Meeting Schedules

First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF

Dan Katz assumed the position of First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF on October 6, 2025. Mr. Katz most recently served as Chief of Staff at the United States Department of the Treasury. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on a wide range of domestic and international matters, including on some of the most consequential international economic issues involving the United States. Mr. Katz has over a decade-long association with the Treasury, serving as Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for International Affairs, Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for International Markets, and Policy Advisor in the Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. In addition to his work at the Treasury, Mr. Katz spent several years in the private sector, where he worked at a global macro hedge fund, and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. He was also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, focusing on central banking, international economic issues, and economic statecraft, and served as an advisor to the Commander of U.S. forces in Kabul, Afghanistan. Mr. Katz received a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from New York University School of Law.

Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan

Hideaki Imamura is Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance of Japan for International Affairs, responsible for multilateral policy coordination, including G20, G7 and the IMF, and bilateral cooperation with advanced economies. Since his joining Japan’s Ministry of Finance in 1993, Mr. Imamura has taken charge of policymaking in the international domain. His past career engagement extended to a variety of dimensions, including the IMF, G20, G7, foreign exchange, climate and environment finance, economic security, digital currencies, and fiscal policy. His most recent assignments were Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank Group and Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for Asian financial cooperation. Mr. Imamura also has rich experiences in international organizations as staff. He was a country mission chief for selected South Asian countries at the Asian Development Bank and took charge of financial resource mobilization at for the IMF. Mr. Imamura received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tokyo. He also earned his Master of Arts in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.

Minister of Finance of Nepal

Swarnim Waglé is the Minister of Finance of Nepal. He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) from Tanahun-1 constituency for a second consecutive term in March 2026. He was also elected unopposed as the Vice-Chair of the ruling Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) during its first general convention. Dr. Waglé has been an international development professional for over 25 years. He has served as the Chief Economic Advisor at the UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific (RBAP) in New York and as Senior Economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC. Between 2014 and 2018, he worked at the National Planning Commission (NPC) in the Government of Nepal for three intermittent years, first as Member and then as ViceChair. He has held crucial leadership responsibilities for responding to two catastrophic natural disasters that have struck the Himalayas: the Gorkha earthquake of 2015 and the Rasuwa flash floods of 2026. Between 2019 and 2026, Dr. Waglé steered a South Asian policy think-tank, the Institute for Integrated Development Studies (IIDS), of which he is Chairman Emeritus. He is a past senator of Kathmandu University; an eminent member of the World Bank’s South Asia Regional Champions; and former consultant at the Asian Development Bank (Manila) and the International Trade Center (Geneva). Widely published, he co-edited The Great Upheaval (Cambridge University Press, 2022); co-authored UNDP’s global Human Development Report The Rise of the South (2013); and was South Asia editor of Harvard Asia Quarterly (2000). Swarnim Waglé holds a doctorate in economics from the Australian National University, master’s in international development (MPA/ID) from Harvard University, and BSc (Econ) from the London School of Economics.

Commissioner General, Zambia Revenue Authority

Dingani is an accomplished business strategist who has served as Commissioner General of the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA) since 2021. He brings more than 27 years of experience across the public and private sectors. He began his career in 1996 at Coopers & Lybrand, now Grant Thornton, before moving to a Zambian water utility. Since joining ZRA in 2004, he has held several senior positions, including Commissioner of Customs Services and Commissioner of Modernisation and Corporate Strategy. Throughout his tax administration career, Dingani has championed the modernisation and digitalisation of tax and customs systems in developing countries. He played a key role in implementing TaxOnline, Zambia’s Integrated Tax Administration System, and ASYCUDAWorld, a web-based customs platform. He also advanced reforms aligned with the World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement. Since 2023, he has led the implementation of the Smart Invoice System, an online electronic invoicing platform for Value Added Tax and other transaction taxes that replaces a costly hardware-based solution. He is also playing a central role in developing the Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (MTRS), a Government reform designed to create a broader, fairer, and more predictable revenue system to support Zambia’s development. Dingani holds an MBA from Erasmus University’s Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, a BSc in Mathematics with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Zambia, and a diploma from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA).

Director of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department

Rodrigo Valdés, a national of Chile, became Director of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department in October 2025. He previously served as Director of the Western Hemisphere Department and has held senior roles across academia, government, and the Fund. Before returning to the IMF, he was Chile’s Minister of Finance from 2015 to 2017 and earlier taught economics at the Catholic University of Chile. Rodrigo brings more than 16 years of experience in Chile’s public institutions, including leadership positions at the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank, where he directed research and oversaw macroeconomic analysis. He has also held senior roles in the financial sector, including at BTG Pactual and Barclays Capital. He holds a PhD in Economics from MIT and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Chile.

Director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development

Catriona Purfield is the Director of the IMF’s Institute for Capacity Development. She oversees the strategy, governance and fundraising of the IMF’s capacity development work. Prior to that, she was Director of the Human Resources Department. She has also held other senior roles across the IMF, including Deputy Director in the African Department, where she oversaw the IMF’s engagement with Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, and Togo. She also served as Assistant Director in the Middle East and Central Asia Department, where she headed the work on inclusive growth and IMF’s surveillance missions to Iran. From 2013 to 2016, Ms. Purfield was based in South Africa as Program Leader for the Equitable Growth, Finance and Institutions Global Practices of the World Bank, covering seven countries. Her earlier IMF experience spans the European, Asia and Pacific, and Fiscal Affairs Departments. Her research and publications focus on macroeconomics, growth, inequality, fiscal policy, natural resource management, competition policy, and labor markets. Ms. Purfield holds a Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin.