"GLF membership constitutes a vast pool of individual experience and collective wisdom readily available, in confidence and with discretion, to the national leadership of democratic countries in search of objective assessment and appropriate solutions to serious economic, social & political challenges faced."

Cassam Uteem,
GLF Member

 

"GLF brings together a pool of vast experience, acquired from diverse backgrounds, which can enable it to make a unique contribution in building one world where peace, freedom and social justice prevail.”

PJ Patterson,
GLF Member

Our Members

FW de Klerk, Chairman
President, Republic of South Africa 1989-94


Joe Clark, Vice Chairman
Prime Minister, Canada 1979-80
Secretary of State for External Affairs 1984-1991


Ketumile Masire
President, Republic of Botswana 1980-1998


António Mascarenhas Monteiro
President, Cape Verde 1991-2001


Fidel Valdez Ramos
President, Republic of the Philippines 1992-98


Cassam Uteem
President, Mauritius 1992-2002


Kaspar Villiger
President, Swiss Confederation 1995 & 2002


Pascal Couchepin
President, Swiss Confederation 2003 & 2008


Abdul Karim al-Eryani
Prime Minister, Yemen 1980-83 & 1998-2001


Moustapha Niasse
Prime Minister, Senegal 1983 & 2000-01


Michel Rocard
Prime Minister, France 1988-91


Anand Panyarachun
Prime Minister, Thailand 1991-92


P.J. Patterson
Prime Minister, Jamaica 1992-2006

Armen Sarkissian
Prime Minister, Armenia 1996-97


I.K. Gujral
Prime Minister, India 1997-98


Javier Solana
Secretary General, Council of the European Union 1999-2009
Secretary General, NATO 1995-1999
Foreign Minister, Spain 1992-1995


Hans van den Broek
Foreign Minister of the Netherlands 1982-93
Member European Commission 1993-99


Lakhdar Brahimi
Foreign Minister, Algeria 1991-93
UN Special Adviser to the Secretary-General 2004-05


Gareth Evans
Foreign Minister, Australia 1988-96
President and CEO of the International Crisis Group 2000-09


Enrique Iglesias
Foreign Minister, Uruguay, 1985-1988
President of the Inter-American Development Bank 1988-2005

Lord Patten of Barnes
Governor of Hong Kong 1992-97
Member European Commission 2000-04



Baroness Chalker of Wallasey
UK Minister of Overseas Development 1989-97


Chester A. Crocker
US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs 1981-89


Elisabeth Rehn
UN Under-Secretary-General, SRSG in Bosnia and Herzegovina 1998-99; UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights 1995-97
Finnish Minister of Defence 1990-95 and Equality Affairs 1991-95


Álvaro de Soto
UN Under-Secretary-General 1999-2007


Donald F. McHenry
US Ambassador to the UN 1979-81


Thomas Pickering
US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 1997-2000
US Ambassador to the UN 1989-92


Honorary Patrons

Nelson Mandela
Vaclav Havel
George H W Bush
Lech Walesa
Ernesto Zedillo
Helmut Schmidt
Ricardo Lagos
Mike Moore


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