Ceyla Pazarbasioglu

From July 2001 to June 2003, Pazarbasioglu was Vice President of the Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey, where she helped contain and resolve the 2001 economic crisis, working on pension reform, inflation targeting, and a voluntary debt swap.^[2]

From October 2008^[3] to December 2009^[4] Pazarbasioglu was Chief of the International Monteary Fund's mission to Ukraine during the global financial crisis.The IMF approved a $16.4 billion loan to Ukraine in November 2008 to bolster its economy.

From 2015 to 2020, Pazarbasioglu served as Vice President for Equitable Growth, Finance, and Institutions at the World Bank Group. She oversaw a portfolio of nearly $30 billion and managed over 2,200 staff across 138 countries, including fragile and conflict-affected states.

In 2020, Pazarbasioglu became Director of the IMF's Strategy, Policy, and Review Department. She led the Fund's historic response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including scaling up emergency financing, negotiating the historic $650 billion Special Drawing Rights general allocation, and creating the IMF's Food Shock Window. She spearheaded reforms to IMF lending policies, launched the Resilience and Sustainability Trust, and advanced global debt initiatives usch as the Debt Service Suspension Initiative, The G20 Common Framework, and the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable. She also played a key role in IMF engagement with the G7, G20, and United Nations.^[1]

Pazarbasioglu retired from the IMF on November 1, 2025, after more than two decades of service across three tenures the Fund.

• IMF Mission Chief for Ukraine Comments on $16.5 Loan Package for Kyiv^{[dead link]} – Voice of America interview (November 13, 2008)
• IMF Urges Ukraine To Stick With Recovery Policies – International Monetary Fund interview (November 4, 2009)