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FOUNDING MEMBERS

  • Kofi A. Annan
    U.N. Secretary-General (1997-2006)
  • CHENG Siwei
    The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Chairman of IFF
    Former Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of China
  • ZHOU Xiaochuan
    IFF Chairman of General Assembly
    Former Vice Chairman of CPPCC
  • Han Seung-soo
    IFF Co-chairman
    Chair, the Council of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
    Former Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea
  • Robert A. Mundell
    The 1st and 2nd Co-chairman of IFF
    Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics
  • Maurice Strong
    IFF Founding Member, the 1st Co-chairman of IFF
    Former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
  • Paul Volcker
    Founding Member and Honorary Chairman of IFF
    Former Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board
  • Jean-Claude Trichet
    Founding Member and the 3rd Co-chairman of IFF
    Former President of the European Central Bank
    Honorary Chairman of the Group of Thirty
  • Shaukat Aziz
    Founding Member and Co-chairman of IFF
    Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • Horst Köhler
    IFF Founding Member
    Former Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Former President of Germany
  • Jean Chrétien
    Founding Member of IFF
    Former Prime Minister of Canada
  • Tony Blair
    Founding Member of IFF
    Former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Michael Kantor
    Former U.S. representative to the WTO
    Former Secretary of Commerce of the U.S.
  • Leo Melamed
    IFF Founding Member
    IFF Advisory Committee Member
    Father of Financial Futures
    Chairman Emeritus of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group)
  • Roderick M. Hills
    IFF Founding Member and Former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
  • Jacob Frenkel
    IFF Founding Member
    Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International and Former Governor of the Bank of Israel
  • Domingo Cavallo
    Former Finance Minister of Argentina
  • Ronald I. Mckinnon
    IFF Founding Member
    Founder of the theory of financial repression
  • LI Guixian
    The 1st President of IFF, Former State Councilor
    Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
  • Ernesto Zedillo
    IFF Board Member
    Former President of Mexico
    Chairman of the 21st Century Council
  • Kevin Rudd
    President and CEO of Asia Society
    Former Prime Minister of Australia
  • Jenny Shipley
    IFF Board Member
    Former Prime Minister of New Zealand
    Co-chair of Silk Road International Association
  • Wim Kok
    Former President of Club of Madrid
    Former Premier of Netherlands
  • Herman Van Rompuy
    IFF Co-chairman
    President Emeritus of European Council
    Former Prime Minister of Belgium
  • José Manuel Durão Barroso
    IFF Co-chairman
    Board Chair of Gavi
    Former President of European Commission
    Former Prime Minister of Portugal
  • Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
    IFF Board Member
    Former President of the Philippines
    Former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
    Co-chair of Silk Road International Association
  • Yukio Hatoyama
    IFF Advisory Committee Member
    Former Prime Minister of Japan
    President of East Asian Community Institute
  • Mehmet Şimşek
    IFF Board Member
    Former Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
  • Edmond Alphandéry
    IFF Vice President
    Chairman of Task Force on Carbon Pricing in Europe
    Former Minister of Economy of France
  • Domenico Siniscalco
    IFF Vice President
    Former Minister of Economy and Finance of Italy
    Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley International Limited
  • Sultan Bin Nasser Al Suwaidi
    IFF Vice President
    Former Governor, Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates
  • Jaime Caruana
    General Manager of Bank for International Settlements
    Former Chairman of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ( 2003 - 2006)
  • Martin Feldstein
    President Emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the U.S.
  • Supachai Panitchpakdi
    Former Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Development and Trade
    Former Director-general of World Trade Organization
  • GU Shengzu
    Former IFF Vice President
    Former Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress of China
  • JIN Liqun
    IFF Founding Member
    President of AIIB
      * Partial List. The Founding Secretary General is an ex officio of the founding members.