A Conversation with the IMF's Managing Director on the Global Economy

IMF SEMINAR EVENT

DATE: October 11, 2018

DAY: Thursday

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

LOCATION: WE-1-Mangupura Hall

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Overview

For some time now, the IMF has been urging leaders to “fix the roof while the sun is shining.” With some risks to the global economy now materializing, is it too late? Are trade tensions and rising debt levels just passing clouds or a storm on the horizon? Martin Wolf of the Financial Times leads a conversation with IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on the global economy’s main challenges and the opportunities they present for policymakers.

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A Conversation with the IMF's Managing Director on the Global Economy

Panelists

Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Mr Wolf was a member of the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-11. His most recent publication is The Shifts and The Shocks: What we’ve learned – and have still to learn – from the financial crisis (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2014).

Christine Lagarde has been President of the ECB and, in this function, also Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board since November 2019. 

Between 2011 and 2019 she served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Prior to that she served as French Minister of Economy and Finance from 2007 to 2011, having been Trade Secretary from 2005 to 2007. 

A lawyer by background, she practised for 20 years with international law firm Baker McKenzie, of which she became Global Chair in 1999. She was the first woman to hold each of these positions. In 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 President Lagarde was ranked the second most influential woman in the world by Forbes. 

She has also been recognised by TIME as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She was named Officer in the French Order of the Legion of Honor in April 2012 and Commander in the National Order of Merit in May 2021.