MAGWOC-71 has had a long career in and around the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund. MAGWOC-71 was closely involved in the debates around financial crises, global financial architecture, and sovereign debt restructurings since the 1980s. The interview touches chronologically on the Latin American debt crisis, the Mexican crisis, the East Asian crisis, Russian crisis, Argentinean crisis, and 2008 Global Financial Crisis, as well as the policy debates surrounding those crises.