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The Ditchley Foundation based at Ditchley Park near Chipping Norton, 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. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ditchley.co.uk/the-foundations/the-ditchley-foundation/sir-david-wills )〕 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 Sir John Holmes GCVO, KBE, CMG,〔(Senior staff at the Ditchley Foundation ) Retrieved on March 18, 2013〕 former British diplomat, and recently Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator at the United Nations, New York. 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. Sister organisations, American and Canadian Ditchley, help to shape the conference programme as well as select American and Canadian participants. ==Notable members== *The Rt Hon (Lord (George Islay MacNeill) Robertson ) of Port Ellen, KT, GCMG, PC, Hon FRSE is the current Chairman of The Ditchley Foundation. He is also Deputy-Chairman of TNK-BP. He was NATO Secretary General from 1999-2003 and UK Defence Secretary from 1997-1999. *Sir John Major, the former British Prime Minister, chairman of the Ditchley Foundation 2000-2009. * Sir John Wheeler-Bennett. British historian; the first chairman, appointed in 1958. * Sir Reginald Hibbert. Director 1982–1987.〔(Sir Reginald Hibbert - Albanologist and former ambassador in Paris )〕 * Sir Philip Adams. Director 1977–1982.〔(Obituary of Sir Philip Adams - The Independent )〕 * Sir Michael Quinlan. Director 1992–1999. * Sir Nigel Broomfield KCMG, Director 1999-2004 * Sir Jeremy Greenstock GCMG, Director 2004 - 2010 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ditchley Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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