Mark Burrows
B.A., LL.B
Adjunct Professor
Executive Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Asia Pacific
Credit Suisse Investment Bank
Mark Burrows is Executive Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse.
Mr. Burrows career in Investment Banking spans 40 years. He was Executive Chairman of Baring Brothers Burrows in Sydney from 1986 to 1999, then Deputy Chairman of ING Barings in London and subsequently became Chairman of Lazard Australia.
Mr. Burrows was the principal advisor in some of the most significant corporate and government transactions in Australasia in banking, media and mining and advised on sovereign debt reconstruction in emerging markets. He has served as Chairman/ Deputy Chairman of Brambles, Fairfax Media and Telstra.
Mr. Burrows has contributed significantly to the advancement of public policy and led the development of Australia's national uniform corporate law and financial market regulations, for which he was awarded the Order of Australia. He co-authored the framework for the $1.4 trillion Australian system of compulsory superannuation and has attended the B20 summits in Toronto, Seoul, Cannes and Los Cabos.