Trilateral Commission statutes exclude persons holding public office from membership. [3]

"Several of whom had been involved with the Trilateral Commission, but then that's almost everybody at one time or another."^[6] This comment was made during an exit interview by the White House Adviser on Domestic and Foreign Policy, Hedley Donovan, under President Jimmy Carter, in reference to when he was gathering a group of foreign policy figures to convene during the Soviet brigade in Cuba. [4] [5] Although initially opposed to Trilateral, “President Reagan ultimately came to understand Trilateral’s value and invited the entire membership to a reception at the White House in April 1984”, noted David Rockefeller in his memoirs.^[7]

[edit] Current Chairmen

• North America: 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.^[8]
• Europe: Peter Sutherland, Irish businessman and former politician associated with the Fine Gael party; former Attorney General of Ireland and European Commissioner in the first Delors Commission; former Director General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the precursor to the World Trade Organization; Chairman of BP and Goldman Sachs International.^[9]
• Pacific Asia: Yotaro Kobayashi, Chief Corporate Adviser, Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd.;^[10] Board member of Callaway Golf Company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Sony Corporation, and American Productivity & Quality Center; life-time trustee of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives); Chairman of the Aspen Institute, Japan.^[11][12]

[edit] Current Deputy Chairmen

North America:

• Allan Gotlieb, Senior Adviser, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby's, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States^[13]
• Lorenzo Zambrano, Chairman and CEO, Cemex SAB de CV, Monterrey, Mexico (since 1985); board member at IBM and Citigroup^[14]

Europe:

• Herve de Carmoy, Chairman, Almatis, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Partner, Rhône Group, New York & Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Générale de Belgique^[15]
• Andrzej Olechowski, Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw^[16]

Pacific Asia:

• Han Sung-Joo, President, Korea University [6], Seoul; former Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States^[17]
• Shijuro Ogata, Former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan[7]^[18]

[edit] Current directors

• North America: Michael J. O'Neil^[19]
• Europe: Paul Révay^[19]
• Pacific Asia: Tadashi Yamaoto^[19]

[edit] Former Chairmen

North America:

• Thomas S. Foley (2001–2008)^[20]
• Paul A. Volcker (1991–2001) Honorary and former North American Chairman;^[21] Chairman of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board;^[22] former Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System [8] from 1979 to 1987; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Group of Thirty; former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus, International Economic Policy, Princeton University;
• David Rockefeller (1977–91) Founder of the Trilateral Commission and Honorary North American Chairman; Chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank board from 1969 to 1981; Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1970 to 1985, now honorary Chairman; a life member of the Bilderberg Group.^[23]
• Gerard C. Smith (1973–77)^[19]

Europe:

• Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1992–2001) Honorary European Chairman^[24]
• Georges Berthoin (1976–92) Honorary European Chairman^[25]
• Max Kohnstamm (1973–76)^[19]

Pacific Asia:

• Kiichi Miyazawa, Acting Chairman (1993–97)^[26]
• Akio Morita (1992–93)^[19]
• Isamu Yamashita (1985–92)^[19]
• Takeshi Watanabe (1973–85)^[19]

[edit] Former directors

North America:

• Zbigniew Brzezinski (1973–1976), U.S. National Security Advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1977–1981); Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies[9], Washington DC; 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; Policy Planning Council of the Department of State (1966–1968).^[19][27]

Europe:

Pacific Asia:

[edit] Executive Committee

• Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken; Director, Investor AB, Stockholm^[19]
• C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs^[19]
• Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement [10]; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission^[19]
• Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon; Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon [11]; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance^[19]
• François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States^[19]
• Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold [12], Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland^[19]
• Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB Group[13]; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague^[19]
• Bill Emmott, former Editor, The Economist, London^[19]
• Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF; former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid^[19]
• Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade, Berlin^[19]
• Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios [14], Madrid
• Toyoo Gyohten, President, The Institute for International Monetary Affairs [15]; Senior Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ, Ltd., Tokyo^[19]
• Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies [16], Australian National University; former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canberra^[19]
• Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company [17], Washington, DC; board member, Time Warner Inc. with Ted Turner^[28]; former U.S. Trade Representative[18] (1989–1993); former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development [19]; former United States Assistant Attorney General; chair, The Inter American Dialogue and of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, co-chair, The International Advisory Board of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, member, The Executive Committee^[29] of the Peterson Institute for International Economics^[19][30]
• Karen Elliott House, Writer, Princeton, NJ; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs [20], John F. Kennedy School of Government [21], Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal^[19]
• Mugur Isărescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania [22], Bucharest; former Prime Minister of Romania^[19]
• Baron Daniel Janssen, Honorary Chairman, Solvay, Brussels^[19]
• Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy [23], Budapest; Member of the Monetary Council of the National Bank [24]; 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^[19]
• The Lord Kerr of Kinlochard, Deputy Chairman and Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Royal Dutch Shell; Member of the House of Lords [25]; Director of Rio Tinto, the Scottish American Investment Trust, London; former Secretary General, European Convention [26], Brussels; former Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office[27], London; former British Ambassador to the United States^[19]
• Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy [28] (ETLA) and Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA), Helsinki^[19]
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Partner, Wessing Lawyers, Düsseldorf; Chairman, Friedrich Naumann Foundation [29], 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^[19]
• Lee Hong-Koo, Chairman, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; former Prime Minister of Korea; former Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States^[19]
• Marianne Lie, Director General, Norwegian Shipowners Association, Oslo^[19]
• Cees Maas, Honorary Vice Chairman of the ING Group and former Chief Financial Officer, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government^[19]
• Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Canadian Minister of International Trade[30]; Toronto, ON^[19]
• Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo^[19]
• Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Managing Director and Chairman, KKR Asia, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., New York, NY; former Vice Chairman, Citigroup^[19]
• Minoru Murofushi, Counselor, ITOCHU Corporation, Tokyo^[19]
• Indra K. Nooyi, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY^[19]
• Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International Policy Studies, Tokyo; former Japanese Ambassador to the United States^[19]
• Susan Rice, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama administration; Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies and Global Economy and Development Programs, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council; foreign policy advisor to President Barack Obama.^[19][31]
• Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF^[19]
• Silvio Scaglia, Founder, Chairman and Financial Backer of Babelgum, London; Chairman, S.M.S. Finance S.A., Luxembourg^[19]
• Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Constantia Group; former Chairman, Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna^[19]
• 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 [31]^[19]
• Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen^[19]
• Petar Stoyanov, former President of the Republic of Bulgaria; Member of the Bulgarian Parliament; Chairman, Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces; Chairman, Union of the Democratic Forces (Bulgaria); Sofia^[19]
• Harri Tiido, Undersecretary for Political Affairs, Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tallinn; former Ambassador of Estonia and Head of the Estonian Mission to NATO[32], Brussels^[19]
• 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^[19]
• Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, K & H Bank, Budapest; former General Manager of Central Europe Directorate, KBC Bank Insurance Holding, Brussels; former Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana^[19]
• Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Tellecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens^[19]
• Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees; Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta^[19]
• Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Accor; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Weinberg Capital Partners; former Chairman Management Board, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR); former President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris^[19]
• Heinrich Weiss [33], Chairman, SMS, [34] [35] Düsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin^[19]
• Kamil Kotiloglu, Lawyer, Istanbul,TR Complex Center for Law and International Affairs, Istanbul University, ^[19]

[edit] Others who are or have been members

• Rona Ambrose: Member of Parliament, Canada
• John B. Anderson: former US Congressman
• Bruce Babbitt: Interior Secretary under Clinton^[32]
• Francisco Pinto Balsemão
• Jim Balsillie: Chairman and Co-CEO of Research In Motion.
• Raymond Barre: former French Prime Minister
• Lloyd Bentsen: former US Senator and Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton^[1]
• Catherine Ann Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary General in Management, former Director of World Food Program.
• Maurizio Bevilacqua: Member of Parliament, Canada
• Ritt Bjerregaard: Mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish Social Democrat MP, former Secretary of Education, member of various cabinets; European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999. (Attendee 1992,1998,2002). Also a Bilderberg attendee.
• Tom Bradley (politician): former Mayor of Los Angeles
• John H. Bryan: former CEO of Sara Lee bakeries, affiliated with the World Economic Forum and a director on the Boards of Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, British Petroleum and Bank One.
• James E. Burke: CEO of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989.
• Sven Burmester: Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former Representative, United Nations Population (Attendee 1998,2002,2005)
• George H.W. Bush: Former President of the U.S.^[33]
• Frank Carlucci: President of Carlyle Group, U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989.
• Jimmy Carter: Former President of the U.S.^[34]
• Gerhard Casper: Constitutional scholar, faculty member and former President at Stanford University; successor trustee of Yale University and part of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Hungary.
• Dick Cheney: Former Vice President of the U.S.^[33]
• Warren Christopher: former Secretary of State under Clinton and Deputy Secretary of State under Carter
• Henry Cisneros: HUD Secretary under Clinton^[32]
• Joe Clark: former Canadian Prime Minister
• Bill Clinton: Former President of the U.S.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton: 67th United States Secretary of State
• William Cohen: former Republican Congressman and US Senator, U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Clinton.
• Tim Collins: CEO of Ripplewood Holdings LLC investment company; also part of the Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management board of advisors and U.S.-Japan non-profit organizations.
• John Danforth: former US Senator
• André Desmarais: President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation^[35]
• John M. Deutch: Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
• Hedley Donovan: (deceased) former editor-in-chief of Time magazine,^[36] White House Advisor on Domestic and Foreign Policy under Carter, Trilateral Commission founding member^[32][34]
• Lawrence Eagleburger: former Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush
• Bill Emmott: Former editor of The Economist magazine.
• Aatos Erkko: Chairman, SanomaWSOY
• Lene Espersen: Danish Minister of Culture, former Minister of Justice (Attendee 2002,2005)
• Daniel J. Evans: former Governor of Washington
• Gaston Eyskens: former Prime Minister of Belgium
• Dianne Feinstein: Democratic U.S. Senator, former Mayor of San Francisco, member of the Council on Foreign Relations; chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.
• Martin Feldstein: Professor of economics at Harvard University; president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984; former director of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Bilderberg Group and of the World Economic Forum.
• Hugh Fletcher: Chancellor of Auckland University and CEO of Fletcher Challenge.
• Lykke Friis: Pro-Rector University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Former Head of European Department, Federation of Danish Industries. (Attendee 2005)
• Ross Garnaut: Head, Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
• David Gergen: (personal website) Political consultant and presidential advisor during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford and Reagan; also served as advisor to Bill Clinton.^[37]
• John Glenn: former astronaut, former US Senator and U.S. Presidential candidate^[32]
• Maldonado Gonelha
• Allan Gotlieb: Canadian Ambassador to Washington from 1981 to 1989, chairman of the Canada Council from 1989 to 1994.
• Bill Graham: former Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Paul Martin; for most of 2006, interim parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party.
• Hank Greenberg: Former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation.
• Alan Greenspan: Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve^[33]
• John Gutfreund: Former CEO of Salomon Brothers
• Alexander Haig: former Secretary of State under Reagan
• Sirkka Hämäläinen: Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland
• Edward Heath: former British Prime Minister
• Mugur Isărescu: Governor of the National Bank of Romania since 1990 and Prime Minister from December 1999 to November 2000; he worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs then for the Romanian Embassy in the U.S. after the 1989 Romanian revolution.
• Max Jakobson: former Finnish ambassador to the United States
• Sergei Karaganov: Presidential Advisor to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2005.
• Henry Kissinger: U.S. diplomat, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations; former Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of JP Morgan Chase.
• Horst Köhler: Former president of Germany
• Max Kohnstamm: Diplomat and historian, son of Philip Kohnstamm.
• Joseph Kraft: syndicated columnist^[32]
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff: Chairman of the German Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1998; Minister for Economic Affairs for West Germany from 1977 to 1984.
• Liam Lawlor: Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil party; died in a car-crash in Moscow in 2005.
• Pierre Lellouche: French MP of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party led by Nicolas Sarkozy.
• Gerald M. Levin: Former CEO of Time Warner, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Peter Lougheed: former Premier of Alberta
• Allan MacEachen: former Leader of the Government in the Senate (Canada)
• Whitney MacMillan: Chairman Emeritus of Cargill
• Jorge Braga de Macedo
• Francis Maude: MP for Horsham, the only British MP currently a member of the Trilateral Commission, former Conservative Party Chairman, son of the late Sir Angus Maude MP
• Kiichi Miyazawa: Japanese Prime Minister in 1991–1993; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976, Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1984 to 1986, Minister of Finance in 1987 and again from 1999 to 2002.
• Walter Mondale: former Vice President of the U.S. under Carter^[32]
• Akio Morita: Co-founder of Sony Corporation; vice chairman of the Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and member of the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group.
• Brian Mulroney: former Canadian Prime Minister
• Lowell Murray: Canadian Senator
• Indra Nooyi: CEO of PepsiCo
• Andrzej Olechowski: Polish director of Euronet, USA; on the supervisory boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny; president of the Central European Forum; Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Poland from 1989 to 1991; Minister of Foreign Economic Relations from 1991 to 1992; Minister of Finance in 1992 and of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995; economic advisor to President Lech WaÅ‚Ä™sa from 1992 to 1993 and in 1995, etc.
• Paul H. O'Neill: former Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush and former chairman of Alcoa
• Henry D. Owen: former Brookings Institution Director and Ambassador at Large for Economic Summit Affairs.
• Dinesh Paliwal: Chairman, President and CEO of Harman International Industries
• Lucas Papademos: European Central Bank Vice President
• Gerry Parsky
• Martha Piper: Former President and Vice-Chancellor of UBC
• Lee Raymond: Former CEO and Chairman, ExxonMobil, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute
• Charles Robb: former US Senator
• Mary Robinson: President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 as a candidate for the Labour Party; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
• Dufferin Roblin: former Premier of Manitoba
• Carl Rowan: syndicated columnist^[32]
• Brent Scowcroft: former National Security Advisor[36] under former Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush; Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc.^[38]

^[39]

• William Scranton: former Governor of Pennsylvania
• Tøger Seidenfaden: Editor-in-Chief, Politiken,Denmark . Member since 2005. Also a Bilderberg attendee since 1995
• Donna Shalala: Secretary of Health and Human Services under Clinton^[32]
• Gerard C. Smith: First U.S. Chairman of the Trilateral Commission; chief U.S. delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1969.
• Anthony M. Solomon: former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Ted Sorensen: former special adviser to President Kennedy^[3]
• Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Leader of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal) from 1996 to 1999.
• Ron Southern: Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder of ATCO
• Thorvald Stoltenberg: Norwegian politician, holds a seat on the Trilateral Commission's Executive Committee.
• Peter Straarup: Chairman of the Executive Board, Danske Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark; Chairman, the Danish Bankers Association. (Attendee 2002,2005)^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Taft Jr.: former US Senator
• Mihai Tănăsescu: Romania's representative to the IMF, Minister of Finance of Romania (2000-2004), member of the Social Democratic Party^[40]
• James R. Thompson: former Governor of Illinois
• Niels Thygesen: Denmark. (Attendee: 1992,1998,2002)
• George Vasiliou: President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993, founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party.
• Takeshi Watanabe
• Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense under Reagan^[32]
• Paul Wolfowitz: Former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington.
• Andrew Young: former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
• Robert Zoellick: President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Trade Representative[37].
• Karel Schwarzenberg: former chancellor of Czech President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, currently a leader of a political party elected to the Czech parliament
• Toomas Hendrik Ilves: President of Estonia^[41]

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