Christine Lagarde speaks at IMF press conference 3

Recently appointed IMF (International Monetary Fund) managing director Christine Lagarde holds her first press conference in Washington DC where she lays out her plan for IMF's future and how it will handle the economic crises. Christine says: Describe them as you underline them, where ever your eyes turn where ever you are located where ever your articles will be, they are issues, they are concerns. When we look at the status of the world we have clearly gone over the financial crises of the world that hit all economies in particularly the advanced economies in the fall of 2008 and continued though out and at least well into 2009 and some countries well into 2010 and some might argue that it is continuing given that growth potential has not been restored in many countries given the fact that unemployment is still very high in many corners and there for a lot needs to be done by the economy players Christine Madeleine Odette Lagarde (born 1 January 1956) is a French lawyer and the managing director of the International Monetary Fund since July 5, 2011. Previously, she held various ministerial posts in the French government: she was Minister of Economic Affairs, Finances and Industry and before that Minister of Agriculture and Fishing and Minister of Trade in the government of Dominique de Villepin. Lagarde was the first woman ever to become minister of Economic Affairs of a G8 economy, and is the first woman to ever head the IMF.