Terrence J. Checki is executive vice president and head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s emerging markets and international affairs group. He also is a member of the Bank’s Management Committee.

Mr. Checki has functioned as the Bank’s chief international troubleshooter for more than two decades and is well known among industry insiders for his contributions to the management and resolution of the economic and financial challenges during that period, including the external debt problems faced by many developing nations and their creditors.

Mr. Checki’s varied career at the Bank has included a number of key posts in the Bank’s corporate, bank supervision, foreign and international affairs areas, as well as in the office of the president. Immediately prior to being named an executive vice president, he had been serving as advisor to the New York Fed president on matters related to financial developments in emerging markets.

Mr. Checki holds a master’s degree from Columbia University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the Boards of Directors of the Foreign Policy Association, the Council of the Americas, the International Advisory Board of the Center for Global Finance at the Lubin School of Business and the National Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

November 2009