Ross McEwan

Role: Chief executive National Australia Bank

Age: 65

Family: Married to Stephanie, two daughters

Education: McEwan was educated at Hastings Boys’ High School followed by Massey University, where he completed a degree in business studies and human resources. He later earned a masters in business administration from the Harvard Business School.

Career: McEwan’s first management job was as CEO of Axa New Zealand from 1996 to 2002. He was then hired as group executive for retail banking services at Commonwealth Bank of Australia in 2003. He had expected to become the next CEO of CBA but missed out on the job which went to fellow Kiwi Ian Narev. McEwan instead went to RBS in the UK in 2012 as head of retail banking before becoming CEO in October 2013, where he led a major turnaround of the bank which, at one point, was 80 per cent owned by the UK Government. He made a surprise resignation in 2019 and then moved back to Australia to head up National Australia Bank, the parent of BNZ.