Board of Directors

Officers of the Organization

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: The Honorable U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Presidential Candidate, Governor Gary Johnson

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Howard Kazanjian, Star Wars Executive Producer and LucasFilm Vice President

Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Environmentalist

Co-Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder

  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: President of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Premier of Bermuda, Honorable Paula Cox
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Minister Javier Diaz de Leon, Dean of the Consular Corps of GA.
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Commonwealth of Bahamas, Wendall Jones 
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Commonwealth of Dominica, Hubert Charles
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Germany, Lutz Gorgens
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of France, Philippe Adanaz
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Ecuador to the U.S., Nathalie Cely
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Ambassador of Barbados to the U.S., John Beale
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: U.S. Ambassador Mark Lagon, Chieft Policy Officer, Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Stratton Leopold, Film Executive Producer for films such “Mission Impossible III”, Captain America
  • Honorary Chairman of the Board of Directors: Lou Gossett Jr, Oscar Award Winner Actor
  • Co-Chairman of the Board: U.S. Ambassador Charles Shapiro
  • Co-Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder
  • President: Consul of Lithuania, Roma Klicius

Executive Committee

  • Chairman of the Board: Solange Warner, WCC Founder and Chairman
  • President: Consul of Lithuania, Roma Klicius
  • Secretary: Coston Dickinson, Architect, DAG Architects 
  • Treasurer: Tony Erwin, Ambassador Global Blockchain Business Council

Board of the Directors at Large:

  • Consul of Latvia, Kevin Casebier
  • Consul of Sweden and Norway, Tom Rosseland
  • Senator John Albers, Senate
  • Mayor of Union City, Vince Williams
  • William Pate, President Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau
  • Dr. Helene Gayle, President, Spelman College 
  • Former Senator Curt Thompson, Senate
  • Senator Gloria Butler
  • Mayor Linda Blechinger, Mayor of the City of Auburn. GA.
  • Consul of Liberia, Cynthia Lynn Blandford
  • David Innes, Senior Vice President, Entertainment and private banking, City National Bank
  • Consul of Ecuador, Patricia Boezio
  • Lucia Jennings, President and Founder Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce
  • Axel Leblois, United Nations Fellow

Advisory Board:

The objective of the World Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board is to provide suggestions on supporting international trade and expanding the World Chamber of Commerce worldwide.

  • Ambassador Dr. Amina Smaila, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 
  • Ambassador Gandy Thomas, Consul General of Haiti
  • Consul Dr. Bruce S. Allen, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein
  • Consul Ferdinand Seefried, Consul of Austria
  • Ambassador Reda Mansour. Honorary Chairman
  • Ambassador Hermano Telles Riberio, Consul General of Brazil
  • Ambassador Ricardo Camara Sanchez, Consul General of Mexico
  • Ambassador Ajit Kumar, Consul General of India
  • Ambassador of Switzerland, Claudio Leoncavallo
  • Consul General of Belgium, William De Baets
  • Consul General Christoph Sander, Consul General of Germany
  • Consul General of Japan in Alabama, Mark Jackson
  • Consul General Paul Gleeson, Consul General of Ireland
  • Consul General Pascal Le Deunff, Previous Consul General of France
  • Consul General Marcelo Gerschenfeld, Consul General of Argentina
  • Consul Mikael Norin, Honorary Consul of Sweden
  • Consul Dr. Al H. Andersen, Honorary Consul of Tanzania
  • Consul Ian Latham, Honorary Consul of New Zeland
  • Consul Charles Battle, Honorary Consul of the Principality of Monaco
  • Consul Dr. Edward Layne, Honorary Consulf of Barbados
  • Consul Mona Tekin Diamond, Honorary Consul of Turkey
  • Consul Ray Donato, Honorary Consul General of Philippines
  • Consul Georges Hoffman, Honorary Consul of Luxembourg
  • Consul R. William Ide, III, Honorary Consul of Thailand
  • Consul John Parkerson, Honorary Consul of Hungary
  • Consul J. Thomas Ratchford, Jr., Honorary Consul of Nicaragua
  • Consul Christopher Smith, Honorary Consul of Denmark
  • Consul Paul Steinfield, Honorary Consul of Slovenia
  • Consul Mavel Summers, Honorary Consul of Honduras
  • Consul Edouk Swaak, Honorary Consul of Netherlands
  • Consul Jennifer Jenkins, Honorary Consul of Botswana
  • Consul Bob Muscat, Honorary Consul of Malta
  • Consul David Cutting, Honorary Consul of Barbados
  • Dr. George Holmes, President Barack Obama National African American Clergy Leadership Group
  • Rep. Stephanie Stuckey Benfield, House of Representative
  • Rep. Brenda Lopez, House of Representative
  • Rep. Pedro Marin, House of Representative
  • Tom Strauss, Southern Regional Director at U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Rajeev Dhawan, Georgia State University

Media Communications Advisory Board:

  • Ed Baker, Atlanta Business Chronicle Publisher
  • Phil Bolton, Global Atlanta Publisher
  • Markina Brown, CBS News
  • Mariela Romero, Univision
Business Advisory Board:
  • Taylor Warner, SVP Pep Boys 

Arts Advisory Board:

  • Chris Tucker, Actor
  • Ozzie Areu, Chairman and Founder, Areu Bros. Studios
  • Mendel Tropper: Film Executive Director, “My Sister’s Keeper” with Cameron Diaz
  • David Burke: “Hey Wordy” Television Show Creator and Executive Producer
  • David Harvey: Music Producer
  • Museums: Rodney Mims Cook, President, National Monuments Foundation an Millennium Gate Museum
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