CRISIS GROUP
People Involved
Board of Trustees
- Thomas R Pickering
Chair, Crisis Group Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria; Vice Chairman of Hills & Company
- Louise Arbour
President & CEO Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Executive Committee
- Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
- Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC
- Maria Livanos Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Yoichi Funabashi
Journalist and Former Editor-in-Chief of the The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
- Frank Giustra
CEO, Fiore Capital Corporation
- Ghassan Salamé
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
- George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute
- Pär Stenbäck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland
- Adnan Abu-Odeh
Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN
- Kenneth Adelman
Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)
- Nahum Barnea
Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel
- Samuel Berger
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
- Emma Bonino
Vice President of the Senate; Former Minister of International Trade and European Affairs of Italy and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
- Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
- Sheila Coronel
Toni Stabile, Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University, U.S.
- Mohamed El Baradei
Mr. ElBaradei suspended his membership from the Board of Crisis Group concurrent with his January 2011 return to Egypt.
- Director-General Emeritus, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Nobel Peace Prize (2005)
- Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister of Denmark
- Gareth Evans
President Emeritus of Crisis Group; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia
- Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium
- Joshua Fink
CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Enso Capital Management LLC
- Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany
- Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
- Carla Hills
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative
- Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden
- Swanee Hunt
Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security and President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
- Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder, Celtel International
- Igor Ivanov
Former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation
- Asma Jahangir
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief
- Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile
- Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Former International Secretary of International PEN; Novelist and journalist, U.S.
- Lord (Mark) Malloch-Brown
Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UN Deputy Secretary-General
- Lalit Mansingh
Former Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to the U.S. and High Commissioner to the UK
- Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.
- Benjamin Mkapa
Former President of Tanzania
- Moisés Naím
Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy
- Ayo Obe
Legal Practitioner, Lagos, Nigeria
- Paul Reynolds
President and CEO, Canaccord Financial Inc.; Vice-Chair, Global Head of Canaccord Genuity
- Güler Sabancı
Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey
- Javier Solana
Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO Secretary-General and Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain
- Lawrence Summers
Former Director of the US National Economic Council and Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus of Harvard University
- Chairmen Emeriti
- Martti Ahtisaari
Former President of Finland
- George J. Mitchell
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Senior Advisors
- HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal
Former Ambassador of the KIngdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.
- Hushang Ansary
- Ersin Arıoğlu
Chairman Emeritus, Yapı Merkezi, Turkey
- Óscar Arias
- Richard Armitage
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
- Diego Arria
Former Ambassador of Venezuela to the UN
- Zainab Bangura
- Shlomo Ben-Ami
Former Foreign Minister of Israel
- Christoph Bertram
Former Director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Germany
- Alan Blinken
- Lakhdar Brahimi
Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Foreign Minister of Algeria
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
- Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada
- Jorge Castañeda
Former Foreign Minister of Mexico
- Naresh Chandra
Former Indian Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador to the U.S.
- Eugene Chien
- Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Former President of Mozambique
- Victor Chu
Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
- Mong Joon Chung
- Pat Cox
Former President of the European Parliament
- Gianfranco Dell' Alba
- Jacques Delors
- Alain Destexhe
Senator, Belgium
- Mou-Shih Ding
- Gernot Erler
- Marika Fahlen
Ambassador, Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
- Stanley Fischer
Governor, Bank of Israel
- Malcolm Fraser
Former Prime Minister of Australia
- I.K. Gujral
Former Prime Minister of India
- Max Jakobson
Former Ambassador of Finland to the UN and Sweden
- James V. Kimsey
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc. (AOL)
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
Former President of Poland
- Todung Mulya Lubis
Human rights lawyer and author, Indonesia
- Allan J MacEachen
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada
- Graça Machel
- Barbara McDougall
Former Secretary of State for External Affairs, Canada
- Matthew McHugh
Former U.S. Congressman and Counselor to the World Bank President
- Nobuo Matsunaga
- Miklós Németh
- Christine Ockrent
CEO, French TV and Radio World Services
- Timothy Ong
- Olara Otunnu
- Lord (Christopher) Patten of Barnes
Former European Commissioner for External Relations, Governor of Hong Kong and UK Cabinet Minister; BBC Trust Chairman
- Shimon Peres
- Victor Pinchuk
Founder of EastOne LLC and Victor Pinchuk Foundation
- Surin Pitsuwan
- Cyril Ramaphosa
Former Secretary General, African National Congress, South Africa
- Fidel V. Ramos
Former President of Philippines
- Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Former Secretary General, NATO
- Michel Rocard
Former Prime Minister of France
- Volker Rühe
Former Defence Minister, Germany
- Mohamed Sahnoun
Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General
- Salim A. Salim
Former Prime Minister of Tanzania
- Douglas Schoen
Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, U.S.
- Christian Schwarz-Schilling
- Michael Sohlman
- Thorvald Stoltenberg
Former Foreign Minister of Norway
- William O. Taylor
Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe, US
- Leo Tindemans
Former Prime Minister of Belgium
- Ed van Thijn
Former Minister of Interior, The Netherlands
- Simone Veil
- Shirley Williams
- Grigory Yavlinsky
Chairman, Yabloko Party, Russia
- Uta Zapf
Chairperson of the German Bundestag Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation
- Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization
