A closer look at Christine Lagarde

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The International Monetary Fund tapped Christine Lagarde to be its first female managing director in June 2011.

June 28, 2012 Christine 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

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