Stephen Green served as group chairman of HSBC from 2005 to 2011 and was minister of state for trade and investment in the British government, retiring in 2013. He now chairs the Natural History Museum, is an ordained priest in the Church of England and sits as a Conservative peer in the House of Lords. His previous books include Good Value: Reflections on Money, morality and an uncertain world, European Identity: Historical and cultural realities we cannot deny and Reluctant Meister: Germany and the New Europe and The European Identity , which was included in The Globalist’s Top Books of 2015.
