Sean Hagan — Leadership and Contemplation

Sean Hagan shares his personal experience as a leader and how his meditation practice has enabled him to upgrade his leadership style by engaging more effectively and more consciously and by learning to make better decisions over time. Sean Hagan was General Counsel and Director of the Legal Department at the International Monetary Fund. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law School. He is a member of both the Executive Committee and Advisory Council for the WCCM. This talk was part of a John Main Seminar in Bruges, Belgium. Sean Hagan was the IMF’s General Counsel for fourteen years (2004-2018). In this capacity, Professor Hagan advised the IMF’s management, Executive Board and membership on all legal aspects of the IMF’s operations, including its regulatory, advisory and lending functions. Prior to beginning work at the IMF, Professor Hagan was in private practice, first in New York and subsequently in Tokyo. Professor Hagan received his Juris Doctor from the Georgetown University Law Center and also received a Masters of Science in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. During the 2018-2019 Academic year, Professor Hagan has been Visiting Fellow at Oxford University (Exeter College).