Mr. CHEA Sok Chairman Cambodian
Board Committees: Compliance and Ethics (Chair), Assets and Liabilities, Audit and Risk, Credit, International.
Joined the Board October 2000. Born in 1943, he obtained a Licence-es-Science Commercials in 1967 (specialising in banking, finance and accounting). He joined the Banque Khmere pour le Commerce (Commercial Bank) in 1965 as Branch Manager in Sihanoukville, Deputy Branch Manager in Phnom Penh and Battambang until 1975. Branch Manager of National Bank of Battambang 1979-1990. From 1990-1999: Deputy Governor, Director of the Bank Supervision & Examination Department, Director of the Economic Research Department, General Director of the National Bank of Cambodia (Central Bank). From 1992, he attended numerous courses and seminars on macro-economic management and microfinance in several countries and in Cambodia. He retired from the National Bank in 1999 after 20 years in banking, finance, legal and management. In 2006 he undertook the International Company Directors Course in Perth, WA, organised by Australian Institute of Company Directors. Mr. CHEA Sok is also Chairman of the Board of ACLEDA Bank Lao Ltd.
Mr. John BRINSDEN, OBE Vice-chairman British/New Zealand
Board Committees: Assets and Liabilities (Chair), International, Audit and Risk, Credit.
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Born in 1942, he has lived in Asia for 43 years the last 20 of which were in Vietnam and Cambodia. He previously worked for the Standard Chartered Bank from 1961 until retiring in 1999 as Resident Director, Mekong Sub-region. He assumed his present role on joining the Board of ACLEDA Bank in October 2000. He has particular responsibility for advising the bank on commercial banking and governance and international relations. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of England and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Married with one daughter to Chuang Pi-Feng, Taiwanese, he now lives with his family in Phnom Penh but travels widely in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe. Mr. Brinsden also sits on the Board of ACLEDA Bank Lao Ltd and is currently Vice-chairman of the International Business Club of Cambodia.