The International Monetary Fund tapped Christine Lagarde to be its first female managing director in June 2011.
June 28, 2012Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, on a terrace of one of its office buildings in Washington. Lagarde’s Paris home was searched by French investigators on March 20, as part of an inquiry into her role in a $400 million arbitration deal in favor of a tycoon.Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post