Female Bank CEOs Deepen Malaysia Expertise Pool: Islamic Finance
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In her native Malaysia, Hong Leong Islamic Bank Bhd. Chief Executive Officer Raja Teh Maimunah Raja Abdul Aziz says she has never felt discriminated against on the basis of her gender. Overseas, it’s a different matter.
“I was speaking at a conference in Europe when somebody got up and said how can you be speaking about Islamic finance when you’re a woman?,” the 46-year-old who took over as head of the unit of the country’s fourth-largest bank in 2011, said in a Sept. 9 interview in Kuala Lumpur. “In Malaysia, there is a conscious effort by the government on gender diversity.”