Crisis Group's Board

Executive Committee

Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey

Emma Bonino*
Former Italian Minister of International Trade and European Affairs and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid

Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Member of the Board, Petroplus, Switzerland

Yoichi Funabashi
Editor-in-Chief & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan

Frank Giustra
Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada

Stephen Solarz
Former U.S. Congressman

George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute

Pär Stenbäck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland

*Vice Chair

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

HRH Turki al-Faisal
Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S.

Kofi Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)

Richard Armitage
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Lord (Paddy) Ashdown
Former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Former Leader of the Liberal Democrats, UK

Shlomo Ben-Ami
Former Foreign Minister of Israel

Lakhdar Brahimi
Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Foreign Minister of Algeria

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President

Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada

Naresh Chandra
Former Indian Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador to the U.S.

Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Former President of Mozambique

Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Pat Cox
Former President of the European Parliament

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister of Denmark

Gareth Evans
President Emeritus, Crisis Group; Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Australia

Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium

Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany

Yegor Gaidar
Former Prime Minister of Russia

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, The Initiative for Inclusive Security and President, Hunt Alternatives Fund

Anwar Ibrahim
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder, Celtel International

Asma Jahangir
UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief; Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

James V. Kimsey
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc. (AOL)

Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President of Poland

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Former International Secretary of International PEN; Novelist and journalist, U.S.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, U.S.

Moisés Naím
Former Venezuelan Minister of Trade and Industry; Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy 

Ayo Obe
Chair, Board of Trustees, Goree Institute, Senegal

Christine Ockrent
CEO, French TV and Radio World Services

Victor Pinchuk
Founder of EastOne & Victor Pinchuk Foundation

Fidel V. Ramos
Former President of Philippines

Güler Sabancı
Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey

Ghassan Salamé
Former Lebanese Minister of Culture of Lebanon; Professor, Sciences Po, Paris

Thorvald Stoltenberg
Former Foreign Minister of Norway

Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Chairmen Emeritus

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.