Alisdair Creanor is appointed Chief Executive Officer of ANZ Royal on 6 November, responsible for leading execution of strategy, providing valued insights and financial services to clients in Cambodia, and across the Mekong and the broader ANZ network.

Alisdair has deep experience in International banking sector, having worked in London, New York, Paris and Melbourne. In his current role at ANZ, Alisdair is a member of the Institutional Leadership Team, and is responsible for leading the Institutional transformation agenda, the development and delivery of the divisional strategy, as well as running a number of central functions across ANZ’s global Institutional business.

Alisdair has been at ANZ since early 2015, prior to which he held a number of roles at Lloyds Banking Group, including in Equity Capital Markets, Wholesale Banking, and Strategy and Performance. Earlier in his career, Alisdair set up and ran a digital logistics business in the UK, before joining Bouygues group, the French conglomerate.

Miguel Eduardo Sánchez Martín is the Senior Country Economist of the World Bank in Cambodia, leading the policy dialogue on macroeconomic, fiscal, and trade-related issues. Prior to joining the Bank Miguel worked for the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade as trade and investment analyst, both in Madrid and Ankara. He holds an MsC in Political Economy of Development by the University of London, SOAS, and a PhD in Economics by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. His areas of specialization include foreign direct investment attraction and spillovers, growth and diversification, and fiscal policy and redistribution. He counts with several publications on these topics, and is a reviewer of academic journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies and the European Journal of Political Economy.

Clint has worked professionally in Cambodia for over ten years, and in that time has been involved in some of the largest commercial transactions in Cambodia. He advises a wide range of clients, from large globally-listed companies to small- and medium-sized businesses. Clint is widely recognized for his work. He is a regular contributor to the International Tax Review and Bloomberg BNA’s Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus journal and has been recognized as a market leading advisor by Asia Law and IFLR1000. Under Clint’s leadership the DFDL Tax Practice Group in Cambodia has been awarded Cambodia Tax Firm of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and the 2018 Tax Disputes Firm of the Year by the International Tax Review.


Clint has worked professionally in Cambodia for over ten years, and in that time has been involved in some of the largest commercial transactions in Cambodia. He advises a wide range of clients, from large globally-listed companies to small- and medium-sized businesses. Clint is widely recognized for his work. He is a regular contributor to the International Tax Review and Bloomberg BNA’s Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus journal and has been recognized as a market leading advisor by Asia Law and IFLR1000. Under Clint’s leadership the DFDL Tax Practice Group in Cambodia has been awarded Cambodia Tax Firm of the Year in 2017 and 2018 and the 2018 Tax Disputes Firm of the Year by the International Tax Review.

Amaury de Saint Blanquat has held senior positions in leading European consulting firms, advising major corporations in support of restructuring programs from supply chain optimisation to change management and bottom-line improvement. He has extensive experience in supporting those who must take complex decisions in Southeast Asia. He founded Saint Blanquat & A. in 2012 in Phnom Penh with the idea of developing international Management Consulting and Human Resources practices in Cambodia. Since then, the company has delivered hundreds of missions to clients from the private sector, international organisations and the Cambodian government, helping to raise the standards of corporate governance, human capital and education in South-East Asia. With 30 consultants and analysts from 7 nationalities, 300+ clients, Saint Blanquat & A. has developed a unique expertise in Cambodia and Myanmar. In an effort to further develop the international standards in Cambodia, Saint Blanquat & A. partnered with the world’s leading career services provider Mercer in 2017, to offer its comprehensive salary survey data along with other HR frameworks to a wider network of companies.