Kristalina Georgieva, new head of the IMF

IMF names Kristalina Georgieva as new head, BBC News

"Bulgarian economist Kristalina Georgieva has been selected as the new managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Ms Georgieva, who was previously chief executive of the World Bank, becomes the first person from an emerging economy to lead the IMF....The 66-year-old economist, the daughter of a civil engineer, studied political economy and sociology at the Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia while Bulgaria was still under communist rule. After graduating in 1976, she got her first taste of capitalism in the UK, as a British Council scholar at the London School of Economics".

From FT