Tom de Swaan was appointed as Chairman and member of the Supervisory Boards of ABN AMRO Group N.V. and ABN AMRO Bank N.V. on 12 July 2018.

Mr de Swaan started his career at De Nederlandsche Bank N.V. (DNB) in 1972. In 1983, Mr de Swaan became a Deputy Member of the Board in charge of DNB’s accounting, legal and banknote departments. Two years later, he was appointed as a full Member of the Governing Board. In 1992 he moved over to the regulatory and policy side of DNB as the Governing Board Member responsible for Banking Supervision. In this capacity he became a member and subsequently Chairman of the European Monetary Committee’s Banking Supervisory Committee, and member and subsequently Chairman of the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision.

In 1999, Mr de Swaan joined the Managing Board of ABN AMRO as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Risk Officer. While at ABN AMRO he continued his international activity on the policy and regulatory side. In 2000 he became a non-executive member of the board of the Financial Services Authority in the UK. When he retired at the age of 60 in 2006, Mr de Swaan stepped down from his executive role at the bank, began his non-executive career and joined the boards of Zurich Insurance Group, GlaxoSmithKline, DSM, Ahold and Van Lanschot Bankiers, as well as a variety of other boards and advisory functions in banking and other sectors. On the not for profit side he is at present, among others, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital/Dutch Cancer Institute, Chairman of the Board of the National Opera & Ballet Fund and member of the Supervisory Board of the Holland Festival.