IMFC group photo at IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington
Members of International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) gather for a group photo during the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington on April 24, 2010. Seated (front row, L to R) are IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, IMFC Chairman Youssef Boutros-Ghali, and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, and Chinese Finance Minister Zhou Xiaochuan. In the second row (L to R) are British Finance Minister Alistair Darling, Reserve Bank of India chief Duvvuri Subbarao, Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti, Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, and Switzerland's Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn
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