Padraic Fallon, chairman of Euromoney Institutional Investor, presented the 2002 finance minister of the year award to Bulgaria’s Milen Veltchev and the central bank governor of the year award to Australia’s Ian Macfarlane at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington at the end of the annual IMF/World Bank meetings.
Veltchev, a former emerging debt markets investment banker, has restructured his country’s external finances through a quick-fire string of exchange deals through his first year in government, but still expressed surprise at winning the award.
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