List of members of the Trilateral Commission

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This is a list of members of the Trilateral Commission.

Leadership positions[edit]

Position European Group North American Group Asia Pacific Group
Chair Axel A. Weber Meghan O'Sullivan Takeshi Niinami
Deputy Chairs Monica Maggioni

Carl Bildt

Herminio Blanco Mendoza

Jeffrey Simpson

Barry Desker

Jin Roy Ryu

Honorary Chairs Georges Berthoin

Mario Monti

Jean-Claude Trichet

Peter Sutherland (in memorium)

Paul Volcker (in memorium) Yasuchika Hasegawa

Akihiko Tanaka

Director Paolo Magri Richard Fontaine Hideko Katsumata
Founder David Rockefeller (in memorium)

Membership by country[edit]

Country Leadership Executive Committee Members Fellows Total
European Group 7 15
 Czech Republic 1
 Denmark 1
 France 2 1
 Germany 1 1
 Greece 1
 Italy 3 4
 Netherlands 1
 Serbia 1
 Spain 1
 Sweden 1 1
  Switzerland 1
 United Kingdom 1
North American Group 4 17
 Canada 1 3
 Mexico 1 2
 United States 2 12
Asia Pacific Group 6 7
 India 1
 Japan 5 4
 Singapore 1
 South Korea 2
Global members 15 1 16
 Iran 1 1
 Israel 1 1
 Kuwait 1 1
 Lebanon 3 3
 Morocco 1 1
 Russia 2 2
 South Africa 1 1
 Tunisia 2 2
 Turkey 2 1[note 1] 3
 United Arab Emirates 1 1
Total 17 39

Current list of members[edit]

The following is a list of members of the Commission as of August 2022. Members may hold further positions and/or former positions than are reflected below, but these are not captured in the Commission's membership directory.

European Group[edit]

Name Country Position(s) Former Position(s)
Ann-Kristin Achleitner  Germany Scientific Director, Center for Entrepreneurial and Financial Studies, Technical University of Munich
Peter Andronov  Bulgaria chief executive officer of International Markets and Member in charge of Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Ireland, and KBC Group Asset Management, Group Executive Committee, KBC Group
Vyara Ankova [bg]  Bulgaria Executive Director, Nova Broadcasting Group
Jacques Aschenbroich  France Chairman, board of directors, Valeo
Estela Barbot  Portugal Member, Board & Audit Committee, Redes Energéticas Nacionais

President, General Council, NOVA University Lisbon

Director, Santander Bank

Member, Board & Audit Committee, Financial Institution for Development, Portugal

Ornella Barra  United Kingdom chief operating officer, Walgreens Boots Alliance
Ladislav Bartoníček [cs]  Czech Republic chief executive officer, Sotio

Shareholder, PPF Group

Oliver Bäte  Germany chief executive officer, Allianz
Marek Belka  Poland Member of the European Parliament President, National Bank of Poland

Prime Minister of Poland

Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

Minister of Finance of Poland

Dick Benschop  Netherlands President and chief executive officer, Royal Schiphol Group Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands
Georges Berthoin  France International Honorary chairman, European Movement

Honorary chairman, The Jean Monnet Association

Alexia Bertrand [fr; nl]  Belgium Member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region

Member of the Parliament of the French Community

Chair, Parliamentary Group, Reformist Movement

Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister of Belgium
Laurent Bigorgne  France Director, Institut Montaigne
Carl Bildt  Sweden Special Envoy for Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator, World Health Organization

Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations

Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden

Member of Parliament in the Riksdag

Chairman, Moderate Party

Prime Minister of Sweden

High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, European Union

Special Envoy to the Balkans, United Nations

Franjo Bobinac [sl]  Slovenia President, Management Board, Gorenje Group

Vice President for Marketing, Hisense International Co. Ltd.

Honorary Consul of Monaco in Ljubljana

Sophie Boissard [fr]  France chief executive officer, Korian Group
Stéphane Boujnah [fr]  France chief executive officer, Euronext Group
Jean-Louis Bourlanges  France Associated Professor, Paris Institute of Political Studies Member, Cour des Comptes

Member of the European Parliament

President, European Movement in France

Katharine Braddick  United Kingdom Group Head of Strategic Policy and Senior Advisor to the chief executive officer, Barclays
Dame Nicola Brewer  United Kingdom Non-Executive board member, Iberdrola

Non-Executive board member, Aggreko

Vice Provost, University College London

British High Commissioner to South Africa

Samir Brikho  United Kingdom chief executive officer, Amec Foster Wheeler
John Bruton  Ireland Taoiseach

European Union Ambassador to the United States

Rolf Buch  Germany chief executive officer, Vonovia
Patrick Buffet [fr]  France Chairman, P.B.A. Sas

Member, French Academy of Technologies

Chairman and chief executive officer, Eramet
François Bujon de l'Estang  France Chairman, FBE International Consultants Chairman, Citibank France

French Ambassador to the United States

Luis de Carlos  Spain Managing Partner, Uría Menéndez Abogados
Jaime Castellanos  Spain Chairman, Lazard Spain

Chairman, Willis Towers Watson Iberia

João Castello Branco  Portugal chief executive officer, Semapa
Pedro Castro e Almeida  Portugal Executive chairman, Santander Bank Portugal
Heinrich Christen   Switzerland Partner, BLR & Partners AG Managing Partner for Switzerland and Liechtenstein, Ernst & Young
Patrick Combes  France Chairman and chief executive officer, Compagnie Financière Tradition

Chairman and chief executive officer, VIEL & cie

Richard Conroy  Ireland Chairman, Conroy Gold and Natural Resources Member of the Seanad Éireann
Michele Crisostomo [it]  Italy Chairman, Enel
Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani [it]  Italy Founding Partner and chief executive officer, Think Global Investments London Group chief executive officer, Intesa Sanpaolo
Caroline Daniel  United Kingdom Partner, Brunswick Group Editor, FT Weekend, Financial Times
Yves-Louis Darricarrère  France Senior Advisor, Lazard Frères Bank

Senior Lecturer in Energy Geopolitics, Paris Institute of Political Studies

Member, Executive Committee, TotalEnergies

chief executive officer, TotalEnergies Upstream

chief executive officer, TotalEnergies Exploration and Production

chief executive officer, TotalEnergies Gas & Power

Marta Dassù  Italy Senior Director of European Affairs, Aspen Institute

Editor-in-Chief, Aspenia, Aspen Institute Italia

Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs of Italy
Michel David-Weill[note 2]  France Chairman, Lazard LLC

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Eurazeo

Thierry Déau  France Founding Partner and chief executive officer, Meridiam Infrastructure
Marie-Ange Debon [fr]  France Chairwoman, Executive Board, Keolis Group Senior Executive Vice President in charge of France, Italy, and Central Europe, Suez Group
Matteo Del Fante [it]  Italy chief executive officer and managing director, Poste Italiane
Anna Diamantopoulou  Greece President, DIKTIO—Network for Reform in Greece and Europe European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs, and Equal Opportunities

Minister of Development, Competitiveness and Shipping of Greece

Minister of Education, Research and Technology, and Lifelong Learning of Greece

Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola  Italy Minister of Defence of Italy

Chairman, Military Committee, NATO

Vladimír Dlouhý  Czech Republic President, Czech Chamber of Commerce

International Advisor, Goldman Sachs

Minister of Economy of Czechoslovakia

Minister of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic

Rolf Dörig   Switzerland Chairman, Swiss Life

Chairman, The Adecco Group

Ivana Dragičević  Croatia Executive Producer for International News, N1

Affiliate for Adria region, CNN

Aleksandra Drecun  Serbia Director, INTERSECTION – Centre for Science and Innovation

President, Harvard Club of Serbia

Co-Chair, Women's Government of Serbia

Karsten Dybvad [da]  Denmark Chairman, Danske Bank Director-General and chief executive officer, Confederation of Danish Industry
Jakob Ellemann-Jensen  Denmark Chairman, Danish Liberal Party
Guy Elliott  United Kingdom Deputy chairman, SABMiller plc

non-executive director, Royal Dutch Shell plc

chief financial officer, Rio Tinto
Manuel Falcó  Spain Global Co-Head of Banking, Capital Markets, and Advisory, Citigroup
Javier Faus  Spain Chairman, Meridia Capital Partners
Lucía Figar  Spain Chief of Corporate Innovation, IE University
Jürgen Fitschen  Germany Senior Advisor, Deutsche Bank AG chief executive officer, Deutsche Bank AG

President, Association of German Banks

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Ceconomy AG

Mark FitzPatrick  United Kingdom chief financial officer and chief operating officer, Prudential
Seamus FitzPatrick  United Kingdom Co-Founder, chief executive officer, and Managing Partner, CapVest Associates
Simon Freakley  United Kingdom chief executive officer, AlixPartners
Louise Fresco  Netherlands President, Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Member, Board of non-executive directors, Unilever

Member, Supervisory Board, Rabobank

Assistant Director-General and Head, Agriculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization

Luc Frieden  Luxembourg Chairman, board of directors, Banque Internationale à Luxembourg

Chairman, Board, Saint-Paul Luxembourg

Minister for Finances of Luxembourg

Minister for Defence of Luxembourg

Minister for Justice of Luxembourg

Hugh Friel  Ireland chief executive officer, Kerry Group plc

Chairman, Tourism Ireland

Uwe Fröhlich [de]  Germany Co-chief executive officer, DZ Bank
Michael Fuchs  Germany Member of the German Bundestag

Deputy chairman, CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group

President, National Federation of German Wholesale & Foreign Trade

Sigmar Gabriel  Germany Chairman, Atlantik-Brücke Member of the German Bundestag

Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany

Cristina Garmendia  Spain Chair, SILO

Chair, Cotec Foundation

Member, Supervisory Board, SYGNIS

Minister of Science and Innovation of Spain
Ignacio Garralda [es]  Spain Chairman, Mutua Madrileña
Nicoletta Giadrossi  Italy Chairman, Italian State Railways
Brian Gilvary  United Kingdom non-executive director, Barclays plc

non-executive director, Air Liquide

Elena Goitini  Italy chief executive officer, BNL-BNP Paribas Group
Sinead Gorman  Netherlands Executive Vice President for Finance, Integrated Gas, and New Energies, Shell International Exploration and Production
Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram  Poland Advocate and Head of the Public Interest, Strategic Litigation, and Social Responsibility of Lawyers Program, Clifford Chance
Angelos Gregoriades  Cyprus Non-Executive board member, Central Bank of Cyprus

Honorary Consul of Slovakia in Nicosia

Business Consultant, KPMG

Chairman, KMPG Cyprus
Vittorio Grilli  Italy Chairman for Italy, JPMorgan Chase

Chairman for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, Corporate & Investment Bank, JP Morgan Chase

Minister of Economics and Finance of Italy
Élisabeth Guigou  France President, Anna Lindh Foundation Member of the French National Assembly

Chair, Foreign Affairs Committee, French National Assembly

Minister for European Affairs of France

Christian Gut  Spain chief executive officer, Prosegur
Håkon Haugli  Norway chief executive officer, Innovation Norway Member of the Storting
Anniken Hauglie  Norway Political Director and Deputy managing director, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise Director-General, Norwegian Oil and Gas Association

Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion of Norway

Beat Hess   Switzerland Chairman, Board, Holcim Ltd.
Nigel Higgins  United Kingdom Chairman, Barclays plc
Gerda Holzinger-Burgstaller [de]  Austria chief executive officer, Erste Group Bank
Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer  Netherlands Senior Transatlantic Fellow and director, Paris Office, German Marshall Fund

Head, Transatlantic Security Task Force, German Marshall Fund

Dame Vivian Hunt  United Kingdom Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company
Toomas Hendrik Ilves  Estonia President of Estonia
Michael J. Inacker [de]  Germany chief executive officer and chairman, Board, WMP Eurocom [de]
Mugur Isărescu  Romania Governor of the National Bank of Romania Prime Minister of Romania
Renée Jones-Bos  Netherlands Chair, Supervisory Committee, Dutch Intelligence Services Ambassador of the Netherlands to Russia

Ambassador of the Netherlands to the United States

Rastislav Káčer  Slovakia Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia[note 3]

Chairman, GLOBSEC

Ambassador of Slovakia to the United States
Sylvie Kauffmann  France Editorial Director and Foreign Affairs Columnist, Le Monde

Contributing Writer, The New York Times

Piia-Noora Kauppi  Finland chief executive officer, Finance Finland
Yasmine Kherbache [nl; fr]  Belgium Judge, Belgian Constitutional Court Member of the Belgian Federal Parliament

Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Belgium

Kasia Kieli  Poland President and managing director, Discovery Europe, Middle East and Africa
Roderich Kiesewetter  Germany Member of the German Bundestag
Sir John Kingman  United Kingdom Chairman, Legal & General Group plc

Chair, UK Research and Innovation

Klaas Knot  Netherlands President, De Nederlandsche Bank
Jovan Kovačić [sr]  Serbia President, East-West Bridge

chief executive officer, GCA Global Communications Associates Ltd.

chief executive officer, Henderson Asset Protection

Advisor to the Government of Serbia
Árpád Kovács [hu]  Hungary Chairman, Fiscal Council of Hungary

Professor, University of Szeged

President, State Audit Office of Hungary [hu]
Gábor Kovács  Hungary Chairman and chief executive officer, Bankár Holding

Founder, Kovács Gábor Art Foundation

Jerzy Koźmiński [pl]  Poland President and chief executive officer, Polish-American Freedom Foundation Ambassador of Poland to the United States

First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Idar Kreutzer  Norway chief executive officer, Finance Norway
Francisco de Lacerda [pt]  Portugal Chairman, Banco CTT [pt] chief executive officer, CTT Correios de Portugal, S.A.

North American Group[edit]

Asia Pacific Group[edit]

Global members[edit]

Global members are appointed from countries that do not fall within the scope of any of the three regional groups, particularly Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. They attend the Commission's annual plenary meetings, but not the regional meetings.

Name Country Position(s) Former Position(s)
Fouad Mohammed Thunayan Al-Ghanim  Kuwait Chairman, Fouad Alghanim & Sons Group of Companies
Ahmed Aljarwan  United Arab Emirates President, Global Council for Tolerance and Peace

President, General Union of Arab Experts

President, Foundation for Islamic Culture & Religious Tolerance (FICRT)

President, Paris Peace Forum

President, Arab Parliament
Alain Bifani  Lebanon Director-General, Ministry of Finance of Lebanon
Ouided Bouchamaoui  Tunisia Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2015) President, Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade and Handicrafts
Youssef Chahed  Tunisia Prime Minister of Tunisia
Bülent Eczacıbaşı  Turkey Chairman, Board, Eczacıbaşı Holding
Karim El Aynaoui  Morocco Executive President, Policy Center for the New South

Executive Vice-President, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Dean, Faculty of Governance, Economics, and Social Sciences, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University

Jacob A. Frenkel  Israel Chairman, Board of Trustees, Group of Thirty

Chairman, Frenkel- Zuckerman Institute for Global Economics

Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International

Governor, Bank of Israel

Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund

Sergei Guriev  Russia Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programmes in Economics, Paris Institute of Political Studies
Maryam Khansari  Iran general manager, Herison Construction Company

International Relations Manager, Iran Association of Construction Companies

Mmusi Maimane  South Africa Founder, Build One South Africa Federal Leader, Democratic Alliance
Fouad Makhzoumi  Lebanon Chairman, Future Group

Executive chairman and chief executive officer, Future Pipe Industries

Güler Sabancı  Turkey Chairman, Hacı Ömer Sabancı Holding A.Ş.
Maha Yahya  Lebanon Director, The Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center
Igor Yurgens  Russia Chairman, Management Board, Institute of Contemporary Development

Former members in public service[edit]

To help preserve the Commission's unofficial charter, members who enter in government roles must relinquish their membership.[1]

Name Country Regional Group Position(s)
Antony Blinken  United States North America Secretary of State of the United States
Lael Brainard  United States North America Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States

Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors of the United States

Mark Brzezinski  United States North America Ambassador of the United States to Poland
R. Nicholas Burns  United States North America Ambassador of the United States to China
Anna Ekström  Sweden Europe Former Minister for Education of Sweden[note 4]
Mette Frederiksen  Denmark Europe Prime Minister of Denmark
S. Jaishankar  India Asia Pacific Minister of External Affairs of India
Kenneth I. Juster  United States North America Former Ambassador of the United States to India
Yuko Kawamoto  Japan Asia Pacific President of the Japanese National Personnel Authority
David Lipton  United States North America First Deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund
Na Kyung-won  South Korea Asia Pacific Member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea
Ong Keng Yong  Singapore Asia Pacific Ambassador-at-large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore

Executive Deputy chairman, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University

Wendy Sherman  United States North America Deputy Secretary of State of the United States
Sir Keir Starmer  United Kingdom Europe Member of the British Parliament

Leader of the British Labour Party

Leader of the Opposition in the British Parliament

Jake Sullivan  United States North America National Security Advisor of the United States
Elsbeth Tronstad  Norway Europe State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway
Margrethe Vestager  Denmark Europe Executive Vice President of the European Commission for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age

European Commissioner for Competition

David Rockefeller Fellows[edit]

Since 2013, each of the regional groups has granted David Rockefeller Fellowships to individuals from countries under their jurisdiction. Fellows are appointed for three-year terms, and are expected to attend at both annual plenary and regional meetings.[2]

Name Country Regional Group Position(s)
Ahmed Abdirahman  Sweden Europe Founder and chief executive officer, Global Village Foundation

Barack Obama Foundation Leader

Ravipal Bains  Canada North America Senior Associate, McMillan LLP
Alesha Black  United States North America Director, Global Food and Agriculture Programme, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
David Borcsok  Canada North America chief executive officer, Ordinary
Cecilia Braggiotti  Italy Europe general manager for Italy and Global Business Development, Afiniti
Jessica Brandt  United States North America Fellow and Head of Research and Policy, Alliance for Securing Democracy
Edoardo Campanella  Italy Europe Senior Global Economist, UniCredit

Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Nihal Chauhan  India Asia Pacific Deputy Lead (Policy), Google India
Stefano Gandolfo  Greece Europe Ertegun Scholar and PhD Candidate, Oxford University
Marta Guzzafame  Spain Europe Principal, Boston Consulting Group
Nina Christina Halg   Switzerland Europe Programme Officer (Multilateral Affairs), Federal Department of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland
Yohei Kiguchi  Japan Asia Pacific Founder and chief executive officer, ENECHANGE Group
Kim Gunho  South Korea Asia Pacific Vice President, Corporate Development Performance Unit, Samyang Holdings Corporation
Takuya Kitagawa  Japan Asia Pacific Chief Data Officer and Managing Executive Officer, Rakuten Group, Inc.
Mia Kovačić  Serbia Europe Marketing and Public Relations Director, CWP Global, PostScriptum Energy
Javier Paul Itchon Lao  Japan Asia Pacific Analyst, Global Markets Division, Goldman Sachs
Elisa Lavore  United States North America Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Lead, Skills for Prosperity Initiative, Development Alternatives Inc.
Jessica Ji Eun Lee  United States North America Senior Research Fellow for East Asia, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Laura McGee  Canada North America Founder and chief executive officer, Diversio
Silvia Merler  Italy Europe Head of Research, Algebris Policy & Research Forum
Tzitzi Moran  Mexico North America Consultant, Inter-American Development Bank
Ana Janaina Nelson  United States North America Latin America Lead, Amazon Web Services Institute
Annahita Nikpour  Denmark Europe Advisor to the Secretary-General, Oxfam IBIS
Christian Nordholtz  Germany Europe Lawyer and Equity Partner, KPMG Law

Shareholder, KPMG AG

Park Jaehan  South Korea Asia Pacific Predoctoral Fellow, The William P. Clements Jr. Center for National Security, University of Texas at Austin
Roxanne Petraeus  United States North America Co-Founder and chief executive officer, Ethena
Dita Přikrylová  Czech Republic Europe Social Entrepreneur, director, and Founder, Czechitas [cs]

Member, Advisory Board, Cesko Digital and Social Impact Award International

Jacobo Roa-Vicens  United Kingdom Europe Machine Learning Centre of Excellence, JPMorgan Chase

Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, University College London

Zita Schellekens  Netherlands Europe Social entrepreneur and advisor on purpose and impact leadership
Loren DeJonge Schulman  United States North America Deputy Director of Studies and Leon E. Panetta Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Ludovic Subran  France Europe Head of Macroeconomic Research, Allianz
Andrew Sweet  United States North America Associate Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors
Yurina Takiguchi  Japan Asia Pacific Anchor, Nikkei CNBC

Editor and Communication Director, Forbes

Pablo Tortolero  Mexico North America Technology policy, security, and FinTech
Levent Tuzun  Turkey[note 1] Europe Principal Economist, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Matteo Villa  Italy Europe Research Fellow, Institute for International Political Studies
Samantha Vinograd  United States North America Public Policy Lead, Stripe, Inc.
Joshua W. Walker  United States North America President and chief executive officer, Japan Society
Ali Wyne  United States North America Senior Analyst for Global Macro, Eurasia Group
Ammanuel Zegeye  United States North America Partner, McKinsey & Company
Jeffrey Epstein  United States North America American financier

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b The condition for David Rockefeller Fellowships is that the recipient must be a citizen or permanent resident of a country in the region awarding the Fellowship. In the case of Levent Tuzun, he is likely a permanent resident in a European country.
  2. ^ Michel David-Weill died on 16 June 2022 at the age of 89.
  3. ^ Rastislav Káčer assumed the office of Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia on 13 September 2022.
  4. ^ Anna Ekström's term as Swedish Minister for Education ended on 17 October 2022.

References[edit]

"Membership in August 2022". The Trilateral Commission. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

  1. ^ "Leadership, Members & Fellows". The Trilateral Commission. Retrieved 16 October 2022. To help preserve the Commission's unofficial charter, members who enter into government role must rotate off the Commission.
  2. ^ "David Rockefeller Fellows: North America". The Trilateral Commission. Retrieved 16 October 2022.