Charles H. Dallara (born 25 August 1948)[1] is an American banker and the former managing director of the Institute of International Finance.
[3] He oversaw the growth of the institute from its roots as an informal group of predominantly US and Japanese commercial banks that negotiated Latin American debt restructurings to a global trade association for 461 diverse financial firms, half of which are headquartered in emerging markets.
[4] Dallara led the IIF in its prominent role during the European sovereign debt crisis, including the private sector involvement (PSI) agreement reached between European countries and financial organisations on the one hand and the Greek government on the other, "the biggest sovereign restructuring in history".
[2] Dallara is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the international advisory board of the Instituto de Empresa graduate business school in Madrid, Spain.
He is a member of the board of overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University and an executive board member of the Bertelsmann Foundation office in Washington, D.C. Dallara is a member of the board of directors of the Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO), an American company whose shareholders include commercial banks, industrial companies and financial services companies[7] and which facilitates American exports by purchasing the debt obligations of importers of American goods.