Dr. Knight served
as General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of the Bank
for International Settlements during 2003-2008. From 1999
to 2003 he was Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada,
where he was the Bank’s chief operating officer and a member
of the Board of Directors.
From 1975 to 1999, Dr. Knight
was with the International Monetary Fund, where he held senior
positions in both research and operations. While at the IMF
Dr. Knight was also an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International Studies. From 1971
to 1975 he taught at the University of Toronto and the London
School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr. Knight holds an Honour BA
in Political Science and Economics from the University of Toronto,
and MSc (Econ) and PhD degrees in economics from the London School
of Economics and Political Science. He has published widely in the
fields of macroeconomics, international finance and banking.
Dr. Knight served as a Trustee of
the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (2003-07),
and a member of the Financial Stability Forum (2003-08). He is a Trustee
of the Per Jacobsson Foundation and Chairman of the Board of Patrons of
the European Association for Banking and Financial History. He was
inducted into the Honorary Senate of the Lindau Nobel Prizewinners
Foundation in 2006 and the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars
in 2007. In 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Trinity College,
University of Toronto.
Dr. Knight, a Canadian, is married with
three grown daughters and one granddaughter.
