The office of General Manager is at present vacant. The Acting General Manager is Hervé Hannoun. 1
The General Manager - the Bank's chief executive officer - carries out the policy determined by the Board of Directors and is responsible to the Board for the management of the Bank.
The heads of the three main departments are Peter Dittus (General Secretariat), Stephen Cecchetti (Monetary and Economic Department) and Günter Pleines (Banking Department). The General Counsel is Daniel Lefort.
Other senior officials are Jim Etherington (Deputy Secretary General), Már Gudmundsson (Deputy Head of Monetary and Economic Department), Louis de Montpellier (Deputy Head of Banking) and Josef Tošovský (Chairman, Financial Stability Institute).
Robert N McCauley is Chief Representative, Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, and Gregor Heinrich is Chief Representative, Representative Office for the Americas.
1 As of 1 October 2008 and until a new General Manager takes up his/her duties, Hervé Hannoun exercises the responsibilities of General Manager under the title Acting General Manager.