EastWest Institute
EWI Board of Directors
CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARD
Ms. Ana Palacio , Former Foreign Minister to Spain, Palacioyasociados, Spain George F. Russell, Jr. , Chairman, The Threshold Group
PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER
John Edwin Mroz, President and CEO, EastWest Institute, United States
BOARD MEMBERS
Urban Ahlin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Swedish Parliament, Sweden Martti Ahtisaari, Chairman, Crisis Management Initiative, Finland Anna Akhalkatsi, Business Development Officer, Small and Medium Enterprise Dept., International Finance Corporation, United States Riprand Arco, President, American Asset Corporation, United States Jerald T. Baldridge, Chairman, Republic Energy Inc., United States Marshall Bennett, President, Marshall Bennett Enterprises, United States David Boren, President, University of Oklahoma, Former U.S. Senator, United States Nick Butler, Group Vice President, Strategy and Policy Development, BP p.l.c., United Kingdom Peter Castenfelt, President, Archipelago Enterprises Ltd., United Kingdom Maria Livanos Cattaui, Former President, International Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland Mark Chandler, Chairman and CEO, Biophysical, United States Emil Constantinescu, Former President of Romania, Institute for Regional Cooperation and Conflict, Romania Joel H. Cowan, President, Habersham & Cowan, Inc., United States Francis Finlay, Chairman and CEO, Clay Finlay Inc., United States Stephen B. Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, United States R. William Ide, III, Partner, MCKENNA LONG & ALDRIDGE LLP, United States Wolfgang Ischinger, Ambassador, Embassy of Federal Republic of Germany to the U.S.A., Germany Sigrid RVC Kendall, Managing Director, Kendall-Verwaltungs-GmBH Rami G. Khouri, Executive Editor, The Daily Star, Lebanon Maria-Pia Kothbauer, Ambassador, Embassy of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Austria Andrey Kruglov, CFO and Deputy CEO, Gazprom, Russian Federation Rudi Lamprecht, Member of the Managing Board, Siemens, Germany James A. Lash, Chairman, Manchester Principal LLC, United States Sonja Licht, President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, Serbia & Montenegro Mark Maletz, Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School, United States Michael Maples, Former Executive Vice President, Microsoft, United States Ivan Miklos, Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic, Slovakia Frank Neuman, President, AM-TAK International, United States Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman, Perot Systems Corporation, United States Vladimir Plasil, President, Alta, Co., Czech Republic John Richardson, President, The Madriaga Foundation, Belgium Dr. Ramzi Sanbar, Chairman, Sanbar Development Corporation, S.A., United Kingdom Armen Sarkissian, President, Eurasia House International, Armenia Peter Scannell, President, Rockwood Holdings, L.P., United States Leo Schenker, Senior Executive Vice President, Central National-Gottesman Inc., United States Rockwell Schnabel, Advisory Director, Trident Capital Inc, United States Hilton Smith, President and CEO, East Bay Co. Ltd., United States Elizabeth Symons, Baroness, House of Lords, United Kingdom Liener Temerlin, Chairman, Temerlin Consulting, United States Henrik Torgersen, Executive Vice President-International Operations, Telenor, Norway Robert Verrue, Director General for DG - Taxation, Commission of the European Union, France Antonio Vitorino, Professor, Lisbon Law School and Lawyer, Portugal Matthias Warnig, President, Dresdner Bank ZAO, Germany George Weidenfeld, Lord and President, Orion Publishing Group, United Kingdom John C. Whitehead, Former Chairman, Goldman Sachs & Co., Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, United States Mikhail M. Zadornov, President-Chairman, CJSC "Vneshtorgbank Retail Services, Russian Federation Robert Ziff, Chief Investment Strategist, Ziff Brothers Investments, United States
HONORARY CHAIRMEN
George H.W. Bush, Former President of the U.S.A. Helmut Kohl, Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany
CHAIRMEN EMERITI
Berthold Beitz, President, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung Ivan T. Berend, Professor, University of California at Los Angeles Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Former Vice Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Donald M. Kendall, Former Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo. Inc. Whitney MacMillan, Former Chairman and CEO, Cargill, Inc., United States Ira D. Wallach, EWI Co-Founder, and Former Chairman, Central National-Gottesman, Inc., United States
DIRECTORS EMERITI
Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, Chief Executive Officer, Bank Polska Kasa Opieki S.A., Poland William D. Dearstyne, Former Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson, United States John W. Kluge, Chairman of the Board, Metromedia International Group, United States William E. Murray, The Samuel Freeman Trust, Chairman, United States John J. Roberts, Senior Advisor, American International Group (AIG), United States Daniel Rose, Chairman, Rose Associates, Inc., United States Mitchell I. Sonkin, Managing Director, MBIA Insurance Corporation, United States Thorvald Stoltenberg, President, Norwegian Red Cross, Norway
Non-Board Members of Board Committees
Ali Mufit Gortuna, Former Mayor of Greater Istanbul Municipality, Turkey John A. Roberts, President, Chilmark Enterprises, Inc, United States J Dickson Rogers, United States George Sheer, United States Bengt Westergren, Senior Representative - President, AIG Central Europe & C.I.S., United Kingdom