The Trilateral Commission

(as of October 15, 1978)

 

Georges Berthoin, European Chairman

David Rockefeller, North American Chairman

Takeshi Watanabe, Japanese Chairman

Egidio Ortona, European Deputy Chairman

Mitchell Sharp, North American Deputy Chairman

George S. Franklin, Coordinator

Hanns W. Maull, European Secretary

Charles B. Heck, North American Secretary

Tadashi Yamamoto, Japanese Secretary

 

 

North American Members

 

*I.W. Abel, Former President, United Steelworkers of America

David M. Abshire, Chairman, Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies

Gardner Ackley, Henry Carter Adams University Professor of Political Economy, University of Michigan

Graham Allison, Dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government, University of Michigan

Doris Anderson, Former Editor, Chantelaine Magazine

John B. Anderson, House of Representatives

Anne Armstrong, Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain

J. Paul Austin, Chairman, The Coca-Cola Company

George W. Ball, Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers

Michel Belanger, President, Provincial Bank of Canada

*Robert W. Bonner, Q.C. Chairman, British Columbia Hydro

John Brademas, House of Representatives

Andrew Brimer, President, Brimmer & Company, Inc.

William E. Brock, III, Chairman, Republican National Committee

Arthur F. Burns, Senior Adviser, Lazard Freres & Co.; former Chairman of Board of Governors, U.S. Federal Reserve Board

Hugh Calkins, Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue

Claude Castonguay, President, Fonds Laurentien; Chairman of the Board, Imperial Life Assurance Company; former Minister in the Quebec Government

Sol Chaikin, President, International Ladies Garment Workers Union

William S. Cohen, House of Representatives

*William T. Coleman, Jr., Senior Partner, O’Melveny & Myers; former Secretary of Transportation

Barber B. Conable, Jr., House of Representatives

John Cowles, Jr., Chairman, Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co.

Alan Cranston, United States Senate

John C. Culver, United States Senate

Gerald L. Curtis, Director, East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Lloyd N. Cutler, Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering

Louis A. Desrochers, Partner, McCuaig and Desrochers, Edmonton

Peter Dobell, Director, Parliamentary Centre for Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Ottawa

Hedley Donovan, Editor-in-Chief, Time, Inc.

Claude A. Edwards, Member, Public Service Staff Relations Board; former President, Public Service Alliance of Canada

Daniel J. Evans, President, The Evergreen State College; former Governor of Washington

Gordon Fairweather, Chief Commissioner, Canadian Human Rights Commission

Thomas S. Foley, House of Representatives

George S. Franklin, Coordinator, The Trilateral Commission; former Executive Director, Council on Foreign Relations

Donald M. Fraser, House of Representatives

John Allen Fraser, Member of Parliament, Ottawa

John H. Glenn, Jr., United States Senate

Donald Southam Harvie, Deputy Chairman, Petro Canada

Philip M. Hawley, President Cater Hawley Hale Stores, Inc.

Walter W. Heller, Regents’ Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota

William A. Hewitt, Chairman, Deere and Company

Carla A. Hills, Senior Resident Partner, Latham, Walkins & Hills; former U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Alan Hockin, Executive Vice-President, Toronto-Dominion Bank

James F. Hoge, Jr., Chief Editor, Chicago Sun Times

Hendrik S. Houthakker, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Thomas L. Hughes, President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

*Robert S. Ingersoll, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The University of Chicago; former Deputy Secretary of State

D. Gale Johnson, Provost, The University of Chicago

Edgar F. Kaiser, Jr.,  President and Chief Executive Officer, Kaiser Resources Ltd.

Michael Kirby, President, Institute for Research on Public Policy, Montreal

Lane Kirkland, Secretary-Treasurer, AFL-CIO

*Henry A. Kissinger, Former Secretary of State

Sol M. Linowitz, Senior Partner, Coudert Brothers; former Ambassador to the Organization of American States

Winston Lord, President, Council on Foreign Relations

Donald S. Macdonald, Former Canadian Minister of Finance

*Bruce K. MacLaury, President, The Brookings Institution

Paul W. McCracken, Edmund Ezra Day Professor of Business Administration, University of Michigan

Arjay Miller, Dean, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Lee L. Morgan, President, Caterpillar Tractor Company

Kenneth D. Naden, President, National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

David Packard, Chairman, Hewlett-Packard Company

Gerald L. Parsky, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs

William R. Pearce, Vice President, Cargill Incorporated

Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Lehman Brothers

Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and Director of Japan Institute, Harvard University; former U.S. Ambassador to Japan

*Charles W. Robinson, Vice Chairman, Blyth Eastman Dillon & Co.; former Deputy Secretary of State

*David Rockefeller, Chairman, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

John D. Rockefeller, IV, Governor of West Virginia

Robert V. Roosa, Partner, Brown Bros., Harriman & Company

*William M. Roth, Roth Properties

William V. Roth, Jr., United States Senate

John C. Sawhill, President, New York University; former Administrator, Federal Energy Administration

Henry B. Schacht, Chairman, Cummins Engine Inc.

*William W. Scranton, Former Governor of Pennsylvania; former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

*Mitchell Sharp, Member of Parliament; former Minister of External Affairs

Mark Shepherd, Jr., Chairman, Texas Instruments Incorporated

Edson W. Spencer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Honeywell Inc.

Robert Taft, Jr., Partner, Taft, Stettinius & Hollister

Arthur R. Taylor

James R. Thompson, Governor of Illinois

Russell E. Train, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Philip H. Trezise, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

Paul A. Volcker, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Martha R. Wallace, Executive Director, The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

Martin J. Ward, President, United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry of the United States and Canada

Glenn E. Watts, President, Communications Workers of America

Caspar W. Weinerger, Vice President and General Counsel, Bechtel Corporation

George Weyerhaeuser, President and Chief Executive Officer, Weyerhaeuser Company

Marina von N. Whitman, Distinguished Public Service Professor of Economics, University of Pittsburgh

Carroll L. Wilson, Mitsui Professor in Problems of Contemporary Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management; Director, Workshop on Alternative Energy Strategies, MIT

T. A. Wilson, Chairman of the Board, The Boeing Company

 

Former Members in Public Service

 

Lucy Wilson Benson, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance

W. Michael Blumenthal, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

Robert R. Bowie, U.S. Deputy to the Director of Central Intelligence for National Intelligence

Harold Brown, U.S. Secretary of Defense

Zbigniew Brzezinski, U.S. Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs

Jimmy Carter, President of the United States

Warren Christopher, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Richard N. Cooper, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs

Richard N. Gardner, U.S. Ambassador to Italy

Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs

Walter F. Mondale, Vice President of the United States

Henry Owen, Special Representative of the President for Economic Summits; U.S. Ambassador at Large

Jean-Luc Pepin, P.C., Cochairman, Task Force on Canadian Unity

Elliot L. Richardson, U.S. Ambassador at Large with Responsibility for UN Law of the Sea Conference

Gerard C. Smith, U.S. Ambassador at Large for Non-Proliferation Matters

Anthony M. Solomon, U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs

Cyrus R. Vance, U.S. Secretary of State

Paul C. Warnke, Director, U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Chief Disarmament Negotiator

Andrew Young, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations

 

 

European Members

 

*Giovanni Agnelli, President, FIAT, Ltd.

*P. Nyboe Andersen, Chief General Manager, Andelsbanken A/S; former Danish Minister for Economic Affairs and Trade

Piero Bassetti, Chamber of Deputies, Rome

*Georges Berthoin, President, European Movement

Kurt H. Biedenkopf, Deputy Chairman, Christian Democratic Union, Federal Republic of Germany

*Kurt Birrenbach, President, German Foreign Policy Association; President, Thyssen Stiftung

*Henrik N. Boon, Former Dutch Ambassador to NATO and Italy

Guido Carli, President, Confindustria; former Governor, Bank of Italy

Lord Carrington, House of Lords, London

Jean-Claude Casanova, Professor of Political Science, Institute of Political Studies, Paris

Willy de Clercq, Chairman, Party for Freedom and Progress, Belgium

Umberto Colombo, Director-General, Research & Development Division, Montedison

Francesco Compagna, Chamber of Deputies, Rome

The Earl of Cromer, Advisor to Baring Bros. & Co., Ltd.; former British Ambassador to the United States

Antoinette Danis-Spaak, Member of Chamber of Representatives, Brussels

Michel Debatisse, Chairman of the French National Farmers Union

*Paul Delouvrier, Chairman, French Electricity Board

Barry Desmond, Member of Irish Parliament and Labour Party Whip

Jean Dromer, President Directeur General, Banque Internationale pour l’Afrique Occidentale

Francois Duchene, Director, Sussex European Research Centre, University of Sussex

G. Eastwood, General Secretary, Association of Patternmakers & Allied Craftsmen, London

*Horst Ehmke, Deputy Chairman, Parliamentary Fraction of Social Democratic Party, Federal Republic of Germany; former Minister of Justice

Pieerre Esteva, Administrateur Directeur General, Union des Assurances de Paris

K. Fibbe, Chairman of the Board, Overseas Gas and Electricity Company, Rotterdam

M. H. Fisher, Editor, Financial Times

Garret Fitzgerald, Member of Irish Parliament and Leader of Fine Gael Party; former Foreign Minister of Ireland

Rene Foch, Delegue National aux Questions Internationales du Parti des Republicains Independants

Francesco Forte, President, Tescon, S.p.A., Rome

*Michel Gaudet, President, Federation Francaise des Societes d’Assurances

Sir Reay Geddes, Chairman, Dunlop Holdings, Ltd.

Giuseppe Glisenti, President La Rinascente

Ronald Grierson, Director, General Electric Co., Ltd.

Lord Harlech, Chairman, Harlech Television; former British Ambassador to the United States

Hans Hartwig, Chairman, German Association for Wholesale and Foreign Trade

Bernard Hayhoe, Member of British Parliament

Jozef P. Houthuys, Chairman, Belgian Confederation of Christian Trade Unions

Ludwig Huber, President, Bayerische Landesbank

Horst K. Jannott, Chairman, Board of Directors, Munich Reinsurance Society

Daniel E. Janssen, Administrateur Delegue et Directeur General, Belgian Chemical Union

Hans-Jurgen Junghans, Member of the Bundestag

Karl Kaiser, Director, Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy

Sir Kenneth Keith, Chairman, Rolls Royce Ltd.

Henry Keswick, Chairman, Matheson & Company, Ltd.

Michael Killeen, Managing Director, Industrial Development Authority of the Irish Republic

Sir Arthur Knight, Chairman, Courtaulds, Ltd.

*Max Kohnstamm, Principal, European University Institute, Florence

Erwin Kristoffersen, Director, International Division, German Federation of Trade Unions

*Baron Leon Lambert, President du Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, S.A.

Arrigo Levi, La Stampa, Turin

Mark Littman, Deputy Chairman, British Steel Corporation

Richard Lowenthal, Professor Emeritus, Free University of Berlin

*Roderick MacFarquhar, Member of British Parliament

Giorgio La Malfa, Chamber of Deputies, Rome

Robert Marjolin, Former Vice President of the Commission of the European Communities

Roger Martin, President, Compagnie Saint-Gobain Pont-a-Mousson

Reginald Maudling, Member of British Parliament; former Cabinet Minister

Cesare Merlini, Director, Institute of International Affairs, Rome

Thierry de Montbrial, Professor of Economics, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris

Alwin Munchmeyer, Chairman of the Board, Bank Schroder, Munchmeyer, Hengst & Co.

Preben Munthe, Professor of Economics, Oslo University; Official Chief Negotiator in Negotiations between Labor Unions and Industry

Dan Murphy, Secretary-General of the Civil Service Executive Union, Dublin

Karl-Heinz Narjes, Member of the Bundestag

Friedrich A. Neuman, Chairman, State Association, Industrial Employers Societies, North-Rhine Westphalia

*Egidio Ortona, President, Honeywell Information Systems, Italia; former Italian Ambassador to the United States

Bernard Pagezy, President Directeur General, Societes d’Assurances du Groupe de Paris

Sir John Pilcher, Former British Ambassador to Japan

Jean Rey, Ministre d’Etat; former President of the Commission of the European Communities

Julian Ridsdale, Member of British Parliament; Chairman, Anglo-Japanese Parliamentary Group

Sir Frank Roberts, Advisory Director, Unilever Ltd.; former British Ambassador to Germany and the Soviet Union

*Mary T. W. Robinson, Member of Senate, Irish Republiac

Lord Roll, Executive Director, S.G. Warburg and Co., Ltd.

John Roper, Member of British Parliament

Francois de Rose, Ambassadeur de France; President Directeur General, Societe Nouvelle Pathe Cinema

Edmond de Rothschild, President, Compagnie Financiere Holding, Paris

Ivo Samkalden, Former Mayor of Amsterdam

John C. Sanness, director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

W. E. Scherpenhuijsen Rom, Chairman, Board of Directors, Nederlandsche Middenstandsbank, N. V.

Erik Ib Schmidt, Permament Undersecretary of State; Chairman, Riso National Laboratory

Th. M. Scholten, Chairman of the Board, Robeco Investment Group, Rotterdam

Gerhard Schroder, Member of the Bundestag; former Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany

Erik Seidenfaden, Directeur de la Fondation Danoise, Institut Universitaire International de Paris

Federico Sensi, ambassador of Italy; former Italian Ambassador to the Soviet Union

Roger Seydoux, Ambassadeur de France; President, Banque de Madagascar et des Comores; President, Fondation de France

Lord Shackleton, Deputy Chairman, Rio Tinto-Zinc Corporation Ltd., London

Sir Andrew Shonfield, Professor of Economics, European University Institute, Florence; former Director, Royal Institute of International Affairs

J. H. Smith, Deputy Chairman, British Gas Corporation

Hans-Gunther Sohl, Chairman of the Board, August Thyssen Hutte A. G.

Theo Sommer, Editor-in-Chief, Die Zeit

Myles Staunton, Member of Senate, Irish Republic

G. R. Storry, St. Antony’s College, Oxford (Far East Centre)

John A. Swire, Chairman, John Swire and Sons, Ltd.

*Otto Grieg Tidemand, Shipowner; former Norwegian Minister of Defense and Minister of Economic Affairs

A. F. Tuke, Chairman, Barclays Bank International Ltd.

Heinz-Oskar Vetter, Chairman, German Federation of Trade Unions

Paolo Vittorelli, Member of Italian Parliament

Sir Frederick Warner, Director, Guinness Peat Group Ltd.; former British Ambassador to Japan

Luc Wauters, Chairman, Kredietbank, Brussels

Edmund Wellenstein, Former Director General for External Affairs, Commission of the European Communities

Kenneth Whitaker, Member of Senate, Irish Republic; former Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland

Alan Lee Williams, Member of British Parliament

Otto Wolff von Amerongen, President, Otto Wolff A.G.; President, German Federation of Trade and Industry

Michael Woods, Member of Irish Parliament

*Sir Philip de Zulueta, Chairman, Anthony Gibbs Holdings Ltd.

 

Former Members in Public Service

 

Svend Auken, Minister of Labor, Denmark

Raymond Barre, Prime Minister and Finance Minister, French Republic

Herbert Ehrenberg, Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Federal Republic of Germany

Marc Eyskens, Belgian State Secretary for Budget and Flemish Regional Economy

Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Minister of Economics, Federal Republic of Germany

Jean-Philippe Lecat, Minister of Culture and Communications, French Republic

Evan Luard, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the British Foreign Office

Ivar Norgaard, Danish Minister of Commerce

Michael O’Kennedy, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Irish Republic

Henri Simonet, Foreign Minister of Belgium

Thorvald Stoltenberg, Secretary of State, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Olaf Sund, Senator for Labor and Social Affairs, Land Government of Berlin

 

 

 

Japanese Members

 

Isao Amagi, President, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; former Vice-Minister of Education

Yoshiya Ariyoshi, Counsellor, Nippon Yusen, K.K.

Shizuo Asada, President, Japan Air Lines Company, Ltd.

Yoshishige Ashihara, Chairman, Kansai Electric Power Company, Inc.

Toshio Doko, President, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren)

Jun Eto, Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Shinkichi Eto, Professor of International Relations, Tokyo University

*Chujiro Fujino, Chairman, Mitsubishi Corporation

Shintaro Fukushima, President, Kyodo News Service

Noboru Gotoh, President, TOKYU Corporation

Toru Hagiwara, Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador to France

Nihachiro Hanamura, Vice President, Japan Federation of Economic Organizations (Keidanren)

Sumio Hara, Executive Advisor, Bank of Tokyo, Ltd.

*Yukitaka Haraguchi, Chairman, Central Executive Committee, All Japan Federation of Metal Mine Labor Unions

Norishige Hasegawa, Chairman, Sumitomo Chemical Company, Ltd.

Teru Hidaka, Chairman, Yamaichi Securities Company, Ltd.

Gen Hirose, President, Nihon Insurance Co., Ltd.

Hideo Hori, President, The Association for Employment Promotion of the Handicapped

*Takashi Hosomi, Advisor, Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd.

Shozo Hotta, Honorary Chairman, Sumitomo Bank, Ltd.

Hosai Hyuga, Chairman, Sumitomo Metal Industries, Ltd.

Shinichi Ichimura, Professor of Economics, Kyoto University

Yoshizo Ikeda, President, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Yoshihiro Inayama, Chairman, Nippon Steel Corporation

Kaoru Inoue, Honorary Chairman, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd.

Rokuro Ishikawa, President, Kajima Corporation

Tadao Ishikawa, President, Keio University

Joji Itakura, President, The Mitsui Bank, Ltd.

Yoshizane Iwasa, Chairman, Japan-U.S. Economic Council

Motoo Kaji, Professor of Economics, Tokyo University

Fuji Kamiya, Professor of International Relations, Keio University

*Yusuke Kashiwagi, President, Bank of Tokyo, Ltd.; former Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance

Koichi Kato, Member of the Diet

Ryoichi Kawai, President, Komatsu, Ltd.

Katsuji Kawamata, Chairman, Nissan Motor Company, Ltd.

Kiichiro Kitaura, President, Nomura Securities Company, Ltd.

Koji Kobayashi, Chairman, Nippon Electric Company, Ltd.

Kenichiro Komai, Chairman, Hitachi, Ltd.

Shinichi Kondo, Advisor, Mitsubishi Corporation; former Ambassador to Canada

Fumihiko Kono, Counsellor, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.

Masataka Kosaka, Professor, Faculty of Law, Kyoto University

Fumihiko Maki, Principal Partner, Maki and Associates, Design, Planning and Development

Shigeharu Matsumoto, Chairman, International House of Japan, Inc.

Daigo Miyado, Chairman, The Sanwa Bank, Ltd.

Akio Morita, Chairman, SONY Corporation

Takashi Mukaibo, President, Tokyo University

Norihiko Nagai, President, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines

Yonosuke Nagai, Professor of Political Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Shigeo Nagano, President, Japan Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Eiichi Nagasue, Member of the Diet

Nobuyuki Nakahara, Managing Director, Toa Nenryo Kogyo, K.K.

Toshio Nakamura, Chairman, Mitsubishi Bank, Ltd.

Ichiro Nakayama, President Japan Institute of Labor

Sohei Nakayama, Counsellor, Industrial Bank of Japan, Ltd.

Akira Ogata, Chief News Commentator, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)

Yoshihisa Ohjimi, President, Arabian Oil Company, Ltd.; former Vice Minister of International Trade and Industry

*Saburo Okita, Chairman, Japan Economic Research Center

*Kiichi Saeki, President, Nomura Research Institute

Kunihiko Sasaki, Chairman, Fuji Bank, Ltd.

Yukio Shibayama, Chairman, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, K.K.

Masahide Shibusawa, Director, East-West Seminar

Yoshihito Shimada, President, Takahashi Foundation; former President, Japan Petroleum Development Corporation

Tatsuo Shoda, Chairman, The Nippon Credit Bank, Ltd.

Binsuke Sugiura, Chairman, The Long Term Credit Bank of Japan, Ltd.

*Ryuji Takeuchi, Advisor to the Minister for Foreign Affairs; former Ambassador to the United States

Eiji Toyoda, President, Toyota Motor Company, Ltd.

Seiki Tozaki, President, C. Itoh & Co., Ltd.

Seiji Tsutsumi, Chairman, Seibu Department Store, Inc.

Tadao Umesao, Director, National Museum of Ethnology

Shogo Watanabe, Chairman, Nikko Securities Company, Ltd.

Takeshi Watanabe, Former President, Asian Development Bank

Kizo Yasui, Chairman, Toray Industries, Inc.

 

*Executive Committee

 

Former Members in Public Service

 

Kiichi Miyazawa, Minister of Economic Planning

Nobuhiko Ushiba, Minister of External Economic Affairs

 

 

 

 

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