"IMF" Pierre-Paul Schweitzer Hand Signed Time Magazine Cover For Sale

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"IMF" Pierre-Paul Schweitzer Hand Signed Time Magazine Cover:
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Up for sale "IMF" Pierre-Paul Schweitzer Hand Signed Time Magazine Cover Dated 1968. 

1912 – 2 January 1994) was a French businessman who was fourth managing

director of International Monetary

Fund (IMF) and chairman of its executive board, serving from

1963 to 1973. He

was born on 29 May 1912, in Straßburg, Elsaß-Lothringen, German Empire. He is

the father of Louis Schweitzer, CEO of Renault. He was the nephew of Albert Schweitzer. Schweitzer

was educated at the University of Strasbourg,

the University of Paris, and

the Paris School of Political Science (Sciences Po) and received degrees in law, economics and

political science. In his early career, Schweitzer joined the French Government

as an assistant Inspecteur des Finances (1936), before becoming an Inspecteur

des Finances (1939). Then he was: deputy director for the department of

external finance of the French Treasury (1946); alternate executive director

for France at the IMF (1947); secretary of the French Interministerial

Committee in Charge of Questions on European Economic Cooperation (1948);

financial attaché at the French embassy in Washington (1949–1953); director of

the French Treasury (1953–1960). In 1960, he was appointed deputy governor of

the Bank of France. He also

served as a director of the European Investment Bank,

a director of Air France, and as a

government commissioner on the boards of the French Petroleum Company and the

French Refinery Company. On 21 June 1963 Schweitzer was appointed managing

director and chairman of the executive board of the IMF, and he assumed his

duties on 1 September 1963. Schweitzer was appointed to a second five-year term

as managing director and chairman of the board of the IMF on 15 May 1968. Schweitzer's

term as the IMF's managing director was a critical period, not only due to the

collapse of the Par Value System, but also for the creation of the special drawing rights (SDR),

as an international reserve asset (1968); the establishment of the two-tier

gold market, and the work of the Committee of Twenty of the International

Monetary System on reforming the international financial system. Also, during

his tenure as managing director of the IMF, its membership grew from 91 to 125

countries. Schweitzer received many honors and decorations, such as the

Commander of the Légion d'Honneur;

the Médaille de la Résistance,

and the Croix de Guerre. Schweitzer

died on 2 January 1994 in Geneva, Switzerland.

"IMF" Pierre-Paul Schweitzer Hand Signed Time Magazine Cover

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1972 Press Photo Pierre-Paul Schweitzer closes annual IMF meeting in Washington

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1963 Original Press Photo Pierre Paul Schweitzer Portrait IMF Managing Director

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1963 Original Press Photo Pierre Paul Schweitzer Portrait IMF Managing Director

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