Who Controls the Group of Thirty?

The Group of Thirty:
http://www.group30.org/about.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group_of_Thirty

Current Members:
http://www.group30.org/members.shtml

Paul A. Volcker(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Group of Thirty; Former Chairman, Federal Reserve System
http://www.group30.org/bio_volcker.shtml

Jacob A. Frenkel(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman and CEO, Group of Thirty; Chairman, JPMorgan Chase International; Former Governor, Bank of Israel
http://www.group30.org/bio_frenkel.shtml

Geoffrey L. Bell(White European) – Executive Secretary, Group of Thirty; President, Geoffrey Bell and Associates; Former Advisor, Bank of Venezuela
http://www.group30.org/bio_bell.shtml

Abdlatif Al-Hamad(Arab) – Chairman, Arab Fund for Economic Development; Former Minister of Finance and Planning, Kuwait
http://www.group30.org/bio_alhamad.shtml

Leszek Balcerowicz(White European) – Professor, Warsaw School of Economics; Chairman of the Board, Bruegel; Former President, Bank of Poland
http://www.group30.org/bio_balcerowicz.shtml

Mark J. Carney(White European) – Governor and Chairman, Bank of Canada; Board of Directors, Bank for International Settlements
http://www.group30.org/bio_carney.shtml

Jaime Caruana(White European) – General Manager, Bank for International Settlements; Former Governor, Banco de Espana
http://www.group30.org/bio_caruana.shtml

Domingo Cavallo(White European) – Chairman and CEO, DFC Associates, LLC; Former Minister of Economy, Argentina
http://www.group30.org/bio_cavallo.shtml

E. Gerald Corrigan(White European) – Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.; Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://www.group30.org/bio_corrigan.shtml

Guillermo de la Dehesa Romero(Sephardic Jew) – Director, Grupo Santander; Former Deputy Director, Banco de Espana
http://www.group30.org/bio_dehesa.shtml

Mario Draghi(White European) – Governor, Banca d’Italia; Chairman, Financial Stability Board; Former Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
http://www.group30.org/bio_draghi.shtml

William C. Dudley(Ashkenazi Jew) – President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Former Partner and Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
http://www.group30.org/bio_dudley.shtml

Martin Feldstein(Ashkenazi Jew) – Professor of Economics, Harvard University; President Emeritus, National Bureau of Economic Research
http://www.group30.org/bio_feldstein.shtml

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.(Jewish spouse: Annette Nazareth) – President and CEO, TIAA-CREF; Former Chairman, Swiss Re America Holding Corporation
http://www.group30.org/bio_ferguson.shtml

Stanley Fischer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Governor, Bank of Israel; Former First Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
http://www.group30.org/bio_fischer.shtml

Arminio Fraga Neto(Sephardic Jew) – Founding Partner, Gavea Investimentos; Former Governor, Banco Central do Brasil
http://www.group30.org/bio_fraga.shtml

Gerd Häusler(Ashkenazi Jew) – CEO, Bayerisch Landesbank; Former Managing Director and Member of the Advisory Board, Lazard and Company
http://www.group30.org/bio_hausler.shtml

Philipp Hildebrand(White European) – Chairman of the Governing Board, Swiss National Bank; Former Partner, Moore Capital Management
http://www.group30.org/bio_hildebrand.shtml

Mervyn King(Ashkenazi Jew) – Governor, Bank of England; Former Professor, London School of Economics; Fellow, The British Academy
http://www.group30.org/bio_king.shtml

Paul Krugman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Former Member, Council of Economic Advisors
http://www.group30.org/bio_krugman.shtml

Guillermo Ortiz Martinez(Jewish spouse: Margie Simon) – Former Governor, Banco de Mexico; Chairman of the Board, Bank for International Settlements
http://www.group30.org/bio_ortiz.shtml

Kenneth Rogoff(Ashkenazi Jew) – Professor of Public Policy and Economics, Harvard University; Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
http://www.group30.org/bio_rogoff.shtml

Tharman Shanmugaratnam(Indian) – Finance Minister, Singapore; Former Managing Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore
http://www.group30.org/bio_shanmugaratnam.shtml

Masaaki Shirakawa(Japanese) – Governor, Bank of Japan; Former Professor, Kyoto University School of Government
http://www.group30.org/bio_shirakawa.shtml

Jean-Claude Trichet(Ashkenazi Jew) – President, European Central Bank; Former Governor, Banque de France; Former Secretary General, CIASI
http://www.group30.org/bio_trichet.shtml

Lord Adair Turner(White European) – Chairman, Financial Services Authority; Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom
http://www.group30.org/bio_turner.shtml

Sir David Walker(White European) – Senior Advisor, Morgan Stanley International, Inc.; Former Chairman, Securities and Investments Board
http://www.group30.org/bio_walker.shtml

Zhou Xiaochuan(Chinese) – Governor, People’s Bank of China; Former President, Chinese Construction Bank; Former Asst. Minister of Trade
http://www.group30.org/bio_zhou.shtml

Yutaka Yamaguchi(Japanese) – Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan; Former Chairman, Euro Currency Standing Commission
http://www.group30.org/bio_yamaguchi.shtml

Ernesto Zedillo(Mestizo) – Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University; Former President of Mexico
http://www.group30.org/bio_zedillo.shtml

Senior Members:

William R. Rhodes(White European) – President and CEO, William R. Rhodes Global Advisors; Senior Advisor, Citigroup, Inc.
http://www.group30.org/bio_rhodes.shtml

Marina v N. Whitman(Ashkenazi Jew) – Professor, University of Michigan; Former Member, Council of Economic Advisors
http://www.group30.org/bio_whitman.shtml

Emeritus Members:
http://www.group30.org/members_emeritus.shtml

Richard A. Debs(Ashkenazi Jew) – Former President, Morgan Stanley International; Former COO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://www.group30.org/bio_debs.shtml

Jacques De Larosiere(White European) – Conseiller, BNP Paribas; Former Director, IMF; Former Governor, Bank de France
http://www.group30.org/bio_jacques.shtml

Gerhard Fels(Ashkenazi Jew) – Former Director, Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft; Member, UN Committee for Development Planning
http://www.group30.org/bio_fels.shtml

Toyoo Gyohten(Japanese) – President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs; Former Chairman, Bank of Tokyo
http://www.group30.org/bio_gyothen.shtml

John Heimann(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Advisor, Financial Stability Institute; Former Comptroller of the Currency, United States
http://www.group30.org/bio_heimann.shtml

Erik Hoffmeyer(Ashkenazi Jew) – Chairman, Politiken-Fonden; Former Chairman of the Board, Danmarks National Bank
http://www.group30.org/bio_hoffmeyer.shtml

Peter Kenen(Ashkenazi Jew) – Professor of Economics, Princeton University; Former Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.group30.org/bio_kenen.shtml

William McDonough(Jewish spouse: Suzanne Clarke Falk) – Former Vice Chairman, Bank of America; Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
http://www.group30.org/bio_mcdonough.shtml

Shijuro Ogata(Japanese) – Deputy Chairman, The Trilateral Commission; Former Deputy Governor, Bank of Japan
http://www.group30.org/bio_ogata.shtml

Sylvia Ostry [Knelman](Ashkenazi Jew) – Research Fellow, Center for International Studies; Former Ambassador for Trade Negotiations, Canada
http://www.group30.org/bio_ostry.shtml

Ernest Stern(Ashkenazi Jew) – Senior Advisor, The Rohatyn Group; Former Managing Director, The World Bank
http://www.group30.org/bio_stern.shtml

Summary:
Of the forty-three(43) Group of Thirty members, twenty-three(23) are Jews or have Jewish spouses. This is a numerical representation of 53%. Jews are approximately .25% of the world population.* Therefore Jews are over-represented among the Group of Thirty members by a factor of 212 times(21,200 percent).

* Jewish Population of the World by Country:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html