David Philbrick Conner was the CEO of

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation, Limited (), often known as OCBC Bank (), is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered in OCBC Centre, Singapore. OCBC Bank was born out of the Great Depression thr ...

until April 14, 2012.

Early life and career

Conner holds a

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degree from

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and a

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from

Columbia Business School Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University, a Private university, private research university in New York City. Established in 1916, Columbia Business School is one of six Ivy League business schools and is one ...

. Conner served as CEO of

Citibank India Citibank India is a foreign bank in India with a full service onshore platform. Its Indian headquarters is at Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Citigroup, a multinational financial services corporation headquart ...

from 1996 to 1999. He then served as a Managing Director and Market Manager of Citibank Japan from 1999 to 2002. He joined Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation in 2002. In April 2012, Conner retired as CEO of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation but remains on the Board of Directors. As of January 2016, Conner become an independent non-executive Director with Standard Chartered PLC. He is also on the Board Risk Committee, Audit Committee and the Board Financial Crime Risk Committee. He succeeded Dr. Lars Thunell as Chair of the Board Risk Committee. He is also currently acting as a non-executive director of GasLog Partners LP. He was awarded the ''Best Chief Executive'' by the Singapore Corporate Awards in 2012.

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