Jacques - Emmanuel is a senior international banking executive with over 38 years of experience in the financial business industry across Europe and the Middle East, including 22 years with the HSBC Group. A leader with strategic vision supported by a strong execution focus and result orientation, with proven track record of delivering stretched results in the face of challenging environment, as well as driving change in large and complex organisation, and as a leader who gets the best out of his teams. He is actor of change who challenges the status quo. In his current role as an HSBC Group General Manager, Deputy Chairman & CEO of HSBC Bank Egypt, he has focused on leveraging HSBC unique global network to serve its institutional and consumer banking clients with an emphasis on strong execution and the highest ethical standards. Prior to his current position, Jacques-Emmanuel Blanchet was the Head of Commercial Banking in the UK and Co Head CMB Europe. Based in London, he successfully managed the overall UK Bank’s Commercial Banking division, supporting businesses of all sizes and including meeting their Liquidity and Cash Management as well as Trade and Receivable Finance needs. Prior to taking up this previous role in March 2011, Jacques-Emmanuel held a successful three-year tenure as Head of Commercial Banking at HSBC France, where he led a transformation of the business to bring greater business success from high customer satisfaction and staff engagement Jacques – Emmanuel is a graduate of the French Business school and completed several professional courses such IMD Lausanne 2003 and Harvard 2010