Each week, the Inside the Issues podcast series goes in-depth with a different CIGI expert on the most challenging issues in global governance. Hosted by CIGI Chair David Welch, these candid and timely discussions are available on the CIGI YouTube channel and on iTunes video and audio.
In episode 22, Deputy Director of the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Independent Evaluation Office, Ruben Lamdany, discusses the Fund's performance in the run-up to the financial and economic crisis. He says that the IMF's banner message in that period was "characterized by overconfidence in the soundness and resiliency of large financial institutions and endorsement of the financial practices in the main financial centres."