EastWest Institute

Formerly known as the Institute for East West Studies

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 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