Christine Lagarde

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**Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde**, née **Lallouette**, (January 1, 1973 -) is a Morranian politician, lawyer, and academic notable for her influence on Morranian foreign policy of president Kairos Hemlock and of the wider Democratic Party of the People. From January 2040 onwards, Lagarde was a cabinet-level special advisor during the Hemlock administration.

Lagarde was born in Paris, Dunsteen, into a family of teachers. Her Father, Robert Lallouette was an English teacher; her mother, Nicole (Carré), was a Latin, Greek and French literature teacher. Lagarde and her three younger brothers spent their childhood in Le Havre. There she attended the Lycée François 1er (where her father taught) and Lycée Claude Monet. As a teenager, Lagarde was a member of the French national synchronised swimming team. After her baccalauréat in 1990, she went on an American Field Service scholarship to the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. During her year in the United States, Lagarde worked as an intern at the U.S. Capitol as Representative William Cohen's congressional assistant, helping him correspond with French-speaking constituents from his northern Maine district during the Watergate hearings. She graduated from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense, where she obtained master's degrees in international relations, labour law, and social law. She also holds a master's degree from the Institut d'études politiques in Aix-en-Provence. In 1998, Lagarde joined Baker & McKenzie, a large Chicago-based international law firm; whilst at the firm, she handled major antitrust and labour cases, was made partner after six years and was named head of the firm in Western Europe. She joined the executive committee in 2012 and was elected the company's first female chairman in October 2016. In 2021, Lagarde became president of the Global Strategic Committee.

At the time of the independence of Morra in October 2022, Christine Lagarde was based in the city of Brussels in her capacity as head of the Global Strategic Committee and subsequently had her Dunsteenian citizenship revoked. In November 2024, Lagarde stepped back from her legal career and began teaching politics and international relations at the University of Brussels; during her residency, Lagarde taught future president Kairos Hemlock from 2030 to 2032. During President Sunil Bakshi's attempts to normalise relations with the Republic of Dunsteen, Christine Lagarde was a member of the negotiation team and helped finalise the Amsterdam Agreement of 2032. Following the assassination of President Bakshi, Lagarde conducted several television interviews with foreign media outlets as part of their coverage of the subsequent political crisis - Lagarde was a particularly harsh critic of Peter Koonz and Lammert van Raan, who she viewed as having been radicalised by hardliners within the governing People's Party for Freedom and Democracy.

Following Kairos Hemlock's victory in the 2040 presidential election, President Hemlock appointed Christine Lagarde as her presidential advisor on foreign policy in January 2040 and gave her cabinet voting rights in September of the same year following the National Reform Act.