Christine Lagarde
a.k.a. Lagarde
French lawyer and politician who became President of the European Central Bank in 2019, after leading the IMF.
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French lawyer and politician who became President of the European Central Bank in 2019, after leading the IMF.
Christine Lagarde became president of the European Central Bank in November 2019. Before that she ran the IMF from 2011 to 2019 and served as France's finance minister.
At the ECB she steered policy through the pandemic and the 2022–2023 inflation surge, when the bank raised rates sharply. Her press conferences after each policy meeting are prime-time events for euro traders.
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