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Karen Fawcett, Board Mentor, Criticaleye

Karen Fawcett

Board Mentor

Criticaleye

Karen’s non-executive portfolio centres around financial services, digital transformation, education and climate change mitigation. She currently serves as a Non-executive director across many companies including Aegon, Global EverGreening Alliance, LGT Foundation Board, and BetterTradeOff. 
 
Currently, she is Chair of the Cambridge Colleges Scholarships (a charity in Singapore), Ambassador to Botanic Gardens International and Advisor to Drop Bio (an Australian Biotech firm). As well as serves as a Senior Accreditited Director for Singapore Institute of Directors.
 
Karen was formerly CEO of Retail, Brand & Marketing for Standard Chartered Bank, reporting to the Group CEO. Standard Chartered operates in over 70 markets with 80,000 staff, focusing primarily on Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Karen’s broad career across complex global matrixed businesses covered wholesale and retail banking, global strategy and technology transformation, plus brand and marketing.
 
Prior to her career in banking, Karen was a Partner with Booz Allen Hamilton, working on financial services in the Asia Pacific region, with particular focus on technological, strategic and operational transformations.
 
She earned her MA in Economics from Cambridge and her MBA & ICCG from INSEAD.
 


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