From Prasun Sonwalkar
Oxford, Jun 4 (PTI) The chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Chris Patten, wants India?s Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Speaking at the launch event of the Sanjaya Lall Visiting Professorship of Business and Development at the Said Business School yesterday evening, Patten said he had "nothing against Christine Lagarde" ? the French finance minister currently in the running for the job ? but wished Ahluwalia to be the next IMF managing director.
During the recent visit to Africa, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh mooted the idea that the next head of IMF should be from the non-western world, an idea that found support from China and other countries.