Business leaders co-sign letter published in the Financial Times

22 September 1997

Chairmen and CEO's of companies around the world were joint signatories to a letter urging governments to complete negotiations on liberalizing financial services. Listed below are the names of business leaders appealing for a successful outcome to the WTO negotiations in Geneva this coming December.

Helmut O. Maucher, ICC President, Chairman of the Board, Nestl SA, Switzerland

Ken Whipple, Co-Chair, Financial Leaders Group, President, Ford Financial Services, US

Andrew Buxton, Co-Chair, Financial Leaders Group, Chairman, Barclays Bank Plc, UK

Adnan Kassar, ICC Vice-President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Fransabank Group, Lebanon

Rahmi M. Ko, ICC Past President, Chairman of the Board, Ko Holding AS, Turkey

Lester M. Alberthal, Jr., Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, EDS, US

Nikolaus Bmcke, Secretary General, Fdration Bancaire Europenne, Belgium

Dr Rolf-E. Breuer, Spokesman of the Group Board of Deutsche Bank, Germany

Martin Broughton, Group Chief Executive, BAT Industries, UK

Mathis Cabiallavetta, President of the Group Executive Board of Union Bank of Switzerland, Switzerland

Carlo Callieri, Executive Vice-President, Fiat s.p.a., Italy; Carroll A.

Campbell, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, American Council of Life Insurance, US

John Carter, Chief Executive Officer, Commercial Union Assurance Plc, UK

Dr W. K. Chan, Secretary General, Hong Kong Coalition of Services Industry, Hong Kong

Jean-Paul Chapuis, Delegate of the Board, Swiss Bankers' Association, Switzerland

Gordon J. Cloney, President, International Insurance Council, US

Sir Peter Davis, Group Chief Executive, Prudential Corporation Plc, UK

Roger Enrico, Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo, Inc., US

J. Trevor Eyton, Senior Chairman, EdperBrascan Corporation, Canada

Michel Freyche, Chief Executive Officer, Association of French Banks, France

Victor Fung, Chairman, Hong Kong Trade Development Council, Hong Kong

Richard K. Goeltz, Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, American Express Co., US

Peter Gmeiner, First Executive Secretary, Swiss Insurance Association, Switzerland

Maurice R. Greenberg, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, American International Group, Inc., US

Vincent Hollard, Chairman, Groupe Didot-Bottin, France

Leif Johansson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Volvo, Sweden

Martin Kohlhaussen, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Commerzbank AG, Germany

Toru Kusukawa, Chairman of the Board of Counselors, Fuji Research Institute Corporation, Japan

Georg F. Krayer, President, Swiss Bankers' Association, Switzerland

J. P. Lee, Director, Lippo Ltd and Lippo Capital Ltd, Hong Kong

Jan Leschly, Chief Executive, SmithKline Beecham Plc, UK

Avijit Mazumdar, Chairman, TIL Ltd, India

Richard D. McCormick, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, US West, US

J. B. McGrath, Group Chief Executive, Grand Metropolitan, UK

Dr Vittorio Merloni, Chairman of the Board, Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA, Italy

Lukas Mhlemann, Chief Executive Officer, Credit Suisse Group, Switzerland

Dean R. O'Hare, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chubb Corporation, US

Marcel Ospel, President and Group Chief Executive Officer, Swiss Bank Corporation, Switzerland

Michel Pbereau, President and Chief Executive, Banque Nationale de Paris, France

Jean Peyrelevade, Chief Executive Officer, Crdit Lyonnais, France

Mahbubur Rahman, Chairman and Managing Director, Eastern Trading Ltd, Bangladesh

Lars Ramqvist, President and Chief Executive Officer, L. M. Ericsson, Sweden

John S. Reed, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Citicorp/Citibank, US

N. Sankar, Chairman, The Sanmar Group, India

Jrgen Sarrazin, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors, Dresdner Bank, Germany

Dr Hermann Scholl, Chairman of the Board of Management, Bosch, Germany

George Simpson, Managing Director, General Electric Plc, UK

Sir Richard Sykes, Chairman and Chief Executive, Glaxo Wellcome Plc, UK

Robert Vastine, President, Coalition of Service Industries, US

Marc Vinot, Chairman and Chief Executive, Socit Gnrale, France

Heinrich von Pierer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Siemens, Germany

Jacob Wallenberg, Chief Executive Officer, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Sweden

Derek Wanless, Director and Group Chief Executive, NatWest Group, UK

Douglas A. Warner III, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, J. P. Morgan and Company Inc., US

Rona Yircali, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Yapi-Kredi Bank, Turkey

Dr Manfred Zobl, General Director, Rentenanstalt/Swiss Life, Switzerland