Effective 1st July 2016, Robert McKellar has been appointed as Executive Chairman, Asia Pacific. McKellar was appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Savills Asia Pacific, in March 2005 responsible for overseeing Savills’ regional operations comprising some 25,000 staff in every major city across nine countries and regions including China, Hong Kong (SAR), Japan, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and New Zealand. McKellar joined Savills in December 1988 as Financial Controller and then Managing & Finance Director for Savills Commercial Ltd., before being appointed as Finance Director for Savills plc in July 2000. In September 1986, McKellar joined BP Minerals Ltd. as Regional Controller and left at the end of 1988. During this time he spent six months working in Brazil. Prior to working for BP, McKellar worked for three years with Babcock Power in London, and before then for two years with the British Steel Corporation in Scotland. A Glasgow University Business Finance graduate, McKellar qualified in the UK with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants in February 1986.  He is a member of the Institute of Directors and a Fellow of the FCMA.