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Biography
Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde is a French politician and lawyer who has been the president of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from 2011 to 2019. Lagarde had also served in the Government of France, most prominently as Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry from 2007 until 2011. She is the first woman to hold each of those posts.
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Awards & recognition
- Honorary doctor of the University of Liège · 2023
- Time 100 · 2022
- Commander of the National Order of Merit · 2021
- honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal · 2014
- Grand Officer of the National Order of the Ivory Coast · 2013
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- Officer of the Legion of Honour · 2012
- Global Citizen Awards · 2011
- Order of Friendship · 2010
- prix de la Carpette anglaise · 2007
- Knight of the Legion of Honour · 2000
- Commander of the Order of Agricultural Merit
- Commander of the Order of Maritime Merit
- National Order of Merit
- National Order of the Ivory Coast
- Order of Agricultural Merit (France)
- Order of Maritime Merit
