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SectionsDecember 23 2009

Christine Lagarde - Interview

The no-nonsense style of France’s finance minister has won her many admirers. She tells The Banker of how she intends to tackle the hardest task of her tenure, that of regulating France and Europe’s post-crisis banking landscape. Writer Silvia Pavoni
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French finance minister Christine Lagarde has emerged as one of the rare winners from the financial crisis. Named European Finance ­Minister of the Year by the Financial Times, she has a forceful political presence and promising economic measures on her side.

Impeccably dressed and professionally charming, Ms Lagarde embodies France’s new powers and is one of the few European politicians to have achieved international renown.

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Silvia Pavoni is editor in chief of The Banker. Silvia also serves as an advisory board member for the Women of the Future Programme and for the European Risk Management Council, and is part of the London council of non-profit WILL, Women in Leadership in Latin America. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary fellowship by City University of London.
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