---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 290o–1"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "290o–1"
heading: "Governor and alternate Governor"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/290o-1"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XXX — Middle East Development Bank"
---

# §290o–1. Governor and alternate Governor

- (a) **Appointment—** At the inaugural meeting of the Board of Governors of the Bank, the Governor and the alternate for the Governor of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, appointed pursuant to [section 286a of this title](/usc/22/286a.md), shall serve ex-officio as a Governor and the alternate for the Governor, respectively, of the Bank. The President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a Governor of the Bank and an alternate for the Governor.
- (b) **Compensation—** Any person who serves as a governor of the Bank or as an alternate for the Governor may not receive any salary or other compensation from the United States by reason of such service.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–208, div. A, title I, § 101(c) [title VII, § 703], Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 3009–121, 3009–179.)