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On this page we include brief profiles - at May 27 - of those who have agreed to join our June Windsor Forum, organised jointly with the New Atlantic Initiative. This Forum is now very nearly fully booked, and we are delighted that we have been able to draw together such a high calibre group.
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Our Special Guest: John Bolton
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Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, who serves as Senior Adviser to the U.S. President and the Secretary of State for Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament. The Under Secretary leads the inter-agency policy process on non-proliferation and manages global U.S. security policy, principally in the areas of non-proliferation, arms control, regional security and defence relations, and arms transfers and security assistance.
Previous government positions he has held include Assistant Secretary for International Organisation Affairs at the Department of State, 1989-1993, and Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, 1985-1989. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Bolton was Senior Vice-President of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
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Vice-President, Global Business Environment in Shell International Limited, and Head of Shell's Scenarios Team. He has been a scenario practitioner for over 20 years in the Royal Dutch/ Shell Group, engaged in the building and use of scenarios at the country, industry and global level. He has wide experience in leading multi-disciplinary scenario teams addressing longer-term global developments.
Ged is a member of the Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa and is Director of the 'AIDS in Africa' scenario project. From 1997 to 2000 he was facilitator and a lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Emissions scenarios.
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Dr. Tim Evans
President and Director General of Europe's "leading, Brussels-based, free market think tank", the Centre for the New Europe - www.cne.org. A keen advocate of market-based solutions, he has an extensive record in promoting private sector reforms and libertarian ideas worldwide.
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In the late 1980s, Tim was the Assistant Director of the Foundation for Defence Studies. In 1991 he was appointed as the Chief Economic and Political Adviser to the Slovak Prime Minister, and was Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit. Before becoming President of the Centre for the New Europe, he was Executive Director of Public Affairs at the Independent Healthcare Association in London, between 1993 and early 2002. He is the author of numerous books, monographs and articles.
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Special assistant to the U.S. President for economic speechwriting, 2001-2002, and is currently a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, researching the Bush Administration and U.S. and Canadian national politics. Author of The Right Man: the Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush (January 2003), and also of Dead Right (1994) and What's Right, a 1996 collection of essays which prompted the Wall Street Journal to dub him "one of the leading political commentators of his generation".
David is a Contributing Editor of the Weekly Standard and a columnist on the National Post. Before joining the staff of the White House, he was a senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for 7 years.
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A Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation Davis Institute for International Studies, where he is Head of their UN programme. His main focus is on UK/U.S. and EU/U.S. security policy, and the role of Britain and the European Union in the U.S.-led alliance against international terrorism. Prior to joining Heritage, he was Foreign Policy Researcher for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and assisted with her latest book Statecraft: Strategies for a Changing World.
Nile received his Ph.D. in British imperial history from Yale University in 1998, and received several academic awards, including the International Security Studies Smith Richardson Foundation Fellowship, the David Gimbel Fellowship and the Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship.
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Helped to set up the Centre for European Reform in 1996, as an independent think-tank dedicated to improving the quality of the British debate on the European Union, and has been its Director since 1998. He is the author of several CER publications, and recently won first prize (with Steven Everts) in the Foreign Policy Association Essay Competition for an essay on The U.S. and the EU: Transatlantic Drift or Common Destiny.
Charles is also a member of the Board of the British Council, and the Committee for Russia in a United Europe, as well as Chairman of the Council of Experts of the Moscow School of Political Studies. Before establishing CER he wrote for the Economist from 1986 to 1998, becoming its defence editor in 1994.
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Dame Janne Haaland Matlary
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Leader of the governing Christian Democratic Party's Foreign Policy Committee, and former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Norway from 1997-2000. Apart from her daily leadership functions in the Ministry, she was responsible for security policy, especially the Norwegian chairmanship of the OSCE in 1999, and the crisis in the Balkans; the Norwegian campaign for membership of the UN Security Council, and international human rights negotiations.
Janne is currently Professor and Head of International Politics at the University of Oslo, and a member of the Government committee to develop ethical investment guidelines for the large Norwegian petroleum fund. Author of When Reason and faith meet, she is a member of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and in 2001 became the second woman in the history of the Holy See to be named by the Pope to head an international delegation.
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An international marketing and strategic planning consultant to major U.S. companies in the aerospace and defence sectors, and a member of several international corporate boards. A former Director of the United Nations Information Centre, she has served as the Secretary General's representative in Washington, as well as in senior positions at the United States Information Agency and the White House National Security Council.
Phyllis has also served as a Presidential appointee to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and a Board member of the International Republican Institute. She has just completed a White House assignment as a public delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission 59th session in Geneva.
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Former New Zealand Ambassador to the United Nations, and a member of the UN Security Council from 1993-94. He was Chair of a UN General Assembly High-Level Group to consider UN reform from 1995-96, and in 2002 was invited by Kofi Annan to join his External Advisory Group to review UN reform initiatives. He is a former Secretary of Justice for New Zealand, International Legal Adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
Colin is currently a Partner in the New Zealand law firm, Chen Palmer & Partners, which specialises in public and international law. He has been recognised as a leading advocate for human rights over many years, and earned international recognition for his strategies to force action on issues such as the genocide in Rwanda.
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Member of Parliament for Hartlepool since 1992. Secretary of State for Northern Ireland between 1999-2001, Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in 1998 and previously Minister without Portfolio in the Cabinet Office between 1997-98.
Prior to his Ministerial appointments, he was Tony Blair's Election Campaign Director in the May 1997 election that brought Labour to power.
Peter is Chair of the Policy Network, a European think-tank, which is currently organising an International Summit on Progressive Governance in London in July 2003, for the national leaders of progressive centre-left governments across the world. He is also Chairman of the UK-Japan Group, which fosters good relations between the two countries.
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Editor of the London Daily Telegraph for the past six years.
Profile to follow.
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Dame Pauline Neville-Jones
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A former career member of the British Diplomatic Service serving, among other places, in Singapore, Washington DC, and the European Commission in Brussels and Bonn. A Foreign Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister John Major, Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee in Whitehall (1991-94) and, as Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, leader of the British delegation to the Dayton peace conference on Bosnia in 1995.
Dame Pauline is currently Chairman of QinetiQ Group plc, Chairman of the Information Assurance Advisory Council and the International Governor of the BBC with responsibility, among other things, for external broadcasting, notably the BBC World Service and BBC World.
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The founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, which was formally launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996 as an international bipartisan effort dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies.
Currently editor-in-chief of United Press International, and Editor-at-Large of National Review, having been its Editor from 1988 to 1997.
His previous posts have included Special Adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Associate Editor of the London Times, Assistant Editor of the London Daily Telegraph and Editor of Policy Review. He lectures on British and American politics, and his articles are published in a wide range of newspapers and journals.
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Richard Perle
A member of the Defence Policy Board, and Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he researches defence intelligence, national security, Europe, the Middle East and the Russian region.
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He was former Assistant Secretary of Defence between 1981 and 1987, responsible for international security policy. From 1969 to 1980 he was a member of the staff of the US Senate.
Among his other activities, Richard is also Chairman of Hollinger Digital and a Director of the Jerusalem Post. He is well-known internationally as a political opinion-leader and commentator.
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A Professor of government at Cornell University, where he specialises in international law, American constitutional law and the history of political thought. He is the author of Why Sovereignty Matters (1998). Photograph to follow.
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British Ambassador to Egypt since September 2001, recently appointed as the Prime Minister's envoy to Iraq and due to take over at the end of June as Political Director in the Foreign Office. From early 1999 until the summer of 2001 he worked in 10 Downing Street, as Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to the PM. Before then, from 1996-99, he was in the British Embassy in Washington, liaising with the Administration and Congress on foreign and defence policy.
John was Principal Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd from late 1992 until the summer of 1995, when we went to Harvard University for a year as an International Fellow.
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Executive Director of the New Atlantic Initiative, and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. A former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, from 1998 to 2001, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Polish Solidarity Party from 1999 to 2002, and Deputy Minister of Defence of Poland (in 1992). His research areas in the New Atlantic Initiative include NATO, alliance politics, the UN, Eastern Europe, missile defence, Afghanistan and Angola.
Radek was a political refugee from Poland, mainly living in the UK, from 1981 to 1989. From 1986 to 1989 he was a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola, becoming a roving correspondent for the National Review from 1988 to 1998, and News Corp representative in Poland from 1989 to 1992.
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Policy Director at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) since July 2001. He has previously held a number of senior positions in the Ministry, including that of Director-General for Operational Policy, dealing with politico-military aspects of military operations worldwide. During the Falklands war, Simon was Private Secretary to the Permanent Secretary of the MoD. In the late 1980s he was a Minister at the British Embassy in Washington DC, before becoming Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Defence from 1989 to 1992.
(photograph to follow)
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for the New World Order Forum
Peter Ashby
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Director of the New World Order Forum, a Fellow of St. George's House, and the facilitator for this event.
Please see his separate entry.
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An Associate of the New World Order Forum, Associate Fellow of St. George's House, and Director of Open Agenda, a national consultancy facilitating policy development events on different aspects of UK public policies. Krysia worked with Peter in developing the "open agenda" groundrules that have beeen adopted by many organisations for creative ideas-building events, and brings to the Forum extensive experience as a process facilitator.
Krysia's particular specialism is in assisting organisations that wish to embed more creative brainstorming processes in the heart of their operations.
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An Associate of the New World Order Forum, and an Associate Fellow of St. George's House, where she has run Consultations for nearly 25 years, generally on the themes of citizenship, civil society and leadership.
Her special interest is in events which bring together participants selected internationally, to help develop their leadership qualities.
For example, Patsy has run a series in which young men and women in their 20s are asked to forecast what the decade of the 2020s will look like, and what responsibilities they want to help bring about the best of their hopes.
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Links
Please click:
here for a link to the agenda for this Forum,
here for a link to the proposed groundrules, and
here for a link to the page explaining the domestic arrangements at St. George's House.
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