Peter Whitelaw

Peter Whitelaw was appointed as Acting Group Chief Risk Officer on 18 March 2025.

He was previously appointed as Executive Resilience Risk in June 2020 where accountabilities included setting NAB Group’s risk management policies, frameworks and risk appetite relating to its capital, funding, liquidity, technology, data, privacy, information security, third party, ESG and strategic risks.

Peter commenced his financial services career with Credit Suisse in 1986 before becoming a derivatives trader for Japanese and Canadian banks. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand and Australia and served as a Chief Risk Officer for NAB’s Corporate and Institutional Bank and the Bank of New Zealand for which he was also a member of the Executive Team.

Before joining NAB in 2005, he held senior risk management positions at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in London and Sydney.

Peter is a Non-Executive Director of CLS Group Holdings AG and CLS Bank International, the systemically important financial market infrastructure providing multilateral and bilateral netting services to the global FX market. Peter is a member of the CLS Board Risk Management and Technology and Operations Committees. Peter is also a Member of the NAB Ventures Investment Committee.

Peter has a First Class Honours Degree in Mathematics and a postgraduate degree in Quantitative Finance. He is an alumnus of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he completed the Stanford Executive Program in 2018.