Prime Min. Gro Brundtland

Political Leader

Norway

Former Prime Minister Gro Brundtland, a medical doctor and master of public health, served for 20 years in public office in Norway, including ten years as prime minister. In the 1980s, she gained international respect for her policy work, championing the principle of sustainable development as the chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development (the “Brundtland Commission”). Currently, she serves as a commissioner on the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament, co-chaired by Gareth Evans of Australia and Yoriko Kawaguchi of Japan. She is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders and Club of Madrid. She is also deputy chair of The Elders, an eminent group of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges.

Rt. Hon. Lord Menzies Campbell

Political Leader

United Kingdom

The Right Honorable the Lord Campbell of Pittenweem CH CBE QC is a member of the House of Lords, serving as spokesperson for defence. He was a long-time member of Parliament of the United Kingdom until 2015, serving on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee and the Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. Campbell was knighted in 2004 for services to Parliament, and in 2006 was elected chancellor of the University of St. Andrews. He is also a founding member of Parliament’s Top Level Group, which promotes nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.

Pres. Fernando H. Cardoso

Political Leader

Brazil

President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was president of Brazil from 1995 to 2002, winning successive elections in the first round by an absolute majority. Cardoso was president when Brazil, in an important move, acceded to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1998. A scholar by training, he earned a doctorate in sociology at the University of São Paulo and was president of the International Sociological Association.

Cardoso is a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University, and was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He is a member of The Elders, an eminent group of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges. In 2013, he became a member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.

Pres. Jimmy Carter

Political Leader

United States

Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States. Significant foreign policy accomplishments of his administration include the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, the treaty of peace between Egypt and Israel, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) II treaty negotiated with the Soviet Union and the establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with China.

Since his presidency, Carter has championed human rights around the world, founding the Carter Center and working to ensure the integrity of numerous elections worldwide. He is a frequent volunteer for the housing charity Habitat for Humanity and was the 2002 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for his international work. Carter is a member of The Elders, an eminent group of world leaders working to address difficult global challenges.

Min. Hervé de Charette

Political Leader

France

Hervé de Charette served as French minister of foreign affairs from 1995 to 1997 and minister of housing from 1993 to 1995, and has worked in several other ministries within the French government. Charette co-founded the People’s Party for French Democracy (PPDF) in 1986. From 1988 to 2012, he served as deputy for the Maine-et-Loire département, and from 1989 to 2014, he was mayor of Saint-Florent-le-Vieil. He is currently the president of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce and the French Institute of Islamic Finance.

Mr. Chen Haosu

Political Leader

China

Chen Haosu has led a host of Chinese non-governmental organizations focused on fostering international cooperation, including the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the Sino-Russian Friendship Association, and the China-EU Association. Previously, he was vice-minister of radio, film, and television, vice mayor of the Beijing municipality, and a researcher at the People’s Liberation Army Military Academy of Sciences. He graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China and was secretary of the China Youth League Central Committee.

Prime Min. Joe Clark

Political Leader

Canada

Charles ‘Joe’ Clark served as prime minister of Canada from 1979 to 1980. Prior to his political career, Clark taught political science at the University of Alberta and worked as a journalist. He was first elected to Parliament in 1972, and was the youngest Canadian ever to win the prime minister position. He has also served as the special representative of the United Nations secretary-general for Cyprus and as secretary of state for external affairs. He was the chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on Southern Africa and was active in the struggle to end apartheid.

Clark has been a visiting scholar at American University and the University of California-Berkeley and is a founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves as the vice chairman of the Global Leadership Foundation and as Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships at the Institute for the Study of International Development at McGill University. In 2013, Clark published the book “How We Lead: Canada in a Century of Change.”

Prime Min. Massimo D’Alema

Political Leader

Italy

Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema is an influential Italian politician, chairman of Fondazione Italianieuropei and a member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies. He was vice prime minister and minister of foreign affairs in the second Prodi government from 2006 to 2008, prime minister from 1998 to 2000, and a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2006.