# In an op-ed, NYU Global Research Professor Ian Bremmer explains why Christine Lagarde should be re-elected as managing director of the IMF

1 Faculty News January 19, 2016 ![Project Syndicate logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030500.jpg?itok=ONV7lJ6H)>

Excerpt from [Project Syndicate](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/imf-lagarde-strong-leadership-by-ian-bremmer-2016-01) -- "When Lagarde took the helm in July 2011, she inherited an institution in crisis. The global financial meltdown in 2008 and its economic aftershocks had discredited Western-led multilateral lenders and the free-market 'Washington Consensus.' Lagarde’s leadership has helped to restore the Fund’s reputation."

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