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Bob Edgar is ANZ's Senior Managing Director responsible for leading the Group's strategic growth and cost agenda. He also holds responsibility for ANZ's investment in ING Australia and Private Banking. Prior to this role Bob was Chief Operating Officer responsible for overseeing ANZ's specialist businesses on a day-to-day basis as well as operational business plans and performance. He was previously Managing Director Institutional Financial Services. In this role he oversaw all businesses that deal with ANZ's largest corporate and institutional customers. Before that Bob was Managing Director Corporate and has held a number of senior executive positions at ANZ. He was Managing Director of Esanda Finance Corporation Limited a wholly owned subsidiary of ANZ. Before this he was General Manager - South Asia at ANZ Grindlays Bank. Based in Bombay he was responsible for India Bangladesh and Nepal. Bob joined ANZ in December 1984 as Senior Economist. In May 1986 he was appointed Chief Economist a position he held until May 1988 when he was appointed Group Executive Strategic Planning and Economics. Before joining ANZ Bob held senior positions with the Australian Bankers' Association and prior to that worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Economics (hons) from the University of Adelaide and a PhD from Ohio State University. Bob is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Bankers and a Member of the Australian Institute of Directors. He holds various ANZ Group company directorships including Chairmanship of Esanda and directorships of ANZ National Bank Limited and ING Australia. | 