The 2005 Trilateral Commission
Membership List
May 2005
*E xecutive Committee
Founder and Honorary Chairman - David Rockefeller
North American Chairman - Thomas S. Foley
North American Deputy Chairman - Allan E. Gotlieb
North American Deputy Chairman - Lorenzo H. Zambrano
North American Honorary Chairman - Paul A. Volcker
North American Director - Michael J. O'Neil
European Chairman - Peter Sutherland
European Deputy Chairman - Hervé De Carmoy
European Deputy Chairman - Andrzej Olechowski
European Honorary Chairman - Georges Berthoin
European Honorary Chairman - Otto Graf Lambsdorff
European Director - Paul Révay
Pacific Asia Chairman - Yotaro Kobayashi
Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman - Kim Kyung-Won
Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman - Shijuro Ogata
Pacific Asia Director - Tadashi Yamamoto2
E UR O P EAN G R O UP
• Paul Adams, Chief Executive, British American Tobacco, London
• Urban Ahlin, Member of the Swedish Parliament and Chairman of the Committee
on Foreign Affairs, Stockholm
• Krister Ahlström, Vice Chairman, Stora Enso and Fortum; former Chairman,
Finnish Employers Confederation; former Chairman, Ahlström Corp., Helsinki
• Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance, Paris; former
Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and
Finance
• Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Chairperson of the Board of Governors, Danmarks
Nationalbank, Copenhagen
• Jacques Andréani, Ambassadeur de France; former Ambassador to the United
States
• *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
• Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw
• Estela Barbot, Vice President, AGA, Porto; Vice President of the Board, AEP—
Portuguese Business Association; Consul of Guatemala, Lisbon
• 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, Stockholm
• *Georges Berthoin, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement;
Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet Association; Honorary European
Chairman, The Trilateral Commission, Paris
• Nicolas Beytout, Editor, Le Figaro, Paris ; former Editor, Les Echos, Paris
• Carl Bildt, Chairman, Nordic Venture Network and Senior Adviser, IT Provider,
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
• Lord Black of Crossharbour, Member of the House of Lords, London
• 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 (ALDE Group/UDF)
and Chairman, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs, Brussels;
former President of the European Movement in France, Paris
• *Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon; 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 Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurtam-Main; President, Association of German Banks (BDB), Berlin 3
• Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Investment Bank, London;
former Vice President, European Commission
• Robin Buchanan, Senior Partner, Bain & Company, London
• *François Bujon de l’Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup
France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States
• Sven Burmester, Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former Representative, United
Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Beijing; former World Bank Deputy
Secretary and Representative in Cairo
• 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, 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
• Antonio Carrapatoso, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vodafone Portugal,
Lisbon; Member of the Board of Directors, Vodafone Spain & Vodacom
• Salvatore Carrubba, Culture Alderman, Municipality of Milan; former Managing
Editor, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milan
• Henri de Castries, Chairman of the Management Board and Chief Executive
Officer, AXA, Paris
• Luc Coene, Minister of State; Deputy Governor, National Bank of Belgium,
Brussels
• Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, Apax Partners, London
• Vittorio Colao, Chief Executive Officer, RCS MediaGroup, Milan; former
Managing Director, Vodafone Omnitel
• Bertrand Collomb, Chairman, Lafarge, Paris; Chairman, World Business Council
for Sustainable Development
• *Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of
Senate, Republic of Ireland
• Eckhard Cordes, Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart
• Alfonso Cortina, Chairman, Repsol-YPF Foundation & former Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Repsol-YPF, Madrid
• 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, London
• 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
• Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, President of the All England Lawn Tennis and
Croquet Club, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge Freemasons, England
and has served Grand Master of the Order of St Michael and St George
• *Bill Emmott, Editor, The Economist, London 4
• Thomas Enders, Executive Vice President, Member of the Board of Management
& Head of the Defence and Security Systems Division, EADS, Munich
• Pedro Miguel Echenique, 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,
Madrid
• Grete Faremo, Former Executive Vice President, Storebrand; former Norwegian
Minister of Development Cooperation, Minister of Justice and Minister of Oil and
Energy, Oslo
• *Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Executive Director of Upstream, Repsol-YPF;
former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid
• *Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Corporate Director of Shared Services, RepsolYPF; former Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid
• Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank,
Frankfurt-am-Main
• Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, Foreign Editor, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Frankfurt am Main
• Hugh Friel, Chief Executive, Kerry Group, Dublin
• Lykke Friis, Head of European Department, Federation of Danish Industries,
Copenhagen
• *Michael Fuchs, Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin; former President,
National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders
• Lord Garel-Jones, Managing Director, UBS Investment Bank, London; Member
of the House of Lords; former Minister of State at the Foreign Office (European
Affairs)
• Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores
Tributarios, Madrid
• Lord Gilbert, Member of the House of Lords; former Minister for Defence,
London
• Prince Phillip of Greece, member, House of Lords, London
• Mario Greco, Managing Director, RAS, Milan
• General The Lord Guthrie, Director, N M Rothschild & Sons, London; Member
of the House of Lords; former Chief of the Defence Staff, London
• Grand Duke William John Hagan II, Former Chairman, New Obelisk Press;
Grand Master of the Order of Ormus, London
• Sirkka Hämäläinen, Former Member of the Executive Board, European Central
Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland
• Grand Duke Karl Habsburg, Member of European Parliament
• *Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Member of the European Parliament; former Estonian
Foreign Minister and Member of the Parliament; former Ambassador to the
United States, Canada and Mexico
• Alfonso Iozzo, Managing Director, San Paolo IMI Group, Turin 5
• *Mugur Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest; former Prime
Minister
• *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
• Zsigmond Jarai, President, National Bank of Hungary, Budapest
• Trinidad Jiménez, International Relations Secretary of the Socialist Party (PSOE)
& Member of the Federal Executive Committee, Madrid
• *Béla Kadar, Member of the Hungarian Academy, Budapest; 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, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Studies,
Harvard University, USA; 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, General Vice President, The National Association of Craftmen’ s
Corporations, Budapest
• *Lord Kerr, Member of the House of Lords; Director of Rio Tinto, Shell, and the
Scottish American Investment Trust, London; 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 ViceChairman, 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, Prague
• *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
• Emilio Lamo de Espinosa, Director, Elcano Royal Institute of International and
Strategic Studies; Professor of Sociology at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid
• Kurt Lauk, 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, 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; Chairman of the French Delegation to NATO’s
Parliamentary Assembly 6
• Enrico Letta, Member of the European Parliament (ALDE Group), Brussels;
Secretary General, AREL; Vice President, Aspen Institute; former Minister of
European Affairs, Industry, and of Industry and International Trade, Rome
• André Leysen, Honorary Chairman, Gevaert, Antwerp; Honorary Chairman,
Agfa-Gevaert Group
• Marianne Lie, Director General, Norwegian Shipowner’s Association, Oslo
• Count Maurice Lippens, Chairman, Fortis, Brussels
• Helge Lund, Chief Executive Officer of the Norwegian Oil Company, Statoil,
Oslo
• *Cees Maas, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of the ING Group,
Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
• Peter Mandelson, Member of the European Commission (Trade), Brussels; former
Member of the British Parliament; former Secretary of State to Northern Ireland
and for Trade and Industry
• Abel Matutes, Chairman, Empresas Matutes, Ibiza; former Member of the
European Commission, Brussels; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Madrid
• Francis Maude, Member of the British Parliament; Director, Benfield Group;
former Shadow Foreign Secretary, London
• 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, Lisbon
• Joao de Menezes Ferreira, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ECO-SOROS,
Lisbon; former Member of the Portuguese Parliament
• Peter Mitterbauer, Honorary President, The Federation of Austrian Industry,
Vienna; President and Chief Executive Officer, MIBA, Laakirchen
• Mario Monti, President and Professor Emeritus, Bocconi University, Milan;
Chairman of BRUEGEL and of ECAS, Brussels; former Member of the European
Commission (Competition Policy)
• Dominique Moïsi, Special Advisor to the Director General of the French Institute
for International Relations (IFRI), Paris
• Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American; former Chairman, Royal
Dutch/Shell Group, London
• 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, Statoil, Oslo
• Arend Oetker, Chairman, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); Vice
Chairman, Federation of German Industries; Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke (Atlantic
Bridge); Managing Director, Dr. Arend Oetker Holding, Berlin
• *Andrzej Olechowski, Leader, Civic Platform; Former Chairman, Bank
Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw 7
• Richard Olver, Chairman, BAE Systems, London
• Janusz Palikot, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Polmos Lublin; Vice
President, Polish Confederation of Private Employers; Co-owner, Publishing
House slowo/obraz terytoria; Member of the Board of Directors, Polish Business
Council, Warsaw
• Dimitry Panitza, Founding Chairman, The Free and Democratic Bulgaria
Foundation; Founder and Chairman, The Bulgarian School of Politics, Sofia
• Lucas Papademos, Vice President, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main;
former Governor of the Bank of Greece
• Schelto Patijn, Member of the Supervisory Board of the Schiphol Group and
Amsterdam RAI; former Mayor of the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; 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
• Heinrich von Pierer, Chairman of the Board, Siemens, Munich
• Josep Piqué, Chairman of the Popular Party of Catalunya, Barcelona; Member of
the Parliament of Catalunya; Member of the Spanish Senate; former Minister of
Foreign Affairs
• Benoît Potier, Chairman of the Management Board, L’Air Liquide, Paris
• Alessandro Profumo, Chief Executive Officer, UniCredito Italiano, Milan
• 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 Rapaczynska, President of the Management Board, Agora, Warsaw
• Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal Minister
of Research and Technology, Berlin
• Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan; Vice
President, Confindustria
• H. Onno Ruding, Chairman, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS),
Brussels; Retired Vice Chairman, Citibank; former Dutch Minister of Finance
• Renato Ruggiero, Vice Chairman, Citigroup European Investment Bank, Zurich;
former Italian Foreign Minister and Director General of WTO
• Anthony Ruys, Chairman of the Executive Board, Heineken, Amsterdam
• Jacques Santer, Former Member of the European Parliament; former President of
the European Commission; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
• Prince Rafael of Savoy, Business Person, Lisbon
• *Silvio Scaglia, Chairman and Founcer, e.Biscom, Milan; former Managing
Director, Omnitel
• Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer, ENEL, Rome
• *Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Constantia Group; former Chairman,
Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna
• Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Allianz, Munich 8
• Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg, Founder and Director, Nadace Bohemiae,
Prague; former Chancellor to President Havel; former President of the
International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights
• Miguel Sebastian, Chairman of the Economic Bureau of the Prime Minister of
Spain; Professor of Economics at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid
• *Carlo Secchi, Professor of European Economic Policy, Bocconi University,
Milan; former Member of the Italian Senate and of the European Parliament
• *Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen
• Maurizio Sella, Chairman, Banca Sella, Biella; Chairman, Association of Italian
Banks (A.B.I.), Rome; Chairman, Finanziaria Bansel
• 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, London
• Nicholas Soames, Member of the British Parliament, London
• Hermann Otto Solms, Vice President of the German Bundestag, Berlin
• Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London
• Myles Staunton, Former Member of the Irish Senate & of the Dail; Consultant,
Westport, Co. Mayo
• *Thorvald Stoltenberg, President, Norwegian Red Cross, Oslo; former CoChairman (UN) of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on
Former Yugoslavia; former Foreign Minister of Norway; former UN High
Commissioner for Refugees
• *Petar Stoyanov, President, Centre for Political Dialogue, Sofia; former President
of Bulgaria
• 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;
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