Lagarde's partner is Xavier Giocanti, 56, a gregarious and ruggedly handsome Marseille businessman of Corsican descent, an opposites-attract match for an elegant and understated woman raised on ...

Christine Lagarde: It is a very serious situation, ... businessman Xavier Giocanti, at her side. Lagarde's trademark charm was on full display and she looked every bit the seasoned retail politician.

Christine Lagarde became the first female head of the IMF after Dominque Strauss-Kahn resigned. ... Lagarde has been with her partner Xavier Giocanti, an entrepreneur, for the past five years.

Early on the Sunday morning of May 15, 2011, while trying to take a little time off with her partner, Xavier Giocanti, Lagarde read a news alert: Strauss-Kahn had been arrested in New York for ...

Christine Lagarde was the first woman to lead the IMF, ... She did not mention her partner, the businessman Xavier Giocanti, nor Thomas Lagarde, the father of her two sons, ...

Ms. Lagarde was born Christine Lallouette on Jan. 1, 1956, in Paris and later moved to Le Havre, a city of about 180,000. ... a Corsican businessman named Xavier Giocanti, ...

It's official. is the new Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. Unofficially, she is now arguably the most powerful woman in the world. The IMF had until Thursday to name a ...