- Kristalina Georgieva is known for CNBC's Sustainable Future (2021), 60 Minutes (1968) and The Amanpour Hour (2023).
- She earned a doctorate in economics at Sofia's Karl Marx Institute, and won a scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, and later at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Bulgarian economist and head of the International Monetary Fund. She spent about 20 years at the World Bank, in two stints, starting as an environmental economist and rising to interim president, before joining the IMF.
- She grew up in Sofia, Bulgaria, where her father was a civil engineer and her mother managed a shop. Neither parent was a Communist Party member.
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