Bidisha Das
Bidisha Das

Bidisha Das

International Monetary Fund

Bidisha Das leads research and policy at the intersection of emerging technologies, finance, and the global economy.

Over the past eight years at the International Monetary Fund, she has led global work on how financial systems adapt to structural shifts, spanning monetary data, financial stability frameworks, and the emergence of digital assets such as crypto, stablecoins, central bank digital currencies, and tokenization. Her work sits at the intersection of markets, regulation, and data, translating financial innovation across both on-chain and off-chain activity into frameworks that institutions can use.

She works directly with central bank governors and finance ministry officials to assess risks, interpret market developments, and design the systems used to monitor liquidity, credit, and financial stability. This includes defining what data matters, how it is standardized across jurisdictions, and how it feeds into real policy and market decisions.

In parallel, she operates at scale. She has led G20-level coordination across 24 economies on digital money and financial data, and managed multi-donor programs focused on financial system resilience. Her work requires aligning regulators, institutions, and incentives, often in areas where there is no precedent and no clear playbook.

She trains central bank governors and finance ministry officials at IMF regional centers in Singapore, Vienna, Abu Dhabi, Almaty, and Delhi, and contributes to public policy debates through publications and high-level forums.

Earlier in her career, she worked on sovereign debt and development data at the World Bank, and began in India as a competition and trade economist working on antitrust cases and WTO negotiations. The through-line has been consistent: operating in complex, high-stakes environments where systems are evolving faster than the frameworks used to understand them.

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