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Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva

Date of Birth: 13 August 1953
Place of Birth: Sofia, Bulgaria


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Mixed progress on Putin’s agenda

United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has played down the prospects of the BRICS payment system flying any time soon but IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva was more circumspect at last week's autumn meetings of the Fund and World Bank saying that she wanted additional information about the proposed payments system before taking a position...


The Bank sounds alarms on lost decade

Fielding questions when presenting her Global Policy Agenda IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva diplomatically suggested that a Kazan-mooted BRICS alternative to the SWIFT international payments system cannot be assessed until ‘more details' emerge and that member countries forming ‘different groupings' still back the IMF...


Inching towards the end of the tunnel

IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva described the March bondholder agreement as a ‘significant step forward' satisfying both IMF programme parameters and the ‘comparability of treatment' concerns of Zambia's official creditors including China and the Paris Club...


No Bretton Woods moment

At the International Monetary Fund and World Bank spring meetings In Washington DC on 19 April the Fund's International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) – comprising IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva finance ministers and central bank governors – commended Africa's upcoming receipt of a third seat on the 24-member IMF Executive Board in November...


Demands grow for reforms

The meetings which took place in Marrakech from 9-15 October concluded with the recommendation by the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) – IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva finance ministers and central bank governors – that Africa be granted a third seat on the 24-member Executive Board that signs off IMF financing accords...


A man for all summits

During a discussion with Macron IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President Ajay Banga Ruto called for both organisations to be replaced as the main global lenders as part of an overhaul of the financial system (Dispatches 28/6/23 Rich economies side-step African calls for global tax treaty)...


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