Shemara Wikramanayake

Shemara Wikramanayake has been Managing Director and CEO of Macquarie Group Limited since late 2018.

Shemara joined Macquarie in 1987 in Macquarie Capital in Sydney. In her time at Macquarie, she has worked in six countries and across several business lines, establishing and leading Macquarie’s corporate advisory offices in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Malaysia, and the infrastructure funds management business in the US and Canada.

Over her decade as Head of Macquarie Asset Management before her appointment as CEO, the business grew to become a world-leading manager of infrastructure and real assets and a leading global public securities manager.

Shemara is the Australian Government's Business Champion for the Philippines and a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s International Advisory Panel, the World Bank Private Sector Investment Lab, and the Global Investors for Sustainable Development Alliance.