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.

Members of the Commission are chosen by invitation from the national and regional groups within the Commission.

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 Asian 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

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

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

Catherine Bertini, Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY; Senior Fellow, Agricultural Development, Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation; former Under Secretary-General for Management,
United Nations; former Executive Director, UN World Food Program

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

Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
The Duberstein Group, Washington, DC; former Chief of Staff to President
Ronald Reagan

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, Berlin;
Chairman of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group; former President, National
Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade

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

John J. Hamre, President, Center for Strategic and
International Studies, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of
Defense and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller)

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

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

Eli Leenaars, Member of the ING Management Board Banking;
Vice Chairman, Netherlands Banker's Association, Amsterdam; European
Group Treasurer, Trilateral Commission

Marianne Lie, Partner, Vox Politica, Oslo; former Director
General, Norwegian Shipowners Association

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, KKR & Co., New York, NY

Minoru Murofushi, President, Development Bank of Japan, Tokyo


Yoshio Okawara, President, Institute for International
Policy Studies, Tokyo; former Japanese Ambassador to the United States

Ursula Plassnik, Member of the Austrian Parliament; Special
Envoy for International Women Issues; former Federal Minister for
European and International Affairs, Vienna

Luis Rubio, President, Center of Research for Development
(CIDAC), Mexico City, DF

Ferdinando Salleo, Vice Chairman, MCC (Mediocredito
Centrale), Rome; former Ambassador to the United States

Susan Schwab, Professor, Maryland School of Public Policy,
University of Maryland, College Park, MD; former U.S. Trade
Representative

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

Strobe Talbott, President, The Brookings Institution,
Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

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