Jean-Claude Trichet
Jean-Claude Trichet | |
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| 2nd President of the European Central Bank | |
| Assumed office 1 November, 2003 | |
| Vice President | Lucas Papademos |
| Preceded by | Wim Duisenberg |
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| Born | December 20, 1942 |
Jean-Claude Trichet (born December 20, 1942) is a French banker.
He was born in Lyon, trained as an engineer at the École nationale supérieure des Mines de Nancy and later as a civil servant at the Institut d'etudes politiques de Paris (best known as Sciences Po) and the Ecole nationale d'administration.
In 1993 he was appointed governor of Banque de France.
On November 1, 2003 he took Wim Duisenberg's place as president of the European Central Bank. Wim Duisenberg had in a compromise agreed to step down from his office after four years[1](although this is publicly denied by all parties), in order to satisfy the French president, Jacques Chirac, who wanted a French candidate.