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The Royal Bank of Scotland NV (RBS) on Tuesday named Brijesh Mehra (pictured) its new country executive for India. Mehra, a banker with over two-and-a-half decades of wholesale banking experience, currently heads the international banking section for India and South East Asia at RBS.
The position of country executive for India at RBS had been lying vacant after Meera Sanyal left the bank in December, 2012, to pursue a full-time career in politics.
In his new role, Mehra will assume the overall management oversight for all the businesses of the bank in the country. He will also be overseeing the bank's risk and governance framework here. Mehra will chair the India MANCO and the India Client Board. Further, he will continue as the head of the India coverage business of the newly formed corporate and institutional banking division, which includes debt financing, transaction services and risk management.
Mehra takes over the new role with immediate effect. In his role as the coverage head for India, he will report into Sanjeev Kumar, head of coverage for Asia-Pacific region. He will also report into Richard Place, head of transition and network APAC for in-country governance and controls.
"He (Mehra) has been with the bank for over 20 years and has not only enriched the bank with his core strengths in banking and client relationship management, but has also contributed immensely to the growth of the India franchise. I truly believe that in the new role, Brijesh will further add value to the firm, and enable enhanced customer focus through better control and governance over both the front and back office. His appointment reinforces RBS' continued commitment to our India franchise and to our business across our 10-country network in the Asia-Pacific," Pierre Ferland, head of corporate and institutional banking for Asia-Pacific region at RBS, said in a statement.
Mehra joined ABN AMRO Bank in 1991. ABN AMRO Bank in India became a part of the RBS Group in 2008.
