christine lagarde

Christine Lagarde is the President of the European Central Bank. She was born on the 1st of January 1956. She studied at Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, and she holds a graduate degree from the institute of Politiques in Aix-en-Provence.

Lagarde joined Baker & McKenzie, a large Chicago-based international law firm, in 1981. She was a director of two of the firm's subsidiaries in tax havens. She handled major antitrust and labor cases, was made partner after six years, and was named head of the firm in Western Europe

Christine Lagarde became the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the first woman to hold that position. In February 2016 she was selected to serve a second five-year term.