The SWIFT Board of Directors
Governing and overseeing the management of SWIFT
Members of the Board of Directors, SWIFT
SWIFT's Board composition reflects the usage of SWIFT messaging services, and is designed to ensure SWIFT's global relevance, support its international reach and uphold its strict neutrality.

Yawar Shah
Managing Director, Citi, USA and Chairman of the Board of Directors, SWIFT

John Ellington
Director, Shared Services, NatWest Group, United Kingdom

Eddie Astanin
Chairman of Management Board, Central Counterparty Clearing Centre (NCC), Russia

Mark Buitenhek
Head of Transaction Services, ING, The Netherlands

José Luís Calderón
Managing Director, Global Head of GTB at Santander Corporate and Investment Banking (SCIB), Member of SCIB Executive Committee, Santander, Spain

Bernard Carless
Head of Payment Market Infrastructures, FirstRand Group Treasury, South Africa

Bock Cheng Neo
Executive Vice President, Head of Global Transaction Banking, OCBC Bank, Singapore

Fabrice Denèle
Senior Vice President, Strategy & Partnerships of Natixis Payments, France.

Marc Derycke
Managing Director, Euroclear, Belgium

Yaosheng Fan
General Manager, Head Office Clearing Department, Bank of China, China

Stefano Favale
Global Head of Global Transaction Banking, Intesa Sanpaolo, Italy

Göran Fors
Deputy Head of Investor Services, SEB, Sweden

Seraina Frey
Managing Director, Head CDIO COO Shared Services Operations, Member of the CDIO COO Managing Committee, UBS Business Solutions AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Mark Gem
Member of the Executive Board, Clearstream, Luxembourg

Martin Kobler
Managing Director, Head Financial Institutions, Credit Suisse (Switzerland) Ltd. Institutional Clients, Switzerland

Lisa Lansdowne-Higgins
Senior Vice President, Business Transformation and Deposits, RBC, Canada

Emma Loftus
EVP and Head of Treasury Management, PNC Bank, USA

Lynn Mathews
Chairman of the Australian National Member Group, Australia

Ole Matthiessen
Managing Director, Global Head of Cash Management, Deutsche Bank, Germany

Noritoshi Murakami
Managing Director, Head of Transaction Banking Division, MUFG, Japan

Alain Pochet
Head of Client Delivery BNP Paribas Securities Services, France

Patrick Tans
Senior General Manager, Banking Products and Transformation, KBC, Belgium

Yvonne Yiu
SWIFT Board Member for Hong Kong and HSBC’s Head of Hong Kong and Interim Co-Head of ASP GLCM