Christine Lagarde

Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French lawyer and Union for a Popular Movement politician who has been the Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund sinceJuly 2011.

Lagarde was born in Paris, France, into a family of academics. Her father, Robert Lallouette, was a Professor of English her mother, Nicole, was a Latin, Greek and French literature teacher. Lagarde and her three brothers, all younger, spent their childhood in Le Havre where she attended the Lyce Franois 1er and Lyce Claude Monet. As a teenager, Lagarde was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team. After her baccalaurat in 1973, she went on an American Field Service scholarship to the HoltonArms School for girls in Bethesda, Maryland. During her year in America, Lagarde worked as an intern at the United States Capitol, as Representative William Cohens congressional assistant, helping him correspond with his Frenchspeaking constituents during the Watergate hearings. She graduated from Paris West University Nanterre La Dfense, where she obtained Masters degrees in English, labor law, and social law. She also holds a masters degree from the Institut dtudes politiques dAi

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