IMF Executive Directors and Voting Power

Last Updated: March 12, 2010


The Executive Board (the Board) is responsible for conducting the day-to-day business of the IMF. It is composed of 24 Directors, who are appointed or elected by member countries or by groups of countries, and the Managing Director, who serves as its Chairman. The Board usually meets several times each week. It carries out its work largely on the basis of papers prepared by IMF management and staff.

Director
Alternate
Casting Votes of Votes by Country Total Votes1 Percent
of Fund
Total2
Appointed
Meg Lundsager
Douglas A. Rediker
United States 371,743 371,743 16.74
Daisuke Kotegawa
Hiromi Yamaoka
Japan 133,378 133,378 6.01
Klaus D. Stein
Stephan von Stenglin
Germany 130,332 130,332 5.87
Ambroise Fayolle
Aymeric Ducrocq
France 107,635 107,635 4.85
Alex Gibbs
James Talbot
United Kingdom 107,635 107,635 4.85

Director
Alternate
Casting Votes of Votes by Country Total Votes1 Percent
of Fund
Total2
Elected
Willy Kiekens (Belgium)
Johann Prader (Austria)
  
Austria 18,973    
Belarus 4,114    
Belgium 46,302    
Czech Republic 8,443    
Hungary 10,634    
Kazakhstan 3,907    
Luxembourg 3,041    
Slovak Republic 3,825    
Slovenia 2,567    
Turkey 12,163 113,969 5.13
 
Age F.P. Bakker (Netherlands)
Yuriy G. Yakusha (Ukraine)
Armenia 1,170    
Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,941    
Bulgaria 6,652    
Croatia 3,901    
Cyprus 1,646    
Georgia 1,753    
Israel 9,532    
Macedonia, former Yugoslav Republic of 939    
Moldova 1,482    
Montenegro 525    
Netherlands 51,874    
Romania 10,552    
Ukraine 13,970 105,937 4.77
 
Ramón Guzmán Zapater (Spain)
Carlos Pérez-Verdía (Mexico)
Costa Rica 1,891    
El Salvador 1,963    
Guatemala 2,352    
Honduras 1,545    
Mexico 31,778    
Nicaragua 1,550    
Spain 30,739    
Venezuela, República Bolivariana de 26,841 98,659 4.44
 
Arrigo Sadun (Italy)
Panagiotis Roumeliotis (Greece)
Albania 737    
Greece 8,480    
Italy 70,805    
Malta 1,270    
Portugal 8,924    
San Marino 420    
Timor-Leste 332 90,968 4.10
 
HE Jianxiong
LUO Yang
China 81,151 81,151 3.65
 
Thomas Hockin (Canada)
Stephen O'Sullivan (Ireland)
Antigua and Barbuda 385    
Bahamas, The 1,553    
Barbados 925    
Belize 438    
Canada 63,942    
Dominica 332    
Grenada 367    
Ireland 8,634    
Jamaica 2,985    
St. Kitts and Nevis 339    
St. Lucia 403    
St. Vincent and the Grenadines 333 80,636 3.63
 
Duangmanee Vongpradhip (Thailand)
Adrian Chua Tsen Leong (Singapore)
Brunei Darussalam 2,402    
Cambodia 1,125    
Fiji 953    
Indonesia 21,043    
Lao People's Democratic Republic 779    
Malaysia 15,116    
Myanmar 2,834    
Nepal 963    
Philippines 9,049    
Singapore 8,875    
Thailand 11,069    
Tonga 319    
Vietnam 3,541 78,068 3.52
 
Hi-Su Lee (Korea)
Christopher Legg (Australia)
Australia 32,614    
Kiribati 306    
Korea 29,523    
Marshall Islands
285    
Micronesia, Federated States of 301    
Mongolia 761    
New Zealand 9,196    
Palau 281    
Papua New Guinea 1,566    
Samoa 366    
Seychelles 338    
Solomon Islands 354    
Vanuatu 420 76,311 3.44
 
Per Callesen (Denmark)
Jarle Bergo  (Norway)
Denmark 16,678    
Estonia 902    
Finland 12,888    
Iceland 1,426    
Latvia 1,518    
Lithuania 1,692    
Norway 16,967    
Sweden 24,205 76,276 3.43
 
A. Shakour Shaalan (Egypt)
Sami Geadah (Lebanon)
Bahrain 1,600    
Egypt 9,687    
Iraq 12,134    
Jordan 1,955    
Kuwait 14,061    
Lebanon 2,280    
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 11,487    
Maldives 332    
Oman 2,190    
Qatar 2,888    
Syrian Arab Republic 3,186    
United Arab Emirates 6,367    
Yemen, Republic of 2,685 70,852 3.19
 
Abdallah S. Alazzaz
(Saudi Arabia)
Ahmed Al Nassar
(Saudi Arabia)
Saudi Arabia 70,105 70,105 3.16
 
Samuel Itam (Sierra Leone)
Moeketsi Majoro (Lesotho)  
Angola 3,113    
Botswana 880    
Burundi 1,020    
Eritrea 409    
Ethiopia 1,587    
Gambia, The 561    
Kenya 2,964    
Lesotho 599    
Liberia 1,542    
Malawi 944    
Mozambique 1,386    
Namibia 1,615    
Nigeria 17,782    
Sierra Leone 1,287    
South Africa 18,935    
Sudan 1,947    
Swaziland 757    
Tanzania 2,239    
Uganda 2,055    
Zambia 5,141 66,763 3.01
 
René Weber (Switzerland)
Katarzyna Zajdel-Kurowska (Poland)
Azerbaijan 1,859    
Kyrgyz Republic 1,138    
Poland 13,940    
Serbia 4,927    
Switzerland 34,835    
Tajikistan 1,120    
Turkmenistan 1,002    
Uzbekistan 3,006 61,827 2.78
 
Aleksei V. Mozhin
(Russian Federation)
Andrei Lushin
(Russian Federation)
Russian Federation 59,704 59,704 2.69
 
Mohammad Jafar Mojarrad
(Islamic Republic of Iran)
Mohammed Daïri (Morocco)
Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 1,869    
Algeria 12,797    
Ghana 3,940    
Iran, Islamic Republic of 15,222    
Morocco 6,132    
Pakistan 10,587    
Tunisia 3,115 53,662 2.42
 
Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr. (Brazil)
Vacant  
Brazil 30,611    
Colombia 7,990    
Dominican Republic 2,439    
Ecuador 3,273    
Guyana 1,159    
Haiti 1,069    
Panama 2,316    
Suriname 1,171    
Trinidad and Tobago 3,606 53,634 2.42
 
Arvind Virmani (India)
P. Nandalal Weerasinghe
(Sri Lanka)
Bangladesh 5,583    
Bhutan 313    
India 41,832    
Sri Lanka 4,384 52,112 2.35
 
Pablo Andrés Pereira (Argentina)
David Vogel (Uruguay)  
Argentina 21,421    
Bolivia 1,965    
Chile 8,811    
Paraguay 1,249    
Peru 6,634    
Uruguay 3,315 43,395 1.95
 
Laurean W. Rutayisire (Rwanda)
Kossi Assimaidou (Togo)
Benin 869    
Burkina Faso 852    
Cameroon 2,107    
Cape Verde 346    
Central African Republic 807    
Chad 810    
Comoros 339    
Congo, Democratic Republic of 5,580    
Congo, Republic of 1,096    
Côte d'Ivoire 3,502    
Djibouti 409    
Equatorial Guinea 576    
Gabon 1,793    
Guinea 1,321    
Guinea-Bissau 392    
Madagascar 1,472    
Mali 1,183    
Mauritius 1,266    
Niger 908    
Rwanda 1,051    
São Tomé and Príncipe 324    
Senegal 1,868    
Togo 984 29,855 1.34
      2,214,6073 99.724

1Voting power varies on certain matters pertaining to the General Department with use of the Fund's resources in that Department.
2Percentages of total votes (2,220,817) in the General Department and the Special Drawing Rights Department.
3This total does not include the votes of Kosovo, Mauritania, Somalia, and Zimbabwe, which did not participate in the 2008 Regular Election of Executive Directors. The total votes of these members are 6,210 - 0.28 percent of those in the General Department and Special Drawing Rights Departement.
4This figure may differ from the sum of the percentages shown for individual countries because of rounding.