Management of the BIS

The General Manager is Jaime Caruana. The Deputy General Manager is Hervé Hannoun.

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 Diego Devos.

Other senior officials are Jim Etherington (Deputy Secretary General), Louis de Montpellier (Deputy Head of Banking) and Josef Tošovský (Chairman, Financial Stability Institute).  Claudio Borio and Philip Turner are the Deputy Heads of the Monetary and Economic Department.

Eli Remolona is Chief Representative, Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific, and Gregor Heinrich is Chief Representative, Representative Office for the Americas.