birth_date birthname term_end alma_mater term_start spouse image name deputy predecessor birth_place president party office partner successor religion primeminister article_title
1 january 1956 christine madeleine odette lallouette 29 june 2011 18 june 2007 15 may 2007 paris studies , aix west university nanterre la défense institute of political 5 2 june 2005 july 2011 19 june 2007 18 may 2007 wilfred lagarde -lrb- divorced -rrb- lagarde jpg , christine -lrb- official portrait 2011 -rrb- . christine lagarde john lipsky david lipton dominique strauss-kahn jean-louis borloo dominique bussereau christian jacob paris , france nicolas sarkozy nicolas sarkozy jacques chirac union for a popular movement managing finance minister of agriculture minister of commerce and industry director of the international monetary fund minister of xavier giocanti françois baroin michel barnier position abolished roman catholicism françois fillon françois fillon dominique de villepin christine lagarde

christine lagarde

christine madeleine odette lagarde -lrb- ; née lallouette , ; born 1 january 1956 in paris -rrb- is a french lawyer and union for a popular movement politician who has been the managing director -lrb- md -rrb- of the international monetary fund -lrb- imf -rrb- since 5 july 2011 .
previously , she held various ministerial posts in the french government : she was minister of economic affairs , finance and employment and before that minister of agriculture and fishing and minister of trade in the government of dominique de villepin .
lagarde was the first woman to become finance minister of a g8 economy , and is the first woman to head the imf .
a noted antitrust and labour lawyer , lagarde became the first female chairman of the international law firm baker & mckenzie .
on 16 november 2009 , the `` financial times '' ranked her the best minister of finance in the eurozone .
on 28 june 2011 , she was named as the next md of the imf for a five-year term , starting on 5 july 2011 , replacing dominique strauss-kahn .
her appointment is the 11th consecutive appointment of a european to head the imf .
in 2014 , lagarde was ranked the 5th most powerful woman in the world by `` forbes '' magazine .
