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Established
Speaking at the Chase Manhattan International Financial Forums in London, Brussels, Montreal, and Paris, Rockefeller proposed the creation of an International Commission of Peace and Prosperity in early 1972 (which would later become the Trilateral Commission). At the 1972 Bilderberg meeting, the idea was widely accepted, but elsewhere, it got a cool reception. According to Rockefeller, the organization could "be of help to government by providing measured judgment."
Zbigniew Brzezinski,<2> a professor at Columbia University and a Rockefeller advisor who was a specialist on international affairs, left his post to organize the group along with:
* Henry D. Owen (a Foreign Policy Studies Director with the Brookings Institution)
* George S. Franklin
* Robert R. Bowie (of the Foreign Policy Association and Director of the Harvard Center for International Affairs)
* Gerard C. Smith (Salt I negotiator, Rockefeller in-law, and its first North American Chairman)
* Marshall Hornblower
* William Scranton (former Governor of Pennsylvania)
* Edwin Reischauer (a professor at Harvard)
* Max Kohnstamm (European Policy Centre)
Other founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both eventually heads of the Federal Reserve system.
Funding for the group came from David Rockefeller, the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
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Others who are or have been members
* Rona Ambrose: Member of Parliament, Canada
* John B. Anderson: former US Congressman
* Bruce Babbitt: Interior Secretary under Clinton<32>
* Francisco Pinto Balsemão
* Jim Balsillie: Chairman and Co-CEO of Research In Motion.
* Raymond Barre: former French Prime Minister
* Lloyd Bentsen: former US Senator and Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton<1>
* Catherine Ann Bertini: Former United Nations Under Secretary General in Management, former Director of World Food Program.
* Maurizio Bevilacqua: Member of Parliament, Canada
* Ritt Bjerregaard: Mayor of Copenhagen, Denmark. Danish Social Democrat MP, former Secretary of Education, member of various cabinets; European Commissioner for Environment, Nuclear Safety and Civil Protection in the Santer Commission from 1995 to 1999. (Attendee 1992,1998,2002). Also a Bilderberg attendee.
* Tom Bradley (politician): former Mayor of Los Angeles
* John H. Bryan: former CEO of Sara Lee bakeries, affiliated with the World Economic Forum and a director on the Boards of Sara Lee, Goldman Sachs, General Motors, British Petroleum and Bank One.
* James E. Burke: CEO of Johnson & Johnson from 1976 to 1989.
* Sven Burmester: Writer and Explorer, Denmark; former Representative, United Nations Population (Attendee 1998,2002,2005)
* George H.W. Bush: Former President of the U.S.<33>
* Jonathan Byrne: Former American Gladiator, and North Carolina state senator.<34>
* Frank Carlucci: President of Carlyle Group, U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1987 to 1989.
* Jimmy Carter: Former President of the U.S.<35>
* Gerhard Casper: Constitutional scholar, faculty member and former President at Stanford University; successor trustee of Yale University and part of the Board of Trustees of the Central European University in Hungary.
* Dick Cheney: Former Vice President of the U.S.<33>
* Warren Christopher: former Secretary of State under Clinton and Deputy Secretary of State under Carter
* Henry Cisneros: HUD Secretary under Clinton<32>
* Joe Clark: former Canadian Prime Minister
* Bill Clinton: Former President of the U.S.
* William Cohen: former Republican Congressman and US Senator, U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Clinton.
* Tim Collins: CEO of Ripplewood Holdings LLC investment company; also part of the Yale Divinity School and Yale School of Management board of advisors and U.S.-Japan non-profit organizations.
* John Danforth: former US Senator
* André Desmarais: President and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Power Corporation of Canada, Montréal, QC; Deputy Chairman, Power Financial Corporation<36>
* Hedley Donovan: (deceased) former editor-in-chief of Time magazine,<37> White House Advisor on Domestic and Foreign Policy under Carter, Trilateral Commission founding member<32><35>
* Lawrence Eagleburger: former Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush
* Bill Emmott: Former editor of The Economist magazine.
* Aatos Erkko: Chairman, SanomaWSOY
* Lene Espersen: Danish Minister of Culture, former Minister of Justice (Attendee 2002,2005)
* Daniel J. Evans: former Governor of Washington
* Gaston Eyskens: former Prime Minister of Belgium
* Dianne Feinstein: Democratic U.S. Senator, former Mayor of San Francisco, member of the Council on Foreign Relations; chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security.
* Martin Feldstein: Professor of economics at Harvard University; president and CEO of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1982 to 1984; former director of the Council on Foreign Relations; member of the Bilderberg Group and of the World Economic Forum.
* Hugh Fletcher: Chancellor of Auckland University and CEO of Fletcher Challenge.
* Lykke Friis: Pro-Rector University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Former Head of European Department, Federation of Danish Industries. (Attendee 2005)
* Ross Garnaut: Head, Department of Economics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra.
* David Gergen: (personal website) Political consultant and presidential advisor during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford and Reagan; also served as advisor to Bill Clinton.<38>
* John Glenn: former astronaut, former US Senator and U.S. Presidential candidate<32>
* Maldonado Gonelha
* Allan Gotlieb: Canadian Ambassador to Washington from 1981 to 1989, chairman of the Canada Council from 1989 to 1994.
* Bill Graham: former Canadian Minister of National Defence and Minister of Foreign Affairs under Paul Martin; for most of 2006, interim parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party.
* Hank Greenberg: Former chairman and CEO of American International Group (AIG), the world's largest insurance and financial services corporation.
* Alan Greenspan: Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve<33>
* John Gutfreund: Former CEO of Salomon Brothers
* Alexander Haig: former Secretary of State under Reagan
* Sirkka Hämäläinen: Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Frankfurt-am-Main; former Governor, Bank of Finland
* Edward Heath: former British Prime Minister
* Mugur Isărescu: Governor of the National Bank of Romania since 1990 and Prime Minister from December 1999 to November 2000; he worked for the Minister of Foreign Affairs then for the Romanian Embassy in the U.S. after the 1989 Romanian revolution.
* Max Jakobson: former Finnish ambassador to the United States
* Sergei Karaganov: Presidential Advisor to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin; member of the International Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995 to 2005.
* Henry Kissinger: U.S. diplomat, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Nixon and Ford administrations; former Chairman of the International Advisory Committee of JP Morgan Chase.
* Horst Köhler: President of Germany
* Max Kohnstamm: Diplomat and historian, son of Philip Kohnstamm.
* Joseph Kraft: syndicated columnist<32>
* Otto Graf Lambsdorff: Chairman of the German Free Democratic Party from 1993 to 1998; Minister for Economic Affairs for West Germany from 1977 to 1984.
* Liam Lawlor: Irish politician who resigned from the Fianna Fáil party; died in a car-crash in Moscow in 2005.
* Pierre Lellouche: French MP of the conservative Union for a Popular Movement party led by Nicolas Sarkozy.
* Gerald M. Levin: Former CEO of Time Warner, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
* Mario Vargas Llosa
* Peter Lougheed: former Premier of Alberta
* Allan MacEachen: former Leader of the Government in the Senate (Canada)
* Whitney MacMillan: Chairman Emeritus of Cargill
* Jorge Braga de Macedo
* Francis Maude: MP for Horsham, the only British MP currently a member of the Trilateral Commission, former Conservative Party Chairman, son of the late Sir Angus Maude MP
* Kiichi Miyazawa: Japanese Prime Minister in 1991–1993; Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1974 to 1976, Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1984 to 1986, Minister of Finance in 1987 and again from 1999 to 2002.
* Walter Mondale: former Vice President of the U.S. under Carter<32>
* Akio Morita: Co-founder of Sony Corporation; vice chairman of the Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations) and member of the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group.
* Brian Mulroney: former Canadian Prime Minister
* Lowell Murray: Canadian Senator
* Indra Nooyi: CEO of PepsiCo
* Andrzej Olechowski: Polish director of Euronet, USA; on the supervisory boards of Citibank Handlowy and Europejski Fundusz Hipoteczny; president of the Central European Forum; Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Poland from 1989 to 1991; Minister of Foreign Economic Relations from 1991 to 1992; Minister of Finance in 1992 and of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1995; economic advisor to President Lech Wałęsa from 1992 to 1993 and in 1995, etc.
* Paul H. O'Neill: former Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush and former chairman of Alcoa
* Henry D. Owen: former Brookings Institution Director and Ambassador at Large for Economic Summit Affairs.
* Lucas Papademos: European Central Bank Vice President
* Gerry Parsky
* Martha Piper: Former Chancellor of UBC
* Lee Raymond: Former CEO and Chairman, ExxonMobil, vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Enterprise Institute, director of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., director and member of the Executive Committee and Policy Committee of the American Petroleum Institute
* Charles Robb: former US Senator
* Mary Robinson: President of Ireland from 1990 to 1997 as a candidate for the Labour Party; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997 to 2002.
* Dufferin Roblin: former Premier of Manitoba
* Carl Rowan: syndicated columnist<32>
* Brent Scowcroft: former National Security Advisor<36> under former Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush; Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc.<39>
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* William Scranton: former Governor of Pennsylvania
* Tøger Seidenfaden: Editor-in-Chief, Politiken,Denmark . Member since 2005. Also a Bilderberg attendee since 1995
* Donna Shalala: Secretary of Health and Human Services under Clinton<32>
* Gerard C. Smith: First U.S. Chairman of the Trilateral Commission; chief U.S. delegate to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks of 1969.
* Anthony M. Solomon: former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
* Ted Sorensen: former special adviser to President Kennedy<3>
* Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: Leader of the Social Democratic Party (Portugal) from 1996 to 1999.
* Ron Southern: Chairman of the Board and majority shareholder of ATCO
* Thorvald Stoltenberg: Norwegian politician, holds a seat on the Trilateral Commission's Executive Committee.
* Peter Straarup: Chairman of the Executive Board, Danske Bank, Copenhagen, Denmark; Chairman, the Danish Bankers Association. (Attendee 2002,2005)
* Robert Taft Jr.: former US Senator
* James R. Thompson: former Governor of Illinois
* Niels Thygesen: Denmark. (Attendee: 1992,1998,2002)
* George Vasiliou: President of the Republic of Cyprus from 1988 to 1993, founder and leader of the Cypriot United Democrats party.
* Takeshi Watanabe
* Caspar Weinberger: Secretary of Defense under Reagan<32>
* Paul Wolfowitz: Former President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and a prominent member of the neo-conservatives in Washington.
* Andrew Young: former United States Ambassador to the United Nations
* Robert Zoellick: President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Trade Representative<37>.
* Karel Schwarzenberg: former chancellor of Czech President and current Minister of Foreign Affairs