G-7 Finance Ministers and their Bank Governors pose for a family picture as they hold a meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 3, 2009. (FromL, Bottom Row) International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia of Spain, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. (FromL, Top Row) OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria of Mexico, Chairman of the euro zone finance ministers' group Jean-Claude Junker, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, German Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Russian Central Bank Governor Sergey Ignatiev, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and Egypt�s Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali. Getty Images logo Getty Images 2 months ago

G-7 Finance Ministers and their Bank Governors pose for a family picture as they hold a meeting at the Istanbul Congress Center on October 3, 2009. (FromL, Bottom Row) International Monetary Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, EU Commissioner Joaquin Almunia of Spain, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Italy's Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, Japan's Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii, German Deputy Finance Minister Joerg Asmussen, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Russian Finance Minister Alexey Kudrin and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. (FromL, Top Row) OECD Secretary General Angel Gurria of Mexico, Chairman of the euro zone finance ministers' group Jean-Claude Junker, European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet, US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, Bank of France Governor Christian Noyer, Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, Bank of Japan Governor Masaaki Shirakawa, German Bundesbank President Axel Weber, Russian Central Bank Governor Sergey Ignatiev, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King and Egypt�s Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali.

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