#WF14 - Exclusive interview with Christine Lagarde

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This year is the 10th edition of the Women’s Forum Global Meeting. We are celebrating by bringing together a truly outstanding group of speakers — trailblazers for human rights and women’s empowerment and pioneers and new innovators in business, education, and science and technology. Our aim? For participants be inspired by and discuss with these leaders about how we can contribute to more equitable economies and societies. Ours is a complicated and sometimes overwhelming, unjust, and violent world. It’s also a world where more women, in more contexts, have agency and can make a difference.

Christine Lagarde
Managing Director
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

A graduate in Law and in Political Science, Christine Lagarde joined the international law firm Baker & McKenzie, becoming Chairman of its Global Executive Committee in 1999, and of its Global Strategic Committee in 2004. Madame Lagarde joined the French government in June 2005, as Minister for Foreign Trade. After a brief period as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, she became in June 2007 the first woman to hold the post of Finance and Economy Minister of a G-7 country. In July 2011, Christine Lagarde became the eleventh Managing Director of the IMF, and the first woman to hold that position.