17. Sunil Kaushal
Company: Standard Chartered
Designation: CEO—Africa and Middle East
Nationality: Singaporean
Global Headquarters: U.K.
Sector: Banking and Financial Services
Kaushal joined Standard Chartered in 1998 and assumed his current role in 2015. He was previously the regional CEO of Standard Chartered in South Asia and India. He leads a team of 9,000 people. Standard Chartered signed the first sustainability-linked loan by a private company, Landmark Group, in 2022 and issued the first Green Guarantee in Qatar in partnership with Siemens Energy in March 2023.