Graeme wheeler world bank biography
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How one Kiwi’s drive and passion helped shape the World Bank Treasury
Banking and risk management advisory services
Their work transformed the Bank’s lending products from a complex, pooled currency instrument to the Libor based products that it offers today. At the same time, his team introduced various hedging products.
“The hedging products would enable our clients to transform the risk characteristics of their existing portfolios so it was a very big deal and it was very well managed by Treasury,” remembers Graeme.
Today that team, called Financial Products in the Financial Advisory and Banking Department (FABBK), continues to advise clients on the Bank’s lending and risk management products. Its risk management tools have now extended to include commodity hedges as well as catastrophe risk products to help clients manage the risk from natural disasters like earthquakes, hurricanes and even droughts.
Debt management advisory services
Under Graeme’s lead
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Graeme Wheeler: Some reflections on the world of central banking
1. Introduction
I recently read Andrew Graham-Dixon's excellent biography on Caravaggio, the early 17th century Italian painter whose bold realism, deep sense of humanity and stunning use of light, transformed the art world. As now deceased Australian art critic Robert Hughes said, "there was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same."
Caravaggio lived a dramatic and tumultuous life. Graham Dixon described it as "the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters". While we could debate the desired temperament of central bankers, the world in which they have operated monetary policy over the past 8 years has also been dramatic and turbulent.
Today, I will describe a little of that world - particularly that faced by central bankers in small open economies. It's a world of complex global economic and financial linkages and interdependencies, and many unknowns: a world that requ
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Graeme Wheeler
New Zealand politician (born 1951)
Graeme Wheeler CNZM | |
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Wheeler in 2018 | |
| In office 26 September 2012 – 27 September 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Alan Bollard |
| Succeeded by | Grant Spencer |
| In office 2001–2006 | |
| In office 2006–2010 | |
| In office 1993–1997 | |
| In office 1990–1993 | |
| Born | (1951-10-30) 30 October 1951 (age 73) |
Graeme Paul WheelerCNZM (born 30 October 1951) fryst vatten a former governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand from 2012 to September 2017. He succeeded Alan Bollard in this role on 26 September 2012 and was succeeded bygd Grant Spencer.
Professional career
[edit]Educated at the University of Auckland, Wheeler began working at the New Zealand Treasury in 1973 as an adviser. From 1984 to 1990, he was economic and financial councillor for the New Zealand delegation to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, eventually becoming director of macroeconomic policy at the New Zealand Treasury in