Central Bank Governor of the Year 2008: Outstanding contribution to finance

Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank.

Trichet puts the ECB firmly in the ascendancy

Since becoming governor in 2003, Jean-Claude Trichet has brought the ECB out of the shadow of the US Fed and led the global response to the credit crunch.

Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank

Jean-Claude Trichet, European Central Bank

IT IS A little over a year since the European Central Bank injected some €95 billion of liquidity into markets, finally waking the world to the extent of the backwash from the US mortgage crisis, and beginning a fight to maintain stability that still rages.

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