EastWest Institute

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MottoForging Collective Action for a Safer and Better World
Formation1980
Founder• John Edwin Mroz
• Ira D. Wallach
Extinction2021
Headquarters11 East 26th Street, 20th Floor, New York, USA
TypePublic Policy Think Tank
Membership• Martti Ahtisaari
• Berthold Beitz
• Ivan T. Berend
• Francis Finlay
• Hans-Dietrich Genscher
• Donald M. Kendall
• Whitney MacMillan
• Mark Maletz
• Hans Rausing
• George F. Russell Jr.
• Armen Sarkissian
• Haifa Fahoum Al Kayl
• Tewodros Ashenafi
• Mark Joseph Bild
• Mary McInnis Boies
• Peter Bonfield
• Matt Bross
• David Cohen (REIT Asset Management)
• Roger Cohen
• Joel H. Cowan
• Olivia Fischer
• Addison Fischer
• Hu Yuandong
• John Hurley
• R. William Ide III
• Ralph H. Isham
• Anurag Jain
• James L. Jones
• George Kadifa
• Zuhal Kurt
• Karen Linehan Mroz
• Tsuneo Nishida
• William A. Owens
• Sarah Perot
• Laurent M. Roux
• Ikram ul-Majeed Sehgal
• Kanwal Sibal
• Kevin Taweel
• Alexander Voloshin
• Patrick M. Walsh
• Zhou Wenzhong
• Jan Krzysztof Bielecki
• Emil Constantinescu
• William D. Dearstyne
• Stephen B. Heintz
• Wolfgang Ischinger
• John W. Kluge
• Maria-Pia Kothbauer
• William E. Murray
• John J. Roberts
• Daniel Rose
• Leo Schenker
• Mitchell I. Sonkin
• Thorvald Stoltenberg
• Liener Temerlin
• John C. Whitehead
• Robert N. Campbell III
• Bruce W. McConnell
• John Edwin Mroz
• Ira D. Wallach
• Ross Perot Jr.

The EastWest Institute was formerly known as the Institute for East West Studies.

History

According to an article on the Peace Direct website:

The US-based East West Institute, founded in 1981 as a think tank on traditional security issues had, since the collapse of Communism, focused on research, networking and low-key conferences to help support the development of democracy and free enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.[1]

Activities

In December 2005 the Institute awarded Tony Blair the accolade of Statesman of the Decade. Blair said "It is a very great honour and privilege to receive this award, and I can truthfully say it is a long time since so many people have said so many nice things about me all at once, or indeed at all, to be absolutely frank. And can I thank the East-West Institute and congratulate it on its 25 years, and thank it also for the work that it does in so many different places in the world."[2]

Funding

The Institute prefers not to disclose its funding sources, saying, "Our mission is supported by funding from private and public sources worldwide."[3] However, in 2002 the Institute received $10,000 from Exxon Mobil.[4]

Closing

After the death of Mroz in 2014, the Institute decided to discontinue operations, effective January 31, 2021. Part of the transition involves the transfer of EWI’s ongoing programmatic work to four deep state related organizations: the Stimson Center, Observer Research Foundation America, the Atlantic Council and the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations.[5]

People

Co-Chairmen of the Board

Board members

Honorary Chairmen

Chairmen Emeriti

Directors Emeriti

Non-Board Members of Board Committees

 

Employee on Wikispooks

EmployeeJobAppointedEnd
Sasha HavlicekSenior Director19992005

 

Known members

11 of the 61 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Martti Ahtisaari10th President of Finland, UN Commissioner for Namibia, 3 Bilderbergs
Tewodros AshenafiEthiopian businessman on the board of Atlantic Council with a monopoly in many of the country's industries
Emil Constantinescu
Hans-Dietrich GenscherWest-German deep state operator
Wolfgang IschingerSpooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
James L. JonesSupreme Allied Commander Europe, Atlantic Council, Bilderberger
Donald KendallLong term Pepsi CEO and Bilderberger
John Edwin MrozUS businessman
Thorvald StoltenbergNorwegian politician with deep state connections
Ira WallachUS Businessman and co-founder of the EastWest Institute.
John C. WhiteheadSuspected US deep state functionary who discussed "terrorism" at the 1986 Bilderberg. Various USDS connections including the Bilderberg Steering Committee
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References

  1. East West Institute, Serbia/Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Peace Direct website, version placed in web archive 26 May 2005, accessed in web archive 10 July 2009
  2. PM's acceptance comments for Statesmen of the Decade award, 8 December 2005 http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page8737.asp
  3. Mission and Strategy
  4. ExxonMobil Donations, ExxonMobil, p. 3, accessed 10 July 2009
  5. https://www.eastwest.ngo/idea/eastwest-institute-transitions-post-covid-world