Tony Blair joins the following existing members of JP Morgan's International Council:

• George P. Shultz, chairman of the Council; distinguished fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University • Riley P. Bechtel, chairman and chief executive of Bechtel Group • Jean-Louis Beffa, chairman and chief executive of Saint-Gobain • Bill Bradley, former US Senator, Allen & Company • Michael A. Chaney, chairman of National Australia Bank • André Desmarais, president and co-chief executive of Power Corporation of Canada • Martin Feldstein, president and chief executive of National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts • Arminio Fraga Neto, founding partner of Gavea Investimentos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Xiqing Gao, vice chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund, Beijing, China • William B. Harrison, Jr., former chairman of JP Morgan • Carla A. Hills, chairman and chief executive of Hills & Company, Washington, D.C. • Franz B. Humer, chairman and chief executive of Roche Holding, Basel, Switzerland • Abdallah S. Jum’ah, president and chief executive of Saudi Arabian Oil Company • Henry A. Kissinger, chairman of Kissinger Associates, New York • Mustafa V. Koç, chairman of Koç Holding, Istanbul, Turkey • Lee Kuan Yew, minister mentor, Singapore • Minoru Makihara, former chairman of Mitsubishi • Brian Mulroney, senior partner of Ogilvy Renault, Montreal, Canada • David J. O’Reilly, chairman and chief executive, Chevron • Kai-Uwe Ricke, former chairman of the management board, Deutsche Telekom • John Rose, chief executive of Rolls-Royce • Tokyo Sexwale, executive chairman of Mvelaphanda Holdings, Johannesburg, South Africa • Jess Søderberg, partner and chief executive of A.P. Møller-Maersk Group, Copenhagen, Denmark • Ratan Naval Tata, chairman of Tata Sons, Mumbai, India • Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman and chief executive of Pirelli • Cees J.A. van Lede, former chairman of the management board at Akzo Nobel • Douglas A. Warner III, former chairman, JP Morgan • Ernesto Zedillo, director of the Yale Centre for the Study of Globalisation • Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, president of Ayala Corporation, Makati City, Philippines