Governor, Reserve Bank Glenn Stevens of Australia

Stevens was born in Sydney in 1958.
Subsequently, Stevens has held positions as Head of the Economic Analysis Department, the Head of the International Department, and was Assistant Governor (Economic) from 1996 to 2001, prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor in December 2001.
Stevens is serving a 7 year term, which started on 18 September 2006.
By the end of 2008, Stevens had cut interest rates a total of 300 basis points, returning them to mid-2002 levels.
Stevens is a committed Christian, and plays the guitar at his local Baptist Church.
Glenn Stevens joined GAIN Capital Group in February 2000 as a founding partner and managing director, and assumed the CEO role in June, 2007.
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Glenn Stevens is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University where he has taught and conducted research since 1984.
Beginning in 1989, Professor Stevens has directed Boston University's Program in Mathematics for Young Scientists (PROMYS), a program for aspiring young mathematicians and their teachers.
Professor Stevens has organized two major research conferences including the Conference on Modular Forms and Fermat's Last Theorem held at Boston University in 1995, and has delivered well over a hundred invited lectures around the world.
RESERVE Bank Governor Glenn Stevens said today the local corporate sector was in "good shape" despite the financial turmoil enveloping other countries.
Earlier, Mr Stevens said that Australian had been affected by these forces, but much less than countries at the centre of the crisis.
Mr Stevens described the boom as the most expansionary external shock to the economy in 50 years or more, saying it would be seriously destabilising if no action were taken to slow demand.
But Mr Stevens said the failure to act would eventually leave the rest of the economy with high embedded inflation and higher interest rates.
Mr Stevens said that although there were signs demand was slowing, he emphasised the long-term nature of the challenge facing the Reserve Bank.
Mr Stevens said there was tension in the world economy, with continuing ripples from the financial crisis and a slowdown in the US economy, but the IMF's forecast world growth rate was no lower than the average for the past 15 years.
Mr Stevens said that by the end of this year, Australia's average export prices would have risen by between 65 and 70 per cent relative to the price of our imports since 2002.
Mr Stevens said that although China's economy appeared to be overheating, he expected its rapid growth to continue to underpin the commodities sector.
Australian companies are in good shape with strong balance sheets overall, Stevens said on Wednesday.
Secondly, Stevens is always on the look out for a complimentary strategy.
Stevens is obviously intelligent but cannot teach (or hear.
Glenn Stevens said the Australian economy has thus far weathered the global slowdown better than other developed economies, but he warned that the domestic downturn was gathering pace.
Glenn Stevens said the rate cut will take monetary policy to its previous cyclical low point, a level he described as "expansionary.
Global disinflationary forces will assist in this regard, though the depreciation of the exchange rate means that the decline of inflation to the target could take longer than would otherwise be the case," RBA Gov Glenn Stevens said in a statement Tuesday.
Glenn Stevens said in a statement Tuesday accompanying the rate decision.
Stevens said conditions in international financial markets had taken a significant turn for the worse in September.
In a statement accompanying the decision on rates, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glenn Stevens said past rate hikes and stricter lending standards have led to substantial tightening in financial conditions since the middle of 2007.
The evidence is that the tightening in financial conditions, in conjunction with other factors including rising fuel costs, is working to restrain demand," Stevens said in a statement.
Glenn Stevens said past interest-rate hikes and tighter lending standards have led to substantial tightening in financial conditions since the middle of last year.
The evidence is that the tightening in financial conditions, in conjunction with other factors including rising fuel costs, is working to restrain demand," Stevens said in a statement posted on the RBA Website.
RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said price gains were widespread throughout the economy, with consumer prices rising 4 Steven's noted demand for credit by households and businesses had weakened, while household spending has softened in recent months.
Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens is confident about the Australian economys future despite the global economic and financial market woes.
RESERVE Bank governor Glenn Stevens has not ruled out cutting interest rates in January, a month when the RBA board does not normally meet.
Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens has not ruled out cutting interest rates in January if circumstances warranted it.
Chinas giant economy is faltering, and its industrial sectors are going backwards, Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has warned.
RESERVE Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Glenn Stevens has not ruled out cutting interest rates in January, a month when the RBA board does not normally meet.
RBA Governor Glenn Stevens has not ruled out cutting interest rates in January if circumstances warrant it.
Glenn Stevens is really an economist, not a banker.
decade," says John Edwards, chief economist for HSBC.
Macfarlane and his former deputy, Stephen Grenville.
At a conference today in Canberra, Glenn Stevens had this to say about inflation.
Glenn Stevens said a tractor-trailer owned by McLane Food Service and a pickup truck owned by Global.
Interest rates may lower over holidaysDecember 10, 2008 Reserve Bank Glenn Stevens has frankly admitted that interest rates may lower over the holidays, with possibilities that they may drop by a further 2 by Easter.
Possible rate cut on the wayDecember 10, 2008 Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens has indicated the RBA board could meet again in January and there is speculation of another rate cut.
As the head of Australia's central bank Governor Stevens has more influence over the nation's monetary policy than any other person.
of economics Stephen Halmarick said the RBA's concern about the world economy sparked the big rate cut.