Kristalina Georgieva

Kristalina Georgieva, February 2019

Kristalina Georgiewa in June 2011

Kristalina Ivanova Georgiewa (also written Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva , Bulgarian Кристалина Иванова Георгиева ; born August 13, 1953 in Sofia ) is a Bulgarian politician and economist. She has been Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since October 2019 .

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Life

Georgieva's paternal great-grandfather was Ivan Karschowski , a journalist and national revolutionary . He was a member of the Grand National Assembly and in April 1879 in Veliko Tarnowo passed the constitution of Bulgaria, liberated from Ottoman rule. Her maternal great-grandfather was a hotelier and mayor of his hometown Ljubimets . Her father Ivan worked as a construction technician on a mountain pass from Sofia to Samokow in the Rila Mountains . Georgieva's mother Marinka ran a state household goods store in the center of Sofia in communist Bulgaria. Her husband is the engineer Kino Kinow. Their daughter is called Desislawa.

Professional background

After studying political economy and sociology at the Karl Marx Institute and earning a doctorate in economics, Georgiewa taught at the University of National and World Economics in Sofia and took on teaching positions at Yale University , Harvard University and the London School of Economics . Her scientific focus was on the environmental economy. In 1993 she moved to the World Bank , where she was also responsible for environmental economics. From 2008 to 2010 she was its vice-president.

On January 19, 2010 she was proposed for the post of Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid in the European Commission under José Manuel Barroso . The original Bulgarian candidate, Rumjana Schelewa , had previously announced that she was resigning from office after severe criticism was expressed at her hearing in the European Parliament for allegedly false information about her additional income.

From 2014 to 2016 she was Vice-President of the EU Commission Juncker, responsible for budget and personnel and before that she was EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Protection in the Barroso II Commission .

In the meantime, Georgiewa was under discussion as Secretary General of the United Nations, but was defeated by the Portuguese António Guterres .

Georgiewa became managing director of the World Bank institutes IBRD and IDA in January 2017 . She was responsible for the institutions within the World Bank that are responsible for lending to poor and emerging countries . After the previous President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim , resigned from his post on February 1, 2019 in order to switch to the private sector, Georgiewa was his acting successor and headed the World Bank until the newly elected President David Malpass took office on September 9. April 2019.

IMF

On August 2, 2019, the finance ministers of the European Union nominated Georgieva as a candidate to succeed Christine Lagarde as managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). On September 5, 2019, the Board of Governors of the IMF approved the abolition of the 65-year-old age limit for the appointment of executive directors, which had previously been anchored in the statutes. Georgieva, who at that time had already exceeded the previous age limit, was appointed by the Executive Board as Managing Director on September 25, 2019. Since October 1, 2019, she has been the Managing Director of the IMF.

Political commitment

In the summer of 2009 she appeared in the Bulgarian parliamentary election campaign for the conservative GERB party and was considered a possible candidate for the office of prime minister, which, however, went to Boyko Borisov .

Web links

Commons : Kristalina Georgiewa  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Curriculum Vitae (CV) by Kristalina Georgiewa (PDF; 296.4 kB) on the website of the European Commission
• Debate: is Georgieva the right person for the IMF chief post? In: eurotopics Federal Agency for Civic Education

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frank Stier: IMF boss Kristalina Georgiewa - The guardian of world growth. In: Cicero - magazine for political culture. October 17, 2019, accessed April 5, 2020 . 
2. ^ Die Zeit , January 19, 2010: Barroso's candidate Schelewa gives up .
3. ↑ Statement on the decision of Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva to become chief executive officer of the World Bank and to resign from the European Commission ( English ) European Commission. October 28, 2016. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
4. ↑ Kristalina Georgieva Appointed Chief Executive Officer of IBRD / IDA. Retrieved January 5, 2020 . 
5. ↑ World Bank chief Kim resigns. Spiegel Online , January 7, 2019, accessed on the same day.
6. ↑ ^{a b} World Bank's Executive Directors Select David Malpass 13th President of the World Bank Group ( English ) The World Bank Group. April 5, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
7. ↑ Kristalina Georgiewa is to become the new head of the IMF . TIME ONLINE. August 3, 2019. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
8. ↑ Clear the way for new IMF boss Georgieva . tagesschau.de. September 6, 2019. Accessed October 1, 2019.
9. ↑ IMF lifts age limit: Georgieva can become boss . ORF.at. September 6, 2019. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
10. ↑ Statement by Kristalina Georgieva on Her Selection as IMF Managing Director ( English ) International Monetary Fund. September 25, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
11. ^ Winand von Petersdorff: Bulgarian becomes head of the monetary fund . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 25, 2019. Retrieved October 1, 2019.