Born on 9 April 1954, Mr Lim Hng Kiang received his secondary and pre-university education at Raffles Institution. In 1973, he was awarded the President's Scholarship, as well as the Singapore Armed Forces Scholarship to read Engineering at Cambridge University. He graduated with First Class Honours (Distinction) in 1976. Mr Lim spent the next nine years in the Singapore Armed Forces, where he held both Command and Staff appointments. In 1985, Mr Lim was awarded a scholarship for Masters in Public Administration at the Kennedy School in Harvard University. On his return in 1986, Mr Lim served in the Ministry of Defence and then in the Ministry of National Development as Deputy Secretary. In January 1991, Mr Lim was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Housing and Development Board.

His political career saw him win 6 general elections since 1991 where he was elected MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC (1991); for West Coast GRC (1997, 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2015). His political appointments include Minister of State (National Development) in 1991, Acting Minister (National Development) and Senior Minister of State (Foreign Affairs) in 1994, Minister (National Development) and Second Minister (Foreign Affairs) in 1995, Minister (National Development) and Second Minister (Finance) in 1998, Minister (Health) and Second Minister (Finance) in 1999, Minister (Prime Minister’s Office) and Second Minister (Finance) in 2003 and Minister (Trade and Industry) from 2004 to 2018.

Mr Lim is Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a Board Director of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC).

Mr Duperreault was President and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) from 2008 to 2012. Before joining MMC, he served for two years as non‐executive Chairman of ACE Limited, an insurance and reinsurance company, and as CEO of ACE from 1994 through 2004.

Prior to ACE, Mr Duperreault held various senior executive positions with AIG and its affiliates from 1973 to 1994.

Mr Duperreault is Chairman of Attune, a data‐enabled company established by Hamilton Insurance Group, AIG and Two Sigma. He is the former Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the School of Risk Management of St. John’s University, New York.

Mr Duperreault is a member of the Boards of the International Insurance Society, the American Insurance Association, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Studies (BIOS), Johnson Controls, Partnership for New York City, the Geneva Association and Saint Joseph's University.

Allianz is one of the world’s largest investors, managing over 650 billion euros on behalf of its insurance customers, while our asset managers Allianz Global Investors and PIMCO manage an additional 1.4 trillion euros of third-party assets. In 2017, over 140,000 employees in more than 70 countries achieved total revenue of 126 billion euros and an operating profit of 11 billion euros for the group.
 
Oliver started his career with McKinsey & Company in New York. Later, he moved to their offices in Germany. In 1998, he took over McKinsey’s German insurance practice. In 2003, he became Director in charge of the firm’s European insurance and asset management sector. Oliver joined the Board of Management of Allianz SE in 2008 as Global Chief Operating Officer. In September 2009, he took over the Chief Financial Officer position. Effective January 2013 he became responsible for Insurance Western & Southern Europe and Global P&C markets. On May 6, 2015 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of Management. Oliver studied business administration at University of Cologne and holds a MBA from the NYU, Leonard Stern School of Business. He is also Assistant Professor at the University of Cologne, for Insurance and Capital Markets.

Mr. Liu served as Vice Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank of China from July 2015 to June 2018. Mr. Liu served as Vice President of the Export-Import Bank of China from March 2007 to February 2015. He also served as Director of the African Export-Import Bank from September 2007 to February 2015, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Sino-Italian Mandarin Capital Partners from March 2009 to June 2015, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Regional Credit Guarantee and Investment Facility (Asia) from March 2014 to May 2015.

Mr. Liu worked in the People’s Bank of China (“PBOC”) for many years, successively serving as Deputy Director-General of the International Department of the PBOC, President of the Fuzhou Central Sub-branch of the PBOC and Director of the Fujian Branch of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Director General of the Anti-Money Laundering Bureau (the Security Bureau) of the PBOC.

Mr. Liu has been serving as President of Shanghai RMB Trading Unit of Bank of China since October 2018. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited from December 2018 to July 2019 and has been serving as Chairman of the Board of Directors of BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited since July 2019.
Mr. Liu graduated from the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China with a Master’s Degree in Economics in 1987. He holds the title of Senior Economist.

Carlos worked at McKinsey & Company for 12 years, and became a partner of the Firm in 1997. He joined Endesa in 2002 as Corporate Director of Strategy and member of its Executive Committee, and became company CFO in 2007.

In September 2008, Mr Carlos joined BBVA as Head of Strategy and Corporate Development, and member of the bank's Management Committee. In March 2014 he was appointed Head of Digital Banking, until May 2015 when he became Chief Executive Officer of the bank.

Carlos was appointed BBVA’s Group Executive Chairman and Chairman of the BBVA Foundation in December 2018.

In addition, he is a Member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the European Financial Services Roundtable (EFR), the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), and the Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR). He also represents BBVA at the International Monetary Conference (IMC).

He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Endeavor Spain and the Governing Board of the Association for the Progress of Management (APD) and represents BBVA in several non-for-profit organizations that support social, educational, cultural and scientific activities.

A veteran banker, Mr. Hirano started his career more than 40 years ago working at MUFG’s domestic banking branch offices. He later developed his career in Europe and New York, where he held a variety of positions within corporate banking and global strategy planning.

Following his return to Japan, he held a number of high-ranking positions in the bank’s corporate banking and corporate planning divisions. In January 2006, Mr. Hirano was appointed a Managing Director of the bank responsible for corporate functions.

In March 2009, he became a Director of Morgan Stanley, a firm with which MUFG had formed a strategic capital alliance.

In June 2009, Mr. Hirano was promoted to Deputy President of the bank and assumed an additional role as a Managing Officer of MUFG in charge of facilitating the strategic alliance with Morgan Stanley.

In April 2012, Mr. Hirano was appointed President of the bank, and a year later, in April 2013, began concurrently serving as President & Group CEO of MUFG. He became the Chairman of the bank in April 2016. 

In April 2019, he was appointed the Chairman of MUFG.

Mr. Hirano has served as a Chairman of the Japan-U.S. Business Council since 2017, an Audit and Supervisory Board member of Toyota Motor Corporation since 2018, a Director, Audit and Supervisory Committee Member of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and a Vice Chair of Keidanren (Japan Business Federation) since 2019.

Mr. Hirano graduated in 1974 from Kyoto University, where he studied law.

Jes has nearly four decades of extensive experience in banking and financial services. He worked for more than 30 years at J.P. Morgan, initially training as a commercial banker, and later advancing to the leadership of major businesses involving Equities, Private Banking and Asset Management, and ultimately heading the company’s Global Investment Bank. Most recently, Jes served as Managing Partner at BlueMountain Capital.

Jes holds a BA in Economics from Bowdoin College.

Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr Fink was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation. Mr Fink joined First Boston in 1976 and quickly became one of the first mortgage-backed securities traders on Wall Street. During his tenure at First Boston, Mr Fink was co-head of the Taxable Fixed Income Division, which was responsible for trading and distribution of all government, mortgage and corporate securities. Mr Fink also started the Financial Futures and Options Department and headed the Mortgage and Real Estate Products Group.

Mr Fink serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University, Chair of the Financial Affairs Committee and a member of the Executive Committee, the Ad Hoc Committee on Board Governance, and the Committee on Trustees. He is also Co-Chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Centre Board of Trustees, serves on the Development/Trustee Stewardship Committee and the Finance Committee. Mr Fink also serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Mr Fink earned an MBA degree with a concentration in real estate from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976 and a BA degree in political science from UCLA in 1974.

He was named "CEO of the Decade" by Financial News in 2011 and has been named one of the "World's Best CEO's" by Barron's each year since 2005.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2002, Mr James was Chairman of Global Investment Banking and Private Equity at Credit Suisse First Boston and a member of the Executive Board. Prior to the acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette by Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000, Mr James was the Chairman of DLJ’s Banking Group, responsible for all the firm’s investment banking and merchant banking activities. Mr James joined DLJ in 1975 as an Investment Banking associate. He became head of DLJ’s global M&A group in 1982, founded DLJ Merchant Banking, Inc. in 1985, and was named Chairman of the Banking Group in 1995. 

Mr James is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Costco Wholesale Corporation and has served on a number of other corporate Boards. Mr James is a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, member of The Boards of Trustees of the Mount Sinai Health System, member of the Center for American Progress Board of Trustees, Vice Chairman of Trout Unlimited’s Coldwater Conservation Fund, Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Wildlife Conservation Society, Advisory Board member of The Montana Land Reliance, and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of American Ballet Theatre. He is also a former member of the President’s Export Council and a former Commissioner of The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. 

In 2018, Mr James co-authored the second edition of Rescuing Retirement, a book proposing a solution to America’s looming retirement crisis. The first edition was published in 2016.

Mr James graduated magna cum laude with a BA from Harvard College in 1973 and was a John Harvard Scholar. He earned an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School and graduated as a Baker Scholar in 1975.

Mr Lemierre has a long and recognised career in international finance. In the 1980s he held various posts within the French Tax Administration, including Head of Tax Legislation and Director General of Taxes. In May 1995, he was appointed Chief of Cabinet of the French Ministry of Economy and Finances and become Head of Treasury in October later that year. Before being appointed at the helm of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 2000, he was a member of the European Monetary Committee (1995-1998), President of the European Economic and Financial Committee (1999-2000) and Chairman of the Paris Club (1999-2000). He served as President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development until 2008. In 2009, Mr Lemierre became a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Investment Corporation (CIC) and the International Advisory Council of the China Development Bank (CDB). He was Senior Advisor to the Chairman of BNP Paribas between 1 September 2008 and 30 November 2014.

Mr Lemierre graduated from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration. He also holds a degree in Law.

During this period, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and a Non-executive Director of Bank of China Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited. From December 2010 to April 2013, Mr Tian served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Manager of China CITIC Group. During this period, he also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Non-executive Director of China CITIC Bank.

From April 1999 to December 2010, Mr Tian served successively as Executive Vice President and President of China Cinda Asset Management Company, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of China Cinda Asset Management Co., Ltd. From July 1983 to April 1999, Mr Tian held various positions in China Construction Bank, including sub-branch general manager, deputy branch general manager, department general manager of the CCB Head Office, and Assistant President of the Bank.

Mr Tian currently also serves as Chairman of China Banking Association, a member of the Expert Committee for the 13th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development of China, a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the People’s Bank of China and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Asian Financial Cooperation Association. Mr Tian holds the title of Senior Economist. He received a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics in 1983.

As Comptroller of the Currency, Mr Dugan headed the agency that supervised over 1,500 national banks and federal branches of foreign banks, and also served on the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. During his five-year term, he led the agency through the financial crisis and ensuing recession that resulted in extraordinary regulatory, supervisory, and legislative actions for national banks of all sizes, including government assistance provided under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP); resolutions of large, mid-size, and community banks; the successful implementation of regulatory “stress tests”; and the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act. In the international arena, he served on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision as it formulated the “Basel III” regulatory standards; chaired the Joint Forum of banking, securities, and insurance supervisors from countries around the world; and was an active participant at the Financial Stability Board. In 2010, Mr Dugan received the Alexander Hamilton award, the Treasury Department’s highest honor, for his service as Comptroller.

Before becoming Comptroller, Mr Dugan was a partner (1995-2005) and Of Counsel (1993-95) at Covington. Earlier, he served at the U.S. Treasury Department as Assistant Secretary for Domestic Finance and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Policy (1989-93), and at the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs as Minority General Counsel and Counsel (1985-89). He began his legal career as an associate with the Washington D.C. law firm Miller & Chevalier (1981-85).

From 2013-2017, Mr Dugan served as a Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, which oversees the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the Government Accounting Standards Board. During this same period he also served as a member of the Global Advisory Board to Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., the Japanese banking organization. And since the inception in 2005 of the “Michigan in Washington” program for University of Michigan undergraduates, he has served as a member of the program’s Advisory Board.

Mr Dugan is a graduate of the University of Michigan (A.B. 1977) and Harvard Law School (J.D. 1981).

Previously, Mr Thiam served in a variety of leadership roles at Aviva from 2002 to 2008, holding successively the positions of Group Strategy and Development Director, Managing Director of Aviva International, Group Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer, Europe, and serving as a Director in 2007. 

Mr Thiam joined Aviva in 2002 from McKinsey & Company, the consulting firm, where he was a partner. From 1994 to 1999, he was successively CEO of the National Bureau for Technical Studies and Development, and Secretary of Development and Planning at Côte d’Ivoire. Mr Thiam served as Chairman of the Board of the Association of British Insurers from 2012 to 2014. He is a chevalier of the French Legion of Honor and a member of the 21st Century Fox board of Directors since November 2014. 

Mr Thiam is a graduate from the École Polytechnique in Paris and the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris and holds an MBA from Insead, with distinction.

He joined Deutsche Bank in 1989. From January until June 2015, he was responsible on the Management Board for Legal, Incident Management Group and Group Audit, and assumed responsibility for Deutsche Bank’s Private & Commercial Bank between July 2015 and April 2018. 

He was Head of Group Audit from June 2013 to December 2014, prior to which he held a number of management positions in Risk. From 2012 to 2013, he was Deputy Chief Risk Officer. From 2010 to 2012, he served as the Bank’s Chief Credit Officer. He has worked in Frankfurt, London, Singapore, Tokyo and Toronto.

From 2005 until 2007, Christian Sewing was a member of the Management Board of Deusche Genossenschafts-Hypothekenbank.

Before graduating with a diploma from the Bankakademie Bielefeld and Hamburg, he completed a bank apprenticeship at Deutsche Bank in 1989.

Previously, Mr Waldron was Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division (IBD) from 2014 to 2018. Prior to that, he was Global Head of Investment Banking Services (IBS)/Client Coverage for IBD and had oversight of the IBS Leadership Group, a group he founded in 2010. Earlier in his career, he was Global Co-Head of the Financial Sponsors Group from 2007 to 2009, Co-Head of Leveraged Finance from 2005 to 2007 and Co-Head of the Media and Entertainment Group in IBD from 2002 to 2005. Mr Waldron joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 and was named Managing Director in 2001 and Partner in 2002.

Mr Waldron is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Trustees Committee of The Lawrenceville School. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York, Co-Chairman of Youth, I.N.C., and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr Quinn was appointed Chief Executive, Global Commercial Banking in December 2015. He became a Group Managing Director in September 2016. From 2011 to 2015 he was the Regional Head of Commercial Banking for AsiaPacific, based in Hong Kong.

Mr Quinn joined Forward Trust Group, a subsidiary of Midland Bank, in 1987. He led HSBC's acquisitions of Swan National Motor Finance and Eversholt Leasing Ltd, becoming General Manager of each business in turn.

He has since taken up postings including Head of Specialised and Equity Finance at HSBC, Group Director of Strategy & Development at HSBC Insurance Services North America, Head of Commercial Finance Europe and Head of Commercial Banking UK (2008-2011).

Mr Quinn qualified as an accountant in 1987.

Mr. Chen joined Bank of China in 1990. Mr. Chen previously worked in the Hunan Branch of Bank of China before he was dispatched to the Hong Kong Branch of China and South Sea Bank Ltd. as Assistant General Manager.

He held various positions in Bank of China from June 2000 to February 2014, including Assistant General Manager and Vice General Manager of the Fujian Branch, General Manager of the Risk Management Department of the Head Office, General Manager of the Guangdong Branch and Executive Vice President of Bank of China.

Mr. Chen served as President of Bank of China from February 2014 to August 2017. He served as Vice Chairman of Bank of China from April 2014 to August 2017, and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank of China from August 2017 to April 2019. Mr. Chen served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of BOC Aviation Limited from December 2011 to March 2018. From December 2011 to April 2019, Mr. Chen successively served as Non-executive Director, Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors of BOC Hong Kong (Holdings) Limited.

Mr. Chen graduated from Hubei Institute of Finance and Economics in 1982. He obtained a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Murdoch University, Australia in 1999. He is a Certified Public Accountant and holds the title of Senior Economist.

Jamie Dimon is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. 

Mr Dimon became Chairman of the Board, effective January 1, 2007, following his appointment as CEO on January 1, 2006. He also assumed the title of President upon the company’s merger with Bank One Corporation on July 1, 2004. 

Mr Dimon began his professional career at American Express Company, serving as Assistant to the President from 1982 until 1985. He then became a key member of the team that launched and defined the strategy for Commercial Credit Company in October 1986, when the consumer lending company was spun off from Control Data Corporation. He served as Chief Financial Officer and an Executive Vice President, and then President. A completely restructured Commercial Credit made numerous acquisitions and divestitures, substantially improving its profitability. Most significantly, in 1987, it acquired and changed its name to Primerica Corporation, which in 1993 acquired The Travelers Corporation and was renamed Travelers Group. 

At Travelers, Mr Dimon was President and Chief Operating Officer for seven years. He was named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of its Smith Barney Inc. subsidiary in January 1996, having previously been the firm’s Chief Operating and Chief Administrative Officer. In November 1997, with the merger of Smith Barney and Salomon Brothers, he became Co-Chairman and Co-CEO of the combined firm. In 1998, he was named President of Citigroup Inc., the global financial services company formed by the combination of Travelers Group and Citicorp in 1998. In addition, he served as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc., the investment banking and securities brokerage subsidiary. 

In 2000 Mr Dimon was named Chairman and CEO of Bank One. During his four years with the company, he engineered a dramatic turnaround – taking the bank from a half-billion-dollar loss in 2000 to record earnings of $3.5 billion in 2003. 

A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, Mr Dimon holds an MBA degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, where he was a Baker Scholar. He serves on the boards of directors of a number of non-profit institutions, including the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Harvard Business School and the United Negro College Fund. 

Mr Dimon and his wife, Judy, have three daughters.

Today, Kotak is among India’s efficient, high-performing and trusted banks. Uday’s strategy for growth is defined by quality, simplicity and prudence. This conviction and a respectable distance from market exuberance has ensured that the bank is well capitalized and its asset book is of high quality. The group has a global presence with offices in key financial markets. The group's vision for equitable prosperity extends beyond banking and financial services. The Kotak Education Foundation works with some of India's most economically depressed communities, attempting to alleviate poverty in a sustainable way through education and livelihood programmes. 

Uday is a member of the International Advisory Panel of Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Advisory Board of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC). He has served as Chairman of Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) constituted Corporate Governance Committee, and is Chairman of Advisory Committee on Corporate Insolvency and Liquidation constituted by the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Board of India, and Chairman of Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bodh Gaya, among others. 

He has been conferred with multiple awards, including the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 Award, ET Business Leader of the Year 2015 Award for Corporate Excellence and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Financial Express Best Banks Award for FY 2015-16. 

Uday holds a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce and an MBA from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.

He was appointed to the Board of Management on 1 January 2009, initially responsible for the Life Division, later also for Human Resources. In his current role he is responsible for Group Holdings, Group Strategy and M&A, Group Communications, Group Audit, Economics, Sustainability and Public Affairs, Group Human Resources as well as Group Executive Affairs. 

Mr Wenning joined Munich Re in 1991 and has served in a variety of leadership roles at the company in Germany and in Switzerland. 

Born in Jerusalem in Israel in 1965. Mr Wenning is a graduate in economics from the University of Munich, completing his doctoral thesis in 1995.

Steffen Meister has been with Partners Group since 2000 and served as Delegate of the Board from 2013 to 2018 and as Chief Executive Officer from 2005 to 2013. Steffen Meister is furthermore the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Crossiety AG, a social media platform for local communities in Switzerland, and a member of the Board of Directors of FAIRTIQ AG, a company providing advanced travel payment solutions for the public transport sector.

Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked at Credit Suisse Financial Products and had assignments at Swiss Reinsurance Co. and the Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He has 23 years of industry experience and holds a master's degree in mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Switzerland.

Founded in London in 1848 and based in the UK, Prudential provides long-term savings and protection products, retirement income solutions and asset management through its businesses on four continents – Prudential Corporation Asia and Eastspring Investments in Asia, Jackson National Life Insurance in the US, M&G Prudential in the UK and Europe, and Prudential Africa. 

Since becoming Group Chief Executive, Mike has overseen continued growth across Prudential’s key metrics, with the Group delivering record IFRS operating profit of nearly £4.7 billion in 2017, and its assets under management reaching £669 billion.

Mike joined Jackson, Prudential’s North American unit, in 1995, and became Jackson’s Chief Operating Officer and Vice-Chairman in 2003. In 2011 he was appointed President and CEO of Jackson and joined the board of Prudential. He has more than three decades’ experience in insurance and retirement services, having started his career at the US brokerage house Dean Witter before becoming a managing director at Smith Barney Shearson. 

Mike was born in Ontario, Canada, and earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Economics from San Diego State University.

He is a Fellow of the French Institute of Actuaries. He holds honorary degrees from the Moscow Academy of Finance and University of Montréal. He was elected to join the “Insurance Hall of Fame” of the International Insurance Society (IIS) in 2014.

He was just elected to join the French Institute’s Academy of Moral and Political Sciences. He is a member of the Board of the Geneva Association, of the Global Reinsurance Forum and of the European Reinsurance Advisory Board.

Prior to joining the SCOR group, he was Chairman of the Fédération Française des Sociétés d’Assurances, Vice-President of the Comité Européen des Assurances, Senior Executive Vice-President of the AXA Group, First Executive Vice Chairman of the French Business Confederation.

He started his career as a University Professor in economics.

Bill has had a distinguished career in banking, having spent 26 years with JP Morgan in diverse leadership roles, becoming co-Chief Executive Officer of the investment bank in 2004 until he stepped down in 2009. Bill was the only career banker to be invited to be a committee member of the Independent Commission on Banking, established by the UK government in 2010 to recommend ways to improve competition and financial stability in banking. Subsequently, he served as advisor to the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards and was asked by the Court of the Bank of England to complete an independent review of the bank’s liquidity operations. Bill founded the hedge fund Renshaw Bay in 2011 where he was Chairman and CEO until he stepped down from the company on appointment to the Standard Chartered PLC Board.

Bill is an independent non-executive director of Novartis International AG and a non-executive director of Pension Insurance Corporation plc.

He holds a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Colgate University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Martin was appointed Vice Chairman, Standard Life Aberdeen, and Chairman, Aberdeen Standard Investments, on 13 March 2019. Prior to that, he was Director and Co-Chief Executive of Standard Life Aberdeen since 14 August 2017. Martin was co-founder and Chief Executive of Aberdeen Asset Management PLC, the holding company of the fund management group established in 1983, which joined the FTSE 100 in March 2012.

Under Martin’s leadership, Aberdeen became one of the world’s leading independent asset managers through a combination of organic growth and acquisition. The core expertise of the Aberdeen Group (now part of Aberdeen Standard Investments) is in equities, fixed income, alternatives and property and it manages assets for national and corporate pension funds, central banks, financial institutions, charities, foundations and private individuals around the world.

Martin was appointed Chairman of the Prudential Regulation Authority's Practitioner Panel in December 2013. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Institute of International Finance. He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the International Advisory Board of British American Business. Martin is also the Senior Independent Director of Glencore plc.

In 2008, Martin was named European Personality of the Year at the Funds Europe Awards. In 2009, he was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Aberdeen for services to business and entrepreneurship. In 2011, he was named Scotland PLC CEO of the Year at the Business Insider/PwC Scotland PLC Awards. Martin is Adjunct Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School and in 2014 was awarded a Doctorate of Letters from Heriot-Watt University.

Martin, who was born in Malaysia, was educated in Aberdeen and has an MA in Accountancy and an LLB. After university, he joined Deloitte where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. In 1982, he joined the investment department of local law firm Brander & Cruikshank, which subsequently became AAM.

After joining The Sumitomo Bank (one of the predecessor banks of SMBC) in April 1976, Mr Kunibe was assigned to a variety of positions at the bank’s Tokyo Head Office. In particular, he spent a number of years at the Corporate Planning Department, where he worked on the bank’s strategies and managed relations with relevant government ministries. In July 1998, Mr Kunibe was assigned as General Manager of the bank’s (now SMBC) Kitakyushu Branch. In April 1999, he was assigned as General Manager of Kitakyushu Corporate Business Office and Kitakyushu Branch. After returning to Tokyo in October 1999, he was appointed General Manager of the Corporate Planning Department.

In May 2001, Mr Kunibe moved to Osaka to manage the bank’s (now SMBC) Osaka Ekimae Corporate Business Office before returning to the bank’s Tokyo Head Office in June 2002 to head its Financial Accounting Department. In December of the same year, he was appointed General Manager of SMFG’s Financial Accounting Department.

In June 2003, Mr Kunibe was appointed as an Executive Officer of SMBC and, in April 2004, he was appointed General Manager of SMFG’s and SMBC’s Corporate Planning Departments. In October 2006, he became a Managing Executive Officer of SMBC.

In April 2007, Mr Kunibe was appointed as a Managing Executive Officer of SMFG. He was responsible for the Corporate Planning, Financial Accounting, Subsidiaries and Affiliates, and Public Relations Departments of both SMFG and SMBC. In June 2007, he was appointed to SMFG’s Board of Directors. In April 2009, he became a Senior Managing Executive Officer of SMBC and a member of the bank’s Board of Directors.

In April 2011, Mr Kunibe was appointed President and CEO of SMBC and served in this position until his appointment as President and Group CEO of SMFG, effective April 2017. In June 2017, Mr Kunibe was appointed as Director President and Group CEO of SMFG.

Born in 1954, Mr Kunibe spent his formative years in Tokyo. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo (1976) and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1982). He is married with three children.

Walter B. Kielholz, a Swiss citizen born in 1951, was elected to Swiss Re’s Board of Directors in June 1998.

He began his career at the General Reinsurance Corporation, Zurich in 1976. After working in the US, UK and Italy, he assumed responsibility for the company’s European marketing. In 1983 he opened an art gallery and picture framing business with his wife, Daphne Kielholz-Pestalozzi. A second gallery was opened in 1986. He joined Credit Suisse in 1986, where he was responsible for client relations with large insurance groups in the multinational services department.

In 1989, Walter B. Kielholz joined Swiss Re, Zurich. He became a member of the Executive Board in January 1993 and was Swiss Re’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2002. He was Executive Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors from 2003 to 2006 and Vice Chairman from 2007 to April 2009. He was nominated Chairman with effect from 1 May 2009.

Walter B. Kielholz has been a member of the Board of Directors of Credit Suisse Group AG since 1999. He was Chairman of the bank’s Board of Directors from 2003 to 2009.

He is Chairman of the European Financial Services Round Table (EFR), which contributes to the European public policy debate on issues relating to financial services. He is also a member (president in 2006/2007) of the International Monetary Conference (IMC), an association of the largest banks worldwide, and a member of the Board of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). In addition, he is a member and former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Avenir Suisse, a think tank for economic and social issues. From 1998 to 2005, and again since 2009, he has served as a member of the International Business Leader Advisory Council (IBLAC), an advisory group to the Mayor of Shanghai composed mainly of the chairs of the board and CEOs of major global corporations. In 2009 he became a member of the International Advisory Panel (IAP) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), which advises the MAS on the country’s financial sector reforms and strategies.

In 2005 Walter B. Kielholz was elected by the members of the International Insurance Society to the Insurance Hall of Fame, which honours individuals who have exercised substantial influence on the industry for the benefit of society.

Walter B. Kielholz enjoys sailing, skiing, tennis, golf, reading, opera, concerts and art. He is Chairman of the Zurich Art Society, which runs Zurich’s Kunsthaus museum.

Walter B. Kielholz studied business administration at the University of St. Gallen and graduated in 1976 with a degree in business finance and accounting.

Axel A. Weber was elected to the Board of Directors (BoD) at the 2012 Annual General Meeting (AGM) and was thereafter appointed Chairman of the BoD. He chairs the Governance and Nominating Committee and has been a member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee since 2012.

Axel A. Weber was president of the German Bundesbank between 2004 and 2011, during which time he also served in the following positions: as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements; as German governor of the International Monetary Fund; and as a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors.

He was a member of the Steering Committees of the European Systemic Risk Board in 2011 and the Financial Stability Board from 2010 to 2011.

On leave from the University of Cologne, he was a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business from 2011 to 2012.

From 2002 to 2004, Axel A. Weber served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. He was a professor for international economics and Director of the Center for Financial Research at the University of Cologne from 2001 to 2004, and a professor for monetary economics and Director of the Center for Financial Studies at the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main from 1998 to 2001.

He is also a member of the Group of Thirty, Washington, D.C., a research fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London and at the Center for Financial Research in Cologne. Axel A. Weber is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt/Main and a member of the European Money and Finance Forum. In addition, he is a member of the Monetary Economics and International Economics Councils of the leading association of German-speaking economists, the Verein für Socialpolitik, a member of the Advisory Board of the German Market Economy Foundation, and a member of the Advisory Council (Hochschulrat) of the Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main. Axel A. Weber is a honorary doctor at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Konstanz.

Axel A. Weber holds a PhD in economics from the University of Siegen, where he also received his habilitation. He graduated with a master’s degree (Diplom) in economics at the University of Constance. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the universities of Duisburg-Essen and Constance. He was born on 8 March 1957 and is a German citizen.