Glocer, the first American and non-journalist to holdthe top post at Reuters Group, is credited by analysts with having shaped the company up to compete with larger rival Bloomberg by improving the company's trading products.
Two years later, in 2007, she was appointed finance minister, the first woman to holdthepost in a G7 country, by President Nicolas Sarkozy, who launched a reform program called La Rupture, a break from France's socialist past.