- Nicolas Berggruen Institute
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The Nicolas Berggruen Institute (NBI) is an independent, non-partisan think tank and consultance engaged in the comparative study, design of systems of governance suited to the new and complex challenges of the 21st century. It aims to integrate the new possibilities of the information age with the best practices of efficient, decisive and meritocratic administration in Asia with the democratic accountability of the West. The knowledge society both enables and requires intelligent community, intelligent democracy and intelligent governance.[1]
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NBI Team
Nicolas Berggruen – Chairman
Dawn Nakagawa - Executive Director
Nathan Gardels – Senior Advisor
NBI Projects
The Nicolas Berggruen Institute initiates and develops projects by creating leadership task forces to develop recommendations for governance reform within a specific context. Some of the projects include:
21st Century Council
The 21st Century Council is a group of former heads of state, accomplished thinkers and global entrepreneurs brought together to explore reform of global governance systems. The current focus of the group is the G20 and they will be presenting their recommendations to President Sarkozy in the Fall of 2011 prior to the G20 Summit in Cannes.[2]
Members of the group include:[3]
- Shaukat Aziz - Former Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Zheng Bijian - Doyen of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso - Former President of Brazil
- Felipe Gonzalez - Former Premier of Spain[4]
- Festus Mogae - Former President of Botswana
- Gerhard Schröder - Former Chancellor of Germany
- George Yong-Boon Yeo - Former Foreign Minister of Singapore
- Ernesto Zedillo - Former President of Mexico
- Francis Fukuyama - Political Scientist, Philosopher
- Alain Minc - Author and Policy Adviser
- Nouriel Roubini - Economist
- Amartya Sen - Nobel Laureate
- Michael Spence - Nobel Laureate
- Joseph Stiglitz - Nobel Laureate
- Ahmed Zewail - Nobel Laureate
- Jack Dorsey - Founder of Twitter
- Arianna Huffington - founder of The Huffington Post
- Eric Schmidt - Chairman of Google
The Think Long Committee for California[5]
The Think Long Committee for California aims to offer a comprehensive approach for repairing and renovating California's broken system of governance while proposing policies and institutions vital for the state's long term future.[6] The Think Long Committee for California has involved a politically diverse board from the outset.
The members he has chosen for the Think Long Committee for California run the ideological gamut. Reaganite George Schultz and Bush administration veteran Condoleezza Rice will weigh in, as will Democrats Willie Brown and Gray Davis. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt and Los Angeles philanthropist Eli Broad will also serve on the committee. Arnold Schwarzenegger, then Governor of California, was invited to be a guest at the first meeting. [7]
Members of the committee, in addition to Berggruen, include:[8]
- Eli Broad - Co-founder of Kaufman and Broad, Philanthropist
- Willie Brown - 58th Speaker of the California State Assembly and 41st Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco
- Gray Davis - 37th Governor of California
- Maria Elena Durazo - Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO
- Ronald M. George - 27th Chief Justice of Supreme Court of California
- Antonia Hernandez - President of the California Community Foundation
- Robert Hertzberg - 64th Speaker of the California State Assembly
- Gerry Parsky - Former Assistant Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
- Condoleezza Rice - 66th United States Secretary of State
- Eric Schmidt - Chairman of Google
- Terry Semel - Former CEO of Warner Bros. and Yahoo!
- George P. Shultz - 60th United States Secretary of State
- Laura Tyson - Former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers
- David Bonderman - Founding partner of TPG Capital
Matt Fong, 30th California State Treasurer, was a member until his death in 2011.
In November 2011, the Think Long Committee published a report, A Blueprint to Renew California: Report and Recommendations, with three appendices.[9] The report begins:
- Rebooting California's Democracy:
- Leaving Gridlock Behind with a Bipartisan Path to the Future
- After a year of deliberation and consultation with an array of experts, as well as state and local officials (see list in Appendix), the Think Long Committee for California proposes the following set of integrated structural reforms to “reboot” California’s dysfunctional democracy by installing a new civic software.
- While setting in place a long-term framework for good governance over the coming decades, our plan would:
- Create a positive business environment for job creation
- Reduce the personal income tax across the board while retaining California’s progressive tax structure
- Fund education by an additional $5 billion while fostering reform
- Provide $2.5 billion to the University of California and California State University systems to keep higher education within reach of California’s families
- Empower county governments and help reduce public safety costs by providing $1.5 billion in additional funding
- Provide $1 billion to California cities in block grants to meet their local needs
- Start paying down the state’s “wall of debt” and stabilizing the boom-and-bust budget cycle
- Give Californians real power to make government accountable
- Improve the process for making long-term economic policy
Headquarters
The NBI is based in Los Angeles, California in the United States of America.
References
- ^ [1]. berggruen.org Retrieved on 2011-06-06
- ^ [2] Nicolas Berggruen Institute. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ^ [3] Nicolas Berggruen Institute, Who We Are. Retrieved on 2011-06-06.
- ^ New York Times : January 7, 2011
- ^ Nicolas Berggruen invests in California governance Californians to watch By Torey Van Oot [4]
- ^ [5] Nicolas Berggruen Institute. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ^ Bid to remake California state government finds major benefactor, [6]
- ^ [7] Nicolas Berggruen Institute, Who We Are. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ^ A Blueprint to Renew California: Report and Recommendations, Nicolas Berggruen Institute[8]
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