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Richard Doornbosch on central banking in a tempestuous climate

The Curaçao and Sint Maarten president speaks about addressing legacy financial scandals, transition to a Caribbean guilder, tapping gold holdings and managing a currency peg at a time of US policy uncertainty

Richard Doornbosch
Credit: Nathalia Magalhaes/Serena Fotografia

You previously worked in the Dutch ministry of finance and served as an alternate executive director at the International Monetary Fund for the Netherlands. How did you end up taking on the role as president of Central Bank of Curaçao and Sint Maarten (CBCS) in 2020?

The constituency I represented at the IMF included 15 countries and three autonomous countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, so I also represented Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Aruba on the board of the IMF. When my predecessor at

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