A quick glimpse into the extracurricular activities of the board of Barclays suggests that they were probably all too a bit too busy being chairmen of the trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens and doing their Duke of Edinburgh Awards to give Barclays' Libor rates their full attention.

Here's a breakdown of the activities of some of the most well rounded of the 20 board members:

Bob Diamond

• Chairman, Board of Trustees of Colby College, Waterville, Maine
• Chairman, Old Vic Productions
• Trustee, The Mayor’s Fund for London
• Member of the Advisory Board, Judge Business School at Cambridge University
• Board Member, The Diamond Family Foundation
• Member of International Advisory Board, British-American Business Council
• Life Member of The Council on Foreign Relations
• Member, The Atlantic Council.

Marcus Agius

• Senior Independent Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation
• Chairman of the Trustees of The Royal Botanic Gardens.
• Chairman of the British Bankers' Association
• Business Ambassador for UK Trade and Investment (UKTI),
• Member of the Advisory Council of TheCityUK,
• Member of the Executive Committee of the IIEB

Alice Carnwarth

• Non-executive Chairman of Land Securities Group
• Non-executive Director at Man Group
• Independent Director of Paccar 
• Non-executive Chairman of ISIS EP LLP
• Non-executive Director of Zurich Insurance Group.

Fulvio Conti

• President of Eurelectric
• Director of AON corporation
• Director of ENDSEA SA
• Director of the Italian Institute of Technology
• Independent Director of RCS MediaGroup S.p.A.
• Fulvio is currently Chief Executive Officer
• General Manager of Enel SpA, the Italian energy group

Sir Michael Rake

• Director of the McGraw-Hill Companies.
• Chairman of BT Group.
• Chairman of easyJet.