The Trilateral Commission

European Group

 

See also:         Trilateral Commission Leaders

                        Trilateral Commission North American Group

                        Trilateral Commission Pacific Asian Group

 

Krister Ahlström, Chairman, Ahlström Corp., Helsinki; Vice Chairman, Stora Enso and Fortum; former Chairman, Finnish Employers Confederation

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

Edmond Alphandéry, Chairman, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance, Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance

Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Chairman of the Board of Governors of Danmarks Nationalbank, Copenhagen

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, Governor, The Swedish Central Bank, Stockholm

Jerzy Baczynski, Editor-in-Chief, Polityka, Warsaw

Pedro Ballvé, Chairman, Campofrio Alimentacion, Madrid

Estela Barbot, Vice President, Produtos Sarcol, Porto; Vice President of the Board, AEP --Portuguese Business Association; Consul of Guatemala, Lisbon

Raymond Barre, Former Member of the National Assembly; former Mayor of Lyon; former Prime Minister of France

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

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

Boris Biancheri Chiappori, Chairman, Agenzia ANSA, Rome; Chairman, I.S.P.I., Milan; former Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Kurt Biedenkopf, Minister President of the Free State of Saxony; former Member of the German Bundestag, Dresden

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

Michel Bon, Chairman, France Telecom, Paris

Ana Patricia Botin, Chairman, Banesto, Madrid; Member of the Board & of the Executive Committee, Banco Santander Central Hispano

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

Rolf-E. Breuer, Chairman of the Board, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main

Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Warburg, London; former Vice President, European Commission

Martin Broughton, Chairman, British American Tobacco, London

Robin Buchanan, Senior Partner, Bain & Company, London

Sven Burmester, Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former Representative, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Beijing

Richard Burrows, Co-General Director, Pernod Ricard Group; Chairman and Chief Executive, Irish Distillers, Dublin; President, IBEC (The Irish Business and Employers Confederation)

Umberto Cappuzzo, President, Eurodefens Italia; former Member of the Italian Senate; former Chief of Staff of the Army, Rome

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), Madrid

Jean-Claude Casanova, Membre de l’Institut de France; Professor of Economics, Institute of Political Studies, Paris; Editor, Commentaire

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

Bertrand Collomb, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Lafarge, Paris

Richard Conroy, Chairman, Conroy Diamonds & Gold, Dublin; Member of Senate, Irish Republic

Alfonso Cortina, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Repsol YPF, Madrid

Alain Cotta, Professor of Economics and Management, University of Paris

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

Viscount Etienne Davignon, Honorary Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique; former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities

Baron Paul de Keersmaeker, Chairman of the Board of Domo, WDP, Nestlé Belgilux, Europalia International and the Canadian European Round Table, Brussels; Honorary Chairman, Interbrew; former Member of the Belgian and European Parliaments and of the Belgian Government

Patrick Devedjian, Member of the French National Assembly; RPR Party Spokesman, Paris

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, London

Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Professor of Physics, University of the Basque Country; former Basque Minister of Education, San Sebastian

Oscar Fanjul, Chairman, Hidroeléctrica del Cantabrico; Honorary Chairman, Repsol, Madrid

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*, Chairman, Prensa Española, Madrid

Jürgen Fitschen, Member of the Group Executive Committee, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main

Garret FitzGerald, Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ireland and Member of the Irish Dail, Dublin

Niall FitzGerald, Chairman, Unilever, London

Michael Fuchs*, Managing Director, Impex Electronic, Koblenz; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders, Berlin

Gabriele Galatari di Genola, Managing Director IFI and IFIL; Member of the Board, Fiat, Turin

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, Garrigues & Andersen, Madrid

Lord Gilbert, Member of the House of Lords; former Minister for Defence, London

Stephen Green, Chairman, HSBC Investment Bank, London

Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Chairman, ENI, Rome

General Lord Guthrie, Director, NM Rothschild & Sons, London; former Chief of Defence Staff, London

Uwe Haasen, Member of the Advisory Board, Allianz, Munich; Former Chairman, Allianz Versicherung, Munich

Carl Hahn, Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Gerling Speziale Kreditversicherungs, Cologne; Director, Perot Systems Corporation, Dallas; former Chairman, Volkswagen, Wolfsburg

Sirkka Hämäläinen, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland

Gerhard Heiberg, Partner, Norscan Consulting; Chairman of the Board, Aker, Oslo; former President, C.O.J.O. Lillehammer 94 Olympic Games

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

Claude Imbert, Founder and Editorialist, Le Point, Paris

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

Sir Michael Jenkins, Vice Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, London; former British Ambassador

Trinidad Jiménez, International Policy Secretary of the Federal Executive Commission, Socialist Party (PSOE), Madrid

Josef Joffe, Publisher and Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg; Former Foreign Editor, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich

Alain Joly, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, L’Air Liquide, Paris

Béla Kadar*, Ambassador of Hungary to the O.E.C.D., Paris; former Hungarian Minister of International Economic Relations and Member of Parliament

Karl Kaiser, 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, Budapest

Pavel Kavanek, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ceskoslovenska obchodni banka (CSOB); acting President, the Czech Banking Association, Prague

Sir John Kerr, Secretary General, European Convention, Brussels; Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State and Head of the Diplomatic Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, London; former British Ambassador in Washington D.C.

Denis Kessler, Chairman, French Insurance Association (FFSA), Paris; Executive Vice-Chairman, MEDEF-Mouvement des Entreprises de France (French Employers’ Confederation)

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, President, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart; Chairman, 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

Daniel Lebègue, President & Chief Executive Officer, Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, Paris

Cees van Lede, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnhem; former President, Federation of Netherlands Industry

Pierre Lellouche, Member of the French National Assembly; RPR Party Executive Delegate, Paris

André Leysen, Chairman, Gevaert, Antwerp; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Agfa-Gevaert Group

Count Maurice Lippens, Chairman, Fortis, Brussels

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

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, President, The Federation of Austrian Industry, Vienna; Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, MIBA, Laakirchen

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

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-Danfoss, 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

Andrzej Olechowski*, Chairman, "Civic Platform"; Former Chairman, Bank Handlowy; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw

Lord Owen, Chairman, Yukos International UK; former Co-Chairman (EU) of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on Former Yugoslavia; former Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary, London

Lucas Papademos, Governor of the Bank of Greece, Athens

Schelto Patijn, Former Mayor of the City of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Christopher Patten, 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 Managing Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich

Andrea Pininfarina, Managing Director, Industrie Pininfarina, Turin; Chairman, Federmeccanica (Association of Mechanical Industries), Rome

Alessandro Profumo, Managing Director, Unicredito Italiano, Milan

Luigi Ramponi, Member of Parliament; Chairman of the Defence Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, Rome

Günter Rexrodt, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal Minister of the Economy, Berlin

Heinz Riesenhuber, Member of the German Bundestag; former Federal Minister of Research and Technology, Berlin

Johannes Ringel, Member of the Managing Board, Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale, Düsseldorf

Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan

Sergio Romano, Columnist, Corriere della Sera and Liberal; former Italian Ambassador to the USSR, Milan

H. Onno Ruding, Vice Chairman Citicorp/Citibank, Brussels; Chairman, Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS);  former Dutch Minister of Finance

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 Negocios, Madrid

Silvio Scaglia, Managing Director, e-Biscom, Milan; former Managing Director, Omnitel

Jorgen Schleimann, Senior Columnist; Chairman, The Danish European Movement, Denmark

Guido Schmidt-Chiari*, Chairman, Constantia Group; former Chairman, Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna

Pedro Schwartz, Executive Chairman, IDELCO, Madrid; Professor of Economics, Autonomous University of Madrid

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, Milan

Maurizio Sella, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Banca Sella, Biella; Chairman, Association of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Rome

Stefano Silvestri, President, Institute for International Affairs (IAI), Rome; Commentator, Il Sole 24 Ore

Lord Simon of Highbury, Member of the House of Lords; Advisory Director of Unilever, Morgan Stanley Europe and LEK; former British Minister for Trade & Competitiveness in Europe; former Chairman of BP, London

Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP Group, London

Myles Staunton*, Former Member of the Irish Senate

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, Den Danske Bank, Copenhagen; Chairman, the Danish Bankers Association

Peter Sutherland*, Chairman, BP, 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

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, Brussels

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

Harri Tiido*, Deputy Under-Secretary for Political & Public Affairs, Security Policy & NATO Accession, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tallinn; former Editor-in-Chief, Radio KUKU

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli, Milan

Loukas Tsoukalis, Professor, European Institute & Director, Hellenic Observatory, London School of Economics and Political Science, London; Professor of European Integration, University of Athens; President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy

Laszlo Urban, Vice President, Business Planning Director, Citibank, New York; former Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors, Postabank, Budapest

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer, London; Member of the Royal Spanish Academy

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

Diogo Vaz Guedes, Chairman, Somague Group, Alges, Portugal

Franco Venturini, Foreign Correspondent, Corriere della Sera, Rome

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, Ljubljana

Joris Voorhoeve, Member of the Council of State; former Member of the Dutch Parliament; former Minister of Defence, The Hague

Panagis Vourloumis, Panagis Vourloumis & Associates, Financial Advisors; Chairman, Frigoglass Group; former Chairman and Managing Director, Alpha Finance, Athens

Karel Vuursteen, Chairman of the Executive Board, Heineken, Amsterdam

Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Management Board, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute; President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris

Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf

Nout Wellink, President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam

Arne Wessberg, Director General, YLE Group, the Finnish Broadcasting Company & Digits Oy, Helsinki; President, European Broadcasting Union (EBU)

Norbert Wieczorek*, Member of the German Bundestag;  Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group, Berlin

Alan Williams, Member of the British Parliament, London

Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Honorary Chairman, East Committee of the German Industry; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Otto Wolff Industrieberatung und Beteiligung, Cologne

Emilio Ybarra*, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid

Dieter Zetsche, President and Chief Executive Officer, DaimlerChrysler Corporation, U.S.A.; Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart

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

 

Marek Belka, Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of Finance, Poland

Ritt Bjerregaard, Minister of Agriculture & Food, Denmark

Yvette Cooper, Minister for Public Health, United Kingdom

Lene Espersen, Minister of Justice, Denmark

Laurent Fabius, Minister of the Economy, Finances & Industry, France

Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission (Competition Policy), Brussels

Viktor Orban, Prime Minister, Hungary

Alain Richard, Minister of Defence, France

Pedro Solbes, Member of the European Commission (Monetary Affairs), Brussels

Hubert Védrine, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France

Karsten Voigt, Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, Federal Foreign Ministry, Germany

 

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