UN System Documentation

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

• Articles of Agreement drawn up in 1944 at Bretton Woods Conference 
  • United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, 1-22 July 1944
  • Proceedings and Documents (non-UN source)
• Relationship Agreement with UN (1947)
  • 16 UNTS 325
• Governing Bodies
  • Board of Governors
    • Governors appointed by IMF Member States
    • Meets annually
    • Annual joint meeting with Board of Governors of World Bank
  • Executive Board
    • Annual Report highlights activities and includes audited accounts
• Flagship publications
  • World Economic Outlook
• IMF eLibrary
• Data
• Library (IMF and World Bank Group)

IMF Managing Directors

• 2019- : Kristalina Georgieva (Bulgaria)
• 2011-2019 : Christine Lagarde (France)
• 2007-2011: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (France)
• 2004-2007: Rodrigo de Rato (Spain)
• 2000-2004: Horst Köhler (Germany)
• 1987-2000: Michel Camdessus (France)
• 1978-1987: Jacques de Larosière (France)
• 1973-1978: H. Johannes Witteveen (Netherlands)
• 1963-1973: Pierre-Paul Schweitzer (France)
• 1956-1963: Per Jacobsson (Sweden)
• 1951-1956: Ivar Rooth (Sweden)
• 1946-1951: Camille Gutt (Belgium)