• Board of Directors

    Officers of the Organization

    Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: The Honorable U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young
    Governor Gary Johnson

    Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Presidential Candidate, Governor Gary Johnson

    Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Howard Kazanjian, Star Wars Executive Producer and LucasFilm Vice President

    Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Environmentalist

    Solange Warner

    Co-Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder

    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Premier of Bermuda, Honorable Paula Cox
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Ecuador to the U.S., Nathalie Cely
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Barbados to the U.S., John Beale
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Bahamas to the U.S., Dr. Eugene Glenwood Newry
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Commonwealth of Dominica, Hubert Charles
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Howard Kazanjian, Star Wars Executive Producer and LucasFilm Vice President
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Environmentalist
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: U.S. Ambassador Mark Lagon, Chieft Policy Officer, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: John Portman, Architect and Developer, Former Consul of Denmark (from 2013 to 2017) (RIP)
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Germany, Lutz Gorgens
    • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of France, Philippe Adanaz
    • Co-Chairman of the Board: U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro
    • Co-Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder
    • Co-Chairman of the Board: Coston Dickinson, Architect/Urban Designer. Portman Architects.
    • President: Consul of Lithuania, Roma Klicius

    Executive Committee

    • Co-Chairman of the Board: U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro
    • Co-Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder and Co-Chairman
    • Co-Chairman of the Board: Coston Dickinson, Architect/Urban Designer, Portman Architects.
    • President: Consul of Lithuania, Roma Klicius
    • Secretary: Charles Kuck, Attorney at Law
    • Secretary: Richard Summers, Attorney at Law
    • Treasurer: Dan Moss, Consulting Adviser

    Board of the Directors at Large:

    • Senator Gloria Butler
    • Senator John Albers, Senate
    • Senator Curt Thompson, Senate
    • Chief Judge Steven Teske, Juvenile Court Clayton Judicial Circuit State of Georgia. Chairman of the Board of the Georgia Juvenile Justice State Advisory Group
    • Consul of Liberia, Cynthia Lynn Blandford
    • Consul of Ecuador, Patricia Boezio
    • Consul of Latvia, Kevin Casebier
    • Consul of Sweden and Norway, Tom Rosseland
    • Mayor of the City of Auburn, Linda Blechinger
    • Mayor of Union City, Vince Williams
    • Mayor of Stonecrest, Jason Lary
    • William Pate, President Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau
    • Dr. Helene Gayle, Chicago Community Trust
    • Lucia Jennings, President and Founder Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce
    • Axel Leblois, United Nations Fellow
    • Tom McLain, Attorney at Law, Air-Watch
    • David Innes, Senior Vice President, Entertainment and private banking, City National Bank
    • Phil Bolton, Publisher, Global Atlanta

    Advisory Board:

    The objective of the World Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board is to provide suggestions on supporting international trade and expanding the World Chamber of Commerce worldwide.

    • Ambassador Reda Mansour, Ambassador of Israel to Brazil. Honorary Chairman
    • Ambassador Hermano Telles Riberio, Consul General of Brazil
    • Ambassador Ricardo Camara Sanchez, Consul General of Mexico
    • Ambassador Ajit Kumar, Consul General of India
    • Ambassador Geoffrey Teneilabe, Consul General of Nigeria
    • Ambassador of Switzerland, Claudio Leoncavallo
    • Consul General of Belgium, William De Baets
    • Consul General Christoph Sander, Consul General of Germany
    • Consul General of Japan in Alabama, Mark Jackson
    • Consul General Paul Gleeson, Consul General of Ireland
    • Consul General Pascal Le Deunff, Previous Consul General of France
    • Consul General Marcelo Gerschenfeld, Consul General of Argentina
    • Consul General Gandy Thomas, Consul General of Haiti
    • Consul Dr. Bruce S. Allen, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein
    • Consul Ferdinand Seefried, Consul of Austria
    • Consul Mikael Norin, Honorary Consul of Sweden
    • Consul Dr. Al H. Andersen, Honorary Consul of Tanzania
    • Consul Ian Latham, Honorary Consul of New Zeland
    • Consul Charles Battle, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Monaco
    • Consul Dr. Edward Layne, Honorary Consulf of Barbados
    • Consul Mona Tekin Diamond, Honorary Consul of Turkey
    • Consul Ray Donato, Honorary Consul General of Philippines
    • Consul Georges Hoffman, Honorary Consul of Luxembourg
    • Consul R. William Ide, III, Honorary Consul of Thailand
    • Consul John Parkerson, Honorary Consul of Hungary
    • Consul J. Thomas Ratchford, Jr., Honorary Consul of Nicaragua
    • Consul Christopher Smith, Honorary Consul of Denmark
    • Consul Paul Steinfield, Honorary Consul of Slovenia
    • Consul Mavel Summers, Honorary Consul of Honduras
    • Consul Edouk Swaak, Honorary Consul of Netherlands
    • Consul Jennifer Jenkins, Honorary Consul of Botswana
    • Consul Bob Muscat, Honorary Consul of Malta
    • Consul David Cutting, Honorary Consul of Barbados
    • Dr. George Holmes, President Barack Obama National African American Clergy Leadership Group
    • Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, House of Representative
    • Rep. Brenda Lopez, House of Representative
    • Rep. Pedro Marin, House of Representative
    • Tom Strauss, Southern Regional Director at U.S. Department of Commerce
    • Rajeev Dhawan, Georgia State University

    Media Communications Advisory Board:

    • Ed Baker, Atlanta Business Chronicle Publisher
    • Phil Bolton, Global Atlanta Publisher
    • Markina Brown, CBS News
    • Mariela Romero, Univision

    Arts Advisory Board:

    • Film Industry:
    • Ozzie Areu, Chairman and Founder, Areu Bros. Studios
    • Mendel Tropper: Film Executive Director, “My Sister’s Keeper” with Cameron Diaz
    • David Burke: “Hey Wordy” Television Show Creator and Executive Producer
    • David Harvey: Music Producer
    • Museums: Rodney Mims Cook, President, National Monuments Foundation an Millennium Gate Museum
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