Jeleva resigns before being pushed

Jeleva's replacement

Bulgaria's intended replacement for Rumiana Jeleva is Kristalina Georgieva, currently a vice-president of the World Bank.
 
Georgieva, whom Commission President José Manuel Barroso intends to meet “as soon as possible”, has worked at the World Bank since 1993, working primarily on environmental matters and issues of sustainable development. Her move to the bank followed an international career as an academic and consultant on development issues.

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Initially charged with managing World Bank projects in central and eastern Europe, she later worked on development projects for eastern Asia and the Pacific. She served as the World Bank's director for the environment in 2000-04, a position that gave her responsibility for strategy and the management of a loan portfolio totalling more than $11 billion (€7.7bn). She then moved on to become the bank's country director for Russia until 2007. She took over responsibility for strategy and operations in the World Bank's Sustainable Development Network in 2007.

Bulgarian media report Borisov as saying that Georgieva has for some time served him as an informal adviser on economic matters. The Bulgarian media have in the past reported speculation that Georgieva would be invited into government as deputy prime minister.