Former Deputy Directors-General
Director-General Roberto Azevêdo appointed four Deputy Directors-General in September 2013: Yonov Frederick Agah of Nigeria, Karl Brauner of Germany, David Shark of the United States and Yi Xiaozhun of China. David Shark served until September 2017 while Frederick Agah, Karl Brauner and Yi Xiaozhun remained in office until March 2021. Alan Wolff of the United States served as Deputy Director-General from September 2017 to March 2021.
Four Deputy Directors-General served under Director-General Pascal Lamy from October 2005 to September 2013: Alejandro Jara of Chile, Valentine Sendanyoye Rugwabiza of Rwanda, Harsha Vardhana Singh of India and Rufus H. Yerxa of the United States.
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the founder and chairman of laffer & associates and former member of reagan s economic policy board joins us today from nashville. good morning, art. good morning, steve howe are you? fine, thank you very much. i was working down at nbc in washington during the reagan years and i remember they lifted the debt ceiling a whole bunch of times but we never had this going on. what was it that reagan was able to do that this president has not been able to do? well, he s able to get along with people really well. he didn t have this type of agenda and, you know, back then we all wanted to raise taxes. if we all wanted to raise them but not by raising tax rates, by creating economic growth and by this time in the reagan term, and presidency, we were creating jobs like mad, steve, if you ll remember. sure, yeah. in 1983, the economy was booming. what s happened with obama and congress is they passed bad legislation and there is no recovery in sight and i don t think there will be one.