Sean Hagan is General Counsel and Director of the IMF’s Legal Department. He was previously in private practice in New York and Tokyo. He advises the IMF’s management, Executive Board, and membership on all legal aspects of IMF operations, including its regulatory, advisory, and lending functions. He has published extensively on both the law of the IMF and a broad range of legal issues relating to the prevention and resolution of financial crisis, with a particular emphasis on insolvency and the restructuring of debt.
Countries cooperate if they perceive it to be in their best interests, both economically and politically. Global cooperation in the aftermath of World War II—through a system of rules, sh...
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Corruption is a key topic at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on 'Ending Corruption' here.
