Catherine McIlraith

Ms McIlraith is a Mauritian citizen and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and has been a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants since 1992. She served her Articles at Ernst & Young in Johannesburg. She then joined the Investment Banking industry and has held senior positions in corporate and specialized finance for Ridge Corporate Finance, BoE NatWest and BoE Merchant Bank in Johannesburg.

She returned to Mauritius in 2004 to join Investec Bank where she was Head of Banking until 2010. Catherine is a Fellow Member of the Mauritius Institute of Directors (“MIoD”). She is an independent non-executive director and a member of various committees of a number of public and private companies in Mauritius including AfrAsia Bank Limited, CIEL Limited, and Les Gaz Industriels Limited. She is also the chairperson of the MIoD since October 2014.