The Right Honourable Kim Campbell

Kim Campbell served as Canada's nineteenth and first female Prime Minister in 1993. She previously held cabinet portfolios as Minister of State for Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Minister of National Defence, and Minister of Veterans' Affairs. She was the first woman to hold the Justice and Defence portfolios, and the first woman to be Defence Minister of a NATO country. Ms Campbell participated in major international meetings including the Commonwealth, NATO, G-7 Summit, and the United Nations General Assembly.

Ms Campbell holds a degree in law as well as seven honorary doctorates. She is also an honorary fellow of the London School of Economics, where she did doctoral work in Soviet government (1970-73), and an honorary fellow of the Center for Public Leadership at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

After her career in politics, Ms Campbell served as Canadian Consul-General in Los Angeles from 1996-2000. From 1999-2003, she was Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders, an organisation of women who are current as well as former heads of state and government, and she is past president (2003-2005) of the International Women’s Forum. She is a founding member and served as Acting President and Vice President of the Club of Madrid, an organisation of former heads of state and government who work to promote democratisation through peer relations with leaders of transitional democracies. She was appointed Secretary-General in 2004, a position she held until 2007.

Ms Campbell is a Trustee of the Crisis Group and a member of the International Council of the Asia Society of New York. She serves as an advisor to many other international organisations, such as the Global Securities Institute and the Middle Powers Initiative. Ms Campbell is a frequent speaker for international conferences and serves as director on corporate boards.

Nancy Hernreich-Bowen

Ms Hernreich-Bowen is a senior advisor for Kissinger McLarty Associates and the managing director of NHB International, a Hong Kong-based consulting firm she founded in 2001. From 1993 to 2001, Ms Hernreich-Bowen served as an assistant to the President and director of Oval Office Operations in the Clinton White House.

In her current capacity, Ms Hernreich-Bowen uses her experience and senior-level business and government relationships to assist Asian and American businesses with their cross-border business interests. These services include public relations, market entry and development, identifying joint-venture partners and investment opportunities and solving problems for clients in difficult market areas.

Her responsibilities in the White House included managing the President’s Office, where she oversaw communications at all levels with the President; directed access to the President; maintained his priorities and schedules; and, as his longest serving senior aide, advised him on a range of issues and Presidential matters.