Sean Hagan has been a judge of the QFC Regulatory Tribunal since 2019.
He was General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department since 2004, until his retirement from the IMF in 2018. In this capacity, he advised the Fund’s management, Executive Board and membership on all legal aspects of the Fund’s operations, including its regulatory, advisory and lending functions. He has published extensively on both the law of the Fund 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, including sovereign debt.
Prior to beginning work at the IMF, Sean was in private practice, first in New York and subsequently in Tokyo. He received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center and received a Master’s in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown Law.
