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Latest Features
The Global Order’s Triple Policy Challenge
Dear Friends, Please find attached Dear Friends: Attached is an op-ed that appeared in Project Syndicate which I co-authored with John Lipsky covering a study by the Bretton Woods Committee Sovereign Debt Working Group, which we co-chair, recommending ways to mobilize...
Xi should use his sway over Putin to push him to the negotiating table with Ukraine
Dear Friends, Please find attached an op-ed written by Stuart Macintosh and myself which defines the realities of the unequal relationship that exists today between Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia. Russia is rapidly becoming a vassal state of China. I would appreciate...
How China can learn from the mistakes in US banking culture and oversight
Dear Friends: Please find attached an op-ed published in the South China Morning Post, Asia’s largest English language newspaper which I wrote with Stuart Macintosh pointing out lessons to be learned for the Chinese banking system, particularly its smaller regional...
Kyungho Choo visit to New York
Dear Bill Rhodes, I hope this email finds you well. would like to express my sincere gratitude for taking the time to meet with me during my visit to New York. It was truly an honor to connect with a living legend and engage in a conversation about the challenges...
Interview published today – Ricardo Leopoldo – Global Economics Commentator – Agencia Estado – in San Francisco
Dear Friends, Given the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the United States and the failure of Credit Suisse, O Estado de S. Paolo, which is the largest newspaper in Brazil reached out to me for my thoughts on the subject given my close...
Project Syndicate: Who is to Blame for the New Banking Crisis?
Dear Friends: Please find attached an op-ed I wrote with Stuart Mackintosh of the Group of 30 on the recent collapse of Silicone Valley Bank and Signature Bank which covers why these banks failed and the institutions and individuals responsible for this debacle, and...
Future of Finance: Planning for Ukrainian Reconstruction During the War
Dear Friends: Following is a link to a podcast I did with Stuart Macintosh for the European American Chamber of Commerce on the need to start planning now for the massive reconstruction challenges facing the Ukraine after the war is over. It draws on the lessons...
Ukraine war: time for China to use its influence with Putin to create room for peace
Attached is a piece I wrote with Stuart Mackintosh which appeared in the South China Morning Post, the largest English language newspaper in Southeast Asia, on the opportunity for China to show whether it is really interested in helping to find an equitable solution...
Planning for the future of Ukraine
Dear Friends, I have written the attached op-ed with Stuart Mackintosh emphasizing the need for the Ukraine to move ahead, not only on their debt problem, but more broadly putting together the equivalent of a Marshal Plan, to handle the rebuilding of Ukraine’s...
Decline of globalisation will make our planet less prosperous and more unliveable
Dear Friends, Please find attached an opinion piece I co-wrote with Stuart Mackintosh which was published in the South China Morning Post warning of the ongoing decline of globalization which could make our planet less prosperous and more unlivable. Please let me know...

William R. Rhodes
William R. “Bill” Rhodes is an American banker and philanthropist. Rhodes is President and CEO of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors, LLC which he founded in 2010. He is former chairman, CEO
Latest Features
The Global Order’s Triple Policy Challenge
Dear Friends, Please find attached Dear Friends: Attached is an op-ed that appeared in Project Syndicate which I co-authored with John Lipsky covering a study by the Bretton Woods Committee Sovereign Debt Working Group, which we co-chair, recommending ways to mobilize...
Xi should use his sway over Putin to push him to the negotiating table with Ukraine
Dear Friends, Please find attached an op-ed written by Stuart Macintosh and myself which defines the realities of the unequal relationship that exists today between Xi’s China and Putin’s Russia. Russia is rapidly becoming a vassal state of China. I would appreciate...
How China can learn from the mistakes in US banking culture and oversight
Dear Friends: Please find attached an op-ed published in the South China Morning Post, Asia’s largest English language newspaper which I wrote with Stuart Macintosh pointing out lessons to be learned for the Chinese banking system, particularly its smaller regional...
Kyungho Choo visit to New York
Dear Bill Rhodes, I hope this email finds you well. would like to express my sincere gratitude for taking the time to meet with me during my visit to New York. It was truly an honor to connect with a living legend and engage in a conversation about the challenges...
Interview published today – Ricardo Leopoldo – Global Economics Commentator – Agencia Estado – in San Francisco
Dear Friends, Given the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank in the United States and the failure of Credit Suisse, O Estado de S. Paolo, which is the largest newspaper in Brazil reached out to me for my thoughts on the subject given my close...
Project Syndicate: Who is to Blame for the New Banking Crisis?
Dear Friends: Please find attached an op-ed I wrote with Stuart Mackintosh of the Group of 30 on the recent collapse of Silicone Valley Bank and Signature Bank which covers why these banks failed and the institutions and individuals responsible for this debacle, and...
Future of Finance: Planning for Ukrainian Reconstruction During the War
Dear Friends: Following is a link to a podcast I did with Stuart Macintosh for the European American Chamber of Commerce on the need to start planning now for the massive reconstruction challenges facing the Ukraine after the war is over. It draws on the lessons...
Ukraine war: time for China to use its influence with Putin to create room for peace
Attached is a piece I wrote with Stuart Mackintosh which appeared in the South China Morning Post, the largest English language newspaper in Southeast Asia, on the opportunity for China to show whether it is really interested in helping to find an equitable solution...
Planning for the future of Ukraine
Dear Friends, I have written the attached op-ed with Stuart Mackintosh emphasizing the need for the Ukraine to move ahead, not only on their debt problem, but more broadly putting together the equivalent of a Marshal Plan, to handle the rebuilding of Ukraine’s...
Decline of globalisation will make our planet less prosperous and more unliveable
Dear Friends, Please find attached an opinion piece I co-wrote with Stuart Mackintosh which was published in the South China Morning Post warning of the ongoing decline of globalization which could make our planet less prosperous and more unlivable. Please let me know...

William R. Rhodes
William R. “Bill” Rhodes is an American banker and philanthropist. Rhodes is President and CEO of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors, LLC which he founded in 2010. He is former chairman, CEO