Charon Mokhzani is the Group Managing Director of Malaysian Industrial Development Finance Berhad, which provides development finance and through its subsidiaries carries on investment banking and asset management on a commercial basis. MIDF is wholly owned by Permodalan Nasional Berhad, the national fund management company. He was an Executive Director of Khazanah Nasional Berhad, the sovereign wealth fund of Malaysia, and the founder Managing Director of its think-tank the Khazanah Research Institute, which provided socio-economic policy research. Before that he was an investment banker and was the Deputy CEO and the head of Corporate and Investment Banking of CIMB Group, a large Malaysian-based Southeast Asian banking group. He was also a corporate lawyer and was the Managing Partner of Zaid Ibrahim & Co, then (and still) the largest law firm in Malaysia. He is a Chartered Banker and a Fellow of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers, and a non-practising barrister of the Middle Temple and advocate and solicitor of the High Court of Malaya. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, University of Oxford; Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and was called to the degree of the Utter Bar at the Middle Temple. He went to Bloxham School, Banbury and the Malay College Kuala Kangsar.