Hugh Malim was born on December 10^th, 1944, and was educated at Wellington College, the Royal Naval College in Dartmouth and London University.

In the early 1960s, he entered the Royal Navy as a career officer, specializing as a naval aviator, and saw active service in the Middle and Far East, Northern Ireland and South Atlantic.

During the mid-1970s Hugh Malim joined the Barclays Group and in 1978 he came to Italy for the first time as assistant to the managing director of Banca Barclays Castellini Spa, Milan, and was then responsible for creating Group companies in the areas of factoring, consumer finance and investment banking.
 
In 1981 he was transferred to Rome to set up a local branch for the bank, while in 1985 Mr. Malim went to London to join the newly formed investment bank of the Group, Barclays de Zoet Wedd, where he was responsible for the area of export and project finance.
 
In 1993, Hugh Malim was appointed Barclays Group country manager for Italy, and was responsible for refocusing the Group's activities from commercial to investment banking.

At present Hugh Malim, who became Commendatore della Repubblica Italiana in 2003, holds the following positions:

• Managing Director and Country Manager, Barclays Bank Group  
• President, Barclays Financial Services Spa
• President, Iveco Finanziaria Spa
• Vice President, Barclays Private Equity Spa
• Vice President, Associazione Banche Estere in Italia
• Board Member, Gabetti Property Solutions Spa
• Board Member, ABI - Associazione Bancaria Italiana
• Independent Board Member, Indesit Company Spa