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. The leadership of the organization has since focused on returning to "our roots as a group of countries sharing common values and a commitment to the rule of law,open economies and societies,and democratic principles".
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),officially the John F. Kennedy School of Government,is the school of public policy and government of Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts. The school offers master's degrees in public policy,public administration,and international development,four doctoral degrees,and various executive education programs. It conducts research in subjects relating to politics,government,international affairs,and economics. As of 2021,HKS had an endowment of $1.7 billion. It is a member of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA),a global consortium of schools that trains leaders in international affairs.
The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington,D.C. It grants degrees at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
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.
The School of International Service (SIS) is American University's school of advanced international study,covering areas such as international politics,international communication,international development,international economics,peace and conflict resolution,international law and human rights,global environmental politics,and U.S. foreign policy.
Chan Heng Chee is a Singaporean academic and diplomat who has been serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2012,Chairwoman of the National Arts Council and Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. She had also served as Singapore Ambassador to the United States between 1996 and 2012.
The School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) is the international affairs and public policy school of Columbia University,a private Ivy League university located in Morningside Heights,Manhattan,New York City. SIPA offers Master of International Affairs (MIA) and Master of Public Administration (MPA) degrees in a range of fields,as well as the Executive MPA and PhD program in Sustainable Development.
Donna Jean Hrinak is an American lawyer and former diplomat who has been the president of Boeing Latin America &Caribbean since September 2011.
The Elliott School of International Affairs is the professional school of international relations,foreign policy,and international development of the George Washington University,in Washington,D.C. It is highly ranked in international affairs and is the largest school of international relations in the United States.
David Isaac Adelman is an American businessman,lawyer and diplomat. He was the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from April 2010 to September 2013. Adelman is the Managing Director and General Counsel of asset manager Krane Funds Advisors in New York. He is a Trustee of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. For more than a decade he has taught international relations as an adjunct professor at New York University.Adelman's official papers are part of the collection at the Richard B. Russell Library at the University of Georgia. In 2016,in recognition of his public service the State of Georgia dedicated a bridge as the Ambassador David Adelman Bridge on State Highway 42. Adelman is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel-Asia Center.
Randolph Bruce Mank is a global business executive and a three-time former Canadian ambassador. He founded MankGlobal Inc. consultancy in 2015.
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy is the graduate school of international affairs of Tufts University,in Medford,Massachusetts. Fletcher is one of America's oldest graduate schools of international relations. As of 2017,the student body numbered around 230,of whom 36 percent were international students from 70 countries,and around a quarter were U.S. minorities.
Hasjim Djalal is a former Indonesian Ambassador to Germany,Canada,and the United Nations.
David Lee Carden is an American lawyer,diplomat,mediator and author who is a former United States Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. He was nominated by President Barack Obama in November 2010 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March,2011. He resigned his post in December 2013. Carden was a partner at Jones Day,an international law firm,where he was,at various times,the Partner in Charge of the firm's Asian offices and practices,the head of its International Securities practice,and the head of Litigation in its New York office.
The US-ASEAN Business Council is an advocacy group that aims to foster economic growth and trade ties between the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s ten member countries. It is the only U.S.-based organization enshrined in the ASEAN charter. Headquartered in Washington,DC,the Council has offices in New York City,Indonesia,Malaysia,Philippines,Singapore,Thailand,Vietnam,and Myanmar. The Council represents more than 170 of the largest US corporations.
Theodore George Osius III is an American diplomat and the former United States Ambassador to Vietnam.
Nina Lucine Hachigian is an American diplomat currently serving as the first U.S. Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy under Antony Blinken in the Biden administration. In this role,she seeks to bring benefits to,and learn from,local leaders in the U.S.,and connect them to counterparts around the world.
Jovan Jovanović is a Serbian politician and diplomat. He has served in the National Assembly of Serbia since 2016,originally with the reformist It's Enough –Restart association and later with the Civic Platform. Jovanovićwas previously Serbia's ambassador to Indonesia and several other countries in Southeast Asia.
David Nathan Merrill is an American retired diplomat who served as the ambassador of the United States to Bangladesh.
Daniel Luke Shields III is a retired American Ambassador. In 2017,he temporarily served as the Chargéd'affaires ad interim of the United States to ASEAN. Prior to that,he joined the United States Army War College to act as diplomatic advisor since 2015.
