THE CRANS MONTANA FORUM SINCE 1986...


The CRANS MONTANA FORUM is a Non-Governmental International Organization established since 1986, whose mission is to build a better World “Towards a more Humane World”.

The CRANS MONTANA FORUM is closely working with all Governments, specialised Bodies, International & Regional Organizations such as the UN, UNESCO, UNIDO, FAO, the EUROPEAN UNION, the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, the COUNCIL OF EUROPE, OFID… and naturally numerous NGOs.

Its primary aim is to strengthen international cooperation by promoting good practices and allowing a permanent dialogue between those in the public and private sectors who are the real decision-makers on whom the future of our World depends.

The Crans Montana Forum organizes several events per year. Every time, decision-makers, always at a high level, generally from about a hundred countries, meet in a private and informal setting to discuss the political, social, economic and security challenges of our Century.

Each of the Forums organised throughout the world (Brussels, Geneva, Rabat, Dakhla, Vienna, Barcelona, Crans-Montana, Bucharest, Budva, Baku, Zagreb, Roma, Sarajevo, Tirana, Athens, Malta, Bahrain etc.) represent unique opportunities for Businesses and Government Officials to network and strengthen their partnership relations.

THE FORUM'S FOUNDERS

The history of the Crans Montana Forum started with the Fondation du Forum Universale
and the Club de Lausanne, which have played an important role since 1985.

Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
President of the Swiss Confederation

It is the late Jean-Pascal Delamuraz, President of the Swiss Confederation,
who guided with friendship and constancy the hand of the two founders :

Mr. Jean-Paul Carteron
Executive President & Founder
Crans Montana Forum
Fondation du Forum Universale
HSH Prince Anton von und zu Liechtenstein
Honorary Chairman & Co-founder
Fondation du Forum Universale

LATER, THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL WAS CREATED

Pfr. Daniel Warner
Chairman, Advisory Board
Crans Montana Forum

THOSE WHO GAVE LIFE TO THE FORUM

Mr. Jean-Pascal Delamuraz
President of the Swiss
Confederation
Mr. Richard Holbrooke
Ambassador of the United States to the U.N.
Mr. Yasser Arafat
President of the Palestine
Mr. Shimon Peres
Prime Minister
State of Israel
Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev
President of the USSR
Mr. Kiro Gligorov
President of the Republic of Macedonia
Mr. Arpad Goncz
President of the Republic of Hungary
Mr. Jean Lecanuet
Minister of Justice, France
MP - Chairman, Foreign Aff.
Committee of Senate
Pfr. Georges Vedel
Member, Constitutional Court and Académie Française
Mr. Turgut Ozal
President of the Republic of Turkey
Mr. Viktor Chernomyrdin
Prime Minister
Russia
Mr. Rafic Hariri
Prime Minister
Lebanon
Mr. Anatoly Sobchak
Mayor of Saint-Petersburg
Russia
Mr. Yitzhak Rabin
Prime Minister
State of Israel
Mr. Janez Drnovsek
President of the Republic of Slovenia
Mr. Jacques Kosciusko-Morizet
Ambassadeur de France
Mr. Bronislaw Geremek
Co-Founder of Solidarnosc Companion of Lech Walesa
Mr. Lennart Meri
President of the Republic of Estonia
Mr. Edouard Chevardnadze
President of the Republic of Georgia
Mr. Pascal Couchepin
President of the Swiss Confederation
Mr. Alain Juppé
Prime Minister
France
Mr. Andonis Samaras
Prime Minister
Greece
Mr. Didier Reynders
Vice Prime Minister & Minister Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and European Affairs, Belgium
Mr. Alain Decaux
Minister of the Francophonie
France
Mr. Flavio Cotti
President of the Swiss
Confederation
Mr. Jean François-Poncet
Minister of Foreign Affairs
France
Mr. Guido de Marco
President of the Republic of Malta
Pfr. Henri Rieben
Founder
Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Switzerland
Mr. Claude Cheysson
Minister of Foreign Affairs
France
Mr. Jean-Bernard Raimond
Minister of Foreign Affairs
France
Sir Leon Brittan
European Commissionner
Mr. Jelu Jelev
President of the Republic of Bulgaria
Mr. Jacques Barrot
Vice President
European Commission
Mr. Boutros Boutros Ghali
Secretary General
United Nations
Mrs. Anne-Marie Lizin
Honorary Speaker
Senate of Belgium
Mr. Zbigniew Brzezinski
National Security Advisor
to President Jimmy Carter

THOSE WHOSE ATTENTIVE SUPPORT IS MORE PRECIOUS

HRH Prince Jean
de Luxembourg

HSH Prince Aloïs von Liechtenstein
Mr. Ion Iliescu
President of Romania
HM Simeon de Saxe-Cobourg-Gotha
Prime Minister
Bulgaria
Mrs. Irina Bokova
Director General
UNESCO
Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker
President
European Commission
Mr. Philippe Douste-Blazy
Dep. Secretary General United Nations President, UNITAID
Mr. Saadeddine El Othmani
Prime Minister
Morocco
Mr. Jerry K. Rawlings
President of the Republic of Ghana
Mr. Dominique de Villepin
Prime Minister
France
Mr. Vaclav Klaus
President of the Czech Republic
HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal
Chairman
King Faisal Center for Research
& Islamic Studies, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Jesse L. Jackson
Founder & President
Rainbow Push Coalition USA
Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika
President of the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
Mr. Raila Amollo Odinga
Prime Minister
Kenya
Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Head of the Government
Spain
Mr. Ricardo Lagos
President of the Republic of Chile
Mr. Samuel Manetoali
Minister of Forestry and Research
Solomon Islands
Mr. Moustapha Cissé Lo
Speaker
Parliament of the ECOWAS
Mrs. Judith Amaechi
Founder
Empowerment Support Initiative
Nigeria
Mr. Nicolas Koutros
Managing Director
Oberthur Fiduciaire, France
Mr. Herman De Croo
Minister of State
Belgium
Mrs. Huguette Labelle
Chairperson
Transparency International
Mr. Kalaa Mpinga
Founder & CIO
Mafuta Investment Holding Limited
Mauritius
Mr. Hage Geingob
President of the Republic of Namibia
Mr. Abbas Ali Al Naqi
Secretary General
Organisation of Arab Petroleum
Exporting Countries
Mr. Alain Michel Luvambano
Secretary General
Maritime Organization for Western and Central Africa
Mr. Jean-Louis Bruguière
Judge
Expert in International Terror Affairs
Mr. Ted Whiteside
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO
Mr. Suleiman Al Herbish
Director General
OPEC-Fund for International Development OFID
Mrs. Farida Allaghi
Political & Human Rights Activist
Libya
Mr. Sali Berisha
Prime Minister
Albania
Mr. Kandeh Yumkella
Director General
UNIDO
Mr. Donald Kaberuka
President
African Development Bank
Mr. Alain Juillet
President
Le Club des Directeurs de Sécurité
des Entreprises, France
Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari
Wife of the President of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Mr. S.M. Hossein Adeli
Secretary General
Gas Exporting Countries Forum
Mr. Philippe Bohn
Director General
Air Sénégal
Mr. Naguib Sawiris
Chairman & CEO
Orascom TMT
Mrs. Aissata Issoufou Mahamadou
First Lady of the Republic of Niger
Mr. Petar Stoyanov
President of the Republic of Bulgaria
HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad Al Sharqi
Crown Prince of Fujairah Emirate United Arab Emirates
Mr. Milo Djukanovic
President of the Republic of Montenegro
Mr. Stjepan Mesic
President of the Republic of Croatia
Mr. Salaheddine Mezouar
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Morocco
Mr. François Rubio
Director
Médecins du Monde
Mr. Peter Medgyessy
Prime Minister
Hungary
Mr. Abdullah Abdullah
Prime Minister
Afghanistan
Mr. Rowsch N. Shaways
Dep. Prime Minister
Iraq
Mrs. Pearl Kupe
Director
Africa Women's Leadership Programme
Mr. Gilles Pargneaux
Member
European Parliament
HRH Princess Sanyogita Atrey
Chairperson & Managing Director
SG18 Realty, India
Mrs. Silvana Koch-Mehrin
MEP & Founder
Women in Parliament Global Forum
Mr. Jamie P. Shea
Dep. Asst. Secretary General
NATO
Mr. René Van Der Linden
Speaker
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mr. Alain Mérieux
Chairman
Institut Mérieux, France
Mr. Filip Vujanovic
President of the Republic of Montenegro
Mr. Mohammed T. Mouline
Director General
Royal Institute for Strategic Studies
IRES
Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas
Secretary General
African, Caribbean and Pacific
Group of States
Mr. Christophe-André Frassa
MP, Member of the Senate
France