Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a professor of economics at Paris West University Nanterre La Defense and Sciences Po, and was Minister of Economy and Finance from 1997 to 1999, as part of Lionel Jospin's Plural Left government.
55 Facts About Dominique Strauss-Kahn
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn sought the nomination in the Socialist Party presidential primary of 2006, but was defeated by Segolene Royal.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn then resumed his activities in the private sector, mainly advising governments on their sovereign debts.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was born on 25 April 1949 in the wealthy Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's father was born to an Alsatian Jewish father while Dominique Strauss-Kahn's mother is from a Sephardic Jewish family in Tunisia.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn graduated from HEC Paris in 1971 and from Sciences Po and the Paris Institute of Statistics in 1972.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been married four times and has five children.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn married his second wife, Brigitte Guillemette, a public relations executive, in 1986.
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In 2017, Dominique Strauss-Kahn married Myriam L'Aouffir, a digital communications expert.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn has an American son, Darius, born in 2010, as a result of an affair while he was serving as Director General of the IMF in Washington DC.
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From 1977 to 1981, Dominique Strauss-Kahn lectured at the University of Nancy-II, first as an assistant, and later as assistant professor, before taking a position at the University of Nanterre.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was first an activist member of the Union of Communist Students, before joining in the 1970s the Centre d'etudes, de recherches et d'education socialiste led by Jean-Pierre Chevenement, future presidential candidate at the 2002 election.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn got involved in the Socialist Party, which was led by Lionel Jospin, and founded Socialisme et judaisme.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn became chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Finances, famously exchanging heated words with the Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn kept his position in Pierre Beregovoy's government until the 1993 general elections.
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In 1994, Raymond Levy, who was director of Renault, invited him to join the Cercle de l'Industrie, a French industry lobby in Brussels, where he met the billionaire businessman Vincent Bollore and top manager Louis Schweitzer; Dominique Strauss-Kahn served as secretary-general and later as vice-president.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was an early proponent of reducing the working week to 35 hours, a measure implemented by Martine Aubry, Minister for Social Policies.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted in November 2001, and was reelected in a by-election in the Val-d'Oise.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn repealed the Thomas Act on hedge funds, and launched the Conseil d'orientation des retraites.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn succeeded in combining followers of Jospin and Rocard in the same political movement, Socialisme et democratie, but failed to make it more than an informal network.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn first declined in taking part in the new leadership of the PS, then in the opposition, in the 2003 congress of the party.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn presided jointly with Jean-Christophe Cambadelis over the Socialisme et democratie current in the PS.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was one of the first French politicians to enter the blogosphere; his blog became one of the most visited, along with Juppe's, during his stay in Quebec.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn then campaigned for a 'Yes' vote in the 2005 French European Constitution referendum.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn sought the nomination for the Socialist candidacy in the 2007 presidential election.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn's challengers were former prime minister Laurent Fabius and Segolene Royal, the president of the Poitou-Charentes region.
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On 13 April 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn called for an "anti-Sarkozy front" between the two rounds of the forthcoming presidential election.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been widely expected to seek the Socialist nomination for President of France in 2012, and was considered an early favorite.
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On 10 July 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the consensus European nominee to be the head of the IMF, with the personal support of President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Some critics alleged that Sarkozy proposed Dominique Strauss-Kahn as managing director of the IMF to deprive the Socialist Party of one of its more popular figures.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn became the front runner in the race to become Managing Director of the IMF, with the support of the 27-nation European Union, the United States, China and most of Africa.
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On 30 September 2007, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was formally named as the new head of the International Monetary Fund.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn said: "I am determined to pursue without delay the reforms needed for the IMF to make financial stability serve the international community, while fostering growth and employment".
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In 2008, the IMF Board appointed an independent investigator following allegations that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had had an affair with a subordinate, Piroska Nagy, who was married at the time to economist Mario Blejer.
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Nagy alleged that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had used his position to coerce her into the affair.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was later made redundant, and Strauss-Kahn assisted her in getting a new job.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn made comments that could be perceived as critical of global financial actors, in an interview for a documentary about the late-2000s financial crisis, Inside Job.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn said he had attended a dinner organised by former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson in which several CEOs of 'the biggest banks in the US' had admitted they were 'too greedy' and bore part of the responsibility for the crisis.
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In May 2011, referring to the IMF's change of heart in favour of progressive rather than neoliberal values, Joseph Stiglitz wrote that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had proved himself to be a "sagacious leader" of the institution.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was on a plane, about to take off, when airport police asked that the plane be stopped; he was escorted off the plane and interviewed by police.
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In July 2013, Dominique Strauss-Kahn accepted a position as a board member of the Russian Regional Development Bank: a banking subsidiary of the Russian state oil company Rosneft.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was a member of the Supervisory board of the bank Kredit Dnipro and involved himself in the bank Arjil, for which he raised advisory assignments to the Serbian Government in 2013 and to the Tunisian Government in 2016.
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On 13 September 2013, it was announced by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic that Dominique Strauss-Kahn would become economic adviser to the Serbian government and that he was expected in Belgrade the following week.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn has helped the government of South Sudan to set up the National Credit Bank in May 2013.
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On 25 September 2013, it was announced that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was to join Anatevka, a small investment banking firm based in Luxembourg.
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Three days after Dominique Strauss-Kahn left the National Credit Bank in October 2014, Thierry Leyne committed suicide in Tel Aviv.
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France 2 television has investigated Dominique Strauss-Kahn and has shown that he has made a profit of several millions dollars after the crash of National Credit Bank.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was ordered to remain confined to a New York apartment under guard.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arraigned on 6 June 2011, and pleaded not guilty.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that Diallo had lied about the encounter and that he had no intention of negotiating with her over a civil suit she had filed against him.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn later reached a settlement with Diallo for an undisclosed amount over the civil suit.
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In March 2012, Dominique Strauss-Kahn came under investigation in France over his alleged involvement in a prostitution ring.
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On 26 July 2013, French prosecutors announced that Dominique Strauss-Kahn was to stand trial concerning allegations of "aggravated pimping" at the Carlton hotel in Lille.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn was acquitted of these charges on 12 June 2015.
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Sinclair said the film was "disgusting" and Dominique Strauss-Kahn's lawyer said "his client would sue the film's producers for libel".