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Sir Win Bischoff is the acting Chief Executive Officer of Citi Chairman of Citi Europe and a Member of the Citi Business Heads Management and Operating Committees.
Sir Win joined the Company Finance Division of J. Henry Schroder & Co. Limited London in 1966. In 1971 he was appointed Managing Director of Schroders Asia Limited Hong Kong. He returned to London in January 1983 and was appointed Chairman of J. Henry Schroder & Co. in October 1983 and Group Chief Executive of Schroders plc in December 1984. Sir Win was appointed Chairman of Schroders plc in May 1995. Following the acquisition of Schroders' investment banking business by Salomon Smith Barney Inc. a subsidiary of Citi he assumed his present position in May 2000.
He was a non-executive Director of Cable and Wireless plc from 1991-2003 and subsequently Deputy Chairman (1995-2003). His other non-executive directorships included IFIL Finanziaria di Partecipazioni SpA Italy (1999-2004) and Siemens Holdings Plc (2001-2003).
Currently he is a Non-Executive Director of The McGraw-Hill Companies New York and of Land Securities plc since October 1999 of Eli Lilly and Company Indianapolis since June 2000 of Akbank Turkey since March 2007 and Prudential plc since August 2007.
After early education in Cologne and Dusseldorf Germany he moved to South Africa in 1955 and obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (1959-61). From 1962 to 1963 he was attached to the International Department of The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
He was awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours list in 2000 a Doctorate in Science Honoris Causa from City University in May 2000 and in June 2001 was made a Johnson Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College Oxford. He became Chairman of the UK Academy Foundation (2000-present) and was a Trustee of the Royal House Opera Covent Garden (2000-2003). He was awarded the "Freedom of the City of London" in February 2001.
He is Chairman of the European Advisory Board of Citi (2000-present). | 