Business Contact Group

Established in July 2004 by Gordon Brown and Niall Fitzgerald.

Members included to following signatories to the Business contact group statement on the findings of the Commission for Africa:

Patrick Cescau, Chairman, Unilever | James Dallas, Chairman, Denton Wilde Sapte | Niall FitzGerald KBE, Chairman, Reuters PLC | Jack Garvey, Chief Executive, Crown Agents | Russell Greig, President Pharmaceuticals International, GlaxoSmithKline | Richard Laing, Chief Executive, CDC Group plc | Graham Mackay, CEO, SABMiller plc | Reginald Mengi, Executive Chairman, IPP Ltd Tanzania | Nicky Oppenheimer, Chairman, De Beers Group | Cyril Ramaphosa, Chairman, Shanduka Group | Bryan Sanderson CBE, Chairman, Standard Chartered | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, Chairman, Anglo American plc | Jan du Plessis, Chairman, British American Tobacco | Paul Skinner, Chairman, Rio Tinto | Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch-Shell | Paul Walsh, CEO, Diageo | Baroness Lynda Chalker, Chairman, Africa Matters Ltd | Robert Davies, CEO, International Business Leaders Forum | Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, President, African Business Roundtable | Lucien Bradet, President, Canadian Council on Africa | Brahim Bendjaber, Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry | Charles Cullimore, Chairman, British Africa Business Association | Steve Hayes, President, Corporate Council on Africa, Washington | Mohan Kaul, CEO, Commonwealth Business Council |