Declaration of François Villeroy de Galhau, governor of the Banque de France
I first got to know Stanley Fisher at all our international meetings, particularly at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) up to the end of 2017.
He was a great economist who had trained generations of central bankers at MIT.
But he was also a man of action who - at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) alongside Michel Camdessus, who became his friend, then at the Bank of Israel and the Fed - fought against inflation and instability, and therefore for justice.
Above all, he was an open and warm man who believed in dialogue and the exchange of ideas: his example must live on.
