{"id":34388,"date":"2016-08-24T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=34388"},"modified":"2016-08-31T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-30T17:24:23","slug":"amp-appoints-financial-services-veteran-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2016\/08\/24\/amp-appoints-financial-services-veteran-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"AMP Appoints Financial Services Veteran to Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMP Limited has announced that financial services veteran <strong>Michael Wilkins<\/strong> will join the AMP Limited Board as a non-executive director, effective from 12 September 2016.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_34389\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34389\" style=\"width: 151px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/mikewikins.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34389\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34389\" src=\"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/files\/2016\/08\/mikewikins.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Wilkins\" width=\"151\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34389\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Wilkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Until late last year Wilkins was Managing Director and Chief Executive of Insurance Australia Group, a role he held for more than seven years.<\/p>\n<p>He has also worked at Promina Group Limited as its Managing Director and Chief Executive, and was the Managing Director of Tyndall Australia Limited, and a non-executive Director of Maple-Brown Abbott Limited and Alinta Limited during his 30 years of experience in the Australian financial services sector.<\/p>\n<p>Wilkins will be joined on the Board by <strong>Peter Varghese<\/strong> AO, who also joins as a non-executive director, effective from 1 October 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Varghese is currently the Chancellor of the University of Queensland and recently retired as the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.<\/p>\n<p>His previous senior appointments include High Commissioner to India, High Commissioner to Malaysia, Director-General of the Office of National Assessments, and Senior Adviser (International) to the Prime Minister of Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP Limited has announced that financial services veteran Michael Wilkins will join the AMP Limited Board as a non-executive director, effective from 12 September 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-appointments","category-company-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}