’A world parliament of business’? The International Chamber of Commerce and its presidents in the twentieth century
研究国际商会（ICC）1920年至2000年的43位会长，发现他们代表当时最强大的企业，平均在ICC任职10年后当选，任期结束后仍活跃多年，通过定期聚会和共同捍卫自由贸易形成强大的跨国商业社群。
This article investigates the contribution of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), founded in Paris in 1920, to transnational business networks and communities. It is based on a prosopographic study of the 43 presidents of the ICC until 2000 and research in the archives of the ICC. Our results show that these men represented firms that were amongst the most powerful of their time. Furthermore, we show that the ICC presidents displayed heterogenous profiles, but spent an average of 10 years in the ICC before their election and remained active for many years after their tenure as president was over, allowing them to form a powerful transnational community. We investigate qualitatively the way the ICC presidents interacted to cement this transnational community. They met regularly over select events – such as the ‘diner des sages’ – and bonded over a common project: defending free trade and international business.