IMF's After Strauss-Kahn Scandal

The giant, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), finally to its knees. More than a decade ago, Paris Match, an influential magazine in French, show off photos Michel Camdessus, the director, who was given the title: "France's most powerful man on Earth." Now, Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK), his successor, after being arrested and drawings attached to the main page a lot of mass media, became France's most despicable man under heaven.

One of the thrilling than in New York sex scandal involving DSK is a great public curiosity. The scandal has successfully led several major problems that plagued the IMF, also questioned the existence of that institution.

DSK trying to make the IMF as global financial doctor, rather than monetary police. In solving, or even prevent, the financial case, the police sometimes needed. Currently, in some countries are still apparent excesses in the financial sector and the financing program that really takes a hard-nosed police action.

An institution can not rest on mere figure of their leader. Figure leaders are weak and easily politicized can cause great destruction. Unfortunately, many former director of the IMF has one of two weaknesses that - fragile, or easily politicized - or even both.

Two first director, a Belgian named Camille Gutt and a Swedish named Ivar Rooth, a flabby figure. In their tenure, the IMF was never considered a hit.

Before the DSK, the IMF had two German nationals and the Spanish director, who is also weak. The German, Horst Kohler, occupied the top seat in 2000, and did not do well. He served a secretary at the Ministry of Finance of Germany before lined up to star as the head of domestic banking association. Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and then called for Kohler led the IMF. However, Kohler had never entered the calculations. He retired in 2004 after running for President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Rodrigo Rato then took over the baton director of the IMF. He had been a right-wing party bigwigs Spain before finally losing on Election 2004 from Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who is now serving Prime Minister of Spain. He is based in Washington as a consolation but never enjoyed it. IMF influence is shrinking. He then resigned in 2007 due to "personal reasons."

DSK also began the task of the IMF as a politician who was in exile after a political rival Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy and his advisers think that makes the DSK IMF officials, who before the crisis seemed to have an important role, is a sharpshooter. They even had calculated that her private life would probably provoke turmoil in a country that is more polite than the French as well as ignite passion.

But, when the IMF emerged as the world's premier institution, with a skilled DSK politically and economically change the direction of the wheel, he again became a threat to Sarkozy for president a second time.

The involvement of the IMF is very much in an attempt to resolve the European crisis brought the agency into a political vortex. Those who are suspicious of non-European agreement that was prepared for Europe. And there is some worry that the IMF's European party siding with the polarization that occurred in Europe about how to bear the brunt of the economic crisis.

Appointed director of the IMF's agreement in now made after the countries in Europe held a meeting. There is such a desire to exit from the political currents that have swept the agency resulting in bad decisions.

There was never any written rules that the Director of the IMF must come from Western Europe. In fact, the IMF did not include them in the Articles of Agreement. In 1973, candidates from non-European countries to get support. The candidate is Roberto Alemann, an economist who calculated and former Minister of Economy of Argentina.

History of the IMF also became a kind of guide that could tell stories about who the most prolific figures. None of the three Director of the IMF's most authoritative and influential had been a politician or a government minister.

Per Jacobson, a Swedish economist who brought the IMF out of obscurity in 1950, was once an official at the Bank for International Settlements in Base, Switzerland. As the chief economist at the bank in 1930, Jacobsson fluent use of economic analysis as the basis for the spread of influence.

Jacques de Larosière and Michel Camdessus is the civil servants in France are able to combine technical and managerial expertise with high-level vision of how the world economy should be run.

These days, major problems facing the world is how to adjust to political and economic geography of the new, in which the world economy shifts toward the East and South. It makes sense if a character from designated developing countries in order to solve the problem.

However, it again is a repetition of the past, a period when the greatest need is to connect the influence of Europe and the United States. Appointing an Asian icon will only change the players, instead of composing the game.

The IMF needs a director who could exceed the political logic and prepare a new economic world order. Later, the director must be a East instead of West, an economist, not a politician, a visionary, not the interpreter tactics.