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Jean-Pierre Roth was appointed Chairman of the Swiss National Bank on March 1, 2006, a position he will hold for a period of three years.  Mr Roth succeeded Nout Wellink, who served as Chairman of the Board and President of the Bank since March 2002.

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Jean-Pierre Roth joined the '''[[Swiss National Bank]]''' in 1979 and worked in various sectors of the Bank in Zurich and Berne. On 1 May 1996, the Federal Government appointed him Vice-Chairman of the Governing Board and head of Department II in Berne (capital market, banknotes, business relations with the Confederation, administration of gold holdings). On 1 January 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Governing Board and head of Department I in Zurich (economics, international affairs, legal and administrative).

Jean-Pierre Roth is Governor of the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) for Switzerland. He was appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel with effect from 1 March 2006.

==Background==
Jean-Pierre Roth, born in 1946, completed his doctorate in economics at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Graduate Institute of International Studies), Geneva. Following postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, he held lectureships at the University of Geneva and at the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales.

==See Also==
[http://www.bis.org/index.htm Bank of Internetional Settlements (BIS)]<br>
[http://www.imf.org/external/country/CHE/index.htm International Monetary Fund data on Switzerland]<br>


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