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THE TRILATERAL COMMISSION

THOMAS S. FOLEY, North American Chairman
PETER SUTHERLAND, European Chairman
YOTARO KOBAYASHI, Pacific Asia Chairman

ALLAN E. GOTETEB, North American Deputy Chairman
ANTONIO GARRIGUES WALKER, European Deputy Chairman
HAN SUNG-JOO, Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman

LORENZO H. ZAMBRANO, North American Deputy Chairman
CEES MAAS, European Treasurer
SHIJURO OGATA, Pacific Asia Deputy Chairman

DAVID ROCKEFELLER, Founder and Honorary Chairman

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CHARLES B. HECK, North American Director
PAUL RÉVAY, European Director
TADASHI YAMAMOTO, Pacific Asia Director

EUROPEAN GROUP | NORTH AMERICAN GROUP
PACIFIC ASIAN GROUP | PARTICIPANTS FROM OTHER AREAS

EUROPEAN GROUP
(as of March 9, 2001)

Josef Ackermann, Member of the Board, Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main
Umberto Agnelli*, Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman, IFI; Chairman, IFIL, Turin
Krister Ahlstrom, Chairman, Ahlstrom 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 Alphandery, Chairman, Caisse Nationale de Prévoyance, Paris; former Chairman, Electricité de France (EDF); former Minister of the Economy and Finance
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 Ballve, Chairman, Campoirio Alimentacion, Madrid
new Estela Barbot, Vice President, Produtos Sarcol, Porto; Vice President of the Board, AEP - Portuguese Business Association; Consul of Guatemala, Lisbon
Raymond Barre, Member of the National Assembly; Mayor of Lyon; former Prime Minister of France
Piero Bassetti*, Chairman, Globus et Locus, Milan; Chairman, High School of Economics and lnternational 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
Marek Belka, Advisor to the President of Poland; Professor at the Institute of Economics, Warsaw; former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance
Franco Bernabe, Member of the Board, Fiat, Turin; former Chief Executive Officer, Telecom Italia, Rome
Georges Berthoin*, International Honorary Chairman, European Movement; 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, Dresden; former Member of the German Bundestag
Carl Bildt, Member of the Swedish Parliament and former Chairman of the Moderate Party; UN Secretary General's Special Envoy to the Balkans; forrner Prime Minister of Sweden; former European Union High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Michel Bon, Chairman, France Telecom, Paris
Jorge Braga de Macedo*, President of the Development Centre, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris; Professor of Economics, Nova University at Lisbon; Chairman, Forum Portugal Global; former Minister of Finance
new Lord Brittan of Spennithorne, Vice Chairman, UBS Warburg, London; former Vice President, European Commission
new Martin Broughton, Chairman, British American Tobacco, London
new Robin Buchanan, Senior Partner, Bain & Co., London
Sven Burmester, 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)
Victoria Camps, Member of the Spanish Senate; Professor of Philosophy, Barcelona University
Umberto Cappuzzo, President, Eurodefens Italia; former Member of the Italian Senate; former Chief of Staff of the Army, Rome
Herve de Carmoy*, Partner, Rhone Group, New York & Paris; Honorary Chairman, Banque Industrielle et Mobilière Privée, Paris; former Chief Executive, Société Genérale de Belgique
Salvatore Carrubba, Culture Alderman, Municipality of Milan; former Managing Editor, II Sole 24 Ore, Milan
Jaime Carvajal Urquijo, Chairman, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (Spain); Chairman, Ford Espana, Madrid
Jean-Claude Casanova, Membre de l'lnstitut de France; Professor of Economics, Institute of Political Studies, Paris; Editor, Commentaire
Fausto Cereti Chamnan Alitalia, Rome
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 and 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
new 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
Etienne Davignon, Chairman, Société Générale de Belgique; former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities
Paul de Keersmaeker, Chairman of the Board of Interbrew, of Cobac-Euler, of Europalia International, and of Nestlé Belgilux, Leuven & Brussels; former Member of the Belgian and European Parliaments and of the Belgian Government
Guido Declercq, Honorary Chairman, ORDA-B (Computer Services); Chairman of the Investment Committee of the College of Europe, Bruges
Patrick Devedjian, Member of the French National Assembly; RPR Party Spokesman, Paris
Vladirnir Dlouhy*, Senior Advisor, ABB; International Advisor, Goldman Sachs; former Czechoslovak Minister of Economy; former Czech Minister of Industry & Trade, Prague
Bill Ernrnott*, Editor, The Econornist, London
Aatos Erkko, Chairrnan, SanomaWSOY, Helsinki
new Lene Espersen, Member of the Danish Parliament & Conservative Peoples Party's Spokesperson on European Affairs, Copenhagen
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
new Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Chairman, Prensa Espanola, Madrid
Garret FitzGerald, Former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ireland and Member of the Irish Dail, Dublin
new Niall Fitzgerald, Chainnan, Unilever, London
Michael Fuchs*, Managing Director, Impex Electronic, Koblenz; former President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Export Traders, Berlin
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
new Lord Gilbert, Member of the House of Lords; former Minister for Defence, London
Stephen Green, Chairman, HSBC Investment Bank, London
new Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Chairman, ENI, Rome
Uwe Haasen, Member of the Advisory Board, Allianz, Munich; Former Chairman, Allianz Versicherung, Munich
Carl Hahn, Vice-Chainnan 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
new Frank Heintzeler, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Baden-Wuerttembergische Bank, Stuttgart; President, German Banking Association, Berlin
Miguel Herrero de Minon, 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
Josef Joffe, Editor, Die Zeit, Hamburg; former Foreign Editor, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich
Alain Joly, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, L'Air Liquide, Paris
Béla Kádár*, 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 Society for Foreign Affairs (DGAP), Berlin; Professor Emeritus of Political Sciences, University of Bonn
new Robert Kassai, Senior Vice President, The National Association of Craftmens Corporation, Budapest
Denis Kessler, Chairman, French Insurance Association (FFSA), Paris; Executive Vice-Chairman, MEDEF-Mouvement des Entreprises de France (French Employers ' Confederation)
Jiri Kunert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Zivnostenska Banka; President of the Czech Bankers Association, Prague
Manfred Lahnstein, Special Representative of the Board & former Member of the Executive Board, Bertelsmann, Gutersloh; former Federal Minister of Finance
Count Otto Lambsdorff*, Partner, Wessing Lawyers, Dusseldorf; 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
Kurt Lauk, President, Globe Capital Partners, Stuttgart; Chairman, Economic Council of the CDU Party, Berlin; former Member of the Board, DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart
Liam Lawlor, Member of the Irish Dail, Dublin
new Daniel Lebègue, Director General, 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 National Assembly; RPR Party Executive Delegate, Paris
Andre Leysen, Chairman, Gevaert, Antwerp; Chairman of the Supervisory Board, AgiaGevaert Group
Cees Maas*, Member of the Executive Board and Chief Financial Officer of the ING Group, Amsterdam; former Treasurer of the Dutch Government
Francis Maude, Member of the British Parliament; 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, Laukirchen
Thierry de Montbrial, Membre de l'lnstitut 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, Chairman, Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, London
Klaus Murmann, Honorary Chairman, Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Berlin; Chairman, Sauer-Danfoss, Neumunster
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*, Former Chairman, Bank Handlowy W Warszawie; former Minister of Foreign Affairs and of Finance, Warsaw
Lord Owen, 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
new Schelto Patijn, 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, Chainnan of the Managing Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Munich
new Andrea Pininfarina, Managing Director, Industrie Pininfarina, Turin; Chairman, Federmeccanica (Association of Mechanical Industries), Rome
new Alessandro Profumo, Managing Director, Unicredito Italiano, Milan
new Gunter 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, Dusseldorf
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; former Dutch Minister of Finance
Renato Ruggiero, Vice Chairman, Schroder Salomon Smith Barney International & Chairman, Schroder Salomon Smith Barney Italy; Member of the Board, Fiat, Turin; former Chairman, E.N.I., Rome; former Director General, W.T.O. Geneva; former Italian Minister of Foreign Trade
new Jacques Santer, Member of the European Parliament; former President of the European Commission; former Prime Minister of Luxembourg
Antxon Sarasqueta, Executive President, Multimedia Capital, Madrid
new Silvio Scaglia, Managing Director, e-Biscom, Milan; former Managing Director, Omnitel
Jørgen 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
Louis Schweitzer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault, Paris
new Maurizio Sella, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, Banca Sella, Biella; Chairman, Association of Italian Banks (A.B.I.), Rome
Lord Shore*, Member of the House of Lords; former Labour Cabinet Minister, London
new 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
Jerzy Sito, Vice President of the Polish PEN Club, Warsaw; Writer; former Ambassador to Denmark
Pedro Solbes, Member of the European Commission (Monetary Affairs), Brussels; former Member of the Spanish Parliament; former Spanish Minister of Finance and of Agriculture
new 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
new Peter Straarup, Chairman of the Executive Board, Den Danske Bank, Copenhagen; Chairman, the Danish Bankers Association
Peter Sutherland, Chairman, BP Amoco, London; Chairman and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International; former Director General, GAIT/WTO, Geneva; former Member of the European Commission; former Attorney General of Ireland
Bjorn Svedberg*, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ericsson, Stockholm; former President and Group Chief Executive, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
new Peter 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
Gaston Thorn, Chairman, CLT-UFA, Luxembourg; former President of the Commission of the European Communities; former Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Luxembourg
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
new 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
new 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
new Diogo Vaz Guedes, Chairman, Somague Group, Alges, Portugal
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
new Margot Wallström, Member of the European Commission (Environment), Brussels
Serge Weinberg, Chairman of the Management Board Pinault-Printemps-Redoute; President, Institute of International and Strategic Studies (IRIS), Paris
Heinrich Weiss, Chairman, SMS, Düsseldorf
new Nout Wellink, President, Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam
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
Ernilio Ybarra, Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors, Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya, Madrid
Gianni Zandano, Chairman, San Paolo Foundation, Turin
new 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

*Executive Committee

Former Members In Public Service

Ritt Bjerregaard, Minister of Agriculture & Food, Denmark
Yvette Cooper, Ministerfor Public Health, United Kingdom
Laurent Fabius, Minister of the Economy, Finances and Industry
Thorbjorn Jagland, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway
Mario Monti, Member of the European Commission (Competition Policy), Brussels
Viktor Orbàn, Prime Minister, Hungary
Alain Richard, Minister of Defence, France
Hubert Vedrine, Minister of Foreign Affairs, France
Karsten Voigt, Coordinatorfor German-American Cooperation, Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany

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