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Abbreviation	TLC
Formation	July 1973
Founders	Zbigniew Brzezinski, David Rockefeller
Type	think tank
Membership	Jacob Aarup-Andersen, Ahmed Abdirahman, I.W. Abel, David Abshire, Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Josef Ackermann, Gardner Ackley, Alexandre Adler, Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Giovanni Agnelli, Umberto Agnelli, Urban Ahlin, Krister Ahlström, Esko Aho, Arno Ahosniemi, Narongchai Akrasanee, Michel Albert, Madeleine K. Albright, Diego del Alcázar, Fouad M. T. Alghanim, Abdlatif Al-Hamad, Ahmed Aljarwan, Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, Paul A. Allaire, Bertrand-Marc Allen, Graham Allison, Pedro Castro e Almeida, Edmond Alphandéry, Roger C. Altman, Pilar López Alvarez, Nuno Amado, Isao Amagi, Naohiro Amaya, Rona Ambrose, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, Bodil Nyboe Andersen, Poul Nyboe Andersen, John B. Anderson, Doris Anderson, Magdalena Andersson, G. Allen Andreas, Dwayne O. Andreas, Bruce Andrews, Jacques Andréani, Mark Boris Andrijanič, Peter Andronov, Vyara Ankova, Kazurhiro Aoyagi, Rand V. Araskog, Stelios Argyros, Yoshiya Ariyoshi, Michael Armacost, Giovanni Auetta Armenise, Jorge Armindo, Anne Armstrong, C. Michael Armstrong, Robert Temple Armstrong, Javier Arroyo, Shizuo Asada, Teruo Asada, Jacques Aschenbroich, Yoshishige Ashihara, Svend Auken, J. Paul Austin, Francis Anthony Aylmer, Karim El Aynaoui, Jose Luis Ceron Ayuso, André Azoulay, Barber B, Bruce Babbitt, Jerzy Baczyński, D. Euan Baird, Zoë Baird, George W. Ball, Pedro Ballvé, Francisco Pinto Balsemao, Chandrajit Banerjee, Patricia Barbizet, Estela Barbot, Ornella Barra, Raymond Barre, Charlene Barshefsky, Hans Bartelds, Ladislav Bartoníček, Tereza Bartoníčková, Piero Bassetti, Alan R. Batkin, Urban Bäckström, Oliver Bäte, Nani Beccalli-Falc, Riley P. Bechtel, Doug Beck, Michael Beckerman, Michel Belanger, Erik Belfrage, Marek Belka, Dick Benschop, Lucy Wilson Benson, Jean-Pierre Berghmans, Jean Bergougnoux, C. Fred Bergsten, Joshua Berkowitz, Susan Berresford, Nora Berrouba, Georges Berthoin, Catherine Bertini, Alexia Bertrand, Maurizio Bevilacqua, Nicolas Beytout, Karan Bhatia, Kurt Biedenkopf, Alain Bifani, Laurent Bigorgne, Carl Bildt, Kurt Birrenbach, Manfred Bischoff, Ritt Bjerregaard, Alesha Black, Conrad Black, Robert D. Blackwill, Dennis C. Blair, Tony Blinken, Michael Bloomberg, W. Michael Blumenthal, Kofi Adjepong Boateng, Franjo Bobinac, Geoffrey T. Boisi, Sophie Boissard, Marcel Boiteux, Michel Bon, Margherita Boniver, Robert W. Bonner, Henrik N. Boon, David Borcsok, Antonio Borges, Tzvetelina Borislavova, Luc Tayart de Borms, Silvia Sciorilli Borrelli, Peter Bosek, John Bosleym, Stephen W. Bosworth, Ana Patricia Botin, Ouided Bouchamaoui, Gerald K. Bouey, Stéphane Boujnah, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Robert R. Bowie, Antonio Madero Bracho, Katharine Braddick, John Brademas, David G. Bradley, Cecilia Braggiotti, Lael Brainard, Josef Braml, João Castello Branco, Jessica Brandt, Ian Bremmer, Rolf-E. Breuer, Nicola Dame Brewer, Nicola Brewer, Samir Brikho, Andrew Brimmer, Esther Brimmer, Dolf van den Brink, Scott Brison, Leon Brittan, William E. Brock III, David Brooks, Martin Broughton, Gord Brown, Harold Brown, Jean-Louis Bruguière, John Bruton, John H. Bryan, Mark Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Rolf Buch, Robin Buchanan, Patrick Buffet, Edelgard Bulmahn, Steve Bunnell, Yoshino Bunroku, Philip Burdon, James E. Burke, Sven Burmester, Arthur F. Burns, R. Nicholas Burns, Richard Burrows, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Erhard Busek, George H. W. Bush, Hugh Calkins, Luis de la Calle, D. Wayne Calloway, Louis C. Camilleri, Edoardo Campanella, Kurt Campbell, Pierre Callebaut Umberto Cappuzzo, Guido Carli, Luis de Carlos, Frank Carlucci, Hervé de Carmoy, Peter Carrington, Salvatore Carrubba, Marta Cartabia, Ash Carter, Jimmy Carter, Jean-Claude Casanova, Gerhard Casper, Jaime Castellanos, Gianluigi Castelli, Claude Castonguay, Henri de Castries, Sophia Catsambi, Domingo F. Cavallo, Fausto Cereti, Youssef Chahed, Sol Chaikin, Wendy J. Chamberlin, Morris Chang, Jean Charest, Nihal Chauhan, Richard B. Cheney, Michael Chertoff, Boris Biancheri Chiappori, Yoshitoki Chino, Fujio Cho, Lee Kyungsook Choi, Raymond Chrétien, Heinrich Christen, Sofia Christensen, Warren Christopher, Jürgen Chrobog, Roberto Cingolani, Henry Cisneros, Willy de Clercq, Bill Clinton, Luc Coene, Marshall A. Cohen, Eliot Cohen, Jared Cohen, William S. Cohen, William Cohen, William T. Coleman, Timothy C. Collins, Bertrand Collomb, Umberto Colombo, John C Colvar, Patrick Combes, Franceso Compagna, Barber B. Conable, Iain Conn, Richard Conroy, Hélène Conway-Mouret, Richard N. Cooper, Jean-François Copé, Eckhard Cordes, Gerald E. Corrigan, Alfonso Cortina, Bjarne Corydon, Eduardo Costa, David M. Cote, Alain Cotta, John Cowles Jr, Vivienne Cox, Andrónico Luksic Craig, Alan Cranston, Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Michele Crisostomo, Michael J. Critelli, Helima Croft, Rowland Baring, William E. Crowe, William J. Crowe Jr, Enrico Tomaso Cucchiani, Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani, Lee Cullum, H. Lawrence Culp, John Culver, Gerald L. Curtis, Lloyd N. Cutler, Frans Van Daele, Baron Frans Van Daele, Douglas Daft, Douglas N. Daft, Dennis D. Dammerman, Caroline Daniel, Antoinette Danis-Spaak, Richard Darman, Yves-Louis Darricarrère, Tarun Das, Marta Dassù, Michel David-Weill, Etienne Davignon, Lynn E. Davis, Ian Deans, Michel Debatisse, Marie-Ange Debon, Guido Declercq, Arthur A. DeFehr, Jean Deflassieux, Carlos March Delgado, Paul Delouvrier, Thomas Dermine, Barry Desker, André Desmarais, Barry Desmond, Louis A. Desrochers, John M. Deutch, Patrick Devedjian, Thierry Déau, Anna Diamantopoulou, Joy Lo Dico, Nikola Dimitrov, James Dimon, Vladimír Dlouhý, Peter C. Dobell, Paula J. Dobriansky, Wendy K. Dobson, Gary Doer, Hüsnü Dogan, Toshiwo Doko, Shin Dong-Bin, Chen Dongxiao, Thomas E. Donilon, Hedley Donovan, Rolf Dörig, Ivana Dragičević, Aleksandra Drecun, Jean Dromer, Marie-Josee Drouin, Kenneth M. Duberstein, Francois Duchene, William C. Dudley, Michael Duffy, Peggy Dulany, Sophie Dutordoir, Karsten Dybvad, Lawrence Eagleburger, Gerry Eastwood, Pedro Miguel Echenique, Robert A. Eckert, Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Claude A. Edwards, Horst Ehmke, Herbert Ehrenberg, Gabriel Eichler, Trine Eilertsen, Jessica P. Einhorn, Koichiro Ejiri, Takashi Ejiri, Anna Ekström, John Elkann, Jakob Ellemann-Jensen, Guy Elliott, Karen Elliott, Douglas Elmendorf, Bill Emmott, Zhang Enzhao, Jeffrey Epstein, Robert F. Erburu, Aatos Erkko, Lene Espersen, William T. Esrey, Jesus P. Estanislao, Pierre Esteva, Jun Eto, Shinkichi Eto, Pedro Miguel Etxenike, Daniel J. Evans, Jonathan Evans, Robert Evans, Marc Eyskens, Trevor Eyton, Laurent Fabius, Gordon Fairweather, Manuel Falcó, Richard Falkenrath, Elisa Lavore Fanjul, Oscar Fanjul, Matteo Del Fante, Grete Faremo, Dawn Farrell, Diana Farrell, Javier Faus, Dianne Feinstein, Sandra Feldman, Martin S. Feldstein, Julio Feo, Roger W. Ferguson, Nemesio Fernandez-Cuesta, Joao de Menezes Ferreira, Carlos Ferrer, Karel Fibbe, Lucía Figar, Stanley Fischer, Franz Fischler, George Fisher, Max Henry Fisher, Richard W. Fisher, Jürgen Fitschen, Garret FitzGerald, Niall FitzGerald, Mark FitzPatrick, Seamus FitzPatrick, Hugh Fletcher, Rene Foch, Tom Foley, Richard Fontaine, Kristin J. Forbes, Naushad Forbes, Franceso Forte, L. Yves Fortier, Alejandro Foxley, Klaus-Dieter Frankenberger, George S. Franklin, Guiseppe Gazzoni Frascara, John Allen Fraser, Donald M. Fraser, Simon Freakley, Mette Frederiksen, Jacob A. Frenkel, Louise Fresco, Paolo Fresco, Luc Frieden, Stephen Friedman, Thomas Friedman, Hugh Friel, Lykke Friis, Michael B. G. Froman, Uwe Fröhlich, Michael Fuchs, Hiroaki Fujii, Takuya Fujii, Chujiro Fujino, Ichiro Fujisaki, Shinji Fukukawa, Glen S. Fukushima, Shintaro Fukushima, Yoichi Funabashi, Victor K. Fung, Sigmar Gabriel, Dijana Galijašević, Juan Gallardo, Stefano Gandolfo, Stefanos Gandolfo, Carrillo Gantner, Richard N. Gardner, Tristan Garel-Jones, Cristina Garmendia, Ross Garnaut, Ignacio Garralda, Dionisio Garza, Michel Gaudet, Reay Geddes, Timothy F. Geithner, Gabriele Galatari di Genola, Aubrey Geoffrey, David Gergen, Wolfgang Gerhardt, Louis Gerstner, Nicoletta Giadrossi, Gordon Giffin, John Gilbert, Francisco Gil-Díaz, Brian Gilvary, Esther Giménez-Salinas, Frene Ginwala, Dermot Gleeson, John Glenn, Giuseppe Glisenti, Jamshyd Godrej, Jamshyd N. Godrej, Peter C. Godsoe, Donald J. Gogel, Elena Goitini, Neil Goldschmidt, Cecilia Soto Gonzalez, Alberto Merchante González, Jamie S. Gorelick, Sinead Gorman, Joseph T. Gorman, Oleg Goshchansky, Allan E. Gotlieb, Noboru Gotoh, Matthew Gould, Michael Gove, Quentin Grafton, Bill Graham, Donald Graham, Katharine Graham, William H. Gray, Claudio Graziano, Stephen Green, Maurice R. Greenberg, Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Alan Greenspan, Sylwia Gregorczyk-Abram, Angelos Gregoriades, Patrizia Grieco, Ronald Grierson, Vittorio Grilli, Jacques Groothaert, Gian Maria Gros-Pietro, Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, Luigi Gubitosi, Diogo Vaz Guedes, Federica Guidi, Elisabeth Guigou, Kim Gunho, Sergei Guriev, Christian Gut, John H. Gutfreund, Charles Guthrie, Marta Guzzafame, Allan Gyngell, Toyoo Gyohten, Robert D. Haas, Julia Haas, Uwe Haasen, Alexandra Haas-Paciuc, Richard N. Haass, James T. Hackett, Tom Hagiwara, Carl Hahn, Curt Hahn, Alexander Haig, Nina Christina Halg, Hirofumi Hamaguchi, Lee Hamilton, Astrid Hamker, John J. Hamre, Nihachiro Hanamura, Herbjørn Hansson, Sumio Hara, Yukitaka Haraguchi, William Harding, Jane Harman, Jane L. Harman, Sidney Harman, Jack Harris, Stuart Harris, Hans Hartwig, Donald Southam Harvie, Norishige Hasegawa, Yasuchika Hasegawa, William A. Haseltine, Linda Hasenfratz, Taizo Hashida, Tan Sri Dato Azman Hashim, Tsutomu Hata, Håkon Haugli, Anniken Hauglie, Ricardo Hausmann, Philip M. Hawley, Bernard Hayhoe, Nina Hälg, Sirkka Hämäläinen, Kerry Healey, Charles B. Heck, Park Chul Hee, Gerhard Heiberg, Walter W. Heller, Ingrid Hengster, David J. Hennigar, Sturla Henriksen, Carlos Heredia, Helga Hernes, Federico Reyes Heroles, Theodore Hesburgh, John B. Hess, Beat Hess, William A. Hewitt, John R. Hewson, Teru Hidaka, Solveigh Hieronimus, Ernest M. Higa, Nigel Higgins, Fiona Hill, Carla A. Hills, Jan Hinnekens, Nobuyuki Hirano, Gen Hirose, Alan Hockin, James F. Hoge Jr, Richard Holbrooke, Niels W. Holm, Serhiy Holovaty, Johan Jørgen Holst, Gerda Holzinger-Burgstaller, Hyun Hong-Choo, Lee Hong-Koo, Hideo Hori, Shintaro Hori, Tetsuya Horie, Akinari Horii, Robert D. Hormats, Murray Horn, Karl-Heinz Hornhues, Takashi Hosomi, Shozo Hotta, James R. Houghton, Karen Elliott House, Hendrik S. Houthakker, Jozef P. Houthuys Jr, David Howell, Hsieh Fu Hua, Ludwig Huber, Satu Huber, Thomas L. Hughes, Vivian Dame Hunt, Vivian Hunt, John Huntsman, Joseph K. Hurd III, Koh Boon Hwee, Hosai Hyuga, Hong Seok Hyun, Masaisa Ideka, Enrique V. Iglesias, David Ignatius, Yoshizo Ikeda, Masaharu Ikuta, SaKong Il, Sakong Il, Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Josu Jon Imaz, Claude Imbert, Michael Inacker, Yoshihiro Inayama, Robert S. Ingersoll, Lee In-ho, Noriyuki Inoue, Kaoru Inouye, Jamshed J. Irani, Rastam Mohd Isa, Walter Isaacson, Mugur Isarescu, Wolfgang Ischinger, Rokuro Ishikawa, Tadao Ishikawa, Pablo Isla, Joji Itakura, Ren Ito, Tadashi Ito, Yoshizane Iwasa, Park Jaehan, Hyun Jae-Hyun, Thorbjorn Jagland, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Max Jakobson, Bhairavi Jani, Horst K. Jannott, Merit E. Janow, Daniel E. Janssen, Paul-Emmanuel Janssen, Zsigmond Jarai, Sajid Javid, Tan SriMohamed Jawhar, Julia Jäkel, Reuben Jeffery III, Sir Michael Jenkins, P. Thomas Jenkins, Rob Jetten, Wei Jianguo, Wu Jianmin, Sohn Jie-Ae, Yang Jiemian, Trinidad Jiménez, Wang Jisi, Reimut Jochimsen, Josef Joffe, Koo John, James A. Johnson, Samuel C. Johnson, D. Gale Johnson, W. Thomas Johnson, Robert Johnston, Alain Joly, James R. Jones, Renee Jones-Bos, Cho Hyun Joon, Vernon Jordan, Barbara Judge, Jacques Julliard, Wang Jun, Hans-Jurgen Junghans, Ken Juster, Béla Kadar, Robert Kagan, Edgar F. Kaiser, Karl Kaiser, Motoo Kaji, Koji Kakizawa, Fuji Kamiya, Ken'icbi Kamiya, Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Arnold Kanter, Sergei Karaganov, Farhad Karim, Andy Karsner, Kasem Kasemsri, Shigesuke Kashiwagi, Yusuke Kashiwagi, Juhani Kaskeala, Robert Kassai, Koichi Kato, Eijiro Katsu, Hideko Katsumata, Sylvie Kauffmann, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Bilahari Kausikan, Pavel Kavanek, Yoriko Kawaguchi, Ryoichi Kawai, Kenji Kawakatsu, Katsuji Kawamata, Yuko Kawamoto, Koichi Kawana, Charles R. Kaye, Juliette Kayyem, Rastislav Káčer, David T. Kearns, Justin Keating, Timothy Keating, Baron Paul de Keersmaeker, Kenneth Keith, Robert P. Kelly, Trevor Kennedy, Colin Kenny, Nan Keohane, Nannerl O. Keohane, Donald R. Keough, John Kerr, Sir John Kerr, Denis Kessler, Henry Keswick, Mohammad Keyhani, Maryam Khansari, Yasmine Kherbache, Kasia Kieli, Walther Leisler Kiep, Roderich Kiesewetter, Yohei Kiguchi, Kim Kihwan, Michael Killeen, Robert M. Kimmitt, James Kimsey, Louise Kingham, John Kingman, Michael Kirby, Lane Kirkland, Sanjay Kirloskar, Takeru Kishikawa, Henry A. Kissinger, Takuya Kitagawa, Toshi Kitamura, Kolinda Grabar Kitarović, Kiichiro Kitaura, Lauri Kivinen, Michael Klein, Klaus Kleinfeld, Scott Kleinman, Arthur Knight, Klaas Knot, Jerzy Koźmiński, Eizo Kobayashi, Izumi Kobayashi, Koji Kobayashi, Shoichiro Kobayashi, Yotaro Kobayashi, Boon Hwee Koh, Tommy Koh, Parminder Kohli, Max Kohnstamm, Mitsuomi Koizumi, Akira Kojima, Kenichiro Komai, Tom Kompas, Shinichi Kondo, Takeshi Kondo, Fumihiko Kono, Lee Hong Koo, Jeffrey L.S. Koo, Steven Koonin, Sixten Korkman, Yutaka Kosai, Kenji Kosaka, Masataka Kosaka, Jovan Kovačić, Mia Kovačić, Árpád Kovács, Gábor Kovács, Enrique Krauze, Marie-Josée Kravis, Idar Kreutzer, Nicholas Kristof, Erwin Kristoffersen, Signe Krogstrup, Luis Téllez Kuenzler, Jung Ku-hyun, Yutaka Kume, Jiri Kunert Meglena Kuneva, Takeshi Kunibe, Stephanie Kusie, Yoshio Kuwata, Maciej Kuziemski, Harold Kvisle, Sung Kyung Kwan, Ulysses Kyriacopoulos, Kim Kyung-Won, Na Kyung-Won, Thomas G. Labrecque, Francisco de Lacerda, Manfred Lahnstein, Charles D. Lake II, Aleksandar Lalic, Jacques Lamarre, Leon Lambert, Alexander Lambsdorff, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Robert W. Lane, Joachim Lang, Fred Langhammer, Javier Paul Itchon Lao, Lawrence Lau, Kurt Lauk, Anne Lauvergeon, Liam Lawlor, Kenneth L. Lay, Jim Leach, Daniel Lebègue, Jean-Philippe Lecat, Cees van Lede, Jessica Ji Eun Lee, Eli Leenaars, Ana Lehmann, Klaus Dieter Leister, Pierre Lellouche, Jean Lemierre, Monique Leroux, François Bujon de l'Estang, Enrico Letta, Arrigo Levi, Leonard Levie, Jerry Levin, Gerald M. Levin, Marne Levine, Santiago Levy, Flora Lewis, Andre Leysen, André Leysen, Thomas Leysen, André Lévy-Lang, Richard Li, Bo Lidegaard, Marianne Lie, Tove Lifvendahl, Erkki Liikanen, William Lin, Sol M. Linowitz, David Linsay, Count Maurice Lippens, David Lipton, Mark Littman, Andrew N. Liveris, Mario Vargas Llosa, George Logothetis, Constantinos St. Loizides, Winston Lord, Linda Koch Lorimer, E. Peter Lougheed, Richard Lowenthal, Annie Lööf, Peter Löscher, Evan Luard, Peter Lukeš, Franjo Luković, Kristin Skogen Lund, Cees Maas, Donald S. Macdonald, Jorge Braga de Macedo, Roderick MacFarquhar, Adrianto Machribie, Steven MacKinnon, Roy MacLaren, Bruce K. MacLaury, Whitney MacMillan, John A. MacNaughton, Antonio Madero, Monica Maggioni, Paolo Magri, Harald Mahrer, Mmusi Maimane, Miroslav Majoroš, Fouad Makhzoumi, Fumihiko Maki, Minora Makihara, Minoru Makihara, Giorgio La Malfa, Cecilia Malmström, Peter Mandelson, John Manley, Topi Manner, James Manyika, Hervé Mariton, Robert Marjolin, Jose Vila Marsans, Roger Martin, Fasken Martineau, Gilles Martinet, Eberhard Martini, Rainer Masera, Strive Masiyiwa, Victor Massiah, Giampiero Massolo, Kagechika Matano, Rui Mateus, Jessica Tuchman Mathews, Michiya Matsukawa, Shigeharu Matsumoto, Seiji Matsuoka, Albrecht Matuschka, Abel Matutes, Francis Maude, Reginald Maudling, Sir Deryck C. Maughan, Deryck Maughan, Hanns W. Maull, Jay Mazur, Harrison McCain, H. Harrison McCain, Hugh L. McColl, David H. McCormick, Paul McCracken, William J. McDonough, Laura McGee, Judith A. McHale, Henry A. McKinnell Jr, Henry A. McKinnell, Thomas F. McLarty III, Robert S. McNamara, Dionisio Garza Medina, Mateja Medlobi-Mohenski, Edgar Meister, Lourdes Melgar, Vasco de Mello, Antonio Vasco de Mello, Herminio Blanco Mendoza, Silvia Merler, Cesare Merlini, Friedrich Merz, Carlo Messina, Nikhil R. Meswani, Hiroshi Mikitani, David Miliband, Arjay Miller, Miguel Herrero de Miñon, Jami Miscik, Sunil Misra, Staffan de Mistura, Andrea Mitchell, Peter Mitterbauer, Franz Peter Mitterbauer, Daigo Miyado, Yoshihiko Miyauchi, Isamu Miyazaki, Kiichi Miyazawa, Masaya Miyoshi, Carlos Moedas, Yuzaburo Mogi, Tania le Moigne, Dominique Moïsi, Susan Molinari, Walter Mondale, Chung Mong-Joon, Thierry de Montbrial, Mario Monti, Mark Moody-Stuart, Mike Moore, Tzitzi Moran, Felipe Morgado, Hugh Morgan, Lee L. Morgan, Yoichi Morishita, Akio Morita, Moriyuki Motono, Dambisa Moyo, Arkadiusz Muś, Takashi Mukaibo, Anne M. Mulcahy, Michael Mullen, Alwin Munchmeyer, Heather Munroe-Blum, Preben Munthe, Manuel Muñiz, Jiro Murase, Satoru Murase, Klaus Murmann, Minora Murofushi, Minoru Murofushi, Dan Murphy, Ricardo Lopez Murphy, Allen E. Murray, Lori Esposito Murray, Lowell Murray, N.R. Narayana Murthy, Alexander von zur Mühlen, Klaus-Peter Müller, Kenneth D. Naden, Koji Nagai, Norihiko Nagai, Yonosuke Nagai, Shigeo Nagano, Eiichi Nagasue, Osamu Nagayama, Chen Naiqing, Nobuyuki Nakahara, Kaneo Nakamura, Kuniharu Nakamura, Toshio Nakamura, Hiroaki Nakanishi, Ichiro Nakayama, Sohei Nakayama, Karl-Heinz Narjes, Scott Nathan, Rajan Navani, John D. Negroponte, Heinrich Neisser, Claudia Nemat, Friedrich A. Neuman, Philip Ng, Angelika Niebler, Takeshi Niinami, Annahita Nikpour, Peter Magnus Nilsson, Masashi Nishihara, Taizo Nishimuro, Kanji Nishiura, William Niskanen, Edwin Nixon, Teruo Noguchi, Indra Nooyi, Christian Nordholtz, Ivar Norgaard, Humphrey Norrington, Harald Norvik, Lucio A. Noto, Omid Nouripour, Ewald Nowotny, Michelle Nunn, Ben Nye, Joseph Nye, Joseph S. Nye, Sean O'Driscoll, Denis O'Brien, Roberto F. de Ocampo, Sean O'Driscoll, Arend Oetker, Toshiaki Ogasawara, Okira Ogata, Sadako Ogata, Shijuro Ogata, Norio Ohga, Yoshihisa Ohjimi, Sozaburo Okamatsu, Mitsuyoshi Okanu, Akio Okawara, Yoshio Okawara, Michael O'Kennedy, Saburo Okita, Yoichi Okita, Michel Oksenberg, Ariyoshi Okumura, Andrzej Olechowski, Michael Olshan, Claudia Olsson, Richard Olver, Alfred von Oppenheim, Gábor Orbán, Viktor Orbán, David J. O'Reilly, David Ormsby-Gore, Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Egidio Ortona, Victoria Ossadnik, Meghan L. O'Sullivan, Hisashi Owada, Henry D. Owen, David Owen, Henry Owen, Dita Přikrylová, David Packard, Stephen Paduano, Bernard Pagezy, Guido Colonna di Paliano, Dinesh Paliwal, Michael Palliser, Anand Panyarachun, Giampaolo Di Paola, Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, Lucas Papademos, Alexis Papahelas, Alexandra Papalexopoulou, Gerald L. 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A big money think tank with members drawn from US, Japan and Europe

The Trilateral Commission (TLC) is an international NGO aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. TLC was founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski and David Rockefeller in 1973, after discussions at the 1972 Bilderberg. David Guyatt reports that it could be "said to be the Bilderberg group dressed in another frock". TLC is often mentioned together with the Bilderberg group and the Council On Foreign Relations.

In 1974, concerned that democracy wasn't working, the TLC commissioned Michel Crozier, Samuel Huntington and Joji Watanuki to produce a report on the Governability of Democracies. Published in 1975, their report entitled "Crisis of Democracy" revealed the TLC's true concern: not that democracy was failing, but that it was working too well, allowing ordinary citizens to make demands that threatened elite control.

The Rockefeller Influence

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The members are not elected, they are chosen. The Chairman of the Executive Committee, the committee that chooses members, was for many years deep politician David Rockefeller (died 2017), who was also founder and Chairman of the overall Trilateral Commission. The entire structure reflects the Rockefeller choices, not impartial or democratically representative choices.

As for membership, the Trilateral Commission notably brings together the Administrators of power rather than the Holders. Politicians, lawyers, bureaucrats, media executives, trade unionists come and go in the Trilateral meetings — they are transient administrators and implementors of an agenda that is set elsewhere.Template:Cn

Continued relevance

In 1977 President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale were Trilaterals. 18 of its members were in the Carter administration, out of 77 in the US.

In 1993 President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore were Trilaterals, as were 20 of their cabinet members.

Within ten days of assuming power, Barack Obama had appointed eleven members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions in his administration, some 12% of the TLC's entire US membership.

Epstein

How did Jeffrey Epstein, a college dropout from Brooklyn with no formal financial qualifications, become a member of one of the world’s most exclusive policy forums?

The conventional explanation is that he donated his way in. This is too convenient, and it does not survive scrutiny.

The Trilateral Commission is strictly invitation-only. According to its own documentation, membership is determined by “economic weight and political influence.” The US group receives only five to ten openings per year, selected from “a list of candidates many times larger than the number of openings.” Members include former prime ministers, central bank chiefs, Fortune 500 executives, and senior diplomats. Britannica describes them as “influential politicians; banking and business executives; media, civic, and intellectual leaders.”

Jeffrey Epstein was none of these things. He was a college dropout whose only documented billionaire client was Leslie Wexner. He had no verifiable business model justifying his wealth. The suggestion that he simply wrote a cheque and received membership insults the intelligence of anyone familiar with how elite institutions actually function.

Fortunately, we do not need to speculate. Epstein explained it himself.

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David Rockefeller recruited Jeffrey Epstein

In an interview with Steve Bannon, Epstein described precisely how he gained entry to the network. The account is worth quoting at length because it reveals not merely how one man was admitted, but how the entire recruitment system operates.

Epstein recounted being invited onto the board of Rockefeller University in the late 1980s: “There was a money manager who said Rockefeller needs someone with financial expertise because the university is growing… I met with Nancy Kissinger and a bunch of other people, and David Rockefeller and I got along very well.”

Bannon pressed him: “How did a schmuck like you get on the board of Rockefeller? What year was that?… That’s one of the most prestigious research places in the world. How did a guy like you get on the board, a blueblood, internationally known… Nobel Prize winners all over the place? How do they pick a guy like you, a trader from, or basically some guy from Bear Stearns?”

Epstein’s answer was revealing. He explained that “up until the mid 80s or sort of early mid 70s, the most important thing was your name. If you were a Rockefeller, you were already considered to be brilliant. If you were a head of General Motors, it was your reputation. It was who you knew, who your family was.” But then came calculators, and then computers, and suddenly “the most important parts of business were really now going to calculations.”

Institutions like Rockefeller “needed someone to say, look, we are entering a different world with numbers.”

In other words: Epstein was recruited because he was useful.

What happened next is even more significant. In Epstein’s telling, David Rockefeller began to explain “world politics” to him. And then came the invitation.

“He formed something called the Trilateral Commission,” Epstein told Bannon. “The Trilateral Commission is some spooky stuff. People said it was something the people that the Illuminati and there’s some mystery about it, people that ran the world…”

Epstein then recounted Rockefeller’s explanation of the Commission’s purpose: “David said most countries, the politicians get elected for four years or eight years, separate from the royal families in England or in the Middle East. Someone’s there for four years and then they’re not there anymore. The most important people to have stability and consistency would be businessmen. So he formed this Trilateral Commission of businessmen and politicians from three major continents.”

Here, in Epstein’s own words, is the Commission’s operating philosophy: elected politicians are temporary; businessmen provide continuity; therefore businessmen should coordinate policy across national boundaries.

Rockefeller then asked the young Epstein: “Would you like to be on the Trilateral Commission?”

Epstein was, by his own account, thirty to thirty-two years old. “I looked at the list of people and that was Bill Clinton, former President of the United States. Paul Volcker, every great leader in America, the Asians, the Japanese, and with a very long description of the history.”

When asked to provide a biography for the Commission’s records, Epstein wrote: “Jeffrey Epstein, comma, just a good kid.”

“Which I thought was funny,” he told Bannon. “Nobody else did.”

This account demolishes the “donation” narrative. Epstein did not buy his way in. He was personally recruited by David Rockefeller because he possessed skills the network required.

Only 18 places for Italians

In a 2014 interview, Carlo Secchi, the President of the Italian branch of the Commission, explained that "We try to bring together the best and it happens that the best are also called to lead Italy. After Romano Prodi there was an interruption, but then Mario Monti, illustrious European regent, followed, and let's not forget Enrico Letta and Marta Dassù. As you can understand they come fishing to us, then sometimes they come back. There are only 18 places for Italians. Even if our club has expanded to China and India, as well as America, Europe and Japan...We seek to facilitate the dialogue between economics and politics in order to match the interest between institutions and money." at the question "It is not very democratic", he replied "The planet needs reform, and reforms is made together."

EIR

A 1985 Executive Intelligence Review analysis pointed to its coordinating influence in banking and insurance:

The Commission is not a "secret society ," nor is there need for "mystification"; its' members are well-known: and some of their activities are not hidden from the public eye, even if we can be sure, 95%-plus of what really matters passes through sanctified and "secure" private communication channels. But indeed, the Commission is a "conspiracy," in the sense of providing a critical vehicle for the political, financial, and "think-tank" representatives and servants of the leading feudalist families of Western Europe to coordinate policies along identifiable and coherent lines. The members of the European branch of the Commission, as individuals and as representatives of institutons, control the flow of billions of dollars on the world financial markets. Ensconced in key positions in banking, insurance, and the news media, they serve as a vehicle for the oligarchical families of Europe to wage war against the nation-state.

Members

The membership list here contains the members from 1978, 1993, the 2020 member list published by the Trilateral Commission itself,, 2022 and some miscellaneous known members. With some coming and some going (around ten added and ten going each year), the known membership is somewhat complete, but will still have gaps. Some are added from 2003, 2011 Nicola Sturgeon attended a Trilateral meeting.

In 2023, Declassified revealed that while he was Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer served on the Trilateral Commission alongside two former heads of the CIA without telling Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn — who would have blocked it.

Failed Call for Investigation

In 1980, congressman Larry McDonald introduced American Legion National Convention Resolution 773 to the House of Representatives calling for a comprehensive congressional investigation into the Council on Foreign Relations and Trilateral Commission, but nothing came of it. McDonald was killed in 1983 aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007. EIR interviewed James Lee Clingan in 1986; he introduced a similar resolution in the Indiana House and acknowledged the resolution from the American Legion, which by his account was decided upon in 1981.