Meet Angela Merkel, the most 'powerful' woman in the world

Angela Merkel

Before we get too far into the New Year, we must talk about Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, and Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” for 2015. It has been 30 years since Time named an individual woman (Corazon Aquino, president of the Philippines) as their person of the year, so, let’s talk about Angela and see what she can teach us.

Angela Merkel, born in the mid-1950s, was one of those very clever, very quiet little girls, with a hidden sense of humour, but who prefer to blend away in the middle of the class, even in photographs.