Who is Christine Lagarde? The woman who rolled her eyes on Ivanka Trump is now set to take Europe's most important monetary position
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- Lagarde, who is currently the head of the IMF, was an unexpected nomination that entered into discussions in Brussels.
- She is set to become the first female leader of the bank.
- For Americans who do not follow economic policy, she is perhaps better known as the woman who rolled her eyes on Ivanka Trump's attempt to enter into a conversation with world leaders.
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She may be better known to Americans as the woman who is visibly annoyed by Ivanka Trump at the G20 summit last week. Now she will be the first woman to lead the European Central Bank.
Who is Christine Lagarde?
The current CEO of the International Monetary Fund, Lagarde nomination, came after weeks of discussion with top EU officials and was largely unexpected, as she has no previous monetary policy experience and is not an economist.
The President of the European Council Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that she would "make a perfect president of the European Central Bank," according to the Wall Street Journal.
Last week during a G20 meeting, Lagarde was filmed and talked to French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Theresa May and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, while visibly annoyed that President Trump's daughter was trying to enter on the call.
Lagarde has become known for alliance building and negotiation skills in global financial circles, as well as a master of female empowerment.
She has fans all over Europe ̵[ads1]1; as head of the IMF she built a strong relationship with Germany. In France and Southern Europe, her French treasury will have past and activist monetary policy thinking over the euro area.
