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Mr. Withington has been director, legal and security, and group general counsel of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second-largest publicly traded tobacco group, since August 2000. Mr. Withington joined BAT in 1993 as a senior lawyer and served in that capacity until 1995. He was named as the assistant general counsel and head of product liability litigation group of BAT in 1996. Mr. Withington then served as the deputy general counsel of BAT from 1998 until 2000. Mr. Withington is an Oxford law graduate and barrister. | 