Kristalina Georgieva

Kristalina Georgieva currently serves as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a position she was selected for on September 25, 2019 and has served as since October 1, 2019. Before joining the IMF, Ms. Georgieva was CEO of the World Bank from January 2017 to September 2019, during which time she also served as Interim President of the World Bank Group for three months. Read more

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• Argentina Looks Forward
  • Published: July 31, 2026
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: After restoring stability, Argentina needs to turn hard-won gains into lasting prosperity
• Global Economy Endures War Shock—So Far
  • Published: June 15, 2026
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: An overall resilient world economy masks significant differences among countries and regions. Energy importers and countries with limited policy space are most vulnerable
• New Skills and AI Are Reshaping the Future of Work
  • Published: January 14, 2026
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Policy choices will determine whether workers and firms are adequately prepared for the AI revolution
• A Low-Growth World Is an Unequal, Unstable World
  • Published: July 23, 2024
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Long periods of slow economic growth can cause a jump in inequality. But a balanced set of policies can stave off that outcome.
• Strengthen Central Bank Independence to Protect the World Economy
  • Published: March 21, 2024
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Independence is critical to winning the fight against inflation and achieving stable long-term economic growth, but policymakers risk facing pressure amid a wave of elections this year
• How the G20 Can Build on the World Economy’s Recent Resilience
  • Published: February 26, 2024
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: The G20 has an important opportunity to shift focus from firefighting against successive shocks to a medium-term agenda that supports strong, sustainable, balanced, and inclusive growth.
• AI Will Transform the Global Economy. Let’s Make Sure It Benefits Humanity.
  • Published: January 14, 2024
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: AI will affect almost 40 percent of jobs around the world, replacing some and complementing others. We need a careful balance of policies to tap its potential
• How Channeling SDRs is Supporting Vulnerable Economies
  • Published: October 13, 2023
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Bernard Lauwers, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
  • Summary: Special drawing rights are providing an important boost for countries that need one, but greater support is encouraged to strengthen our unique lending tools
• Weak Global Economy, High Inflation, and Rising Fragmentation Demand Strong G20 Action
  • Published: July 13, 2023
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Working together to address common challenges, and building economic bridges, will be crucial to improve lives.
• The Time Is Now: We Must Step Up Support For the Poorest Countries
  • Published: March 31, 2023
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Low-income countries face huge economic challenges and financing needs. They rely on international institutions, including the IMF’s Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust, for vital policy and financial support. Economically stronger countries have a responsibility to contribute to the funding of this support.
• Policy Priorities for the G20: One Earth, One Family, One Future
  • Published: February 22, 2023
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Policymakers urged to support vulnerable people and economies, protect the planet, and harness digital progress for all
• Confronting Fragmentation Where It Matters Most: Trade, Debt, and Climate Action
  • Published: January 16, 2023
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Fragmentation could make it even more difficult to help many vulnerable emerging and developing economies that have been hard hit by multiple shocks
• Swapping Debt for Climate or Nature Pledges Can Help Fund Resilience
  • Published: December 14, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Marcos Chamon, Vimal Thakoor
  • Summary: Innovative debt swaps can help governments that have limited access to traditional grants or debt relief
• Getting Back on Track to Net Zero: Three Critical Priorities for COP27
  • Published: November 4, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: The devastation and destruction of climate change will only worsen if we fail to act now
• Global Food Crisis Demands Support for People, Open Trade, Bigger Local Harvests
  • Published: September 30, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Sebastián Sosa, Björn Rother
  • Summary: Unprecedented humanitarian challenge requires rapid action to ease suffering of those without enough to eat and provide financing to countries in need
• How to Close Gender Gaps and Grow the Global Economy
  • Published: September 8, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Antoinette M. Sayeh, Ratna Sahay
  • Summary: Capturing the dividends from women’s economic equity. Too many women are locked out of economic opportunities, which is not only unfair but also harms growth and resilience for all.
• Public Sector Must Play Major Role in Catalyzing Private Climate Finance
  • Published: August 18, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Tobias Adrian
  • Summary: Climate change is one of the most critical macroeconomic and financial policy challenges that IMF members face in coming decades.
• Facing a Darkening Economic Outlook: How the G20 Can Respond
  • Published: July 13, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: As G20 ministers and central bank governors gather in Bali this week, they face a global economic outlook that has darkened significantly.
• Why We Must Resist Geoeconomic Fragmentation—And How
  • Published: May 22, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
• Poor and Vulnerable Countries Need Support to Adapt to Climate Change
  • Published: March 23, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Vitor Gaspar, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva, Vitor Gaspar and Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
• Supply Disruptions Add to Inflation, Undermine Recovery in Europe
  • Published: February 17, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Oya Celasun, Alfred Kammer
  • Summary: With supply constraints likely to persist, the challenge for policymakers is to support recovery without allowing high inflation to become entrenched.
• Three Policy Priorities for a Robust Recovery
  • Published: February 16, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: We must work together to end the pandemic, navigate monetary tightening and shift focus to fiscal sustainability.
• Support for Africa’s Vaccine Production is Good for the World
  • Published: January 12, 2022
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: Robust and reliable vaccine capacity in Africa is a global public good, deserving of global support.
• The G20 Common Framework for Debt Treatments Must Be Stepped Up
  • Published: December 2, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu
  • Summary: With the debt service suspension initiative expiring and interest rates poised to rise, low-income countries will find it increasingly difficult to service their debts.
• Not Yet on Track: Climate Threat Demands More Ambitious Global Action
  • Published: November 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: New IMF analysis shows gaps in ambition and policy needed to achieve emissions curbs that contain global warming.
• Joint Action Needed to Secure the Recovery
  • Published: October 27, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: G20 should lead in sharing vaccine doses, helping developing countries financially, and committing to reaching net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century.
• Urgent Action Needed to Address a Worsening ‘Two-Track’ Recovery
  • Published: July 7, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva
• Sub-Saharan Africa: We Need to Act Now
  • Published: June 28, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Abebe Aemro Selassie
• A New Commitment for Vaccine Equity and Defeating the Pandemic
  • Published: June 1, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
  • Summary: By Kristalina Georgieva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, David Malpass and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
• A Proposal to End the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Published: May 21, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Gita Gopinath, Ruchir Agarwal
• COVID-19: The Moms Emergency
  • Published: April 30, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Stefania Fabrizio, Diego B. P. Gomes, Marina M. Tavares
• Rising Market Power—A Threat to the Recovery?
  • Published: March 15, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Federico J. Díez, Romain Duval, Daniel Schwarz
• The Great Divergence: A Fork in the Road for the Global Economy
  • Published: February 24, 2021
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• How Governments Can Create a Green, Job-rich Global Recovery
  • Published: December 4, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Rajiv J. Shah
• Continued Strong Policy Action to Combat Uncertainty
  • Published: November 19, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• A Leap Forward on Cross-Border Payments
  • Published: October 19, 2020
  • Authors: Tobias Adrian, Kristalina Georgieva
• Reform of the International Debt Architecture is Urgently Needed
  • Published: October 1, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, Rhoda Weeks-Brown
• Charting a Path for a Resilient Recovery in Sub Saharan Africa
  • Published: September 15, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Abebe Aemro Selassie
• The COVID-19 Gender Gap
  • Published: July 21, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Stefania Fabrizio, Cheng Hoon Lim, Marina M. Tavares
• The Next Phase of the Crisis: Further Action Needed for a Resilient Recovery
  • Published: July 16, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• The Global Economic Reset—Promoting a More Inclusive Recovery
  • Published: June 11, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• A Global Crisis Like No Other Needs a Global Response Like No Other
  • Published: April 20, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Policy Action for a Healthy Global Economy
  • Published: March 16, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Potential Impact of the Coronavirus Epidemic: What We Know and What We Can Do
  • Published: March 4, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• On Board with More Women in Leadership
  • Published: March 3, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Louise Levonian
• Finding Solid Footing for the Global Economy
  • Published: February 19, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Reduce Inequality To Create Opportunity
  • Published: January 7, 2020
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• Striking the Right Balance Between Sustainable Development and Sustainable Debt
  • Published: December 19, 2019
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• The Adaptive Age
  • Published: December 2, 2019
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva
• The Economic Cost of Devaluing “Women’s Work”
  • Published: October 15, 2019
  • Authors: Kristalina Georgieva, Cristian Alonso, Era Dabla-Norris, Kalpana Kochhar

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