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Overview Operating & Financial Review Corporate Governance Financial Statements Shareholder Information
Former appointments include: Managing Director
of Goldman Sachs International and Chairman of
Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. Ceased to be a non-
executive director of Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden Limited on 31 July 2012.
J L Thornton†, 59
Chairman of the Group Remuneration Committee.
Skills and experience: experience that bridges
developed and developing economies and the public
and private sectors. A deep knowledge of financial
services and education systems, particularly in Asia.
During his 23-year career with Goldman Sachs, he
played a key role in the firm’s global development
and was Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia.
Appointed to the Board: 2008
Current appointments include: non-executive
Chairman and director of HSBC North America
Holdings Inc.; Director and Co-Chairman of Barrick
Gold Corporation since 15 February 2012 and 5 June
2012 respectively; professor and director of the
Global Leadership Program at the Tsinghua
University School of Economics and Management;
Chairman of the Brookings Institution Board of
Trustees; non-executive director of Ford Motor
Company and China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited;
director of National Committee on United States-
China Relations; trustee of China Institute and the
China Foreign Affairs University; and member of
the Council on Foreign Relations and the China
Securities Regulatory Commission International
Advisory Committee.
Former appointments include: non-executive
director of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Limited and Intel Corporation, Inc.; trustee of Asia
Society; and President of the Goldman Sachs Group,
Inc. Ceased to be a non-executive director of News
Corporation, Inc. on 30 November 2012.
† Independent non-executive Director.
Secretary
R G Barber, 62
Group Company Secretary and Head of Corporate
Governance
Joined HSBC in 1980. Group Company Secretary
since 1986 and Company Secretary of HSBC
Holdings plc since 1990. Appointed a Group General
Manager in 2006. Chairman of the Disclosure
Committee. A member of the Listing Authority
Advisory Committee of the Financial Services
Authority and of the Primary Markets Group of
the London Stock Exchange. Fellow of the Institute
of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Former
HSBC appointments include: Corporation Secretary
of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited and Company Secretary
of HSBC Bank plc.
Adviser to the Board
D J Shaw, 66
Adviser to the Board since 1998. Director of HSBC
Bank Bermuda Limited. Ceased to be a director of
HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) SA and
HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) SA on 19 September
2012. An independent non-executive director
of Kowloon Development Company Limited and
Shui On Land Limited. A solicitor and formerly a
partner in Norton Rose.