Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025
Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025

Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025

Modern HR Leaders are leading the way with their strategic planning, leading transformation and resilience, and cultivating agile and future-ready leaders for the generations. In Asia, best HR leaders led employee engagement initiatives that boosted employee satisfaction scores by 30%, negotiated with benefits providers to improve employee packages, and cut costs by 10% while enhancing benefits. These leaders demonstrate strong multitasking, organisational skills, and emotional intelligence, generating substantial value and leaving a lasting impact on organisations. TradeFlock’s  Best HR Leaders from Asia 2025 edition recognises top HR leaders in Asia, emphasising their remarkable skills and qualities such as integrity, empathy, compassion, and business acumen. This special edition of TradeFlock features exclusive, in-depth interviews that explore the journeys, financial management philosophies, and growth strategies of Asia’s top HR leaders. Join us as we highlight their inspiring stories, practical insights, and leadership principles that establish them as key architects of Asia’s people management expertise.

Dato Mohd Khalis Abdul Rahim

Dato Mohd Khalis Abdul Rahim

Group Chief Human Capital Officer

Malaysia Airlines

As a psychologist with 27 years of experience, Dato Mohd Khalis, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, is reinventing human capital leadership with both empathy and strategy in the modern corporate world.

Fiona Anderson, Head of Human Capital at Arcapita, is guiding the firm’s human capital strategy with insight, empathy, and unwavering ethical clarity. Creating a global impact, she redefines human capital leadership with a first leadership methodology. 

Fiona Anderson

Director - Human Capital

Arcapita

Fiona Anderson
Latifa Mohammad

Latifa Mohammad

Group Executive Vice President - Head Office People Department

DP World

Latifa Mohammad, an accomplished group executive vice president, is reshaping leadership in human capital within the maritime and logistics sectors. She exemplifies how human resources can be a key driver of organisational growth and operational excellence.

Maria Mubeen demonstrates that a workplace can foster both business success and employee growth through excellence in customer service, effective employee training, and operational efficiency. She combines strategic insight, adaptability, and people-first leadership to create a thriving environment.

Maria Mubeen

HR Manager

Fahim, Nanji & deSouza (Pvt.) Ltd

Maria Mubeen
Marie-Louise Ek

Marie-Louise Ek

Vice President HR (Middle East & Africa)

Hilton

As Vice President of Human Resources for Hilton Hotels & Resorts in the MEA&T, Marie-Louise oversees people and culture strategies. Her role blends strategic planning with human empathy, positioning the organisation for expansion and empowering staff to provide outstanding guest experiences.

Meshref Dughaim Alshammary, a seasoned strategic and transformational leader, demonstrated how data-driven insights can align human capital with organisational goals, consistently balancing analytics with empathy and creating high-performing, agile teams.

Meshref Dughaim Alshammary

Strategic & Transformational Leader

Meshref Dughaim Alshammary
Mursosan Wiguna

Mursosan Wiguna

Chief People Officer

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Mursosan, a trailblazer and CPO, creates workplaces where employees feel valued, understood, and connected to purpose. “We just want to be seen,” a frontliner told Mursosan Wiguna, inspiring his passion for people leadership and blending local wisdom with global practices to motivate the team. 

As EVP and CHRO at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Placiod Jover leads initiatives that align talent, culture, and business with the company’s “Pivot to Growth” strategy. Using technology and a human-centred approach, he makes data-informed decisions that meet employees’ needs.

Placid Jover

EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer

Teva

Placid Jover
Radha Krishna

Radha Krishna

Global HR Director

Advanta Seeds

As Global HR Director at Advanta Seeds, Radha Krishna has expertise in talent management, rewards, engagement, development, change management, M&A, and workforce planning across various sectors, including oil & gas, hospitality, chemicals, agri-inputs, farm machinery, automation, and retail.

Tanya Finlay is redefining what it means to lead people strategy in a traditionally technical, regulated industry. As Vice President of People & Culture at Fortis Inc., she has turned human capital into a strategic asset, building leadership labs, boosting internal mobility, and embedding inclusion into the DNA of a 10,000-strong workforce across North America and the Caribbean.

Wassim Eid

President - People & Culture

Chalhoub Group

Wassim Eid
Dato Mohd Khalis Abdul Rahim
Dato Mohd Khalis Abdul Rahim

Group Chief Human Capital Officer

Malaysia Airlines

As a psychologist with 27 years of experience, Dato Mohd Khalis, Group Chief Human Capital Officer, is reinventing human capital leadership with both empathy and strategy in the modern corporate world.

Fiona Anderson
Fiona Anderson

Director - Human Capital

Arcapita

Fiona Anderson, Head of Human Capital at Arcapita, is guiding the firm’s human capital strategy with insight, empathy, and unwavering ethical clarity. Creating a global impact, she redefines human capital leadership with a first leadership methodology. 

Latifa Mohammad
Latifa Mohammad

Group Executive Vice President - Head Office People Department

DP World

Latifa Mohammad, an accomplished group executive vice president, is reshaping leadership in human capital within the maritime and logistics sectors. She exemplifies how human resources can be a key driver of organisational growth and operational excellence.

Maria Mubeen
Maria Mubeen

HR Manager

Fahim, Nanji & deSouza (Pvt.) Ltd

Maria Mubeen demonstrates that a workplace can foster both business success and employee growth through excellence in customer service, effective employee training, and operational efficiency. She combines strategic insight, adaptability, and people-first leadership to create a thriving environment.

Marie-Louise Ek
Marie-Louise Ek

Vice President HR (Middle East & Africa)

Hilton

As Vice President of Human Resources for Hilton Hotels & Resorts in the MEA&T, Marie-Louise oversees people and culture strategies. Her role blends strategic planning with human empathy, positioning the organisation for expansion and empowering staff to provide outstanding guest experiences.

Meshref Dughaim Alshammary
Meshref Dughaim Alshammary

Strategic & Transformational Leader

Meshref Dughaim Alshammary, a seasoned strategic and transformational leader, demonstrated how data-driven insights can align human capital with organisational goals, consistently balancing analytics with empathy and creating high-performing, agile teams.

Mursosan Wiguna
Mursosan Wiguna

Chief People Officer

Mursosan, a trailblazer and CPO, creates workplaces where employees feel valued, understood, and connected to purpose. “We just want to be seen,” a frontliner told Mursosan Wiguna, inspiring his passion for people leadership and blending local wisdom with global practices to motivate the team. 

Placid Jover
Placid Jover

EVP, Chief Human Resources Officer

Teva

As EVP and CHRO at Teva Pharmaceuticals, Placiod Jover leads initiatives that align talent, culture, and business with the company’s “Pivot to Growth” strategy. Using technology and a human-centred approach, he makes data-informed decisions that meet employees’ needs.

Radha Krishna
Radha Krishna

Global HR Director

Advanta Seeds

As Global HR Director at Advanta Seeds, Radha Krishna has expertise in talent management, rewards, engagement, development, change management, M&A, and workforce planning across various sectors, including oil & gas, hospitality, chemicals, agri-inputs, farm machinery, automation, and retail.

Wassim Eid
Wassim Eid

President - People & Culture

Chalhoub Group

Wassim Eid, President of People and Culture, is navigating talent retention and redefining people and culture in Middle East luxury retail across multiple countries, embedding inclusive leadership, and fostering wellbeing in high-pressure environments.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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