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As required by Portuguese law, FPG has 3 ruling bodies: a general assembly with a chair of 3 members, an audit committee with 3 members and an executive board with 3 members. According to the bylaws, the president of the executive board and the president of the chair of the general assembly must be the current chairman of the Portuguese group of the Trilateral Commission and his predecessor.

The select number of entrepreneurs in banking, insurance, wine, construction, legal services, telecommunications, environment and energy who decided to establish the Forum on 30 July 1996 had a clear motivation. They wanted to promote Portuguese awareness of the challenges of economic and financial globalization by creating a Forum to debate the internationalization of business.

Their willingness to help and foster public debate on the issues of international interdependence among the three major democratic industrialized regions of the world can be seen as a ameans towards the end of a more globally competitive Portuguese economy and society.

Founders were also aware that, without public debate, government efforts to promote the internationalization of Portuguese businesses were likely to fail, undermining their competitiveness and Portugal's ability to attain the complementary objectives of European Union (EU) and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP).

P.S. An earlier version was presented at the first meeting of Forum Portugal Global, on 17 September, 1996.