Arthur Arnold, CEO, FMO

Arthur Arnold (1946) has a longstanding reputation within the international financial sector. He has worked for the ABN AMRO Bank for almost 24 years, in several management positions in France, Italy, Morocco, Iran, Great-Britain and the United States. He often managed large integration processes within the ABN AMRO concern. In 1992 he switched to the Rabobank Group. During 8 years of working for the Rabobank Group, he was director of Investment Banking and chairman of the Board of Rabobank International. In the final two years he was director of Strategic Alliances, member of the Policy Board and the Board of Rabo Securities. He was also temporary director of Corporate Communications.

In 2000 Mr. Arnold became President and Chief Executive Officer of the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU), the trade and development organization of 40,000 financial cooperative societies with more than 123 million members in 84 countries. Since the first of January 2005 Mr Arnold has been Chief Executive Officer of FMO.