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Ms. Lagarde speaks to press after her meeting with the IMF Board on June 23. (IMF photo).

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IMF Board Selects Lagarde as Next Managing Director

June 28, 2011

The IMF Executive Board on June 28, 2011 selected Christine Lagarde to serve as the 11th IMF Managing Director and Madame Chairman of the Executive Board.

The IMF Executive Board on June 28 selected Christine Lagarde to serve as the 11th IMF Managing Director and Madame Chairman of the Executive Board for a five-year term starting on July 5, 2011. Ms. Lagarde, who succeeds Mr. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is the first woman named to the top IMF post since the institution’s inception in 1944. Read the full IMF Board statement.