The Management Committee provides oversight, strategic direction and coordination of the IOSCO Asia Pacific Hub’s activities.
Mr. Mohammad Faiz Azmi, Chairman of Securities Commission Malaysia
Mohammad Faiz Azmi was appointed the Executive Chairman of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) in June 2024. He was previously a Board member of the SC since August 2023.
He was the Chairman of PwC Malaysia for 11 out of his 30 years with the firm. He has over 38 years of experience in the audit and business advisory services in Malaysia and the UK. He was the leader of PwC's Global Islamic Finance Team practice from 2007 to September 2012. He was also PwC's Malaysia's Financial Services Leader and joint Head of Audit and lead the ESG and Shariah Investing part of PwC's Sustainability and Climate Change practice in Malaysia. He retired as a partner and the Executive Chairman of PwC Malaysia in June 2023.
Much of his recent work has been with the Federal and State Governments involving work related to Accrual Accounting, acting as an Administrator for an airline and certain government entities and being part of the Federal Government National Covid vaccine rollout. He has also been involved in the financial restructuring of government agencies as well as investigations.
He was educated in Malaysia and UK and read law at the University of Durham before being called to the English Bar. He is an alumni of Lincoln's Inn and a member of the Inns of Court of Malaysia.
Ms. Julia Leung Fung-yee, Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong
Julia Leung has been Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) since 1 January 2023.
Julia Leung joined the SFC in March 2015 as Executive Director of the Investment Products Division. She became Executive Director of the Intermediaries Division in June 2016 and took on the additional capacity of Deputy CEO in March 2018.
In more than 25 years of public service, Julia Leung has extensive experience in financial regulation, market development and international cooperation. Prior to joining the SFC, she was the Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury from August 2008 to December 2013. Before that, she served at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority for 14 years, spending the last eight years as the Executive Director responsible for financial cooperation with Mainland and other international regulators.
Julia Leung graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and earned a master's degree from Columbia University in the City of New York. In 2014, she authored a book on how Asia has surmounted various financial crises.
Mr. Shen Bing, Vice Chair of the IOSCO MMOU Monitoring Group and Director-General of International Affairs at the China Securities Regulatory Commission
Shen Bing is the Director-General of International Affairs at the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), which he joined in 1996. His areas of expertise and experience are in international communication and cooperation in securities regulation and policy research.
Shen Bing plays an active role within IOSCO and is the Vice Chair of the MMOU Monitoring Group. He is also in charge of CSRC’s efforts with other international organisations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Asian Development Bank.
Shen Bing holds an MBA degree from the School of Management of Cranfield University UK. He also studied at the School of Foreign Studies of Xi’An Jiaotong University and the Department of Accounting of Renmin University of China.
Ms. Azalina Adham, Member of the Management Committee and Managing Director of the Securities Commission Malaysia
Azalina Adham was appointed as Managing Director of the Securities Commission Malaysia (SC) on 1 January 2023. She joined the SC as Executive Director of Strategy and Policy on 1 July 2022. She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad, the Malaysian national stock exchange. Prior to joining the national stock exchange, she was an investment banker with experience in corporate banking, corporate finance and privatisation having served with Maybank Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Aseambankers Malaysia Berhad) and Alliance Investment Bank Berhad (formerly known as Amanah Merchant Bank Berhad).
Azalina Adham has over 29 years of diverse financial and capital market experience in investment banking, corporate finance as well as the exchange business. Some of her key areas of expertise are strategy and transformation, strategic communications and business development. During her tenure at Bursa Malaysia, she led several transformational initiatives including Bursa Marketplace - the first-of-its-kind virtual marketplace; Bursa Anywhere - ASEANs first mobile depository e-services app; and the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) Market - ASEANs first-of-its-kind alternative capital raising platform for SMEs.
Azalina Adham graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Finance from Purdue University, USA in 1992. She also completed the Advance Management Programme at Harvard Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2018.
