In this episode of the Leaders in Finance podcast, we speak with Pinar Abay. Pinar has been a member of the Management Board at ING Group since January 2020 and currently serves as Head of Retail Banking. She is also a member of the Supervisory Board of ING-DiBa in Germany and serves on the board of the European Payments Initiative (EPI). In 2016, she was appointed Chair of ING Belgium and continues to serve as a board member.
Pinar began her career in 1998 at McKinsey & Company, working in Istanbul, San Francisco, and New York. In 2011, she joined ING as CEO and board member of ING Turkey, becoming the youngest bank CEO in Turkey at the age of 34.
She studied economics at Bilkent University in Turkey and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in the United States. Born in Ankara in 1977, she holds Turkish nationality.
Pinar is 47 years old and lives in Amsterdam with her husband and two children.
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