Here is a Wiki entry on the Trilateral Commission.
Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Rockefeller advisor who was a specialist on international affairs (and later President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977 to 1981), left Columbia University to organize the group, along with: [5]
Edwin Reischauer, professor at Harvard University and United States Ambassador to Japan, 1961–1966George S. Franklin, executive director of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York Gerard C. Smith, SALT I negotiator and its first North American chairman Henry D. Owen, foreign policy studies director at the Brookings Institution [6] Max Kohnstamm, European Policy Centre Robert R. Bowie, the Foreign Policy Association and director of the Harvard Center for International AffairsMarshall Hornblower, former partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Tadashi Yamamoto, Japan Center for International Exchange [7] William Scranton, former governor of PennsylvaniaOther founding members included Alan Greenspan and Paul Volcker, both later heads of the Federal Reserve System.
Membership is divided into numbers proportionate to each of the think tank's three regional areas. North America is represented by 120 members (20 Canadian, 13 Mexican and 87 U.S. citizens). The European group has reached its limit of 170 members from almost every country on the continent; the ceilings for individual countries are 20 for Germany, 18 for France, Italy and the United Kingdom, 12 for Spain and 1–6 for the rest. At first Asia and Oceania were represented only by Japan, but in 2000 the Japanese group of 85 members became the Pacific Asia group, comprising 117 members: 75 Japanese, 11 South Koreans, 7 Australian and New Zealand citizens, and 15 members from the ASEAN nations ( Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand). The Pacific Asia group also included 9 members from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The commission now claims "more than 100" Pacific Asian members. [4]
The Trilateral Commission's bylaws deny membership to public officials. [10] It draws its members from politics, business, and academia, and has three chairpersons, one from each region. The current chairs are former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Joseph S. Nye, Jr., former head of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trichet, and Yasuchika Hasegawa, chair of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. [11]
Leadership[ edit]As of June 2020 [12]
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