Bilderberg 2006

Bilderberg 2006
http://www.bilderberg.org/2006.htm

Bilderberg lords want rid of 85% of worlds population
19Jun06 - Jocelan Caldwell - Bilderberg site exclusive

What would you think if all of the North-American sports team owners, for instance, met secretly every year where no media were allowed in or to interview any of the participants, where there were armed guards at all the doors and when they exited that meeting, the individuals hid their faces so as not to get photographed and refused to talk to reporters? What would the reaction be? Sports fans - and most everyone else - would be furious! We would wonder what kind of deals were they hatching, what were they plotting and planning that they didn't want the rest of us to know?

Sounds pretty weird, eh? But did you know that recently at a 5-star hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, more than 100 of the world's most wealthy and powerful individuals - called the Bilderbergers or the Illuminati or Synarchists - (and confirmed as including Hilary Clinton, George H.W. Bush, David Rockefeller, Gov. George Pataki of New York, the President of the Federal Reserve Bank, Henry Kissinger and Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, whose family owns Royal Dutch Shell Oil) got together under just such circumstances to discuss the future of not baseball but the world as the rich and powerful want it to look like. At the end of their meeting they covered their faces, ashamed, as they sneaked out to their limousines to the airport.

On Wednesday, June 14th on the nightly "Coast to Coast" radio program from Los Angeles, host George Noory interviewed three men who have been long aware of the Bilderbergers but up until the past few years have been laughed at and dismissed as conspiracy theorists and worse - Jim Mars of Texas, author of "Rule by Secrecy"; Daniel Esheron, author of "The True History of the Bilderberger Club" and Alex Jones author of "Martial Law 911".

They discussed the One World Order the Bilderbergers have been planning for all the rest of us, to include the Canamex Highway which would run straight from Mexico, through the U.S.A. up to Canada with no border inspections; transponders for taxation purposes to be placed in all new automobiles (which has already come up for discussion in the Texas legislature); the U.S.'s future of undefended borders which started only recently when the government backed down on a plan to spend $60 million to update all U.S. ports; a future where the Bilderbergers will appoint all world leaders and return to feudalism and a plan to reduce the world population by 80-90 percent, to name just a few.

How, you may ask, can a group of only about 300 individuals get control over the rest of us? One way is by placing microchips in individuals (recently done by the President of a large American bank to "allow him access to secret vaults and store rooms in his bank"), the International Monetary Fund's Wolfowitz who will control the World Bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, all European banks, the Secretary General of NATO and therefore NATO itself; it includes the Tri-Lateral Commission's plan, already in process, of NAFTA, the Euro Group and to include a group of Asian countries.

Their plans, over the years, have already been witnessed - World War II, the Korean War, starvation of nations, Viet Nam, and the fact that virtually nothing is being done for the Hurricane Katrina victims in New Orleans.

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19Jun06 - American Free Press - Big Surprises at Bilderberg
EVEN POLICE-STATE SECURITY CANNOT SILENCE HONEST MEDIA

By James P. Tucker Jr.
19th June 2006

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/big_surprises_at_bilderberg.html

Bilderberg expects interest rates to rise and many Americans to lose their homes in the months ahead. Meanwhile, they hope they can pressure President Bush to refrain from an all-out invasion of Iran while maintaining oil prices at their current record-high levels of about $70 a barrel.

Timothy Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, predicted rising interest rates and difficulties for families that have obtained adjustable rate mortgages, or “variable” interest rates. Many are likely to lose their homes as rising home mortgage rates add hundreds of dollars to their monthly payments, he said. While most listened solemnly and some expressed concern, one was heard to say, “stupid Americans deserve their fate.”

Many Americans, especially young families, have been buying expensive homes at low but “variable” interest rates. Others have been paying just the interest owed on their homes and not the principal. They are the most vulnerable, Geithner said. Some have paid little or nothing down. Some institutions “lend” buyers the down payment.

When home construction peaks and prices start downward, many will find they owe more on their home than it is worth in the marketplace. They will also find their mortgage—even “interest-only” payments—are unaffordable.

The banks will get the homes back and sell them again.

Again, the term “stupid Americans” was heard among clucks of sympathy or silent indifference. According to one source, no concern was expressed by Allan Hubbard, assistant to President Bush for economic policy.

European Bilderbergers said they would have no part in an invasion of Iran, something Bush says is an “option on the table.” Although NATO is helping by adding 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, expect no help if Iran is invaded, they said. “We will not help you fight a war for Israel,” one said.

Several noted that Israel has had nuclear weapons since at least 1963 and has never signed on to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, so no international inspections are conducted. It was the late George Ball, a charter member of Bilderberg who was No. 2 man in the State Department under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, who first revealed that Israel has nuclear weapons.

“Is it not reasonable that Iran would need such a deterrence against Israel?” an unidentified Bilderberger was heard saying. “If you invade Iran, Israel is your only ally and good luck.” One suggested that “surgical strikes”—but no land invasion—may be tolerated but others said they would be ineffective.

Listeners to this dialogue included Eival Gildy of Israel, head of “coordination and strategy in the office of the prime minister,” and Ziad Abu Amr, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council, president of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations and professor of political science at Birzeit University. Ahmad Chalabi, former deputy prime minister of Iraq and one of the key sources of disinformation about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, was also present.

William Luti, special assistant to Bush for defense policy, and Richard Perle, former high Defense Department official and still a close adviser to Bush, responded that the United States is simply trying to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and make the world “safe.” But, said one European: “How ‘safe’ do you think the world will be if you invade Iran and Iran responds by firing missiles on your ally, Israel? Israel will nuke Iran in response and you will have your ‘proliferation.’”

Robert Zoellick, deputy secretary of state, said it would be necessary to keep the invasion “option” to pressure Iran into agreeing to abandon its nuclear weapons program.

“You’re wrong,” the European answered. “Iran simply refuses to be bullied by the United States. Save us a lot of trouble and forget about invading Iran.” The Americans remained silent.

Bilderberg’s mood was described as “uneasy” when it came to the issue of oil, a discussion followed closely by such oil-rich participants as banker David Rockefeller, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Franco Bernabe, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe.

The “Latin American problem” mixed the issue of oil with Bilderberg’s scheme to expand NAFTA throughout the Western Hemisphere and have it evolve into an “American Union” patterned after the European Union. Hugo Chavez, head of Venezuela, is not only raising taxes on the extraction of oil from his country, he is trying to establish a trade coalition with neighboring nations that would block the expansion of NAFTA by creating the Free Trade Area of the Americas.

Bilderberg’s consensus seemed to be to not force higher oil prices at the moment, but be content with the immense profits enjoyed now.

Chavez’s barrier to NAFTA expansion leaves them moody because establishing an “American Union” is a critical step toward Bilderberg’s goal of establishing the United Nations as a world government.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/big_surprises_at_bilderberg.html
(Issue #26, June 26, 2006)

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Bilderberg 2006 Participant List
Ottawa, Canada
8-11 June 2006

List of participants

Honorary Chairman

B - Davignon, Etienne Vice Chairman, Suez-Tractebel

PNA - Abu-Amr, Ziad Member of the Palestinian Legislative Council; President of the Palestinian Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of Political Science, Birzeit University

P - Aguiar-Branco, José Pedro Former Minister of Justice; Member of Parliament (PSD)

CH - Aigrain, Jacques CEO, Swiss Re

USA - Ajami, Fouad Director, Middle East Studies Program, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University

GR - Alogoskoufis, George Minister of Economy and Finance

TR - Bagis, Egemen Member of Parliament; Poreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister

GB - Balls, Edward Economic Secretary to the Treasury

P - Balsemão, Prancisco Pinto Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister

F - Barnier, Michel Former Minister for Foreign Affairs; Corporate Vice-President, Mérieux Alliance

A - Bartenstein, Martin Minister of Economies and Labour

I - Barnabè, Franco Vice Chariman, Rothschild Europe

S - Bildt, Carl Former Prime Minister

TR - Boyner, Ümit N. Member of the Executive Board, Boyner Holding

F - Bressand, Albert Professor and Managing Director designate, Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

A - Bronner, Oscar Publisher and Editor, Der Standard

GB - Browne, John Group Chief Executive, BP plc

B - Burda, Hubert Publisher and CEO, Hubert Burda Media Holding GmbH & Co. KG

F - Castries, Henri de Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA

E - Cebrián, Juan Luis CEO, PRISA

IRQ - Chalabi, Ahmad Former Deputy Prime Minister

CDN - Clark, Edmund President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group

GB - Clark, Kenneth Member of Parliament

USA - Collins, Timothy C. Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC

F - Collomb, Bertrand Chairman, Lafarge

CDN - Comper, Tony President and CEO, BMO Financial Group

CDN - Crawley, Phillip Publisher and CEO, The Globe and Mail

GR - David, George A. Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.

INT - Dervis, Kemal Administrator, UNDP

F - Descoing, Richard Director, Institut d'Études Politiques

CDN - Desmarais, Jr., Paul CEO, Power Corporation

F - Devedjian, Patrick Member of Parliament

USA - Donilon, Thomas E. Partner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

D - Döpfner, Mathias Chairman of the Board of Management, Axel Springer AG

DK - Eldrup, Anders President, DONG A/S

I - Elkann, John Vice Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.

USA - Feldstein, Martin S. President and CEO, National Bureau of Economic Research

USA - Geithner, Timothy F. President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

USA - Gigot, Paul A. Editor of the Editorial Page, The Wall Street Journal

ISR - Gilady, Eival Head of Coordination and Strategy at the Office of the Prime Minister

IRL - Gleeson, Dermot Chairman, AIB Group

B - Goldschmidt, Pierre Former IAEA Deputy Director General and Former Head of the Department of Safeguards; Visiting Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

A - Gusenbauer, Alfred Parliamentary Leader SPÖ

NL - Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Economics, Leiden University; Former Honorary Secretary General of Bilderberg Meetings

B - Hansen, Jean-Pierre CEO, Suez-Tractebel S.A.

FIN - Heinäluoma, Eero Minister of Finance

USA - Holbrooke, Richard C. Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC

USA - Hubbard, Allan B. Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Director National Economic Council

N - Jensen, Siv Member of Parliament

D - Joffe, Josef Publisher-Editor, Die Zeit

USA - Johnson, James A. Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC

USA - Jordan, Jr., Vernon E. Senior Managing Director, Lazard Frères & Co. LLC

GB - Kaletsky, Anatole Editor at Large, The Times

F - Kerdrel, Yves de Editor, Le Figaro

GB - Kerr of Kinlochard, John Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc

USA - Kimsey, James V. Founding CEO and Chairman Emeritus, America Online, Inc.

USA - Kissinger, Henry A. Chairman, Kissinger Associates

NL - Kleisterlee, Gerard J. President and CEO, Royal Philips Electronics

TR - Koç, Mustafa V. Chariman, Koç Holding A.S.

TR - Köprülü, Kemal Founding Chairman, ARI Movement

FIN - Korkman, Sixten Managing Director, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy ETLA and Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA

TR - Koru, Fehmi Senior Writer, Yeni Safek

CDN - Koss, Johann O. President and CEO, Right To Play

USA - Kravis, Henry R. Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.

USA - Kravis, Marie-Josée Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.

INT - Kroes, Neelie Commissioner, European Commission

INT - Kronenburg, Ed Director of the Private Office, NATO Headquarters

CH - Kudelski, André Chairman of the Board and CEO, Kudelski Group

F - Lauvergeon, Anne Chairman of the Executive Board, AREVA

E - Leòn Gross, Bernardino Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

B - Lippens, Maurice Chairman, FORTIS

CDN - Lloyd, Ronald S. Chairman and CEO, Credit Suisse First Boston

USA - Luti, William J. Special Assistant to the President for Defense Policy and Strategy, National Security Council

USA - Mathews, Jessica T. President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

CDN - McKenna, Frank Deputy Chair, Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group

USA - Medish, Mark C. Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

F - Montbrial, Thierry de President, French Institute for International Relations

INT - Monti, Mario President, Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi

USA - Mundie, Craig J. Chief Technical Officer Advanced Strategies and Policy, Microsoft Corporation

N - Myklebust, Egil Chairman of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA

D - Nass, Matthias Deputy Editor, Die Zeit

NL - Netherlands, M.H. the Queen of The

CDN - Nickerson, Ken iBinary Corp

CDN - Nixon, Gordon President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada

N - Norvik, Harald Chairman & Partner, ECON Management AS

IRL - O'Brien, Denis Chairman, Communicorp Group Ltd.

PL - Olechowski, Adnrzej Leader Civic Platform

FIN - Ollila, Jorma Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc

GB - Osborne, George Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer

TR - Özel, Soli Professor of International Relations and Political Sience, Istanbul Bilgi University

I - Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso Minister of Finance

USA - Pataki, George E. Governor of New York State

USA - Pearlstine, Norman Senior Advisor, Time Warner Inc.

USA - Pei, Minxin Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

USA - Perle, Richard N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

D - Pflüger, Friedberg State Secretary of Defence

INT - Piebalgs, Andris Commissioner, European Commission

F - Pinault, François-Henri President, Artemis; Chairman and CEO, PPR Group

CDN - Prichard, J. Robert S. Preisdent, Torstar Corporation

USA - Rattner, Steven Managing Principal, Quadrangle Group LLC

S - Reinfeldt, Fredrik Chairman Conservative Party

CDN - Reisman, Heather Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.

USA - Rockefeller, David Former Member, JP Morgan International Council

E - Rodriguez Inciarte, Matías Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander, Ciudad Grupo Santander

USA - Ross, Dennis B. Director, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

F - Roy, Oliver Senior Researcher, French National Center for Scientific Research

USA - Roy, J. Stapleton Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc.

USA - Sadjapour, Karim Analyst, International Crisis Group

USA - Sant, Roger Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation The Summit Foundation

IRN - Sariolghalam, Mahmood Associate Professor of International Relations, School of Economic and Political Sciences, National University of Iran (Shahid Beheshti)

I - Scaroni, Paolo CEO, Eni S.p.A.

D - Schily, Otto Former Minister of Interior Affairs; Member of Parliament; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs

A - Scholten, Rudolf Member of the Board of Executive Directors, Österreichische Kontrollbank AG

D - Schrempp, Jürgen E. Former Chairman of the Board of Management, DaimlerChrysler AG

D - Schulz, Ekkehard D. Chairman, ThyssenKrupp AG

DK - Seidenfaden, Tøger Executive Editor-in-Chief, Politiken

P - Silva, Augusto Santos Minister for Parliamentary Affairs

USA - Steinberg, James B. Dean, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas

S - Stråberg, Hans President and CEO, AB Electrolux

IRL - Sutherland, Peter D. Chariman, BP plc and Chairman, Goldman Sachs International

I - Tremonti, Giulio Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies

GR - Tsoukalis, Loukas President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

NL - Verhagen, Maxime J.M. Parliamentary Leader, Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA)

USA - Vinocur, John Senior Correspondent, International Herald Tribune

S - Wallenberg, Jacob Chairman, Investor AB

CDN - Waugh, Richard E. President and CEO, Bank of Nova Scotia

NL - Wellink, A.H.E.M. President, De Nederlandsche Bank

GB - Wolf, Martin H. Associate Editor and Economics Conmmentator, The Financial Times

USA - Wolfensohn, James D. Special Envoy for the Gaza Disengagement

USA - Zelikow, Philip D. Counselor of the Department, US Department of State

CHN - Zhang, Yi Deputy Secretary General, China Society for Strategy and Management Research

USA - Zoellick, Robert B. Deputy Secretary of State

D - Zumwinkel, Klaus Chairman of the Board of Management, Deutsche Post AG
Rapporteurs

GB - Bredow, Vendelin von Paris Correspondent, The Economist

GB - Wooldridge, Adrian D. Foreign Correspondent, The Economist



Notes on participants from Fathers.ca

Andrzej Olechowski
Former minister of foreign affairs and finance in his native Poland, where he has frequently been involved in politics since the 1990s. He ran unsuccessfully in the 2000 presidential election and Warsaw's 2002 mayoral race. Mr. Olechowski was a founding member of the centrist Civic Platform party, and is currently a member of the supervisory boards of Vivendi Universal, Citibank Handlowy and PKN Orlen.

Egil Myklebust
Served as president and CEO of Norsk Hydro, a Norwegian oil and gas group that is one of that countries biggest companies, between 1991 and 2001. He then served as Norsk's chairman until 2004 and was also a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. While he is a well-known face in the world's oil and gas industry, Mr. Myklebust is currently chairman of Scandinavian Airlines.

Robert Zoellick
Reports to Condoleeza Rice as the U.S. deputy secretary of state, after serving as the U.S. trade representative from 2001 to 2005. A lawyer, Mr. Zoellick has worked in economic and diplomatic policy development in different Republican administrations for more than two decades. He has a strong reputation for hammering out international trade deals; he played a key role in sealing NAFTA and has been an important player in World Trade Organization talks.

James B. Steinberg
Best known for his work as deputy national security adviser to U.S. president Bill Clinton from 1996 to 2000. After working in government, Mr. Steinberg went on to direct foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington and is now the dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a frequent media commentator on U.S. foreign policy and has written several books on national security topics.

Juan Luis Cebrian
CEO of the Spanish media conglomerate Grupa Prisa, which owns El Pais, a centre-left daily that is the country's leading newspaper. Mr. Cebrian is a former editor at El Pais and has also served as chairman of the International Press Institute. He is also an acclaimed author of books such as Red Doll and the essay collection, The Press and Main Street.

Mario Monti
Dubbed "Super Mario" by the press, is an Italian economist, president of Bocconi University in Milan and chairman of the European think-tank Bruegel. He has most notably served on the European Commission, where he was sometimes called an antitrust czar. Mr. Monti fought against a proposed merger between General Electric and Honeywell in 2001. The European Union eventually blocked that merger, earning criticism from U.S. regulators.

Jean-Pierre Hansen
CEO of energy giants Electrabel, Belgium's top power producer, and Suez-Tractebel, Belgium's top utility holding company and one of the world's biggest independent power producers. Mr. Hansen holds advanced degrees in engineering and economics and has worked in the electricity and gas sectors since the 1970s.

Neelie Kroes
Veteran Dutch politician and businesswoman who has served as European Commissioner for Competition since 2004. Ms. Kroes' appointment to the position was met with some controversy, due to her extensive business contacts. Since assuming her post, Ms. Kroes has been in the middle of Microsoft's on-going dispute with the EU over a 2004 antitrust ruling against the company. Ms. Kroes has also been a staunch ally of controversial Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Franco Bernabe
Vice-chairman of the European investment bank Rothschild Europe, former CEO of the Italian energy giant ENI and a board member of Petro-China. Mr. Bernabe headed ENI's privatization process in the early 90s and was recently quoted as saying the world oil industry remains "uneasy" with the feverish development of Alberta's oilsands near Fort McMurray. Mr. Bernabe also worked as a chief economist at Fiat, and started his career as an academic at Turin University.

David Rockefeller
Founder of the Trilateral Commission, formed in 1973 by citizens of Japan, European Union countries, the U.S. and Canada with the goal of fostering closer co-operation among those regions. Mr. Rockefeller, who has a PhD from the University of Chicago, spent 35 years as an officer of the Chase Manhattan Bank and was chairman and CEO from 1969 to 1980. He serves as honorary chairman of the Americas Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and Rockefeller University.

Frank McKenna
Was Canada's ambassador to the U.S. under prime minister Paul Martin. When Mr. Martin lost the election, Mr. McKenna returned to private life, quickly quelling rumours he would run for the Liberal party leadership. Before his U.S. stint, Mr. McKenna practised law and served on numerous corporate boards. He became New Brunswick's premier in 1987, winning every seat. He served for a decade and created a call centre industry in the resource-based province.

Jorma Ollila
Chairman and CEO of Nokia Corporation for 14 years, from 1992 until this month when he became non-executive chairman of Royal Dutch Shell while hanging on to his Nokia association, also as non-executive chairman. He is the first non-Dutch, non-Briton to head Shell. He took Nokia from a cellphone company on the brink of takeover to the world's most successful. The Finn is a member of the board of directors of Ford Motor Company, and UPM-Kymmene.

Queen Beatrix
...of the Netherlands became queen in 1980 when her mother, Juliana, abdicated. Ottawa is not new to the queen, who moved to the capital in the 1940s, and lived in Stornoway. While there her father and mother Juliana and Bernhard took a trip to Cape Cod just as a German XIb U-Boat carrying the failed Hitler assassination indistrialists and military was arriving off the coast. She went to Rockcliffe Park Public School and her sister, Princess Margriet, was born in Canada. Queen Beatrix, who has a degree in law, married Claus von Amsberg, a German diplomat, in 1966.

Richard Perle
Assistant secretary of defence to U.S. president Ronald Reagan and is still considered influential in the U.S., having advised President George W. Bush. Mr. Perle served as chairman of the Defence Policy Board from 2001-2003 and was assistant secretary of defence for international security policy from 1981 to 1987. His opinions appear regularly in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and London's Daily Telegraph.

James Wolfensohn
As president of the World Bank, walks the fine line between being a banker and an advocate for the world's poor. Born in Australia, he ended up on Wall Street via London, eventually founding a banking firm with former head of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Paul Volker. Today, he is credited with working to return the World Bank to its original mandate of relieving poverty.

Etienne Davignon
Former Belgian politician and president of the annual Bilderberg conference. Mr. Davignon was born in Hungary and quickly established a name for himself in business and politics. He was the first president of the International Energy Agency from 1974-77 and at the age of 32, he became head of cabinet. Between 1977 and 1985, he was an influential member of the European Commission. In 1989, he joined the board of the Societe Generale de Belgique.

John Vinocur
Senior correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and reports on everything from politics to sports. He went to the Tribune from the New York Times, where he was metropolitan editor. He served as the Times' bureau chief in France and Germany. He went to the Tribune as executive editor and served as the newspaper's vice-president from 1986-96. He writes for Foreign Affairs and the New York Times Magazine.

Adrian Wooldridge
The Economist's Washington bureau chief. Prior to this, he was the magazine's west coast correspondent, and also held positions as its management correspondent and its correspondent in Britain. He co-wrote The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea, and A Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation, Witch Doctors, and The Right Nation, a look at American conservatism.

Vernon Jordan
A Washington insider, Mr. Jordan chaired the Clinton transition team in 1992. He started his public life through the civil rights movement in the 1960s, working for the NAACP, and served as executive director of the United Negro College Fund and National Urban League in the 1970s. The lawyer is a managing director with the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Co. LLC and is on several boards, including American Express and Dow Jones & Company.

Tony Comper
Has been chief executive officer of BMO Financial Group since 1999. In his three decades with BMO, he served as chairman from 1999 to 2004, when the company moved to a non-executive chairman model. He first signed on with the bank in 1967, after completing a BA in English. Mr. Comper is a member of the board of directors of the International Monetary Conference and vice-chairman of the C.D. Howe Institute.

Dermot Gleeson
Chairman of Allied Irish Banks, is a lawyer. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and chairman of the Irish Council for Bioethics and is the former attorney general of Ireland. He also served as a member of the Council of State for Ireland and as then-Irish prime minister John Bruton's chief legal adviser from 1994-97. He joined the board of Allied Irish Banks in 2000 and was appointed chairman in 2003.