Kristalina Georgieva named IMF Managing Director

I am deeply honoured to have been selected as managing director of the IMF: Kristalin speaking with media.

WASHINGTON,The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, For a five-year term Kristalina Georgieva selected as IMF Managing-Director and Chair of the Executive Board starting on October 1, 2019.
Georgieva, who succeeds Christine Lagarde, is the first person from an emerging market economy to lead the IMF since its inception in 1944.
The Managing Director is the chief of the IMF’s operating staff and Chair of the Executive Board. The Managing Director is assisted by four Deputy Managing Directors in the operation of the Fund, which serves its membership through about 2,700 staff.

Speaking after her selection, Georgieva said: “I am deeply honoured to have been selected as managing director of the IMF and grateful for the trust that the fund’s global membership and the executive board have placed in me.