Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (born 1 January 1956 in Paris ) is a French politician (UMP ) and lawyer. Since July 2011 she has been the Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF). From June 2007 to June 2011 she was Economic and Finance Minister in the Cabinet of Prime Minister François Fillon. Both is the IMF as well as in the French government and was the first woman in that position.

Life

Christine Lagarde (born Lallouette ) was born in 1956 as the oldest of four children of Robert Lallouette († 1973) and his wife Nicole (born Carre ) in Paris. Together with her three siblings Luc, Remy Olivier and she grew up in Normandy, Le Havre. Her father was a lecturer in literature at the University of Rouen, her mother a teacher. In her youth she was a member of the French national synchronized swimming; She won a bronze medal at the French Championships. Shortly after graduating from high school at the Lycée Claude Monet in Le Havre and the death of her father went Lagarde in 1974 with an AFS scholarship to the Holton - Arms School, a girls' school in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of the capital city of Washington, USA.

After returning to France, she studied in Social Law at the Institut d' études politiques d' Aix -en- Provence and graduated with a DESS from. In preparation for study at the École nationale d'administration (ENA ) she then attended the Institut d' études politiques de Paris (also known as Sciences Po ) and the Université Paris X Nanterre. However, you failed the entrance exam twice for the ENA. Finally she made an MA in English, a Master of Business Law (LL.M. ) and a Diploma in Labour Law at the University of Paris X Nanterre. In between, she was a guest in the U.S. Congress in the office of William Cohen.

After studying Lagarde In 1981, as a lawyer in the Paris office of U.S. law firm Baker & McKenzie. From 1999 to 2004 she was President of the Management Board since 2004 and Chairman of the Global Strategy Committee of Baker & McKenzie in Chicago (USA). From 1995 to 2002 she was also a member of the think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS), where the Action Committee US-EU - Poland led jointly with Zbigniew Brzezinski and specifically in the working group defense industry USA - Poland ( 1995-2002) dedicated that issues related to the liberalization of trade in Poland treated. In 2003, she was also a member of the Euro - Atlantic Action Commission in Washington.

From June 2005 to May 2007 was Lagarde Minister with responsibility for Foreign Trade in the government de Villepin. From May 18 to June 19, 2007, she was Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries in government Fillon (see Cabinet Fillon II). Following a government reshuffle on 19 June 2007 it was up to June 29, 2011 Minister of Economy and Finance. Her successor is François Baroin.

Lagarde should have engaged in a compensation process prematurely on a comparison with the French businessman Bernard Tapie. Lagarde denies this. The Court of Justice of the Republic has decided August 4, 2011, to allow an investigation of abuse of office against Lagarde. The court granted a request by the prosecutor. Two weeks later, the French judiciary initiated formal investigations against Lagarde, as a result on March 20, 2013, an apartment of her was searched in Paris. In May 2013, it was questioned for two days by a court; against Lagarde no formal investigation is opened now.

Since 5 July 2011, Christine Lagarde, managing director of the IMF.

Private

Christine Lagarde is divorced and the mother of two sons, Pierre- Henri Lagarde ( born 1986 ) and Thomas Lagarde (* 1988). Since 2006, the entrepreneur Xavier Giocanti from Marseille is her partner.

As head of the IMF she gets an annual salary of $ 467,940 a year plus a lump-sum expense allowance in the amount of $ 83,760. Your income they do not have to pay taxes.

Awards

Lagarde was ranked by Forbes Magazine in 2009 ranked 17 of the most powerful women in the world and honored by the Financial Times as the best Finance Minister of the euro area in 2009. In 2000 she was appointed Knight ( chevalier ) and 2012 Officer of the French Legion of Honour.

In 2007, she was anglaise by the Académie de la Carpette criticized for talking to her staff occasionally English instead of French.

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