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‘Let the old politicians run against you. It will restore your political independence and make you unbeatable.’
Lord Mark Malloch-Brown is an international affairs commentator, author and keynote speaker whose media work explores geopolitics, global governance, international development, political change and the changing world order. This page brings together his interviews, podcasts, articles, books and other media appearances.
In the Media
BBC Profile: Kristalina Georgieva
Becky Milligan explores Kristalina's life and career.
Kristalina Georgieva is not like previous heads of the International Monetary Fund. She grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, which was then part of the Soviet bloc.
Born in Sofia in 1953, her father was a civil engineer and her mother a shopkeeper. Life was tough because her family weren't part of the Communist Party regime. Her father fell ill when Kristalina was young and she was just fifteen when she went to work at the local food market.
She studied economics at the then Karl Marx Higher Economic Institute and then in the late 1980s she headed to London to spend a year at the London School of Economics. Over the last 30 years she's landed top jobs at the World Bank and the European Commission. In 2019, she was appointed managing director of the IMF, becoming the first person from an emerging economy to lead the institution.
In the rare moments when she's not working, friends, colleagues and family paint a picture of a fun-loving woman who likes nothing better than dancing and singing.
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Dessislava Kinova - daughter
Iliyana Tsanova - friend and Chief Risk Officer at the European Commission
Lord Nick Stern - friend and environmental economist
Lord Mark Malloch Brown - friend and former World Bank Vice President
Ivan Krastev - friend and political scientist
Galia Mintcheva - special adviser