Christine Lagarde

Biography

Youth and studies

Christine Lagarde was born on January 1st 1956 with Paris in the 9^e district. His/her father Robert Lallouette (death when it was 17 years old) and his Nicole mother, are respectively university and teaching. Christine Lagarde attends the François college 1st Havre. She also practices the synchronized Natation and integrates the team of France. At 15 years, it gains a bronze medal with the championship of France. After its baccalaureat obtained in 1974, it obtains a purse and decides to leave first once for one year to the the United States. It there follows courses, is graduate college Holton Arms School with Bethesda (the United States) and carries out a training course with the Capitole as a trainee for the republican representative of the Maine, William S. Cohen, which will become then secretary with the Defense of Bill Clinton.

From return in France, it obtains a Maîtrise English before integrating the Institut of political studies of Aix-en-Provence then the Institut of political studies of Paris, from which it will not obtain the diploma. It obtains a Diplôme of specialized higher learning of Social right (Université Paris X). Twice, it tries without success to integrate the National school of administration. She will acknowledge later that this failure enabled him to remain independent and to carry out all its career in the right. Under its presidency, Baker & Mckenzie increased its turnover of 50% to enclose the exercise 2004 with: 1228 million dollars. In 2002, it was elected 5th European businesswoman by the Wall Street Journal Europe .

Of 1995 with 2002, it was also member of the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), a Think tank , in which it coprésidait with Zbigniew Brzezinski the commission Action USA/UE/Pologne and more particularly followed the Industries work group of USA-Poland defense (1995-2002) and the related questions to the liberalization of the Polish exchanges. In 2003, it also became Member of the Commission for the enlargement of the Community the euro-Atlantic.

In 2004, the president Jacques Chirac did it Chevalier of the Légion of honor.

In April 2005, it enters to the Board of trustees of the multinational Dutchwoman ING Group, one of the principal finance companies in the world, places that it left before becoming minister deputy.

It is the godmother of promotion 2007 of the École of formation of the bar, school of training of lawyers located in the spring of the Court of Appeal of Paris.

Political career

Located by Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Christine Lagarde leaves the the United States in 2005 to start, after twenty years spent out of France, a political career in France. Then little known of the public, it is named minister delegated to the Foreign trade of the Gouvernement Dominique de Villepin the June 2nd 2005. At this station, it had been pointed quickly out to have declared, 48 hours after its nomination, which had absolutely to be reformed the labor regulation in France, that she finds “complicated, heavy” and which “constitutes a brake at the time of recruitment”, which was worth to him a call to order of the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. She had made her remarks on the basis of her experiment of lawyer since it is her which created and developed the department of social right of her cabinet in Paris.

The May 18th 2007, it becomes Minister for Agriculture and Fishing of the first government Francois Fillon.

Minister for the Economy, Finances and Employment

After the rehandling which followed the legislative elections, it is named Minister for the Economy, Finances and Employment the June 19th 2007. It replaces at this station Jean-Louis Borloo which inherits the Ministère of Ecology, the Development and Installation durable. It is the first woman to occupy such a station in France, but also for all the countries of the G8.

Two Secretaries of State are attached to its ministry: Luc Chatel, charged with the Tourism, and Herve Novelli, charged with the Foreign trade.

The “letter of assignment” addressed by president Sarkozy on July 11th, 2007 requires of him to set up Economic reforms, inter alia “making work paying”. She declared in July 2007 thus: That turnings to say a thing to the so simple bottom: it is necessary that work pays. But it is a national old habit: France is a country which thinks. There is hardly an ideology of which we did not make the theory. We have in our libraries what to discuss for the centuries to come. This is why I would like to say to you: enough thought now. Let us roll up our handles. (National Assembly, July 10th 2007)

In 2006, it is classified 30e the most powerful woman in the world by the magazine Forbes . The following year, it is classified 12th in the world, 3rd in Europe and 2nd in France (behind Michele Alliot-Marie).

Like Thierry Breton in 2006, Christine Lagarde is seen allotting in 2007 by the British daily newspaper Financial Times the last place in a classification of the performances of the Ministers for the Economy of the Euro area. Inter alia criteria, the newspaper is based on the evolutions over five years, the heaviness of the tax imposition and the political weight of the minister, which can appear not very relevant for a minister named recently and whose policy is prone to the “hyperprésidence” of Nicolas Sarkozy.

Others

Member of the Advisory Board and VIP Club of the European Professional Women' S Network .
Former Co-president of the Committee of Europe-State-Plain-Poland action and member of the Committee for the enlargement of the Community the euro-Atlantic of the think American tank Center for International Strategic and Studies .
Former member of the Board of trustees of the banking group Dutch ING Groep .
Prize winner in 2007 of the Price of the Academy of the English Rug, for regularly communicating with its services in this language.

Ministerial functions

Of the June 2nd 2005 with the May 15th 2007: Minister delegated to the Foreign trade.
Of the May 18th 2007 with the June 18th 2007: Minister for agriculture and fishing.
Since the June 19th 2007: Minister for the Economy, Finances and Employment.

References

External bonds

official Biography on the site of the Ministry for the Economy and Finances
Portrait of the '' Nouvel Observateur ''

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