Thomas H. McKittrick

Thomas McKittrick (1888 or 1889 - 21 January 1970) was an American banker and president of the Bank for International Settlements during World War II. He was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1911. He joined the National City Bank in 1916. He served in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I. In the interwar years he was a banker with Lee, Higginson & Co. From 1946 to 1954 McKittrick worked for the Chase Manhattan Corporation. He headed a survey mission for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to India in the 1950s. He died on January 21, 1970 in New Jersey.

McKittrick was president of BIS from 1940 to 1946, under the chairmanship of Otto Niemeyer. The bank, intended to facilitate effective monetary co-operation, declared its neutrality in World War II. After the war was declared in September 1939, it was no longer possible for representatives of Germany, France or the United Kingdom to attend BIS meetings. Due to the commencement of hostilities in France, only a few miles from the banks head quarters in Basel, Switzerland, McKittrick was the only member of its assembly to attend its May, 1940 annual meeting.