Global Panel Worldwide

  • Marc S. Ellenbogen (Chair, Worldwide)
    President, The Prague Society; Founding Trustee,
    Democratic Expat Leadership Council, U.S.
    Member of the National Advisory Board, U.S. DemocraticParty (2004 -2010)
  • Hon. Klaus Peter Klaiber, KCMG (Vice Chair, Worldwide)
    fmr. Head of Policy and Planning (Planungustab), German Foriegn Ministry,
  • fmr. Asst. Secretary General of NATO; Ambassador to Australia, Germany
  • Markus H. Hermann, MA (Treasurer)
    Board Member and Treasurer, Global Panel Foundation;
    Member, The Prague Society
  • Jens Geitmann
    Vice President, The Prague Society; Co-Founder &
    Managing Director, TriStone Partners
  • Dr. Vera Lieberwirth
    Attorney-at-Law (Germany)
  • Hon. Jens Hald-Madsen (Chair, Nordic Countries)
    fmr. Commissioner for the Danish National Guard; fmr.
    Vice-Chair, Defense Committee, Danish Parliament
  • Katja Tobiasz
    Entrepreneur and Businesswoman, Mannheim
  • Ingrid Rexrodt & Hon. Dr. Günter Rexrodt, MP
    MP (In Memoriam) fmr. Minister of Trade and Economics,
    Germany
  • Markus Meckel
    frm. President of the German War Graves Commission;
    fmr. Foreign Minister of the GDR
  • Hon. Doris Barnett (until June 2013)
    German Bundestag, Berlin, Co-Founder, Global Panel
    Foundation e.V.
  • Hon. Juergen Chrobog (Member Emeritus)
    Board of Directors, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt fmr.
    Deputy Foreign Minister, Germany (2001-2005) fmr.
    Ambassador to the United States, Germany (1995-2001)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Global Panel Australasia

  • Sir Donald C. McKinnon, ONZ, GCVO (Chair)
    Commonwealth Secretary General(2000-2008); fmr. Foreign Minister, New Zealand

  • Hon. Philip Ruddock, MP (Vice-Chair)
    Attorney General (2003-2007); Minister for Immigration (1997-2003), Australia

  • Stewart Young (Treasurer)
    Executive Director, Hill Young & Associates

  • Daniel Street (Secretary)
    Reporter, National Nine News

  • Amb. Winston Cochrane
    fmr. Ambassador of New Zealand to Germany, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia

  • Marc S. Ellenbogen (Chair, Worldwide)
    President, The Prague Society; Founding Trustee, Democratic Expat Leadership Council, U.S.

  • Bonnie Faulkner
    Assistant to the Board of Directors, Australia

  • Hon. Sen. John Faulkner
    Minister of Defense, Australia; Special Minister of State, Australia; Cabinets Secretary;Vice-President of the Executive Council;

  • Warren Reed
    Author and Commentator

  • Arthur Sinodinos
    Senior Director, National Australia Bank

  • Ezekiel Solomon
    Partner, Allens Arthur Robinson; Vice-Chair, International Antitrust Law Committee

  • Prof. Peter Walls
    Deputy-Chair, Victoria University of Wellington

  • Baron Peter von Fritz
    Chairman, Global Access Partners; Managing Director, TCG Group

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Global Panel America

  • Hon. Barbara J. McDougall (Chair, America)
    fmr. Foreign & Finance Minister, Canada

  • Sir Malcom Rifkind, MP (Vice Chair)
    former Defense and Foreign Secretary, UK

  • Hon. Dov S. Zakheim (Vice Chair)
    V.P., Booz Allen Hamilton; Under Secretary of Defense (2001-2004), USA

  • Yossef Bodansky (Director) (in memoriam)
    Senior Advisor, Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare (Director 1988-2004), USA

  • Marc S. Ellenbogen (Chair, Worldwide)
    President, The Prague Society; Founding Trustee, Democratic Expat Leadership Council, U.S.

  • Hon. Oskars Kastēns, MP
    Minister for Social Integration, Latvia (2006-2009)

  • Robert G. Seasonwein
    Assistant Chief Counsel, TSA, Department of Homeland Security, USA

  • General Dieter Stöckmann (ret.)
    fmr. Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE, NATO, Germany

  • Martin Walker
    Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, United Press International (UPI), UK

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Global Panel Worldwide

  • Hans van den Broek
    fmr. European Commissioner and Foreign Minister, Netherlands
  • Dr. Hans-Hermann Bowitz
    fmr. Deputy Chief of Staff to Federal President Roman Herzog, Germany
  • Hon Tomas Borec, Esq
    fmr. Justice Minister, Slovak Republic and President of the Slovak Bar Association
  • General Wesley Clark
    Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (1997-2000)
  • MG Leszek Soczewica (ret)
  • fmr Army Chief of Staff, Deputy Foreign Minister and Ambassador (Poland)
  • Ambassador Frantisek Cerny (ret.)
    fmr. Czech Ambassador to Germany
  • Hon. Enrique Báron Crespo, MEP
    fmr. President of European Parliament, Spain
  • General Constantin Degeratu
    National Security Advisor to the President, Romania
  • Stuart E. Eizenstat
    fmr. Deputy Treasury Secretary and Ambassador, USA
  • Hon. Foreign Minister Gareth Evans (ret.)
    President, International Crisis Group, Brussels
  • Hon. Prof. Dr. Mark Eyskens, MP
    fmr. Prime Minister, Belgium
  • Souad Mehkennet
    Journalist, New York Times
  • Alexander P. van Heeren, MBE
    Industrialist, Philanthropist, Honorary Consul of New Zealand
  • H.E. Mustafa Kamal Kazi
    Ambassador of Pakistan to Russia and fmr. Under Secretary of State
  • F.W. de Klerk (in memoriam)
    Nobel Laureate & Statesman, South Africa
  • Hon. Eduard Kukan, MP
    fmr. Foreign Minister, Slovak Republic
  • Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky (ret.)
    fmr. US Ambassador to Brazil and Bulgaria and Assistant Secretary of State, USA
  • Hon. Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, MP
    Justice Minister, Germany
  • Hon. Stefan Mappus
    Governor, The State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
  • Hon. Teodor Melescanu
    Foreign Minister, fmr. Defence Minister, Senator & Head, Foreign Intelligence Service, Romania
  • Hon. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Alois Mock
    fmr. Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister, Austria
  • Prof. John Palmer, Ph.D.
    The Maxwell School; fmr. Public Trustee, fmr. Asst. Secretary
  • Ambassador Boris D. Pankin (ret.)
    fmr. Foreign Minister to Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Hon. Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer, MP
    Energy Spokesman, CDU Parliamentary Group, German Bundestag
  • Ash Rajan
    Director and Chief Investment Officer, Merrill Lynch, New York
  • Hon. Klaus Dieter Reichardt, MP
    Baden-Wuerttemberg State Legislature
  • Dr. Klaus Riehmer
    Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, Frankfurt
  • Ambassador Dr. Immo Stabreit (ret.)
    fmr. German Ambassador to South Africa, USA, France
  • Hon. Shyam Saran
    Special Envoy to the Prime Minister; fmr. Foreign Secretary, India
  • Rt. Hon. Cyril Svoboda
    fmr. Minister for Legislative Affairs; fmr. Foreign Minister, Czech Republic
  • Hon. Gheorghe Tinca
    Defense Minister and Ambassador (ret.), Romania
  • Martin Walker
    Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, United Press International (UPI), UK

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Global Panel Australasia

  • Yossef Bodansky
    Senior Advisor, Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare (Director 1988-2004), USA
  • Amb. Sang-Hoon Cho
    Former Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Australia and Turkey
  • Professor Margaret Clark
    Chair, Political Science, Victoria University of Wellington
  • Hon. Laurie Ferguson, MP
    Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement Services, Australia
  • The Hon. Phil Goff, MP
    Leader of the Opposition; fmr. Minister of Defense; fmr. Minister of Foreign Affairs & Trade, New Zealand
  • Hon. Klaus Peter Klaiber, KCMG
    Former Asst. Secretary General of NATO; Ambassador to Australia, Germany
  • Hon. Jens Hald Madsen, MP (Chair, Nordic Countries)
    Commissioner for the Danish National Guard; fmr. Vice-Chair, Defense Committee, Danish Parliament
  • Hon. Sandra Christine Nori
    frm. Minister for Women, Tourism, Smalll Business, New South Wales, Australia
  • Hon. Sen. Henry Tsang, MLC
    Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier, NSW;
  • Hon. Malcolm Turnbull, MP
    fmr. Leader of the Opposition; fmr. Federal Minister for Environment and Water, Australia
  • Professor Peter Walls
    Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra

BOARD OF ADVISORS

Global Panel America

Hon. Hassan Abouyoub
Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to King Mohamed VI of Morocco;
fmr. Minister of Trade

Charles C. Adams Jr., Esq.
Managing Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Geneva, Switzerland

Hon. Shahid Kamal
Ambassador of Pakistan to the Germany (since 2007), fmr. Ambassador to Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Latvia

Hon. Richard L. Brodsky (in-memoriam)
Chairman, Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions, New York State Legislature, USA

Hon. Jennifer Brunner
Secretary of State, The State of Ohio

Baroness Cox of Queensbury
Deputy Speaker, House of Lords, UK

Hon. Ján Čarnogurský
fmr. Prime Minister and Minister of Justice, Slovakia

Hon. Paula J. Dobriansky
US Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs (2001-2008)

Stuart E. Eizenstat
former Deputy Treasury Secretary and Ambassador, USA

Hon. Sen. John Faulkner
Minister of Defense, Australia; Special Minister of State, Australia; Cabinets Secretary;Vice-President of the Executive Council;

Lord Holme of Cheltenham (In Memoriam)
Liberal Peer; Chancellor, University of Greenwich; Business Leader, UK

Major General Bruce M. Lawlor (ret.)
Chief of Staff Department of Homeland Security (2003-2006)
Director of the Center for Technology, Security, and Public Policy at Virginia Tech and Member of the Commission on the Black Sea

Hon. Dan Maffei (Member Emeritus)
United States Congressman, 25th District of the State of New York

John O’Sullivan
former Special Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; Editor at Large, National Review, UK

Peter Palečka
Senior Executive Director and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Komerční Banka,Czech Republic

Andrés Pastrana Arango
President of Colombia (1998-2002)

Hon. Pavol Paska, MP
President of the Slovak National Assembly (2006 -2010)
Vice Chairman, Smer – Social Democracy Party, and Minority Leader of the National Assembly

Lord Pearson of Rannoch
Independent conservative Peer, Business Leader, UK

Thomas R. Pickering
Vice Chairman, Hills & Company; former Under Secretary of State and Ambassador; former Senior Vice President, Boeing, USA

HRH Prince Radu of Romania

Hon. Philip Ruddock, MP (Vice Chair-designate, Global Panel Australasia)
 Attorney General (2003-2007); Minister for Immigration (1997-2003), Australia

Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Deputy Chairman, TNK-BP plc ; Labour Peer; Former Secretary General, NATO; former Minister of Defense, UK

Hon. Richard Schnepf
Amb. of Poland to Spain; former Deputy Foreign Minister

Hitoshi Tanaka
Senior Fellow, Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE); former Deputy Foreign Minister, Japan

Zdeněk Tůma
Governor of the Central Bank, Czech Repubic (2000 – 2010)

Hon. Roger Wicker
United States Senator, Mississippi

James Woolsey
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton; Director, CIA (1993-1995)

Henrikas Yushkiavitshus
Assistant Director-General, UNESCO (1990-2001) Lithuania

SUPERVISORY BOARD

Global Panel Worldwide

  • Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Haarmann (Chair)
    Principal Partner, Haarmann, Frankfurt
  • Dr. Lutz Raettig (Vice Chair)
    Chairman, Supervisory Board, Morgan Stanley Bank AG, Frankfurt; Member, Frankfurt City Council
  • Hon. Kurt Bodewig
    MP fmr. Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation , Germany
  • Hon. Juergen Chrobog (Vice Chair, Global Panel Foundation)
    Vice Chair Board of Directors, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt fmr. Deputy Foreign Minister, Germany (2001-2005) fmr. Ambassador to the United States, Germany (1995-2001)
  • Herbert Mai
    fmr. Member of the Executive Board, Frankfurt Airport Authority (Fraport), Germany
  • Hon. Barbara J. McDougall
    PC, CFA, LL.D. (Chair, Global Panel America) fmr. Advisor, Aird & Berlis; fmr. Foreign & Finance Minister, Canada
  • Sir Donald C. McKinnon, ONZ, GCVO (Chair, Global Panel Australasia) fmr. Commonwealth Secretary General; fmr. Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, New Zealand
  • General Dieter Stöckmann (ret.)
     fmr. Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, SHAPE, Germany
  • Hon. Philip Ruddock, MP
    Attorney General (2003-2007); Minister for Immigration (1997-2003), Australia
  • Sir Malcom Rifkind, MP
    former Defense and Foreign Secretary, UK

  • Hon. Dov S. Zakheim
    V.P., Booz Allen Hamilton; Under Secretary of Defense (2001-2004), USA

  • Hon. Dr. Günter Rexrodt (In Memoriam)
    MP; Minister of Trade and Economics, Germany

  • Ambassador Prof. Dr. Vladimir Lomeiko (In Memoriam)
    resident, Baden-Baden Foundation; Press Secretary to Mikhail Gorbachev

MARC S. ELLENBOGEN

Global Panel Positions

  • ChairBoard of Directors, Global Panel Worldwide
  • Member, Board of Directors, Global Panel AustralAsia
  • Member, Board of Directors, Global Panel America

Other Positions and Titles

  • President, The Prague Society for International Cooperation (Czech Republic)
  • Vice Chair & Founding Trustee, Democratic Expat Leadership Council, U.S. Democratic Party
  • Venture Capitalist
  • Syndicated Columnist – “Atlantic Eye” at United Press International (UPI)
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures
  • Associate Fellow and Professor, International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics (IIAS), Windsor, Canada
  • Senior Associate, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, The Maxwell School of Citizenship, Syracuse University

Curriculum Vitae

An entrepreneur and philanthropist, Marc Ellenbogen has advised many political personalities. A member of several corporate boards, he is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures. A Senior Advisor to the Oxford University European Affairs Society, he is considered an expert on economic and security questions for Central Europe and has collaborated on several publications and articles. He is one of the few U.S. members of the von Clausewitz-Gesellschaft. 

Ellenbogen is a Senior Associate at the Global Affairs Institute of the Maxwell School, Syracuse; and Associate Fellow and Professor, the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Windsor, Canada. His previous appointments include Visiting Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford and Graduate Scholar for the New York State Legislature.

His next book title is As Down to Earth as Arrogance Gets – The Politics of the 90s. A United States citizen with residence in Prague, Marc Ellenbogen was born and raised in Heidelberg, Germany. He attended Syracuse on a military scholarship.