Stefan Ingves
Former governor, Sveriges Riksbank
Stefan Ingves served as the governor of Sveriges Riksbank, from 2006 to 2022. He was chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision from 2011–19. Since November 2021, he has served as the vice-chairman of the Bank for International Settlements where he has chaired its Banking and Risk Management Committee since 2007. Ingves served as chairman of the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board between 2011 and 2017, and was first vice-chair of the ESRB from 2021. From 1999–2005, Ingves was director of the monetary and financial systems department at the International Monetary Fund and worked as deputy governor of the Riksbank from 1994–98, after a year working as director-general of the Swedish Bank Support Authority. From 1988–92, he was a member of the board of the Swedish National Debt Office, the Stockholm Stock Exchange and Värdepapperscentralen, as well as under-secretary for financial markets and institutions at the Swedish Ministry of Finance. Ingves has also worked in banking as assistant vice-president in the central finance and fund management division at Svenska Handelsbanken between 1984 and 1986, and was president of Sofe, Sweden’s Options and Futures Exchange in 1987. He has a PhD in economics and was a lecturer at the Stockholm School of Economics between 1976 and 1984.
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Sweden must ask fundamental questions on money – Ingves
Sveriges Riksbank governor Stefan Ingves says lawmakers must act to preserve the regulation of the payments system