The Commission will be steered by a council of approximately thirty Co-Chairs. Together with several hundred Commissioners, these stakeholders will be the active deliberative body of the Commission activities and consultative efforts. Co-Chairs are diverse international leaders drawn from major constituencies involved in globalization and committed to promoting the Commission program’s conclusions and recommendations for institutional reform and strengthening systems of global governance at the highest levels of policy and decision making.
 
As of August 1, 2001, the following persons have confirmed their commitment to serve on the Council of Co-Chairs.
 
Mahnaz Afkhami
Minister of Women’s Affairs, Iran (1976 ­ 1978)
 
Lloyd Axworthy
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Canada (1996-2000)

Georges Berthoin
European Chairman, Trilateral Commission (1975-1992)

Carl Bildt
Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Balkans, United Nations
 
Ruth Cardoso
Chair of the Board
ComunidadeSolidaria Program, Brazil
  
Jane Goodall
Primatologist
 
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1990)
 
Cândido Grzybowski
Director-General, Instituto Brasileiro de Análises Sociais e Econômicas (IBASE)
  
Noeleen Heyzer
Executive Director, United Nations Development Fund for Women
  
Enrique Iglesias
President, Inter-American Development Bank
 
Yolanda Kakabadse
President, The World Conservation Union
 
Craig Kielburger
Founder, Free the Children
 
Maria Livanos Cattaui
Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce
 
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo
Prime Minister, Portugal (1979)
 
Mark Malloch Brown
Administrator, United Nations Development Programme
 
Koichiro Matsuura
Director General, United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization
 
Queen Noor of Jordan Al-Ma'wa
Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

Thoraya Obaid
Executive Director, United Nations Population Fund
 
Jose Ramos-Horta
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1996)
 
Shridath Ramphal
Co-Chairman, The Commission on Global Governance
 
Mary Robinson
High Commissioner for Human Rights
Secretary General of the World Conference Against Racism
 
Vandana Shiva
Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and National Research Policy
 
Juan Somavia
Director General, International Labor Organization
 
George Soros
Chairman, Soros Fund Management
 
James Gustave Speth
Administrator, UNDP (1993 - 1999)
Dean, Practive of Enviornmental Policy and Sustainable Development, Yale School of Forestry and Enviornmental Studies
 
Sigmund Sternberg
Co-Founder, The Three Faiths Forum
 
Joseph Stiglitz
Chief Economist, World Bank (1997-2000)
Nobel Economics Prize Laureate
 
Strobe Talbot
Director, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
 
Desmond Tutu
Chairman, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (1984)
 
Lori Wallach
Director, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch
 
William White
President, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
 
Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children's Defense Fund
 
Muhammad Yunus
Managing Director, Grameen Bank