EU to choose candidate to lead IMF from list of five - French official

European Union governments are working to select one European candidate from a list of five names to succeed Christine Lagarde at the helm of the International Monetary Fund, a French official said on Friday.

The official said the candidates that EU states are considering are Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the Dutch former head of eurozone finance ministers; Nadia Calvino, the Spanish economy minister; Mario Centeno, the Portuguese chairman of eurozone finance ministers; Olli Rehn, the Finnish central bank governor; and Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva, the chief executive of the World Bank.

France is leading the selection process for a European candidate.

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