[Ed note: JCT: Though I have delved into who is reponsible for the
state of the world as it is operated the financial people, I stress more our
potential to leave their malfunctioning system behind and jump onto the new
world-wide UNILETS interest-free time-based Internet-based community currency.]
Who's "our" government? Here's some hints:
The members of the Trilateral Commission are about 350 distinguished leaders
in business, media, academia, public service (excluding current national
Cabinet Ministers), labor unions, and other non-governmental organizations
from the three regions.
The regional Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen, and Directors constitute the
leadership of the Trilateral Commission, along with an Executive Committee
including about 40 other members.
Secretariat address:
1156 Fifteenth Street NW
Washington DC 20005
http://trilateral.org/memb.htm
Membership
When the Trilateral Commission was first launched, the plan was for an equal
number of members from each of the three regions.
The numbers soon began to grow, and ceilings were imposed in about 1980.
These ceilings have been raised somewhat since then as new countries came to
be represented in the groups.
The European group, which includes members from Austria, Belgium, the Czech
Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Cyprus, Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, now has a ceiling of
150 members.
The ceiling for the North American group is 107, including 15 Canadian
members, 7 Mexican members and 85 U.S. members.
In 2000, the Japanese group of 85 members expanded to become a Pacific Asian
group of 117 members, and includes 75 members from Japan, 11 members from
Korea, 7 from Australia and New Zealand, 15 from the original five ASEAN
countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand).
The new Pacific Asian group also includes participants from the People’s
Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
To help preserve the Commission’s unofficial character, members who take up
positions in their national Administration give up Trilateral Commission
membership.
New members are chosen on a national basis. The procedures used for rotation
off and for invitation of new members vary from national group to national
group.
Three Chairmen (one from each region), Deputy Chairmen and Directors
constitute the leadership of the Trilateral Commission, along with an
Executive Committee including 36 other members. The full membership list is
available from any of the regional offices.
Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and Directors
North American Chairman: THOMAS S. FOLEY
Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld; former Speaker of the U.S. House
of Representatives; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan
European Chairman: PETER SUTHERLAND
Chairman, BP Amoco, London; Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
International; former Director General, GATT/WTO, Geneva; former Member of
the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland
Pacific Asian Chairman: YOTARO KOBAYASHI
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
North American Deputy Chairman: ALLAN E. GOTLIEB
Consultant, Stikeman Elliot; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States
North American Deputy Chairman: LORENZO ZAMBRANO
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Cemex, S.A. de C.V.,
Mexico
European Deputy Chairman: ANTONIO GARRIGUES WALKER
Chairman, Garrigues & Anderson, Madrid
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: HAN SUNG-JOO
Director, Ilmin International Relations Institute and Professor of Political
Science, Korea University; former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Seoul
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: SHIJURO OGATA
Former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan; Former
Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank
North American Director: MICHAEL J. O’NEIL
European Director: PAUL RÉVAY
Pacific Asia Director: TADASHI YAMAMOTO
Former North American Chairmen:
PAUL A. VOLCKER (1991-2001)
DAVID ROCKEFELLER (1977-91)—Founder and Honorary Chairman
GERARD C. SMITH (1973-77)
Former European Chairmen:
OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF (1992-2001)
GEORGES BERTHOIN (1976-92)—Honorary European Chairman
MAX KOHNSTAMM (1973-76)
Former Japanese Chairmen:
KIICHI MIYAZAWA (1993-97)
AKIO MORITA (1992-93)
ISAMU YAMASHITA (1985-92)
TAKESHI WATANABE (1973-85)
Executive Committee
Susanna Agnelli, Chairman, Theleton Foundation and Chairman, Fondazione Il
Faro, Rome; former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Member of the
Italian Senate and of the European Parliament
Michel Albert, Membre de l’Institut de France; Member of the Council for
Monetary Policy of the Banque de France, Paris; former Chairman, Assurances
Générales de France
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
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala II, President, Ayala Corporation, Manila
Piero Bassetti, Chairman, Globus et Locus, Milan; Chairman, High School of
Economics and International Relations (ASERI), Milan; Member of CNEL, Rome;
former Chairman, Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Milan
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics; former
U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs
Jorge Braga de Macedo, President of the Development Centre, Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris; Professor of Economics,
Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister
of Finance
Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International
Studies; Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs
Hervé de Carmoy, Partner, Rhône Group, New York & Paris; Honorary Chairman,
Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive,
Société Générale de Belgique
Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs;
former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry &
Trade, Prague
Jessica P. Einhorn, Consultant, Clark and Weinstock, Washington, D.C.;
former Managing Director for Finance and Resource Mobilization, World Bank
Koichiro Ejiri, Counselor, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.
Bill Emmott, Editor, The Economist, London
Oscar Fanjul, Chairman, Hidroeléctrica del Cantabrico; Honorary Chairman,
Repsol, Madrid
L. Yves Fortier, Senior Partner and Chairman, Ogilvy Renault, Barristers and
Solicitors, Montréal; former Canadian Ambassador and Permanent
Representative to the United Nations
Michael Fuchs, Managing Director, Impex Electronic, Koblenz; former
President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders, Berlin
Toyoo Gyohten, President, The Institute for International Monetary Affairs;
Senior Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Ltd.
Robert D. Haas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Levi Strauss & Co.,
San Francisco
Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of
Pacific and AsianStudies, Australian National University; former Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canberra
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, Brussels
Béla Kadar, Ambassador of Hungary to the O.E.C.D., Paris; former Hungarian
Minister of International Economic Relations and Member of Parliament
Lee Hong-Koo, President, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; former Prime
Minister of Korea; former Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United
States, Seoul
Cees Maas, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of the
ING Group, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
Minoru Makihara, Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation
Thierry de Montbrial, Membre de l’Institut de France; Founder and Director,
French Institute for International Relations (IFRI); Chairman, Foundation
for Strategic Research; Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique &
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Paris
Minoru Murofushi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ITOCHU Corporation
Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Dean, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University;
former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs
Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International Policy Studies;
former Ambassador to the United States
Andrzej Olechowski, Former Chairman, Bank Handlowy W Warszawie; former
Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw
Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Constantia Group; former Chairman,
Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna Lord Shore, Member of the House of Lords;
former Labour Cabinet Minister, London
Myles Staunton, Former Member of Senate, Irish Republic
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
Björn Svedberg, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson,
Stockholm; former President and Group Chief Executive, Skandinaviska
Enskilda Banken
Niels Thygesen, Danske Bank Professor of International Economics, University
of Copenhagen; Chairman, OECD Economic Development and Review Committee
Harry Tiido, Deputy Under-Secretary for Political & Public Affairs, Security
Policy & NATO Accession, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tallinn; former
Editor-in-Chief, Radio KUKU
George Vassiliou, Member of Parliament and Leader of United Democrats; Head
of the Negotiating Team for the Accession of Cyprus to the European Union;
former President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nicosia
Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Slovenia
Jusuf Wanandi, Member of the Board of Directors, Centre for Strategic and
International Studies, Jakarta
Norbert Wieczorek, Member of the German Bundestag; Deputy Chairman of the
SPD Parliamentary Group, Berlin
A full listing of the Trilateral Commission membership is available in
printed form. Please email us your street address if you would like one to
be sent to you. Write “Membership List Request” in the subject field.
http://trilateral.org
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