William Ryrie
British Treasury official and former head of the International Finance Corporation (1928–2012); former director of CARE International UK
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| Born | November 1928 |
| Died | July 2012 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Occupation | Civil servant; World Bank official |
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Sir William Sinclair Ryrie (November 1928 – July 2012) was a senior British Treasury civil servant. He was permanent secretary of the Overseas Development Administration and from 1984 to 1993 executive vice-president and chief executive of the World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC).[1] Companies House records him as a director of CARE International UK, a CSSF contractor, from 18 December 1992 to 1 November 2001.[2]
Career
The Scotsman’s obituary says Ryrie "famously drew up the so-called Ryrie Rules on private investment in the public sector during Margaret Thatcher's government". Those rules later gave way to the Private Finance Initiative. During his Treasury years he served in Washington as economic minister at the British embassy and as British representative at the International Monetary Fund. He was "head hunted" by World Bank president Tom Clausen for the IFC post in 1984, where he was "directly responsible to the World Bank president".[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Scotsman, Obituary: Sir William Ryrie, UK Treasury and World Bank official The Scotsman, 17 July 2012.
- ↑ Companies House, William Sinclair RYRIE: personal appointments Companies House, accessed 16 October 2026.