11 Highest-Paid Women CEOs in APAC: Compensation Package & Reported Earnings

1. Shemara Wikramanayake – Managing Director and CEO, Macquarie Group

Reported compensation: A$24.03 million (FY2025)

Shemara Wikramanayake is the Managing Director and CEO of the Australian financial service organization Macquarie. She has been holding the post since 2018 and before this, she was heading Macquarie Asset Management. Her career in this organization started way back in 1987 and she has been working across different business segments of the organization and different markets around the world.

As a result of her leadership, Macquarie still operates in segments like asset management, banking, financial markets and commodities while expanding its global footprint. In its remuneration report for FY2025, the company has reported a remuneration of A$24.03 million as awarded to Wikramanayake. This figure has included the fixed remuneration, available profit share and retained profit share.

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2. Bonnie Y. Chan – CEO, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing

Reported compensation: HK$37.78 million (2025)

Bonnie Y. Chan holds the position of Chief Executive Officer at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX). She became the company's CEO in March 2024 with significant expertise in the global capital market and the law firm industry. Prior to this, she was a Co-Chief Operating Officer and Head of Listing at HKEX.

The core objective of her leadership is to make Hong Kong into an international financial center and improve its competitiveness as a capital market. She made a remuneration disclosure for the year 2025. It included salary, performance-based cash rewards, retirement benefits, and share-based remuneration. The total disclosed remuneration amount is HK$37.78 million.

3. Joey Wat – CEO, Yum China

Reported compensation: US$19.59 million (2025)

The CEO of Yum China, Joey Wat is an executive who manages a leading restaurant brand in China offering popular brands such as KFC and Pizza Hut. She was recruited to work in the company in 2014, and became its CEO in 2018. Her work experience includes the area of retail, consumer businesses and restaurants.

She has been playing a significant role in the growth, enhancing the digital transformation of the company and restructuring its business model in view of the dynamic consumer market of China. In Yum China 2026 Proxy Statement, she earned a total compensation in 2025 which amounted to about US$19.59 million. It comprised her salary, stock awards, non-equity incentive compensation, and others.