11 March 2009
The International Agenda of the New President of the USA

BIOGRAPHIES
John Fisher Burns
John Burns is chief foreign correspondent of The New York Times, and London bureau chief. He joined the newspaper in 1975 and has spent 33 years as a foreign correspondent, assigned to South Africa 1976-1980; Soviet Union, 1980-1984; China, 1984-1986; Canada, 1987-1989; Afghanistan; 1989-1990; the former Yugoslavia, 1991-1994; India, 1994-1998; the Islamic world, 1999-2001; Afghanistan 2001-2002; and Iraq, 2002-2007.

Mr. Burns is a British citizen, educated at Stowe School and McGill University in Montreal. He subsequently studied at Harvard and Cambridge.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting twice, for coverage of the siege of Sarajevo (1993) and the rise of the Taliban (1997).

Lady Lynn de Rothschild
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association and supporter of John McCain

Since June 2002, Lady de Rothschild has been the Chief Executive of E.L Rothschild LLC, a private company that focuses on investments throughout the world. From 2002-04, she was also Co-Chair of FieldFresh Pvt. Ltd, a 50-50 joint venture with Bharti Enterprises, established to develop the Indian agricultural sector in India. From 1990 to 2002, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of FirstMark Holdings, Inc., which owned and managed various telecommunications companies worldwide. She was Executive Vice President for Development at Metromedia Telecommunications, Inc. from 1984 to 1989. She began her career in 1980 as an associate at the law firm of Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett LLP in New York City, where she practiced corporate law. Lady de Rothschild has been a director of The Estee Lauder Companies since December 2000, and The Economist Newspaper Limited (member of the Audit Committee) since October 2002. She is also a trustee of the American Fund for the Tate, the Outward Bound Trust (UK), the Alfred Herrhausen Society of International Dialogue (Deutsche Bank), and an Advisor to the Deutsche Bank Microfinance Consortium. Lady de Rothschild is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Chatham House, the International Advisory Council of Asia House, and the Foreign Policy Association, and she served as a member of the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Committee and as the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board under President Clinton. In 2008 she was awarded the Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in recognition of her services to Friends of FAI (Fondo per L'Ambiente Italiano). She graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California (1976) and received a law degree from Columbia University in New York City (1980).