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Report of the Directors: Corporate Governance (continued)
Biographies
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Current appointments include: Stuart is Chairman of The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited and
of the Group Management Board.
Phillip Ameen, 67
Independent non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: January 2015
Member of the Group Audit Committee.
Skills and experience: As a Certified Public Accountant with
extensive financial and accounting experience, Phil served
as Vice President, Comptroller, and Principal Accounting
Officer of General Electric Company (‘GE’). Prior to joining
GE, he was a partner in KPMG. He also has a depth of
technical knowledge from his participation in accounting
standards setting. Other former appointments include
serving on the International Financial Reporting
Interpretations Committee of the International Accounting
Standards Board, the Accounting Standards Executive
Committee of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the Financial Accounting Standards Board
Emerging Issues Task Force, and he was Chair of the
Committee on Corporate Reporting of Financial Executives
International and a Trustee of the Financial Accounting
Foundation.
Current appointments include: Phillip is a non-executive
director of HSBC North America Holdings Inc., HSBC Bank
USA N.A., HSBC Finance Corporation and HSBC USA Inc. He
is also Chairman of Skyonic Corporation.
Kathleen Casey, 49
Independent non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: March 2014
Member of the Group Audit Committee and the Financial System
Vulnerabilities Committee.
Skills and experience: Kathleen has extensive financial
regulatory policy experience. She is a former Commissioner
of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, acting as
the regulator’s principal representative in multilateral and
bilateral regulatory dialogues, the G-20 Financial Stability
Board and the International Organisation of Securities
Commissions. Other former appointments include serving
as a Staff Director and Counsel of the United States Senate
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and
Legislative Director and Chief of Staff for a US Senator.
Current appointments include: Kathleen is chair of the
Alternative Investment Management Association and a
senior adviser to Patomak Global Partners and to a number
of public bodies in the US.
Laura Cha, GBS, 66
Independent non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board: March 2011
Chairman of the Philanthropic & Community Investment Oversight
Committee, member of the Conduct & Values Committee and the
Nomination Committee.
Skills and experience: Laura has extensive regulatory and
policy making experience in the finance and securities
sector in Hong Kong and mainland China. She is the
former Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory
Commission. Other former appointments include serving as
a non-executive director of Bank of Communications Co.,
Ltd., Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and Tata
Consultancy Services Limited. She also served as chair of
the University Grants Committee in Hong Kong and was
deputy chair of the Securities and Futures Commission in
Hong Kong.
Current appointments include: Laura is non-executive
Deputy Chairman of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited. She is Chairman of the Financial
Services Development Council, Hong Kong and a non-
executive director of China Telecom Corporation Limited,
Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V.
Henri de Castries, 61
Independent non-executive Director
Appointed to the Board with effect
from 1 March 2016
Skills and experience: Henri has more than 25 years of
international experience in the finance industry. He joined
AXA in 1989 where his roles included responsibility for the
group’s asset management, financial and real-estate
businesses, the oversight of North American and UK
operations, as well as the preparation and the execution of
all the major mergers and acquisitions undertaken by the
insurance group during the 1990s.
Current appointments include: Henri is Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of AXA. He is also Chairman of the
French leading think-tank Institut Montaigne and of AXA
Hearts in Action, AXA’s volunteer community outreach
programme. He also serves as a non-executive director of
Nestlé S.A. and of the French National Foundation for
Political Science (FNSP). He is a member of the Advisory
Board of Tsinghua University School of Economics and
Management.