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After facing crisis upon crisis in the past few years, the world needs to build foundations that can withstand shocks that have become more frequent, IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday.“I am worried that we are not completely internalizing yet that this is how the world is going to be,” Georgieva said on Bloomberg’s podcast Leaders with Francine Lacqua. “We are not going to get to a place where shocks are gone.”Georgieva, who has been at the helm of the Washington-based lender since 2019, has been through the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, the tariffs turmoil and now the conflict in the Middle East.

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), during an interview for the "Leaders with Francine Lacqua" podcast in London, UK, on Wednesday, April 22, 2026.