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Rohan Weerasinghe joined Citi as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in June 2012. He oversees Citi's global legal team, including business-unit general counsels, regional general counsels and corporate deputy general counsels.

Before Citi, Rohan was Senior Partner at Shearman & Sterling, an international law firm advising corporations, financial institutions and governments with approximately 900 lawyers and offices in 20 cities around the globe. He joined Shearman & Sterling in 1977, became a partner in 1985 and served as Senior Partner from 2005. For the past 35 years, he has advised and represented financial institutions and corporations worldwide on issues including corporate governance, complex corporate transactions, and capital markets offerings, including IPOs and debt issues.

Rohan graduated from Harvard College in 1972 and received his M.B.A. and J.D. from Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School in 1977. Among other posts, he is a Trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace.