William R. Rhodes

William R. Rhodes "is Senior Vice Chairman of Citigroup Inc. and Chairman, President, and CEO of Citibank, N.A. He gained a reputation for international financial diplomacy in the 1980s for his leadership in helping manage the external debt crisis that involved developing nations and their creditors worldwide. During that period and in the 1990s, he headed the advisory committees of international banks that negotiated debt-restructuring agreements for Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. In 1998, when the Republic of Korea experienced liquidity problems, he chaired the international bank group that negotiated the extension of short-term debt of the Korean banking system. In early 1999, at the request of the government of Brazil, he acted as worldwide coordinator to help implement the maintenance of trade and interbank lines by foreign commercial banks to Brazil. He graduated from Brown University in 1957."


 * Chair, Americas Society
 * Chair, Council of the Americas
 * Co Vice Chairman, National Committee on United States-China Relations
 * Director, Africa-America Institute
 * Director, ConocoPhillips
 * Director, Foreign Policy Association
 * Board of Overseers, Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
 * Member, Group of 30