Trilateral Commission
Trilateral Commission
Trilateral Commission
JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET European Chairman VLADIMIR DLOUHY European Deputy Chairman MICHAEL FUCHS European Deputy Chairman
JOSEPH S. NYE, JR. North American Chairman ALLAN E. GOTLIEB North American Deputy Chairman JAIME SERRA North American Deputy Chairman
DAVID ROCKEFELLER Founder and Honorary Chairman
YOTARO KOBAYASHI Pacific Asian Chairman HAN SUNG-JOO Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman JUSUF WANANDI Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman
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PAUL RVAY European Director MICHAEL J. O'NEIL North American Director TADASHI YAMAMOTO Pacific Asian Director
EUROPEAN GROUP
Alexandre Adler, Scientific Director for Geopolitics, University of Paris-Dauphine; Journalist and Commentator, Paris 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 Alphandry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, Paris; former Chairman, Electricit de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance Jacques Andrani, Ambassadeur de France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States Jorge Armindo, Chairman, Amorim Turismo, Lisbon Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw Estela Barbot, former Director, AGA; Director, Bank Santander Negocios; Member of the General Council, AEP -- Portuguese Business Association, Porto; General Honorary Consul of Guatemala, Lisbon *Erik Belfrage, Chairman of the Board, Consilio International AB; Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken; Director, Investor AB, Stockholm
Marek Belka, President, National Bank of Poland, Warsaw; former 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; former Ambassador-at-Large and Chairman, Council for International Coordination, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad Dick Benschop, President Director, Shell Netherlands; Vice President, Gas Market Development, The Hague Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans, Chairman, Lhoist Group, Limelette, Belgium Nils Bernstein, Governor by Royal Appointment, Chairman of the Board of Governors, National Bank of Denmark, Copenhagen *Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, 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, Former Director of the European Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, D.C.; former Chairman, Hedge Fund Standards Board, London Tzvetelina Borislavova, Founder, Owner and Chairperson, CSIF; Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, Bulgarian-American Credit Bank (BACB); Founder and Chairperson, Credo Bonum Foundation; former Chairperson of the Supervisory Board, CIBANK, Sofia Ana Patricia Botin, Chief Executive Officer, Santander UK; Member of Santander Groups Management Committee; Member of the Board of Banco Santander and of the Executive committee, 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; Trade Adviser to the Prime Minister; former Vice President, European Commission Jean-Louis Bruguire, Representative of the French Presidency of the Republic on the EU Equivalent TFTP Project; former EU High Representative to the United States on the Terrorism 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 Patrick Buffet, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ERAMET, Paris *Franois Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, FBE International Consultants, Paris; former Chairman, Citi France; 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, EURussia Centre; President, European Forum Alpbach; former Special Co-ordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe; former Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister, Vienna Herv de Carmoy, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ETAM, Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilire Prive, Paris; former Chief Executive, Socit Gnrale de Belgique
Jrgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt, Berlin; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States Luc Coene, Minister of State; Governor, National Bank of Belgium, Brussels Paolo Andrea Colombo, Chairman, Enel, Rome Bertrand Collomb, Honorary Chairman, Lafarge; Chairman, Institut des Hautes Etudes pour la Science et la Technologie (IHEST); Chairman, Institut Franais des Relations Internationales (IFRI); Member of the Institut de France, Paris Patrick Combes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Compagnie Financire Tradition and Viel & Cie., Paris Iain Conn, Managing Director and Chief Executive of Refining & Marketing, BP, London *Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Gold and Natural Resources, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland Jean-Franois Cop, Member of the French National Assembly; Secretary General of the UMP Party; former Member of the French Government, Paris *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 Madrilea; 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, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Milan; former Member of the Board of Management and Chairman, Allianz SE, Munich & Trieste Caroline Daniel, Editor, FT Weekend, Financial Times, London Michel David-Weill, former Chairman, Lazard LLC, worldwide; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, EURAZEO, Paris Jean-Luc Decornoy, Chairman and Chief Executive officer, KPMG France, Paris *Vladimir Dlouhy, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague; European Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission Karsten Dybvad, Director General and Chief Executive Officer, The Confederation of Danish Industry, Copenhagen Pedro Miguel Echenique, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque Country; President, Foundation Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC); former Basque Minister of Education, San Sebastian Gabriel Eichler, Founder, Benson Oak, Prague John Elkann, Chairman, Fiat Group, Turin Anna Ekstrm, Director General, The Swedish National Agency for Education, Skolverket, Stockholm Guy Elliott, Finance Director, Rio Tinto, London Oscar Fanjul, Vice Chairman, Lafarge and Omega Capital; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Repsol, Madrid Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF; former Chairman, Prensa Espaola, Madrid Jrgen 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 Lykke Friis, Member of the Danish Parliament; former Minister for Climate and Energy and Gender Equality; former Pro-Rector, University of Copenhagen; Member of the EU Reflection Group on the Future of Europe (Horizon 2020-2030), Copenhagen
*Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin; Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade; European Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission *Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid Clara Gaymard, President and Chief Executive Officer, GE France, Paris; City Initiative Leader for GE International Wolfgang Gerhardt, Member of the German Bundestag; Chairman of the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation; former Chairman of the Free Democratic Party, Berlin Esther Gimnez-Salinas, Rector, Ramon Llull University; Professor of Criminal Law, ESADE Law School, Ramon Llull University, Barcelone Dermot Gleeson, Chairman of the Governing Body of University College Cork, and of Travelport Jersey Ltd.; former Chairman, AIB Group, Dublin 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, Deputy Chairperson and Member of the French National Assembly; former Minister for European Affairs, Paris General The Lord Guthrie, former Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London; Member of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London 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 Troka 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 Lady Barbara Judge, Chairman, UK Pension Protection Fund, London; former Chairman, UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority); former US Securities Exchange Commissioner Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, former Chief of the Finnish Defence Forces; Managing Director, Admiral Consulting Oy, Helsinki *Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc; Member of the House of Lords, London; former British Ambassador to the United States; former Secretary General, European Convention; Chairman of the Advisory Group to the Trilateral Commission (Europe) Lauri Kivinen, Chief Executive Officer, Yleisradio Oy, Helsinki Klaas Knot, President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam Eivind Kolding, Chief Executive Officer, Danske Bank, Copenhagen Arpad Kovacs, Chairman, Fiscal Council of Hungary; Professor, Szeged University; former President, State Audit Office of Hungary, Budapest Gabor Kovacs, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bankar Holding; Founder, KOGART (the Kovacs Gabor Art Foundation), Budapest Jerzy Kozminski, President and Chief Executive Officer, Polish-American Freedom Foundation; former Ambassador to the United States; former First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Warsaw Jn Kubi, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Afghanistan and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Kabul; former Executive Secretary, UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Geneva; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Slovak Republic Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit Bank Czech Republic; President of the Czech Association of Banks, Prague Meglena Kuneva, Chairman of the Board, European Policy Center; former Member of the European Commission (Consumer Policy); former Minister of European Affairs and European Commission Chief Negotiator, Sofia
Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Chairman, S&B Industrial Minerals; former Chairman, Federation of Greek Industries, Athens Kurt Lauk, Former Member of the European Parliament (EPP Group-CDU); Chairman, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart; President, Economic Council of the CDU Party, Berlin; Former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart Anne Lauvergeon, former Chief Executive Officer, AREVA, Paris *Eli Leenaars, Member, ING Management Board Banking; Member and Treasurer, Confederation of the Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW), Amsterdam Jean Lemierre, Advisor to the Chairman, BNP Paribas, Paris Enrico Letta, Member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies; former Under State Secretary in the Office of Prime Minister Prodi; former Minister of European Affairs, Industry, and of Industry and International Trade, Rome *Thomas Leysen, Chairman, KBC Group; Chairman of the Board, Umicore, Brussels *Bo Lidegaard, Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen *Marianne Lie, Partner, Vox Politica; former Director General, Norwegian Shipowners Association, Oslo Erkki Liikanen, Chairman of the Board, Bank of Finland, Helsinki; former Finnish Minister of Finance; former European Commissioner Rachel Lomax, Director, HSBC; Director, BAA; former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, London Peter Lscher, Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich *Franjo Lukovi, Chairman of the Management Board, Zagrebaka banka - UniCredit Group, Zagreb Miroslav Majoro, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer, Slovak Telekom; Chief Executive Officer, T-Com T-Mobil (Deutsche Telekom), Bratislava Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes Group, Ibiza; former Member of the European Commission, Brussels; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid Lord Mandelson, Member of the House of Lords; Chairman, Global Counsel; Senior Advisor, Lazard; former European Trade Commissioner; former First Secretary of State and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK; former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Former Trade and Industry Secretary in the UK Friedrich Merz, President, Atlantik-Brcke, Berlin; Partner, Mayer Brown, Dsseldorf; former Member of the German Bundestag; former Member of the European Parliament; former Chairman of the Parliamentary Group of the CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, Berlin Peter Mitterbauer, Honorary President, The Federation of Austrian Industry, Vienna; President and Chief Executive Officer, Miba, Laakirchen Dominique Mosi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Paris Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman Hermes EOS; former Chairman Royal Dutch Shell Group and Anglo American; Chairman, The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Klaus-Peter Mller, Chairman of the Board, Commerzbank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former CEO, Commerzbank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former President, Association of German Banks (BDB), Berlin Harald Norvik, Chairman of the Board, Telenor; Member of the Board, Conocophillips; former President and Chief Executive, Statoil, Oslo Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the Austrian National Bank; former Chief Executive Officer, BAWAG P.S.K., Vienna Denis OBrien, Chairman, Digicel; Founder, Communicorp Group, Dublin Arend Oetker, President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); Vice Chairman, Federation of German Industries; Managing Director, Dr. Arend Oetker Holding, Berlin *Andrzej Olechowski, Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw Giuseppe Orsi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Finmeccanica, Rome
Richard Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems, London Alexander Papachelas, Editor-in-Chief, Kathimerini, Athens; Secretary General of the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy; Leading Correspondent, The Files Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; Chairman, BBC Trust; Co-Chairman, International Crisis Group, Brussels; former Member of the European Commission (External Relations), Brussels; former Governor of Hong Kong; former Member of the British Cabinet, London Volker Perthes, Executive Chairman and Director, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Berlin Dieter Pfundt, Senior Advisor, Silvia Quandt & Cie., Frankfurt-am-Main *Ursula Plassnik, Ambassador of Austria to France; former Member of the Austrian Parliament; U.N. Special Envoy for International Women Issues; former Federal Minister for European and International Affairs, Vienna Ignacio Polanco, Chairman, Grupo Prisa including El Pais and Timon, Madrid Borja Prado, Chairman, Endesa; Chairman, Mediobanca Spain for Iberia and South-America, Madrid Rasvan Radu, Chief Executive Officer, UniCredit Tiriac Bank, Bucharest 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) Wanda Rapaczynski, Advisor to the Supervisory Board and former President of the Management Board, Agora, Warsaw Giuseppe Recchi, Chairman, Eni, Rome 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 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 Fernando Rods Vil, Vice Chairman, Havas, Barcelona Count Jacques Rogge, President, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne; former President of the Belgian Federal Committee and of the European Olympic Committees Marcello Sala, Executive Vice Chairman of the Management Board, Intesa Sanpaolo Group, Milan *Ferdinando Salleo, former Ambassador to the United States Jacques Santer, Honorary State Minister, Luxembourg; former Member of the European Parliament; former President of the European Commission; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg Andreas Schmitz, President, Association of German Banks (BDB), Berlin; Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt, Dsseldorf Magnus Schldtz, Senior Advisor on International Affairs attached to the Wallenberg Foundations; Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Foundation Asset Management (FAM), Stockholm Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board and former Chief Executive Officer, Allianz, Munich Karel Schwarzenberg, Member of the Czech Senate; Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; Founder and Director, Nadace Bohemiae, Prague; former Chancellor to President Havel *Carlo Secchi, Professor of European Economic Policy and former Rector, Bocconi University; Vice President, ISPI, Milan; former Member of the Italian Senate and of the European Parliament 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, Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, Warsaw Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs (IAI), Rome; Commentator, Il Sole 24 Ore; former Under Secretary of State for Defence, Italy Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London
*Ivan ramko, Advisor for the CEE & SEE Regions, Intesa Sanpaolo Group; former Governor of the National Bank of Slovakia, Bratislava *Petar Stoyanov, former President of the Republic of Bulgaria; Member of the Bulgarian Parliament and Chairman of Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces; Chairman of Union of Democratic Forces, Sofia *Gyrgy Surnyi, Regional Head of Central Eastern Europe, Intesa Sanpaolo Group; Chairman, Central European International Bank (CIB), Budapest; former President of the National Bank of Hungary *Peter Sutherland, Chairman, Goldman Sachs International; Chairman of the London School of Economics; UN Special Representative for Migration and Development; former Chairman, BP p.l.c.; former Director General, GATT/WTO; former Member of the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland; Honorary European Chairman, Trilateral Commission Mihai Tanasescu, Senior Adviser and Member of the Executive Board, International Monetary Fund (IMF); former Minister of Public Finance of Romania, Bucharest Andreas Treichl, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Erste Group Bank AG, Vienna *Jean-Claude Trichet, Chairman, Group of Thirty; Honorary Governor, Banque de France; former President of the European Central Bank; European Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Paris Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli & C., Milan; Deputy Chairman, Confindustria, Rome; former Chairman, Telecom Italia Elsbeth Tronstad, Executive Vice President, SN Power; former Executive Director, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO); former Executive Vice President, ABB, Oslo Jens Ulltveit-Moe, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, UMOE Group; former President, Federation of Norwegian Industry; former President, Norwegian Shipowners Federation, Oslo *Raivo Vare, Owner, Live Nature Eesti O; Partner, Sthenos Group and O RVVE Group; Chairman of the Council of the Parliaments Development Fund, Member of the Presidents Academic Advisory Board; former Minister of State and former Minister of Transport and Communication, Tallinn *George Vassiliou, former Head of the Negotiating Team for the Accession of Cyprus to the European Union; former President of the Republic of Cyprus; former Member of Parliament and Leader of United Democrats, Nicosia Franco Venturini, Senior Editorial Commentator on Foreign Affairs, Corriere della Sera, Rome Vesa Vihril, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) & Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA), Helsinki *Marko Volj, Chief Executive Officer, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia Business Unit and Member of the Executive Committee, KBC Group, Brussels; former Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana Alexandr Vondra, Member of the Czech Senate; Minister of Defence; former Deputy Prime Minister for European Affairs; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prague Joris Voorhoeve, Chair, Oxfam Novib, The Hague; Professor of International Organisations, Leiden; former Member of the Council of State; former Member of the Dutch Parliament; former Minister of Defence *Panagis Vourloumis, Senior Adviser, N.M. Rothschild; former 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, Dsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin Hans Wijers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Amsterdam; Former Minister for Economic Affairs Alexander Wilmot-Sitwell, Co-Chief Executive Officer, UBS Investment Bank, London Matthias Wissmann, President, The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA), Berlin; former Member of German Bundestag; former Federal Minister Emilio Ybarra, former Chairman, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid