Mr. Jianhai Lin was formerly the Secretary of the IMF and its Board of Governors. He is currently Executive Vice President of the IFF and a member of the Bretton Woods Committee. He is also an honorary professor at School of Economics, Peking University and China Foreign Affairs University, and Advisory Professor at Shanghai International Studies University, as well as a visiting professor at several other universities. Mr. Lin joined the IMF in 1989 and worked as an economist and at other senior positions in various departments. He was appointed to the position of the Secretary in 2012 and he had the operational responsibility for the IMF Executive Board and served as the official contact of the IMF’s 190 member countries on governance reforms and other major policy matters. He was also responsible for organizing the IMF’s Spring and Annual Meetings.    

林建海先生曾任国际货币基金组织（IMF）秘书长，兼任IMF全体理事会和国际货币与金融委员会秘书长。现任国际金融论坛（IFF）常务副理事长，美国布雷顿森林委员会成员，外交学院、北京大学经济学院等大学荣誉教授，上海外国语大学顾问教授，对外经济贸易大学等大学客座教授。

他于1989年加入IMF，2012年至2020年任IMF秘书长，负责董事会日常工作和与190个成员国联络事宜，深度参与全球宏观经济政策制定与监督、全球金融危机救助、国际经济治理和新兴市场国家话语权改革等重大决策。同时，他还负责组织举办IMF年度春季大会和秋季大会。林建海先生毕业于对外经济贸易大学，后赴美国加州大学伯克利分校深造，获乔治华盛顿大学博士学位。