Christine Lagarde



Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde ( Paris , January 11956 ) is a Frenchpolitician of the UMP and former lawyer and businesswoman .

Before her political career, she worked as an attorney at Baker & McKenzie . She was Minister of Foreign Trade from 2005 to 2007 and Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries from May to June 2007. In the second cabinet Fillon since she was Minister of Economic Affairs, a position she also performs in the third cabinet Fillon . This makes her the first woman to function in aG8 country holds.

In July 2000, she was with the Legion d'honneur distinguished. In 2009, Lagarde was in seventeenth place in a by Forbes Magazine compiled list of the most influential women in the world.Time Magazine that year counted her among the top one hundred world leaders. The Wall Street Journal in 2009 placed her in fifth place in a list of the best directors of women in Europe.[1]  On July 5, 2011, she became the general director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Thus she became the first woman to function officially holds.



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[ hide ]  *1 Biography  ==Biography [ edit] == Lagarde was born Christine Lallouette in the 9th district . She is the eldest child of Robert Lallouette, a university professor - who died when she was seventeen years old - and teacher Nicole. She has three younger brothers. [2]  As a teenager, she practiced the synchronized swimming, which she brought it to the French national team. [3]
 * 1.1 Political career
 * 2 Recognition
 * 3 Footnotes

She went to school in Le Havre and Bethesda[1]  and did an internship in the Capitol, as an assistant to William Cohen . [4]  In Paris, she completed her studies and she earned a master's degree at the Institut d'études politiques d'Aix- en-Provence . After she was admitted as a lawyer in Paris, she went in 1981 at the international law firm Baker & McKenzie works. Lagarde specialized in labor and competition and ' Mergers & Acquisitions '. In 1999, she was in Chicago, the first woman appointed as chairman of the firm. [1 ] [3] ===Political career [ edit] === <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">In 2005 she was by Dominique de Villepin asked for the position of Chief Minister of Foreign Trade. Her wish was to the French labor to Anglo-Saxon model to reform and liberalize. She took part in this period of negotiations with the World Health Organization . <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-politique_4-1" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[4]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">She was a month Agriculture Minister in May 2007, until Jean-Louis Borloo succeeded as Minister of Economic Affairs. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-ind0702_3-2" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On June 28, 2011 Lagarde became the first woman appointed as Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), replacing Dominique Strauss-Kahn . She took this position on July 5, 2011 for a period of five years. <span class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[5]

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On 4 August 2011, the French Court of Justice of the Republic decided to investigate its role in 2008 a payment of 285 million euros in research Bernard Tapie, a business friend of French President Nicolas Sarkozy . The payment was a settlement of a dispute between Tapie and a French bank around the sale of Adidas . Lagarde was then Minister of Economic Affairs. ==Recognition <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;padding-right:0.25em;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[ edit] == <p style="line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Lagarde was the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur in 2000, and an officer in 2012. She was appointed Commander de l' Ordre du Mérite Agricole in 2008.

<p style="margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:19.200000762939453px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;">On October 29, 2012, she was in Kortrijk honorary doctorate from the University of Leuven . She received the faculty honorary doctorate from the hands of the Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven.