Monday, Oct 13, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Location: Meeting Halls A&B HQ1-3-430A&B
Join Mary Louise Kelly, Host of NPR’s All Things Considered and author of It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs, in conversation with Sabina Bhatia, Director of the Corporate Services and Facilities Department at the IMF. Together they will tackle issues of leadership, difficult career choices, and the essential role of on-the-ground reporting – from conflict zones to the newsroom. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, will give opening remarks. #IMFinspired
Sabina Bhatia is Director at Corporate Services and Facilities Department of the IMF. Prior to that, she was Deputy Secretary of the IMF. Sabina has a B.A. from Calcutta University and an M.A. in Applied Economics from Johns Hopkins University.
Award-winning broadcaster and author Mary Louise Kelly is one of the most prominent voices in American journalism today. As host of NPR’s All Things Considered, her assignments have included North Korea, Russia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Israel, Iran and beyond. Kelly’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and other publications. She serves on Harvard’s Board of Overseers and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a contributing writer at The Atlantic and author of two novels, Anonymous Sources and The Bullet. Her 2023 memoir, It.Goes.So.Fast, was an instant New York Times bestseller.
