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This is about the UK branch. The US branch is [[The American Ditchley Foundation]]. The Canadian branch is [[The Canadian Ditchley Foundation]].
 
  
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'''The Ditchley Foundation''' is an [[Ditchley/UK|Anglo]] - [[Ditchley/Canada|Canadian]] - [[Ditchley/US|American]] network similar to the [[Bilderberg]] Group, and has a significant overlap in membership. One will also find overlap with the [[Integrity Initiative]], like [[Ngaire Woods]].
  
 
==The Foundation==
 
==The Foundation==
 
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It is based at the mansion Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, aims to promote international understanding and relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a programme of around twelve annual conferences on matters of international interest. The foundation was established in 1958 by Sir [[David Wills]], descendant of the tobacco importing family, W. D. & H. O. Wills of Bristol.
The Ditchley Foundation is an Anglo-Canadian-American network similar to the [[Bilderberg]] Group, and has a significant overlap in membership. One will also find overlap with the [[Integrity Initiative]], like [[Ngaire Woods]].
 
 
 
It is based at the mansion Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, aims to promote international understanding and relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a programme of around twelve annual conferences on matters of international interest. The foundation was established in 1958 by Sir David Wills, descendant of the tobacco importing family, W. D. & H. O. Wills of Bristol.
 
  
 
At each conference, around forty international invitees are drawn from senior levels of politics, business, the armed forces, media, and academia. The current director is James Arroyo OBE, previously director for data at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, charged with adapting the organisation to the digital age.
 
At each conference, around forty international invitees are drawn from senior levels of politics, business, the armed forces, media, and academia. The current director is James Arroyo OBE, previously director for data at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, charged with adapting the organisation to the digital age.
  
 
==The meetings==
 
==The meetings==
 
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Discussion at each two-day conference begins with all members present, before participants divide into three sub-groups, each having its own chairman and rapporteur to summarise proceedings. Proceedings end with one more conference-wide session. Discussions are private and non-attributable, under the Chatham House Rule, but a full account is produced by the Director, and posted on the Foundations website. (This setup is similar to the [[Bilderberg]] meetings)
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Discussion at each two-day conference begins with all members present, before participants divide into three sub-groups, each having its own chairman and rapporteur to summarise proceedings. Proceedings end with one more conference-wide session. Discussions are private and non-attributable, under the [[Chatham House Rule]], but a full account is produced by the Director, and posted on the Foundations website. (This setup is similar to the [[Bilderberg]] meetings)
  
 
A permanent secretariat works at Ditchley, organising about 12 conference weekends per year. It is run, usually, by a retired ambassador. Some 40 people come to each weekend: one-third from America, one-third from Britain and one-third from the rest of the world. They are chosen for being bright, informed or influential on the matter in hand. [http://www.bilderberg.org/wdm.htm#Ditchley]
 
A permanent secretariat works at Ditchley, organising about 12 conference weekends per year. It is run, usually, by a retired ambassador. Some 40 people come to each weekend: one-third from America, one-third from Britain and one-third from the rest of the world. They are chosen for being bright, informed or influential on the matter in hand. [http://www.bilderberg.org/wdm.htm#Ditchley]
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==Ditchley House==
 
==Ditchley House==
  
The 250 year-old palatial country house is equipped with modem conference rooms,  interpretation circuits and closed-circuit televisions. It is elegantly decorated with valuable antiques and priceless paintings.  
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The 250 year-old palatial country house is equipped with modem conference rooms,  interpretation circuits and [[CCTV]]. It is elegantly decorated with valuable antiques and priceless paintings.  
 
 
Ditchley Park has been a center of intrigue since it was purchased in 1933 by Ronald Tree, who was Minister of Information Duff Cooper's advisor on American affairs. Tree made the estate available to Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II when it was feared that Chequers could be  a target for German bombers.
 
 
 
During these years Ditchley became a meeting place and  retreat for British and American leaders. Roosevelt emissary Harry Hopkins was Churchill's guest at Ditchley in January 1941  for discussion on troop morale; details of the Lend-Lease program were worked out amid the serene surroundings of Ditchley.[https://archive.org/stream/BilderbergMeetingsAnIllustratedHistory221/The%20Global%20Manipulators-Bilderberg-Trilateral-94_djvu.txt]
 
 
 
==The Council of Management (2019)==
 
 
 
Honorary Life President: [[Lady Wills]], JP
 
 
 
Chairman: The Rt Hon [[Lord Hill]] of Oareford CBE
 
 
 
Vice Chairman: Mr [[Philip Stephens]] 
 
 
 
==Governors (2019)==
 
 
 
The Lord [[Charles Aldington]]
 
Chairman, Machfast Group Ltd
 
 
 
[[James Arroyo]] OBE
 
Director
 
 
 
The Lord Bilimoria of Chelsea, ([[Karan Bilimoria]]) CBE, DL
 
Chairman, Cobra Beer Partnership Ltd
 
 
 
Sir [[Rodric Braithwaite]], GCMG
 
Formerly British Ambassador to Russia
 
 
 
The Lord Bridges of Headley, ([[James Bridges]]), MBE
 
Senior Adviser to the Group Executive Chairman, Banco Santander
 
 
 
Sir [[Andrew Cahn]] KCMG
 
Chair, WWF (UK); Non-Executive Director of Huawei Technologies (UK) plc.
 
 
 
The Lord Chadlington of Dean
 
Chief Executive, Huntsworth plc
 
 
 
Her Excellency Mrs [[Janice Charette]]
 
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
 
 
 
Mr [[Robert Conway]]
 
Senior Director, Goldman Sachs
 
 
 
Mr [[Bill Emmott]]
 
Chair, International Institute for Strategic Studies and of the Japan Society of the U.K.
 
 
 
Mr [[Steven Erlanger]]
 
Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in Europe, New York Times.
 
 
 
Dr [[Jonathan Eyal]]
 
International Studies Director, [[Royal United Services Institute]]
 
 
 
Mr [[Nicholas Ferguson]] CBE
 
Chairman, Savills plc
 
 
 
Mr [[Francis Finlay]], CMG, OBE
 
Chairman Emeritus, EastWest Institute.
 
 
 
Ms [[Stephanie Flanders]]
 
Senior Executive Editor for Economics and Head of [[Bloomberg Economics]], [[Bloomberg LP]]
 
 
 
Mrs [[Marjorie Neasham Glasgow]] BEM
 
CEO, Ridge Clean Energy. President, The Glasgow Foundation.
 
 
 
Dr [[Nik Gowing]]
 
International Broadcaster; Visiting Professor, Kings College, London. Founder and Director Thinking the Unthinkable
 
 
 
Mr [[Charles Grant]], CMG
 
Director, Centre for European Reform
 
 
 
Sir [[Bernard Gray]]
 
Executive Chairman, New Scientist magazine
 
 
 
Sir [[Jeremy Greenstock]], GCMG
 
Chairman, Gatehouse Advisory Partners Ltd. Former diplomat and Director of The Ditchley Foundation.
 
 
 
Sir [[Christopher Greenwood]], GBE, CMG, QC
 
Member, Iran-US Claims Tribunal
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. [[Dominic Grieve]] QC MP
 
Member of Parliament for Beaconsfield; Formerly Attorney General
 
 
 
The Lord Hannay of Chiswick,([[David Hannay]]) GCMG, CH
 
Formerly Ambassador and UK Permanent Representative to the EU and UN
 
   
 
Dr [[Rita E. Hauser]]
 
President, The Hauser Foundation.
 
   
 
Professor The Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield ([[Peter Hennessy]]) FBA
 
Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London
 
   
 
The Rt Hon Lord Hill of Oareford ([[Jonathan Hill]])CBE
 
Chairman
 
 
 
Sir [[John Holmes]], GCVO, KBE, CMG
 
Chairman, The Electoral Commission. Formerly Director, The Ditchley Foundation.
 
 
 
Mr [[Jo Johnson]] MP
 
Member of Parliament (Conservative) for Orpington
 
   
 
Ms [[Suzanne Ferlic Johnson]]
 
Vice President, Corporate and External Affairs, LLoyd's Register Group Limited
 
   
 
Ms [[Roula Khalaf]]
 
Deputy Editor, Financial Times
 
   
 
Mr [[Andrew Knight]]
 
Chairman, Times Newspaper Holdings Ltd
 
   
 
Mr [[Axel Krause]]
 
Paris-based author and Journalist, and formerly Ditchley Representative in France
 
   
 
Ms [[Rachel Lomax]]
 
Deputy Chair, British Council
 
   
 
Mr [[Pierre Lortie]] CM, FCAE
 
Senior Business Advisor, Dentons Canada LLP
 
   
 
The Honourable [[Kevin G Lynch]] PC, OC
 
Vice-Chairman, BMO Financial Group
 
   
 
Ms [[Bronwen Maddox]]
 
Director, The Institute for Government
 
   
 
Dr [[Pippa Malmgren]]
 
Founder, DRPM Group
 
   
 
The Lord Mandelson, ([[Peter Mandelson]]) PC
 
Chairman, Global Counsel. Formerly Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills and European Trade Commissioner
 
   
 
Sir [[David Manning]], GCMG, KCVO
 
Formerly British Ambassador to the United States of America
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. Lord Maude of Horsham ([[Francis Maude]])
 
Formerly Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. [[Michael Moore]]
 
Senior Adviser, PWC. Formerly Secretary of State for Scotland.
 
 
 
Mr [[Rajay Naik]]
 
Chief Commercial Officer, Study Group. Formerly Director, The Open University.
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. Baroness Neville-Jones of Hutton Roof  ([[Lilian Neville-Jones]] DCMG
 
Formerly Minister of State for Security
 
   
 
Mr [[Paul Newman]]
 
Former Chairman, ICAP Energy; Director, JC Rathbone Associates Ltd.
 
   
 
Mrs [[Elizabeth Padmore]]
 
Emeritus Trustee, Women for Women International - UK
 
   
 
Mr [[Trevor Phillips]] OBE
 
Director, Webber Phillips Limited; Chair, Green Park Interim and Executive Search; Chair, Index on Censorship.
 
   
 
Ms [[Emma Reynolds]] MP
 
Member of Parliament for Wolverhampton North East
 
   
 
General The Lord Richards of Herstmonceux ([[David Richards]])GCB, CBE, DSO, DL
 
Chairman, Equilibrium Global Ltd. Formerly Chief of the Defence Staff.
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. Lord Robertson of Port Ellen, ([[George Robertson]]) KT, GCMG, Hon FRSE, PC
 
Special Adviser to BP plc. Formerly Secretary General, NATO, and Secretary of State for Defence.
 
   
 
Mr [[Roland Rudd]]
 
Chairman, Finsbury
 
   
 
Marquess of Salisbury KG KCVO PC DL
 
Chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire
 
   
 
Mr [[Jeremy Shapiro]]
 
Director of Research, European Council on Foreign Relations
 
   
 
Sir [[Nigel Sheinwald]], GCMG
 
Visiting Professor, King's College, London; Director, Royal Dutch Shell
 
   
 
Sir [[Martin Smith]]
 
Founder of Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford University
 
   
 
Dr [[Constanze Stelzenmüller]]
 
Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, [[Brookings Institution]]
 
   
 
Mr [[Philip Stephens]]
 
Director of the Editorial Board and Chief Political Commentator, Financial Times
 
   
 
The Rt Hon. [[Rory Stewart]], OBE, MP
 
Formerly Secretary of State for International Development
 
 
 
Ms [[Jo Swinson]] CBE MP
 
Leader of the Liberal Democrats
 
   
 
Mr [[Michael Tang]]
 
Chairman, Tang Industries
 
   
 
Sir [[Paul Tucker]]
 
Chair, Systemic Risk Council; Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
 
   
 
Dr [[Diana Walford]], CBE, MD, BSc MSc FRCP, FRCPath, FFPH
 
Chair, Board of Trustees, Regent’s University London
 
   
 
Mr [[John Weston]], CBE, MEng, FRAEng, FRAes
 
Chairman: 7 Technologies Group and Brittpac
 
   
 
Dr [[Catherine Wills]]
 
Trustee
 
   
 
Professor Sir [[Robert Worcester]], KBE, DL
 
Chairman, Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Commemoration Committee. Founder, MORI.
 
 
 
==Honorary Governors==
 
 
 
The Rt Hon. Baroness Virginia Bottomley, PC, DL
 
Formerly Secretary of State for Health and for National Heritage
 
 
 
The Rt Hon [[David Cameron]]
 
Formerly Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2010-2016). Honorary Governor, The Ditchley Foundation.
 
 
 
Mr [[Robert Cooper]], KCMG, MVO
 
Formerly Counsellor, EEAS, Council of the European Union.
 
 
 
Sir [[Simon Fraser]], GCMG
 
Managing Partner, Flint Global Ltd. Formerly Permanent Under Secretary and Head of the Diplomatic Service.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon. [[Sir Lawrence Freedman]], KCMG, CBE, FBA, FKC
 
Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London.
 
 
 
Professor [[Timothy Garton Ash]], CMG
 
Professor of European Studies, University of Oxford and Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford.
 
 
 
Professor Sir [[Malcolm Grant]], CBE, MA, LLD
 
Chancellor, University of York. Former Chairman, NHS England.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon Lord Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE
 
Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
 
 
 
Mr [[Will Hutton]]
 
Principal, Hertford College.
 
 
 
Lady Judge, CBE
 
Chairman, Astana Financial Services Authority. Chairman, Cifas. Chairman, SNOMED International.
 
 
 
The Honorable [[Roy MacLaren]], PC
 
Formerly Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Minister of Trade.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon Sir [[John Major]], KG, CH
 
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon [[David Miliband]]
 
President and CEO, International Rescue Committee. Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
 
 
 
Mr [[Glen Moreno]]
 
Director, Fidelity International Limited.
 
 
 
Mr [[Edward Mortimer]], CMG
 
Formerly Chief Speechwriter and Director of Communications to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
 
 
 
Sir [[Richard Mottram]], GCB
 
Visiting Professor, LSE; formerly Permanent Secretary, UK Civil Service.
 
 
 
Judge [[Hisashi Owada]]
 
Formerly President and Judge at the [[International Court of Justice]].
 
 
 
The Rt Hon Lord Patten ([[Chris Patten]]) of Barnes, CH
 
Chancellor of Oxford University. Formerly Member of the European Commission and Governor of Hong Kong.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon. Baroness Prashar of Runnymede, CBE
 
Formerly Chair of the Judicial Appointment Commission First Civil Service Commissioner.
 
 
 
Lord Rees of Ludlow, OM, FRS, Hon. FBA
 
Astronomer Royal. Formerly Master, Trinity College, Cambridge University.
 
 
 
The Lord Ricketts, GCMG GCVO
 
Former Permanent Secretary in the Foreign Office, National Security Adviser and Ambassador to France
 
 
 
The Rt Hon Sir [[Malcolm Rifkind]], KCMG, QC
 
Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.
 
 
 
Sir [[John Sawers]], GCMG
 
Executive Chairman, Newbridge Advisory. Formerly Chief of MI6 (2009-14).
 
 
 
The Rt Hon [[Jack Straw]]
 
Formerly Foreign Secretary, Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor
 
 
 
Sir [[Kevin Tebbit]], KCB, CMG
 
Former diplomat and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Defence.
 
 
 
Sir [[Crispin Tickell]], GCMG, KCVO
 
Formerly United Kingdom Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
 
 
 
Sir [[John Vereker]], KCB, KStJ
 
Independent Director, AXA-XL London Companies.
 
 
 
Mr [[Simon Webb]], FICE
 
Executive Director, The Nichols Group.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon. the Lord Willetts, FRS
 
Executive Chair, Resolution Foundation; Visiting Professor, King's College, London. Formerly Minister for Universities and Science.
 
 
 
The Rt Hon Baroness Williams of Crosby
 
Formerly UK Secretary of State for Education and Science. Emeritus Board Member, the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Washington DC.
 
 
 
Professor [[Ngaire Woods]]
 
Dean, The Blavatnik School of Government.
 
 
 
==People==
 
* [[Shami Chakrabarti]] was a governor.<ref>{{cite news
 
|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-this-unhealthy-strain-of-leftwing-mccarthyism-796804.html |title=This unhealthy strain of left-wing McCarthyism |author=Yasmin Alibhai-Brown |date=17 March 2008 |work=The Independent | location=London}}</ref> and has been a governor of the [[Ditchley Foundation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |title=The Governors |publisher=Ditchley Foundation |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926002401/http://www.ditchley.co.uk/page/64/the-governors.htm |archivedate=26 September 2006}}</ref>
 
  
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Ditchley Park has been a center of intrigue since it was purchased in 1933 by [[Ronald Tree]], who was Minister of Information Duff Cooper's advisor on American affairs. Tree made the estate available to Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] during the early years of [[World War II]] when it was feared that Chequers could be  a target for German bombers.
  
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During these years Ditchley became a meeting place and  retreat for British and American leaders. Roosevelt emissary [[Harry Hopkins]] was Churchill's guest at Ditchley in January 1941 for discussion on troop morale; details of the Lend-Lease program were worked out amid the serene surroundings of Ditchley.[https://archive.org/stream/BilderbergMeetingsAnIllustratedHistory221/The%20Global%20Manipulators-Bilderberg-Trilateral-94_djvu.txt]
  
 
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The Ditchley Foundation is an Anglo - Canadian - American network similar to the Bilderberg Group, and has a significant overlap in membership. One will also find overlap with the Integrity Initiative, like Ngaire Woods.

The Foundation

It is based at the mansion Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire, aims to promote international understanding and relations, especially Anglo-American relations, through a programme of around twelve annual conferences on matters of international interest. The foundation was established in 1958 by Sir David Wills, descendant of the tobacco importing family, W. D. & H. O. Wills of Bristol.

At each conference, around forty international invitees are drawn from senior levels of politics, business, the armed forces, media, and academia. The current director is James Arroyo OBE, previously director for data at the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, charged with adapting the organisation to the digital age.

The meetings

Ditchley is one of the hidden gems of the Transatlantic relationship... its role as a clearing house for ideas; a forum for debate and discussion; and a magnet for policymakers gives it a unique status. It is the intellectual expression of 'soft power' and a tribute to the pre-eminence of reason and rational debate."”
John Major [1]

Discussion at each two-day conference begins with all members present, before participants divide into three sub-groups, each having its own chairman and rapporteur to summarise proceedings. Proceedings end with one more conference-wide session. Discussions are private and non-attributable, under the Chatham House Rule, but a full account is produced by the Director, and posted on the Foundations website. (This setup is similar to the Bilderberg meetings)

A permanent secretariat works at Ditchley, organising about 12 conference weekends per year. It is run, usually, by a retired ambassador. Some 40 people come to each weekend: one-third from America, one-third from Britain and one-third from the rest of the world. They are chosen for being bright, informed or influential on the matter in hand. [1]

Ditchley House

The 250 year-old palatial country house is equipped with modem conference rooms, interpretation circuits and CCTV. It is elegantly decorated with valuable antiques and priceless paintings.

Ditchley Park has been a center of intrigue since it was purchased in 1933 by Ronald Tree, who was Minister of Information Duff Cooper's advisor on American affairs. Tree made the estate available to Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the early years of World War II when it was feared that Chequers could be a target for German bombers.

During these years Ditchley became a meeting place and retreat for British and American leaders. Roosevelt emissary Harry Hopkins was Churchill's guest at Ditchley in January 1941 for discussion on troop morale; details of the Lend-Lease program were worked out amid the serene surroundings of Ditchley.[2]


 

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Cyrus VanceDitchley conferences seed ideas and deepen understanding. The consequences have often been significant and have engendered contacts, friendships and working relationships which have influenced events and policies in many fields.”Cyrus Vance


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