Brian Kenny
WeAreChange.org
October 22, 2008

An open letter to Mike Rudin

  Mike Rudin, producer of the BBC 9/11 Hit-piece 'The Third Tower', recently posted an article called 'Caught up in a conspiracy theory', in response to a video I put out - WeAreChange Debunks the BBC at Ground Zero 9/11/08. In the article, he does not deny (or even attempt to explain, in some instances), the glaring misrepresentations, distortions, and omission that we called him out on at Ground Zero. He does not apologize (as many have called for) for repeatedly exhibiting poor journalistic ethics while covering the most controversial and important issue of our time. Instead he continues to dishonor the victims of 9/11 and insult the intelligence of the BBC audience by digging a deeper hole. Very well Mike Rudin, so be it.

BARRY JENNINGS

Rudin writes  "As I tried to explain to them at the time, we recorded a long interview with Barry Jennings. We also carefully considered other information and came to our own view based on all of that."

No. What you actually did was cut and splice and alter the story the way you wanted it. The issue at hand is- why did the BBC imply that the explosion Barry felt on the 6th floor was the North Tower collapsing, when he clearly states beyond any doubt in his Loose Change interview (done months before the BBC film) that the explosion happened before either tower had collapsed? Mike Rudin does not ask him to specify on camera weather the towers were still standing when he felt the explosion. A rather important question to miss.

This begs the question - did Mike Rudin watch the Loose Change interview (hereby refered to as LC)? If he had he would have surely noticed that Jennings makes perfectly clear multiple times that the towers came down after the explosion in Bldg. 7. Here are some quotes from the LC interview which the BBC viewers were not afforded the privilege of hearing:

"When we reached the sixth floor... there was an explosion and the landing gave way. I was left there hanging and I had to climb back up and I had to walk back up to the 8th floor... it was dark and very very hot. I asked Mr. Hess to test the phones as I took a fire extinguisher and broke out the windows. Once I broke out the windows I could see outside below me. I saw police cars on fire, buses on fire. I looked one way, the building was there, I looked the other, the building was gone. I was trapped in there for several hours. I was trapped in there when both buildings came down. The firefighters came. I was going to come down on the fire hose, because I didn't
want to stay there because it was too hot; they came to the window and started yelling 'do not do that, it won't hold you'. And then they ran away. I didn't know what was going on. That's when the first tower fell. When they started running, the first tower started coming down. I had no way of knowing that. And then I saw them come back with more concern on their faces. And then they ran away again. The second tower fell."

Later-

Dylan Avery: "So it's safe to say that that explosion on the 6th floor happened before either tower fell?"

Barry Jennings: "It definitely happened before either tower fell and I'll tell you why..." (Chopper
overhead)

D.A.: "Barry, I'm sorry, could you just wait for that chopper? 'Cause this is vital. Because the whole official story, the whole reason that Bldg. 7 collapsed, allegedly, is because the North Tower fell onto it and caused damage, and what people are gonna say is, they're gonna say, well, Barry was hit by debris from the North Tower."

Prophetic words from Dylan Avery!

B.J.: "No. What happened was, when we made it back to the 8th floor, as I told you earlier - both buildings were still standing. Because I looked two... I looked one way and looked the other way, now, there's nothing there. When I got to the 6th floor before all this happened... there was an explosion. That's what forced us back to the 8th floor. Both buildings were still standing. Keep in mind, I told you the Fire Dept. came and ran. They came twice. Why? Because Bldg Tower 1 fell, and then Tower 2 fell."

Watch the full Loose Change interview here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=barry+jennings+uncut&emb=0&aq=f

So Jennings specifies twice that both towers were standing when he felt the explosion, yet the BBC chose not to ask him to specify on tape, but instead speaks for him with a smug voice-over: "early reports of explosions were just debris from a falling skyscraper." This is the extent of the BBC's treatment of this critical issue. One line. How do we even know if you asked him this question, Mike Rudin? You surely didn't include it in your film. Are we supposed to take your word on it? Not only does Rudin fail to resolve these discrepancies, but he does not even let
the viewer know they exist. What "other information" factored into your decision to misrepresent Jennings' timeline (besides Michael Hess, as I will cover shortly)?

Rudin also poses the question "If our timeline is wrong then why didn't Barry Jennings and Michael Hess see and hear the moment of impact when Tower 1 fell. It must have been very loud."

This is a strawman argument. Who says that Barry Jennings' didn't hear the moment of impact? He never implies such.  Just because he wasn't asked about it specifically and didn't describe it in detail does not mean he didn't hear the North Tower hitting the building. He does make clear, however, that both towers were still standing, as already demonstrated.

Also kept from the BBC audience is the fact that Jennings made clear in his LC interview that he was not convinced by the official explanation of the WTC7 collapse, but more importantly, that he coincidentally died a few days prior to the release of the NIST report, which couldn't be confirmed until approximately 1 month later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xca6o38ZNY

Small wonder Hess reversed his position then, don't you think Mr Rudin? (as Steve Watson put it).

This is a call for Mike Rudin and the BBC to release their entire, unedited interview with Barry Jennings to the public. If you have nothing to hide then put it out for all to see. Readers of this article should contact Mike Rudin and the BBC and demand it's immediate release.

michael.rudin@bbc.co.uk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

SILVERSTEIN'S QUOTE

The BBC skews Larry Silverstein's "pull it" statement, cutting "and then we watched the bldg. collapse" out of the following quote:

"I remember getting a call from the fire department commander, telling me that they were not sure they were gonna be able to contain the fire, and I said, 'We've had such terrible loss of life, maybe the smartest thing to do is pull it.' And they made that decision to pull and then we watched the building collapse."

You do not deny skewing the quote nor do you give an explanation for the omission. Instead you explain why "pull it" does not necessarily mean demolish the building, which may be true, but
that is not the issue. Why didn't the BBC present the entire quote in it's full context and let the viewer decide? Why the omission? Another "cock-up"? Or was this on purpose? Your insinuation that this omission does not distort the context of the quote is not only ludicrous, but it is downright offensive. On this point alone, you owe the BBC viewers and the 9/11 family
members a public apology. Simply including the full quote in future hit-pieces will not suffice. This issue is too important for these types of unwarranted omissions (or dirty tricks).

You mention Fire Chief Daniel Nigro but fail to mention that, according to some sources, Nigro denied having that conversation with Silverstein. Nigro's 'Third Tower' interview raises more questions then provides answers. He says "we don't need to ask permission from the owner, no. When we're in charge of the bldg. we're in charge, and that decision would be the fire cheif's and his alone." Then why does Silverstein claim to have been a part of that decision and who exactly was he speaking to? Why didn't the BBC ask Nigro weather it was he who had the "pull it" conversation with Larry? More stellar investigative journalism by the BBC!

OMITTED VIDEO TESTIMONY

Not only do you misrepresent key eyewitness testimony and skew quotes, but you also lie by omission. I find it very telling that you did not address the videos of First Responders on the day of 9/11 walking back from WTC7, using such language as "the building is about to blow up" and "seven's exploding". This can be found in our video at 5:48 in. Maybe it's because you know that regardless of the language being used, foreknowledge of the collapse in itself is entirely inconsistent with a "new phenomenon" (NIST's thermal expansion theory).  Maybe it's because you know that the BBC reporting the collapse of WTC7 26 minutes in advance is especially inconsistent with a "new phenomenon". I ask the reader - does this pass the smell test?

Again, how about presenting all the evidence and let the viewer decide? Will you at least include these videos in your future films?

MICHAEL HESS

Despite the many shortcomings in your track record as an investigative journalist thus far, we are given yet a new eyewitness who has changed his mind about the explosion he heard and now confirms the timeline you contrived. You mention that Hess used to work as Giuliani's chief
lawyer. You fail to mention, however, that he has since been awarded a lucrative position as Vice Chairman of Giuliani Partners, a company notorious for banking in on the 9/11 tragedy. Not to mention that Rudy Giuliani has quite a few 9/11-related questions to answer himself, and is widely despised by Firemen and First Responders alike.

http://www.wnbc.com/politics/13404578/detail.html?dl=mainclick

Also, Michael Hess' UPN9 interview from the day of 9/11 contradicts your contrived timeline.

http://www.911blogger.com/node/17829

Will you include this in your upcoming hit-piece?

RECAP

Mike Rudin, representing the BBC, does not deny misrepresenting Barry Jennings' timeline, nor has he adequately explained why they did this. Nor does he deny skewing Larry Silverstein's quote, nor does he even attempt to explain this omission, and further implies that this omission does not distort the context of the quote. Rudin also ommits key video testimony, and then ignores it when addressed to him. These are only a few of many dirty tricks demonstrated by the BBC in both of their 9/11 Hit-pieces.

QUESTIONS FOR MIKE RUDIN:

Did you ask Barry Jennings to clarify weather the towers were standing when he felt the explosion?

If so, what exactly did he say, and why wasn't that critical segment of the interview included in your film? Why did you speak for him?

Why didn't you address these discrepancies to the BBC audience rather then omitting them?

What "other information" besides Michael Hess lead you to misrepresent Jennings' timeline?

Why did you skew Larry Silverstein's statement? Was this more "cock-up, not conspiracy"?

Will the BBC publicly apologize for this?

CALL TO ACTION

Readers should contact Mike Rudin and the BBC and demand the immediate release of the full, uncut Barry Jennings interview, as well as a public apology for the other distortions and omissions.

For a full debunking of the 'Third Tower' Hit-piece, read this great article

http://www.911blogger.com/node/16564

Question: What Country Am I?

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1. We award contracts to corporations involved in child sex slave rings
   1. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0512270176dec27,0,1632557.story

2. We use satellites to surveil our domestic population
   1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119812248622741723.html?mod=hps_us_whats_news

3. Our intelligence agencies are the ones bringing the drugs into the country covertly
   1. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/12/19210/608/933/420107

4. We use autonomous drones to surveil our domestic population
   1. http://www.click2houston.com/investigates/14659066/detail.html

5. Our currency is controlled by a private bank
   1. http://www.themoneymasters.com/faqs.htmq1

6. Two of our leaders (past and present) have family ties to Nazi funding
   1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1312540,00.html

7. We torture detainees during interrogations until death
   1. http://www.aclu.org/intlhumanrights/gen/21236prs20051024.html

8. We deny medical benefits to our service men and women
   1. http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2007/10/05/pentagon-screws-soldiers/

9. We are developing a biometric database of our population
   1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/21/AR2007122102544.html?nav=rss_technology

10. We train the clergy to quell public unrest in the event of martial law
    1. http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987

11. Our military is considering recruiting foreigners to serve
    1. http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1226/dailyUpdate.html

12. We have laws that allow citizens to be held indefinitely without charges
    1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900772.html

13. We passed laws that allow us to strip our citizens of their citizenship, secretly imprison them, secretly try them, secretly torture them, use evidence obtained during torture to assist in prosecution, and then secretly execute them, all while they are not allowed to see the evidence against them or basically defend themselves in any way
    1. http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/printer_1409.shtml
    2. http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2006/221006doesaffect.htm
    3. http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html

14. We are allowing our intelligence agency to provide support to Jundullah, an Al-Qaeda offshoot organization to attack ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Iran
    1. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessi..E3KMWW5VVIXZNQFIQMFSFF4AVCBQ0IV0?xml=/news/2007/05/27/wiran27.xml

15. We have a program called P2OG that enables covert terrorist operations in order to provoke other terrorists
    1. http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/4.html

16. We use private security firms for domestic and international operations
    1. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Blackwater_USA

17. We have sold off tax-paid highways to foreign companies and allowed them to put tolls on them that go into the banks of the foreign companies
    1. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497
    2. http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/highwaymen.html

18. Our leader signed into law an act that preemptively exonerates him from punishment of any war crimes committed during their administration
    1. http://public.cq.com/public/20061122_homeland.html

19. Here we use the remains of the dead to fill potholes
    1. http://www.voicesofsept11.org/dev/content.php?idtocitems=remainsdaily

20. In our country we hire former head of the East German stasi Markus Wolf and Ex-KGB General Yevgeni Primakov to consult on domestic security.
    1. http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=81704

 21.    In this our country we report poison food and lead toys are good for you!

              a.   http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/08/12/cnbcs-erin-burnett-we-need-chinas-toxic-food-and-lead-coated-toys-to-keep-economy-strong/

 22.    In our country we report Mercury is good for the brain.

              a.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20IhxCzeuDU&feature=related

 23.    Here we require by law in certain regions for computer technicians to have private investigator licenses to spy on civilians' computers.

              a.   http://cw33.trb.com/news/kdaf-062608-computerspelpina%2C0%2C486476.story

Answer: The Late Great United States of Scientific Tyranny

Luke Rudkowski & Brian Kenny / WeAreChangeNews / Jan 30, 2008

Every since coming out to Ground Zero for the very 1st time 4 and ½ years ago to stand behind a new investigation, I saw an African American man running around ground zero screaming "history don't let it be a mystery."

He was a very open and public person talking to any individual who even would look at him especially any curious young kids. I never knew what to think of this gentlemen but finally talking to him recently I knew his story had to be told.

His name is Harry John Roland and he has been coming out to Ground Zero for nearly everyday since the attacks of 9/11. Harry on 911 not only lost his job inside the South World Trade Center Tower but also his nephew who's body was not found until 2004.

Being tragically affected by 9/11, Harry has been coming out to Ground Zero nearly everyday since the attacks to educate the people about the truth behind that day.

We Are CHANGE pays tribute to the 1st person ever to make a stand for truth and who has been doing it everyday since the day of the tragic events of 911. We pay our respects and we hope you do too.

Harry is well known for his catch phrases which can be heard echoing throughout the WTC complex, especially "History - don't let it be a mystery", and "don't say two - 'cause that's not true!"

So if you visit Ground Zero to pay respect to the fallen or to join other patriotic Americans who stand for truth, remember to keep an eye and an ear out for Harry John Roland.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAITPUn7gD0

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EI8iMrNaps

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*François Bujon de l'Estang, Ambassadeur de France; Chairman, Citigroup France, Paris; former Ambassador to the United States

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Richard Burrows, Governor, Bank of Ireland; Director, Pernod Ricard; Chairman, the Scotch Whisky Association; former President, IBEC (The Irish Business and Employers Confederation), Dublin

*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

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Jürgen Chrobog, Chairman, BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation, Munich; former German Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States

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Sir Ronald Cohen, Founding partner and Executive Chairman, Apax Partners Worldwide, London

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, Chief Executive Officer, Franz Haniel & Cie, Duisburg; former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart

Alfonso Cortina, Chairman, Inmobiliaria Colonial; Chairman, Repsol-YPF Foundation, Madrid

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*Bill Emmott, Former Editor, The Economist, London

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Mario Greco, Chief Executive Officer, Eurizon Finantial Group; former Managing Director, RAS (Insurance), Milan

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Harald Norvik, Chairman and Partner, ECON Management; former President and Chief Executive, Statoil, Oslo

Arend Oetker, President, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP); Vice Chairman, Federation of German Industries; Managing Director, Dr. Arend Oetker Holding, Berlin

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

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

Lord Patten of Barnes, Chancellor of the University of Oxford; 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

Volker Perthes, Director, SWP (German Institute for International and Security Affairs), Berlin

Dieter Pfundt, Personally Liable Partner, Sal. Oppenheim Bank, Frankfurt

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

Luigi Ramponi, Member of the Italian Senate; former 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; Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Kabel Deutschland and of Evotec

Gianfelice Rocca, Chairman, Techint Group of Companies, Milan; Vice President, Confindustria, Rome

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

Anthony Ruys, Former Chairman of the Executive Board, Heineken, Amsterdam

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

Jacques Santer, Honorary State Minister, Luxembourg; former Member of the European Parliament; former President of the European Commission; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg

*Silvio Scaglia, Chairman, Fastweb; former Managing Director, Omnitel, Milan

Paolo Scaroni, Chief Executive Officer, ENI, Rome

*Guido Schmidt-Chiari, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Constantia Group; former Chairman, Creditanstalt Bankverein, Vienna

Henning Schulte-Noelle, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Allianz, Munich

Prince Charles of Schwarzenberg, Founder and Director, Nadace Bohemiae, Prague; Member of the Czech Senate; former Chancellor to President Havel; former President of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights

*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

Maurizio Sella, Chairman, Gruppo Banca Sella, Biella; former Chairman, Association of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Rome

Slawomir S. Sikora, Chief Executive Officer and Citigroup Country Officer for Poland, Bank Handlowy w Warszawie, Warsaw

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

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 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

*Petar Stoyanov, Former President of the Republic of Bulgaria; Member of Bulgarian Parliament; Chairman of Parliamentary Group of United Democratic Forces; Chairman of Union of Democratic Forces, Sofia

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; Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Migrations; 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

Pavel Telicka, Partner, BXL-Consulting, Prague

Jean-Philippe Thierry, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AGF (Assurances Générales de France), Paris

Lady Barbara Thomas Judge, Chairman, UKAEA (United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority); former U.S. Securities Exchange Commissioner

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli & C., Milan; Deputy Chairman, Confindustria, Rome; former Chairman, Telecom Italia

Elsbeth Tronstad, Executive Director, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NH0); former Vice President, ABB, Oslo

Loukas Tsoukalis,  Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission; Professor at the University of Athens and the College of Europe; President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Athens

Mario Vargas Llosa, Writer and Member of the Royal Spanish Academy, Madrid

*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

Franco Venturini, Senior Editorial Commentator on Foreign Affairs, Corriere della Sera, Rome

Friedrich Verzetnitsch, Former Member of Austrian Parliament; President, Austrian Federation of Trade Unions, Vienna; Former President, European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC)

*Marko Voljc, Chief Executive Officer, K & H Bank, Budapest; former General Manager of Central Europe Directorate, KBC Bank Insurance Holding, Brussels; former Chief Executive Officer, Nova Ljubljanska Banka, Ljubljana

Alexandr Vondra, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prague; former Czech Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

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

Panagis Vourloumis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (O.T.E.), Athens

Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Board, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), Stockholm

*Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Accor; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Weinberg Capital Partners; former Chairman of the Management Board, Pinault-Printemps-Redoute; former President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris

Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf; former Chairman, Federation of German Industries, Berlin

Nout Wellink, President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam

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

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

Hans Wijers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Akzo Nobel, Arnhem

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, former Chairman, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid

Former Members in Public Service

John Bruton, European Union Ambassador & Head, Delegation of the European Commission to the United States

Lene Espersen, Minister of Justice, Denmark

Pedro Solbes, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy and Finances, Spain; former Member of the European Commission

Harri Tiido, Ambassador of Estonia and Head of the Estonian Mission to NATO, Brussels

Karsten D. Voigt, Coordinator of German-American Cooperation, Federal Foreign Ministry, Germany

North American Group

Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, The Albright Group LLC, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of State

Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Michael H. Armacost, Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center, Stanford University, Hillsborough, CA; former President, The Brookings Institution; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs

Richard L. Armitage, President, Armitage International LLC, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy

      Secretary of State

James L. Balsillie, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Research in Motion, Ltd., Waterloo, ON

Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative

Alan R. Batkin, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, New York, NY

Doug Bereuter, President, The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, CA; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives

*C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

Catherine Bertini, Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; former Under-Secretary-General for Management, United Nations

Dennis C. Blair, USN (Ret.), Consultant and former President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA; former Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Command

Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Private Office of Herminio Blanco, Mexico City, NL; former Mexican Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development

Geoffrey T. Boisi, Chairman & Senior Partner, Roundtable Investment Partners LLC, New York, NY;

      former Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY

Stephen W. Bosworth, Dean, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, MA; former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company, Washington, DC

Harold Brown, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; General Partner, Warburg Pincus & Company, New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of Defense

*Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC; Robert Osgood Professor of American Foreign Affairs, Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Louis C. Camilleri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Altria Group, Inc., New York, NY

Raymond Chrétien, Strategic Advisor, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Montreal, QC; Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Center for International Studies of the University of Montreal; former Associate Under-Secretary of State of External Affairs; former Ambassador of Canada to the Congo, Belgium, Mexico, the United States and France

William T. Coleman III, Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, Cassatt Corporation;

      Founder, former Chairman and CEO and Member, Board of Directors, BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA

William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner and the Senior Counselor, O'Melveny & Myers, Washington, DC; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation

Timothy C. Collins, Senior Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Ripplewood Holdings, New York, NY

      Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University,             Cambridge, MA; former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council; former U.S. Under Secretary          of State for Economic Affairs

E. Gerald Corrigan, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York, NY;  former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Michael J. Critelli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pitney Bowes Inc., Stamford, CT

Lee Cullum, former regular commentator, "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," and columnist, Dallas, TX

Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, New York, NY; Visiting Professor, Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo

Douglas Daft, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, GA

Lynn Davis, Senior Political Scientist, The RAND Corporation, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

Arthur A. DeFehr, President and Chief Executive Officer, Palliser Furniture, Winnipeg, MB

André Desmarais, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation

John M. Deutch, Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; former Director of Central Intelligence; former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Jamie Dimon, President and Chief Executive Officer, JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York, NY

Peter C. Dobell, Founding Director, Parliamentary Centre, Ottawa, ON

Wendy K. Dobson, Professor and Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON; former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance

Kenneth M. Duberstein, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Duberstein Group, Washington, DC

Robert Eckert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Mattel, Inc., El Segundo, CA

Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean, Paul Nitze School of  Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC; former Managing Director for Finance and Resource Mobilization, World Bank

Jeffrey Epstein, President, J. Epstein & Company, Inc., New York, NY; President, N.A. Property, Inc.

Dianne Feinstein, Member (D-CA), U.S. Senate

Martin S. Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; President and Chief Executive Officer, National Bureau of Economic Research; former U.S.Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisors

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation, Washington, DC; former Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve System

Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem; former President, Citigroup International and Vice Chairman, Citgroup, New York, NY; former First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Richard W. Fisher, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, TX; former U.S. Deputy Trade Representative

*Thomas S. Foley, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Washington, DC; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan; former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives; North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Michael B.G. Froman, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and Head of Strategy and Business Development, Citigroup Alternative Investments, Citigroup Inc., New York, NY

Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor International Political Economy, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC

Dionisio Garza Medina, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, ALFA, Garza Garcia, NL

Richard A. Gephardt, former Member (D-MO), U.S. House of Representatives

David Gergen, Professor of Public Service, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Editor-at-Large, U.S. News and World Report

Peter C. Godsoe, retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Scotiabank, Toronto, ON

*Allan E. Gotlieb, Senior Advisor, Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, ON; Chairman, Sotheby's, Canada; former Canadian Ambassador to the United States; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Donald E. Graham, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Washington Post Company, Washington, DC

Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Private Investor, New York, NY; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh & McLennan Companies

Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations, New York, NY; former Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State; former Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

James T. Hackett, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Anadarko Petroleum Corp.,
      The Woodlands, TX

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)

William A. Haseltine, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Haseltine Associates, Washington, DC;

      President, William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts;  former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Human Genome Sciences, Inc., Rockville, MD

Richard F. Haskayne, Haskayne and Partners, Calgary, AB; past Chairman of the Board of TransCanada Corp.

Charles B. Heck, Senior Adviser and former North American Director, Trilateral Commission; Associate Professor of History and Global Perspectives, Principia College

*Carla A. Hills, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company, International Consultants, Washington, DC; former U.S. Trade Representative; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Richard Holbrooke, Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC, New York, NY; Counselor, Council on Foreign Relations; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; former Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; and former U.S. Ambassador to Germany

Karen Elliott House, writer, Princeton, NJ; former Senior Vice President, Dow Jones & Company, and Publisher, The Wall Street Journal

Alejandro Junco de la Vega, President and Director, Grupo Reforma, Monterrey, NL

Robert Kagan, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC

Arnold Kanter, Principal and Founding Member, The Scowcroft Group, Washington, DC; former

      U.S. Under Secretary of State

Charles R. Kaye, Co-President, Warburg Pincus LLC, New York, NY</P>

Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY; former U.S. Secretary of State; former U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Michael Klein, Chief Executive Officer, Global Banking, Citigroup Inc.; Vice Chairman, Citibank International PLC; New York, NY

Steven E. Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP, London, UK

Enrique Krauze, General Director, Editorial Clio Libros y Videos, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF

Robert Lane, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Deere & Co., Moline, IL

Fred Langhammer, Chairman, Global Affairs, The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., New York, NY

Jim Leach, Member (R-IA), U.S. House of Representatives

Gerald M. Levin, Chief Executive Officer Emeritus, AOL Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY

Winston Lord, Co-Chairman of Overseeers and former Co-Chairman of the Board, International Rescue Committee, New York, NY; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to China

E. Peter Lougheed, Senior Partner, Bennett Jones, Barristers & Solicitors, Calgary, AB; former Premier of Alberta

*Roy MacLaren, former Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom; former Canadian Minister of International Trade; Toronto, ON

John A. MacNaughton, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Toronto, ON

Antonio Madero, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, San Luis Corporacion, S.A. de C.V., Mexico City, DF

John Manley, Senior Counsel, McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Ottawa, ON; former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance

*Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Managing Director and Chairman, KKR Asia, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., New York, NY; former Vice Chairman, Citigroup

Jay Mazur, President Emeritus, UNITE (Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees); Vice Chairman, Amalgamated Bank of New York; and President, ILGWU's 21^st Century Heritage Foundation, New York, NY

Hugh L. McColl, Jr., Chairman, McColl Brothers Lockwood, Charlotte, NC; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank of America Corporation

Marc H. Morial, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Urban League, New York, NY; former Mayor, New Orleans, LA

Heather Munroe-Blum, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University, Montreal, QC

Anne M. Mulcahy, Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation, Stamford, CT

Brian Mulroney, Senior Partner, Ogilvy Renault, Barristers and Solicitors, Montréal, QC; former Prime Minister of Canada

*Indra K. Nooyi, President and Chief Financial Officer, PepsiCo, Inc., Purchase, NY

*Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs

David J. O'Reilly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA

Richard N. Perle, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC; member and former Chairman, Defense Policy Board, U.S. Department of Defense; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy

Thomas R. Pickering, Consultant and former Senior Vice President, International Relations, The Boeing Company, Arlington, VA; former U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; former U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the United Nations

Martha C. Piper, President and Vice-Chancellor, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Richard Plepler, Executive Vice President, HBO, New York, NY

Joseph W. Ralston,  USAF (Ret)., Vice Chairman, The Cohen Group, Washington, DC; former Commander, U.S. European Command, and Supreme Allied Commander NATO; former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Charles B. Rangel, Member (D-NY), U.S. House of Representatives

Susan Rice, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs; former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council

Hartley Richardson, President and Chief Executive Officer, James Richardson & Sons, Ltd., Winnipeg, MB

Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Office, J.E. Robert Companies, McLean, VA

John D. Rockefeller IV,  Member (D-WV), U.S. Senate

Kenneth Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Director, Center for International Development, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former Chief Economist and Director, Research Department, International Monetary Fund, Washington, DC

Charles Rose, Host of the Charlie Rose Show and Charlie Rose Special Edition, PBS, New York, NY

David M. Rubenstein, Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Washington, DC

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

Arthur F. Ryan, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Prudential Financial, Inc., Newark, NJ

Jaime Serra, Chairman, SAI Consulting, Mexico City, DF; former Mexican Minister of Trade and Industry

Dinakar Singh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TPG-Axon Capital, New York, NY; former Co-head, Principal Strategies Department, Goldman Sachs

Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

Gordon Smith, Director, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC; Chairman, Board of Governors, International Development Research Centre; former Canadian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Personal Representative of the Prime Minister to the Economic Summit

Donald R. Sobey, Chairman Emeritus, Empire Company Ltd., Halifax, NS

Ronald D. Southern, Chairman, ATCO Group, Calgary, AB

James B. Steinberg, Dean, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas, Austin, TX; former Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC; former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor

Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Barbara Stymiest, Chief Operating Officer, RBC Financial Group, Toronto, ON

Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former President, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; former U.S. Secretary of  the Treasury

John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC

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

Luis Tellez, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, Mexico City, DF; former Executive Vice President, Sociedad de Fomento Industrial (DESC); former Mexican Minister of Energy

George J. Tenet, Distinguished Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence

John Thain, Chief Executive Officer, New York Stock Exchange, Inc.; former President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY

G. Richard Thoman, Managing Partner, Corporate Perspectives and Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, New York, NY; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation; former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, IBM Corporation

*Paul A. Volcker, 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, Trilateral Commission

William H. Webster, Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, Washington, DC; former U.S. Director of Central Intelligence; former Director, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation; former Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Fareed Zakaria, Editor, Newsweek International, New York, NY

*Lorenzo H. Zambrano, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, CEMEX, Monterrey, NL; North American Deputy Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Ernesto Zedillo, Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University, New Haven, CT; former President of Mexico

Mortimer B. Zuckerman, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News &  World Repor,t and Publisher, New York Daily News; Founder and Chairman of Boston Properties, Inc.; New York, NY

Robert S. McNamara, Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission, Washington, DC; former President, World Bank; former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President, Ford Motor Company.

David Rockefeller, Founder, Honorary Chairman, and Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission,

      New York, NY

Former Members In Public Service

Rona Ambrose, Canadian Minister of the Environment

Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States

Paula J. Dobriansky, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs

Bill Graham, Leader of the Opposition, Canadian House of Commons

Paul Wolfowitz, President, World Bank

Pacific Asian Group

Note: Those without city names are Japanese Members.

          Korean names are shown with surname first.

Narongchai Akrasanee, Executive Chairman, Export Import Bank of Thailand; former Minister of          Commerce of Thailand; Bangkok

Ali Alatas, Advisor and Special Envoy of the President of the Republic of Indonesia; former Indonesian Minister for Foreign Affairs; Jakarta

Philip Burdon, Former Chairman, Asia 2000 Foundation; New Zealand Chairman, APEC; former New Zealand Minister of Trade Negotiations; Wellington

Cho Suck-Rai, Chairman, Hyosung Corporation, Seoul

Chung Mong-Joon, Member, Korean National Assembly; Vice President, Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA); Seoul

Barry Desker, Vice Chairman, Singapore Business Federation; Director, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Takashi Ejiri, Lawyer, Asahi Koma Law Office

Jesus P. Estanislao, President and Chief Executive Officer, Institute of Corporate Directors/Institute of Solidarity in Asia, Manila; former Philippine Minister of Finance

Hugh Fletcher, Chancellor, The University of Auckland; former Chief Executive Officer, Fletcher Challenge

Hiroaki Fujii, Advisor, The Japan Foundation; Chairman, Mori Arts Center; former Japanese Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Shinji Fukukawa, Chairman, TEPIA, The Machine Industry Memorial Foundation

Yoichi Funabashi, Chief Diplomatic Correspondent and Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun

Carrillo Gantner, President, The Myer Foundation; Melbourne

Ross Garnaut, Professor of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra

*Toyoo Gyohten, President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Senior Advisor, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd.

*Han Sung-Joo, President, Seoul Forum for International Affairs; Professor, International Relations, Ilmin International Relations Institute, Korea University, Seoul; former Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Korean Ambassador to the United States

*Stuart Harris, Professor of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra; former Australian Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs

Azman Hashim, Chairman, AmBank Group, Kuala Lumpur

John R. Hewson, Chairman, The John Hewson Group, Sydney

Ernest M. Higa, President and Chief Executive Officer, Higa Industries

Hong Seok Hyun, former Chairman and CEO, Joong Ang Ilbo; former Korean Ambassador to the United States; Seoul

Shintaro Hori, Partner and Chairman, Bain & Company Japan, Inc.

Murray Horn, Managing Director, Institutional Banking, ANZ (NZ) Ltd., Sydney; Chairman, ANZ Investment Bank; former Parliament Secretary, New Zealand Treasury

Hyun Hong-Choo, Senior Partner, Kim & Chang, Seoul; former Korean Ambassador to the United Nations and to the United States; Seoul

Hyun Jae-Hyun, Chairman, Tong Yang Group, Seoul

Shin'ichi Ichimura, Professor Emeritus, Kyoto University; former Counselor, International Centre for the Study of East Asian Development, Kitakyushu

Nobuyuki Idei, Chief Corporate Advisor, Sony Corporation

Noriyuki Inoue, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Daikin Industries, Ltd.

Motoo Kaji, Professor Emeritus, University of Tokyo

Kasem Kasemsri, Honorary Chairman, Thailand-U.S. Business Council, Bangkok; Chairman, Advisory Board, Chart Thai Party; Chairman, Thai-Malaysian Association; former Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand

Koichi Kato, Member, Japanese House of Representatives; former Secretary-General, Liberal Democratic Party

K. Kesavapany, Director, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

Kim Kihwan, International Advisor, Goldman Sachs, Asia, Seoul; former Korean Ambassador-at-Large for Economic Affairs

Kim Kyung-Won, President Emeritus, Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Seoul; former Korean Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations; Advisor, Kim & Chang Law Office

Kakutaro Kitashiro, Chairman of the Board, IBM Japan, Ltd.; Chairman, KEIZAI DOYUKAI (Japan Association of Corporate Executives)

Shoichiro Kobayashi, Advisor, Kansai Electric Power Company, Ltd.

*Yotaro Kobayashi, Chief Corporate Advisor, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.; Pacific Asia Chairman, Trilateral Commission

Akira Kojima, Chairman, Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER)

Koo John, Chairman, LS Cable Ltd.; Chairman, LS Industrial Systems Co.; Seoul

*Lee Hong-Koo, Chairman, Seoul Forum for International Affairs, Seoul; former Korean Prime Minister; former Korean Ambassador to the United Kingdom and the United States

Lee In-ho, Distinguished Professor, Myongji University, Seoul; former President, Korea Foundation; former Korean Ambassador to Finland and Russia

Lee Jay Y., Vice President, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Seoul

Lee Kyungsook Choi, President, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul

Adrianto Machribie, Chairman, PT Freeport Indonesia, Jakarta

*Minoru Makihara, Senior Corporate Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation

Hiroshi Mikitani, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Rakuten, Inc.

Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, ORIX Corporation

Isamu Miyazaki, Honorary Advisor, Daiwa Institute of Research, Ltd.; former Director-General of the Japanese Economic Planning Agency

*Kiichi Miyazawa, former Prime Minister of Japan; former Finance Minister; former Member, House of Representatives

Yuzaburo Mogi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Kikkoman Corporation

Mike Moore, former Director-General, World Trade Organization, Geneva; Member, New Zealand Privy Council, Auckland; former Prime Minister of New Zealand

Moriyuki Motono, President, Foreign Affairs Society; former Japanese Ambassador to France

Jiro Murase, Managing Partner, Bingham McCutchen Murase, New York

*Minoru Murofushi, Counselor, ITOCHU Corporation

Osamu Nagayama, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

Masao Nakamura, President and Chief Executive Officer, NTT Docomo Inc.

Masashi Nishihara, President, Research Institute for Peace and Security: former President, National Defense Academy

Taizo Nishimuro, Advisor to the Board, Toshiba Corporation

R</st1:PersonName>oberto F. de Ocampo, President, Asian Institute of Management; former Secretary of Finance, Manila

Toshiaki Ogasawara, Chairman, Nifco Inc.; Chairman and Publisher, The Japan Times Ltd.

Sadako Ogata, President, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA); former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

*Shijuro Ogata, former Deputy Governor, Japan Development Bank; former Deputy Governor for International Relations, Bank of Japan; Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman, Trilateral  Commission

Sozaburo Okamatsu, President, Industrial Property Cooperation Center; former Chairman, Research Institute of Economy, Trade & Industry (RIETI)

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

Yoichi Okita, Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

Ariyoshi Okumura, Chairman, Lotus Corporate Advisory, Inc.

Anand Panyarachun, Chairman, Thai Industrial Federation; Chairman, Saha-Union Public Company, Ltd.; former Prime Minister of Thailand; Bangkok

Ryu Jin Roy, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Poongsan Corp., Seoul

Eisuke Sakakibara, Professor, Keio University; former Japanese Vice Minister of Finance for International Affairs

SaKong Il, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Global Economics, Seoul; former Korean Minister of Finance

Yoshiyasu Sato, Advisor, Tokyo Electric Power Co. Ltd.; former Japanese Ambassador to China

Yukio Satoh, President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs; former Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations

Sachio Semmoto, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, eAccess, Ltd.

Masahide Shibusawa, President, Shibusawa Ei'ichi Memorial Foundation

Arifin Siregar, Chairman of the Governing Board, Indonesian Council on World Affairs (ICWA); former International Advisor, Goldman Sachs (Pacific Asia) LLC; former Ambassador of Indonesia to the United States; Jakarta

Jacob Soetoyo, Director and Shareholder of P.T.Gesit Maju Corporation

Shigemitsu Sugisaki, Chairman, Sompo Japan Research Institute Inc.; Former Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Tsuyoshi Takagi, President, JTUC-Rengo (Japanese Trade Union Confederation)

Keizo Takemi, Member, Japanese House of Councillors; former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs

Akihiko Tanaka, Professor, University of Tokyo

Hitoshi Tanaka, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; former Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs

Naoki Tanaka, President, The 21st Century Public Policy Institute

Teh Kok Peng, President, GIC Special Investments Private Ltd., Singapore

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Junichi Ujiie, Chairman, Nomura Holdings, Inc.

Sarasin Viraphol, Executive Vice President, Charoen Pokphand Co., Ltd., Bangkok; former Deputy Permanent Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Thailand

Cesar E. A. Virata, Corporate Vice Chairman and Acting Chief Executive Officer, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC), Manila; former Prime Minister of Philippines

*Jusuf Wanandi, Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta

Etsuya Washio, President, The Foundation for Workers Welfare and Cooperative Insurance; former President, Japanese Trade Union Confederation (RENGO)

Katsuaki Watanabe, President, Toyota Motor Corporation

Koji Watanabe, Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange; former Japanese Ambassador to Russia

Osamu Watanabe, Chairman, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO)

Taizo Yakushiji, Member, Council for Science and Technology Policy of the Cabinet Office of Japan; Executive Research Director, Institute for International Policy Studies

Tadashi Yamamoto, President, Japan Center for International Exchange; Pacific Asia Director, Trilateral Commission

Noriyuki Yonemura, Counselor, Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Former Members in Public Service

Masaharu Ikuta, Director General, Postal Services Corporation.

Takeshi Kondo, President, Japan Highway Public Corporation (Nihon Doro Kodan)

Kenji Kosaka, Member, Japanese House of Representatives; Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice

Yasuhisa Shiozaki, Senior Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs; Member, Japanese House of Representatives; former Parliamentary Vice Minister for Finance

Participants from Other Areas

"Triennium Participants"

André Azoulay, Adviser to H.M. King Mohammed VI, Rabat, Morocco

Morris Chang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Taipei, Republic of China

Omar Davies, Member of the Jamaican Parliament and Minister of Finance and Planning; former Director General, Planning Institute of Jamaica; Kingston, Jamaica

Hüsnü Dogan, General Coordinator, Nurol Holding; former Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Development Foundation of Turkey; former Minister of Defence; Ankara, Turkey

Alejandro Foxley, Member of the Senate and former Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Joint Budget Committee, Chilean Congress; Valparaiso, Chile

Jacob A. Frenkel, Vice Chairman, American International Group, Inc. (AIG) and Chairman, AIG's Global Economic Strategies Group, New York, NY; Chairman, Group of Thirty; former Chairman, Merrill Lynch International London; former Governor, Bank of Israel

Victor K. Fung, Chairman, Li & Fung; Chairman, Prudential Asia Ltd., Hong Kong

Frene Ginwala, former Speaker of the National Assembly, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa; Cape Town, South Africa

H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal, President, The Club of Rome; Moderator of the World Conference on Religion and Peace; Chairman, Arab Thought Forum; Amman, Hasemite Kingdom of Jordan

Ricardo Hausman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Development, Center for International Development, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA;  former Chief Economist, Inter-American Development Bank; former Venezuelan Minister of Planning  and Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Venezuela

Sergei Karaganov, Deputy Director, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Defense and Foreign Policy; Moscow, Russian Federation

Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Chinatrust Investment, Bank; Taipei, Republic of China

Richard Li, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pacific Century Group Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong

Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Visiting Research Fellow, Latin American Economic Research Foundation; former Argentinian Finance Minister and Defence Minister; Buenos Aires, Argentina

Andrónico Luksic Craig, Vice Chairman, Banco de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Itamar Rabinovich, President, Tel Aviv University; former Ambassador to the United States; Tel Aviv, Israel

Rüsdü Saracoglu, President of the Finance Group, Koç Holding; Chairman, Makro Consulting; former State Minister and Member of the Turkish Parliament; former Governor of the Central Bank of Turkey; Istanbul, Turkey

Roberto Egydio Setubal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Banco Itaú S.A. and Banco Itaú Holding Financiera S.A.; Sao Paulo, Brazil

Stan Shih, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Acer Group, Taipei, Republic of China

Gordon Wu, Chairman and Managing Director, Hopewell Holdings Ltd., Hong Kong

Grigory A. Yavlinsky, Chairman and Co-founder of the Russian Democratic Party "Yabloko" and former Member of the State Duma; Chairman of the Center for Economic and Political Research; Moscow, Russian Federation

Yu Xintian, President, Shanghai Institute for International Studies, Shanghai, People's Republic of China

Yuan Ming, Director, Institute of International Relations, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China

Zhang Yunling, Director, Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, People's Republic of China

Wang Jisi, Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University, Beijing, People's Republic of China