IMF Conference

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

11:30 – 11:35 AM

Welcome Remarks by Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF   

Kristalina Georgieva is the Managing Director of the IMF since October 1, 2019.

She was CEO of the World Bank from January 2017 to September 2019, during which she also served as Interim President of the World Bank for three months.

She previously served as European Commission Vice President for Budget and Human Resources and as Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.

From 1993 to 2010, she held a number of senior positions at the World Bank, including as Vice President and Corporate Secretary in 2008, as Director for Sustainable Development, Director for the Russian Federation (based in Moscow), Director for Environment, and Director for Environment and Social Development for the East Asia and Pacific Region.

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she holds a Ph.D. in Economic Science and a M.A. in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of National and World Economy, Sofia, where she was an Associate Professor between 1977 and 1993. She also was visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

11:35 AM – 12:20 PM

Presentation by Professor Guido Tabellini

Guido Tabellini is the Intesa Sanpaolo Chair in Political Economics at Università Bocconi. He was Rector of Università Bocconi from 2008 to 2012. He has a PhD in Economics from UCLA. Before returning to Europe, he taught at Stanford University and UCLA. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a foreign honorary fellow of the American Economic Association, and a recipient of the Yrjo Jahnsson award from the European Economic Association, of which he was President. He belongs to several international research networks and he is a research fellow of CEPR in London, a distinguished fellow of CES in Munich, and a research fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has done research in political economics and public choice, macroeconomics, and international economics.

12:20 – 12:35 PM

Conversation between Kristalina Georgieva and Professor Tabellini

12:40 – 1:00 PM

Audience Q & A