Azalina Adham was appointed as Managing Director on 1 January 2023. She joined the SC as Executive Director, Strategy and Policy on 1 July 2022. She has over 30 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 communication and business development. She brings with her an extensive network amongst key capital market stakeholders in Malaysia namely senior policymakers regulators, market participants and senior corporate figures as well as the global exchanges fraternity.

Among the various areas under her purview is International Affairs, which includes SC’s participation in the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the ASEAN Capital Markets Forum (ACMF), ASEAN Taxonomy Board (ATB) and other ASEAN finance cooperations. Within the ASEAN fora she chairs the ATB’s Working Group on Market Facing and Resourcing, and co-chairs the ACMF’s Sustainable Finance Working Group.

She was formerly the Chief Operating Officer of Bursa Malaysia Berhad. During her tenure, she led several transformational initiatives including Bursa Marketplace – the first-of-its-kind virtual marketplace; Bursa Anywhere – ASEAN’s first mobile depository e-services app; and the Leading Entrepreneur Accelerator Platform (LEAP) Market – ASEAN’s first-of-its-kind alternative capital raising platform for SMEs.

Prior to joining Bursa Malaysia, 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).

Datin Azalina had also served as an Independent Non-Executive Director on the board of several public listed companies in Malaysia. She was also an Independent Non-Executive Director of a Ministry of Finance Incorporated (MOF Inc) company, where she had served as the Chairman of its Board Risk Management Committee and Board Change Management Committee.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management/Finance from Purdue University, USA in 1992. She also completed the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School Boston, Massachusetts, USA in 2018.