Sadia Ricke

former Group Chief Risk Officer at Standard Chartered

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Sadia Ricke joined Standard Chartered (SC) in February 2023. Until December 2025, she was Group Chief Risk Officer, a member of Group Management Team (GMT) and a Director of the Court of SC Bank.

In January 2025, she also assumed overall GMT responsibility for, in addition to the Risk teams, the Compliance, Financial Crime & Conduct and the Legal and Corporate Secretariat teams. She lead a team of approximately 6,000 employees and was responsible for the development of Group risk, compliance and legal processes, and for supporting an appropriate risk culture and conduct discipline.

Sadia was also Chair of IFRI, the International Financial Risk Institute. Sadia remains a member of Standard Chartered Bank US Risk Committee.

Sadia has a broad range of business and risk experience in financial services, spanning over 30 years.

She joined Standard Chartered from Société Générale, where she started in 1994 in the Financial Institutions Credit department. Sadia gained more than 13 years of structured finance experience in the Natural Resources and Energy Finance division where she was Co-Deputy Head, a position she held until 2010 before becoming Head of Credit Risk for SG CIB in Paris. In 2014 Sadia relocated to Hong Kong to take on the role of Head of Global Finance for Asia Pacific. She was appointed Group Country Head and Head of Coverage and Investment Banking for the UK in 2017. Sadia became Deputy Chief Risk Officer in 2019 and then Group Chief Risk Officer in 2021