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| Chairs: |
John P. Manley
Pedro Aspe
William F. Weld |
|---|---|
| Vice Chairs: |
Thomas P. D'Aquino
Andres Rozental
Robert A. Pastor |
May 2005
175 pages
ISBN 0876093489
$15.00
Task Force
Report No. 53
Press Releases: English | French | Spanish
Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.
North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.
When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.
PEDRO ASPE is CEO of Protego, a leading investment banking
advisory firm in Mexico. Mr. Aspe was most recently the Secretary of the
Treasury of Mexico (1988-1994). He has been a Professor of Economics at
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and has held a number of
positions in the Mexican government.
THOMAS S.
AXWORTHY is the Chairman of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at
Queen's University. From 1981 to 1984, Dr. Axworthy was Principal Secretary to
the Prime Minister of Canada, Pierre Trudeau. Since 2001, he has served as
Chairman of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.
HEIDI S.
CRUZ is an energy investment banker with Merrill Lynch in Houston,
Texas. She served in the Bush White House under Dr. Condoleezza Rice as the
Economic Director for the Western Hemisphere at the National Security Council,
as the Director of the Latin
America Office at the U.S. Treasury
Department, and as Special Assistant to Ambassador Robert B. Zoellick, U.S.
Trade Representative. Prior to government service, Ms. Cruz was an investment
banker with J.P. Morgan in New York City.
NELSON W.
CUNNINGHAM is Managing Partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates, the
international strategic advisory firm. He advised John Kerry's 2004
presidential campaign on international economic and foreign policy issues, and
previously served in the Clinton White House as Special Adviser to the
President for Western Hemisphere Affairs.
He earlier served as a lawyer at
the White House, as Senate Judiciary Committee General Counsel under
then-chairman Joseph Biden, and as a federal prosecutor in New
York.
THOMAS P. D'AQUINOIS is Chief Executive of the
Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE), composed of one-hundred-fifty
chief executives of major enterprises in Canada. A lawyer, entrepreneur, and
business strategist, he has served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister
of Canada and Adjunct Professor of Law lecturing on the law of international
trade. He is the Chairman of the CCCE's North American Security and Prosperity
Initiative launched in 2003.
ALFONSO DE ANGOITA is
Executive Vice President and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Grupo
Televisa, S.A. In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Directors and
of the Executive Committee of the company since 1997, and served as Chief
Financial Officer (1999-2003). Prior to joining Grupo Televisa, S.A., he was a
partner of the law firm of Mijares, Angoitia, Cortes y Fuentes, S.C., in
Mexico City.
LUIS DE LA CALLE PARDO is Managing
Director and founding partner at De la Calle, Madrazo, Mancera, S.C. He served
as Undersecretary for International Trade Negotiations in Mexico's Ministry of
the Economy and negotiated several of Mexico's bilateral free trade agreements
and regional and multilateral agreements with the World Trade Organization. As
Trade and NAFTA Minister at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC, he was
instrumental in crafting and implementing the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
WENDY K. DOBSON is Professor and Director,
Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management, University
of Toronto. She has served as President of the C.D. Howe Institute and
Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the government of Canada. She is Vice
Chair of the Canadian Public Accountability Board and a nonexecutive director
of several corporations.
RICHARD A. FALKENRATH is
Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he served as Deputy
Homeland Security Adviser and Special Assistant to the President and Senior
Director for Policy and Plans at the White House's Office of Homeland
Security. He is also Senior Director of the Civitas Group LLC, a strategic
advisory and investment services firm serving the homeland security market, a
security analyst for the Cable News Network (CNN), and a member of the
Business Advisory Board of Arxan Technologies.
RAFAEL FERNANDEZ
DE CASTRO is the founder and head of the Department of International
Studies at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM). Dr. Fernandez
de Castro is also the editor of Foreign Affairs en Espanol, the
sister magazine of Foreign Affairs. He also has columns in Reforma
and the weekly magazine Proceso.
RAMON ALBERTO
GARZA is President and General Director of Montemedia, a consulting
firm specializing in media, public image, entrepreneur relations, and politics
in the Americas. He was the founding Executive Editor of Reforma and President
of Editorial Televisa.
GORDON D. GIFFIN is Senior
Partner at McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP, and served as U.S. Ambassador to
Canada (1997-2001). He also spent five years as Chief Counsel and Legislative
Director to U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. He currently serves on several major
corporate boards, as well as the Board of Trustees of the Carter Center, in
addition to his international law practice.
ALLAN GOTLIEB
was Canadian Ambassador to the United States, Undersecretary of State
for External Affairs, and Chairman of the Canadian Council. He is currently a
senior adviser to the law firm Stikeman Elliott LLP, and Chairman of Sotheby's
Canada and the Donner Foundation. He has also been a member of the board of a
number of Canadian and U.S. corporations, taught at various universities in
both countries, and written several books and articles on international law
and international affairs.
MICHAEL HART holds the
Simon Reisman Chair in trade policy in the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is a former
official in Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
founding director of Carleton's Centre for Trade Policy and Law, and the
author of more than a dozen books
and a hundred articles on Canadian trade
and foreign policy.
CARLOS HEREDIA is Senior Adviser
on International Affairs to Governor Lazaro Cardenas-Batel of the State
Michoacan. He has held senior positions in the Ministry of Finance and the
Mexico City government. For over twenty years, he has worked with Mexican,
Canadian, and U.S. nongovernmental organizations, promoting economic
citizenship and participatory development. Since 2002, he has been Vice
President of the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
(COMEXI).
CARLA A. HILLS is Chairman and CEO of Hills
& Company, an international consulting firm providing advice to U.S.
businesses on investment, trade, and risk assessment issues abroad,
particularly in emerging market economies. She also serves as Vice Chairman of
the Council on Foreign Relations. From 1989 to 1993, Ambassador Hills served
as U.S. Trade Representative in the first Bush administration,
Secretary of
the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Assistant Attorney
General, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice in the Ford
administration.
GARY C. HUFBAUER was Director of
Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and holder of the Maurice
Greenberg chair in 1997 and 1998. He then resumed his position as Reginald
Jones Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Economics. Together
with Jeffrey J. Schott, he authored a new appraisal of NAFTA, published
in
the fall of 2005.
PIERRE MARC JOHNSON is a former
Premier of Quebec, attorney, and physician, and has also been Counsel to the
law offices of Heenan Blaikie since 1996. He was a senior member of Rene
Levesque's cabinet (1976-85) and succeeded Mr. Levesque. Since 1987, Mr.
Johnson has been Professor of Law at McGill University and an adviser to the
United Nations in
international environmental negotiations. He has written
numerous books and essays on trade and the environment, civil society
participation, and globalization. He lectures in Canada, the United States,
and Mexico, and serves on Canadian and European boards.
JAMES
R. JONES is CEO of Manatt Jones Global Strategies, a business
consulting firm. Formerly, he was U.S. Ambassador to Mexico (1993-97),
President of Warnaco International, Chairman and Chief Executive Order of the
American Stock Exchange, and U.S. Congressman from Oklahoma from 1973 to 87
(D-OK), where he was Chairman
of the House Budget Committee. He was
Appointments Secretary (currently known as Chief of Staff) to President Lyndon
B. Johnson. He is Chairman of Meridian International and the World Affairs
Councils of America, and is a board member of Anheuser-Busch, Grupo Modelo,
Keyspan Energy Corporation, and the Kaiser Family
Foundation.
CHAPPELL H. LAWSON is a Project Director
of this Task Force, and is also an Associate Professor of political science at
MIT, where he holds the Class of 1954 Career Development Chair. Before joining
the MIT faculty, he served as Director for Inter-American Affairs on the
National Security Council.
JOHN P. MANLEY is Senior
Counsel at McCarthy Tetrault LLP. He has held several senior portfolios in the
Canadian government throughout his fifteen years of public service --
including industry, foreign affairs, and finance -- as well as holding the
position of Deputy Prime Minister. Following 9/11, he was named Chairman of
the Public Security and Anti-terrorism Cabinet Committee and, in that
capacity, negotiated the Smart Border Agreement with U.S. Secretary for
Homeland Security Thomas Ridge.
DAVID McD. MANN, Q.C.,
is Counsel at Cox Hanson O'Reilly Matheson, an Atlantic-Canadian law firm. He
is the former Vice Chairman and former President and CEO of Emera Inc., a
diversified investor-owned energy and services company.
DORIS
M. MEISSNER is Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI)
in Washington, DC. She has worked in the field of immigration policy and
international migration for 30 years in both government and policy research
organizations. She served as a senior official in the U.S. Department of
Justice during the Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations, and as a
senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She
returned to government during the Clinton years as Commissioner of the U.S.
Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from
1993-2000.
THOMAS M.T. NILES is Vice Chairman of the
United States Council for International Business (USCIB). He retired from the
U.S. Foreign Service in September 1998, following a career of more than
thirty-six-years and having served as Ambassador to Canada (1985-1989),
Ambassador to the European Union (1989-1991), Assistant Secretary of State for
Europe and Canada (1991-1993), and Ambassador to Greece
(1993-1997).
BEATRIZ PAREDES serves as President of
the Fundacion Colosio, A.C. Ms. Paredes is a former Ambassador of Mexico to
the Republic of Cuba and former Governor of the State of Tlaxcala (1987-92).
She was the first female Governor of that state and only the second woman ever
to be elected Governor in Mexico. She is also a former Speaker
of the House
of Representatives.
ROBERT A. PASTOR is Director of
the Center for North American Studies, Vice President of International
Affairs, and Professor at American University. From 1977 to 1981, he was
Director of Latin American Affairs on the National Security Council. He is the
author or editor of sixteen books, including Toward a North American
Community: Lessons
from the Old World to the
New.
ANDRES ROZENTAL is President of the Consejo
Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales. Mr. Rozental was a career diplomat for
more than thirty years, having served his country as Ambassador to the United
Kingdom (1995-1997), Deputy Foreign Minister (1988-1994), Ambassador to Sweden
(1983-1988), and Permanent Representative of Mexico to the United Nations
inGeneva (1982-1983). During 2001, he was Ambassador-at-Large and Special
Envoy for President Vicente Fox.
LUIS RUBIO is President of the Centro de Investigacion
Para el Desarrollo-Center of Research for Development (CIDAC), an independent
research institution devoted to the study of economic and political policy
issues. Before joining CIDAC, in the 1970s he was Planning Director of
Citibank in Mexico and served as an adviser to Mexico's Secretary of the
Treasury. He is also a contributing editor of Reforma.
JEFFREY
J. SCOTT is Senior Fellow at the Institute for International
Economics. He was formerly an official of the U.S. Treasury and U.S. trade
negotiator, and has taught at Princeton and Georgetown Universities. He has
authored or coauthored fifteen books on international trade, including
NAFTA: Achievements and Challenges, NAFTA: An Assessment;
North American Free Trade, and The Canada-United States Free
Trade Agreement: The Global Impact.
WILLIAM F.
WELD is Principal at Leeds Weld & Co., a private equity
investment firm in New York. Previously Mr. Weld was elected to two terms as
Governor of Massachusetts (1991-1997), served as Assistant U.S. Attorney
General in charge of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice
in Washington, DC (1986-1988), and as the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts
during the Reagan administration (1981-1986).
RAUL H. YZAGUIRRE
currently serves as the Presidential Professor of Practice at Arizona
State University (Community Development and Civil Rights). Mr. Yzaguirre, who
recently retired as President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza
(NCLR) in Washington,
DC (1974-2005), spearheaded the council's emergence
as the largest constituency-based national Hispanic organization and think
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