Ms Wong was appointed to the Board on 15 April 2021 and re-elected as a Director on 27 May 2021. She is the Group Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of OCBC. She is also Chairman of OCBC Bank Limited (OCBC China), a Board Commissioner of PT Bank OCBC NISP Tbk and a Board Director of Great Eastern Holdings Limited, OCBC Bank (Malaysia) Berhad, OCBC Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, OCBC Overseas Investments Pte Ltd, Enterprise Singapore and the Dr Goh Keng Swee Scholarship Fund.
Ms Wong is currently a council member of the Association of Banks in Singapore and the Institute of Banking & Finance Singapore, and is a Member of the Advisory Board of the Asian Financial Leaders Programme. She also serves as a Board member of the Institute of International Finance, and as a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Financial Centre Advisory Panel, MAS Payments Council, MAS Financial Sector Tripartite Committee and CNBC ESG Council. Ms Wong has over 40 years of banking experience, having started out as a Management Trainee in OCBC and was its first China Desk Manager, based at the Hong Kong Branch. She has vast experience in Greater China, covering a wide range of roles in capital markets, syndicated finance and corporate banking.
Before returning to OCBC, Ms Wong spent 27 years at HSBC, where her last role was as its Chief Executive for Greater China, which she was appointed to in 2015. She became the President and CEO of HSBC China based in Shanghai in 2010, and was promoted to be Group General Manager in 2011 to recognise her responsibility for the business operations and strategic expansion in China. She also held non-executive directorships at Baoshan Iron & Steel from 2012 to 2015, and at Bank of Communications from 2016 to 2019.
Ms Wong holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong.
Source: 2023 BOS Corporate Governance Report