William R. Rhodes

Overview

Bill Rhodes is Senior Vice Chairman and the Senior International Officer for Citigroup. He has specific responsibilities for client relationships worldwide, as well as for relationships with governments and other official institutions. He is a member of Citigroup's Management Committee. Mr. Rhodes gained a reputation for international financial diplomacy in the 1980s for his leadership in helping manage the external-debt crisis that involved developing nations and their creditors worldwide. During that period and in the 1990s, he headed the advisory committees of international banks that negotiated debt-restructuring agreements for Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. In 1998, when the Republic of Korea experienced liquidity problems, he chaired the international bank group that negotiated the extension of short-term debt of the Korean banking system. In early 1999, at the request of the Government of Brazil, he acted as worldwide coordinator to help implement the maintenance of trade and interbank lines by foreign commercial banks to Brazil. Mr. Rhodes is a Director of Conoco, Inc.; Director of the Private Export Funding Corporation; Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Finance; Chairman of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas; Chairman of CHIPCo; Director of the U.S.-Russia Business Council; a founding member of the U.S. National Advisory Council to the International Management Center in Budapest, Hungary; and a member of South African President Thabo Mbeki's International Advisory Board. Other Board memberships include The Africa-America Institute, Foreign Policy Association, The Group of Thirty, and U.S.-Egypt Presidents' Council. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Economic Club of New York and the Hong Kong/U.S. Business Council.