Who owns the World Bank and the IMF?
The answer is the U.S.
Of the 24 directors on the board of the World Bank, 1/3 of them (8) represent individual countries: the US, Japan, Germany, France, the UK, Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia. The rest of the 184 member-countries share the other 16 directors. The US controls nearly 17% of the votes in the IMF and 16% of the votes in the World Bank; Japan is second with ~6% in the IMF and 8% in the World Bank, followed closely by Germany, the UK, and France each with ~5%.
The US holds veto power over major decisions and the president of the US appoints the World Bank president.
