Javier Solana

Javier Solana is the former secretary general of NATO, European Union high representative for common foreign and security policy and secretary-general of the Council of the European Union. Solana began his long career in public service when he was elected to the Spanish Parliament in 1982. He held a number

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Thorvald Stoltenberg (1931-2018)

Thorvald Stoltenberg was the Defense and Foreign minister of Norway, Ambassador to the United Nations, UN head representative mediator to Balkan from 93 – 96, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ambassador to Denmark and President of the Norwegian Red Cross. For the five Nordic Government’s he made a report in

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Cassam Uteem

Cassam Uteem G.G.S.K. was born in Port Louis, Mauritius, on 22 March 1941 and is married with two children. He studied at Paris VII University where he received a Bachelor’s degree in Art and a Master’s degree in Psychology. He is the holder of a Certificate in Social Work from

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Arequipa, Peru. He studied two years in Leoncio Prado Military Academy in Lima after having lived in Bolivia and Peru. While studying at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Vargas Llosa married Julia Urquidi. Vargas Llosa held seven jobs at the same time

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Paul Volcker (1927-2019)

In the course of his career, Mr. Volcker worked in the United States Federal Government for almost 30 years, culminating in two terms as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1979-1987, a critical period which saw an end to several years of high inflation.

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John C. Whitehead (1922-2015)

John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois, in 1922 and died in New York in 2015. He graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II. Mr. Whitehead received his M.B.A. degree from Harvard in 1947 and began at Goldman, Sachs &

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Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo is the Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University, where he teaches economics and globalization. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from the School of Economics of the Natìonal Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and his M.A. and Ph.D. at Yale University. He was a

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