Elham Shahbandi

Elham Shahbandi joined Societe Generale as Regional Chief Audit Executive in August 2022. She came from Barclays, where over ten years she held a number of senior responsibilities including Head of EMEA Markets and Global Head of Macro, Credit and Securitised Products; Head of US and EMEA Markets; and Chief of Staff to the Chief Internal Auditor for Barclays Bank Plc (consisting of Investment Bank, Capital Markets, Private Bank, Corporate Bank and Cards & Payments). Prior to that, Elham spent 7 years at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she held Risk and Internal Audit roles. The risk role included responsibility for oversight of Liquidity risk management and Recovery and Resolution for the U.K. legal entities. In Audit, she was responsible for Global Commodities and EMEA Rates and FX. Elham started her career as a Financial Controller at American Electric Power (in London) and trained for her Chartered Accountancy qualification with Pannell Kerr Forster. She has a degree in accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.