Dato' Nazir Razak

Dato' Nazir Razak

Dato' Nazir Razak, a Malaysian, is presently the Group Chief Executive/Managing Director of CIMB.

Dato' Nazir graduated from the University of Bristol with a BSc (Hons) and obtained an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. He joined CIMB's Corporate Advisory Department in 1989 and managed various fund raising, privatisations, listings and corporate restructuring exercises. In 1993, he transferred to CIMB's wholly owned subsidiary, CIMB Securities, where he rose to Executive Director with responsibility for its institutional business comprising equities research, sales and dealing. He moved back to CIMB as Deputy Chief Executive on 1 June 1996 and was appointed as a Director on 15 November 1996. He became Chief Executive on 1 June 1999.

Dato' Nazir is a member of the Investment Panel of the Employees Provident Fund, the Securities Commission's Capital Market Advisory Council and the Asia Business Council. He is also a director of CIMB-GK Pte. Ltd., Bumiputra-Commerce Holdings Berhad, Bumiputra-Commerce Bank Berhad, CIMB Discount House Berhad, the Multimedia Development Corporation and the Kuala Lumpur Business Club. He was Chairman of the Industry Action Committee to set up MESDAQ, the stock exchange for high growth companies and a member of the Advisory Panel for Bank Negara's Financial Services Master Plan. He is President of the University of Bristol Alumni Association and a trustee of the Rahah Foundation.

In 2005, Dato' Nazir was named the "Visionaries & Leaders Series" honoree for South East Asia. He was the winner of the Malaysia's CEO of the Year Award 2004 organised by Business Times and American Express Global Corporate Services. He was also named one of the "25 Stars of Asia" by BusinessWeek magazine and one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.