Kristalina Georgieva: Leading the IMF, Navigating Global Crises and Strengthening Cooperation
In Good Company with Nicolai Tangen
Norges Bank Investment Management
4.7 • 236 Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What does it take to keep the global economy stable in times of crisis? Nicolai Tangen sits down with Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, to discuss the IMF's role in maintaining financial stability across 191 member countries. They explore debt levels, AI's impact on labor markets, and climate as a financial risk. Kristalina shares her journey from Bulgaria to leading the IMF, emphasizing her philosophy of curiosity, courage, and compassion. With $1 trillion in lending capacity, the IMF supports countries through economic crises worldwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone, I'm Nicola Tangen from the Norwegian Soan Wealth Fund and today I put on a tie because I'm in really good company with |
| 0:07.0 | Crystalina Georgieva. Wonderful to be with you. Now, Kristina is the managing director of IMF, the International Monetary Fund, |
| 0:27.0 | and you are known for your visionary leadership and the way you have been advocating for |
| 0:31.5 | really important, bold, long-term reforms. |
| 0:34.9 | So let's just start with the beginning here. |
| 0:37.4 | IMF, What is it? |
| 0:39.3 | Well, the IMF was created towards the end of the Second World War, |
| 0:45.3 | together with the World Bank, |
| 0:47.3 | to help countries recover after the war |
| 0:51.3 | and to put in place institutions that can stabilize the financial system. |
| 0:58.9 | Our mandate, macroeconomic and financial stability for growth and employment. |
| 1:06.3 | We have a membership of 191 countries. In fact, over the last years, we got two new members, small countries, and Dora and Liechtenstein. |
| 1:20.6 | That's good. |
| 1:21.6 | And how do you help these companies? |
| 1:22.6 | What we do for our members is first help them to see the world economy from one vintage point. |
| 1:34.0 | We have this unique right to collect data from all countries and we do that regularly. |
| 1:41.7 | So we can take the vital science of economies, aggregate the picture, and then |
| 1:48.1 | see what are the trends in the world they should be mindful of. |
| 1:53.9 | Secondly, when countries are in trouble and they need quickly financing to stabilize their economies, we come true. |
| 2:03.6 | We have lending capacity of $1 trillion. |
| 2:08.6 | We deploy it for countries in crisis. |
| 2:14.6 | Some are middle-income countries, some are poor, vulnerable countries. |
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