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October 2003
THOMAS S. FOLEY PETER SUTHERLAND YOTARO KOBAYASHI
North American Chairman European Chairman Pacific Asia Chairman
ALLAN E. GOTLIEB
ANTONIO GARRIGUES
North American
European
Pacific
Deputy Chairman Deputy Chairman Deputy
Chairman
LORENZO H. ZAMBRANO CEES MAAS SHIJURO
OGATA
North American
European Pacific
Deputy Chairman Treasurer Deputy
Chairman
DAVID
ROCKEFELLER
Founder and Honorary Chairman
PAUL A. VOLCKER
North American
Honorary Chairman
GEORGES BERTHOIN OTTO GRAF
LAMBSDORFF European European
Honorary Chairman Honorary
Chairman
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MICHAEL J. O’NEIL PAUL RÉVAY TADASHI
YAMAMOTO
North American Director European Director Pacific Asia
Director
European Group
Paul Adams, Managing Director, British American Tobacco,
Krister Ahlström, Vice Chairman, Stora Enso and Fortum; former
Chairman, Finnish Employers Confederation; former Chairman, Ahlström Corp.,
Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance,
Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the
Economy and Finance
Joaquin Almunia, Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies and
Chairman of the Budget Committee,
Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Chairman of the Board of Governors,
Danmarks Nationalbank,
Jacques Andréani, Ambassadeur de France; former Ambassador to
the
*Stelios Argyros, Chairman and Managing Director, Preveza Mills,
Athens; former Member of the European Parliament; Chairman of the Board, STET
Hellas; former Vice President of UNICE, Brussels; former President and Chairman
of the Board of the Federation of Greek Industries, Athens
Urban Bäckström, Former Governor, The Swedish Central Bank,
Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka,
Pedro Ballvé, Chairman,
Estela Barbot, Vice President, Produtos Sarcol, Porto; Vice
President of the Board, AEP --Portuguese Business Association; Consul of
Guatemala,
François Bayrou, Member of the French National Assembly;
President of the UDF Party; former Minister, Paris
Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda
Banken; Director, Investor AB,
Marek Belka, Chairman, Council for International
Coordination, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad; former Professor of
Economics, University of Lodz and Institute of Economics of the Polish Academy
of Sciences; former Senior Advisor on Central and Eastern Europe, JP Morgan
Chase Bank, Warsaw; former Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance,
Poland
*Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European
Movement; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European
Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, Paris
Nicolas Beytout, Editor, Les Echos, Paris
Boris Biancheri Chiappori, Chairman, Agenzia ANSA, Rome; Chairman,
I.S.P.I., Milan; former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Carl Bildt, Member of the Swedish Parliament and former
Chairman of the Moderate Party; former Prime Minister of Sweden; former
European Union High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina & UN Envoy to the
Balkans
Lord Black of Crossharbour, Chairman, Telegraph Group, London; Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer, Hollinger International, USA; Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Argus Corporation and
Ana Patricia Botin, Chairman, Banesto, Madrid; Member of the Board
& of the Executive Committee, Banco Santander Central Hispano
Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Member of the European Parliament (EPP-ED
Group/UDF);
Former President of the
European Movement in France,
*Jorge Braga de Macedo, Special Advisor to the Secretary General,
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris; Professor
of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global;
former Minister of Finance
Rolf-E. Breuer, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Deutsche
Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; President, Association of the German Banks (BdB)
Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS
Warburg, London; former Vice President, European Commission
John Bruton, Member of the Irish Parliament; Former
Prime Minister and Leader of Fine Gael,
Robin Buchanan, Senior Partner, Bain & Company,
François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup
France, Paris; former Ambassador to the
Sven Burmester, Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former
Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA),
Richard Burrows, Joint Managing Director, Pernod Ricard, Paris;
Chairman and Chief Executive, Irish Distillers, Dublin; Deputy Governor of the
Bank of Ireland; former President, IBEC (The Irish Business and Employers
Confederation)
*Hervé de Carmoy, Partner, Rhône Group, New York & Paris;
Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief
Executive, Société Générale de Belgique
Salvatore Carrubba, Culture Alderman, Municipality of Milan;
former Managing Editor, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan
Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort Capital (Spain),
Willy de Clercq, Minister of State of Belgium; Member of the
European Parliament & Chairman, Committee on Legal Affairs and Citizen’s
Rights; former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities;
former Vice Prime Minister-Minister of Finance and the Budget
Vittorio Colao, Managing Director, Vodafone Omnitel,
Bertrand Collomb, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lafarge,
Paris
Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy
Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate,
Eckhard Cordes, Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler,
Alfonso Cortina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Michel David-Weill, Chairman, Lazard LLC, worldwide; Managing
Director and Président du Collège d'Associés-Gérants, Lazard Frères S.A.S.,
Paris; Deputy Chairman, Lazard Brothers & Co., Limited,
Baron Paul De Keersmaeker, Chairman of the Board of Domo, Corgo,
Foundation Europalia International and the Canada Europe Round Table, Brussels;
Honorary Chairman Interbrew, KBC, Nestlé Belgilux; former Member of the Belgian
and European Parliaments and of the Belgian Government
*Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor,
Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister
of Industry & Trade, Prague
*Bill Emmott, Editor, The Economist,
Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque
Country; former Basque Minister of Education, San Sebastian
Laurent Fabius, Member of the French National Assembly and of
the Foreign Affairs Committee; former Prime Minister & Minister of the
Economy & Finance, Paris
Oscar Fanjul, Honorary Chairman, Repsol-YPF; Vice Chairman,
Omega Capital,
Grete Faremo, Executive Vice President, Storebrand; former
Norwegian Minister of Development Cooperation, Minister of Justice and Minister
of Oil and Energy, Oslo
*Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Corporate Director of Shared Services,
Repsol-YPF; former Chairman,
Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Group Executive Committee,
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main
*Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin; former
President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders
Lord Garel-Jones, Senior Advisor to UBS Warburg, London; Member
of the House of Lords; former Minister of State at the Foreign Office (European
Affairs)
*Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, J & A
Lord Gilbert, Member of the House of Lords; former Minister
for Defence,
General The Lord Guthrie, Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London; Member
of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London
Uwe Haasen, Member of the Advisory Board, Allianz, Munich;
Former Chairman, Allianz Versicherung,
Carl Hahn, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Gerling Speziale Kreditversicherungs,
Cologne; Director, Perot Systems Corporation, Dallas; former Chairman,
Volkswagen, Wolfsburg
Sirkka Hämäläinen, Former Member of the Executive Board, European
Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland
Miguel Herrero de Miñon, Lawyer, International Consultant, Madrid;
Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Political and Moral Sciences; former
Member of Spanish Parliament
Lord Howell of Guildford, Member of the House of Lords; Opposition
Spokesman on Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; former British Cabinet Minister
Joe Jacob, Member of the Irish Parliament,
*Max Jakobson, Independent Consultant and Senior Columnist,
Helsinki; former Finnish Ambassador to the United Nations; former Chairman of
the Finnish Council of Economic Organizations
*Baron Daniel Janssen, Chairman of the Board, Solvay,
Zsigmond Jarai, President, National Bank of Hungary,
*Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy; Member of the
Monetary Council of the National Bank; President of the Hungarian Economic
Association; Former Ambassador of Hungary to the O.E.C.D., Paris; former
Hungarian Minister of International Economic Relations and Member of Parliament
Karl Kaiser, Senior Scholar and former Otto-Wolff Director,
Research Institute of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Berlin;
Professor Emeritus of Political Sciences, University of Bonn
Robert Kassai, Senior Vice President, The National
Association of Craftmens Corporation,
Sir John Kerr, Former Secretary General, European Convention,
Brussels; Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic
Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London; former British Ambassador
to the United States
Denis Kessler, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Scor,
Paris; Former Chairman, French Insurance Association (FFSA); Former Executive
Vice-Chairman, MEDEF-Mouvement des Entreprises de France (French Employers’
Confederation)
Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Zivnostenska banka; President of the Czech Association of Banks,
Manfred Lahnstein, Special Representative of the Board &
former Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh; former Federal
Minister of Finance
*Count Otto Lambsdorff, Partner, Wessing Lawyers, Düsseldorf; Chairman,
Friedrich Naumann Foundation, Berlin; former Member of German Bundestag;
Honorary Chairman, Free Democratic Party; former Federal Minister of Economy;
former President of the Liberal International; Honorary European Chairman, The
Trilateral Commission, Paris
Kurt Lauk, Chairman, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart; President, Economic
Council of the CDU Party, Berlin; Former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler,
Anne Lauvergeon, Chairperson of the Executive Board, Areva; Chairperson
and Chief Executive Officer, Cogema, Paris
Pierre Lellouche, Member of the French National Assembly and of
the Foreign Affairs Committee, Paris
Enrico Letta, Member of Parliament; Secretary General, AREL;
former Minister of Industry,
André Leysen, Honorary Chairman, Gevaert, Antwerp; Honorary
Chairman, Agfa-Gevaert Group
Count Maurice Lippens, Chairman, Fortis,
*Cees Maas, Member of the Executive Board and Chief
Financial Officer of the ING Group, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch
Government
Rainer Masera, Chairman, San Paolo IMI Group, Turin; former
Minister of Budget and Economic Planning
Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes, Ibiza; former
Member of the European Commission, Brussels; former Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Madrid
Peter Mandelson, Member of the British Parliament; former
Secretary of State to Northern Ireland and for Trade and Industry,
Francis Maude, Member of the British Parliament; Director,
Benfield Group; former Shadow Foreign Secretary,
Edgar Meister, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bundesbank,
Frankfurt-am-Main; Chairman, the Banking Supervisory Subcommittee of the
European Monetary Institute (EMI); Chairman, the Banking Supervision Committee
of the European System of the Central Banks (ESCB)
Vasco de Mello, Vice Chairman, José de Mello SGPS,
Joao de Menezes Ferreira, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
ECO-SOROS, Lisbon; former Member of the Portuguese Parliament
Peter Mitterbauer, President, The Federation of Austrian Industry,
Vienna; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, MIBA, Laakirchen
Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the
French Institute for International Relations (IFRI), Paris
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Former Chairman, Royal Dutch/Shell Group,
London; Chairman, Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD)
Klaus Murmann, Honorary Chairman, Confederation of German
Employers’ Associations (BDA), Berlin; Chairman, Sauer Holding, Neumünster
Heinrich Neisser, President, Politische Akademie, Vienna;
Professor of Political Studies at Innsbruck University; former Member of
Austrian Parliament and Second President of the National Assembly
Harald Norvik, Chairman and Partner, ECON Management; former
President and Chief Executive of the Norwegian oil company, STATOIL,
*Andrzej Olechowski, Chairman, "Civic Platform"; Former
Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance,
Warsaw
Lucas Papademos, Vice President, European Central Bank,
Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor of the Bank of Greece
Schelto Patijn, Former Mayor of the City of Amsterdam, The
Christopher Patten, Member of the European Commission (External
Relations), Brussels; Chancellor-elect of the University of Oxford; former
Governor of Hong Kong; former Member of the British Cabinet, London
Heinrich von Pierer, Chairman of the Managing Board, President and
Chief Executive Officer, Siemens,
Andrea Pininfarina, Managing Director, Industrie Pininfarina,
Turin; Chairman, Federmeccanica (Association of Mechanical Industries),
Benoît Potier, Chairman, L’Air Liquide, Paris
Alessandro Profumo, Managing Director, Unicredito Italiano,
Henri Proglio, Chairman, Veolia Environnement, Paris
Luigi Ramponi, Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Defence
Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Rome; former Deputy Chief of the Defence
Staff (Italian Army)
Wanda Rapaczynski, President of the Management Board, Agora,
Günter Rexrodt, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal
Minister of the Economy,
Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal
Minister of Research and Technology,
Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies,
Sergio Romano, Columnist, Corriere della Sera and Liberal;
former Italian Ambassador to the USSR,
H. Onno Ruding, Chairman, Center for European Policy Studies
(CEPS), Brussels; Retired Vice Chairman, Citibank; former Dutch Minister of
Finance
Renato Ruggiero, Chairman, Citigroup in Switzerland; Vice
Chairman, Citigroup European Investment Bank, Zurich; former Italian Foreign
Minister and Director General of WTO
Anthony Ruys, Chairman of the Executive Board, Heineken,
Jacques Santer, Member of the European Parliament; former
President of the European Commission; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Antxón Sarasqueta, Executive President, Multimedia Capital;
Patronage Member of the Foreign Policy Foundation (INCIPE); Member of the Board
of Directors, Editorial Group
*Silvio Scaglia, Managing Director,
e-Biscom, Milan; former Managing Director, Omnitel
Paolo Scaroni, Managing Director, ENEL,
Jorgen Schleimann, Writer; former Broadcast Executive TV 2
Denmark; former Chairman, The Danish European Movement
*Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Constantia Group; former Chairman,
Creditanstalt Bankverein,
Pedro Schwartz, Executive Chairman, IDELCO, Madrid; Professor
of Economics, Autonomous
Prince Karel of Schwarzenberg, Founder and Director,
Nadace Bohemiae, Prague; former Chancellor to President Havel; former President
of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
*Carlo Secchi, Rector and full Professor of European Economic
Policy, Bocconi University,
Maurizio Sella, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager,
Banca Sella, Biella; Chairman, Association of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Ro
Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs
(IAI), Rome; Commentator, Il Sole 24 Ore; former Under Secretary of
State for Defence, Italy
Lord Simon of Highbury, Member of the House of Lords; Advisory
Director of Unilever, Morgan Stanley Europe and LEK; former Minister for Trade
& Competitiveness in Europe; former Chairman of BP,
Sir Nicholas Soames, Member of the British Parliament,
Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group,
*Myles Staunton, Former Member of the Irish Senate & of the
Dail, Co. Mayo
*Thorvald Stoltenberg, Special Representative of the UN Secretary
General for Humanitarian Affairs in Iraq; President, Norwegian Red Cross, Oslo;
former Co-Chairman (UN) of the Steering Committee of the International
Conference on Former Yugoslavia; former Foreign Minister of Norway; former UN
High Commissioner for Refugees
Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Executive Board, Danske Bank,
Copenhagen; Chairman, the Danish Bankers Association
*Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP p.l.c. ; Chairman, Goldman Sachs
International; former Director General, GATT/WTO; former Member of the European
Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland
*Björn Svedberg, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Ericsson, Stockholm; former President and Group Chief Executive, Skandinaviska
Enskilda Banken
Péter Székely, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Transelektro, Budapest; President, Confederation of Hungarian Employers'
Organisations for International Co-operation (CEHIC); Vice President,
Confederation of Hungarian Employers and Industrialists
Horst Teltschik, Chairman of the Board, Herbert Quandt
Foundation; former Member of the Board, BMW, Munich; former Head of the Foreign
& Security Office in the Federal Chancellery
Jacques Thierry, Honorary Chairman, Banque Bruxelles Lambert;
Honorary Chairman of the Board, Interbrew,
Jean-Philippe Thierry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AGF
(Assurances Générales de France), Paris
*Niels Thygesen, Danske Bank Professor of International
Economics, University of Copenhagen; Chairman, OECD Economic Development and
Review Committee
Otto Grieg Tidemand, Shipowner, Oslo; former Norwegian Minister of
Defence and Minister of Economic Affairs
Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman, Telecom Italia; Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer, Pirelli,
Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor of European Integration, University
of Athens; President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy
(ELIAMEP)
Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer and Member of the Royal
*George Vassiliou, 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
Diogo Vaz Guedes, Chairman, Somague Group,
Franco Venturini, Foreign Correspondent, Corriere della Sera,
Friedrich Verzetnitsch, Member of Austrian Parliament; President,
Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna; President, European Trade Union
Confederation (ETUC)
*Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska
Banka,
Joris Voorhoeve, Member of the Council of State; former Member
of the Dutch Parliament; former Minister of Defence,
Panagis Vourloumis, Panagis Vourloumis & Associates, Financial
Advisors; Chairman, Frigoglass Group; former Chairman and Managing Director,
Alpha Finance, Athens
Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Management Board,
Pinault-Printemps-Redoute; former President, Institute of International and
Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf
Nout Wellink, President, Dutch Central Bank,
Arne Wessberg, Director General, YLE Group, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company & Digits Oy, Helsinki; President, European
Broadcasting Union (EBU)
*Norbert Wieczorek, Former Member of the German Bundestag &
Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group,
Hans Wijers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo
Nobel,
Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Honorary Chairman, East Committee of the
German Industry; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Otto Wolff
Industrieberatung und Beteiligung, Cologne
Zbigniew Wrobel, President of the Management Board and Chief
Executive Officer, PKN-Orlen,
*Emilio Ybarra, Former Chairman, Banco
Father Maciej Zieba, Provincial of the Polish Province of the
Dominican Order, Warsaw; Founder and Director, the Tertio Millennio Institute,
Cracow
Former Members
in Public Service
Patrick Devedjian, Minister for Local Liberties (Home Office),
France
Lene Espersen, Minister of
Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission (Competition
Policy),
Pedro Solbes, Member of the European Commission (Monetary
Affairs),
Harri Tiido, Ambassador of Estonia and Head of the Estonian
Mission to NATO,
Karsten Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation,
Federal Foreign Ministry,
North American Group
Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary
of
State
Graham Allison, Director, Belfer
Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University,
G. Allen Andreas, Chairman and Chief
Executive, Archer Daniels Midland Company,
Michael H. Armacost,
Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University,
Hillsborough, CA; former President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S.
Ambassador to Japan; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
C. Michael Armstrong, Chairman, Comcast
Corporation,
*Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner,
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade
Representative
*C.
Fred Bergsten,
Director, Institute for International Economics,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International
Affairs
Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), Senior Fellow,
Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command
Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Private Office, Mexico
City, NL; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development
Geoffrey
T. Boisi,
former Vice Chairman,
Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher School
of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; former U.S. Ambassador to
the Republic of Korea
Harold Brown, Counselor, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; General Partner, Warburg
Pincus & Company, New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of Defense
*Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for
Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Robert Osgood Professor of
American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Gerhard Casper, President Emeritus,
Stanford University,
William T. Coleman, Jr.,
Senior Partner and Senior Counselor, O’Melveny
& Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chief Customer Advocate,
and Member, Board of Directors, BEA Systems, Inc.,
Timothy C. Collins, Chief Executive Officer, Ripplewood
Holdings,
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 & Co., New York, NY; former President, Federal Reserve Bank
of
Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT
Douglas Daft, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, GA
Dennis D. Dammerman, Vice Chairman and
Executive Officer, General Electric Company,
Lynn Davis,