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Robert Diamond biography

Robert Edward (Bob) Diamond Jr., is Non-Executive Director of the Company. Mr. Diamond is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AMC. Until 2012, Mr. Diamond was Chief Executive of Barclays, having previously held the position of President of Barclays and Chief Executive of Corporate & Investment Banking and Wealth Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Corporate and Barclays Wealth. He has over 30 years of global banking experience with extensive knowledge of banking regulatory frameworks and relationships with regulators in US, UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has deep experience growing and integrating banks in Africa and extensive risk management expertise. He became an executive director of Barclays in 2005 and was a member of the Barclays Executive Committee from 1997. Prior to that he worked at Morgan Stanley for over ten years. Mr Diamond is currently involved in several Africa initiatives. He is Co-Chairman globally and President of the New York Chapter of Invest Africa (a private club for individuals, business leaders, and entrepreneurs to gain insight and opportunity in the African market). He is working with the Atlantic Council and Council on Foreign Relations on instituting an annual lecture on Africa with the DFF. He is a board member of the DFF, which has supported multiple organisations in Africa. The DFF directors received the Princeton in Africa award in November 2013, for their philanthropy and business activities in Africa. A native of Concord, Massachusetts, Mr. Diamond received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine (1974) and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he ranked first in his class (1977). He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut in 2006 and Doctor of Laws from Colby College in 2008.