Charting the course

Ms Elaine Lam

Global Corporate Banking



Ms Elaine Lam was appointed Group Managing Director and Head of Global Corporate Banking 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, the 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 27 years of experience in corporate banking, Ms Lam is presently 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 also served in the IBF Corporate Banking Workgroup, the Financial Industry Competency Standards’ Corporate Banking Working Group, as well as in the steering committee of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Finance Centre Advisory Panel Green Finance Taskforce. Ms Lam holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Honours) from the Nanyang Technological University and is an IBF Fellow (Corporate Banking).