Robert Dineen is of counsel to Shearman & Sterling LLP a leading international law firm headquartered in New York where he was a partner from 1974 until his retirement in December 2005. Mr. Dineen holds a BA from Brown University and an LLB from Syracuse University. Mr. Dineen led several of the firm’s corporate groups including groups in Latin America and Asia and its project finance work worldwide. Mr. Dineen has extensive experience in public finance transactions in the oil and gas pipeline business and as a specialist in U.S. and international private banking and financial transactions. Mr. Dineen also serves as a director of Nova Chemicals Corporation. In the past five years Mr. Dineen did not serve as a director of any other publicly traded company. Mr. Dineen is a member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee and the Conduct Review and Ethics Committee. |