Meetings Calendar

Director, Corporate Services and Facilities Department, IMF

Sabina Bhatia is Director of the Corporate Services and Facilities Department at the International Monetary Fund, where she oversees core institutional services that enable modernization and large‑scale transformation across the Fund, including information and data services, creative solutions, infrastructure, procurement, and security. Previously, she served as Deputy Secretary, working closely with IMF Management and the Executive Board and leading the organization of the IMF–World Bank Spring and Annual Meetings. Earlier in her career, she held senior roles in the Communications Department, where she led stakeholder engagement and internal communications initiatives. Ms. Bhatia holds a B.A. from Calcutta University, an M.A. in Political Science from Marquette University, and an M.A. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University, and received Marquette University’s Institute for Women’s Leadership Excellence Award in 2024.

Deputy Director, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF

Ruud De Mooij is Deputy Director in the International Monetary Fund’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where he previously headed the Tax Policy Division. He has extensive experience in providing capacity development on tax policy issues in over 25 countries. Before joining the International Monetary Fund, De Mooij was Professor of Public Economics at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He has published extensively on tax issues, including in the American Economic Review and the Journal of Public Economics. De Mooij is research fellow at the University of Oxford, the University of Bergen, ZEW in Mannheim, and member of the CESifo network in Munich.

Lead Instructor & PFM Technical Specialist, IMF 

Lorena Rivero del Paso is a Public Financial Management (PFM) Advisor in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department, where she provides advise to a wide range of countries on PFM. Her recent work focuses primarily on Digital PFM and digital money in fiscal operations. She previously served as Manager at the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency (GIFT) and as General Director of Performance Budgeting in Mexico’s Ministry of Finance, where she led budget integration with a focus on results, fiscal transparency and open data, alignment of planning and budgeting, and oversaw the operation and reform of multiple core PFM systems. She has authored key IMF and international publications on PFM and GovTech.

Lead Instructor & Methodology Specialist, IMF 

Lariza Galindo works at the IMF Creative Lab, the Fund’s strategy and innovation unit. She supports public sector digital transformation by applying human-centered design and behavioral science approaches, with a focus on ensuring adoption and sustained reforms beyond implementation. She is also a co-creator of the Adoption Framework, which brings adoption risk into strategic decision-making within public institutions. Previously, she worked at the World Bank Group, managing an advisory portfolio on digital innovation in the financial sector across Latin America.

 Technology & Architecture Specialist, IMF 

Srini Sistla works in the Information Technology Department at the IMF as Lead Enterprise Architect providing strategic technology leadership to make well governed and informed technology decisions while aligning with business priorities ensuring the organization’s systems are resilient, efficient, and future ready to support business agility.

 Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department, IMF 

Sailendra Pattanayak is currently a Division Chief in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the IMF. He has extensive experience in the public financial management area and the wider public sector. Since joining the IMF in 2006, he has advised a wide range of countries, of all income levels, on public financial management, and has led policy development in key areas such as fiscal transparency, digitalization, fiscal governance, treasury management, climate, and fragile states issues. He led the team that produced the Fiscal Transparency Handbook as well as analytical work/published papers on a broad range of fiscal topics. His leadership in GovTech initiatives and ongoing analytical work on digital money in fiscal operations and fiscal governance is particularly noteworthy. Prior to joining the IMF, Sailendra held senior positions in the Indian federal government, including at the Ministry of Finance and as Deputy Secretary at the Ministry in charge of roads, ports, and inland waterways. 

 Section Chief, Corporate Services and Facilities Department, IMF 

Elad Meshulam is the head of the IMF Creative Lab, an interdisciplinary design and innovation group that modernizes policymaking and engagement through human-centered design, behavioral insights, and strategic foresight. He has led hundreds of global initiatives focused on data products, FinTech, GovTech, debt management, and fiscal issues. Elad teaches innovation strategy at Georgetown University and serves on the Advisory Board of the Annenberg Extended Reality Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. He has received multiple awards for his work and is deeply passionate about storytelling and the role of creativity in shaping effective policymaking.