Jean-Claude Trichet, the top central banker in Europe, was ranked just seven spots below Bernanke.
It was ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet that helped European markets completely break down, though.
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Jean-Claude Trichet has been in office since 2003, following his role as Governor of the Bank of France.
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But the rest of the interview would not make happy listening for President Sarkozy - or Jean- Claude Trichet.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, has criticised the government's plan.
The current ECB chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, is expected to leave in November.
Allies of the ECB's boss, Jean-Claude Trichet, insist he was reacting to market pressures, not assaults on his independence.
Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB chief, had suggested at the bank's previous rate-setting meeting, in June, that an increase was likely.
At a news conference, ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet said that there is "heightened uncertainty" about the outlook for Europe's economy.
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The U.K. has seen its inflation rates pick up substantially, while the ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet has already raised interest rates.
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Germany says yes, the European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet says no.
Jean-Claude Trichet, currently the governor of the Bank of France, was meant to be a shoo-in following a back-door deal in 1998.
But France's president, Jacques Chirac, has stridently refused to back away from his candidate, Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of the Bank of France.
ECB-watchers and markets understand this, even though it has not been spelt out in so many words by Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB's president.
Recently, European Central Bank Chairman Jean-Claude Trichet commented that the central banks around the world are starting to pay attention to rising inflation.
European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet said the new regulations - called Basel III - were "a fundamental strengthening of global capital standards".
This is a narrower front than the one chosen by his predecessor, Jean-Claude Trichet, but Mr Draghi thinks he can deliver more fire-power.
Its announcement on November 4th that it wanted a Frenchman, Jean-Claude Trichet, to be made head of Europe's new central bank is an example.
Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, argues that fiscal thrift will increase private spending by reducing uncertainty about government tax policy and debt.
The ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet will also be at the summit.
Jean-Claude Trichet, governor of France's central bank, is the most plausible.
There had been rumours that Mr Weber was not going to put himself forward to replace Jean-Claude Trichet as head of the European Central Bank (ECB).
Currently the governor of the Bank of Italy, Mr Draghi is due to replace Jean-Claude Trichet in the top job at the ECB on 1 November.
The President of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, told Forbes that global governance is extremely necessary if we want to prevent another financial crisis.
"Es un texto sobre el que ha habido consenso y debe aumentar la confianza de los mercados", dijo el director del Banco Central Europeo, Jean-Claude Trichet.
French politicians and Jean-Claude Trichet, the French head of the European Central Bank, have also spoken in favour of a European rather than a transatlantic solution.
The other big central bank within the euro area, the Bank of France, also said Non when asked for the salary of its governor, Jean-Claude Trichet.
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The latest effort by the bank's governor, Jean-Claude Trichet, to streamline the bloated institution has caused such a rumpus that even France's finance minister has intervened.
One of the great figures of global central banking, Jean-Claude Trichet - president of the European Central Bank during many of the euro's formative years - made a similar point.
The warning comes from the Group of Thirty - a body made up of senior international economists including the former head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet.
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