Sir Winfried Franz Wilhelm "Win" Bischoff (born 10 May 1941) is an

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- German banker and former chairman of

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. He previously served as chairman and interim CEO of Citigroup in 2007. He was succeeded as CEO by Vikram Pandit on 11 December 2007. Bischoff stepped down as chairman on 23 February 2009 and was replaced by

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. He has dual British and German citizenship. Bischoff was knighted in 2000.

Early life and education

He was born in

Aachen, Germany Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th- ...

and had an early education in

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and

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. In 1955, he moved to

Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

where he received a

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degree at the

University of the Witwatersrand The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (), is a multi-campus South African public research university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University or Wits ( or ). The university ...

in 1961.

Career

Bischoff worked in the International Department of

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from 1962 to 1963. He joined J. Henry Schroder & Co. Limited in

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in 1966 in its Company Finance Division. In 1971, he became Managing Director of Schroders Asia Limited in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

. He became Group Chief Executive of Schroders plc in December 1984, when Schroders was worth £30 million. He became chairman in May 1995. In 2000, the investment banking division of the company was acquired for £1.3 billion by Citi through its Smith Barney subsidiary. He joined Citi as chairman of Citigroup Europe and was a member of The Operating Committee of Citigroup Inc., a position he held until appointed chairman in November 2007. He is a non-executive director at

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, Eli Lilly and Company,

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, Akbank and Prudential. On 27 July 2009, he was appointed as chairman designate of Lloyds Banking Group and took up the position of chairman on 15 September 2009. He held this position until his retirement on 3 April 2014. Between May 2014 and October 2019 he was chairman of the UK

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. He is a member of the

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, a group of FTSE-100 Chairmen committed to having at least 30% of their Boardmembers being female.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bischoff, Winfried 1941 births Living people People from Aachen German chairpersons of corporations German expatriates in South Africa German expatriates in the United Kingdom British chairpersons of corporations Citigroup people Eli Lilly and Company people Knights Bachelor University of the Witwatersrand alumni Chairmen of Lloyds Banking Group Schroders people