Mohsin Ali Nathani became the Head of Asian Markets & Canada in August 2023 and a member of General Management of Habib Bank AG Zurich in June 2024. In this role, he is responsible for the Group’s operations in Canada, Hong Kong, South Africa and Pakistan. Mohsin also supervises the Group’s Multi-Jurisdiction Clients, in addition to the Group Islamic Banking and Marketing & Communications functions. He also serves on the Board of Directors of four subsidiaries of Habib Bank AG Zurich – Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd. (Pakistan), Habib Canadian Bank, Habib Bank Zurich (HK) Ltd and HBZ Bank Ltd. (South Africa). Mohsin has over 30 years of banking experience in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific and Levant regions, where he has held various leadership positions with complex responsibilities in areas such as corporate banking, Islamic banking, credit, treasury and syndications.
From 2018 to 2023, Mohsin was the President & CEO at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd. Prior to this, he served at Standard Chartered as CEO in Pakistan, and later in the UAE where he was approved by the UK Financial Services Authority for “Significant Influence Function”. Between 2007 and 2010, he was the Commercial Banking Director (Emerging Markets) at Barclays UAE, and subsequently, the Country Head & Managing Director at Barclays Pakistan. Between 2000 and 2007, Mohsin was engaged by Citigroup Hong Kong as Co-Head of Asia Debt Markets and later by Citigroup Dubai as Regional Head of Corporate Banking (Middle East, Pakistan & Levant) and CEO Global Islamic Banking. From 1993 to 2000, Mohsin held various senior roles at ABN AMRO in Singapore and Pakistan.
Mohsin Ali Nathani holds a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi.