HIGHLIGHTS: Kristalina Georgieva

Hi everybody, tune in to this short version of the podcast which we do every Friday. For the long version, tune in on Wednesdays. Hi everyone, I'm Nikola Tangen from the Norwegian Summon Wealth Fund and today I put on a tie, because I'm in really good company with Kristalina Georgieva. Wonderful to be with you. Now, Kristalina is the uh managing director of uh IMF, the International Monetary Fund, and you are known for your visionary uh leadership and the way you have been advocating for really important, bold, long-term reforms.

So let's just start with the beginning here. Uh, IMF, what is it? Well, the IMF was created um towards the end of the Second World War, together with the World Bank. to help countries recover after the war and to put in place institutions that can stabilize the financial system. Our mandate, macroeconomic and financial stability for growth and employment.

We have a membership of 191 countries. In fact, over the last years we got true new members, small countries, Andorra and Liechtenstein. That's good. And how do you help these companies?

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