EastWest Institute
The EastWest Institute was formerly known as the Institute for East West Studies.
Contents
History
According to an article on the Peace Direct website:
- The US-based East West Institute, founded in 1981 as a think tank on traditional security issues had, since the collapse of Communism, focused on research, networking and low-key conferences to help support the development of democracy and free enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.[1]
Activities
In December 2005 the Institute awarded Tony Blair the accolade of Statesman of the Decade. Blair said 'It is a very great honour and privilege to receive this award, and I can truthfully say it is a long time since so many people have said so many nice things about me all at once, or indeed at all, to be absolutely frank. And can I thank the East-West Institute and congratulate it on its 25 years, and thank it also for the work that it does in so many different places in the world.'[2]
Funding
The Institute prefers not to disclose its funding sources, saying, 'Our mission is supported by funding from private and public sources worldwide.'[3] However, in 2002 the Institute received $10,000 from Exxon Mobil.[4]
People
Co-Chairmen of the Board
- 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 Müfit Gürtuna, 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
Notes
- ↑ East West Institute, Serbia/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Peace Direct website, version placed in web archive 26 May 2005, accessed in web archive 10 July 2009
- ↑ PM's acceptance comments for Statesmen of the Decade award, 8 December 2005 http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page8737.asp
- ↑ Mission and Strategy
- ↑ [1]
