Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, December 2025 – Kabir Nath has been appointed as Sales Leader for Mercer Asia, effective 1 January 2026, expanding his remit beyond his current position as Senior Principal, Chief of Staff, Mercer Asia at Mercer. In this enhanced mandate, he will leverage his strong consulting background and business acumen to drive profitable new business growth across Mercer’s Health, Wealth and Career practices, partnering closely with country and practice leaders across the region.
At Mercer Asia, Kabir Nath currently serves as Senior Principal, Chief of Staff, Mercer Asia, a role he has held for almost a year, steering the execution of the firm’s growth strategy across 10 markets in the region. Drawing on nearly a decade with Mercer, he has been central to revenue expansion, business transformation and talent development, helping strengthen the firm’s position as a trusted advisor to clients while building a strong internal bench of future leaders.
Before taking on the regional Chief of Staff role, he served as Principal, Chief of Staff, Mercer Asia and earlier as Principal, Chief of Staff, Mercer Singapore, where he translated strategy into execution on the ground. Prior to that, as Principal and Associate Principal in Talent Advisory at Mercer Singapore, he led the firm’s Skills Transformation practice in the country, designing agile work design models and talent frameworks. During this time, he also undertook an international secondment as Project Manager – Strategic Workforce Planning in Saudi Arabia, helping a petrochemical conglomerate craft a five-year strategic workforce plan aligned with its growth ambitions.
Earlier in his career, Kabir Nath was Manager – Talent and Rewards at Willis Towers Watson (now WTW) in New Delhi, where for nearly three years he led large-scale Talent & Rewards transformation initiatives across financial services, consumer goods and high-tech sectors. In this role, he focused on designing incentive structures, rewards architectures and talent programs that linked people strategies tightly to business outcomes, deepening his expertise at the intersection of performance, engagement and pay.
Before joining Mercer and WTW, Kabir Nath co-founded Free Parking Entertainment in the Greater Delhi Area, building a venture that delivered theatrical and creativity-based learning solutions for corporates and educational institutions. As co-founder, he led the Corporate Services team, selling and delivering leadership development programs that used theatre and experiential methods to unlock growth mindsets and behavioral change in corporate audiences.
On the academic front, Kabir Nath holds an MBA in Marketing and Strategy from London Business School and The University of Hong Kong, where he was recognised on the Academic Dean’s List and served as Vice President of the Consulting Club. He completed his Graduation in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, University of Delhi. This combination of top-tier management education, entrepreneurial exposure and deep consulting experience across Asia and the Middle East underpins his new commercial leadership mandate at Mercer Asia.
Mercer Asia is part of Mercer, a global consulting leader that builds brighter futures by redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and developing health and well-being programs that help organizations attract and retain talent. Across Asia, Mercer partners with clients to address critical challenges related to the future of work, HR and workforce transformation, healthcare cost escalation, and sustainable retirement outcomes.
With decades of on-ground experience in the region, Mercer combines global scale with deep local insight to support both multinational and local businesses. The firm’s advisory work spans rewards and benefits, talent and reskilling, workforce and organization transformation, and health and well-being solutions, helping organizations across Asia become future-ready, resilient and competitive.
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