Kofi Annan (1938-2018)
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ghana, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Louise Arbour
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Canada

Pavel Bém
Former Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic

Sir Richard Branson
Founder of the Virgin Group, Co-founder of The Elders, United Kingdom

Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of Brazil
(Founding Chair)

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the
International Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland

Helen Clark
Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Chair of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

Sir Nicholas Clegg
Former Deputy Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom

Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland (former Chair)

Mohamed ElBaradei
Director General Emeritus of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012)
Writer and Public Intellectual, Mexico

Geoff Gallop
Former Premier of Western Australia

César Gaviria
Former President of Colombia

Anand Grover
Former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Senior Advocate to the Supreme Court of India

Asma Jahangir (1952-2018)
Former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary Executions, Pakistan

Michel Kazatchkine
Former Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, France

Aleksander Kwaśniewski
Former President of Poland

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

Kgalema Motlanthe
Former President of South Africa

Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President of Nigeria

George Papandreou
Former Prime Minister of Greece

Michèle Pierre-Louis
Former Prime Minister of Haiti

José Ramos-Horta
Former Prime Minister and President of Timor-Leste, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

Jorge Sampaio (1939-2021)
Former President of Portugal

Juan Manuel Santos
Former President of Colombia, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

George Shultz (1920-2021)
Former Secretary of State (Honorary Chair), United States of America

Michel Sidibé
Former UNAIDS Executive Director and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Former Minister of Health and Social Affairs of Mali

Javier Solana
Former European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Spain

Thorvald Stoltenberg (1931-2018)
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Norway

Cassam Uteem
Former President of Mauritius

Mario Vargas Llosa
Writer and Public Intellectual, Peru; Nobel Prize in Literature

Paul Volcker (1927-2019)
Former Chairman of the United States Federal Reserve and of the Economic Recovery Board

John C. Whitehead (1922-2015)
Banker and Civil Servant, Chair of the World Trade Center Memorial, United States of America

Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico

Adeeba Kamarulzaman
Former Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Malaya, Malaysia

Diego García-Sayán
Former Minister of Justice and Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru