The rally may well have been driven by a lifting of the intense economic gloom that enveloped the markets in the autumn of 2011 and a sense that the European authorities had removed the immediate threat of a banking collapse, while simultaneously halting the rapid rise in Italian and Spanish government-bond yields.
She talks candidly and a little ferociously about her rise to the top, and how being a woman has simultaneously challenged and freed her to pursue her own career trajectory.