Members of the Board

At the first General Assembly where present and eligable to vote

1. Andriessen, Daniel (NL),
2. Bounfour, Ahmed (F),
3. Carrillo, F. Javier (Mexico),
4. Cavalcanti, Marcos (Brazil),
5. Edvinsson, Leif (S),
6. Kivikas, Mart (D),
7. Koch, Günter (A),
8. Mouritsen, Jan (DK),
9. Petrusson, Ulf (S),
10. Schneider, Ursula (A),
11. Stahle, Pirjo (Finland),
12. Sumita, Takayuki (JP),

The Board

The Assembly elected the following persons as Members of the Board unanimously, with abstention of the respective elected person:

• President: Leif Edvinsson
• Vice President with special duty on scientific issues: Ahmed Bounfour
• Board Member with special duties on documentary issues: Takayuki Sumita
• Board Member with special duties on financial affairs: Marcos Cavalcanti

Election of General Secretary

Günter Koch was unanimously elected General Secretary of the Club, with abstention of his part. It was also decided, that he is entitled to manage all formal processes in the course of the foundation of the association, in specific towards the Austrian Court which is in charge for the association. This includes signing official documents to be sent to the Court, in specific and as next the "Wahlanzeige" (= notification on elected members of the Board). This authorization for managing all communication to official bodies and authorities at the seat of the association, which is Vienna, shall hold forever until it is explicitely withdrawn by decision of the General Assembly. The General Secretary, however, is obliged to inform all Board Members about any such communication completely and within a three months period after such a communication was exercised. In case of urgencies when an official authority requests action, he is obliged to act without delay.

Notification of the first members of the "Internal" Scientific Advisory Group

The following members present have been notified to form the initial set of persons forming the "internal" Scientific Advisory Board.

• Daniel Andriessen
• Jan Mouritsen
• Ulf Petrusson
• Ursula Schneider
• Pirjo Stahle

These members are requested a) to elect their own ChairWoMan and b) to define their own rules of work consistent with the statutes and c) to complete their group by further members of the club following the statuary rules. Vicepresident Ahmed Bounfour has responsibility for this group on Board level. He is requested to survey the constitution of this group and, in specific, that his group will come up with a "framework of research and research questions / quizzics" until October 2006.

Notification of the first members of the "External" Scientific Advisory Board

This group is constituted by non-members, in specific personalities who would qualify for membership, but, due to restrictions imposed on them, shall not or may not become members. In specific these are personalities in most cases working for public institutions, which must maintain a neutral and impartial relationship to The New Club of Paris, such as the CEC, UN, Worldbank, OECD and others similar.

It has been decided, that all Founding Members are requested to nominate such persons by a) contacting them and b) after their positive reaction will forward their names and address coordinates, in specific their e-mail-address to the General Secretary. The General Secretary then will report to the Board, who are those members which will initially form this (External) Scientific Advisory Board. This Board, once it is occupied by participants, then will decide on the initiation of this group and who shall be asked to take its chair.