## Yan Liu, General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department

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## Bibliographic details
- Authors: Blogs
- Published: October 8, 2024

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### Role and responsibilities
- General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund.
- Advises the IMF’s Executive Board, management, staff, and country membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its lending, surveillance, capacity development, regulatory and advisory functions.

### Career highlights and policy work
- Led the Legal Department’s work on a range of policy, country, and strategic issues.
- Reformed IMF policies on lending.
- Helped strengthen central banking and financial sector legal frameworks in response to technological changes.
- Led work on corporate and household insolvency, and public debt management.
- Contributed to the development of international standards for financial regulation.

### Sovereign debt expertise
- Well-recognized expert in sovereign debt; sets the Fund’s policies in this field.
- Supports the Common Framework and the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable.
- Provided advice on the Fund’s role in facilitating orderly restructurings in several member countries.

### Publications and academic background
- Widely published on private debt, sovereign debt restructuring, and good governance.
- Received Juris Doctor from the University of Illinois.
- Received a master’s degree from the University of Chicago.
- Prior to joining the Fund, practiced corporate and securities law in the United States.

### Administrative detail
- Last updated: October 8, 2024

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## References

- [IMF Senior Officials](https://www.imf.org/en/About/senior-officials)

_Source: https://www.imf.org/en/about/senior-officials/bios/yan-liu_