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Following are participants acknowledged by the Trilateral Commission. Many more were there and some of were identified by our team who observed them up close.

North American Chairman: JOSEPH S. NYE, JR., former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs
European Chairman:
PETER SUTHERLAND
Chairman, BP p.l.c., London; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International.
Pacific Asian Chairman: YOTARO KOBAYASHI, Former Chairman of the Board, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo
North American Deputy Chairman:
ALLAN E. GOTLIEB, Senior Adviser, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby's, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States
North American Deputy Chairman:
LORENZO ZAMBRANO
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, CEMEX, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
European Deputy Chairman:
HERVE DE CARMOY
Chairman, ETAM, Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Générale de Belgique
European Deputy Chairman:
ANDRZEJ OLECHOWSKI
Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman:
HAN SUNG-JOO, Chairman, The Asan Instiute for Policy Studies; former President, Korea University, Seoul; former Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman:
SHIJURO OGATA, Former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan

 

North American Director: MICHAEL J. O’NEIL
European Director: PAUL RÉVAY
Pacific Asian Director: TADASHI YAMAMOTO

 

Former North American Chairmen:
THOMAS S. FOLEY (2001-2008)
PAUL A. VOLCKER (1991-2001) Honorary North American Chairman
DAVID ROCKEFELLER (1977-91) Founder and Honorary North American Chairman
GERARD C. SMITH (1973-77)

Former European Chairmen:
OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF (1992-2001) Honorary European Chairman
GEORGES BERTHOIN (1976-92) Honorary European Chairman
MAX KOHNSTAMM (1973-76)

Former Japanese Chairmen:
KIICHI MIYAZAWA, Acting Chairman (1993-97)
AKIO MORITA (1992-93)
ISAMU YAMASHITA (1985-92)
TAKESHI WATANABE (1973-85)

 

Executive Committee

Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, Paris
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Investment Bank, London; former Vice President, European Commission
Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC
Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement
Catherine Bertini, Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon
François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France
Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin
Alfonso Cortina, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe
Vladimir Dlouhy, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Kenneth M. Duberstein, Former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan
Thomas S. Foley, Former Speaker of the U.S. House
Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin
Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid
Toyoo Gyohten, President, The Institute for International Monetary Affairs
John J. Hamre, President, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC
Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University
Carla A. Hills, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Karen Elliott House, Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Mugur Isarescu, Former Prime Minister of Romania
Baron Daniel Janssen, Honorary Chairman, Solvay, Brussels
Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest; Member of the Monetary Council of the National Bank; President of the Hungarian Economic Association
Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
Lee Hong-Koo, Former Prime Minister of Korea
Eli Leenaars, Vice Chairman, Netherlands Banker's Association
Marianne Lie, Partner, Vox Politica, Oslo
Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Member, KKR & Co., New York, NY
Minoru Murofushi, President, Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo
Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International Policy Studies
Ursula Plassnik, Member of the Austrian Parliament
Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF
Ferdinando Salleo, Vice Chairman, MCC (Mediocredito Centrale)
Susan Schwab, Former U.S. Trade Representative
Carlo Secchi, Former Member of the Italian Senate and of the European Parliament
Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Copenhagen
Petar Stoyanov, former President of the Republic of Bulgaria
Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Raivo Vare, Former Estonian Minister of State
George Vassiliou, Former President of the Republic of Cyprus
Paul Volcker, Former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System
Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, K & H Bank Zrt, Budapest
Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens
Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees; Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin

IDENTIFIED BUT NOT LISTED:

Mikhail Sloboddinsky, DeputyDirector, Transitional Period Institute, Russia

Brian Cowen, prime minister of Ireland (only for welcoming address)

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank

OTHERS

  • Urban Ahlin, Member of the Swedish Parliament and Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Stockholm

Esko Aho, Executive Vice President, Nokia, Helsinki; former Prime Minister of Finland

*Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance

Jacques Andréani, Ambassadeur de France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States

Jorge Armindo, Chairman, Amorim Turismo, Lisbon

Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw

Patricia Barbizet, Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors, Artémis Group, Paris

Estela Barbot, Director, AGA; Director, Bank Santander Negocios; Member of the General Council, AEP -- Portuguese Business Association, Porto; General Honorary Consul of Guatemala, Lisbon

*Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken; Director, Investor AB, Stockholm

 

Marek Belka, Director, European Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C.; former Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva; former Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Poland, Warsaw; former Ambassador-at-Large and Chairman, Council for International Coordination, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad

Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, Chairman of the Executive Board, Lhoist Group, Limelette, Belgium

*Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, Paris

Nicolas Beytout, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Groupe Les Echos; former Editor of Le Figaro and  Les Echos, Paris

Carl Bildt, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; former Chairman, Kreab Group of public affairs companies; former Chairman, Nordic Venture Network, Stockholm; former Member of the Swedish Parliament, Chairman of the Moderate Party and Prime Minister of Sweden; former European Union High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina & UN Special Envoy to the Balkans

Manfred Bischoff, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Daimler AG, Munich; former Member of the Board of Management, Daimler AG; former Chairman, EADS

Antonio Borges, Chairman, Hedge Fund Standards Board, London

Ana Patricia Botin, Executive Chairman, Banesto; Vice Chairman, Urbis; Member of the Management Committee, Santander Group, Madrid

Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Member, State Audit Court (Cour des Comptes), Paris; Associated Professor, Institute for Political Studies in Paris; former Member of the European Parliament, Brussels; former President of the European Movement in France, Paris

*Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon; Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance

*Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Investment Bank, London; former Vice President, European Commission

Jean-Louis Bruguière, EU High Representative to the United States on the Terrorist Finance Tracking Programme (TFTP/SWIFT); Judge, Paris

John Bruton, former European Union Ambassador & Head, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States; former Prime Minister of Ireland, Dublin

Robin Buchanan, Senior Adviser, Bain & Company, London; former Dean and President, London Business School

*François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citi France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States

Edelgard Bulmahn, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal Minister, Berlin

Richard Burrows, Chairman, British American Tobacco, London; former Governor, Bank of Ireland; former President, IBEC (The Irish Business and Employers Confederation), Dublin

Erhard Busek, Chairman, Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM); President, EU-Russia Centre; President, European Forum Alpbach; former Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe; Former Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister, Vienna

*Hervé de Carmoy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ETAM, Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Générale de Belgique

Salvatore Carrubba, Director of Strategies and Columnist, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan; former Culture Alderman, Municipality of Milan

Carme Chacon Piqueras, Minister for Defence; former Minister of Housing; former First Vice-President of the Spanish Parliament, Madrid

Jürgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation, Munich; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States

Luc Coene, Minister of State; Deputy Governor, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels

Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge; Chairman, Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie (IHEST); Chairman, Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI); Member of the Institut de France, Paris

Patrick Combes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Compagnie Financière Tradition and

 Viel & Cie., Paris

Iain Conn, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Refining & Marketing, BP, London

*Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland

Jean-François Copé, Member of the French National Assembly; Chairman of the UMP Parliamentary Group; former Member of the French Government, Paris

Eckhard Cordes, Chief Executive Officer, Metro Group, Düsseldorf; former CEO Haniel, Duisburg; former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler

*Alfonso Cortina, Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe; Senior Advisor for Spain and Latin America of Rothschild; Senior Advisor for Spain of Texas Pacific Group; Member of the Board of Directors of Mutua Madrileña; Member of the International Advisory Board of Allianz AG, Madrid

Eduardo Costa, Executive Vice Chairman, Banco Finantia, Lisbon; Member, Forum Portugal Global

Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani, Member of the Board of Management, Allianz SE, Munich; Chairman, Allianz S.p.A., Trieste

Caroline Daniel, Comment and Analysis Editor and Assistant Editor, Financial Times, London

Michel David-Weill, former Chairman, Lazard LLC, worldwide; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, EURAZEO, Paris

*Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague; European Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Pedro Miguel Echenique, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque Country; President, Foundation Donostia International Physic Center (DIPC); former Basque Minister of Education, San Sebastian

John Elkann, Chairman, Fiat Group, Turin

Anna Ekström, President, The Swedish Confederation of Professional Associations, Saco, Stockholm

Guy Elliott, Finance Director, Rio Tinto, London

Oscar Fanjul, Vice Chairman, Omega Capital; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Repsol, Madrid

Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF; former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid

Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Management Board and Member of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main

Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt am Main

Louise Fresco, University Professor, University of Amsterdam; Member of the Board of non-executive Directors, RABO Bank, Utrecht; former Assistant Director-General, Head of Agriculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome

Hugh Friel, Chairman, Tourism Ireland; former Chief Executive Officer, Kerry Group, Tralee, Co. Kerry, Ireland

*Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin

*Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid

Wolfgang Gerhardt, Member of the German Bundestag

Lord Gilbert, Member of the House of Lords; former Minister for Defense, London

Esther Giménez-Salinas, Rector, Ramon Llull University; Professor of Criminal Law, ESADE Law School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelona

Dermot Gleeson, Chairman of the Governing Body of University College Cork, and of Travelport Jersey Ltd.; former Chairman, AIB Group, Dublin

Stephen Green, Group Chairman, HSBC, London; Chairman, British Bankers’ Association

Pierfrancesco Guarguaglini, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Finmeccanica, Rome

 

Federica Guidi, Chief Executive and Vice President, DUCATI Energia, Bologna; Member of the Board of Directors, DUCATI Energia Group; National President of Confindustria Young Entrepreneurs

Elisabeth Guigou, Member of the French National Assembly; former Minister for European Affairs, Paris

General The Lord Guthrie, Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London; Member of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London

Helga Hernes, Senior Advisor, PRIO (International Peace Research Institute Oslo); Chair, Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee, Oslo; former Norwegian Ambassador

Nigel Higgins, Chief Executive, The Rothschild Group, London

Wolfgang Ischinger, Global Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Munich; Chairman, The Munich Security Conference on Security Policy; former European Member of the Troïka on the Kosovo Status Determination; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and former German Ambassador to the United States and to the United Kingdom

*Mugur Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest; former Prime Minister

*Baron Daniel Janssen, Honorary Chairman, Solvay, Brussels

Trinidad Jiménez, Member of the Federal Executive Committee, Madrid

Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

*Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest

Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, former Chief of the Finnish Defense Forces, Helsinki

Robert Kassai, General Vice President, The National Association of Craftmen’s Corporations, Budapest

*Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc

*Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) & Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA), Helsinki

Arpad Kovacs, President, State Audit Office of Hungary, Budapest

Gabor Kovacs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bankar Holding

Jerzy Kozminski, President and Chief Executive Officer, Polish-American Freedom Foundation

Ivan Krastev,  Editor-in-Chief, Bulgarian Edition, Foreign Policy

Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic

Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Group; former Chairman, Federation of Greek Industries, Athens 

Anne Lauvergeon, Chief Executive Officer, AREVA, Paris

*Eli Leenaars,  Vice Chairman, Netherlands Banker’s Association, Amsterdam

Ulrich Lehner, Chairman of the Board of Deutsche Telekom, Bonn

Enrico Letta, Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies

Thomas Leysen, Chairman of the Board, Umicore, Brussels

*Marianne Lie, Partner, Vox Politica

Erkki Liikanen, Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland

Peter Löscher, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich

Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes

Francis Maude, Member of the British Parliament

Friedrich Merz, Former Member of the German Bundestag

Peter Mitterbauer, Honorary President, The Federation of Austrian Industry, Vienna

Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the French Institute for International Relations, Paris

*Mario Monti, President, Bocconi University, Milan

Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Former Chairman, Royal Dutch/Shell Group, London

Klaus-Peter Müller, Former President, Association of German Banks (BDB), Berlin

Harald Norvik, Former President and Chief Executive, Statoil, Oslo

Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the Austrian National Bank

Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel; Founder, Communicorp Group, Dublin

Arend Oetker, President, German Council on Foreign Relations 

*Andrzej Olechowski, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw

Richard Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems, London

Lucas Papademos, Vice President, European Central Bank

Lord Patten of Barnes, Former Member of the British Cabinet, London

Volker Perthes, Chairman and Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Carlo Pesenti, Managing Director, Italcementi, Bergamo

Dieter Pfundt, Personally Liable Partner, Sal. Oppenheim Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main

*Ursula Plassnik, Member of the Austrian Parliament

 

Roberto Poli, Chairman, ENI, Rome

Benoît Potier, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Air Liquide, Paris

Dieter Rampl, Chairman, UniCredit Group, Milan

Luigi Ramponi, Member of the Italian Senate; former Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Rome; former Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Italian Army)

Denis Ranque, Chairman, Technicolor, Paris; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Thales, Paris

Wanda Rapaczynski, Advisor to the Supervisory Board and former President of the Management Board, Agora, Warsaw

Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal Minister of Research and Technology, Berlin; Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Kabel Deutschland and of Evotec

Steen Riisgaard, President and Chief Executive Officer, Novozymes, Copenhagen

Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Chairman, Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), The Hague

Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan; Vice President, Confindustria, Rome

H. Onno Ruding, Chairman, Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels

*Ferdinando Salleo, Vice Chairman, MCC (Mediocredito Centrale), Rome

Enrico Salza, Chairman of the Management Board, Intesa Sanpaolo, Turin

Jacques Santer, Honorary State Minister, Luxembourg

Andreas Schmitz, President, Association of German Banks

Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and former Chief Executive Officer, Allianz, Munich

Karel Schwarzenberg, Former President of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

*Carlo Secchi, Former Member of the Italian Senate and of the European Parliament

*Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen

Maurizio Sella, Chairman, Gruppo Banca Sella, Biella; former Chairman, Association of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Rome

Tomasz Sielicki , Vice Chairman, Sygnity, Warsaw

Slawomir S. Sikora, Chief Executive Officer and Citigroup Country Officer for Poland

Yves-Thibault de Silguy, Chairman, VINCI, Paris

Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs (IAI), Rome

Lord Simon of Highbury, Former Chairman of BP, London

Nicholas Soames, Member of the British Parliament, London

Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London

*Petar Stoyanov, Former President of the Republic of Bulgaria

Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Executive Board, Danske Bank, Copenhagen

*Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Mihai Tanasescu, Senior Adviser and Member of the Executive Board, International Monetary Fund

Pavel Telicka, Partner, BXL-Consulting, Prague

Andreas Treichl, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Erste Bank der Oesterreichischen Sparkassen, Vienna

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli & C., Milan

Elsbeth Tronstad, Executive Vice President, SN Power

Loukas Tsoukalis,  Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, Madrid

*Raivo Vare, Partner, Sthenos Group, and OÜ RVVE Group

*George Vassiliou, Member of Parliament and Leader of United Democrats, Nicosia

Franco Venturini, Senior Editorial Commentator on Foreign Affairs, Corriere della Sera, Rome

Margrethe Vestager, Member of the Danish Parliament

Janne Virkkunen, Senior Editor-in-Chief, Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki

Alexandr Vondra, Former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs

Joris Voorhoeve,  Former Minister of Defense, The Hague

*Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens

Peter Wallenberg Jr., Chairman, Foundation Asset Management Sweden AB (FAM), Stockholm

*Heinrich Weiss, Chief Executive Officer, SMS, Düsseldorf

Nout Wellink, President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam

Hans Wijers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnhem

Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell, Co-Chief Executive Officer, UBS Investment Bank, London

Matthias Wissmann, President, The German Association of the Automotive Industry

Emilio Ybarra, former Chairman, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid

Former Members in Public Service

Lene Espersen, Minister of Justice, Denmark

Grete Faremo, Minister of Defence; former Norwegian Minister of Development Cooperation, Minister of Justice and Minister of Oil and Energy, Oslo

Lykke Friis, Minister of Climate and Energy; former Pro-Rector, University of Copenhagen; Member of the EU Reflection Group on the Future of Europe (Horizon 2020-2030), Copenhagen

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, President of the Republic of Estonia, Tallinn

  • Lord Mandelson, Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform;
  • Former Member of the European Commission (Trade), Brussels; former Secretary of State to Northern Ireland and for Trade and Industry, United Kingdom
  • North American Group
  • Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan and former Assistant Secretary of Defense under President William Clinton
  • Richard L. Armitage, President, Armitage International LLC, Washington, DC;
  • former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
  • Zoë Baird, President, Markle Foundation, New York, NY
  • James L. Balsillie, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Research in Motion, Ltd., Waterloo, ON; Chair, Canadian International Council (CIC)
  • Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman, Eton Park Capital Management, New York, NY
  • Nani Beccalli-Falco, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE International, Brussels, Belgium
  • *C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
  • *Catherine Bertini, Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; former Under Secretary-General for Management, United Nations; former Executive Director, UN World Food Program.
  • Robert D. Blackwill, Senior Fellow, The RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; former Deputy Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Planning; former Ambassador to India
  • Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Soluciones Estratégicas, Mexico City, NL; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development
  • Stephen W. Bosworth, U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Policy; Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
  • David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC

Scott A. Brison, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Ottawa, ON

David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, Washington, DC

Gord Brown, Member of Parliament, House of Commons, Ottawa ON

  • Harold Brown, Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; former General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company, New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
  • R. Nicholas Burns, Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics and Member of the Board, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
  • Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President, Global Development Programs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
  • Louis C. Camilleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International, New York, NY
  • Raymond Chrétien, Partner and Strategic Advisor, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Montreal, QC; Chairman of the Board of Directors, Montréal Council on Foreign Relations (MCFR); former Associate Under Secretary of State of External Affairs; former Ambassador to the Congo, Belgium, Mexico, the United States, and France
  • Eliot Cohen, Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies, Director of Strategic Studies Program, and Director of Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International  Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; former Counselor to the U.S. Secretary of State
  • William T. Coleman III, Founder, former Chairman and CEO, Cassatt Corporation; Founder, former Chairman and CEO and Member, Board of Directors, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA
  • William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, O’Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission
  • Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ripplewood Holdings, New York, NY
  • Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University,  Cambridge, MA; former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council; former U.S. Under  Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
  • E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Bank, New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  • Lee Cullum, Contributing Columnist, Dallas Morning News; Radio and Television Commentator,
  • Dallas, TX
  • Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY; Visiting Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo; and former Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
  • H.Lawrence Culp, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, Danaher Corporation, Washington, DC
  • Lynn E. Davis, Director, Washington Office, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security
  • Arthur A. DeFehr, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palliser Furniture, Winnipeg, MB
  • André Desmarais, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation
  • John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
  • Peter C. Dobell, Founding Director, Parliamentary Centre, Ottawa, ON
  • Paula J. Dobriansky, Senior Vice President and Head of Government Affairs (Americas), Thomson Reuters, Washington, D.C. and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs
  • Wendy K. Dobson, Professor and Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance
  • *Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Duberstein Group,  Washington, DC; former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan
  • William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York,
  • New York, NY
  • Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair, Synergos Institute, New York, NY
  • Robert Eckert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA
  • Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean, Paul Nitze School of  Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; former Managing Director for Finance and Resource Mobilization, World Bank
  • Dianne Feinstein, Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate
  • Martin S. Feldstein, Member, U.S. President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research; former Chairman, U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisors
  • Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Member, U.S. President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board; President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF, New York, NY; former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System
  • Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem; former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
  • Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative
  • *Thomas S. Foley,  former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC
  • Kristin J. Forbes, Associate Professor of International Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA; former Member of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers
  • Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC
  • Dionisio Garza, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ALFA, Garza Garcia, NL
  • Richard A. Gephardt, Senior Counsel, DLA Piper, Washington, DC; former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Representatives
  • *David R. Gergen, Harvard Kennedy School Professor of Public Service and Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Cambridge, MA; CNN Senior Political Analyst; U.S. News and World Report Editor-at-Large
  • Francisco Gil-Díaz, Executive President, Telefónica de España-México and Central América, Mexico
    City, DF

Peter C. Godsoe, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Scotiabank, Toronto, ON

  • Donald J. Gogel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Clayton Dubilier and Rice, New York, NY
  • *Allan E. Gotlieb, Senior Advisor, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby’s, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission
  • Bill Graham, former Member of  Canadian House of Commons; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Minister of Defence, Ottawa; former leader of the Official Opposition and former interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada; Chancellor, Trinity College, University of Toronto; Chair of The Atlantic Council of Canada; Co-Vice Chair of Canadian International Council; Hon. L.Col. of the Governor General’s Horse Guards
  • Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
  • James T. Hackett, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Anadarko Petroleum Corp.,
     The Woodlands, TX
  • *John J. Hamre, President, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)
  • William A. Haseltine, President, William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts, Washington, DC; Founder and former Chairman and Chief Executive, Human Genome Sciences
  • Carlos Heredia, Economist, Mexico City, DF; Advisor to the Governor of Michoacán
  • John B. Hess, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Hess Corporation, New York, NY
  • *Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • *Karen Elliott House, Writer, Princeton, NJ; Adjunct Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
  • Walter Isaacson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Aspen Institute, Washington, DC
  • Reuben Jeffery III, Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; former Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs; and former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Alejandro Junco de la Vega, President and Director, Grupo Reforma, Monterrey, NL
  • Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC
  • Charles R. Kaye, Co-President, Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, NY
  • Colin Kenny, Member, Canadian Senate, Ottawa, ON
  • Robert M. Kimmitt, Chairman, Deloitte Center for Cross-Border Investment, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany
  • James Kimsey, President and Executive Director, The Kimsey Foundation, Washington, DC
  • Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs; Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission
  • Michael Klein, former Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Citi Markets & Banking;
  • New York, NY
  • Enrique Krauze, General Director, Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF
  • Harold (Hal) Kvisle, President and Chief Executive Officer, TransCanada Corporation, Calgary, AB
  • Fred Langhammer, Chairman, Global Affairs, and former Chief Executive Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., New York, NY
  • Winston Lord, Chairman Emeritus and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China
  • *Roy MacLaren, former Canadian Minister; Toronto, ON
  • John A. MacNaughton, Chairman, Business Development Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON
  • Antonio Madero, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, San Luis Corporacion, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF
  • John Manley, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE); former Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Ottawa, ON; former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
  • *Sir Deryck Maughan, Member, KKR & Co.; Head, Global Financial Services Group; New York, NY
  • Jay Mazur, President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees, and President, ILGWU's 21st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY
  • Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor and Professor in Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC
  • John D. Negroponte, Vice Chair, McLarty Associates, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State; former U.S. Director of National Intelligence; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq
  • *Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor and former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chair, National Intelligence Council and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs;
  • North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission
  • Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq
  • André Azoulay, Adviser to H.M. King Mohammed VI, Rabat, Morocco
  • Morris Chang, Chairman, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan
  • Omar Davies, Member of the Jamaican Parliament and former Minister of Finance and Planning, Kingston, Jamaica; former Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica
  • Hüsnü Dogan, General Coordinator, Nurol Holding; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Development Foundation of Turkey; former Minister of Defence, Ankara, Turkey
  • Alejandro Foxley, Chilean Minister of Foreign Affairs, Valparaiso, Chile
  • Jacob A. Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and Chairman, AIG's Global Economic Strategies Group, New York, NY; Chairman, and CEO, Group of Thirty (G30); former Chairman, Merrill Lynch International London; former Governor, Bank of Israel; former Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
  • Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the National Assembly, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
  • H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President, The Club of Rome; Moderator of the World Conference on Religion and Peace; Chairman, Arab Thought Forum, Amman, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
  • Ricardo Hausmann, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;  former Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; former Venezuelan Minister of Planning and Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela
  • Sergei Karaganov, Dean, School of World Economics and International Affairs, State University–Higher School of Economics; Chairman, Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy; Chairman, Editorial Board, “Russia in Global Affairs,” Moscow
  • Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chinatrust Investment, Bank, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Visiting Research Fellow, Latin American Economic Research Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina; former Argentinian Finance Minister and Defence Minister
  • Andrónico Luksic Craig, Vice Chairman, Banco de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Itamar Rabinovich, Ettinger Chair of Contemporary Middle Eastern History, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; Charles and Andrea Bronfman Distinguished Fellow at the Saban Center, The Brookings Institution; Distinguished Global Professor at New York University; Visiting Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; former Ambassador to the United States
  • Rüsdü Saracoglu, President of the Finance Group, Koç Holding; Chairman, Makro Consulting, Istanbul, Turkey; former State Minister and Member of the Turkish Parliament; former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey
  • Roberto Egydio Setubal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Banco Itaú S.A. and Banco Itaú Holding Financeira S.A., Sao Paulo, Brazil
  • Stan Shih, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Acer Group, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Russian Democratic Party “Yabloko” and former Member of the State Duma; Chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research, Moscow, Russian Federation

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