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Salzburg Seminar 2000 President's Report (edited for the Internet) Contents The Salzburg Seminar ............................................................................................................................2 Message from the Chairman and the President ......................................................................................3 Board of Directors ..............................................................................................................................4-5 1999 in Review..................................................................................................................................6-17 2000 Academic Program..................................................................................................................18-19 Global Network................................................................................................................................20-21 Salzburg Seminar Alumni................................................................................................................22-23 Faculty and Fellows, 1947Ð2000: A Partial Retrospective ............................................................24-25 Securing the Future..........................................................................................................................26-27 Salzburg Seminar Staff........................................................................................................................28 1 Salzburg Seminar “In the context of an he Salzburg Seminar is one of the worldÕs foremost international increasingly globalized educational centers committed to broadening the perspectives of tomorrowÕs leaders. world economy and society, With the principles of reconciliation and intellectual inquiry central to its activities, the Salzburg Seminar is the Seminar is dedicated to promoting the free exchange of ideas, experience, and extremely effective in terms understanding in a multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural environment. During the course of eachT year, some 1,000 professionals of exceptional promise from more than 100 of illuminating contrasts in countries gather at the SeminarÕs magnificent facility at Schloss Leopoldskron for perspectives and discussion of political, social, and cultural issues of universal concern. It is the experiences. It provides the SeminarÕs belief, confirmed by a tradition of fifty-two years, that intensive interaction platform for nurturing among peers from diverse backgrounds in a neutral forum will expand viewpoints, mutual understanding of facilitate the establishment of worldwide professional networks, and effect enlightened shared and disparate change in the future. problems confronting the world and hopefully, in doing so, will enable us to generate acceptable solutions to those problems.” Fellow, Malaysia 2 Message from the Chairman and the President As this historic year unfolds, which we are planning to introduce following pages are meant to be program, and the diverse we at the Seminar, like much of the this year. representative of what takes place accomplishments of our Faculty and world, have been thinking about our during any given year at the Fellows, highlighted in the The Seminar is also happy to future and, in particular, the role we Seminar, and they reflect thematic Retrospective section have embarked on a new phase in play in helping individuals to meet areas that are recurrent in the of this Report. And renovating the Meierhof, which dates the challenges of the twenty-first SeminarÕs academic program: non- finally, we from the seventeenth century and is century. We are thankful for the governmental organizations, acknowledge with located on the grounds of the opportunity to foster global international affairs, sustainable deep and profound Schloss. It houses the SeminarÕs citizenship and are inspired by the development, the arts, university gratitude all those main lecture hall, the American dedication and vision of our Fellows reform, and Asia. They are also who have supported Studies Center, the computer lab, and Faculty. Our commitment to meant to reflect the intellectual depth the Seminar this past staff offices, and accommodations diversity and reconciliation is year. Many for Seminar participants. This steadfast, and we will persevere in individuals and undertaking represents the our efforts to promote tolerance and organizations have completion of a renovation project “The Seminar has long understanding. given generously to begun eleven years ago and will brought young men and make the work of the This past fall, the Seminar dramatically transform Salzburg PHOTOGRAPH BY DENNIS OÕBRIEN Seminar possible. The was pleased to launch our new Seminar academic space and women from all over the Seminar has long brought young Roy M. Huffington website located at www.salzburg operations. Chairman of the Board men and women from all over the seminar.org, which incorporates world together in What follows in this Report is world together in Salzburg for enhanced web features and dynamic an overview, in the form of a Salzburg for educational educational programs that embrace content. The Seminar continues to timeline, of the 1999 academic the values held dear in civil society. develop better ways to use programs that embrace program. We are proud of our We celebrate what can be achieved technology to promote expanded multifaceted program: Core Sessions the values held dear in by the broadest-possible communication among its ever- have formed the basis of the program inclusiveness, and we invite people widening network of participants. civil society.” since its inception; Special Sessions everywhere to join us in affirming We are excited by the activity on convene senior level professionals these values. many of our post-session listservs, and enable us to form partnerships and scope of the Salzburg Seminar and by the potential for our new with like-minded organizations; the program, and the important contribu- video-conferencing capability, Universities Project advances higher tion that we believe we are making education reform; and the American to the building of a better world. Studies Center provides a venue for We are also pleased to the teaching of American Studies. showcase our 2000 academic The events that are featured in the Olin C. Robison President PHOTOGRAPH BY DENNIS OÕBRIEN 3 Board of Directors 2000 OFFICERS DIRECTORS David W. Ginevan, Executive Vice Lee Hong-koo, Ambassador of Korea to the President of Facilities Planning, Middlebury United States; and Former Prime Minister of Roy M. Huffington, Chairman Alberta Arthurs, Associate, MEM College; Middlebury, Vermont the Republic of Korea; Washington, DC Chairman, Roy M. Huffington, Inc.; and Former Associates; and Former Director, Arts and Ambassador of the United States to Austria; Humanities, The Rockefeller Foundation; New Wilhelmine Goldmann, Director of Anthony Lester, Member, English Bar; and Houston, Texas York, New York Privatization, …sterreichische Industrieholding President and Founding Chairman, Interights; AG; Vienna London Michael Palliser, Vice Chairman Thomas D. Barr, Cravath, Swaine & Vice Chairman (retired), Samuel Montagu & Moore; New York, New York Heather Sturt Haaga, Artist; and Former Klaus Liebscher, Governor, Co., Ltd.; London President, Marketing Management, Inc.; …sterreichische Nationalbank; Vienna Ernest A. Bates, Chairman and Chief La Canada, California Herbert P. Gleason, Secretary Executive Officer, American Shared Hospital Otto C. C. Lin, Vice President for Research Counsel, Choate, Hall & Stewart; Boston, Services; San Francisco, California Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Executive Vice and Development, Hong Kong University of Massachusetts President and Director, Capital Research and Science and Technology; Kowloon, Hong Kong Chan Heng-Chee, Ambassador of the Management Company; La Canada, California Dennis OÕBrien, Treasurer Republic of Singapore to the United States; Whitney MacMillan, Chairman and Chief President Emeritus, University of Rochester; Washington, DC Kathryn Hall (ex-officio), Ambassador of the Executive Officer (retired), Cargill, Inc.; Middlebury, Vermont United States to Austria; Vienna Minneapolis, Minnesota Alice Emerson, Senior Advisor, Andrew W. Olin C. Robison, President Mellon Foundation; and Visiting Scholar, James Oliver Horton, Director, Afro- President Emeritus, Middlebury College; Harvard Graduate School of Education; American Communities Project, National Middlebury, Vermont Arlington, Massachusetts Museum of American History, The Smithsonian Institution; and Benjamin Banneker Professor of John C. Fontaine, Partner, Hughes American Studies and History, Department of LIFE MEMBERS Hubbard & Reed LLP; New York, New York American Studies, George Washington Bathsheba A. Freedman, Counselor; University; Washington, DC Lloyd N. Cutler, Chairman of the Board, Author; Cambridge, Massachusetts Salzburg Seminar, 1984Ð1994; and Senior Shirley M. Hufstedler, Senior of Counsel, Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering; James O. Freedman, President Emeritus, Morrison & Foerster; and Former United States Washington, DC Dartmouth College and University of Iowa; Secretary of Education; Los Angeles, California Cambridge, Massachusetts Hyun Hong-Choo, Kim & Chang; Seoul Herbert P. Gleason, Counsel, Choate, Hall & Stewart; Boston, Massachusetts Daniel R. Fung, Senior Counsel; and Mikio Kato, Trustee and Executive Director, Fulbright Visiting Scholar for Hong Kong to the International House of Japan, Inc.; Tokyo Clemens