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.

Vice-Minister of Finance for International Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Japan

Atsushi Mimura has been Japan’s Vice Minister for Finance (International Affairs) since July 2024. He is responsible for Japan’s foreign exchange policy and was a member of the Japanese delegation that negotiated the July 2025 US-Japan trade and investment agreement. He has previously held many important positions in Japan’s Ministry of Finance and Financial Services Agency. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, and later studied at the French National School of Public Administration.

Vice-President, ADB

Scott Morris is the Vice-President for East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He oversees ADB’s operations and engagement with developing member countries across the region, providing strategic direction on development priorities, economic cooperation, and regional integration initiatives. Before joining ADB, he served in senior leadership roles in international development and economic policy.

Governor, Central Bank of the Philippines

Eli M. Remolona Jr. is a prominent Filipino economist currently serving as the Governor of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP). He has an extensive career that includes 14 years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and 19 years at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), where he was the regional head for Asia and the Pacific from 2008 to 2018. In academia, he has taught at various institutions, including Columbia University, New York University, and the Asia School of Business.

Director of the 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 37 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. He was previously a Deputy Director in the Western Hemisphere Department (WHD), served in the European and Research Departments before that, and has been with the IMF since 1994. He has published several papers both at the IMF and in leading academic journals, and co-edited many books. He secured his PhD in International Finance from Indiana University and a post-graduate degree from the Delhi School of Economics, India.

Director, AMRO

Yasuto Watanabe, the AMRO Director, has over 30 years of experience in international finance, development finance, financial regulation, and regional cooperation. He previously served as Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance at Japan’s MoF and has held senior roles, including at the ADB, AMRO, and the IDB. He holds a Master’s in International and Development Economics from Yale and dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Tokyo.

Senior Features Editor at Nikkei Asia

John Aglionby is the Senior Features Editor at Nikkei Asia, Nikkei's English-language publication, having spent the previous two years as Southeast Asia Editor. He is on a four-year secondment from the Financial Times, where he has worked as a journalist for 20 years. Prior to working at the FT, John was the Guardian's Southeast Asia correspondent for eight years and has also written for the Economist from Indonesia.