Robert D Sleeper joined the Bank for International Settlements in 1998 and was Head of the Banking Department from February 1999 to March 2005.
Prior to joining the BIS, Mr Sleeper spent seventeen years with Chase Manhattan Bank, NA. From 1981 to 1993 he held senior treasury posts in London, Asia, and Latin America, before being appointed to the post of International Treasury Executive. Between 1996 and 1998, he was Managing Director of Chase Manhattan's Foreign Exchange Hedge Unit.
From 1975 to 1981, Mr Sleeper was Foreign Exchange Manager at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Prior to this he was an economics professor at Baruch College in New York City.
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1940, Mr Sleeper was educated at Williams College in the USA and Oxford University in the United Kingdom.
He is married with four children.
