Ross Leckow
Legal Department
International Monetary Fund

Ross Leckow, a national of Canada, is Assistant General Counsel in the Legal Department of the International Monetary Fund. Since joining the Fund in 1990, Mr. Leckow has worked on all legal aspects of Fund regulatory and financial operations in member countries and has contributed to the development of Fund policy in such areas as conditionality, information reporting, and capital account liberalization. He presently directs the Legal Department’s work in the areas of legal reform and technical assistance. Mr. Leckow is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Boston University and lectures frequently on issues of international financial law in the United States and abroad. Before joining the Fund, Mr. Leckow was Legal Counsel with the Export Development Corporation in Ottawa, Canada.

Mr. Leckow’s publications include: “Bringing the Disenfranchised to the Table – the Lessons of Conditionality” in Proceedings of the Thirty-first Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law (forthcoming); “The Stand-by Arrangement – its Legal Nature and Principal Features” in Current Developments in Monetary and Financial Law, Vol. II (forthcoming); “The Role of the International Monetary Fund in the Liberalization of Capital Movements” (1999), 17 Wisconsin International Law Journal; and “The International Monetary Fund and Strengthening the Architecture of the International Monetary System” (1999), 30 Law and Policy in International Business.