The Honorable Sunil Sabharwal, following confirmation by the US Senate, served as the USA Board member to the International Monetary Fund between February 2016 and April 2018. He was initially nominated by the White House on April 3, 2014, and received Senate confirmation on February 12, 2016. He is an independent business investor and advisor of Indian-Hungarian descent who escaped from the Hungarian People's Republic in 1983 and returned in 1992 after the collapse of communism to set up the Budapest office of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Most recently, he was chairman of the Board of Earthport plc., a company listed on the London Stock Exchange AIM Market. He joined the Board in September 2018, became Interim Chairman in October. Subsequently, he shepherded the sale of the company to Visa Inc., following a takeover battle with MasterCard and was able to achieve a final sale price of more than four times the value of the company. Previously, he was chairman of the Board of Ogone, a European internet payment services company with headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. A former NCAA All-American and Big Ten Champion in fencing, Sabharwal currently serves on a commission of the International Olympic Committee, is Secretary General of the International Fair Play Committee and has been recently elected to the executive board of World Athletics. He speaks publicly on investing in Central and Eastern Europe, the confluence of sport, business, financial technology (FinTech), and the role of international financial institutions in a changing economy. Early life and education He was born in 1964 in New Delhi, India to Baldev Raj Sabharwal, a printing entrepreneur who founded the New Roxy Press in New Delhi, and Gabriella de Bessenyey, of Hungarian descent. The de Bessenyey clan is one of the oldest Hungarian noble families tracing its lineage back to at least the 14th century, with documentary evidence of it being given a right to a Coat of Arms by the monarch from the 15th century. On occasion, literature refers to Sunil as Sabharwal de Bessenyey. He attended the Frank Anthony School in New Delhi, India and the Dob Utca Elementary School and Imre Madach High School in Budapest, Hungary. Escape from People's Republic of Hungary Sabharwal's mother struggled in Hungary under the communist regime because she refused to join the communist party. When she tried to sell pottery to feed her family, authorities would not