Maureen DeRooij is country executive in Hong Kong for ABN AMRO

She’s also CEO of large corporates and merchant banking in Asia.

Her appointment is effective September 1 and is subject to customary regulatory approvals. She re-joins ABN AMRO from Standard Chartered Bank in Singapore, where she most recently held the position of regional head Southeast Asia for small and medium enterprises.

She began her career as a management trainee at ABN AMRO in the Netherlands in 1990, culminating as head of global structured commodity finance for North America. She spent 10 years in the US, with her last position being head at the global structured commodity product group at Citibank based in New York.

DeRooij holds a master’s degree in corporate law from the Rijksuniversiteit of Leiden and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She serves on the board of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University.