Member British House of Lords; Former Cabinet Minister; Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lord Norman Lamont has served as a Director since December 2001. From 1990 to 1993, Lord Lamont served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasury Secretary), chairing the G7 group of Finance Ministers and the European Union Finance Ministers. Lord Lamont served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1972 to 1993, served as a Minister in the Departments of Energy, Trade & Industry, Defense and Treasury from 1979 to 1997, and became a member of the British House of Lords in 1998. Lord Lamont currently serves as a director of the Balli Group plc, a commodities trading company that specialized in steel, petrochemicals and non-ferrous metals. He also is an advisor to Rotch Property Group Ltd., one of Britain's largest private property companies. He also is a director of Compagnie Internationale de Participations Bancaires et Financieres, Banca Commerciala Robank, European Growth and Income Trust, and Jupiter Finance and Income Trust. He is Chairman of the East European Food Fund. Lord Lamont previously was a director of N.M. Rothschild & Sons Ltd. for whom he worked for more than 15 years. |