Leslie Maasdorp
Chief Executive Officer
Appointed Chief Executive and Executive Director in January 2025.
Leslie Maasdorp is the CEO of BII. He was previously Vice- President and Chief Financial Officer of the New Development Bank, based in Shanghai, for nine years.
Over the past 25 years, he held senior leadership positions at global financial institutions, including serving as International Advisor to Goldman Sachs, Vice Chairman of Barclays Capital and President of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in South Africa.
In the early years of South Africa’s democratic era, he held key roles in the Government of South Africa, as Special Advisor to the Minister of Labour and Deputy Director-General responsible for Restructuring of State-owned Enterprises.
