“The mission of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is to serve central banks in their pursuit of monetary and financial stability, to foster international cooperation in those areas and to act as a bank for central banks.” “The BIS currently employs 589 staff from 54 countries.”
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Central bank websites: http://www.bis.org/cbanks.htm
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Board of Directors
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Christian Noyer, Paris (Chairman of the Board of Directors)
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Masaaki Shirakawa, Tokyo (Vice-Chairman)
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Ben S Bernanke, Washington, DC
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Mark Carney, Ottawa
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Agustín Carstens, Mexico City
Luc Coene, Brussels
Andreas Dombret, Frankfurt am Main
Mario Draghi, Frankfurt am Main
William C Dudley, New York
Stefan Ingves, Stockholm
Mervyn King, London
Klaas Knot, Amsterdam
Anne Le Lorier, Paris
Baron Guy Quaden, Brussels
Fabrizio Saccomanni, Rome
Ignazio Visco, Rome
Jens Weidmann, Frankfurt am Main
Zhou Xiaochuan, Beijing
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Alternates
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Mathias Dewatripont or Jan Smets, Brussels
Pierre Jaillet or Christian Durand, Paris
Joachim Nagel or Karlheinz Bischofberger, Frankfurt am Main
Fabio Panetta, Rome
Paul Tucker or Paul Fisher, London
Janet L Yellen or Steven B Kamin, Washington, DC
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Management
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Jaime Caruana - General Manager
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Hervé Hannoun - Deputy General Manager
Hervé Hannoun - Deputy General Manager
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The heads of the three main departments
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Peter Dittus (General Secretariat)
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Stephen Cecchetti (Monetary and Economic Department)
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Günter Pleines (Banking Department)
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Diego Devos - General Counsel
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Other senior officials
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Jim Etherington (Deputy Secretary General)
Louis de Montpellier (Deputy Head of Banking)
Josef Tošovský (Chairman, Financial Stability Institute)
Claudio Borio and Philip Turner are the Deputy Heads of the Monetary and Economic Department
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Eli Remolona – Chief Representative, Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific
Gregor Heinrich - Chief Representative, Representative Office for the Americas
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