Christine Lagarde
1956 – ? French lawyer, French finance minister, IMF managing director, ECB president
French lawyer and politician who led the IMF from 2011 to 2019 and then became president of the European Central Bank.
- Affiliations
- International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank
Christine Lagarde trained as a lawyer and served as France's finance minister before becoming managing director of the International Monetary Fund in 2011, the first woman to hold the post. She led the Fund through the aftermath of the global financial crisis and the European debt crisis, and oversaw the 2015 decision to add China's yuan to the Fund's reserve-currency basket. In 2019 she moved to head the European Central Bank. A French court found her negligent in a state arbitration case from her time as minister but imposed no penalty.
Connections
- successor of Dominique Strauss-Kahn — Lagarde replaced him at the IMF after his resignation.
- successor of Dominique Strauss-Kahn — Succeeded him as IMF managing director after his abrupt resignation in 2011.
In the timeline
- 2016 The yuan joins the IMF's reserve basket IMF managing director