The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin.
Following an outstanding private sector career in which she had served as the first Chairwoman of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie, Christine Lagarde joined the French Government in June 2005 as Trade Minister. After a brief stint as Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, in June 2007 she became the first woman to hold the post of Finance and Economy Minister of a G-7 country. As Chair of the G-20 when France took over its presidency for the year 2011, she set in motion a wide-ranging work agenda on the reform of the international monetary system. On July 5, 2011, Christine Lagarde became the eleventh Managing Director of the IMF, the first woman in that position. In 2016, the IMF Executive Board selected her to serve for a second five-year term.
The DIW Europe Lecture is a lecture series by leading policy-makers and academics on the future of Europe. The series aims at fostering and informing the debate on key European policy issues, and at bringing this debate to the heart of Germany's policy-making in Berlin. Previous Europe Lectures have been held by Mario Draghi, Barry Eichengreen and Lawrence H. Summers.
To register, please confirm your participation by Wednesday, 21 March 2018 at the email: events@diw.de.
On Monday, March 26, 2018, the DIW Berlin presented the 4th Europe Lecture on “Strengthening the Euro Area Architecture”. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), talked about success and crises of the European Union. She proposed creating a “rainy-day fund”, that EU-countries contribute to each year to build up assets in good times.
The full speech can be found here.
Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund
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Christine Lagarde at the 4th DIW Berlin Europe Lecture
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Christine Lagarde and Joschka Fischer, former German foreign minister
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Christine Lagarde and Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, at the follwing discussion
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Welcoming address by Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin
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Christine Lagarde, director of the IMF, lectures about "Strengthening the Euro Area Architecture"
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DIW Berlin welcomed Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to the 4th Europe Lecture
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Watch the video review of the event on YouTube:
Topics: Europe , Financial markets , Monetary policy