Colin completed his Master of Arts in Financial Economics at the University of Dundee, receiving the Bowie Memorial Prize for top economics graduate. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Colin joined Barclays Bank in 1992 and undertook various roles as an international banker. In 2007, he was appointed Barclays’ Corporate Banking Director, GCC, joining ADCB a year later as Executive Vice-President and Head of the Wholesale Banking Group.