People

Members of the Forum, including its Founding Directors, Staff, and Affiliated Scholars, identify priority research topics, capacity-building programs, and institutional collaboration avenues with advice from members of an Official Consultative Group, comprising diverse government and multilateral officials, including the IMF’s Legal Department.

Learn more about the Forum’s members below.

Academic Co-Directors

Academic Co-Director; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School

Anna Gelpern

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Academic Co-Director, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Rosa Lastra

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Staff

Program Director; Senior Fellow

Katherine Shen
Program Associate

Whitney Carr

Advisory Group

Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law School

Sean Hagan

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Attorney, A&O Shearman

Sarah Ludwick
Visiting Professorial Fellow, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Lee Buchheit

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Attorney, Governance and International Finance

Elsie Addo Awadzi
Director, Elmar Advisors Limited

Yannis Manuelides

Affiliated Scholars

Professor of International Development Law and African Economic Relations, University of Pretoria

Daniel Bradlow

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Ralph M. Stockton, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mark Weidemaier

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John V. Ray Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia, School of Law

Mitu Gulati

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L.L.B., University of Buenos Aires; L.L.M., University of Warwick; and Ph.D., Queen Mary University of London.

Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal

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Associate Professor & Satell Fellow in Corporate Social Responsibility; University of Connecticut School of Business Law

Stephen Park

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Professor, International Economics Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

Ugo Panizza

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