Simon Cooper (banker)
Simon Cooper is a British banker. Since 2018 he has been the chief executive officer of the Corporate, Commercial and Institutional Banking division of Standard Chartered, its largest global business with approximately USD10 billion in underlying operating income. He also serves as CEO of the bank’s Europe and Americas region and is chairman of the group’s global Diversity and Inclusion Council. Cooper previously spent 26-years at HSBC where he most recently served as chief executive of Global Commercial Banking. Education Simon Cooper graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with an MA in Law and is an alumnus of the Columbia Business School. Professional career HSBC Group Cooper joined the London merchant bank Samuel Montagu & Co. in 1989, as a graduate trainee. Following Samuel Montagu's acquisition by HSBC Group, Cooper became a director in corporate finance with the HSBC in London, Hong Kong and Singapore. Later roles included president and CEO HSBC Korea, managing director and head of Corporate and Investment banking in Singapore and deputy CEO and head of Corporate and Investment Banking in HSBC Thailand. He was appointed a Group General Manager of HSBC in May 2008 and responsible for HSBC’s business in the MENA region, and was latterly