CRISIS GROUP

= Official Coordinates =


 * W: http://www.crisisgroup.org/

= People Involved =

Board of Trustees
Chair, Crisis Group Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria; Vice Chairman of Hills & Company
 * Thomas R Pickering

President & CEO Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
 * Louise Arbour

Executive Committee
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
 * Morton Abramowitz

Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC
 * Cheryl Carolus

Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce
 * Maria Livanos Cattaui

Journalist and Former Editor-in-Chief of the The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
 * Yoichi Funabashi

CEO, Fiore Capital Corporation
 * Frank Giustra

Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
 * Ghassan Salamé

Chairman, Open Society Institute
 * George Soros

Former Foreign Minister of Finland
 * Pär Stenbäck

Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN
 * Adnan Abu-Odeh

Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
 * Kenneth Adelman

Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)
 * Kofi Annan

Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel
 * Nahum Barnea

Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
 * Samuel Berger

Vice President of the Senate; Former Minister of International Trade and European Affairs of Italy and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
 * Emma Bonino

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
 * Wesley Clark

Toni Stabile, Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University, U.S.
 * Sheila Coronel

Mr. ElBaradei suspended his membership from the Board of Crisis Group concurrent with his January 2011 return to Egypt.
 * Mohamed El Baradei


 * Director-General Emeritus, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Nobel Peace Prize (2005)

Former Foreign Minister of Denmark
 * Uffe Ellemann-Jensen

President Emeritus of Crisis Group; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia
 * Gareth Evans

Former Prime Minister of Belgium
 * Mark Eyskens

CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Enso Capital Management LLC
 * Joshua Fink

Former Foreign Minister of Germany
 * Joschka Fischer

Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
 * Jean-Marie Guéhenno

Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative
 * Carla Hills

Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden
 * Lena Hjelm-Wallén

Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security and President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
 * Swanee Hunt

Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder, Celtel International
 * Mo Ibrahim

Former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation
 * Igor Ivanov

President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief
 * Asma Jahangir

Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
 * Wim Kok

Former President of Chile
 * Ricardo Lagos

Former International Secretary of International PEN; Novelist and journalist, U.S.
 * Joanne Leedom-Ackerman

Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UN Deputy Secretary-General
 * Lord (Mark) Malloch-Brown

Former Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to the U.S. and High Commissioner to the UK
 * Lalit Mansingh

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.
 * Jessica Tuchman Mathews

Former President of Tanzania
 * Benjamin Mkapa

Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy
 * Moisés Naím

Legal Practitioner, Lagos, Nigeria
 * Ayo Obe

President and CEO, Canaccord Financial Inc.; Vice-Chair, Global Head of Canaccord Genuity
 * Paul Reynolds

Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey
 * Güler Sabancı

Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO Secretary-General and Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain
 * Javier Solana

Former Director of the US National Economic Council and Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus of Harvard University
 * Lawrence Summers


 * Chairmen Emeriti

Former President of Finland
 * Martti Ahtisaari

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
 * George J. Mitchell

Senior Advisors
Former Ambassador of the KIngdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
 * HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal


 * Hushang Ansary

Chairman Emeritus, Yapı Merkezi, Turkey
 * Ersin Arıoğlu


 * Óscar Arias

Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
 * Richard Armitage

Former Ambassador of Venezuela to the UN
 * Diego Arria


 * Zainab Bangura

Former Foreign Minister of Israel
 * Shlomo Ben-Ami

Former Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
 * Christoph Bertram


 * Alan Blinken

Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Foreign Minister of Algeria
 * Lakhdar Brahimi

Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
 * Zbigniew Brzezinski

Former Prime Minister of Canada
 * Kim Campbell

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
 * Jorge Castañeda

Former Indian Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador to the U.S.
 * Naresh Chandra


 * Eugene Chien

Former President of Mozambique
 * Joaquim Alberto Chissano

Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
 * Victor Chu


 * Mong Joon Chung

Former President of the European Parliament
 * Pat Cox


 * Gianfranco Dell' Alba


 * Jacques Delors

Senator, Belgium
 * Alain Destexhe


 * Mou-Shih Ding


 * Gernot Erler

Ambassador, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
 * Marika Fahlen

Governor, Bank of Israel
 * Stanley Fischer

Former Prime Minister of Australia
 * Malcolm Fraser

Former Prime Minister of India
 * I.K. Gujral

Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN and Sweden
 * Max Jakobson

Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc. (AOL)
 * James V. Kimsey

Former President of Poland
 * Aleksander Kwasniewski

Human rights lawyer and author, Indonesia
 * Todung Mulya Lubis

Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
 * Allan J MacEachen


 * Graça Machel

Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
 * Barbara McDougall

Former U.S. Congressman and Counselor to the World Bank President
 * Matthew McHugh


 * Nobuo Matsunaga


 * Miklós Németh

CEO, French TV and Radio World Services
 * Christine Ockrent


 * Timothy Ong


 * Olara Otunnu

Former European Commissioner for External Relations, Governor of Hong Kong and UK Cabinet Minister; BBC Trust Chairman
 * Lord (Christopher) Patten of Barnes


 * Shimon Peres

Founder of EastOne LLC and Victor Pinchuk Foundation
 * Victor Pinchuk


 * Surin Pitsuwan

Former Secretary General, African National Congress, South Africa
 * Cyril Ramaphosa

Former President of Philippines
 * Fidel V. Ramos

Former Secretary General, NATO
 * Lord Robertson of Port Ellen

Former Prime Minister of France
 * Michel Rocard

Former Defence Minister, Germany
 * Volker Rühe

Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General
 * Mohamed Sahnoun

Former Prime Minister of Tanzania
 * Salim A. Salim

Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, U.S.
 * Douglas Schoen


 * Christian Schwarz-Schilling


 * Michael Sohlman

Former Foreign Minister of Norway
 * Thorvald Stoltenberg

Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe, US
 * William O. Taylor

Former Prime Minister of Belgium
 * Leo Tindemans

Former Minister of Interior, The Netherlands
 * Ed van Thijn


 * Simone Veil


 * Shirley Williams

Chairman, Yabloko Party, Russia
 * Grigory Yavlinsky

Chairperson of the German Bundestag Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
 * Uta Zapf

Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
 * Ernesto Zedillo

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