Bloomberg, 20 Feb 2011
Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam is the leading candidate to become the next chairman of the body that steers work of the International Monetary Fund, a Group of 20 official said.
Tharman would replace Youssef Boutros-Ghali, who resigned from the International Monetary and Financial Committee earlier this month. Full story
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