Ivar Rooth
Organization leader
1888 – 1972
Who was Ivar Rooth?
Ivar Rooth was a Swedish economist and the International Monetary Fund's second Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board, serving from 1951–1956.
He was born on 2 November 1888, in Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from Uppsala University with a Law degree in 1911.
In his early career he was: Solicitor for the Handelsbank of Stockholm; head of Bank's Commercial Credit Department; Assistant Manager and Solicitor of Stockholm Mortgage Bank for several years; Governor of the Central Bank of Sweden; Director of Bank of International Settlements. In 1951 he headed a mission to Iraq for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and on April 10 of the same year he was appointed Managing Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the IMF, assuming his duties on 3 August 1951.
Rooth, in his first address to member countries as Managing Director of the IMF on 11 September 1951, stated that the Fund "sought removal or modification of exchange restrictions and other discriminatory practices" aimed at a freer flow of international trade and payments. Subsequently, general policy on use of IMF's resources was set forth. This initiated the IMF's policy of drawings in tranches. In 1952, in accordance with the Articles of Agreement, 5 years after the IMF began financial operations, annual consultations with members maintaining exchange restrictions under Article XIV were initiated. The IMF introduced a general framework for Stand-by Arrangements, and the criteria to be applied were standardized. Rooth's term as Managing Director of the IMF ended on 27 April 1956, but he accepted a request by the Executive Board to serve a further period ending on 3 October 1956.
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- Born
- Nov 2, 1888
Stockholm - Nationality
- Sweden
- Profession
- Education
- Uppsala University
( - 1911)
- Uppsala University
- Employment
- Handelsbanken
(1914 - ) - Governor, Sveriges Riksbank
(1929 - 1948) - Director, Bank for International Settlements
(1931 - 1933) - International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
(1951 - )
- Handelsbanken
- Died
- Feb 27, 1972
Lidingö
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on July 23, 2013
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