An Evening with Bill Rhodes, Banker of the World

Feb. 20, 2012 - PRLog -- Join us for a special evening with Bill Rhodes, recently retired Vice-Chairman of Citi who has been the consummate international finance insider. He will discuss current economic, trade & financial issues in the United States, Europe, and the BRIC countries, share memorable stories, and illuminate the Euro crisis using lessons from history.

Mr. Rhodes will devote a good part of the talk to Q & A, a rare opportunity to have a dialogue with the man who has smoked cigars with Fidel Castro and been intimately involved with every major debt crisis in the world for the past 40 years.

He will also sign copies of his new book, Banker to the World, a chronicle of details from the negotiating rooms where deals were made that determined the solvency of bank creditors and the health of sovereign nations. 

VENUE: KPMG Heritage Center, Lexington Ave. between 51st and 52nd St., NYC (rear entrance of 345 Park Avenue)

DATE/TIME: Tuesday, March 13, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

REFRESHMENTS: Complimentary bar and hors d’oeuvres

FEE: $25 in advance, $35 day of event

TO REGISTER: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=ckjjc  



SPEAKER BIO:
Mr. Rhodes is a Senior Advisor for Citi, having stepped back from full time responsibilities after more than 53 years with the institution. He most recently served as Senior Vice Chairman and Senior International Officer of Citigroup and Citibank.

Mr. Rhodes gained a reputation for international financial diplomacy in the 1980s and 1990s as a result of his leadership in helping manage the external-debt crisis that involved developing nations and their creditors worldwide. He headed the advisory committees of international banks that negotiated debt-restructuring agreements for Argentina, Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.

He also chaired the international bank group that negotiated the extension of short-term debt of the Korean banking system in 1997-‘98, and he acted as worldwide coordinator to help implement the maintenance of trade and inter-bank lines by foreign commercial banks to Brazil in early 1999.

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