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Advisory Council

The awards programme is managed by a highly professional team of research analysts in Asian Banker Research with outstanding expertise in the banking industry in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Their work is supervised and verified by our distinguished advisory council, consisting of prominent and highly respected individuals in the financial services industry.

Anne Weatherston

Anne Weatherston has over 28 years of experience in banking and technology. She was group CIO of ANZ Bank for four years, during which she was responsible for a major transformation of the bank's technology strategy. In this role, she helped to turn around the infrastructure, design and execution of a new technology roadmap to support the bank's super-regional agenda in Asia. Prior to ANZ, Weatherston was group CIO at Bank of Ireland. She has also taken on technology leadership roles at Santander, National Australia Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland.

Kumardev Chatterjee

Kumardev Chatterjee is an expert on Metaverse Web3 and AI. He has over 25 years of strategy, deep tech and executive leadership experience at start-ups and Fortune 500s across Europe, USA and Asia. He is an Expert of the World Economic Forum, Research and Innovation Independent Expert at the European Commission, Official Member of the INTERPOL Expert Group on the Metaverse, and Official Advisory Board Member to the Government of Finland for their National Metaverse Strategy. He advises and works closely with governments, institutions, wealth funds, Fortune 100 companies and startups, on metaverse, web3, AI, smart cities, innovation and Investments. He is the co-author of Digital Minds for a New Europe.

Raymond Leung Chun-Kow

Raymond Leung has over three decades of diverse experience across banking and technology. He was previously group COO of Alliance Bank, Malaysia where he was overseeing the operations, technology and various support functions of the bank, and was instrumental in developing key strategies that encompass all aspects of the bank’s business to drive growth. Prior to joining Alliance Bank, he gained a wealth of experience in Citigroup, with assignments in Hong Kong, Toronto, New York and Singapore. He has held key positions in both country and regional capacities for operations, technology, internal audit and product management.

David Gyori

David Gyori, CEO of Banking Reports London is currently a globally renowned fintech consultant, trainer, author and keynote speaker. He is a founding member of the World FinTech Association and faculty member of the Retail Banking Academy (London), one of the most prestigious banker-training facilities globally. He serves on the advisory of multiple fintech companies in the United Kingdom. Also, he is co-author of ‘The FINTECH Book’ and ‘WealthTech Book’.