Ingves has a Finland Swedish background and grew up in the village of Närpes in western Finland.[3]
In 1984, he earned a Ph.D. in Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics and his thesis is called "aspects of trade credits", about credit models between companies.[7]
Career
Ingves was named Governor of Sveriges Riksbank in 2006.[3] In response to the Icelandic financial crisis of 2008, Ingves argued that "in times of uncertainty and turmoil, the central banks have a responsibility to cooperate."[8] Ingves confronted the "task of safeguarding macroeconomic and financial stability" in 2008;[9] and in 2009, he presided over a decline to the lowest official Swedish interest rate since records began in 1907.[10]
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Stefan Ingves, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 40+ works in 50+ publications in 3 languages and 150+ library holdings .[15]
Den oreglerade kreditmarknaden : en expertrapport från 1980 års kreditpolitiska utredning (1981)
Aspects of Trade Credit (1984)
The Nordic Banking Crisis from an International Perspective (2002)
Issues in the Establishment of Asset Management Companies (2004)
Lessons Learned from Previous Banking Crises: Sweden, Japan, Spain, and Mexico (2009)
Central Bank Management (2009)
Notes
^Nationalencyklopedin article about Ingves doesn't mention any nationality which per default means that the individual in question is Swedish. Also according to the Instrument of Government 1974, Chapter 11: Administration of justice and general administrationArchived 15 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, Article 9, Paragraph 3 only a Swedish citizen can serve as the head of an agency under the Riksdag. This requirement has been removed from the Constitution from 1 January 2011, and is instead supposed to be regulated in an ordinary law.
