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Board of directors and secretary
Governance
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Chairman
1. Sir Tom McKillop (age 63)
C, N, R
Appointed to the Board as Deputy Chairman in
September 2005, Sir Tom is a non-executive
director of BP p.l.c., and president of the Science
Council. He was formerly chief executive of
AstraZeneca PLC, and was previously president of
the European Federation of Pharmaceutical
Industries and Associations and chairman of the
British Pharma Group. He is Pro-Chancellor of the
University of Leicester and a trustee of the Council
for Industry and Higher Education.
Chief Executive, Corporate Markets
4. Johnny Cameron (age 52) FCIBS
Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Johnny
Cameron joined RBS from Dresdner Kleinwort
Benson in 1998. In 2000, he was appointed Deputy
Chief Executive of Corporate Banking & Financial
Markets (CBFM) with responsibility for the
integration of the NatWest and RBS Corporate
Banking businesses. In October 2001 he was
appointed Chief Executive CBFM, subsequently
renamed Corporate Markets in January 2006.
Chief Executive, Retail Markets
7. Gordon Pell (age 57) FCIBS, FCIB
Appointed to the Board in March 2000, Gordon Pell
was formerly group director of Lloyds TSB UK
Retail Banking before joining National Westminster
Bank Plc as a director in February 2000 and then
becoming chief executive, Retail Banking. He is
also a director of Race for Opportunity and a
member of the National Employment Panel and the
FSA Practitioner Panel. He was appointed chairman
of the Business Commission on Racial Equality in
the Workplace in July 2006.
Executive directors
Group Chief Executive
2. Sir Fred Goodwin (age 48)
DUniv, FCIBS, FCIB, LLD
C
Appointed to the Board in August 1998, Sir Fred
is a Chartered Accountant. He was formerly chief
executive and director, Clydesdale Bank PLC and
Yorkshire Bank PLC. He is chairman of The Prince’s
Trust, a non-executive director of Bank of China
Limited and a former president of the Chartered
Institute of Bankers in Scotland.
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Citizens Financial Group, Inc.
5. Lawrence Fish (age 62)
Appointed to the Board in January 1993, Lawrence
Fish is an American national. He is a career banker
and was previously a director of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Boston. He is a trustee of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Brookings
Institution, and a director of Textron Inc. and
numerous community organisations in the USA.
Non-executive directors
8. Colin Buchan* (age 52)
A, C, R
Appointed to the Board in June 2002, Colin Buchan
was educated in South Africa and spent the early
part of his career in South Africa and the Far East.
He has considerable international investment
banking experience, as well as experience in very
large risk management in the equities business. He
was formerly a member of the group management
board of UBS AG and head of equities of UBS
Warburg. He is chairman of UBS Securities
Canada Inc. and vice-chairman of Standard Life
Investments (Holdings) Ltd. He is also a director of
Merrill Lynch World Mining Trust Plc, Merrill Lynch
Gold Limited, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Society Limited and World Mining Investment
Company Limited.
Group Finance Director
3. Guy Whittaker (age 50)
C
Appointed to the Board in February 2006, Guy
Whittaker was formerly group treasurer at Citigroup
Inc., based in New York, having previously held a
number of management positions within the
financial markets business at Citigroup. He was
elected a Lady Beaufort Fellow of Christ's College
Cambridge in 2004.
Chief Executive, Manufacturing
6. Mark Fisher (age 46) FCIBS
Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Mark Fisher
is a career banker having joined National
Westminster Bank Plc in 1981. In 2000, he was
appointed Chief Executive, Manufacturing with
various responsibilities including the integration
of RBS and NatWest systems platforms. He is
chairman of APACS Administration Limited.
9. Jim Currie* (age 65) D.Litt
R
Appointed to the Board in November 2001, Jim
Currie is a highly experienced senior international
civil servant who spent many years working in
Brussels and Washington. He was formerly director
general at the European Commission with
responsibility for the EU’s environmental policy and
director general for Customs and Excise and
Indirect Taxation. He is also a director of Total
Upstream UK Limited and an international adviser
to Eversheds. He is a special adviser to the
president of the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development.