In this interview excerpt, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, discusses how he was elected to this post, where he succeeded Jacques de Larosière.

In this interview excerpt, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, describes his activities during his first term as head of the IMF from 1987 to 1992, particularly focusing on the resolution of the debt crisis in Latin America and the support given to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their transition to a market economy after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In this interview excerpt, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, shares his thoughts on the degree of success of the integration of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

In this interview excerpt, Michel Camdessus, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 1987 to 2000, explains his activities related to the integration of the economies of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe into the global economy in the 1990s, the IMF’s policy from 1994 onwards to save Mexico from bankruptcy and the IMF’s response to the financial crises in Asia between 1997 and 1998.