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Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (French: [kʁistin madlɛn ɔdɛt laɡaʁd]; née Lallouette, IPA:; born 1 January 1956) is a French politician and lawyer who has been the President of the European Central Bank since 2019. She previously served as the 11th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from
Riad Salameh was born in Antelias in 1950 into a Christian Maronite family of successful business people, long based in Liberia. [12] His father Toufic Salameh owned the Cedars Hotel in Broummana, and his mother Raniah was a "well-known charitable activist" and Lebanese Red Cross member who was murdered in 1982. [12]
The first president and director of the Arab Monetary Fund, from 1977 to 1982, was Dr. Jawad Hashim. In 1982, the Arab Monetary Fund funded and supervised the launch of Investcorp. Nemir Kirdar was transferred from Chase, where he advised the AMF, to Abu Dhabi to develop the new fund. Omar Aggad was the first investor in this fund. [1]
He is also the founding member of the Lebanon chapter of the Young Arab Leaders. In 2005, Azour was advisor to the International Monetary Fund's department of fiscal affairs on reforming Qatar's tax structure. Azour's career at the Lebanon Ministry of Finance, began as a project director on a 1999 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ...
She has also served as a vice president at the World Bank [4] and as a deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. [5] She has been a member of the House of Lords as a life peer since 2020, but is currently on a leave of absence. [6] Shafik was head of Columbia University during the 2024 Columbia University protests.
Partnering with a mayor to bring the wealth fund’s investment conference to a major U.S. city would have been especially attractive to the crown prince, he said, after a U.S. intelligence report ...
Head of the United Nations Children's Fund – Carol Bellamy – 1995 [15] United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights – Mary Robinson – 1997 [16] Deputy Secretary-General – Louise Fréchette – 1998 [17] Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme – Anna Tibaijuka – 2000 [18]
Melinda French Gates has launched a new $250 million initiative to improve women's health, making headlines worldwide. This significant move is part of her $1 billion commitment to promoting women ...