Appointment of new Secretary General
PrintAPPOINTMENT OF GONZALO RAMOS AS NEW SECRETARY GENERAL
Madrid, July 27, 2009 – The Public Interest Oversight Board has appointed Mr. Gonzalo Ramos as new Secretary General.
Gonzalo Ramos was Executive Director and Board Member for Spain and Mexico at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (London), where he was Vice-chair of the Audit Committee during 2005, Chair of the Financial and Operations Committee during 2006-2007 and Chair of the ETC Fund during 2008.
He was the first Director General for International Finance at the Spanish Ministry of Finance until 2004, where he developed Spanish policy on international financial stability, international development, financial institutions and external debt management. Previously, he served in various capacities both at home and abroad. During the early nineties, he was Deputy Director General for Oil and Gas.
Mr Ramos is M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford, graduate in Economics with International Studies from the University of Warwick in the UK and in Economics from the Autonomous University of Madrid in Spain, and Public Economist in the Spanish Ministry of Finance.
The new Secretary General took up his duties on July 25, 2009.
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