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