Christine Lagarde will leave the European Central Bank in early February next year, nine months before her mandate ends, the ECB announced on yesterday
The 70-year-old French former finance minister has run eurozone monetary policy since November 2019, through the pandemic and the energy-price surge.
Her early departure lets French President Emmanuel Macron help choose her successor before next spring's presidential election, where Marine Le Pen is a frontrunner.
Lagarde is now being tipped as a possible next chair of the Davos-based World Economic Forum.
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