Merkel meets leaders of international financial organisations
In April of this year, Angela Merkel sits opposite three key leaders of the global financial system: Roberto Azevedo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (left); Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (centre), and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Credit: Michael Sohn/POOL AP/dpa/PAImages.
In April of this year, Angela Merkel sits opposite three key leaders of the global financial system: Roberto Azevedo, Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (left); Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank (centre), and Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Credit: Michael Sohn/POOL AP/dpa/PAImages.
Tim Montgomerie was most recently a columnist and comment editor for The Times of London. Before that journalistic turn he was steeped in centre right politics, founding the Conservative Christian Fellowship, then the Centre for Social Justice and, just over ten years ago, ConservativeHome.com.
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