Louis Rasminsky

Educated at UC and the London School of Economics, Louis Rasminsky worked for the League of Nations through the 1930s and then for the Bank of Canada, ultimately as governor from 1961 until 1973, a period during which he deftly managed the nation's monetary policy. He played a major role in the development of the post-Second World War international monetary system, serving as chair of the Drafting Committee of the Articles of Agreement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference and then as a director of the IMF and the World Bank.