Roderick Chalmers

Mr Roderick Chalmers is a chartered accountant by profession, specialising in the financial services sector. Between 1972 and 1983 he practiced in Malta as a partner with the offices of Coopers and Lybrand, before moving to Hong Kong in 1984. He was a partner with Coopers and Lybrand, (later PricewaterhouseCoopers), Hong Kong between 1984 and 2000, when he retired from the firm to pursue a full time MA degree at Edinburgh University.

He was the elected Managing Partner of Coopers & Lybrand Hong Kong between 1990 and 1998, during which period he also acted as Chairman of the firm's South East Asia Regional Executive. He was appointed to the International Board of Directors of Coopers & Lybrand between 1996 and 1998.

Upon the merger of Coopers & Lybrand and Price Waterhouse in 1998, he was appointed Chairman, Asia-Pacific, for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), and continued in that position through to his retirement from the firm in the autumn of 2000. The position involved taking overall responsibility for the firm's operations in the Asia Pacific region. Between 1998 and 2000, he was also a member of the PwC Global Management Board, a 25 man body responsible for overseeing the global activities of the firm.

He was appointed by the Government of Hong Kong to act as a non-executive director of the Securities and Futures Commission (the regulator of the Stock and Futures exchanges) between 1992 and 1999. He was also a member of the Takeovers and Mergers Panel and was appointed by the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong to sit on the Banking Advisory Committee.

In November 2004, he was appointed Chairman of Bank of Valletta plc, and continued in that position until he retired for personal reasons in July 2012. Between 2004 and 2012 he was also a director of Middlesea Insurance plc and MSV Life plc. He is currently a non executive director of Global Sources Limited (a NASDAQ listed company), Gasan Group Limited, Gasan Zammit Motors Limited and Alfred Gera & Sons Limited.

Mr Chalmers has been a non-executive director of Simonds Farsons Cisk since 2006.