Bruce MacLaury

Bruce MacLaury  ( central banker)
Born	ca. 1931
Nationality	US?
Alma mater	•  Princeton •  Harvard
Member of	Bilderberg/Steering committee, Trilateral Commission
President of the Brookings Institution who attended 7 Bilderbergs  Brookings Institution/President In office 1977 - 1995 Preceded by Gilbert Steiner Succeeded by Michael Armacost

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.

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.

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.

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.

MacLaury resigned in 1977 to become president of the policy-making think tank Brookings Institution, where he worked until his retirement in 1995. 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."

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1977	22 April 1977	24 April 1977	Imperial Hotel Torquay UK	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
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1983	24 August 1983	26 August 1983		The 1983 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1985 First				The first 1985 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1986			Wyoming Jackson Hole	The 1986 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1987				The 1987 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1988				The 1988 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1992	27 August 1992	29 August 1992		The 1992 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1993	19 August 1993	21 August 1993		The 1993 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1994	25 August 1994	27 August 1994		The 1994 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1995	31 August 1995	2 September 1995		The 1995 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium
Jackson Hole/Meeting/1997	28 August 1997	30 August 1997		The 1997 Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium

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