Former CBC and BBC Radio Host Mary Ambrose sat down for a conversation with Kevin Carmichael, a senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, ahead of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group spring meetings April 21 - 23 in Washington, DC.

These meetings are closed-book events for many, but not for Kevin, who sheds light on how the meetings work and shares insight on some of the important challenges the IMF has been wrestling with away from the headlines — while offering a verdict on the controversy that in recent months has swept up Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF and former French finance minister.