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 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/Luxembourg, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, now has a ceiling of 170 members, which is divided into national quotas. Germany has a quota of 20; France, Italy, and the United Kingdom each have a quota of 18; and Spain has a quota of 12. The remaining national quotas range from 6 to 1.
The ceiling for the North American Group is 120, including 20 Canadian members, 13 Mexican members and 87 U.S. members.
The Japanese Group of 85 members expanded in 2000 to become the Pacific Asian Group and now includes over 100 members from Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the original five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). Triennium Participants from the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have also participated.
The Commission recently began admitting members from China and India.
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 current full membership list is available by e-mail or by contacting any of the regional offices.
Chairmen, Deputy Chairmen and Directors North American Chairman: 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
European Chairman: PETER SUTHERLAND
Chairman, BP p.l.c., London; Chairman, Goldman Sachs
International; Chairman, London School of Economics; UN Special Representative for Migration and Development; former Director General, GATT/WTO; former Member
of the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland
Pacific Asian Chairman: YOTARO KOBAYASHI
Former Chairman of the Board, Fuji Xerox
Co., Ltd., Tokyo
North American Deputy Chairman: ALLAN E. GOTLIEB
Senior
Adviser, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby's, Canada;
former Canadian Ambassador to the United States
North
American Deputy Chairman: LORENZO ZAMBRANO
Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer, CEMEX, Monterrey, NL, Mexico
European Deputy Chairman: HERVE DE CARMOY
Chairman, ETAM, Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Générale de Belgique
European Deputy Chairman: ANDRZEJ OLECHOWSKI
Founder, Civic Platform; former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: HAN SUNG-JOO
Chairman, The Asan Instiute for Policy Studies; former President, Korea University, Seoul; former Korean Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States
Pacific Asian Deputy Chairman: SHIJURO OGATA
Former Deputy Governor, Japan
Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for International Relations,
Bank of Japan
North American Director: MICHAEL J. O’NEIL
European Director: PAUL RÉVAY
Pacific Asia
Director: TADASHI YAMAMOTO Former North American Chairmen:
THOMAS S. FOLEY (2001-2008)
PAUL A. VOLCKER (1991-2001) Honorary North American Chairman
DAVID ROCKEFELLER (1977-91) Founder and Honorary North
American Chairman
GERARD C. SMITH (1973-77)
Former European Chairmen:
OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF
(1992-2001) Honorary European Chairman
GEORGES BERTHOIN (1976-92)
Honorary European Chairman
MAX KOHNSTAMM
(1973-76) Former Japanese Chairmen:
KIICHI MIYAZAWA, Acting Chairman
(1993-97)
AKIO MORITA (1992-93)
ISAMU YAMASHITA
(1985-92)
TAKESHI WATANABE (1973-85)
Executive Committee
Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, CNP Assurances, Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance
Erik Belfrage, Senior Vice President, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken; Director, Investor AB, Stockholm
C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International
Affairs
Georges Berthoin, International Honorary
Chairman, European Movement; Honorary Chairman, The Jean Monnet
Association; Honorary European Chairman, The Trilateral Commission
Jorge Braga de Macedo, President, Tropical Research Institute, Lisbon; Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance
François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citi France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States
Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate, Republic of Ireland
Alfonso Cortina, Vice Chairman, Rothschild Europe; Senior Advisor for Spain and Latin America, Rothschild; Senior Advisor for Spain, Texas Pacific Group; Member, Board of Directors, Mutua Madrileña; Member, International Advisory Board, Allianz AG, Madrid
Vladimir Dlouhy, Senior Advisor, ABB; International
Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former
Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague
Thomas S. Foley, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; former North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC
Michael Fuchs, Member of the German
Bundestag; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade, Berlin
Antonio Garrigues Walker, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores Tributarios, Madrid
Toyoo Gyohten, President, The
Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Senior Advisor, The Bank
of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ, Ltd., Tokyo
Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of
Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University; former Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canberra
Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary
of Housing and Urban Development
Karen Elliott House, Writer, Princeton, NJ; Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal
Mugur Isarescu, Governor, National Bank of Romania, Bucharest; former Prime Minister of Romania
Baron Daniel Janssen,
Honorary Chairman, Solvay, Brussels
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
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
Sixten Korkman, Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA) and Finnish Business and Policy Forum (EVA), Helsinki
Count Otto Lambsdorff, Partner, TaylorWessing
Lawyers, Düsseldorf; former 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
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
Marianne Lie, Consultant, Norsk Investorforum, Oslo; former Director General, Norwegian Shipowners Association
Cees Maas, Senior Advisor, Cerberus Global Investment Advisors; Honorary Vice Chairman of the ING Group and former Chief Financial Officer, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Canadian Minister of International Trade; Toronto, ON
Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation, Tokyo
Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Member, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, New York, NY; Chairman, KKR Japan
Minoru Murofushi, President, Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo
Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International
Policy Studies, Tokyo; former Japanese Ambassador to the United States
Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), Mexico City, DF
Silvio Scaglia, Founder, Chairman and Financial Backer, Babelgum, London; Chairman, S.M.S. Finance S.A., Luxembourg; former Chairman, Fastweb, Milan
Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman, Supervisory Board, Constantia Group; former Chairman,
Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna
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
Tøger Seidenfaden, Editor-in-Chief, Politiken, Copenhagen
Petar Stoyanov, former President of the Republic of Bulgaria; Member of the Bulgarian Parliament; Chairman, Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces; Chairman, Union of Democratic Forces; Sofia
Raivo Vare, Partner, Sthenos Group, and OÜ RVVE Group; Member of the President's Academic Advisory Board; former Estonian 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
Paul Volcker, Chairman, President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board; former Chairman, Wolfensohn & Co., Inc., New York; Frederick H. Schultz Professor Emeritus,
International Economic Policy, Princeton University; former Chairman,
Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System; Honorary North American
Chairman and former North American Chairman, The Trilateral
Commission
Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, K & H Bank Zrt, Budapest; former General Manager Central Europe Directorate, KBC Bank Insurance Holding, Brussels; former Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana
Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens
Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees; Centre for Strategic and International Studies,
Jakarta
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin
The full membership list is available by e-mail or by contacting any of the regional offices.
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