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- 1949, 1968 - 1974, 1984 - 2004 (Creation)
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106.38 linear feet of textual records; 2 videocassettes
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Between 1946 and 1974, the World Bank had between one and four vice presidents whose responsibility was the Bank as a whole. During the reorganization in 1972, vice presidencies were created with specific areas of oversight, and when Sir Denis Rickett left the Bank in 1974 the era of general vice presidents was over.
In late 1991, following the appointment of Lewis T. Preston as Bank President, managing director positions were created to provide administrative assistance to the president of the Bank. Reporting directly to the president, the managing directors each had an area of oversight responsibility, but as a whole they formed the kind of broad oversight team that the general vice presidents had provided. The number of managing directors ranged from three to five, with varying areas of emphasis.
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The records of the era of the general vice presidents are fragmentary. A few records of a Middle East and North African trip by Robert L. Garner exist, as does a file on a meeting in Jogjakarta attended by Mohamed Shoaib. The files of Sir Denis Rickett contain important records on studies of the future role of the Bank, as well as information on the Bank's reactions to the oil crisis of the early 1970s.
Included in this fonds are the files of Caio Koch-Weser, Managing Director, Operations, 1996-1999, and the files of Jeffrey A. Goldstein, Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, 1999-2004.
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Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Access to Information.
Conditions governing reproduction
Records are subject to the Terms of Use for the World Bank Group Archives Textual Records.
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English
French
German
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See Central Files (WB IBRD/IDA ADMCF) for additional records of the Office of the Vice President beginning from 1946 that were filed in the Bank's centralized filing system.
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Records of the Office of the President (WB IBRD/IDA EXC).
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When World Bank staff worked in multiple offices during their careers and kept records from each that were later transferred to the Archives, the records cannot be placed in a single office fonds. These records are described in the Records of Individual Staff Members fonds. For individuals who served as managing directors, see Records of Individual Staff Members -- Attila Karaosmanoglu files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-23) for the period 1991-1994; Ernest Stern files -- Managing Director records (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-10-09) for the period of 1991-1995; Gautam Kaji files -- Managing Director chronological files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-24-02) for the period of 1994-1997; Jessica P. Einhorn files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-35) for the period of 1996-1998; and Richard H. Frank files -- Managing director chronological files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-36-03) and Subject files (WB IBRD/IDA STAFF-36-04) for the period of 1995-1997.
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Internal World Bank Group Archives rules based on ISAD(G).
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Dates of creation revision deletion
31 July 2003; 24 November 2025; 11 March 2026