The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations,and an international financial institution,headquartered in Washington,D.C.,consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster global monetary cooperation,secure financial stability,facilitate international trade,promote high employment and sustainable economic growth,and reduce poverty around the world." Formed in 1944,started on December 27,1945,at the Bretton Woods Conference,primarily by the ideas of Harry Dexter White and John Maynard Keynes,it came into formal existence in 1945 with 29 member countries and the goal of reconstructing the international monetary system. It now plays a central role in the management of balance of payments difficulties and international financial crises. Countries contribute funds to a pool through a quota system,from which countries experiencing balance of payments problems can borrow money. As of 2016,the fund had SDR 477 billion. The IMF is regarded as the global lender of last resort.
Donald Thomas Regan was the 66th United States Secretary of the Treasury from 1981 to 1985 and the White House Chief of Staff from 1985 to 1987 under Ronald Reagan. In the Reagan administration,he advocated "Reaganomics" and tax cuts as a means to create jobs and to stimulate production.
The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank and research institution that promotes personal and economic liberty,free enterprise,and limited government. While the institution is formally a unit of Stanford University,it maintains an independent board of overseers and relies on its own income and donations. Fellowship appointments do not require the approval of Stanford tenure committees. It is widely described as a conservative institution,although its directors have contested its partisanship.
Hans Eichel is a German politician (SPD) and the co-founder of the G20,or "Group of Twenty",an international forum for the governments and central bank governors of twenty developed and developing nations to discuss policy issues pertaining to the promotion of international financial stability.
Robert Edward Rubin is an American retired banking executive,lawyer,and former government official. He served as the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration. Before his government service,he spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs,eventually serving as a member of the board and co-chairman from 1990 to 1992.
Jacob Aharon Frenkel is an Israeli economist and the Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International. He served as Governor of the Bank of Israel between 1991 and 2000.
The First Boston Corporation was a New York-based bulge bracket investment bank,founded in 1932 and acquired by Credit Suisse in 1988. After the acquisition,it operated as an independent investment bank known as CS First Boston until 2006,when the company was fully integrated into Credit Suisse. In 2022,Credit Suisse revived the "First Boston" brand as part of an effort to spin out the business.
Sebastian Teodor Gheorghe Vlădescu is a Romanian economist and politician. A former member of the National Liberal Party (PNL),he was the Minister of Public Finance of Romania in the first Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet and starting from 23 December 2009 in the Emil Boc cabinet.
White,Weld &Co. is a privately held global financial services firm engaged in asset management,investment advisory,investment banking and other capital market activities. Relaunched in 2012,the business is headquartered in Chicago. Previously,White,Weld &Co. was a Boston-based investment bank,historically managed by Boston Brahmins until its sale to Merrill Lynch in 1978. The Weld family name can be traced back to the founding of Massachusetts in the 1630s.
Dr Michael von Clemm (1935–1997) was an American businessman,restaurateur,anthropologist and president of Templeton College,Oxford. Although in one interpretation of his life,he was merely a high-flying banker,he could also have been said to have helped start the restaurant revolution in the UK of the 1980s,and to have been the original father of the Canary Wharf development. He helped found the London Eurodollar market,saving London's position as a global financial centre. He also made a huge impact in his work for charity and the English Speaking Union. All this despite his training being as a professor of anthropology.
Robert L. Genillard was a Swiss businessman. His activities spanned both the fields of finance and industry. After graduate studies in economics and finance,he started a financial career in New York City. In 1954,he joined White Weld &Co.,one of the oldest and leading American investment banking firms,acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1977. He became a general partner of White,Weld &Co. in 1958 and a member of its management committee in 1964. He moved to Europe to establish in the early 1960s,as chairman and chief executive,the firm of Credit Suisse White Weld which was to become Credit Suisse First Boston.
Ronald Kenneth "Ron" Noble is an American law enforcement officer who served as the secretary-general of the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) from 2000 to 2014. He was the organization's first American and youngest secretary-general at the time of his appointment. Noble previously worked as a public servant in various U.S. government agencies,including the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania,the Department of Justice and the Treasury.
Randal Keith Quarles is an American private equity investor and attorney who served as the first Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve for supervision from 2017 to 2021. He concurrently served as the chair of the Financial Stability Board from 2018 to 2021.
Mario J. Blejer is an Argentine economist and a former president of the Central Bank of Argentina.
Henry K. Rotich is a Kenyan civil servant who was nominated by President Uhuru Kenyatta as Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury on 23 April 2013. On 14 January 2020,Rotich,who had been arrested on charges of corruption,was removed from this position.
Edward Alfred Evans was an Australian senior public servant and economist. From 1993 to 2001,he was Secretary of the Department of the Treasury.
Punchi Banda Jayasundara is a Sri Lankan economist. He was the former Secretary to the President,Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former Secretary of the Treasury on multiple occasions.
Adam Lerrick is an American economist and government official currently serving as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury,having previously been President Donald Trump's nominee for Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Finance. Lerrick has served as an economist at the American Enterprise Institute.
Geoffrey William Seiji Okamoto is an American economist and government official who served as first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Okamoto previously served as the acting assistant secretary for international finance and development in the United States Department of the Treasury. He was nominated for this position on January 1,2019,by the White House and was never confirmed by the United States Congress. He previously served as acting assistant secretary for international markets and investment,for which he was also not confirmed.
David Lipton is an American economist who served as the Acting Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from July 2,2019,following Christine Lagarde's nomination as President of the European Central Bank,until Kristalina Georgieva was appointed in the office on October 1,2019. Prior to this,Lipton had been serving as the IMF's First Deputy Managing Director since September 2011. Lipton has been featured in,and interviewed by,numerous publications including The Financial Times,Euromoney,Bloomberg News,and The Guardian.
