Reading updated Wikipedia entries for bankers since the ‘great recession’ started and discovered this gem:
Fred Goodwin of RBS:
Awards
* December 2002 – Forbes “Businessman of the Year”” by the global edition, which described him as an original thinker with a fast-forward frame of mind who had transformed RBS from a nonentity into a global name.
* April 2003 – No.1 in Scotland on Sunday’s Power 100
* December 2003 – “European Banker of the Year” in 2003
* June 2004 – Knighted in the Queen’s 2004 Birthday Honours list, for his services to banking.
* December 2008 – Nominated by Slate Magazine columnist Daniel Gross for World’s Worst Banker