Stefan Ingves

Background

About Stefan Ingves

Stefan Ingves is Chair of Toronto Centre’s Board of Directors and the former governor of the Central Bank of Sweden. Mr. Ingves previously held the positions of Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Chair of the BIS Banking and Risk Management Committee (BRC). Mr. Ingves was previously a member of the General Council of the European Central Bank; First Vice-Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board; Governor for Sweden in the International Monetary Fund; and a board member of the Nordic-Baltic Macroprudential Forum (NBMF). Mr. Ingves is former Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision; Director of the Monetary and Financial Systems Department at the IMF; Deputy Governor of the Riksbank; and General Director of the Swedish Bank Support Authority. Prior to that, he was Head of the Financial Markets Department at the Swedish Ministry of Finance. Mr. Ingves holds a Ph.D. in economics. With his long public sector service Mr. Ingves is a seasoned policymaker, lecturer and can cover a variety of financial sector and central bank matters, including leadership issues in general.