Recent Highlights

Dr. Abdulhamid Alkhalifa, a Saudi Arabian national, is the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer of OFID - the OPEC Fund for International Development.

On April 10, 2019, the Bretton Woods Committee held its 36th Annual Meeting at the IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC where over 200 Committee members and global leaders attended.

Carla A. Hills is the Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company, International Consultants; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (administration of President Gerald Ford) and former United States Trade Representative (administration of President George W. Bush).

Financial technology seems set to have a major impact on monetary relations.

The Henry Owen Memorial Award honors Bretton Woods Committee co-founder Henry Owen, and hopes to inspire new generations of thoughtful young leaders to follow Ambassador Owen’s example as both a scholar and diplomat. This Award has been made possible thanks to the generous contributions of Bretton Woods Committee members, friends, and the Owen family.

Dr. Thomas A. Bernes has been Vice President of Programs at The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) since November 2009 and also serves as its Executive Director.

The successful crafting of the Bretton Woods global economic architecture at the end of WWII followed decades of monumental destruction, bloodshed, and misery.

Joachim von Amsberg is a contributing author to the Bretton [email protected] Compendium. Our Author Spotlight series highlights the thought leadership of contributing authors to the Bretton [email protected] initiative.

The architecture of the liberal world-order ---mainly that of the post-war era--- has relied on the principle of national self-determination and a rule-based framework underpinning diplomatic and economic relations.