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Dominique Strauss-Kahn
Managing Director, IMF
Biographical Information
November 1, 2007
Dominique Strauss-Kahn assumed office as the tenth Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on November 1, 2007. Upon being selected by the IMF’s Board of Executive Directors, Mr. Strauss-Kahn indicated that he will press ahead with reform of the 186-member country institution that helps oversee the global economy.
Prior to taking up his position at the IMF, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was a member of the French National Assembly and Professor of Economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. From 2001 to 2007, he was reelected three times to the National Assembly, and in 2006, he ran for the Socialist Party’s nomination for the French presidential election. In 2000 and 2001, he taught economics at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and was named visiting professor at Stanford University. He was also a personal advisor to the Secretary General of the OECD.
Earlier, Mr. Strauss-Kahn served as Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry of France from June 1997 to November 1999. In this capacity, he managed the launch of the Euro. He also represented France on the Board of Governors of a number of international financial institutions, including the IMF.
Between 1993 and 1997, he was in the private sector as a corporate lawyer. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Strauss-Kahn served as Minister of Industry and International Trade, during which time he participated in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn began his career as assistant professor, then professor of economics at the University of Paris where he was tenured in 1978. He was then appointed Deputy Commissioner of the Economic Planning Agency (1981-1986). He was elected Deputy (Member of Parliament) to the National Assembly (1986), where he chaired the Finance Commission from 1988 to 1991.
Mr. Strauss-Kahn holds a PhD in economics from the University of Paris. He also graduated in law, in business administration, in political studies, and in statistics. As an academic, his research fields include household saving behavior, public finance, and social policy.
A French national, Mr. Strauss-Kahn was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on April 25, 1949 and spent his early years in Morocco.
Senior Officials of the International Monetary Fund
Last Updated: January 20, 2011
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Managing Director |
Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
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First Deputy Managing Director |
John Lipsky |
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Deputy Managing Director |
Naoyuki Shinohara |
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Special Advisor to the Managing Director |
Murilo Portugal |
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Special Advisor to the Managing Director |
Min Zhu |
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Economic Counsellor |
Olivier Blanchard |
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Financial Counsellor |
José Viñals |
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African Department Director |
Antoinette Monsio Sayeh |
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Asia and Pacific Department Director |
Anoop Singh |
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European Department Director |
Antonio Borges |
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External Relations Department Director |
Caroline Atkinson |
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Finance Department Director |
Andrew Tweedie |
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Fiscal Affairs Department Director |
Carlo Cottarelli |
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Human Resources Department Director |
Shirley Siegel |
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IMF Institute Director |
Leslie Lipschitz |
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Legal Department General Counsel and Director |
Sean Hagan |
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Middle East and Central Asia Department Director |
Masood Ahmed |
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Monetary and Capital Markets |
José Viñals |
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Research Department Director |
Olivier Blanchard |
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Secretary’s DepartmentSecretary |
Siddharth Tiwari |
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Statistics Department Director |
Adelheid Burgi-Schmelz |
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Strategy, Policy, and Review Department Director |
Reza Moghadam |
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Technology and General Services Department Director |
Frank Harnischfeger |
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Technology and General Services Department Chief Information Officer |
Jonathan Palmer |
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Western Hemisphere Department Director |
Nicolas Eyzaguirre |
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Office of Budget and Planning Director |
Daniel Citrin |
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Office of Internal Audit and Inspection Director |
G. Russell Kincaid |
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Office of Technical Assistance Management Director |
José Roberto Rosales |
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Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific Director |
Shogo Ishii |
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Offices in Europe Director |
Emmanuel van der Mensbrugghe |
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Special Representative to the UN |
Elliott Harris |
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Independent Evaluation Office Director |
Moises J. Schwartz |
Senior Management – World Bank
Structure
The World Bank Group’s management and senior staff are listed below. For more information on the Bank’s structure, see Bank (IBRD/IDA), IFC, and MIGAOrganization Charts..
All persons are World Bank staff unless otherwise noted.
| President | Robert B. Zoellick |
| Managing Director | Sri Mulyani Indrawati |
| Managing Director | Mahmoud Mohieldin |
| Managing Director | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala |
| World Bank Group Chief Financial Officer | Vincenzo La Via |
| Executive Vice President and CEO, International Finance Corporation | Lars Thunell |
| Executive Vice President for MIGA | Izumi Kobayashi (pdf) |
| Senior Vice President & Chief Economist | Justin Lin |
| Senior Vice President & World Bank Group General Counsel | Anne-Marie Leroy |
| Vice President, External Affairs | Caroline Anstey |
| Vice President & Network Head, Human Development | Tamar Manuelyan Atinc |
| Vice President and Network Head, Operations Policy and Country Services | Joachim von Amsberg |
| Vice President, Human Resources, Communications, and Administration, International Finance Corporation | Dorothy H. Berry |
| Vice President for Institutional Integrity | Leonard McCarthy |
| Vice President, Corporate Finance and Risk Management | Van Pulley |
| Vice President , Controller (CTR) | Charles McDonough |
| Vice President, Human Resources | Hasan Tuluy |
| Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean |