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SALZBURG SEMINAR 2001 President's Report (Edited for the Internet) Contents Salzburg Seminar . .2 Message from the Chairman and the President . .3 Board of Directors . .4-7 2000 in Review . .8-19 2001 Academic Program . .20-21 Global Network . .22-27 Securing the Future . .28-29 Recognition of Our Supporters . .30-32 Salzburg Seminar Staff . .inside back cover 1 SALZBURG SEMINAR he Salzburg Seminar is one of the world’s foremost international “I am aware of no educational centers committed to global understanding through broadening the other educational perspectives of tomorrow’s leaders. With the principles of reconciliation and organization in the intellectual inquiry central to its activities, the Seminar is dedicated to promoting the world that probes the free exchange of ideas and experience in a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural challenging issues of our environment. During the course of each year, some 1,000 professionals of time with the depth and Texceptional promise from more scope that the Salzburg Seminar does. Because than 100 countries gather for a of the educational effect wide range of sessions at the the Salzburg Seminar Seminar’s magnificent facility at has on the lives of Schloss Leopoldskron to discuss individuals from across political, social, and cultural issues the globe, who have the of universal concern. It is the potential to help shape Seminar’s belief, confirmed by our future, I have been fifty-three years of experience, that an enthusiastic supporter intensive interaction among peers of the Seminar for many from diverse backgrounds in a years.” neutral forum will expand Roy Huffington viewpoints, facilitate the establishment of worldwide professional networks, and effect enlightened change in the future. 2 Message from the Chairman and the President The Salzburg Seminar change in their own communities. Report, we have taken the oppor- areas that are recently concluded its fifty-third What happens while they are in tunity to share the perspectives of recurrent in the year as a higher education organi- Salzburg is often a catalyzing some of our Board members on Seminar’s zation. The Seminar began as and process. It is our hope that the the Seminar’s mission and academic remains, in many ways, an world is a better place because of academic program. We feel program. Many extension of the American higher this shared experience of so many tremendously fortunate for the of the highlighted educational community. Our able and talented people. Board’s commitment to this events are parts academic programs are at the organization, and only regret that of a series of Roy Huffington This exceptional educa- Chairman of the Board nexus of scholarship and public tional experience would not be space limitations mean we were sessions, as we policy, and they attract a possible without the leadership of have determined preeminent international faculty. the Salzburg Seminar’s Board of “The Seminar’s Board that much of our thematic work is But the Salzburg Seminar is more Directors. The Seminar’s Board better explored over multiple than a think tank. We are driven is intimately and continuously is intimately and years. by a deep commitment to involved in the process of continuously involved in We are also proud to promoting individual responsi- planning our academic program. the process of planning showcase our 2001 academic bility, global understanding, and They are the guiding vision our academic program. program, and the renovation of enlightened world leadership. The behind the Salzburg Seminar, and the Meierhof, which is nearly spirit of reconciliation, in which they play a pivotal role in our They are the guiding complete and will dramatically the Seminar was founded in the ongoing programming. At our vision behind the transform our academic space and aftermath of World War II, Board meetings, held biannually, Salzburg Seminar….” programming capacities. Photos continues to be a constant thread we look eighteen to twenty-four can be found on page 28 in the running through our work. months out into the future so the Campaign section, along with the In the course of each year, topics we decide to explore are not able to include comments announcement of a new program- some 1000 individuals come to timely but not necessarily urgent. from all of our esteemed Board matic endeavor focused on Schloss Leopoldskron seeking They are not meant to be today’s members. performing arts organizations, personal contact with their peers headlines, but the issues that will Also featured in the thanks to the generosity of the from around the world and the continue to challenge the world in following pages is an overview, in philanthropist Alberto Vilar. tools to bring about positive the decades to come. Moreover, the form of a timeline, of our Finally, as ever, we are the Board not only actively and 2000 academic program. The profoundly grateful to all those regularly participates in the events that are highlighted along individuals and organizations program planning process, but in the timeline are meant to be repre- who have supported the Seminar the Seminar sessions themselves, sentative of what takes place this past year and who have as chairs and faculty members. during any given year at the helped to make our work Accordingly, throughout this Seminar, and they reflect thematic possible. Olin Robison President 3 Salzburg Seminar Board of Directors Officers Antonie T. he Salzburg Seminar’s Board of Roy M. Huffington, Chairman Knoppers, Chairman Directors is a diverse and accomplished group of “The strength of the Salzburg Chairman, Roy M. Huffington, of the Board, Inc.; and Former Ambassador Salzburg Seminar, individuals from across the world. Since the Seminar’s Seminar’s Board lies in its of the United States to Austria; 1975Ð1984; New York, New York early years, the Board has played a central role in breadth, which allows it to Houston, Texas guide the organization with a Michael Palliser, Directors overseeing the affairs of the Seminar, in guiding the Vice Chairman Thomas D. Barr, truly global vision.” Vice Chairman (retired), Cravath, Swaine & organization’s mission, and in planning and participating Samuel Montagu & Co., Ltd.; Moore; Paradise Nancy and Herbert Gleason London Valley, Arizona Tin the Seminar’s academic program. Most members of the Herbert P. Gleason, Secretary Ernest A. Bates, Chairman Board have been on the faculty of a Seminar session, Counsel, Choate, Hall & and Chief Executive Officer, Stewart; Boston, American Shared Hospital many having served multiple times. Some members began Massachusetts Services; San Francisco, their association with the Seminar as Fellows, and went on Dennis OÕBrien, California Treasurer Erik Belfrage, Senior to become faculty and session chairs, and then Board members. President Emeritus, Vice President, University of INVESTOR AB; This high level of involvement in the organization is distinctive, Rochester; Middlebury, Stockholm and is responsible, in large part, for the way in which the Seminar has been able to Vermont John W. Olin C. Robison, President Cook, President, evolve so successfully in a changing world. President Emeritus, Middlebury The Henry Luce College; Middlebury, Vermont Foundation, Inc.; The full Board of Directors convenes twice each year: in June the Board meet- New York, New York ings have traditionally been held in Salzburg, and the November meetings take place Life Members W. Peter Cooke, at a location in the United States. Several committees of the Board meet more fre- Lloyd N. Cutler, Chairman of Advisor, World the Board, Salzburg Seminar, Regulatory Advisory quently. In 2000, the November 1984Ð1994; and Senior Practice, Pricewater- Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & houseCoopers, LLP; Board meeting was held at London Pickering; Washington, DC Morehouse College in Atlanta, Herbert P. Gleason, Counsel, Patricia Derian, Choate, Hall & Stewart; Boston, Former Assistant Georgia. It was hosted by Massachusetts Secretary of State for Human Rights; Clemens Heller, Co-Founder, Miami, Florida Salzburg Seminar; and Former Alice Emerson, Anne Watts, associate vice president for Director, Maison Special Academic Programs at Morehouse des Sciences de Senior Advisor, LÕHomme; Andrew W. Mellon College, introduces a group of Morehouse Lausanne Foundation; students who shared their Òdefining momentÓ Arlington, in the classroom with the SeminarÕs Board and Massachusetts professors who inspired them. 4 John C. Fontaine, Heather Sturt Haaga, Artist; “Hosting the November Partner, Hughes and Former President, Hubbard & Reed Marketing Management, Inc.; Board meeting at LLP; New York, La Canada, California Morehouse College was New York Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Bathsheba A. Freedman, Vice President and Director, a highly rewarding Counselor; Author; Cambridge, Capital Research and experience. It enabled Massachusetts Management Company; La James O. Canada, California us to expose Morehouse Freedman, Kathryn Hall (ex-offi- to the world, and to President, cio), Ambassador of American the United States to bring the world to Academy of Arts Austria; Vienna Morehouse….” and Sciences; and President James Oliver Horton, Emeritus, Dartmouth College; Benjamin Banneker Professor Cambridge, Massachusetts Walter and Shirley Massey of American Studies and Daniel R. Fung, Senior History, Department of Counsel, Hong Kong Bar; Hong American Studies, George Kong Washington University; Anne V. Ginevan, Former Washington, DC Vermont State Representative; Shirley M. Hufstedler, Senior Middlebury,