Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Christine Lagarde, will give a lecture at The University of the West Indies Mona Campus, this Friday June 27, 2014 at 4:00p.m. in the Social Sciences Lecture Theatre.

This official visit to the University will be streamed live at: http://tv.mona.uwi.edu/imf-public-lecture

Following her Lecture, a Question and Answer session will be facilitated  by Head of the Department of Economics at the Mona campus, Damien King.  The Department  invites the views of faculty and especially students from all campuses to be represented in this session. As such, students and lecturers are being asked to forward their questions  to damien.king@uwimona.edu.jm by Thursday morning, June 26th.  For each question sent, interested persons are being asked to identify the name and department (if faculty member) or major (if student) of the person asking the question.

More about Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde is Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. She was appointed in July 2011. A national of France, she was previously French Finance Minister from June 2007, and had also served as France’s Minister for Foreign Trade for two years.

Ms. Lagarde also has had an extensive and noteworthy career as an anti-trust and labour lawyer, serving as a partner with the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, where the partnership elected her as chairman in October 1999. She held the top post at the firm until June 2005 when she was named to her initial ministerial post in France. Ms. Lagarde has degrees from Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and from the Law School of Paris X University, where she also lectured prior to joining Baker & McKenzie in 1981.