PARIS: Silver-haired and silver-tongued, Christine Lagarde is a high-flying former lawyer whose legacy at the IMF and possible future political career may hang on a case before French courts this week.
Lagarde, 60, is credited with steering the Washington-based International Monetary Fund efficiently through turbulent economic times since she took over in 2011.
As well as being an embarrassing distraction, her legal woes also strike at the core of another of her tasks: restoring morale at the institution following legal problems for her two predecessors.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister like Lagarde, resigned in disgrace in 2011 after being accused of …read more
Source: Free Malaysia Today
