15-Aug-2007

APPOINTMENT

Director

Non Independent & Non Executive

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Australian

Master of Arts (Law) from University of Cambridge (1981)
Bachelor of Arts (Law) from University of Cambridge (1977)

Mr Peter Hodgson is Group Managing Director, Institutional of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ("ANZ"). He oversees all businesses that deal with ANZ's large business, corporate and institutional customers.

Prior to this role, Mr Hodgson was ANZ's Chief Risk Officer for three years. In this role, he was responsible for ANZ's risk management framework, overseeing its global strategies, policies and processes across credit, market, operational risk and compliance.

Mr Hodgson has over 25 years experience in banking across a number of more complex financial product areas both in Australia and overseas. He was previously Managing Director, Corporate and Structured Financing. He was responsible for the team, covering inter alia the areas of Project & Structured Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Leveraged Finance, Structured Export Finance, Leasing and Structured Asset Finance, the Capital Structuring Group and the ANZ Infrastructure Services funds management activity.

Before joining ANZ in 1997, Mr Hodgson was responsible for the BZW Infrastructure Advisory Group which carried out advisory and financing assignments in the Telecoms and Infrastructure field, in the UK and overseas. Prior to this, Mr Hodgson was head of the Project and Export Finance Group at Bank of America.

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