But when it comes to managing the bank itself, it is a different story.
But he would point out - and his fellow directors would agree - that he is already in the bottom quartile, and probably in the bottom decile, in respect of the pay, bonuses and other longer-term incentives he receives for managing a bank of RBS's size, international spread and complexity.
Ms Ramphele, a former World Bank managing director and anti-apartheid activist, also criticised education standards in South Africa.
The Global Adaptation Institute, led by former World Bank Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub, publishes the Global Adaptation Index, which shows how vulnerable countries are to global warming and how prepared they are to tackle it.
Yunus, who had been managing director of Grameen Bank since 1999, is 70 years old.
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Peter Woike is one of three former managing directors of the bank to sign the letter.
To answer this, I consulted with Ted Tobiason, Managing Director at Deutsche Bank.
Mr. PETER WOIKE (Former Managing Director, World Bank): I think he should resign.
It was a clear indication that even a competent manager like Jamie Dimon has trouble managing a modern mega bank.
But fret not, advises Andreas Dirnagl, managing director at investment bank Stephens, who follows healthcare services and tracks closely Air Methods.
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The unit will no longer trade synthetic derivatives contracts, Dimon said in July, and refocus on conservatively managing assets for the bank.
Dr Yunus is the managing director of Grameen Bank, whose 1, 300 branches serve more than 3.5m people in 46, 000 villages in Bangladesh.
"This won't help the many who already took their 2010 RMDs, " says Blanche Lark Christerson, a managing director at Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management.
Peter Churchouse, Hong Kong-based managing director of investment bank Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Asia, reckons that after the Crisis, fund managers will threaten recalcitrant companies with "the ultimate weapon": withdrawing investment.
For higher budget films, like the Oscar contenders "Black Swan" and "The King's Speech, " theatrical distribution remains "a cornerstone of overall profitability, " says Amir Malin, managing partner at investment bank Qualia Capital.
Retailers may be better off paying for a vendor's services or taking a stake in an early-stage startup rather than buying the firm outright, says Richard Brail, managing director at investment bank Peter J.
But that would be highly unusual for a private entity like the one that was formed to acquire Playboy, says David Bank, managing director of global media and Internet research at RBC Capital Markets.
Ten years ago about 90% of U.S. Trust's clients handed over all their money to it for management, but today 70% of its clients use multiple managers, says Loraine Tsavaris, managing director of the bank's wealth management unit.
Awad, a managing director with the bank for more than five years, has resigned and will leave at the end of the year, sources had also said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity as the matter has not been publicly disclosed.
The lead managing underwriters were UBS Investment Bank, BofA Merrill Lynch, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Securities.
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She led the Paris Club negotiations to reschedule her country's debt and earned rave reviews as managing director of the World Bank in 2007-11.
Weigandt, 60, a managing director at JPMorgan Private Bank in Los Angeles, who is considering following the well-worn trail to Nevada himself when he retires.
Ms. Sri Mulyani is managing director at the World Bank.
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The newcomers "are bringing marketing dollars and something very important to the industry--consumer awareness and legitimacy, " says Matthew Patsky, managing director of the investment bank Adams, Harkness and Hill.
Queen Rania of Jordan, co-chair of 1GOAL, Kailash Satyarthi, president of the Global Campaign for Education, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Managing Director of the World Bank made statements at the event.
" As American Eugene Davis, managing director of local merchant bank Finansa, says: "Right now the Democrats are trying to stand for ethical behavior in government, but they don't have a comprehensive plan or an overriding governing philosophy.
Gerald Brady, a managing director at Silicon Valley Bank in charge of outreach to corporate venture groups, said he had seen "a very noticeable pickup across almost every industry center" as corporations turn to Silicon Valley to get a handle on innovation.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
The bankers will perhaps let us in on their game in on-the-record Davos sessions (most of the good ones are closed to the press) with European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, and Nobelist Columbia professor Joseph Stiglitz.
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