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Member Monday: Spyridon Bisisidis Lastly this week we welcome new member Spyridon Bisisidis, partner at Deloitte Greece. Spyridon is responsible for developing and delivering risk management solutions in the Greek banking sector. We appreciate his support, and we look forward to his engagement!	Mon, Sep 11, 2023	LinkedIn
Member Monday: Standard Bank Group This week we welcome new member Standard Bank Group. Standard Bank is the largest lender in Africa by assets. They operate in countries across Africa as well as elsewhere. We appreciate their support for our work and mission, and we look forward to their engagement!	Mon, Sep 25, 2023	LinkedIn
William R. Rhodes and John Lipsky: Stemming a Sovereign-Debt Crisis Rising interest rates and slowing global economic growth likely will spur many low-income countries to try to restructure their sovereign debt. This is troubling because recent restructuring cases have produced extended stalemates between borrowers and lenders rather than resolution.	Mon, Jan 31, 2022	Wall Street Journal Opinion
Stephen Groff: Stephen Groff new governor of the Saudi National Development Fund Stephen Groff was appointed on Thursday as governor of the Saudi National Development Fund by its board of directors, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.	Sun, Jul 21, 2019	Arab News
Member Monday: Sunil Sabharwal Lastly this week we welcome new member Sunil Sabharwal, president of Payments International. Sunil was the US alternate executive director of the International Monetary Fund from 2016 to 2018. We appreciate his support for our work and mission, and we look forward to his engagement!	Mon, Jul 10, 2023	LinkedIn
Susanna Cafaro: Supranational Democracy Dialogues The Supranational Democracy Dialogues, dealing with the future of Europe and of global governance, but also of humanity as one big interconnected family, as the virus showed once more.	Fri, May 8, 2020	The Bretton Woods Committee
BWC Vice Chair John Lipsky: Surveillance: Recession Risk With Blanchflower (Podcast) John Lipsky, Former IMF First Deputy Managing Director, says data integrity is central and critical to the IMF.	Mon, Oct 15, 2001	Bloomberg
Ousmène Jacques Mandeng: SVB and Stablecoins—Time to Tighten Regulation The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and subsequent jitters at USDC shall serve as a reminder that stablecoin regulation remains far too lax. Circle, the U.S. company and issuer of USDC, a stablecoin denominated in U.S. dollar, is mostly regulated in the U.S. as a money transmitter. This is grossly insufficient for a company with US$40 billion in stablecoins outstanding. Regulation and supervision need to impose sufficient obligations for stablecoin issuers to adopt best industry practices.	Fri, Mar 17, 2023	Bretton Woods Committee
Miguel Schloss: Tackling Climate Change in a Changing World President of Surinvest Ltda. & Virtus Atlas SpA (Chile); Former Executive Director of Transparency International (Germany), and Director of Corporate & Budget Planning of World Bank (USA).	Mon, Feb 15, 2021	Global Journals of Science Frontier Research
Member Monday: Talha Khan This Member Monday we welcome Talha Khan, Product Manager at IBM. Talha is a Product Manager at IBM where he leads IBM Cloud’s Digital Assets, Web3 Product Management, and Ecosystem Strategy. He is also a Product Manager for IBM Cloud Marketplace with a current focus on Gen AI. We appreciate his commitment and support, and we look forward to his engagement with The Bretton Woods Committee.	Mon, Jan 8, 2024	LinkedIn