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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.
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.
