Citi Names Taiwan CEO and Chair to Succeed 50-Year Vet
A 50-year Citi veteran as well as CEO and chair of Taiwan is retiring with a successor having been announced.
Citi has appointed Christie Chang as Taiwan CEO and chair of Citibank Taiwan Limited, according to a statement, subject to regulatory approval. She is tasked with driving business growth and strengthening the bank’s presence in the market. In the role, she reports to Marc Luet, head of Japan, Asia North & Australia and banking.
Chang has 35 years of experience at Citi and currently serves as president of Citibank Taiwan Limited and vice chair of Asia North corporate banking. She joined Citi in 1989 as a management associate and held multiple senior leadership roles, including APAC corporate banking chair as well as Taiwan’s banking, capital markets and advisory head, institutional clients group head, corporate and investment banking head and corporate banking head.
Chang succeeds Aftab Ahmed who will retire after 50 years with Citi. Ahmed started as an executive trainee at the American lender and led various Citi franchises in the last 17 years in Egypt, Hungary, the Philippines and most recently in Taiwan, where he assumed the position of CEO and chairman in January 2023.
Local Presence
Citi established its first Taiwan representative office in 1964 and since 2020, it has raised over $25 billion for local clients from global capital markets.
«Taiwan is an important market globally for Citi, and we are deeply committed to our clients, business and people here,» said Luet. «With her depth and breadth of experience in the Taiwan banking industry and with her long-established relationships with our institutional clients, Christie is well placed to lead Citi Taiwan to be our clients’ preeminent banking partner.»
