The Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) is an NGO founded in 2004 by former State President of South Africa and Nobel Prize laureate F.W. de Klerk. The Republic of South Africa (also known by other official names) is a country located at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936 was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994
Composed of a number of former statesmen, ex-presidents and Prime Ministers, the Global Leadership Foundation exists to "promote good governance- democratic institutions, open markets, human rights and the rule of law- and to contribute to the prevention and resolution of conflict through mediation[1]" based on the experience of its members.
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Members
Current members of the Global Leadership Foundation include[2]:
- FW de Klerk, Chairman- President, Republic of South Africa 1989-94
- HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal- Jordan
- Ketumile Masire- President, Republic of Botswana 1980-1998
- António Mascarenhas Monteiro- President, Cape Verde 1991-2001
- Fidel Valdez Ramos- President, Republic of the Philippines 1992-98
- Cassam Uteem- President, Mauritius 1992-2002
- Kaspar Villiger- President, Swiss Confederation 1995 & 2002
- Joe Clark- Prime Minister, Canada 1979-80; Secretary of State for External Affairs 1984-1991
- Abdul Kareem al-Eryani- Prime Minister, Yemen 1980-83 & 1998-2001
- Michel Rocard- Prime Minister, France 1988-91
- Mike Moore- Prime Minister, New Zealand 1990; Director-General WTO 1999-2002
- Anand Panyarachun- Prime Minister, Thailand 1991-2
- P.J. Patterson- Prime Minister, Jamaica 1992-2006
- José María Aznar- Prime Minister, Spain 1996-2004
- Armen Sarkissian- Prime Minister, Armenia 1996-97
- I. Frederik Willem de Klerk (born 18 March 1936 was the last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994 Sir Quett Ketumile Joni Masire, GCMG (born 23 July, 1925 in Kanye Botswana) was the second President of Botswana Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928) was the 12th President of the Philippines. Cassam Uteem (born 22 March 1941) is a Mauritian Political figure. Kaspar Villiger (pronounced Caspar Veeleeger (born February 5, 1941) is a Swiss industrialist politician and former member of the Swiss Federal Council Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark PC CC AOE (born June 5 1939 is a Canadian Journalist, Politician, Statesman Michel Rocard (born 23 August 1930 is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party (PS Michael Kenneth Moore ONZ (known as Mike Moore, born 28 January 1949) is a Politician from New Zealand who has served both Anand Panyarachun (born August 9, 1932) was Thailand 's Prime Minister twice between 1991-1992 and once again in 1992 Percival Noel James Patterson, ON, QC PC (born 10 April 1935) was the Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006 (born 25 February 1953 served as the Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004 Armen Sargsyan ( Armenian: Արմեն Սարգսյան born June 23, 1953, Yerevan, Armenian SSR) was the Prime Minister of Armenia K. Gujral- Prime Minister, India 1997-8
- Hans van den Broek- Foreign Minister of the Netherlands 1982-93; Member European Commission 1993-99
- Lord Hurd of Westwell- UK Home Secretary 1985-9; Foreign Secretary 1989-95
- Bronislaw Geremek- Foreign Minister, Poland 1997-2000
- Baroness Chalker of Wallasey- UK Minister of Overseas Development 1989-97
- Chester A. Crocker- US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs 1981-89
- Donald F. McHenry- US Ambassador to the UN 1979-81
- John C. Danforth- US Senator, 1976-95; Ambassador to the UN 2004-05
- Elisabeth Rehn- UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights 1998-9; Finnish Minister of Defence 1990-95; Equality Affairs 1995-8
Organisation
The Global Leadership Foundation was registered in Bern, Switzerland in March 2004. Hans van den Broek (born 11 December 1936 in Paris) is a leading Dutch political figure Douglas Richard Hurd Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC (born 8 March 1930 is a senior British Conservative Politician Professor Bronisław Geremek (brɔˈɲiswaf gɛˈrɛmɛk born Benjamin Lewertow on March 6, 1932 in Warsaw, died in a car crash on July Lynda Chalker Baroness Chalker of Wallasey (born 29 April 1942) (née Bates British Conservative Party politician and formerly Member Chester Arthur Crocker (born October 29, 1941) is an American foreign policy specialist who served as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1981 to Donald Franchot McHenry ( October 13 1936 -) was the United States Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations from September 1979 John Claggett "Jack" Danforth (born September 5, 1936) is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican Märta Elisabeth Rehn (born April 6 1935 in Helsinki, Finland) is a former MP of the Swedish People's Party and the first It operates from a secretariat in London headed by former British diplomat, Sir Robin Christopher. Individual advisory members operate independently from the location of the secretariat.
Projects
According to its website, the Global Leadership Foundation “has a growing portfolio of projects undertaken in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. ” Because discretion is a key aspect of the Global Leadership Foundation’s concept and success, and although they are open about their mission, they do not publicly disclose the countries in which they are working unless the Head of Government of said country chooses to do so. A ‘Leadership Committee’ made up of some of the GLF Members decides if and how a project should be mounted. Exactly how projects or governments are chosen or rejected is not specified, but the website states that “GLF will consider requests from any government that is committed to or aspires to the principles of democratic institutions, human rights, open markets and the rule of law. [3]” As an example the GLF have declared that Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe was not a regime that would receive GLF services. See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election Two of the Global Leadership Foundation’s projects, however, are in the public domain and may therefore be discussed openly by the organization. These projects took place in East Timor and Colombia. East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste (officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste) is a country in Southeast Asia. Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America.
Funding
The Global Leadership Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit organization. It is funded by a combination of donations from foundations, corporations, and private individuals. To preserve GLF’s independence, a limit is placed on donations from any one corporation. Donors are invited to join GLF's network of supporters, known as its “International Council"[4].
To keep its operating costs down, GLF employs a very small permanent staff and keeps its infrastructure, fixed assets and overheads to a minimum. It aims to recover project costs from its clients.
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