Christine Lagarde — Holton Arms and the Jesuit Pipeline
Christine Lagarde has held two of the senior monetary-policy offices in the dataset. She was Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 5 July 2011 to 12 September 2019, and has been President of the European Central Bank since 1 November 2019. Both appointments were first-woman events at their respective institutions.
The episode traces her trajectory from a 17-year-old French exchange student at the Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland, through her partnership track at the international law firm Baker & McKenzie, her tenure as French Trade Minister and then Finance Minister under Sarkozy, and the institutional network that supported her move into the IMF and the ECB.
