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

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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  Member of the Board, Petroplus Holdings, Switzerland 
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

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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. 
Jan Egeland
Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs; Former UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
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 ReynoldsPresident and CEO, Canaccord Financial Inc.; Vice-Chair, Global Head of Canaccord Genuity 
Güler SabancıChairperson, 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 AhtisaariFormer President of Finland

George J. Mitchell
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader

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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.