About Gautam Mukharya

As the Country CRO for HSBC Singapore, Gautam Mukharya is currently responsible for managing all types of risks across their operations, covering four global businesses and nine legal entities. He has over 23 years of experience in Risk & Compliance within the financial services sector, much of which is with HSBC, holding various country and regional roles across five geographies. Past roles include CRO HSBC Australia, Head of Wholesale Credit Risk for Asia Pacific, and CRO HSBC Mauritius. Gautam Mukharya is very closely involved in innovation, new technologies, and the fintech ecosystem in Singapore. Key roles include: Demo day judging panel for the Global Hackcelerator (GH) at the Singapore Fintech Festival, Selection panel to decide the winners for the MAS & ABS Fintech awards announced at SFF, Advisor & mentor to many fintechs, including two of the eventual winners of the GH, and Steer-co member for Singapore KYC Utility project on digital identities. Gautam Mukharya is very passionate about sustainability issues and works closely with the industry to drive opinions. He is the chair of: Environmental Risk Management (ERM) Taskforce by MAS to draft regulatory guidelines for banks, ERM work-stream under Financial Centre Advisory Panel (FCAP) on Green Financing to develop the country's roadmap in this area, and ABS committee to draft the Guidelines for Responsible Financing for banks. Experienced Chief Risk Officer, and credit & market risk specialist; active sponsor of innovation, fintechs & new technologies; passionate about environmental issues and an opinion maker on green finance and sustainability.