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WASHINGTON-The International Monetary Fund named French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde as its next managing director, catapulting her into the middle of a deepening European debt crisis that threatens global financial markets.
Ms. Lagarde, 55 years old, who assumes the job next Tuesday, will have to lead an international institution while showing independence from her previous positions as part of the French government, with skeptics watching carefully for signs of whether she gives financially troubled European nations preferential treatment. Some emerging-market officials have already suggested Greece has won more latitude from the IMF than their countries would have received in a crisis.
The first woman and 11th consecutive European to hold the top position at the world's emergency lender, Ms. Lagarde also faces the tasks of giving developing economies more power within the IMF and helping the institution recover from the sudden resignation last month of its former chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who remains under house arrest in New York City on sexual-assault charges.
"I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit," Ms. Lagarde said on Tuesday after her appointment. "The IMF must be relevant, responsive, effective, and legitimate, to achieve stronger and sustainable growth, macroeconomic stability, and a better future for all."
During her interview with the IMF board last week, she pushed back against complaints that her French nationality creates a potential conflict of interest in European policy debates. The IMF's managing director has an "exclusive duty of loyalty" to the fund, Ms. Lagarde said at the time. "I will not shrink from the necessary candor and toughness in my discussions with the European leaders."
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Ms. Lagarde, 55 years old, who assumes the job next Tuesday, will have to lead an international institution while showing independence from her previous positions as part of the French government, with skeptics watching carefully for signs of whether she gives financially troubled European nations preferential treatment. Some emerging-market officials have already suggested Greece has won more latitude from the IMF than their countries would have received in a crisis.
The first woman and 11th consecutive European to hold the top position at the world's emergency lender, Ms. Lagarde also faces the tasks of giving developing economies more power within the IMF and helping the institution recover from the sudden resignation last month of its former chief, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who remains under house arrest in New York City on sexual-assault charges.
"I will make it my overriding goal that our institution continues to serve its entire membership with the same focus and the same spirit," Ms. Lagarde said on Tuesday after her appointment. "The IMF must be relevant, responsive, effective, and legitimate, to achieve stronger and sustainable growth, macroeconomic stability, and a better future for all."
During her interview with the IMF board last week, she pushed back against complaints that her French nationality creates a potential conflict of interest in European policy debates. The IMF's managing director has an "exclusive duty of loyalty" to the fund, Ms. Lagarde said at the time. "I will not shrink from the necessary candor and toughness in my discussions with the European leaders."
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