Kristalina Georgieva
/Overview
Kristalina Georgieva born Sofia, Bulgaria August 13, 1953. Bulgarian environmental economist; official nominee for UN Secretary General 2016; Vice-President World Bank; European of Year 2010 for work as European Humanitarian Commissioner in relief of Haiti earthquake 2010, and Pakistan floods 2010.
Quotations
“What we are seeing is a much more fragile world. In which natural disaster risk and conflict are increasingly overlaid. And where the big trends of climate change and population growth are compounded by extremism. . . Humanitarians are the first ones to have to pick up the pieces when things go wrong. . . So humanitarians are rather like 'mine canaries'—they are the first to feel the heat when things go wrong.” (European Commission, May 27, 2014; photo yaLibnan)