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Kristalina Georgieva
Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
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Kristalina Georgieva: Navigating a More Fragile World

📅 Jan 01, 2026 IMF 23 MIN 46 VIEWS 32 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS
With shock upon shock hitting the world economy in the last three years, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva's customary opening speech to the Annual Meetings warned of a darker global outlook and emphasized the need for the world to come together to deal with the consequences. The speech was delivered to an audience of students at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and presided over by Dean Joel S. Hellman and Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia. Transcript (http://traffic.libsyn.com/imfpodcast/...) : https://bit.ly/3MgciB9
Bruce Edwards 0:04 ↗
We are honored to welcome Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva to our campus at an important moment for the IMF as they approach their annual meetings here in Washington. In this program, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva delivers her curtain-raiser speech at Georgetown University to an audience preparing for their professional lives in a world that is very different from the one they grew up in.
Kristalina Georgieva 0:33 ↗
This generation here has never lived in a world of rising poverty. They've lived in a world, in fact, probably one of the greatest periods of poverty reduction the world has ever known. They've lived in a world of stable prices. They don't remember high inflation of the early 80s. They've lived in a world of, you know, increasing global integration.

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Georgieva, K. (2026, January 1). Kristalina Georgieva: Navigating a More Fragile World [Interview transcript]. IMF. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3051598/

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Kristalina Georgieva. "Kristalina Georgieva: Navigating a More Fragile World." IMF, 1 Jan. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3051598/.

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@misc{georgieva2026_3051598,
  author       = {Kristalina Georgieva},
  title        = {Kristalina Georgieva: Navigating a More Fragile World},
  howpublished = {Interview transcript, IMF. CEOInterviews.AI},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {jan},
  url          = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3051598/},
  note         = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}