Bruce MacLaury
 Bruce MacLaury    (central banker) | ||||||||||||||
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| Born | ca. 1931 | |||||||||||||
| Nationality | US? | |||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Princeton, Harvard | |||||||||||||
| Member of | Trilateral Commission | |||||||||||||
President of the Brookings Institution who attended 7 Bilderbergs
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Bruce K. MacLaury was a President of the Brookings Institution who attended 7 Bilderberg meetings. Before that, he worked for the Federal Reserve, including as president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Education
He was born in Westchester County, New York. He went to schools there, and then Princeton and graduate school at Harvard in economics.[1]
Career
He spent the 1960s at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, in the research program, He started in 1958 what was then called the British Empire section, then at the Canada desk. He became chief executive officer of one of the regional banks, the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on July 1, 1971.[1][2]
During his tenure at New York, MacLaury he was granted leave to become an economic officer at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, France, and also to work in the Treasury Department, for Paul Volcker, who was Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs.[3]
MacLaury took an active role in monetary policy discussions. In one of his first public actions as Minneapolis Fed president, MacLaury urged President Richard Nixon to adopt an income policy to restrain wage and price increases to stabilize the economy.[4]
MacLaury resigned in 1977 to become president of the policy-making think tank Brookings Institution, where he worked until his retirement in 1995.[5] He explained that "The Brookings Institution is interested in public policy, by no means just in monetary policy, but in foreign policy, security policy, economic policy writ large in governmental institutions and how they work and how they do not work. I saw the opportunity as a role in an institution that would be lifelong learning in a much broader sphere than I had had the opportunity to be in up until that time." [1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
| Bilderberg/1980 | 18 April 1980 | 20 April 1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
| Bilderberg/1981 | 15 May 1981 | 17 May 1981 | Switzerland Palace Hotel Bürgenstock | The 29th Bilderberg |
| Bilderberg/1982 | 14 May 1982 | 16 May 1982 | Norway Sandefjord | The 30th Bilderberg, held in Norway. |
| Bilderberg/1983 | 13 May 1983 | 15 May 1983 | Canada Quebec Château Montebello | The 31st Bilderberg, held in Canada |
| Bilderberg/1984 | 11 May 1984 | 13 May 1984 | Sweden Saltsjöbaden | The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden |
| Bilderberg/1985 | 10 May 1985 | 12 May 1985 | New York US Arrowwood of Westchester Rye Brook | The 33rd Bilderberg, held in Canada |
References
- ↑ a b c https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/1992/interview-with-bruce-k-maclaury
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/22/archives/minneapolis-reserve-becomes-base-for-maclaury.html
- ↑ https://www.conference-board.org/bio/bruce-maclaury
- ↑ http://www.federalreservehistory.org/People/DetailView/179
- ↑ https://www.federalreservehistory.org/people/bruce-k-maclaury
