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1 - Roger Taylor
Chairman
Aged 64. Chairman of the Nomination Committee. Appointed a non-executive Director and Chairman in 1998. He was a member of the Remuneration Committee until December 2003. He is non-executive Deputy Chairman of Helphire Group plc, non-executive President of Yura International Holding B.V., a non-executive director of White Ensign Association Limited and currently Master of the Worshipful Company of Insurers. He was formerly Chief Executive of Sun Alliance Group plc and, until 1998, Deputy Chairman of Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Group plc. He was the Chairman of the Association of British Insurers from 1997 to 1998.

2 - Charles Philipps
Chief Executive
Aged 47. Appointed Group Chief Executive in 1999, having joined the Amlin Board as Group Finance Director in 1997. Chartered Accountant. He has represented Amlin Corporate Member Limited on the Council of Lloyd's since its election with effect from February 2001. He was a member of the Lloyd's Market Board for 2001 and 2002. He has been a director of the Lloyd's Market Association since 2003 and a Vice Chairman since January 2004. He was elected to the Council of The Insurance Institute of London in 2004. He was previously a director of NatWest Markets Corporate Finance Limited until 1997, having been employed there from 1983. Whilst at NatWest Markets he was responsible for the formation and flotation of Angerstein Underwriting Trust PLC (which became Amlin plc) on the London Stock Exchange.

3 - Nigel Buchanan
Independent Non-Executive
Aged 62. Appointed a Director in 2004. Chartered Accountant. Chairman of the Audit Committee since 1 September 2005. He is a non-executive director of Butterfield Bank (UK) Ltd and a trustee of the Outward Bound Trust. He retired as a senior client partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2001, where he specialised in financial services clients. He joined a predecessor firm in 1968 and was appointed a partner in 1978. He was a member of the Ethics Standards Board of the Accounting Foundation until it was superseded in 2002.

4 - Brian Carpenter
Underwriter
Aged 48. Appointed a Director in 2000. He is head of the Amlin Insurance Services division of Syndicate 2001, which comprises the Group's UK motor, property and liability businesses. He is Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd's Motor Underwriters Association. He was a member of the Lloyd's Market Board from 2000 to 2002 and of the Business Development Unit Board at Lloyd's from 1997 to 2000. Prior to joining the Group in 1989 as active underwriter of motor Syndicate 887 (now part of Syndicate 2001) he worked as a broker with Sedgwick and Marsh.

5 - Richard Davey
Independent Non-Executive
Aged 57. Appointed a Director on 15 December 2005. He is a non-executive director of Severn Trent Plc and of the Yorkshire Building Society, and a former non-executive director of Freeserve plc (until 2001) and of Scottish Widows Life Assurance Society (until its sale to Lloyds TSB in 2000). The majority of his executive career was spent in investment banking at N M Rothschild & Sons Limited, where he served in various roles, including Head of Investment Banking and Chairman of its Executive Committee, until his retirement in 1999. A financial services sector specialist, he advised Lloyd's of London, and then Equitas, on the Reconstruction and Renewal proposals of the early 1990s.

6 - Richard Hextall
Finance Director
Aged 37. Appointed Group Finance Director in 1999 on joining from Deloitte & Touche, where he was a director specialising in the insurance and financial services sector. Chartered Accountant. He has been Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Lloyd's Market Association since January 2005, having been a member since 2002. He has been a member of the Lloyd's Investment Committee since 2003.

7 - Tony Holt
Underwriting Director
Aged 54. Appointed a Director in 2000. He has been Director of Underwriting of Syndicate 2001 since 1999. He was appointed head of Syndicate 2001's non-marine division in 2000. He joined the Group in 1980 and was active underwriter of marine Syndicate 40 (now part of Syndicate 2001) from 1995 to 2000. He has been a member of the Advisory Committee to the Franchise Board of Lloyd's since 2003, having previously served on the Committee of the Lloyd's Underwriting Association and its Joint XL Committee.

8 - Roger Joslin
Independent Non-Executive
Aged 69. Appointed a Director in 2001. He has been a non-executive director of Archer Daniels Midland Company since 2001. Until he retired in December 2002 he was Vice Chairman of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company and a director of State Farm Fire and Casualty Company and State Farm Life Insurance Company, serving on the executive and investment committees of these three principal companies in the State Farm Insurance Group. He is a US citizen.

9 Tom Kemp
Non-Executive (Non-Independent since 2004)
Aged 65. Appointed a Director in 1998. Member of the Remuneration Committee until January 2004. He was a director of White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd from 1994 until March 2004. He served that group as President from 2001 to 2003, Deputy Chairman from 2000 to 2001, and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2000, having joined in 1990. He is a non-executive director of Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd and was seconded to that company by White Mountains as its Chief Financial Officer from July 2002 to September 2004. Amlin's Syndicate 2001 took out material reinsurance contracts with a subsidiary of Montpelier Re for 2004 and 2005. He is a former President and Chief Executive Officer of Resolute Reinsurance Company and former Vice President for Corporate Finance and Development at GEICO Corporation. He is a US citizen.

10 - Ramanam Mylvaganam
Independent Non-Executive
Aged 56. Appointed a Director in 1998, having previously served as an independent non-executive director of Amlin Underwriting Limited, of which he remains a non-executive director. Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since 2004. He is principal partner of CMS Ltd, a management consultancy firm specialising in marketing and strategic business planning and development, and a director of Dobson Lyle Limited and Bern Aqua bv.

11 - Lord Stewartby
Deputy Chairman and designated senior Independent
Non-Executive Director
Aged 70. Appointed a non-executive Director and Deputy Chairman in 1995. He was Chairman of the Audit Committee until 31 August 2005. He is a non-executive director of Diploma plc and the Throgmorton Trust plc. He was formerly non-executive Deputy Chairman of Standard Chartered plc and of the Portman Building Society and a director of the Financial Services Authority. He also formerly spent more than 20 years in merchant banking and held a number of Government offices, including Economic Secretary to the Treasury.

Current member of the Audit Committee
Current member of the Nomination Committee
Current member of the Remuneration Committee