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Lunch With Sumiko
DBS CEO Tan Su Shan on why she confronts criticism and turns it to her advantage
Nearly a year into the job, the Singaporean leading South-east Asia’s largest bank tells Sumiko Tan about her leadership style and reflects on staying grounded in good times.
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Fortune’s most powerful woman in Asia for 2025, DBS CEO Tan Su Shan, sits down with Sumiko to discuss work-life balance, her mother’s influence on her, and the biggest change she has brought to the company as its new leader.
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Tell DBS Group CEO Tan Su Shan that her life and career look pretty perfect, and she protests with a laugh: “I don’t see myself, my life, as perfect at all.” Mention how she always looks so put together in public, and she practically snorts: “Oh, please, I don’t normally look like this.”
Over a two-hour meal, the 58-year-old head of South-east Asia’s largest bank is warm, self-deprecating and likeable.
