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WORKBENCH #07: Report 'The Impact of Multinational Corporations on Development and on International Relations' (1974)
On 2 July 1972 the Economic and Social Council adopted resolution 1721 (LIIl), which requested the Secretary-General to appoint a "group of eminent persons ... to study the role of multinational corporations and their impact on the process of development, especially that of the developing countries, and also their implications for international relations, to formulate conclusions which may possibly he used by Governments in making their sovereign decisions regarding national policy in this respect, and to submit recommendations for appropriate international action".
Below is the list of the members of the Group of Eminent Persons.
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Blum | Emerik | 1911-1984 | General Manager of Energoinvest; export-oriented engeneerinfg & energy company, based in Sarajevo | Yugoslavia | ||
Browaldh | Tore | 1917-2007 | Chairman, Svenska Handelsbanken | Sweden | ||
Deutsch | John J. | 1911-1976 | Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University; Former Chairman of the Economic Council of Canada | Canada | ||
Diawara | Mohamed | - | Minister of Planning | Ivory Coast | ||
Dunning | John | 1927-2009 | Professor of Economics University of Reading | UK | ||
Estrany y Gendre | Antonio | - | Professor of International Economic Relations, University of El Salvador | Argentina | ||
Ghozali | Ahmed | 1937- | President Director-General of SONATRACH (national state-owned oil company of Algeria) | Algeria | ||
Ivanov | I.D. | - | Chief of Economic Division Institute for US Studies USSR Academy of Sciences | USSR | ||
Javits | Jacob | 1904-1986 | United States Senator | US | ||
Jha | L.K. | 1913-1988 | Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Former Ambassador of India to the United States, Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India | India | ||
Kahama | C. George | 1929-2017 | Director-General Capital Development Authority | United Republic of Tanzania | ||
Komiya | Ryutaro | 1929-2022 | Professor of Economics Tokyo University | Japan | ||
Mansholt | Sicco | 1908-1995 | Former President, Commission of the European Economic Community | Netherlands | ||
Matthoefer | Hans | 1925-2009 | Federal Minister for Research and Technology, Former Head of the Economic Department of the Industrial Metalworkers' Trade Union | F.R. Germany | ||
Miller | J. Irwin | 1909-2004 | Chairman, Cummins Engine Co., Inc. | US | ||
Sadli | Mohammad | 1922-2008 | Minister of Mining | Indonesia | ||
Schaffner | Hans | 1908-2004 | Former President of the Swiss Confederation Vice-Chairman of the Board of SANDOZ, S.A. (pharma company) | Switzerland | ||
Somavia | Juan | 1941- | Former Permanent Representative to the Andean Group, Former President of the Commission of the Cartagena Agreement Former Chairman of the Board of the Andean Development Corporation [later Director-General of ILO] | Chile | ||
Trindade | Mario | - | Vice President National Bank of Commerce Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | ||
Uri | Pierre | 1911-1992 | Professor of Economics University of Paris Author and journalist [Uri helped write the treaty that gave birth in 1951 to the European Coal and Steel Community; he directed the group from 1952 to 1959] | France |
Fields in which members of the Group of Eminent Persons were active at the time of membership
List of personalities who testified before the Group of Eminent Persons
First session, UN Headquarters, 11-13 September 1973
Beh[not readable] | Jack | Graduate School of Business Administration, Univeristy of North Carolina |
Bernstein | Edward M. | President, EMB (ltd.) Research Economists [1944-1958; research director of the International Monetary Fund] |
Campillo Sainz | Jose | Under-Secretary for Industry and Commerce of Mexico |
Collado | Emilio | Executive Vice President, EXXON Corporation |
Goldfinger | Nathaniel | Director, Department of Research, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations |
Jones | Gilbert | Chairman, IBM World Trade Corporation |
Keller | Ernst | President, ADELA Investment Co., S.A. |
Maisonrouge | Jacques | President, IBM World World Trade Organization |
Morgan | John | Adviser on Multinational Corporations to the International Council for Social Welfare |
Murphy | Thomas A. | Vice Chairman of the Board, General Motors Corporation |
Nader | Ralph | |
Onitri | H.M.A. | Director, Institute of Social and Economic Research University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
Powers | John | Chairman of the Board (retired) Pfizer, Inc. |
Shapiro | Irving S. | Chairman, E. I. Du Pont de Nemours |
Sunkel | Osvaldo | Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Santiago (Chile) |
Second session, Geneva, 2, 3, 5-8 and 15 November 1973
Adam | Gyorgy | Head, Economic Research Section Computer and Automation Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences |
Agnelli | Giovanni | President, FIAT S.p.A. |
Ahime | P.O. | Secretary for Finance, Federal Ministry of Finance of Nigeria |
Burki | Javed | Chief, Industry and Commerce Section, Planning Division of Pakistan |
Duncan | Sir Val | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rio Tinto Zinc Corporation |
Fahey | Thomas | Vice President, Sales, General Tire International Co. |
Goldman | Peter | President, International Organization of Consumers Unions |
Heininger | Horst | Head of Department, Institute for International Politics and Economy Berlin, German Democratic Republic Representative of the Government of the German Democratic Republic |
Hugill | J.A.C. | Chairman, Food and Agriculture Organization/ Industry Co-operative Programme |
Hymer | Stephen | New School for Social Research, New York |
Khene | Abderrahman | Secretary-General, Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
Klijnstra | Gerrit D. A. | Chairman, UNILEVER N.Vo (Netherlands) |
Kudlinski | Romuald | Director, Institute for Economic Science Warsaw University, Representative of the Government of Poland |
Liotard-Vogt | Pierre | Managing Director, Nestle Alimentana S.A. |
Lombardi | Renato | President, ICC |
Marchandise | Jacques | Directeur Délégué, Pechiney-Ugine-Kuhlmann |
Mazetti | Albertino | Secretary, World Federation of Trade Unions |
Nye | Joseph S. | Center for International Affairs, Harvard University |
Penrose | Edith | Department of Economic and Political Studies, SOAS, UCL |
Puente | Jose de la | Under-Secretary for Economic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru |
Ram | Bharat | President, Delhi Cloth Mills |
Spinelli | Altiero | Member of the Commission of European Communities |
Tacke | Gerd | President (retired), Siemens A.G. |
Thornbrough | Albert A. | President, Massey-Ferguson Ltd. |
Vagts | Detlev F. | Law School of Harvard University |
Vaitsos | Constantine V. | Director, Technology Policy Group Junta del Acuerdo de Cartagena (Andean Group) |
Vollmer | Gustavo | President, Central El Palma S.A. |
Wagner | Gerrit A. | President, Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (SHELL) |
Walker | Sir Ronald | Special Adviser to the Government of Australia on Multinational Corpor |
Walker | H.S. | Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations in Geneva |
Wallenberg | Marcus | Chairman, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken |
Woodroofe | Sir Ernest G. | Chairman, UNILEVFR Ltd. (England) |
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