By Andrea Shalal
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -With just seven months to go in Kristalina Georgieva’s five-year term as head of the International Monetary Fund, she said on Tuesday that she is not focused on whether to seek a second one.
Georgieva told Reuters she was focused on the work at hand as the IMF managing director.
“Look, I have work to do right now,” she told Reuters in an interview on the sidelines of a meeting of finance officials from the Group of 20 major economies in Sao Paulo.
“I have always been of the view that you do the job you have – not some hypothetical in the future. So let me do my job.”
Georgieva, a gregarious economist from Bulgaria, is the second woman to head the IMF and the first person from an emerging market economy.
Keeping Georgieva on for a second term would answer longstanding concerns raised by emerging market and developing countries over the U.S.-European…
