User:Jamiekirkwood/Michael Kirkwood

Michael Kirkwood is Chairman of corporate advisory firm ONDRA Partners LLP, a Non-Executive Director of UK Financial Investments Ltd (UKFI – the government body established to manage the UK’s ownership stake in the banking sector), Vice Chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Board and Senior Advisor to Eros International plc.

CitiGroup:

He was Citigroup's UK Senior Officer and Chairman of Corporate Banking until he retired from the Bank at the end of 2008, to take up his current portfolio of senior appointments. During his 31 year career with Citicorp, he held management positions in New York, Switzerland, Scandinavia as well as the UK. He returned to the UK from New York in 1991 with Divisional responsibility for Continental Europe before taking up his various UK roles in 1993.

Prior to joining Citicorp, Mr. Kirkwood worked in Singapore for a number of years with Ralli International, subsequently part of the Bowater Group. He was a Director of several Group trading and industrial companies including the Singapore listed Temenggong Securities Ltd. Latterly, he was founding Chief Executive of Temenggong Merchant Bankers Ltd, its Asian Merchant Banking operation. After returning from Asia he worked briefly for merchant bankers Henry Ansbacher & Co. Mr Kirkwood began his business career on the international staff of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

Mr Kirkwood served as a Non Executive Director on the board of Kidde plc from the time of its demerger from Williams Group in 2000 until its acquisition by United Technologies in 2005. He also chaired the board Audit Committee.

Mr Kirkwood has also been active in a wide circle of City roles until the end of 2008. He was Vice Chairman of the British Bankers Association and chaired the Audit & Remuneration Committee. He sat on the CBI's Financial Services Council and remains a member of the Advisory Board of the Association of Corporate Treasurers. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of International Bankers livery company in 2006, is a Fellow and former President of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (now the ifs School of Finance) and was Chairman of the Association of Foreign Banks for a number of years. He remains a Director and was formerly the inaugural Chairman of the trans-Atlantic trade body British-American Business.

Mr Kirkwood is active in the charitable and educational sectors and is currently Chairman of Habitat for Humanity GB, a Director of London Scottish International Ltd, as well as having served on the Advisory Boards of UK Career Academies and London Business School (LBS). He is a Freeman of the City of London and was H.M. Lieutenant for the City of London in 2004. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George (CMG) in the Queen’s 2003 Birthday Honours.

Born in Glasgow, Mr Kirkwood was raised in Asia before attending Glenalmond College in Scotland and graduating from Stanford University in California. Mr Kirkwood played rugby for Scotland at schools level and subsequently at first class club and county level. He enjoys golf and shooting as well as farming a smallholding in the Mediterranean. He lives in London with his American-born wife and they have two adult children; Jamie M.M. Kirkwood and Lauren A. Kirkwood and two grandchildren; Sophia and Isabella