The new hire spent almost three decades at Citi.

DBS has appointed Han Kwee Juan as group head of strategy and planning, taking the helm from Shee Tse Koon who became the bank’s Singapore country head last December.

Han will report to chief executive Piyush Gupta and will be a member of the group management committee.

Prior to this, Han worked for 27 years at Citibank, leading various businesses including consumer banking, corporate banking and transaction banking. He was most recently CEO of Citi Singapore, a position he held since 2012. In that role, he had oversight of Citi’s onshore retail banking, wealth management, cards and personal loans, mortgage and retail SME businesses in Singapore.

“Over the years, we’ve made it a point to build our leadership primarily through growing our own timber. We are pleased that we have many capable leaders as a consequence. However, from time to time, it is also good to supplement our bench with external talent, allowing us to gain from new perspectives,” Piyush Gupta said.

Han has a bachelor of computer science and information systems degree from the National University of Singapore and a master's in banking and finance from Nanyang Technological University. He is also a graduate of the Asian Financial Leadership Programme in 2016.