Meeting Schedules

Managing Director, IMF

Kristalina Georgieva is the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the IMF since its inception in 1944. Before joining the Fund, Ms. Georgieva was Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank and also served as Interim President for a time. Previously, she served at the European Commission as Vice President for Budget and Human Resources – and as Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response. She was named “European of the Year” and “Commissioner of the Year” by European Voice for her leadership in the European Union’s humanitarian response to crises.

Director, Asia and Pacific Department, IMF

Krishna Srinivasan is the Director of the IMF’s Asia and Pacific Department (APD). In this capacity, he oversees the institution’s work on all countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), where he supervised the institution’s work on several countries in the Americas, including Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and the island economies of the Caribbean, the department’s research activities, and its flagship product, Regional Economic Outlook (REO) for Latin America and the Caribbean. He also co-edited several books, including Brazil—Boom, Bust and the Road to Recovery; Unleashing Growth and Strengthening Resilience in the Caribbean; and Challenges for Central Banking: Perspectives from Latin America. Prior to joining WHD, Krishna was in the European Department, where he served as the IMF’s mission chief for the United Kingdom and Israel, and before that in the Research Department, where he led the IMF’s work on the G 20 in the context of the global financial crisis. In the context of the work on the G20, he edited a book titled Global Rebalancing: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery. Krishna has been with the IMF since 1994 and has served in several departments across the institution. He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a post-graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India, and has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals.

IMF Deputy Managing Director

Mr. Clarke assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the IMF on October 31, 2024. Before joining the IMF, Mr. Clarke served as Jamaica’s Minister of Finance and the Public Service, and a Member of Parliament, since March 2018. Prior to this, he served as Ambassador of Economic Affairs from 2016. During this period, he stewarded his country’s economy to a stronger and more sustainable position. He spearheaded ambitious national reforms, including central bank independence, creation of an independent fiscal commission, as well as other tax policy, public body governance, public procurement, public sector compensation, and public investment management reforms. He also led Jamaica’s economic policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic with innovative and well-targeted policy support and completed privatizations and public-private partnerships of major infrastructure assets. Under his stewardship, Jamaica implemented a multi-layered disaster risk financing model, and became the first small country to independently sponsor a catastrophe bond, with World Bank assistance. In 2023, Jamaica successfully completed its first ever international issue of a local currency denominated bond, and in 2024, Jamaica successfully executed its first ever securitization transaction in international capital markets. In 2022, Mr. Clarke was elected Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Inter-American Investment Corporation. Prior to his public service career, he was Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the Musson Group, a regional conglomerate, having started his career as an Equity Derivatives Trader at Goldman Sachs in London. Mr. Clarke holds a PhD in Numerical Analysis from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a Master of Science Degree in Applied Statistics, also from Oxford, while he was a Commonwealth Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the West Indies where he was a Jamaica Independence Scholar.

Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University and Former Governor of the Bank of Korea

Chang Yong Rhee is currently Distinguished Professor at Seoul National University and Non-resident Senior Fellow at Peterson Institute for International Economics. He was the Governor of the Bank of Korea (BOK) and the Chairman of its Monetary Policy Board (2022-2026). He served as the Chair of the Committee on the Global Financial System (2023-2026) and as a member of the Board of Directors at the BIS (2022-2026). Prior to joining the BOK, he was Director of the Asia and Pacific Department at the IMF (2014-2022); Chief Economist of the ADB (2011-2014); Secretary General and Sherpa of the Presidential Committee for the 2010 G-20 Seoul Summit (2009-2011); Vice Chairman of the Financial Services Commission (2008-2009). Professor, Associate Professor, and Assistant Professor of Economics at Seoul National University (1994-2008); Assistant Professor at University of Rochester (1989-1994). He received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1989.

Chairman of the Board of Directors, Thailand Development Research Institute and Former Governor of the Bank of Thailand

Veerathai Santiprabhob is a distinguished macroeconomist and financial professional with over 30 years of experience spanning economic policy design, commercial banking, and capital markets. He served as the 23rd Governor of the Bank of Thailand (2015–2020), where he led the digital transformation of Thailand’s financial system and steered the country’s macroeconomic and financial stability through a period of global uncertainty. He had held senior executive roles at the Stock Exchange of Thailand and Siam Commercial Bank, and contributed to national economic and financial policy as a member of several high-level committees. Internationally, he served on the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) of the IMF and chaired key groups including the BIS Central Bank Governance Group, the BIS Asian Consultative Council, and the SEACEN Board of Governors. Currently, Veerathai serves as an independent director of leading listed corporations. He also chairs the Independent Oversight Advisory Committee of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and the board of Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI). Veerathai holds a Ph.D. and A.M. in Economics from Harvard University, and a B.A. in Economics (First Class Honors) from Thammasat University. He is a recipient of the Anandamahidol Foundation Scholarship and the Eisenhower Fellowship.

Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India

Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran is the 18th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Before being appointed CEA, he was a writer, author, teacher and consultant. He wrote a weekly column in Mint on Tuesdays from 2007 until 2022. He has co-authored books on Derivatives, Global Finance and the Indian economy. He earned his doctoral degree from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst in 1994 for his work on exchange rate behaviour. In 1985, he received a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He worked in macroeconomic and financial markets research for international financial institutions in Switzerland and Singapore from 1994 to 2011.

Vice President of Asia Society and Co-Founder and Managing Director of its Center for China Analysis

Jing Qian is Vice President of the Asia Society and Managing Director of its Center for China Analysis (CCA), which he co-founded with the Hon. Dr. Kevin Rudd, former Prime Minister of Australia. As the Managing Director of CCA, Jing leads its strategy, research, and policy work on China, which includes coordination of a series of Track 1.5/2 dialogues. Jing also co-leads the Decoding Chinese Politics, Cure4Cancer International Clinical Trials Collaboration projects, and the Dragon & Eagle: U.S.-China Rising Leaders Council.