CLAE - Key Persons
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- Counselor, Iranian Legation, Washington
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- Member of the Collegium Chief, Monetary Division of the People 's Commissariat for Foreign Trade / UNITED KINGDOM
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- Governor of National Bank of Iran Chairman of the Delegation
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- Chairman of the Delegation
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- Counselor, New Zealand Legation, Washington
- Reporting Delegate
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- Minister Resident Director, Economic and Commercial Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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- President, Permanent Committee of Finance, Chamber of Deputies
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- Technical Counselor to the Department of Finance Assistant Delegates
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- Ambassador to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
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- Founder and Co - Chair of the Commission for Looted Art
Anne Webber was a member of the drafting team of Council of Europe Resolution 1205 (1999) on the restitution of looted cultural property in Europe, on the organising committee of the Vilnius International Forum 2000 and the Prague Conference 2009 and is a member of the Advisory Council of the European Shoah Legacy Institute. She is a member of the British Spoliation Advisory Committee which has advised UK museums on their provenance research work since 1999. She was a member of the Hunt Museum Review Group and is on the Executive Board of the International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property.
David Lewis is a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and former Chairman of its Library. From 1992 to 1999 he was President of the European Council of Jewish Communities. He is a member of the Board of The Wiener Library and a member of the Board and Honorary Fellow of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
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- Ambassador to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
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- Commercial Counselor, Norwegian Embassy, Washington / PANAMA
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- Chairman
- Minister of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- General Manager, Central Bank of Chile
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- Manager, Fishery Bank of Iceland
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- Counselor, Belgium Embassy, Washington
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- Counselor of the Belgium Government / BOLIVIA
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- Secretary to the Treasury
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- House of Representatives Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency
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- Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs Chairman of the Delegation
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- Ambassador to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
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- United States Senate Member, Committee on Banking and Currency
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- Comptroller of Exchange and Currency Officer / LIBERIA
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- Secretary of Finance of the Philippine Commonwealth Chairman of the Delegation
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- Assistant Secretary
- Secretary
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- President of the Board for the Netherlands Indies, Surinam, and Curaçao in the United States
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- Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance
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- Chief of the Department of Economic Studies, Banco De México / NETHERLANDS
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- Founder and Co - Chair of the Commission for Looted Art
- Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish
David Lewis is a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, and former Chairman of its Library. From 1992 to 1999 he was President of the European Council of Jewish Communities. He is a member of the Board of The Wiener Library and a member of the Board and Honorary Fellow of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
Anne Webber, together with David Lewis, is founder and Co-Chair of the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (CLAE) and co-founder and Director of the Central Registry of Looted Cultural Property 1933-1945 at www.lootedart.com, set up in 2001 as an independent charitable body under the auspices of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The Registry is an international research centre and online repository of detailed research, news and information from 49 countries and an onine database of 25,000 objects.
She founded and chaired the UK's International Tracing Service (ITS) Stakeholder Committee which negotiated the UK's taking a digital copy of the ITS records to be housed at The Wiener Library, London. She is a member of the UK Government Delegation to the International Commission which governs the ITS, and is a member of The Wiener Library's ITS Oversight Committee. She is a Governor of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, President of the Jewish Book Council and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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- Director, Office of Economic Stabilization Vice Chairman of the Delegation / Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State
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- Chairman
- Finance
- Member of COMMITTEE
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- Acting Chief, Economic and Statistical Section Alternates
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- Chairman
- Minister of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
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- President, First National Bank of Chicago
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- Delegate from the United Kingdom
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- Professor of Economics and Political Science, University of North Carolina
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- Financial Counselor, Ecuadoran Embassy, Washington Chairman of the Delegation
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- Member of Board of Directors, Chamber of Commerce of Costa Rica / CUBA
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- Assistant General Manager, Chilean Nitrate and Iodine Sales Corporation
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- Director of Foreign Exchange of the Bank of Brazil
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- Ambassador to the United States Former Minister of Finance and Commerce Chairman of the Delegation
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- Chairman
- Director, Office of Economic Stabilization Vice Chairman of the Delegation / Dean Acheson, Assistant Secretary of State
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- Governor, State Bank of Ethiopia
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- Minister of State Ambassador at Large on Special Mission in the United States Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
- Reporting Delegate
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- General Representative of the Chilean Line, New York
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- President, Investors Service Corporation of Panama Chairman of the Delegation
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- Ambassador to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
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- Assistant Secretary
- Secretary
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- Chairman
- Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Delegation of the United States
- Secretary of the Treasury Chairman of the Delegation
The Honorable Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America, was elected permanent President of the Conference at the Inaugural Plenary Session held on July 1, 1944.
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- China ), Chairman
- Vice President of Executive
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- Minister to the United States Chairman of the Delegation / MEXICO
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- Chief, Monetary Division of the People 's Commissariat of Finance
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- Accountant General, Ministry of Finance
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- Senator and Former Minister of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Secretary for Finance Co - Delegate
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- Chairman
- Financial Adviser to the Netherlands Government Chairman of the Delegation
- Member of COMMITTEE
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- Special Assistant to the under Secretary of State of External Affairs / CHILE
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- Counselor, Embassy of the Dominican Republic, Washington / ECUADOR
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- Auditor General of the Philippine Commonwealth
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- Financial Counselor, Australian Legation, Washington
- Reporting Delegate
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- Ministry of Finance Deputy Chairman of the Delegation
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- Financial Counselor, Polish Embassy, Washington
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- House of Representatives Member, Committee on Banking and Currency
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- Director of the Czechoslovak Economic Service in the United States of America
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- Manager, Philippine National Bank, New York Agency, Philippine Commonwealth / POLAND
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- President, Office of Import Control Director, Central Bank of Venezuela / YUGOSLAVIA
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- Minister, Commercial Counselor, Peruvian Embassy, Washington
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- Ambassador to the United States Chairman of the Delegation / ICELAND
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- Adviser to the Ministry of Finance
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- Governor of the Bank of Greece Ambassador Extraordinary for Economic and Financial Matters Chairman of the Delegation
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- Minister of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
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- Director General, Bank of Poland
- Reporting Delegate
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- Economic Adviser to the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Chairman of the Delegation
Lili Gutmann had not seen them since 1938, the year she left her family home in Heemstede, Holland, to get married in Italy. She never saw her parents again; they perished in Nazi concentration camps. After the Second World War, Lili and her older brother Bernard returned to the house, only to find it stripped bare; the Nazis had seized their possessions and art treasures.
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- Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Munitions and Supply
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- Adviser to the Ministry of Finance
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Delegation
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- Minister of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Vice Chairman
- Director, Central Bank of Chile Chairman of the Delegation
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- Dean, Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Costa Rica Former Minister of Finance and Commerce Former Minister of Public Education
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- Deputy Governor of South African Bank Co - Delegate
- Reporting Delegate
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- Chairman of the Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Deputy People 's Commissar of Foreign Trade Chairman of the Delegation
M. S. Stepanov, the Chairman of the Delegation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; Arthur de Souza Costa, the Chairman of the Delegation of Brazil; Camille Gutt, the Chairman of the Delegation of Belgium; and Leslie G. Melville, the Chairman of the Delegation of Australia, were elected Vice Presidents of the Conference.
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- Professor of Economics, Vassar College
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- Manager, National Bank of Iceland Chairman of the Delegation
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- Chairman
- Second Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies Deputy from Cerro De Pasco
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- Postgraduate Student in Economic Sciences, Harvard University Chairman of the Delegation / HAITI
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- Expert, Ministry of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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- Chairman
- Member of COMMITTEE
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- Assistant Chairman of the State Bank
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- First Secretary, Panamanian Embassy, Washington / PARAGUAY
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- First Secretary, Paraguayan Embassy, Washington / PERU
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- Chief, Division of Economic and Financial Studies, Ministry of Finance
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- Financial Counselor, Norwegian Embassy, Washington
The Final Plenary Session was held on July 22, 1944.
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- Ambassador - Designate to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
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- under Secretary of State for Finance / HONDURAS
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- Commissioner of Finance Chairman of the Delegation
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- Counselor, British Embassy, Washington
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- Financial Counselor, Bolivian Embassy, Washington Chairman of the Delegation / BRAZIL
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- United States Senate Chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency
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- United Kingdom Treasury Representative in Washington
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- Professor of Economics
- Reporting Delegate
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- Vice Chairman
- Minister of the Treasury Chairman of the Delegation
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- Manager of Banco De México
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- Chairman of the Delegation
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- Governor, Reserve Bank of India
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- Member of Finance, Government of India Chairman of the Delegation
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- Economic Advisor to the Government of India
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- Minister Counselor, Ecuadoran Embassy, Washington / EGYPT
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- Director, Ministry of Finance
CLAE is mandated to represent the European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) and the Conference of European Rabbis (CER)
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- Iranian Trade and Economic Commissioner, New York / IRAQ
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- Chief Political Secretary of Executive
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- Director, Banco Da Provincia Do Rio Grande Do Sul / CANADA
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- Adminstrative Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
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- Counselor of the Yugoslav Embassy, Washington Chairman of the Delegation
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- Vice Chairman
- Special Assistant to the Deputy Minister of Finance
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- Deputy Minister of Finance
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- Chairman of COMMITTEE
- Minister of Finance Minister to the United States Chairman of the Delegation
- New Zealand ), Chairman
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- Chief of the Division of International Conferences
Warren Kelchner, Chief of the Division of International Conferences, Department of State of the United States, was designated, with the approval of the President of the United States, as Secretary General of the Conference; Frank Coe, Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration of the United States, as Technical Secretary General; and Philip C. Jessup, Professor of International Law at Columbia University, New York, New York, as Assistant Secretary General.
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- Director, Bank of Norway, P.T., London Chairman of the Delegation
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- Secretary of the Treasury Chairman of the Delegation