Lagarde’s Next Challenges At The IMF Nicole Kekeh

Lagarde’s Next Challenges At The IMF

July 20 2011

Christine Lagarde, the former French Finance Minister took up her post at the IMF in Washington, on July 5. She becomes the first-ever woman to lead the venerable Washington-based institution, since it was created in 1944.

It is a milestone. It is historic, indeed, and ought to be celebrated. One of the last bastions of powerful male clubs in the world of global finance––the international financial institutions or IFIs, as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are known––might have been toppled.

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Nicole Kekeh is a contributor to ForbesWoman World With A View, a blog for global women, and to ForbesWoman. Nicole Kekeh is the founder of The Dora Kan Group LLC a startup and strategy firm dedicated to affecting change in Africa by leveraging the power of business innovation and by working with emerging businesses and industries in Africa and connecting them to ideas and solutions, to grow. She created and writes a blog on Africa and on issues ranging from politics to economics. For further information, visit: http://www.thedorakangroup.com/ or write to us: info@thedorakangroup.com

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