9/25/2009 - Former AFSer Christine Lagarde featured in Foreign Policy Magazine
Early word out of Pittsburgh indicates that [Sarkozy’s] brash style isn’t necessarily going to get him what he wants—but luckily, he’s got a secret weapon. One of his cabinet officials has been making the press rounds with him, playing good cop to his bad cop in copious interviews in print and on television. That is Christine Lagarde, France’s enigmatic finance minister and the former chair of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie. She has emerged in the past year as a major political player regarding the recession, and as a foil for Sarkozy.
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