Crisis Group's Board of Trustees
Thomas
R Pickering
Chair, Crisis Group
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria; Vice Chairman of Hills & Company
Louise Arbour
President & CEO
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Executive Committee
Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC
Maria Livanos Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce
Yoichi Funabashi
Journalist and Former Editor-in-Chief of the The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Frank Giustra
CEO, Fiore Capital Corporation
Ghassan Salamé
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute
Pär Stenbäck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland
Adnan Abu-Odeh
Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN
Kenneth Adelman
Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)
Nahum Barnea
Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel
Samuel Berger
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC; Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Emma Bonino
Vice President of the Senate; Former Minister of International Trade and European Affairs of Italy and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
Sheila Coronel
Toni Stabile, Professor of Practice in Investigative Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Columbia University, U.S.
Mohamed El Baradei
Mr. ElBaradei suspended his membership from the Board of Crisis Group concurrent with his January 2011 return to Egypt.
Director-General Emeritus, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Nobel Peace Prize (2005)
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister of Denmark
Gareth Evans
President Emeritus of Crisis Group; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia
Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Joshua Fink
CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Enso Capital Management LLC
Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University; Former UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations
Carla Hills
Former U.S. Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative
Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden
Swanee Hunt
Former U.S. Ambassador to Austria; Chair, Institute for Inclusive Security and President, Hunt Alternatives Fund
Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder, Celtel International
Igor Ivanov
Former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Russian Federation
Asma Jahangir
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of Pakistan; Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief
Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Former International Secretary of International PEN; Novelist and journalist, U.S.
Lord (Mark) Malloch-Brown
Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and UN Deputy Secretary-General
Lalit Mansingh
Former Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to the U.S. and High Commissioner to the UK
Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.
Benjamin Mkapa
Former President of Tanzania
Moisés Naím
Senior Associate, International Economics Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Former Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy
Ayo Obe
Legal Practitioner, Lagos, Nigeria
Paul Reynolds
President and CEO, Canaccord Financial Inc.; Vice-Chair, Global Head of Canaccord Genuity
Güler Sabancı
Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey
Javier Solana
Former EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, NATO Secretary-General and Foreign Affairs Minister of Spain
Lawrence Summers
Former Director of the US National Economic Council and Secretary of the Treasury; President Emeritus of Harvard University
Chairmen Emeriti
Martti Ahtisaari
Former President of Finland
George J. Mitchell
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
Crisis Group Senior Advisers
Crisis Group's Senior Advisers are former Board Members (to the extent consistent with any other office office they may be holding at the time) who maintain an association with Crisis Group, and whose advice and support are called on from time to time.
To see a list of Crisis Group's Senior Advisers, click here.