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President

Douglas Hurd, Rt Hon The Lord Hurd of Westwell
Deputy Chairman, Coutts and Co; Senior Adviser to Hawkpoint Partners. President, German-British Forum. Formerly British Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Northern Ireland Secretary. Also former Chairman of British Invisibles and of the Prison Reform Trust.

Advisory Board

Chairman

David Simon, Lord Simon of Highbury
Non-Executive Director, GDF Suez Group. Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley International and to Dana Gas. Deputy Chairman of Cambridge University Council. Formerly Chairman of BP, Deputy Chairman, Unilever and British Government Minister for Trade and Competititveness.

Board Members

Christopher Haskins, Lord Haskins of Skidby
Chairman, AirTrack, Director, Yorkshire Television, Yorkshire Regional Development Agency. Formerly British government Rural Delivery Adviser, Chairman, Northern Foods, Chairman, Better Regulation Task Force and member of Hampel Committee on Corporate Governance. Also former member of UK Round Table on Sustainable Development, and of Runnymede Trust.

Mike Welton
Chairman, Premier Oil, Chairman, Southern Water, Chairman, Global Solutions Ltd. Former Chairman, Hanson plc. Chief Executive, Balfour Beatty plc, 1995 to 2004. Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Chairman of the UK Government's Railway Sector Advisory Group.

Eduardo Serra
Chairman, Eduardo Serra y Asociados; formerly Chairman, UBS Spain, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Prado Museum, President, Royal Elcano Institute; Minister of Defense of Spain, 1996-2000; previously Chairman Peugeot Spain, Airtel Spain, Cubiertas y MZOV and Telettra Spain.

Michael Bottenheim
Senior Adviser, Lincoln International. Formerly Director, UPM-Kymmene. Formerly Managing Director, Lazard Brothers. Formerly Consultant, Compass Advisers. Formerly Executive Director of Citicorp, and member of the supervisory board of Abemy BV.

Senior Executive Officers

Michael Maclay
Executive Chairman, Montrose Associates
Former diplomat, journalist and editor, later Foreign Office political adviser and special adviser/chief spokesman at Office of High Representative, Bosnia. Latterly director of one of the UK's leading strategic intelligence companies. Chairman, Citizenship Foundation and Senior Adviser to the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. Also a member of the Advisory Board of the British American Project.

Tom Rhodes
Chief Operating Officer, Montrose Associates
Former New York Bureau Chief of The Sunday Times and Washington Correspondent for The Times. Latterly senior executive of one of UK's leading strategic intelligence companies and Managing Director International of New York technology company, Exceed.

Louisa-Jayne O'Neill
Senior Executive, Montrose Associates
Former diplomat and civil servant with experience of Asia, Central Europe, and Latin America. Latterly Cabinet Office official leading specialist team on use of strategic information across government. Other experience includes horizon scanning, organisational complexity and strategic change.