Cyrus R. Vance, cochair of the Commission, is a partner in the New York law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Vance was U.S. secretary of state from 1977 to 1980 during the Carter administration. He was secretary of the army from 1962 to 1964 and deputy secretary of defense from 1964 to 1967. From 1991 to 1993 Mr. Vance served as personal envoy of the secretary-general of the United Nations in the Yugoslavia crisis and as UN cochairman of the International Conference on the Former Yugoslavia (Lord Owen was the European Community cochairman of the conference). Mr. Vance was also personal envoy of the secretary-general in Nagorno-Karabakh and South Africa in 1992, and in the negotiations between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in 1993. He has served as special representative of the president in civil disturbances in Detroit (1967), in the Cyprus crisis (1967), and in Korea (1968), and he was one of two U.S. negotiators at the Paris Peace Conference on Vietnam (1968 -- 1969).
David A. Hamburg, cochair of the Commission, is president
emeritus of Carnegie Corporation of New York, having served as president of the
Corporation from 1983 to 1997. In addition to holding academic posts at Stanford
and Harvard universities, he has been president of the Institute of Medicine,
National Academy of Sciences. He has also been president and chairman of the board
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hamburg has served
on the Chief of Naval Operations Executive Panel and currently serves on the Defense
Policy Board of the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also a member of the President's
Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. He has long been concerned with
the problems of human aggression and violence, especially with violence prevention
and conflict resolution, and he is the author or coauthor of numerous publications
on these subjects.
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