The Commissioners:
Kofi Annan
Chairman of the Kofi Annan Foundation and Former Secretary General of the United Nations, Ghana
Louise Arbour
Former High Commissioner for Human Rights, Canada
Pavel Bém
Former Mayor of Prague, Czech Republic
Richard Branson
Entrepreneur, advocate for social causes, founder of the Virgin Group, cofounder of The Elders,
United Kingdom
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
Former President of Brazil
(chair)
Maria Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber of Commerce, Switzerland
Ruth Dreifuss
Former President of Switzerland and Minister of Home Affairs
Cesar Gaviria
Former President of Colombia
Anand Grover
Former UN Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable
standard of physical and mental health, India
Asma Jahangir
Human rights activist, former UN Special Rapporteur on Arbitrary, Extrajudicial and Summary
Executions, Pakistan
Michel Kazatchkine
UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, former
Executive director of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, France
Alexander Kwasniewski
Former President of Poland
Ricardo Lagos
Former president of Chile
Olusegun Obasanjo
Former President of Nigeria
George Papandreou
Former Prime Minister of Greece
Jorge Sampaio
Former President of Portugal