International Crisis Group

The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an "independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict."

"ICG's international headquarters are in Brussels, with advocacy offices in Washington DC, New York, Moscow and London. The organisation currently operates seventeen field offices (in Amman, Belgrade, Bogota, Dakar, Dushanbe, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kabul, Nairobi, Osh, Pretoria, Pristina, Quito, Sarajevo, Skopje and Tbilisi) with analysts working in over 40 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents."

"In Africa, those countries include Angola, Burundi, Ivory Coast, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe; in Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; in Europe, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, and Serbia; in the Middle East, the whole region from North Africa to Iran; and in Latin America and the Caribbean, Colombia and the Andean region and Haiti."

From 1993-98 Lynne A. Davidson as Senior Associate for Human Rights and Special Assistant to Ambassador Morton I. Abramowitz, ... she helped to shape the original proposal for the International Crisis Group".

Anne Richard was part of the team that created the ICG.

On 12 March 2009 the Co-Chairs of the Board of the International Crisis Group, Lord Patten of Barnes and Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering, announced that the Honourable Louise Arbour has been selected to be the organisation’s next President and CEO. "She will be formally confirmed by Crisis Group’s Board of Trustees at its meeting in Washington DC in April 2009 and take up the position in July."

Funding
"ICG raises funds from governments, charitable foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments currently provide funding: Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States."

Foundation and private sector donors include

 * The Atlantic Philanthropies
 * Carnegie Corporation of New York
 * Ford Foundation e.g.
 * Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 * Flora Hewlett Foundation
 * Henry Luce Foundation
 * John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
 * John Merck Fund
 * Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 * Open Society Institute
 * Ploughshares Fund
 * Sigrid Rausing Trust
 * Sasakawa Peace Foundation
 * Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund
 * United States Institute of Peace
 * Fundac&atilde;o Oriente."

President’s Council in 2008
This exclusive Council welcomes donors contributing US$100,000 or more annually:


 * Khalid Alireza, BHP Billiton, Canaccord Adams Limited, Equinox Partners, Alan Griffiths, Frank Holmes, Iara Lee & George Gund III Foundation, Frederick Iseman, George Landegger, Ford Nicholson, Royal Bank of Scotland, Ian Telfer, Guy Ullens de Schooten, StatoilHydro ASA, Neil Woodyer

ICG Board
"The ICG Board - which includes prominent figures from the fields of politics, diplomacy, business and the media - is directly involved in helping to bring ICG reports and recommendations to the attention of senior policy-makers around the world. ICG is chaired by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari; and its President and Chief Executive since January 2000 has been former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. Former Congressman Stephen Solarz and Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce Maria Livanos Cattaui used to serve as the ICG Vice-Chairmen.

Current leaders (as of April 2009):


 * Lord Christopher Patten - Co-Chair, Crisis Group, Former European Commissioner for External Relations, Governor of Hong Kong and UK Cabinet Minister; Chancellor of Oxford University
 * Thomas R. Pickering - Co-Chair, Crisis Group; Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria; Vice Chairman of Hills & Company
 * Gareth Evans - President & CEO, Former Foreign Minister of Australia

Executive Committee
Accessed April 2009:


 * Morton Abramowitz - Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
 * Emma Bonino - Vice Chair - Former Italian Minister of International Trade and European Affairs and European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid
 * Cheryl Carolus - Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary-General of the ANC
 * Maria Livanos Cattaui - Former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
 * Yoichi Funabashi - Editor-in-Chief & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
 * Frank Giustra - Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada
 * Stephen Solarz - Former U.S. Congressman
 * George Soros - Chairman, Open Society Institute
 * Par Stenback - Former Foreign Minister of Finland

U.S. Board Members

 * Morton Abramowitz, Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
 * Kenneth Adelman, Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
 * Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
 * Wesley Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
 * Stanley Fischer,Vice-Chairman, Citigroup Inc. and former First Deputy Managing Director of International Monetary Fund
 * Carla Hills, Former U.S. Secretary of Housing; former U.S. Trade Representative
 * Swanee Hunt, Founder and Chair of Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
 * Elliott F. Kulick, Chairman, Pegasus International
 * Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Novelist and journalist
 * Douglas Schoen, Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates
 * George Soros, Chairman, Open Society Institute
 * William O. Taylor, Chairman Emeritus, The Boston Globe

Directors

 * Christopher Patten - Co-Chair, Crisis Group
 * Thomas Pickering - Co-Chair, Crisis Group
 * Gareth Evans - President & CEO

Executive Committee

 * Cheryl Carolus - Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC
 * Maria Livanos Cattaui - Former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce
 * Yoichi Funabashi - Chief Diplomatic Correspondent & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan
 * Frank Giustra - Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada
 * Stephen Solarz - Former U.S. Congressman
 * George Soros - Chairman, Open Society Institute
 * Psr Stenback - Former Foreign Minister of Finland

Members

 * Morton Abramowitz - Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey
 * Adnan Abu-Odeh - Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN
 * Kenneth Adelman - Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
 * Ersin Arioglu - Member of Parliament, Turkey; Chairman Emeritus, Yapi Merkezi Group
 * Shlomo Ben-Ami - Former Foreign Minister of Israel
 * Lakhdar Brahimi - Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Algerian Foreign Minister
 * Zbigniew Brzezinski - Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President
 * Kim Campbell - Former Prime Minister of Canada; Secretary General, Club of Madrid
 * Naresh Chandra - Former Indian Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador of India to the U.S.
 * Joaquim Alberto Chissano - Former President of Mozambique
 * Victor Chu - Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group, Hong Kong
 * Wesley Clark - Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe
 * Pat Cox - Former President of European Parliament
 * Uffe Ellemann-Jensen - Former Foreign Minister of Denmark
 * Mark Eyskens - Former Prime Minister of Belgium
 * Joschka Fischer - Former Foreign Minister of Germany
 * Leslie H. Gelb - President Emeritus of Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.
 * Carla Hills - Former Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative
 * Lena Hjelm-Wallen - Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden
 * Swanee Hunt - Chair of Inclusive Security: Women Waging Peace; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria
 * Anwar Ibrahim - Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia
 * Asma Jahangir - UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief; Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
 * Nancy Kassebaum Baker - Former U.S. Senator
 * James V. Kimsey - Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc. (AOL)
 * Wim Kok - Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
 * Ricardo Lagos - Former President of Chile
 * Joanne Leedom-Ackerman - Novelist and journalist, U.S.
 * Ayo Obe - Chair of Steering Committee of World Movement for Democracy, Nigeria
 * Christine Ockrent - Journalist and author, France
 * Victor Pinchuk - Founder of Interpipe Scientific and Industrial Production Group
 * Samantha Power - Author and Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
 * Fidel V. Ramos - Former President of Philippines
 * Ghassan Salame - Former Minister, Lebanon; Professor of International Relations, Paris
 * Douglas Schoen - Founding Partner of Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, U.S.
 * Thorvald Stoltenberg - Former Foreign Minister of Norway
 * Ernesto Zedillo - Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

Chairmen Emeritus

 * Martti Ahtisaari - Former President, Finland
 * George J. Mitchell - Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader

Personnel

 * John Prendergast -- Senior Advisor
 * Mark L. Schneider

International Advisory Board
"Our International Advisory Board comprises key individual and corporate benefactors of Crisis Group. We are deeply grateful for their combination of financial support and advice. Further information on how to become a member of this group, and the benefits of membership, can be found here. Rita E. Hauser (Chair), Marc Abramowitz, Anglo American PLC, APCO Worldwide Inc., Patrick E. Benzie, BHP Billiton, Harry Bookey and Pamela Bass-Bookey, John Chapman Chester, Chevron, Peter Corcoran, Credit Suisse Group/Credit Suisse First Boston, John Ehara Equinox Partners, Dr. Konrad Fischer, Iara Lee & George Gund III Foundation, JP Morgan Global Foreign Exchange and Commodities, George Kellner, George Loening, Douglas Makepeace, Anna Luisa Ponti, Quantm, Michael L. Riordan, Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Baron Ullens de Schooten, Stanley Weiss, Tilleke & Gibbins, Westfield Group, Don Xia, Yasuyo Yamazaki, Sunny Yoon." 

International Advisory Council in 2008 Supporters who contribute between US$25,000 and $99,999 per annum are invited to join the International Advisory Council:


 * Rita Hauser (Co-Chair)
 * Elliott Kulick (Co-Chair)
 * Hamza Al Kholi
 * Anglo American
 * APCO Worldwide
 * Ed Bachrach
 * Patrick Benzie
 * Stanley Bergman
 * Edward Bergman
 * Harry Bookey
 * Pamela Bass-Bookey
 * John Chapman Chester
 * Chevron
 * Richard Cooper
 * Neil DeFeo
 * Sandy DeFeo
 * John Ehara
 * Seth Ginns
 * Eleanor Holtzman
 * Joseph Hotung
 * George Kellner
 * Amed Khan
 * Shiv Vikram Khemka
 * Zelmira Koch
 * Jean Manas
 * Marco Marazzi
 * McKinsey & Company
 * Najib Mikati
 * Harriet Mouchly-Weiss
 * Donald Pels
 * Wendy Keys
 * Anna Luisa Ponti
 * Geoffrey Hoguet
 * Michael Riordan
 * Tilleke & Gibbins
 * Vale
 * VIVA Trust
 * Yapı Merkezi Construction and Industry Inc.
 * Yasuyo Yamazaki
 * Shinji Yazaki

==Senior Advisors (2008) ==


 * Martti Ahtisaari (Chairman Emeritus), George Mitchell (Chairman Emeritus), Hushang Ansary, Ersin Arıog˘ lu, Óscar Arias, Diego Arria, Zainab Bangura, Christoph Bertram, Alan Blinken, Jorge Castañeda, Eugene Chien, Victor Chu, Mong Joon Chung, Gianfranco Dell’Alba, Jacques Delors, Alain Destexhe, Mou-Shih Ding, Gernot Erler, Marika Fahlén, Stanley Fischer, Malcolm Fraser, I.K. Gujral, Max Jakobson, Todung Mulya Lubis, Allan J. MacEachen, Graça Machel, Barbara McDougall, Matthew McHugh, Nobuo Matsunaga, Miklós Németh, Timothy Ong, Olara Otunnu, Shimon Peres, Surin Pitsuwan, Cyril Ramaphosa, George Robertson, Michel Rocard, Volker Rühe, Mohamed Sahnoun, Salim A. Salim, Douglas Schoen, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, Michael Sohlman, William O. Taylor, Leo Tindemans, Ed van Thijn, Simone Veil, Shirley Williams, Grigory Yavlinsky, Uta Zapf

Op Eds

 * Samina Ahmed and John Norris, "A 'Moderation' of Freedom; Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf Isn't Practicing What He Preaches," Washington Post, June 15, 2004.
 * Sidney Jones, "Expelled from Indonesia, Wall Street Journal, June 9, 2004.
 * Emma Bonino and William Shawcross, "Darfur's ongoing agony is the world's shame," The Daily Star, June 1, 2004.

Contact

 * Field Office Webform Contact
 * Amman
 * Belgrade
 * Bishkek
 * Bogota
 * Dakar
 * Islamabad
 * Jakarta
 * Nairobi
 * Pretoria
 * Pristina
 * Seoul
 * Tbilisi


 * Website: www.crisisweb.org/

Critiques

 * Jan Oberg, "The International Crisis Group: Who Pays the Piper?," PressInfo # 219, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, April 15, 2005.
 * Michael Barker, "Imperial Crusaders For Global Governance", Swans Commentary, April 20, 2009.
 * Tom Hazeldine, "The North Atlantic Counsel: Complicity of the International Crisis Group", New Left Review, 63, May-June 2010.
 * Tamara Pearson, "Venezuelan Report Discredits US Government, Advises Regime Change", Venezuelaanalysis.com, August 31, 2011.

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