Royal Bank of Scotland has announced the appointment of Brijesh Mehra as Country Executive for India with immediate effect.

Brijesh is currently Head of International Banking for India and South-East Asia. As Country Executive for India, in addition to overseeing the bank’s risk and governance framework, Brijesh will assume overall management oversight for all the businesses of the bank in the country, RBS said in a statement.

Having worked with RBS for 20 years now, Mehra will also 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 (the erstwhile Markets and International Banking arm), which includes Debt Financing, Transaction Services and Risk Management. 

He will report to Sanjeev Kumar, Head of Coverage, Asia-Pacific, and Richard Place, Head of Transition & Network APAC, for in-country governance and controls.

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