UK National, Robert Binyon graduated in Modern History from Christ Church Oxford and has a long experience of the banking industry around the globe, starting in 1972 with Morgan Grenfell, the London Merchant Bank. He held a variety of positions in the London Office and had two periods based in Geneva to run the Morgan Grenfell Bank in Switzerland. In 1985, he was appointed to the main board and in 1986 went to Japan to run the Tokyo operations of the group. Robert served as a member of Group management committee in 1988 and assumed responsibility for the Group’s operations in the Asia Pacific region. Subsequently he served as Chief Executive and Managing Director for three years of Tokai Bank Europe in London. From 1994 to 2003, Robert was a Managing Director of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) in London, responsible for the financial markets department.  He has held a number of non-executive chairman and directorship roles, mostly in businesses or funds operating or investing in Asia or other emerging markets and mostly focused on the SME sector.

Currently, he is chairman of Lakeshore LLP, a private equity fund and of Khronos Advisory Limited, both based in Thailand and Chairman of many other commercial businesses operating in China and South East Asia.”