Sir Gerry Grimstone is the immediate past Chairman of Barclays Bank plc and also of Standard Life Aberdeen plc, the UK's largest savings and investments business. Gerry is the Board Adviser to the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank. He sits on the Board of Investcorp, a leading global  provider and manager of alternative investment products headquartered in Bahrain. He chairs Aberdeen Standard Investcorp Infrastructure Partners which is raising a Fund to invest in social and core infrastructure projects in Gulf Co-operation Council countries. In Saudi Arabia, he leads for the U.K. Prime Minister and the Crown Prince the private sector group advising the Kingdom on corporatisation and privatisation. He is an Independent Non-Executive Board Member of Deloitte North South Europe, and a member of Deloitte's Global Independent Non Executive Advisory Committee. He was previously a senior investment banker at Schroders and ran major businesses in London, New York and Asia Pacific. Prior to that, he was an official in HM Treasury where he was responsible for privatisation and policy towards state-owned enterprises.