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Bill Winters, CBE

Group Chief Executive

Bill Winters is Group Chief Executive at Standard Chartered.

Appointed

Bill Winters is Group Chief Executive at Standard Chartered and was appointed to the Board of Standard Chartered PLC in that role in June 2015. He was appointed to the Court of Standard Chartered and as a member of the Group Management Team that same month. He is based in London.

Bill is also a director of Standard Chartered Holdings Limited.

Career and experience

Bill has had a distinguished career in banking, having spent 26 years with JP Morgan in diverse leadership roles, becoming co-Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Bank from 2004 until 2009. Bill was the only career banker to be invited to be a committee member of the UK Independent Commission on Banking, where he recommended ways to improve competition and financial stability in banking. Subsequently, he served as advisor to the UK Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards and was asked by the Court of the Bank of England to complete an independent review of the Bank of England’s liquidity operations.

In 2011, Bill founded Renshaw Bay where he was Chair and CEO until his appointment to the Standard Chartered PLC Board. Bill was awarded a CBE in 2013 for his services to the UK economy and financial services.

Bill was previously a non-executive director of Pension Insurance Corporation plc and RIT Capital Partners plc, and from 2015 until March 2025 he was an independent non-executive director of Novartis International AG.

Bill is deeply engaged in driving the climate finance agenda. He is a member of the GFANZ Principals Group and a founding member of the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab. Bill sits on the Distinguished Advisory Group of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets and the board of Climate Impact X (CIX) and chaired the Taskforce for Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets.

In January 2023, Bill was appointed UK chair of the India-UK Financial Partnership formed between the Ministry of Finance of India and HM Treasury by Ministers during the UK-India Economic and Financial Dialogue in 2014 to strengthen links and deepen cooperation between the financial services industries of both countries.

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