Robert E Diamond Jr
Mr Diamond has been a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee since September 1997.
Position: President of Barclays PLC and CEO of Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth Management
Robert E. Diamond Jr. is President of Barclays PLC and Chief Executive of Corporate and Investment Banking and Wealth Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Corporate and Barclays Wealth. He is an Executive Director of the Boards of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC and has been a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee since September 1997. He joined the firm in summer 1996.
He is also Chairman of Barclays Global Investors (BGI)*.
Mr Diamond was formerly Vice Chairman and Head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange at CS First Boston. Based in New York, he was a member of the Executive Board and Operating Committee of CS First Boston and a member of the Board of Credit Suisse Financial Products.
Mr Diamond joined CS First Boston in 1992. Based in Tokyo, he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CS First Boston Pacific, responsible for Investment Banking, Equity, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange for the Pacific region.
Previously, Mr Diamond was Managing Director and Head of European/Asian Fixed Income Trading for Morgan Stanley International, and was based in London for four years. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1979 as Director of Management Information Systems and became assistant to the Chief Financial Officer in 1980, spending 13 years with the firm.
Mr Diamond began his career as a lecturer at the School of Business, University of Connecticut from 1976-1977.
A native of Concord, Massachusetts, USA, 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.
His outside affiliations include:
- Trustee of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
- Trustee of the American School in London
- Member of the Advisory Board of the Judge Business School at Cambridge University
- Chairman, Old Vic Productions, Plc
- Board Member, The Diamond Family Foundation
- Member of the Board of Directors, the Institute of International Finance
- Member of International Advisory Board, British-American Business Council
He is married with three children.
* Barclays Group has received a binding offer from BlackRock, Inc. to acquire BGI. The transaction is expected to complete by the end of 2009. Mr Diamond will join the BlackRock Board from completion.
