Kristalina Georgieva
| Kristalina Georgieva Кристалина Георгиева |
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| European Commissioner for the Budget and Human Resources | |
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In office 1 November 2014 – 31 December 2016 |
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| President | Jean-Claude Juncker |
| Preceded by |
Jacek Dominik (Financial Programming and the Budget) Maroš Šefčovič (Inter-Institutional Relations and Administration) |
| Succeeded by | Günther Oettinger |
| European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response | |
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In office 9 February 2010 – 1 November 2014 |
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| President | José Manuel Barroso |
| Preceded by | Karel De Gucht (Development and Humanitarian Aid) |
| Succeeded by |
Neven Mimica (International Cooperation and Development) Christos Stylianides (Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management) |
| Personal details | |
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Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva 13 August 1953 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Political party | Citizens for European Development |
| Spouse(s) | Kino Kinov |
| Children | 1 |
| Alma mater | University of National and World Economy |
Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova (Bulgarian: Кристалина Иванова Георгиева-Кинова, born 13 August 1953 in Sofia) is a Bulgarian politician and the current chief executive officer of the World Bank. Until 2017, she was European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources in the college of the Juncker Commission.
From 1993-2010, she served in a number of positions in the World Bank Group, eventually rising to become its vice president and corporate secretary in March 2008. She has also served as a member of the board of trustees and associated professor in the Economics Department of the University of National and World Economy in Bulgaria. On 27 September 2016, the Bulgarian government nominated Kristalina Georgieva for the post of United Nations Secretary-General. Her short run Secretary-General at the UN ended following a vote at the UN Security Council on 5 October, where Georgieva ranked number eight out of ten candidates. In the same vote, António Guterres got the support of the Security Council for the post of UN Secretary-General. On 28 October, the World Bank announced that Georgieva would become the first CEO of the bank starting on 2 January 2017.
Georgieva was named "European of the Year" in 2010 and "EU Commissioner of the Year" as an acknowledgment of her work, in particular, her handling of the humanitarian disasters in Haiti and Pakistan. Previously, she had been nominated among the candidates for the category "Commissioner of the Year", the prestigious award organized by the European Voice newspaper.
Kristalina Georgieva holds a PhD in Economics and an MA in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her thesis was on "Environmental Protection Policy and Economic Growth in the USA". She also did post-graduate research and studies in natural resource economics and environmental policy at the London School of Economics in the late 1980s and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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