International Crisis Group

International Crisis Group was founded in 1994 by World Bank Vice-President Mark Malloch Brown, former US diplomat Morton Abramowitz and Fred Cuny, an international disaster relief specialist who disappeared in Chechnya in 1995.

Principals

• Christopher Patten - Co-Chair
• Thomas Pickering - Co-Chair
• Gareth Evans - President & CEO
• William Shawcross - Board Member
• Martti Ahtisaari - Chairmen Emeritus
• George J. Mitchell - Chairmen Emeritus

Executive Committee

Morton Abramowitz	Adnan Abu-Odeh	Kenneth Adelman
Ersin Arioglu	Shlomo Ben-Ami	Lakhdar Brahimi
Zbigniew Brzezinski	Kim Campbell	Cheryl Carolus
Naresh Chandra	Joaquim Alberto Chissano	Victor Chu
Wesley Clark	Pat Cox	Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Mark Eyskens	Joschka Fischer	Yoichi Funabashi
Leslie H. Gelb	Frank Giustra	Carla Hills
Lena Hjelm-Wallén	Swanee Hunt	Anwar Ibrahim
Asma Jahangir	Nancy Kassebaum Baker	James V. Kimsey
Wim Kok	Trifun Kostovski	Ricardo Lagos
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman	Maria Livanos Cattaui	Ayo Obe
Christine Ockrent	Victor Pinchuk	Fidel V. Ramos
Ghassan Salamé	Douglas Schoen	William Shawcross
Stephen Solarz	George Soros	Pär Stenbäck
Thorvald Stoltenberg	Ernesto Zedillo

Funding

According to Jan Oberg:

A visit to Crisis Group's website reveals that 40% of its funds come from governments:

Agence Intergouvernementale de la francophonie, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US. Isn't it a bit hard to believe that those who pay the piper would continue to do so, if reports were critical of government policies - Western governments and their conflict "management" in particular?

ICG is also supported by various foundations (covering 43%) - Rockefeller, Ford, MacArthur, US Institute for Peace (established by Ronald Reagan), Carnegie, Sarlo Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Hewlett, etc. and private sector donors (16%)[1]

Foundation and private sector donors

• The Atlantic Philanthropies
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Ford Foundation
• Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
• The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
• John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• The John Merck Fund
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• Ploughshares Fund
• Sigrid Rausing Trust
• Sasakawa Peace Foundation
• The Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
• United States Institute of Peace
• Fundação Oriente

Spinwatch resources

Jan Oberg, The International Crisis Group: Who Pays the Piper?,Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, April 15, 2005