Ceyla Pazarbasioglu ( tr, Ceyla Pazarbaşıoğlu) is a Turkish
economist. As of January 2010 she was an assistant director of the
International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Monetary and Capital Markets department and was in charge of financial supervision. In 2012 she became deputy director in the same department.
[IMF changes Mission Chief in Ukraine]
Interfax-Ukraine
The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...
(December 17, 2009)
Biography
Pazarbasioglu has B.S. in economics from
Boğaziçi University in
Istanbul and a Ph.D. in economics from
Georgetown University.
[Presenter Bios: Ceyla Pazarbasioglu]
World Bank Group
From 1992 and 1998, Pazarbasioglu was an economist at the
International Monetary Fund (IMF), providing technical assistance to the Czech Republic, Poland, Turkey, Ghana, Korea, Thailand, Russia, and some of the component states of the CIS. After leaving the IMF, she was Chief Economist at
ABN AMRO UK until 2001.
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From July 2001 to June 2003, Pazarbasioglu was vice president of the Banking Regulatory and Supervisory Agency of Turkey.][
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2008-2009 IMF Ukraine mission
From October 2008 till December 2009[ Pazarbasioglu was the Chief of the International Montetary Fund's mission to Ukraine. In December 2009 she was replaced by ]Athanasios Arvanitis
Athanasios ( el, Αθανάσιος), also transliterated as Athnasious, Athanase or Atanacio, is a Greek male name which means "immortal". In modern Greek everyday use, it is commonly shortened to Thanasis (Θανάσης), Thanos (Θάνος), ...
. The IMF stressed that the reshuffle was not linked to developments in Ukraine.[
As a result of the 2008–2009 Ukrainian financial crisis the IMF approved a $16.4bn loan to Ukraine to bolster its economy in November 2008. As Chief of the IMF Ukraine mission, Pazarbasioglu warned Ukraine in October 2009 that increases in government spending risked future IMF aid. Despite this warnings Ukrainian President Yushchenko approved an increase in social spending in November 2009 that (according to annalists) will highly increase the government deficit, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was against this law.][Ukraine Defies IMF Warnings]
by J. Marson & A. Kolyandr, Wall Street Journal Europe (November 2, 2009) Annalists saw Yushchenko's move as part of the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on 7 February.
On 14 F ...
campaign and as part of the long-lasting political struggle between him and Tymoshenko.[ Increasing social spending has been a major vote-winner in previous Ukrainian elections. The law was submitted by the ]Bloc of Lytvyn
The Lytvyn Bloc, formerly Lytvyn's People's Bloc, ( uk, Блок Литвина, formerly Народний блок Литвина) was a centrist political alliance in Ukraine from 2006 till 2012 led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. It is one of successors o ...
and supported by the Party of Regions of fellow presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych.Tomenko slams president's intention to sign law on rise in social standards
Kyiv Post (October 29, 2009)
References
External links
IMF Mission Chief for Ukraine Comments on $16.5 Loan Package for Kyiv
– Voice of America interview (November 13, 2008)
IMF Urges Ukraine To Stick With Recovery Policies
– International Monetary Fund interview (November 4, 2009)
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Living people
Turkish economists
International Monetary Fund people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Turkish officials of the United Nations