The Trilateral Commission is a nongovernmental international organization aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan,Western Europe and North America. It was founded in July 1973 principally by American banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller,an internationalist who sought to address the challenges posed by the growing economic and political interdependence between the U.S. and its allies in North America,Western Europe,and Japan.
Jamie S. Gorelick is an American lawyer who served as the Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1994 to 1997,during the Clinton administration. She has been a partner at WilmerHale since 2003 and has served on the board of directors of Amazon since February 2012.
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington,D.C. with campuses in Bologna,Italy and Nanjing,China.
Eugene Benton Sperling is an American lawyer who was director of the National Economic Council and assistant to the president for economic policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. He is the only person to serve as national economic advisor under two presidents. Outside of government,he founded the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution in 2002.
Stavros Lambrinidis is a Greek lawyer and politician who has been the ambassador of the European Union to the United States since March 2019. He was previously the European Union special representative for human rights from 2012 to 2019 and Minister for Foreign Affairs in Greece from June 2011 to November 2011.
Clayland Boyden Gray was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as White House Counsel from 1981 to 1993 and as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2006 to 2007. He was a founding partner of the Washington,D.C.–based law firm Boyden Gray &Associates LLP.
William Earl Kennard is an American attorney and former government official. Kennard served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1997 to 2001 under President Bill Clinton,and was the first African American to lead the agency. In 2009,Kennard was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as Ambassador to the European Union,serving until 2013.
Robert Michael Kimmitt was United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. He was nominated by President Bush on June 29,2005. The United States Senate unanimously confirmed him on July 29,2005,and he was sworn into office on August 16,2005. Kimmitt served through the end of the Bush administration,leaving office on January 20,2009.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP,also known as Hale &Dorr and WilmerHale,is an international law firm with offices in the United States,Europe and Asia. It is co-headquartered in Washington,D.C.,and Boston. It was formed in 2004 through the merger of the Boston-based firm Hale and Dorr and the Washington-based,firm Wilmer Cutler &Pickering,and employs more than 1,000 attorneys worldwide.
Wendy Nicole Duong,née Dương NhưNguyện,is the first Vietnamese-American to hold judicial office in the United States. In 1992,she was appointed Associate Municipal Judge for the City of Houston and Magistrate for the State of Texas. She was then honored by the American Bar Association in New York City as among “Pioneer Women of Color in the Judiciary.”After serving a three-year term,she resigned to become an international lawyer for Mobil Corporation - Asia-Pacific. In 2001,she joined the faculty of University of Denver,Sturm College of Law,as a corporate law and international business transactions professor. A Fulbright Core Program Legal Scholar to Asia and Fulbright Legal Specialist to Russia,Duong also combined her legal career with novel writing,and was scouted by the publishing division of Amazon,Inc.,which published her historical fiction trilogy featuring Vietnam’s decolonization,the fall of Saigon,immigrant life,and women’s themes. The third novel,Mimi and Her Mirror,won the Multicultural Fiction International Book Award in 2012. She currently practices law in Houston and writes full-time.
Roberto Dañino is a Peruvian lawyer who was a former Prime Minister of Peru. He was also the Peruvian Ambassador to the United States and the Senior Vice President and General Counsel of The World Bank. He has practiced corporate law for several decades and was the Chairman of the Latin American practice of leading law firms in the United States and Perú. He has also served on the boards of various corporations and nonprofit organizations in Peru,the United States,Canada,South Africa,Spain,and the United Kingdom. Currently,he is a member of various corporate boards and philanthropic entities in Peru and the USA. He is also a member of the international advisory boards of Goldman Sachs,NTT Data,Albright Stonebridge Group and Inversiones Centenario. He was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru in 2003,which is the highest honor bestowed on a Peruvian citizen.
Nancy LeaMond currently serves as AARP's Chief Advocacy and Engagement Officer. She leads government relations and campaigns for AARP,widely seen as one of the most powerful advocacy organizations in the country. She also oversees AARP's public education and outreach initiatives designed to help Americans take charge of their health and better plan,work,and save for retirement. She was formerly CEO/President for five years of the Congressional Economic Leadership Institute,a public policy group founded in 1987 to identify and research emerging international economic,trade,technology,tax and workforce issues.
David Isaac Adelman is an American lawyer,businessman and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong. He was an Independent Non-Executive Director of Noble Group Holdings for approximately three years after the company's 2018 restructuring. He was a senior advisor to Israel-focused indexing firm BlueStar Indexes prior to its sale to Van Eck in 2020. He is an Advisor to private equity firms Olympus Capital and Ion Pacific. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Climate Finance Partners. Adelman is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor at New York University.
Kenneth Ian Juster is a veteran American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021. He is currently senior counselor at the global law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer,senior adviser at the institutional investor CDPQ,strategic adviser at the software company Salesforce,and distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Julissa Reynoso Pantaleón is a Dominican-American attorney and diplomat who is the United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra. Most recently,she was the chief of staff to First Lady Jill Biden. She formerly served as a litigation and international arbitration partner with the international law firm Winston &Strawn LLP. She was previously a partner with Chadbourne &Parke LLP,practicing in the firm's International Arbitration and Latin America groups. Reynoso is also affiliated with the faculty at Columbia University School of Law and the School of International and Public Affairs. From March 2012 until December 2014,she served as United States Ambassador to Uruguay. She is a former deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs at the United States Department of State. President Biden nominated her to be the next United States Ambassador to Spain on July 27,2021,being confirmed on December 18,2021.
The US–China Education Trust is a non-profit organization based in Washington D.C. Founded in 1998 by Ambassador Julia Chang Bloch,the first Chinese-American U.S. Ambassador,USCET seeks to promote China–United States relations through a series of education and exchange programs. The organization sponsors a variety of fellowships,conferences,workshops and exchanges,focused primarily on strengthening Chinese academic institutions related to the fields of American Studies,Media and Journalism,American Governance,and International Relations.
Daniel M. Gallagher,Jr. is an American lawyer in private practice who served as a Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2011 to 2015. Gallagher was appointed to the SEC by President Barack Obama. He also previously served as the deputy director and co-acting director of the Division of Trading and Markets.
Karan Krishna Bhatia is an American attorney and former senior official in the Bush administration. He currently leads public policy and government relations for Google. He served as the deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 2005 to 2007,credited with leading the negotiation of the United States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. Additional appointments include Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Aviation and International Affairs where he served from 2003 to 2005 and deputy under secretary of commerce for industry and security from 2001 to 2003. He served a total of six years in the Bush Administration before returning to the private sector in 2008 to lead government affairs for General Electric.
Nina Lucine Hachigian is the first United States Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy under U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in the Biden administration. In this role,she seeks to bring benefits to,and learn from,local leaders in the US,and connect them to counterparts around the world.
Margaret C. Sullivan is a former Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Before she joined the Obama administration,she served as Director of Political Risk Management at Farallon Capital Management,a large investment firm based in San Francisco,California.
