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Directors’ report

Your directors present their report on the consolidated entity consisting of AMP Limited and the entities it controlled at
the end of or during the year ended 31 December 2007.

Directors’ details

The AMP Limited Board consists of the non-executive chairman, six other non-executive directors and one executive director.
The following changes in the composition of the board have occurred during the year and up to the date of this report:

 – John Palmer joined the AMP Board on 24 July 2007.
– John Astbury retired from the AMP Board on 31 October 2007.
– Andrew Mohl retired from the AMP Board on 31 December 2007.
– Brian Clark joined the AMP Board on 1 January 2008.
– Craig Dunn joined the AMP Board on 1 January 2008.
Details of each director’s qualifications, experience and special responsibilities are set out below.

 

Peter Mason AM

Chairman

BCom (Hons), MBA
Honorary Doctorate of Business (UNSW)
Age 61

Peter was appointed to the AMP Limited Board
in October 2003 and assumed the role of
Chairman in September 2005. He is a member
of the Audit Committee, Remuneration
Committee and the Nomination Committee.
Experience: Peter has 40 years experience in
investment banking and is currently a Senior
Advisor to UBS Investment Bank. He was
chairman of JP Morgan Chase Bank in Australia
from 2000 to 2005, and chairman of their
associate, Ord Minnett Group. Prior to this he
was chairman and chief executive of Schroders
Australia Limited and group managing director
of Schroders’ investment banking business in
the Asia Pacific region. For 12 years he was a
director of the Children’s Hospital in Sydney
and chairman of the Children’s Hospital Fund
for eight years. Peter was appointed a member
of the Order of Australia for his contribution to
the Children’s Hospital.

Directorships of companies held in the past
three years: Peter was a director of Mayne
Group Limited from 1992 until February 2005.
Other current directorships: Peter is a director
of David Jones Limited, the University of New
South Wales Foundation and The Australian
Research Alliance for Children and Youth.
He also serves on the Advisory Board of The
National Youth Mental Health Foundation.

Craig Dunn

Managing Director &
Chief Executive Officer

BCom, ACA
Age 44

Craig was appointed Managing Director and
Chief Executive Officer on 1 January 2008.
He has been a director of AMP Life Limited
since April 2002.
Experience: Prior to becoming CEO, Craig was
managing director, AMP Financial Services,
from 2002 to 2007. He joined AMP in January
2000, and has held a number of senior roles,
including managing director of AMP Banking,
and director, Office of the CEO. Before joining
AMP, Craig was CEO of a Malaysia-based
insurance company, a joint venture of Colonial
Limited. He worked for KPMG throughout
Europe and in Indonesia before joining
Colonial. Craig is currently an Advisory Board
Member with the Government’s Financial
Literacy Foundation and a former chairman
of the Investment and Financial Services
Association (IFSA).

Brian Clark

Director

DSc
Age 59

Brian was appointed to the AMP Limited Board
on 1 January 2008.
Experience: Brian spent 10 years in a
variety of senior executive roles at Vodafone
internationally, most recently in a United
Kingdom-based role as group human
resources director. He was also chief executive
officer of Vodafone’s Australian business as
well as CEO of the Asia Pacific region, based
in Tokyo. He was a member of the company’s
global executive committee throughout his
tenure with the company. Before joining
Vodafone, Brian spent three years as CEO of
Telkom SA Ltd, the state-owned telephone
company in South Africa, where he oversaw
the partial privatisation of the company and
a total re-engineering of its operations. Brian
has degrees in physics and mathematics and
a PhD, all from the University of Pretoria, and
has completed the Advanced Management
Program at the Harvard Business School.

Directorships of listed companies held in past
three years: Brian was a director of National
Australia Bank Limited from 2001 to 2004, and
of various Vodafone Group Plc subsidiary and
separately listed boards.
Other current directorships: Brian has been
a director of Boral Limited since May 2007
and a member of the Advisory Board of Merrill
Lynch in Australia since November 2007.

 

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