John M. Stevens

John M. Stevens (central banker)
Born	1913
Died	1973 (Age 60)
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	Winchester College
Victim of	premature death
British banker who attended the 1962 Bilderberg meeting.

Sir John Melior Stevens was a British banker who worked for the IMF, World Bank, Bank of England and Morgan Grenfell, who attended the 1962 Bilderberg meeting.

Career

Stevens was educated at Winchester College and then became a solicitor. After the Second World War, Stevens joined the Bank of England as an Adviser. He was Director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) before returning to the Bank as an Assistant to Governor and from 1957, Executive Director. He left the Bank to be the Head of the UK Treasury Trade Delegation and Economic Minister in Washington.

When Lord Harcourt, a great-grandson of J.S. Morgan and former economic minister at the British Embassy in Washington, became chairman of Morgan Grenfell in 1968, he appointed Sir John Stevens, then head of the treasury delegation and economic minister in Washington, as senior director in charge of international business.

Stevens sparked a period of rapid expansion for Morgan Grenfell when he decided that the firm should become an international bank based in the United Kingdom, rather than a London bank with overseas interests In 1970, Stevens became executive vice chairman of the bank, which was incorporated in the United Kingdom in 1971 as an investment holding company. But he never saw his strategy come to fruition: Stevens died in October, 1973, leaving the bank’s future to Lord Catto, chairman of the executive committee.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1962	18 May 1962	20 May 1962	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 11th Bilderberg meeting and the first one in Sweden.

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