Sir John Bond is Group Chairman
of HSBC Holdings plc. He is also Chairman of HSBC Bank plc,
HSBC USA Inc, HSBC Bank USA, HSBC Bank Middle East, and a
member of the board of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited.
He is Chairman of the Institute
of International Finance, Washington DC, and was elected
President of the International Monetary Conference (IMC)
in June 2001. He became a non-executive director
of Ford Motor company in July 2000 and of the Bank
of England in June 2001.
Sir John joined The Hongkong and Shanghai
Banking Corporation Limited in 1961 and worked in Asia for
25 years and the USA for four years, before coming to London
in 1993.
He became an Executive Director of The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in 1988. In 1990,
he moved to Hong Kong and assumed responsibility for the
entire Group's commercial banking operations. He returned
to the USA in 1991 as president and Chief Executive Officer
of HSBC USA Inc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of HSBC Holdings.
He became Group Chief Executive of HSBC
Holdings on 1 January 1993 and became Group Chairman on 29
May 1998.
Sir John was born in July 1941. Following
his education in the UK, he held an English-Speaking Union
scholarship in the USA from 1959 to 1960; in November 1997
he became a Governor of the English-Speaking Union. He was
elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in
1983.
The knighthood was conferred upon him
for his services to banking in the Queen's Birthday Honours
in 1999.
Married with two daughters and a son,
his interests include skiing, golf and reading biography.
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