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Jean Claude Trichet




  Nationality French
  Order 2nd President
  Date1 November 1 , 2003
  Date2 Present
  Preceded Wim Duisenberg
  Succeeded Incumbent
  Vicepresident Lucas Papademos


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 .