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