Ms Azleena Idris is currently Senior Director at Payments Network Malaysia Sdn Bhd (PayNet Malaysia), where she heads the Strategy & ESG functions at the nation’s retail payments. She joined PayNet Malaysia in August 2019 as Corporate Services Director (Head of Division).

With over 2 decades of combined experience both as a regulator and a financial services sector professional, she played an instrumental role in several national and international initiatives including the 2nd Financial Sector Master Plan, Malaysia as an International Financial Centre (MIFC), Islamic Financial Services Act 2013, International Islamic Liquidity Management Corporation, and several merger and acquisition exercises involving the RHB Group. She was with the Central Bank of Malaysia specialising in Islamic financial infrastructure development strategies for over a decade and prior to that, was with a local large financial conglomerate for close to 10 years where she held senior positions in corporate finance, legal, compliance and was also joint company secretary of the parent listed parent company. She is also a short-term expert with the International Monetary Fund and a short-term consultant with the World Bank.

Trained and qualified as a lawyer in England, she holds a Global Executive MBA from London School of Economics and Political Science, New York University Stern School of Business and HEC Paris, Certificate in Business & Climate Change from University of Cambridge and is also a Chartered Islamic Finance Professional.