Debate on the Global Economy
IMF SEMINAR EVENT
DATE: April 16, 2026
DAY: Thursday
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
LOCATION: HQ1 Atrium, HQ1-1-700
DATE: April 16, 2026
DAY: Thursday
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
LOCATION: HQ1 Atrium, HQ1-1-700

His Excellency Mr. Mohammed Aljadaan has served as the Saudi Minister of Finance since 2016. In this role, he leads the development of the Kingdom’s fiscal policies, and works to enhance fiscal sustainability, improve the efficiency of public resource management, and support economic growth.
Minister Aljadaan represents the Kingdom in a number of international economic and financial forums and institutions, including the G20, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank Group. He also holds membership and chairmanship roles in several national and international councils and committees related to financial and economic affairs. Since 2024, he has served as Chair of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, which is the strategic policymaking body at the IMF.

Eswar Prasad is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is a former head of the IMF’s China Division.
Prasad’s latest book is The Doom Loop: Why the World Economic Order Is Spiraling into Disorder. He is also the author of The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution is Transforming Currencies and Finance (Harvard University Press, 2021). Gaining Currency: The Rise of the Renminbi (Oxford, 2016) and The Dollar Trap: How the U.S. Dollar Tightened Its Grip on Global Finance (Princeton, 2014). Prasad has testified before the Senate Finance Committee, the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services, and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is the creator of the Brookings-Financial Times world economy index (TIGER: Tracking Indices for the Global Economic Recovery). His op-ed articles have appeared in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.



François Villeroy de Galhau has been Governor of the Banque de France since November 2015 and was reappointed for a second term in November 2021. He is a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank and Chairman of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR – Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority). In 2022, he was also appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). After graduating from ENA as an Inspector of Finance, he went on to join the French Treasury in 1988. He subsequently held various positions in ministerial offices and in Brussels, before being appointed Chief of Staff for the Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry in 1997, and Head of the French General Tax Directorate in 2000. In 2003 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Cetelem, and in 2008 became Head of French Retail Banking at BNP Paribas. From December 2011 to May 2015 he served as Chief Operating Officer of BNP Paribas Group. He is the author of several books including L’Espérance d’un Européen (Odile Jacob, 2014) and Retrouver confiance en l’économie (Odile Jacob, 2021).

Maria Bartiromo has been a pioneer in business and a pioneer for women. She has covered every major news cycle in business, policy, and politics for the past three decades. In 1995, she became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. Today, this Emmy award-winning journalist has had a front row seat to global business and Washington policy and politics for three decades, interviewing the insiders, dealmakers and lawmakers at the heart of the issues that matter to viewers.
Maria Bartiromo is the anchor of Fox’s Sunday morning public affairs program, Sunday Morning Futures, on Fox News Channel (10 AM/ET), the top rated Sunday morning program on cable. She is also the anchor and global markets editor of Mornings with Maria (Monday to Friday 6-9 AM/ET) on Fox Business Network (FBN) and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street, FBN’s weekly prime time investing program (Fridays at 7 PM/ET).