Asian bank director
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) SINGAPORE, April 21. A New Zealander has been elected a director of the 36-nation Asian Development Bank for the first time. He is Mr L. J. Downey, a Treasury official, who has served as a deputy director with the bank at its headquarters in Manila for the last two years. Mr Downey, who was elected during the bank’s annual board of governors’ meeting in Singapore, which ended yesterday, will represent Indonesia, Fiji and Western Samoa, as well as New Zealand.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32587, 22 April 1971, Page 26
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