Normally we meet bimonthly at the regular meetings of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, and twice a year under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, Washington DC. Personal contacts are in my opinion of utmost importance, especially since the beginning of the global financial crisis in 2007 / 2008.
While the crisis has brought many disappointments, international cooperation among central bankers has been vital and has worked beyond expectations. One lesson we have learned is that a financial crisis spreads rapidly from one continent to another. We are all interconnected and even more interdependent than we understood before the crisis.