Meeting Schedules

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.

Hideaki Imamura is Senior Deputy Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance of Japan, responsible for multilateral policy coordination including G20, G7 and the IMF and bilateral cooperation with advanced economies. Since his joining the Ministry of Finance, Mr. Imamura has taken charge of policy making mostly in the international domain. His past career at the Ministry extended to a variety of dimensions, including the IMF/MDBs, 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 for four years; and took charge of financial resource mobilization at for the International Monetary Fund for five years. Mr. Imamura graduated from the University of Tokyo and earned MA in Applied Economics from the University of Michigan.  

Swarnim Wagle is the Minister of Finance of Nepal. He was elected Member of Parliament for a second consecutive term in March 2026. He has previously served in Government of Nepal at the National Planning Commission for three intermittent years, first as member and then as Vice-Chair. In the aftermath of the devastating Nepal earthquake of 2015, he co-led the Post Disaster Needs Assessment and helped garner a pledge of US$4 billion for reconstruction. Previously, Mr. Wagle has held leading roles in international development for over 25 years. He has served as the Chief Economic Advisor at the United Nations Development Program’s Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, and as Senior Economist at the World Bank. He holds a doctorate in economics from the Australian National University, a master’s in international development from Harvard University, and BSc from the London School of Economics.

Situmbeko Musokotwane has served as Zambia’s Minister of Finance and National Planning since August 2021. He previously held senior government positions, including Minister of Finance and National Planning, Secretary to the Treasury, Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet for Finance and Economic Development, Economic Advisor to the President, and Economic Advisor to the Minister of Finance. He also held senior positions at the Bank of Zambia, including Deputy Governor and Director for Economics and Financial Markets. Mr. Musokotwane has represented Liuwa Constituency in Zambia’s Western Province as a Member of Parliament since 2011, and chairs Economy and Finance Affairs for the ruling United Party for National Development. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of Zambia, an MA in Monetary Economics from the University of Dar es Salaam, and a doctorate in Monetary Economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany.

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.

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.