Club de Madrid

Club de Madrid is an elite organization bringing together former government officials, academics, think tankers and journalists to develop a common agenda, its facilitating propaganda, and provide opinion and policy recommendations. From its inception, Club de Madrid meant to for an alliance between right-wing/neoliberal political groupings and elites in the US.
==Relations with OpenDemocracy== 
There has been a steady process of merging OpenDemocracy with Club de Madrid. First, it seems (as of Dec. 2007) that OpenDemocracy.org has become the mouthpiece for the elite-grouping Club de Madrid. Initially Club de Madrid/Madrid11.net were elite organs meant offer opinion, policy advice and propaganda on:
#rail against "terrorism" (the "11" in the title of Madrid11 refers to the date of the terrorist attack on Madrid); 
#align elite European opinion with the US
At its inception, most of the Club de Madrid's efforts were devoted to the first item on the list, and for that purpose they had a dedicated website and staff. This was merged into terrorism.opendemocracy.org (for some time Madrid11.net pointed to the latter website), and eventually to avoid becoming a single issue website/organ, it further merged into opendemocracy.org (on 29 December 2007 Madrid11 points to OpenDemocracy.org). The latter is today mostly a platform where many of the Club de Madrid-listed academics, think tankers, like-minded journalists, and "ex"-government/intelligence officials can write about international issues.
==People==
The Club of Madrid is composed of five executive and advisory bodies:
 	
===Board of Directors===
The Board of Directors includes the President or Vice-president, two members of FRIDE and the GFNA respectively, the Secretary General and at least five full members, designated by the General Assembly for a period of two years.
The Board of Directors meets at least twice a year and, in addition to functions and objectives assigned to it by the General Assembly, it will be in charge of approving report proposals, as well as new appointments to be submitted to the General Assembly.Board of Directors, accessed 30 December 2007
====President====
*Ricardo Lagos - Former President of Chile
====Vice President====
*Mary Robinson - Former President of Ireland
====Secretary General====
* Fernando Perpiñá-Robert 
====Former Heads of State and Government====
*Sadig Al-Mahdi - Former Prime Minister of Sudan
*Kjell Magne Bondevik - Former Prime Minister of Norway
*Kim Campbell - Former Prime Minister of Canada
*Fernando Henrique Cardoso - Former President of Brazil
*Joaquim Chissano - Former President of Mozambique
*Philip Dimitrov - Former Prime Minister of Bulgaria
*Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, – Former President of Iceland
*César Gaviria - Former President of Colombia
*Lee Hong-Koo - Former Prime Minister of South Korea
*Andrés Pastrana - Former President of Colombia
*Petre Roman - Former Prime Minister of Rumania
*Jennifer Mary Shipley - Former Prime Minister of New ZealandBoard of Directors, accessed 30 December 2007
=== Representatives of the Constituent Foundations===
*Diego Hidalgo Schnur - President, FRIDE
*Anthony Jones - Executive Director, GFNA
*George Matthews - Chairman, GFNA
*José Manuel Romero Moreno - Trustee, FRIDE
 	
===General Assembly===
The General Assembly is the supreme representative and governing body of the Club of Madrid and is composed of all the former Heads of State and Government of the Club of Madrid, the Presidents and one other member of FRIDE and The Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA) each, as well as the Secretary General. All of these will attend any General Assembly meeting and be entitled to participate and vote. All members or advisers of the Club of Madrid will be able to attend but not vote.
The General Assembly meets at least once a year and its responsibilities include, among others, the approval of the different activities of the Club of Madrid, the approval of reports prepared by the Club and of the inclusion of new members in the Club of Madrid, the designation or ratification of the president or Vice-president, the Board of Directors, the Secretary General, and the approval of the budget.General Assembly, accessed 30 December 2007
===General Secretariat===
The Secretary General is appointed by the Board of Directors and ratified by the General Assembly, and she takes responsibility for the daily management of the Club of Madrid as well as the coordination of the activities of the organization. She also prepares and submits to the Board of Directors all the information and proposals to be approved by the Board or submitted to the General Assembly.
*Fernando Perpiñá-Robert - Secretary General (as of March 2007)
*María Elena Agüero - Director of Institutional Relations and Special Programs
*Sean Carroll - Director of Programs
*Ricardo Hidalgo - Chief Financial Officer
*Ted Piccone - Director of the Washington DC Office
*Nicolas Rougy - Policy Officer, Director a.i. Brussels office
*Antonio Álvarez-Couceiro - Secretary General Ad Honorem
====Staff====
*Agustina Briano - Institutional Relations and Special Projects Assistant
*Edward Burke, Jr. Special Programs Assistant
*Olatz Cacho - Program Assistant
*Rubén Campos - Assistant to the Programs Director
*Sara de Agustín - Administrative assistant
*Sara de la Peña - Program Assistant
*Marguerite Diatta - Recepcionist
*Nacho Espinosa - Assistant to the Program Officer
*Elena Findley-de Regt - Intern
*Bárbara González del Valle - Press Officer
*Alicia López Tejero - Development Officer
*Ángela Menéndez - Administrative Chief
*Silvia Pescador - Data Base Chief
*Montse Sánchez - Office Manager
*Kim Wuyts - Policy Officer, Brussels office
===Advisory Committee===
The Advisory committee is a permanent advisory body to the Board of Directors and the General Assembly of the Club of Madrid. The members of the Advisory Committee participate in the General Assembly but are not entitled to vote; they may be called to attend meetings of the Board of Directors whenever their expert opinion is required.
===Members of the Advisory Committee===
*Tarcísio Costa - Commercial Counselor at the Embassy of Brazil in Spain
*Rut Diamint - Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
*Jorge I. Domínguez - Director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
*Grzegorz Ekiert - Professor of Government, Center for European Studies, Harvard University
*Byung-Kook Kim - Professor of Government, University of Korea
*Bolívar Lamounier - Director of Augurium Consultores, Sao Paulo
*Alexander Likhotal - Executive Vice-President of the GFNA and First Vice-President of Green Cross International
*Juan José Linz - Emeritus Professor of the Sterling Chair in Political and Social Sciences, Yale University
*José María Maravall - Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute
*Lucinio Muñoz - Senior Advisor. Public Debt. Spanish Treasury. Ministry of Economy and Finance
*Peter Neumann - Director of the Centre for Defense Studies of King’s College
*Timothy Phillips - Co-Founder of the Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Harvard University
*Andrés Rigo- Former Deputy General Counsel of the World Bank. International Arbitrator
*Susan Rose-Ackerman - Henri R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale School of Law
*Richard Simeon - Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Toronto
===Members===
 	
====Honorary Members====
*Jimmy Carter Former President of the United States
*Jacques Delors Former President of the European Commission
*Kofi Annan Former Secretary General of the United Nations
====Fellows====
All the experts in democratic transitions who participated in the Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation (CDTC) held in Madrid in October 2001 or who subsequently have joined the tasks forces in the Club of Madrid will be Fellows of the Club of Madrid.
*Adam Przeworski Caroll and Milton Petrie Professor, Department of Politics, New York University, USA
*Alec Stone Sweet Senior Official Fellow, Chair in Comparative Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University, England
*Alex Brillantes Associate Professor at the National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Phillipines
*Alfred Stepan - Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government at the Columbia University, USA
*András Sajó Professor and Chair, Comparative Constitutional Law Programs, Central European University, Hungary
*Andrew Richards Researcher and lecturer, Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
*Andrzej Rychard Professor of Sociology at the Central European University, Warsaw, Poland
*Anna Grzymala-Busse (Assistant). Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Yale University, USA
*Antonio Octavio Cintra Senior Policy Analyst at the Federal Chamber of Deputies of Brazil
*Barbara Stallings Director of the Economic Development Division of United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, USA
*Barry Ames Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburg, USA
*Béatrice Hibou Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique , France
*Bolívar Lamounier Co-founder and First President of IDESP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
*Bruce Ackerman Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, USA
*Byung-Kook Kim Professor of Government, Korea University, South Korea
*Carlo Guarnieri Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy
*Christina Murray Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, University of Cape Town, South Africa
*Chung-In Moon Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, South Korea
*Claus Offe Professor of Political Science, Humboldt University, Germany
*Cristina Eguizábal Program Officer of the Human Rights and International Cooperation Unit, Ford Foundation, USA
*Daniel A. Sharp General Academic Coordinator of the CDTC. Senior Advisor
*Daniel Kaufmann Director of Global Governance at the World Bank Institute
*Darina Malová Associate Professor of Political Science at the Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
*David C. Kang Assistant Professor, Government Department, Dartmouth College, USA
*Dewi Fortuna Anwar Associate Director for Research at The Habibie Center, Indonesia
*Donatella della Porta Professor, Political Science Department, University of Florence, Italy
*Ergun Özbudun Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Political Science Department, Bilkent University, Turkey
*Ermelinda Meksi Minister of Economic Cooperation and Trade of Albania
*Ernesto Garilao Associate Dean of the Asian Institute of Management, Philippines
*Ernesto Garzón Valdés Professor of Political Science, University of Mainz, Germany
*Eugene Habiger Former Commander in Chief of U.S. Strategic Command
*Eva Bellin Associate Professor of Government and Faculty Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, USA
*Evgeniya Albats Russian political analyst
*Fabián Oddone (Assistant). Researcher, University of El Rosario, Colombia
*Fernando Cepeda Former Minister of Government and Communications and Ambassador of Colombia
*François Vincke Director of the Department of Europe & International of the Belgian Business Federation, Belgium
*Gabriel Cisneros One of the "fathers" of the Spanish Constitution. Member of the Spanish Parliament
*Gabriel Ortiz de Zevallos Executive Director of the APOYO Institute, Peru
*Gavin Cawthra Professor and Director of the Defence and Security Management Programme, Wits Graduate School of Public and Development Management, South Africa
*George Kastner Senior Vice-President and Director, Global Key Client Management, Arthur D. Little Inc., USA
*Grzegorz Ekiert Professor of Government, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA
*Grzegorz Kolodko Former First Deputy Prenier and Minister of Finance of Poland. Director of TIGER at Kozminski School
*Guillermo O'Donnell Helen Kellog Professor of Government, University of Notre Dame, USA
*Hal Klepak Professor of Latin American History at the Royal Military College of Canada 
*Herbert Kitschelt Professor of the Political Science Department, Duke University, USA
*Herman Schwartz Professor of Law, American University, USA
*Hyug Baeg Im Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science, Korea University, South Korea
*Ian Shapiro William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA
*Javier Corrales Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Amherst College, USA
*Jeff Bowen (Assistant). Researcher, Yale School of Law, USA. Student and doctoral candidate in Political Science
*Jeffrey Weldon Professor of the Department of Political Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo, Mexico
*Joan Nelson Senior Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA
*John Dugard Emeritus Professor of Law, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor of Public Intern
*Jon Elster Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University, USA
*Jonathan Hartlyn Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, University of North Carolina, USA
*Joo-Youn Jung (Assistant). Department of Political Science, Stanford University, USA
*José Luis Méndez General Coordinator of the Unit of Analysis of the Presidency of the Republic, Mexico
*José María Maravall Academic Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain
*Joseph Tulchin Director of the Latin American Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, USA
*Juan Carlos Torre Professor of Sociology, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina
*Juan Enrique Vargas Executive Director of the Centro de Estudios de Justicia de las Américas, Chile
*Karl Ove Moene Professor, University of Oslo, Norway
*Kathleen O'Neill Assistant Professor of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
*Kenneth P. Erickson Professor of political Science at the City University of New York, USA
*Klaus Von Beyme Professor of Political Theory and Analysis, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
*Kwang Woong Kim Professor of the Graduate School of Public Administration, Seoul National University, South Korea
*Landelino Lavilla Member of the Spanish State Council
*Luc Turgeon (Assitant). Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada
*Lynn Khadiagala Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary, USA. Professional Lecturer, American University, USA
*María Carrilho Member of the European Parliament, Portugal
*María Teresa Sadek Professor of Political Science, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
*Martin Krygier Professor of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia
*Maurizio Cotta Professor of Political Science at the Universitá degli Studi di Siena, Italy
*Miguel Á. Fernández Ordóñez Former Secretary of State for Economy and Trade of Spain. President of the Commission on Competition of Spain.
*Miklos Marschall Executive Director of Transparency International USA
*Minxin Pei Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
*Mónica Nagel Minister of Justice of Costa Rica
*Muthiah Alagappa Director of the East-West Center, USA
*Nancy Bermeo Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Graduate Studies Program, Princeton University, USA
*Narcis Serra Former Minister of Defense and Former Vice-President of the Government of Spain
*Nenad Dimitrijevic Head of the Political Science Department, Central European University, Hungary
*Pedro Magalhães (Assistant). Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, University of Lisbon, Portugal
*Pierre du Toit Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa 
*Pranab Bardhan Professor, University of California at Berkeley, USA
*Rafael di Tella Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Harvard University, USA
*Rafael Pardo Former Minister of Defense of Colombia
*Ralph Espach (Assistant). Project Director, Berkeley APEC Study Center, University of California at Berkeley, USA
*Raúl Benítez Manaut Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the National University of Mexico
*Ricardo Gil Lavedra Former Minister of Justice and Human Rights of Argentina. Associate professor
*Richard Simeon Professor of Political Science and Law, University of Toronto, Canada
*Roberto de Michele Under Secretary, Department of Transparency Policies, Anticorruption Office, Argentina
*Rodolfo Martín Villa Former Minister of Interior of Spain and President of Endesa, Spain
*Rut Diamint Professor of Political Science, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina 
*Ruti Teitel Ernst C. Stiefel Professor of Comparative Law, New York Law School, USA
*Steven Fish Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA
*Steven Holmes Professor of Law and Politics, and Director of the Center for Russian and East European Law, New York University School of Law, USA
*Suchit Bunbongkarn Judge of the Constitutional Court, Thailand
*Susan Rose-Ackerman Henri R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale School of Law, USA 
*Thomas Biersteker Director of the Watson Institute, USA
*Thomaz Guedes da Costa Professor of National Security Affairs at the National Defense University, USA
*Tomás de la Quadra Salcedo Former Minister of Justice of Spain. Professor of Public Administration Law, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
*Ulrich K. Preuss Professor of Law and politics, Free University of Berlin, Germany
*Valerie Bunce Professor of Government, Cornell University, USA
*Víctor Pérez-Díaz Professor of Sociology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
*Yash Ghai Sir Y.K. Professor of Public Law, University of Hong Kong, China
==Affiliations==
*OpenDemocracy
==Contact, References and Resources==
===Contact===
:Club de Madrid
:C /Goya 5-7. Pasaje, 2a
:28001 Madrid - SPAIN
:Tel. +34 911 548 230
:Fax +34 911 548 240
:email: clubmadrid@clubmadrid.org
===References===