Shemara Wikramanayake is The Australian Financial Review Business Person of the Year after delivering a record 2022 profit and making Macquarie a central player in the global energy transition.

With this award, she will become the third Macquarie bank person, after Nicholas Moore and David Clarke, on The Australian Financial Review’s list of leaders, builders, pioneers and stirrers who have most shaped Australia’s business landscape since 1963, when the Financial Review became a daily publication.