O100 Managing Director (and Managing Director's Office)

107101

1944-2002

sub-series

textual records

8.5 linear feet of textual records. - 66 photographs: b&w prints; b&w negatives prints.

English

Some files are missing as they were not returned to the Central files by users. These are likely permanently missing, but it is possible that they could be returned at a later date: O100 Gift to MD’s O101 MD Portrait – de Larosière O110 Deputy Managing Directors (General) One file was not found at its indicated place. It should coinsidered as permanently missing as well: O100 Schweitzer, Pierre-Paul – Farewell Album, August 1973 The following files are closed: Managing Director's Contract and Related Papers; Deputy Managing Director's Appointment and Related Papers; one file containing briefing documents for a press conference.

Economic and Social Council, Frank Coe, Gordon Williams, Oscar L. Altman, Roman L. Horne, W. Lawrence Hebbard, Andrew Crockett, Ernest Sturc, Roger V. Anderson, Leo Van Houtven, Robert A. Rolin, Jean de Largentaye, Ahmed Zaki Bey Saad, George Rowland Stanley Baring Cromer, 3rd Earl of

Subseries is open according to the Policy on Access to the IMF's Archives. Files will be screened by reference staff for any time restriction.

Subseries documents the activities of the Office of the Managing Director. Files on Managing Directors include records which concern: the preparation for them to take office, including biographical information and the announcements to other international organizations; their absence from office; their speeches, articles and interviews, while in office, and some records from their activities after they left the IMF, up to their death. To a lesser extent, subseries also shows similar activities by the Deputy Managing Directors. In addition, some information can be found about the work of the Advisers and Special Adviser to the Managing Director. Others topics of interests in the subseries include: the role of the Managing Director and the IMF as arbitrator in international monetary conflicts, for instance the issue of the 4% Japanese loan with France; the activities of the Internal Auditor of the IMF; meetings of the Heads of Departments and the Staff Committee; policy making; Staff Retirement Plan; and technological issues encountered by the Office of the Managing Director and the IMF. Records consist of correspondence, memoranda, press releases, press clippings and reports. Subseries is complemented mainly by the Office of the Managing Director Records.