Since 1990, the world's leading central bankers have granted exclusive on-the-record interviews to Central Banking journal. For the first time, Governors on the Record combines these into a single volume. Together, the thirty three interviews show how the leading protagonists understood and influenced capital market developments for over a decade.

• THE EURO: While Europe's leading central bankers designed the Eurosystem, many (such as Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Jean-Claude Trichet, Christian Noyer and Ernst Welteke ) confided their hopes for the new currency to Central Banking. The SNB's Hans Meyer, on the other hand, proved prescient in his skepticism.
  
  
• FINANCIAL INSTABILITY: Increasingly central bankers act as fire-fighters in financial crises. William McDonough from the Fed, Hong Kong's Joseph Yam, and ex-IMF chief, Johannes Witteveen, each discussed the central bank's critical role in crisis management.
  
  
• STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE: Central bank independence was hard won. Key figures such as Sir Eddie George, Donald Brash from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and Chris Stals from South Africa, talked to the journal about developments in central bank autonomy.
  
  
• EASTERN EUROPE'S TRANSITION: economies experienced momentous upheavals over the decade. Interviews with Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Poland's long-serving central bank governor, Marko Skreb, governor of Croatia's national bank, and Marian Jusko from Slovakia, bring these struggles to life. Also included is a rare 1996 interview with Sergei Dubinin, then governor of the Russian central bank.
  
  
• In addition, many of the leading international financial statesman of the period discuss their concerns for the future. They include Paul Volker, Fed chairman for over a decade, Erik Hoffmeyer, for thirty years governor of the Danmarks Nationalbank and Jacob Frenkel, the influential governor of the Bank of Israel.

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