Datuk Nora Manaf is a Director and Group Chief Human Capital Officer of Maybank – the largest public-listed company in the Malaysian stock exchange and listed by Time Magazine as one of the world’s companies changing the world.

Apart from sitting on various corporate boards across Asia, Nora is President of the Malayan Commercial Banks Association, Chairperson of the Banking Sector HR Group, Co-Chair of the ASEAN Research Centre at the Asia School of Business, and a member of the National Labour Advisory Council in Malaysia.

Nora was recognised as a Global Top 50 Human Resource Professional for her work in empowering women leadership programmes. She is also a MP (Master Professional) of the Institute of Human Resource Professionals, Singapore, a Chartered Fellow of CIPD, UK, a Chartered Banker (CB Institute, Scotland) and a Chartered Accountant. She received an Honorary Doctorate from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.