100 former Prime Ministers & Presidents demand G7 make world safe again by vaccinating poorer countries

London, 7 June 2021 – More than 230 world leaders, including 100 former prime ministers, presidents and foreign ministers have issued an emotional plea calling on the G7 to pay for vaccinating the world against Covid-19.

Former UK Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, former leaders of Ireland, President Mary Robinson and Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern and leaders from every continent - former UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon, former New Zealand Prime Ministers, Helen Clark  and Dame Jenny Shipley, former Prime Minister of Pakistan Shauket Aziz, former premier of Korea, Han Seung-soo, and 15 former African leaders including Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, John Mahama of Ghana, FW de Klerk of South Africa are just some of the global pantheon of first citizens insisting the G7 summit take the necessary actions to make us all Covid-19 safe.

The unprecedented pressure from former world leaders ahead of Friday’s G7 summit comes as an opinion poll commissioned by Save the Children across all the G7’s western members revealed 79% of Brits with a view either way back the G7 paying up to make the world safe again.

Across the US, France, Germany, Canada and the UK, over 70% people who gave a positive or negative view support the G7 paying a share of the $66bn needed for vaccines globally, which is in line with the size of their economies.

Across the five countries, among those who support or oppose the policy, the UK saw the highest level of support, with 79% compared to 21% opposing. The USA saw 76% support, 24% oppose; Canada: 73% support, 27% oppose; France: 63% support, 37% oppose; Germany: 71% support, 29% oppose.

Calling for 2021 to be “a turning point in global cooperation’”, the pan-global leaders insist the first step is for the G7 “to lead the way by guaranteeing to pay 67 per cent of ACT-A requirements for health” - around $30bn a year over two years - for what they say is ‘the best public investment in history’.

Former UK Premier, now UN Global Ambassador, Gordon Brown who has been pressing for a new global collaboration and G7 agreement on a burden-sharing plan to underwrite the cost of vaccinating the world said:

“For the G7 to pay is not charity, it is self protection to stop the disease spreading, mutating and returning to threaten all of us. Costing just 30p per person per week in the UK, is a small price to pay for the best insurance policy in the world. Savings from vaccination are set to reach around $9 trillion by 2025.”

Kirsty McNeill, executive director of Save the Children said that UK organisations representing 12 million people were calling for change:

“When it comes to vaccine justice what stands out is that people of different ages, in different locations and with different backgrounds are united. They want the G7 to make the world safe again. Their publics will not accept anything less than a serious and fully-funded plan to crack the global covid crisis.”

In the UK, more than 70% of adults have received their first dose and coverage rates in many rich countries are approaching half the adult population. Meanwhile much of sub-Saharan Africa has reached less than 2% of their adults.

The leaders pantheon also call for a global growth plan, debt restructuring and climate finance for the poorest countries and say that while “2020 witnessed a failure of global cooperation, 2021 can usher in a new era.”

The G7 leaders letter also calls for action to prevent an uneven and unbalanced recovery – and ensure a more inclusive, equitable and greener future. It calls for them to deliver on the proposed fund for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries; and ensure that their economic recovery plans boost renewables and green infrastructure.

Brown added: “The 230 names on the letter reveals the desire across every continent for leaders to set aside their differences and come together, show international cooperation can work and make the world the healthier, safer, greener and fairer place we all want to see.”

“I’m pleased Britain leads the way when asked whether each country should pay a proportion in line with the size of their economies. But in every country there is widespread support.

“As the figures reveal, in the UK: 79% support, 21% oppose. USA: 76% support, 24% oppose; Canada: 73% support, 27% oppose; France: 63% support, 37% oppose; Germany: 71% support, 29% oppose”.

“There is also majority support for countries sharing some of their vaccine doses and pushing pharmaceutical companies to share how to make Covid vaccines free of charge.”

The polling revealed that in the UK, 88% of those with a view either way backed rich G7 countries sharing some of the doses they have ordered. The equivalent figure was at least 80% in every country polled.

In the UK, 87% of those who gave a positive or negative view supported intellectual property sharing schemes, with the same figure reaching at least 79% in the other western G7 countries.

The results showed that across the five countries, supporters of every single mainstream political party except two – 2017 Alternative für Deutschland voters in Germany and 2017 Marine Le Pen voters in France – supported G7 countries boosting vaccinations in poorer countries.

Notes to editors:

For interviews or more information from Save the Children, please contact: d.stewart@savethechildren.org.uk | +44 (0)20 3763 0119 | +44 (0)7950 822494.

The Crack the Crises coalition is made up of 75 organisations representing 12 million people in the UK. Members include Save the Children, ActionAid, Global Citizen, National Union of Students, and WaterAid. They are united to demand concerted action on COVID, climate change and help for struggling communities at home and abroad. More info at crackthecrises.org.

Stack Data Strategy, commissioned by Save the Children, polled nationally representative samples in France, Germany, the UK, the USA and Canada to assess the popularity of the G7 countries paying for the part of the $66bn it would cost to supply Coronavirus vaccines in low-income countries, and intellectual property and dose sharing schemes from G7 countries to low-income countries. Full data available on request or online here, from 07.06.21: https://www.stackdatastrategy.com/data

In the polling, respondents were given the following options:

• Strongly support
• Somewhat support
• Neither support nor oppose
• Somewhat oppose
• Strongly oppose
• Don’t know

Polling samples:

Country	Sample size	Dates in field
UK	1030	12 - 14 May
USA	1025	12 - 14 May
France	983	14 - 21 May
Germany	1081	14 - 21 May
Canada	1074	14 - 18 May

 

Full text of the letter to G7 leaders

Dear Prime Minister Johnson, Prime Minister Trudeau, Prime Minister Suga, Prime Minister Draghi President Biden, President Macron, President Von Der Leyen and Chancellor Merkel,

Let’s make 2021 the turning point!

The year 2020 witnessed a failure of global cooperation, but 2021 can usher in a new era.

No one anywhere is safe from COVID 19 until everyone is safe everywhere. The first step, that will pay for itself many times over, is to ensure mass vaccination in every affected country.  Support from the G7 and G20 that makes vaccines readily accessible to low- and middle-income countries is not an act of charity, but rather is in every country's strategic interest, and as described by the IMF is ‘the best public investment in history’.

The G7 and their invitees should lead the way by guaranteeing to pay 67 per cent of ACT-A requirement for $19 billion more funding this year, and a total of $66B over two years, based on a fair-share financing approach and financial burden-sharing formula proposed by the ACT-A Facilitation Council and its assessment of ability to pay. The G7 should also lead the way in support of dose sharing and voluntary licensing agreements, potentially including temporary patent waivers that would allow vaccines to be manufactured on every continent with the necessary knowledge and technology transfer. The international and regional financial institutions should be asked to release new resources for low- and middle-income countries to build capacity in their health systems and support the implementation of the report recently released by the Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response. 

Global economic policy alignment is vital. We were fortunate that, over the last year, in the initial COVID-19 recovery phase, most countries followed similar policies, resulting in an acceptable level of policy alignment. What we need now, in this next phase, is an agreed global growth plan with coordinated monetary and fiscal interventions to prevent an uneven and unbalanced recovery – and ensure a more inclusive, equitable and greener future.

The IMF’s proposals for a synchronised push on infrastructure, including green infrastructure, across all continents, would, if adopted by the G7 and G20, raise global economic output by $2 trillion by 2025.

The G20 and G7 must also address the growing divergence caused by differences in health outcomes and uncoordinated macroeconomic policy approaches. While most advanced economies can look forward to strong growth and widely available vaccines, much of the emerging and developing world must face the new waves and new variants of the virus with depleted economic and social buffers. Many countries face rising debt and falling tax revenues, as well as declining aid flows following a slow recovery in global trade and foreign direct investment. With up to 150 million more people forced into poverty, and with widespread cuts in healthcare and education budgets, COVID-19 may have delayed progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals by up to five years, with girls and women suffering most.  We call on the G7 to extend their initiative on girls’ education and to support the UNICEF plan for digital connectivity that ensures the inclusion of all young people.

The G7 and G20 can help to bridge the financing gaps faced by vulnerable countries and act to restore a viable path towards the SDGs. This will require the multilateral development banks to deploy more finance, more efficiently, optimising their balance sheets and reviewing their capital adequacy framework, as already requested by the G20. In this respect we need to examine new guarantee-based instruments to crowd in private sector finance for health, education, and social. safety nets, and we need to make progress on international agreements to curtail tax avoidance.

We must redouble our efforts to ensure debt sustainability for low and even middle-income countries, with an extension of the debt service suspension initiative as long as it is needed, and with broader participation by private creditors, and possibly by non-G20 official creditors, in the new Common Framework for debt treatment. Its success will depend on greater transparency on the part of both debtors and creditors.

2021 is a vital year for progress towards reaching net carbon zero by 2050. In advance of COP 26, the G7 and G20 countries must announce bold national commitments which require companies to disclose their carbon footprints, deliver on the proposed fund for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries and ensure their economic recovery plans boost renewables and green infrastructure with corporates, cities and multilateral institutions all encouraged to be at the centre of efforts to achieve a sustainable net carbon zero environment.

Full list of signatories:

Title	First Name	Last Name	Position
	Philippe	Aghion	Professor of Economics, Collège de France & LSE
	María Elena	Agüero	Secretary General of Club de Madrid¹
	Bertie	Ahern	Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (1997-2008)³
	Shamshad	Akhtar	14th Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. Former Vice-President of the World Bank for the Middle-East and North Africa. ²
	Rashid	Alimov	Secretary General Shanghai Cooperation Organization 2016-2019, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan 1992-1994³
	Farida	Allaghi	former Ambassador of Libya to EU³
	Amat	Alsoswa	Yemen's first female ambassador and minister. She served as the Assistant Secretary- General, Assistant Administrator and Director of UNDP's Regional Bureau for Arab States.²
	Abdulaziz	Altwaijri	former Director General of ISESCO³
	Rosalia	Arteaga	President of Ecuador (1997)³
	Shaukat	Aziz	Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007)³
	Jean	Badershneider	Vice President Exxon Mobile (2000-2013), CEO & Founding Board Member Global Fund to End Modern Slavery³
	Jan Peter	Balkenende	Prime Minister of The Netherlands (2002-2010)¹
	Joyce	Banda	President of Malawi (2012-2014)¹
	Ajay	Banga	Executive Chairman, Mastercard
	Kaushik	Basu -	President of the International Economic Association; Chief Economist of the World Bank (2012-2016)
	Oliver	Bäte	CEO, Allianz Group
	Marek	Belka	Prime Minister of Poland (2004-2005), President of the National Bank of Poland (2010-2016)³
	Carol	Bellamy	Former chair of the board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). Former director of the Peace Corps, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and president and CEO of World Learning. She is also the chair of children's rights advocacy organization ECPAT International. Former President of the New York City Council.²
	Nicolas	Berggruen	Chairman of the Berggruen Institute⁴
	Erik	Berglof	EBRD Chief Economist (2006-2015); Professor of Economics, LSE
	Sali	Berisha	President of Albania (1992-1997), Prime Minister (2005-2013)³
	Catherine	Bertini	Former Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Program. Former UN Under-Secretary for Management.²
	Suman	Bery	Chief Economist at Royal Dutch Shell (2012-2016); Director-General of the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi
H.R.H	Prince Turki	bin Faisal Al Saud	Chairman of King Faisal Foundations Center for Research and Islamic Studies³
	Ana	Birchall	deputy Prime Minister of Romania (2018-2019), Minister of European Affairs (2017), Minister of Justice (2019)³
	Valdis	Birkavs	Prime Minister of Latvia (1993-1994)¹
	Tony	Blair	Prime Minster of the United Kingdom (1997-2007)
Dr	Mario	Blejer	Governor of the Central Bank of Argentina (2002); Director of the Centre for Central Banking Studies, Bank of England (2003-2008)
	Irina	Bokova	Former Director-General of UNESCO.²
	Patrick	Bolton	Professor of Finance and Economics, Imperial College London; Professor, Columbia University
	Kjell Magne	Bondevik	Prime Minister of Norway (1997-2000;2001-2005)¹
	Dumitru	Bragish	Prime Minister of Moldova (1999-2001)³
Sir	Richard	Branson	Co-Founder, The B Team and Founder, Virgin Group
	Mayu	Brizuela de Avila	Former Foreign Minister of El Salvador.²
	Jesper	Brodin	CEO, Ingka Group (IKEA)
	Gordon	Brown	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007-2010)
	Gro	Brundtland	Prime Minister of Norway (1981; 1986-1989; 1990-1996)
	John	Bruton	Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland (1994-1997)⁵
	Robin	Burgess	Professor of Economics, LSE
	Sharon	Burrow	Vice-Chair, The B Team and General Secretary, International Trade Union Confederation
	Micheline	Calmy-Rey	President of Switzerland (2007;2011)⁵
	Kathy	Calvin	Former President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation.²
	Fernando Henrique	Cardoso	President of Brazil (1995-2003)¹
	Wendy	Carlin	Professor of Economics, University College London
	Hikmet	Cetin	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (1991-1994)³⁵
	Lynda	Chalker	former Minister of Overseas Development UK⁵
	Laura	Chinchilla	President of Costa Rica (2010-2014), Vice President of the Club de Madrid¹
Professor	Bai	Chong-En	Dean, Tsinghua School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University
	Helen	Clark	Prime Minister of New Zealand (1999-2008)¹³⁵
	Joe	Clark	Prime Minister of Canada (1979-1980)⁵
	Marie-Louise	Coleiro-Preca	President of Malta (2014-2019)¹³
	Emil	Constantinescu	President of Romania (1996-2000)³
Professor	Diane	Coyle CBE	Co-Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge
	Chester	Crocker	former Assistant Secretary of State USA⁵
	Mirko	Cvetkovic	Prime Minister of Serbia (2008-2012)³
	Marzuki	Darusman	former Attorney General of Indonesia⁵
	Herman	De Croo	Minister of State, Honorary Speaker of the House Belgium³
	Nathalie	de Gaulle	Founder and Partner SOCIETER³
	FW	de Klerk	President of South Africa (1989-1994)⁵
	Dominique	de Villepin	Prime Minister of France (2005-2007)¹
	Kemal	Derviş	Minister of Economic Affairs of Turkey (2001-2002); Administrator of UNDP (2005-2009); Senior Fellow Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institute
HE	Hailemariam	Desalegn	Prime Minister of Ethiopia (2012-2018)
	Mathias	Dewatripont	Professor of Economics, Université libre de Bruxelles
	Beatrice Weder	di Mauro	President, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute in Geneva
	Božidar	Djelić	Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia (2007-2011)
The Hon.	Mark	Dybul	Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator (2006-2009) and Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaris (2012-2017)
Dr	Victor J.	Dzau	President of the National Academy of Medicine
Professor	Karolina	Ekholm	Stockholm University; Deputy Finance Minister (2014-2018)  and Deputy Governor Bank of Sweden (2009-2014).
	Barry	Eichengreen	Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Dr	Mohamed	El Erian	President of Queens' College, Cambridge
	Susan	Elliott	CEO and President National Committee on American Foreign Policy³
	Maria Fernanda	Espinosa Garcés	President of the UN General Assembly 73rd session, Minister of National Defense of Ecuador 2012-2014, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2017-2018²³
	Gareth	Evans	former Foreign Minister of Australia⁵
	Emmanuel	Faber	Former CEO and Chairman, Danone
Professor	Jeremy	Farrar	Director of the Wellcome Trust
	Leonel	Fernandez	President of the Dominican Republic, (1996-2000; 2004-2012)¹
	Christiana	Figueres	Former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).²
	Jan	Fisher	Prime Minister of the Czech Republic (2009-2010)³
	Vincente	Fox	President of Mexico (2000-2006)¹
	Abraham	Foxman	National Director of the Anti-Defamation League (1987-2015)³
	Franco	Frattini	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Italy (2002-2004); (2008-2001), European Commissioner (2004-2008)³
	Louise	Fréchette	UN Deputy Secretary-General (1997-2006)⁵
	Julio	Frenk	President of the University of Miami (2015-Present) and Former Secretary of Helath of Mexico (2000-2006)
	Robert	Fulton	Chief Exectuive, Global Leadership Foundation⁵
	Chiril	Gaburici	Prime Minister of Moldova (2015)³
	Ahmed	Galal	Finance Minister of Egypt (2013-2014)
	Felipe	Gonzales	Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996)⁴
	Lawrence	Gonzi	Prime Minister of Malta (2004-2013)⁵
	Kolinda	Grabar-Kitarovic	President of Croatia (2015-2020)³
	Mats	Granryd	Director General, GSMA
	Ameenah	Gurib-Fakim	President of Mauritius (2015-2018)³
	Sergei	Guriev	Chief Economist of the EBRD (2016-2019); Professor of Economics, Sciences Po
	Afred	Gusenbauer	Chancellor of Austria (2007-2008)¹
	Tarja	Halonen	President of Finland (2000-2012)³
	Diane	Havlir	Professor of Medicine and Chief of the HIV/AIDS Division at the University of California, San Francisco
Dr	Noeleen	Heyzer	Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations 2007-2015, Executive Director United Nations Development Fund for Women 1994-2007²³
	Bengt	Holmström	Nobel Laureate for Economics (2016); Professor of Economics, MIT
Dr	Fred	Hu	Chairman and Founder, Primavera Capital⁴
	Arianna	Huffington	Founder and CEO, Thrive Global
Dr	Mo	Ibrahim	Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation
	Enrique	Iglesias	former Foreign Minister Uruguay⁵
	Ekmeleddin	Ihsanoglu	Secretary General of OIC (2004-2014)³
	Dalia	Itzik	Interim Presdient of Israel (2007), Speaker of the Knesset (2006-2009)³
	Mladen	Ivanic	President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2014-2018)³
	Asad	Jamal	Chairman, GoodPlanet Foundation
	Harold	James	Professor of European Studies & Professor of History and International Affairs, Princeton University
	Rob	Johnson	President, Institute for New Economic Thinking
HE	Ellen	Johnson Sirleaf	President of Liberia (2006-2018)
	Mehdi	Jomaa	Prime Minister of Tunisia (2014-2015)¹
	T. Anthony	Jones	Vice-President and Executive Director of GFNA¹
Dr	Lee	Jong-Wha	Professor of Economics, Korea University; Chief Economist & Head of the Office of Regional Economic Integration at the Asian Development Bank (2007-2013)
	Ivo	Josipovic	President of Croatia (2010-2015)¹³
	Yolanda	Kakabadse	Former President, World Wildlife Fund International
	Angela	Kane	Vice President of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna, and Senior Fellow at the Vienna Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.²
	Kostas	Karamanlis	Prime Minister of Greece (2004-2009)³
	Caroline	Kende-Robb	Former Executive Director, Kofi Annan's Africa Progress Panel and former Secretary General, CARE International
	Kerry	Kennedy	President Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights³
	Karim	Khalili	Vice President of Afghanistan (2004-2014), Chairman of the Afghan High Peace Council³
	Jakaya	Kikwete	President of Tanzania (2005-2015)
	Ban	Ki-moon	Secretary General of the United Nations (2007-2016)¹
	Jadranka	Kosor	Prime Minister of Croatia (2009-2011)³
Professor	Anne	Krueger -	First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF (2001-2006); Senior Research Professor of International Economics, School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
	Leonid	Kuchma	President of Ukraine (1994-2005)³
	John	Kufuor	President of Ghana (2001-2009)
	Chandrika	Kumaratunga	President of Sri Lanka 1994-2005³
	Aleksander	Kwaśniewski	President of Poland (1995-2005)¹³
	Hervé	Ladsous	UN Under-Secretary-General (2011-2017)⁵
	Ricardo	Lagos	President of Chile (2000-2006)¹⁴
	Zlatko	Lagumdzija	Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2001-2002), deputy Prime Minister (2012-2015)¹³
	Pascal	Lamy	Director-General of the World Trade Organization (2005-2013)⁴
	Guilherme	Leal	Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Natura & Co
	Yves	Leterme	Prime Minister of Belgium, (2008, 2009-2011)¹³
	Doris	Leuthard	President of the Swiss Confederation (2010 and 2017)¹
Professor	Justin Yifu	Lin	Chief Economist & Senior Vice-President of the World Bank (2008-2012); Dean of Institute of New Structural Economics, Peking University³
	Andrew	Liveris	Chairman Emeritus and Former CEO, Dow Chemical
	Tzipi	Livni	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Israel (2006-2009)³
	Petru	Lucinschi	President of Moldova (1997-2001)³
	José	Luis Rodríguez Zapatero	President of the Government of Spain (2004-2011)¹
	Igor	Luksic	Prime Minister of Montenegro (2010-2012)³
	Nora	Lustig	President Emeritus of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association; Professor of Latin American Economics, Tulane University
	Jessie Rose	Mabutas	Member of Audit and Risk Committee of the Executive Board at The African Capacity Building Foundation.²
	Graça	Machel	Former Education Minister for Mozambique
	Mauricio	Macri	President of Argentina (2015-2019)¹
	Susana	Malcorra	Dean of IE School of Global & Public Affairs at IE University, Minister of Foreign Affairs & Worship of Argentina (2015-17)²
	Mark	Malloch-Brown	President of the Open Society Foundations
	Purnima	Mane	Former President Pathfinder International, (2012-2016) and former Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General, UNFPA (2007-2011).²
	Juan	Manuel Santos	President of Columbia (2010-2018)
	Cristina	Manzano	Representative of Constituent Foundation FRIDE¹
	Moussa	Mara	Prime Minister of Mali (2014-2015)³
	Giorgi	Margvelashvili	President of Georgia (2013-2018)³
Dr	Dalia	Marin	Professor of International Economics, TUM School of Management, Munich
	Paul	Martin	Prime Minister of Canada (2003-2006)⁴
HE	Taher	Masri	Prime Minister of Jordan (1991), Speaker of the House of Representatives of Jordan (1993-1995)³
	Colin	Mayer CBE	Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
	Carolyn	McAskie	Former assistant secretary-general for peacekeeping at the United Nations.²
	Peter	Medgyessy	Prime Minister of Hungary (2002-2004)³
	Rexhep	Meidani	President of Albania (1997-2002)¹³
	Stjepan	Mesic	President of Croatia (2000-2010)³
	James	Michel	President of Seychelles (2004-2016)¹
	Hiro	Mizuno	Special Envoy of U.N. Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments and Board Member, Tesla
	Festus	Mogae	President of Botswana (1998-2008)¹⁵
	Torben	Möger Pedersen	CEO, PensionDanmark
	Amre	Moussa	Secretary General Arab League (2001-2011), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt (1991-2001)³
	Rovshan	Muradov	Secretary General Nizami Ganjavi International Center³
	Joseph	Muscat	Prime Minister of Malta (2013-2020)³
	Mustapha Kamel	Nabli	Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia (2011-2012)
	Piroska	Nagy-Mohácsi	Programme Director of the Institute of Global Affairs, LSE; Director of Policy, EBRD (2009-2015)
	Dawn	Nakagawa	Executive Vice President, Berggruen Institute⁴
	Professor	Ngaire Woods	Dean, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford
	Bujar	Nishani	President of Albania (2012-2017)³
	Olusegun	Obasanjo	President of Nigeria (1976-1979; 1999-2007)
	Raila	Odinga	African Union High Representative for Infrastructure Development in Africa and Prime Minister of the Replubic of Kenya (2008-2013)
	Jean	Oelwang	Founding CEO and President, Virgin Unite
	Paul	Olman	Chair, The B Team, Co-Founder & Chair, IMAGINE and CEO (2009-2018), Unilever
Lord	Jim	O'Neill	Chair of Chatham House
	Djoomart	Otorbayev	Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan (2014-2015)³
	Roza	Otumbayeva	President of the Kyrgyz Republic (2010-2011)¹
	George	Papandreou	Prime Minister of Greece (2009-2011)
	Georgi	Parvanov	President of Bulgaria (2002-2012)³
	Andres	Pastrana	President of Colombia (1998-2002)¹
	P.J.	Patterson	Prime Minister of Jamaica (1992-2006)¹⁵
Ambassador	Thomas R.	Pickering	US Under Secretary of State (1997-2000)⁵
	Navi	Pillay	Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Former Judge of the International Criminal Court. Former President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.²
	François-Henri	Pinault	Chairman and CEO, Kering
Sir	Christopher	Pissarides	Nobel Laureate for Economics (2010); Professor of Economics & Political Science, LSE
	Rosen	Plevneliev	President of Bulgaria (2012-2017)³
	Richard	Portes CBE	Professor of Economics, London Business School; Founder and Honorary President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research
	Jorge ‘Tuto’	Quiroga	President of Bolivia (2001-2002)¹
	Jean-Pierre	Raffarin	Prime Minister of France (2002-2005)⁵
	José Manuel	Ramos-Horta	President of Timor Leste (2007-2012)¹
HE	Abelraouf	Rawabdeh	Prime Minister of Jordan (1999-2000), President of the Senate (2013-2015)³
	Hélène	Rey	Professor of Economics, London Business School
	George	Robertson	Secretary General of NATO (1999-2004)⁵
	Mary	Robinson	President of the Republic of Ireland (1990-1997)
	Dani	Rodrik	President-Elect of the International Economic Association; Professor of International Political Economy, Harvard University
	Gérard	Roland	Professor of Economics & Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
	Petre	Roman	Prime Minister of Romania, (1989-1991)¹³
	Ismail	Serageldin	Co-Chair NGIC. Vice-President of the World Bank (1992-2000)³
	Fatiha	Serour	Justice Impact Lab Co-founder, International consultant/adviser (Africa Group for Justice and Accountability). Former Deputy Special Representative and Assistant Secretary General in Somalia (United Nations).²
	Han	Seung-Soo	Prime Minister of the Rep. of Korea (2008-2009)¹
	Karin	Sham Poo	Former Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF. Interim Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict.²
	Robert	Shapiro	US Under Secretary of Commerce (1997-2001)
Dame	Jenny	Shipley	Prime Minister of New Zealand (1997-1999)¹
	Mari	Simonen	Deputy Executive Director, External Relations, United Nations Affairs and Management of UNFPA.²
	Juan	Somavia	Director General of the ILO (1999-2012)¹
	George	Soros	Founder & Chair of the Open Society Foundations
	Michael	Spence	Nobel Laureate for Economics (2001); William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, NYU⁴
	Devi	Sridhar	Professor of Global Public Health, University of Edinburgh
Dr	Eduardo	Stein	Vice President of Guatemala (2004-2008)⁵
	Joseph	Stiglitz	Chief Economist of the World Bank (1997-2000); Nobel Laureate for Economics (2001); Professor, Columbia University⁵
	Petar	Stoyanov	President of Bulgaria (1997-2002)³
	Laimdota	Straujuma	Prime Minister of Latvia (2014-2016)³
	Alexander	Stubb	Prime Minister of Finland (2014-2015)¹
	Boris	Tadic	President of Serbia (2004-2012)³
	Eka	Tkeshelashvili	deputy Prime Minister of Georgia 2010-2012, Minister of Foreign Affairs 2008³
	Aminata	Touré	Prime Minister of Senegal (2013-2014)¹
	Elbegdorj	Tsakhia	President of Mongolia (2009-2017)¹
	Danilo	Türk	President of Slovenia (2007-2012), President of the Club de Madrid¹
	Hamdi	Ulukaya	Founder, Chairman and CEO, Chobani
	Cassam	Uteem	President of Mauritius (1992-2002), Vice President of the Club de Madrid¹⁵
	Marianna V	Vardinoyannis	Goodwill Ambassador of UNESCO³
	Harold	Varmus	Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1989³
	Raimonds	Vejonis	President of Latvia (2015-2019)³
	Melanne	Verveer	Executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security at Georgetown University.²
	Vaira	Vike-Freiberga	Co-Chair NGIC, President of Latvia (1999-2007)³
	Ernst-Ludwig	von Thadden	President, Mannheim University (2012-2019); Professor, Economics Department
	Filip	Vujanovic	President of Montenegro (2003-2018)³
	Leonard	Wantchekon	Founder & President of the African School of Economics; Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
	Shang-Jin	Wei	Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (2014-2016); Professor of Chinese Business and Economy & Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
	Michelle	Williams	Dean of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
	Yashar	Yakish	Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey (2002-2003)³
Professor	Yu	Yongding	President of the China Society of World Economy (2004-2006); Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics, China Academy of Social Sciences
	Jigme	Yoser Thinley Lyonchhen	Prime Minister of Buthan (2008-2013)¹
Professor	Muhammad	Yunus	Chairman, Yunus Centre
	Viktor	Yuschenko	President of Ukraine (2005-2010)³
	Kateryna	Yushchenko	First Lady of Ukraine (2005-2010), President Ukraine 3000 Foundation³
	Valdis	Zatlers	President of Latvia (2007-2011)³
	Ernesto	Zedillo	President of Mexico (1994-2000)

 

 

¹ Member of the World Leadership Alliance-Club de Madrid

² Member of the Global Women Leaders@ Voice for Change and Inclusion

³ Member of Nizami Ganjavi International Center (NGIC)

⁴ Member of the Berggruen Institute 21st Century Council

⁵ Member of the Global Leadership Foundation