Ms. Maleeha Mimi Bangash is a recognized Banking & Financial Industry expert, with over 24 years of experience obtained in Singapore and overseas in various industries including Textile & Telecommunications, but primarily, around 18 years in Banking & Financial Services. She brings 15 years of leadership/ C-Suite experience in Corporate & Investment Banking. Further, she has served a term as an anti-trust Regulator and has been Advisor Finance to a subnational government. She speaks the Turkish Language having learnt it formally at TOMER (Ankara University’s Turkish Language Center). She has been involved in the Fintech & Digital Banking space in parallel since past 8 years in various capacities. Currently, she is Principal Advisor Digital Transformation –Banking & Capital Markets. She has been engaged with IFC-International Finance Corporation, Singapore, covering East Asia & Pacific region as consultant Expert Digital Banking, Green Finance & Gender Finance.
A strategist and result oriented leader, during her career, Ms. Bangash has demonstrated the ability and developed the expertise of setting up and building highly successful, sustainable organizations as well as turning around and growing troubled firms into profitable market players.
She brings with her valuable expertise in Corporate Banking & Investments, including Capital Markets (Debt & Equity Markets, Portfolio Management, M&A, Investment Advisory, Project Finance & Asset Management), successfully covering institutional and individual clients in various geographies and markets. She has developed solutions and has experience in SME Access to Finance/Financial Inclusion (MicroSMEs, Women, Youth & start-ups) Development Finance, Social Impact Investment & ESG/Sustainable Development Goals. She has worked on infrastructure investment proposals including Housing schemes, as well as Health & Education investment (Brunei) and Agri-market infrastructure investment (France).
Ms. Bangash has held the position of Managing Director for the World Bank Group’s Investment Climate Reform Unit- ICRU, and during her tenure Pakistan rose 39 ranks on the EODB index. She has advised the Ministry of Finance, (sub national government) on EODB, Investment Climate, Investment Promotion, Access to Finance/ Financial Inclusion and has been Founding Member(Commissioner) Competition Commission of Pakistan, where she led areas of Advocacy, Mergers & Acquisitions Review, and Competition Research, setting up the Acquisition & Mergers Facilitation Office (AMFO). She is the proud winner of the 100 Most Prominent Women in Anti-Trust (Global) award in 2009 selected on merit (profile and achievement) from the entire world's competition professionals.
She has structured innovative finance models including Specialized Investment Vehicles, Environment Endowment, Social Impact Bond/Dev Impact Bond & Blended Finance Investment Vehicles, for Provincial Governments, multilateral & bilateral organizations. (World Bank Group/IFC, USAID, GIZ).
As Dy. Chief Executive Officer she successfully led (AL) Habib Asset Management. She won the Miracle Woman Award in 2019 for outstanding professional achievements in Banking and Finance. A seasoned investment banking and business strategy professional, she has worked in leading Financial Institutions in Singapore & overseas and in IFC-International Finance Corporation, Singapore, Global Capital Partners (Makara Capital) Singapore, Global Strategies Pte. Ltd. Singapore, HBL Corporate & Investment Banking, Singapore. In these roles, both in Singapore and abroad she has driven revenues and developed new business avenues.
Ms. Bangash has obtained her MBA from University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, in Investment & Finance, where she graduated with Honors. Earlier, she had obtained an MBA from LUMS, in Finance & Marketing.
