A Conversation with Nemat Shafik, Deputy Managing Director, IMF

Nemat Shafik, the new Deputy Managing Director of the IMF speaks about her impressions of the IMF, gender diversity at the Fund, and the institution's future agenda items.

For the full text of the interview, please go to http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2011/INT053111A.htm

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News & Politics

Tags:

• IMF
• International Monetary Fund
• organization
• staff
• debate
• The New York Times
• diversity
• women
• management
• membership
• policy
• documents
• allegations
• hostile
• Middle East
• Africa
• recruitment
• gender
• nationality
• recovery
• mutual assessment
• G-20
• spillover
• global imbalances
• emerging markets
• overheating
• global economy
• euro zone
• crisis
• Egypt
• Tunisia
• low-income countries
• poverty
• economic growth
• Portugal
• Greece

[megabrowser17]

What the heck do illegal quotas have to do with nationwide economic choices being made? Who cares what percentage of what is in it, as long as they lead and work well for all? I guess some people want some other goals fulfilled at the expense of all the people truly in need.

[wjmatar]

Interesting (from Lebanon) Good luck

[MinimoviesInc]

The IMF, an undemocratic power-hungry body controlling countries through debt since their foundation.

[andrespereyda]

I like the third key message of Nemat's diversity report inciting to "increase the number of different points of view... shaping policies in the IMF". Global recovery, Euro zone, Middle East, and poor countries. A lot of work.