Renée McGowan - President, AMEA Region Mercer

We need inspiration now more than ever… and I’m excited to
introduce you to my next guest. Global citizen and inspiring
leader, she has a fascinating story to tell of her life so far.


 


Welcome to the show, Renée McGowan!  


 


Let me tell you a little more from Renée’s very impressive bio.


 


Based in Dubai, Renée is Mercer’s President, Asia Middle East
& Africa (AMEA), leading Mercer’s business across 18 markets
in this fast-growing, dynamic region. She is also Chairperson of
Mercer in Japan, Executive Director on Mercer boards in China and
Hong Kong, and Marsh McLennan’s Country Corporate Officer for
Hong Kong.


 


She has helmed businesses in Hong Kong, London, Melbourne, New
York, Singapore and Sydney. She is also a regular speaker at
major international forums and a contributor to international
media, including WEF, The New York Times, The South China Morning
Post and CNBC. And won tons of awards including the Humanitarian
Overseas Service Medal by the Australian Government for
delivering humanitarian services overseas.


 


Listen till 9:02 to hear Renée talk about one of the hardest but
most impactful times in her life when she was an exchange
student.  


 


“You know you’re a teenager you think you’re invisible. But I
think it still takes an element of being fearless to make that
decision as a teenager to throw yourself into a local town. In
central Java, not knowing a word of Indonesian, living with a
local family and attending a local school for twelve months. And
noting that it was the early nineties, so it was pre-internet.
Snail mail took weeks or months, phone calls didn’t work just
because of the nature of infrastructure there. So it was probably
the hardest period of my life but looking back on it now,
probably the most impactful thing I did in my life as well.”


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