Charting the course

Ms Elaine Lam

Global Corporate Banking



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 the Structured/Project Finance and Partnership & Innovation groups within Global Corporate Banking.

With more than 28 years of experience in corporate banking, Ms Lam has served in the Institute of Banking & Finance (IBF) Corporate Banking Workgroup, the Financial Industry Competency Standards’ Corporate Banking Working Group, IBF Sustainable Finance Workgroup and in the steering committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Finance Centre Advisory Panel Green Finance Taskforce.

Since June 2024, she has been a Member of the IBF Standards Committee and Chairperson of the Corporate Banking Working Group.

Ms Lam also serves as Singapore’s APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) member in championing Singapore’s business interests at the ABAC, since January 2022.

She holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honors) from the Nanyang Technological University and is an IBF Distinguished Fellow (Corporate Banking).