The General Manager of the BIS is Malcolm D Knight and 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 Deputy General Manager assists the General Manager in the management of the Bank and exercises the responsibilities of the General Manager in his absence.
The heads of the three main departments are Peter Dittus (General Secretariat), William R White (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.