IMFC selects Nadia Calviño, Spain’s First Vice President, as new Chair

IMF News, December 23, 2021

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The members of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) have selected Ms. Nadia Calviño as Chair of the Committee for a term of two years, effective January 3, 2022.
Ms. Calviño will succeed Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Prime Minister of Sweden and former Finance Minister, who will relinquish her duties as IMFC Chair at the end of December 2021.
Ms. Andersson has chaired the IMFC since January 18, 2021 and was the first woman to hold the position.
Ms. Calviño will serve for the remaining two years of the Chair’s three-year term.

First Vice President of Spain since July 2021.
Minister for Economy and Digitalization since 2018.
Held other senior roles within the Ministry prior to the ministerial post.
Served in senior positions in several directorates-general at the European Commission, including as Director General in charge of the EU Budget from 2014 to 2018.
Has lectured at the Faculty of Economics at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid.
Holds degrees in economics and law.
Awards and honors:
- Commendation of the Order of Civil Merit in 2015.
- 2021 Woman and Technology Award by the Orange Foundation.

The IMFC comprises finance ministers and central bank governors and is the primary advisory body of the IMF Board of Governors.
The Committee deliberates on the principal policy issues facing the IMF.
The Committee has 24 members, reflecting the composition of the IMF Executive Board.
Each member country or group of countries that elects an Executive Director also appoints a member of the Committee.
The IMFC normally meets twice a year—in the spring and at the time of the IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings in the fall.
Its next meeting is scheduled to be held on April 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C.

Press Release No. 21404, December 23, 2021, IMF Communications Department.