Honours and Memberships
Dr. Knight was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Trinity College, University of Toronto in 2006, and was inducted as a Member of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars in May 2007. In 2006 he was also inducted as a Member of the Honorary Senate of the Lindau Nobel Prizewinners Foundation.
In addition to his duties as CEO of the BIS during 2003-07, Dr. Knight was a Trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (now the IFRS Foundation), which oversees the work of the London-based International Accounting Standards Board in developing accounting standards that over 100 countries are committed to adopt. During 2003-08 Knight was a member of the Financial Stability Forum (now the Financial Stability Board), reporting to the G8 and G20 finance ministers on vulnerabilities in the international financial system; and of the Capital Markets Consultative Group of the International Monetary Fund. He currently serves on the Boards of the International Valuation Standards Council and of the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services (Toronto), and he is a member of the International Advisory Councils of the Risk Management Institute of the University of Singapore and the International Centre for Financial Regulation (London). In addition, Dr. Knight is a Trustee of the Per Jacobsson Foundation, which organises lectures by eminent figures in the economic and financial community, Chair of the Board of Patrons of the European Association for Banking and Financial History, and a member of the Board of the New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts. He has been a Visiting Professor in Finance at the London School of Economics and Political Science since September 2008.
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