Mark Carney fails to make shortlist for IMF top job
by Jennifer Rankin in Brussels from Economics | The Guardian on (#4M779)
Bank of England governor had been cited as contender to take over from Christine Lagarde
The shortlist of European candidates to lead the International Monetary Fund has been reduced to a handful of names - but Mark Carney has not made the final cut.
The Bank of England governor had been cited as a contender to take over from Christine Lagarde, who stands down as the fund's managing director in September to move to the European Central Bank. Despite being a previous bookies' favourite, Carney is not on a shortlist drawn up by France's finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, who is organising the process of selecting Europe's candidate.
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