Su Shan Tan

Chief Executive Officer, DBS Bank

Speaker

Ms Tan Su Shan is the Chief Executive Officer and Director of DBS Group. DBS is the largest bank in Southeast Asia. Su Shan was previously the Deputy CEO and Group Head of Institutional Banking, and before that, Group Head of Consumer Banking and Wealth Management for close to a decade. She was also the President Commissioner for PT Bank DBS Indonesia from 2014 to 2024.

Su Shan has over 35 years of experience in consumer banking, wealth management and institutional banking. Besides Singapore, she has experience in major financial centres such as Hong Kong, Tokyo and London. Before joining DBS, Su Shan was Morgan Stanley’s Head of Private Wealth Management for Southeast Asia. She has also worked at Citibank and prior to that at ING Barings.

She served as a Nominated Member of Parliament in Singapore from 2012 to 2014. In 2024, she was featured on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Asia List and Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen List.

Su Shan sits on the advisory board of Dyson’s family office, Weybourne Holdings, as well as on the boards of the Singapore Economic Development Board and Climate Impact X Pte Ltd. She was previously on the board of the Central Provident Fund of Singapore (CPF Board), MPACT Management Ltd (the Manager of Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust), EvolutionX Debt Capital Pte Ltd (a fund focused on growth debt, founded jointly by Temasek and DBS), and The Singhealth Fund Limited, which provides financial support to needy patients.

Su Shan graduated with a Master of Arts from Lincoln College, Oxford University where she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. She has also completed executive leadership courses in Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School, and Singularity University.