Profile:
Dominique Gaston André Strauss-Kahn (French pronunciation: [dɔminik stʁos kan]; born April 25th 1949 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France's wealthiest suburb. He is the son of Gilbert Strauss-Kahn, a legal and tax advisor and member of the Grand Orient de France, and Russian/Tunisian journalist Jacqueline Fellus.
He is a French economist, lawyer, and politician, and a member of the Socialist Party of France (PS). In 1995, he was elected mayor of Sarcelles, a poor suburb of Paris, then masterminded the economic policy that helped the Socialists win legislative elections in 1997, when he became finance minister.
Strauss-Kahn became the 10th Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 28 September 2007, with the backing of Nicolas Sarkozy.
