What is Per Jacobsson?
{{Infobox Officeholder |name = Per Jacobsson |image = Per Jacobsson Anefo.jpg |caption = Per Jacobbson on 22 November 1962 |office = [[International Monetary Fund|3rd Managing Director of the IMF]] |term_start = 21 November 1956 |term_end = 5 May 1963 |predecessor = [[Ivar Rooth]] |successor = [[Pierre-Paul Schweitzer]] |birth_date = {{birth date|1894|02|05|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Tanum Municipality|Tanum]], [[Bohuslän]], [[Sweden]] |death_date = {{death date and age|1963|05|05|1894|02|05|df=y}} |death_place = [[London]], [[United Kingdom]] |resting_place = [[Brookwood Cemetery]] |resting_place_coordinates = {{Coord|51.302586|-0.634363|display=inline|format=dms}} |nationality = {{flag|Sweden}} |alma_mater = [[Uppsala University]] |profession = Economist |religion = |signature = }} '''Per Jacobsson''' (5 February 1894 – 5 May 1963) was a Swedish economist. He was managing director of the [[International Monetary Fund]] from 21 November 1956 until his death in 1963.<ref>{{Citation |url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C1EFB3D5A157B93C4A9178ED85F478685F9 |title=Per Jacobsson, Economist, Dead; Monetary Fund's Director Fought Currency Crises |newspaper=[[New York Times]] |date=6 May 1963 }}.</ref> [[File:Jacobsson - International monetary problems, 1964 - 5221746.tif |thumb|''International monetary problems'', 1964]] Jacobsson's daughter Moyra, an artist, married [[Roger Bannister]], the British Olympic athlete and medical doctor who was the first person to run the four-minute mile.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1461075/How-the-hero-of-the-four-minute-mile-ran-on-to-scale-even-greater-heights.html|title=How the hero of the four-minute mile ran on to scale even greater heights|author=W F Deedes|date=6 May 2004|work=Telegraph.co.uk}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.perjacobsson