The British-North American Committee (BNAC) is a group of leaders from business, labor, and academia in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada committed to constructive relations among the three countries and their citizens. Its members meet regularly to discuss major economic, scientific and policy issues of mutual concern with invited experts and senior policymakers. Its research and publishing program seeks to discover and disseminate potential solutions. While nonpartisan and supportive of closer economic and political relations on a broad international basis, the BNAC believes that close personal ties and cooperation among leaders from various spheres in the three countries will play, in the future as they have in the past, a special role in promoting global security and prosperity.

Among the characteristics of the BNAC most valued by its members are its diverse make-up and the opportunities it provides for members to hear informative speakers and exchange views off the record. Implicit in the Committee’s existence is recognition that the three countries share ties that go beyond economic and security questions, extending to issues of culture and habits of mind. The Committee is not a policy institute, but its regular commissioning and publishing of research – generally accompanied by signed statements of members’ views – testifies to its members’ desire to disseminate useful analysis of issues of common concern.

The British-North American Committee is sponsored by the British-North American Research Association in the United Kingdom, by the C.D. Howe Institute in Canada, and by the Atlantic Council in the United States.

Alan R. Griffith of the Bank of New York and Sir Paul Judge of the Royal Society of Arts are, respectively, the North American and British co-chairmen.

More information about BNAC can be found on its website http://www.bnac.org