Global Corporate Banking.

With more than 28 years of experience in corporate banking, Ms Lam is a member of the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF) Sustainable Finance Workgroup and serves as Singapore’s APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) member in championing Singapore’s business interests at the ABAC.

She served in the IBF Corporate Banking Work group, the Financial Industry Competency Standards’ Corporate Banking Working Group, IBF Sustainable Finance Workgroup [since Dec 2021 – June 2024] and in the steering committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Finance Centre Advisory Panel Green Finance Taskforce [Nov 2019 – May 2023]. She was appointed/is presently a Member of the IBF Standards Committee and Chairperson of the Corporate Banking Working Group in June 2024.

Ms Lam holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University.