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Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian national, assumed responsibilities for strategy and operations in the World Bank Sustainable Development Network on April 9, 2007. With the World Bank since 1993, Kristalina has held a number of technical and managerial positions in Bank operations and on issues of environment and sustainable development.
Serving as Environmental Economist from 1993-1997, she managed a large number of environment projects and was in charge of World Bank support of the Environment Action Program for Central and Eastern Europe. During the East Asia crisis, as Director for Environment and Social Development in the East Asia and Pacific Region, Ms. Georgieva oversaw the design and implementation of key social safety net programs, and led Bank response to concerns in the region about environmental risks. As Director for Environment from 2000-2004, she led the preparation of the first World Bank environmental strategy and oversaw a portfolio of over $11 billion in environmental lending. From 2004-2006, as Director and Resident Representative for the Russian Federation in the Bank’s Europe and Central Asia Region, she was responsible for all World Bank activities in Russia, including a $2.2 billion project portfolio in public management, health, education, municipal development and environment.
Prior to joining the World Bank in 1993, she held a range of academic and consulting positions in Bulgaria, the United Kingdom, and the US, and has lectured on development topics in a large number of universities around the world.
Kristalina Georgieva received her Ph.D in Economics and her M. A. in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia. She also did post-graduate research and studies in natural resource economics and environmental policy in the London School of Economics School and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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