Luqman Arnold
Luqman Arnold (Chairman), former President and Chairman of the Group Executive Board of UBS AG, former CEO of Abbey National PLC and previously at Paribas and CSFB.
Luqman's 35 year career has spanned commercial, investment and retail banking, insurance and asset and wealth management. Initially, Luqman focused on investment banking, latterly on strategic, operational and turnaround/ change management. As a CEO or Board Director, he was responsible for private and public deals of Banque Paribas, UBS and Abbey National, including the establishment of UFG in Moscow, investment banking and asset management joint ventures with LTCB in Japan, the acquisition of Paine Webber, and the sale of Abbey National (the latter two being respectively the largest global and European cross-border financial institution deals at the time).
Most recently, Luqman has acted as Senior Advisor to Emilio Botin (Chairman of Grupo Santander). He has also served on a number of industry and regulatory bodies.