Margaret Nienaber
Chief Operating Officer, Standard Bank Group
BCompt (Hons) (University of the Free State), CA (SA), High-Performance Leadership Program (IMD, Lausanne)
CURRENT ROLE APPOINTMENT:
2022
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- Margaret Nienaber joined Standard Bank Group in 2010 as Head of Private Clients South Africa.
- She has served as Chief Executive of Standard Bank’s Wealth division, a business recognised as Africa’s Best Bank for Wealth Management by Euromoney and home to the continent’s largest Bancassurance arrangement.
- She was the Head of Client Solutions, before being appointed as the Group’s Chief Operating Officer.
- Before joining Standard Bank, she held executive roles at Santam Insurance and Hannover Reinsurance and served as CEO of Compass Insurance.
- She has been part of the UNICEF Influential Women’s Circle and served on the Mastercard EMEA Advisory Board.
AWARDS:
Margaret has been recognised as the Most Influential Woman in Business and Government 2013 and awarded the CEO magazine Most Influential Women in Financial Services: Insurance category 2008.
MEMBERSHIPS:
She is a member of the World50 community and Vice President of the International Women’s Forum of South Africa. She serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Standard Bank Mozambique.