World Bank's Georgieva added to list of EU candidates to head up IMF

Christine Lagarde. Photo: Peter Nicholls/PA

Francesco Guarascio

EU governments are working to select one European candidate from a list of five names to succeed Christine Lagarde at the helm of the International Monetary Fund, a French official said on Friday.

Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva, chief executive of the World Bank, has been added to a list of four names that were discussed by EU finance ministers at a G7 meeting last week, the official said.