Malaysian to be IMF boss

Malaysian to be IMF boss

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuter): Malaysia's central bank announced yesterday that its assistant governor Zamani Abdul Ghani was being appointed as an executive director in the International Monetary Fund from Nov. 1, this year.

It said in a statement that Zamani would serve a two-year term in the IMF, based in Washington DC.

He would represent members of the Southeast Asian Voting Group comprising Brunei, Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga and Vietnam.

Zamani, who joined the central bank, Bank Negara, in 1971, had served in various departments and was responsible for establishing the Bank's representative offices in New York and London.