Paris: Christine Lagarde has said she is ready to consider a second term as head of the International Monetary Fund in an interview with a French magazine to be published Thursday.
If the members of the IMF "wish that I continue to serve, it`s certainly something I would consider," she told the magazine Challenges.
Lagarde`s mandate expires in July 2016.
In the interview, she also takes aim at the "myth of the IMF as a grand-daddy, intransigent and inhuman" -- accusations that have been raised during its tense negotiations over Greece`s debt.
"Invective and insults don`t advance the debate," she told the magazine, defending the IMF`s track record of "resolving crises around the entire world for 70 years".
Lagarde has clashed with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in recent months, with the IMF boss saying a deal was impossible without "adults in the room" in an apparent sideswipe at Athens officials.
For his part, Tsipras said the IMF bore a "criminal responsibility" for the Greek economic crisis.