By InvestAdvocate

Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Diamond Bank Plc Tuesday announced the appointment of a new Non-Exectuive Director to its Board by the name of Allan Michael Low.

The Bank notified the Migerian Stock Exchange (NSE) that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has approved the appointment of Allan Christopher Michael Low as a Non-Executive Director of the Diamond Bank Plc.

Allan C. Michael Low, a Chartered Accountant had his MA from St Peters College, Oxford University in 1981 before becoming an Associate of Chartered Accountant from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1985.

Mr. Low started his working career as Assistant Manager, Audit Division in Arthur Anderson & Co. from 1981 – 1986. Between 1986 – 1990, he was with Goldman Sachs London as the Head of Proprietary Accounting and Risk Analysis.

From 1990 to 1998, Mr. Allan worked Standard Chartered Bank with his roles ranging from Wholesale and Retail Banking and Finance covering Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines and London. From 1998 to 2001 he became the CEO, Standard Chartered Bank Tanzania and became the General Manager/CEO SCB East Africa/Kenya from 2001 – 2003. Between 2003 – 2005 he rose to the position of CEO/Chairman SCB India/Nepal. In 2005, Mr. Allan became the Head of Integration/COO Standard Chartered First Bank Korea and from 2005 to 2010, he occupied the following positions in the Standard Chartered Bank; CEO SCB South Africa, Non-Executive Director SCB Zambia Plc, Non-Executive Director First Africa Group Holdings and Non-Executive Director M Cash Retail Services. He has had several Key Public Speaking engagements such as; Commonwealth Bus Council (Mauritius ’08) Africa and the Americas; Global Health Initiative (SA ’07 and India ’04), Presidential Forum (Tanzania ’00) -Developing microfinance among others.