UNWE Graduate is the New IMF Managing Director

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kristalina Georgieva, graduate of UNWE, was elected as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is the highest position that has ever been occupied by a Bulgarian in the global institution.

Georgieva has graduated the speciality Political Economy and Sociology in 1976 and since 1977 to 1991 she has been a lecturer at the UNWE. In the period she has also been a research fellow at the London School of Economics and for a year she has been a guest-professor at the University of the South Pacific (USP) in Fiji as well as at the Australian National University (ANU). In 1986 she becomes a Ph.D. in Economics, dissertation thesis: Environmental Policy and Economic Growth in the USA over the 70s and early 80s. In 1991 she becomes an Associate Professor. In the same year she has also completed her post graduate qualification from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) conducting research in the field of environmental policy. She delivers lectures on transition economies and she is a consultant on environmental policy in Eastern Europe.

She is an author of more than 100 publications on the issues of environmental economics as well as an author of a textbook in microeconomics.

Assoc. Prof. Kristalina Georgieva and Prof. Statty Stattev

Assoc. Prof. Georgieva was a member of the UNWE Trustees Council and then she was also Chairwoman of the European Consultative Council at UNWE Trustees Council.

Maxima Aula, 2010 – the Rector Prof. Borislav Borisov is awarding the Honorary sign of the Rector of UNWE and a statuette of Prof. Stephan Bobchev to Assoc. Prof. Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner and member of the UNWE Trustees Council during the solemn opening of 2010 – 2011 academic year held under the sign of the 90th anniversary of UNWE

Here is the message written by Assoc. Prof. Georgieva in the Golden Book of UNWE (in the picture below):

“Happy 90^th anniversary of the best economic university in Bulgaria and Southeast Europe. I am proud of graduating from the UNWE and being a lecturer at it. Thank you very much to the Rector Prof. Borisov for the leadership in the development of the University of National and World Economy - the students educating at the UNWE are the most valuable treasure of our country. With gratitude, respect and love, Kristalina Georgieva, EU Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, September, 10^th, 2010” 

Good luck to Assoc. Prof. Kristalina Georgieva!