Supranational Society: Masterlist of 2,000 NGOs and the Top 400 People in Them
Contents
- ISGP's Superclass Index: visual oversight
- Sources and importance
Liberal elite NGOs - U.S.-centered: politics, economics, national security
- U.K. domestic
- Dutch domestic
- Anglo-American relations
- Australian relations
- Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Post-WWI U.S.-German relations
- Russian and (former) CIS relations
- Latin American relations
- Far East relations
- Middle East relations
- Arab banks and charities tied to terror, dictators and western elites
- Israel relations
- Africa relations
- European Union
- Institutes of international affairs
- U.K. clubs
- U.S. clubs
- Fraternities
- International focus: politics, economics, national security
- "New Left": Interfaith and "anti-racism"
- More New Left: eugenics, birth control, United Nations, anti-nuclear protesting, sustainable development, and UFO cultism
- The rent-a-skeptic network
- Internet freedom and AI
Liberal (mainly) - Elite banks and corporations
- Key defense and military-related corporations
- "Independent" national security committees and advisory panels to all intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and State Department
Liberal/conservative - Liberal/conservative: particularly strong CIA, NSA, MI6, GCHQ-tied groups
- Liberal/conservative: New Orleans and Dallas elite (JFK-related)
Conservative / McCarthyite - Rising "military-industrial complex"
- Lower level
- U.S. - intelligence
- Mainly U.K. - intelligence
- Vatican-Paneuropa network - intelligence
Zionist - Set up by Zionist Jews, not American neocons
USSR and Russia - Think tanks
- Putin's "St. Petersburgers"
- Key corporations
Other groups - Anti-Vatican masonic, deist and esoteric groups
- Humanist groups
- Secret societies Japan
Networks and existence uncertain - The "black network", "octopus", "nebula" and "Joint"
- Existence uncertain
Extra: coups by the West - Reported coups
Above and below the reader can find names of prominent individuals ranked according to the number of NGOs - and a number of key corporations - they (at the very least) have historically been involved with. Overall, this appears to be a very accurate "influence index" when it comes to, once and for all, and in rather scientific manner, identifying the "powers-that-be". The focus is on the West, including Israel, but it is also possible to get a good sense of the situation in Russia.
As the reader will soon realize, most of the individuals listed in the "Superclass Index" - whether they are "liberal elite", "conservative elite", or "neocons" - know one another VERY well and all have the same opinions when it comes to Third World immigration and opposition to "conspiracy theory" in particular. Anyone with an interest in globalization or parapolitical issues would do well to become familiar with this network. After all, it is what secretly dominates our society at every level.
It's possible to check the rankings for yourself by doing searches on this page for particular (sur)names. Over 300 still-alive persons are listed at this point. Hundreds of additional "helpers" can be added if we start looking at individuals having been involved in less than 10 NGOs. The absolute top, mainly consisting of the closest friends of the late David Rockefeller, is by far the most important though. They have built and dominated this global network from at least the 1950s to the 2020s.
| GREEN: | Career in banking, corporations, in economic government posts, or science. |
| YELLOW: | Congress, senate, judiciary, lower level government position, or (vice) president. |
| RED | Military career, defense secretary, CIA, national security advisor or national security scholar/scientist. |
| BLUE: | State Department. |
| PURPLE: | Soviet/nationalist Russian |
The above colors have been used to give an indication of each person's professional background. The reader can count all the think tanks, foundations, and other NGOs each person in this list is involved in by going through ISGP's NGO list.
Last update: March 5, 2025
Green and yellow in particular only properly visible in "light theme".
"The Kay [Graham] of the permanent establishment never lost sight of the fact that societies thrive not by the victories of their factions but by their ultimate reconciliations. Kay and I met in 1969 at the home of Joe Alsop, another member of Washington's permanent establishment."
July 23, 2001, Henry Kissinger, Eulogy for Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. |
"[Think tanks] exert definite and even considerable influence on the process of elaborating and making political decisions. It is connected with the fact that ... leaders of such centers have as a rule personal close links with the [government]. Second, the centers are created in order to prepare and adopt the major political decisions in the shade, far from public. Third, such analytical and expert centers really accumulate the best intellectual forces of the country and fourth, not always but rather often, the centers were founded simply to provide jobs to [retired] politicians."
1999, Yuri Pivovarov, 'Power Institutions in Post-Communist Russia: Official Forms and Hidden Transcripts,' p. 18 (NATO library). The influence of Russian think tanks on the executive body seems to be many times less than is the case in the United States, but the reasons for their existence seem to be the same. |
"In addition to supplying experts for incoming administrations, think tanks provide departing officials with institutional settings [where they] remain engaged in pressing foreign policy debates, and constitute an informal shadow foreign affairs establishment. This "revolving door" is unique to the United States, and a source of its strength. ...
"Think tanks provide policy-makers with venues in which to build shared understanding, if not consensus, on policy options... Among think tanks, the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations has been most adept at this convening role, hosting hundreds of meetings annually in New York, Washington, and major cities around the country. For U.S. officials, events at major think tanks offer non-partisan settings to announce new initiatives, explain current policy, and launch trial balloons."
November 1, 2002, future CFR president Richard Haass, State Department Archive, 'Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Policy-Maker's Perspective'. |
"Long after the Iraq War went south, when its failures could no longer be minimized, the elite newspapers and weeklies finally got around to offering sound analyses and asking the Bush Administration tough questions. ...
"My initial support for the [2003 Iraq] war was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility. We 'experts' have a lot to fix about ourselves."
Summer 2009, Mo. 13, Democracy Journal, 'Mission Not Accomplished', by Leslie Gelb, CFR president 1993-2003. |
Sources
The names of institutes and individuals on this page have been gathered over the course of more than a thousand hours over 17 years from sources as:
- books;
- newspapers;
- official websites (don't forget Webarchive);
- unofficial websites (names were always double checked);
- a number of membership lists;
- and the Who's Who.
Many fully-written-out sources can be found in various articles and mixed membership-biography lists on this website. However, providing specific sources on the names with each institute has proven to be completely impossible due to time constraints.
All mid- to low level institutes - those without any recognizable superclass names on the various boards - have been left out of these lists. This oversight really is about the 1,500 most important NGOs, with a few dozen key corporations mixed in where elites have also gathered through various board memberships over the decades.
Importance
This page has primarily been put together to make cross-referencing - as to who is involved in what - a hundred times easier than before. And maybe even more important, also to figure out in a rather scientific way as to which players are the most influential within the globalist movement.
People studying political science should have a good idea of the non-government organizations listed on this page. They vary considerable in purpose and influence, but are an integral part of the globalization process, as well as intelligence and covert operations. For an explanation of how various establishments overlap with each other, or maybe "oppose" one another, the reader can visit the introduction page.
What keeps this entire network afloat are funds from corporations and foundations, membership fees, fund raisers and occasional government grants. Ban the foundations, curb corporate contributions, and the whole network will start to fall apart.
Let's face it, if you don't know anything about the NGOs making up the private, supranational superclass running national governments in the West, it doesn't matter how many political degrees you have: you don't know, and never will know, anything about real politics.
Interestingly, back in early 2004 this author was unable to find more than six or seven of the more important organizations below on one website or in one book, even after looking for it all over the place. Often groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission were mixed in with the "Illuminati", the "Freemasons" and the "New World Order". Tiny bits of information on such groups as the Pilgrims, Le Cercle, the 1001 Club, the JASON Group, the Sun Valley Meetings and others were scattered all over the place and often not freely accessible. Information on mainland Europe with regard to these kind of groups was especially scarce. And in all cases no one had a clue how various groups related to each other.
As the reader can see on ISGP, this situation has changed. A lot.
| Harvard University / Harvard Corporation Trustees: huge amounts of elites. Global advisory council: David Rubenstein (founding chair; also: trustee Harvard Corporation; trustee Johns Hopkins University; trustee University of Chicago; trustee Duke University 2005-2012, vice chair 2012-2013, chair 2017-2020)). |
1636 |
| New York University (NYU) Trustees as of March 2001: Laurence Tisch (trustee 1966-2003, chair 1978-1998) and son Daniel (anno 2020) | Larry Silverstein (vice chair; still anno 2020) and daughter Lisa (anno 2020) | Brooke Astor (life) | Maurice Greenberg (life; non-voting trustee anno 2020) | Baron Edouard de Rothschild (partner Rothschild & Cie Banque) | Mortimer Zuckerman | John Brademas | Barry Diller | Michael Steinhardt | Larry Fink (still anno 2020) | Alan Greenberg | Henry Kaufman | Elmer Bobst | Paul Fribourg | Thomas Murphy (chair and CEO ABC). Later trustees: Fiona Druckenmiller (wife of Stanley) | Rima Al Mokarrab and Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak of Abu Dhabi. NYU Langone Health (2020): Fiona D. (co-chair) | Larry Fink (co-chair) | Larry S. | Edgar Bronfman Jr. (major financier of NYU) | Ken Chenault | Gary Cohn | Ron Perelman | Isaac Perlmutter | Alan Schwartz (exec. chair Guggenheim Partners). Dominated by wealthy Jews. Overseers (2020): Jamie Dimon | Paul Tudor Jones | Michael Novogratz (brother of Jacqueline). More: Edgar Bronfman Sr. (founder of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU). |
1831 |
| American Bankers Association (ABA) Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury (IAC 1962-1965) | Howard McCall | Rudolph Hecht (president) | Gabriel Hauge | Warren Burgess (chair Economic Policy Commission 1940-1944, president ABA 1944-1945, chair Commission on Public Debt Policy 1946-1947; married a granddaughter of J.P. Morgan) |
1875 |
| Academy of Political Science, Columbia University Honorary members anno 2013: Madeleine Albright | John Brademas | Zbigniew Brzezinski | George H. W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Robert Gates | Sandra Day O'Connor | David Rockefeller | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | Richard van Weizsacker. Other honorary members in 2001: LBJ and wife | Reagan | Gerald Ford | Lord Roll. Director: John J. Iselin. Started publishing Political Science Quarterly in 1886. |
1880 |
| American Economic Association (AEA) Directors: George Stigler (1954-1956, president 1964, fellow 1965) | Milton Friedman (1955-1957, president 1967, fellow 1968) | Martin Feldstein (1980-1982, president 2004, fellow 2005) | Joseph Stiglitz (1982-1984) | Larry Summers (1989-1991) | Ben Bernanke (ex-officio director anno 2020, president 2019). Fellows: George Shultz (2004) | Ludwig von Mises (1969) |
1885 |
| National Geographic Society (NGS) Alexander Graham Bell (president 1898-1903 | Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (president 1920-1954; married Alexander Bell's daughter) | Melville Bell Grosvenor (president 1957-1967) | Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (president 1980-1996, trustee 1966-2014, trustee chair 1987-2011). Trustees: Rozanne Ridgway | Brendan Bechtel (anno 2020) | Strive Masiyiwa (anno 2020) | Alexandra Grosvenor Eller (anno 2020). |
1888 |
| Mayo Clinic Trustees: Paul Volcker (since 1979, emeritus today) | Tom Brokaw | Dick Cheney | Tom Johnson | Lee Raymond | Barbara Bush | Walter Mondale | Anne Tatlock (since 2002) | Hugh Price | Anne Sweeney. Trustee Mayo Foundation: Cyrus Vance | Frederick Smith. |
1889 |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Theodore von Karman (professor of Aeronautics at Caltech 1928-1949; founder JPL in 1936; director Caltech's Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory 1928-1945) | Jack Parsons (co-founder JPL with Karman at Caltech; occultist of the OTO) | James G. Boswell (trustee since April 1947) | John McCone (trustee April 1947 and during 1950s, before he became CIA director; UCLA trustee since 1965; a $2,5 million gift in 1992 to Caltech of his established a chairmanship in his name; Bechte1 business partner since 1937) | Robert Ingersoll (trustee 1961-1980s) | Thomas Watson, Jr. (long-time trustee since 1961) | Dean Wooldridge (upon retiring from TRW in 1962 became a professor here) | Si Ramo (trustee 1964-1985, life trustee since then; co-head of TRW and Bunker-Ramo) | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (financier; trustee 1967-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert O. Anderson (trustee 1967-1989, life trustee since then) | Ruben Mettler (Caltech Ph.D. electrical and aerospace engineering; trustee 1968-2006, chair 1985-1993; chair TRW) | William Hewitt (life trustee) | Ira Bowen | Robert McNamara (trustee 1969-1988, life trustee since then) | Lew Wasserman (trustee 1971-1987, life trustee since then) | Harold Brown (president) | Stanton Avery (chair) | J. Paul Austin (trustee since 1975) | Philip Hawley (trustee 1975-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert Galvin (trustee 1977-) | Marvin Goldberger (president 1978-1987) | Charles Townes (trustee 1979-1987, life trustee after that) | Bobby Ray Inman (trustee since 1989, senior trustee since 2003, JPL Oversight Committee) | Suzanne Woolsey (JPL Oversight Committee) | Robert Schultz (trustee 1991-2002, life trustee since then). Also: John Gardner (advisory committee JPL) | Murray Gell-Mann (faculty member) |
1891 |
| National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Members: Lammot du Pont | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Philip Singleton (director 1961-1963) | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson (director 1993-1999) |
1895 |
| Carnegie Institution for Science Founder: Andrew Carnegie. Presidents: Daniel Gilman (1902–1904) | Vannevar Bush (1939–1955) | Caryl Haskins (1956–1971). Trustees: William E. Dodge, 1902–1903 | Elihu Root, 1902–1937 | Cleveland H. Dodge, 1903–1923 | John L. Cadwalader, 1903–1914 | William H. Taft, 1906–1915 | George Wickersham, 1909–1936 | Robert S. Brookings (1910-1929) | Henry Cabot Lodge, 1914–1924 | Herbert Hoover, 1920–1949 | Andrew Mellon, 1924–1937 | William Church Osborn, 1927–1934 | Julius Rosenwald, 1929–1931 | John J. Pershing, 1930–1943 | Walter Gifford, 1931–1966 | Charles Lindbergh, 1934–1939 | Alfred Loomis, 1934–1973 | Charles P. Taft, 1936–1975 | Henry S. Morgan, 1936–1978 | Elihu Root Jr., 1937–1967 | Walter A. Jessup, 1938–1944 | Lindsay Bradford, 1940–1958 | Ernest O. Lawrence, 1944–1958 | Juan Trippe, 1944–1981 | James Forrestal, 1948–1949 | Omar N. Bradley, 1948–1969 | Robert A. Lovett, 1948–1971 | Caryl P. Haskins, 1949–1956, 1971-2001 | David Rockefeller, 1952–1956 | Robert E. Wilson, 1953–1964 | Vannevar Bush, 1958–1971 | Richard S. Perkins, 1959–2000 | Frank Stanton, 1963–2006 | William McChesney Martin, 1967–1983 | William M. Roth, 1968–1979 | Robert M. Pennoyer, 1968–1989 | Walter Page II, 1971–1979 | William Hewlett, 1971–2001 | Lewis M. Branscomb, 1973–1990 | Robert O. Anderson, 1976–1983 | J. Paul Austin, 1976–1978 | John Diebold, 1975–2005 | Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr., 1983–2010 | John Macomber (emeritus anno '14) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (anno '14, vice chair at one point) | William Hearst III (anno '21) | William T. Coleman Jr. (anno '21) | Walter Isaacson. More: Harry F. Osborn | Charles Townes. Source(s): 2013-2014 Year Book, Carnegie Inst. for Science, pp. 2, 4. (long list of former presidents and trustees, with only trustees joining in the 1980s at the latest). |
1895 |
| World Conservation Society Trustees: Henry F. Osborn (founder) | Fairfield Osborn (son of; head) | Mrs. Vincent Astor | George Fisher Baker II | George Fisher Baker III | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Goelet | Mrs. Edgar Cullman | Eben Pyne | Judith Sulzberger | Frederick Beinecke | Sue Erpf van den Bovenkamp | Paul Gould | John Irwin III | Ashley Schiff | David Schiff (chair) | Walter Sedgwick | Mrs. Leonard Stern | Andrew Tisch | Ogden Phipps II | Howard Phelps, Jr. (chair) | Murray Gell-Mann | Bill de Blasio |
1895 |
| New York Public Library (NYPL) Vartan Gregorian (president 1981-1989). Trustees (1997-2003): Brooke Astor | John Birkelund | Elizabeth Rohatyn (wife of Felix Rohatyn). Trustees (2011): John Hess (into 2020s) | Stephen Schwarzman (into 2020s) | Princess Firyal of Jordan (into 2020s) | Harold McGraw III (into 2020s) | James S. Tisch (into 2020s) | Michael Bloomberg (ex-offfico). Trustees 2020: Bill de Blasio (ex-officio). Also: Laurence Tisch (honorary trustee and major benefactor). |
1895 |
| American Anti-Imperialist League Similar to the American and New York Peace Society, this group countered the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Presidents: George S. Boutwell (founding 1898-). Vice presidents: Andrew Carnegie (founding 1898-) | Grover Cleveland (founding 1898-) | Episcopal Bishop Henry Codman Potter Source(s): 1899, William Jennings Bryan (U.S. sec. of state 1913-1915), 'Republic Or Empire?: The Philippine Question', p. 700. |
1898 |
| Bohemian Grove Part of the Bohemian Club. Members/visitors: Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (annual visitors since at least the early '70s; '91, '08) | David Rockefeller Jr. ('08, '18) | Bechtel family ('71, '91, '08, '18) | George Shultz (joined in 1975; '89, '91, '08, '18) | Henry Kissinger (annual visitors since at least the early '70s; '76, '77 known visits; membership '91, '08, '18) | Paul Volcker ("frequent" since at least the early/mid 70s) | Brent Scowcroft | John McCone | Richard Helms | Harold Brown (membership B.C. anno '76, criticized at the time for the club only allowing women in from a side entrance; '91) | Warren Buffett (known to have given a speech) | A. W. Clausen | Myron Du Bain | Pehr Gyllenhammar (invited by D. Rockefeller, but withdrew after 3 years) | Edmund Littlefield | Amory Houghton, Jr. | Andrew Knight | Philip Reed | James Baker III ('08, '18) | James Baker IV ('18) | Caspar Weinberger | Frederick Seitz | William Simon | Bobby Ray Inman ('08) | Kenneth Derr | Norman Augustine | George H. W. Bush ('08, '18) and son George W. | Nicholas Brady ('08, '18) and Jr. ('18) | William Casey | James Woolsey | J. Dennis Bonney | Thomas Gates | Larry Summers | David Gergen ('08, '18) | Donald Rumsfeld ('91, '08, '18) | Dick Cheney | Thomas Foley | David O'Reilly | Tom Johnson | Alexander Haig | Colin Powell ('08, '18) | John Swearingen (Cave Man) | Vernon Walters | Newt Gingrich | Karl Rove | Rupert Murdoch | William Webster (visited in 1980s; '08, '18) | Joseph Coors | William Draper III | Dwight Eisenhower | Gerald Ford | Henry Ford | Lamar Alexander | Jack Horton (Mandalay) | Evan Galbraith | Edwin Feulner | Frederick Mielke, Jr. | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Maurice Greenberg ('91, '08, '18) | Richard Boucher | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Thomas Jones | Lewis Coleman | Tom Killefer | Adm. Charles Larson | Kaiser family | Joseph Califano Jr. | Phillip Carroll | John Kluge | Henry Kravis | Gen. Victor Krulak | John Lehman | Daniel Ludwig | John Major | Edwin Mees III | Morgan family ('71) | Prince Philip | William Alton Jones | Eddie Rickenbacker | William P. Rogers | Francis Fukuyama | Charles Brown | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | Alton Ochsner (1965) | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Melvin Lane | Weldon Gibson | Walter Cronkite ('08) | Gaylord Freeman | Malcolm Forbes Sr. | Antonin Scalia | David Packard ('91) | Keith Alexander ('18) | Haley Barbour ('08, '18) | Michael Bloomberg ('08) | Christopher Buckley ('08, '18) | Harlan Crow ('08; son of Trammell Crow) | Christopher DeMuth ('08) | Michael York ('08, '18) | Rowan Gaither III ('08, '18) | Stephen Harper ('08, '18; PM of Canada 2006-2015) | Charles ('08, '18) and David Koch ('08) | Sean O'Keefe ('08, '18) | Paul Pelosi ('08, '18; husband of Nancy Pelosi) | William Reilly ('08, '18) | William Richardson ('08, '18; president and CEO Kellogg Fdn.) | Craig Stapleton ('18) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('08, '18) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('13) | Ronald Reagan ('67, '75-'80, '89-) | William Clark | William Hewlett | William Hewitt | Vernon Jordan ('91 speaker) | Vartan Gregorian ('91 speaker) | James Wolfensohn ('93 speaker) | Willie Brown ('93 speaker) | William Perry (speaker '98) | Eric Schmidt (named a member in '11 by SF Chronicle, but not in 2008 or 2018 lists) | Dr. Franklin D. Murphy ('71, Silverado S.). Foreign visitors: Helmut Schmidt (repeatedly 1980s-1991) | Michel Rocard | Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia ('92 speaker) | Actors/musicians (on membership lists): James Woods ('08) | Clint Eastwood ('08, '18) | Mickey Hart ('08, '18) and Bob Weir ('08, '18) | Patrick John Wayne ('08, '18; son of actor John Wayne) | Jim Belushi ('18) | Other unexpected: Alexander Shulgin ('08; psychedelics expert) | Ken Starr ('08) | Conan O'Brien (speaker '13, '18). Nuclear scientists: Ernest Lawrence (1942 Manhattan project at Redwood clubhouse; later Sons of Toil camp) | Edward Teller (1942 Manhattan project at Redwood clubhouse; later speaker) | Glenn Seaborg (Owl's Nest and Wayside camps) | Marvin Goldberger (speaker '81) | Luiz Alvarez ('visitor '85) | Sidney Drell (speaker '86) | Charles Townes (ICBM expert; speaker '07). |
1899 |
| Rockefeller University / Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Trustees: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Frederick Osborn | David Rockefeller (listed as a trustee with "honorary chair" asterisk anno '03; "Honorary Chair and Life Trustee" anno '07-'10) | Dr. Richard Rockefeller (anno '03, until '06; son of David R.) | Maurice Strong (1972 - 1978) | Brooke Astor (life trustee anno '03) | John Whitehead (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Maurice Greenberg (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Nancy Kissinger (anno '03-'08; trustee emeritus anno '10) | John Macomber | William O. Baker (long-time trustee and chair) | Neva Goodwin Rockefeller (anno '03-'08; daughter of David) | Katherine Graham | John Gardner | Tom Killefer | Dr. Frederick Seitz (president) | Jeffrey Epstein | Gustavo Cisneros | Richard Salomon | David Koch (anno '03-'10)| Henry Kravis ('04-, vice chair '05-'19) | David Hamburg (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Charles Barber | William E. "Bill" Ford (mid '06-'15, vice chair '15-'18, chair '18-, still anno '23). Scientists: Detlev Bronk | Joshua Lederberg | William Nierenberg | Dr. Margaret Hamburg (anno '06). Source(s): rockefeller.edu/corp/board.php (accessed: March 4, 2003 - March 4, 2008) ; rockefeller.edu/about/ board_corp (accessed: Feb. 25, 2010 - March 10, 2017): "Board of Trustees: ... Life Trustees ... Trustees Emeriti... Corporate Officers..." rockefeller.edu/about/board-governance/ (accessed: July 8, 2017 - ). |
1901 |
| American Political Science Association (APSA) Almost completely very low-level. Major names: Samuel Huntington (president 1986-1987) | Evron Kirkpatrick (executive director since 1954; husband of Jeane Kirkpatrick) | Hubert Humphrey (vice president 1954-1955) | Francis Fukuyame (member). Hubert H. Humphrey Award: Lee Hamilton ('98) | Madeleine Albright | Gen. David Petraeus | Susan Rice | Condoleezza Rice ('18). Congressional Fellowship Program Advisory Committee (anno 1997): David Gergen | Richard Lugar | Vin Weber | Bob Dole | Thomas Foley. Funding: Mellon Fdn (1997). |
1903 |
| Commonwealth Club of California Early membership: Warren Bechtel | Herbert Hoover | Isaias Hellman (biggest banker late 19th - early 20th century in California; president Wells Fargo 1905-1920, followed by family members) | A. P. Giannini (founder Bank of America in SF in 1904) | architect Bernard Maybeck | Haas family (Levi Strauss) | Sen. James Phelan | Gov. James Rolph (SF mayor 1912-1931; California governor 1931-1934) | Ray Lyman Wilbur (interior secretary 1929-1933; president Stanford 1933-1943) | William Chapman Ralston (founder Bank of California/Union Bank) | J. C. Zellerbach. President: Shirley Temple Black | Ming Chin (Supreme Court Justice) | Julius Krevans (UCSF Chancellor). Later membership: George Shultz (also speaker in '70, '88, '91, '95, '97, '01, '04, '09-'10) | William Perry (regular speaker '96-'12). Speakers (source: Hoover Institution Library & Archives - except FDR): FDR ('32: New Deal speech) | Earl Warren ('45, '50) | Jimmy Doolittle ('46) | Kermit Roosevelt ('48) | Dean Rusk ('49, '64, '68) | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer ('49) | Claire Chennault ('49; 'Can the Communists Conquer all of China?') | Eddie Rickenbacker ('50) | John Foster Dulles ('50, '52) and Eleanor Dulles ('73; daughter of Allen) | Lord Halifax ('51; 'U.S.-British Friendship'; d. 1959) | Richard Nixon ('52) | Queen Juliana of Orange ('52) | Konrad Adenauer ('53) | President Syngman Rhee of South Korea ('54) | Larry King ('54) | Nelson Rockefeller ('59, '72, '76) | Robert Kennedy ('59, '68) | Dwight Eisenhower ('60) | Charles de Gaulle ('60) | W. Averell Harriman (1960, 1969, 1971, 1980) | Douglas Dillon ('61) | James Conant ('61) | Herman Kahn ('61, '68, '78) | Stefan Possony ('63, '68, '73) | William Randolph Hearst ('63, '68) | Barry Goldwater ('64) | Ronald Reagan, ('66, '70-'73, '78, '80) | Henry Fowler ('66) | Wernher von Braun ('67) | Joseph Alioto ('67, '69) | Clare Booth Luce ('67) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('67) | Glenn Seaborg ('67, '70, '72) | Shirley Temple Black ('68, '77, '83, '92) | Edmond Muskie ('68, '80) | Warren Christopher ('68) | Jay Lovestone ('68) | Richard Allen ('68) | Thomas Watson ('68) | Eugene Rostow ('68) | Arthur Burns ('68) | Nicholas Katzenbach ('68) | Yitzhak Rabin ('68) | Sol Linowitz ('68, '72, '80, '92) | Spiro Agnew ('69) | Caspar Weinberger ('69-'72, '75, '81, etc.) | Jack Valenti ('69, '92, '99) | Jacob Javits ('69, '67, '77) | Carla Hills ('70, '94) | Russell Train ('70) | David M. Kennedy ('70) | Edvard Isak Hambro ('70; of the Norwegian-British Hambro banking family) | Elliot Richardson ('71) | Paul Laxalt ('71, '77) | Edgar Mitchell ('71) | Melvin Laird ('71) | Willie Brown (regularly '71-'11) | George Moscone ('71, '77) | Vernon Jordan ('72) | Hubert Humphrey ('72) | Katharine Graham ('72) | William Casey ('72) | Peter Flanigan ('72) | Billy Graham ('72) | James Schlesinger ('72) | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt ('72) | Donald Rumsfeld ('72) | Paul Ehrlich ('72) | Joseph Alsop ('72) | William P. Rogers ('72) | David Packard ('72) | Paul Ehrlich ('72, '92, '95, '09) | Adlai Stevenson ('73) | McGeorge Bundy ('73) | Adm. Thomas Moorer ('73) | Jesse Jackson ('74, '04) | Winston Lord ('74) | John McLaughlin ('74) | Robert McNamara ('74, '95, '99, '01) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('74, '77, '81, '90, '92, '95) | Howard Baker Jr. ('75) | William Colby ('75) | Frank Church ('75) | George McGovern ('75, '01, '05) | Philip Zimbardo ('75, '07, '08) | Gen. William Westmoreland ('76) | George H. W. Bush ('76, '80; on the CIA) and George W. Bush ('02) | Henry Kissinger ('76, '84, '93, '01) | Gen. Richard Stilwell ('76) | Walter Mondale ('76) | Jack Kemp ('76, '79, '91, '93, '95) | William Ruckelshaus ('77) | Saud Al-Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz ('77) | Milton Friedman (regularly: '77-'92) | Stansfield Turner ('77) | Michael Blumenthal ('78) | Harold Brown ('78, '79) | Joseph Califano ('78) | Frank Carlucci ('78) | Gen. John Singlaub ('78) | David Rockefeller ('79) | Alexander Haig ('79) | Armand Hammer ('79) | William M. Roth ('79) | Sen. Alan Cranston ('79) | John Holdren ('79) | Dianne Feinstein ('79) | Walter Haas ('79) | Paul Nitze ('79) | Gen. Richard Secord ('80; before Iran-Contra) | Edward Teller ('80) | Howard Berman ('80) | Norman Cousins ('80) | John Swearingen ('80) | Neil Goldschmidt ('80) | Victor Palmieri ('80) | Jerry Brown ('80) | Hale Boggs ('80) | Harry Conger ('81) | William Webster ('81) | James Stockdale ('82; 'Eight Years in a Hanoi Prison: Survival and Dignity') | Walter Cronkite ('83, '04, '07) | Cezar Chavez ('84) | Jerry Falwell ('84) | Queen Noor of Jordan ('84 or around, '05), King Abdullah II of Jordan ('04) and Princess Firyal of Jordan ('97) | T. Boone Pickens ('85, '93, '09) | Rudolph Giuliani ('87) | Benjamin Netanyahu ('87) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley ('87) | Steve Wozniak ('87) | Linda Chavez ('88, '91) | James Baker III ('89) | Dick Cheney ('89, '91, '02) and Lynne Cheney (95) | William Sessions ('90) | Chaim Herzog ('90) | Gilbert Grosvenor ('90) | Lee Iacocca ('90) | Henry Cisneros ('91) | Condoleezza Rice ('91, '19) | C. Fred Bergsten ('91) | John Denver ('91) | Rozanne Ridgway ('91) | Lord Colin Marsh Marshall ('91) | Bill Clinton ('91) and Hillary Clinton ('10) | William Reilly ('91-'92, '09, '11) | Sen. Tim Wirth ('91) | Nicholas Brady ('91) | Sen. Bill Bradley ('92, '95, '96, '07) | Alexander Lamar ('92, '97) | Dan Quayle ('92) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('92) | Steve Forbes ('92, '95, '96, '98, '01) | Michael Armacost ('92) | Walter Isaacson ('92, '03, '11) | Arnaud de Borchgrave ('92) | Henry Catto ('92) | Richard Pipes ('92) | Walter Wriston ('92) | Richard Haass ('92, '97, '98) | Bill Bennett ('92) | Gen. Victor Krulak ('93) | Muhamed Sacirbey ('93, '96) | Madeleine Albright ('93, '98, '04, '06, '08, '09, '10, '13) | Leon Panetta ('93, '97, '05, '09) | Bill Gates ('93) and William Gates Sr. ('01, '03, '09) | Fidel Ramos ('93) | Michael Huffington ('94) | Arianna Huffington (regular: '94-'10) | Lord Chris Patten ('94) | Vaclav Havel ('94) | Donald Kendall ('94) | Jean-Bertrand Aristide ('94) | Kenneth Derr ('94, '98) | Robert Pritzker ('94) | Carla Hills ('94) | Haley Barbour ('94) | David Gergen ('94, '00, '10, '19) | Christine Whitman ('94, '98, '05) | Hugh Price ('95) | Julie Packard ('95) | Michael Dell ('95) | Richard DeVos ('95) | Count Otto Lambsdorff ('95) | Walter Massey ('95) | James Woolsey ('96, '04, '08) | Sidney Drell ('96) | Robert V. Allen ('96) | Peter Peterson ('96) | Robert Rubin ('96) | Joseph Stiglitz ('96, '08, '10, '12) | John Doerr ('96, '98, '00) | Ruth Simmons ('97) | Jane Goodall ('97, '03) | William Cohen ('97) | Javier Solana ('97) | Warren Rudman ('97) | Howard Dean ('97) | Dick Gephardt ('98) | Lawrence Korb ('98, '00, '05) | Bruce Babbitt ('98, '00, '06) | Thomas Sowell ('98) | Vicente Fox ('98) | Jeff Bezos ('98) | A. W. Clausen ('98) | Rob Reiner ('98) | Edgar Bronfman ('98) | Kofi Annan ('98) | William Buckley Jr. ('98) | Lewis Lapham ('99, '06) | John McCain III ('99, '01) | George Stephanopoulos ('99) | Bob Woodward ('99) | Marc Andreessen ('99) | Carly Fiorina ('99, '03, '06) | Ernesto Zedillo ('99) | Charles Schwab ('99) | Wesley Clark ('99, '01, '07) | Steve Ballmer ('00, '06) | Newt Gingrich ('00) | Louis Gerstner ('00) | Jim Hightower ('00) | Thabo Mbeki ('00) | David O'Reilly ('00, '09) | John Kerry ('00) | Yuri Popov ('00) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman ('00) | Guy Verhofstadt ('00) | Daniel Inouye ('00) | Barbara Ehrenreich ('01, '09) | Naomi Wolf ('01) | Richard Blum ('01) | Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google (Feb. '01, 'The Future of the Internet') | Bill O'Reilly ('01) | John Glenn ('01) | Christopher Dodd ('01) | Sam Nunn ('01, '05, '12) | Gavin Newson ('02-'05, '07, '09-'11) | Ethan Hawke ('02) | Norman Mineta ('02-'03, '06, '08) | Gen. Richard Myers ('02) | Robert Armistead ('02) | Robert Kaiser ('02) | Al Gore ('02, '13) | Robert Mueller ('02, '11) | Abraham Sofaer ('02) | Paul Wolfowitz ('02) | Michael Dukakis ('02) | Patrick Buchanan ('02) | Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein ('02) | Francis Fukuyama ('02) | Joseph Nye ('03) | Strobe Talbott ('03) | Al Sharpton ('03) | Paul Kagame ('03) | Ted Turner ('03) | Martin Peretz ('03) | Jane Wales ('03) | Sidney Blumenthal ('03) | Reed Hastings ('03) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('03) | Ashton Carter ('03) | Peter Schwartz ('03, twice in '06, '08) | Terry Semel ('04) | Richard Ben-Veniste ('04; 9/11 Comm.) | Slade Gorton ('04; 9/11 Comm.) | David Horowitz ('04) | David Frum ('04) | George Soros ('04) | Empress Farah of Iran, consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) ('04) | Hans Blix ('04) | Marc Spitzer ('04, '05) | Walter Slocombe ('04) | Graham Allison ('04) | Seymour Hersh ('04) | David Horowitz ('04) | Paul Krugman ('04) | Kamala Harris ('04-'06, '10) | Morton Halperin ('05) and Mark Halperin ('10) | Jack Welch ('05) | Scott Ritter ('05) | Louis Freeh ('05) | Nancy Soderberg ('05) | Bill Frist ('05) | Michael Chertoff ('05-'06) | Jeffrey Sachs ('05, '08, '11) | Gary Hart (twice in '06) | David Walker ('06, '07, '10) | Tom Brokaw ('06) | Craig Newmark ('06) | Katie Couric ('06) | Anthony Fauci ('06) | Norman Ornstein ('06) | Mark Zuckerberg ('06) | Reid Hoffman ('06) | Ian Bremmer ('06) | Maria Shriver ('03) and Arnold Schwarzenegger ('06, '09, '10) | Bob Woodruff ('07) | John Stauber ('07) | Joe Biden ('07) | Egil Krogh ('07) | John Bolton ('07) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('07) | Russell Simmons ('07) | Paul Krassner ('07, '09) | Sen. George Mitchell ('08) | Scott McClellan ('08) | Christopher Buckley ('08) | Robert Scheer ('08) | Adm. Bill Owens ('08, '09) | Steve Diller (twice in '08) | Dee Dee Meyers ('08) | Frances Beinecke ('08) | Fred Krupp ('08) | Fareed Zakaria ('08) | Eric Schmidt (08) | Naomi Klein ('08) | Mohammad Yunus ('08) | Janet Yellen ('09) | Andre Agessi ('09) | Lester Brown ('09) | Michael ('09) | Jacques Cousteau ('91) and Jean-Michel Cousteau ('09) | Gen. Anthony Zinni ('09) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('09) | Nancy Pelosi ('09) | Timothy Geithner ('10, '14) | Ted Sorensen ('10) | William Taft ('10) | Eliot Spitzer ('10) | Paul Collier ('10) | Margaret Hamburg ('10, '12, '20) | Robert Pastor ('11; 'The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future') | Sen. Bob Graham ('11) | Peter Seligmann ('11) | Paul Allen ('11) | Jim Rogers ('11) | Annie Jacobsen ('11: The Uncensored History of Area 51) | William Draper III ('11) | Jack Dorsey ('11) | Brian Chesky ('11) | Cherie Blair ('11; wife of Tony Blair) | William Clay Ford ('11) | Muhtar Kent ('11) | Colin Powell ('12) | Elizabeth Holmes | Sheryl Sandberg ('16) | Janet Napolitano ('17) | Adam Hochschild ('20) | John Brennan ('20). Speakers (often/generally considered "anti-establishment"): John Schlafly ('58) and Phyllis Schlafly ('73) | Martin Luther King Jr. ('67) | Saul Alinsky ('68) | Eugene McCarthy ('68, '72, '90) | Ralph Nader ('69, '02, '12, '16) | Linus Pauling ('71, '90) | Sen. Mike Gravel ('71, '07; pusher of aliens disinfo) | Olof Palme ('77) | Daniel Ellsberg ('80. '02, '08) | Joan Baez ('81) | James Zogby ('88, '04, '10) | Ron Paul ('88) | Audrey Hepburn ('92) | Ross Perot ('93, '95, '96) | James A. Garrison ('93) | Danny Glover ('93) | Carl Sagan ('94) | Dean Ornish ('94, '08) | Paul Craig Roberts ('95) | John Gray ('95, '11) | Robert Reich ('95, '06-'10, '12) | Michael Moore ('96, '02 - on his book Stupid White Men; '09) | Oliver Stone ('97) | Robert Thurman ('97) | Seth Shostak ('98) | Gore Vidal ('00) | Paul Theroux ('01, '04) | Harrison Ford ('01) | Christopher Hitchens ('01-'03, '09) | Stewart Brand ('02, '04, '07, '09; 'Earth Day '04: Thinking and Acting Globally') | Gloria Steinem ('02; feminist) | Eve Ensler ('02, '10; feminist) | Norman Mailer ('03) | Ethan Nadelmann (twice in '03) | Greg Palast ('03; 'The Silence of the Media Lambs: Why Journalism in America Has Gone to Hell') | Dennis Kucinich ('03, '07; chemtrails-pushing, Alex Jones supporting congressman) | Eleanor Coppola ('03, '08; wife of Francis Ford Coppola) | Lawrence Lessig ('04, '08, '11) | Larry Flynt ('04, '11; 'One Nation Under Sex', 'Sex, Lies and Politics: The Naked Truth'; porn king who publishes Hustler; ) | Christie Hefner ('05; owner Playboy) | Cornel West ('04, '14) | Richard Heinberg ('05, '11; peak oil guy) | Anthony Bourdain ('06) | Deepak Chopra ('06) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali ('07) | Jimmy Wales ('07-'09; founder Wikipedia) | Neil deGrasse Tyson ('07, '09) | Robert Baer ('08, '09) | Van Jones ('08, '17) | John Perkins ('08; yes, of "Economic Hitman" fame) | Noam Chomsky ('09) | Aubrey De Grey ('09) | John Marks ('10; Muslim immigration-pushing author of The CIA ('74) and the Cult of Intelligence and the The Search for the Manchurian Candidate ('79)) | Mitch Galbraith ('10; COO Funny or Die) | Amy Goodman ('10; Democracy Now!) | Katrina vanden Heuvel ('11; The Nation) | Richard Rockefeller ('13; Treating Trauma (with XTC)) | Larry Brilliant ('07, '11, '13; Treating Trauma (with XTC)) | Sal Khan ('13, '15) | Peter Thiel ('14) | Chris Anderson ('16) | Robert Kennedy Jr. ('19) | Adam Savage ('09, March and June '10, '19; MythBusters). Guests of The Michelle Meow Show at The Commonwealth Club (live, one day a week, since 2018; Meow also is host of LGBTQ radio): Alicia Garza (co-founder BLM) | Katie Sowers (NFL LGBTQ coach). |
1903 |
| American Peace Society First founded in 1828. Reconstituted in the 1903-1906 period to counter the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Merged into the Quaker World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion. Officers: Andrew Carnegie (financier since 1903, eventual vice president) | William H. Taft (vice president) Source(s): March 1918, American Peace Society secretary and Advocate of Peace editor Arthur D. Call for the Committee on Public Information's War Information Series 'The War for Peace', p. 5 (gives the Andrew C. and William H. T. a vice presidents). Jan. 1907, The American Peace Society's Advocate of Peace Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood, p. 32: "Rabbi Fleischer of Boston does not believe that "Zionism" is a movement that promises to solve the Jewish question. On the contrary, he holds that it is a backward step and out of harmony with the growing international spirit of the time. At a reception and banquet at the Hotel Somerset tendered last month to Dr. Lewin of Russia, who was a member of the Douma, and is in this country to awaken interest in the persecuted Jews of Russia, and is also conducting a propaganda in favor of Zionism, Dr. Fleischer, taking exception to Dr. Lewin's remarks , said: "Though Zionism interests me, I do not believe in it nor accept it as a solution of the so-called 'Jewish question'..." |
1903-1940 |
| New York Peace Society (NYPS) Founded to prevent the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Merged into the Quaker World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion. Officers: Oscar Straus (key founder and founding president) | Charles Levermore (key founder) | Andrew Carnegie (key financier and president anno 1909; also a vice president of the American Peace Society at the time, together with William H. Taft) | Elihu Root (one of the vice presidents anno 1909) | James Speyer (anno 1909) | Robert C. Ogden (anno 1909). "Committee of invitation" and regular members/participants anno 1909-1911: Jacob Schiff (also a reported vice president) | William Jay Schieffelin | Meyer D. Rothschild (annual contributor) | Lindsay Russell | Henry Taft | George Perkins | Isaac Seligman | Adolph Ochs | Hamilton Holt. Source(s): Jan. 1911, Advocate of Peace, pp. 15-16, 'The New York Peace Society': "The following gentlemen constitute a committee of invitation..."; 1909, New York Peace Society, 'Year Book', pp. 3 (trustees), 29: "Treasurer: Astor Trust Company... turning the Hague Conferences into a real international parliament. Elihu Root planned the idea of having the Second Hague COnference create a world court modeled on the United States Supreme Court, and now Secretary Knox has announced its early establishment. President Roosevelt's Christiania address is nothing else than a plea for the federation of the world. Not since..." |
1906-1940 |
| Russell Sage Foundation Trustees: Dwight Morrow | Cleveland Dodge | Lindsay Bradford | David H. Morris, Jr. | Claude Steele |
1907 |
| New York Foundation Trustees: Paul Warburg (1909-1932) | Jacob Schiff (1909-1920) | Felix Warburg (1912-1937) | Mortimer Schiff (1912-1931) | Herbert Lehman (1920-1954) | Arthur H. Sulzberger (1932-1960) | Frederick Warburg (1937-1973) | Edward Warburg (1959-1976) | George Woods (1959-1975; president World Bank 1963-1968) | Fairfield Osborn (1963-1969) | Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1964-1968) | John Gardner (1970-1976). |
1909 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Founding trustees and officers: Andrew Carnegie (main founder, but not on the board) | John Cadwalader (1910-1914) | Joseph Choate (founding vice president 1910-, trustee until 1917) | John W. Foster (founding 1910-1917) | Cleveland H. Dodge (founding 1910-1919) | George W. Perkins (founding 1910-1920) | Charlemagne Tower (founding 1910-1923) | Oscar Straus (founding 1910-1926) | Robert S. Brookings (founding 1910-1932) | Elihu Root (founding president 1910-, trustee until 1937) | Nicholas Butler (founding 1910-1947). Trustees 1920-: Robert Lansing (1920-1928) | John W. Davis (1921-1950) | Dwight Morrow (1925-1930) | James Shotwell (1925-1951) | Silas Strawn (1926-1946). Trustees 1930-: Thomas Watson (1934-1951) | Eliot Wadsworth (1937-1951) | Philip Jessup (1937-1960) | Leon Fraser (1938-1945). Trustees 1940-: Henry Wriston (1943-1954) | John Foster Dulles (1944-1952) | Philip Reed (1945-1953) | Alger Hiss (1947-1950) | David Rockefeller (1947-1960) | Dwight Eisenhower (1948-1952). Trustees 1950-: Joseph Johnson (1950-1976, president 1950-1971) | Edward R. Murrow (1951-1957) | Lee Dubridge (1951-1957) | Grayson Kirk (1953-1961) | George Shuster (1954-1965) | Milton Katz (1954-1978) | Arthur Watson (1957-1970) | Clare Boothe Luce (1958-1964). Trustees 1960-: John Hay Whitney (1961-1964) | Edgar Kaiser (1961-1966) | Gabriel Hauge (1962-1968) | Hedley Donovan (1966-1985) | Alfred Brittain III (1968-1976). Trustees 1970-: William Hewitt (1971-1975) | Thomas Hughes (president 1971-1991, trustee 1971-1996) | Lane Kirkland (1975-1981) | Kingman Brewster Jr. (1976-1988) | Richard Debs (1977-2010) | Henry Fowler (1979-2000). Trustees 1980-: William Perry (1983-1993 and 1999-2006) | Strobe Talbott (1986-1993, 2001-2004) | Richard Parsons (1987-1988) | Newton Minow (1987-1993) | Condoleezza Rice (1988-1989). Trustees 1990-: Morton Abramowitz (1991-1997) | Leslie Gelb (1991-2005) | Olara Otunnu (1993-2008) | Jamie Gorelick (1997-2010) | Bill Bradley (1997-, still anno 2023) | Stephen Hadley (1999-2001). Trustees 2000-: Susan Eisenhower (2000-2005) | J. Stapleton Roy (2006-2018) | Kofi Annan (2009-). Trustees 2010-: Chas Freeman (2010-2016) | Ratan Tata (2013-, still anno 2024) | William Burns (president 2015-2021) | Penny Pritzker (2017-, chair 2018-, still anno 2023) | Robert Zoellick (2018-, still anno 2024) | Jonathan Oppenheimer (2018-, still anno 2024) | Henri de Castries (2019-, still anno 2024). Trustees 2020-: Jim Balsillie (2020-, still anno 2024) | Margaret Hamburg (anno 2023-2024) | . Unsorted: Fred Bergsten (senior fellow in 1981) | Stephen Duggan | Barry Blechman. Non-trustees: Anthony Lake (anno '74) | Richard Holbrooke (anno '74) | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins). Commission on the Middle East: David R. | Herman Abs | Kurt Birrenbach | Eugene Black | Jacob Javits | Joseph J. | Edward Kennedy | Aurelio Peccei | Lord Eric Roll. Carnegie Middle East Center (founded in 2009) advisory council: Turki al Faisal | Khaled M. Al-Fayez (Bahrain) | Richard D. | Ibrahim Dabdoub Euro-Atlantic Initiative (effort co-sponsored by Greenberg's Starr Fdn.): Wolfgang Ischinger (co-chair) | Igor ov (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Robert Legvold (co-chair) | Herman Gref | Stephen H. | Tedo Japaridze | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | John Kornblum | Vyacheslav Trubnikov. Partnership for Countering Influence Operations: Michael Chertoff (advisory board) | Craig Newmark (liaison). Senior associates and fellows: Robert E. White (senior associate in the 1980s) | Morton Halperin (senior associate 1992-1994) | Chung Min Lee (senior fellow Asia program) | David Rothkopf (visiting scholar; author of 2008 book 'Superclass') | Francis Fukuyama (scholar) | Robert Kagan (13-year senior associate) | Jake Sullivan (senior fellow) | Thomas E. Graham (senior associate in the Russia/Eurasia program 1998-2001) More: (assoc. director Russia-Eurasian Program 1994-1999) | Anatoly Chubais (speech on privatization in 1999) | Kurt Campbell (speaker '16) | Oleg Deripaska (financier and speech-giver) | Anders Aslund (director Russian and Eurasian program). Source(s) 2011, Carnegie End., '100 Years of Impact', pp. 104-112 (provides all historical trustees and their years); carnegieendowment.org/about/trustees (accessed: June 25, 2016). |
1910 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York Trustees: Andrew Carnegie (1911-1919) | Elihu Root (1911-1937) | Elihu Root Jr. (1937-1961) | Nicholas Murray Butler (1925-1937, chair 1937-1945) | Russell Leffingwell (1923-1959, also president) | Frederick Osborn (1936-1962) | Vannevar Bush (1939-1955) | Charles Spofford (1953-1973) | John Gardner (president 1955-1965, trustee until 1967) | Caryl Haskins (1955-1975, chair 1975-1979, honorary anno 1997) | Charles Dollard (1948-1955, also chair) | Walter Wriston (1964-1972). More modern trustees: David Hamburg (1979-1997, president -1997) | Laurence Tisch (1985-1994) | John Whitehead (1978-1985, 1989-1993) | Warren Christopher (1989-1990, chair 1990-1993) | Robert Rubin (1990-1993) | Newton Minow (1986-1993, chair 1993-1997) | Thomas Kean (1991-1997, chair Jan. 1997-2002, trustee 2004-2007, again chair 2007-2012, chair 2013-, still anno 2022) | Sam Nunn (Jan. 1997-2005) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee and president 1997-2021) | Teresa Heinz Kerry (1993-2001) | Condoleezza Rice (1994-1998) | Thomas Pickering (2003-2011) | Fiona Druckenmiller (2004-2008; wife of Stanley) | Joshua Lederberg (1985-1993) | Olara Otunnu (1998-2007) | Adm. Bill Owens (1999-2008) | Geoffrey Boisi (2000-2017; son of a senior senior J.P. Morgan executive; SMOM; vice chair and co-CEO JPMorganChase late 1990s-early 2000s) | James Johnson (1992-2000; chair and CEO Fannie Mae) | Raymond Smith (1999-2007; chair Rothschild, Inc.) | Norman Pearlstine (2005-2013; editor-in-chief Time; senior advisor Carlyle)| Janet Robinson (2005-2012, chair 2012-2013, trustee 2014; president and CEO NYT) | Kofi Annan (2007-2010; sec.-gen. UN 1997-2006) | Kurt Schmoke (2007-2017) | James Wolfensohn (2009-2017; president World Bank 1995-2005) | Don Randel (2010-2018; president Andrew W. Mellon Fdn.) | John Hendricks (2012-2016; founder and chair Discovery Comm.) | Anne Tatlock (2014-2020s). Others: McGeorge Bundy (scholar-in-residence 1990-1996) | Scott Malcomson (fellow). Carnegie Commission on Educational Television 1965-1967: James Killian (chair). Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government (1988-1994). Members: Joshua L. | Sidney Drell | John Brademas | Jimmy C. | William Perry | Bobby Ray Inman | Lewis Branscomb | Norman Augustine | William T. Coleman Jr. | Gen. Andrew G. Advisory council: Graham A. | William O. Baker | Gerald Ford | Walter Massey | David Packard | James Reston. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1994-1999): Cyrus Vance (co-chair) | John W. | Morton Abramowitz | Graham Allison | McGeorge Bundy | Sidney D. | Lawrence Eagleburger | Leslie Gelb | Gorbachev | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | Elliot Richardson | George Shultz | Richard Lugar | Condi R. | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Richard Solomon | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Elie Wiesel | Desmond Tutu | Sam N. Contributors: Alexei Arbatov | Andrei Kokoshin | Andrei Kortunov. |
1911 |
| Rockefeller Foundation (RF) All trustee data comes from annual reports at rockefellerfoundation.org/annual-reports/ (accessed: Dec. 5, 2022). Trustees 1913-: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1913-1923) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (president 1913-1916, trustee 1913-1939, first chair 1917-1939) | Jerome Davis Greene (founding secretary and exec. comm. 1913-1916, again trustee 1928-1939) | Charles Evans Hughes (1916-1921, resigned to become sec. of state, again 1925-1928) | Harry Fosdick (1916-1920; brother of Raymond) | Frederick Strauss (1916-1930) | . Trustees 1920s-: Raymond Fosdick (1921-1948; president 1936-1948; brother of Harry) | Walter Stewart (1931-1950, chair 1939-1950) | Owen Young (1928-1939) | John W. Davis (1922-1938). Trustees 1930s-: John D. Rockefeller III (trustee 1932-1971, exec. comm. 1933-1971; president 1952-1953, trustee and exec. comm. chair 1953-1971; honorary chair after) | Winthrop Aldrich (1935-1951) | John Foster Dulles (1935-1952, chair 1950-1951) | Arthur Sulzberger (1939-1957). Trustees 1940s-: William Meyers (1941-1957)| Walter Gifford (1936-1950) | John McCloy (1946-1949, 1953-1958) | Robert Lovett (1949-1961) | Dr. Robert Loeb (1947-1960). Trustees 1950s-: Detlev Bronk (1953-1963) | Dean Rusk (trustee 1950-1961, president 1951-1961) | Chester Bowles (1954-1961) | John Kimberly (1953-1968) | Arthur Houghton, Jr. (1958-1972) | Barry Bingham (trustee 1958-1971). Trustees 1960s-: C. Douglas Dillon (1960-1961, 1965-1974, president-chair late 1960s, chair 1971-1974) | Orvil Dryfoos (1960-1963) | George Harrar (1961-1972) | Frank Stanton (1961-1972) | Theodore Hesburgh (1961-1981, chair 1977-1981) | Lord Oliver Franks of Headington (1961-1971) | Thomas Watson Jr. (1963-1971) | Frederick Seitz (trustee 1964-1976) | Robert Ebert (1966-1976) | Robert Roosa (1967-1982, vice chair 1978-1982) | Whitney Young Jr. (1968-1971) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller / IV (1968-) | Bill Moyers (trustee 1969-1980). Trustees 1970-: Cyrus Vance (1970-1976, chair 1975-1976) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (trustee 1970-, chair 1982-1987) | Maurice Strong (trustee 1971-1976) | Vernon Jordan (trustee 1971-1984) | Michael Blumenthal (1971-1986) | Mathilde Krim (1971-1984; founding chair of Hollywood-linked amfAR in '83) | Jane Pfeiffer (1974-1985; vice president IBM 1972-76; NBC chair 1978-81) | Paul Volcker (trustee 1975-1978) | Henry Schacht (1977-1981) | James Wolfensohn (1979-1986). Trustees: 1980s-: Victor Palmieri (1980-1989; chair nominating comm.) | John Brademas (1981-1992) | Harold Brown (1982-1993) | John R. Evans (1982-1995, chair 1987-1995) | Peter Goldmark Jr. (president 1988-) | Henry Cisneros (1989-1992) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (1989-) | Frank Wells (1989-1994; president and COO Walt Disney; died in a heli crash in 1994) | Trustees: 1990s-: James Orr (chair Dec. 2000 - Dec. 2010) | David de Ferranti (1993-2004; World Bank). Trustees: 2000s: Margaret Hamburg (2004-2008) | Mamphela Ramphele (man. dir. World Bank) | Strive Masiyiwa (2003-, still anno 2010) | Judith Rodin (trustee and president-elect 2004, president March 2005-) | Rajat Gupta (2006-2011) | Sandra Day O'Connor (2006-2013) | David Rockefeller Jr. (2007-, chair Dec. 2010 - June 2016) | Richard Parsons (2007-, chair 2016-). Trustees: 2010s-: Surin Pitsuwan (2010-2011) | Helene Gayle (2010-; CARE USA; president and CEO Chicago Comm. Trust) | Martin Leibowitz (2012-; man. dir. Morgan Stanley) | Rajiv Shah (president March 2017-; director Gates Fdn. 2001-2009; administrator USAID 2009-2015, appointed by Obama) | Sharon Percy Rockefeller (Nov. 2017-) | Mellody Hobson (2018-; wife of George Lucas) | Adm. James Stavridis (2018-) | Walter Isaacson (2018-) | Patty Stonesifer (2019-). More: Vannevar Bush (work financed 1935-1946; Rock. Institute developed an award with his name) | Thomas Farmer (grant to study the "the legal status of Germany’s pre-war commercial treaties" in Berlin in the early 1950s) | Eli Whitney Debevoise (cousel 1959-1965) | John Irwin II (associate counsel 1964-1966, counsel 1966-1970) | Robert Pennoyer (counsel from 1970) | Hugh Price (vice president for philanthropy 1988-1994) | Akinwumi Adesina (associate director for food security) | Jane Nelson (advisory council of RF's Bellagio Center). Other: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith (partnership since 2016) | Jacqueline Novogratz (founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program) | Kurt Campbell (consultant) | Al Gore (scholarship 1971-1972). Since at least the early 1980s the board has lost much of its prestige. Since at least the 2010s it is not unusual to see that the board of trustees is one-third to 50% black, with up to 80% of the board black, hispanic, Indian, Asian, and Jewish. Rockefeller (Foundation) fellows: John Hamre (1974). Extra: Farzam Arbab (head Colombia branch 1974-1978; head Rock. Fdn.-financed Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences in Colombia 1974-1988, and director since then.) | Anthony Bourdain (prominently featured in the 2016-2017 shot RF-funded documentary 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste'). |
1913 |
| Federal Reserve System (FED) George Foster Peabody (director NYC FED 1914-1921, also vice chair) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. (chair FED system 1951-1970) | Arthur Burns (chair 1970-1978; mentor to Alan G. and Milton Friedman) | Owen Young | Allen Sproul | Philip Reed | Alan Greenspan | Robert Roosa | John Brademas (chairman NY Fed 1983-1986, president 1986-1988)| Richard Debs | Cyrus Vance | John Whitehead | Paul Volcker | Maurice Greenberg (director 1988-) | Robert Knight | Marie-Josee Kravis | Larry Summers | William Dudley | Martin Feldstein | Emmett Rice (second black governor; father of Susan Rice) | Lael Brainard (governor; wife of Kurt Campbell 1998-) | Gerald Corrigan (NY president) | Timothy Geithner (president NY Fed 2003-2009). More: Peter Blair Henry (member Economic Advisory Panel, NY FED) | Alfred Hayes (president NY FED 1956-1975). |
1913 |
| Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Trustees: Robert J. Myers (president 1980-1995, continued as trustee; State Department; CIA) | Jonathan E. Colby (treasurer; son of William C.) | Anthony Lake. Fellows: Maurice Sonnenberg. Lectures: Zbigniew Brzezinski ('95). Speakers: Sir Peter Sutherland ('16) | William vanden Heuvel ('16) | Stephen ('16). |
1914 |
| National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Also organized the National Foreign Trade Convention from 1914. Members: Frank Vanderlip (1914-) | Cyrus McCormick Jr,. (1914-; Rock. inlaw) | Robert Dollar (1914-) | Charles Muchnic (1914-). |
1914 |
| National Security League Focused on pushing America into World War I. Funded by J. P. Morgan, who subsequently received a virtual monopoly on buying war supplies for allies England and France. Officers: Joseph Choate (founding hon. president) | National Committee: Henry Stimson (anno 1915) | A. J. Dreel Biddle (anno 1915) | Frederick Coudert (anno 1915) | Thomas Edison (anno 1915) | William Fellowes Morgan (anno 1915; not part of the Morgan family). Funders: Carnegie Corp. ($100,000; largest) | John D. Rockefeller Sr. ($35,000; second largest) | J. P. Morgan Jr. ($1,000 personal and $1,300 from his bank; worried about criticism due to WWI trade monopoly) | Nicholas F. Brady ($4,500; great-uncle of the later treasury sec.; director Anaconda Copper, Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, General Rubber, U.S. Rubber, and over two dozen other corporations) | Henry Frick ($3,500; director U.S. Steel, Mellon Nat. Bank, Penn. Railway, etc.) | Jacob and Mortimer Shiff ($3,250). Source(s): ... |
1914-1942 |
| Brookings Institution Founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research (IGR), only partly by the generally-credited founding vice chairman Robert Brookings. [1] Since 1910 Brookings had been a trustee of the Carnegie Inst. and a founding trustee of the Carnegie Corp. from that same year. Initially the IGR was focused on advising any government administration on domestic social and economic issues. Questions were asked in the media, because founding member (trustee 1917-) Jerome Greene [2] was a founding secretary and trustee of the Rock. Fdn., as well as general manager of the Rock. Institute (later Rock. University). The suspicion was that the Rockefellers were trying to prevent any further anti-trust legislation, such as the Supreme Court one in 1911 that broke up Standard Oil. [3] Founding trustee, Raymond Fosdick, had a brother on the board of the Rock. Fdn., and would later join the Rock. Fdn. himself, even becoming president. Reportedly Greene and Fosdick were the one who recruited Brookings into the IGR. [4] Despite all these ties, Jerome Greene of the Rock. Fdn. stated/lied point-blank to the media that there was "no connection" between the IGR and the Rockefeller interests. [5] The IGR similarly was co-founded by Morgan-allied banker Charles D. Norton. [6] In 1927 Brookings, Greene and Fosdick (all still on the board) merged the IGR, IoE and Brookings' his own graduate school into the new Brookings Institution. In 1927-1928 the IGR, on behalf of the interior secretary and with Rock. Fdn. funding, conducted a landmark study on Native Indians, concluding that their reserves were unsuitable for agriculture and that their culture was repressed by the white majority. In 1973 Nixon's dirty tricks team considered burning down the Brookings Inst. Founding steering committee members of 1914-1916 ("Committee of Nine"): Charles D. Norton (key author statutes; Morgan-tied banker) | Jerome D. Greene (key author statutes; Rock.-tied manager) | Anson Phelps Stokes (key author statutes) | Raymond Fosdick (him and brother trustees Rock. Fdn.) | Frederick Strauss (partner in banking firm J. W. Seligman Co.; trustee Rock. Fdn. 1916-1930) | Theodore N. Vail (president AT&T) | James F. Curtis (ass. treasury sec. 1909-1914; counsel and deputy gov. NY Fed 1914-1919) | Charles P. Neill (Commissioner U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 1905-1913) | Robert Fulton Cutting (co-founder and NY head (a similarly-named and purposed bureau existed in Toronto) of the Bureau of Municipal Research by 1914, a Harriman-, Eastman Kodak- and American Smelting-funded "non-partisan citizens organization [that] published nearly 800 research bulletins and reports on urban issues in Canada, covering almost every area of public policy, from budgeting to housing, welfare to city planning, policing to parks."). Founding trustees: Frank Goodnow (founding chair 1916-1918) | Robert Brookings (founding vice chair 1916-1918, chair anno 1918-1932) | Raymond Fosdick (founding 1916-, still anno 1929; Rock. Fdn. trustee at the time and future Rock. Fdn. president, whose brother was a Rock. Fdn. trustee as well in 1916-1920) | Mrs. Edward H. Harriman (1916-1917; her husband was the father of Averell and E. Roland) | Felix Frankfurter (1916-1925) | Frederick Strauss (1916-1925; partner in banking firm J. W. Seligman Co.; trustee Rock. Fdn. 1916-1930) | Martin Ryerson (1916-1925; trustee president Un. of Chicago, trustee Carnegie Inst.) | A. Lawrence Lowell (1916-1925; president Harvard) | Cesar Lombardi (1916-1919; Houston merchant, president of Dallas News, and had married the daughter of "Confederate blockade runner" Cornelius Ennis). Other trustees until the end of WWII: Charles Norton (key founder and trustee 1917-1923; secretary to U.S. president Taft 1910-1911; vice president of the Morgan-tied First Nat. City Bank 1911-1918) | Jerome Davis Greene (key founder and trustee 1917-, until at least 1942; general manager Rockefeller Inst./University 1910-1912; the founding Rock. Fdn. secretary and trustee until 1916 who so hard denied a Rockefeller connection in 1916; again a Rock. Fdn. trustee 1928-1939) | Elihu Root (1920-1921) | Franklin Lane (1920-1921) | Herbert Hoover (1920-1925) | William Taft (1920-1925) | Silas Strawn (1920-1925) | Edwin Gay (1920-1925; dean Harvard) | Frederic Adrian Delano (1920-, chair 1933-1937; uncle of FDR; railroad exec.; vice chair FED 1914-1916) | Richard B. Mellon (1921-1925) | Paul Warburg (1922-, until at least 1929) | George Eastman (anno 1922-1929; founder Eastman Kodak Co.) | Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1925-, until at least 1933) | Morton Hull (anno 1933, gone by 1937; trustee Rock. Fdn.) | Clarence Phelps Dodge (anno 1933-1937) | Anson Phelps Stokes (II) (anno 1937-1942; 1874-1958) | Marshall Field III (anno 1937-1942) | John Winant (anno 1937-1942) | Edward Stettinius Jr. (anno 1942) | Vannevar Bush (anno 1942) | Dean Acheson (vice chair anno 1942) | Amory Houghton (anno 1942) | Harold W. Dodds (anno 1942: trustee Rock. Fdn 1936-1955) | John McCloy (anno 1946) | David Bruce (anno 1946). Post-WWII trustees: Eugene Black (chair 1962-1968) | C. Douglas Dillon (chair 1968-1975) | Robert Roosa (chair 1975-1986) | Bruce MacLaury (president 1977-1995). Trustees that joined pre-2000 (work in progress): Vartan Gregorian (trustee 1994-1997) | Michael Armacost (president 1995-2002) | Rozanne Ridgway (trustee anno 1999) | Judith Rodin (anno 1999) | Zoe Baird (trustee anno 1999, senior trustee anno 2021) | Kenneth Dam (trustee anno 1999; senior fellow, director; lifetime trustee anno 2021) | Steve Rattner (trustee anno 1999, senior trustee anno 2021) | Teresa Heinz (trustee anno 1999; lifetime trustee anno 2021) | Warren Rudman (anno 1999, hon. anno 2005). Trustees that joined 2000-2009 (work in progress): John Thornton (trustee 2000-, chair anno 2005, 2007; lifetime trustee ann 2021) | Strobe Talbott (president anno 2005) | Haim Saban (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Jeffrey Greenberg (anno 2005; son of Maurice Greenberg) | Thomas Donilon (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Lawrence Fish (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Larry Summers (anno 2005; fellow Jan. 2001-) | Robert McNamara (hon. anno 2005) | James Wolfensohn (hon. anno 2005) | John Whitehead (chair; hon. anno 2005) | Richard Haass | Vernon Jordan (hon. anno 2005) | Lee Hamilton (hon. anno 2005) | William Coleman Jr. (hon. anno 2005) | Roy Huffington (hon. 2005; married to Arianna Huffington from 1986-1997) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Fred Bergsten (senior fellow 1972-1976) | Robert Hormats | Graham Allison | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Stapleton Roy | Adm. Inman | Stephen Friedman | David Rubenstein (lifetime trustee and chair anno 2016) | Henry Louis Gates Jr. (lifetime trustee) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (trustee anno 2021) | Andrew Tisch (trustee anno 2021) | Philip Knight (trustee anno 2021) | Kenneth Duberstein (senior trustee anno 2021) | Mario Morino (hon. anno 2005; senior trustee anno 2021) | James Robinson III (senior trustee anno 2021) | Gen. John Allen (president Nov. 2017-) | Jeff Bewkes (anno 2021) | Robert Abernethy (anno 2021) | Suzanne Nora Johnson (co-chair anno 2021; former vice chair GS). International advisory council: Frank Lowy (anno 2016) | Victor Pinchuk | Nat Rothschild | Paul D. Jr. (anno 2016) | Nicolas Berggruen (anno 2016) | Marcus Wallenberg (anno 2016) | Philip Mallinckrodt (anno 2016) | Andronico Luksic. More: George von Furstenberg (pre-doctoral fellow mid-1960s) | Leslie Gelb (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Lincoln Gordon (scholar 1984-) | Jim Steinberg (VP and director of Brookings' Foreign Policy Studies Program) | Robert Gallucci (penalist) | William Cohen (study group involvement) | Fiona Hill (senior fellow and director Center on the US and Europe) | James Cicconi | Susan Rice (senior fellow 2002-2008) and Lois Dickson Rice (mother of Susan R.; Miriam Carliner Guest Scholar in Economic Studies since 2002) | Dr. John Steinbruner (director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program 1978-1996) | David de Ferranti (senior fellow) | Lael Brainard (senior fellow 2001-2009, vice president and director of Brooking's Global Economy and Development program 2006-2009; wife of Kurt Campbell 1998-) | Henry Owen (director Foreign Policy Studies Program anno 1973) | Timothy Geithner (2010 and 2012 guest conversation) | Morton Halperin (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Jason Furman (senior fellow) | Peter Blair Henry (senior fellow) | James Manyika (senior fellow) | Jane Nelson (senior fellow anno 2020) | Peter Beinart (nonresident fellow) | Wang Huiyao (past visiting scholar; invited to its podcast on Dec. 9, 2019) | Jeffrey Sachs (economic advisor) | Robert Kagan (senior fellow) | Paul Wolfowitz (speaker and panel member) | Barry Blechman (senior fellow) | Brookings' Doha Center in Qatar (2008): Strobe T. (co-chair). H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani (co-chair) | Madeleine Albright | Sandy Berger | Zbignieuw Brzezinski | Martin Indyk. Also: Anne-Marie Slaughter. Brookings' Saban Center for Middle East Policy (Saban Forum): Haim Saban (lifetime trustee BI) | Elliott Abrams | Sandy B. | Zbig | Nicholas Burns | Lester Crown | Tony Blair | Jane Harman | Rita Hauser | Holbrooke | Robert K. | David Ignatius | Robert Lifton | Joseph Nye | Thomas Pickering | Condoleezza Rice | Strobe T. | George Tenet | John T. | James W. | Mortimer Zuckerman | Ehud Barak | Michael Herzog (chief of staff Defense Ministry) The Hamilton Project (2006-): Advisory board: John Deutch | Dick Gephardt | Timothy Geithner | Penny Pritzker | David R. | Robert Rubin | Sheryl Sandberg | Eric Schmidt | Lawrence S. | Jason F. Brookings' John L. Thornton China Center (founded in 2006): John T. (chair 2006-2018). Brooking's Global Forum on Democracy and Emerging Technology: Alina Polyakova (founding director). Source(s): 1963, Brookings Inst., 'Directory of Staff and Publications, 1916-1961', pp. 1-6 (list of founding and early trustees, and mostly their dates): "Proposed November 20, 1914 and Chartered March 10, 1916. ... At the organization meeting on March 25, 1916 the following were elected to the Board: From the original group, Messrs. Brookings, Curtis, Cutting, Fosdick, Frankfurter, Goodnow, Hadley, Lowell, Neill, Ryerson, Strauss, Van Hise, and Woodward; Theodore N. Vail from the Committee of Nine; and six others who associated themselves with the effort early in 1916: Edwin A. Alderman, Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, Cesar Lombardi, and Samuel Mather."; March 1, 1922, The Inst. for Gov. Research, 'Its Organization, Work, and Publications' (p. 2 has a 1922 list; pp. 5-6 lists its studies on gov. budgeting/accounting, pensions, purchasing, etc.); 1922, 1927, 1929 IGR trustee lists; 1933, 1937, 1946 Brookings Inst. trustee lists; 2005 annual report. [1.] Sep. 27, 1919, U.S. Congress: House, National Budget System Hearingss, pp. 373-374, 'Statement of Dr. Robert S. Brookings, Chairman Institute for Government Research: "For a few months only [have I been chair]. I was vice chairman from the date of its organization. I was one of its organizers... About a year ago President Goodnow, who was the original chairman, was unable to give it any attention and I assumed the chairmanship. ... My attention was first called to the necessity for some legislation covering our business methods during the Taft administration. I knew Mr. Taft personally very well, and just before he made his budget report to Congress he asked me to come to Washington and go over it with his expert, Dr. Cleveland [and realized] the probable needs of a budget system..." [2.] dimes.rockarch.org/agents/ GcZr6MVw9utiVszSWzinx2 (accessed: Jan. 2, 2024; only accessible through Google cache): "Jerome Greene, the son of American missionaries, was born in Japan in 1874 ... He was also a founding member of the Institute for Government Research..." [3.] July 25, 1916, New York Times, 'Denial by Rockefellers; Neither John D. Nor Foundation Contributor to National Research.' 1956, Brookings Inst., 'Institute for Government Research: An Account of Research Achievements', p. 14: "Greene's statement did not settle the dust. That same day the Washington Times flatly called the work of the Institute a "Rockefeller Inquiry." On August 12, the New York Times noted a "connection" of Rockefeller money with it. And the Saturday Evening Post, taking off from hearsay reports of the Rockefeller interest, opined on August 26, 1916 , that Rockefeller could not do better with his money than to support governmental research, even if official Washington did resent it." [4.] Jan. 1, 1986, Eric D. Feller in Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies, 'The Brookings Institution and Public Policy', pp. 32-33: "Brookings was asked to join the Institute for Government Research (lGR) by [other] men [such as] two of the institution's original trustees (Raymond B. Fosdick and Jerome P. Greene) [who] had ties with John D. [R.]..." Note: this is at least partially incorrect, because Greene wasn't a founding trustee. [5.] July 25, 1916, Pittsburgh Post, p. 7, 'Denies Rockefeller Interest in Institute': "Jerome D. Green, secretary of the Rockefeller [Fdn.], in a statement issued here tonight, denied that the Rockefeller interests were responsible for the incorporation recently in the District of Columbia of the Institute for Government Research. Mr. Green's statement said: "The Rockefeller Foundation has no [formal] connection with the Institute for Government Research though some of its members, including members of its associated boards, have taken a keen personal interest in the institute and are among its incorporators. Neither Mr. Rockefeller personally, nor the Rockefeller Foundation, is contributing or pledging a cent of money to the enterprise." [6.] 1956, Brookings Inst., 'Institute for Government Research: An Account of Research Achievements', pp. 6-7, 10: "The idea of an institute for government research [IGR] was born. Chief among its authors was Charles D. Norton. Others were Mr. Jerome Greene [and] Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. They formed a steering committee in the fall of 1914 that perfected the conception and structure and arranged for initial financing of the new organization . They were part of a Committee of Nine; the others included R. Fulton Cutting, Chairman of the Board of the New York Bureau; Messrs Raymond B. Fosdick, Frederick Strauss, Charles P. Neill, James F. Curtis and Theodore N. Vail." |
1916 |
| Foreign Policy Association (FPA) Directors and honorary directors: John Foster Dulles (co-founder) | Robert Bliss | Walter Page II | Angier Biddle Duke | Robert Lindsay (chair 1986-1990) | Henry Luce III | Warren Christopher | William vanden Heuvel | John Train | John Whitehead | Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | James Baker III | Maurice Greenberg (also a major financier) | Patrick Gross | William Rhodes | Harold McGraw III | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Maurice Sonnenberg. Other: Thomas Pickering | William Perry (speech 1995) | Frank Carlucci (speech 1988) | John Brademas (fellow and associate) | Peter Peterson (speaker and awarded) | Bill Clinton (visitor) | Cyrus Vance (his wife was also very active for the FPA in the 1980s) | Allen Weinstein (editorial advisory board 1982-1991) | Gareth Evans (fellow) | Henry H. Arnhold (member). Off The Record speakers (1938-; ran by women under the auspices of the FPA; up until July 2020): William van den H. | Thomas P. | William P. | Gareth E. | Robert Zoellick | Leslie Gelb | Joseph Nye | Susan Rice | Frank Wisner II | Paula Dobriansky | Francis Fukuyama | Martin Indyk | Nicholas Burns | Robert Kagan | Richard Haass | Susan Eisenhower | Joseph Stiglitz | Morton Abramowitz | Gen. David Petraeus | Brent Scowcroft | William D. Rogers | Niall Ferguson | Larry Summers | Richard Holbrooke | J. Stapleton Roy | Thomas Kean | Sen. Tim Wirth | James Woolsey | John Bolton | Zalmay Khalilzad | Paul Bremer | Robert McFarlane | William Kristol | John Lehman | Stephen Bosworth | Michael Mandelbaum | Elliott Abrams | Arnaud de Borchgrave | William Taft | Richard A. Clarke | Robert Hormats | Madeleine Albright | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Anthony Lake | Jared Cohen | Arianna Huffington | Max Boot | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | William Burns | David Miliband | David Rothkopf | Frank Gaffney | Gary Hart | Peter Ackerman | Donald Gregg | Al From | Gayle Smith | Lawrence Korb | Gen. Wesley Clark | Winston Lord | Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani of Qatar | Tom Brokaw | Christiane Amanpour | Fareed Zakaria | Nicholas Kristof | Richard Pincus | Paul Krugman | Thomas Friedman | Robert Kaplan | John Micklethwait | Philip Taubman | Gen. John Allen | Amb. Peter Galbraith | Kenneth Pollack | Peter Maass | George Packer | Walter Russell Mead | Olara Otunnu (Oct. 9, 1996) | Richard Falk (Nov. 19, 1997) | James Hoge | Jane Fonda. |
1918 |
| Hoover Institution Directors: Glenn Campbell. Board of Overseers: David Packard (1972-1996) | Edmund Littlefield | Jeremiah Milbank | Jeremiah Milbank III | William Draper III | Donald Rumsfeld | Richard Mellon Scaife | James Buckley | Stephen Bechtel Jr. | Ruben Mettler | Peter Thiel | David Rubenstein | Tung Chee Hwa (1982-1996). Scholars/fellows: Ronald Reagan (honorary) | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (honorary) | Margaret Thatcher (honorary - later not listed as such) | Ronald Lehman (senior fellow) | Michael Armacost | George Shultz | Richard V. Allen | Pete Wilson | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | William Perry | Milton Friedman | Thomas Sowell | Condoleezza Rice | Ed Meese III | Sam Nunn | Joseph Nye | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | Robert J. Myers | John P. Dunlop | William Van Claeve | Ed Teller | Sidney Drell | Newt Gingrich | Henry Kissinger (Jan. 2013-) | Niall Ferguson (senior research fellow) | Gen. Jim Mattis (visiting fellow at least late 2014 to 2017) | Abraham Sofaer (George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs fellow in the 1990s) | Michael Abramowitz (fellow) | Dr. John B. Taylor ("George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics" anno '22). Controversial: Anthony Sutton (research fellow 1968-1973) | Barbara Honegger (researcher) | Paul Craig Roberts (long-time scholar) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (research fellow 2006-today) | Alex Stamos (visiting scholar tied to Cult of the Dead Cow). More: Larry Diamond (senior fellow) | Gen. John Abizaid (visiting fellow 2007-) | David Michel (research fellow) | Alice Hill (research fellow) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (national security affairs fellow 2002-2003; visiting fellow 2003-2017; senior fellow 2018-) | Francis Fukuyama (member of Hoover's Working Group on Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy). |
1919 |
| American Petroleum Institute (API) William Alton Jones (executive director; d. 1962) | James E. Lee (director; Chevron) | Charles Fogarty | Raymond R. Wright (secretary 1959-1970) | John Swearingen (director 1970s, chair 1978-1979; chair Standard Oil Company of Indiana) | Phillip Carroll (honorary life member; chair and CEO Shell) | J. Dennis Bonney (director) | J. Dennis Bonney (vice chair Chevron 1987-1995) | Ray L. Hunt | Stephen Bechtel | Vince Murchison (advisory board) | David O'Reilly (chair and CEO Chevron) | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO Exxon) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Rex Tillerson (chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | John Hess (executive). Also: in November 1966 Jim Garrison, Sen. Russell Long and oil man Joseph M. Rault, Jr. were on their way to an API conference in New York during which Garrison became inspired to revisit the Kennedy assassination. |
1919 |
| Century Foundation Very progressive. Founder: Edward Filene (d. 1937). Trustees: Max Lowenthal | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Hodding Carter III | John Podesta | Theodore Sorensen | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Joseph Califano Jr. | Melissa Harris Perry (founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics) | Congressman George Miller | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Lewis Kaden (vice chair Citigroup) | Mark Zuckerman (president anno 2018). |
1919 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 2006 Officers: Arthur Burns (protege of a co-founder, director and honorary chair anno 1981) | Robert Roosa (director anno 1981) | Peter Peterson (director anno 1981 and director emeritus anno 2013) | Martin Feldstein (president and CEO 1977-1981, 1983-2008) | Dr. John B. Taylor (research associate 1981-) | Jeffrey Sachs (listed as a research associate of NBER when invited to BB in 1990) | Jacob Frenkel (director at large anno 2013) | Peter Blair Henry | Jessica Einhorn (director anno 2021). |
1920 |
| Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Historic chairmen: Russell Leffingwell (chair 1946–1953; partner J.P. Morgan & Co. 1923-, chair 1948-1950) | John McCloy (member 1940-, chair 1953–1970; chair Rock.'s Chase Manhattan 1953-60, where David Rock. succeeded him as well) | David Rockefeller (member 1942-2017; chair 1970–1985, member 1942-1949, director 1949-1985; key TC founder) | Peter Peterson (member 1970-, director 1973-1984, chair 1985–2007; founding member TC; son Michael also a CFR member) | Carla Hills (co-chair 2007–2017; member of David Rock.'s TC since late '80s) | Robert Rubin (member 1981-; co-chair 2007–2017) | David Rubenstein (director 2005-, vice chair 2012-2017, chair 2017–; primary founder Carlyle Group; TC 2002-). Key historic names: John Foster Dulles (founding member 1922-1955, non-resident 1955-1958) | Allen Dulles (member 1927-1955, director 1928-early 1950s, secretary 1933-1945, vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1950, non-resident member 1956-) | John D. Rockefeller III (member 1931-) | Henry Luce (1934-) | Nelson Rockefeller (member 1938-) | David Rock. (member 1942-) | Henry Kissinger (member 1956-2023, director 1977-1981) | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (non-resident member 1958-1972, resident member 1973-1982) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (member 1968-, director 1972-1977) | George Shultz (member 1974-, director 1980-1982, when he entered gov.) | Paul Volcker (non-resident member 1970-1973, resident member 1973-, director 1975–1979, 1988–1999) | Harold Brown (member 1974-, director 1983-1992) | Brent Scowcroft (member 1974-, director 1983-1989) | Thomas Pickering (member 1975-; director 2002-2007) | Maurice Greenberg (member 1977-, director 1992–1994, vice chair 1994-2002, director 2004–2009) | John Whitehead (member 1978-) | James Wolfensohn (member 1981-) | Henry (1992-, director 2006-) and Marie-Josee Kravis (2005-) | Larry Summers (1991-) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (member 2002-). Secretaries of state: Charles Evans Hughes (member 1930-; SecState 1921-1925) | Frank K. (NOT a member; SecState 1925-1929) | Henry Stimson (member 1924-; SecState 1929-1933) | Cordell H. (NOT a member; FDR's SecState 1933-1944) | Edward Stettinius Jr. (his father, a Morgan banker, was a member 1924-, himself 1939-; SecState 1944-1945) | James B. (NOT a member; SecState 1945-1947) Gen. George M. (NOT a member; SecState 1947-1949) | Dean Acheson (member 1948-; SecState 1949-1953) | John F. D. (founding member 1922-; SecState 1953-1959) | Christian Herter (member 1930-; SecState 1959-1961) | Dean Rusk (member 1952-; SecState 1961-1969) | William P. Rogers (member 1975-; SecState 1969-1973; appointed to be insignificant in influence next to NSA Henry K.) | Henry K. (member 1956-; SecState 1973-1977) | Cyrus Vance (member 1968-; SecState 1977-1980) | Edmund Muskie (member 1973-; SecState 1980-1981) | Alexander Haig (member 1973-; SecState 1981-1982) | George S. (member 1974-, director 1980-1982; SecState 1982-1989) | James Baker III (member 1978-; SecState 1989-1992) | Lawrence Eagleburger (member 1974-; SecState 1992-1993) | Warren Christopher (member 1973-; SecState 1993-1997) | Madeleine Albright (member 1976-, director 2004-; SecState 1997-2001) | Colin Powell (member 1986-; SecState 2001-2005) | Condoleezza Rice (member 1984-; SecState 2005-2009) | Hillary Clinton (husband a member 1990-, daughter 2012-, herself (officially) never; SecState 2009-2013) | John Kerry (member 1994-; SecState 2013-2017) | Rex T. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; SecState 2017-2018) | Mike P. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; 2018-) | Anthony Blinken (member 1991-; SecState 2021-). CIA directors: Walter B. S. (member 1952-; CIA director 1950-1953 who co-founded BB, but did not attend) | Allen D. (member 1927-1955, director 1928-early 1950s, secretary 1933-1945, vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1950, non-resident member 1956-; CIA director 1953-1961) | John McCone (member 1957-; CIA director 1961-1965) | Richard Helms (1973-; CIA director 1966-1973) and his grandfather, a major banker, Gates McGarrah (founding member 1922-) | James Schlesinger (member 1986-; CIA director 1973) | William Colby (member 1975-; CIA director 1973-1976) | George H. W. Bush (member 1972-, director 1977-1979; UN ambassador 1971-73; CIA director 1976-77) | Adm. Stansfield Turner (member 1973-; director CIA 1977-1981) | William Casey (member 1973-; SEC chair 1971-73; CIA director 1981-1987) | William Webster (member 1987-; CIA director 1987-1991) | Robert Gates (member 1983-; acting CIA director 1986-1987, CIA director 1991-1993) | James Woolsey (member 1975-; CIA director 1993-1995) | John Deutch (member 1976-, director; father CFR since 1958) | George Tenet (member 1998-; CIA director 1996-2004) | Porter Goss (member 1999-; CIA director 2004-2006) | Gen. Michael Hayden (member 2003; CIA director 2006-2009; director NSA 1999-2005) | Leon P. (never been a member, before or after; CIA director 2009-2011) | Gen. David Petraeus (member 1986-; CIA director 2011-2012, when forced to resign over an affair) | John B. (never been a member, before or after; career officer; director 2013-2017) | Mike Pompeo (never been a member, before or after; director 2017-2018) | Gina H. (never been a member, before or after; career officer; director 2018-2021) | William Burns (member 1993-; director 2021-). Secretaries of defense: James Forrestal (member 1927-; 1st SecDef 1947-1949) | Louis J. (NOT a member; 1949-1950) | Gen. George M. (NOT a member; SecDef 1950-1951) | Robert Lovett (member 1927-; SecDef 1951-1953) | Charles Erwin W. (NOT a member; SecDef 1953-1957) | Neil McElroy (member 1955-; SecDef 1957-1959) | Thomas Gates Jr. (member 1961-; SecDef 1959-1961; Drexel and Morgan banker previously) | Robert McNamara (member 1968-; SecDef 1961-1968; came from Ford Motors) | Clark C. (NOT a member; SecDef 1968-1969) | Melvin Laird (member 1974-; SecDef 1969-1973, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | Elliot Richardson (member 1969-; SecDef 1973, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | James S. (member 1986-; SecDef 1973-1975, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | Rummy (member 1974-1979; SecDef 1975-1977) | Harold Brown (member 1969-; SecDef 1977-1981) | Caspar Weinberger (member 1982-, but worked under George S. at Bechtel; SecDef 1981-1987) | Frank Carlucci (member 1976-; DD/CIA 1978-81; SecDef 1987-1989; later chair Carlyle Group; chair CFR's 2001 'State Department Reform' report) | Dick Cheney (member 1982-, director 1987–1989, 1993–1995; SecDef 1989-1993) | Les Aspin (member 1973-; SecDef 1993-1994) | William Perry (member 1999-; SecDef 1994-1997) | William Cohen (member 1981-; SecDef 1997-2001) | Donald Rumsfeld (member 1974-1979; SecDef 1975-1977, 2001-2006) | Robert G. (member 1983-; SecDef 2006-2011) | Leon P.(never been a member, before or after; SecDef 2006-2011) | Chuck Hagel (member 1999-; SecDef 2013-2015) | Ashton Carter (member 1984-; SecDef 2015-2017) | Gen. Jim M. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; SecDef 2017-2019) | Mark Esper (Trump's "anti-establishment choice"; member 2008-; SecDef 2019-2020) | Lloyd Austin III (member 2013-; SecDef 2021-). National security advisors: Robert C. (NEVER a member; NSA 1953-1955, 1957-1958) | Dillon Anderson (member 1959-; NSA 1955-1956) | Gordon Gray (member 1951-; NSA 1958-1961) | McGeorge Bundy (member 1948-; NSA 1961-1966) | Walt Whitman Rostow (member 1955-; NSA 1966-1969) | Henry K. (member 1956-, director 1977-1981; NSA 1969-1975) | Brent S. (member 1974-, director 1983-1989; NSA 1975-1977; Kiss. protege) | Zbigniew B. (member 1968-, director 1972-1977; NSA 1977-1981) | Richard V. Allen (member only from 1999-; NSA 1981-1982) | William P. C. Jr. (NEVER a member; NSA 1982-1983; seemingly not to be confused with CFR member William Clark Jr. (1930-2008) that was a member of the CFR until 2008) | Robert McFarlane (member 1983-; NSA 1983-1985) | John P. (NEVER a member; NSA 1985-1986) | Frank C. (member 1976-; DD/CIA 1978-81; NSA 1986-1987; SecDef 1987-1989) | Colin P. (member 1986-; 1987-1989) | Brent S. (member 1974-, director 1983-1989; NSA 1989-1993) | Anthony Lake (member 1971-; 1993-1997) | Sandy Berger (member 1985-; 1997-2001)| Condi R. (member 1984-; NSA 2001-2005) | Stephen Hadley (member 1993-; NSA 2005-2009) | Thomas Donilon (member 1996-; member CFR task force 'Renewing the Atlantic Partnership' (2004), distinguished fellow 2013-; NSA 2010-2013) | Susan Rice (member 1992-; NSA 2013-2017) | Gen. Michael F. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; for 24 days in 2017) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; member 2004-; NSA 2017-2018) | John Bolton (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; member 2000-; NSA 2018-2019) | Charles K. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; acting NSA for 8 days in 2019) | Robert O'B. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; sep. 2019-) | Jake Sullivan (summer intern around 2000 at the president's office of Leslie G.; NSA 2021-). Treasury secretaries: Andrew Mellon (member 1934-1937 (d.); treasury sec. March 1921-1932) | Ogden Mills (member 1924; treasury sec. 1932-1933) | William Woodin (member 1921/22-; treasury sec. March - Dec. 1933) | Henry Morgenthau Jr. (treasury sec. 1934-1945; Morgenthau Sr. a member 1922-1940) | Fred V. (never a member; treasury sec. 1945-1946) | John Wesley Snyder (never a member; treasury sec. 1946-1953) | George Humphrey (never a member; treasury sec. 1953-1957) | Robert B. Anderson (member 1953-; treasury sec. 1957-1961) | C. Douglas Dillon (son of Clarence Dillon, a founding member 1922-; himself a member 1940-; treasury sec. 1961-1965) | Henry Fowler (member 1950-; treasury sec. 1965-1968) | David M. Kennedy (treasury sec. 1969-1971; member 1976-) | John Connally (never a member; treasury sec. 1971-1972) | George S. (treasury sec. 1971-1974; member 1974-) | William Simon (member 1973/1974-; treasury sec. 1974-1977) | Michael Blumenthal (member 1970-; treasury sec. 1977-1979) | G. William Miller (treasury sec. 1979-1981; member 1981-) | Donald Regan (member 1973-; treasury sec. 1981-1985) | James B. III (member 1978-; treasury sec. 1985-1988) | Nicholas Brady (member 1983-; treasury sec. 1988-1993) | Lloyd Bentsen (member 1973-; treasury sec. 1993-1994) | Robert Rubin (member 1981-; treasury sec. 1995-1999) | Larry S. (member 1991-; treasury sec. 1999-2001) | Paul O'Neill (never a member, only visited; treasury sec. 2001-2002) | John W. Snow (never a member; treasury sec. 2003-2006) | Hank Paulson (member 2001-; treasury sec. 2006-2009) | Timothy Geithner (member 1996-, director 2015-; treasury sec. 2009-2013) | Jack Lew (member 2006-; treasury sec. 2013-2017) | Steven Mnuchin (never a member; treasury sec. 2017-2021) | Janet Yellen (member 2006-; treasury sec. 2021-). More important names: Jami Miscik (director 2007-, vice chair 2017-; CEO Kiss. Assoc. and TC 2014-) | Frank Wisner (1946-) | George Soros (member 1988-, director 1995-2004), brother Paul (member 1992-), and son Jonathan (member 2003-). Initial 1954 BB visitors alongside CFR director David Rock.: Nelson Dean Jay (member 1942-; director J.P. Morgan & Co.) | George Nebolsine (member 1944-) | Gardner Cowles Jr. (member 1945-) | George Bingham (member 1946-) | George Ball (member 1948-) | Paul Nitze (1949-) | C.D. Jackson (member 1950-) | H.J. Heinz II (member 1952-; father Howard: member 1924-) | J. D. Zellerbach (member 1952-) | George McGhee (member 1953-) | Cola Parker (member 1953-) | George Perkins (member 1953-) | Joseph Spang Jr. (member 1954-) | John Coleman (member mid 1954- or 1955-; commissioned by Jackson to organize the initial BB participants in 1953-1954). Others involved in the BB founding: Walter Bedell Smith (member 1952-; CIA director 1950-1953 who co-founded BB, but did not attend) | Dwight Eisenhower (member 1949-; was interested in using the BB plan in his 1952 presidential campaign, but others did not like that; agreed that (incoming) administration officials worked on the BB plan) | Averell Harriman (member 1924-; didn't want to touch the BB plan during the 1952 elections, because it was "[political] dynamite".). Presidents: John W. Davis (founding president 1921-1933, director 1933-1955) | George Wickersham (president 1933–36) | Norman Davis (president 1936–44) | Russell L. (1944–46) | Allen D. (1946–50) | Henry Wriston (1951–64) | Grayson Kirk (1964–71) | Bayless Manning (1971–77) | Winston Lord (1977–85) | John Temple Swing (1985–86) | Peter Tarnoff (1986–93) | Alton Frye (1993) | Leslie Gelb (1993–2003) | Richard Haass (2003–). International advisory board / global advisory board / global advisory panel: Gustavo Cisneros | Sergei Karaganov | Vladimir Potanin | Mikhail Fridman | Anatoly Chubais | Lord Charles Powell | David Rubens. (chair anno '21) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (anno '21) | Victor Pinchuk (anno '21) | Javier Solana (anno '21) | Mo Ibrahim (anno '21) | Frank Lowy (anno '21) | Strive Masiyiwa (anno '21) | Oliver Bate (anno '21) | Hakeem Belo-Osagie (anno '21) | Claudio Descalzi (anno '21) | Andre Esteves (anno '21) | Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal (anno '21) | Fred Hu (anno '21) | Ali Koc (anno '21) | Sunil Bharti Mittal (anno '21) | Takeshi Niinami (anno '21) | Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor (anno '21) | Suzan Sabanci Dincer (anno '21; member Turkish billionaire family) | John Sawers (anno '21) | Nassef Sawiris (anno '21) | Tidjane Thiam (anno '21) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt (anno '21) | Patrick Walujo (anno '21). Remaining: Dwight Morrow (member 1924-; Morgan partner) | Henry Davison (member 1928-; Morgan partner) | E. Roland Harriman (member 1933-) | Joseph Grew (member 1928-) | John Kenneth Galbraith (member 1946-1971) | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1946-2007) | Shepard Stone (member 1947-1989) | Gen. Lucius Clay (member 1949-) | Michael Deutch (1958-; father of John) | Herman Kahn (member 1963-1983) | Fidel Castro (speech during an 11-day visit to the US in April 1959; said he wouldn't beg the US for economic assistance and stormed out after finding some of the questions insulting) | Richard Gardner (1969-) | Gen. Wesley Clark (1983-) | Paula Dobriansky (1993-, director 1997-2001, senior vice president 2001) | Penny Pritzker (member 1994-1998, 2004-) | Thomas Pritzker (member 2000-) | Lee Hamilton (member 1995-) | David McCormick (member 1998-; later married Dina Habib Powell) | Ken Chenault (director anno 2020) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Robert O. Anderson | Richard Salomon (vice chair) | Gen. John Abizaid (member 1985-) | Frank Wisner II | David Ignatius | Christine Whitman | Richard Gelb (director) | Bruce Gelb | Bill Bradley | Zoellick | Graham Allison | Lewis Branscomb | Thomas Foley | Richard Holbrooke (member 1970-) | Robert Roosa | William Press | Caryl Haskins | Hedley Donovan | Talbott | Walter Mondale (member 1973-) | George Mitchell | Jeffrey Sachs (member 1994-) | Robert Bliss | S. Dillon Ripley II | Peter Ackerman (member 1986-) | Owen Young | Malcolm Muir | Lloyd Hand | Vannevar Bush | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Taft IV | Jane Harman | William Rhodes | Greenspan | Taggart Whipple | Gen. Peter Pace | Conrad Black | Ermarth | John T. Connor | Sidney Drell (member 1980-2007) | Jamie Gorelick | Francis Fukuyama | Eric Melby | Gen. Larry Welch | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Henry Catto | Rozanne Ridgway | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | William T. Coleman Jr. | Donald Gregg | Philip Zelikow | Norman Pattiz | Martin Indyk | Mundy | Thomas McLarty | Irving Kristol | Lee Raymond (member 1988-) | David O'Reilly | Sandra Day O'Connor | Walter Page II | John Diebold | Kenneth Dam | Stapleton Roy | Lewis Coleman | Felix Rohatyn | David Gergen | Robert Pastor | Franklin Miller | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | John Thornton (member 1997-) | Neil Goldschmidt | Robert Knight | Joseph Gorman | C. Boyden Gray | William Simon | Stephen Schwarzman | Arthur Burns | Philip Odeen | Seitz | Walter Gifford | Robert Strauss | Jane Pfeiffer | Gianni Agnelli | Eli S. Jacobs | Kirkpatrick | John P. White | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Lord Carrington | Rifkind | Gabriel Hauge | Lord George Robertson | Peter Sutherland | Etienne Davignon | Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Jay Rockefeller, IV | Bruce Jackson | Raymond E. Mabus | Morris Amitay | Nicholas Rostow | Adm. William Crowe | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | Richard Burt | William A. M. Burden | Samuel Huntington | Adm. David Jeremiah | William Schneider, Jr. | Douglas MacArthur II | Philip Hawley | Maurice Tempelsman | C. Douglas Dillon | Norman Augustine | Robert R. Bowie | Morton Abramowitz (member 1975-) | Richard Perle | Klutznick (1980s) | Fred Ikle | McCain III | Clinton | Ronald Asmus | Robert Kagan (member 1984-) and father Donald (member 2001-) | Lawrence Clarkson | Warren Rudman (chaired two task forces) | Vernon Jordan (member 1978-) | Stephen Solarz | Lincoln Gordon | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Edward Teller | Neil deGrasse Tyson (published by) | Thomas Kean | John Lehman and brother Ronald | Gerald Curtis | Gary Hart | Claiborne Pell | Max Kampelman | Frances Townsend | John Negroponte | J. Paul Austin | Patrick Gross | Wolfowitz | Goss | Gen. James L. Jones | Norris Darrell, Jr. | James Billington | Adm. Giambastiani | Nunn | Col. John Nagl | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Macomber | Winthrop Aldrich | Clare Boothe Luce | Dwight Morrow | Maxwell Rabb | Philip Lader | Gingrich | Gen. James Cartwright (speaker) | Debs | Maurice Sonnenberg | Jimmy Carter | Ross Perot | Walter Slocombe | Zakheim | Paul X. Kelley | Al Roming, Jr. | Yevgeny Primakov | Oleg Deripaska (important financier) | Georgy Arbatov | Joseph Stiglitz | Maurice Strong (1970s) | Ruckelshaus | Bremer | Walther Kiep | Abshire | Rothkopf | Richard Pipes | Daniel Pipes | John Gardner | Robert Hormats | Douglas Feith | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Evan Galbraith | Sen. Jon Kyl (2004 speech) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (2010 speech) | Berezovsky (1997 speech) | Igor ov (published in 2000) | Ruud Lubbers (2001 speech) | Turki al Faisal (2006 speech) | Peres (speech) | Netanyahu (speech) | Cynthia McClintock (published in Foreign affairs) | Rita Hauser | Bruce Tarter | Paul Bracken | Montbrial | Jean-Claude Trichet (speaker) | Tony Blair (speaker) | Pauline Neville-Jones (speaker and has been published) | Ogden R. Reid | Joseph Choate | Whitelaw Reid II | David Kirkpatrick | Kofi Annan (speech) | Desmond Tutu (speech) | Romano Prodi (speech/conversation) | Michel Rocard (chair Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions) | Niall Fitzgerald (international advisory board) | Brian Mulroney | Lester Crown | William Hewitt | Hamid Karzai (speaker) | Jacob Frenkel (speaker) | Peter Mandelson (talk) | Thomas Schmidheiny | Al Gore | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Fiona Hill (member 2003-) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Daniel Moynihan | Malcolm Hoenlein | Eliot | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Carl Bildt | Frank Barnett | Joschka Fischer ("distinguished visiting diplomat" in 2006) | Vartan Gregorian | Zalmay Khalilzad | Dianne Feinstein | Robert Gallucci (member 1993-) | Susan Eisenhower (involved in studies) | Richard Lugar | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Spencer Kim | Jeffrey Epstein | Michael A. Callen | Murray Gell-Mann | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | John Bryan, Jr. | Steve Forbes | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (speaker) | Edward Luttwak | Jeffrey Bergner | David Braunschvig | John Podesta | Norman Cousins | Federica Mogherini (speech) | Morton Halperin (member 1968-) | Jared Cohen (member 2013-) | William vanden Heuvel (member 1986-) | McGeorge Bundy | Robert Wolf | Walter Mead (Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy) | Steven Rattner | Rex Tillerson (2007 and 2012 speaker) | James Roche | Robert Abernethy | John Duke Anthony | Eric Schmidt | Frits Bolkestein (2003 or 2004 speaker) | John Prendergast (Africa lecture) | James Robinson III | Lisa Shields (vice president for communications & marketing) | Scott Malcomson | Bob Kerrey (author 2001 report) | Christine (speaker Nov. 2008 and Dec. 2018, pushing gender quotas at the latter) | Jacqueline Novogratz (member 2002-) | Michael Abramowitz | Christine Parthemore (international affairs fellow in Tokyo in 2016) | Sherri Goodman (director CFR's Center for Preventive Action) | Andy Weber | Adm. Kenneth Bernard | Alice Hill (senior fellow for Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations) | Adm. Michael Mullen | Nancy Soderberg | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adm. Dennis Blair (co-chair CFR's 2007 U.S.-China Relations task force and chair of the CFR's 2008 Indonesia Commission) | Teresa Heinz | Dina Habib Powell (member 2005-) | Hans Binnendijk | Chester Crocker | Anne Applebaum | Max Boot | William D. Rogers (co-chair CFR's Cuba Task Force) | Gerald Corrigan (member 1986-, director 1993-95) | Lloyd Blankfein (member 2009-) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (member 1994-) | Kurt Campbell (member 1991-) and wife Lael Brainard (member 1990-; int. affairs fellow) | Henry Owen (member 1981-) | Henry Fowler (member 1982-) | Stuart Eizenstat (member 1993-) | James Lowenstein | Jean-Claude Trichet (speeches April '06, April '10) | Bill Drayton Jr. (member 1973-) | Susan Berresford (member 1989-) | Gary M. (repeatedly published by) | Josette Sheeran (member 2007-) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (member 1993-) | Jim Steinberg (member 1988-) | Zoe Baird (member 1996-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (member 2001-) | John Hess (member 1984-) | Gen. John Jumper (member 1995-) | Muhtar Kent (member 2010-) | John Hamre (member 2001-) | Michael Chertoff (never a member, but speaker in 2009 and 2011) | Lula da Silva (speaker Sep. 25, 2003) | Merit Janow (member 1985-) | Aaron Friedberg (member 1995-) | Martin Feldstein (member 1986-2019, trustee 1999-2016, life trustee 2016-2019) | Nancy Rubin (member 1989-) | Abraham Foxman | Adm. William McRaven (member 2014-) | Bill Richardson (member 1985-) | Nicholas Burns (member 1995-) | Erskine Bowles | Nicholas Rockefeller (member 1994-) | Jon Huntsman Jr. (term member 1994-) | Roy Huffington (member 1980-; his son Michael was married to Arianna Huffington 1986-1997) | Mike Morell (member 2013-) | Ken Duberstein | Richard Garwin (senior research fellow for science and technology) | Marshall Field III (member 1927-1956) | Marshall Field Jr. (non-resident member anno 1955) | Jason Furman (member 2017-) | Larry Fink (member 2012-) | Sylvia Burwell (2006-; 2007-2013, 2017-) | Peter Blair Henry (member 2008-, director 2012-2017) | James Manyika (member 2013-, director 2015-) | James Gustave Speth (member 1990s, until 2005) | Jacob Weisberg (1997-) | Eric Garcetti (member 2015-) | Kurt Schmoke | Peter Beinart (senior fellow 2007-2009) | Alfred Hayes | Charles Barber | Christopher Ashley Ford (member 2015-) | Nicholas Katzenbach (member 1967; his brother, Edward Jr., already was a member for a few years at that point) | Hugh Price (1990-2004) | Patty Stonesifer (member 2003-) | Edward Cox (member 1991-; Nixon's son-in-law) | Frederick Smith (member 2006-) | John F. Cook (member 1991-; president Disney Channel 1985-1995) | Mark Brzezinski (member 1997-) | Henry H. Arnhold (member 1985-) | Horst Teltschik (IAB) | Jessica Einhorn (member 1973-; director) | Joseph Nye (member 1970-) | Robert Blackwill (member 1985-) | Laurene Powell Jobs (member 2011-, director 2017-) | Barack Obama (speech '06) | Joseph Califano Jr. (member 1973-) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (speech '14) | Dick Gephardt (member 1991-) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (member 2003-; initially under the name "Patricia E. Mitchell") | Norman Ornstein (member 1978-) | William Rosenwald (member 1968-; husband of Nina) | Nina Rosenwald | William M. Roth (member 1968-2013) | Emily MacFarquhar (member 1985-2001; wife of Roderick, died in 2001) | Rory MacFarquhar (member 2017-; son of Roderick) | Adm. James Stavridis (member 2005-) | Karen Elliott House (member 1978-) | Dr. John B. Taylor (member 2012-) | Sally A. Shelton-Colby (member 1979-) | Lorne Craner (member '97-) | David Kramer (member 1998-) | Mark Tercek. Far East members: Ronnie Chan (member 1994-) | Tung Chee Hwa (IAB 1995-1997) | Victor Fung (1996-) | Ajay Banga (2009-) | Melissa Ma (2018-; wife of Robin Li, chair and CEO of Baidu). Print media: Walter Lippman (founding member 1922-; founding editor The New Republic 1913-; member NY Socialist Party) | Frank Wisner (member 1946-; CIA directorate of operations chief 1951-1958 until a nervous breakdown, retired in 1962; oversaw the recruiing of the media in CIA intelligence gathering and propaganda) | Cord Meyer Jr. (member 1947-; CIA) | Malcolm Muir (member 1944-; Newsweek's editor from its founding in 1937 until its sale to the Washington Post Company in 1961) | Harry Kern (member 1954-; assistant editor Newsweek 1937-, associate editor 1941-, war editor 1942-, senior editor international affairs and editor-in-chief international edits 1950-1956) | Barry Bingham Sr. (member 1946-; owner The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and WHAS Television until handing everything over to his son in 1971) | Henry Luce (member 1947-; founder and publisher Time 1923-, and Fortune 1930-; bought Life magazine in 1936) | C.D. J. (member 1950-; managing director of Time-Life International 1945-1949; later publisher of Time's Fortune Magazine) | Arthur Hays Sulzberger (life member 1927-1968; publisher NYT 1935-1961)| Orvil Dryfoos (member 1958-; publisher NYT 1961-1963) | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (member 1966-1971; publisher NYT 1963-1992) | Nicholas Kristof (member 2003-; assoc. man. director and op-ed columnist NYT) | Eugene Meyer (member 1930-; publisher Washington Post (WaPo) 1933-1946; d. 1959) | Phil Graham (son-in-law of Meyer; member 1961 until his suicide in 1963; 70% owner and publisher WaPo 1946-1963) | Katharine Graham (member 1970-2000; publisher WaPo 1969-1979; her son Donald - never a CFR member - was publisher 1979-2013) | Warren Buffett (member 2014-; major investor 1973- and leading director WaPo 1974-2014 and right hand to Kay Graham) | Ronald Olson (member 1999-; director WaPo 2003-; director of Berkshire Hathaway) | Lee Bollinger (member 2003-; director WaPo 2007-) | Anne Mulcahy (member 2002-; director WaPo 2008-) | Walter Pincus (member 1973-; exec. editor The New Republic 1972-1975; top national security reporter and editor WaPo 1975-2015) | Robert Kaiser (member 1979-; intern WaPo early 1960s, D.C., Saigon, Moscow reporter 1964-1974, assoc. editor 1982-1990, managing editor 1991-1998, associate editor and senior correspondent 1998-2014) | David Ignatius (member 1987-; leading writer, editor and columnist Washington Post 1986-) | Tom Johnson (member 1973-; White House Fellow mid-late 1960s; publisher of the Dallas Times Herald 1975-late 1970s; president LA Times late 1970s-1989, publisher 1980-1989, and vice chair of its Times Mirror Co.; president CNN 1990-2001) | David Remnick (member 2006-; decades-editor The New Yorker 1998-) | Robert Silvers (member 1971-2017; founding editor NY Review of Books 1963-2017; early history at Paris Review and Harper's) | Barbara Epstein (member 1997-2006; founding editor NY Review of Books 1963-2006) | Mortimer Zuckerman (member 1988-; chair The Atlantic 1980-1999; publisher U.S. News & World Report 1984-; publisher New York Daily News 1993-2017) | Rupert Murdoch (member 1994-2014; owner News Corp. and Fox) and son James (member 2020-) | Michael Bloomberg (member 1999-) | Matthew Winkler (member 2003-; co-founded Bloomberg News in 1990, editor-in-chief 1990-2015, emeritus 2015-; director Bloomberg L.P. 2006-) | Arthur Levitt Jr. (member 2004-; director Bloomberg L.P. anno 2001-, still anno 2022; senior adviser Carlyle 2001--2020s; special advisor AIG 2005-; consulant Kroll Inc. anno 2006; policy advisor to GS 2009-2015) | Jane Bryant Quinn (member 1994-; director Bloomberg L.P. 2015-; long-time Newsweek contributor about 1989 until 2009) | Frank Savage (member 1982 (black); director Bloomberg L.P. 2010-) | Theodore Forstmann (member 1995-). Print media with a historic presence (without listing all the different journalists, editors and publishers): NY Times | Washington Post | The New Yorker | New York Post | New York Review of Books | U.S. News & World Report | Time-Life | Wall Street Journal | Financial Times | The Economist | The Sun | The Telegraph | Reuters | The National Interest | Foreign Affairs | Foreign Policy. Online media and/or "anti-establishment" social democrat media: George Plimpton (member 1924-) and Francis Plimpton (member 1947-) (their grandson/son, George, founded The Paris Review in 1953) | Bill Moyers (member 1966-1985, director 1967-1974; deeply involved in alternative media) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (member 1993-; editor-in-chief The Nation 1995-2019, contributing editor and publisher since then) | Richard Falk (member 1967-; editor The Nation since at least the early 1980s-2020s; 9/11-no-planer) | Christopher Hedges (member 2003-) | Jacob Weisberg (member 1997-; editor Slate Magazine 2002-2008, founding editor Slate Group 2008-2018) | Barry Diller (member 2008-; chair of InterActiveCorp, which, apart from The Daily Beast (founded 2008), controls just about every online dating app) | Joe Allbritton (member 1973-; his son, Robert, founded Politico.com in 2007) | David G. Bradley (member 2006-; owner Atlantic Media, which owns The Atlantic and National Journal) | Alberto Ibarguen (member '01, director 2006-2013; director PBS 1997, chair 2003-2005). TV Media: William Paley (member 1936-1989; builder CBS 1928-1986) | Henry Schacht (member 1971-; director CBS 1971-1990s) | Laurence Tisch (member 1985-; took over control of CBS 1986) | David Sarnoff (member 1955-; president NBC owner RCA 1930-1947, chair RCA 1947-1970) | John Brademas (member 1973-; director RCA/NBC) | Michael Eisner (member 1999-; chair and CEO Disney 1984-2005) | Michael Froman (member 1996-; director Walt Disney 2018-) | Maria Lagomasino (member 2003-; director Walt Disney 2015-) | Gerald Levin (member 1993-; COO Time Warner 1991-1992, president and co-CEO 1992-, bought Turner Broadcasting System (CNN) in 1996, chair and CEO mid 1990s-2002) | Richard Parsons (member 1991-; director WarnerMedia 1991-, on the recommendation of Laurance Rock., president 1995-, chair and CEO 2002-2007; interim chair CBS 2018) | Gary Ginsberg | Candace Beinecke (member 2006-; director Viacom (owns CBS, MTV, BET, VH1, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures) anno 2022) | Barbara Byrne (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Linda Griego (member 1996-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Judith McHale (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Charles Phillips Jr. (member 2016-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Frederick Terrell (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Glenn Hutchins (member 1995-; director AT&T (owner WarnerMedia, Warner Bros., CNN, HBO) anno 2022) | Luis Ubinas (member 2011-; president Ford Fdn. 2007-2013; director AT&T anno 2022) | Jeff Bewkes (member 1996-; president WarnerMedia 2005-2018, CEO 2005-2018, and chair 2009-2018) | Cesar Conde (member 2003-; chair NBCUniversal News Group 2020-) | Walter Isaacson (member 1979-; president CNN 2001-2003) | Diane Sawyer (member 1981-) | Dan Rather (member 1980-; covered the JFK assassination for CBS in 1963; news anchor CBS Evening News 1981-2005) | Tom Brokaw (member 1998-, director 2005-2015; anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News 1982–2004) | Katie Couric (member 2007-; co-host NBC Today / NBC Dateline 1992-2006; anchor and managing editor CBS Evening News and contributor to 60 Minutes 2006-2011; special correspondent ABC News 2011-2014; Yahoo's Global News Anchor 2013-2017) | Charlie Rose (host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg L.P. 1991-2017) | Hartford Gunn Jr. (member 1972-; founder and initial president PBS) | Jim Lehrer (member 1980-; anchor of PBS in 1973, initially covering the Watergate affair, and from 1975-2011 a program that became known as PBS NewsHour; even after he continued as a programmer) | Donald Baer (member 1999-; director PBS Fdn. 2008-, chair PBS 2011-). Artists: Michael Douglas (member '05-) | Warren Beatty (member '05-) | Richard Dreyfuss (member '05-) | Angelina Jolie (member '07-) | George Clooney (life member '10-) | Bono ('06 speech and meeting with the board) | Forest Whitaker (member '16-). Corporate members (Founders' ($100,000), Presidents' ($60,000) and Premium ($30,000) Circle membership vary all the time - but largely the same corporations): BANKS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES: JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Morgan Stanley | Blackstone Group | Lazard | KKR | Goldman Sachs | Rockefeller Group | Rohatyn Group | Warburg Pincus | Bank of New York Mellon | Rothschild N.A. | Soros Fund Management | Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings / First Eagle Investment Management | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Barclays | Citi | Credit Suisse | Deutsche Bank AG | UBS | BNP Paribas | BlackRock | Bridgewater Associates | American Express | Visa | McKinsey & Co. | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Deloitte | Nasdaq OMX Group | S&P | NYSE Euronext | Moody's | Abraaj Group. OIL AND MINING: Chevron | ExxonMobil | BP | Shell | Marathon Oil | ConocoPhillips | Duke Energy | Hess Corporation | Aramco Services | TOTAL S.A. | Occidental Petroleum | Noble Energy | Newmont Mining | Freeport-McMoRan | Alcoa | Rio Tinto | De Beers | Energy Intelligence Group. DEFENSE AND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES: Lockheed Martin | Northrop Grumman | Boeing | Raytheon | Airbus Americas | United Airlines. TECH AND COMMUNICATION: Google | Microsoft | Facebook | PayPal | IBM | Dell | Palantir | Xerox | AT&T | Telefonica Internacional U.S.A. | Verizon. MANUFACTURERS: GE | Fluor Corporation | Toyota N.A. | Volkswagen of America | Hitachi | Mitsubishi | Mitsui | Tata Group. PHARMACEUTICAL: Merck | Pfizer | GlaxoSmithKline | BASF | Johnson & Johnson. MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT: Coca-Cola Company | PepsiCo | Nike | Sony | Bloomberg | McGraw-Hill | MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings | Time Warner Inc. | News Corp. | Thomson Reuters | The Economist Intelligence Unit. LAW FIRMS: Sull & Cromwell LLP | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. REMAINING: Walmart | Booz Allen Hamilton | DynCorp | Marsh & McLennan | Cisneros Group of Companies | Deere & Company | FedEx | KBR | New York Life | Tishman Speyer Properties | U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Source(s): Official membership list photocopies 1922-2022. |
1921 |
| Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) Originally the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR). Philip Klutznick (worked on international affairs 1970s-1980s) | Kenneth Dam (director) | John Bryan, Jr. (chair) | Lester Crown (president since 2004) | Michelle Obama (until 2008; the Crown family has been a huge donor to Barack Obama) | James Bindenagel (vice president of programs). Speakers: Madeleine Albright ('01, '12) | Aaron Friedberg ('12) | Thomas Pickering | Jeb Bush | John Hamre ('14) | Thomas Pritzker ('14). Mid-America Committee for International Business and Government Cooperation, Chicago (1966-; joint events with the CCGA since at least 1981; became the Chicago Council's Corporate Program in 2004): Board: Thomas Miner (founder, board anno 1983) | Donald Rumsfeld (anno 1983). Speakers: William Casey (invited in 1983) | Gerald Ford | Henry Kissinger | Herman Kahn ('81) | Malcolm Fraser ('81) | William Draper III ('81) | Robert Hormats ('81) | Jeane Kirkpatrick ('82) | Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan ('82) | Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of Orange ('82) | Caspar Weinberger ('82) | Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden ('82) | Moshe Arens ('82) | George H. W. Bush ('83) | George Shultz ('83) | Saburo Okita ('83) | A. W. Clausen ('83) | Robert McFarlane ('83) | Vernon Walters ('83) | Amintore Fanfani ('83; PM Italy Jan.-Feb. 1954, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, 1982-1983, April-July 1987) | Wu Xueqian ('83; foreign affairs minister of China 1982-1988) | Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud ('83) | Sen. William V. Roth Jr. ('83) | Madeleine A. ('01 joined CCGA and MAC speech). |
1922 |
| Sentinels of the Republic Fascist/Nazi group. Leading members: Thomas Cadwalader (executive chair) | Raymond Pitcairn (national chair) | Harold Frederick Pitcairn | Rev. Theodore Pitcairn | Pierre S. du Pont | Irenee du Pont | Henry du Pont | A. B. Echols (du Pont) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Edward T. Stotesbury (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co) | Horatio Lloyd (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co.) | J. Howard Pew. |
1922-1944 |
| International House, New York City John McCloy (chair 1954-1971, honorary chair 1971-1989) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (financier/founder) | David Rockefeller | Paul Volcker (chair) | Henry Kissinger (chair) | John Whitehead (chair) | Frank Wisner II (chair) | George Ball (chair) | George Marshall (chair) | Henry Stimson (chair) | George Wickersham (chair) | Gerald Ford (chair) | Frederick Osborn | Daisy Soros (George's sister-in-law) | John Robert Halsey Blum (life trustee) | John French III | Walid Ahmed Juffali. IH's Marshall Visitor Program: Jeffrey Sachs | Robert Hormats | Richard Holbrooke. Residents IH Berkeley: John Kenneth Galbraith (1931-32) | Glenn Seaborg (1934-35 non-resident member) | Michael Blumenthal (IH 1947–49) | Gov. Jerry Brown (IH 1960-61) | Gov. Pete Wilson (IH 1960) | Eric Schmidt (lived at IH Berkeley for four years while attending UCLA) | Eric Schmidt (1976-80) &and future wife Wendy Boyle (1978-82). |
1924 |
| Institute of World Affairs (IWA), Washington, D.C. Norman MacKenzie (director 1950s) | John McCone (director 1950s) |
1924 |
| Institute of Pacific Relations (closed in 1961) | 1925 |
| Markle Foundation Directors: Thomas W. Lamont (director and president in the 1930s; key Morgan representative) | Zoe Baird (president 1998-2020s) | Slade Gorton (director 2009-2018) | Philip Zelikow (visiting managing director 2014-) | James Manyika (director McKinsey & Co.) | Suzanne Johnson (vice chair Goldman Sachs) | Stanley Shuman (senior advisor Allen and Co.). Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age (2002, reported to the 9/11 Comm.): Zoe B. (co-chair) | Jim Barksdale (co-chair) | Philip Z. (executive director, similar to the 9/11 Comm.) | Ashton Carter | Gen. Wesley Clark | Sidney Drell | Slade G. | Morton Halperin (representing OSI) | Margaret Hamburg | John Hamre | Arnold Kanter | Abraham Sofaer | Jim Steinberg (also senior advisor to the MF 2000-2001). Rework America: the Markle Economic Future Initiative (launched at CGI in 2014): Zoe B. | Howard Schultz (co-chair; chair president and CEO of Starbucks) | Philip Z. |
1927 |
| Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Trustees: William A. M. Burden (1939-, president 1963-, later chair) | Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (trustee 1948-, president 1958-, chair 1963 - June 1993, chair emeritus June 1993-, life trustee anno '09) | William Paley (vice chair anno 1963) | John Hay Whitney | Gianni Agnelli | C. Douglas Dillon | John de Menil | Michael Ovitz (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Richard Parsons (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Peter Peterson (life trustee anno '04-'09) | Jerry Speyer (vice chair anno '04, chair emeritus anno '23)) | David Rockefeller Jr. (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Marie-Josee Kravis (anno '02-'09, president, chair anno 2023) | Ronald Lauder (chair 1995-2005) | Clarissa Alcock Bronfman (anno '08) | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (anno '09-'23; wife of Gustavo) | John Elkann Agnelli ('10-, still anno '17) | Ron Perelman (anno '17) | Philip Niarchos | Sharon Percy Rockefeller (anno '04-'23) | Vartan Gregorian (anno '08) | Larry Fink ('10-, still anno '23) | Leon Black (chair 2008-, regular trustee anno '23) | Wallis Annenberg (anno '09). Honorary trustee board (overlaps with regular trustees): Maurice Greenberg (honorary anoo '09) | Duke Franz of Bavaria (honorary anno '09). More: Justin Rockefeller (employee for 3 years, then international council; son of Sen. Jay). Source(s): moma.org/about_moma/trustees/index.html (accessed: June 16, 2004), moma.org/about/trustees (accessed: March 22, 2009 - April 21, 2023). |
1929 |
| USC School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors: Barry Diller | Kevin Feige | David Geffen | Jeffrey Katzenberg | George Lucas | Steven Spielberg | Kevin Tsujihara. Source(s): cinema.usc.edu/about/board.cfm (accessed: Oct. 16, 2021). |
1929 |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Directors: Frank Aydelotte (1939-1947) | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947-1966) | Marvin Goldberger (1987-1991). Trustees: Sidney Drell (1974-1983, listed as emeritus anno 2013) | James Wolfensohn (chair 1986-2007, emeritus anno 2013) | Michael Bloomberg (anno 1999-, until 2001) | Marie-Josee Kravis (anno 1999-2004) | John Huntsman Jr. (anno 1999, until 2001) | Nathan Myhrvold (anno 1999, until 2003) | Mortimer Zuckerman (anno 1999, until 2002) | Vartan Gregorian (anno 1999-2013) | Robert Menschel (anno 1999; partner GS) | James Schiro (anno 1999; CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers) | Charles Simonyi (1998-2008, chair 2008-, still anno 2013, regular trustee 2023) | Martin Leibowitz (anno 1999, vice chair anno 2004-2009; future man. dir. Morgan Stanley) | Peter Kann (anno 1999-2006; chair and CEO Dow Jones) | Nancy Peretsman (2002-, still anno 2013-, vice chair anno 2023; exec. VP and man. director Allen & Co.) | Jeff Bezos (2004-2009) | David Rubenstein (2006-, still anno 2023) | Eric Schmidt (2008-, still anno 2016). Non-U.S. trustees: Toru Hashimoto (anno 1999; chair Fuji Bank) | Mario Draghi (anno 1999-2023; president ECB 2011-2019; PM Italy 2021-2022) | Fernando Henrique Cardoso (2002-2006)| Robbert Dijkgraaf (managing director and trustee 2012-2022; Dutch minister of education and culture 2022-). Faculty members: Paul Dirac (1934 sabbatical, followed by more over the decades) | Noam Chomsky (1958-1959) | Albert Hirschman (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | George Kennan (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | Freeman Dyson (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | John von Neumann (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | Stephen Adler (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99). Financiers: Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: www2.admin.ias.edu/pr/Trustees.htm (accessed: Sep. 9, 1999 - April 23, 2004): "Trustees: ... Trustees Emeriti ... Present and Past Directors: ... Present and Past Faculty: ..."; admin.ias.edu/pr/trustees.php (accessed: June 23, 2004 - Feb. 6, 2005); ias.edu/About/trustees.php (accessed: March 10, 2005 - Oct. 13, 2006); .ias.edu/about/trustees (Dec. 7, 2006 - Aug. 1, 2009); ias.edu/people/trustees (accessed: Oct. 11, 2009 - March 12, 2016); ias.edu/about/trustees (accessed: May 21, 2016 - Dec. 23, 2023). ias.edu/scholars/noam-chomsky (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023); ias.edu/idea-tags/paul-dirac (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023). |
1930 |
| Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (Macy Foundation) Board: Kate Macy Ladd (founder; good friend of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family bought her family's oil business) | Colonel Marlborough Churchill (founding executive secretary 1930-) | John Dewey (1930-1944) | Harry Fosdick (founding director 1930-1961; pastor of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; brother Raymond a trustee of the Rockefeller Fdn. 1920s-1940s) Frank Fremont-Smith (medical director, executive secretary and in charge of the Macy Conference Program 1936-early 1960s; faculty member neuropathology department at Harvard Medical School). Clarence G. Michalis (chair 1941-1969, director until 1976; reportedly affiliated with Montagu Norman) | Clarence F. Michalis (chair 1969-2005; son of Clarence G.) | Willard Rappleye (director 1933-1976, president 1941-1965) | George Packer Berry (director 1943-1981; dean Harvard Medical School) | Charles S. McVeigh (1943-1960) | John Z. Bowers (president 1965-1980, revived the Macy Conference Program in 1965, after a stop in 1960; staffer at the Rockefeller Fdn. in 1964) | James G. Hirsch (president 1981-1987; staffer Rockefeller University for 31 years, dean of graduate studies 1972-1980) | Louis S. Auchincloss (1968-1997) | William N. Rothschild Jr. (1974-1992) | Harold Amos (1974-1990; professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School) | Mary Patterson McPherson (director 1977-2010; vice president Mellon Fdn.) | S. Parker Gilbert (1985-late 2000s) | John Jay Iselin (1989-2007) | Arthur H. Hayes, Jr. (1991-2008) | William H. Wright II (director 2000-, chair; managing director Morgan Stanley). Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (May 1942) and the Cybernetic Conferences (1946-1953) participants (cross-expertise conferences to try and understand the human mind): Harold Abramson (reporting secretary of two conferences) | Gregory Bateson | Kurt Lewin | Margaret Mead | Oskar Morgenstern | John von Neumann. Group Process Conferences (1954-1960) participants (in April 1959 there was an LSD conference): Gregory B. | Margaret M. | Robert Lifton | Jean Piaget. More LSD-related: Anthony Busch | Sidney | Oscar Janiger The Macy Foundation was used as an CIA MKULTRA conduit for about two years, apparently in the mid-1950s. |
1930 |
| The Business Council Averell Harriman (chair 1937-39) | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (member 1950-, chair 1958-59 and 1987-88) and later Riley B. | Thomas Watson Sr. and son Thomas Jr. (1950s) | Juan Trippe (1950s) | David Packard (chair 1973-74) | Ruben Mettler (TRW; chair 1985-86) | Joseph Gorman (TRW) | James Gorman (chair Morgan Stanley) | Donald Graham (chair and CEO Washington Post) | Henry Kravis | Harold McGraw III | Rupert Murdoch | David Rubenstein | Charles Scharf (CEO VISA) | Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone) | Dick Cheney | David O'Reilly | Daniel Burnham | Niall FitzGerald | James Robinson III | Ken Chenault | John Bryan, Jr. (CEO Sara Lee 1975-2000, chair 1976-2001; director Goldman Sachs, BP, Amoco, GM); Jeff Bezos (chair; owner Washington Post and Amazon) | Jim McNerney (chair 2007-2008; chairman and CEO of 3M; director GE, Boeing, IBM and Procter & Gamble; trustee Northwestern University) | Rex Tillerson (member) | John Hess (member) | Larry Fink (member) | Frederick Smith (member). |
1933 |
| American Liberty League (ALL) Fascist. Founding directors: John W. Davis (J.P. Morgan attorney) | Grayson Murphy (treasurer) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont representative). Contributors: Pitcairn, Pew, Rockefeller and Mellon families. |
1934 |
| The Crusaders Fascist. National advsiory board: Sewell Avery (director Morgan-controlled U.S. Steel) | Thomas Alexander (linke to Order of '76) | Francis B. Davis, Jr. (Morgan and du Pont man) | Cleveland E. Dodge | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont man) | John W. Davis (Rockefeller/Morgan man). |
Early 1930s |
| National Policy Association (NPA) Carlucci | Hushang Ansary |
1934-2003 |
| Association pour la Constitution aux Etats-Unis d'un Office Francais de Renseignements / Association for the Constitution in the United States of a French Information Office / L'Office Francais de Renseignements aux Etats-Unis Headquartered at Place de la Concorde and Rockefeller Center. Members: Marshall Petain (president; later head of pro-Nazi Vichy France) | Rothschild | Masson | Banque de France | Paul Reynaud | Raymond Patenotre | Morgan | Rockefeller | Vanderbilt | Frank Polk | Eugene Meyer | Ogden Reid | Louis Wiley. Source(s): 1998, Robert Boyce and Robert W. D. Boyce, 'French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power', p. 206: "The association was registered in Paris in January 1935... [Lists all the names here.]"; March 12, 1937, Le Figaro, 'Hier, Le Marechal Petain': "Yesterday, the first annual general meeting of the French intelligence office in the United States took place at the Hotel Crillon. An audience as large as it was chosen had responded to the call of Marshal Petain, president of the young association, all that Paris has of personalities in official circles, and major administrations, etc., was represented there. Alongside them thronged these Franco-American personalities, who for years have been the link between the two countries and have cemented a friendship that has proven its worth. We recognized among those present the Marquis de Mun, Mr. Henri de Laboulaye, Ambassador of France, General and the Countess of Chambrun, Count Charters of Chambrun, Ambassador of France, Admiral Lacaze, Count Serge Fleury, Count de Vassaigne, Count R. de Dampierre, Count and Countess de Remusat, Count and Countess Rene de Chambrun, Baron de Cramer, MM. Achille Fould, R. Dautry, E.-E.-C. Mathis, Andre Jager Schmidt, Pierre de Montesquiou, Gerard de Launay, Louis Gillet, of the French Academy Léon Cotnaréanu, Pierre Guimier, S. Charlety, rector of the Academy of Paris. The marshal first gave the floor to Mr. Emile Moreau, honorary governor of the Banque de France and administrator of the Office." |
1935 |
| Research Institute of America (RIA) Started as a tax aid/shelter institute to help corporations file their taxes in the wake of the New Deal. By 1938-1939 the institute was deeply involved in studying and writing legislation for the War and Navy departments with regard to defense mobilization for World War II. Officers: Leo Cherne (founder) | William Casey (employed as a staffer out of law school in 1937; staff head from late 1938). |
Jan. 1936 |
| Ford Foundation A reorganization away from just Ford Motors was initiated in the late 1940s and in place by 1950. All trustee data comes from annual reports. All trustees in 1950: Henry Ford II (president 1943-50, trustee 1950-1976, chair 1950-1956) | Benson Ford (at least 1950 - 1976) | Karl Compton (chair MIT) | John Cowles (at least 1950 - 1968) | Donald David (at least since 1950 - 1966, trustee vice chair 1955-1966, chair exec. comm. 1955-1958) | James Webber Jr. | Charles Wilson (since at least 1950 - 1956; president GE and chair W. R. Grace). Later that year: Paul Hoffman (trustee, director and president 1950 - March 1953). Trustees joining 1951-1959: Frank Abrams (1952-; then chair of the Rock. Standard Oil of NJ) | Rowan Gaither (president 1953-56) | John McCloy (trustee 1953-, chair 1958-1964; key Rock. man) | James Brownlee (1954-1960; partner J.H. Whitney & co.) | Julius Stratton (1955-1971, chair 1964-1971) | Henry Heald (trustee and president 1956-1965) | Roy Larsen (1957-1969; pres. and chair Time). Trustees joining 1960-1969: Eugene Black (1960-1968) | Stephen Bechtel Sr. (1961 - Dec. 1970) | Bethuel Webster (1961-1970) | McGeorge Bundy (trustee and president 1966-1979) | Alexander Heard (1966-1986, chair 1971-1986; advisor to JFK, LBJ and Nixon) | Kermit Gordon (1967-1975; pres. Brook. Inst.) | John Loudon (1966-1975; Shell; BB; close Rock. ally) | Robert McNamara (1968-1986) | Trustees joining 1970-1979: Walter Haas Jr. (1970-1982; chair Levi Strauss) | Hedley Donovan (1975-1984; editor-in-chief Time) | Edson Spencer (trustee 1976-1992, vice chair 1986-1987, chair 1987-1992; chair and CEO Honeywell) | Irving Shapiro (1978-1986; Du Pont) | Trustees joining 1980-1989: Susan Berresford (exec. vice president 1981-1996, trustee and president 1996-2007) | Henry Schacht (1986-2000, chair 1992-2000; Lucent and Warburg, Pincus) | Vernon Jordan (1987 - Sep. 1999, chair Audit and Management Comm. 1994-1999 and member of the exec. committee 1993-1999) | Sir Christopher Hogg (1987 - Sep. 1999; exec. comm. 1994-1999) | Francis Fergusson (1989-2001; pres. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie). Trustees joining 1990-1999: Robert Haas (1991-1997; chair and CEO Levi Strauss) | David Kearns (1993-2001; chair and CEO Xerox) | Kathryn Fuller (1994-2010, chair 2004-2010; pres. and CEO WWF) | Paul Allaire (1997-2004, chair 2001-2004; chair and CEO Xerox) | Trustees joining 2000-: Luis Ubinas (president 2007-2013) | Irene Hirano Inouye (chair 2010-) | Francisco Cigarroa (chair anno 2019; Obama representative for hispanics) | Bryan Stevenson (anno 2019; founder Equal Justice Initiative) | Darren Walker (president anno 2019; former VP Rock. Fdn.) | Kofi Appenteng (anno 2019; pres. Afr.-America Inst.) | Ursula Burns (anno 2019; Xerox CEO 2009-16; Obama appointee) | Gabrielle Sulzberger (2016-; wife NYT publisher Arthur Jr. 2014-2020) | Chuck Robbins (anno 2019; chair and CEO Cisco). Other: Shepard Stone (director of international affairs 1952-67) | Richard Bissell | Philip Reed | William Simon | Zbig Brzezinski (six months in Japan on Ford Fdn. fellowship in 1971) | Richard Debs (fellowship) | Vartan Gregorian (foreign area training fellow) | Francois Duchene (fellow) | Bassma Kodmani (headed a Middle East and North Africa program located in Egypt for 7 years) | Anthony Lake ("Summer 1968—Supervised five rural surveys for Kenya Min. of Economic Planning and Development through the Ford [Fdn.]") | Peter Franz Geithner (director of Asia Programs and other foundation projects around the world for 30 years; father of Timothy Geithner) | Shirley Ann Jackson (Advanced Study Fellowship while a "visiting science associate" at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland 1974-1975; first black woman to earn a doctorate degree from MIT in 1973, in her case in nuclear physics; president Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1999-2022). Extra: Similar to the Rock. Fdn., the Ford Fdn. has lost direct involvement of major Eastern Establishmentarions, with the board of trustees, especially since the 2010s large consisting of minorities, a large number of them blacks. |
1936 |
| Henry Luce Foundation (HLF) Directors: Henry Luce III (chair and CEO) | John Hamre (anno 2020) | George Rupp (anno 2020). |
1936 |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (trustee 1940-1990, exec. vice chair 1970s, exec. chair 1980-1987; 1987 annual report, RBF, p. 7: "At the [1987] annual meeting of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which was held on November 14 in Bangkok, Thailand ... David Rockefeller retired from the board of trustees.") | Henry Kissinger (trustee 1977-1987; 1987 annual report, RBF, David Rockefeller, p. 13: "I should like to make special mention of Henry [K.], who retired as a trustee at the same time Bill Dietel and I did. Henry's guidance, wisdom, and friendship as a member of the board were for me without equal.") | Laurance Rockefeller (trustee 1940-1989, exec. chair 1958-1980, exec. vice chair 1980-1982, adv. trustee 1982-1985) | John D. Rockefeller III | Winthrop Rockefeller | Detlev Bronk (trustee anno 1957-1975) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | John Gardner (trustee 1968-1977) | James Wolfensohn (finance committee chair anno 1991) | David Sarnoff | Felix Rohatyn (finance committee anno 1977) | William Luers (trustee anno 1990) | Russell Train (trustee (anno 1986, 1993) | Frank Wisner II | Thornton Bradshaw (trustee 1981-, anno 1986) | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; chair and later advisory trustee) | David Rockefeller Jr. (exec. chair anno 1988-1989) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (trustee anno 1986) | Neva Goodwin (trustee anno 1986) | Rodman Rockefeller (trustee anno 1986) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Anne Bartley | S. Frederick Starr (trustee anno 1986; president Oberlin College 1983-1994) | Jessica Einhorn (trustee late 1990s - early 2000s). Special Studies Project: America at Mid-Century (set up in 1956): Nelson R. (founding chair 1956-1958) | Henry K. (staff director 1956-1958) | Adolf Berle Jr. | Chester Bowles | Arthur Burns | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Cowles | Gordon Dean | John G. | Caryl Haskins | Theodore Hesburgh | Milton Katz | Henry Luce | Dean Rusk | David Sarnoff | Charles Spofford | Edward Teller | James Killian Jr. More: Peter Franz Geithner (advisor; father of Timothy Geithner). Source(s): annual reviews at rbf.org; 1957 annual review, RBF, pp. 4-6: "Special Studies Project: Organized by the Fund in 1956... [gives names]..." |
1940 |
| Committee for Economic Development (CED) Trustees 1952/1957 (always consists of about 200 members): Stephen D. Bechtel | Clark Beise. Trustees in 1966: Roy Larsen (chair) | James Allen | Robert O. Anderson | Paul Austin | William Hewitt | C. Douglas Dillon | Harold Geneen | Katharine Graham | Gabriel Hauge | H. J. Heinz II | Paul Hoffman (founding chair) | Philip Klutznick | John McCone | Neil McElroy | David Packard | Peter Peterson (until well post-9/11) and son Michael (anno 2020) | Philip Reed | Allan Sproul | Charles Tillinghast, Jr. | Sidney Weinberg, Jr. | Frank Altschul | Robert Lovett | Malcolm Muir. Trustees on leave for government service: George McGhee | William M. Roth | James Webb. Research advisory board: George Shultz (later life trustee). Trustees mid-1990s-: John Diebold | Frank Carlucci (anno 2002) | John Brademas | Patrick Gross (still anno 2020) | Joseph Kasputys | Hugh Price | Larry Summers (2002-) | James Robinson III (2002-). More trustees: Ken Duberstein (1976-1980) | Ruben Mettler (hon.) | A. W. Clausen (hon. anno 2002) | Richard Gelb (hon. anno 2002) | Frank Stanton (hon. anno 2002) | Sidney Weinberg Jr. (hon. anno 2002) | Frederick Smith (anno 2020). More: David Rockefeller (a member of the 1958-1961 CED-established Commission on Money and Credit. |
1942 |
| American Society of Corporate Executives (ASCE) Extremely low-profile even anno 2020. Year of founding is not an absolute certainly. Apparently brings together about 30 business executives at any one point at regularly-held meetings. Riley and Brendan Bechtel | Robert Shapiro (chair and CEO Monsanto) | Nancy Southern (chair and CEO ATCO) | David Novak (chair and CEO of Yumi Brands). |
1942 |
| United States Council for International Business Trustees: John Negroponte (until 2001) | Maurice Greenberg (until 2005) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) | Frederick Smith. |
1945 |
| Stanford Research Institute / SRI International Originally the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). It split off from the university in 1970 and changed its name to SRI in 1977. Most officers were BG visitors with many advisors having been invitd to the 1001. Directors: Stephen D. Bechtel (director 1940s until about 1980) | Edgar Kaiser (director 1940s until about 1980) | John McCone (director before and after term as CIA director 1961-1965) | David Packard (late 1960s) William Perry (director 1981-1983 period, while out of government) | A. W. Clausen (director emeritus by early 1980s) | Philip Hawley | Frederick Mielke, Jr. (until 1993) | Edmund Littlefield (chair at some point) | Roy Anderson (director early 1980s; CEO Lockheed) | Myron Du Bain (chair 1985-1989; in 1981 he had taken over a company of Wally Hilliard, a later owner of the primary 9/11 terrorist flight school) | Samuel Armacost (chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark (chair). Advisory board 1970s: Kamel Abdul Rahman | Adnan Khashoggi | Paulo Ayres Filho (Brazil; CIA) | Gianni Agnelli | Nik Kamil (Shell; Rothmans Malaysia) | John Loudon | Shantanurao Kirloskar (India) | Sukum Navapan (Thailand) | Harry Oppenheimer | Julius Tahija | Marcus Wallenberg. JASON Group: throughout the 1970s located at SRI, after which it moved to MITRE. 1970s-1990s SRI employees: Alfred Webre (senior policy analyst in 1977 at SRI's Center for the Study of Social Policy late 1970s; later prominent new age exopolitics promoter) Richard Hoagland (first became interested in Cydonia here in 1982). Project Stargate was largely carried out at SRI from the 1970s-1995, in coordination with SAIC. Those involved: Hal Puthoff (program director) | Russell Targ | Ingo Swann | Joseph McMoneagle | Ed Dames | Edgar Mitchell studied Uri Geller here. Also: Willis Harman (director of the Educational Policy Research Center and the Center for the Study of Social Policy; involved in LSD research; worked for Mitchell) | Alfred Hubbard (hired by Willis H.; 1960s-1970s; ''Johnny Appleseed of LSD'') | Peter Schwartz (director of the Strategic Environment Center) | Richard Pipes (consultant from 1973 for 1-2 years at SRI's Strategic Studies Center in Washington, D.C., studying Soviet foreign policy). |
1946 |
| National Petroleum Council (NPC) John Swearingen (chair 1974-1975). Anno 1996: Robert O. Anderson | Kenneth Derr (chair and CEO Chevron) | Ray L. Hunt (chair Hunt Oil) | Ken Lay (Enron) | T. Boone Pickens | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO ExxonMobil). Anno 2013: David O'Reilly (vice chair at some point; chair and CEO Chevron 2000-2010) | Lee R. | Ray L. H. | John Deutch | Riley Bechtel | John Hamre | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Frederick Smith (member) | Robert Mosbacher (member). |
1946 |
| Fulbright Scholarships Sen. William Fulbright (a Rhodes Sholar; June 5, 1996, President Clinton: "my mentor and friend..."). Scholars: Hanna Holborn Gray ('50-'51 at Oxford; born in Germany, moved to the US) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan ('50-'53) | Richard Wall Lyman ('51; president Rock. Fdn. 1980-1988) | Milton Friedman ('53) | Dr. Umberto Colombo (post-doctoral study at MIT '53-'54) | Norman Podhoretz ('50s) | Rita Hauser ('54) | Thomas Pickering ('55) | Joshua Lederberg ('57) | Sen. Harrison Schmitt ('57-'58; astronaut) | Donald Kagan ('58) | Henry Kissinger ("Fulbright Specialist in India, 1962-63") | Sally A. Shelton-Colby (in the '60s or '70s at Sciences Po) | Mary Robinson ('64) | Muhammad Yunus ('65) | Joseph Stiglitz ('69) | Allen Weinstein ('71) | John Brademas ('86) | Paula Dobriansky (Fulbright-Hays alumni) | David Bradley (likely in the 70s, in the Philippines; owner The Atlantic 1999- and CFR '06-) | Richard Debs | Craig Barrett ('72; chair Intel 2005-) | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Jessica Einhorn ('80) | Lamberto Dini (late '50s; major banker; PM Italy 1995-96, foreign minister 1996-2001) | Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian president 1995-2000) | Philip Odeen | Norman Ornstein ('86) | Andreas Papandreou ('59; PM Greece 1981-89, 1993-96) | Emmett Rice (father of Susan Rice) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('91-'93) | Bill Rowling (PM New Zealand) | Robert Scalapino (co-founder and chair NCUSCR) | Javier Solana ("... spent six years as a Fulbright Scholar in the United States...") | Ben Harburg (early '00s it appears; son of the pilot of Henry K. on the secret trips to open China) | Alina Polyakova (in Germany for a year around '10; later trustee Fulbright Fdn.) | Dolph Lundgren | Linus Pauling ('88) | Andrew Robinson (Star Trek) | Dr. Gloria Wekker (Fulbright fellow 1987-1988, "sponsored" 1987-1992; first black Dutch professor deeply involved in "liberal CIA" ops). Fulbright Commission: Henry Luce III | Ronald Freeman (co-chair finance committee UK-US FC) | Charles McVeigh III (1993–2005) | Edward Streator (adv. comm. 1995-2001) | Rick Trainor (US-UK FC 2003-) | Robert Worcester. Fulbright Prize for International Understanding: Nelson Mandela (1993) | Jimmy Carter (1994) | Vaclav Havel (1997) | Mary R. (1999) | Martti Ahtisaari (2000) | Kofi Annan (2001) | Colin Powell (2004) | Bill Clinton (2006) | Desmond Tutu (2008) | Bill Gates (2010) | Hans Blix (2014; received Fulbright scholarship at age 19) | Richard Lugar (2016) | Angela Merkel (2018). More: Nina Jankowicz ("In 2016-17, I got this [FB] fellowship ... advising the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on ... how to keep western attention on Ukraine after ‘Ukraine fatigue’ was setting in.") Feb. 11, 2008, ABC News, 'Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans; Fulbright scholar said he was shocked by the U.S. Embassy official's request.' Feb. 19, 2019, Dave Lindorff to "lib CIA magazine" Counterpunch, 'Using Students, Teachers, Journalists and other Professionals as Spies Puts Everyone in Jeopardy': Claims a senior Fulbright overseer told everyone at a Fulbright conference that they should see themselves as "behind-the-lines paratroopers". Then explains this person used to be a special forces operative and draws a parallel between the special forces and the CIA. Also explains that he was never asked to spy on anyone, but did criticize a CIA agent of feeling him out and possibly trying to recuit him, against a Church Committee ruling that the CIA can't use journalists as spies. Goes on to claim it is hypocritical to make claims that China spies on the U.S. |
1946 |
| Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery Executive committee: Henry Stimson (national chair) | Robert Patterson (executive chair) | Dean Acheson | Winthrop Aldrich | Frank Altschul | Allen Dulles | Alger Hiss | Herbert Lehman | Philip Reed | John Ferguson (executive director). Members: Charles Adams IV | Barry Bingham | Henry Davison | William Donovan (OSS) | Rudolph Hecht | H. J. Heinz II | Richard K. Mellon | Mrs. Dwight Morrow | Malcolm Muir | Nelson Rockefeller | Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt | Elmo Roper | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | Thomas Watson, Sr. | John Hay Whitney | Owen Young | Sam Zemurray. Funds that were left over in 1949 were donated to the U.N. Association and the first Committee on the Present Danger. |
1947-1949 |
| United World Federalists (UWF) / Citizens for Global Solutions (2003-) Cord Meyer, Jr. (founding president 1947-1949; CIA) | Sen. Alan Cranston (president 1949-1952) | Norman Cousins (founding vice president 1947-1952, president 1952-). National advisory council (created in 2020): Martin Sheen ('20-, still anno '22) | Daniel Ellsberg ('20-, still anno '22) | Randy Kehler (' 20-, still anno ' 22; "Conscientious objector" to the Vietnam War who played a role in the release of the Pentagon Papers; anti-nuclear activist) | Benjamin Ferencz ('20-, still anno '22; Nuremberg prosecutor). |
1947 |
| World Affairs Council of Northern California John L. Simpson (president; director Bechtel) | William Draper III (chair) | William Perry (advisory co-chair) | George Shultz (advisory co-chair) | A. W. Clausen | Jane Wales (president and CEO). More speakers, World Affairs, San Francisco HQ: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Stapleton Roy | Chas Freeman | Peter Galbraith | Robert McNamara (speech in 2005) | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | Michael Chertoff | Gen. Keith Alexander | Leon Panetta | Kurt Campbell | Bill Clinton | Gen. James Cartwright | William Cohen | Michael Armacost | Joe Biden | Samantha Power | Gen. Anthony Zinni | Niall Ferguson | Marc Andreessen | Anne Applebaum | Max Boot | Ian Bremmer | John Brennan | Gov. Jerry Brown | Lester Brown | R. Nicholas Burns | Jimmy Carter | Eliot Cohen | William Draper Jr. | Sidney Drell | Gareth Evans | Francis Fukuyama | Gen. John Allen | Jason Furman | Robert Gates | Sherri Goodman | Al Gore | Richard Haass | Chuck Hagel | John Hamre | Jane Harman | Reid Hoffman | David Ignatius | Martin Indyk | Walter Isaacson | Robert Kagan | Robert Kaplan | Salman Khan | Paul Krugman | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Gen. H. R. McMaster | Federica Mogherini | Ethan Nadelmann | Janet Napolitano | Moises Naim | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam) | Joseph Nye Jr. | Sarah Palin | Nancy Pelosi | Thomas Pickering | Adam Posen | John Prendergast | Joshua Cooper Ramo | Steven Rattner | Susan Rice | David Rothkopf | Robert Rubin | Adam Schiff | Eric Schmidt | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adlai Stevenson III | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Thiel | Laura D'Andrea Tyson | Zoe Baird | Christiana Figueres | Queen Rania Al Abdullah | Nicholas Kristof | Prince Albert II of Monaco | Ban Ki-moon | David Miliband | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Mary Robinson | Kevin Rudd. Los Angeles World Affairs Council, founded in 1953: George S. | John McCone (founding president and later chairman in the 1950s) | Thomas Jones (life director) | Warren Christopher (director) | Michael Eisner (director) | Buzz Aldrin (director) | Robert Van Dine (director) | Walter Coombs (executive director 1953-1967). Speakers/panel members: William Colby (speech 1973) | John McCain | Sam Nunn | William P. | William Webster (1989) | Madeleine Albright | King Hussein and Queen Noor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ryutaro Hashimoto | Margaret Thatcher | the Dalai Lama | Henry Kissinger | Colin Powell | James Wolfensohn | Lee Kuan Yew | Jack Valenti | Strobe Talbott | Ehud Barak | Kofi Annan | Jack Kemp | Joseph Lieberman | Jean Luc Dehaene | John Deutch | Muhamed Sacirbey. Project: Global Philanthropy Forum (2001): Pamela Omidyar | Vartan Gregorian | Stephen Heintz | Teresa Heinz Kerry | Wyclef Jean | Peter Gabriel | William Draper III | Desmond Tutu | Muhammad Yunus | William Gates (father Bill Gates). "Peace & Security" speakers: David Hogg (student activist tied to the 2018 March for our Lives) | Anthony Lake. |
1947 |
| Kaiser Family Foundation Henry Kaiser (founder) | Joseph Califano Jr. (director) | Timothy Leary. Financed UCLA, Harvard, John Hopkins. Until 1985 associated with Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Industries. |
1948 |
| World Affairs Council of Boston Christian A. Herter (co-founder) | Christian A. Herter, Jr. (founding president) | Elliot Richardson (president in the 1960s) | Henry Cabot Lodge (chair) | Charles Adams IV. Speakers/awarded: George H. W. Bush, James Baker III, Dick Cheney, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker. |
1949 |
| American Assembly Trustees: Paul Volcker | Henry Cisneros | Dwight Eisenhower | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Bobby Ray Inman | David Gergen | Frank Weil | Bill Bradley | Anya Schiffrin (January 2016 - mid 2018; wife of Joseph Stiglitz) |
1950 |
| 1st Committee on the Present Danger (to promote containment) | 1950 |
| MIT's Lincoln Laboratory Advisory board: Sidney Drell (1985-1990) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Anita Jones | Paul Kaminski | Donald Kerr | John Stenbit. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Architectures and Algorithms Group: its 2014-launched Reconnaissance of Influence Operations (RIO) program identifies "conspiracy theories" meant to influence elections in the West. In 2021 the program was given attention by the WEF. |
1951 |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Founded with a Ford Fdn. grant. Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1954-1955, Spring-Summer 1967). Officers: Caryl Haskins (trustee 1960-1975) | Milton Friedman (fellow) | George Stigler (fellow) | George Shultz (fellow 1968-1969) | Dr. Joly West (fellow 1966-1969) | Edmund Littlefield | Claude Steele (executive vice chancellor and provost of UCLA Berkeley) | Daniel Dennett (fellow). |
1954 |
| Stanley Center for Peace and Security (SCPS) Conference (to Plan a Strategy for Peace) participants: C. Maxwell Stanley (founder and chair) | Henry Kissinger (May 20-23, 1965 invitee, talked it over with Stanley, and stated he might chair a session) | Brent Scowcroft (Feb. 1964, as "Professor of Political Science, Air Force Academy") | Anthony Wiener (Feb. 1964, as "Assistant to the Director, Hudson [Inst.]"). Interests represented at the conference in 1964: Brookings, SRI, IDA, JPL, GE, Missile and Space Systems Division of Douglas Aircraft, Missiles and Space Division of Lockheed Aircraft, Raytheon, IBM, Booz-Allen Applied Research, Rand Corp., Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. Source(s): Yale archive, 'Henry A. Kissinger papers, part II > Series I. Early Career and Harvard University > Correspondence > Strategy for Peace Conferences > Full Folder View' (accessed: Oct. 11, 2023). |
1956 |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Directors: John D. Rockefeller III (founder and chair) | Louis Gerstner Jr. (emeritus anno 2006) | Walter Shipley (emeritus anno 2006) | David Rubenstein (vice chair anno 2006-2007, director anno 2012-2020) | Michael Bloomberg (ex-officio anno 2006) | William Donaldson (emeritus anno 2012) | Bryan Lourd (anno 2012) | David Koch (anno 2012) | Rita Hauser (anno 2012-2020) | Elizabeth Rohatyn (anno 2012; wife of Felix) | Daisy Soros (director anno 2006, 2012, emeritus anno 2020) | David Geffen (anno 2020) | John Thain (anno 2020). |
1956 |
| Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Grew out of the Fund for the Republic (1951-1959), founded by the Ford Fdn. to counter McCarthyism. Fund for the Republic: Robert Hutchins (founding president 1951-) | Bethuel Webster (legal counsel, representing it at hearings before the McCarthyite House Un-American Activities Committee. Directors: Robert Hutchins (anno '67) | William O. Douglas (chair anno '67) | Paul Hoffman (hon. chair anno '67) | Percy Lavon Julian (anno '67) | James Howard Marshall II (anno '67; 16% owner of Koch Industries; married to Anna Nicole Smith until her death in 2007) | Elmo Roper (anno '67) | Louis Schweitzer (anno '67). Consultants: Henry Luce (anno '67) | George Shuster (anno '67; pro-birth control, pro-feminist Catholic leader; exec. comm. UNESCO) | Scott Buchanan (anno '67; trustee and sec. Fdn. for World Government) | Raghavan Iyer (anno '67; founder United Lodge of Theosophists) | John Courtney Murray (anno '67; Jesuit priest, closely connected with the Dulles and Luce families) | Isidor Isaac Rabi (anno '67; funded by Rock. Fdn. around 1928). Staff: Milton Mayer (visiting fellow; adviser to Hutchins; his stepson was Rock Scully, one of the principal managers of the Grateful Dead; very close to Bayard Rustin; best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine) | Stanley Sheinbaum (organized the legal defense of Daniel Ellsberg after his releasing of the Pentagon Papers; co-founder of PFAW; advisor ACLU) | Linus Pauling (anno '67). Conference participants: Joseph Johnson (May 17-19, 1964) | George McGovern (May 17-19, 1964; May 30 - June 2, 1966) | Professor Hans Morgenthau (May 17-19, 1964) | Gaylord Nelson (May 17-19, 1964) | Andrew Shonfield (May 17-19, 1964) | Hubert Humphrey (principal speaker Feb. 18-20, 1965, New York City, Assembly Hall of the UN meeting) | J. William Fulbright (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Philip Jessup (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | George Kennan (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Paul-Henri Spaak (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Adlai E. Stevenson (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | U Thant (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Abba Eban (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Linus P. (Feb. 18-20, 1965; June 1965) | Arnold Toynbee (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Yevgenyi Zhukov (Feb. 18-20, 1965; director Institute of History, Academy of Sciences, USSR) | Norman Cousins (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Herman Kahn (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Henry L. (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Pietro Nenni (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Eugene McCarthy (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Earl Warren (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | George McGovern (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Professor Hans Morgenthau (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Claiborne Pell (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Elmo Roper (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Bayard Rustin (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Al Gore (May 30 - June 2, 1966) | Alastair Buchan (May 30 - June 2, 1966). Source(s): 1967, CSDI booklet, 'Pecem in Terris II - Peace on Earth II', as sent by R. Hutchins to UU sec. gen. Thant on March 10, 1967, pp. 24-35 ('Appendix', provides past conference participants; p. 35 gives board, consultants and staff). |
1957-1987 |
| Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Lost its influence. Robert Hutchins (founder; associate director Ford Fdn. 1951-). 1979 board: Stewart Mott (linked to the foundation) | Paul Newman | Philip Klutznick | Ramsey Clark. 1985 board: Allen Weinstein (president) | Max Kampelman | Paul Manafort Jr. Conference participants: Sen. Alan Cranston | Milton Friedman | Aldous Huxley | William Douglas. |
1959 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Trustees: Dr. Franklin D. Murphy ("instrumental in the creation", president '70-'74; '83-'84; member BG from at least '71; chancellor UCLA 1960-1968; chair and CEO of the LA Times parent company 1968-1980, and a director until 1986; director BankAmerica and Ford; trustee Getty Trust) | Armand Hammer ('68-'89) | Robert O. Anderson (at least '76-, '83-'84, life trustee anno '01; oilman close to David Rock.) | Charles Ducommun (VP, anno '76, '78, treasurer anno '83-'84; member BG; trustee Stanford 1961-1971) | Mrs. Edwin Pauley (anno '83-'84) | Walter Annenberg (life trustee anno '00-'01) | Frank Biondi Jr. (anno '00-'01). Other: Robert "Beto' de la Rocha (part of the Chicano "Los Four" artist group founded in 1973; in 1974 "Los Four" became famous through their art becoming part of a LACMA exhibition; Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha was his son). Source(s): trustee lists 1976, 1979, 1983-1984, 2000-2001 (the last included past presidents). |
1961 |
| World Policy Institute (WPI) / Institute for World Order Founder(s): C. Douglas Dillon. Advisory board anno 2005: Walter Eberstadt (chair and funder) | Henry H. Arnhold (also a funder) | Katrina vanden Heuvel. Other funders: Rock. Brothers Fund. |
1961 |
| Suite 8F Group LBJ | Tommy Corcoran | George Brown | Herman Brown | Jesse Jones (Houston Chronicle owner) | Sam Rayburn | John Connally | Hugh Cullen | Governor William Hobby | Morgan Davis (Humble Oil) |
Early 1960s |
| Council for a Livable World (CLW) Gary Hart (director and former chair) |
1962 |
| Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS), Atlanta Directors: No one special. Past speakers listed on website per 2019: Sandra Day O'Connor | Donald Rumsfeld | Madeleine Albright | Robert Rubin | Jeane Kirkpatrick | James Wolfensohn. Also featured: Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama) | Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan | President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. Financing: Smith Richardson Fdn., etc. |
1962 |
| Atlantic Richfield Foundation (ARF) Robert O. Anderson (founder and head) | Thornton Bradshaw (co-founder; worked under Anderson at ARCO) |
1963 |
| Scientists' Institute for Public Information Trustees: Dr. Marvin Goldberger (anno '94). Media Resources Services Committee (1980-founded; "a referral service for journalists seeking information from scientists, engineers, physicians, and policymakers"): Walter Cronkite (anno '94) (anno '94) | John Connolly | Frederick Seitz (anno '94) | Joseph Nye (anno '94). |
1963 |
| George C. Marshall Foundation Trustees and advisors: Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Sen. Harry Byrd, Jr. | Paul Nitze | Cyrus Vance | Bernard Rogers | Dick Cheney | Edward Meyer (chair) | Warren Rudman | Abshire | Colin Powell | C. Boyden Gray | Gen. Paul Gorman | Melvin Laird | Brent Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Thomas Pickering | Richard Armitage | Rozanne Ridgway. More: George H. W. Bush and David Rockefeller (jointly honored on March 8, 2002; photographed joking with each other), John W. and Happy Rockefeller (also present). Henry Kissinger and Michael Bloomberg (jointly awarded in June 2017). |
1964 |
| Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs (WIFA) Monroe Leigh (president) | Charles W. Whalen Jr. (vice president) | Robert Knight | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Philip Wilcox | McCloy | Patrick Gross | Philip Kaiser | Lee Hamilton (speech in 1998) | Rozanne Ridgway (director) | Wesley Egan (director) | Chas Freeman (speech 2007) | Elliot Richardson |
1964 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation One of the largest U.S. foundations with an endowment of about $6 billion. David Packard (founder and chair, interrupted by a tenure as Nixon's deputy defense secretary 1969-1971) | William Reilly (trustee; president WWF until 1989, later chair; EPA administrator 1989-1993; chair ClimateWorks Foundation; director and counsel of the secretive Sustainable Markets Foundation; executive director NY-PIRG) |
1964 |
| International Industrial Conference, San Francisco Co-sponsored by the Conference Board and the Stanford Research Institute. Participants: David Rockefeller | Peter Peterson | George Ball | Henry Ford | John McCone | |
1965 |
| Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia (CEDPA) Helped sell the Vietnam War to the public through the New York Times. 48 member committee: Arthur Dean (chair) | Dean Acheson | Eugene Black | John Cowles | Arthur Dean | Roswell Gilpatric | John McCloy | David Rockefeller | James Conant | C. Douglas Dillon | Oveta Culp Hobby | James Killian, Jr. | Benjamin Mays | Lewis Powell. |
1965 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Lynne Cheney (chair 1986-1993) |
1965 |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) Known as the Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP) until early 2009. The group had two websites from 1999 to the early 2010s: the defunct cspresidency.org (confusingly, a 2006-or so copy of the site was put back up on this domain in early 2018) and the still actual thepresidency.org. Trustees/councellors in 1998: Chas Freeman (soon executive chair; 1990s-2000s) | C. Boyden Gray (1990s-2000s) | Sophia Casey (wife of CIA director William; gone by 2000) | Bernadette Casey Smith (daughter of CIA director William; gone by 2000). Trustees in 2000 (extra): David Absire | Wayne Berman | David Gergen (co-chair Council of Scholars) | Max Kampelman | Mack McLarty III. Trustees in 2008 (extra): Eli Broad | Jonathan E. Colby | Ed Meese III | Thomas Pickering (chair 2010-) | Chuck Robb | Tom Ridge | Anne-Marie Slaughter | George Stephanopoulos. Jan. 2010 trustees (extra): Nicholas Burns | Stephen Schwarzman. Trustees in 2020 (extra): Paula Dobriansky | Carla Hills | William Webster. "Global board of directors": Abigail Disney (anno 2020). National Council of Advisors in 1998: not a single interesting name. Later: John Brademas (anno 2008) | John Marks (anno 2008) | Adm. Richard Mies (anno 2008) | Norman Ornstein (anno 2008) | Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. (anno 2008) | David Rothkopf (anno 2008) | Michael Maibach (anno 2008; president & CEO European-American Business Council) | John Zogby (anno 2008; president and CEO Zogby poll). Jan. 2010 National Council of Advisors (extra): Susan Eisenhower. Board of Counselors in 2016: Norman Augustine. Board of Advisors in 2002: Lee Hamilton | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Joseph Nye | Richard V. Allen | Leon Fuerth | Bill O'Keefe | Buzz Aldrin | Richard McCormack | Ed M. III | Thomas P. | John B. Scholars in 2002-2003: Graham Allison | Lewis Branscomb. National Committee to Unite a Divided America (set up in Jan. 2005); "The National Committee encourages our current national leaders to bridge political division and forge national unity."): David A. (co-chair) | Max K. (co-chair). "Steering members": James Baker III | Wayne B. | William Brock | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Walter Isaacson | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Melvin Laird | Thomas McL. III | Peter McPherson | Gen. Edward Meyer | Sam Nunn. "Members": Madeleine Albright | Buzz A. | John B. | Harold Brown | Henry Catto | William Coleman Jr. | David G. | C. Boyden G. | Alexander Haig | Lee H. | Donald Keough | Thomas Mann | John M. | Leon Panetta | Ross Perot | Hugh Price | Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Chuck R. | Pat Robertson | Anne-Marie S. | Robert Strauss | Graham A. | Anne Armstrong | Norman A. | Lester Crown | Ken Duberstein | David Eisenhower | Stuart Eizenstat | Thomas Foley | Robert Gates | John Hamre | Theodore Hesburgh | Carla H. | Richard Holbrooke | Vernon Jordan | Jack Kemp | Richard McC. | Daniel McMichael (secretary Sarah Scaife and Carthage foundations) | Ed M. III | Walter Mondale | Michael Novak | Norman O. | David Rockefeller | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Warren Rudman | Dr. Abdul Aziz Said | William Schreyer (chair Merrill Lynch) | Frederick Seitz | William Sessions | Jack Valenti | Gen. John Vessey | John Whitehead | James Woolsey | John Z. (president and CEO Zogby poll). Annual Awards Dinner: Dianne Feinstein (awarded '09) | Sen. Mark Warner (awarded '13) | Sen. Bob Corker (awarded '13) | Ashton Carter (awarded '16) | Adm. Michael Mullen (known visitor) | J. Stapleton Roy (vice chair U.S.-Asian task force). More: Egil Krogh ("Senior Fellow, Leadership and Ethics" anno 2013; Watergate) | Nicholas Platt ("Research Assistant to the President & CEO" anno 2013) | Jose Maria Aznar (also partner) and James Cicconi (speakers at a 2013 luncheon co-hosted by the CSPC). Afghanistan Study Group Report (2007-2008): Gen. James L. Jones (co-chair) and CSPC leadership. |
1965 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation William Hewlett (founder; president HP 1964-1977) | Hal Harvey (environmental program director 2002-2008; founding president Energy Foundation 1991-2002; founder and CEO ClimateWorks 2008-2011) | Larry Kramer (president; director ClimateWorks) | James Manyika (director). |
1966 |
| Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts David Packard. 1999: Hillary Clinton | James Underhill | Marcia Carlucci (wife of Frank C.) | Patrick Gross | Earle Williams. 2014: Michelle Obama. |
1966 |
| Sunnylands Walter Annenberg (founder). Visitors: Dwight Eisenhower | Richard Nixon (1974) | Ronald Reagan (annual visitor on New Year's) | George H. W. Bush with Japanese PM Toshiki Kaifu (1990) | Shah of Iran (fled here) | Queen Elizabeth II (lunch) | Prince Charles (occasional visitor) | Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (2013) | Bill Gates | Condoleezza Rice. Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands (founded in 2013 for promoting free trade around the Pacific): Jon Huntsman (co-chair) | Thomas McLarty (co-chair) | Albright | Chas Freeman | Lee Hamilton | Henry Kissinger | John Negroponte | Pickering | Zoellick. |
1966 |
| The Nation Institute Hamilton Fish V (president; aide to George Soros, who has provided grants to the institute) | Victor Navasky (trustee) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (trustee) | Jonathan Schell (fellow). The Nation magazine (first issue in 1865) editors: Katrina vanden H. (1995-2019, continued as "editorial director and publisher") | Marcus Raskin | Richard Falk | Robert Borosage. |
1966 |
| Rockefeller Family Fund Laurance Rockefeller (founding trustee 1967-1977) | David Rockefeller (honorary trustee anno 2013) | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; president) | Emily, Renee, Wendy are among today's trustees | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; investment committee) | Anne Bartley | Donald Ross (trustee 1985-1999; earlier a Ralph Nader attorney; chair Greenpeace 2002-2010; founding partner M+R Strategies). |
1967 |
| Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) Anno 2021 part of Americans for the Arts. Officers BCA: David Rockefeller (listed as sole founder) | Willard Butcher | Robert O. Anderson | C. Douglas Dillon | Kip Forbes | Robert Sarnoff | Frank Stanton | Eli Broad | Christie Hefner (Playboy) | John J. Mack (Morgan Stanley). Artist committee Americans for the Arts: Alec Baldwin (anno '21) | Tony Bennett (anno '21) | Chuck D (anno '21) | Laurence Fishburne (anno '21) | Norman Lear (anno '21) | John Legend (anno '21) | Yo-Yo Ma (anno '21) | Yoko Ono (anno '21) | Robert Redford (anno '21) | Salman Rushdie (anno '21) | Zoe Saldana (anno '21) | Martin Scorsese (anno '21) | Meryl Streep (anno '21) | Kerry Washington (anno '21) | Henry Winkler (anno '21) | Michael York (anno '21) | Paul Newman (in memoriam anno '21). |
1967 |
| Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) Established at the time over "shared concern that a new worldwide trade war was in the making". Members: David Rockefeller (founder and certainly by 1980 still a listed member) | Arthur Watson (founder; IBM) | A. W. Clausen (member anno 1980) | Richard Gelb (member anno 1980) | J. Peter Grace (member anno 1980) | H. J. Heinz II (member anno 1980) | Walter Wriston (member anno 1980) | William Hewitt (member anno 1980) | William Hewlett (member anno 1980) | Howard Kauffmann (member anno 1980; Exxon) | Richard Riley (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Firestone) (member anno 1980) | Henry Ford II (member anno 1980) | Ruben Mettler (member anno 1980) | George Weyerhaeuser (member anno 1980) | William Flynn (member anno 1980; chair, president and CEO Zapata Corporation) | Robert Saeberle (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Nabisco) | Donald Kendall (member anno 1980; chair and CEO PepsiCo.) | Edmund Pratt Jr. (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Pfizer) | Harold McGraw Jr. (member anno 1980) | Harold McGraw III (chair 2000s-2010s) | William Rhodes (Citibank and Citigroup) | Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) | Rex Tillerson (ExxonMobil) | Muhtar Kent (Coca-Cola) | Jeffrey Immelt (GE) | Jeff Bewkes (Time-Warner). Early companies included represented included: Caterpillar, Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed, IBEC, and those mentioned. |
1967 |
| Urban Institute Suzanne Woolsey (researcher 1975-77). Trustees: Robert McNamara (1968-2007; chair) | Cyrus Vance (1968-1976) | John Gardner (1969-1972) | William Scranton (1969-1976) | Vernon Jordan (1972-1980) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (1973-1977) | Kingman Brewster Jr. (1975-1977) | Henry Schacht (1976-1984) | William Ruckelshaus (1974-1988; chair) | Katharine Graham (1971-2001) | William Coleman (1977-1986) | Carla Hills (1978-1988, 1993; chair) | Irving Shapiro (1979-1981) | Warren Buffett (1979-1985) | Joseph Califano Jr. (1980-87) | John Deutch (1980-1989, 1990-1993) | Ray Hunt (1981-1985) | Philip Hawley (1981-1990) | Elliot Richardson (1982-1991) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1982-1991) | George Weyerhaeuser (1983-1985) | Barber Conable (1985-1986; went on to become World Bank president) | David Stockman (1985-1990) | Anne Wexler (1988-1990) | Jack Kemp (1995-1999) | Jamie Gorelick (chair anno 2018, 2021) | Henry Cisneros (anno 2018). Rockefeller Fdn. (financing). |
1968 |
| National Alliance of Business (NAB) LBJ an Henry Ford II (co-founders) | Lloyd Hand (president and CEO 1978-1979) |
1968 |
| Institute for the Future Rand Corp. spin-off. Bettina Warburg (program manager to executive director Jul. 2012 - Aug. 2013; public foresight strategist Aug. 2013 - Oct. 2014; public engagement lead Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2016) |
1968 |
| Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies John Diebold (founder and chair) |
1968 |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) Trustees: Hubert Humphrey (chair 1969-1971; LBJ's VP 1965-1969; Sen. 1971-1978) | William P. Rogers (1969-1973) | John Roche (1969-1975) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan (1969-1976, vice chair 1971-1976) | Elliot Richardson (1970-1973) | Henry Kissinger (1971-1977) | William Baroody Sr. (chair 1972-1979, trustee until 1980) | Paul McCracken (1972-1977, vice chair 1977-1980) | Caspar Weinberger (1973-1975) | Dean Rusk (1975-1978) | Joseph Califano (1977-1979) | Cyrus Vance (1977-1980) | Edmund Muskie (1980-1981) | Max Kampelman (chair anno 1981) | Robert Mosbacher (vice chair anno 1981) | James Baker III (1977-1985) | Alexander Haig (anno 1981) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno 1981) | S. Dillon Ripley |(anno 1981) | William Baroody Jr. | Kenneth Clark (anno 1981) | Daniel Boorstin (anno 1981; Library of Congress) | Wilson Council: Charles Barber (anno 1981) | John Brademas (anno 1981) | William Coleman Jr. (anno 1981) | Alan Cranston (anno 1981) | Hedley Donovan (anno 1981) | Robert Ellsworth (anno 1981) | William Hewitt (anno 1981) | Donald Kendall (anno 1981) | Sol Linowitz (anno 1981) | David Packard (anno 1981) | Bruce Gelb (president) | Carla Hills | George Shultz. Members/penalists: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Kagan | Graham Allison | Janet Napolitano | Michael Chertoff | David Horovitz | J. Stapleton Roy | Norman Augustine | Brent Scowcroft | Eli S. Jacobs | Lincoln Gordon (fellow 1972-1975) | Allen Weinstein (fellowship) | Lyoma Usmavov (involved in a Chechen project) | Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1980-1981) | Sherri Goodman (senior fellow 2016-) | Caitlin Werrell (listed "professional affiliation" as of 2020) | Aaron Friedberg (fellow) | Colin Powell ("public member") | Hillary Clinton ("public member"). Visitors due to corporate citizenship award: Ray Hunt | Ted Turner | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Peter Munk | Hushang Ansary | Paul Desmarais | Lee Raymond | David Koch | Vagit Alekperov | Frank Lowy | Lester Crown | Leslie Wexner | Peter Peterson | Ross Perot. Jr. | Niall Fitzgerald | David O'Reilly | T. Boone Pickens. Wilson Center's Strengthening America's Global Engagement (SAGE) project: Condoleezza Rice (founding co-chair 2010-) | William Perry (founding co-chair 2010-) | Paula Dobriansky (Gov. Subcomm. 2010-) | Joseph Nye (Gov. Subcomm. 2010-) | David Abshire (member anno 2012) | Jane H. | Anne-Marie Slaughter | John Marks (Dev. Subcomm. 2010-) | James Zogby (Program & Activities Subcomm. 2010-). More: Cynthia McClintock (expert) | James Billington (director 1973-1987) | Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (fellow anno 1979) | Philip Odeen (fellow anno 1979) | Ernest May (fellow anno 1979) | Lee Hamilton (director/head early 2000s) | Jane Harman (director, president and CEO) | Wang Huiyao (Sep. 25, 2018 visitor) | Nina Jankowicz ("Disinformation Fellow" fellow 2019-). Donors (1980 annual report, p. 141): David Rockefeller (himself), David P. (himself), Allied Chemical, AT&T, Atlantic Richfield Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, Caterpillar, Chase Manhattan Bank, Coca-Cola, Container Corporation of America, John Deere Foundation, Dresser Industries, Exxon, Ford Fdn., Ford Motor Company, GE, General T&T, HP, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank, Luce Fdn., Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts (and Fdn.), Metropolitan Life, Mitsubishi, Occidental Petroleum Charitable Fdn.,Procter & Gamble, Sacife Family Charitable Trusts, Sloan Fdn., Volkswagen Fdn., Time, UN Economic Commission for Latin America, Westinghouse, Xerox. |
1968 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Liberal CIA" foundation that is a particularly heavy financier of just about all prominent and semi-prominent colleges and universities in the United States, England, South Africa and a few other places in Europe and Latin America. For decades on end between 25-50% of the board of trustees belongs to the CFR: 4 of 9 (44%) in 1999 and 2004; 5 of 10 (50%, with another joining in 2019, making 60%) in 2017; and 3 of 10 (27%) in 2022. Generally, the chair and president have been memebrs of the CFR, but exceptions have been there. Trustees also in CFR: Nathan Pusey (trustee 1969-, president 1971-1975, after stepping down as Harvard president; CFR 1953-) | John Whitehead (trustee chair 1990-1997; CFR 1978-) | Neil Rudenstine (anno '88; CFR '88-; president Harvard 1991-2001) | Hanna Holborn Gray (1980-2003, chair 1997-2003; acting president Yale 1977–1978, the first woman in that role; first female president Un. Chicago 1978-1993; CFR 1984-) | Anne Tatlock (trustee since at least the mid-1990s, chair 2003-2012; CFR 2004-) | Frank H. T. Rhodes (anno '88-99; CFR '85-) | William G. Bowen (anno 1988, president anno 2003-2004; CFR 1987-) | Paul LeClerc (trustee anno '04; CFR '97-) | Walter Massey (trustee anno '05; CFR '97-) | Earl Lewis (president and ex officia" "ex officio" trustee '16-'17; CFR '14-) | Danielle Allen (chair anno '16; CFR '15-) | Kathryn Hall (anno '16-'17, chair anno '22; CFR '17-) | Jane Mendillo (anno '16-'17; CFR '14-; director Lazard 2016-; president and CEO Harvard Management Co. 2008-2014; director GM) | Leo Rafael Reif (anno '16-'17; CFR '12-; president MIT '12-) | Jonathan Holloway (anno '22; CFR '21-; president Rutgers Un. '20-) | Glenn Lowry (anno '16-'22; CFR '19-; managing director / "The David Rockefeller Director" of MoMa 1995-, still anno '22). Other trustees: Paul Mellon (1969-1985, honorary 1985-1999; son of a CFR member; decades-long Pilgrim) | Timothy Mellon (anno 1999) | Mary Patterson McPherson (vice president) | William O. Baker (1969-, chair emeritus by the early-1990s) | Drew Gilpin Faust (trustee anno 2004; first female president Harvard 2007-2018, in an era Harvard's board of overseers was completely moved out of the CFR; never CFR herself either) | Taylor Reveley III (trustee 1990s and later president) | Richard Brodhead (anno '16-'22; dean Yale College 1993-2004; president Duke 2004-2017) | Katherine Farley (anno '16; sen. man. dir. Tishman Speyer anno '16) | Heather Gerken (anno '22; dean Yale Law School) | Sherrilyn Ifill (anno '22; president and director-counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund) | Sarah Thomas (anno '22; VP Harvard Library). More: Stephanie Bell-Rose (program officer 1988-1999; CFR 1994-; founding president and managing director GS Fdn. 1999-2009) | Harriet Zuckerman (senior advisor 1989-1991, senior VP 1991-2010; CFR '89; non-trustee). Grant-making: Predominantly finances dozens of leading universities in the United States, Oxford University in England, and even universities in South Africa and a handful in Latin America. |
1969 |
| Population Institute Directors anno 1999: Russell Hemenway. Public Advisory Committee anno 1999: Barbara Boxer | Stewart Mott | Glenn Seaborg | Russell Train | Ted Turner. More: Nancy Pelosi (2001-) | John Kerry (2001-). International advisory committee anno 1999: Joan Baez | Lester Brown | Paul Ehrlich | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong. |
1969 |
| United Way of America (UWA) Kenneth Dam (president and CEO) | Bill Gates (trustee co-chair emeritus) |
1970 |
| Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Wade Rathke (key founder and chief organizer until a scandal in 2008; ran the international arm until 2010). Moved squatters into abandoned buildings against the wishes of local government, advised citizens on how to set up businesses, led voter registration drives for the poor, etc. Apart from membership fees and government grants, financiers over the years have included the: Ford, Open Society, Carnegie, Arca, Surdna, Annie E. Casey foundations; the Woods Fund of Chicago. |
1970-2010 |
| Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Ronald Spogli (endowned it). International Advisory Council (Sep. 2006): William Perry (also exec. committee) | Stephen Bechtel, Jr. | Warren Christopher | Thierry de Montbrial | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | David Hamburg | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Andrei Kokoshin | Lee Kuan Yew | Richard Lugar | Helmut Schmidt | Paul Volcker | George Shultz | John Whitehead | Michael McFaul (director and senior fellow). Advisory Board (Oct. 2007): David H. | Susan Rice | William Draper III. Other: Michael Armacost (senior fellow) | Prof. Stephen Krasner (deputy director) | Tung Chee Hwa (IAC 1995-1997). Council members anno 2019: Jared Cohen | William D. III Funders: 2010 annual report, p. 37, lists "Lifetime Giving $5 million and above": Bechtel Fdn., BP Fdn., Carnegie Corp., Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn., and MacArthur Fdn. The Ford and Hewlett fdns. are listed as having given over $1 million. Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford (1970; part of FSI): Co-founders: Sidney Drell and John Lewis. Senior fellows: William P. Other: Condoleezza Rice (employee 1981-1986). Stanford Initiative on European Security (part of CISC and FSI) researchers: Niall Ferguson | Russell Berman | Condoleezza R. | Philip Taubman. Cyber Security Center: directors: Francis Fukuyama | Alex Stamos (director Stanford Internet Observatory) | Marietje Schaake (International Policy Director). Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford (2002): Prof. Stephen K. (director ) | Larry Diamond (director; senior fellow FPI) | Francis Fukuyama (director and senior fellow anno 2020). |
1970 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Important "liberal CIA" foundation with quite a few scientists on the board in the past. Anno 2022, only 2 of 11 trustees (18%) were CFR members, with the president and chair also not being CFR. However, over 1975 - March 2022, 21 of 61 (34%) (listed/known) historical trustees, presidents and chairs combined also were members of the CFR. Historical trustees also CFR members: Thornton Bradshaw (member 1985-1988, chair 1986-1988?; chair RCA; Rockefeller friend) | Elizabeth McCormack (1970-1995, chair 1986-1995?; CFR 1974-) | William Simon (1979-1981; CFR 1973-) | Murray Gell-Mann (1979-2002; CFR 1974-) | Jerome Wiesner (1979-1994; CFR 1960-) | Jonas Salk (1979-1995; CFR '83-) Shirley Hufstedler (1984-2002; CFR 1983-) | Margaret Mahoney (1985-2002; CFR 1978-) | Adele Smith Simmons (1988-1999; CFR 1974-) | Walter Massey (1989-1991; CFR 1997-; Bush 41's National Science Fdn. director; chair Bank of America; BP) | William Foege (1991-2005; CFR 1997-) | John Holdren (1991-2005; CFR 1998-; one of Clinton's science advisors 1994-2001; Obama's chief scientist since December 2008) | Thomas Theobald (1995-2006; CFR 1978-) | Drew Saunders Days III (1996-2008; CFR 1997-) | Laura D'Andrea Tyson (1997-1999; CFR 1987-) | Robert Denham (trustee 2000-2012, chair 2007-2012; CFR 1997-) | Jamie Gorelick (director 2001-2013; CFR 1997-) | Jonathan Fanton (trustee, president 1999-2009; CFR 1991-; protege of McCormack) | Robert Gallucci (president 2009-2014 (official "ex-officio" trustee); CFR 1993-) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (anno 2021; CFR 1994-) | James Manyika (2017-; CFR 2013-, CFR director 2015-) | . Additional trustees: John MacArthur (director 1970-1978) | Paul Harvey (director 1970-2002; since 1952 friend of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, whom Harvey often asked for comment and approval before broadcasts; close friend of the extremist Senator Joseph McCarthy, as well as Rev. Billy Graham; long-time conservative ABC Radio broadcaster) | Gaylord Freeman (director 1979-1986). More: Claude Steele (2008-, still anno 2014 (not listed among "past trustees" anno 2022, so plus 1 for "past trustees" above); National Science Foundation) | Ronna Tanenbaum (advisor to president 2003-2004) | Morton Halperin (fellow 1985-1991) | Joi Ito (director 2012-2019). Grantees: The foundation has supported NPR (early on), Bill Moyers, James Randi (received a five-year grant in 1986 of $272,000 to help debunk spiritual issues; Gell-Mann is a known benefactor of Randi's work) and the National Security Archive Fund ($3.4 million 2002-2015). Source(s): macfound.org/about/our-history/past-board-members (accessed: March 5, 2022); macfound.org/about/our-history/past-presidents (accessed: March 5, 2022); macfound.org/about/people/board-directors/ (accessed: March 5, 2022). |
1970 |
| Arms Control Association Directors: Sidney Drell (once file says 1971-1993; an obituary reads "1978 until 1994") | Richard Garwin | William Coleman Jr. | Paul Warnke (anno 1997) | Susan Eisenhower (anno 1997) | Robert McNamara (anno 1997) | Robert Gallucci (anno 2005) | Andy Weber (anno 2020). Historical funding: RBF, Ford, Carnegie, MacArthur, Open Society, Ploughshares, Mott and Charles Koch foundations. |
1971 |
| LBJ Foundation Trustees: Robert Allbritton (son of Joe; owner Capitol News Company, which owns Politico.com) | Joseph Califano Jr. | Sen. Tom Daschle | Casey Wasserman. |
1971 |
| Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (KCPA) David Rubenstein (chairman) | Stephen Schwarzman (chair) | Maurice Greenberg (director) | Vladimir Potanin ($5 million grant) | Henry Catto | James Billington | Condoleezza Rice (ex officio trustee during her tenure as secretary of state) | Bryan Lourd (2015). |
1971 |
| LBJ Presidential Library Trustees LBJ Foundation: Robert Allbritton | Joseph Califano Jr. | Sen. Tom Daschle | Lloyd Hand | Luci Baines Johnson | Ms. Catherine Robb | Lynda Johnson Robb | Casey Wasserman. The Vietnam War Summit, University of Austin (participants), April 26-28, 2016: Henry Kissinger | Chuck Robb | Adm. William McRaven | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | John Kerry | Sen. Bob Kerrey | William Inboden | Dan Rather | Luci Baines Johnson | Lynda Johnson Robb. |
1971 |
| Business Roundtable Members: Philip Hawley | Ruben Mettler (chair 1982-1984) | Joseph Gorman (co-chair 1998-2001) | Riley Bechtel | David O'Reilly | Walter Shipley | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Rex Tillerson (chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | Ken Chenault | Evan Greenberg | Jim Hackett | Larry Fink | Jeff Bezos | Frederick Smith. |
1972 |
| Williamsburg Conference John D. Rockefeller III (founder) | Cyrus Vance (since 1981) | Carla Hills (one of three co-convenors in the early 2000s) | Lynn Forester and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (went in 2004 as US and UK representatives). 1983 "pre-Williamsburg" team to set the tone of the meeting: Jack Kemp | Kissinger | Rohatyn | Donald Regan. |
1971 |
| National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) Trustees: Hans Morgenthau (founder) | Jacob Javits (1987-1988) | Nancy Soderberg (advisory board 2001-; trustee anno 2013; vice chair anno 2021) | Richard Pipes (anno 1998-2001, moved to the advisory board in 2001) | George Kennan (hon. chair anno 1998-2003) | Francis Kellogg (treasurer anno 1998-2003) | Harlan Cleveland (anno 1998-2000) | Maxwell Rabb (anno 1998-2000) | Robin Chandler Duke (anno 1998-, until 2001) | Anthony Drexel Duke (anno 1998-2001) | Kenneth Bialkin (anno 2000-2001) | Wesley Clark (no later than Aug. 2001-) | Paul Volcker (hon. vice chair 2002-, hon. chair anno 2013) | Thomas Pickering (2003-) | Nina Rosenwald. Advisory board: Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno 1998-2001) | Richard P. (2001-) | Nancy S. (2001-, later trustee) | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (anno 2002) | Winston Lord (anno 2023) | Stapleton Roy (anno 2023). Morgenthau award: Angier Biddle Duke | Sol Linowitz | Henry Kissinger (also hon. chair anno 1993) | George Shultz (Oct. 2, 1985, presented to him by Henry K.) | David Rockefeller | James Baker III | Margaret Thatcher | King Hussein of Jordan. Other NCAFP awards: Sen. George Mitchell ('90s) | Cyrus Vance. Other: David R. (awarded on March 16, 1988) | John Whitehead (speech and provided the award to David Rock. in 1988) | Ronan Farrow (2013 speaker) | Martti Ahtisaari (2013 award) | Richard Haass (provided the award to Martti in 2013) | Muhtar Kent (2013 award presenter) | Henry H. Arnhold (member). Listed financiers: Carnegie Corp, Rock. Brothers Fund, Luce Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn. Source(s): ncafp.org (accessed: May 20, 2000; the founder, award winners, officers and trustees on the frontpage). |
1974 |
| Monroe Institute Founded and headed (1974-1995) by out of body researcher Robert Monroe. Began to work with Army Intelligence in 1977. Participants: John Alexander | Joe McMoneagle | Gen. Albert Stubblebine. |
1974 |
| Miller Center of Public Affairs (MCPA) Philip Zelikow (director/head 1998-2005). Governing council: Thomas Donilon | Slade Gorton | Bob Woodward | Frances Townsend. National War Powers Commission (2007-2011): James Baker III (co-chair) | Warren Christopher (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Edwin Meese III | Brent Scowcroft | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Strobe Talbott | Carla Hills (joined later). National Commission on Federal Election Reform (2001): Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Leon Panetta | Bill Richardson. National Commission on the Separation of Powers (1998): Lawrence Eagleburger | Bill Frenzel | William Webster. National Commission on the Selection of Federal Judges (1996): Fred Fielding. National Commission on Choosing and Using Vice Presidents (1992): Ed Muskie | William Coleman Jr. | Stuart Eizenstat | Max Kampelman | Melvin Laird | Donald Rumsfeld | Robert Strauss. National Commission on the Presidency and Science Advising (1989): Ashton Carter | John Deutsch. National Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (1988): Herbert Brownell (co-chair) | Warren Burger. National Commission on Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy (1986): William P. Rogers (co-chair) | Cyrus R. Vance (co-chair) | Clark Clifford | Walter Cronkite | David Gergen | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Dean Rusk | Theodore Sorensen | Vernon Jordan. More: Arnold Schwarzenegger (debate) | Chuck Robb (speaker June 2, 2005). |
1975 |
| Paley Center for Media Trustees: William Paley | Henry Kissinger (anno '09, still anno '21; co-chair of the international council anno '23) | Mel Karmazin (vice chair anno '20) | Tim Armstrong | Les Moonves (anno '11) | Bob Iger (anno '09, still anno '21) | Sumner Redstone (anno '11) | Shari Redstone ('21; chair ViacomCBS; daughter of Sumner) | Terry Semel (anno '11) | Barbara Walters (anno '11; emeritus by '21) | David Zaslav (anno '21) | Norman Lear (emeritus by '11) | Wallis Annenberg (anno '11) | Jeffrey Katzenberg (anno '21) | James and Lachlan Murdoch (sons of Rupert Murdoch; James anno '20) | Arnaud de Puyfontaine (anno '21; CEO Vivendi 2014-) | Alex Rodriguez / A-Rod (anno '21) | Alberto Ibarguen ('21-). More: Pat Mitchell Seydel (president and CEO anno 2010, until 2014.) paleycenter.org (frontpage as accessed: Aug. 29, 2021): "The recent brutal attacks on Asian and Pacific Islanders all across America are just the latest hate crimes in a long history of discrimination and violence against the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. ... George Floyd is the most recent example in a long list of unacceptable tragedies of systemic racial inequities and injustices. ... We stand in solidarity with the Black community and the movement for inclusion, equality and social justice." Source(s): paleycenter.org/about-leadership-board-of-trustees (accessed: March 19, 2009 - July 30, 2020); paleycenter.org/about/about-leadership-board-of-trustees/ (accessed: Nov. 24, 2021). |
1975 |
| National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI) Became part of the AEI in 2007, forming the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. Directors: Caspar Weinberger (director emeritus anno 1998) | William Webster (chair anno 1998, until 2001) | David Boren (anno 1998-2001) | Joseph Coors (anno 1998) | Dick Cheney (anno 1998-1999) | David Davenport (anno 1998; president Pepperdine Uni.) | Livio DeSimone (anno 1998; chair and CEO 3M) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (anno 1998, chair 2002-) | Jamie Gorelick (1999-2001) | Arnaud de Borchgrave (anno 1999-2002) | Fred Fielding (vice chair mid 2003-) | Stephen Gates (vice chair mid 2003-; senior VP ConocoPhilips) | Barbara Barrett (2002-). Legal Advisory Council: C. Boyden Gray (anno 2002-2003) | Ken Starr (pre-1998-2007) | Howard Krongard (pre-1998-2005; brother of the CIA executive director Buzzy) | Eugene Meyer (exec. dir. Federalist Soc.) | James Comey (2005-2007). Funding: Scaife, Olin, Bradley, ALCOA, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, Exxon, Amoco, Bethlehem Steel, Duke Power Company, Fannie Mae, H.J. Heinz Company and Procter & Gamble foundations. |
1975-2007 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Ken Lay (Enron) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss | Ken Duberstein. |
1975 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Ken Lay (Enron) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss |
1975 |
| Pacific Forum International, Hawaii Part of CSIS in the past. These years are not counted. International advisory board: Brent Scowcroft (chair emeritus anno 2020) | Richard Armitage (co-chair anno 2021) | Joseph Nye Jr. (co-chair anno 2021). Directors: James A. Kelly (president emeritus and chair anno 2021; former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs (Honolulu). |
1975 |
| Public Agenda Cyrus Vance (one of two main founders; chairman until 2000). Directors: Frank Stanton (1990s) | Sidney Harman (chair exec. committee anno 2000; husband of Jane Harman) | Barry Munitz (1990s-2000s)| David Gergen (1990s-2000s) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (1990s-2010s) | Peter Peterson (1990s-2010s). Policy Review Board: John Brademas | John Diebold | Sen. Dick Clark | William T. Coleman Jr. | John Gardner | Vernon Jordan | Sol Linowitz | Ruben Mettler | Elliot Richardson | Harold Brown (2001-) | Rozanne Ridgway | James Hoge Jr. | Sidney Weinberg Jr. | Adele Simmons. Funding: Open Society, Hewlett, IBM, Kaiser, Kellogg, Kettering, Knight, MacArthur, Markle, Mott, Rockefeller, Surdna and UPS foundations; Pew Charitable Trusts, the GE Fund, AT&T, BellSouth, etc. |
1975 |
| Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation Madeleine Albright (long-time president 2003-) | Betsy DeVos (2017-) |
1975 |
| Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPS) Dr. Robert Pfaltzgraff (president since at least the 1980s) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis (executive vice president from at least the 1980s until today) | Gen. John Galvin | Frank Carlucci | Charles Perry | Chung Min Lee (researcher 1985-1988). |
1976 |
| Tides Foundation Founders: Drummond Pike (founder; president 1976-2010; also founded Tides Canada in 2000) | Jane Bagley Lehman (R.J. Reynolds tobacco company heir). Directors: Joanie Bronfman (chair) | Wade Rathke. Extremely popular with West Coast liberals who do not want to set up their own foundations. For example, through the Advocacy Fund it has financed the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, the National Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. Openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and linked to its beginning through financing of Adbusters. Financiers/partners: George Soros | Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates) | Ford Fdn. | Hewlett Fdn. | Rockefeller Brothers Fund. |
1976 |
| CATO Institute Directors: Edward H. Crane (founder, director and president until Oct. '12) | Murray Rothbard (founder) | Charles Koch (founder) | Rupert Murdoch (anno '00 - until Jan. '02)| Peter Ackerman (anno '00 - until '04) | Theodore Forstmann (anno '00 - until '05) | Frederick Smith (anno '00 - until '09) | John Malone (anno '00 - until '15; chair Liberty Media Corp.) | David Koch (anno '00 - until '16) | Jeffrey Yass (mid '02 - still anno '23) | Other: Paul Craig Roberts ("distinguished fellow" 1993-1996) | Penn and Teller (fellows) | George Shultz (advisory board Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies) | Thomas McLarty (advisory board Inter-American Dialogue). Source(s): cato.org/people/directors.html (acc.: Jan. 26, 2002; last archive with RM); cato.org/board-of-directors (accessed: Jan. 29, 2016; last year with a DK on the board); cato.org/about/leadership (accessed: March 31, 2023). |
1977 |
| Alliance to Save Energy Very prestigious when set up. While still in existence anno 2023, with heavy congressional involvement, the names are insignificant. Directors (*) and listed members: Sen. Charles Percy (founding chair 1977-) | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (founding co-chair 1977-) | Carla Hills (founding co-chair for operations 1977-*) | Gerald Ford (founding hon. chair 1977-, as former U.S. president) | Walter Mondale (founding hon. chair 1977-, as U.S. vice president) | David Rockefeller (founding 1977-) | Laurance Rockefeller (founding 1977-) | Henry Ford II (founding 1977-*) | Russell Train (founding 1977-) | Thomas Watson (founding 1977-*) | Peter Peterson (founding 1977-) | Vernon Jordan (founding 1977-*) | Robert O. Anderson (founding 1977-) | John Gardner (founding 1977-) | Anne Armstrong (founding 1977-*) | Lester Brown (founding 1977-) | Charles Hitch (founding 1977-*) | Robert Ingersoll (founding 1977-) | I. L. Kenen (founding 1977-; hon. chair AIPAC) | Philip Klutznick (founding 1977-) | Sol Linowitz (founding 1977-) | George Meany (founding 1977-*) | Franklin Murphy (founding 1977-; chair LA Times) | Thomas Murphy (founding 1977-*; chair GM) | Irving Shapiro (founding 1977-) | John Swearingen (chair Standard Oil) | Rawleigh Warner (chair Mobil). Advisory board: James Schlesinger (founding hon. advisor 1977-) | Henry Kissinger (founding chair 1977-*). For the rest only 34 U.S. senators on the founding advisory board: Sen. Sam Nunn (founding 1977-) | Sen. Claiborne Pell (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Heinz III (founding 1977-) | Sen. Daniel Inouye (founding 1977-) | Sen. Henry Jackson (founding 1977-) | Sen. Richard Lugar (founding 1977-) | Sen. Jacob Javits (founding 1977-) | Sen. Edward Kennedy (founding 1977-) | Sen. Dennis DeConcini (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Glenn (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Danforth (founding 1977-) | Sen. Dick Clark (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Stennis (founding 1977-). Source(s): April 4, 1977, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Regulation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 'Status of Federal Energy Conservation Programs', p. 30 (pp. 31-33 list all the trustees and advisors): "Many vehicles are overpowered and are not energy efficient. Tremendous amounts of heat are lost through poor insulation in homes and commercial structures and ... manufacturing facilities allow heat and energy to escape rather than put it to productive use. ... It has been cheap to produce and cheap to use. But now, we are coming to the realization that our energy producing resources are being rapidly depleted. In fact, by some estimates, we will run out o oil and gas by early in the next century." |
1977 |
| International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Previously known as the Institute for Dispute Resolution. Executive committee: Richard Burt (anno 2001) | William Webster (anno 2001; also director; vice chair anno 2010, chair anno 2011-2013, director emeritus 2014-) | Charles Renfrew (chair 2000s; VP of legal affairs at Chevron) | Stephen Gates (2000s-2010s; senior VP and GC ConocoPhillips). Directors mostly represent major corporations: Bechtel, Microsoft, Boeing, Pfizer, J&J, Duke Energy, Fluor, McDonald's, Nestle, Du Pont de Nemours, Weyerhaeuser Co., Sull & Cromwell; Debevoise & Plimpton; Cravath, Swaine & Moore. |
1977 |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MIPR) Previously: International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) Trustees: William Casey (co-founder) | Sir Anthony Fisher (co-founder and first chair) | Roger Hertog (chair) | Maurice Greenberg | William Kristol | Jon Bolton | Walter Wriston | Henry Kissinger (Alexander Hamilton Award dinner in 2008) | David Gelernter (adjunct fellow; major Yale computer scientist; prominently predicted the arrival of the WWW in January 1991 in the NYT; Unabomber victim in June 1993) |
1978 |
| General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Founding board members: Laurance Rockefeller | William O. Baker | Charles Townes. |
1978 |
| UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations Ron Burkle | Gen. Wesley Clark (senior fellow 2000s-2010s) | Stephen Krasner (senior fellow, winter 2014). Speakers: Jimmy Carter ('00) | Anderson Cooper ('09 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Joseph Stiglitz ('11) | Christopher Hitchens ('11 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Janet Napolitano ('12) | Jeffrey Sachs ('13) | Condoleezza Rice ('13 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Christiane Amanpour ('16 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Ban Ki-moon ('16) | Susan Rice ('16; Q&A with students) | Bill Clinton (unknown) . |
1979 |
| Partnership for New York City (PNYC) Directors on Oct. 28, 2002: Henry Kravis (former chair; still exec. comm. anno '23) | Harold McGraw III | Richard Parsons (former chair) | James Robinson III (former chair) | Jerry Speyer (former chair). Directors on Jan. 16, 2004 (extra): Ken Chenault | Lachlan Murdoch | David Rockefeller (listed as "founding chairman" in 2010) | John Thain | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice) | Stephen Schwarzman (still exec. comm. anno '23) | Lionel Pincus (chair Warburg Pincus) | Preston Robert Tisch (former chair) | James S. Tisch (exec. comm. anno 2023) | Mortimer Zuckerman. Sep. 2005 directors (extra): Michael Cherkasky. March 2008 directors (extra): Lloyd Blankfein (co-chair; chair and CEO Goldman Sachs) | Jeffrey Kindler (chair and CEO Pfizer) | John Mack (chair and CEO Morgan Stanley) | Timothy Geithner (ex-officio). Feb. 2009 directors (extra): Rupert Murdoch (co-chair) | Jeff Bewkes. 2010 directors: Klaus Kleinfeld (president & CEO Alcoa Inc.) 2015: Philippe Dauman (co-chair; pres. and CEO Viacom) | James Gorman (co-chair; Chair and CEO Morgan Stanley). April 2020 directors (extra): David Zaslav (president and CEO Discovery, Inc). Executive committee as of anno Nov. 30, 2020: Larry Fink (still anno '23) | Jamie Dimon (still anno '23) | Ajay Banga. Exec. comm. anno March 30, 2023: Evan Greenberg (son of Maurice). More: Michael Peterson (son of Peter). 2007 brochure: "Partner Companies 2007": ABC, AT&T, Allen & Company, American Airlines, American Express, AIG, Bank of American, Bank of New York Mellon, Bear Stearns, Blackstone, Bloomberg, Bombarduier, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, CBS, etc., etc. HSBC, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, KKR, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, NBC, NYSE, etc., UBS, Viacom, etc. Source(s): pfnyc.org/publications /pfnyc_brochure.pdf (accessed: March 16, 2007: "Board of Directors 2007" and May 8, 2010: "Board of Directors 2010", this url works all the way to 2022); pfnyc.org/board-of-directors/ (accessed: March 30, 2023). |
1979 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) 1997 directors: Gen. LeRoy Manor (president; special operations) | Gen. Wayne Downing (former commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Col. Richard Dutton (treasurer; former Commandant, Special Operations School) | Adm. George Worthington (former commander, Naval Special Warfare Command) | Gen. Sam Wilson (former DIA director). Board of Advisors: Frank Carlucci | Sam Nunn. 2004 directors: Gen. Carl Stiner (chair; former commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Sergeant Major Richard Davis (former commander, JSOC). Board of Advisors: Frank C. | Sam N. | John McCain III. More directors: Admiral Eric Olson (anno 2019) | Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher (president and CEO anno 2019; former director of operations, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Ross Perot III (director 2020-). specialops.org/coporate.html (accessed: July 1, 1997): "Boeing ... Rockwell. Booz, Allen & Hamilton. ... Northrop Grumman ... Raytheon E-Systems" |
1980 |
| World Affairs Council, Washington, D.C. Patrick Gross (founding vice-chairman, chairman and still an executive) | Philip Odeen (chair) | James Roche (president) | Henry A. Dudley, Jr. (treasurer). Speakers: Larry Summers, William Cohen, Wesley Clark, Richard Haass, Perle, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Wolfensohn, Woolsey. |
1980 |
| Foreign Policy Institute of John Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Founded as the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research in 1957 by Paul Nitze. Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations financing. George Packard (founder and dean of SAIS 1979-1993). Harold Brown (chair 1984-1992) | Paul Wolfowitz (dean until 2001; fellow) | Jessica Einhorn (dean 2001-2012) | Eliot Cohen (dean 2019-) | Frank Savage (chair emeritus anno 2022). Fellows: Francis Fukuyama, Zbigniew Brzezinski (long term), Joshua Muravchik. Key funder and advisory board member of SAIS: Robert Abernethy. SAIS: Bert Koenders (visiting professor). SAIS' Center for Transatlantic Relations (in extence 2002-2018): Kurt Volker (managing director anno '10-11) | Jose María Aznar (fellow until '18) | Hans Binnendijk (fellow until '18). Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (founded in October 2016): Henry Kissinger (at the very least congratulates appointments) | Robert Blackwill ("Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar" 2018-) | Francis Gavin (director and "Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor") | Jim Steinberg (senior fellow anno 2021). sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/about/donors (accessed: May 14, 2021): "Agnelli Family ... Bloomberg Philanthropies ... Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation [Barry Diller]. JPMorgan Chase... Kraft Group. The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation [Henry Kravis and wife Marie-Josee]. ... Rupert Murdoch. Peter G. Peterson Foundation [Peter Peterson]. David Rockefeller. Eric and Wendy Schmidt [Eric Schmidt: Google/Alphabet CEO]. The Speyer Family Foundation. The Starr Foundation. The Xerox Foundation." |
1980 |
| Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs (BCFA) Very low-profile. Terribly-designed site, even in 2020. Trustees are not recognizable names. "Distinguised Speakers Program 1980-1984": Zbigniew Brzezinski | Anthony Lake | Fred Bergsten | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Winston Lord | Allan Gotlieb | Caspar Weinberger | Chester Crocker | William Colby | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Fred Ikle | Richard Haass. Later speakers: Daniel Pipes (Jan. 2018). |
1980 |
| Center for National Policy (CNP) Board members: Terry Sanford (founding chair) | Cyrus Vance (chair) | Edmond Muskie (chair) | Leon Panetta (chair) | Robert Rubin | Thomas Foley | Madeleine Albright (president until 1993) | Jane Harman | John Brademas | Maurice Tempelsman | Tim Roemer (president) | Dr. Stephen Flynn (president) | Peter Kovler (chair anno 2020). Speakers: Harold Brown ('13). |
1981 |
| Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Trustees: James Baker III | Rich DeVos | Carla Hills | Paul O'Neill and son Paul Jr. (also exec.) | William Coleman Jr. | Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft and later daughter Karen | Dick Cheney | Douglas DeVos (also exec.) | Richard Parsons | Donald Rumsfeld | Alan Greenspan (hon. trustee). |
1981 |
| Sundance Institute Robert Redford (founder) | George Soros (important financier since the 1990s among many other "liberal CIA" foundations) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (trustee 1996-; Turner family). |
1981 |
| Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) Directors: C. Fred Bergsten (key founder and managing director 1981-2012; director anno 2006 ("ex-officio"), 2021) | Peter Peterson (founder and chair 1981–2018) | Michael Peterson (exec. director anno 2014, chair 2018-) | David Rockefeller (anno 1993, 2010) | George Soros (not in 1996; certainly involved by 1998; not a director in Aug. 2001; director anno april 2002-until Dec. 2004) | Paul Volcker (anno 1993, 2010) | Paul O'Neill (anno 1996, 2010-2012) | Michael Blumenthal (anno 1993, 1999) | Miguel de la Madrid (anno 1993, 1999) | Maurice Greenberg (anno 1993, 2021) and son Evan (anno 2021) | Carla Hills (director 1994-, exec. director anno 2003, 2010-2013) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (2009-, still anno 2011, exec. director anno 2021) | Bill Bradley (anno 2005-2006) | David O'Reilly (anno 2006, 2010) | Jacob Frenkel (adv. board anno 1999; director anno 2006, 2021) | Timothy Geithner | David Rubenstein (anno 2003, 2006) | Edward Scott | Larry Summers (anno 2003, vice chair anno 2021) | Richard Salomon | Jessica Einhorn (anno 1999, 2003, exec. director anno 2006, 2014) | Frederick Smith (anno 2010). Honorary directors: George Shultz (hon. director anno 1993, 2010) | Alan Greenspan (honorary director 1993, 2021). Foreign directors: Raymond Barre (anno 1993, 1996) | Karl Otto Pohl (anno 1993, until Dec. 2004) | Stephan Schmidheiny (not in 1996; anno 1999) | Conrad Black (not in 1996; anno 2003, until Dec. 2004) | Sir Peter Sutherland (anno 2003, until 2005) | Jean-Claude Trichet (anno 2003, 2010) | Mario Monti (anno 2006, 2010) | Renato Ruggiero (anno 2000-2010) | Lee Kuan Yew (anno 2003, 2010) | Jacob Wallenberg (2006-, anno 2014) | Victor Pinchuk (2007-) | Ronnie Chan (2008-, anno 2021) | Ajay Banga (anno 2021) | Mark Carney (anno 2021) | Advisory board: Larry S. (anno 1994) | Robert Z. (anno 1993) | David Hale (anno 2006) | Paul Krugman (anno 1993, 2002-2016) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno 1993, 1999-2016) | Robert Zoellick (adv. board anno 1999-2000, exec. director anno 2021) | Joseph Stiglitz (not in Oct. 1999, April 2000-2016) | Nicholas Stern (anno 2002-2016) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno 2006-2016) | Daniel Yergin (anno 2006-2016). More: Dr. Adam Posen (president) | Jason Furman (senior fellow) | Anders Aslund (senior fellow 2006-2015). Speakers: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech) | Niall Ferguson (May 13, 2010 lecture) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (July 7, 2011 speaker on Ukraine) | Dick Gephardt (part of a January 14, 2013 conference). Funders: GMF (seed funder, with continued funding into the 1990s), Ford Fdn., Starr Fdn., Toyota, etc. Source(s): iie.com/administ/board.htm (accessed: Oct. 4, 1999, Dec. 13, 2002), iie.com/institute/board.cfm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2007 - Sep. 21, 2013), iie.com/institute/advisory.cfm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2007 - April 15, 2016), etc. Paul |
1981 |
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) Alan Greenspan | Jim Kolbe | Paul O'Neill | Leon Panetta | Peter Peterson | Larry Summers | Paul Volcker | Sen. Chuck Robb | Robert Strauss | Bill Frenzel (co-chair) | Jane Harman | Erskine Bowles. |
1981 |
| Renaissance Weekends Philip Lader (founder) | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Sidney Harman (his widow is Jane) | Wesley Clark | Gerald Ford | William Perry | Strobe Talbott | Buzz Aldrin | David Gergen | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Thiel | Larry Summers | Arthur Sulzberger | Alan Greenspan | Sen. Bob Graham | Jamie Gorelick | Robert Hormats | Joseph Nye | Max Kampelman | Richard Viguerie | Jon Huntsman | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | David Miliband | Leon Panetta | Susan Rice | Jamie Dimon | Lamar Alexander | Lady Bird Johnson (widow of LBJ) | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt | Kurt Schmoke | Raj Shah | Bill Nye | Nicholas Kristof | Stephen Colbert | Pat Mitchell Seydel | Andrea Mitchell | Diane Sawyer | Ted Sorensen | Robert Gallucci | Philip Odeen | Howard Dean | Jack Gibbons | Lloyd Hand | Amory Houghton Jr. | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Maggie Grace | Jim Kolbe | Lawrence Korb | Ray Mabus | Eugene McCarthy | George McGhee | Norman Ornstein | Ann Wexler. |
1981 |
| United States Business Committee on Jamaica David Rockefeller (founder, at Reagan's request) | Gustavo Cisneros. |
1981-1984 |
| Council for Excellence in Government (CEG) Paul O'Neill (chair) | Volcker | Whitehead | Suzanne Woolsey | Elliot Richardson | Draper III | Kasputys | Patrick Gross | Frank Weil | Lee Hamilton | Macomber | John P. White | Ford | Carter | George W. Bush | Clinton. Ordinary member: Catherine Austin Fitts. |
1982 |
| Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Directors: Sidney Harman (chair executive comm. 1982-2009) | John Whitehead (anno 2001-2010) | Rick Goings (member 2002-, chair 2009-; chair and CEO of Tupperware Brands) | Maurice Greenberg (2005- still anno 2016; only noteworthy director by 2016) | Ross Perot Jr. (2001-2010) | Jeffrey Bergner (anno 2006) | Howard E. Cox, Jr. (anno 2006; listed as Greylock partner) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (CEO anno 2009) | . Advisory council (often not listen on website): Gen. James. L. Jones (anno 2009, until 2012) | Henry Kissinger (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Michael Hayden (2009-2012) | Robert Rubin (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Thomas Pickering (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Adm. Vernon Clark (anno 2010-, until 2012) | William Webster (anno 2010-2016) | Gen. Peter Pace (anno 2011-2020) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. (anno 2013-2020) | David Cohen (anno 2015-2020; listed as: "Special Advisor, C.V. Starr & Co. fmr Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence, NYPD. fmr Deputy Director for Operations, CIA."). Membership: Jeff Bezos (anno 2001) | Michael Bloomberg (anno 2001) | Matthew Bronfman (anno 2001; son of Edgar Sr.) | Norman Augustine (anno 2001-2016) | Jamie Dimon (anno 2001; still president of Bank One) | John Doerr (anno 2001) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno 2001; still unmarried) | David Koch (anno 2001) | Philip Odeen (anno 2001) | Peter Peterson (anno 2001) and son Michael | Steven Rattner (anno 2001) | Frederick W. Smith (anno 2001) | Andrew Tisch (anno 2001) | Ted Turner (anno 2001) | Frank Carlucci (anno 2007) | Jamie Gorelick (anno 2007) | Patrick Gross (anno 2007) | Philip Lader (anno 2007) | . Eisenhower Award: Jimmy Carter | Hillary Clinton (also a speaker on Nov. 30, 2009, together with keynote speaker Henry Kiss.) | Condoleezza Rice | Robert Gates (pre-2010) | Sen. Richard Lugar (pre-2010) | Sam Nunn (pre-2010) | Gen. David Petraeus (pre-2010) | Gen. John Abizaid (pre-2010) | Gen. Keith Alexander (2013). Unsorted: James Angleton Jr. | William Draper III | Gen. Thomas McInerney. Source(s): bens.org/who_board.html (accessed: June 29, 2001 - Feb. 2, 2007); bens.org/Leadership/AdvisoryCouncil (accessed: Dec. 1, 2016); bens.org/leadership (accessed: Nov. 30, 2016); bens.org/members.html (accessed: Nov. 30, 2001 - April 28, 2007); May 16, 2011, BusinessWire.com. 'Tupperware Brands Corporation Chairman and CEO Rick Goings Elected Chairman of Business Executives for National Security' (lists advisory council and past awardees); bens.org/page.aspx?pid=503 (accessed: July 3, 2013; brief listing of advisory board with Henry K., Michael H., Rick R., Thomas P., Gen. James L. J. and Adm. Vernon C. all gone; captured again on March 8, 2015 and a few times after); 2011, BENS 'Leadership Report' (contains advisors). |
1982 |
| Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Advisory Board: George Shultz (hon. chair anno 2011, 2020; co-founder) | William Perry (chair emeritus anno 2011, 2020) | Patrick W. Gross (anno 2011, 2020) | David Rubenstein (anno 2011) | Harry Kellogg (anno 2011; vice chair Silicon Valley Bank) | Condoleezza Rice (anno 2020) | Charles Schwab (anno 2020). |
1982 |
| J. Paul Getty Trust Trustees: Vartan Gregorian (1988–2000) | John Whitehead (1989–1995) | Ronald Spogli (2010-; vice chair anno 2010) | Ronald Lauder (2016-) | Anne Sweeney (anno 2020; trustee Paley Center for Media; director Netflix; history at Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Viacom, etc.) | Barry Munitz (president and CEO) | John F. Cook | Dr. Franklin D. Murphy. |
1982 |
| Carter Center of Emory University Jimmy Carter. Consultation on International Security & Arms Control (April 12-13, 1985): Jimmy C. (co-chair)| Gerald Ford (co-chair) | Henry Kissinger | Joseph Nye | Robert J. O'Neill | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Harold Brown | John Lehman | William Perry | Brent Scowcroft | Sen. Howard Baker | Sam Nunn | Les Aspin | Zbigniew Brzezinski | McGeorge Bundy | Robert McFarlane | James Schlesinger | Cyrus Vance | Al Gore | Harold Berman | Richard Garwin | Samuel Huntington | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Josef Joffe | Gen. David Jones | Pierre Lellouche | Christopher Makins | Gen. John Vessey | Richard Burt. Funders: Carnegie Corp., Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., Ritz-Carlton, Turner Broadcasting Systems, etc. |
1982 |
| Sun Valley meetings Herbert Allen | Herbert Allen III | Bill Bradley | Tom Brokaw | Charlie Rose | Vernon Jordan | Rupert Murdoch | Gordon Brown | Michael Eisner | Katharine Graham | Donald Graham | Tom Hanks | Christie Hefner | Steve Jobs | Michael Bloomberg | Edgar Bronfman, Jr | Warren Buffett | Bill Gates | Steve Ballmer | Paul Allen | Oprah Winfrey | Steven Spielberg | Richard Parsons | Niall Fitzgerald | George Tenet | Mike Pompeo ('17) | John Elkann (Agnelli) | Henry Kravis | Gustavo Cisneros | Mark Zuckerberg | Elon Musk | Martin Indyk | Sam Nunn | Jonathan Oppenheimer | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Jeb Bush | Peter Thiel | Rand Paul | Chris Christie | Andre Desmarais | David Ignatius | Mathias Dopfner | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (2003; not fully confirmed) | Robert Johnson | Henry Crumpton | Bryan Lourd | Marc Andreessen | Jeff Bewkes | Jeff Bezos | Eric Schmidt | Sergey Brin | John Hendricks | James Baker III ('21) | William J. Burns ('21). |
1983 |
| National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Financier of the NDI and IRI, together with USAID. Additional co-founders: Allen Weinstein (co-founder; exec. director of the study 'The Democracy Program' in 1983-1984 that led to the NED's founding; first visiting fellow 2011-2011 at "NED’s Democracy Resource Center") | Mark Palmer. Directors who joined in the 1980s: John Richardson Jr. (founding chair '83-'87, '91-'92; lawyer at Dulles brothers' Sullivan & Cromwell 1940s-1950s; banker Paine Webber in 1955; director CIA-tied IRC 1955-61, president 1960-61; president CIA-funded Radio Free Europe 1961-1968 (funded through Dulles-founded CIA-front Nat. Comm. for a Free Europe, which Richardson apparently also was president of); ass. sec. of state for edu. and cultural affairs 1969-1977 (note the CIA-Rockefeller elite "cultural war" at the time); at CSIS in 1977) | Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. (founding vice chair '83-'87; chair RNC 1983-1989) | Sally A. Shelton-Colby ('83-'92, treasurer anno '86, vice chair '87-'88; met former CIA director William Colby in 1982, and married him in 1984) | Charles Manatt ('83-'88, vice chair by '88-'92; chair DNC 1981-1985) | Lane Kirkland ('83-'92; founding TC member) | Carl Gershman (founding president '83-'21) | Walter Mondale ('85-'86) | Henry Kissinger ('85-'89) | Ed Muskie ('87-'88) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('88-'97). Directors who joined in the 1990s: Henry Cisneros ('90-'93) | Winston Lord ('90-'93, chair anno '92) | Madeleine Albright ('91-'93) | Thomas Kean ('91-'00) | David Gergen ('92-'93) | John Brademas ('92-'93, chair '93-'01) | Fred Ikle ('92-'01) | Stephen Solarz ('92-'01) | Richard Lugar ('92-'01) | Paula Dobriansky ('93-'01, vice chair anno '97) | Steve Forbes ('94-'99) | Paul Wolfowitz ('94-'01) | Julia Taft ('97; wife of William Taft IV) | Sen. Bob Graham (anno '97-'02). Directors who joined in the 2000s: Lee Hamilton (late '99 or early '00-'08) | Morton Abramowitz (early '00-'04) | Frank Carlucci ('01-'03) | Wesley Clark ('01-'05) | Bill Frist ('01-'06) | Sen. Jon Kyl ('01-'04) | Richard Holbrooke ('01-'08) | Francis Fukuyama ('01-, until at least '19) | Vin Weber (chair '01-'05, regular member '06-'12, vice chair anno '14-'16, co-vice chair '17, regular when leaving early '18) | Christopher Cox ('02-, until at least '08) | Michael Novak (anno '02-, until at least '08) | Dick Gephardt (anno '04-'08, chair anno '10-'12) | Ken Duberstein (anno '04-'12) | Moses Naim (anno '06-'15) | Zalmay Khalilzad (anno '10-, until '18) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno '12) | George Weigel (anno '12-'19) | Elliott Abrams (anno '14-'22) | Robert Zoellick ('14-'17; listed as advisory chair GS) | William Burns ('15-, still anno '20) | Anne Applebaum (anno 15-'22) | Will Marshall (anno '15-'17; founder and president Progressive Policy Inst.) | Victor Cha (anno '22). More: Walter Raymond, Jr. | Richard V. Allen (conference participant and public supporter) | Julie Finley (trustee) | Graham Fuller (attended a 2004 conference) | Larry Diamond (founding co-director of the NED"s International Forum for Democratic Studies (1994–2009) and founding co-editor of the NED's Journal of Democracy). More: Joe Biden (co-chair October 20, 1999 event) | John Whitehead (co-chair July 01, 2001 event) | Barbara Haig (deputy to the president for policy anno '10-'12; daugther of Alexander Haig) | Source(s): July 25, 2011, NDI.org, 'NDI Mourns the Passing of its Founding Chairman, Chuck Manatt': "As [DNC] chairman ... Manatt was instrumental in NDI's creation in 1983 when he and his Republican counterpart [chair RNC 1983-1989], Frank Fahrenkopf, joined with President Ronald Reagan and the Democratically-controlled Congress to establish the [NED]."; Nov. 6, 2003, NED document, 'Official Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the [NED]', final page: "Current board members: ... Former board members [including dates]..."; 1984-1992, 2000, 2005 annual reports; 1997, 'Promoting Democracy in a Time of Austerity: NED's Strategy for 1997 and Beyond', p. 7; 2002-2015 Form 990s; ned.org/about/board-of-directors/ (accessed: March 12, 2022). ned.org/page_1/gen_info.html (accesed: June 23, 1997; also lists board): "The Endowment makes hundreds of grants annually to civic education, media, human rights and other organizations [focused on] a democratic future. Endowment programs in the areas of labor, business and political party development are funded through four core institutes: the Free Trade Union Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the [IRI], and the [NED]. In the last year Endowment grants supported programs in some 84 countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Republics of the Former Soviet Union." 1989 annual report, NED, p. 9: "The Democratic Revolution was the theme of the Endowment's second world democratic conference held May 1 and 2, 1989 in Washington, D.C. ... Monica Jimenez de Barros was recognized for her contributions to the democratic cause in Chile. As founder and director of the Crusade for Citizen Participation she was the catalyst behind the nonpartisan civic movement that registered and mobilized millions of Chileans to participate in the plebiscite of October 5, 1988. ... The conference was fimded entirely by private contributions. Generous support was received from the AFL-CIO ... Amway ... Bradley Foundation ... Donner Foundation, The Joyce Foundation ... Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and SIFCO Industries..." ned.org/wp-content/uploads /2015/09/2013-sponsors.pdf (accessed: March 12, 2022): "Thank You! The Endowment warmly thanks the following for their generous support in 2013: ORGANIZATIONS: AFL-CIO ... Chevron. Coca-Cola... Goldman Sachs Gives. Google. .. Microsoft ... United Federation of Teachers ... United Steelworkers... INDIVIDUALS: ... James Jones [Gen. James L. Jones] ... Henry [K.] ... Thomas McLarty ... Condoleezza Rice..." |
1983 |
| Eisenhower Institute Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Fred Fielding (chair) | Chuck Hagel (director) | Susan Eisenhower (director). |
1983 |
| Council of American Ambassadors (CAA) David Abshire (vice chair) | Madeleine Albright | Anne Armstrong | George H. W. Bush (director and hon. chair) | Henry Catto Jr. | Adm. William Crowe | Thomas Foley | Bruce Gelb | Donald Gregg | Averell Harriman | Richard Holbrooke | Philip Kaiser | Clare Boothe Luce | Richard McCormack | Lloyd Hand | Paul Nitze (hon. chair) | Felix Rohatyn | Robert Strauss | William vanden Heuvel (director and chair) | Richard Gardner | Donald Rumsfeld | Mark Brzezinski | William Farish | Philip Lader | George H. Walker III | Richard Burt | Shirley Temple Black | Walter Curley | Robin Duke | Stuart Eizenstat | Richard Fairbanks III | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Robert Ingersoll | Max Kampelman | Ronald Lauder | J. William Middendorf II | Otto Reich | Ogden Reid (director) | Bill Richardson | William Scranton | Ronald Spogli | C. Douglas Dillon | Roy Huffington (married to Arianna 1986-1997) | George McGhee. |
1983 |
| American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) Directors (Jan. 2000): Michael Armacost | Shirley Temple Black (member 1983-) | Richard Gardner | Carla Hills. Listed chairmen emeriti: Sol Linowitz (member 1983-) | Frank Carlucci (member 1983-) | Lawrence Eagleburger | Max Kampelman. Listed Founders: U. Alexis Johnson | Ellsworth Bunker | John McCloy. Members (Jan. 2000; names besides directors; "Charter Members 1983" are marked): Henry Kissinger (1983-2016) | Alexander Haig (1983-) | Robert McNamara (1983-) | William Bundy (1983-) | Warren Christopher (1983-) | C. Douglas Dillon (1983-) | Donald Rumsfeld (1983-) | George Kennan (1983-) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (1983-) | William P. Rogers (1983-) | Harold Saunders (1983-) | Robert Ingersoll (1983-) | William Scranton (1983-) | James Baker III | Robert R. Bowie | Adm. William Crowe | Kenneth W. Dam | Chas Freeman | Robert Gallucci (director anno 2005-2020s) | Charles Gillespie Jr. | Lee Hamilton | Richard Helms | Philip Kaiser | Melvin Laird | Anthony Lake | Winston Lord | William Luers | Walter Mondale | John Negroponte (director anno 2020) | Paul Nitze | Joseph Nye | Henry Owen | Robert Pelletreau | Nicholas Platt | Colin Powell | Rozanne Ridgway | William D. Rogers | James Schlesinger | Brent Scowcroft | Raymond Seitz | George Shultz (honorary member; same in '20) | Cyrus Vance | Gen. Vernon Walters | Paul Warnke | William Webster | John Whitehead | Frank Wisner II (director anno 2020) | Paul Wolfowitz. Members per June 5, 2007 (only new names): Thomas Pickering (chair 2005-2020s) | Madeleine Albright | Richard Armitage | Sandy Berger | Chester Crocker | Richard Haass | Richard Holbrooke | Martin Indyk | Sam Nunn | Felix Rohatyn | Stapleton Roy (director anno 2005) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Strobe Talbott | William vanden Heuvel. Members per May 3, 2015 (only new names): Richard Boucher | Nicholas Burns | Hillary Clinton | Paula Dobriansky (director anno 2020) | Eric Edelman | Stuart Eizenstat | John Hamre | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Stephen Kappes (2014-) | Richard Lugar | Condoleezza Rice (hon. still; later a regular member) | William Taft IV | Ashton Carter ("Now in Government Service"; member again by '20). Members per May 3, 2020 (only new names): Susan Rice | Fred Bergsten | Gordon Gray | John Kerry | Stuart Symington | Robert Zoellick. More: Richard Perle (Feb. 12, 2004 'Dialogue' speaker, alongside Henry K. and Richard H.) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (May 27, 2004 'Dialogue' luncheon speaker) | Gen. James L. Jones (anno 2011-2012) | Bruce Gelb (listed as "ex-officio" director anno 2005) | Marc Grossman (vice chair anno 2020). Members 1980s-1990s: Averell Harriman | Henry Cabot Lodge | Clare Boothe Luce | Dean Rusk. |
1983 |
| Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) Adm. Hyman Rickover (co-founder) | Joann DiGennaro (co-founder and president). Past and present honorary trustees: Colin Powell | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Sen. Bill Frist | Jimmy Carter | Sen. Lindsey Graham | Sen. Bill Nelson. Past and present trustees: Frank Carlucci | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | Pickering. |
1983 |
| Private Sector Council (PSC) David Packard (founder) | Carlucci (chair) | Norman Augustine | Thomas Foley | Chuck Hagel | Paul O'Neill | John Hamre |
1983-2004 |
| United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Allen Weinstein (founding member) | John N. Moore (chair 1986-1991; IAC anno '21) | Chester Crocker (chair 1994-2004; IAC anno 2021) | Richard Solomon (president 1993-2012) | Max Kampelman (vice chair until 2000) | Elspeth Rostow (vice chair 1990; wife of Walt Whitman R.) | Stephen Hadley (director 1990, chair anno 2013, director anno 2021) | William Kinter (director 1990) | Evron Kirkpatrick (director 1990; husband of Jeane) | W. Scott Thompson (director 1990s) | Ronald Lehman II | Eric Edelman (director anno '21) | Stephen Krasner (director anno '21) | Ron Silver. Listed "ex officio" members over the years: Madeleine Albright | Douglas Feith | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Donald Rumsfeld | Hillary Clinton | Walter Slocombe | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel. Advisory council: Thomas Pickering. International advisory council: Chuck Robb (anno '21) | Michael Chertoff (anno '21) | Peter Ackerman (anno '21) | Robert Abernethy (anno '21) | Dr. Hans Binnendijk (anno '21) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (anno '21) | Maya Soetoro-Ng ('21; Barack Obama's half-sister). Also: George Shultz (attended a conference) | Bill Richardson (senior fellow) | David Michel (research fellow) | Gen. Charles Wald (senior advisor). Genocide Prevention Task Force (2007-): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | William Cohen (co-chair) | Thomas Daschle | Jack Kemp | Thomas P. | Stuart Eizenstat | Vin Weber | Anthony Zinni. Responsibility to Protect Working Group (2011-13): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | Sherri Goodman | Michael Abramowitz | Gen. Wesley Clark | Paula Dobriansky | Jim Kolbe | Nicholas Rostow | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Hadley |
1984 |
| Council for America's First Freedom (CAFF) Governor's honorary advisory council: Chuck Robb. National honorary advisory council: Albright | Eagleburger | Holbrooke | Sen. George Mitchell | Sandra Day O'Connor | Steven Rockefeller | Rabbi Arthur Schneier | Elie Wiesel. |
1984 |
| The Forum for the Future of Higher Education (FFHE) Norman Augustine | Gen. John Allen | David Boren | General Wesley Clark | Martin Feldstein | Niall Ferguson | Leslie Gelb | Richard Haass | Lee Hamilton | Walter Isaacson | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Gen. Jim Mattis | Adm. Michael Mullen | Joseph Nye | Steven Pinker (rent-a-skeptic) | Samantha Power | Jeffrey Sachs. Donors: Atlantic Philanthropies and the Ford, Casey, Carnegie, Hewlett, Knight, Kellogg, Luce, Andrew W. Mellon and Lumina foundations. |
1984 |
| Institute for the Study of American Wars Advisory council: Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Alexander Haig | Dean Rusk | Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. | John Harkanson (DuPont) |
1984 |
| Santa Fe Institute George Keyworth (trustee 1986-1989) | Murray Gell-Mann (co-chair science board) | Pierre Omidyar | Stewart Brand (trustee 1989-2004) | Jeffrey Epstein (financing) | Valerie Plame (consultant) |
1984 |
| Center for Democracy Board: Allen Weinstein (founder and president and CEO 1985-2003, until merger with IFES) | Robert Livingston (co-chair) | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Richard Lugar | Sen. Chuck Robb | Jim Nicholson (chair RNC) | Henry Kissinger (2002-2003) | Thomas Pickering (2002-2003) |
1985-2003 |
| Bretton Woods Committee (BWC) Leadership: James Orr (co-founder and long-time executive director and secretary) | Henry Fowler (suggested its founding as Treasury secretary; founding co-chair 1985-) | Charles Walker (deputy Treasury secretary; founding co-chair 1985-) | Henry Owen (founding chair of the executive committee 1985 until at least 1988; co-chair anno 1990 - until 2002) | Paul Volcker (co-chair anno 1989, 1997; member '99; member until death in '19; FED chair 1979-1987) | Gerald Corrigan (member '99; co-chair 2002-2010) | James Wolfensohn (1985-, co-chair 2010-2020s) | Bill Frenzel (co-chair anno '99 - '15; special advisor on NAFTA to Bill Clinton in 1993; deep into tax NGOs) | Richard Debs (1985-; finance chair anno 2000; chair executive committee until '15, listed as chair international council '15-). Most important members (members always listed on website, since 1999; also made use of a 1985 founding membership list): George Soros (at least '99-'20) | Henry Kissinger (at least '99-'20) | George Shultz (at least '99-'20) | David Rockefeller (1985 - until death in '17) | George Ball (1985-) | Maurice Strong (1985-) | Warren Christopher (1985-) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (at least '99 - mid '17, a year before death) | Peter Peterson (member 1985 - until death in '18) | John Whitehead (1985 - until death in '15) | Harold Brown (1985-; at least '99 - until death in '19) | Alexander Haig (at least '99 - until death in '10; listed as chair "Worldwide Associates, Inc.") | Frank Carlucci (1985-, at least '99 - until death in '18) | Lawrence Eagleburger (at least '99 - until death in '11) | Brent Scowcroft (at least '99-'20) | Maurice Greenberg ('09, '20) and son Evan ('07) | Vernon Jordan (at least '99-'20) | James Baker III (at least '99-'20) | Henry Kravis ('04, '15) | Madeleine Albright ('04, '20) | Ashton Carter ('09, '15). Members who entered the Bush 43 administration: Condoleezza Rice ('99) | Colin Powell ('99, '10, '20) | Donald Rumsfeld ('96-'01) | Dick Cheney ('99). Well-known economists: D. Gale Johnson ('99) | Jeffrey Sachs ('99, '11) | Joseph Stiglitz ('07, '12) | Nouriel Roubini ('07, '20) | Larry Summers ('15, '20). More members: Thornton Bradshaw (1985-) | David Matthew Kennedy (1985-; Mormon) | Donald Kendall (1985-) | William Paley (1985-) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (1985-) | C. Douglas Dillon (co-founder; 1985-, '99) | Robert McNamara (at least '99 - until death in '09) | Cyrus Vance (1985 - until death in '02) | Paula Dobriansky ('18, '20) | Carla Hills (at least '99-'20) and husband Roderick Hills (at least '99 - until death in '14) | Jacob Frenkel ('09, '20) | Niall Ferguson ('09, '20) | Robert Hormats ('99) | David Abshire ('05; not on '09 list) | Robert Strauss (1985-, '99) | Mortimer Zuckerman ('99, '20) | Fred Bergsten (1985-, '99, '20) | John Brademas (at least '99 - until death in '16) | Morton Abramowitz ('99, '15) | Buzz Aldrin ('07-'13) | Judith Rodin ('07) | Robert O. Anderson (1985-, '99 - until death in 2007) | Michael Blumenthal ('99, '20) | Stuart Eizenstat (1985-, '07, '09) | Nicholas Brady ('99, '20) | Henry E. Catto ('99, '09) | William Coleman Jr. (1985-, '99, '09) | Harold Andersen ('03; Omaha World-Herald Company) | Katharine Graham ('99) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman ('99, '20) | Philip Klutznick ('99) | Sol Linowitz (1985-, '99) | Ruben Mettler (1985-, '99) | John B. Rhodes ('99) | William Ruckelshaus ('99) | William Simon (1985-, '99) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt ('99) | David Stockman ('99) | William Taft IV ('99) | Lew Wasserman ('99) | Anne Wexler (1985-, '99) | Norman Augustine ('99, '03) | A. W. Clausen ('99) | Leslie Gelb ('99) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster ('99) | C. Boyden Gray ('99) | Lee Iacocca ('99, '07) | Rudolph Peterson ('99) | Frank Weil ('99, '20) | Bill Archer ('15) | David Boren ('20) | William Cohen ('09, '20) | Richard Gardner ('09, '20) | Lee Hamilton ('15, '20) | Yves-Andre Istel ('15, '20) | Thomas Kean ('15, '20) | Bill McCollum ('10, '12) | Robert McFarlane ('99) | Victor Palmieri ('99) | George Rupp ('99, '09) | Mary K. Bush ('03) | Clark Clifford (1985-, '99, '03) | Barber Conable ('99, '03) | Richard McCormack ('09, '20) | Jacques Polak ('99) | Jim Kolbe (co-chair 2014-) | Thomas McLarty III ('09, '20) | Walter Mondale ('09, '18) | George Pataki ('07, '15) | Ross Perot Jr. ('10-'18) | John Hauge ('99; "senior finance responsibilities" Perot Systems Corporation 1993-1998) | Peter Altabef ('09; "President and CEO, Perot Systems.") | Melvin Laird (1985-, '99) | John Macomber ('99, '07) | Gen. Edward C. Meyer ('99, '07) | Robert Mosbacher Sr. ('99, '07) | Irving Shapiro (member 1985-, '99) | George Weyerhaeuser (1985-, '99, '09) | Henry Louis Gates Jr. ('09, '20; Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research) | Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani of Qatar ('18, '20) | Felix Rohatyn (1985-, '09, '20) | Robert Roosa (1985-) | Henry Schacht (1985-) | Bruce MacLaury ('99, '09) | Edmund Pratt Jr. ('99) | Vartan Gregorian ('09, '20) | Strobe Talbott ('09, '20) | John Negroponte ('18, '20) | David Miliband ('20) | Onno Ruding ('99, '20) | Anthony Lake (-'10) | Theodore Hesburgh (1985-, '99) | James Robinson III ('09, '20) | Lloyd Cutler ('99) | William Reilly ('09, '20) | Gov. Bill Richardson ('99) | Eric Kessler ('15) | William Schaefer ('99, '09) | Ken Chenault ('09, '20) | Robert Zoellick ('18, '20) | Whitney Debevoise ('99) | Walter Shipley ('99) | William Hewitt ('99) | Dan Glickman ('09, '15) | Kelsey Grammer ('04, '07) | John Birkelund ('99, '09) | Tim Wirth ('07) | Muhammad Yunus ('09, '12) | Elliot Richardson (1985-) | James Manyika (anno 2020) | Hugh Price (anno 2006). International council (consists of bank representatives around the world, from Japan to the Middle East; brettonwoods.org/council.html (accessed: 2007): Etienne Davignon ('07-; certainly a regular member in '09) | Sir Peter Sutherland ('07-; certainly a regular member in '09) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('07-; still on the advisory council anno '20; president ECB 2003-2011) | Sir David Walker ('07-; certainly a regular member in '20) | Marcus Wallenberg ('07-; certainly a regular member in '20). Advisory council: Jean-Claude T. (advisory council anno '15, '20) | Sir David W. (advisory council anno '15, '20) | William Rhodes (advisory council anno '15, '20) | David de Ferranti ('09, '15) | Mohamed El-Erian (advisory council anno '15, '20; chaired President Obama's Global Development Council) | William Dudley (advisory council '20). Honorary co-chairmen (also listed as regular members): Gerald Ford (1980s-2006) | Jimmy Carter (1980s-) | George H. W. Bush (1990s-2018). Other: Paul Wolfowitz (words at the 2005 BWC's International Council luncheon: "The multilateral institutions need and welcome outside advice and guidance and they count on the Committee's International Council for help.") |
1985 |
| International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG) Board of overseers (2000s): Gustavo Cisneros | Paul Volcker | A. W. Clausen | Stephan Schmidheiny. Others: Sol Linowitz. |
1985 |
| Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Culturally-socially liberal, but fiscally conservative (i.e. pro-big business). Al From (founder and CEO) | Dick Gephardt | Chuck Robb | Sam Nunn | Joseph Lieberman | Bill Clinton | Al Gore (vice president) | Joe Biden (vice president) | Michael Steinhardt (chair). |
1985 |
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute (RRPFI) / Reagan Foundation Trustees: W. Glenn Campbell (founding trustee chair anno '85) | Edwin Meese (founding vice chair anno '85) | William P. Clark Jr. (founding treasurer anno '85) | William French Smith (founding trustee anno '85) | Jeffrey Immelt ('10-, anno '19) | Nancy Reagan (anno '14) | T. Boone Pickens (anno '14-'16) | Pete Wilson (anno '14-'21) | Steve Forbes (anno '10-'21) | Ted Olson (anno '10-'21) | Rudolph Giuliani (anno '10-'19)| Jon Huntsman (anno '14-'16) | Rupert Murdoch (anno '10-'21) and son Lachlan (anno '21) | George Shultz (anno '10-'21; lifetime trustee) | Condoleezza Rice (anno '21) | Paul Ryan (anno '21). Founding Governors anno '85 (board not seen in later years; *exec. comm., which includes the trustees of the time): Joe Allbritton (trustee anno '10) | Richard V. Allen | Robert O. Anderson | Walter Annenberg | Anne Armstrong | Brooke Astor | Thornton Bradshaw | Nicholas Brady* | William Brady | Arthur Burns | Willard Butcher | W. Glenn Campbell* | William P. Clark Jr.* | Joseph Coors* | Trammell Crow | Max M. Fisher* | Malcolm Forbes | Milton Friedman | Barry Goldwater | Billy Graham | Maurice Greenberg | Alan Greenspan | Bryce Harlow | Thomas V. Jones | Philip Klutznick | Clare Boothe Luce | Gordon Luce | Jack Massey | Jeremiah Milbank Jr. | Roger Milliken | Emil Mosbacher Jr. | Robert Mosbacher Sr.* | David Murdock | David Packard* | Ross Perot* | Jay Pritzker* | Maureen, Michael, Neil Reagan | James Robinson III* | David Rockefeller* | Henry Salvatori | Richard Mellon Scaife* | William Simon* | Robert Strauss* | Lew Wasserman* | Jane Weinberger (husband of Caspar W.) | Ted Welch | Pete Wilson. Staff: Roger Zakheim (man. director; son of Dov) Peace Through Strength Award Recipients: Robert Gates ('13) | Leon Panetta (Nov. '14) | John McCain III (Nov. '14) | Condi R. ('15) | Dick Cheney ('16) | Ashton Carter ('16). Freedom Award recipients: Mikhail Gorbachev | Colin Powell | King Hussein I of Jordan | Yitzhak Rabin | Bob Hope | Margaret Thatcher. "Past speakers" as of May 20, 2000: John Ashcroft | Haley Barbour | James Baker III | Tom Brokaw | William Buckley | George W. Bush | Linda Chavez | Edwin Feulner Jr. | Thomas Foley | Newt Gingrich | Charlton Heston | Fred Ikle | Max Kampelman | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Jack Kemp | Larry King of CNN | Jeane Kirkpatrick | George McGovern | Brian Mulroney | Michael Novak | Robert Novak | Sandra Day O'Connor | Richard Perle | Dan Quayle | Donald Regan | Diane Sawyer | Margaret Thatcher | Fred Thompson | Chris Wallace | Mike Wallace | Christine Whitman | Rudolph G. | Gov. Pete W. | George S. Source(s): 1985 founding list of trustees (8) and governors (dozens). |
1985 |
| Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Opening speakers: Sen. William Fulbright | Jimmy Carter | Cyrus Vance. Board of oversight: Vartan Gregorian | Leslie Gelb | Lee Hamilton | Philip Lader | Thomas Pickering | William Rhodes | Stephen Walt. More speakers: Queen Noor of Jordan | Eduard Schevarnadze . Others: Richard Holbrooke (professor 2007-10). Funders/partners: Ford Fdn. | Luce Fdn. | Kim Koo Fdn. |
1986 |
| Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) Past and present honorary directors/members: William D. Rogers | Alexander Haig | Cyrus Vance | Lawrence Eagleburger | Warren Christopher | Hillary Clinton | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Shultz | Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Advisory council: John Whitehead. Former directors: Adm. William Crowe | Ogden R. Reid |
1986 |
| Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Honorary patrons: Albright | James Baker III | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Shultz. Also credits Reagan, the Bush family and Clinton for crucial support. |
1986 |
| World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) Chairman: Paula Dobriansky |
1986 |
| Council on Competitiveness Ruben Mettler | Peter Peterson | Robert Gates | Steve Ballmer | Sen. David Boren | Raymond Gilmartin (chair) | Richard T. Clark | Joseph Gorman (executive) | Robert Dynes (executive) | Louis Gerstner | Patrick Gross | Tom Ridge | |
1986 |
| Women in International Security (WIIS) 2020 honor roll ("served in leadership roles for the organization throughout its history"): Madeleine Albright | Christiane Amanpour | Paula Dobriansky | Rozanne Ridgway | Jane Wales | Mary Robinson. |
1987 |
| Roosevelt Institute William vanden Heuvel (president; chair emeritus) | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (chair). Directors: William Brody (presiden John Hopkins 1996-2009) | Nancy Roosevelt Ireland | Paul Rudd | Katrina vanden Heuvel. Governors: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (chair) | John Brademas | Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Meera Gandhi (early Mother Teresa protege) | David A. Roosevelt | James Roosevelt, Jr. | Laura D. Roosevelt. Also: Jonathan Soros (senior fellow) | Robert Borosage (advisory board) | Joseph Stiglitz (senior fellow and chief economist anno 2010). Roosevelt Institution (founded in 2005; merged with the Roosevelt Institute in 2007) Initial press release: "Stanford students have launched The Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first student think tank..." Advisory board 2005-("people who help us and/or think we're cool"): Dee Dee Meyers (Clinton press secretary married to the national editor of Vanity Fair and the LA bureau chief of the NY Times) | William Perry | John Podesta | John Prendergast (Int. Crisis Group) | Anne, Jim and Kermit Roosevelt | Katrina vanden Heuvel (the Nation editor since 1995) | William vanden Heuvel. Senator Richard Lugar | David Rothkopf | Andrea Batista Schlesinger (deputy director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Fdns.). Also: |
1987 |
| International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Clifton White (founder) | Allen Weinstein (senior strategist) | Bill Sweeney (president since 2009) | Robert Livingston | Ken Blackwell |
1987 |
| Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) Members: Howard Buffett (son of Warren Buffett) | Vernon Jordan Jr. | Pamela Harriman | Jim Lehrer | Paul O'Neill | Leon Panetta | Pete Wilson | Jane Harman | Richard Parsons. |
1988 |
| Richmond Forum Listed historical speakers (up to June 2020): Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft | Paul Volcker | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Newt Gingrich | Frank Carlucci | Alexander Haig | Robert McFarlane | Carla Hills | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Steve Forbes | Queen Noor of Jordan | Desmond Tutu | Adm. William Crowe | George Mitchell | Warren Rudman | Gen. Keith Alexander | Lamar Alexander | James Baker III | Jack Kemp | Brian Mulroney | Robert Mueller | George H. W., George W. and Laura Bush | Bill Clinton | Barack Obama | Mikhail Gorbachev | Margaret Thatcher | Tony Blair | John Major | Gordon Brown | Ehud Barak | Benjamin Netanyahu | Shimon Peres | Samantha Power | Ross Perot | T. Boone Pickens | Charles Krauthammer | Rudolph Giuliani | William Buckley | George McGovern | John Glenn | William Proxmire | Ben Bernanke | Walter Isaacson | Helmut Schmidt | Mohamed ElBaradei | Vicente Fox | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Benazir Bhutto | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Gen. Tommy Franks | Louis Freeh | Thomas Friedman | Hodding Carter III | Lou Dobbs | Robert Reich | Mary Robinson. Media speakers: Bill Moyers | Peter Jennings | Tom Brokaw | Anderson Cooper | Oprah Winfrey | Barbara Walters | Walter Cronkite | Ted Koppel | Larry King | Andy Rooney | Diane Sawyer | Joe Scarborough | Bob Woodward | Fareed Zakaria. Remaining past speakers: Neil Armstrong | Candice Bergen | David Blaine | Tom Clancy | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Bill Cosby | Ron Howard | Steven Spielberg | Robert Redford | Michael Douglas | Steve Martin | Jane Goodall | Quincy Jones | B.B. King | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Carl Sagan | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Alvin Toffler | Jim Lehrer. |
1992 |
| Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) Robert Galvin (director in the 1990s) | Lloyd Hand (since 1990s; executive committee) | Maurice Greenberg (early 2000; executive committee) | Elizabeth Schwartz (Boeing) | Raymond Garcia |
1987-2007 |
| California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Bruce Tarter | John S. Foster, Jr. (director) |
1988 |
| Senior Living Foundation of the American Foreign Service (SLF) Honorary co-chairmen: Albright | James Baker III | Frank Carlucci | Henry Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | George Shultz. Advisors: Shirley Temple Black. Directors: Marc Grossman (chair) | Thomas Pickering. |
1988 |
| Rebuild Together 2006 national advisory council (from annual report, not on the site): Bill Bradley | Henry Cisneros | Vernon Jordan | Thomas Kean | John McCain III. |
1988 |
| National Constitution Center (NCC) Trustees: Sandra Day O'Connor | Doug DeVos (chair) | David Rubenstein | Miguel "Mike" Bezos. |
1988 |
| Forstmann Little Conferences Ted Forstmann (founder) Forstmann Little & Co./Gulfstream Corp. directors in the 1990s (and conference visitors): George Shultz | Henry Kissinger | Donald Rumsfeld | Colin Powell | Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Other visitors: Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Nat Rothschild | Nelson Mandela | Richard Branson | Prince Turki al Faisal | Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Bahrain) | Jeff Bezos | Michael Eisner | Herbert Allen | Steve Ballmer | Sandy Berger | Benazir Bhutto | Joe Biden | Conrad Black | Tony Blair | Michael Bloomberg | Paul Bremer | Tom Brokaw | Jeb Bush | Dick Cheney | Richard A. Clarke | Bill Clinton | Peter Coors | Kevin Costner | Sheryl Crow | Lester Crown | Sir Richard Dearlove | Michael Dell | Barry Diller | John Doerr | Stanley Druckenmiller (while chief investment officer of Soros' Quantum Fund) | Michael Eisner | Ari Emanuel | Elizabeth Hurley | Walter Isaacson | Steve Forbes | Newt Gingrich | Sen. John Glenn | Alan Greenspan | Peter Jennings | Paul Tudor Jones | Queen Noor and King Abdullah of Jordan | Paul Kagame | Martin Luther King III | Jeane Kirkpatrick | William Kristol | Sen. John McCain | Leslie Moonves | Nathan Myhrvold | Sam Nunn | Dean Ornish | Michael Ovitz | David Petraeus | Sydney Pollack | Tom Ridge | Lord George Robertson | Charlie Rose | Karl Rove | Eric Schmidt | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Terry Semel | Martha Stewart | Robert Strauss | Jack Straw | Iraq president Jalal Talabani | George Tenet | Meg Whitman | Oprah Winfrey | Prince Andrew Windsor | Bob Woodward. |
1989 |
| Henry L. Stimson Center Directors: Barry Blechman (co-founder and chair) | Condoleezza Rice (director in 1990s) | Gen. Larry Welch (director in 1990s and 2000s) | Thomas Pickering (vice chair) | Philip Odeen | Adm. Kevin Cosgriff. Financing : Carnegie Corp., MacArthur Fdn., Peterson Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn., Tides Fdn., etc. |
1989 |
| Business Enterprise Trust Focuses on "celebrating socially responsible companies", including the "creation of opportunities for women and minorities". Hevay "Lib CIA" presence. Failed to gather steam. Trustees: James E. Burke (founding chair, still anno '96; co-founder; Partnership for a Drug-Free America) | Norman Lear (founding, still anno '96-'00; co-founder who put in $10 million of his own money, but saw the endeavor fail) | Robert Reich ('89-'93) | Katharine Graham ('89-'00; friend of Lear through Ben Bradlee) | Warren Buffett ('89-'00; involved with Katherine in the WaPo) | Sen. William T. Coleman Jr. (anno '96-'00) | Sol Linowitz (anno '96-'00) | James Lynn (anno '96-'00; Lazard) | Bob Iger (anno '96) | Henry Schacht (anno '96-'00) | John T. Walton (anno '96-'00; of the Walton Family Fdn.). Annual NYC Rainbow Room dinner (March 1991-1996) participants: David Rockefeller ('91; one of 200 original participants) | Peter Peterson ('91) | Laurence Tisch ('91) | Jack Welch ('91) | Barbara Walters ('91) | Bill Bradley | Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Bill Moyers | Diane Sawyer. Awardees: Frank Stanton ('91) | Robert Haas ('95; CEO Levi Strauss). Source(s): betrust.org/board.html (accessed: Oct. 30, 1996); betrust.org/brd.html (accessed: Oct. 17, 2000); Dec. 31, 2000, fastcompany.com, 'Norman Lear's Not Laughing'; 2014, N. Lear, 'Even This I Get to Experience', chapter 6; etc. |
1989-1996, site listed until 2000 |
| Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (DLC-tied) Will Marshall (founder and president) | Bill Clinton (chair) | Sen. Dick Gephardt (chair) | Al From (chair) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (chair) | Jay Rockefeller (task force member). Has co-founded a task force on Iran with Freedom House. |
1989 |
| Third Way Foundation / Third Way (DLC-tied) Al From (chair of the foundation). Later known simply as Third Way: Rachel Pritzker (trustee anno 2020; co-chair Energy Program ). |
1989 |
| Center for Public Integrity Advisory board: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | William Schneider | Paul Volcker. Directors: Arianna Huffington. Financed by: Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Omidyar, Tides, Threshold, Soros's OSF. |
1989 |
| David Rockefeller Fund Dr. Richard Rockefeller | Abby Rockefeller (David's oldest daughter) and husband Lee Halprin | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Lukas Haynes (executive director). Mainly "liberal CIA" causes. |
1989 |
| Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Directors emeritus: Kissinger, Shultz |
1990 |
| Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) Directors: Cyrus Vance (co-founder and chair) | John Whitehead (co-founder and chair) | Henry Kissinger | Paul Volcker (chair) | Kenneth Dam | Carla Hills | John Thornton |
1990 |
| George Bush Presidential Library Foundation (GBPLF) Trustees (2014): Jeb, Jonathan, Neil, William H. T. and Marvin B. | Dorothy Bush Koch | Hushang Ansary | James Baker, III | Nicholas Brady | Andrew Card | James Cicconi | William Draper, III | Laurie Firestone | C. Boyden Gray | Ray Hunt | John Lindsey | John Macomber | Brian Mulroney | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Brent Scowcroft (also president) | Steve Wynn. Trustees (2001): Joe Allbritton | Walter Annenberg | Dick Cheney | William Farish, III | Max M. Fisher | Richard Gelb | Ken Lay | Robert Mosbacher | Dan Quayle | Arnold S. | Robert Strauss | Jack Valenti | Jerry Weintraub | George W. Bush Presidential Center: Craig Stapleton (director) | Dina Habib Powell (advisory council). George W. Bush Institute: Joshua Muravchik (fellow 2012-2013) | Laura B. (anno '17) | Ray H. | Harlan Crow (anno '17) | Craig Stapleton (anno '17) | David Kramer (exec. director anno '23). Source(s): bushcenter.org/about-the-center/our-team.html (Nov. 19, 2017). |
1991 |
| Milken Institute / Milken Institute Global Conference Conference speakers: Tony Blair | Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia | Suzy Cameron (wife of James Cameron) | Susan Eisenhower | Robert Gates | Jane Goodall | Al Gore | Goldie Hawn | Tommy Hilfiger | Arianna Huffington | Ashley Judd | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | John Kluge, Jr. | Nicholas Kristof | Lord Peter Mandelson | Patrick Moynihan (CEO Blockchain Industries) | Petra Nemcova | Sean Parker | Gen. David Petraeus | Thomas Pritzker | Steven Rattner | Sumner Redstone | Bill Richardson | Nouriel Roubini | Paul Ryan | Tim Ryan | Eric Schmidt | Rutherford and Vasser Seydel (UN and Ted Turner Foundation) | Laura Turner Seydel (daughter of Ted Turner) | Larry Summers | Casey Wasserman | Eyal Ofer | Jane Harman | David Rubenstein | Stephen Schwarzman | Tom Hanks | Bill Clinton | George W. Bush | Paul Kagame | Christine Lagarde | Elon Musk | Jamie Dimon | Steven Mnuchin | Bill Gates | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Richard Haass | ka Trump | Meg Whitman | Reese Witherspoon | Laurene Powell Jobs ('13). Present: Les Moonves. |
1991 |
| Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia William Simon (founding board member) | Vernon Jordan (president 1996-2003) | Barack Obama (joined in 2017) | Bill Clinton. Secret membership. |
1991 |
| Citizens for a Free Kuwait (CFK) Set up by Hill & Knowlton of Robert Keith Gray. Conspired with Kuwaiti elites and the Bush administration to sell the 1st Gulf War by spreading the disinformation that Iraqi soldiers took babies out of their incubators and left them to die on the cold floor. "Nayirah", secretly the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., was given acting lessons and told this story to congress. President Bush himself kept repeating this story and the press refused to expose it until after the U.S. invasion. Interestingly, there was no need for this disinformation, as Iraqi soldiers pillaged, raped, tortured and murdered at will. At the same time, Kuwait had been ruled by a dictatorial emir and an elite with spoiled rich kids. The emir employed large-scale immigrant labor under virtually slave conditions. |
1991 |
| Connecticut Forum Listed historical penalists (up to June 2020): Henry Kissinger | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Michael Bloomberg | Richard Perle | Richard Armitage | Richard Holbrooke | Walter Isaacson | Karl Rove | Newt Gingrich | Katharine Graham | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Francis Fukuyama | David Gergen | Ed Meese III | George Mitchell | Col. Oliver North | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Elie Wiesel | Jimmy Wales | Jack Kemp | Ben Bradlee | Arianna Huffington | Michael Moore | Rob Reiner | Bill Moyers | Ralph Nader | Nicholas Kristof | Robert Reich | Nicholas Negroponte | Joi Ito | Larry Brilliant | Bob Weir | Danny Glover | Jason Alexander | Charlie Rose | Samantha Power | Joseph Califano | William Proxmire | Sen. Christopher Dodd | Tom Ridge | William Bennett (former drug czar) | William Buckley Jr. | Pat Buchanan | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Steven Pinker | Spike Lee | Julian Bond | Howard Dean | Ben Wattenberg | Salman Rushdie | Benazir Bhutto | Barbara Ehrenreich | Thomas Friedman | Bill Cosby | Yo-Yo Ma | Anthony Bourdain | Ann Coulter | Andrew Cuomo | Mario Cuomo | Alec Baldwin | Ashley Judd | Adam Savage | Christopher Buckley | Christopher Hitchens | Check D | Craig Newmark | Dan Quayle | Ezra Klein | Fareed Zakaria | Gene Wilder | George McGovern | Gloria Steinem | Mia Farrow | Henry Winkler | Hodding Carter | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Joan Rivers | Joel Klein | John Legend | Jose Antonio Vargas (producer of the 2015 white privilige MTV documentary 'White People') | Michelle Obama | Walter Cronkite. Source(s): ctforum.org/panelists/ (accessed: June 6, 2022; historic panelists). |
1992 |
| Concord Coalition Peter Peterson (founder) | Warren Rudman (founder) | Paul Volcker | Sen. Bob Kerrey (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Sen. Chuck Robb | John P. White | Robert Rubin | Evan Greenberg | Harvey Meyerhoff |
1992 |
| Forum for International Policy (FFIP) Eagleburger | Scowcroft | Robert Gates | Carla Hills | Haass | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Deutch |
1993 |
| Virginia Neurological Institute (VNI) Robert Gates | Scowcroft | Eagleburger | Carla Hills | Gen. Paul Gorman | Edgar Bronfman | John Kluge |
1993 |
| Warren Buffett's annual classic golf tournaments, Omaha, Nebraska Adm. Hank Chiles (known to have went in 1995 and 1996; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1994-1996) | Adm. Richard Mies (hosted the 2001 tournament breakfast at Offutt; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1998-2001) | Col. Bob Smith (went in 1995; general manager, Officers Club at Offutt) | Dan Chao | Anne Tatlock. Visitors consist of leading U.S. businessmen, but not necessarily politically connected. |
1993 |
| Republican Leadership Council (RLC) Christine Whitman (founder and long-time chair) | Eisenberg (co-founder and chair) | Jon Kyl | Henry Kravis (co-chair) | Bob Dole (co-chair) |
1993 |
| Character Education Partnership (CEP) David Abshire | Norman Augustine | Brzezinski | Barbara Bush | William Webster |
1993 |
| Center for the National Interest (CFTNI) Henry Kissinger | James Schlesinger | Maurice and Evan Greenberg | Brent Scowcroft | Peter Peterson | Zbigniew Brzezinski | William Kristol | Richard Perle | Conrad Black | Daniel Pipes | Morton Abramowitz | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | Francis Fukuyama | Richard Burt. Nixon Center: Henry K. (hon. chair) | Maurice G. (chair) | Peter P. | Brent S. | James S. (adv. council chair) | C. Black | Jonathan Aitken | Julie Eisenhower | Robert Ellsworth | Joseph Lieberman | John McCain III | Walter Annenberg | Robert Blackwill | Paula Dobriansky | John Deutch | David and Susan Eisenhower | Rita Hauser | Charles Krauthammer | Evan Greenberg | Lee Hamilton | Robert McFarlane | Joseph Nye | Dov Zakheim | Robert Zoellick | Leslie Gelb | William V. Roth Jr. | Richard V. Allen | David Abshire | Fritz Ermarth (director of national security programs since 2002) |
1994 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Board: General Martin Dempsey. Honorary Board: Adm. Michael Mullen | Gary Sinise | General Colin Powell | Gen. James Conway | Gen. Richard Myers | Jeremy Renner | Joan Shalikashvili (wife of Gen. John Shalikashvili) | Kyra Phillips (CNN News Anchor) | Sen. Barbara Mikulski | Sen. Bob Dole (chair) | Jimmy Carter | Sen. John McCain | Sen. Kit Bond |
1994 |
| Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) Directors 2000-2001: Robert Abernethy | Michael Armacost | Ronnie Chan | Warren Christopher | Lewis Coleman | Rita Hauser | Irwin Jacobs | Jim Steinberg Members per Dec. 12, 2001 (as listed in 'PCIP 2000-2001: From Start-up to Institution' report): George Shultz | Brent Scowcroft | John McCain III | Condoleezza Rice | William Perry (member 2001-) | Peter Peterson | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Nicholas Rockefeller | Lawrence Eagleburger | Robert Gates | Sidney and Jane Harman | Carla Hills | William Ruckelshaus | Paul Wolfowitz | David Gergen | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Ronald Lehman II | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Francis Fukuyama | Arianna Huffington | Paula Dobriansky | William Draper III | Sol Linowitz | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Thomas V. Jones | Henry Cisneros | A. W. Clausen | Thierry de Montbrial | Henry Catto Jr. | William Simon Jr. | Roberta Wohlstetter (wife of Albert Wohlstetter) | Robert O. Anderson | Bill Bradley | Murray Gell-Mann | Marvin Goldberger | Donald Gregg | Robert Ingersoll | Abraham Sofaer | Bill Neukom | Jim Kolbe | Eli Broad | Shirley Temple Black | Stephen Bosworth | A. Lawrence Chickering | Kenneth Derr | Stephen Krasner | Lawrence Krause | Ruben Mettler | George Montgomery Jr. | Bill Neukom | Adm. Bill Owens | Robert Pastor | Rudolph Peterson | Elspeth Rostow | Heidi and Alvin Toffler | Robert Van Dine. Speakers: Richard Garwin ('00) | Walter Russell Mead ('00) | Sen. Bob Graham ('00) | Lawrence Korb ('00) | Gary Hart ('00) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('01) | George Soros (May 2, '01) | Gareth Evans (speaker '01) | Richard Haass ('01). More: Gen. John Shalikashvili | Dianne Feinstein | Norman Pattiz | Bruce Tarter | Janet Yellen | Nicolas Berggruen (director anno 2011) | Howard Berman | Nancy Rubin | Robert O'Brien (member 2007-; civilian observer here for the pre-trial hearings of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (member) | John F. Cook (director). |
1995 |
| U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) April 14, 2020 Google search on "Global Leadership Coalition": just 88 links, with maybe 2-3 newspaper articles. usglc.org/about-us/advisory-councils/advisory-council/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): Colin Powell (hon. chair) | Madeleine Albright | Gov. George Allen | Richard Armitage | James Baker | Sen. Bill Bradley | Hillary Clinton | William Cohen | Sen. Tom Daschle | Sen. Christopher Dodd | Sen. Bill Frist | Robert Gates | Stephen Hadley | Lee Hamilton | Sen. Gary Hart | Carla Hills | Thomas Kean | John Kerry | Henry Kissinger | Jim Kolbe | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Sen. Sam Nunn | Paul O'Neill | Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) | William Perry | Condoleezza Rice | Susan Rice | Gov. Bill Richardson | Tom Ridge | Sen. Rick Santorum | George Shultz | Larry Summers | Sen. John Warner | Sen. Tim Wirth | James Wolfensohn | Robert Zoellick. NOTE: Quite a few congressmen and senators left out. usglc.org/advisory-councils/ (accessed: April 16, 2010; only names not seen in the 2020 list): Sam Berger | Harold Brown | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Frank Carlucci | Warren Christopher | Lawrence Eagleburger | Thomas Foley | Chuck Hagel | James Schlesinger | Steve Solarz. EXTRA: Richard Lugar (per March 29, 2015) More: Robert O'Brien (member national advisory council March 2022-). Other: George W. Bush and wife Laura (hosted by USGLC before June 2007 G8 departure) usglc.org/about-us/advisory-councils/national-security-advisory-council/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): "The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) includes more than 200 retired three and four-star generals and admirals..." Gen. Keith Alexander | Gen. Wesley Clark | Gen. James Conway | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Gen. Michael Hayden | Gen. Patrick Hughes | Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Adm. Mike McConnell | Gen. H.R. McMaster (joined after retiring as Trump's NSA 2017-2018) | Gen. Richard Myers | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. Carl Stiner | Gen. Charles Wald | Gen. Charlie Wilhelm. This list of dozens of generals contains past leaders of U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, Iraq and Afghanistan commanders, National Counterterrorism Center, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, global U.S. Air Forces, U.S. Coast Guard, Cyber Command, NORAD, NATO, DIA, NSA, CIA, USSOCOM, JSOC, etc. usglc.org/national-security-advisory-council/ (accessed: April 16, 2010; only names not seen in the 2020 list; only about 60 names at this point): Gen. John Abizaid usglc.org/about-us/partners/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): "Funders: Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn]. Andrew H. Tisch. Hewlett [Fdn]. ... National Geographic Society. Citi." usglc.org/about-us/our-board/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): Center for U.S. Global Leadership ("education arm"): Norm Coleman (chair) | Dan Glickman (chair) | Andrew Tisch (vice chair) | George Ingram (treasurer) | Norman Ornstein (AEI) | Nancy Ziuzin Schlegel (Lockheed). U.S. Global Leadership Campaign ("advocacy arm"): Sean Callahan (co-chair; Catholic Relief Services) | Selina Jackson (co-chair; Procter & Gamble) | Karan Bhatia (Google) | Jeffrey Colman (AIPAC) | Ryan Guthrie (Coca-Cola) | Jeff Hofgard (Boeing) | Barbara Humpton (Siemens USA) | Heather Kulp (Chevron) | Laura Lane (UPS) | David Miliband (IRC) | Michelle Nunn (CARE USA) | George Pickart (GE) | Kishore Rao (Deloitte) | Caroline Roan (Pfizer) | Janti Soeripto (president and CEO Save the Children) | Sarah Thorn (Walmart) | Kathryn Unger (Cargill) | Candi Wolff (Citigroup) | Peter Yeo (UN Foundation/Better World Campaign) | Robert Zachritz (World Vision). usglc.org/about/our-leadership (accessed: Jan. 7, 2015): "Hunter Biden [on board: 2012-2018]." usglc.org/index.php?option=com_content (November 1, 2007): "ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress to support full funding for the International Affairs Budget! The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign consists of businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community leaders from across the country. Members of the USGLC – a vibrant, influential network of over 400 organizations and thousands of individuals – engage policy-makers in the nation's capital and educate the public around the country to build support for the U.S. International Affairs Budget. ... A: ... 3M ... Aerospace Industries Association ... Africa-America Institute ... Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. ... American Airlines ... American Center for International Labor Solidarity ... American Foreign Service Association ... American Friends Service Committee. American Institute for Foreign Study. American International Group. ... AIPAC ... American Jewish Committee. American Jewish Congress. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ... American Near East Refugee Aid ... American Red Cross. American Refugee Committee. American Security Council. ... American Turkish Council. American University of Beirut. ... Anti-Defamation League. Arab American Institute. Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. ... Armenian Assembly of America. Armenian National Committee of America. ... AT&T. [NOTE: This is just PART of "A", in 2007!]" |
1995 |
| New Democrat Network (NDN) Thomas McLarty (advisory council) |
1996 |
| Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of New York Originally known as the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. Advisory board 2012 (known as the Board of Visitors anno 2020): Madeleine Albright (still anno 2020) | James Baker III | Tom Brokaw | Harold Evans (president and publisher Random House) | Carly Fiorina (chair and CEO HP) | Vartan Gregorian (still anno 2020) | Vernon Jordan (still anno 2020) | Henry Kissinger (still anno 2020) | Colin Powell (chair; member anno 2020) and daughter Linda Powell (still anno 2020) | Richard Haass | Barbara Walters | Elie Wiesel | Fareed Zakaria (still anno 2020). Also in 2020: David Rubenstein | Stephen Schwarzman | Ken Duberstein | Cesar Conde (chair NBC Universal News Group). |
1997 |
| New York-Presbyterian Hospital Life trustees anno 2000: C. Douglas Dillon, Maurice Greenberg (later chair and chair emeritus), Ogden Phipps, Laurance Rockefeller. Trustees: Edward H. Auchincloss | George F. Baker | Joseph Califano Jr. | Michel David-Weill | Jeffrey G. | Ogden Mills Phipps | William Rhodes | Sidney Weinberg. Anno 2003 trustee: Jerry Speyer. David Koch |
1997 |
| CEO Summit Participants (as far as is known): Bill Gates (organizer, as part of his Microsoft company; '97 and on) | Al Gore ('97) | Gen. Kenneth Minihan ('97; director NSA 1996-1999) | Steve Forbes ('97) | Riley Bechtel ('97) | William Esrey ('97; Sprint) | Frank Biondi ('97; Universal Studios) | Seigfried Hecker ('97; director Los Alamos) | Paul Hazen ('97; CEO Wells Fargo) | Katherine Graham ('98) | Nicholas Negroponte ('98) | Gerald Levin ('98) | Rupert Murdoch ('99) | Warren Buffet ('99, '03, '04, '08, '10, '11, '15, '18) | Jeff Bezos ('99, '03, '04, '08, '10, '18) | Steve Ballmer ('04, '10, '11; co-host) | Martha Stewart ('99) | Jack Welch ('99, '08; chair and CEO GE) | Jacques Nasser ('99; Ford Motor) | Michael Dell ('99) | Noboyuki Idei ('99; Sony) | John Chambers ('99; Cisco) | David Glass ('99; Wal-Mart) | Abudllah Juma'ah ('02; director Aramco, Halliburton and Saudi Investment Bank) | Carly Fiorina ('03, '04; HP) | Hasso Plattner ('03; SAP) | Ross Perot Jr. ('03) | Ray Kurzweil ('04) | Barry Diller ('04, '10) | Paul Vivek ('04; CEO Wipro in India) | Thomas Friedman ('08) | Tom Brokaw ('08) | Charlie Rose ('08) | Michael Kinsley ('08; Slate) | Rob Walton ('10; Wal-Mart) | Jamie Dimon ('10, '11; CEO JPMorgan Chase) | Timothy Geithner ('10) | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud ('11, '15) | Ursula Burns ('11; CEO Xerox) | Mike Duke ('11; CEO Wal-Mart) | Robin Li ('11; Baidu) | Alan Mulally ('11; CEO Ford Motors) | Bob McDonald ('11; CEO Procter & Gamble) | Jim Sinegal ('11; CEO Costco) | Walter Isaacson ('12) | Sal Khan ('12) | Justin Trudeau ('17) | Lei Zhang ('18; CEO of China's Envision). Interests represented in 1997: NSA | Defense Information Systems Agency | MITRE | Sandia | U.S. government | U.S. Navy | America Online | AT&T | Cisco | Bankers Trust | Compaq | Deere & Co. | Barclays | Deutsche Bank | Emirates Bank International | Banco do Brasil | Belgacom | Bell Canada | Ford Motor Company | Ernst & Young LLP | Goldman Sachs | Hoffman-La Roche | Honeywell | Hyundai | Knight-Ridder | Lexis-Nexis | Lockheed Martin | McKesson | McKinsey | Mellon Bank | Mitsubishi | Monsanto | Philips | PriceWaterhouse | Samsung | Siemens | Tata Industries | Acer | Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | NASDAQ | United Airlines | Shell. May 9, 1997, Wired, 'The Gates List: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner': "The top-secret guest list was obtained by the Eastside Journal, a Seattle-area daily, and made available to Wired News." hotwired.com/netizen /97/19/index2a.html (accessed: Feb. 8, 1998; original: 14-15 May 1997; part of Wired): "According to another CEO who wrote me: "The purpose was to get all of us to make the trip. To show that the leaders of government and captains of industry were smaller than [Bill Gates] is. I guess we are. I was afraid not to go. My competitors would seem more important than me, and they might get to see and hear something my stockholders would expect me to see and hear. It was quite a turnout." It was. The pope could never pull so many heavyweights in a single day. Neither has any president of the United States, except at funerals." May 29, 1998, Los Angeles Times: "Microsoft was criticized for the lack of women at its first CEO summit last year." May 16, 2018, Geekwire, 'Inside the hotel where Microsoft hosted some of the world's top corporate moguls Tuesday night': "Reporters over the years have gotten very creative in their attempts to shine a light on the gathering, with the Seattle Times in 2008 digging into the registrations of planes on the tarmac at Boeing Field during the event to discern more about the attendees. More recently, however, companies have become more savvy about cloaking the identities of their corporate jets." |
1997 |
| Panetta Institute for Public Policy Directors: Leon Panetta. Trustees: Ted Balestreri (anno '01-) | Dina Eastwood ('01-; ex-wife of Clint). National advisors: Henry Cisneros (anno '22) | Clint Eastwood (anno '22) | Bill Richardson (anno '22) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (anno '22). |
1997 |
| The Constitution Project Members Task Force on Detainee Treatment: Gen. David Irvine | Thomas Pickering | William Sessions | Lee Hamilton (outside supporter) | William Taft IV (outside supporter). Members Liberty and Security Committee: Gen. Wesley Clark | Thomas P. | John Podesta | William S. | William T. IV | Col. Colby Vokey | Walter Cronkite | William D. Rogers | Paul Weyrich | Kate Martin. Also: Mondale ( Right to Counsel Committee) | Morton Halperin (board and Liberty and Security Committee) |
1997 |
| Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) Co-founders and honorary co-chairs: David Rockefeller, Paul Volcker and John Whitehead. Paul Newman (co-founder) | Henry Schacht (vice chair) | Walter Shipley (vice chair). Members: Raymond Gilmartin | Louis Gerstner | Maurice Greenberg | Harold McGraw III | Charles Schwab | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Robert Wolf |
1998 |
| Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) Self-described as "anti-imperialist" and "anti-capitalist". Raised several hundred thousand dollars for Occupy Wall Street. George Soros (financier). |
1998 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF) National board of advisors: Ted Forstmann (anno '00; key founder) | John T. Walton (anno '00; key founder) | Will Smith (anno '00-'12) | Henry Kissinger (anno '00-'12) | George Shultz (anno '00-'12) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno '00-'10) | Sam Nunn (anno '00-'12) | Lester Crown (anno '00-'12) | Stanley Druckenmiller (anno '00-'12, also a director anno '12) | Eli Broad (anno '00-'12) | James E. Burke (anno '00) | Ron Burkle (anno '00) | Barbara Bush (hon. anno '00-'12) | Joseph Califano Jr. (anno '00-'12) | Raymond Chambers (anno '00) | Henry Cisneros (anno '00-'12) | Tom Daschle (anno '00- '12) | Dick DeVos (anno '00-'12) and Pamella DeVos (anno '12, also a director) | Peter Flanigan (anno '00-'12; advisor UBS Warburg) | Tom Freston (anno '00-'12; chair and CEO MTV) | Robert L. Johnson (anno '00-'12; chair and CEO BET Holdings) | Martin Luther King III (anno '00-'12; president SCLC) | Sen. Trent Lott (anno '00-'12) | Daniel Moynihan (anno '00) | Nathan Myhrvold (anno '00-'12) | Michael Ovitz (anno '00) | Warren Rudman (anno '00-'12) | Jim C. Walton (anno '00). Source(s): scholarshipfund.org/index.asp (accessed: Aug. 15, 2000); scholarshipfund.org/ drupal1/?q=board (accessed: Jul. 24, 2012); etc. |
1998 |
| Cordell Hull Institute (CHI) Directors in Feb. 2003: Harald Malmgren (vice chair; co-founder) | William D. Rogers (vice chair; acting chair 2004-2006; vice chair Kiss. Assoc. until death in '07) | Hugh Corbett | Norman Augustine | Lawrence Eagleburger (co-founder; pres. Kiss. Assoc.) | Thomas Foley | Brent Scowcroft (vice chair Kiss. Assoc.) | Joseph Stiglitz | Robert Strauss | Brandon Sweitzer (president Marsh Inc. and chair of Marsh & McLennan Securities). Funding: Hewlett Fdn. |
1998-2006 |
| MoveOn George Soros (important financier). Created the Occupy Wish List website in support of Occupy Wall Street. |
1998 |
| New America Foundation (NAF) / New America Began life as Vision Trust, financed by the Schumann Foundation of Bill Moyers. James Fallows (founding chair) | Ted Halstead (founding president and CEO 1999-2007) | Eric Schmidt (founding director in 1999; chair 2008-) | Francis Fukuyama (founding director) | Walter Mead (founder; senior fellow CFR; 2000s)| Steven Rattner (long-time director) | Fareed Zakaria (early director; later co-chair of its National Security Advisory Council) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (early director; member National Security Advisory Council) | Tom Freston (member National Security Advisory Council) | John Whitehead (early chair Leadership Council) | Jonathan Soros (son of George; Leadership Council Nov. 2006-) | Craig Newmark (Leadership Council in 2008-) | Christine Whitman | Rita Hauser | Scott Malcomson (fellow) | Peter Beinart (senior fellow anno 2012). Finciers: Peter Peterson (major financier) | Rock., Ford, Open Society, Gates ($6,500,000 in 2009-2013 period), Hewlett, Surdna, Nathan Cummings, Tides, Arca, etc. foundations. Bill Gates. |
1999 |
| Goldman Sachs Foundation John Whitehead (founding chair GSF; became a partner in GS in 1956, co-chair 1976-1984, became a limited partner in 1989; founder of the bank's board of international advisors in 1982; still a "senior director" anno 2005, until 2014; member TC 1982-1985; frequent BB visitor '84-'97, also steering comm.) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (founding president and managing director GSF 1999-2009; CFR 1994-) | John Thornton (director GSF; co-CEO GS Int. 1995-1996, chair GS Asia 1995-1996, co-president 1999-2003) | Dina Habib Powell (president GSF 2010-; man. dir. GS 2007-). Goldman Sachs bank itself: Robert Rubin (partner 1971-1992, vice chair 1987-1990, co-chair 1990-1992) | Henry Kissinger (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-) | Robert McNamara (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-) | Henry Fowler (founding chair board of int. adv. 1982-; limited partner in GS; former treasury secretary) | Sir David Orr (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-; chair Unilever) | Otmar Emminger (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-; chair Deutsche Bundesbank) | Geoffrey Boisi (partner 1978-) | Sen. Mike Mansfield (member board of int. adv. 1989-2001) | Lord Brian Griffiths (joined GS in 1990; member board of int. adv.) | Romano Prodi (board of int. adv. 1990-1993) | Victor Halberstadt (board of int. adv. 1991-, still anno 2005 and 2014; BB steering comm. and sec.-gen. '81-) | Sir Peter Sutherland (member board of int. adv. 1990-1995; chair GS Int. 1995-2015) | Hank Paulson (partner GS 1982, COO GS 1994-1998, co-chair and co-CEO 1998-1999, sole chair and CEO 1999-2006) | Walter Mondale (member board of int. adv. anno 1999) | Donald Gregg (member board of int. adv. anno 1999, 2002) | Karel van Miert (member board of int. adv. anno 2001, 2005) | Thomas Foley (member board of int. adv. anno 2001, 2005) | Mario Monti (member board of int. adv. anno 2005, 2010; long-time BB visitor; EU chair TC until '12) | Lloyd Blankfein (COO GS -2006, CEO 2006-) | Chester Crocker (member board of int. adv. anno 1999, 2005) | Richard Mnuchin | Robert Hormats (vice chair GS Int.) | John Thain (president and COO GS 1999-2004) | Graham Thomas (exec. director in the Investment Banking Division 1993-2001) | Robert Zoellick (international vice chair; chair board of int. adv. 2006-2007, 2013-2016) | Sen. Judd Gregg (board of int. adv. 2011-). GS at the Federal Reserve: William Dudley | Robert S. Kaplan (partner GS 1990-, also served as vice chair) | Stephen Friedman (partner GS 1973-, co-COO 1987-1990, chair and co-chair 1990-1994, director 2005- after serving as PFIAB chair) | E. Gerald Corrigan (partner and managing director GS and chair GS Bank USA 2008-2016). GS in the Trump administration: Anthony Scaramucci (transition team member) | Dina H. P. (advised ka on "women empowerment", then deputy NSA for strategy 2017-18) | Steve Bannon (early chief strategist) | Steve Mnuchin (treasury sec.; partner GS) | Gary Cohn (top economic advisor; president GS). Notes: Nickname is "Government Sachs", with claims that the bank is "a political organization masquerading as an investment bank." \ |
1999 |
| Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Directors: Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot (co-founders; new left activist economists) | Julian Bond (2009-2015; radical black leader; co-founder MLK-allied SNCC in 1960; 1st president SPLC 1971-1979; trustee elite AAI 1970s-1980s; chair NAACP 1998-2010) | Danny Glover (2010-2020s). Advisory board: Joseph Stiglitz (2006-2020s) | Richard Freeman (2006-2020s) | Robert Solow (2006-2020s). Funders: Ford, Bauman, RBF, RFF, Nathan Cummings, Arca Streisand, Kellogg and Streisand foundations. |
1999 |
| Amery Heritage Center (AHC) Advisory board: Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (anno 2020) | Leslie Nicole Smith (anno 2020; ambassador to the Gary Sinise Foundation). Awarded: H. Ross Perot (2011). |
1999 |
| Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Board of directors: George Soros (non-exec. director anno 2002-2020s) | Ethan Nadelmann (exec. member and director anno 2002, 2015, etc.; founder 1994 Soros-backed Lindesmith Center, which became the DPA in 2000) | Ira Glasser (exec. member and president anno 2002, 2018; former exec. director ACLU) | Dr. Robert Newman (exec. member; anno 2002, 2012; "Director, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center") | Dr. Mathilde Krim (non-exec. member anno 2002, exec. member anno 2003, 2012; founding chair amfAR) | Jodie Evans (anno 2002, 2018; "Co-founder, CODEPINK") | Michael Skolnik (non-exec. director 2013-; "Political Director to Russell Simmons"). U.S. honorary board (founded in 2005 and listed until at least Nov. 2017): Walter Cronkite (2005 - d. 2009) | Arianna Huffington (2005-, anno 2017) | Dr. Richard Alpert / Ram Dass (2005-, anno 2012) | Gov. Gary Johnson (2005-, anno 2017) | Harry Belafonte (2005-, anno 2017) | Nicholas Katzenbach (2005 - d. 2012) | Kurt Schmoke (2005-, anno 2017) | Frank Carlucci (2006-, anno 2017) | Paul Volcker (2006-, anno 2017) | Alexander Shulgin (2006- d. 2014) | Dr. Charles Schuster (2006 - d. 2011) | George Shultz (2007-, anno 2017) | Russell Simmons (2008-, anno 2017) | Deepak Chopra (late 2012-, anno 2017). International honorary board (from its founding in Oct. 2009 it was listed "in formation" with 3-4 members on it, even as late as 2017): Vaclav Havel (2011 - d. 2011) | Ruth Dreifuss (2010-) | Sting (2011-) | Richard Branson (2012-). Board of the Drug Policy Alliance Network (2008-2011): Hamilton Fish (president) | Ira G. (vice president) | Ethan N. Frontpage as of April 21, 2021: "Too often drug involvement is used as an excuse for police to kill Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people." |
2000 |
| Financial Services Forum (FSF) James P. Gorman (Morgan Stanley) |
2000 |
| Diplomacy Center Foundation (DCF) Honorary directors: Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | James Baker III | Hillary Clinton | John Kerry | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice. Directors: Frank Carlucci | Leslie Gelb | Thomas Pickering | Chuck Hagel. Trustees: Bruce Gelb | Lee Hamilton | Nicholas Burns | John Negroponte | Robert Gallucci | Frances Cook (chair Lonrho; former ambassador to Burundi, Camaroon and Oman). |
2000 |
| Financial Services Leadership Forum (FSLF), NYPL Advisory committee: Maurice Greenberg | Peter Peterson | John Whitehead | Harold McGraw III. Speakers: Maurice G. | John W. | Felix Rohatyn | David Rubenstein | Robert Rubin | Stephen Schwarzman | Timothy Geithner | Warren Buffett | George Soros | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Joseph Stiglitz | Larry Summers | John Thain | James S. Tisch | Peter Thiel | Ronnie Chan | Jeff Bewkes | Eliot Spitzer | Jamie Dimon | Larry Fink. |
2001 |
| Fortune's Brainstorm technology conferences David Kirkpatrick (founder and host). Visitors: Bill Clinton (three times) | Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google founders) | Jack Valenti | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks) | Barry Diller | Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems) | Nancy Peretsman | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Mrs. H.J. Heinz II | Bandar bin Sultan (Saudi Arabia) | Nabil Fahmy (Egypt) | Ted Turner | Shimon Peres | Jack Kemp | Sen. John McCain III | Robert Mueller (FBI) | Paul Ehrlich and Amory Lovins (ecologists) | Paul Wolfowitz | Sandra Day O'Connor. |
2001-2005 |
| Partnership for Public Service (PPS) Advisory board of governors (historic): Norman Augustine | James Baker III | Sen. Richard Blumenthal | Erskine Bowles | Sen. Bill Bradley | Jonathan Bush Sr. | Kenneth Duberstein | Hodding Carter III | Michael Eisner | Stuart Eizenstat | Thomas Foley | Harold Ford Jr. | Dan Glickman | Stephen Heintz (pres. RBF) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Richard Levin | Sen. Joe Lieberman | John McCain III | Sen. George Mitchell | Mario Morino | Philip Odeen | Leon Panetta | Bill Paxon | Hugh Price | Robert Rubin | Larry Summers | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | Christine Whitman. Directors (historic): David Gergen | Lloyd Howell Jr. | Robert Ingram | Sean O'Keefe | Dina Habib Powell | Susan Rice. Plus: managers from BAH, Lockheed Martin, Lazard, Ernst & Young, Mckinsey & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
2001 |
| Reform Institute David Boren | John McCain | Sen. Lindsay Graham. |
2001 |
| American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) Advisory council: C. Boyden Gray (anno '04-'08, in government, '09-'15) | Robert McFarlane (anno '04-'15) | James Woolsey (anno '04-'15) | Adm. Dennis McGinn (anno '08) | Gen. Wesley Clark (anno '11-'15) | Amory Lovins (anno '04-15; co-founder, chair and chief scientist Rocky Mountain Inst.) | Christopher Flavin (anno '05-'15; president Worldwatch Inst.) | Christopher Flavin (anno '05-'15; president Worldwatch Inst.) | Wolfgang Palz (anno '11-'15; president World Council on Renewable Energy). Source(s): Site only up in 2004. acore.org/gov_advisory.html (accessed: Sep. 5, 2004 - Aug. 21, 2008); acore.org/about/governance/advisory-board (accessed: Sep. 8, 2011 - Sep. 1, 2015). Advisory council disappeared from the website around 2016. 2016 annual report doesn't mention the advisory board or any of the names. |
2001 |
| Democracy Coalition Project International advisory board: George Soros (primary financier) | Madeleine Albright | Michel Rocard | congressman John Lewis | Sergey Kovalev (Russia) | Samira Omar (Kuwait). Advisory board: Morton Halperin | Fiona Hill. |
2001 |
| Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG) Strobe Talbott (founding (managing) director). "Distinguished Visiting Fellows": Chilean president Ricardo Lagos (2007) | Mark Malloch Brown (2007) | James Wolfensohn (2012-2014). Speakers: Martti Ahtisaari (April 12, 2011). Other: Jake Sullivan (assistant to Strobe early 2000s). Funders: William Draper III; Ford, Hewlett, MacArthur and Rock. foundations; Citi and Santander Bank. |
2001 |
| OpenDemocracy Foundation Contributors OpenDemocracy.net: George Soros (also financier) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Colin Greer | Gabrielle Rifkind (most likely related to Malcolm Rifkind). Financiers: Ford Fdn., RBF, etc. |
2001 |
| Conflict Securities Advisory Group (CSAG) Roger Robinson Jr. (founder) |
2001 |
| Common Good Trustees: Philip Howard (founder and chair) | Eric Holder. Advisory board (2005-2007): Peter Peterson | John Whitehead | Newt Gingrich | Jeb Bush | Robert Kagan | Christopher DeMuth | Sen. Howard Baker | Thomas Kean | Bill Bradley | Francis Fukuyama | Charles Kolb | George Rupp | Alan Simpson. Non one interesting anno 2020. |
2002 |
| Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), St. Mary's College of Maryland Advisory board: Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (2002-2005) | Anthony Lake (2002-2011) | Ted Koppel (2002-2013; anchor ABC's Nightline 1980-2005) | Ben Bradlee (2002-2014; executive editor Washington Post 1968-1991, vice-president-at-large until his death in 2014). No major names joined in later stages. |
2002 |
| America Abroad Media (AAM) americaabroadmedia.org/SiteTree/index.cgi/58 ("Advisory board"; accessed: Dec. 13, 2002): Michael Armacost | Sandy Berger | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Chuck Hagel | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Stanley Hoffmann | Samuel Huntington | John Kerry | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Anthony Lake | Richard Lugar | Ernest May | Robert McNamara | Susan Rice | Stephen Rosen | Brent Scowcroft | Jim Steinberg | Strobe Talbott | James Woolsey | Philip Zelikow. Advisory board by July 7, 2004 (extra names): William Draper III | Richard Haass | Thomas Pickering | Felix Rohatyn. americaabroadmedia.org/about-aam/advisory-board (accessed: Sep. 29, 2008; extra names): David Abshire | Richard Armitage | Norm Augustine | Henry Catto | Ken Duberstein | Marc Grossman | Stanley Hoffman | Martin Indyk | John Whitehead. americaabroadmedia.org/about/advisory-board (accessed: Oct. 18, 2011; extra names) Peter Ackerman | Madeleine Albright | Hushang Ansary | Richard Burt | Michael Chertoff | Eliot Cohen | Lester Crown | Paula Dobriansky | Bruce Gelb | Leslie Gelb | C. Boyden Gray | Thomas McLarty III | Zalmay Khalilzad | Margot Pritzker | Vin Weber. Same url on Aug. 16, 2014 (extra): Nicholas Burns | Michael Hayden | Stapleton Roy. americaabroadmedia.org/who-we-are/board-of-advisors (accessed: Sep. 16, 2017): Howard Berman | Tim Roemer. Board of directors: Enders Wimbush (anno 2020). Middle East Advisory Council: Princess Rym Ali (wife of Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan). |
2002 |
| Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) Gen. Bill Reno (chair) | Adm. Giambastiani | Michael Hayden | Eric Hotung | Robert McFarlane | Ed Meese | Sen. Chuck Robb | |
2002 |
| Center for American Progress (CAP) Left-leaning alternative to the Heritage Fdn. and AEI. Disliked by the Zionist right-wing. Neera Tanden (president) | John Podesta (founder; Clinton chief of staff; helped form the Obama administration) | Morton Halperin (senior vice president and director of fellows) | Van Jones | Robert Abernethy (foreign policy advisory council) | Gordon Gray (COO) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (known to have had a meeting at CAP HQ with the founder) | Jane Harman (speaker '07) | Marc Agrast (senior vice president for domestic policy 2007-, later senior fellow) | Jamie Gorelick (outside advisor and legal aide 2010s). Major financiers: George Soros | Peter Lewis | Steve Bing | Herb and Marion Sandler | Ford Fdn. | Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates) | Walmart | Citigroup. |
2003 |
| Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy (CRFP) Gary Hart | Stephen Walt. Signers: John Mearsheimer |
2003 |
| Spirit of America Jim Hake (founder and CEO). Earliest advisory board members: Adm. Jeremiah Denton (2003-2006) | Gen. Mike DeLong (2003-2010) | Jack Vaughn (2003 until death in 2012; with USIA In Central America 1949-1951 and with State Department 1951-1966; met Che Guevara 7-8x; USAID mission director in Africa 1959-1961; early leader Peace Corps 1961-1965; assistant secretary of state for inter-american affairs 1965-1966; appointed 2nd director U.S. Peace Corps 1966-1969; Nixon's ambassdor to Colombia 1969-1970; president "liberal CIA"-funded National Urban Coalition; president "liberal CIA"-funded Planned Parenthood 1974-1975). Later advisory board members: Gen. Tommy Franks (hon. co-chair 2005-2009) | Sen. John McCain (hon. co-chair 2005-2011; 2011-mid 2014) | Peter Ackerman (2010-) | Kimberly Kagan (2010-2020s; sister of Robert K.) | George Shultz (2010-2020s) | Gen. Jack Keane (2010-) | Col. Dr. John Nagl (2010-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (2012-2020s) | Nancy Soderberg | Gen. James L. Jones (2010s-2020s) | Gen. Mike Flynn (early 2015-mid 2016) | Gen. Jim Mattis (mid 2016-early 2017) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (2019-). |
2003 |
| Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) David Abshire | Chertoff | William Sessions | Richard V. Allen | Ed Meese | Chuck Robb | William Webster |
2003 |
| New American Strategies for Security and Peace Congress Advisory committee of the 2003 congress: Albright | Sandy Berger | Brzezinski | Warren Christopher | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. William Crowe | Leon Fuerth | Gary Hart | Holbrooke | Walter Mondale | Perry | Bill Richardson | Felix Rohatyn | Arthur Schlesinger | Gen. John Shalikashvili | George Soros | Rabbi David Saperstein |
2003 |
| Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Founders: Bill Gates, William Ruckelshaus, John Shalikashvili. Leadership council: Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | Colin Powell (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Jim Kolbe | Carla Hills | Ted Turner | James Wolfensohn. Steering committee: Adm. Bill Owens. Members: Adm. Thomas Pickering | Bill Ayer | Richard Gardner |
2003 |
| World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTCMF) Founding trustees: John Whitehead (acting founding chair; also founding chair Lower Manhattan Development Corporation 2001-2006; director after that) | David Rockefeller (left before 2011) | Henry Kravis (left before 2011) | Peter Peterson (until 2016) | Maurice Greenberg (still anno 2020) | Michael Bloomberg (founding hon. trustee; chair at some point in the 2010s, still anno 2020; co-appointed initial board) | Barbara Walters | Brian Mulroney | Sir John Bond | Ken Chenault (still anno 2020) | Jerry Speyer (still anno 2020) | Anne Tatlock (still anno 2020) | Craig Stapleton (still anno 2020) | Judith Rodin (until 2017) | Vartan Gregorian (still anno 2020) | Robert De Niro (still anno 2020) | Michael Eisner | Richard Parsons | Josef Ackermann. Additional trustees anno 2011: Bob Iger (anno '08, still anno 2020; succeeded Michael E. as head of Walt Disney 2005-2020, 2022-) | Billy Crystal | George Pataki (hon. chair; co-appointed initial board)| Gov. Chris Christie (hon. trustee) | Andrew Cuomo (hon. trustee) | Rudy Giuliani (hon. trustee) | Jon Stewart (famous comedian; still anno 2020). Hon. board members (anno 2011): Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | George W. Bush | Bill Clinton. Additional trustees anno 2020: Gov. Eliot Spitzer (hon.). Source(s): nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/ memorial_bd_list.pdf (accessed: April 12, 2023): "[WTC] Memorial Foundation Board of Directors (As of December 1, 2004):"; Jan. 5, 2005, New York Times, 'Trade Center Memorial Getting New Muscle' (David R. appointed by John W. as the "marquee ... foundation board member No. 1..." who helped recruit all subsequent members); buildthememorial.org/site/ PageServer?pagename=about_lead (accessed: May 18, 2007): "David [R.] ... John [W.] Founding Chairman..."; national911memorial.org/site/ PageServer?pagename=New_About_Board (accessed: Dec. 20, 2008); 911memorial.org/board-directors (accessed: April 30, 2011; first webarchive.). |
2004 |
| Pew Research Center 1990-origin as the Times Mirror Center. The "liberal CIA" Pew Charitable Trusts became its primary sponsor in 1996, leading to a new name: the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The Templeton Foundation has become another major financier. Pew Global Attitudes Project (2001-): international advisory board: Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Gareth Evans | Leslie Gelb | Carla Hills | Henry Kissinger | Peter Peterson | Peter Sutherland | Desmond Tutu | Queen Noor of Jordan | Yotaro Kobayashi | Tommy Koh | Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Don McHenry | John Passacantando (executive director Greenpeace USA) | Kenneth Roth | John Sweeney (president AFL-CIO) | Laura D'Andrea Tyson. ADDITIONAL FUNDING: Hewlett Fdn. |
2004 |
| GenerationEngage Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; founder). Notable participants: Barack Obama | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Colin Powell | Newt Gingrich | Al Gore | Nancy Pelosi | Chuck Hagel | John Whitehead |
2004 |
| Global Policy Innovations (GPI) Advisory board: David Abshire | Joseph Stiglitz. Founded with RBF financing. Ceased publication of its magazine in 2016, handing it over to the Carnegie Council, and soon after disappeared. |
2004-2016 |
| Truman National Security Project (TNSP) Rachel Kleinfeld (founder and president). Robert Hunter Biden (board; son of vice president Joe B.) | Michael Breen (president and CEO). Advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Kurt Campbell | Leslie Gelb | William Perry | Gary Hart | John Podesta | Janet Napolitano | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Robert Abernethy | Jenna Ben-Yehuda (president and CEO) | Jake Sullivan (director anno 2020). Senior advisors and trustees: David Rothkopf | Peter Beinart (senior advisor). Truman Center for National Policy is its sister organization. |
2004 |
| Our Military Kids (OMK) Advisory board: William Perry | Gen. Peter Pace | Rozanne Ridgway | Walter Slocombe | James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim |
2004 |
| Princeton Project on National Security (PPNS) Produced the 2006 report 'Forging A World of Liberty Under Law: U.S. National Security In The 21st Century', which heavily influenced the upcoming Obama administration: George Shultz (founding co-chair) | Anthony Lake (founding co-chair) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (also project co-director) | Francis Fukuyama (also co-author of the Project's working paper on grand strategy) | Joseph Nye. Henry Kissinger (named as an advisor) | Samantha Power (involved). Funders: Ford and Hewlett foundations. |
2004-2006 |
| Media Matters for America (MMfA) Analyses U.S. news sources and very anti Fox News. David Brock (founder). John Podesta provided office space at his Center for American Progress. Hillary Clinton (early advisor) | George Soros ($1 million donation in 2010, but his groups have been backing MMfA since its inception) | Rachel Pritzker (founding board member). |
2004 |
| Democracy Alliance (DA) Consists of 100+ largely secret liberal financiers who donate $200,000 or more annually. Anne Bartley (co-founder; trustee of 4 Rockefeller fdns) | George Soros (co-founder) | Rob Stein (co-founder and initial CEO; former Bill Clinton Treasury official) | Drummond Pike (founding member and treasurer) | Tim Gill (co-founder) | Peter Lewis (co-founder) | Rachel Pritzker (founding board member; granddaughter of Bob (1926–2011), and a daughter of Linda (b. 1953)) | Kelly Craighead (president; Hillary Clinton aide) | Gara LaMarche (president since 2013; close to George S.) | Jonathan Soros (son of George S.). |
2005 |
| The American Interest magazine Spin-off of the National Interest. Founders: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Eliot Cohen | Francis Fukuyama | Josef Joffe. Contributor: Dov Zakheim | Niall Ferguson | Robert Kaplan |
2005 |
| Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) Warren Rudman (main founder) | Gary Hart | Zbigniew Brzezinski | George Shultz | Madeleine Albright | Sandy Berger | John Whitehead | Frank Wisner II | John Lehman | Lee Hamilton | Slade Gorton | Thomas Kean | Thomas Pickering | Sam Nunn | William Perry | Robert McFarlane | Carla Hills | Paula Dobriansky | William Cohen | Warren Christopher | Rita Hauser | Frances Townsend | Anthony Lake | Richard Lugar | Adm. Michael Mullen (anno '22) | Leon Panetta (anno '22) | David Petraeus (anno '22) | Frances Townsend (anno '22). Source(s): psaonline.org/members/ (accessed: March 13, 2022). |
2005 |
| Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT) Thomas Foley | Slade Gorton | John McCain III | Lee Hamilton | Thomas Kean | Chuck Rob | Bill First | William Koch |
2005 |
| Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) / Energy Security Leadership Council (since 2006) Leadership council: John L. Petersen | James Woolsey | Robert McFarlane | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (co-chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark | Maurice Greenberg | John Lehman (co-chair) | Frederick Smith (co-chair; chair, president and CEO) | Gen. James Conway | Peter Ackerman | Adm. Dennis Blair | Robert Hormats | Jon Stewart. Donors: AIG, Amazon, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Coca-Cola, GM, Leidos, Raytheon, VISA, Verizon, BlackRock, Credit Suisse, IBM, Northrop, UBS, Trump Organization, Cargill, CBS, News Corp., Nike, Wells Fargo. |
2005 |
| Progressive Forum, Houston Speakers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ('05, '12) | Al Gore ('06) | Seymour Hersh ('06) | George Soros ('06) | Gloria Steinem ('07) | Robert Redford ('08) | Nancy Pelosi ('09) | T. Boone Pickens ('09) | Richard Dawkins ('10) | Arianna Huffington ('10) | Jane Goodall ('11) | Bill Moyers ('11) | Lester Brown ('13) | Rachel Maddow ('13) | Cecile Richards ('14; president Planned Parenthood) | John Kerry ('18) | Nicholas Kristof ('20) | Robert Reich ('20). |
2005 |
| National Security Network (NSN) Leslie Gelb | Richard A. Clarke | Sandy Berger | Wisner II | Wesley Clark | Rand Beers | Anne-Marie Slaughter. |
2006 |
| Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) David Abshire | Norman Augustine | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. Giambastiani | Gingrich | Adm. Mike McConnell (DNI) | Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Tom Ridge | Thomas Pickering | Brent Scowcroft | Gen. James L. Jones | Jim Steinberg. |
2006 |
| Bloomberg Philanthropies Directors: Ken Chenault (anno '21) | Bob Iger (anno '21) | Anne Tatlock (anno '21) | Mark Carney (anno '21) | Walter Isaacson (anno '21) | Emma Bloomberg (anno '21) | Mellody Hobson (anno '21) | John J. Mack (anno '21) | Adm. Michael Mullen (anno '21) | Sam Nunn (anno '21) | Hank Paulson (anno '21) | Sir Martin Sorrell (anno '21). |
2006 (separate HQ) |
| MIT Energy Initiative Energy Council: John Deutch. External Advisory Board: George Shultz (chair anno 2013) | Norman Augustine (chair anno 2020) | Stephen Bechtel Jr. | Thomas McLarty III | Sam Nunn | Susan Eisenhower | Ratan Tata | Frances Beinecke | Walter Hewlett | Robert Millard (chair MIT Corp.) | John Reed (chair MIT). Founding corporate members: BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco and ENI (Italy). Other donors: Chevron, Lockheed Martin, United Technologees, Schlumberger, Total, Bosch, Siemens, Duke Energy, Edison International, Hess Corporation. |
2006 |
| Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) Trustees (2020): Robert Rozenkranz | Max Boot | Ian Bremmer (founder and president Eurasia Group) | David Coulter (vice chair Warburg Pincus; former vice chair of JPMorgan Chase and CEO of Bank of America). Intelligence Council (2020): Max B. | Nicholas Burns | Devon Gaffney Cross (sister of Frank) | David Frum | Jonathan Soros. Mission: "IQ2US ... addresses a fundamental problem in America: the extreme polarization of our nation and our politics." |
2006 |
| The Common Good, New York City Continuation of the Show Coalition, founded in 1988 and "credited with playing a critical role in creating the Hollywood/Washington nexus of entertainment activism during that community's most politically active years." Not to be confused with "Common Good". Hon. board (2020): Nicholas Burns | James Clapper | Nouriel Roubini | Gov. Mario Cuomo (father of Gov. Andrew Cuomo). Past speakers (taken from official website on June 8, 2020): Elliott Abrams | Alec Baldwin | Carl Bernstein | Sheikh Mohammed Bin Essa Al Khalifa of Bahrain | Michael Bloomberg | Sidney Blumenthal | Bill Bradley | Tom Brokaw | Jerry Brown | Lester Brown | Mika and Zbigniew Brzezinski | President George W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Dick Cheney | Michael Chertoff | Gen. Wesley Clark | Bill Clinton | Kellyanne Conway | Kevin Costner | Bill de Blasio | Tom Delay | Chris Dodd | Bob Dole | Barney Frank | David Frum | Leslie Gelb | David Gergen | Danny Glover | Al Gore | Lindsey Graham | Richard Haass | Chuck Hagel | Mark Halperin | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | Katrina Vandel Heuvel | David Hogg | Robert Hormats | Arianna Huffington | Martin Indyk | Garry Kasparov | Jack Kemp | Robert Kennedy Jr. | Bob Kerrey | John Kerry | Henry Kissinger | Ted Koppel | William Kristol | Andrew McAfee | John McCain | Jenny McCarthy | Claire McCaskill | Sen. Mitch McConnell | Arnon Milchan | David Miliband | George Mitchell | Mike Morell | Markos Moulistas | Adm. Michael Mullen | Dee Dee Myers | Grover Norquist | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam Nunn) | Barack Obama | Nancy Pelosi | Gen. David Petraeus | Thomas Pickering | Erik Prince | Steve Rattner | Bill Richardson | Felix Rohatyn | Christopher Ruddy | Mark Ruffalo | Jeffrey Sachs | Maurice Sonnenberg | Arlen Specter | Eliot Spitzer | Gloria Steinem | Neera Tanden | Ted Turner | Cyrus Vance Jr. | Denzel Washington | Anthony Weiner | Christine Whitman | Byron Wien | Frank Wisner II | Bob Woodruff | Fareed Zakaria | Mort Zuckerman. |
2007 |
| Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University George H. W. Bush | Brent Scowcroft. Advisory board: Robert Gates | Kissinger | Eagleburger | Brzezinski | Inman | Deutch | Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones | Marine Corps Gen. Bernard Trainor | Cindy Williams | Sen. Howard Baker |
2007 |
| American Security Project (ASP) Board: Gary Hart | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel | Norman Augustine | Christine Whitman. Members Consensus for American Security (2010-): Morton Abramowitz | Sandy Berger | Sidney Drell | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | George Shultz | Strobe Talbott | Graham Allison | Barry Blechman | Gary Hart | Alice Hill | Lawrence Korb | Richard Burt | Madeleine Albright | Mark Brzezinski (son of Zbig) | Morton Halperin. |
2007 |
| Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Founding directors: William Perry (chair) | Madeleine Albright | Richard Armitage | Norman Augustine | Adm. Dennis Blair | William Lynn (Raytheon) | John Podesta. Founding advisory board: Rand Beers | Hans Binnendijk | Ashton Carter | Dr. Michael Green | Susan Rice. More directors: Col. John Nagl (president) | Nicholas Burns | Leo Mackey | Peter Schwartz (later also a director) | Gen. Jim Mattis (Nov./Dec. 2014-2017) | James Murdoch (son of Rupert M.) | David Schwimmer | Michael Sonnenfeldt | Jane Wales | Kurt Campbell (co-founder; chair; CEO) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Advisory board: Victor Cha | Paula Dobriansky | Tony Podesta | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Senior fellows: Robert Kaplan. Other: Joseph Nye (has a scholarship here named after him) | Scott Malcomson (lecture) | Gen. Mike Flynn (co-author January 2010 CNAS report) | Christine Parthemore (fellow). |
2007 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Founders: Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, George Mitchell. Board: Sen. Chuck Robb | Norman Augustine | Jane Garvey (chairman) | Walter Isaacson | Gen. Charles Wald. More: Dan Glickman (senior fellow) | Michael Chertoff (co-chair Immigration Task Force). Task Force on Turkey: Mort Abramowitz and Eric Edelman (co-chairs) | Paula Dobriansky. Project (2010-): American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC): Principals: Norman A. | Ursula Burns | Jeffrey Immelt | Bill Gates | John Doerr | Chad Holliday (chair Shell). |
2007 |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) Website online in late 2007. Officially launched in 2008. Directors: Jeb Bush (founder and chair 2008-2014) | Condoleezza Rice (member and chair 2014-) | Charles Schwab | Elizabeth DeVos | Joel Klein. Speakers: Michael Bloomberg (late 2000s). Funders: Koch, Gates, Carnegie Corporation, Kellogg and other foundations. |
2007 |
| Cultural Change Institute (CCI), Tufts University "CCI Network Members": Samuel Huntington (carried out studies laying the foundation for the instituite) | Paul Ehrlich | Francis Fukuyama | Dr. Roderick MacFarquhar | Michael Novak | Jeffrey Sachs. |
2007-2011 |
| American Corporate Partners (ACP) Advisory council: John Hamre | Vernon Jordan | William Kristol | Richard Myers | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. David Petraeus | George Shultz | Paul Wolfowitz | Gen. John Keane | Larry Summers | Karl Rove | David Axelrod. |
2008 |
| Peter G. Peterson Foundation Directors: Peter Peterson (founder) and son Michael (chair and CEO) | David Walker (president and CEO). Advisory board: George Shultz (co-chair) | Robert Rubin (co-chair) | Paul Volcker | Leslie Gelb | Bill Bradley | Barry Diller | Sheryl Sandberg | Mario Cuomo | Craig Barrett (former chair Intel) | Lesley Stahl | Sylvia Burwell (anno 2010-2013). Also involved: Bill Gates | Ted Turner | Oprah. |
2008 |
| Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council The CEO Council Asia was launched in 2016. First meeting in Europe in 2018. 2009 conference: Jeff Bewkes (still a member anno 2016) | Ken Chenault | Robert Clark (chair, president and CEO Merck) | Philippe Dauman | Peter Lowy | Stephen Schwarzman. 2010 members: Michael Bloomberg | Robert Gates | Timothy Geithner | Larry Summers | Muhtar Kent | David Rubenstein | Henry Kravis (again anno 2020) | Rupert Murdoch (still anno 2020) | 2013 conference: Barack Obama. 2016 members: Marco Rubio. Almost all major names gone. Members anno 2020: Michael Chertoff | Ross Perot Jr. Oct. 2020 digital summit (due to Covid epidemic): Christine Lagarde | John Bolton | Bill Gates | Rahm Emanuel | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Paul Polman. Dec. 2020 summit: William Kristol | Elon Musk | Mike Pompeo | Justin Trudeau | Wilbur Ross | Dr. Anthony Fauci (Covid expert). |
2008 |
| American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize annual event Executive committee: Henry Kissinger (founding '08-) | Colin Powell (founding '08-) | David Rubenstein (founding '08-) | Madeleine Albright (founding '08-) | Walter Isaacson (founding '08-) | Muhtar Kent (founding '08-) | John Hamre (founding '08-) | David Bradley (founding '08-). Speakers: Condoleezza Rice (Nov. 19, 2008, about journalist Daniel Pearl) Source(s): danielpearl.org/wp-content/uploads /2014/06/08HumanitarianPrize.pdf (accessed: April 10, 2020); 2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/ rm/2008/11/112069.htm (accessed: Jan. 1, 2024; 'Remarks At the American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize Ceremony', 'Secretary [C.] Rice ... Washington, DC. November 19, 2008'): "A special welcome to someone whose courage I have admired greatly, and that is Dr. Judea Pearl, the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl." |
2008 |
| Invictus Foundation Tries to help PTSD victims the traditional way. Board of advisors: Gen. Robert Dees | Sen. Slade Gorton | Sen. Mike Gravel |
2010 |
| ASU + GSV Summit Annual summit organized by Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV). 'Summit Leaders': Julia Stiglitz (daughter of Joseph Stiglitz). Speakers: Barack Obama | Priscilla Chan (wife of Mark Zuckerberg) | George W. Bush | John Legend | Condoleezza Rice | Bill Gates | Richard Branson | Laurene Powell Jobs | Penny Pritzker | Tony Blair | Sandra Day O'Connor | Cindy McCain ('19; widow of Sen. John McCain) | Reed Hastings | Sal Khan | Gloria Steinem | Vicente Fox | Matthew McConaughey | Bill Nye | Reed Hastings. 'Sponsor Partners': Gates Fdn., Pearson, Walton Family Fdn., Google Cloud, Microsoft, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, AT&T., Goldman Sachs, McGraw Hill. |
2010 |
| Institute for America's Future (IAF) Robert Borosage (founder-president) | George Soros (founding grant of $500,000). Other financing: Tides Fdn. Runs the Campaign for America's Future. Finances liberal website TomPaine.com. |
2009 |
| Progressive Congress Co-founder/directors anno 2012: Robert Borosage | John Cavanaugh | Katrina vanden Heuvel. |
2009 |
| Good Club / The Giving Pledge (annual meetings) Initially known as the "Good Club", looking how it involves the same group of people, having their first meeting in the same month, at the same place, hosted by the same person. All participants agreed that curbing (African) overpopulation was the most important issue, and their way to deal with it is by developing the continent. Creators: Bill Gates ($102 bln anno 2020) | Warren Buffett ($73 bln anno 2020; gives most of his philanthropy money to the Bill Gates Fdn.). Present at the May 5, 2009 New York City founding meeting (40 people): David Rockefeller (host of the 1st meeting at the President's House of Rockefeller University; signed in 2010; $3.3 bln at death in 2017) | Peter Peterson ($1.8 bln at death in 2018) | Michael Bloomberg ($60 bln anno 2020) | Ted Turner (2010 signer; $2.1 bln) | George Soros (has not signed as of 2020) | Chuck Feeney (2010 signer) | Oprah Winfrey (has not signed as of 2020) | Eli Broad (2010 signer). Signatories: Nicolas Berggruen (2010 signer) | Larry Ellison ($59 bln anno 2020; Oracle founder and Tesla director 2018-) | MacKenzie Bezos ($47 bln anno 2020; ex-wife of Jeff Bezos who is worth $147 bln anno 2020)| Mark Zuckerberg (2010 signer; $83 bln; FB founder; owner IG and WhatApp) | Sheryl Sandberg (FB) | Dustin Moskovitz (FB co-founder who set up Open Philanthropy with his wife) | David Rubenstein (2010 signer; $3.3 bln anno 2020) | Charles R. Bronfman ($2.3 bln anno 2020) | Edgar M. Bronfman ($2.5 bln anno 2020) | Ted Forstmann (2010 signer) | T. Boone Pickens (2010 signer) | Vladimir Potanin ($26 bln in 2020) | Strive Masiyiwa | John Doerr (2010 signer) | Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg (2010 signers) | Jon Huntsman Sr. (2010 signer) | Jeff Skoll (2010 signer) | George Lucas (2010 signer) | Michael Milken (2010 signer) | Victor Pinchuk | Pierre Omidyar (signed in 2010). |
2009 |
| Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Founding financiers: George Soros ($50 million founding financier) | Paul Volcker | David Rockefeller | Alfred P. Sloan Fdn. | Carnegie Corp. Founding advisory board: Joseph Stiglitz (still in 2018) | Jeffrey Sachs (still in 2018) | William Janeway (co-founder and financier; vice and later advisor to Warburg Pincus; still in 2018). Governing board, Jan. 2018: Drummond Pike | Chris Canavan (Soros Fund Management) | Rohinton Medhora (president CIGI) | Gillian Tett (US managing editor FT | Eric Weinstein (official expert; executive director Thiel Capital). More: Robert Johnson (exec. director; former managing director Soros Fund Management) | Lord Adair Turner Senior fellow anno 2021) | Victor Fung and Ronnie Chan (part of the "Business Leaders Panel" of a 2013 INET/CIGI conference, with the former as moderator). Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI): founded in 2001; partnered with INET since 2011. Into blockchain. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder; Jan. 2018 published Maupin interview for CIGI) | Julie Maupin (senior fellow since Jan. 2016; advised the IOTA Foundation's registration process and early behind-the-scenes advisor since mid 2017). cigionline.org/activity/partnership-institute-new-economic-thinking-inet (accessed: January 7, 2017): "CIGI - Institute for New Economic Thinking [integrated logo]: ... Initiated by CIGI Founder and Chair Jim Balsillie and INET Founding Sponsor George Soros, the agreement provides $25 million (CAD) over five years to support joint CIGI-INET activities." |
2009 |
| Robertson Foundation for Government (RFFG) Brent Scowcroft | Sen. Chuck Robb |
2010 |
| Google Ideas / Jigsaw Changed its name to Jigsaw in 2016. Founders: Eric Schmidt | Jared Cohen. Other: Scott Malcomson (editor of a book of the two founders in 2010-2011). |
2010 |
| American Action Forum (AAF) Officers: Douglas Holtz-Eakin ([president) | Sen. Norm Coleman | Gov. Jeb Bush (anno 2014) | Michael Chertoff (2016-2019) | C. Boyden Gray (2016-2020s). |
2010 |
| Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior fellows: James Woolsey | James Wolfensohn | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Stephen Roach. |
2010 |
| Americans Elect americanselect.org/about (accessed: Aug. 16, 2012): "Changing the system by creating the first nonpartisan, national online presidential primary..." Staff: Elliot Ackerman (COO anno 2011; Marine Corps and CIA SAD background; son of Peter). Directors: Peter Ackerman (chair anno '11, still on board anno '23) | Adm. Dennis Blair (anno '11) | Christine Whitman (anno '11) | Stephen Bosworth (anno '11). Advisory board: William Webster ("Leadership" board anno '11; anno '12-'23 on the advisory board; former FBI and CIA director) | Will Marshall (anno '12) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno '12-'23) | C. Fred Bergsten (anno '12-'23) | Michael Eisner (anno '12-'23; chair and CEO Walt Disney 1984-2005) | Jessica Einhorn (anno '12) | Roderick Hills (anno '12-'23) | Carla Hills (anno '12-'23) | Lawrence Lessig (anno '12-'23) | John Negroponte (anno '12-'23) | . Source(s): americanselect.org/who-we-are (accessed: Dec. 16, 2011); americanselect.org/about (accessed: Aug. 16, 2012 - April 16, 2023). |
2010 |
| Global Economic Symposium Policy council: Martin Feldstein. Advisory board: Helmut Schmidt (honorary chair) | Pascal Lamy | Martti Ahtisaari | Victor Chu | Jacob Frenkel. Speakers: George Soros ('13) | William Rhodes ('13) | Eric Weinstein (Thiel Capital; '14)) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('14) | |
2010 |
| Berggruen Institute on Governance (BIG) Founding members: Nicolas Berggruen (founder and chair) | Francis Fukuyama (council member) | Joseph Stiglitz (council member) | Pierre Omidyar (advisor-at-large). 21st Century Council members (2017): Shaukat Aziz | James Cameron | Jared Cohen | Jack Dorsey | Francis F. | John Gray | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Pascal Lamy | Elon Musk | Pierre O. | Nouriel Roubini | Kevin Rudd | Nicolas Sarkozy | Eric Schmidt | Gerhard Schroder | Stephen Schwarzman | Jeff Skoll | Joseph S. | Larry Summers | HRH Prince Turki bin Abdullah al-Saud of Saudi Arabia | Fareed Zakaria | Lei Zhang | Bijian Zheng. Additional (2020): Gordon Brown | John Elkann (Agnelli). 2011 Think Long Committee: Willie Brown | Condoleezza Rice | George Shultz | Arnold Schwarzenegger (guest) | Jerry Brown (guest) Council for the Future of Europe: Nicolas B. | Carl Bildt | Tony Blair | Jacques Delors | Niall Ferguson | Pascal L. | Alain Minc | Mario Monti | Romano Prodi | Nouriel R. | Gerhard S. | Joseph S. | Guy Verhofstadt | Alex Weber | Peter Sutherland. Transformations of the Human Advisory Board: James Manyika | Stewart B. | Reid H. | Eric S. The "Berggruen Network": Ronnie Chan (anno 2021) | Eli Broad. |
2010 |
| World Affairs Institute / World Affairs Journal Editors anno 2011: Peter Collier (once of the left-wing Ramparts) | Christopher Hitchens | Robert Kagan | Joshua Muravchik. |
2010 |
| United States Energy Security Council (USESC) Listed members: James Woolsey | George Shultz | Robert McFarlane | Wesley Clark | William Perry | Norman Augustine | John Lehman | Alan Greenspan | Gary Hart | C. Boyden Gray | James Roche | Gen. Keith Alexander | Harold Brown | Stephen Hadley | T. Boone Pickens | Tom Ridge | Christopher Cox. Interlinked with the 2003-founded Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Source(s): usesc.org/energy_security/ ?ui=desktop (accessed: June 10, 2012 - Aug. 10, 2019). |
2011 |
| Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI) George Shultz |
2011 |
| Code of Support Foundation Robert Speer (trustee chair). Advisory board: Norman Augustine | Gen. Peter Pace | James Woolsey. |
2011 |
| Americans for Campaign Reform / IssueOne.org July 2011 at acrreform.org: co-chairs: Sen. Bill Bradley | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Sen. Warren Rudman | Sen. Alan Simpson. Directors: Frank Weil. Advisory comm.: Bruce Babbitt | Frank Carlucci | Hodding Carter III | William Donaldson | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills and husband Roderick Hills | Amory Houghton | Ed Kangas | Stephen Kay | Walter Mondale | Sam Nunn | Peter Peterson | George Rupp | James Gustave Speth | Paul Volcker | Christine Whitman | Tim Wirth July 2015 at IssueOne.org: members/advisors: Gen. Wesley Clark | William Cohen |
2011 |
| Fuel Freedom Foundation Set up to promote gasoline alternatives as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity. Advisory board: James Woolsey (founding, anno 2017) | Bill Richardson (anno 2013) | Peter Goldmark (anno 2013; former president Rock. Fdn.) | John Hofmeister (former president Shell). Chairmen's Council: Lester Crown (anno 2017) | George Shultz (anno 2017) | Haim Saban (anno 2017). More: Sir Richard Branson (endoresed the foundation upon its founding). |
2012 |
| Represent.US Advisory board ("Our Advisors span the political spectrum, from progressives to Tea Party conservatives."): Theodore Roosevelt IV | Lawrence Lessig | Norman Ornstein | Tom Whitmore ("DC Tea Party Patriots") | Catherine Baer ("Tea Party Network Chair") | Shawn Riegsecker ("CEO and Founder of Centro"). Directors: Jennifer Lawrence. represent.us/unbreaking-america/ (accessed: June 16, 2020): "Studies show that when just 3.5% of a population engages in sustained activism, they have the power to push the entire nation to change." |
2012 |
| McCain Institute for International Leadership Sen. John McCain (founder) | Kurt Volker (executive director). Trustees: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Lehman | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Jeff Immelt | David Petraeus. More: Henry Kissinger (2018) | Kurt Campbell (2018 Kiss. fellow) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (chairman of the Kissinger fellowship program anno 2018). Annual Sedona Forum visitors (since 2014): "CEOs from GE, Chevron, Walmart-USA, Fedex, Freeport McMoRan and Hewlett Packard" | Hillary Clinton ('14) | Robert Kagan ('14) | Gen. David P. ('17, '18) | Gen. Jim Mattis ('14, '18) | H.R. McMaster ('17, '18) | Sir Evelyn and Lynn de R. ('17, '18) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky ('18) | Elon Musk ('15) Demi Moore ('15; for Thorn) and Ashton Kutcher ('18; for Thorn) | David Axelrod ('17) | Carl Bildt ('17) | Gen. James L. Jones ('17) | Greg Maffei ('17) | John Negroponte ('17) | Nancy Okail ('17) | Sen. Jon Kyl ('14, '17, '18) | John L. ('18) | Sen. Joe L. ('18) | Bill McCaffrey | Randy Scheunemann ('18) | Josette Sheeran ('17, '18) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('18) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('18) | Frances Townsend ('17, '18) | Jim Kolbe ('18) | Lindsey Graham ('18) | Michael Abramowitz ('18) | Elliott Abrams ('14, '18) | Paul Wolfowitz ('18) | Raed Al Saleh ('18; head Syria Civil Defence - White Helmets) | Anne Applebaum | Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia | Joe Biden | Leslie Moonves ('17) | Tony Blair ('15) | David Miliband ('15) | James Clapper ('16) | Mike Pompeo ("past speaker" anno'21) More: David Kramer ("Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy" anno '16). |
2012 |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation Daniel Ellsberg (co-founder) | John Perry Barlow (co-founder) | Rainey Reitman (co-founder; Bradley Manning Support Network; Internet Defense League) | Edward Snowden (director since Feb. 2014) | Glenn Greenwald | Laura Poitras | John Cusack | Micah Lee (The Intercept). Provides funds to Wikileaks. Itself financed by the Foundation for National Progress, the publisher of Mother Jones magazine, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from Soros' OSF. The MacArthur Fdn. is another important financier. A minor grant of $25,000 was received from Rockefeller Brothers Fund "for voting rights coverage of the 2014 election." |
2012 |
| New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY-LEAD) Set up to push for public financing of elections to take big business-funded super-PACs out of the equation. MoveOn.org allied itself early on with NY-LEAD in this campaign. Members/board: David Rockefeller (founding) | Jonathan Soros (founding) | Jerome Kohlberg (founding) | Jeffrey Sachs | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Frank Weil | Edgar Bronfman Sr. | Barry Diller | William vanden Heuvel | Charles Kolb | Chris Hughes (co-founder FB) | Sen. Bill Bradley (2015-) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (2015-) | Alec Baldwin (member anno 2020). |
2012 |
| Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security (Atlantic Council) Founding chair: Gen. James L. Jones |
2012 |
| The System Risk Council Focused on regulating the U.S. financial market. Members: Paul Volcker (anno '13, until '19, also listed as "senior advisor") | Chuck Hagel | Paul O'Neill (anno '13) | Lord Adair Turner (anno '14) | Nout Wellink (anno '14) | Jean-Claude Trichet (also listed as "senior advisor" '16-, still anno '21) | Bill Bradley (anno '13-'21)| John Reed (anno '13-'21; former chair and CEO Citicorp) | Hugh Johnston (anno '16; CFO Pepsico). Source(s): systemicriskcouncil.org/members/former-src-members/ (accessed: Oct. 12, 2021; lists past members on the left and present members on the right). |
2012 |
| USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy Advisory board: George Shultz | Christine Whitman |
2012 |
| Clements Center for National Security (CCNS), University of Austin Statecraft board: Henry Kissinger (2013-2020s) | John Lehman (2013-2020s) | Robert Gates (2013-2020s) | Stephen Hadley (2013-2020s) | Kurt Campbell (2013-2020s) | Paula Dobriansky (2013-2020s) | Eric Edelman (2013-2020s) | Sen. Bill Frist (2013-2020s) | Sen. John Cornyn (2013-2020s) | Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2013-2020s) | Sen. Roy Blunt (2013-2020s) | Gen. Michael Hagee (2013-2020s). More (page 2 of Statecraft Board not available in WebArchive before 2016): Senator John McCain (likely 2013-; anno 2016) | Ashton Carter (2014-; remained listed while SecDef) | George Shultz (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Condoleezza Rice (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sam Nunn (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | William Lynn (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Thomas Reed (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Jim Steinberg (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Kristen Silverberg (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sen. Marco Rubio (anno 2016) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sen. John Thune (anno 2016; likely 2013-). Advisory board: Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (2013-2020s). Academic board: Eliot Cohen (2013-2020s) | Robert Kagan (2013-2020s) | Walter Russell Mead (likely 2013-, certainly 2015-2020s) | Aaron Friedberg (anno 2020). More: William Inboden (founding executive director). |
2013 |
| Volcker Alliance (VA) Directors: Paul Volcker (founder and chair 2013-2019) | Bill Bradley (2013-) | William Donaldson (2013-) | Francis Fukuyama (2013-) | Norman Ornstein (2013-) | William Rhodes (anno 2016). |
2013 |
| Strategic Renaissance 21 (SR21) Board (just 3): Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (founding chair 2013-2020s) | Jim Hackett (founding vice chair 2013-about 2017; moved to advisory council after that; chair Anadarko Energy) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (founding director 2013-about 2017). Advisory council (just 2): Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick | Dr. Dixon Doll (co-founder and general partner DCM). Next Gen Council description: "Leaders in business, academics, government, and policy who are committed to the long-term viability of the US- China relationship." No big names among the 4 listed. |
2013 |
| Institute of Politcs, Chicago University Advisory board: William Kristol (2014-, anno 2020) | Mike Morell (anno 2020) | Penny Pritzker (anno 2020) | Neera Tanden (2014-, anno 2020). |
2013 |
| Washington Center for Equitable Growth Steering committee: John Podesta (anno 2021; 1 of 8 staffers in 2013) | Jason Furman (anno 2021) | Janet Yellen (former anno 2021) | Laura Tyson (former anno 2021). Research Advisory Board: Robert Reich (founding 2013-2020s). |
2013 |
| Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP), Columbia University Advisory board: Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Thomas Donilon | Reid Hoffman | Steven Rattner | Theodore Roosevelt IV. |
2013 |
| Service Academies Global Summit Kurt Campbell (advisor 2019 summit) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (2019' keynote speaker; 2018 speaker) | David Gergen (2018 keynote speaker). |
2014 |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Ross Perot Sr. (major founding donor). Directors: George Shultz (2014-2017) | Gary Sinise (anno 2015, later advisory board member) | Ross Perot III (anno 2020) | Craig Stapleton (anno 2020) | Alexander H. Tisch (anno 2020). Advisory board anno 2020: Sean O'Keefe | Leon Panetta | Gen. Michael Hayden | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Gen. Richard Myers | Adm. Eric Olson | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. David Petraeus | Theodore Roosevelt IV. Honorable directors: All living past presidents. |
2014 |
| 30% Club U.S. members: Peter Grauer (founding chair) | Warren Buffett (founding member; not anymore anno 2020) | Muhtar Kent (2014-; not anymore anno 2020) | Larry Fink (founding member) | Dominic Barton (anno 2016; McKinsey & Co.) | Bob Bechek (global chair Bain & Co. 2012-) | Ursula Burns (anno 2016) | Henry Kravis | William Lauder | Brian Moynihan | Sheryl Sandberg | John Waldron | William McNabb III and Mortimer Buckley (Vanguard). U.K. members: Baron David de Rothschild | Douglas Flint (chair HSBC and IIF; member IMC) | John McFarlane (group chair Barclays 2015-2019; president IMC) | chair Roger Carr (chair BAE Systems) | Carl-Henric Svanberg (chair Volvo; chair BP 2010-2018) | Michael Treschow (chair Unilever 2007-; former chair Ericsson) | Sir John Parker (chair PO&O 2005-2006; chair Anglo American 2009-2017; director Airbus) | Sir Ian Davis (chair Rolls-Royce; director BP) | Sir Philip Hampton (chair Royal Bank of Scotland and GlaxoSmithKline; early Lazard history) | Simon Collins | David Cruickshank (partner Deloitte Global) | Sir Bob Kerslake (civil servant; chair Peabody Trust) | Sian Westerman (senior advisor Rothschild & Co.). us.30percentclub.org/about/ (accessed: Jan. 1, 2020): "Goal of achieving 30% female directors on S&P 100 boards by 2020. Today, 28.6% of S&P 100 directors are women, up from 20.2% at launch. Additionally, all S&P 100 boards have at least one female director. Even more encouraging, the US membership has achieved an average of 30% women on their boards, up from 21.7% when it launched..." |
2014 |
| New Establishment Summit Founded and organized by Vanity Fair (owned by Conde Nast, whose president (since 2010) and CEO (since 2015), Richard Sauerberg Jr., worked for the NYT for 18 years and is a director of the David Rockefeller-founded Partnership for New York City; CFO of Conde Nast is David Geithner, brother of superclass member Tim Geithner). Frequent participant: Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair editor 1992-2014). Speakers: Mark Zuckerberg ('15) and Priscilla Chan | Elon Musk ('15) | Lena Dunham ('15) | Katie Couric ('15) | Jeff Bezos ('16) | Barry Diller ('16) | Travis Kalanick ('16) | Sarah Jessica Parker ('16) | Rand Paul | John Kerry ('17) | Walter Isaacson ('16, '17) | Reid Hoffman ('17) | Bob Iger ('17) | Maureen Dowd ('17; NYT) | Dee Dee Myers ('17) | Shonda Rhimes ('17) | Ted Sarandos ('17) | David Zaslav ('17) | Judd Apatow ('17) | Mark Cuban ('17). summit.vanityfair.com/sponsors (accessed: May 26, 2016): "Discovery Communications... BMW... HBO... Air France-KLM..." |
2015 |
| Progressive Agenda Ultraliberal "new left" crowd. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio | Jonathan Soros | Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Van Jones | Joseph Stiglitz |
2015 |
| Global War on Terrorism Foundation Advsiory board: Gen. Peter Pace (anno 2020) | Gen. James Conway (anno 2020). |
2015 |
| MIT: Solve 'People': Joi Ito (anno 2015). Advisors: Eric Schmidt (anno 2021) | Ursula Burns (anno 2021) | Laurene Powell Jobs (anno 2021) | Prince Henri d'Arenberg (anno 2021). |
2015 |
| Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) Founding steering committee: Charles Allen (Homeland Security and CIA background) | Richard V. Allen (into 2020s) | Michael Chertoff (into 2020s) | Henry Crumpton (CIA background) | Leon Fuerth (into 2020s) | Bruce Hoffman | Edwin Meese III (into 2020s) | Chuck Robb | Gen. Edward Rowny | William Sessions (FBI director; into 2020s) | Michael Steinhardt | William Webster (into 2020s). Council of Executives (anno 2020 the new steering committee): Cofer Black (Crumpton's mentor) | Martin Faga | Alberto Fernandez | Frances Townsend. |
2015 |
| Service Year Alliance Gen. Stanley McChrystal (founding chair 2016-2020s) | Leadership council (same for Feb. 2018 and May 5, 2020): Madeleine Albright | Barbara Bush (daughter of George W.) | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Dan Glickman | Stephen Hadley | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Vanessa Kerry (daughter of John Kerry) | Condoleezza Rice. |
2016 |
| Strategic and Policy Forum (SPF) Founded to advise President Donald Trump. Members resigned over the next few months over Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement; and Trump comments in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members: Stephen Schwarzman (key founder with President Donald Trump) | Jamie Dimon | Larry Fink | Elon Musk | Jim McNerney (retired chair, president and CEO Boeing) | Jack Welch (retired chair and CEO GE) | Mary Barra (sitting chair and CEO GE) | Bob Iger (chair and CEO Walt Disney) | Kenneth Frazier (chair and CEO Merck) | Brian Krzanich (CEO of Intel) | president and CEO of Boeing | Indra Nooyi (chair and CEO PepsiCo) | Kevin Plank (chair and CEO Under Armour) | Ginni Rometty (chair, president, and CEO IBM) | Mark Weinberger (chair and CEO EY) | Doug McMillon (president and CEO Walmart). |
Feb.-Aug. 2017 |
| National Security Institute, George Mason University Experts (anno 2020): Gen. Keith Alexander | Gen. Michael Hayden | Gen. Jack Keane | Mike McConnell | John N. Moore | congressman Mike Rogers (chair House Intelligence Comm.) | Michelle Van Cleave | David Cohen (depurty director CIA) | Paul Wolfowitz. |
2017 |
| U.S. Diplomatic Studies Foundation Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | Rand Beers (co-chair) | Chester Crocker (vice president). Funding: Carnegie Corp., RBF. |
2017 |
| UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy Advisory board: Michael Dukakis | Jane Harman | Lonnie Bunch (founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture). |
2017 |
| Climate Leadership Council (CLC) All 'Individual Founding Members': Michael Bloomberg (listed 2017-2018) | Laurene Powell Jobs (listed 2017-2019) | Larry Summers | Martin Feldstein | Ben Bernanke | Ratan Tata | Rob Walton | Christine Whitman | Janet Yellen | Paul Polman | Klaus Schwab | Ray Dalio | Ted Halstead | Stephen Hawking | Steven Chu | Christiana Figueres. Directors: Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch (anno 2021; wife of James). "Distinguished co-authors of carbon dividend plan": James Baker III | George Shultz. 2017, CLC paper, 'The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends' about "the need for a conservative Climate solution", (additional) authors: Geore S. | James B. | Hank Paulson. clcouncil.org/founding-members/ (acceesed: May 27, 2021): "CORPORATE FOUNDING MEMBERS: Allianz. AT&T. Ford. GM. Goldman Sachs. IBM. Johnson & Johnson. JPMorgan Chase & Co. MetLife. Microsoft. ... Pepsi Co. Santander. Schneider Electric. Unilever. ENERGY FOUNDING MEMBERS: BHP. BP. ... ConocoPhillips. ... ExxonMobil. ... Shell. Total." |
2017 |
| Two Paths America Center-right. National advisory committee: William Kristol | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Christine Whitman. |
2017 |
| National Security Action nationalsecurityaction.org (accessed: Apr. 25, 2020): "Dedicated to advancing American global leadership and opposing the reckless policies of the Trump administration. ... Instead of confronting Vladimir Putin over his brazen and ongoing attack on our democracy, Trump bows to the whims of Moscow... We reject the false choice between welcoming immigrants and refugees and ensuring our security. We can and must do both." Founders: - Ben Rhodes (co-chair; worked under Lee Hamilton 2002-2007, helping to draft the Iraq Study Group Report and the recommendations of the 9/11 Comm.; trustee Ploughshares Fund; brother David served as CBS president 2011-2019). - Jake Sullivan (co-chair). Advisory board: Howard Berman | Sen. Barbara Boxer | Nicholas Burns | Bill Burns | Kurt Campbell | Joe Cirincione (president Ploughshares Fund) | Sen. Tom Daschle | Thomas Donilon (Obama NSA) | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam) | Samantha Power | Penny Pritzker | Susan Rice | Jeremy Bash (CIA chief of staff 2009-2011, then DOD 2011-2013) | Rand Beers (deputy Homeland Security advisor 2014-2015) | Jenna Ben-Yehuda. |
2018 |
| When We All Vote Founding co-chairs: Michelle Obama | Tom Hanks | Megan Rapinoe | Kerry Washington | Faith Hill | Tim McGraw. Later added co-chairs: Selena Gomez (anno 2021). |
2018 |
| American Democracy Month Council (ADMC) Website URL registered in mid 2018. Mission: "[To] help educate and inspire Americans [because] research shows that fewer and fewer Americans maintain faith in our democratic system." Directors: George Mitchell (anno '20) | John Negroponte (anno '20). Advisory board: Nicholas Burns (anno '20) | Tom Daschle (anno '20) | Bob Dole (anno '20) | Lee Hamilton (anno '20) | Carl Levin (anno '20) | Norman Ornstein (anno '20) | George Stephanopoulos (anno '20) | Francis Townsend (anno '20) | Trent Lott (anno '21). Source(s): democracymonth.org/about/ (accessed: May 13, 2020; board of directors and advisory board "in formation"); etc. |
2018 |
| Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QI) Founding directors: Stephen Heintz (president RBF) | Thomas Pickering. Seed financiers: Soros, Koch, Ford and Arca foundations; Ploughshares Fund. |
2019 |
| No One Left Behind Advisory board: Paul Wolfowitz | Gen. David Petraeus. nooneleft.org/who-we-are/our-team/ (accessed: July 8, 2020): "An all-volunteer organization working to support Special Immigrant Visa recipients (SIVs)." nooneleft.org/who-we-are/our-team/ (accessed: July 8, 2020): "[General David P.:] "What is really important here is that those who have been supported when they came here are now supporting those who are coming here. And that is hugely important because it demonstrates their own responsibility, their own gratitude, their own desire to payback, to pay it forward for all of this… Thanks for not only continuing to support those who come here, but thanks also for being an example of the newest generation of immigrants to our shores from what you do to contribute to the country."" |
2019 |
| National Infrastructure Performance Council Council: Maurice Greenberg | Gen. David Petraeus | George Pataki. |
2019 |
| U.S. Cyberdome Works to protect the U.S. elections from foreign interference. Founding advisory board: Jeh Charles Johnson (former secretary Homeland Security) | Mike Morell | Michael Chertoff | Chuck Hagel | Gen. James Clapper | Sherri Ramsay (NSA veteran). |
2020 |
| Homeland Security Experts Group (HSEG) Until Jan. 2020 known as Aspen's Homeland Security Group. Then MITRE took over funding and established it as a separate entity. Members/experts: Gen. Michael Hayden (pre-2020 co-chair) | Michael Chertoff (co-chair) | Jane Harman (co-chair) | Gen. Keith Alexander | John McLaughlin | Adm. Eric Olson | William Webster | Richard Ben-Veniste | Janet Napolitano. |
2020 |
| Defeat Disinfo Curtis Hougland (developed the initial AI tech on a grant from DARPA to counter ISIS propaganda) | Stephanie Berger (fundraiser; former DNC national finance director). Advisory board: Gen. Stanley McChrystal Its launch was in every major newspaper. DefeatDisfo.org frontpage at that point (didn't list officers): "Trump's lies about Joe Biden & Covid-19 threaten our society. Republicans and Russians weaponize these lies to divide the nation. The big tech companies can't or won't help – it's up to us to act. To defeat Trump in 2020, we must defeat disinformation. Join the digital frontline to take back the internet today." The project is using AI to analyze and spread anti-Trump "counter-disinformation" through "3.4 million influencers in the country" that are active on the internet and social media. This would theoretically mean that 1% of U.S. citizens are active Democrat-globalist propagandists. |
2020 |
| (Gary) Hart Center for Public Service Directors: Gary Hart. Advisors: David Axelrod (anno '21). Honorary advisory board: John Kerry (anno '21) | William Cohen (anno '21) | Larry Summers (anno '21) | Cindy McCain (anno '21; widow of Sen. John McCain) | Gen. Charles Boyd (anno '21) | Tom Brokaw (anno '21) | Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-lee Jackman | Arianna Huffington (anno '21) | Warren Beatty (anno '21). |
2020 |
| Center for Tech Diplomacy, Purdue University Board: Bonnie Glick (founding exec. director; former COO USAID) | Leon Panetta (founding-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (founding-) | Robert Hormats (founding-). |
2021 |
| Order of the Garter Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Thomas Bingham | Philip Edward Bonn | Lord Carrington | 13th Marqess of Lothian (Kerr) | Cecil family | Dukes of Devonshire | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor | Lord Peter Inge | Lord Robert Leigh-Pemberton | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Prince Philip | Duke of Kent |
1348 |
| Privy Council | 16th century |
| Order of the Thistle (Scottish version of the Order of the Garter) 13th Earl of Airlie | Lord George Robertson | 11th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord David Ogilvy | Prince Philip |
1687 |
| United Grand Lodge (Scottish Rite) | 1717 |
| Venerable Order of Saint John | 1831 |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) / Royal United Services Institution Duke of Kent (president) | Gen. David Petraeus (senior vice president) | Sir David Omand (vice president) | Admiral Richard Cobbold (executive director). Council chairs: Sir Michael Alexander | Sir Paul Lever | Lord Hutton. Council vice presidents: Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor (long time) | Gen. Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter | Adm. Sir Nicholas John Hill-Norton (son of UFO disinformer Lord Peter Hill-Norton) | Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine | Gen. Klaus Naumann | Adm. Sir Julian Oswald | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace) | Sir David Omand | Lord Levene of Portsoken | Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham. Ordinary council members: Gen. Richard Myers | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones | Nicholas Soames. Corporate Advisory Group: BAE Systems. |
1831 |
| Crown Agents | 1833 |
| Corps of Commissionaires | 1859 |
| Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London Research group into the paranormal (with a lot of rather questionable figures involved). Sir William Crookes (president 1896-1899) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1901-1903) | Arthur Balfour (president 1893) | Gerald Balfour (president 1906-1907) | William McDougall (president 1920-1921; president U.S. chapter 1921-1922) | Sir Alister Hardy (president 1965-1969; founder Religious Experience Research Unit at Oxford in 1969) | Joseph Banks Rhine (president 1980) | Louisa Ella Rhine (president 1980) | Ian Stevenson (president 1988-1989) | Archie Roy (president 1992-1995) | Gordon Creighton (member) | Sir Walter Leaf (member). In 1884 an American chapter was founded, actually by skeptics of the paranormal in this case. Eileen Garrett (tested for paranormal abilities in the 1930s by J.B. Rhine; performed experiments for the U.S. branch 1931-1951; founder and president New York Parapsychology Foundation in 1951 with Ohio congressman and oil fortune heir Frances Bolton; wealthy) |
1882 |
| Fabian Society (foundation of today's Labour Party) | 1884 |
| Anti-Socialist and Communist Union (Economic League during Cold War) Lord Walter Runciman (vice president; major Nazi appeaser) | 1st Baron McGowan (director; chair ICI and major Nazi appeaser) | Sir David Barran (president) | Sir Harry Brittain (director; appeaser) | 1st Baron Iliffe | John Dettmer (chairman) |
1908 |
| Carnegie United Kingdom Trust | 1913 |
| Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) (Chatham House) Jozef Retinger (1946 speech) | Lord Robert Cecil | Waldorf Astor | Sir Henry Philip Prince | Sir John Wheeler-Bennett | Sir Roderick Jones | Christopher Woodhouse | Sir Duncan Oppenheim (chair 1966-1971; chair BAT 1953-1966; BB '68) | Sir Andrew Shonfield (director of studies 1961-1968, (exec.) director 1972-1977; economist; BB '68) | Lord Humphrey Trevelyan | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Lord Greenhill | Lord Shackleton | Sir Frank Roberts | Sir John Birch | Lord Paddy Ashdown | Lord Hurd (co-president 2002-2009). Donors: Lord Howe | Sir Philip Goodhart | John Major | Marietje Schaake (member Comm. on Dem. and Tech. in Europe) | Chester Crocker (member IAB). Ordinary members: Lord Carrington | Sir Peter Sutherland (speech) | Niall Fitzgerald (speech) | Jack Straw (speech) | Peter Mandelson (speech) | Jaakko Kooroshy (research fellow) | Michael Shrimpton | Christopher Ashley Ford. Panel of senior advisors, established in 2008: Andre Hoffmann (anno '11) | Nicholas Burns (anno '11) | Victor Chu (anno '11) | Sir Joseph Hotung (anno '11) | Lord H. of Westwell (chair anno '11) | Lord George Robertson (anno '11) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (anno '11) | John Whitehead (anno '11; also has a lecture named after him). U.S. members: Henry Kissinger (speech 1982) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (speech) | Paul Volcker | Sir Evelyn (member RIIA's William Pitt Group anno '11) and Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Major (speech) | James Baker III (speech) | Joseph Nye (speech) | Strobe Talbott (speech) | Madeleine Albright (speech) | Richard Haass (speech) | C. Douglas Dillon (annual speech named after him) | Jane Harman ('19 speech). - More: Kevin Rudd (fellow) | Robin Niblett (director anno 2017) | Sir Richard Branson (March 4, 2015 speaker). |
1920 |
| British United Industrialists (BUI) Funneled money to the Economic League and Aims of Industry. 1st Baron Renwick (founding chair) |
1962 |
| International Financial Services, London (British Invisibles) | 1968 |
| Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Margaret Thatcher (co-founder) | Keith Joseph (co-founder) | Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (chair 1979-1990). Directors: Lord Blackwell | Niall Ferguson | Tessa Keswick (deputy chair; wife of Sir Henry K.) | Andrew Knight | Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) | Lord Brian Griffiths (chair 1991-2000). Advisory board: Lord Charles Powell. |
1974 |
| Tory Reform Group Rifkind (patron) | Michael Heseltine (patron) | Lord Chris Patten (patron) |
1975 |
| Defence and Security Forum Lady Olga Maitland (founder and decades-long president) | Lord Norman Lamont (vice president and patron) | Sir John Wheeler (chair, deputy chair and patron) | . Members: Michael Shrimpton. Speakers: Sandy Berger | Prince Michael of Kent | Admiral Sir Michael Boyce | Benazir Bhutto |
1983 |
| Halo Trust Trustees: Cindy McCain (wife Sen. John McCain) | Angelina Jolie (resigned in protest) |
1988 |
| Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Set up to offer alternatives to free market fundamentalism. David Miliband (research fellow 1989–1994) | Dr. Andrew Graham (member media advisory committee 1994-1997). |
1988 |
| Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London Robert J. O'Neill (chair 1991-1996) | Audrius Butkevicius (published 'The Baltic region in the new Europe chapter' at CDS in 1993; Far West director) Anton Surikov (published 'Crime in Russia: The International Implications' at CDS in 1995; Far West founder) | |
1990 |
| Prince of Wales' Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) Lord Alan Watson (member) |
1994 |
| UK Defence Forum Lord Guthrie (patron) | Admiral Lord Boyce (patron) | Dr. Julian Lewis (editorial board of the UKDF journal) |
1996 |
| Club of Three Founders: Lord Weidenfeld | Jacob Rothschild | Lord Alexander. Later incorporated in the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. |
1996 |
| Multinational Chairman's Group Sir John Bond | Martin Broughton | Lord John Browne | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Niall FitzGerald. |
1997 |
| Policy Network Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (primary financier to set up the think tank) | Peter Mandelson | Tony Blair (visitor of a founding conference). International council: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Michiel van Hulten, Will Marshall. |
2000 |
| The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Jamie Cooper-Hohn (founder) and billionaire husband Sir Chris Hohn (founder) | Mark Malloch-Brown (acting chair; major Soros agent) | Graeme Sweeney (chair Climate Change Advisory Board; shell; major global warming activist) |
2002 |
| European Reform Forum (ERF) Committee members: Lord Waddington (chair) | Lord Tebbit | Lord Weatherhill | Lord Rees-Mogg | Lord Blackwell | Sir Oliver Wright. Provided evidence: Lord Howell. |
Jun.-Dec. 2005 |
| Institute for Strategic Dialogue Trustees: Lord Weidenfeld (president) | Sir Ronald Grierson | Lord Guthrie | Lord Simon of Highbury | Andre Hoffmann (co-chair). Policy board: Wolfgang Ischinger | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) | Louis Schweitzer. Scholarship advisory board: Niall Ferguson. |
2006 |
| Institute for Government Governors: Lord Sainsbury of Turville | Lord Heseltine | Lord Simon of Highbury | Lord Currie of Marylebone | Dame Sandra Dawson |
2008 |
| Rothschild birthday parties (40th birthday of Nat Rothschild - confidentially agreements had to be signed by personnel) Tony Hayward | Peter Munk | Milo Djukanovic | Niall Ferguson and wife Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Peter Mandelson | Sasha Volkova (Russian model) | Sawiri family | King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi | Roman Abramovich | Oleg Deripaska |
2011 |
| Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap (Zwanenbroeders) Royal family: Willem of Orange | Queen Wilhelmina | Queen Juliana | Prince Bernhard | Queen Beatrix | King Willem Alexander of Orange. Family names: van Egmont | de Merode | de Croij | de Roy van Zuidewijn | de Roy van Zuidewyn | van Tuyll van Serooskerken | van Nassau | van Oranje / Orange | van Lanschot | Fentener van Vlissingen | de Vos van Steenwijk | Michiels van Kessenich. Other names: A.F. Philips (Anton Philips, Philips founder) | F.F. Otten (Frans Otten, son-in-law of Philips founder) | |
1318 |
| Haagsche Club Extremely private. Virtually no names are known, although they come from high nobility, the royal family circle, diplomacy, and key corporations and banks. Still doesn't allow women. Baron W.O. Bentinck van Schoonheten (president; ambassador to Spain and London); Baron Andre van Heemstra (director; director Unilever); Aarnout Loudon | Joseph Luns (speech in 1986) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (his High Council of Nobility has been organizing diners here) Kikkoman Foods Europe diner in 2012: Mitsuo Someya (Kikkoman chair) | Paul van der Heijden (chair Leiden University) | Jaap Rost Onnes | Max van den Berg Bernard Wientjes | Maxime Verhagen | Yvonne van Mastrigt | Sibrand Poppema |
1748 |
| Hoge Raad van Adel / High Council of Nobility Chairmen: Baron Rudolph van Hoëvell van Nijenhuis (fungerend) 1866-1893 | Count Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis 1893-1907 | Baron Alexander Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 1908-1934 | Baron Jan Arend de Vos van Steenwijk 1947-1956 | Jonkheer Frans Beelaerts van Blokland 1956 - 1960 | Jonkheer Matthias Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland 1960-1966 | Baron Albrecht Nicolaas de Vos van Steenwijk 1984-1986 | Baron Frank Wolfaert van Lynden 1986-1991 | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije 1991-. Other council members: Johan Philip de Monté ver Loren (secretary 1930-1942) | Jonkheer F.K.M. van Nispen tot Pannerden (sinds 2002) | Egbert Jan Wolleswinkel (secretary since 2003) | Baron H.C.R.M. de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteijn (sinds 2005) | Baroness R.M. van Pallandt (sinds 2010) | Baroness C.J.A. Snouckaert van Schauburg-Buchwaldt (sinds 2012). |
1814 |
| Minerva fraternity, Leiden University Modern name since 1973. December 11, 2010, Volkskrant (mainstream Dutch newspaper): "Minerva, one of the foundations of our ruling elite. At least two-thirds of influential Holland has been a member of a fraternity... Ten percent [of Minerva], followed by Rotterdam fraternities (6%), the Utrecht fraternities (5%), and Groningen fraternities (4%)...." Minerva: Queen Beatrix of Orange | Queen Juliana | King Willem Alexander | Prince Constantijn | Prince Floris | Prinsess Margriet | Crown Prince Alexander der Nederlanden | Princess Anita | Princess Aimee | Princess Prinses Astrid of Belgium | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Hans Maarten van den Brink | Joris Demmink | Oscar Hammerstein | Benk Korthals | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Pechtold | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Rutger Schimmelpenninck | Max van der Stoel | Erica Terpstra | Maxime Verhagen | Paul Verhoeven | Gijs de Vries | Nout Wellink | Cees van Lede | Jan Wicher van Heerde | Pieter Bakker Schut | Hans van Baalen | Ard van der Steur | Youp van 't Hek (Holland's most famous comedian; grew up in the area and only knew people who were members of Minerva) Extra: Volkenrechtelijk Dispuut "Professor mr B.M. Telders", linked to Leiden University: honorary chairmen: Frans Alting von Geusau | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ernst van der Beugel | Pieter Kooijmans | |
1839 |
| Dutch Red Cross Baron Guup Kraijenhoff (20 year chairman) | Elco Brinkman (president/chair until 2012) | Pita Schimmelpenninck (legal advisor) | Prince Pieter van Vollenhoven of Orange Nassau (director) | |
1864 |
| Vereniging Rembrandt Patron: Queen Beatrix of Orange. Management board: Jan Boll (chair) \ Jonkheer Aarnout Loudon (vice-chair). Advisory council: Elco Brinkman | Baroness Marion Lambert | John Leighton | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Cees Maas | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije | Baron C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken. |
1883 |
| Dutch Carnegie Foundation and the Peace Palace Baron Samuel John van Tuyll van Serooskerken (trustee 1953-1981) | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (chair 1958-1963) | Jan de Quay (chair 1963-1966; continued as a director into the 1970s) | Ernst van der Beugel (became a trustee in 1975) | Max van der Stoel (chair 1989-1990s) | Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1980-1993; chair 1995-1997) | Hans van den Broek (chair 2000-2007) | Ben Bot (chair) | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Geert Corstens (trustee since 2008) |
1904 |
| Netherlands-America Foundation Paul Bremer | Thomas Watson | William vanden Heuvel | Gerard Peijnenburg (friend of Cees van den H.) | Rudolf Bekink | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) |
1921 |
| Nederlandsche Unie (collaborist with the Nazis) Founders: Jan de Quay | Louis Einthoven | Johannes Linthorst Homan. Wim Fockema Andreae (employee) |
1940-1941 |
| Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds Board: Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck |
1940 |
| Nederlands Genootschap voor International Zaken / Netherlands Society for International Affairs / Dutch Association for International Affairs Dr. Jan Rood (chair) | Anthony Ruys (b. 1943) |
1945 |
| Nationale Federatieve Raad van het Voormalige Verzet Nederland, formed (National Federal Council of the Former Resistance in the Netherlands) Borghouts (chair 1959-1965) | Cees van den Heuvel (joined in 1961 after retiring from Dutch intelligence; chair since 1965) |
1947 |
| Oude Loo Conferenties / Oude Loo Conferences 17 weekly interfaith conferences organized between 1951 and 1957 at castle Oude Loo, owned by Princess Wilhelmina of Orange-owned (Dutch queen 1890-1948). The first meeting counted 130 participants, after 200 had been invited. Later meetings counted about 180 participants. Regular conference visitor Professor Gilles Quispel (author on hermeticism and Gnostic Christianity) in 'Andere Tijden': "America and Russia were never discussed. Neither the arms race. The meetings were meant to try to find a synthesis between Christianity and the world religions. [Hofmans] was an introvert, sexless woman..." The group was inspired by Queen Julia advisor Greet Hofmans and her ally, Johan Willem Kaiser. Both were heavily inspired by the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian Theosophist who each summer between 1921 and 1929 came to the Netherlands as part of the Order of the Star, the Dutch branch operating from Castle Eerde from 1924 to 1929. The castle was provided to the group by Baron Philip van Pallandt, whose cousin Rudolf was a senator. During the last "star camp" in 1929 3,000 followers from 48 countries were brought together by Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti had been raised from age 11 by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant, the leaders of the Theosophical Society, to become the new World Teacher / Maitreya, making the Oude Loo Conferences at the very least an offshoot of the Theosophical Society. Apart from Bernhard's extramarital affairs, the conferences caused a rift between Prince Bernhard and Queen Julia. When the latter eventually told Bernhard to leave the palace, Bernhard leaked details of his wife's association with Greet Hofmans and the conferences to his journalist friend Sefton Delmer, which in turn resulted in an article in Der Spiegel, causing a political crisis. The so-called Greet Hofmans Affair forced Juliana to distance herself from the group. Afterwards, the group continued under the name "Oude Veld Conferences" until 1968. As part of her terms for leaving the Oude Loo Conferences, Juliana demanded that Bernhard withdrew himself from Bilderberg, but the investigative committee never made this public and the association between Bilderberg and the royal house of Orange continued unhindered. Participants: Greet Hofmans (central figure, but only behind the scenes, because she did not speak English; spiritual medium who advised Queen Juliana since 1948, when Bernhard brought her to Palace Soestdijk in relation to Princess Marijke's eye-disease; her spirit communications guided the content of the conferences) | Johan Willem Kaiser (conference organizer and close ally of Hofmans; former director Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland; financed by Princess Wilhelmina) | Baroness Van Heeckeren van Molecaten (member organizing committee; personal secretary of Queen Juliana; after Greet Hofmans contacted her in 1946, she provided her with a place at her domain, from which her fame grew) | Queen Julia of Orange and friends (annual conference visitor) | Queen Mother Wilhelmina (annual conference visitor) | Eleanor Roosevelt (present at the second conference, but labeled it "fanatical") | Frits Philips (of the elite Philips company) | Pierson banking family | Viruly industrial family | Fokker family (of the Dutch airplane builder) | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Martin Buber (Jewish religious philosophist) | Rabbi Jacob Soetendorp | Friedrich Würzbach (founder Nietzsche Society; half-Jew who was a complete Nazi, but still dismissed by the party) | Annemarie Schimmel (German scholar on Islam and Sufism; Harvard professor 1967-1992) | Zafrullah Khan (founding father of Pakistan). |
1951-1957 |
| Tie Club / Dassenclub Prince Bernhard's secret personal club, which held annual meetings and had one main rule, written down by Prince Bernhard himself: "[Members] should support each other at all times, in every aspect." The group wanted to see a coup in pre-WWII Dutch-owned Indonesia. Members (as far as is known): CIA director Gen. Walter Bedell Smith | Sefton Delmer | Frans Otten (president-director of Philips 1939-1961) | Paul Rijkens (founding chair Unilever) | Johan Willem Beyen (member 1948-; director Unilever; director Philips; chair Javasche Bank; Dutch director World Bank 1946- and IMF 1948-; president BIS; co-minister of foreign affairs 1952-1956; close friend of the royal family) | Dr. J.F. Nuboer (Prince Bernhard's personal physician) | Hans Teengs Gerritsen (from a wealthy family; known as "Uncle Hans" by (future) Queen Beatrix; military intelligence officer; part of the Dutch CIA-controlled Stay Behind network with a number of close friends of Prince Bernhard; good friend of CIA agent Carl Armfelt, who founded these Stay Behind networks in Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium; also tied to CIA drug trafficking it appears; consultant for Lockheed and Northrop in the Netherlands). |
1948 |
| Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER) / Social-Economic Council Wim Kok (vice chair 1980s) | Jan van Walsem (alternate 1990-1994) | Klaas de Vries (chair 1996-1998) | Herman Wijffels (chair 1999-2006) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair 2006-2012) Wiebe Draijer (chair 2012-) | Victor Halberstadt | Bernard Wientjes (vice chair) | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Jr. (crown member) | Elco Brinkman | Paul van der Heijden (alternate) |
1950 |
| Netherlands Atlantic Association Rio Praaning (appointed director in 1978, then a 26-year-old law student; left in 1990) | Cees van den Heuvel (member; information officer since the 1970s; retired in 1986; handler of Rio P.) | Hannie van Leeuwen (president since 1979; former Christian Democrat MP). Keynote speakers at its second Round Table Conference in 1985: Lord Carrington, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Frits Bolkestein (chair 1990-1991) | Gijs de Vries (chair 1991) | Frans Weisglas (vice chair) |
1952 |
| Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1979-1993, also chair) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Professor Hans van Ginkel (chair anno 2014) |
1952 |
| Groep Rijkens / Rijkens Group Business lobyy that got itself involved in Dutch foreign policy towards its Indonesia colony. Paul Rijkens (founding chair of Unilever 1930-) | H.M. Hirschfeld (director Unilever and KPM) | Kees Scholtens (former chief of Shell Indonesia; director Shell; head of the Iraanse Oliemaatschappij, which would be nationalized) | Emile van Konijnenburg (director and vice-president of Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) involved with Sukarno in Indonesia politics) | Dr. Marcus van Blankenstein (Dutch-Jewish journalist at The Parool post WWII) | Prince Bernhard of Orange (very close friend of Rijkens in particular and very supportive of this group). 2004, Willem Oltmans (part of the Rijkens Group), 'Hollandse sporen in de sawa', p. 311: "Drees, Beel, Luns, Romme en andere Haagse stoerlingen, die kletsen over Indonesië en Sukarno zonder benul the hebben van hoe de kaarten in Jakarta werkelijk lagen. ... De Amerikaanse president [JFK] had direct al de beschikking over gegevens dat er in Nederland een krachtige oppositie bestond tegen het beleid van Luns, onder wie prins Bernhard, Paul Rijkens en vele anderen. ... Zelf had ik een en ander bepleit bij Walt Rostow en ook de groep-Rijkens en prins Bernhard waren eraan te pas gekomen om Washington ervan te overtuigen Nederland onder druk te zetten en Nieuw-Guinea over te dragen. ... Ik heb zes jaar in het geheim in de marge van de groep Rijkens geopereerd, tot een CIA-agent zich in het gezelschap binnendrong. In 1964 is hij bij een verkeersongeval nabij Sassenheim om het leven gekomen." 2009, Wouter Meijer, 'Ze zijn gek geworden in Den Haag', p. 95: "In april 1961 was Oltmans nog altijd in de weer om leden van de groep-Rijkens met Soekarno in contact te brengen. Hij was nooit officieel in dienst geweest bij deze groep industriëlen, maar legde in opdracht van hen in de jaren 1956-1961 vaak contacten met Indonesische politici en ambtenaren, of werd eropuit gestuurd om poolshoogte te nemen, zoals in Indonesië in 1957. De belangrijkste figuren binnen de groep-Rijkens waren Paul Rijkens zelf, Kees Scholtens, oud-chef van de Koninklijke/Shell in Indonesië, en Emile van Konijnenburg, onderdirecteur van KLM en tevens het belangrijkste contact van Oltmans binnen de groep. Het doel van de groep was, zoals Rijkens het zelf verwoordde, om de 'zich steeds verbredende kloof tussen beide landen [Nederland en Indonesië] te helpen overbruggen, waar onze regering die overbrugging niet kon beginnen." |
1952 |
| Nederlands Arabische Kring (Netherlands Arabic Circle) Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (involved from the 1950s to the 1970s) | Mahmoud Rabbani (involved in the 1970s) |
1955 |
| Instituut voor het Moderne Nabije Oosten (Institute for the Modern Near East), University of Amsterdam Nicolaas Posthumus (founder) | Kees Wagtendonk (lecturer and scientific head in the 1960s) |
1956 |
| Stichting voor Onderzoek van Ecologische Vraagstukken (Foundation for the Investigation of Ecological Problems, SOEV) Copy from the CIA's MKULTRA foundation, the Human Ecology Fund. Cees van den Heuvel (founder and head). Funds came from Prince Bernhard's friends at AKU (later AKZO), Philips, Shell (headed by John Loudon) and Unilever. |
1960 |
| Stichting ter Voorlichting over de Oost-West Verhouding (SVOWV - Institute for Information on East-West Relations) | 1962 |
| International Documentation and Information Center (Interdoc) Cees van den Heuvel (founding head) | Louis Einthoven (co-founder) | Herman Jan Rijks | J. M. Hornix. German founding members: Professor Hans Lades, Dr. C. D. Kernig and Dr. Norman von Grote. Initial financing came from Shell, head by John Loudon. British founding consultative council members (certainly still on board in 1969): Brian Crozier | Walter Bell (MI5) | Dick Ellis (MI6, co-founder OSS/CIA and Australian SIS). Others British consultative council members: Neil Elles (Common Cause) | John Dettmer. Italy: Luigi Gedda (medical advisor Pope Pius XII) |
1963-1986 |
| Oost-West Instituut (East-West Institute) Merger of the SOEV and SVOWV. Cees van den Heuvel (head) | Rio Praaning (joined the staff in 1974 and became assistant director to Cees in 1976) | The institute's Conferentie voor Veiligheid en Samenwerking in Europa: Frans Alting Von Geusau (co-founder) | Max van der Stoel (high commissioner 1993-2001) | Maarten van Traa (delegation head 1992-1994) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (temporary chair) |
1965 |
| Asser Institute: Centre for International & European Law Ernst Hirsch Ballin (president and member governing and executive board) | Dr. Janne Nijman (member governing and executive board; also: "International Gender Champion"; overseer/researcher Amsterdam Center for International Law; director The Broker; President Oikos; supervisory board PAX Voor Vrede and Spark). |
1965 |
| SNV Netherlands Development Organisation International advisory board: Jeffrey Sachs | Mohammad Yunus |
1965 |
| Nederlands Palestina Komitee (Dutch Palestine Committee) Co-founders: Kees Wagtendonk | Piet Nak | Mahmoud Rabbani |
1969 |
| Stichting Geestelijke Weerbaarheid (Institute for Psychological Defense) Cees van den Heuvel |
1969 |
| Nederlands Instituut voor Vredesvraagstukken Frans Alting von Geusau |
1969 |
| 1001 Club - Dutch members only Prince Bernhard of Orange | Queen Juliana of Orange | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Ernst van Eeghen | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Sr. | Baroness Gabrielle Bentinck van Schoonheten | F. W. Brenninkmeijer (and family) | Anton Dreesmann | Pieter Dreesmann | Jan van den Brink | Rudolf van den Brink | Hans Melchers | Leon Melchior | Bob Schreiner | John Loudon | Frederik Loudon | George Loudon | Angela Loudon | Ruud Lubbers | Jacques Schoufour | Anton Pannenborg (Philips) | Frits Philips | Feyo Sickinghe | Allard Jiskoot | Jan Lodewijk Pierson | Wim Fockema Andreae | Van Beuningen | Fentener van Vlissingen | Cees van Lede | Marcel van Poecke | Anthony Ruys and Lucien Ruys | Johannes Kraayevelt van Heemert | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer | Baron Guup Kraijenhoff | Dik Wessels | Hans Merkle | Baron Freddie van Tuyll Van Serooskerken and son | Baron van Welderen Rengers | Joke van Dieten Maasland. |
1970 |
| Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellow: Beatrice de Graaf. |
1970 |
| British Atlantic Committee, Amsterdam conference Brian Crozier (important co-founder) | Prince Bernhard (chairman). Speakers/participants: Frank Barnett | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dean Rusk | Cyrus Vance | Albert Wohlstetter | Shephard Stone. Interdoc hardly involved. |
March 1973 |
| Stichting Solidariteit en Verbondenheid Nederland-Verenigde Staten (Foundation for Solidarity and Alliance Netherlands-United States) Cees van den Heuvel (founder) | Henk Hergarden (head) |
June 1973 |
| International Secretariat for Atlantic Youth (ISAY) Rio Praaning (founder) |
1975 |
| Jong Atlantisch Samenwerkings Orgaan Nederland (JASON) Rio Praaning (founder, management chair, and still on the advisory board anno 2014) | Ben Bot (director 1970s) | Cees van den Heuvel (advisory board 1970s to at least the 1990s) | Wim van Eekelen (chair advisory board 1970s; still on the board anno 2014) | Alexander Alting von Geusau (chief editor and director since about 1985); Victor Halberstadt (advisory board since about 1990; still today) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (advisory board since about 1987) | Harry Hoefnagels (advisory board since about 1987). Appeared in magazine: Wim Couwenberg (1977), Peter Kooijmans (1977-1978), Max van der Stoel (1980). Participants in JASON's 1982 Committee on Future Dutch-American Relations in the United States and its counterpart in the Netherlands: Richard Perle | Eugene Rostow | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Norman Bailey | Adm. Dennis Blair (NSC at the time and old friend Ollie North) | Frans Alting von Geusau | Anton Pannenborg |
1975 |
| Phoenix Foundation NL Promoted extreme libertaranism: the absence of any government. Robert Jan Doorn (founding chairman; secretary; magazine editor; also: major money launderer) |
1977 |
| 15th International Towing Tank Conference, Netherlands Honorary committee: Prince Claus of Orange (conference chair, probably due to Prince Bernhard's involvement in the Lockheed Affair) | Wim van Eekelen (former defense secretary) | Piet Kleyn van Willigen (Smit International) | Wim Kok | Johannes Kraaijeveld van Hemert (Boskalis) | B.E. Ruys (Nedlloyd) |
1978 |
| Komitee Kruisraketten Nee (Cruise Missiles No) Prominent anti-nuclear-tipped cruise missiles placement protest group. Maarten van Traa (secretary) |
1981-1987 |
| Nationaal Comite Verzetsherdenkingskruis Cees van den Heuvel (secretary) | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Adm. E. Roest |
1981-1988 |
| De Balie Supervisory board: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair). General director: Yoeri Albrecht. Visitors: Pussy Riot. |
1982 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) |
1983 |
| Stichting 40-45 (Stichting Dienstencentrum 1945-2000 from 1984-1987) Club for veterans of the Dutch resistance during WWII. Founders: Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Bernhard | Louis Einthoven | Cees van den Heuvel | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (chair in the 1980s) | Sen. Erik Jurgens (chair) |
1984-1987 |
| Nationale Postcode Loterij / Stichting Doen Stichting Doen was founded in 1991 and a main conduit of the Postcode Loterij. |
1989, 1991 |
| Nexus Instituut In 1996 the first Nexus conference was organized. Staff ("directie" and "bureau"): Rob Riemen (founder and managing director 1994-, still anno '24; founder Nexus magazine 1991-). Board of directors ("bestuur"): Prof. Marc Groenhuijsen (chair anno '03, still anno '24; law professor) | Prof. Ad Geelhoed (anno '03; attorney-generaal European Court of Justice) | Prof. Wim van den Goorbergh (anno '03; vice chair Rabobank) | Herman Tjeenk Willink (anno '03-'05; vice-president Raad van State / Privy Council) | Joan de Wijkerslooth (anno '03, anno '11 at the "raad van toezicht"); voorzitter College van Procureurs-Generaal 1999-2005). Supervisory board ("raad van toezicht"): Wim van den Goorbergh (chair anno '06-'08; vice chair Rabobank) | Joost Kuiper (anno '06-'08; director ABN Amro bank and supervisory board ING Group) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan ('07-'12) | Arnold Croiset van Uchelen (anno '23; partner Allen & Overy). Advisory board ("raad van advies") primary: Frits Bolkestein (anno '03-'17) | Victor Halberstadt (anno '03-'24) | Herman Wijffels (anno '03-'11) | Mark Eyskens (anno '03-'11; Belgian PM April - Dec. 1981, foreign affairs minister 1989-1982, minister of finance 1985-1988) | Tom de Swaan (anno '03-'24; director and later chair ABN AMRO bank; director Dutch Central Bank, Van Lanschold, Royal Ahold, Royal DSM, GlaxoSmithKline, Zurich Insurance; advisory chair Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis) | Ruud Lubbers (not in '03, anno '05-'17; PM NL 1982-1994) | Britta Bohler ('10-, still anno '17; advocaat, lid van de Eerste Kamer) Advisory board ("raad van advies") secondary: Dr. Otto von der Gablentz (German ambassador to the Netherlands '83-'90) | Drs. Rob Visser (anno '03, at "raad van toezicht" anno '08; directeur-general Ministry of Justice) | Peter van Walsum (anno '03; director-general political affairs at Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1991, as a protege of Hans van den B.; ambassador to Germany; UN representative; member Commissie-Davids in 2009 that investigated the Dutch role in the Iraq War) | Yvonne van Rooy (anno '03-'05; daughter of queen commissioner Charles van Rooy; secretary of state (no. 2 position) for economic affairs 1986-1989, 1990-1994; chair Tilburg University -2004, chair Utrecht University 2004-2012, chair Nederlandse Vereniging van Ziekenhuizen 2012-2018) | Dr. Dragan Klaic ('03; hoogleraar, universiteit van Amsterdam) | Pierre Audi (anno '03; artistiek directeur De Nederlandse Opera) | Dr. Ronald de Leeuw (anno '03; directeur Rijksmuseum) | John Leighton (anno '03; directeur Van Goghmuseum) | Martijn Sanders (anno '03; algemeen directeur Het Concertgebouw nv). Speakers: Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan ('04) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('04) | Sonia Gandhi (June 9, 2007, with Queen Beatrix of Orange in attendance) | Francis Fukuyama (interview published in '08) | Michael Ignatieff (interview published in '08) | Yourie Albrecht | Margaret Atwood | Anne Applebaum ('20 online symposium speaker). Sponsors: Brook Foundation (anno '23; chair anno '23 is Mevr. F. van Rappard-Wanninkhof, also on the Dutch Comm. of HRW). Source(s): nexus-instituut.nl (accessed: Oct. 25, 2003 - April 4, 2005; 'Organisatie' part): "Directie: ... Bureau: ... Bestuur: ... Raad van Advies: ..."; nexus-instituut.nl/pages.php/ organisatie_raadvadvies.html (accessed: Oct. 9, 2006 - Jan. 15, 2010); nexus-instituut.nl/pages.php/ organisatie_raadvtoezicht.html (accessed: Oct. 9, 2006 - Jan. 15, 2010); nexus-instituut.nl/person/sonia-gandhi (accessed: ): "Living Politics: 9 juni 2007 14.15 - 17.30 Tilburg University. [Picture caption:] Queen [B.] and Sonia Gandhi."; nexus-instituut.nl/organisatie_raadvanadvies (accessed: Oct. 30, 2010 (first with Britta)); nexus-instituut.nl/ organisatie_raadvtoezicht (accessed: March 10, 2012); nexus-instituut.nl/nl/7-nexus-instituut/29-wie-zijn-wij (accessed: April 2, 2016 - March 31, 2017): "Staf... Raad van Toezicht ... Raad van Advies..."; nexus-instituut.nl/wie-zijn-wij (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023; Brook Fdn. listed at the bottom). Nov. 2, 2010, bnnvara.nl/joop (Dutch "ultraleft"), ''Wilders prototype van de hedendaagse fascist'': "Morgen valt bij alle Kamerleden en bewindslieden het boek De eeuwige terugkeer van het fascisme in de bus, geschreven door cultuurfilosoof Rob Riemen. ... Rob Riemen is essayist en oprichter-directeur van het Nexus Instituut in Tilburg. In Nieuwsuur gaat hij in debat..." |
1994 |
| International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) Prince Bernhard of Orange (trustee until his death). Jozias van Aartsen (chair). International advisory board: Ingrid Hagen | Jan Pronk |
1996 |
| Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) Employers federation, representing virtually all large corporations and 80% of the smaller ones. Cees van Lede (VNO chair until 1991) | Jos van Kemenade | Bernard Wientjes (chair 2005-2014) | Hans de Boer (chair 2014-) |
1996 |
| Prince Claus Fund Prince Constantijn of Orange (hon. chair) | Prince Friso of Orange (d. 2013; hon. chair) | Henk Propper (chair 2013-2019) | Ila Kasem (chair 2019-; Moroccan; Dutch Amnesty Int. and WWF chief) | Lionel Veer (former UNESCO delegate; Dutch human rights ambassador) | Clarice Gargard (Dutch representative at UN-Women; former BNN, VARA, AT5, NRC, Vogue employee; supervisory board of the Holland Festival) | Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer (Managing Director of Beeld en Geluid, the Dutch radio and television archive; advisory board TEDxDelft) | Alexander Ribbink (COO of TomTom navigation software; director Unilever, etc.; board member Stichting Het Nieuwe Parool (newspaper)) | Nani Jansen Reventlow (major internet rights activist) | Marietje Schaake (major internet rights activist) | Pascal Visee (treasurer; senior advisor McKinsey&Co; supervisory board roles in Rabobank, Erasmus University, etc.). |
1996 |
| Adviesraad voor International Vraagstukken (AIV) / Advisory Council on International Affairs (ACIA) Dr. Jan Rood (member Commission on European Integration) |
1997 |
| War Trauma Foundation / Stichting War Trauma Committee of recommendation: Ruud Lubbers | Morris Tabaksblat | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Herman Wijffels | Bernard Wientjes |
1997 |
| Het Genootschap de Nalatenschap van Hendrik VIII Jan. 1, 2014 meeting (meets once a month - little info): Leo van der Kant (chairman) | Hans van den Broek | Elco Brinkman | Gerd Leers | Hans Hillen | Jan Kamminga | John-Patrick Broekhuijsen (director Van Lanschot Bankiers 1998-2008; head BNP Paribas netherlands 2008-2011; executive director Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. of the Edmond Safra family 2011-) | Pierre Cnoops |
1999 |
| Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) Klaas Groenveld (chair) | Jos van Kemenade (president) | Ben Bot (chair) | Bert Koenders | Sharon Dijksma | Zoltan Szabo (Hungarian minister of Defense) | Jan van Laarhoven | Ingrid van Engelshoven | Wim Derksen | Uri Rosenthal |
2000 |
| Commissie van Toezicht Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (CTIVD) / Commission of Oversight Intelligence and Security Services Bert van Delden (chair) |
2003 |
| Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies / The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) Grew out of a joint TNO-Clingendael project. Independent since 2007. Rob de Wijk (founder; member Senior Steering Group van het NATO Special Forces Headquarters, also founded in 2007; columnist Trouw) | Michel Rademaker (deputy director; program manager TNO) | Erik Frinking (RAND) | Jaakko Kooroshy (Chatham H.) | Roel Janssen (senior advisor; NRC editor and Rep. Soc.) | Han ten Broeke (director of Political Affairs). |
2003 |
| The Hague Process Board: HRH Prince Constantijn of Orange (chair) | Jozias van Aartsen (Secretary) Club of The Hague: Jacques Delors | Jan Pronk | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Erik Brenninkmeijer | Joris Demmink | Ernst Hirsch Ballin | Ruud Lubbers | Herman Wijffels | Peter Sutherland | Shimon Shamir |
2003 |
| Bouwend Nederland / Building Netherlands Elco Brinkman (chair 1995-2013, including predecessor) | Maxime Verhagen |
2004 |
| Netherlands Afghanistan Business Council (NABC) Ehsan Turabaz (founder and president) | Jan Wicher van Heerde (chair; enjoys running companies without websites) | Arno van Dijken (director; ING and Commerzbank) |
2006 |
| Round Table of the Worldconnectors Initial board: Ruud Lubbers (founding chair 2006-2009) | Paul Rosenmoller (leader Red Dawn strike group and leader GreenLeft) | Ad Melkert (leader Labor Party) | Peter Bakker (TNT) | Roel Janssen (editor NRC) | Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven (Labor Party/Red Women veteran) | Herman Wijffels (co-chair anno 2014) | Sylvia Borren (Oxfam). Later: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (co-chair since 2013). |
2006 |
| Kofi Annan Business School Foundation Prof. Hans van Ginkel (chair). Honorary patrons: Ben Bot, Viscount Etienne Davignon, and Baron Paul de Keersmaeker. Honorary advisor: Rio Praaning |
2007 |
| Denktank Nationale Veiligheid / National Security Think Tank Tightly linked to the HCSS. Rob de Wijk (chair since 2008) | Jaakko Kooroshy |
2008 (+/-) |
| The Rights Forum (pro-Palestinian) See details further down. |
2009 |
| The Hague Security Delta (HSD) Rob de Wijk (general manager of the HSD Foundation) | Twynstra Gudde (co-founder) | Jozias van Aartsen (chair; BB) | Henk Geveke (TNO Defence, Safety & Security) | Ab van der Touw (chair Siemens NL; TNO) | John van Vianen (director KPN) | Richard Franken (Hoffmann Corporate Detectives, Commercial Director Trigion) |
2010 |
| International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) Advisory board: Richard Barrett (2010-) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2010-) | Gilles de Kerchove (2010-; former EU counter-terrorism coordinator) | Joanne Mariner (2010-; former Director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at HRW) | Mike Smith (executive director UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate). Beatrice de Graaf (founding research fellow). |
2010 |
| The Hague Institute for Global Justice (THIGJ) Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Lord Chris Patten | Jozias van Aartsen (co-founder) | Igor Ivanov | Dick Benschop (advisory chair at the time it closed down). |
2011-2018 |
| Dutch Centre, London Princess Irene of the Netherlands (patron) | Ms Laetitia van den Assum (ambassador to London) | Robert Brooke (Chair Anglo-Netherlands Society) | Antony Burgmans (Unilever/BP) | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Geraldine Mitchell – barones van Heemstra | Jeroen van der Veer (Shell) | other aristocratic names. |
2013 |
| PubLeaks Stichting / PubLeaks Foundation Dutch "whistleblower" organization connected to all major Dutch media outlets - which set it up. Very much "liberal CIA" / social democrat leftist. Based on the Tor network. Mexican branch: (Mexicoleaks). Founding advisory board (publeaks.nl/colofon.html (accessed: April 27, 2014): Karin Spaink (long-time LGBTQ activist) | Femke Halsema | Marietje Schaake | Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (co-founder Bureau Brandeis law firm; anti-racism crusader) | Marleen Stikker | Leon Willems (director Free Press Unlimited 2011-) | Marcel Gelauff (editor-in-chief NOS news 2011-) | Harm Taselaar (deputy editor-in-chief RTL Nieuws) | Peter Vandermeersch (editor-in-chief NRC Handelsblad) | Alexander Klopping (studied political elections in the U.S. in 2005; internet expert at De Wereld Draait Door). Directors: Teun Gautier (directeur De Groene Amsterdammer) | Mieke van Heesewijk (director Netwerk Democratie) | Corine de Vries (co-editor-in-chief De Volkskrant). publeaks.nl/colofon.html (accessed: April 27, 2014): "Publeaks.nl is een samenwerking tussen de stichting Publeaks.nl en het Hermes Centrum voor Transparantie en Digitale Rechten en het Internet Protection Lab en Greenhost. " |
2013 |
| Nationale Wetenschapsagenda Co-chairs: Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Beatrice de Graaf. |
2015 |
Peculiar opposition groups to the Dutch Bilderberg establishment:
| Republikeins Genootschap / Republican Society Founders: Ben Knapen (BB 1991) | Pieter Korteweg (BB steering committee) | Roelof J. Nelissen (BB 1979) | Martin van Amerongen | Ad Dunning | Han Kleiterp | Lense Koopmans | Sjeng Kremers | Henny de Ruiter | Albert Schuitemaker (commissioner Elsevier 1979-1997) | Loek van Vollenhoven (commissioner Elsevier since 1982; also Heineken) | Pierre Vinken | Frits Visser | Guus Zoutendijk (OBE; Order of Oranje-Nassau; Order of the Dutch Lion) ) Members: Hedy d'Ancona (the Rights Forum) | Pim Fortuyn (neocon party; assassinated) | Theo van Gogh (friend of Fortuyn; also assassinated) | Femke Halsema (Green Left party leader) | Harry van Bommel (Socialist Party; only BB critic in congress) | Tomas Ross (neocon; associate of van Gogh; disinformer on Fortuyn case) | Gerard Aalders (anti-BB author) | Hans Blom (boss of Aalders) | Rene Zwaap (anti-BB author) | Willem Oltmans (once invited a former Lee Harvey Oswald handler) | Pamela Hemelrijk (anti-establishment author) | Jan Mulder (famous tv personality; columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Frits Barend (famous tv personality) | Youp van ´t Hek (famous comedian) | Hans Teeuwen (famous comedian) | Jort Kelder (famous journalist and 13 year chief editor of Quote, the Dutch version of Forbes) | Roel Janssen (NRC editor, author and national security expert) | Eberhard van der Laan (labor party leader; director NPO and De Groene Amsterdammer) | Martijn Lindt (co-founder anarchist and anti-monarchist Provo movement in 1965 with Roel van Duijn; turned psychology professor) | Anthony Mertens (De Groene Amsterdammer) | Adriaan Morriën (Nederlandse Leeuw) | Nelleke Noordervliet (columnist Volkskrant, Trouw and Historisch Nieuwsblad) | Herman Philipse (arch-atheist who turned Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Muslim to Atheist) | Leo Platvoet (cooperated with the Radicals and Communists in the late 1980s; co-founder Groenlinks and senator 1999-2007; Oxfam Novib) | (communist; professor East Europe Institute, Amsterdam University) | Tom Rooduijn (editor NRC) | Ite Rumke (editor NRC; worked with Rita Kohnstamm, whose husband was Dolph Kohnstamm, a cousin of top TC and BB member Max Kohnstamm) | Hendrik Jan Schoo (MA in education and child development, Erikson Institute, part of the Jesuit Loyola University, Chcago; chief editor magazine Psychologie; chief editor Elsevier 1990s; child with Xandra Schutte, chief editor of De Groene Amsterdammer) | Fred van der Spek (major socialist leader 1960s-1980s) | André Spoor (chief editor NRC 1970-1983 and of Elsevier 1986-1988; bypass operation in 1987; NRC correspondent in Austria 1987-1996 on the advise of Ben Knapen) | Kees Tamboer (columnist Het Parool) | Bart Tromp (columnst Het Parool and Elsevier) | Jan van Walsem (minor D66 politician) | Wout Woltz (editor Algemeen Handelsblad in the 1970s; editor NRC 1983-1990) | Nanda van der Zee (historian; married to anaesthetist Bob Smalhout, a friend of Pim Fortuyn) | Sytze van der Zee (foreign correspondent NRC; deputy chief editor Elsevier; chief editor Het Parool 1988-1996; brother Henri was a lifelong foreign correspondent of De Telegraaf and president van de Foreign Press Association) | Piet Akkermans (dean Erasmus University 1993-2001) | Lize Alink (publisher Wolters Kluwer 1993-1996; publisher of Vrij Nederland, Psychologie, and other magazines 1996-2000; chief editor Kluwer Nederland 2000-2007) | Garmt Stuiveling (chair Rep. Soc.;) Hans van den Bergh (chair Rep. Soc.; columnist for NRC, Het Parool, Vrij Nederland and Algemeen Dagblad) | Lily van den Bergh (cousin of Sidney and Hans van den Bergh; freelancer for Vrij Nederland and De Groene Amsterdammer; also active for VPRO and VARA) | Joep Bertrams [cartoonist working for Het Parool and NOVA] | Conny Braam [founder Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland in 1971; wrote how Dutch corporations circumvented UN trade embargos on Rhodesia; met many ANC members] | Martin Bril [freelancer for Het Parool, Vrij Nederland, NRC Handelsblad, VPRO (radio) en De Morgen] | Remco Campert (columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Paul Cliteur (atheist; anti-Islam; columnist Trouw) | Ton Crijnen [deputy chief editor HP/De Tijd magazine; editor for religion and philosophy Trouw 1991-2006; author 1976 book De Baader Meinhofgroep ad the 1999 Nieuwe moslims] | Maarten Doorman [editor Hollands Maandblad and KRISIS; writer NRC and Volkskrant] | Cisca Dresselhuys [journalist for Trouw; editor in chief feminist magazine Opzij 1981-2008] | Thomas von der Dunk [Labor Party member; columnist HP/De Tijd and Volkskrant] | Friso Endt [editor Het Parool 1945-1972; met JFK at the White House; 2 m from Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby; freelancer Newsweek, Time/Life, Daily Mirror and NRC after that] | Emile Fallaux (New York-based program creator for VARA and VPRO TV network 1982-1990; editor in chief Vrij Nederland 2005-2008) | Paul Frentrop (journalist Financieel Dagblad and NRC; secretary Pierson, Heldring & Pierson; wrote a bio of Reed Elsevier chairman and Rep. Soc. founder Pierre Vinken] | Ineke van Gent [congresswoman Groenlinks 1998-2012] | Anneke Goudsmit [congresswoman D66 1967-1974; pro-emancipaton and abortus activist] | Andre Haakmat [anti Desi Bouterse Surinam politician] | Jaap van Heerden [professor of psychology and close associate of Theo van Gogh] | Theodor Holman [journalist Propria Cures, de Volkskrant en Nieuwe Revu; anno 2005 a daily columnist for Het Parool and De Groene Amsterdammer] | Antoon van Hooff [director Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, followed up by his son] | Britta Bohler [attorney for Fortuyn murderer Volkert van der Graaf and the terrorist Hofstad Group who murdered Theo van Gogh] |
1996 |
| Het Grote Complot: De Wereld Verklaard' ('The Grand Plot: The World Explained'), Dutch televison program broadcasted on Nederland 3 in January 2004. Interviewed: Micha Kat (major conspiracy activist and disinformer allied with the Republican Society) | Ben Knapen (BB 1991; Republican Society), Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven | Dries van Agt | Bram Peper | Hans van den Broek (BB; major NGO elitists; daughter married a grandson of Prince Bernhard) | Jean Pierre van Rossum (questionable entrepeneur) | Oscar Hammerstein (questionable lawyer) and a group of professors. |
2004 |
| Klokkenluidersonline.nl (.net and .is) Foundation Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Jan Poot (financier, secret for the first 10 years) | Micha Kat (chair foundation; site operator) | Pamela Hemelrijk (secretary/treasurer of the foundation until her death in 2009; Republican Society) |
2003 |
| Bakker Schut Foundation / Bakker Schut Stichting Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Pieter Bakker Schut (died in 2007, but already involved in the Joris Demmink affair) | Adele van der Plas (wife of Bakker Schut; major disinformer on ) | Klaas Langendoen (chief suspect IRT affair) |
2010 |
| The Rusty Nail Foundation / Stichting De Roestige Spijker Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Adele van der Plas (inspiration to Robert R.) | Jan Poot (inspiration to Robert R. and financier) | Robert Rubinstein (founder and financier - close to Jack Abramoff, certainly in '12-'13) | Ben Ottens (secretary) |
2012 |
| American Society in London | 1895 |
| "Oxford: Rhodes Trust scholarships (Rhodes scholars) Rhodes Scholars: Nicholas Katzenbach | Frank Barnett | Adm. Stansfield Turner | Dean Rusk | James Woolsey | Walter Slocombe | Robert Roosa | John Brademas | Thomas Hughes | Walter Isaacson | Harold Anderson (Buffett friend) | Bill Clinton | Hedley Donovan | Philip Kaiser | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gen. Peter Dawkins | W. Scott Thompson | Sen. David Boren | Richard Dolan | Charles J. Hitch | Joseph Nye | William Y. Elliott | Prof. Robert J. O'Neill (scholar & trustee 1995-2001) | Walt Whitman Rostow | Strobe Talbott | Rick Trainor | Bob Peck | Adm. Bill Owens | Gen. David Fadok | Richard Gardner | Sir John Templeton | Walt Cooper | Gen. Wesley Clark | Sen. Bill Bradley | Sen. Richard Lugar | Lincoln Gordon | Frank Wells | Allan Gotlieb | Jared Cohen | Chesa Boudin | Jake Sullivan | Robert Reich | Gareth Penny | Susan Rice | Antonio Delgado (black Democrat congressman) | Dr. George Estabrooks (Manchurian Candidate hypnosis expert) | Sen. William Fulbright | George McGhee | Julian Ogilvie Thompson (chair De Beers/Anglo American Corp.) | Bob Hawke (PM Australia 1983-1991) | John Robert Evans (chair Rock. Fdn.) | Adm. Dennis Blair | Richard Haass | Ashton Carter | Dominic Barton (man. dir. of McKinsey & Co. 2009-2018) and later wife Geraldine Buckingham (McKinsey partner and BlackRock exec.) | Eric Lander | Pete Buttigieg (2020 presidential candidate) | Bruce Reed | Sylvia Burwell | Peter Blair Henry (black) | James Manyika (black; senior partner McKinsey & Co.; co-chair McKinsey Global Inst.) | James Gustave Speth | Eric Garcetti | Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (FB Content Oversight Board 2020-) | Patrick Pichette (at McKinsey 2001-2008; CFO Google 2008-2015; chair Twitter 2020-) | Jane Nelson | Hunter Monroe (research associate Peterson Inst.) | Kurt Schmoke (black) | James Billington | Lincoln Gordon | Richard Stengel | Thomas Childs | Alfred Hayes | Charles Barber | William Yandell Elliott | Edson W. Spencer | Graham Thomas | Vivek Krishnamurthy | Matty Matthiessen (gay socialist) | Marc Agrast (gay liberal) | Christopher Ashley Ford | David Coleman | Dr. Brian Greene (C2C AM guest over "multiverse" physics) | Sir John Hood | Ben Jealous | Ronald D. Lee. Rhodes Scholars (media): Nicholas Kristof (trustee) | George Stephanopoulos | Rachel Maddow | Ronan Farrow | Naomi Wolf (Muslim-apologist feminist "lib CIA" journalist and author) | James Fallows | Jacob Weisberg | Peter Beinart | Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. (32-year career at the WaPo; publisheer and CEO WaPo 2000-2008, chair 2008-2011; director AP and Newspaper Assoc. of America) | Michael Kinsley | L. Gordon Crovitz | Rod Eddington | Rex Dee Adams. More: Malcolm Forbes Sr. (chair New Jersey Rhodes Scholarship Committee, 1976, 1978, 1979). Rhodes Trust origins: Cecil Rhodes (founder as a follow up to his "Rhodes secret society"; founder De Beers mining company in 1888; founder of the Rothschild-funded and royal chartered- British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1889; prime minister Cape Colony 1890-1896) | Lord Nathan Rothschild (co-founder/financier De Beers and BSAC; featured in 3 of Rhodes' 7 wills as a trustee of the "Rhodes secret society", in one as the sole trustee; went along, but not preoccupied with Rhodes' empire building, however). Rhodes Trust trustees: Earl of Rosebery (chair 1902–1917; married to Hannah, the daughter of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874), from 1878 until her death in 1890; Foreign secretary 1892-1894, PM UK 1894-1895) | Lord Milner (chair 1917-1925) | Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (secretary 1925-1939; editor The Round Table magazine 1910-1917; close to Morgan representative Thomas Lamont since 1919) | Alfred Beit (chair 1925–1930; life-long governor De Beers, founding director BSAC, and Cecil Rhodes ally in his imperial vision) | Sir Otto Beit (Alfred's brother; director BSAC) | Leander Starr Jameson (Cape Colony PM 1904-1908; 180s conspirator of Cecil Rhodes for British control of South Africa) | Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (foreign secretary 1905-1916; UK ambassador to the US 1919-1920) | Lord Edward Grigg (politician 1920-1940s; governor of Kenya 1925-1930; privately opposed appeasement, but did not speak out) | H.A.L. Fisher (MP; governor BBC; warden of New College, Oxford 1926-1940; strongly supported a rearming of Nazi Germany to counter the communists) | Lord Leo Amery (1919-1955, chair 1933-1955; the father of Julian) | Sir Edward Robert Peacock (chair 1955-1962; director Bank of England, partner in Barclays Bank and director Hudson's Bay Company) | Baron Oliver Franks (1957-1973; director Lloyds Bank 1953–75, chair 1954–62; director Schroders 1969–1984) | 2nd Viscount Harcourt (chair 1975-; his father was part of Cecil Rhodes' inner circle; broke Cecil Rhodes' will by allowing women to the scholarship; great-grandson of Junius S. Morgan and the great-nephew of J.P. Morgan; interned at the Morgan bank; man. dir. Morgan Grenfell 1939-1968, chair 1968-1973; executive director IMF and the lending arm of the World Bank 1954-1957) | John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton (1970-1999, chair 1982-1999; grandson of the 1st Viscount Harcourt; his grandmother was a sister of J.P. Morgan; chair Barings Bank 1974-1989, director Bank of England 1983-1991, chair BP 1992-1995 and a BB visitor; his mother was a granddaughter of J.P. Morgan's father) | John Kerr, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (1997-2010; chair Shell T&T; director Rio Tinto 2003-2015 and BB steering committee) | Lord Robert Fellowes (2000-; chair Barclays Private Bank 2000-) | Nicholas Oppenheimer (2015-) | Dominic Barton (2010-; McKinsey & Co.) | Bob Sternfels (McKinsey & Co.) | Chris Oechsli (president and CEO Atlantic Philanthropies) | Dr. Andrew Graham (also warden of Rhodes House 2012–2013; consultant BBC; director Channel 4; director Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian and The Observer). |
1902 |
| Pilgrims Society Almost the entire Morgan family over three decades | Andrew Carnegie | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | John D. Rockefeller | Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Sir Harry Brittain (co-founder and chair) | Sir David Barran | S. Dillon Ripley II | Marshall Field | Cleveland H. Dodge | Cleveland E. Dodge | 1st Baron Iliffe | Joseph Choate | Ogden R. Reid | Sir Philip Sassoon | Daniel Coit Gilman | Bishop Henry Codman Potter (co-founder and president) | Percy Pyne II | Morris Jesup (founding member and VP) | William Taft (visitor) | Robert Bliss | Gen, Joseph Wheeler | William Hewitt | Charles Adams IV | Daniel Gilman | Dulles brothers | William Paley | William Rehnquist (guest) | Paul Peabody and many other peabodies | Raymond Fosdick | Foster Stearns | Nicholas Butler | Frank Pace, Jr. | H. J. Heinz II | Langbourne Williams | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Warren Burgess | Henry Davison | John Cadwalader | Thomas Lamont | John W. Davis (president) | William Alton Jones | Henry Cabot Lodge | Caryl Haskins | Gabriel Hauge | Walter Bedell Smith | David McAlpin | John McCloy | Roy Larsen | Dean Acheson | Grayson Kirk | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (exec.) | Eisenhower | Shultz | Weinberger | Brzezinski | Kissinger | Haig | William Simon | Volcker | Robert Roosa | Whitehead | Peter Peterson | Robert Shafer | Vance | Rusk | Robert Knight | Detlev Bronk | Macomber | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Richard Debs | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | George Franklin, Jr. | George Ball | Allen Sproul | George F. Baker, Sr., Jr. and III | Arthur Balfour | William Osborn | Elmo Roper | Philip Singleton | Philip Reed | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | John Beckwith Madden | Lord Nathaniel Rothschild | Anthony G. de Rothschild | James A. de Rothschild | Edmund de Rothschild | Warburg and Schiff families | Cecils | Sir Anthony Fisher | Sir John, Tony and Henry Keswick | Robert Blum | Lord Weidenfeld | 1st Viscount Monckton | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Peter Inge | Henry Luce and Henry L. III | Sir Antony Acland | Lord 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | John French III | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Sir Michael Palliser | Sir Anthony Cleaver | Edward Streator (exec.) | Richard Boucher | Sandra Day O'Connor | Richard Patterson, Jr. | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Maurice T. Moore | John Drexel III and IV | Harry Kern | Arthur Burns | John T. Connor | Walter Page II | Norris Darrell, Jr. | Taggart Whipple | Walter Gifford | Henry Schacht | Myron Taylor | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson | Owen Young | Felix Rohatyn (guest) | Edmund Hawley | Winthrop Aldrich | Lord Arthur Salter | John Olin | Charles Horn | David H. Morris, Jr. | Lindsay Bradford | Edward Harkness (Standard Oil) | Dwight Morrow | Thomas Coolidge | James Evans | Lord Howe (exec.) | Lord Cobbold | Adm. William Crowe | William A. M. Burden | C. Douglas Dillon | Charles Tillinghast | Clarke Gilmore | Henry Catto | Russell Leffingwell | John Hay Whitney | John Train | Sir Frederic Bennett | James Day Hodgson | James Gerard | Frank Polk | Barry Bingham | Bishop James de Wolf Perry | Carrington | Lord Roll | Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly | Grierson | Sutherland (dinner) | Richard Haass (speaker) | Woolsey (speaker) | Rees-Mogg (speaker) | Gen. David Petraeus (guest) | Rifkind | Brademas | Seitz | Philip Lader | John W. Hanes, Sr. | Patrick Gross | William vanden Heuvel | Viscount De L'Isle | Helms (older brother and uncle of Richard) Thomas Watson, Sr. and Jr. | Arthur Watson | George von Mallinckrodt | Charles Adams IV | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Viscount Harcourt | Sir David Nicolson | Sir Peter Tennant | Lord Alan Watson | Lord Brian Griffiths | John Gardner | Frank Altschul | Alger Hiss | Malcolm Muir | Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury | Howard McCall | Charles Fogarty | Malcolm Forbes Sr. | Christopher Forbes | Norman Cousins | James Robinson III | James Wolfensohn | Conrad Black | Prescott Bush, Jr. | Jonathan and Elbridge Colby | Thomas Kean | John Lehman | Robert McNamara | Senator Claiborne Pell | Donald Rumsfeld | Rick Trainor (exec.) | Ronald Freeman | Charles McVeigh III | Robert Worcester (chair) | Thomas Childs | Alfred Hayes (exec.) | Charles Barber | Paul Hoffman. |
1902 |
| Round Table Movement Members: Lord Milner | Lionel Curtis | Philip Kerr (secretary; 11th Marquess of Lothian) | Lord Leo Amery | Lord Robert Brand | Sir Reginald Coupland. Later: Baron Gore-Booth | Lord Douglas Hurd | Sir Michael Howard | Sir Robert Wade-Gery. 1910-1912: local Round Table groups were set up in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Improved co-operation among nations/region soon became more popular than the idea of the more centralized imperial federation concept. Free market economics also eventually won over Imperial Preference (British goods first, second from the colonies, and lastly from outsiders). In the late 1930s a split occurred between supporters and opponents of appeasement. Publication since 1910: The Round Table Journal: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire. January 2006, The Round Table Journal, 'World War I and Anglo-American' has an interesting history on the movement." |
1909 |
| English Speaking Union (ESU) Sir Evelyn Wrench (founder) | Lord Arthur Balfour (founding president) | John W. Davis (president 1921-1938) | Henry Fisher (U.S. chair 1936-1947) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (chair U.S. national board) |
1918 |
| British-American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) Leadership: Ronald Tree (founder) | Michael Ancram / 13th Marquess of Lothian (vice chair anno 2005) | Lord Carrington (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | William Hague (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Michael Howard (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Howe of Aberavon (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Hurd of Westwell (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Margaret Thatcher (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord David Owen (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Jack Straw (vice president anno 2011) | David Miliband (vice president anno 2011). Prime ministers are the official chair: John Major (1990-1997) | Tony Blair (1997-2007) | Gordon Brown (2007-2010). Speeches: Dan Quayle | Colin Powell | Jack Kemp | Henry Catto. Conference attendants: Sen. William Fulbright ('63) | Sen. Hubert Humphreys ('63) | Sen. Frank Church ('66) | Sen. George McGovern ('66) | Lee Hamilton ('83, '92) | Sen. Robert Byrd ('90) | Sen. Ted Stevens ('99) | Lord Lamont of Lerwick ('99). bapg.org.uk/index.asp?id=6 (accessed: Aug. 21, 2011): "The Group acts as an autonomous body within Parliament. [provides a list of vice presidents]" Sep. 11, 2020 admin comment on the Wikipedia Talk page for this group: "I'm pretty sure this is not an all-party parliamentary group. Having checked the register of all-party parliamentary group since 2015, it does not seem to show up. The name may impy that it is, but it does not seem to be.." |
1937 |
| (William Allen) Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) Set up after Hitler threatened UK and cooperation was impossible due to FDR and public opinion in England. Committee members: Nicholas Butler (Morgan representative) | Thomas Lamont (Morgan representative) | John W. Davis (Morgan and Rockefeller) | James Gerard | Frank Polk (Vanderbilt) | Henry Stimson | Bishop James de Wolf Perry. |
1940 |
| Fight for Freedom Committee (FFF) Offshoot of the CDAAA, which did not openly push for military intervention into WWII. Funded by the British Security Coordination of Sir William Stephenson. Committee members: William Donovan | Allen Dulles | Marshall Field III | James Warburg | James Conant | Laird Bell (president CCFR) | Harold Guinzburg | Spyros Skouras. |
1941 |
| Marshall Scholarships Established because the Rhodes Scholarships at the time were not available to women, as well as not to men of 25 and older. Nemed for Anglophile Gen. George Marshall. Association of Marshall Scholars: advisory board (the most recognizable scholars): Bruce Babbitt | Graham Allison | Kurt Campbell | Anne Applebaum | William Burns. Remaining interesting Marshall Scholars: Thomas Friedman | Reid Hoffman. Co-funders: Shell, GS, Google, Rhodes House / Rhodes Trust. |
1953 |
| Ditchley Foundation U.K. members: 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins; first chair) | Lord Carrington | Sir John Keswick | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | John Major | Sir Antony Acland | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (chaired a 2004 panel discussion) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Lord Tugendhat | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Peter Mandelson | Sir Michael Palliser | Edward Streator | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Robert Worcester | Pauline Neville-Jones | Andrew Knight | Ngaire Woods. Also named: Etienne Davignon (reported governor around 2000). Ernst van der Beugel (since 1978) U.S. members: Malcolm Muir (chair) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | George Franklin, Jr. | Philip Reed | Brademas (U.S. chairman) | Nicholas Burns (vice chair) | William Farish | Philip Kaiser | Vance | Volcker | Lewis Branscomb | Robert Hormats | Kampelman | Scowcroft | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Seitz | Weinberger | Strobe Talbott (chair) | Jami Miscik (vice chair) | Jack Straw | Sen. John Warner | Joseph Califano Jr. | Richard Gardner | Philip Lader | Pickering | Robert J. O'Neill (australia) | Rita Hauser | Elspeth Rostow | Klutznick (1980s). Participated in one or more conferences: Fiona Hill | Stephen Kaplan |
1958 |
| International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London Set up in London, with financing for the first three years provided by the Ford Fdn. Founding council members: Richard Goold-Adams (chair; writer and broadcaster) | Lord Arthur Salter (vice chair) | Denis Healey | Michael Howard | Ian Booth | Basil Liddel Hart | C. M. Woodhouse (DSO; director general RIIA 1955-) | Lord Weeks (chair Vickers) | Donald Tyerman (editor The Economist) | Sir John Slessor (chief of the Air Staff 1950-1952). Officers: Francois Duchene (director 1969-1974) | Dr. John Chipman (director-general and CEO since 1992) | Robert J. O'Neill (exec. director 1982-1987, chair 1997-2001) | Francois Heisbourg (chair 2002-2018; listed "expert" anno 2020) | Fleur de Villiers (vice chair anno 2004-2007) | Sir Robert Wade-Gery ("Honorary Treasurer and Investment Committee Chairman" anno 2004) | Sir Michael Palliser (vice president anno 2004-2007) | . Advisory council: Guthrie (anno 2020) | Lord Charles Powell (anno 2020; former trustee) | Lord George Robertson (anno 2020) | Marcus Wallenberg (anno 2020) | Tom Enders (anno 2020). Other (mainly members and visitors): Caryl Haskins | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Henry Kissinger | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Philip Odeen | Richard Haass | Fred Ikle | Joseph Johnson | Lord Lord Chalfont | Patrick Gross | Sir Robert Wade-Gery | Pauline Neville-Jones | Dov Zakheim | Paul Bremer | Prince Turki al Faisal (participated/speech) | Lord Christopher Makins | Rita Hauser | Thomas Pickering | William Schneider, Jr. (member) | Peter Ackerman | Mortimer Zuckerman | Mikhail Kasyanov (presentation in 2006) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | Hubertus Hoffmann (member) | Ashton Carter (member) | Richard Burt (rose to chair US committee) | Ronald Lehman (member) | Robert Gallucci (fellowship) | Jim Steinberg (senior fellowship 1985-1987) | Frank Barnett | Leslie Gelb | Chung Min Lee (chair advisory council) | Sherri Goodman (member) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (member) | Chester Crocker (member) | Kurt Campbell (fellow) | James Lowenstein (member) | Anthony Lake | Aaron Friedberg (member) | Gordon Brown (speech) | Christopher Ashley Ford (member) | Carl Bildt ("Former Member of the Board" in official CV). 10-13 Sep. 1981, annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, "Members of the Conference": Caspar Weinberger (sitting U.S. sec. of defense) | Henry K. | Samuel H. | Paul Nitze | Albert Wohlstetter | Paul Wolfowitz | Joseph Nye | Leslie G. | Richard H. | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Philip O. | Morton Halperin | Joseph J. | Helmut S. | Stansfield Turner | Graham Allison | Richard Garwin | Frans Alting von Geusau | Ernst van der Beugel | Carl B. | Robert Blackwill | Robert R. Bowie | McGeorge Bundy | Richard B. | William van Cleave | James Digby | Paula Dobriansky | Francois D. | Sir James Eberle | Wim van Eekelen | Gen. J. van Elsen ("Netherlands Advisory Council on Defence Affairs") | Victor Halberstadt | Joseph Fromm | Dr. Stanley Hoffman (Harvard) | Pierre Lellouche | Lord Christopher M. | Sir Michael Palliser | L. van der Put ("director for general political affairs, Ministry of Defence, The Hague") | William Quandt | W. Scott Thompson (Tufts) | Gen. Hein du Toit | Robert Wade-Gery | David J. Walker ("Formerly Control Risks Ltd., London") | Carl-Friedrich von Weizsacker | Dr. Robert J. O'N. | . |
1958 |
| Institute for British American Cultural Exchange Michael Hollingshead (secretary). Board: Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and wife | Huntington Hartford (offices located in his building) | Lionel Trilling, | W. H. Auden | Congressman Seymour Halpern | Gen. Frank Howley | Buell Gallagher. |
1959 |
| Atlantic Council (AC) Directors (1977): Henry Kissinger (still a director in 2020 and all the time in between) | William Casey | Donald Rumsfeld | George Franklin Jr. | David Abshire | Paul Nitze | Robert Roosa | John Irwin II | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer | Henry Fowler (chair) | David Packard (vice chair 1972-1980) | Eugene Rostow (vice chair) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (vice chair; chair 1985-1997) | Anne Armstrong | George McGhee | Malcolm Muir | William A. M. Burden | Hodding Carter III | Jay Lovestone | Christian Herter (founding chair 1961-1963) | David Acheson (president 1993-1999). Honorary directors (1977): John McCloy | Nelson Rockefeller | Dean Rusk | Frank Altschul | Eugene Black | C. Douglas Dillon | Thomas Finletter | Andrew Heiskell | Amory Houghton| Hubert Humphrey | Sen. Henry Jackson | Jacob Javits | Henry Cabot Lodge | William P. Rogers | Charles Spofford. Hon. directors (1998): Cyrus Vance | Alexander Haig | Warren Christopher | James Baker III | Gen. Vernon Walters | William McChesney Martin | Gerald Ford. Directors (1998): Brent Scowcroft (director since about 1980; chair 1998-1999; chair IAB 2006-2016, emeritus after that; vice chair Kiss. Assoc.) | Chas Freeman (vice chair; later lifetime director) | John Macomber (vice chair; later lifetime director) | Henry K. | George Shultz | James Woolsey (later lifetime director) | Lawrence Eagleburger | Maurice Greenberg | John Whitehead | Condoleezza Rice | Joseph Nye (into 2020s) | Frank Carlucci | Robert McNamara | Harold Brown | James Schlesinger | William Webster | William Perry | Richard Holbrooke | William Draper III | Rita Hauser | William Taft IV (later lifetime director) | John I. II | Elliott Richardson | Eugene R. | Paul Kaminski | Philip Odeen (later lifetime director) | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gen. Andrew G. | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Paul Nitze | Gen. John Shalikashvili | Dwayne Andreas | Henry F. | William P. Rogers. Directors (2004 - new names only): Henry Catto Jr. (chair 1999-2007) | 2st Baron Sherfield / Lord Christopher Makins (president 1999-2005) | Walter Slocombe (secretary; later also exec. director) | Thomas Pickering (later lifetime director) | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adm. Dennis Blair (into 2020s) | Richard Burt (into 2020s) | Gen. Wesley Clark (into 2020s) | Stuart Eizenstat (into 2020s) | Leon Fuerth | Sherri Goodman (2002-; later joined on board by husband John Goodman) | Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Directors (2009 - new names only): Chuck Hagel (chair) | Robert Abernethy (vice chair anno 2020). Directors (2014 - new names only): Jon Huntsman Jr. (chair) | C. Boyden Gray (exec. vice chair) | Ashton Carter | Stephen Hadley (exec. vice chair by 2015) | Gen. Michael Hayden | Richard Armitage | Paula Dobriansky | Robert Hormats (later lifetime director) | Gen. James L. Jones (chair 2018-) | Nicholas Burns (into 2020s) | Stephen Kappes (director; supervisor CIA's extraordinary rendition kidnap-and-torture program) | Dov Zakheim (into 2020s) | Philip Lader (later lifetime director) | Sean O'Keefe | Wolfgang Ischinger | Peter Ackerman | Zalmay Khalilzad | Leon Panetta (honorary) | Robert Gates (honorary; also awarded in '16) | Sen. John Warner (honorary) | Gen. Edward Rowny | Kenneth Dam (later lifetime director). Directors (2020 - new names only): Michael Chertoff | Gen. James Cartwright | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. H.R. McMaster | Adm. Michael Mullen (honorary) | Colin Powell (honorary; speaker 1988 conference; awarded in 2005; introduced Prince Harry in 2012). International advisory board (2009): Brent S. (chair) | Zbig B. | Rupert Murdoch | Larry Summers | Stephen Schwarzman | Lord George Robertson | Jacob Wallenberg | Martin Sorrell | Josef Ackermann (until 2015) | Jose Maria Aznar | Tom Enders | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Victor Chu: IAB (2014 - new names only): Muhtar Kent | Shaukat Aziz | Rob Speyer | Gen. John Jumper | Robert Moritz (chair and partner PricewaterhouseCoopers) | Paul Polman (advisory board anno 2014-2015; CEO Unilever). IAB 2017 (new names only): David McCormick (joined in 2017, immediately becoming IAB chair 2017-, still anno '21; married Dina Habib Powell). IAB (2018 - new names only): Madeleine Albright | Carl Bildt | Evan Greenberg | Victor Pinchuk | Robert Zoellick. IAB (2020-; new names only): Kevin Rudd (anno 2020) | Ross Perot Jr. (anno 2021). Strategic Advisors Group (2009): Key names also on other boards | Adm. Giambastiani (later lifetime director) | Hans Binnendijk. Councillors: Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (anno 2007) | Ronald Lehman (anno 2007) | Russell Train (anno 2007) | Patrick Gross (patron councillor anno 2007) | Max Kampelman | (associate councillor anno 2007). AC's 2016 Middle East Strategy Task Force (senior advisors): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | Stephen H. (co-chair) | Shaukat A. | Wolfgang I. | Nicholas B. | Carl B. | Igor Ivanov | Frances Townsend | Prince Turki al Faisal | David Miliband | Mike Morell | Jose Manuel Barroso | Yasar Yakıs (former foreign minister of Turkey) | Kenneth Wollack (president NDI). More names: David Rockefeller (financier and at the very least co-wrote the AC's first book 'Building the American-European Market' (1967), focused on maximum exononic growth) | Rozanne Ridgway (president 1989-1993, co-chair 1993-1996) | Carla Hills (contributor and introduced Chevron CEO John Watson in '13) | George H. W. Bush (awarded '09) | George W. Bush (awarded '18) | Henry Kravis (awarded '16) | Gloria Estefan (awarded '18) | Christine Lagarde (awarded '19) | Frederick Smith (awarded '19) | Joe Biden (awarded '11) | Bono (awarded '10) | Gen. Jim Mattis (awarded '10) | Helmut Kohl (awarded '09) | Alan Greenspan (awarded '07) | Robert Rubin (awarded '02) | Paul Volcker (awarded '99) | Sam Nunn (awarded '96) | Susan Rice | George Tenet | Ian Brzezinski | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (known visitor hanging out with Henry K.) | William Nitze | Mansoor Ijaz | Donald Kerr | Lincoln Gordon | Franklin Miller | Tom Killefer | Maurice Sonnenberg | Klutznick (1970s-1980s) | David Abshire | Gen. Russell Dougherty | Eric Melby | Judith A. Miller | Alan Lee Williams | Sergei Rogov | Strobe Talbott (speech 1997) | Stapleton Roy (panel/discussion member) | William A. M. Burden | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Damon Wilson | Rob de Wijk (Strategic Advisors Group) | Michael Shrimpton (UK fellow) | Rajiv Shah (director) | Gen. Charles Wald (director) | David Michel (consultant) | Capricia Penevic (ambassador-in-residence) | Kurt Campbell (2005 speaker) | Warren Burgess | George Franklin, Jr. | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | William Simon | Bill and Hillary Clinton (both awarded) | Michael Dukakis (speaker 1988 conference) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (speaker 1988 conference) | Kurt Volker (senior advisor) | Dr. Alina Polyakova (director of Research for Europe and Eurasia). Funders (2008-2009): Ford, Mott, Open Society foundation; the GMF, and various governments. Companies: BP, ExxonMobil, Airbus, Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics,Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Blackstone, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch & Co., Allen & Co., Chevy Chase Bank, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte & Touche, McLarty Assoc., Deutsche Bank, Daimler AG, Siemens, SAAB, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Sony, Time Warner, Viacom, WPP, FedEx. More: In 2019 Putin moved to ban the AC from Russia, similar to Soros' OSF. | Mario Monti (member of the AC's short-lived "Business and Economic Advisors Group" anno 2020) |
1961 |
| British-North American Committee (BNAC) U.K. members: Sir Anthony Cleaver | Sir Anthony Cleaver | George Mallinckrodt | Members: Niall Fitzgerald | Sir Richard Sykes. U.S. members: Richard Burt | Henry Catto | Gen. Wesley Clark | Boyden Gray | James Schlesinger |
1969 |
| Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding | 1976 |
| British-American Project Lord Carrington | Lord George Robertson | John Brademas | Diana Villiers Negroponte | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
1985 |
| Train Foundation (formerly the Northcote Parkinson Fund) John Train (founder and chair) | Edward Streator (president) | Midge Decter (founding treasurer) |
1987 |
| British American Security Information Council (BASIC) Advisors: Thomas Pickering (financiers Carnegie and Ford Fdns and Rockefeller Family Associates). |
1987 |
| British-American Business Council (BABC) Organizes the Annual Transatlantic Business Conference. International advisory board (Jan. 1998): Raymond Seitz (chair until 1998) | Margaret Thatcher | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (UK ambassador to the US 1995-1997) | Lord Renwick | Adm. William Crowe Jr. | Robert Bauman (chair British Aerospace) | Sir Colin Chandler (chair Vickers) | Robert Crandall (chair and president American Airlines) | Ken Lay (chair and CEO Enron). IAB (Dec. 1998; extra): Sir John Browne (chair; group CEO BP) | Philip Lader. IAB (1999; extra): Dick Cheney (CEO Halliburton) | Martin Sorrell (chair 2000-2020s; group CEO WPP). IAB (2000; extra): Maurice Greenberg | Douglas Daft (chair and CEO Coca-Cola). IAB (2001; extra): Sir John Bond | Robert Hormats (vice chair Goldman Sachs). IAB (2003; extra): William Farish III | Steve Forbes. IAB (2007; extra): Antony Burgmans | Harold McGraw III | James Murdoch | John Thain | Sir Peter Sutherland | Stephen Schwarzman | Sir Howard Stringer (chair and CEO Sony) | Ratan Tata (chair Tata Group) | Rex Tillerson. IAB (2008; extra): John Micklethwait | Lord Rothermere. IAB (2011; extra): Richard Branson | Evan Greenberg (son of Maurice) | David Rubenstein | Jerry Speyer. IAB (2020; extra): Ajay Banga | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice) | Jeffrey Weiner (CEO LinkedIn). Other corporations represented (almost exclusively by chairs, CEOs and presidents): British Airways, Salamon Brothers, Fluor Corporation, Chubb Corporation, National Westminster, Rio Tinto, BP Amoco, Vodafone, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citigroup, Lockheed, HSBC, Sara Lee, Boeing, New York Stock Exchange, Dow Jones & Company, Bank of England, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, AT&T, The Economist, Morgan Stanley, Lazard Freres, Rolls-Royce plc. Also: Center for Gender Equality, Pfizer, Merck, McKinsey & Co., Barclays, FedEx, Blackstone, Cadbury Schweppes, AIG, Wachovia, Reed Elsevier, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank Americas, Royal Dutch Shell, Russell Reynolds Associates. |
1993 |
| Transatlantic Business Dialogue Niall Fitzgerald (EU chair 2004-2005). Few or no top 100/200 names. Became the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) in 2013: Stuart Eizenstat (founding co-chair 2013-2017). |
1995 |
| Global Strategy Forum (GSF) Founders: 13th Marquess of Lothian / Michael Ancram (also advisory board anno 2020) and Johan Eliasch. Advisory board (anno 2020): Lord Lamont of Lerwick (since at least 2013) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Susan Eisenhower | William Cohen | Chuck Hagel | Jack Straw | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Sir Kevin Tebbit | Adm. Baron West of Spithead | Christopher Wilkins ("the architect and first chairman of Hakluyt") | General Sir Richard Barrons | Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | Sir John Chilcot | Professor Michael Clarke | Adrian de Ferranti (treasurer) | Philip Hammond | Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | William Kerr | Sir Iain Lobban | Sir David Manning | Lord Stirrup | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Saudi Arabia (involved since the start). More advisory board members: Huseyin Gun (anno 2013). Guest speakers: Lord Mark Malloch-Brown ('07). |
2006 |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008; also active in England) | Gareth Evans (fellow) |
1933 |
| American-Australian Association Officers: Sir Keith Murdoch (founder; father of Rupert M.) | Russell Leffingwell (co-founder) | Juan Trippe (co-founder) | Rupert Murdoch | Frank Lowy | Wolfensohn | Maurice Greenberg | David Rockefeller | William Simon | Riley Bechtel. |
1948 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia State-owned, in contrast to the U.S. Federal Reserve. Frank Lowy (director 1994-2005). |
1960 |
| American Australian Education Leadership Foundation (AAELF) Project: American Australian Council (website online in 2017): Officers: Tony Podesta. Directors: Kurt Campbell. |
1993 |
| Australian Strategic Policy Institute Robert J. O'Neill (founding chair; also active in England) |
2001 |
| Lowy Institute for International Policy (LIIP) Frank Lowy (founder chair; co-owner WTC on 9/11) | Ambassador Chan Heng Chee | Robert Ferguson | David Gonski | Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston | Martin Indyk (founding member) | David Lowy | Peter Lowy | Steven Lowy | Ian Macfarlane | Mark Ryan | Judith Sloan | James Spigelman | Michael Thawley (Australia's ambassador to the U.S. 2000-2005). International advisory council: Rita Hauser | Rupert Murdoch | James Wolfensohn | Sir Lawrence Freedman | Francois Heisbourg | Prof. Lord Robert May (director UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) | James Fallows (fellow). Founding director: Professor Robert J. O'Neill. Family members all active for Westfield Holdings Limited. In 2001 Lowy leased the WTC with Larry Silverstein. |
2003 |
| Club von Berlin Origins: 179 founding members. 673 member by 1925. Expelled all Jews in 1933-1934, leading to a crisis in the club. In the late 1930s and early 1940s the club grew close to a thousand members, countless from big business. Members/visitors: - Hjalmar Schacht (membership committee 1920s-1940s): Major globalist-oriented banker, so close to 1920-1944 Bank of England governor Montagu Norman that Norman was godfather to one of his children. President Reichsbank 1923-1930, 1933-1939. Helped create IG Farben** in 1925. Reichsminister of Economics 1934-1937. Reichsminister without portfolio 1937-1943. - Fritz Thyssen: Steel baron. Founding chair Vereinigte Stahlwerke 1926-1939. Top Hitler financier, counsel and cheerleader all the way since 1923. Persuaded Hitler to suppress the SA in 1934, leading to the Night of the Long Knives. Rifts developed in 1936, because Fritz did not support Hitler's suppression of the Catholic church and app[arently not the wholesale extermination of the Jews. However, it did not go unnoticed that Thyssen left Germany in September 1939, weeks after the August 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact he greatly opposed. "I personally believe the German people are not ready for democracy." - Carl Duisberg: CEO of Bayer 1900-1914, chair and CEO 1914-1925, until the merger with IG Farben; negotiated the "dreibund" or "little IG" of 1904 with BASF and Afga, after monopolistic trust inspiration from Standard Oil; chair advisory board IG Farben** 1926; Duisberg: "[These trusts are established for the] elimination of ruinous competition, with the aim of achieving the highest possible profits." d. 1935). - Carl Bosch: Chair BASF until its merger with IG Farben in 1925. Exec. chair IG Farben** 1925-1935. - Fritz Haber (certainly a Feb. 17, 1926 discussion): Nobel Prize laureate for work done with Carl Bosch in developing chemical fertilizer. Soon after the "father of German chemical warfare" who oversaw Germany's first release of chlorine gas during the April 1915 Battle of Ypres and days later at the Eastern front. His wife killed herself at this point. Member advisory board IG Farben 1926-1933. Always defended the use of poison gas as "not at all more cruel". Eyewitness account of his initial chlorine gas attack: "My lungs felt as they were being burned out [and] burst. Red hot needles were being trust into my eyes. [The dead turn] black in the face. ... The most awful death I have ever seen." - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: Son of the founder of Siemens AG. Advisory board chair Siemens conglomerate 1919-1941. - Hermann Abs: Director Deutsche Bank 1938-1945. Director IG Farben during WWII. Not prosecuted at Nuremburg. Post-WWII went on to become Deutsche Bank chair, advisor to Konrad Adenauer and a visitor of BB. - Baron Kurt von Schroder: Partner in J.H. Stein banking house. Brokered the Jan. 4, 1933 (peace) meeting between Von Papen and Hitler, which was key in bringing Hitler to power in subsequent months and suppressing the communists. Schroder's Bank; ITT - Albert Vogler: Director Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG, following up founder Hugo Stinnes as chair in 1924. Founding chair Vereinigte Stahlwerke in 1926, alongside advisory board chair Fritz Thyssen. Chair RWE AG, Ruhrgas AG, Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG (holding company for Vereinigte Stahlwerke until at least 1932), and Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG. Director Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens Schuckert-Werke AG and Demag. Advisory board Deutsche Reichsbank. Financier of Hitler since at least 1931. Member Herman Goring's Armament Council and major munitions producer 1940-, using tons of slave labor. Committed suicide to avoid capture by the allies. - Friedrich Flick: Owner and chair of Flick KG. Wealthy Nazi-supporting industrialist who was part of the Himmler Circle. Despite receiving a 7 year prison sentence at Nuremberg, by the mid 1950s he was one of the wealthiest men of West-Germany. Secretly bought a 25% stake, the largest) in Daimler-Benz AG over 1952-1955, joining the advisory board in 1955 when it came out. Herbert Quandt, a son of Gunther Quandt, joined the advisory board at the same time. Herbert and his brother Harald were building up their 3.85% stake at the time. Around 1972, Flick owned 39%, Deutsche Bank 28.5% and the Quandt Group 14%. Flick died in 1972. - Ernst von Borsig: Manager at Borsig GmbH, founded by his father and the largest steam locomotive producer in Europe. Borsig was among the earliest financiers of Hitler's NSDAP. Chair Berlin Metal Industry Association 1906-1932, etc. Founding chair Stega 1926-, a secret rearmament group in Weimar Germany. During WWI and WWII Borsig was a major munitions producer. - Borsig family: Additional members besides Ernst were members. - Helmuth Poensgen: Cousin of major Vereinigte Stahlwerke industrialist Ernst Poensgen. Director Phoenix AG in 1926, the same year it mergen with Thyssen and other groups into Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Along with his family a member of the extreme right DNVP since 1926. Part of the Harzburger Front in 1931 alongside Hitler's NSDAP, which he joined soon after. - Max Ilgner: Protege of his uncle, Hermann Schmitz, at BASF and then IG Farben. Ardent Nazi. Worked with Goebbels for some time, trying to temper his rhetoric a bit. When that ceased working, he hired U.S. public relations expert Ivy Lee to work with Hitler in improving his image internationally. They agreed on inserting pro-Nazi newspaper articles in the U.S. press, promoting Nazi Germany as good place to invest. Came up with the idea to fund foreign press in Czechoslovakia after the Nazi annexation and informed Hitler of regions with lots of mineral wealth. Convicted at Nuremberg for "spoliation and plunder", but quickly released. Became a political lobbyist. Chair of chemical company in Zug in Switzerland 1955-. - Karl Kimmich: Director Deutsche Bank 1933-1942, CEO 1940-1942, chair 1942-1945. Member supervisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939. Deeply involved and seemingly supportive of the "Aryanization" of Jewish firms. His younger brother, Max Kimmich, was brother-in-law of Goebbels. - Wilhelm Voss: SS-Standartenfuhrer, the second-highest rank in the SS. Member Himmler Circle. Co-founder of the giant Nazi conglomerate Reichswerke Hermann Goring in 1937, serving as general director 1939-1941. Deputy chair advisory board Rheinmetall-Borsig AG. Chair Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG. Chair of Skoda Works in occupied Czechoslovakia 1938-1945 and corporations in Austria, all of which had been incorporated into Reichswerke Hermann Goring. - Robert Pferdmenges: Chairman of the Association of Banks and Bankers in Rhineland and Westphalia 1921-1931. Partner Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. 1929-1953, which traded as Bankhaus Pferdmenges & Co. 1938-1947, with Pferdmenges serving as placeholder for the Jewish owners. Deputy chair advisory board of Dresdner Bank 1931-. Director Reichsbank 1931-1932. Member supervisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939, alongside Thyssen, Flick, etc. Ran the Flick Group in trust for the Nuremberg-convicted Friedrich Flick 1948-1951, together with Hermann Abs. President of the Association of German Banks 1951-1960. Anno 1954, Pferdmenges was on the advisory board of roughly 24 corporations, including August Thyssen Hutte AG, Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Demag AG and Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft [AEG - German General Electric] AG. Earlier he had been a director of, amongst others, Phoenix AG, Rheinische Stahlwerke, Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, Rheinische AG fur Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG - all companies tied to Nazi financing. Member of the Bundestag 1950-1962. Key financial advisor and close friend of post-war chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom he known since 1919. - Ernst Tengelmann: Influential mining figure in the Ruhr in the 1930s. Director-general Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG and CEO of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. Nazi financier. Continued his business internationally after the war. - Fritz Springorum: Son of Friedrich Springorum:, the general director and sole board member of Hoesch AG 1908-1921. Fritz: Chief engineer and head of the steelworks at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG 1911-1915. General director and eventually chair Hoechst 1932-1937, chair advisory board 1937-. Chair Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh) in 1936-1939. Initially a DNVP supporter, a slightly less radical version of the NSDAP, but from 1933 a Nazi financier. - Julius Flechtheim (exec. comm. anno 1931): Head of the legal department and legal counsel of IG Farben 1925-1933. Director of the Reich Association of German Industry. Fell out with the Nazis in 1933 and retired to Switzerland in 1938. - Hans Luther: German chancellor 1925-1926. President Reischsbank 1930-1933. German ambassador to the U.S. 1933-1937. - Carl Merck: Listed as a member of the late 1930s/early 1940s. Likely tied to the major H. J. Merck ∓ Co. banking house; not the pharmaceutical company. - Franz von Mendelssohn: Banker of Mendelssohn & Co., founded in 1795 and forced to shut down in 1938. - Robert von Mendelssohn: Banker of Mendelssohn & Co.. - Hermann Rochling: Jew- and France-hating steel baron who joined the Nazi Party. General manager of Iron and Steel for the Lorraine and Meurthe-de-Moselle regions 1940-1942. Accused of urging Hitler to invade the Balkans in order to appropriate businesses here. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, but released within 3. Said to have always treated him employees well. - Gerson Bleichroder: Head of S. Bleichroder banking firm in Berlin 1855-, founded by his father in 1803 and official Berlin representatives of the Rothschilds 1828-1870. Banker for Otto von Bismarck from 1858, on the advice of Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild. Second Jew to become ennobled in Prussia in 1872, due to his close ties to Von Bismarck. - Georg Solmssen: Christianized son of German-Jewish banker Adolph Salomonsohn, the owner of Disconto-Gesellschaft bank, which merged with Deutsche Bank in 1929. Director Deutsche Bank 1919-1934, chair in 1933, advisory board 1934-1937 (from Switzerland). Anno 1932 chair Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphengesellschaft, alongside vice chair Max Warburg and director Averell Harriman. Member advisory board Lufthansa AG and Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Director Reichsbank and Reichspost. Warned in an April 1933 letter that the Nazi would seize all Jewish property and subsequently, in 1934, after being ousted from the main Deutsche Bank board, moved to Switzerland. - Emil Georg von Stauss: Joined Deutsche Bank 1898-, secretary to Georg von Siemens and oil business manager for the bank 1900s, director 1915-, eventually director-general. Manager on behalf of Deutsche Bank of the Anatolian Railway Company during WWI. Also involved in the expansion of the Baghdad Railway. Director Deutsche Petroleum 1920-. Director Daimler-Benz 1925-, chair later on. Chair BMW 1926-. Chair advisory board Lufthansa AG 1926–1942. Close friend of Hjalmar Schacht. Financier of the Nazis. Had meetings with Hitler, but closer to Hermann Goring. All this while serving as a representative (more like a spy) in the German People's Party (DVP). - Herbert Gutmann: Jewish. Son of the Dresdner Bank board member Eugen Gutmann. Himself director Dresdner Bank 1910- until about 1931. Co-founder in 1906, director and later also president of the Deutsche Orientbank, which became part of Dresdner Bank in 1929. Collector of Islamic art. Held 16 advisory posts anno 1933, but was gradually ousted from them for being a Jew. Emigrated in 1936, ended up in England, and died impoverished. - Jakob Goldschmidt: Intern at the bank H. Oppenheimer early 1900s. 1909 founder of the Schwarz, Goldschmidt & Co. bank. Came to hold up to 123 advisory board positions. Director National Bank of Germany in the 1920s. Partner Danat Bank from 1922, where he pressed out Hjalmar Schacht in 1923 to become the bank's sole partner. The collapse of his Danat Bank caused a major financial cirsis in 1931. Advisory board IG Farben 1931–1932. After the Nazis came to power, he moved to Switzerland and then emigrated to the US in 1934. - Siegmund Bodenheimer: Founding director Danat Bank 1922-1931. Director Dresdner Bank after it took over Danat in 1931. Advisory board Deutsche Petroleuk AG Berlin 1929/1930, along with about two dozen other corporate positions. Moved to Switzerland in 1934 and then the U.S. in 1936. - Dr. Hans Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. Director M.M. Warburg & Co., Amsterdam, together with Siegmund Warburg, in the 1930s. - Adolf Ernst Joachim Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. - Georg Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. - "members of the banks Delbrück & Schickler, Bleichroder, Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Oppenheim and Warburg." - Julius Weltzien: Director from 1922 of the mining and chemical conglomerate that became known as Schering AG in 1937, adding the half-brother of Hermann Goring to the board in line with Nazi policy. Moved a lot of his Jewish managers abroad from 1933. Also set up a structure through Switzerland that allowed a lot of the company's overseas branches to keep the profits. Moved to the U.S. in April 1938 where he was find over anti-trust violations and accused of aiding the Nazis. - Paul Silverberg: Jewish-German manager of Rheinische AG who survived WWII in Switzerland. - Walther Rathenau: German industrialist. Foreign minister Feb.-Jun. 1922, when he was assassinated by right-winger for making a trade deal with Soviet Russia. Had some sort of an affair with the wife of industrialist Felix Deutsch, Lili, a sister of Kuhn, Loeb banker Otto Kahn. - Gustav Stresemann: Chancellor Aug.-Nov. 1923. Minister of foreign affairs 1923-1929. - Wilhelm Botzkes: Early history at Deutsche Bank in Istanbul. Expert at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and worked on the Dawes Plan of 1924. Founding CEO IKB Deutsche Industriebank 1924-1958. 1927 co-founder of Bank Melli, the first state bank of Iran, in coordination with the then-Shah of Iran. - Hans von Raumer: German People's Party politician. Created the Zentralverband der Deutschen elektrotechnischen Industrie with Rathenau and C. F. von Siemens in 1918. Treasury secretary 1920-1921, minister of economic affairs for 1 month in 1923. Advisory board Konigstadt AG, Berlin-Gubener Hufabrik AG, Elektrowerke AG Berlin, Koblenzer Elektrizitats- und Verkehrs-AG, Steatit-Magnesia AG, etc. in t elate 1930s and early 1940s. Never joined the NSDAP. More: Jakob von Weizsacker ('09 presentation: 'Europaische Migrationspolitik in der Krise?'; '16) | Dr. Richard von Weizsacker ('09 book presentation) | Mathias Dopfner ('12 presentation). ** IG Farben was a 1925-founded Standard Oil-inspired monopolistic trust between BASF, Bayer and Hoechst, companies which continued as usual after IG Farben was disssolved in 1945. IG Farben produced the deadly chlorine gas of WWI and Zyklon-B for the gas chambers of WWII. It became a major financier of Hitler in 1933 (already in 1931 it seems). Over the 1930s all its Jewish employees and directors were removed. During WWII it made extensive use of slave labor, most infamously at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Source(s): 2008, Max-Planck-Institut, Dahlemer Archivgesprache, band 13, pp. 162-163, 'Ariane Knackmuss, Der Club von Berlin: Treffpunkt fur die Fuhrungskreise aus Beamtentum, Wirtschaft, Bankwesen und Wissenschaft''; 2009, Irene Strenge, 'Ferdinand von Bredow: Notizen vom 20.2.1933 bis 31.12.1933.', p. 76 (Meyer family names; based on a participant list in the possession of Herrn Carl-Tasso von Bredow); Martina Steber and Bernhard Gotto, 'Visions of Community in Nazi Germany', p. 204 (original source includes: 1926, Max Wolff, 'Club von Berlin: 1864-1924' and 2007, Ariane Knackmuss, 'Willkommen im Club'); Named as a source as well: Bundesarchiv Berlin, inventory RY 56, No. 15 and No. 91 (for July 1938, April 1940 and August 1944). |
1864 |
| Ostasian Verein eV / East Asian Association Board: Carl Illies (initial chair 1900-1904) | Paul Pickenpack (initial deputy chair; d. in 1903) | Emil Helfferich (chair anno 1934, with interest in fascist Japan growing). |
1900 |
| Alldeutscher Verband / Pan-German League Ultra-nationalist, imperialist group. Members: Alfred Hugenberg (founding member; earlier also co-founded the ultra-nationalist General German League; purposely hid is affiliation; later Hitler ally) | Emil Kirdorf (founding member; later Hitler backer) | Heinrich Class (member 1897-, director 1901-; president 1908-1939; later key Hitler ally) | Max Weber. More: Gen. Erich Ludendorff (strongly supported by the league; top WWI general; met with Hitler in Berlin and reportedly recruited Hitler to infiltrate and take over the NSDAP through Reichswehr agent Karl Mayr) | Leopold Potsch (not clear if was official or unofficial membership; Hitler's (very) influential, ultraright high school teacher in Linz, Austria, in 1900-1903, followed by Adolf Eichmann around 1920). |
1891-1939 |
| Bavarian Industrialists' Association (BIV) Members: Hermann Aust (arranged for Adolf Hitler to speak here in 1922 or 1923). |
1902 |
| Palace von Aust saloon, Munchen Right across from the Siegestor. Participants: Hermann Aust (palace owner; very earlier backer of Hitler, but withdrew support after a conflict with Catholic members of the family) | Hugo Stinnes | Alfred Hugenberg. |
1900s-1940s? |
| Bavarian Industrialists' Association (BIV) Members: Hermann Aust (arranged for Adolf Hitler to speak here in 1922 or 1923). |
1902 |
| Kaiserlicher Aero-Club / Aero-Club von Deutschland Members (mainly around 1938): Heinrich Himmler | Wilhelm Keppler | Rudolf Hess | Theodor Eicke (commander of the SS Death's Head Brigade overseeing Nazi Germany's concentration camps, whose structure he largely designed) | Leonardo Conti (came to oversee the Aktion T4 program: the killing of 300,000 mental patients and other "undesirables") | Fritz Todt | Krupp family | Albert Vogler | Friedrich Flick | Gunther Quandt | Ernst Poensgen | (Ernst) Tengelmanns family | Hugo Stinnes | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Emil Georg von Stauss | Robert Bosch (uncle of Carl Bosch, the exec. chair of IG Farben 1925-1935) | Ernst Heinkel (the owner of Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, a key German aircraft designer for the Nazis) | Carl Krauch (chair supervisory board IG Farben 1940-1945, who received 6 years for "war crimes") | Hermann Rochling and family | Dornier family. Source(s): Membership lists at the Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. I, Rep. 1A, Nr. 910. |
1907 |
| Industrie Club Dusseldorf / Industry Club Dusseldorf Pre-WWII members: Fritz Thyssen | August Thyssen | Gustav Krupp | Carl Duisberg | Ernst von Borsig | Edmund Stinnes and/or his brothers | Robert Pferdmenges | Hermann Rochling | Paul Reusch | Hermann Abs | Emil Kirdorf (chair 1925–1928; "the Bismarck of Ruhr Mining" as a top manager Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG (GBAG) 1873-1926; major Hitler supporter; Hitler gave a speech at his home in the Autumn of 1930) | Walther Rathenau | Heinrich Lueg. Pre-WWII guest speakers: Max Cohen (Fall 1931; Jewish social democrat at a time no political lectures were supposed to be given) | Adolf Hitler (Jan. 26, 1932; at the insistence of Thyssen in response to Cohen having been invited; made the closing remarks after the speech and cut off questions; chair Karl Haniel: "The rush of club members to the Hitler lecture actually exceeds ours wildest expectations...") | Hermann Goring (April 1932). Post-WWII guest speakers: Willy Brandt | Konrad Adenauer | Helmut Schmidt | Gerhard Schroder | Angela Merkel | Mikhail Gorbachev | Wolfgang Ischinger | Sigmar Gabriel. |
1912 |
| Gesellschaft zur Forderung des Institut fur Weltwirtschaft / Society for the Promotion of the Institute for World Economy / "German World Economic Society" Located at the University of Tiel from the beginning. Tied in with the ICC. Many gaps in information. WWII and pre-WWII German members: Bernard Harms (founding managing director 1914-1933; dismissed by the Nazis) | Jens Jenssen (managing director 1933-1934) | Andreas Predohl (managing director 1934-1945) | Karl Haushofer (member early 1930s; mentor Rudolf Hess) | Karl Lindemann (chair) | Baron Kurt von Schroeder | Dr. Hermann Schmitz (also a 1940 paper). German contributors: Emil Helfferich (1914 paper on Dutch banking) | Walter Hahn (1929 paper). Pre-WWII non-German (hon.) members: Frank Tiarks. Speakers: Lord Riverdale (1935: 'The British World Empire and World Economy') | Gen. Maxwell Taylor (Oct. 2, 1950). Funding: Rock. Fdn. (funded projects from the Harms era, the Nazi era, and beyond). Source(s): 1964, Anton Zottmann and Frieda Otto, 'Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, 1914-1964', p. 52 (Rock. Fdn), etc. |
1914 |
| Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften / Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science Involved in poison gas development during WWI and Holocaust-related "science" during WWII. Presidents: Adolf von Harnack (1911–1930) | Max Planck (1930–1937, May 1945-1946) | Carl Bosch (1937–1940) | Albert Vogler (1941–1945). More: Fritz Haber (founding (managing) director Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry 1911-1933; poison gas pioneer during WWI) | Baron Otmar Verschuer (director Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics 1942-1948; leading U.S.-German eugenicist who used his former student Dr. Josef Mengele to obtain bodies of Gypsies and dead children, skeletons of Jews, blood samples of twins and other "scientific material" from Auschwitz). |
1918 |
| Anti-Bolshevik League, Germany / League for the Protection of German Culture / Antibolschewistische Liga / Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur A bit of a precursor to Hitler's NSDAP. Organized by Eduard Stadtler after communist revolutionaries sought to take over Germany, similarly as they had done in Russia is 1917. The fund spread anti-Bolshevik propaganda, called for a "national-socialist" agenda, funded the military operations of the Freikorps militia that quashed a January 1919 communist rebellion, and ordered the murder of communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (through Freikorps commander Waldemar Pabst). The fund received well over $100 million from German industry for these purposes. Financiers: - Paul Mankiewitz: Organizer of industrial financing for the fund; chair Deutsche Bank 1919-1923; advisory board Phoenix AG main. - Hugo Stinnes: Major industrial heir; 1898 founding director RWE AG, and bought a majority share with Fritz Thyssen; 1901 founder of Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG; worked a lot with August Thyssen as well; major WWI war profiteer and advisor to Gen. Erich Ludendorff, a later backer of Hitler; known as "The New Emperor of Germany" in Time by 1923, as well as the "Inflation King". - Albert Vogler: See above. - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: See above. - Otto Henrich: Employee and then top manager Siemens 1898-1921; had to leave after developing a relationship with the wife of Carl Friedrich von Siemens. - Ernst von Borsig: See above. - Felix Deutsch: Co-founder and, since 1915, chair AEG; died in 1928; Jewish; his wife, Lili Deutsch, was a sister of Kuhn, Loeb banker Otto Kahn and had some kind of affair with assassinated German foreign minister Walther Rathenau. - Arthur Salomonsohn: See Georg Solmssen above, who was his son (who changed his name). Jewish; as his uncle before him, a partner in the Rothschild-tied Disconto-Gesellschaft 1895-1929; advisory board chair Deutsche Bank 1929-, after the bank took over Disconto; advisory chair Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. |
1918 |
| Thule Gesellschaft / Thule Society Thule: Germanic order very much occupied with attacking Jews and communists, pretty much as an esoteric version of the "stab in the back" theory of Gen. Ludendorff and allies that developed at the end of World War I, laying the blame for Germany's loss at the feet of socialists, communists and Jews. Members: Rudolf von Sebottendorf (founder; widely-traveled occultist with parallel membership in the anti-Jewish Germanenorder) | Dietrich Eckart | Rudolf Hess | Alfred Rosenberg | Karl Harrer | Hans Frank | Julius Lehmann | Gottfried Feder. Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP) / German Workers' Party (1919-) / NSDAP (1920-): Karl H. (founder) | Dietrich E. (founder; became Hitler's mentor at the NSDAP, introducing him to Munich high society; the first volume of 'Mein Kampf' was dedicated to him) | Gottfried F. (founder) | Anton Drexler (founder; history at the ultraright German Fatherland Party) | Adolf Hitler (Reichswehr infiltrant into the DAP operating under Karl Mayr from Sep. 1919 and took over the party leadership on its orders; impressed everyone with his oratory skills; designed its Swastika logo) | Ernst Rohm (member; head SA) | Rudolf H. (member) | Alfred R. (member). Munchener Beobachter newspaper 1918-1920: Rudolf von S. (original editor). NSDAP's Volkischer Beobachter (People's Observer) 1920-1945: future SA leader Major Ernst Rohm (received 60,000 Reichsmark from Gen. Franz Ritter von Epp of the Freikorps paramilitary and Reichswehr, which came from a secret army fund) | Dietrich E. (put up his house as collateral for the loan; first editor) | Karl H. (editor). Early funders NSDAP: Emil Gansser of Siemens (member NSDAP 1921-; very close friend of Dietrich E.; got in debt in the 1930s due to lawsuits he filed against Siemens, with Hitler ceasing to financially support him in 1936) | Karl Burhenne (head of the Siemens social fund since 1919 (and thus a representative of Carl Friedrich von Siemens), first introduced to Hitler in March 1922 through Gansser; attempted additional fundraisers for Hitler with Borsig) | Ernst von Borsig (not counted for the SI here; first financed Hitler after seeing him speak at the Nationaler Club on June 5, 1922 and talking to him, with the aim of allowing Hitler to expand his party into northern Germany). Police protection: Munich police president Ernst Pohner and Wilhelm Frick (head of Munich police's political department) testified at Hitler's 1924 trial that they both had been protecting Hitler's NSDAP, because they believed his party could save the country form the communists. |
1918 |
| Organisation Consul / Viking League Anti-Jew, anti-left death squad that killed "at least 354" people, the most prominent being Walther Rathenau in 1922. Grew out of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, the Freicorps unit that fought a bloody civil war against communist militias over 1919, and then was involved in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. Members: Captain Hermann Ehrhardt | Munich police president Ernst Pohner (major protector of Hitler's NSDAP; embezzled money to support the O.C., falsify passports for members, etc.; sentenced to 5 years alongside Hitler in 1924 over the Beer Hall Putsch, but released within 3 months; died in a car crash in April 1925). |
1919-1923 |
| Essener Montagsgesellschaft / Essen Monday Club Precursor to the Ruhrlade. Grew to a membership of 45 in 1921, which made "confidentiality" an issue to core members. Disbanded during the 1923-1925 Ruhr occupation after Germany defaulted on paying its WWI debts. Members: Paul Reusch (official, main organizer) | Fritz Thyssen | Gustav Krupp. More: Oswald Spengler (July 1922 speaker; author of 'The Decline of the West') Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 195. |
1919-1923 |
| Lade, Magdeburg Members: - Kurt Sorge: Chair Krupp-Grusonwerke 1899-. Chair Association of Magdeburg Metal Industries 1902-, etc. Director advisory board, Krupp AG, 1919-, deputy chair 1925-1928. Reichstag member for the DVP 1920-1928. Provided Paul Reusch with the statutes of the Lade, which he largely took over for his own Ruhrlade in 1927. Died in 1928. Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', p. 195. Only one member mentioned. |
Early 1920s? |
| Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie (RDI) / Reich Association of German Industry Board / presidium: Kurt Sorge (chair 1919–1925) | Carl Duisberg (presidium chair 1925–1931) | Gustav Krupp (presidium chair 1931–1933) | Robert Bosch | Alfred Hugenberg | Paul Reusch | Paul Silverberg | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Ernst von Borsig | Hugo Stinnes | Felix Deutsch | Julius Deutsch (AEG) | Max Fischer (Carl Zeiss Jena). |
1919-1933 |
| Nationale Vereinigung / Nationaler Club / Nationalklub Ultraright anti-Bolshevik group that set up branches in Berlin, Magdeburg, Mainz, Leipzig and Dresden. The group would become deeply tied to the Kapp Putsch. Members: Alfred Hugenberg (key organizer) | Waldemar Pabst (founding CEO) | Gen. Erich Ludendorff (actively supported the group's founding) | Col. Max Bauer (co-founder; Ludendorff's WWI political advisor) | Wolfgang Kapp (co-founder) | Ernst von Borsig (inspired by a Hitler speech here on June 5, 1922) | Heinrich Class (invited Hitler to speak here in 1922; president Pan-German League 1908-1939) | Fritz Geisler (met Hitler here with Class, soon leading to an invitation to speak; apparently transferred 150,000 RM to the NSDAP in the summer of 1922, which may have been due to a successful fundraiser of Borsig and Karl Burhenne of Siemens; executive chair ultraright Vereinigte Vaterlandische Verbande). Financiers: Hugo Stinnes | Carl Duisberg (financed and a WWI friend of Col. Bauer, but then spoke out against the Kapp Putsch (after it failed), because it led to striker workers and a bad image overseas). Speakers: Adolf Hitler (May 29, 1922 and June 5, 1922). Source(s): p. 101 (Duisberg). Also: Gilsener called it "contributions to good causes". P. 108: Hugo Stinnes (financier and Kapp correspondent before and after the Putsch); Peter Longerich, 'Hitler: A Life'. |
Oct. 2, 1919 |
| Kapp Putsch Ultraright coup attempt to undo the 1919-established social democrat Weimar Republic, which actually had allowed the Reichswehr / army to suppress the (overly militant) Bolsheviks. The Reichswer supported the coup in many places, but a massive uprising of 12 million workers prevented the coup from succeeding. Organizers / participants: Wolfgang Kapp (co-founder in 1917 and chair Fatherland Party; member DNVP by 1919) | Hermann Ehrhardt (his Freikorps brigade that marched into the center of Berlin sported swastikas on their helmets and vehicles) | Gen. Walther von Luttwitz | Gen. Erich Ludendorff | Waldemar Pabst | Ernst von Borsig (negotiated between Kapp and the legitimate government in Berlin, but was on the side of the putschists) | Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Eckart (flown into Berlin by the army to meet up with Kapp and aid the coup; however, they arrived too late). |
1920 |
| Deutscher Kampfbund / German Combat League Ultraright paramilitary organization. Members: Gen. Erich Ludendorf (key founder) | Ernst Rohm (involved) | Adolf Hitler (appointed political leader in Sep. after the new government under Gustav Stresemann sought to end passive resistance to allied occupation of the Ruhr due to it causing hyperinflation). Dissolved after the Beer Hall Putsch. |
Sep.-Nov. 1923 |
| Beer Hall Putsch Failed coup attempt involving about 2,000 SA Nazi stormtroopers against what Hitler termed "the Berlin Jew government and the November criminals of 1918." Coup opponent and eye witness Dr. Karl Alexander von Mueller: "I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds [through a little speech by] Hitler... It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it." Government soldiers and police officers were able to stop the coup after a shootout that killed 16 Nazis and 4 police officers. Organizers / participants: Gen. Erich Ludendorff (together with Hindenburg, de facto dictator of Germany during WWI 1916-1918; visited Hitler several times in jail after the coup) | Adolf Hitler | Dietrich Eckart | Heinrich Himmler | Rudolf Hess | Hermann Goring | Ernst Rohm | Alfred Rosenberg | Julius Streicher | Ernst Hanfstaengl. Financiers: Fritz Thyssen (provided 100,000 Reichsmark to Ludendorff in Oct. 1923 after being sent to Hitler by Ludendorff, being similarly impressed with Hitler, and being explained their putsch plans) | Hugo Stinnes (another supporter of Ludendorff's agenda; funds provided through industrialist Friedrich Minoux, a Stinnes representative until 1923). |
Nov. 8, 1923 |
| Union Banking Corporation Set up after Fritz Thyssen told Averell Harriman he wanted a bank in the United States. Owned by the Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel and Scheepvaart (BHS; paid for Hitler's Brown House in 1928), a front for the Thyssen brothers. UBC directors lied about not being aware of this, with even Treasury researcher Erwin May, bizarrely, concluding in his August 16 1941 report: "Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest." Already in 1920 Harriman bought the Hamburg-Amerika Line. George Herbert Walker and Harriman started visiting Germany for investments no later than 1922, mainly in relation to coal and steel. In that capacity they got to know Fritz Thyssen. Partnerships they set up also included Friedrich Flick, also of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. On July 30 1942 the New York Herald-Tribune caused trouble with its article, 'Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank'. In October 1942 UBC's shares were sieged under the Trading With the Enemy act, followed by a number of interlocked companies. Recommendations to liquidate the bank and confiscate its assets were ignored. Instead, the bank was given back to its shareholders after the war, with no one being prosecuted. American board members: Roland Harriman (chair and owned almost all shares; partner BBH; brother of founder Averell) | Samuel Pryor (anno 1928; director under president Averell Harriman of the American Ship and Commerce Co. 1920- (June 6, 1920, WaPo), which controlled the reopened Hamburg-America Line; steel industrialist until 1941, when he became exec. vice president of Pan Am, founded by his Yale classmate Juan Trippe; built some 50 U.S. airbases in Africa during WWII) | Prescott Bush (later managing director, not yet on the board in 1928; partner BBH) | Harold Pennington (director anno 1942; also at BBH) | Ray Morris (not yet in 1928; partner BBH). Dutch-German board members: Cornelis Lievense (president and director anno 1928, 1942) | Johann Groninger / Johann Groeninger (anno 1928, 1942; director BHS; director August Thyssen-Hutte AG; founding advisory board member Vereinigte Stahlwerke) | Hendrick Kouwenhoven (anno 1928, 1948; director BHS; member advisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939; d. 1947, two weeks after informing Prescott of a Dutch investigation into the bank) | Source(s): June-July 1945, Congressional report, 'Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings', pp. 727-730 (U.S. names not mentioned); 1942 Office of Alien Property Custodian report: "Since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties [tied to UBC] have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort." |
1924 |
| Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphengesellschaft / German Atlantic Cable Company Founded in 1899, but it wasn't until 1925 that W. A. Harriman & Co. bought a stake in it. Directors anno 1932: Georg Solmssen (chair anno 1932) | Max Moritz Warburg (vice chair) | W. Frisch (vice chair) | Averell Harriman (anno 1932) | Wilhelm Cuno (German chancellor 1922-1923 during the peak of hyperinflation) | H. F. Albert (U.S.-based German espionage agent in WWI) | John von Berenberg-Gossler (FDR's former business associate) | Dr. Peter Craemer | | H. Dreisbach | Th. von Guilleaume | Dr. Karl Haniel | Dr. Hans Hesse | H. Albert O. Arendt. Source(s): 1932, Moody's Public Utility Manual, p. 1100. |
1925 |
| Deutscher Herrenklub / German Gentlemen's Club About 5,000 member in 1932. Members: Hjalmar Schacht | Baron Kurt von Schroder | Fritz Thyssen | Max Warburg | Franz von Papen | Robert Pferdmenges | Helmuth Poensgen | Kurt Schmitt | Georg von Schnitzler | Edmund Stinnes (son of Hugo Stinnes) | Hermann Voss | Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schonhausen | Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern | Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | Prince Nikolaus zu Salm-Salm | Eberhard von Kalckreuth | Martin Blank | Gustav von Mallinckrodt | Georg Solmssen. More: Walther Funk (speech, likely in early 1931). |
1926 |
| Stega A secret rearmament group in Weimar Germany among industrialists to circumvent Versailles Treaty provisions. Members: Ernst von Borsig (founding chair) | Kurt Sorge (director Krupp AG) | Otto Oesterlen (director Krupp AG under Gustav Krupp) | Rudolf Krell (director Siemens-Schuckert AG) | Hans Eltze (general director Rheinmetall) | Georg Howaldt (managing director Association of German Shipyards). Involved additional members. |
1926 |
| Vereinigte Stahlwerke Directors: Albert Vogler (founding chair 1926-1935, supervisory board 1935-) | Alfred Hugenberg (reported director anno 1934; acquired (additional) VS stock in 1944 from the soon-to-be destroyed Prussian state and served as chair; on Dec. 4, 1946, the British authorities were asked why they never removed him, the answer being: "It takes a vote of the shareholders of the company to remove him as board chairman."; his VS connection is not mentioned in his superdetailed German and English Wikipedia pages anno 2021) | Ernst Poensgen (chairman anno 1939, until 1943 it appears; reappointed chair Oct. 1947) | Hermann Wenzel (deputy chair anno 1939). Supervisory / advisory board: Fritz Thyssen (founding chair 1926-1939; top Hitler financier 1923-; fled Germany in 1939) | Heinrich Thyssen (Fritz's brother operating from the Netherlands; founding board member 1926-, even though he decided to keep his part of the inheritance outside of VS) | Carl Friedrich von Siemens (founding board member 1926-, still anno 1939) | Otto Wolff (founding member 1926-, still anno 1939) | Friedrich Flick (almost founding, with a few months delay: June 1926-, anno 1939) | Hermann Schmitz (founding member 1926-, vice chair anno 1939; director and CFO IG Farben; CFO BASF; uncle of Max Ilgner) | Oscar Schlitter (founding member 1926-, not anymore in 1939; director Deutsche Bank) | Dr. Frederick H. Fentener van Vlissingen (founding board member 1926-, still anno 1939; elite Dutch family) | Johann Groninger (founding board member 1926-; listed as director Vulcaan NV, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | Jakob Goldschmidt (founding member 1926-; Jewish banker pushed out around 1933) | Albert V. (1935-, (co-)deputy chair anno 1939) | Alfred H. ((co-)deputy chair anno 1939) | Arthur Salomonsohn (Jewish banker pushed out around 1933) | Karl Kimmich (anno 1939) | Robert Pferdmenges (anno 1939) | Dr. Wilhelm Koeppel (anno 1939) | Dr. Paul Marx (anno 1939) | Carl Goetz (anno 1939) | Hendrick Kouwenhoven (anno 1939; named as a "director .. as of 1938" in U.S. congressional files ). Additional companies represented on the founding supervisory board: Dresdner Bank | Bayerischen Vereinsbank | Darmstädter und Nationalbank | Rheinischen Stahlwerke | Phoenix | Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG | Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG | Disconto-Gesellschaft. Source(s): 1957, Gerhard Gebhardt, 'Ruhrbergbau, Geschichte, Aufbau und Verflechtung seiner Gesellschaften und Organisationen', p. 226 (founding supervisory board; the version on the German Wikipedia anno 2021 using the same source, but omits a number of key names); May 1939, Deutscher Rechts-Verlag magazine National Wirtschaft, p. 125 (supervisory board). More: Adolf Hitler (reported 1929 invitation to speak at VS headquarters to about 300 industrialists; not yet confirmed by this author). 1927, Vereinigte Stahlwerke company newspaper 'Das Werk': "The history of almost all peoples is an eternal urge to expand, a never-dormant need for expansion. [Germany has] too little, far too little land..." |
1926-1951 |
| The International Steel Cartel Founded soon after Vereinigte Stahlwerke was set up, involving German, French, Belgian and Luxembourg steel producers. Austria , Hungary and Czechoslovakia joined in 1927. The union started collapsing in 1929 due to the Great Depression, but was revived in 1933. The British joined in 1935. United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel joined in an informal capacity in 1938. Anno 2021 there still doesn't exist an English-language Wikipedia page on this cartel, with information on meetings and board members being virtually non-existent. Represented: Ernst Poensgen | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Gustav Krupp. Feb. 12, 1948, U.S. Congressional report, pp. 1252-1253: "Dr. Ernst Poensgen: The spokesperson for German heavy industry, Vereinigte Stahlwerke and the coal industry ... for more than 30 years... He was retired in 1943 under the express orders of Hitler in order to use his services in case of the defeat of Nazi Germany. ... Decorated by Hitler personally... Ernst Poensgen founded the International Steel Cartel in 1926. In 1939 [he] negotiated the famous Dusseldorf agreement with the representatives of the British heavy industries, Sir Percy Mills and [Pilgrim] Sir Andrew Duncan, dividing the world into two spheres for German-British economic exploitation. Sir Percy Mills was, until recently, the head of the economic division in the British zone. Because of Poensgen's intimate tie-ups with the British heavy industry, he was reappointed head of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke 5 months ago. Thus, today he is in a position to continue his nefarious work ... He was never denazified, and now heads the reconstruction of Germany's war potential." |
1926-1931, 1933-1939 |
| Mussolini trip Visited Italy at the invitation of fascist dictator Mussolini: Fritz Thyssen | Heinrich Thyssen (Fritz's brother) | Albert Vogler (reportedly). This was while Hitler's NSDAP they were backing was still very obscure. Source(s): Not mentioned on any English or German Wikipedia anno 2021. 1942, economist Henry Junior Taylor (who interacted a lot with Fritz), 'Time Runs Out' (only mentions Fritz and hints that he and other Germans greatly influenced Mussolini's speeches and behavior); 2006, David Litchfield, 'The Thyssen Art Macabre', p. 84 (includes Frankfurter Zeitung citation mentioning Fritz and his brother); 1934, Ernest Henri, 'Hitler over Europe', p. 11 (mentions Vogler instead of Fritz's brother); 1940, George Seldes for his 'In Fact: For the Millions who Want a Free Press', Vol. 1, p. 3 (could be copied from May, whom Seldes has used as a source elsewhere). |
Feb. 1927 |
| Ruhrlade Revival and purposely smaller group (from 45 to 12 members) than the Essener Montagsgesellschaft. Based on the secretive Lade group of Industrialists in Magdeburg. First meeting took place in Jan. 1928. The group met once a month, on the first monday of each month; organizing meetings at the castles and estates of its members. Apart from managing the industry, the group made donations to right wing political parties as the DNV and DNVP and essentially tried to bribe political parties into doing their bidding. Supposedly a schism developed in June 1932 when it came out that Thyssen, Vogler and Poensgen had quietly allowed the government to buy itself into their Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, the holding company of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. The remaining members, including Reusch, bitterly complained about allowing this "state interference" and wanted it reversed. The thing is, the government paid FAR too much for the shares, with it being quite clear it would sell the shares back very cheaply, giving the Ruhrbarons in questions the massive subsidy they needed in order for Vereinigte Stahlwerke (and the economy as a whole) to survive. Subsequently all members did rally around chancellor Franz von Papen, while being very wary about chancellor Kurt von Schleicher's economic policies while cultivating ties with labor union leaders. Members: - Paul Reusch: Official, main organizer and secretary 1927-. Didn't want to finance the Nazis and thought the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) he was allied with could "moderate" the Nazis by bringing them into an alliance. Still signed a petition in 1932 to bring Hitler to power. - Fritz Thyssen: Co-organizer. Unabashed Hitler supporter since 1923. - Gustav Krupp: Co-organizer. Not much of a Nazi supporter before 1933 (if only because it had a "socialist wing"), but ended up becoming a "super-Nazi" at that point, in the words of Hjalmar Schacht. Even demanded his employees gave him the Nazi salute whenever he visited one of his steel factories. - Albert Vogler: Founding member. - Carl Bosch: Member since 1932, replacing the deceased Winkhaus. - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: Guest on May 11, 1929, but officially a member since 1935, replacing the deceased Fickler. - Herman Bucher: Member since 1935, replacing the exiled Silverberg. Managing director AEG. - Ernst Poensgen: Founding member. - Frederick Springorum: Founding member, deputy secretary and treasurer; thought it wise to "moderate" the "radical" aspects of the Nazis by making them dependent on big business funding while including them in the government. - Paul Silverberg: Founding member. Jewish. Chair Rheinische AG, Germany's largest brown coal mining firm. Turned on by the others after the Nazis wanted to get rid of him over his Jewish roots. - Fritz Winkhaus: Founding member. Manager director of Hoescht-owned Koln-Neuessener Bergwerksverein. - Peter Klockner: Founding member. Founder and head of Klockner Werke AG. - Arthur Klotzbach: Founding member. Director Freidrich Krupp AG. - Karl Haniel: Founding member. Chair Gutehoffnungshutte and member of the family that owned a controlling interest in the firm. - Erich Fickler: Founding member. Managing director Harpener Bergbau AG and advisory chair bituminous coal cartel. - Martin Blank: Berlin representative of the group. More: - Friedrich Flick: Guest on May 11, 1929. - Franz von Papen: Favorite politician of the Ruhrlade who met with members on occasion and may have been present as a guest. - Walther Funk: Received funding from the summer of 1931, right when this centre-right journalist joined the Nazi party as an economic advisor, this to influence Hitler's economic policies in favor of big business. Reich minister for economic affairs from 1938-1945. - Alfred Hugenberg: Media baron who received Ruhrlade funding for the German National People's Party (DNVP) he chaired from 1928, a pro-big business imperial party which dissolved in June 1933 with members moving over to Hitler's NSDAP. Co-founder of the imperialist Pan-German Association in 1891. Chair finance department of Krupp AG 1909-1918. During WWI he opposed calls for peace and was a major pusher for colonial annexation and exploitation of (potentially) conquered areas, this alongside Hugo Stinnes and Emil Kirdorf. Co-founder of the pro-big business imperialist German Fatherland Party in 1917. Received funds from the Ruhrlade in the early 1930s not only to aid his DNVP party in the polls, but also to keep him from being sidelined by less reactionary elements within the DNVP. Started buying up media in 1916 and "owned half of the German press" in the late 1920s and early 1930s. His newspapers gave very favorable attention to Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, only disagreeing with the method. Urged President Hindenburg in a letter written alongside Von Papen to install Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. After this succeeded, Hitler would soon appropiate Hugenberg's media empire. Reich minister of economics under Hitler Jan.-Jun. 1933. Completely overlooked anno 2021 in his otherwise super-detailed German and English Wikipedia bios (only his old Krupp affiliation is mentioned): Reported director Vereinigte Stahlwerke (VS) by 1934 and certainly a supervisory board member anno 1939. Acquired (additional) VS stock in 1944 from the soon-to-be destroyed Prussian state and came to serve as chair around this point. On Dec. 4, 1946, the British authorities in Germany were asked why they never removed him as VS chair, the answer being: "It takes a vote of the shareholders of the company to remove him as board chairman." Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 195-196, 227. Extra, p. 199: "The Ruhrlade also functioned as a behind-the-scenes pressure group... Occasionally, the members, after consulting with each other, addressed themselves directly to the authorities, but they did so as individuals, preferring to keep the Ruhrlade as such out of public, or even official, view, although its existence unavoidably became known in the inner circles of the government.[14] More commonly, they worked through other, less secretive, industrial organizations." P. 216 mentions Funk financing. 2007, C. Edmund Clingan review at Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 'Clingan on Gehlen, 'Paul Silverberg (1876-1959): Ein Unternehmer'': "French ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet [charged] that [Paul] Silverberg, Hjalmar Schacht, Thyssen, Albert Vogler, and Franz von Papen formed a cabal to forge a Nazi-Catholic Center government. Silverberg actually feared that the left wings of both parties could unite and strike against business [so supported] the right-of-center German People's Party (DVP)... Flick conspired with Thyssen to take control of Silverberg's core businesses... Vogler ... had promised not to work against Silverberg, but at some point he broke that promise. ... When the Nazis ousted his friend [Cologne mayor] Konrad Adenauer, Silverberg was doomed. He lost his sixty-plus board positions in a matter of months. ... Nazi Kurt von Schroder offered him honorary Aryan status if he would support the Nazis, but Silverberg refused [and left the country in 1933]." |
1927-1939 |
| Bund zur Erneuerung des Reiches (BER) / Federation for the Renewal of the Reich Purpose: Big business group set up at the end of the Weimar Republic that, among other things, called for more power for the Reich President at the expense of Parliament and lower corporate taxes by cutting public spending. 1927 initial meeting: Paul Reusch | Max Warburg (leadership). 1928 founding call signers: Fritz Thyssen | Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach | Albert Vogler | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Robert Bosch | Jakob Goldschmidt | Franz von Mendelssohn | Fritz Springorum | Wilhelm Cuno | Hermann Rochling | Paul Reusch | Carl Bergmann (advisory board Deutsche Bank) | Louis Hagen | Abraham Frowein. 'Industry and banks' workgroup: Ernst von Borsig | Julius Flechtheim | Wolfgang Reuter (general director Demag) | Kurt Schmitt. 'Politics' workgroup: Konrad Adenauer. 'Agriculture' workgroup: Baron Tilo von Wilmowsky (a Krupp inlaw). 'Science and Young Conservatives' workgroup: Max Planck | Franz von Papen. |
1927 |
| Reich Committee for the German referendum against the Young Plan and the war guilt lie Big business-financed committee protesting the war reparations under the newly proposed Young Plan. Participants: Alfred Hugenberg (organizer; director Krupp AG; chair DNVP) | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Adolf Hitler (NSDAP) | Heinrich Class (Pan-German Association) | Franz Seldte and Theodor Duesterberg (both of Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten) | Rudiger von der Goltz (United Patriotic Associations) | Martin Schiele (DNVP) | Karl Hepp (DVP). |
1929 |
| Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation (CSSC) Majority shareholder in mining firms Vereinigte Konigs und Laurahutte AG (Germany) and the Kattowitzer AG fur Bergbau und Huttenbetrieb (Poland). Owned in turn by Anaconda Copper and W. A. Harriman & Co. Charlottenhutte AG (Germany) and other companies were also owned by these interests. Effectively, one-third of this conglomerate was owned by the Harriman Bank and two-thirds by Friedrich Flick of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Directors CSSC: Averell Harriman (chair anno 1930). Directors Ver. Konigs unde Laurahutte: Averell Harriman (anno 1930) | Friedrich Flick (anno 1930; meeting with "W.A.H." in Berlin April 22, 1931, quickly followed by "W.A.H." meeting with Wilhelm Cuno, the CEO of the Harriman-owned Hamburg-America Line.) Source(s): 1974, vol. 31, unknown issue, Polish American Studies: The Journal of Polish American History, p. 44; Sep. 27, 2004, Salon, 'The profitable business of war': "According to a New York Times article published on March 18, 1934, Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest." One problem is that the article cannot be found in the New York Times archive anno 2021, with no (extensive) quotes being available anywhere. The boards of directors has been confirmed, however. |
1929 |
| Economic pressure on the NSDAP In 1931 bankers and industralists applied pressure on Hitler to remove the anti-capitalist Gottfried Feder - a Thulist and economic mentor of Hitler - as newly instated chairman of the NSDAP's economic council. Hitler soon distanced himself from the views of Feder. Pressure appliers: Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Gustav Krupp | Friedrich Flick | Hjalmar Schacht | Emile Kirdorf | Walther Funk. Source(s): jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gottfried-feder (accessed: May 26, 2021) |
1931 |
| Harzburg Front gathering A meeting that brought all of Germany's antisemitic, imperialist forces together in an attempt to persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to remove Chancellor Heinrich Bruning from office, this because these elements considered him too socialist - a "Bolshevik" even. The attempt failed however, as Hitler refused to cooperate with Hugenberg (as Hugenberg's DNVP was weak in the polls and likely only wanted to "control" Hitler on behalf of big business) and because Gustav von Krupp was still advising Hindenberg to NOT remove Bruning from office. Involved: Hjalmar Schacht (denounced the Young Plan and Bruning's economic policies in his speech) | Fritz Thyssen | Ernst Brandi (Ruhr industrialist and great Hitler supporter) | Alfred Hugenberg | Adolf Hitler | Heinrich Himmler | Hermann Goring | Ernst Rohm. |
Oct. 1931 |
| Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft / Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS / Freundeskreis Himmler / Himmler Circle / Keppler Circle Most recognizable members: - Wilhelm Keppler: Chair IG Farben subsidiary Braunkohle-Benzin AG; joined the NSDAP in 1927, which he financed and served as an economic advisor of; part of the Jan. 4, 1933 meeting between Von Papen and Hitler. - Heinrich Himmler: Involved 1935-. - Baron Kurt von Schroder: Key Nazi banker. See above. - Hjalmar Schacht: President Reichsbank. See above. - Otto Steinbrinck: Vice-president Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. - Albert Vogler: Representative of the Ruhrlade, but not a regular participant. Vereinigte Stahlwerke. See above. - Friedrich Reinhardt: Among the first 9 members of the Keppler Circle. Director of the Commerz- und Privatbak. Chief Nazi economic advisor. His 1932 economic campaign calling for rearmament and imperialism as a way towards economic recovery was terrible for consumers, merchants and exporters, but great the Ruhr producers of steel and coal. - Wilhelm Voss: SS-Standartenfuhrer. Co-founder Reichswerke Hermann Goring in 1937. See above. - Heinrich Butefisch: IG-Farben. - Emil Helfferich: Chair of the German-American Petroleum Company / Esso, owned for 94% by the Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey. - Friedrich Flick: Chair of Flick KG. See above. - Emil Heinrich Meyer: ITT. - Hans Walz: Robert Bosch GmbH; credited with saving Jews. - Kurt Schmitt: Part of a 1933 meeting; chair Allianz AG 1921-1933, supervisory board until 1945; Reich economics minister 1933-1934; afterwards chair AEG AG and the Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft. - Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schonhausen: Grandson of the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Member Reichstag for the Nazi party in the 1930s. SS brigadefuhrer by 1944, when it was discovered he was affiliated with the resistance (since 1942, mainly because Germany was beginning to lose the war) after the purges in the wake of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg. Would have been tortured and executed like thousands of others, but was set free by the notorious People's Court of Roland Freisler due to his name and connections. Other interests represented: Dresdner Bank | Commerzbank | Wintershall | Brabag | Norddeutsche Lloyd | Ilseder Hutte. |
1932-1945 |
| Landsberg Castle meeting with Hitler This meeting took place the day after Hitler's hugely popular speech at the Industrie Club Dusseldorf. Present: August Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Ernst Poensgen | Adolf Hitler | Herman Goring | Erst Rohm. |
Jan. 27, 1932 |
| Arbeidsstelle Dr. Schacht Hjalmar Schacht-pitched idea to members of the Ruhrlade as an office to establish contacts between the Nazi Party and big business. The Ruhrlade voted on the issue in June 1932. Not all supported the idea, or for the same reasons, but the most influential members did. The office was never (fully) established, because it was canceled after Schacht learned about Hitler's support for the creation of the Keppler Circle. Agreed to finance: August Thyssen | Gustav Krupp | Albert Vogler | Frederick Springorum | Paul Reusch. Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 218-219: |
1932-1932 |
| Deutschen Ausschusses Letter In support of the DNVP under Alfred Hugenberg and Chancellor Franz von Papen, and against Hitler's NSDAP. Slogan: "Mit Hindenburg fur Volk und Reich." Among the 339 signers: Albert Vogler | Ernst von Borsig | Fritz Springorum | Ernst Brandi. Source(s): Nov. 17, 2007, Neues Deutschland (ND) (socialist Berlin newspaper), 'Die dringliche Bitte von Schacht & Co.': "In favor of this interpretation, reference is made to another document. At the same time, a large group of capital owners had campaigned for von Papen and the German National People's Party that supported him. Their appeal "With Hindenburg for the people and the Reich" is intended as proof of the anti-Nazism or anti-Hitlerism of the majority of the big bourgeoisie. Above all, however, it proves that this numerically stronger action also sided with the constitution-breaking head of state and thus rejected parliamentary democracy." |
Nov. 6, 1932 |
| The Industrielleneingabe Letter / The Industrial Input Letter November 19, 1932 letter to Reich president Paul von Hindenburg asking Hitler to be appointed chancellor after Franz von Papen lost this position. Literally, the signers ask Hindenburg to transfer "responsible leadership" of the government to the NSDAP of Hitler (who fits the description of "the leader of the largest national [political] group") and the smaller, pro-big business, imperialist DNVP of Alfred Hugenberg. The letter was only published for a first time in 1956 by the Marxist-Leninist-oriented Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft / Magazine for Historical Science. All signers: Baron Kurt von Schroder (primary writer in the below copy) | Hjalmar Schacht (other sources say he is the writer, and the former only a signer) | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Paul Reusch | Fritz Springorum | Friedrich Reinhart (banker) | Emil Helfferich (member Keppler Circle and chair Esso, owned for 94% by the Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey) | August Rosterg (member Keppler Circle and director general of Wintershall AG, a crude oil and natural gas producer that flourished under Nazi Germany) | Sen. Fritz Beindorff (member advisory board Deutsche Bank) | Sen. Franz Witthoefft (member Keppler Circle; chair advisory board Commerz- und Privat-Bank; president Hamburg Chamber of Commerce) | Engelbert Beckmann (chair Rheinische Landesbank) | Erwin Merck (chair of the banking house H. J. Merck & Co.) | Dr. Kurt von Eichborn (banker) | Carl Vincent Krogmann (Hamburg mayor) | Count Eberhard von Kalckreuth ("large landowner") | Count von Keyserlingk ("large landowner") | Joachim von Oppen-Dannenwalde ("large landowner") | Kurt Gustav Ernst von Rohr-Manze (landowner) | Ewald Hecker (member Keppler circle; chair advisory board Ilseder Hutte; president Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Hannover) | Dr. Erich Lubbert (general director of large construction firm Dywidag) | Rudolf Ventzki (general director Maschinenfabrik Esslingen AG) | Kurt Woermann (partner in shipping company Woermann Line). Source(s): glasnost.de/hist/ns/eingabe.html (accessed: May 29, 2021; letter located here in full). |
Nov. 19, 1932 |
| Hitler - Von Papen meeting Key meeting in installing Hitler as chancellor. Those present: Baron Kurt von Schroder (the meeting was arranged at his house) | Adolf Hitler | Franz von Papen. |
Jan. 4, 1933 |
| Dirksen Foundation Set up in 1933 to promote contacts between the elite and NSDAP. The Herrenklub played an important role in the founding of the foundation. Involved: Heinrich Himmler (trustee) | Ernst Rohm (trustee) | Baron Kurt von Schroder (sponsor) | Robert Pferdmenges (sponsor) | Siemens, Bosch, the Flick Group and IG Farben (sponsors) | Hermann Voss (legal advisor). |
1933 |
| Gesellschaft zum Studium des Faschismus (GSF) / Society for the Study of Fascism (SSF) Members/board: Waldemar Pabst (founder; 1919 Freikorps commander who ordered the murder of communist leaders on behalf of big business) | Hjalmar Schacht | Fritz Thyssen (membership roster) | Gunther Quandt (head of a working group on job creation measures) | Friedrich Minoux (representative of Hugo Stinnes until 1923) | Herman Goring | Walther Funk | Theodor Dusterberg | Max Hahn (head Mitteleuropaischer Wirtschaftstag). |
1933 |
| Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 to finance Adolf Hitler's NSDAP Most well-known participants: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (Krupp steel) | Georg von Schnitzler (director IG Farben, the second largest owner of the Rockefeller's Standard Oil, a key partner) | Fritz von Opel (director Adam Opel AG, 100% owned by General Motors/DuPont by 1931 and a major Nazi war producer)) | Albert Vogler (CEO of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, tied-in with Wall Street) | Hjalmar Schacht (acted as host; major globalist banker) | Gunther Quandt (built up a fortune during the war with ammunition, rifles, artillery and battery supplies to the Nazi army, making extensive use of slave labor, complete with an execution area in one of its companies; wrongly labeled a "fellow traveler" and set free; came to control BMW after the war and joined the board of Deutsche Bank) | Fritz Springorum (chair Hoesch AG) | Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben (chief representative of Carl Friedrich von Siemens) | Kurt Schmitt (chair Allianz AG 1921-1933; Reich economics minister 1933-1934) | August von Finck Sr. (son of the founder of Allianz AG and the private bank Merck Finck & Co.; took over S.M. von Rothschild in Vienna in October 1939 after the Nazi takeover of Austria) | Ernst Tengelmann. Other interests represented: Wintershall AG (major oil and gas producer) | Giesches Erben, Zink und Bergbaubetrieb | Demag | Bergbauverein | Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG | Heye Braunkohlenwerke AG | Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG | Vereins Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten | Reichsverbands der Deutschen Industrie | Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbande | Siemens & Halske AG | Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG. Nov. 10, 1945, Nuremberg affidavit of Von Schnitzler: "At the end of February 1933, four members of the Vorstand of I. G. Farben, including Dr. Bosch, the head of the Vorstand, and myself were asked by the office of the President of the Reichstag to attend a meeting in his house, the purpose of which was not given. ... I went to the meeting which was attended by about 20 persons, who I believe were mostly leading industrialists from the Ruhr. Among those present I remember: ... Dr. Stein [not mentioned in other accounts; possibly JH Stein banking house and a George/Baron Kurt inlaw], head of the Geworkschaft Auguste Victoida, a mine which belongs to the I. G. Dr. Stein was an active member of the Deutsche Volkspartei. ... I had expected the appearance of Goering [but] Hitler entered the room, shook hands with everybody and took a seat at the top of the table. In a long speech he talked mainly about the danger of communism over which he pretended that he just had won a decisive victory. He then talked about the Bundnis — alliance — into which his party and the Deutsch Nationale Volkspartei had entered. This latter party, in the meantime, had been reorganized by Herr von Papen. At the end he came to the point which seemed to me the purpose of the meeting. Hitler stressed the importance that the two aforementioned parties should gain the majority in the coming Reichstag election. ... After Hitler had left the room, Dr. Schacht proposed to the meeting the raising of an election fund of, as far as I remember, RM 3,000,000. The fund should be distributed between the two ‘allies’ according to their relative strength at the time being. Dr. Stein suggested that the Deutsche Volkspartei should be included." |
1933 |
| Generalrat der Wirtschaft / General Economic Council According to Fritz Thyssen in his book 'I paid Hitler', the council only met once after its establishment. Reportedly this was a double session on September 20, 1933. All members: Gustav von Krupp (head) | Albert Vogler | Fritz Thyssen | Baron Kurt von Schroder | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Friedrich Reinhardt | Carl Bosch | August Diehn | August von Finck | Otto Christian Fischer | Carl Vincent Krogmann | Albert Hackelsberger | Carl Luer | Herbert Backe | Eugen Bohringer | Robert Ley | Hermann Reischle. 1933 picture of a 'General Economic Council' meeting shows: August Diehn (matches above) | Adolf Hitler | Hjalmar Schacht (president Reich Bank) | Friedrich Dreyse (vice president Reich Bank) | Carl Vincent Krogmann (Hamburg mayor) | Hans Posse (state secretary). Jan. 1934, no. 1, The Communist International, p. 10: "Through the decrees of Hitler it has introduced the death sentence for the instigation of economic strikes. It has given all power to the magnates of big capital -- Thyssen, Reinhardt, Schacht, Krupp, Siemens -- who take part in the meetings of the fascist 'General Economic Council,'' and who have been appointed as uncontrolled dictators over whole provinces of Germany." |
July 1933- |
| Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry / Adolf-Hitler-Spende der Deutschen Wirtschaft Set up by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Martin Bormann. Until 1945 the NSDAP collected about 700 million Reichsmark through this fund, the equivalent of over 3 billion euros in 2021. |
1933-1945 |
| Ahnenerbe / Ahnenerbe Society Nazi think tank concerned with Nazi racial ideology. Key individuals: Heinrich Himmler (founder). |
1935 |
| Anglo-German Fellowship British members: Montagu Norman | Frank Cyril Tiarks** | Geoffrey Dawson (editor The Times) | Adm. Sir Barry Domvile | Sir Ernest Bennett | Sir Peter Agnew | Douglas Douglas-Hamilton | 7th Marquess of Londonderry | 5th Duke of Wellington. Members: Hjalmar Schacht | Prince von Bismarck. Corporate membership: Lazard | Midland Bank | PriceWaterhouse | Unilever | Dunlop Rubber | Thomas Cook & Son. ** Director Bank of England 1912-1945; partner J. Henry Schroder & Co. 1923-1945, chaired by Hitler supporter Baron Bruno Schroder 1923-1940; and Schroder, Rockefeller & Co. Inc.; partner Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1917–1948; member British Union of Fascists. |
1935-1939 |
| Wannsee Conference Conference to ensure that all Nazi government departments were cooperative in the plan to exterminate the all Jews. Members: Reinhard Heydrich (president) | Adolf Eichmann | Judge Roland Freisler | Undersecretary Martin Luther (working under former Himmler staffer and then-secretary of state (1938-1943) Ernst von Weizsacker**, the father of later German president Richard von W.). ** His son Richard aided him in trying to get off the hook in Nuremberg. After his conviction U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John McCloy ordered him out of prison (while Ernst's only superior at the State Deparment, Joachim von Ribbentrop, was hanged at Nuremberg). As later documents revealed in more detail, Erst fully supported Hitler from at least 1937 and was fully in the know of Jews being extermined. He also seems to have supported this agenda to a considerable degree. 1933, Ernst von W.: "It is hard for foreign countries to understand this anti-Jewish action because they have not personally experienced this flood of Jews. ... [Democracy is] a cancerous growth." 1938, Ernst von W. to a Swiss diplomat: "The Jews will have to leave Germany, otherwise they will, one way or the other, be simply confronted with their own destruction." |
Jan. 20, 1942 |
| League of Outlaws Communist precursor organization. |
1834-1836 |
| League of the Just / League of Just Men / Communist League Artisan-dominated secret society that spun off from the League of Outlaws (which quickly ceased to exist). Partnered with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847 (publishing Marx's Communist Manifesto in the process), in which they agreed to become a public political movement known as the Communist League. Demands of the Communist Manifesto: - a progressive income tax; - abolition of inheritances and private property; - abolition of child labour; - free public education; - nationalisation of the means of transport and communication; - centralisation of credit via a national bank; - expansion of publicly owned land. Marx's Communist Manifesto on the abolition of the family (vague): "Abolition of the family! Even the most radical [individuals] flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. ... On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. ... The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family-relations. ... By the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. ... The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital." Marx's Communist Manifesto on women: "But you Communists would introduce "community of women"", screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus. [The fact is:] the bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production [with women] to be exploited in common... Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal [for workplace exploitation], not to speak of [shared] prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives. Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common. ... [Hence the Bourgeouis] has not even a suspicion that the real point [of us communists] is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. ... The Communists have no need to introduce [an activist] community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. ... [We are for] the abolition of ... prostitution, both public and private." July 1926, The Atlantic, 'The Russian Effort to Abolish Marriage': "When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. ... A law was passed which made divorce a matter of a few minutes... Chaos was the result. Men took to changing wives with the same zest... 'Some men have twenty wives, living a week with one, a month with another,' asserted an indignant woman delegate during the sessions of the Tzik. 'They have children with all of them, and these children are thrown on the street for lack of support! (There are three hundred thousand bezprizorni or shelterless children in Russia to-day... More than half of them are drug addicts and sex perverts. ... An epidemic of marriages and divorces broke out in the country districts. ... It was not an unusual occurrence for a boy of twenty to have had three or four wives, or for a girl of the same age to have had three or four abortions. ... Many women of light behavior ... formed connections with the sons of well-to-do peasants and then blackmailed the father for the support of the children." |
1836 |
| World Committee for the Relief of the Victims of German Fascism Willi Munzenberg (founder? A top communist close to Trotsky and Lenin). On August 1, 1933 it published in 17 languages 'Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag', which contained, according to Arthur Koestler, "the first comprehensive report on the concentration camps... the persecution of Jews [and others], the repression of literature, and other aspects of the terror." It became "the bible of the anti-fascist crusade", but Comintern Intelligence played a major role in its creation and distribution. Authors: Georgi Dimitrov (foreword 2nd edition; defendant in the Reichstag trial; arrested without police knowing he was a top Stalinist communist) | D. N. Pritt (foreword). |
Jun. 1933 |
| Comite Mondiale Contre la Guerre et le Fascisme / World Committee Against War and Fascism This anarchist committee defended Marinus van der Lubbe from charges in the Brown Book that he was a pawn of the Nazis, instead claiming that he was devout defender of the working classes. |
1933-1934 |
| Legal Commission of Inquiry into the Burning of the Reichstag D. N. Pritt (chair; member Labour Party) | Arthur Garfield Hays (founder ACLU; attended the Van der Lubbe trial) | Vincent de Moro-Giaferi (French lawyer) | Francesco Nitti (PM Italy) | Sen. Georg Branting (Sweden).
Evidence discussed by the commission (and above committees):
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Sep. 1933 |
| Atlantik-Brucke (AB) Max Warburg (founder) | John McCloy (co-founder) | Henry Kissinger | Nelson Rockefeller | Walter Kiep (chair 1984-2000, honorary chair since 2004) | George H. W. Bush | Gen. James L. Jones | Richard von Weizsacker | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ("Young Leader" alumni and member) | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar) | Tom Enders (chair 2005-2009) | Nagila Warburg (director 2019-) | Sigmar Gabriel (chair 2019-) | Josef Ackermann (member) | Wolfgang Ischinger ("Young Leader" alumni) | Richard Burt ("Young Leader" alumni) | Helmut Kohl (member) | Helmut Schmidt (member) | Angela Merkel (member) | . More: Kofi Annan and Liz Mohn (present at AB's Vernon Walters Award dinner on June 13, 2008). |
1952 |
| American Council on Germany (Atlantik-Brücke's sister organization) Paul Volcker (director since 1975, chairman) | John McCloy | Richard Debs | Henry Kissinger | Richard Holbrooke | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dick Cheney | George C. McGhee | Robert Ellsworth | Walter Slocombe | Chuck Hagel | John McCloy II | Brent Scowcroft | David Rubenstein | Marie Warburg | Robert Zoellick | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Diebold (vice chair) | Richard Burt (vice chair) | Christopher Emmet (founder and director) | Alan Greenspan (speaker) | Gen. John Galvin | James Cicconi | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Henry H. Arnhold |
1952 |
| American-German Young Leaders Conference (AB-ACG project) Once every two years until 1988. After that biennial. For 50 people of the ages between 28 and 38. Founders: John Diebold and Christopher Emmet. |
1959 |
| Munich Security Conference (MSC) / Munchner Sicherheitskonferenz ISGP analysis of participant lists from 1999 to 2013. Founder: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (longest surviving member of the group that tried to assassinate Hitler). Anno 2020 George Soros sits on the advisory board, along with ICG employee Federica Mogherini. U.S. visitors: Caspar Weinberger (1982) | Lawrence Eagleburger (1982) | William Cohen (heads the US delegation since 1985) | William Clark (1999) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (annual visitor until 2002) | Gen. Wesley Clark (annual until 2003) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (annual until 2006) | Walter Slocombe (regular since the 1990s) | Brent Scowcroft (virtually annual until 2009) | Bruce Jackson of Lockheed (virtually annualy since the 1990s; still anno '17) | Robert W. Helm of Northrop Grumman (annual since 1990s) | John Kornblum (occasional visitor since the 1990s) | Zoellick (regular since the 1990s) | Paula Dobriansky (2000) | Porter Goss (2000) | Sen. John Warner ('17) | Gen. James L. Jones (regular since at least 2000; still anno '17) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (2000, 2004) and his son Ian (2002, 2003, 2004) | Henry Kissinger (2001, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 50th anniversary panel) | Richard Perle (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2013) | Paul Wolfowitz (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2013) | Donald Rumsfeld (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2001-2002) | John Bolton (2002) | William Kristol (2002) | Strobe Talbott ('02, '09, '10, '17) | David Ignatius (occasional visitor since 2002; still anno '17) | William Safire (2003-2004) | Niall Ferguson (2007) | Jamie McIntyre (2002-2007) | Andrew Krepinevich (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) | Jim Steinberg (2002, 2003, 2006, 2010) | Jim Kolbe (2004) | Dov Zakheim (2013) | Chuck Hagel (2000-2005, except for 2003) | Eliot Cohen (occasionaly visitor since at least 2000; '17) | Robert Kagan ('02, '08, '17) and his brother-in-law Frederick (2007, 2010) | Jon Huntsman, Jr (2007) | James Woolsey (regular since at least 2003) | Sandy Berger (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009) | Adm. Giambastiani (2004-2005) | John Lehman (2006, 2009, 2010) | David Petraeus ('09, '16, '17, '19) | Madeleine Albright ('10, '17) | Eric Edelman (2010) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) | Randy Scheunemann (virtually annual since 2001) | Richard Burt (regular since the 1990s, '17) | Evan Galbraith (regular 2002 until his death in 2008) | Frank Wisner II ('11, '13, '17) | Shultz (2010) | Col. John Nagl (2010) | Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2010) | George Soros (visitor '11-'12; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting; member advisory council until April 2021) and his son Alexander (visitor '19; advisory council April 2021-) | Thomas Pickering (2006) | William Perry (2009, 2010) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (2004) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (2004) | Sam Nunn (2010, 2011, 2012) | Joseph Nye ('12, '17) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('13, '17) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild ('13, '17) | Hillary Clinton, secretary of state 2009-2013 (2005, 2011, 2012) | Sen. John Kerry (2012; member advisory board anno 2019, '22) | Richard Holbrooke (annual from 2003 until his death in 2010) | Sen. John McCain III (regular since at least 2001; still anno '17) and widow Cindy McCain ('22) | Sen. Jon Kyl (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Lindsey Graham (regular since 2003; '17, '22) | Richard Haass (1999, 2010) | Ashton Carter (regular since 2001) | Stephen Hadley (regular since 2009) | Sean O'Keefe (2012) | Michael Chertoff ('13, '17) | Leon Panetta (2012) | Robert Gates (2007, 2008) | James Thomson (2012) | Sen. Joe Biden (2000, 2009, 2013) | Richard A. Clarke (2013) | Michael Hayden (2012, 2013) | Jane Harman (regular since 2003; member advisory board, '22) | Robert Blackwill (regular since the 1990s) | Fiona Hill ('13, '17) | Ian Robertson of BMW and Rolls Royce (2013) | Nicholas Burns | Robert Hunter | Ralph Crosby, Jr. | Terry Graham (Lockheed) | Francis Fukuyama (2020) | William Swanson, Robin Beard, Daniel Burnham and Matthew Riddle (Raytheon) | Alex Stamos ('17, '18; Facebook security director) | Bill Gates ('17, '21-'22) | Geoffrey Lamb ('17; chief economic and policy advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn.) | Graham Allison ('17) | Christiane Amanpour ('17, '22) | Anne Applebaum ('17) | William Burns ('17) | Scott Carpenter ('17; managing director Google's Jigsaw) | Richard Fontaine ('17) | Stephen Heintz ('17; president Rock. Brothers Fund) | Alex Karp ('17, '22) | Peter Thiel ('17) | Ronald Lauder ('17) | Gen. James Mattis ('17) | David Rothkopf ('17) | Congressman Adam Schiff ('17) | Eric Schmidt ('22) | Kamala Harris ('22) | Nancy Pelosi ('22) | Rajiv Shah ('22; as pres. Rock. Fdn.). British visitors: Lord Guthrie ('99-'00) | Lord Charles Powell (annual since 1990s; still anno '17) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('10, '12, '13, '17) | Lord Inge (2003, 2004, 2006) | Lord George Robertson (2000-2002) | Sir Henry Grierson (2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (2012) | Malcolm Rifkind ('12, '13, '17) | Dr. John Chipman (regular; still in '17) | Tony Blair (2011) | David Cameron (2011) | William Hague (2011) | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace/BAE) | David Miliband ('09, member advisory board anno 2019, '22) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2009, 2010) | Bono ('17) | Boris Johnson ('17, '22) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind ('17) | Mary Robinson ('17) | Ngaire Woods ('22). German visitors: Ewald von Kleist (founder, chair 1962-1998) | Otto Wolff von Amerongen (1982) | Horst Teltschik (chair MSC 1999-2008, participant '17) | Wolfgang Ischinger (regular visitor since the 1990s, chair MSC 2008-, still anno '22) | Joe Kaeser (chair advisory council Jan. 2021-, still anno 2024; chair Siemens AG) | Gerhard Schroder (1999, 2001) | Joschka Fischer (regular since the 1990s) | Jose Joffe (regular since the 1990s; still anno '17) | Dr. Edmund Stoiber (annual since 2002; member advisory board) | Angela Merkel (regular since 2002; '17; German chancellor 2005-) | Walter Kiep (2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('10, '12-'13, '17) | Gabriela von Habsburg, a daughter of Otto (observer in 2013) | Hubertus Hoffman (2009, 2010, observer in 2013) | Karl Kaiser (2010) | Josef Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank (2012) | Max M. Warburg ('12, '17) | Helmut Schmidt (2014 50th anniversary panel) | Dr. Manfred Bischoff and Dr. Wolfgang Piller (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG) | Mathias Dopfner ('17) | Thomas Enders ('17) | Wolfgang Fink ('17; co-chair Goldman Sachs AG) | Franz Fehrenbach ('17; chair supervisory board Robert Bosch GmbH) | Sigmar Gabriel ('17) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('17) | Peter Jungen ('17) | Dr. Klaus Mangold ('17) | Paul Achleitner (advisory council anno 2019) | Ursula von der Leyen ('22) | Werner Baumann ('22; chair Bayer AG). Great many more Germans from the government, business and the military visited. Scandinavia: Carl Bildt of Sweden (regular since 2008; member advisory board) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('17) | Jens Stoltenberg ('17, '22) | Marcus Wallenberg ('17). Liechtenstein: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) French visitors: Francois Heisbourg (regular; '17) | Thierry de Montbrial (regular; still anno '17) | Pierre Lellouche ('17) | Nicolas Sarkozy (2009) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (2014 50th anniversary panel). Israeli/Jewish visitors: Gen. Yaakov Amidror (2013) | Ehud Barak (2013) | Martin Indyk (2003, 2013) | Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmith ('17) | Avigdor Liberman ('17). Arab visitors: Huge Arab presence in more recent years. Examples: King Abdullah II of Jordan (2004) | Prince Ali Bin al Hussein of Jordan 2004) | Prince Faisal bin al Hussein of Jordan (2012) | Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, a leader of the Syrian opposition against Assad (2013) | Abdah Anas ('17; leader anti-Assad opposition in Syria) | Hamid Karzai (2009-2011) | Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan (2012) | Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the foreign minister of Pakistan (2009) | Sheikh Hamad Al Thani of Qatar (2013; member advisory board) | Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia (2010, 2013; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting; member advisory board) | Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Saud Al-Kabeer of Saudi Arabia (2011, 2012, 2013) | Hikmet Sami Turk (minister of defense of Turkey) | Sultan Al Jaber ('22; as minister for industry, advanced technology, and climate, UAE). Former Soviet republics: Tedo Japaridze, a Georgian security chief (regular) | President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012) | Viktor Yushchenko, prime minister of Ukraine (2007) | Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech ambassador (regular; still anno '17) | Gabriela von Habsburg (a daughter of Otto), ambassador of Georgia to Germany | Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan since 2004 (2008) | Vitaly Klitschco ('17) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('17) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('17) | Viktor Pinchuk ('17) | Volodymyr Zelensky ('22; president Ukraine). Russian visitors: Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister 1998-2004 and Security Council secretary (regular visitor; '17) | Sergei Ivanov, the Russian minister of defense 2001-2007, deputy prime minister and chief of staff after that (regular since 2001) | Oleg Deripaska (2007, 2013) | Putin (speech in 2007) | Sergei Prikhodko (2007) | Aleksey Ostrovskiy, Duma member of the party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky (2008) | Sergei Rogov (2009) | Anatoly Antonov ('13) | German Gref (2010, 2013) | Vyacheslav Trubnikov, former head of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency (2011) | Eugene Kaspersky ('12, '17) | Dmitri Trenin (2012) | Andrei Kortunov ('17) | Viktor Vekselberg ('17). Other countries: Federica Mogherini ('16, '17, '20; member advisory council) | Zhijun Zhang, Chinese politician (2006, 2012)| Yesui Zhang, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. 2008-2010 (2007) | Wang Huiyao ('19) | Fu Ying (advisory board anno 2019) | Masahiko Kōmura, Japanese foreign minister 1998-1999 and 2007-2008 (2008) | Ban Ki-moon (2011) | Hans Binnendijk (2011) | Hans van den Broek (1999) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2004-2008) | Bert Koenders ('17) | Frans Timmermans ('17) | Marietje Schaake ('17, '18) | Armand de Decker (2004) | Herman van Rompuy (2011) | Paul Kagame ('17) | Kevin Rudd ('17) | Javier Solana ('17; advisory council anno 2019) | Jurgen Stock ('17; secretary general Interpol) | Alina Polyakova ('22). securityconference.de/ Organisation.50+M52087573ab0.0.html (accessed: Nov. 20, 2011): "November 20-21, 2011MSC Core Group Meeting, Beijing." securityconference.org/en/about-us/partners-sponsors/: "MAIN SPONSORS: Airbus ... Google ... Johnson & Johnson. Lockheed Martin. Merck. Microsoft. Raytheon. Rheinmetall Group. ... SPONSORS: ... BAE Systems. Bayer. .... Eon ... Facebook. Goldman Sachs. ... KPMG. ... SAAB. ... INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS: ... BDI: The Voice of German Industry. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. [various leading think tanks] ... DGAP ... PARTNER: Siemens Energy. KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS: McKinsey ∓ Company. ... ASSOCIATES: Allianz ... Siemens. T-Mobile..." |
1962 |
| Carl Duisberg Society (CDS International since 1987) Partnered with Atlantik-Brucke and Robert Bosch Foundation, while also cooperating with the GMF. Kissinger (speech in 1987) | Mohammed Atta (scholarship holder and tutor 1995-1997). |
1968 |
| Robert Bosch Foundation (controls 90% Robert Bosch GmbH shares) Hans Merkle | Kissinger (member international advisory board of Roberth Bosch GmbH 1980s-today) |
1969 |
| German Marshall Fund (GMF) Founding trustees: Guido Goldman (co-chair anno 1999-2012, trustee in the years after again) | Robert Ellsworth | no one else prominent. Founding hon. committee (in attendence during founding speech of Willy Brandt): David Rockefeller | C. Douglas Dillon (chair) | John McCloy | Gabriel Hauge | James Conant. 1999 trustees: Suzanne Woolsey (co-chair anno 1999, regular trustee 2002, 2006, 2008) | William Reilly | Vin Weber | Robert Zoellick. 2002: Adm. Bill Owens | Robert Wexler. 2006: David Ignatius (still anno 2018). 2009: Richard Powers (Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International) | Jim Quigley (CEO Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu). 2016: Annie Maxwell (president Skoll Global Threats Fund) | Marc Grossman | Robert Liberatore (director Chrysler). 2020: Congressman Will Hurd. More: 2st Baron Sherfield / Lord Makins ("longtime friend and adviser" upon death in 2006) | Richard Holbrooke | Rozanne Ridgway | Ronald Asmus, Jeffrey Bergner and Robert Kagan (Transatlantic fellows/associates) | Walther Kiep | Ian Lesser (executive director Transatlantic Center) | Jessica Einhorn (trustee). 2011 conference: Etienne Davignon | Paula Dobriansky | Count Alexander Lambsdorff | Bruce Jackson | Jim Kolbe | David Kramer | Pascal Lamy | Wilfried Martens | Randy Scheunemann. More: Enders Wimbush (senior director for foreign policy and civil society) | Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer (transatlantic fellow and Paris bureau chief; niece of Jaap) Federica Mogherini (fellow) | Michael Abramowitz (fellow) | Peter Chase (fellow) | Pavol Demes (director for Central and Eastern Europe) | Aaron Friedberg (expert) | Udo Ulfkotte (6-week U.S. "scholarship" in late 1993). |
1972 |
| International Journalists' Programmes (IJP) U.S. board of trustees: Richard Burt (president anno 1997; board anno 2020) | James Hoge (anno 1997) | Alexander Haig Jr. (anno 1997) | Henry Kissinger (anno 1997-2020) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (anno 1997) | Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020). German board of trustees: Mathias Dopfner (anno 2007-2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (anno 2020). Sponsors: Goldman Sachs | GlaxoSmithKline | Axel Springer | Guardian Media Group | Coco-Cola | Bertelsmann | BASF | BP | Ruhrgas | RWE | Siemens | Volkswagen | Robert Bosch | Rolls Royce | Daimler Chrysler | Deutsche Bank | Deutsche BP | Deutsche Post | Deutsche Telekom | Dresdner Bank | Vattenfall | foreign ministries of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. |
1981 |
| Bundesakademie fur Sicherheitspolitik (BAKS) / Federal Academy for Security Policy (FASP) Udo Ulfkotte (involvement encouraged bu his newspaper and security services "employers"). |
1982 |
| American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) Founding trustees: John McCloy | Donald Rumsfeld | Thomas Farmer (CIA veteran) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (later Chairmen's council). Later trustees: Lawrence Clarkson (1997-1999) | Wolfgang Ischinger | Karl Otto Pohl | Jon Huntsman | John Kornblum | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Zoellick | Susan Eisenhower (anno 2020) | James Baker III (long-time honorary trustee) | Ralph Crosby, Jr. | Richard Burt (anno 2010) | Josef Joffe (anno 2010). Source(s): aicgs.org/wp-content/ uploads/2017/04/Articles-of-Incorporation.pdf (accessed: Oct. 8, 2023): "The names of the persons who are to serve as the initial trustees ... are: Donald [R.]. Steven Muller. Thomas Farmer. Guido Goldman. Joan Manley. John [M.]. Kenneth Rush. Helmut [S.]." |
1983 |
| German-British Forum Still exists anno 2021, but no big names anymore. Management board: Lord Douglas Hurd of Westwell (chair anno 1998, 2012). Advisory board: Gottfried von Bismarck (anno 1998, 2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (anno 1998, 2012) | Lord Cobbold (anno 1998, 2009) | Josef Joffe (anno 1998) | George Mallinckrodt (anno 2012). German-British Forum Awards Jury: Karl Otto Pohl (anno 1998). Forum participants: George Soros ('06 booked) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('06 booked) | Helmut Schmidt ('08 booked) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing ('08 booked) | Dr. Theo Waigel ('08). Companies represented: Ipsos Mori (polling bureau), Hakluyt, Schroders Bank, BP-Amoco, BP, Deutsche Bank, Körber AG, KCMG, Lytton, Rhone Group, Die Welt, Robert Bosch, etc. gbf.com/gbf/people.asp (accessed: Feb. 6, 2007): "The Forum would like to thank the following partners and sponsors for their support from 1995 to date: "Barclays Bank plc. BASF plc. BMW Group. ... British Chamber of Commerce in Germany. British Council. British German Association. British Petroleum plc. ... Deminex UK Oil and Gas Ltd. Deutsche Bank. Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft. ... German Embassy, London. German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce. ... Handelsblatt. ... Herbert Quandt Stiftung. ... Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen. ... PriceWaterhouseCoopers. ... Rheinbraun AG. Rheinmetall AG. Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd. RWE AG. Siemens plc." |
1985 |
| Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management Founded by Kissinger, Hans Merkle (CEO Bosch Group) and Richard M. Cyert (president Carnegie Mellon). |
1990 |
| European Banking Congress (EBC) Steering committee: no one special. Speakers: Robin Leigh-Pemberton ('92) | George Mallinckrodt ('92) | Romano Prodi ('92, '98, '00, '02) | Hans Tietmeyer (over '93-'04) | Jean-Claude Trichet (countless times over '94-'14) | Mario Monti ('94, '99, '07, '17) | Etienne Davignon ('95) | Cees Maas ('95, '00, '08) | Lord Howe of Aberavon ('96) | Paul Volcker ('97) | Wim Duisenberg ('97-'01) | Lord Simon of Highbury ('97) | Andrew Buxton ('98) | Sir Leon Brittan ('98) | Viktor Orban ('98, '00) | Alan Greenspan ('98, '04) | Josef Ackermann ('02-'09, '11) | Axel Weber ('04-'05, '07-'10) | Angela Merkel ('06) | Christine Lagarde ('06, '19, '20) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('10) | James Wolfensohn ('11) | Adam Posen ('14, '20) | Jakob von Weizsacker ('17) | Frans Timmermans ('20). frankfurt-ebc.com/idea.html (accessed: Feb. 3, 2001): "The European Banking Congress (EBC) was first held in 1991 on the initiative of the International Bankers Forum Frankfurt (IBF). Since 1992 the Congress has been run by the big three Frankfurt banks, the Bundesbank, the city of Frankfurt and the IBF; Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank take turns in organizing the EBC; the chairman of the bank concerned is then also chairman of that year's Congress." |
1991 |
| American Academy in Berlin (AAB) Trustees: Richard Holbrooke (primary founder 1994-, trustee anno 2007) | Henry Kissinger (co-founder and founding co-chair 1994-, still anno 2011, unlisted anno 2007, 2022) | Thomas Farmer (founding co-chair 1994-, hon. co-chair anno 2011; CIA veteran born to German-American parents who fled Germany in 1933) | Richard von Weizsacker (co-founder and co-chairman 1994-, hon. co-chair anno 2011) | David Rubenstein (anno 2007-2011) | Niall Ferguson (anno 2011) | Wolfgang Marchow (anno 2011; Robert Bosch) | Christopher von Oppenheim (anno 2007-2011) | Vartan Gregorian (anno 2007-2011) | John Birkelund (anno 2007-2011) | Norman Pearlstine (anno 2007, also president, president and CEO anno 2011, trustee emeritus anno 2022) | Lawrence Lessig (anno 2011, not in 2007 or 2022) | Wolfgang Ischinger (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | C. Boyden Gray (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | Josef Joffe (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | Mathias Dopfner (anno 2011-, still anno 2022) | Joe Kaeser (anno 2022). More: David Rockefeller (personal donor $10,000-$50,000) | Richard Haass (distinguished visitor) | Philip Zelikow (fellow) | Francis Fukuyama ("distinguished visitor, class of 2016") | Anne Applebaum (fellow '06) | Julie Finley | Jeffrey Sachs ("Distinguished visitor"). Henry Kissinger Prize awards: Helmut Kohl (May 16, 2011). Major financiers: DaimlerChrysler AG, Allianz AG, General Motors-Adam Opel AG, Siemans AG, John W. Kluge Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, etc. Source(s): Fall 2007 issue, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p. 2 (trustees); Fall 2011 issue, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p.2 (trustees and award); Sep. 2022, no. 36, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p.2: "Founder: Richard C. [H.]. Founding Chairmen: Thomas L. [F.], Henry A. [K.], Richard von [W.]... Trustees: ..." |
1994 |
| Transatlantic Forum U.S. advisory board: Kenneth Dam | Richard Burt | Edward Djerejian | Richard Holbrooke | Henry Kissinger | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | John McCain III | Condoleeezza Rice. German advisory board: Hans D. Barbier | Roland Berger | Klaus von Klitzing | Hans-Ulrich Klose | Norbert Reithofer | Hermann Otto Solms | Lothar Späth | Dieter Stolte | Matthias Wissmann. |
1995 |
| Council on Public Policy (CPP), Bayreuth, Germany Trustees: Count Alexander Lambsdorff founding chair 2001-2009) | Roman Herzog (chair since 2009) | Wolfgang Ischinger (since at least May 2004) | Lee Hamilton (since at least May 2004) | John Kornblum (until 2007; worked under Henry Kissinger; director Bayer AG, Thyssen-Krupp, chair Lazard Freres Germany). Directors: Michael Zoller (founder and chair) | Sebastian Biedenkopf (son of Kurt B.) |
2001 |
| Transatlantic Strategy Group Oct. 6, 2003, C. Fred B. for PIIE.com, 'Restoring the Transatlantic Alliance': "[TSG,] created in early 2002 by the Bertelsmann Foundation, whose economic component we co-chair..." Not to be confused with the 2014-founded Transatlantic Strategy Group on the Future of U.S. Global Leadership, co-founded by RIIA, or a similarly-named group founded in 2019 by DGAP and Harvard. Board: C. Fred Bergsten (co-chair). |
2002 |
| Munich Economic Summit (MES) Past speakers: Jean-Claude Trichet ('10) | Theo Waigel ('10) | Alex Weber ('10, '13) | Jeffrey Sachs ('11) | Kurt Biedenkopf ('11, '12) | Bill McDermott ('15). |
2002 |
| Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Advisory board: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Lord Mark Malloch Brown | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2020) | Alexander Soros (anno 2020). Funding: OSF, Robert Bosch Stiftung. |
2003 |
| Atlantic Initiative (AI) Changed its name to Atlantic Community in late 2019, after its long-term blog. After that, the AI's advisory board was not listed anymore. Advisory board: Count Alexander Lambsdorff (co-founder; anno 2007, 2019) | Carl-Eduard von Bismarck (anno 2007; head of the princely House of Bismarck; son of a Belgian countess Elizabeth Lippens; MP 1985-2007) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (anno 2007) | Walter Kiep (anno 2007) | Thomas Farmer (anno 2007, until 2014, always representing the American Bankers Assoc., to which he was general counsel 1970-2002, senior counsel for international finance 2002-2004) | Horst Teltschik (anno 2007, 2019; "Präsident Boeing Deutschland" anno 2007) | Jurgen Chrobog (anno 2007; "Vorstandsvorsitzender, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt") | Mark Brzezinski (July 2007-, anno 2019) | Lord Wallace (July 2007-, anno 2019) | Dr. Charles Kupchan (anno 2007; listed as CFR representative) | Julianne Smith (CSIS representative) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (anno 2007; "Direktor, Aspen Institute Berlin" | Dr. Ronald D. Asmus and Heike MacKerron (anno 2007; representatives of the GMF) | Ruprecht Polenz (anno 2007; "Präsident Deutsch-Atlantische Gesellschaft, Berlin"). "Founding members" as listed in 2007: Count Alexander | Jan Techau (Carnegie EU and DGAP) | Lars Zimmermann ("McCloy Fellow") | representative of Alliaz, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche BP. Sources: atlantic-community.org/index.php/about/ac (accessed: Oct. 11, 2007): "Advisory Board Members of the Atlantic Initiative... Founding Members of the Atlantic Initiative..."; atlantic-community.org/about (accessed: April 23, 2013): "Advisory Board..." |
2004 |
| German-American Hall of Fame, New York Trustees: Siegfried & Roy | Louis Freeh | Donald Trump | Wolfgang Ischinger | Frederick W. Hoffman (Chrysler). Inducted: Walter Cronkite (2007) | John Kluge (2007) | Walter Chrysler (2007). |
2004 |
| American-Russian Chamber of Commerce Board: Col. Charles Cooper (president anno 1933) | William Averell Harriman (anno 1933) | J. H. Rand Jr. (anno 1933; chair Remington Rand) | Reeve Schley (anno 1933; vice president Chase National Bank) | Alfred Swayne (anno 1933; vice president GM) | Loyal Osborne (anno 1933; president Westinghouse Electric) | Frederick Small (anno 1933; president American Express Co.) | James Maguire (anno 1933; director Vacuum Oil) | Allen Wardwell (anno 1933; Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed). Dais on Nov. 24, 1933: Alfred Sloan Jr. (president GM) | S. Parker Gilbert (J. P. Morgan) | Henry Harriman (president U.S. Chamber of Commerce) | Owen Young (chair GE) | Gerard Swope (president GE) | Clark Minor (president International GE) | Charles McCain (chair Chase National Bank) | Kermit Roosevelt (president Roosevelt Steam ship Co.) | Henry Morgenthau Sr. | David Sarnoff (president RCA) | Dr. Thomas Baker (president Carnegie Inst.) | Paul Cravath | Dr. Stephen Duggan | Walter Duranty (Moscow correspondent NYT) | Charles Edison (president Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) | Jackson Elliott (ass. gen. manager AP) | Ed Loomis | A. W. Robertson (chair Westinghouse Electric) | Charles Sorensen (Ford Motor Co.) | Mary van Kleeck (Russell Sage Fdn.). Source(s): Nov. 24, 1933, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, 'Testimonial Dinner tendered to The Honorable Maxim M. Litvinoff, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics': "Introductory remarks by Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce: "Mr. Josef Stalin, a man whose name will go down in history as one of the foremost leaders of all times. While I may honestly disagree in some respects with political and social philosophy ... I wholeheartedly admire his unselfish, untiring efforts to raise the standards of living of the 160,000,000 people within the confines of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union [where] there exists natural resources far greater in value than the known natural resources of the balance of Europe. ... President Roosevelt and Commissar Litvinoff have just laid an American-Soviet foundation stone of friendship [and] have finally healed the sixteen years' breach in American-Russian relations. [This is] a vital aid in the establishment of world peace. World Peace!" ... Address by Colonel Raymond Robins: "For sixteen long years we have waited for this hour. All the peoples of the world share in the gains for international peace... I revisited Russia of the Soviets in the spring and summer of this years [and was] on the Red Square of Moscow ... in 1918... I could find nowhere anyone who knew of or said he believed in any organized resistance against the Soviet Government throughout the Russian land. ... The penal system of the Soviets has abolished all punitive elements. The whole method of detention is educational and correctional. They deal with social criminals as comrades who have been ill or unfortunate."" |
1957 |
| Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Gathering of scientists and politicians to decrease the threat of nuclear war. Bertrand Russell and Alfred Einstein (a manifesto of theirs stood at the basis of the first meeting) | Cyrus Eaton (hosted the first meeting) | Paul M. Doty (leader) | Henry Kissinger (occasional participant since at least 1967) | Robert McNamara (participant, founding trustee Pugwash Foundation in 1986)| hepard Stone (participant) | Prince Sadruddin Khan (founding trustee Pugwash Foundation). Russians: Alexander Nikitin | Sergei Oznobishchev | Georgy Arbatov (since 1969) | Yevgeny Primakov. Financiers: governments of Helmut Schmidt (Germany) and Olof Palme (Sweden). |
1957 |
| Korber Foundation's Bergedorf Round Table (BRT) / Bergedorfer Gesprachskreis Richard von Weizsacker (chair anno 2000). Participants: Pope John Paul II | Vladimir Putin | Helmut Kohl | Helmut Schmidt | Jiang Zemin ('01, first meeting in China) | Wang Chunzheng ('01; minister) | Mei Zhaoron ('01; president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs) | Gijs de Vries ('10, '19) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('10) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('10) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('10, '17) | Fiona Hill ('10) | Robert Kagan ('10) | Pauline Neville-Jones ('10) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('10) | Prince Turki al-Faisal ('17) | Richard Burt ('17) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('17) | Joschka Fischer ('19) | Jakob von Weizsacker ('19) | Carl Bildt ('19) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('19) | Kenneth Weinstein ('17, '19) | William Burns ('20) | Francois Heisbourg ('17, '20) | David Petraeus ('20) | Marietje Schaake ('20) | Elbridge Colby ('20; son of William Colby). |
1961 |
| Dartmouth Conferences Clandestine U.S.-Russia meetings. Names and dates taken from an official history. Americans: Norman Cousins (1960) | Paul M. Doty (1961-1992) | Walt Rostow (1960-1988) | David Rockefeller (1962-1988) | Harold Saunders (1981-2010; Kiss. protege from 1973 to 1981) | George Kennan (1960) | Jerome Wiesner (1960) | Gabriel Hauge (1961) | Robert R. Bowie (CIA; 1961) | Shepard Stone (1961-1964) | John Brademas (1972) | William Ruckelshaus (1972) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (1972-1976) | Richard Gardner (1976) | Vernon Jordan (1977) | Hedley Donovan (1972-1979) | Milton Eisenhower (1971) | Sen. Frank Church (1971) | Charles Yost (1971-1979) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1972-1977) | Donald Kendall (1972-1976) | Paul Warnke (1975-1976) | Barry Blechman (1976) | Rita Hauser (1977) | Stephen Solarz (1979-1989) | Sen. William Coleman Jr. (1981-1984) | Brent Scowcroft (1981-1988) | Kurt Campbell (1984-1991) | Cyrus Vance 1985-1987) | Walter Slocombe (1986) | Al Gore (1986) | Sam Nunn (1986) | Ted Warner (RAND; 1986-1992) | Ashton Carter (1987) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1988-1989) | Morton Abramowitz (1989) | Richard Holbrooke (1989) | Madeleine Albright (1989) | Richard Burt (1989) | Philip Klutznick (1994) | Robert Kaiser (Washington Post; 2000-08). Russians: Oleg Bykov (1960-1989) | Mikhail Kotov (1964-1977) | Vladimir Gantman (1972-1984) | Yuri Fedorov (1972-1992) | Georgy Arbatov (1971-1992) | Alexei Arbatov (1972-1992) | Oleg Kharkhardin (1975-1992) | Aleksandr Kislov (1975-2000) | Andrei Kokoshin (1983-2000) | Viktor Kremenyuk (1984-2000) | Alexander Medvedev (1985) | Alexander Nikitin (1986-1992) | Andrey Kortunov (1986-2000) | Sergei Karaganov (1989-2000) | Yevgeny Primakov (1971-2008) | Sergei Rogov (1984-2000) | Gennady Chufrin (1988-2008) | Air Force Major-General Boris Surikov (1988) | Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin (1992) | Victor (father) and Anton Surikov (1992) | Sergei Oznobishchev (1992) | Igor Chubais (2008; older brother of Anatoly) Sponsors: Carnegie, Ford, Hewlett, Kettering, LBJ, MacArthur, McDonnell, Meadows, Mott and Rockefeller fdns.; Open Soc. Inst. (Soros) and David R. himself. Source(s): 2010, Kettering Foundation, 'The Dartmouth Conference: The First 50 Years 1960-2010', p. 63-81 (lists all historical participants and their years), p. 82 (lists above historical donors). |
1960 |
| U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council David Rockefeller (initially blackballed, but included on the council through Henry Kissinger) | George Shultz | A. W. Clausen | Edward Kaiser | Armand Hammer | Willard Rockwell | Irving Shapiro (chair Du Pont) | Michael Forrestal | Donald Kendall | William Hewitt | David Packard (committee on science and technology 1975-1982) | Harold B. Scott | Yevgeny Primakov | Georgy Arbatov. Met with the Council on Oct. 7, 1975 on behalf of the White House: Brent Scowcroft | Helmut Sonnenfe1dt | Robert Hormats | Robert Ingersoll. USA '88 trade fair in Moscow: Mikhail Gorbachev (lengthy speech) | William Forrester (president USUTEC and trade fair organizer: "The Soviet Union is an extremely large untapped market with enormous potential..."). Companies represented at the fair: PepsiCo., Philip Morris, General Electric, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Estee Lauder, Eastman Kodak, Federal Express, E.I. Du Pont, RJR Nabisco, Caterpillar, Colgate. |
1973 |
| American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations Members: George Kennan (known founding member) | Stephen Cohen (known founding member) | Theodore Hesburgh (known founding member) | A. W. Clausen | Robert Roosa | Donald Kendall (co-chair 1980s) | George Ball | McGeorge Bundy | Robert O. Anderson | Thomas Watson Jr. | Eugene McCarthy | Hodding Carter III | Robert McNamara | Stewart Mott | Armand Hammer | Jerome Wiesner (also a science advisor). Science advisors: Sidney Drell | Richard Garwin | Marvin Goldberger | Carl Sagan. Executive committee: Joan Warburg (wife of James P. Warburg; certainly present at a 1986 meeting). |
1974-1992 |
| Task Force on International Conflict (TFIC) William D. Rogers | Harold Saunders | Yevgeny Primakov |
1980s-1990s |
| Centre for Research into Communist Economies (CRCE) Established as a project of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London, and focused on promoting Hayek and Friedman in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Hungary meeting: Friedrich von Hayek (founding honorary president) | Sir Anthony Fisher (founding trustee chair 1983-1988; died in 1988) | Ljubo Sirc (founding trustee and president) | Lord Ralph Harris (founding trustee; trustee chair since 1988; trustee until his death in 2006) | Lisl Biggs-Davison (administrative director since about 1986, invited by Harris; daughter of MI6 asset John Sir John Biggs-Davison) 1988 Hungarian conference: these men first met with Anatoly Chubais here and within a year also with Yegor Gaidar and "practically all the reformers in the Soviet Union" (edit: in the source below, Sirc indicates he met both of these men at the same 1988 Hungarian conference and formed strong ties with them). Source(s): Late Winter / Early Spring 2011, No. 40, CRCE newsletter, 'Ljubo Sirc's Russian Award' (mentions the founding names and connections made at the 1988 Hungarian conference in his speech). |
1983 |
| APCO Worldwide PEOPLE INVOLVED NOT (YET) ADDED TO THE SUPERCLASS INDEX. Partnership with Vladimir Gusinsky in INFEKS 1988- and Most Group 1988-. In 2001 APCO was involved in the creation of the Open Russia Foundation, followed by Kraus being appointed to Menatep's founding international advisory board in 2003. In 2009 APCO was hired by the widow of Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili - an old Berezovsky ally - to protect a TV station of the deceased oligarch that the Georgian government wanted to seize control Founder: Margery Kraus Senior Strategists: Richard V. Allen (anno '03, for "Trade & International Relations"; wrote the Dec. 1999 article 'New Candidate, Old Derision' for APCO Intelligence and listed as "consultant" in the article) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno ' 03, for "Business and Finance" and "Trade & International Relations") | Stephen Solarz (anno ' 03, for "Developing Markets"). International advisory board: Richard V. A. (anno '21) | Stuart E. (anno '21) | Tim Roemer (anno '21) | Jane Nelson (anno '21) | Ken Blackwell (anno '21) | Dan Glickman (anno '21) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno '21) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno '21). |
1984 |
| OSF Russia Founder: Soros. |
1987 |
| Unknown economic study committee Founder: George Soros | Russian PM Vladimir Ryzhkov. Members: heads of Gosplan, Gosnab, etc. | Romano Prodi (long-time BB veteran by that point) | Wassily Leontief. Source(s): April 13, 2000, New York Review of Books (involves a Soros book), 'Who Lost Russia'. |
1988 |
| Vidrodzhennya charity, Kyiv, Ukraine Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (founder and supervisory chair 1989-1998; long involvement in Davos) | Soros (financier). |
1989 |
| Shatalin Plan study group for a market reform of the USSR The plan calls for a radical, quick transition to a market economy for the Soviet Union within 500 days, market prices, mass privatization, integration with the world economic system, and a release of the Soviet Union's East European vassal states. The plan is proposed by the George Soros-backed Grigory Yavlinsky and further developed by Stanislav Shatalin, an economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev. To promote the plan, Soros has Yavlinsky and Shatalin fly over to the 1990 IMF/World Bank meeting. Yeltsin is fully supportive, but Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet eventually opting for a more gradual approach. |
1989 |
| Polish American Enterprise Fund Promoted free-market economics. George H. W. Bush (suggested the founding in 1990). Directors: John Birkelund (chair) | Zbigniew Brzezinski | John F. Smith Jr. (chair GM) | Lane Kirkland (president AFL-CIO) Project (2000-): Polish-American Freedom Foundation: directors: Colin Campbell (2000 only; president RBF 1987-2000) | Zbig (2000-2015) | John B. (2000-2019). |
1991 |
| U.S.-Ukraine Foundation December 1, 2011, 20th anniversary celebration, Washington, D.C.: George H. W. Bush (honorary co-chair; video greeting) | Brent Scowcroft (speaker; accepted the award on behalf of George B.). Secretaries of State Host Committee: Hon. Madeleine Albright, Hon. James Baker, Hon. Colin Powell, Hon. Condoleezza Rice. Friends of Ukraine Host Committee: Anders Aslund, Ariel Cohen. |
1991 |
| Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO (CEERN) William Colby | Edward Teller | Ira Straus | Alan Lee Williams | Gen. Geliy Batenin | Mihajlo Mihajlov. |
1992 |
| Russian-American Bankers Forum (RABF) David Rockefeller | Cyrus Vance | John Whitehead | Richard Debs | Gerald Corrigan | John Opel. |
1992 |
| Russian Privatization Center, Moscow (RPC) Effectively served as a governmental economic policy unit, set up by Yeltsin's presidential decree, over which the Russian Duma had no say. Directors: Anatoly Chubais (founder and chair) | Anders Aslund | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard HIID liaison) | Maxim Boycko (managing director Nov. 1992-July 1996; co-wrote 'Privatizing Russia' with Shleifer). Funders: USAID ($45 mln), European Union, European governments, Japan. Received additional loans from the World Bank ($59 mln) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ($43 mln). |
1992 |
| Colloquium on the Former Soviet Union for the Executive Directors of the World Bank Presenters: Henry Kissinger | George Soros | Larry Summers | Strobe Talbott | Richard Pipes | Anders Aslund | Edward Luttwak. Extra participants: Jeffrey Sachs (the only recognizable name among roughly 70 additional listed). |
Feb. 27-28, 1992 |
| International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) Aimed at Russia, Afghanistan and other CIS countries. Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | George Shultz (honorary co-chair) | Paul Volcker (honorary co-chair) | Bill Frenzel (executive chairman). |
1993 |
| U.S.-Russia Business Council Robert Strauss (chair) | Pickering (director) | Maurice Tempelsman (director) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Frank Wisner II | William Rhodes. Has organized meetings with: Boris Berezovsky | Anatoly Chubais | Sergei Stepashin | Vladimir Potanin | Boris Nemtsov | Yuri Luzhkov | Gennadi Zyuganov | Gen. Alexander Lebed | Kasyanov | Putin | Igor Ivanov |
1993 |
| Russian-American Committee on Defense Industry Conversion Co-chairs: William Perry and Andrei Kokoshin |
1994-97 (+/-) |
| American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (CUAC) Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Frank Carlucci | George Soros | Steve Forbes | Jimmy Carter (chair) |
1994 |
| European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (founder) | Margaret Thatcher | Simon Wiesenthal | Valery Giscard d'Estaing. |
1994 |
| Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, Poland Board: Artur Radziwill (one of two board members '04-'08 (vice president anno '08, when there were three; continued as "expert"); b. 1979; scion of a family of voivodes, queens, princes, grand chancellors and generals going back to the 15th century). Advisory council: Leszek Balcerowicz (chair until Jan. '01) | Anders Aslund (chair Jan. '01 and still anno '21) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno '03-'21) | Anatoly Chubais (anno '03 until '04) | Yegor Gaidar (anno '03, until his death in 2009) | Stanley Fischer (anno '04-'09) | Lord Nicholas Stern (anno '03-'09) | Georges de Menil (anno '09-'21; director Schlumberger 1970-1988). case.com.pl/strona--ID-hyo_case _sponsorzy,nlang-710.html (accessed: Jun. 29, 2003): "Sponsors: ... AIG Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne SA. Bank PEKAO SA. BRE Bank SA. ComArch SA. Commercial Union Poland Group, part of Aviva Gropu. Fortis Bank Polska SA. Ford Foundation. ING Bank [Poland]. Rabobank Polska SA. WestLB Bank Polska SA. ... Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA. The Stefan Batory Foundation. ... The European Commission. The Freedom House. [GMF]. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. ... Open Society Institute. ... UNDP ... USAID. ... Verbundnetz GAS AG. Warsaw Stock Exchange SA. ... World Bank...." |
1994 |
| Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), Kiev, Ukraine Victor Pinchuk (honorary chair) | Anders Aslund (co-chair) | Regina Yan (co-chair) | Yuriy Yekhanurov (director; Ukrainian PM and defense minister under Viktor Yushchenko). Partners include the Ford Fdn, the Eurasia Fdn, the World Bank, Soros' Open Society Inst., Greenberg's Starr Foundation and the Citicorp Foundation. |
1995 |
| U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC) Directors (all company representatives): Cargill, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Archer Daniels Midland, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Deere & Co., Marathon Oil, Shell, Procter & Gamble. Senior advisors: Anders Aslund (anno 2008) | Ariel Cohen (anno 2008). Contributors to the Action Ukraine Report newsletter of the USUBC in 2005: Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Frank Carlucci | John Hamre | Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft | Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. |
1995 |
| U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) / CRDF Global Advisory board: James Collins | Susan Eisenhower | John Holdren | David Hamburg | Thomas Pickering. Listed funders in 2002: U.S. government, Carnegie Corp. and MacArthur, Open Society (Soros) and Gates foundations. Bechtel, Ploughshares Fund, Ford Fdn. and USAID added by 2006. |
1995 |
| Project Syndicate, Prague, Czech Republic Contributors: Zbignieuw Brzezinski | Joseph Stiglitz | Richard Haass | Joseph Nye | Sergei Karaganov | James Wolfensohn | Anders Aslund | Ana de Palacio | George Soros (also a key financier) | Kofi Annan | Mikhail Gorbachev | Jeffrey Sachs | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('12-) | Martin Feldstein | James Manyika | Ngaire Woods ('13-) | Carl Bildt | Zhu Min. events.project-syndicate.org/partners (accessed: March 13, 2022): "Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn.] ... Open Society [Fdn.] ... European Commission. ... Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - New York Office. ... [WEF]..."; donations.vipulnaik.com (accessed: March 13, 2022): "Donee The Project Syndicate: ... Bill and Melinda Gates [Fdn.]: Total: 3,660,325.00 [over 2012-2016]..." |
1995 |
| American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFOCR) Directors: Tom Dine (exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Michael Rokos. Advisory board (long term): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Others on advisory board: Michael Novak | Craig Stapleton. More: Albright (speech; Czech born) | Maurice Greenberg (received award) | James Wolfensohn (received award, as World bank chief) |
1995 |
| Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) Founders: Graham Fuller (CIA) and Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) |
1995 |
| Prague Society for International Cooperation Major overlap with its partner organization The Global Panel, so names not counted double. Conference participants: F. W. de Klerk (chair '01; also honorary chair of the society anno '01-'21) | Tom Dine ('01; former exec. director AIPAC; official member anno 2022) | Gareth E. ('01) | Mark E. ('01) | Barbara McDougall ('01) | Hans van den B. ('01) | Thorvald Stoltenberg ('01). praguesociety.org/html /conference/index.htm (accessed: April 7, 2002): "Conference 2001: ... Partners: ... The Embassy of Canada ... Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Czech Airlines. Coca-Cola. DHL Worldwide Express. ... Prague Marriott. ... Mercedes-Benz. ... Prague Post. Reuters. ... Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Czech Airports Authority. KLM [Royal Dutch Airlines]. Lufthansa. Malev Hungarian Airlines." |
1997 |
| E.U.-Russia Industrialists' Roundtable Anatoly Chubais (long-time co-chair since 2000) | Gerard Mestrallet |
1997 |
| U.S.-Russia Investment Symposium (US-RIS) Set up by Harvard's Belfer Center. Overseen today by IEA by the same people running this symposium. |
1997 |
| United States-Chechen Republic Alliance (USCRA) Alvi Tsarnaev (registered at his home; brother of the father of the 2013 Boston Bombers) | Lyoma Usmanov (manager; official Chechen ambassador to the U.S. under Aslan Maskhadov 1997-2005; brought to the U.S. by Zbigniew Brzezinski). Extra: Address: 8920 Walden Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901. Incredibly, next door neighbor of this address used to be a young John Walker Lindh, the American captured as a Taliban soldier during the Afghanistan invasion. It can be argued that the propagandist Homeland miniserie is loosely based on the John Walker Lindh affair. |
1999 |
| European Stability Initiative (ESI) Focused on South-East Europe, with one of its offices in Istanbul. Gerald Knaus (lead analyst and founding chair '99 - still anno '21; ended up on the Strategic Advisory Group of the New Europe Center in Kiev anno '21) Donors: esiweb.org/donors (accessed: Dec. 6, 2021): "Current supporters: SIDA ... Stiftung Mercator. Open Society [Fdns; "major core funder"]... Past supporters: ... Mott Foundation. ... European Commission. ... Robert Bosch Stiftung. Rockefeller Brothers Fund. ... The [GMF] of the United States... [Same page explains that much of the funding is related to easing immigration from Turkey into Europe]" |
1999 |
| Balkan Action Council (BAC) Steering committee / executive committee as of Jan. 25, 1999: Morton Abramowitz | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Richard Burt | Frank Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Philip Kaiser | Max Kampelman | Lane Kirkland | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Ronald Lehman | Richard Perle | Eugene Rostow | Donald Rumsfeld | Stephen Solarz | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | William Taft IV | Elie Wiesel | Paul Wolfowitz | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. Additional signers Jan. 29 and May 13, 1999 urging Clinton to counter Milosevic (the latter also appeared as an ad in the New York Times): Bob Dole | William Kristol | Mel Levine | William Odom | Vin Weber | Caspar Weinberger | James Woolsey | Hodding Carter III | Chester Crocker | Bianca Jagger | Robert Kagan | Rabbi Michael Lerner | Rabbi David Saperstein | Norman Podhoretz. Source(s): balkanaction.org (accessed: April 29, 1999 - Oct. 1, 2000; document 1 | document 2 | document 3. |
1999 |
| American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) Against the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Co-founding committee members: Brzezinski, Alexander Haig, Max Kampelman. Committee members: John Dunlop (pre-2001) | John Brademas | Richard V. Allen | Midge Decter and husband Norman Podhoretz | Frank Gaffney | Barbara Haig | Thomas Kean | Michael Ledeen | William Kristol | Robert McFarlane | Richard Perle | Caspar Weinberger | James Woolsey | Richard Pipes | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Morton Abramowitz | Paula Dobriansky | William Taft IV | Stephen Solarz (co-chair) | Robert Kagan | Bruce Jackson | Richard Burt | William Schneider | Elliott Abrams | Joshua Muravchik | Max Kampelman | William Odom | George Weigel | Eliot Cohen | Richard Gere. Source(s): peaceinchechnya.org/about.htm (accessed: April 6, 2001) : "... founded on February 9, 2000, by the Committee's co-chairs Dr. Zbigniew [B.], General Alexander M. [H.] Jr., and Ambassador Max M. [K.]. ... The committee is housed in the Washington, DC office of Freedom House."; peaceinchechnya.org/ members.htm (accessed: April 12, 2001). |
2000 |
| Open Russia Foundation (ORF) Trustees: Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Lord Jacob Rothschild | Henry Kissinger | Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky | Dr. Arthur Hartman. More: Leonid Nevzlin (considered himself a co-founder; took over functions after Mikhail K. was arrested in 2003). Other: Ilya Ponomarev (fellow). Open Russia Club in London (Nov. 2015-): Mikhail K. | George Soros (June '16 speech). Source(s): openrussiafoundation.org/ Board_of_Trustees.asp (accessed: Dec. 3, 2003; website up mid 2003 - Dec. 2005). |
2001 |
| Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) Roger Robinson Jr. (key founder and chair). International advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Elie Wiesel | Adm. Dennis Blair | James Woolsey | Michael Novak | Robert Pfaltzgraff | H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal | Karel Schwarzenberg | Dorothy Stapleton (wife of Craig). Executive committee: Frank Gaffney | Dick D'Amato | Daniel McMichael |
2002 |
| International Economic Alliance (IEA) (set up by Harvard's Belfer Center) Graham Allison | Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | Paul Volcker (co-chair) | Tim Colton | William Perry | Maurice Greenberg (founding member) | Peter Peterson | James Baker III | Jack Kemp (co-founder) | Robert Mosbacher, Sr. (founding chair) | Robert Wussler (co-founder CNN) |
2003 |
| Yalta European Strategy (YES), Ukraine Board: Victor Pinchuk (key founder and still a board member anno 2021) | Javier Solana (2010-, anno 2014) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (chair anno 2011, 2021; president Poland 1995-2005) | Pat Cox (anno 2014, 2021) | Carl Bildt (joined between mid 2016 and mid 2017; anno 2021) | Wolfgang Ischinger (joined between mid 2016 and mid 2017; anno 2021) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2017-, anno 2021). Annual meeting participants: Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('04, '08-'10, '12-'13, '15, '18-'19) | Boris Nemtsov ('05, '06, '08) | Leonid Kuchma ('06, '08-'15, '17-'19) | Victor Yushchenko ('06) | Viktor Yanukovych ('10, '11, '12) | Michel Rocard ('05) | Stephen Solarz ('05) | Bruce Jackson ('06, '10) | Strobe Talbott ('06, '11, '15) | Anders Aslund ('06, '08-'10, '12, '14-'16, '18-'19) | Gerhard Schroder ('07, '13) | Karl Rove ('08, '16) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('08, '15, '16) | Tony Blair ('08, '11, '14, '17, '18, '19) | Richard Haass ('08, '16-'19) | Andrei Kokoshin ('09) | Shimon Peres ('09, '11, '15) | Alan Greenspan ('09) | George Soros ('09) | James Wolfensohn ('09) | Fred Bergsten ('10) | Kofi Annan ('10) | Bill Clinton ('10) | Viktor Vekselberg ('10) | Larry Summers ('10-'11, '14-'15, '18) | Vitali Klitschko ('11-'12, '14-'15, '17-'18) | Wladimir Klitschko ('11; Klitschko Brothers Foundation) | Paul Krugman ('11, '17) | Daniel Russell ('11; U.S. State Dep.) | Marietje Schaake ('11) | Richard Branson ('12, '14) | Gordon Brown ('12) | Tayyip Erdogan ('12) | Newt Gingrich ('12, '16-'17) | Walter Isaacson ('12) | Eugene Kaspersky ('12; CEO Kaspersky Lab anti-virus) | Salman Khan ('12; founder Khan Academy, the free education non-profit) | Eric Lander ('12) | Niall Ferguson ('12-'14, '16, '18-'19) | Condoleezza Rice ('12, '17-'18) | Alec Ross ('12; Sen. Hillary Clinton aide) | Simon Shuster ('12) | Muhammad Yunus ('12) | Robert Zoellick ('12-'13) | Mario Monti ('13) | Gen. David Petraeus ('13, '15) | Ronald Noble ('13; secretary general Interpol) | Gov. Bill Richardson ('13) | Pascal Lamy ('13) | Nouriel Roubini ('13) | Michio Kaku ('13) | Ronnie Chan ('14, '15) | Jimmy Wales ('14; founder Wikipedia) | Yulia Tymoshenko ('14, '18) | Joschka Fischer ('14) | Gen. Wesley Clark ('14) | Mohamed ElBaradei ('14) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('14-'16; president EU Commission 2004-14)| Michael Birnbaum ('15; Moscow correspondent Washington Post) | Neil MacFarquhar ('15; head of the Moscow office, NYT) | Tom Parfitt ('15; Moscow Correspondent, The Times) | Noah Sneider ('15; Russia and Ukraine Correspondent, The Economist) | Walker Shaun ('15; Moscow Correspondent, The Guardian) | Stephen Sackur ('15, '18, '19; Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC) | Simon Ostrovsky (U.S. correspondet Vice News) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('15) | Sir Elton John ('15; along with the grants director of his AIDS Foundation) | Jamie Wylly ('15; General Manager, National Security, Microsoft) | Tereziya Yatsenyuk ('15; Head of the Supervisory Board, Open Ukraine Foundation) | Andrew Wilson ('15; senior fellow ECFR) | Justin Wolfe ('15; business Lead Ukraine, Russia & Belarus, Monsanto Ukraine) | David Rubenstein ('16, '19) | Fareed Zakaria ('16-'18) | David Axelrod ('16; chief strategist President Obama) | Barney Frank ('16) | Leon Panetta ('16) | Mikhail Fridman ('16) | Marina Abramovic ('17) | Gen. Keith Alexander ('17) | David Cameron ('17) | Robert Gates ('16, '17) | Gen. Jack Keane ('17) | John Kerry ('17) | John Bolton ('17) | Michael McFaul ('17) | Jared Cohen ('18) | Vitalik Buterin ('18; creator Ethereum) | Jacques du Puy ('18; CEO Canal+ International) | Melinda Haring ('18; editor, UkraineAlert blog, Atlantic Counc.) | Ray Kurzweil ('18) | Jeffrey Sachs ('19) | Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor al Thani of Qatar ('19) | Nadia McConnell ('19; President, U.S.-Ukraine Fdn.). |
2004 |
| European Academy of Diplomacy Speakers and participants: Jeffrey Sachs | Mary Robinson | Radoslaw Sikorski. International honorary council (all participated): Zbigniew Brzezinski| Aleksander Kwasniewski | Richard Lugar | Mikheil Saakashvili |
2004 |
| Alliance for a New Kosovo Officers: Samuel Hoskinson (founding president; JWI) | Kempton Jenkins (founding executive director; JWI). Founding board of advisors: Carlucci | Janusz Bugajski | Fred Fielding | Gen. Robert Gard | Behgjet Pacolli (primary founder New Kosovo Alliance party in May 2006, but at least liaised with the Alliance for a New Kosovo). Also: Helmut Sonnenfeldt (joined advisory board in 2006) Southeast Europe Economic Development Foundation, founded in 2006 (dissolved): Behgjet Pacolli (founder) | Samuel Hoskinson (founding president). |
2005 |
| Orange Circle The name is a reference to the 2004-2005 pro-West Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Sep. 20, 2005 founding dinner participants: Zbigniew Brzezinski (also advisory board) | Carla Hills | Madeleine Albright | Vitali Klitschko | Viktor Yushchenko (keynote speaker) | John Turner (PM Canada) | Congressman Dana Rohrabacher | Polly Draper ("representing her brother, hi-tech investor Tim Draper"). Founding board: Nadia Diuk (senior director NED at the time) | Ihor Rakowsky ("of Citibank") | Julian Kulas ("Chicago attorney and banker") | James Temerty ("Canadian businessman"). Founding international advisory board: Zbig ('05-'08) | Carl Bildt ('05-'08) | Bruce Jackson ('05-'08) | Vaclav Havel ('05-'08) | Tim Draper ('05-'08) | Janusz Onyszkiewicz ('05-'08; "European Parliament Vice President") | Emma Bonino ('05-'08; "European Commissioner") | "Vitaly Klitschko" ('05-'08). Funding: orangecircle.org/sponsors.html (accessed: July 13, 2006): "Patron: Coca-Cola [only one, other companies listed as donors]. ... Supporters: Julian Baczynsky. Borys Chabursky. Julian Kulas. Iryna and Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj."; orangecircle.org/our_donors/ (accessed: May 11, 2010): "Patrons: [CC] ... Friends: JPMorgan ... Halliburton ... Delta [Airlines]... OUR PROJECTS: Ukraine Business Forum. EnergyUkraine Round Table." Source(s): orangecircle.org/news_050821oc-pr-postfd.html (accessed: July 13, 2006): "OC PRESS RELEASE: September 20, 2005. [The OC] held its Founding Meeting on September 15th at New York City's Rainbow Room... The dinner drew some 400 participants including representatives of the business community, former government leaders, and the Ukrainian diaspora. A wide array of eminent persons, including Dr. [Zbig and other names]... President [Y] expressed his appreciation for the support given to the Orange Circle by Founding Board members [lists names]... The new organization's international board now includes [Zbig], former Swedish Prime Minister Carl... The new privately funded non-governmental organization also has the support of the broad spectrum of "Orange Revolution" leaders, including Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko and Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, who attended the Founding Dinner, as well as Secretary of State Oleh Rybachuk and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko." The website stayed up until late 2014, but the project actually seems to have gone defunct within 2-3 years. The "Latest News" post on the website dates to November 19, 2008. The last webarchive of the international advisory board dates to 2010 and never changed from the beginning. |
2005-2008 |
| International Centre for Democratic Transition (ICDT), Hungary International board: Madeleine Albright | Gustavo Cisneros | Paula Dobriansky | Gyorgy Habsburg | Andrei Illarionov | Thomas S. Rooney | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal | George Herbert Walker III (cousin of Bush, Sr.) | John Whitehead | Governor George Pataki (honorary) | George Soros (honorary). Other: Istvan Gyarmati (president and CEO). |
2005 |
| Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Registered in Washington, D.C., "CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States." International advisory council: Hans Binnendijk (anno '07) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('11-) | Carl Bildt (early '15-, amidst a large expansion of the advisory board, and still anno '23) | Eliot Cohen (early '15-) | Anne Applebaum (early '15-) | Madeleine Albright (mid '15-) | Matthew Kaminski (anno '23; editor-in-chief Politico) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves (anno '23) | David Kramer (anno '23) | Linas Linkevicius (anno '23) | Zhanna Nemtsova (anno '23; co-founder Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom) | Gen. Stephen Twitty (anno ' 23; deputy commander US European Command 2018-2020) | Ine Eriksen Soreide (anno '23; minister of defense and foreign affairs) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (co-chair anno '23). Advisory council not (directly) listed anymore on the site anno 2022-2023, but exists as the "International Leadership Council". Staff: Alina Polyakova (president and CEO anno '22-'23) | Peter Doran (director of research). Fellows: Toomas H. I. (distinguished nonresident fellow anno '22; also a past forum visitor; foreign minister Estonia 1996-2002, president Estonia 2006-2016) CEPA's U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum (founded in 2010): Radoslaw Sikorski ('10, '15) | Marcin Zaborowski ('10; director Polish Inst. for Int. Affairs) | Ian Brzezinski ('10, May '11, Oct. '11, '12 (same panel as Elbridge), '13) | Mark Brzezinski (May '11) | Robert Kagan (May '11) | Anders Aslund (Mark '11, as senior fellow Peterson Inst.) | Kurt Volker (May '11, '12-'14, '17-'18) | Elbridge Colby ('Oct. '11 and '12 (same panel as Ian), '13, '17) | Jan Techau (Oct. '11, '13) | Zbig B. ('12) | Karel Schwarzenberg ('12, '16) | Paula Dobriansky ('14) | John Glenn ('14, as policy director USGLC) | Agnieszka Gmys-Wiktor ('14, as Assistant Program Officer, Europe, NED) | Randy Scheunemann ('14) | Anne A. ('15) | Gen. H. R. M. ('15, '16) | Robert Kaplan ('15) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('16). cepa.org/sites/default/ files/documents/CEPA Forum Agenda-1.2014.pdf: (accessed: March 17, 2015): "Strategic Partners: Visegrad Fund. Chevron. Forum Partners: Bell Helicopter. Lockheed Martin. ... Raytheon. ... Boeing. Sikorsky..." cepa.org/about/our-supporters/ (accessed: Feb 19, 2022): "Below you may find our list of contributors for the current fiscal year 2021: BAE Systems plc. ... Craig Newmark Philanthropies. ... Daimler AG. General Atomics. General Dynamics European Land Systems GmbH. Google LLC. Government of Estonia. ... Lockheed Martin ... Microsoft ... [NED] ... Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command. Smith Richardson [Fdn]. ... US State Department ... Victor Pinchuk Foundation." Source(s): cepa.org/about/index.php (accessed: Oct. 18, 2007): "CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States. ... CEPA Advisory Council: ..."; cepa.org/about/home.aspx (accessed: Dec. 29, 2011); cepa.org/contacts/Advisory Council (accessed: Aug. 13, 2015); cepa.org/program/us-central-europe-strategy-forum (accessed: May 12, 2015): "Warsaw 2010 Forum Agenda and Participants... Washington 2011... Prague 2011... Washington 2012... Washington 2013... Washington 2014..."; cepaforum.org/Speakers (accessed: Oct. 3, 2015-Oct. 27, 2018). |
2005 |
| Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), Slovenia Participants: Janez Jansa ('06, '08; '21 opening address; "populist" PM Slovenia) | Vagit Alekperov ('06) | Martti Ahtisaari ('07) | Carl Bildt ('07, '08) | Dr. Robin Niblett ('07) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('07) | Hans van der Loo ('07, '08; "Head of the European Liaison Office, Shell International") | Colin Powell ('10 keynote speaker) | Richard Boucher ('11) | Fu Ying ('11) | Peter Jungen ('11) | Danilo Turk ('11, '12, '15) | Hashim Thaci ('12) | Lionel Barber ('15) | Federica Mogherini ('17) | Tanja Fajon ('18; brought an European Parliament group to Slovenia in '21 under MEP Sophie In 't Veld to investigate "rule of law and media freedom", at which point PM Jansa claimed they were Soros puppets) | Jeffrey Sachs ('19) | Viktor Orban ('21; "populist" PM Hungary). Strategic Partners: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Toyota. Institutional Partners: BMW Fdn., RIIA, DGAP, ECFR. Source(s): bledstrategicforum.org (accessed: 2006-, etc.). Bled's Centre for European Perspective (founded in 2004): Advisory board: Zbigniew Brzezinski (anno '06-'17) | Javier Solana (anno '06-'22) | Giulio Amato (anno '06-'22) | Ban Ki-moon (anno '06-'22) | Kristiina Ojuland (anno '06-'22). Source(s): cep.si/view/3/O-CENTRU.html (accessed: Jan. 19, 2007); cep.si/about-us/organisation (accessed: May 6, 2017). |
2006 |
| Kyiv Security Forum Participants West: Karel Schwarzenberg ('12, '17-'18) | Ariel Cohen ('13, '17) | Carl Bildt ('14) | David Kramer ('14, '16, 19; McC. Inst.) | Robin Niblett ('15) | Paula Dobriansky ('15-'17) | Anders Aslund ('15) | Michael Carpenter ('16; "Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia") | Malcolm Rifkind ('16, '18) | Kurt Volker ('19; McC. Inst.) | Francis Fukuyama ('20). Participants Eastern Europe: Petro Poroshenko (regulary 2007-2020) | Linas Linkevicius ('12, '20) | Yulia Tymoshenko ('14; Ukraine PM 2005, 2007-2010). Funding: ksf.openukraine.org/en/ksf/about (accessed: April 27, 2023): "The Kyiv Security Forum was established by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation in 2007." ksf.openukraine.org/en/ksf /2020/speakers (accessed: April 27, 2023): "The Black Sea Trust ... Friedich Ebert Stiftung ... Victor Pinchuk Foundation ... Atl. Council: Eurasia Center ... Chath. House. NATO Information and Documantation Center." Source(s): ksf.openukraine.org/en (accessed: April 27, 2023): Has all visitors and agendas online from the 2009-2021 annual meetings, except for 2011. |
2007 |
| Commission on U.S. Policy toward Russia (Belfer Center/CFTNI-sponsored) Members not on the boards of the two groups that sponsored this commission: Gary Hart (co-chair), Chuck Hagel (co-chair), Thomas Pickering, Robert McFarlane, Susan Eisenhower, Lee Hamilton, Dov Zakheim. |
2009 |
| Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) Tied to Freedom House. Board: Pavel Khodorkovsky (founding president 2010-; son of Mikhail). Speakers: Boris Nemtsov (June 11, 2013 at Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by IMR and FPI; activist politician murdered in 2015, whose daughter, Zhanna Nemtsova, continued with activism). Source(s): imrussia.org/en/people (accessed: April 3, 2013 a.o.): "Pavel Khodorkovsky is the president of the Institute of Modern Russia, an organization he founded to continue the work his father Mikhail Khodorkovsky began through the Open Russia Foundation." |
2009 |
| Dialog Europe-Russia (Advisory) Board: Pyotr Aven (anno '21) | Anatoly Chubais (anno '17-'21) | Oleg Deripaska (anno '17-'21) | Wolfgang Ischinger (anno '17-'21) | Lord George Weidenfeld (until his death in 2016) | Franco Frattini (anno '17-'21; former minister Italy '02-'04, '08-'11; VP European Comm. '04-'08) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno '17-'21; president Poland 1995-2005)| Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (anno '21) | Dr. Wolfgang Schussel (anno '17-'21; chancellor Austria 2000-2007) | Matti Vanhanen (anno '21; PM Finland 2003-2010). More: Yevgeny Primakov (lecture '11) | Janos Martonyi (part of an adv. board meeting in 2017; foreign affairs minister of Hungary 1998-2002, 2010-2014). Source(s): dialog-europe-russia.org/board/ (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021); etc. |
2011 |
| Burisma Holdings Ltd., Kyiv, Ukraine A company founded in 2002. It was owned by Ukrainian oligarch and 2010-2014 politician (in a pro-Russian government) Nikolai Zlochevskyi and his fellow oligarch-politician partner Mykola Lisin. However, in 2011, the same year Lisin died when he crashed his Lamborghini Diablo at 270kmh into a gas station (yes, really), ownership was shifted about. Ownership went to Brociti Investments Limited, which still was controlled by Zlochevskyi. However, the offices of Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC were moved to 10a Rylyeyeva Street, Kyiv, the same address as the company Ukrnaftoburinnya, the exploiter of Ukraine's largest gas field secretly owned by notorious gangster oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a key financier of pro-West presidential candidates and Nazi-esque Ukrainian militias fighting Russian independence.**** In 2011-2012 Ukrnaftoburinnya CEO Oleh Kanivets eventually confirmed Ihor was the secret owner of Ukrnaftoburinnya, Burisma, Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC.[1] Since 2014, Nikolai Zlochevskyi has been continually on the run for "theft of government funds on an especially large scale". In 2014 Deutsche Bank flagged transactions totaling $24 million from his companies registered in Cyprus to Kolomoyskyi's PrivatBank, accused of laundering $5.5 billion. Management board: Leonid Petukhov (first CEO 2013-; Harvard and McKinsey background) | Denis Rudev (CFO '13-; Morgan Stanley London and McKinsey Moscow background) | Nikolay Zlochevskyi / Nikolai Zlochevsky / Mykola Zlochevsky (president anno '17, but not visible on the Burisma site in 2014-2016). Board: Alan Apter (first chair May 2013-; Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch veteran) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (Jan. '14-, but only listed on website from Jun., as the 4th director for the next few years) | Devon Archer (April '14-'18; senior adviser 2004 Kerry presidential campaign) | Hunter Biden (April '14 - April '19) | Cofer Black (Jan. 2017-; notorious CIA anti-terrorism chief at the time of 9/11). Source(s): burisma.com (accessed: July 26, 2013; translated): "Founded in 2006 [the front page of 2014 reads: "Since 2002..."]... Among the main Burisma projects currently being implemented are investments in ... Ukrainian oil and gas condensate fields developed by PARI LLC and Energy Service Company ESKO-PIVNICH LLC. ... About company: PARI LLC. Energy service company "ESCO-PIVNICH"."; burisma.com/en/ (accessed: Sep. 3, 2016; shows the 4 directors, plus moments they joined); Feb. 22, 2017, Huff Post, 'Former CIA Director Joins Burisma, and It Is Good News'. **** Ihor Kolomoyskyi:
As "Slidstvo.Info" soon discovered... "You're wasting your time waiting for them to answer".- told us the head of a department at the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources in a private conversation- "As soon as Stavytsky was appointed Minister of Environment and Natural Resources [April - Dec. 2012, under President Yanukovych], we were ordered to conceal all information on reserves and owners of gas deposits as much as possible. Moreover, even if you get true information officially, you actually cannot use it [read: "It's useless"]. Because totally different persons and companies are really behind the official owner. For example, Oleksandr Yanukovych, the President's son doesn't get licenses for his company directly, but through the Zasyadko mine." ..." The tastiest and largest morsels (gas fields) were obtained not by the president’s son, but by a more experienced businessman – Ihor Kolomoisky. ... Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC ... belonged to Mykola Zlochevsky and his deceased partner [who died in a traffic accident in 2011], Mykola Lisin some time ago. They controlled them through a Cypriot company - Burisma Holdings Limited. The website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission still mentions it. But, Burisma changed owners last year [in 2011]: ... the company was taken over by a Cypriot off-shore enterprise called Brociti Investments Ltd. Pari [LLC] and Esko-Pivnich [LLC] also changed their address: they moved from Kateryny Bilokur Street to 10a Rylyeyeva Street in Kyiv. A third company was already waiting for them in the same building - the above-mentioned Ukrnaftoburinnya. If these three companies were brought together under one roof, it’s logical to assume that they were all owned by one person. At least "Slidstvo.Info" managed to find out the name of the owner of Ukrnaftoburinnya. According to the SMIDA state system, 90% of Ukrnaftoburinnya [controls the largest gas field in Ukraine] is owned by a Cypriot company, Deripon Commercial Ltd. ... The end owner of Deripon Commercial Ltd. is a company based in the British Virgin Islands - Burrad Financial Corp. [Shows a document of Burrad owning Deripon, with "Last Date of Changes" dating to "29/12/2009"] This company has often been involved in various financial schemes of the Privat Group and especially with Ihor Kolomoisky. ... The owners of Ukrnaftoburinnya, Pari, and Esko-Pivnich were finally confirmed through first-hand sources. Oleh Kanivets worked as CEO of Ukrnaftoburinnya for two years. He confirmed who actually controlled the above-mentioned companies to "Slidstvo.Info". "- The Privat Group is the immediate owner."" |
2002/2011 |
| Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, New York Named for the last president of Czechoslovakia 1989-1992 and president Czech Rep. 1993-2003. Board: Madeleine Albright (co-chair anno '14-'20) | Laura Bush (co-chair anno '14-'20) | Vartan Gergorian (anno '14) | Tom Dine (anno '14-'20; past exec. director AIPAC) | Carl Gershman (anno '14-'20) | William Luers (anno '14-'20). Havel Conversations: Bill Clinton | Henry Kissinger (also a listed as a financial contributor / "sponsor" for '20). |
2012 |
| Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, Belgrade, Serbia Vuk Jeremic (founding president 2013-2020s; involved in the WEF). Advisory board: Jeffrey Sachs (founding 2013-2020s; part of the founding press conference) | Shaukat Aziz (founding 2013-2020s) | Sheikh Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah of Kuwait (founding 2013-2020s) | Li Wei (founding 2013-2020s) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno '20). Speakers: Richard Haass ('18) | Kevin Rudd ('18) | Ian Bremmer ('18, '20) | Sergei Karaganov ('20) | Niall Ferguson ('20). |
2013 |
| Warsaw Security Forum, Poland A project of the GMF. International advisory council: David Petraeus (anno '22) | Linas Linkevicius (anno '22; foreign minister Lithuania 2012-2020) | Norbert Rottgen (anno '22; chair Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee) | Baroness Catherine Ashton (anno '22; EU's 1st High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 2009-2014; headed Iran nuclear negotiations, etc.). Speakers: Garry Kasparov ('14, '15) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('14, '18) | Richard Lugar ('14, '15) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('15) | Stephen Walt ('15; wrote a 2006 anti-Israel Lobby book) | Marcin Zaborowski ('15; director Polish Inst. of Int. Affairs) | Ilya Ponomarev ('15, '16, '18; YUKOS employee; Open Russia Fdn.; Russia opposition leader; "only member of the State Duma to vote against Russia’s annexation of Crimea...") | Jose Manuel Barroso ('16) | Carl Bildt ('16) | Vaira Vike-Freiberga ('16, '17; PM Latvia 1999-2007) | Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer ('16; daughter of Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; director GMF Paris Office) | Gen. Philip Breedlove ('16, 21; SACEUR of NATO 2013-2016) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves ('16; president Estonia 2006-2016) | Gen. James L. Jones ('16) | Tony Ogilvy ('16; "Sales Executive | Gripen, Sweden") | Anders Aslund ('17) | Gilles de Kerchove ('17) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('17) | Christopher Walker ('17; VP NED) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon ('17-'18) | Ian Brzezinski ('18-'19; son of Zbig) | Andrius Kubilius ('18; PM 2008-2012) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('18) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('19) | Gen. H.R. McMaster ('21) | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ('21; wife of 2020 Belarussan presidential candidate Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was arrested for it; herself an activist candidate as well). warsawsecurityforum.org/partners/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "WSF 2022 Co-Organizers: ... GMF ... Strategic Partners: NATO ... Guest Country: Germany. Guest Country Partners Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Warsaw. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. ... Institutional Partners: The Black Sea Trust. ... Open Society [Fdns.] Visegrad Fund. NED. ... General Partners: Northrop Grumman. Lockheed Martin. Raytheon." Source(s): warsawsecurityforum.org/wsf-2014-archive/wsf-2014-speakers/ (2014-2019 same urls as of March 1, 2022). |
2014 |
| Free Russia Foundation Headquartered in Washington, DC with regional officies in Kyiv, Ukraine; Tbilisi, Georgia; Prague, the Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany. Board: Alina Polyakova (anno .'22) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves (anno '22; foreign minister Estonia 1996-2002, president Estonia 2006-2016). |
2015 |
| International Advisory Group, Ukraine Sen. John McCain | Mikheil Saakashvili | Elmar Brok | Carl Bildt | Mikulas Dzurinda | Andrius Kubilius |
2015 |
| American Committee for East–West Accord Continuation of the old American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations. Members: Stephen Cohen (primary founder and founding member ACUSSR) | William vanden Heuvel | Bill Bradley | Chuck Hagel | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Nov. 2015 |
| Babi Year / Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Shows the Ukrainian Klitschko boxing brothers mixed in with top Jewish Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs and top superclass players. See the Zionist establishment section for details. |
2016 |
| Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, Armenia Selection committee: Vartan Gregorian (d. '21; important founder) | Paul Polman (anno '21) | Mary Robinson (anno '21) | Gareth Evans (full member anno '16; hon. member anno '21) | Elie Wiesel (first co-chair; d. 2016)| George Clooney (co-chair anno '16; hon. co-chair anno '21) | John Prendergast (anno '21) | Ernesto Zedillo (anno '21) | Bernard Kouchner (anno '21). Source(s): auroraprize.com/en/ prize/2021/selection_committee (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021). |
2016 |
| New Europe Center, Kyiv, Ukraine Outgrowth of the Institute for World Policy. Its experts are regularly cited by newspapers over the West's conflict with Russia. Strategic Advisory Group: Carl Bildt (anno '21) | James Sherr (anno '21; professor Oxford; anno '21 a former head of the Russia and Eurasia programme at RIIA) | Roman Shpek (anno '21; Ukraine's ambassador to the EU 2000-2008; anno '21 a "senior advisor to PJSC "Alfa-Bank" [of Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman] and a member of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine") | Adrian Karatnycky (anno '21; president and exec. dir. Freedom H. 1993-2004; senior fellow Atl. Council anno '21) | Dr. Andri Veselovsky (anno '21; Ukrainian diplomat) | Gerald Knaus (long-time founding chair of the European Stability Ini., similarly OSF-funded). Donors: 2017 annual report, p. 32: "Our Donors in 2017: USAID ... The Black Sea Trust [of the GMF] ... Embassy of Latvia in Ukraine..." 2018 annual report, p. 43: "Donors: USAID ... Open Society [Fdns] ... Black Sea Trust ... Carnegie Europe..." |
Nov. 2015 |
Latin American relations
| Club de la Union, Chile Elite club in Santiagio. Financially supported Pinochet in 1999. |
1864 |
| First International Conference of American States James G. Blaine (U.S. sec. of state who came up with the idea) | Andrew Carnegie (asked by U.S. president Benjamin Harrison to become a U.S. representative). |
Oct. 1889-Apr. 1890 |
| Pan American Union Formed to promote cooperation between the U.S. and Latin American countries. Cordell Hull (chair anno 1936; also sitting secretary of state). |
1890 |
| The International Bureau of the American Republics / Organization of American States April 27, 1910, WaPo: "The President, the Secretary of State ... Cardinal Gibbons, Senator Elihu Root, Bishop Harding, and Andrew Carnegie, whose money built the bureau's new home, paid high tribute to Director Barrett..." |
1891 (est.) |
| US Pan American Committee Elihu Root (founder as sec. of state) | Andrew Carnegie (vice chair anno 1909) | Philander Knox (hon. president anno 1909 as the new sec. of state). |
1908 |
| School of the Americas Known under this name from 1963 to 2001. From 2001 known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Financed by the State Department, this is not an NGO. However, it plays an important role in covert Latin American politicans, with a decent amount of individuals involved in death squads and CIA coups and drug trafficking having trained at the School of the Americas. Students/graduates: Gen. Hugo Banzer (president Bolivia 1971-1978, 1997-2001) | Gen. Efrain Rios Montt (de facto president Guatemala 1982-1983;) | Gen. Manuel Noriega (de facto ruler of Panama 1983-1989) | Gen. Ruben Darío Paredes (right-wing dictator of Panama 1982-1983; sons became involved in Medellin Cartel drug trafficking) | Roberto d'Aubuisson ('76; founder El Salvador's ARENA Party in 1981 and Contra death squad leader who was an ASC liaison and WGF patron) | Enrique Bermudez Varela | Otto Perez Molina (head of Guatemala's army intelligence unit G-2; head presidential staff of President Ramiro de Leon in 1994; founder and candidate of Guatemale's Partido Patriota (PP) anno 2009) | Col. Byron Lima Estrada (part of Guatemala's G-2 death squad in the 1980s; later member of Guatemala's Cofradia who, along with his son, murdered Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi in 1998, two days after his commission released a human rights report about military and big business-backed death squads). |
1963 |
| Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba (CCFC) Adm. Arleigh Burke | Claire Boothe Luce | Nicholas Duke Biddle | Paul D. Bethell (CIA) | John Fisher | Leo Cherne | Edward Teller | Hans Morgenthau | Spruille Braden |
1963 |
| Council of the Americas / Americas Society These two societies operate as one these days. Throughout the year they bring together big business and the leadership of countries all over Latin America. NAFTA and CAFTA supporter and early CIA history. Business Group for Latin America (founded in 1963; became the Council of the Americas in 1965): David Rockefeller (main founder and chair on behalf of JFK to fight Cuba and communism in Latin America) | Harold Geneen (member; chair and CEO ITT; tied to Chilean coup) | Donald Kendall (member; chair of TC company PepsiCo) | Agustín Edwards (principal CIA and Business Group contact in Chile, where he owned the anti-Allende El Mercurio newspaper; close friend of Kendall) | Jay Parkinson (chair Anaconda Copper) | Enno Hobbing (CIA officer and Business Group liaison, who eventually became principal operations officer of the COA). Americas Society (founded in 1965): David Rockefeller (separately founded this group; hon. chair) | John Negroponte (chair) | William Rhodes (chair) | Conrad Black | Sol Linowitz | Gustavo Cisneros | Steve Forbes | Andre Desmarais | Thomas McLarty III | Robert Mosbacher, Jr. | Rita Hauser | David Rockefeller Jr. | Charles Barber (director, treasurer 1982-1998) Present at the 39th Washington Conference on the Americas of 2009: Hillary Clinton | Larry Summers | Jim Steinberg. Annual Spring Party attendants: Paul Desmarais | Peter Munk (awarded) | Brian Mulroney | Princess Firyal of Jordan | William Luers | Paul Volcker | William Hewitt | James Wolfensohn | Peter Peterson. More: Michael Chertoff (speaker). Source(s): Aug. 7, 1981, New York Times, 'David [R.] Announces Creation of Americas Society': "Mr. Rockefeller, who will be the chairman of the new group, said it would coordinate the activities of the Center for Inter-American Relations and the Council of the Americas, two bodies that he also helped found." |
1963 |
| Center for Inter American Relations (CIAR) Hon. trustees: Hubert Humphrey | Nelson Rockefeller | Jacob Javits | Robert Kennedy | Sol Linowitz | Marquess de Cuevas. Officers: David Rockefeller (chair anno 1967; also director) | William D. Rogers (president anno 1967; also director). Directors: Edgar Kaiser | George Meany | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Source(s): rbf.org/about/our-history/timeline/center-inter-american-relations (accessed: Aug. 10, 2023): "Established in 1965 by founding RBF trustee David [R.]. In 1985, CIAR was absorbed into the Americas Society/Council on the Americas, which continues to promote similar objectives."; July 31, 1977, Washington Post, 'Inter-American Relations Center Torn by Aide's Trip to Chile': "The Rockefeller-financed center for inter-American relations..." |
1965-1985 |
| Chilean Coup of 1973 David Rockefeller. |
1973 |
| Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaty, Inc. Ran a November 1, 1977 ad in the New York Times, with the following prominent names as supporters of the Panama Canal Treaty. Members/signers: Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | George Shultz | Robert O. Anderson | George Ball | Edgar Bronfman | Eugene Black | Shirley Temple Black | William McCormick Blair Jr. | Henry Catto Jr. | Gardner Cowles | Richard Debs | C. Douglas Dillon | Max M. Fisher | Peter Flanagan | Michael Forrestal | Henry Fowler | Armand Hammer | Averell Harriman | Henry Cabot Lodge | John McCloy | George Meany | Peter Peterson | Robert Roosa | FDR Jr. | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Walt Whitman Rostow | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Irving Shapiro | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Lew Wasserman. Source(s): Jan. 17-18, 1978, Serial No. 95-32, U.S. Congress: House, Hearing before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 'Power of Congress to Dispose of U.S. Property', pp. 32-33. Copy from the Jan. 4, 1978, Congressional Record of a Dec. 15, 1977 presentation of Congressman George Hanson from Idaho, 'Carter's Canal Treaties - A Bail Out for the Big Banks': "In one advertisement for a $115 million loan to Panama, for example, the First National City Bank is listed as the agent for the loan. Other participating banks included the Bank of America, Banker's Trust, Chase Manhattan ... and of course Sol [L.]'s Marine Midland Bank [of which he was a director until March 1977]. Mr. Speaker, one might well ask, "Why did these New York banks pour all that money into Torrijos' hands?" It seems very clear that the loans were a trade off for Torrijos' decision--on the advice of leading New York banks--to reorganize Panama's banking laws in July 1970. This reorganization provided a favorable haven, free of taxes and onerous regulations, for foreign banks in Panama, much as Panama has long provided a flag of convenience for world shipping. Since the 1970 legal change, total banking asets in Panama ... have expanded enormously from a few banks with a few million dollars to 73 international banks with total assets of $8.6 billion, conducting transactions throughout the world. Prominent among the U.S. banks expanding rapidly in Panama since the 1970 legislation are the First National City Bank, the Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, and the Marine Midland Bank. ... The U.S. banks received a haven for their operations and the Torrijos regime was able to acquire great sources of funds as well as solidify its political power in Panama. But now the taxpayer is being subtly asked to bail out the banks... Mr. Speaker, [now we have] a group called the Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaty, Inc., which has been working with President [C.] ... to obtain ratification of the proposed treaties in the U.S. Senate and unconstitutionally bypass consideration by the House of Rep- resentatives ..." |
1977 |
| Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) Operated under the auspices of the Aspen Inst. under 1993, when it became fully independent. Participants in 1990: Sol Linowitz (founding chair) | Bruce Babbitt | McGeorge Bundy | Jimmy Carter | Warren Christopher | Henry Cisneros | Dianne Feinstein | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Hanna Holborn Gray | David Hamburg | Theodore Hesburgh | Robert McNamara | Edmund Muskie | Cyrus Vance. Members in November 1999 (some of them directors): Jimmy C. | A. W. Clausen | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Gen. John Galvin | David H. | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills (co-vice chair anno 2002; still a director in '20) | Sol L. (founding chair) | Thomas McLarty III (still in '20) | William Reilly | Elliot Richardson | Rozanne Ridgway | Brent Scowcroft | Cyrus V. | Robert Zoellick | Bruce B. ("on leave") | Lula da Silva (future Brazilian president) | Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru; sec.-gen. UN 1982-1991). More: David de Ferranti (member anno 2003) | Bill Richardson (member anno 2003) | Larry Summers (member anno 2003) | Martin Torrijos (director anno 2011; president Panama 2004-2009; son of Omar Torrijos, who died in a plane crash) | Francis Fukuyama (member anno 2011) | Enrique V. Iglesias (member anno 2011) | Sen. Bob Graham (member anno 2011) | Richard Haass (member anno 2011) | Jim Kolbe (member anno 2002, director anno 2011). Remaining: Peter Hakim (president). thedialogue.org/ (accessed: Jan. 17, 1999): "Funders: The Inter-American Dialogue is supported by private foundations, corporations, governments, international organizations, and individuals. Primary contributors in 1998 and 1999 include: Arca ... Chase Manhattan ... Ford ... Hewlett ... Kellogg ... MacArthur ... Andrew W. Mellon [and] Whitehead [foundations] ... U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]. U.S. Institute of Peace ... World Bank ... Canadian International Development Agency. ... American Airlines. American International Group [AIG]. ... Bank [of] America ... BP America ... Cisneros Group of Companies ... General Electric ... Inter-American Development Bank ... Johnson & Johnson ... Pfizer ... Texaco. Time-Warner, Inc." |
1983 |
| National Bipartisan Commission on Central America Argued in favor of more anti-communist aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua. Members: Henry Kissinger (chair) | Nicholas Brady | Henry Cisneros | Robert Strauss | Lane Kirkland (president AFL-CIO). More: Senior councellors: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen | Daniel Inouye | Jack Kemp | Jeane Kirkpatrick (also: "President's Representative to the Commission.") | Winston Lord | William Rogers. |
1983-1984 |
| Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA) NED-supported front group to support the Nicaraguan Contras. National Council: Theodore Hesburgh | Samuel Huntington | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Maurice Sonnenberg | Ben Wattenberg | Elie Wiesel (anno 1986). |
mid 1980s |
| David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Trustees: David R. (anno 2001) | Gustavo Cisneros (anno 2001) | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (anno 2001) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (anno 2001) | Enrique V. Iglesias (anno 2001) | Andronico Luksic (anno 2001). Governing committees: Jeffrey Sachs (policy committee anno 2001). "Corporate Partners" for 2000-2001: Anheuser-Busch, Delta Airlines, Exxon, JPMorgan Chase, UBS Warburg, International Bank of Miami, Time Warner, Alfa Corporativo (Mexico), Banco Comerical (Uruguay), Banco Chile, El Mercurio (Chile), Venevision International (venezuela), Taca International Airlines (El Salvador). More funders: Andrew W. Mellon Fdn. (1996-), Hewlett Fdn. (1997-), MacArthur Fdn. (1998-). |
1992 |
| Group of 50 / G50 A group of Latin America businessmen, founded by Carnegie End. fellow Moises Naim, still chairman in the 2020s. Since 2008 the group has been operating as an independent NGO. The names of the businessmen are kept hidden on the site (g50.org), with the group apparently only having a site since 2014. Listed past speakers: George Soros | Madeleine Albright | David Rubenstein | Bill Clinton | Thomas Friedman | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Salman Khan | Condoleezza Rice | Carlos Slim | Javier Solana | Martha Stewart | Larry Summers | Princess Mabel van Oranje | C. Fred Bergsten | Jeffrey Sachs | Joseph Stiglitz | Klaus Schwab | Richard Haass | Gen. Michael Hayden | Enrique V. Iglesias | Barry McCaffrey | John Negroponte | King Felipe VI of Spain | Adm. James Stavridis | Strobe Talbott | Paul Wolfowitz | Ernesto Zedillo | Robert Zoellick | Gary Cohn | Carla Hills | Jules Kroll (chair and CEO Kroll Inc.) | Ken Lay | Thomas Schmidheiny | Alex Weber | Byron Wien | James Woolsey | Elliott Abrams | Michael Armacost | Anders Aslund | Ian Bremmer | Paul Collier | Norman Ornstein | Brent Scowcroft | James Wolfensohn | Jose Maria Aznar | Bill Bradley | Nicholas Brady | Henry Crumpton | David Frum | Dick Gephardt | Graham Allison | Nicholas Burns | Ann Florini | Francis Fukuyama | John Holdren | Joseph Nye | Stephen Walt | Dennis Hastert | Gordon Conway (president Rock. Fdn.) | Darren Walker (Program director Rock. Fdn. 2002-2006; president Ford Fdn. 2013-) | Fareed Zakaria | Joi Ito. Meetings: New York City (2013) | Silicon Valley (2014). |
1993 |
| U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council (USCTEC) Board of directors: Kept secret. Board of advisors: Kept secret. "Member:" Dwayne Andreas. Speakers: Roberto Robaina (Cuba's foreign affairs minister; brought along 17 officials) | Jose Luis Rodriguez (Cuba's minister of economy and planning) | other Cuban officials. Funders: Chrysler, Ford, GM, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Archer Daniels Midland, Motorola, AIG, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, 3M, Chiquita, Enron, Cable & Wireless plc, Barclays Capital, Burmah Castrol Ltd., Credit Lyonnais. Originally founded by 45 companies looking to invest in Cuba. All over Fidel Castro in 1995 during his United Nations speech. |
1994 |
| Castro meetings at the CFR and at 5th Avenue, New York This took place while Castro was allowed to visit the United Nations headquarters in New York for a speech. CFR meeting (and the days around, due to unclear reporting): Fidel Castro | David Rockefeller (photographed with Castro around or at the meeting, and again in 2001) | Robert McNamara (reportedly, so not counted here; met Castro in Jan. 1992 in Havana, where he was told by the dictator Cuba already possessed 162 nuclear warheads at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and that he, Castro, had already recommended to the USSR that these nukes would be used in case of a full-scale U.S. invasion; met Castro again in October 2002) | Dwayne Andreas (known to have had dinner with Castro on Saturday night 21st-22nd; and reportedly sat next to Castro at the CFR meeting). Fifth Avenue meeting: Mortimer Zuckerman (Castro was his guest of honor) | Henry Kravis | Laurence Tisch | Tina Brown and husband Harold Evans (head of Random House) | Diane Sawyer | Mike Wallace | Peter Jennings | Barbara Walters. |
Oct. 22, 1995 |
| Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba / US-Cuba Trade Association Advisiry council: David Rockefeller (anno 1999) | Paul Volcker (anno 1999) | John Whitehead (anno 1999) | Carla Hills (anno 1999) | James Schlesinger (anno 1999) | Frank Carlucci (anno 1999) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (anno 1999) | Elliot Richardson (anno 1999) | A. W. Clausen (anno 1999) | Dwayne Andreas (anno 1999) | Lloyd Bentsen Jr. (anno 1999) | Kurt Schmoke (anno 1999) | Oliver Stone (anno 1999; producer of the pro-conspiracy 'JFK' movie and anti-conspiracy movie 'World Trade Center'; strong "liberal" bias) | Francis Ford Coppola (anno 1999) | William D. Rogers (chair anno 2005). |
1998 |
| BrazilFoundation / Brazil Foundation (BF) Headquartered in the United States, members of the BrazilFoundation's board include Brazilian representatives of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, UBS, HSBC, Citigroup, Boeing, Bear Stearns and Coudert Brothers. The Ford Fdn. provided the BF with $350,000 in 2007. People: Leona Forman, (founder; UN veteran) | Rebecca Tavares (president and CEO anno 2019; history at the MacArthur, Levi Strauss and Ford Fdn.) | Marielle Franco (joined the BF's "project monitoring and evaluation team" as an intern in 2007; black feminist LGBTQ activist and socialist politician who was assassinated in 2018 by right-wing police officers). |
2000 |
| Cuba Policy Foundation (CPF) Set up to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. William D. Rogers (founding chair) | Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal (founding president) | Manny Hidalgo (policy director; founding executive director of the Miami-based Cubans and Americans for Educational Exchange) | Steven Goldstein (founding communications director; founding chair Attention America). Funding: Arca Fdn. (seed). Entire board resigned after purgings and executions of dissidents by Fidel Castro in 2003. |
2001-2003 |
| Kojunsha Club A private club that served as the unofficial headquarter's of Japan's Seiyukai Party, with the Mitsui interests being the most heavily represented. Members: . Source(s): April 14, 1934, China Weekly Review. |
1878 |
| Tokyo Club Members: Inoue Kaoru (key founder; foreign affairs minister 1885-1887; tied to the Mitsui zaibatsu) | Manzo Kushida ("manager"; president Mitsubishi Bank; ICC vice president anno 1938; d. 1919). Source(s): tokyoclub.or.jp/en/history.html (accessed in Google cache on Oct. 14, 2022): "In 1884, in line with Japan’s newly introduced Westernisation policy and in accordance with The Meiji Emperor's proposal, The Tokyo Club was established by then Minister of Foreign Affairs... Over the Club's long history, many members of the Japanese Imperial family have fulfilled the role of Patron, with the position currently held by His Imperial Highness Prince Masahito Hitachi. The Club has a total membership of 600, comprising both Japanese and international members." |
1884 |
| Japan Society Early U.S. board and regular members: John Huston Finley (founding president 1907-, director anno 1910) | Lindsay Russell (founding member, president anno 1910, chair anno 1920) | Jacob Schiff (director anno 1910) | Mortimer Schiff (member anno 1910) | Isaac Seligman (member anno 1910) | Otto Kahn ("life member" anno 1910) | Frank Vanderlip (president 1920-; president at the Standard Oil-fueled National City Bank) | August Belmont (director anno 1920) | Henry Waters Taft (president 1922-1929, 1934-) | Gerard Swope (member anno 1920). Early Japanese board members and regular members: Baron Shibusawa Eiichi (member anno 1910) | Dr. Jokichi Takamine (director anno 1910; founder Nippon Club of NYC). Activities suspended 1941-1952 due to WWII: John D. Rockefeller III (president 1952-1969, chair 1969-1978) | David Rockefeller (hon. chairman) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (centennial speech) | Caryl Haskins | Cyrus Vance (chair 1985-1993) | Ruben Mettler | Thornton Bradshaw | Dianne Feinstein (co-chair Northern California branch). Later U.S. life directors: Peter Peterson | Paul Volcker | Maurice Greenberg | Richard Debs | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Jacqueline Novogratz (part of its Innovators Network) | Charles P. Rockefeller (received an award in 1997 alongside David and Jay) | Merit Janow. Later Japanese directors: Minoru Makihara (director; d. 2020) and son Jun Makihara (director anno 2021). Source(s): 1910 JS booklet. |
1907 |
| China Institute in America Trustees: Mary Rockefeller (first wife of Nelson) | H. Christopher Luce (son of Henry L. III) | John Thornton (also on the advisory committee) | Julie Eisenhower | Marie-Helene Weill | Washington SyCip. More: Henry Luce (speech in 1964) | Maurice Greenberg (speaker in 2013). Funders: The Luce family, with its long history with China, has been a major financial patron of the institute. |
1926 |
| United China Relief (UCR) Henry Luce (organizer) |
1940 |
| China-America Council of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) Thomas Watson (founding chair) | Richard Patterson, Sr. (founding president) |
1944 |
| American Council on Japan (ACJ) Harry Kern | James Lee Kaufmann | Joseph C. Grew. |
1948-1952 |
| National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Political advisory body tot he Chinese government. Tung Chee Hwa (vice chair 2010s). |
1949 |
| Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) Ties into western elites thought the TC, CUSEF, BNEF and a few other NGOs. Leadership: Zhao Weiping (vice president anno '21; TC exec. anno '21) Senior advisors (7 listed in '21): Tung Chee Hwa (anno '21) | Dr. Xu Kuangdi (anno '21; vice chair 10th People's Political Consultative Conference) | Tang Jiaxuan (anno '21; former PRC state councilor). Advisors (also 7 listed in '21): Fu Ying (ambassador; China's vice foreign affairs minister for European and then Asian affairs; chair Foreign Affairs Committee of China's 12th National People's Congress 2013-2017) | Xie Zhenhua (China's Special Envoy for Climate Change) | Bijian Zheng. Council Members (about 130 listed anno '21): Zhu Yinghuang (anno '21; editor-in-chief emeritus of China Daily Newspaper Group). |
1949 |
| National Committee for a Free Asia (later the Asia Foundation) Stephen Bechtel | Henry Kaiser | Juan Trippe | Robert Knight | A. W. Clausen | Stapleton Roy | Michael Armacost | Maurice T. Moore | Caryl Haskins | Grayson Kirk | Jeffrey Bergner |
1951 |
| National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo Chung Min Lee (fellow 1994-1995) |
1952 |
| Asia Society Caryl Haskins | William Hewitt | Grayson Kirk (chair 1956-1964) | John D. Rockefeller III (chair 1964-1974) | George Ball (chair 1974-1982) | Maurice Strong (member international council 1980-1986, member president's council anno 1984) | Roy Huffington (chair 1983-1989; his son Michael was married to Arianna Huffington 1986-1997) | John Whitehead (chair 1989-1995 and honorary life trustee) | Maurice Greenberg (chair 1995-2002) | Richard Holbrooke (chair 2002-2009) | Washington SyCip (life trustee) | John Thornton (trustee anno 2000; co-chair anno 2020) | Nicholas Platt (president anno 2000) | Frank Weil (trustee anno 2000) | James Moffett (trustee anno 2000) | Leon Black (trustee anno 2000) | Eli Broad (trustee anno 2000) | Carla Hills (trustee anno 2000, until 2002) | Jon Huntsman Jr. (trustee anno 2000) | Ken Lay (trustee anno 2000; Enron) | Wendi Deng Murdoch (anno 2002; wife of Rupert Murdoch) | Hunsang Ansary (became a trustee in 2004) | Ronnie Chan (trustee 2005-) | David Rubenstein (trustee late 2006 - early 2011) | James Wolfensohn (trustee late 2009-) | Hushang Ansary (trustee anno 2011) | Tom Brokaw (trustee) | Francis Stankard (trustee emeritus anno 2009) | John Negroponte (trustee anno 2020) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (trustee anno 2000) | James Robinson III | Nicolas Rohatyn (trustee anno 2020) | Peter Peterson (financier/member) | Stephen Schwarzman (trustee 2007-, still anno 2020) | Michael Armacost (trustee) | Cyrus Vance (visitor) | William vanden Heuvel (trustee 2008-2009) | Strive Masiyiwa (trustee anno 2020) | Josette Sheeran (president and CEO 2013-) | Nicolas Berggruen (trustee anno 2020) | Prince Turki al Faisal (trustee anno 2020) | Harold McGraw III (trustee anno 2020) | Kevin Rudd (trustee anno 2020; president Asia Society Policy Institute 2014-) | Charles P. Rockefeller (trustee anno 2020) | Merit Janow (member global council). Others: Jacqueline Novogratz and husband Chris Anderson (the former interviewing the latter on June 15, 2017) | Kurt Campbell (member Task Force on U.S.-China Policy late 2010s) | Thomas Pickering (visitor)| Frank Wisner II (visitor). Global Council: Gareth Evans (anno 2011-2014) | Muhammad Yunus (anno 2011-2014). Represented countries (often by half a dozen to a dozen members): U.S., Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Asia Society India: Jamshyd Godrej and wife Pheroza (founding directors) | Narayana Murthy (hon. chair anno '21). |
1956 |
| American Society for a Free Asia (CIA-funded to back Dalai Lamai) | 1956 |
| Korea Society Donald Gregg (chair 1993-2009; chair emeritus after that). Advisory board: George H. W. Bush | Haig. Director: Spencer Kim |
1957 |
| Japan-America Society Lawrence Clarkson (president 1993). Involved: Intel, Lockheed, CFR, Sasakawa Fdn. |
1957 |
| Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange Plan Founders: Shigeharu Matsumotu (founding TC member; chair Int. House of Japan) and John D. Rockefeller III (part of a peace mission to Japan in 1951 headed by John Foster Dulles). Evolved into the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) in 1961. Source(s): jpf.go.jp/culcon/archive/files/pdf/history_en.pdf (accessed: Jan. 21, 2022). |
1950s |
| Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) International advisors/consultants: Prince Turki al Faisal (anno 2008, 2021) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2008, 2021) | John Thornton (anno 2008, 2021) | Tung Chee Hwa (anno 2008, 2021) | Kevin Rudd (anno 2017) | Hamid Karzai (anno 2021) | Volker Perthes (anno 2008, 2021; chair German Institute for International Security Affairs (SWP)) | Jayant Prasad (anno 2017, 2021; director Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, India). Other countries represented: Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, United Nations, Australia, Argentina, Slovenia, etc. |
1960 |
| East-West Center (EWC) Kurt Campbell (vice chair anno 2020) | Peter Ho (vice chair anno 2020; chairman, president and CEO Bank of Hawaii) | Ronnie Chan (former board member) | Ratan Tata (board). |
1960 |
| Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) Saburo Okita (president 1964-, chair 1983-1979; foreign minister 1979-1980;co-founder TC in '73) | Hisao Kanamori (chair anno '94) | Yutaka Kosai (president anno '94; involved with Rand) | Akira Kojima (chair 2004-2008, senior fellow anno '22; trustee National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); chair World Trade Center Tokyo, Inc.; similar to Okita, involved in the TC). |
1963 |
| National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) Directors (oldest generation known): Robert O. Anderson (emeritus by '02) | Theodore Hesburgh (emeritus by '02) | William Hewitt | Michael Blumenthal (chair somewhere pre-'02) | Robert McNamara (listed as vice chair in Dec. '02, but on "old website" url, gone in'03, but again listed as regular director from April '04 (as Henry K. appears) until his death in '09) | Gerald Ford (anno '02 - until death in '06; not "honorary", listed as a regular director) | Adm. David Jeremiah (anno '02 - gone by Jan. '03) | Henry Luce III (anno '02 - until '04) | Barber Conable Jr. (anno '02 - until '04, past chair) | Peter Franz Geithner (anno '02-'09, gone in '11, rejoined in '12; father of Timothy Geithner). Directors: David Gergen (anno '02-'08) | Carla Hills (chair anno '02-'20, chair emeritus anno '23) | Maurice Greenberg (anno '02, vice chair '04-'18, one of two exec. vice chairs '18-, still anno '23) and son Evan ('09 - still anno '14, vice chair anno 2020) | Lee Hamilton (vice chair anno '02 - until '07, again '08 - June '11, replacing by Henry K.) | Thomas Kean (anno '02-'07, vice chair '07-'20) | Michael Armacost (anno '02 - until '07) | William Rhodes (vice chair no later than Jan. '03 - still anno 2020) | Stapleton Roy (vice chair no later than Jan. '03 - until '08 (gone from board), again later, still anno 2020) | Thomas Pickering (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '08) | Martin Feldstein (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '19) | James Schlesinger (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '08) | Henry Kissinger (April '04 - July '11, vice chair July '11 (replacing Lee H.) - '18, one of two exec. vice chairs '18 - still anno '23) | Adm. Dennis Blair ('04 - still anno '20) | Louis Gerstner Jr. ('05-'11) | John Thornton ('05-'12) | Lorne Craner ('05 - still anno '09, gone by '11) | Muhtar Kent ('07 - '16) | Sen. Chuck Robb ('08-'12) | Madeleine Albright ('08-'14) | Chas Freeman III ('08-'11, gone late '11 - early '12, again '12-'18). Directors (joined between 2010 and 2019): Jim Steinberg ('12-) | Jon Huntsman Jr. ('12 - still anno '17) | Sen. David Boren ('13-, until '16 or '17) | Rob Speyer ('13-, still anno '20; president & CEO Tishman Speyer) | Kurt Campbell ('15 - still anno '20) | Bill Ford (mid '15 - still anno '23) | Ajay Banga ('15, still anno '20) | Ben Harburg ('19 - still anno '23; Kiss. protege through his father, a pilot on the flights that opened up China to the West) | Merit Janow ('16 or '17-) | Joshua Cooper Ramo ('16 or '17-; vice chair Kiss. Assoc.). 2003 "contributors": Thomas M. O'Gara | David Rockefeller. 2003 "sponsors" John Brademas | Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. David J. Speakers: Robert Zoellick | Willam Perry (Jan. 2016) | Chuck Hagel (Jan. 2016) | William Cohen (Jan. 2016) | Harold Brown (Jan. 2016). 2012 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Honorary vice chairs: James Baker III | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Winston Lord | John Negroponte | William Daley (vice chair) | William P. (with member Ashton Carter co-chair of a delegation that negotiates between Taiwan and China) | Colin Powell | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz. 2011 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: George H. W. Bush. Honorary vice chairs: Dianne Feinstein | Barbara Bush | John Kerry | Richard Lugar | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead. 2007 dinner: Peter Peterson honored. 2007 "individual contributors": Louis Gerstner, Peter P., David R., Henry K., Maurice G., Chas Freeman, Richard Haass, Adm. David J., Bobby Ray I., Harold Saunders. 2008 dinner: Wang Qishan honored. Source(s): ncuscr.org/Old website/about/Board.htm (accessed: Dec. 17, 2002); ncuscr.org/About_Us/Board.htm (accessed: Jan. 19, 2003 - Oct. 2, 2007; April 23, 2004 is first archive with Kiss., with Maurice G. just having moved to vice chair); ncuscr.org/who-we-are/board-directors (accessed: Sep. 27 2008 - Dec. 23, 2014); ncuscr.org/programs/dinner-honor-vice-premier-wang-qishan (accessed: Nov. 21, 2008): "On June 18, 2008..."; ncuscr.org/about/board-directors (accessed: Feb. 12, 2015 - June 24, 2020), ncuscr.org/board-directors/ (accessed: April 25, 2022 - ). |
1966 |
| Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) Willy Wiguna (director general) |
1967 |
| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN Regional Forum) Surin Pitsuwan (sec. gen.; Rock. Fdn.) | Maurice Greenberg and William Cohen (co-chairs CSIS' US-ASEAN Strategy Commission, which presented findings at a related APEC conference) | Pak Ui Chun (North Korean foreign minister) | Condoleezza Rice (canceled in 2005 and 2007 which wasn't appreciated) | Hillary Clinton | John Kerry | Fumio Kishida (Japan's foreign minister). |
1967 |
| Japan Center for International Exchange Tadashi Yamamoto (founder and president until his death in '12; TC). International Philanthropy Project (founded 1974): David Rockefeller (speaker during the foundation's "study mission" to the U.S. in Sep. 1974) | John D. Rockefeller III (seminar speaker '74) | McGeorge Bundy ('74 "study mission" speaker; keynote seminar speaker '75; president 1st symposium in Jan. 1975) | Russell Mawby ('74 "study mission" speaker; president Kellogg Fdn.) | David Bell and Carl Green (seminar speaker '74; Ford Fdn.) | Russell A. Phllips Jr. (seminar speaker '74; RBF) | Max Kohnstamm (seminar speaker '75) | Dillon Ripley | Thomas Hughes. Source(s): jcie.org/researchpdfs/jcie-papers/philan-project/3_The First Phase.PDF (accessed: January 21, 2022). |
1970 |
| Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore) George Soros (Conference speaker Jan. 2006) |
1971 |
| U.S.-Japan Business Council (USJBC) Maurice Greenberg | Joseph Gorman | Robert Galvin (vice chair) | James Robinson III | Walter Shipley | Minoru Makihara (chair 1997-2002). |
1971 |
| California-Asia Business Council (CABC) (the former Southeast Asia Business Council) 1972 (SRI-ran): Julius Tahija | Nik A. Kamil | Roberto Villanueva | Cho Jock Kim | Sukum Navapan | Weldon Gibson. Later: Dan Chao (chair and chair emeritus; represents Bechtel) |
1971 |
| U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) Henry Kissinger | David Rockefeller (founding member) | Cyrus Vance (co-chair 1979 event) | Michael Blumenthal (co-chair 1979 event) | Robert Zoellick | Carla Hills (director anno 2005) | James McNerney Jr. (director anno 2006, 2011; chair, president and CEO Boeing) | William Rhodes (director anno 2008, 2011) | Joseph Gorman | Dan Chao | Hu Jintao (Jan. 2011 meeting) | Muhtar Kent (director 2006-, vice chair anno 2008, chair anno 2011, director anno 2013) | Harold McGraw III (director anno 2011, 2013) | Klaus Kleinfeld (director; chair and CEO Alcoa) | Maurice Greenberg (director anno 2013) and son Evan (director anno 2011, chair anno 2020) | John Rice (director anno 2011; vice chair GE) | David Rubenstein (director 2013-late 2010s) | William Dudley (director anno 2008 and 2013; president and COO Bechtel) | Mark Schwartz (director anno 2015; vice chair Goldman Sachs, chair of GS Asia Pacific) | William Cohen (director anno 2008 and 2020) | David Taylor (anno 2020; chair, president and CEO Procter & Gamble) | Kurt Campbell (speaker at a USCBC meeting or related meeting Jan. 2011) and wife Lael Brainard (keynote address Feb. 2011) | Penny Pritzker | Frederick Smith (chair) | Wang Huiyao (Nov. 2019 speaker). Other corporations represented by the board of directors: UPS, Dell, 3M, Fluor, Cargill, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Walmart, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Emerson, Praxair, Ford Motor Company, Motorola, NY Life Int., PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Citi, Johnson & Johnson. |
1973 |
| U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) History: Henry Kissinger requested that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce establish the group USIBC in 1975, making the USIBC a "programme" of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Since 2010 many dominant board members have voted to split from the USCOC. Board U.S./West (later "global"): Frank Wisner II (chair '00-'02, director until at least '11) | William Cohen (anno '07-'11) | Harold McGraw III (chair '10-'12) | Paul Conway ('anno '11; Cargill) | Adm. Walter Doran (anno '11; Raytheon) | Richard Kirkland (anno '11; Lockheed Martin) | John Chambers (chair '15- (on website; only in 2018 announced in the news, so he may have been a temporary chair intially); chair and CEO Cisco) | Stephen Hadley (anno '21) | Gen. Michael Hayden (anno '21) | Sir Michael Arthur (anno '21; president Boeing Int.) | Judith McKenna (anno '21; president and CEO, Walmart) | Tim Cahill (anno ' 21; senior VP Lockheed). Board Indians (later "global"): Rajat Gupta (chair anno '04, director until at least '11; CEO McKinsey & Co. 1994-2003; jailed for money laundering in '12) | Indra Nooyi (chair '08-'09; chair and CEO Pepsi) | Ajay Banga (chair '12-'15; CEO Mastercard '10-) | Manil Bhalla (anno '11; exec. dir. JPMorgan Chase Wealth Management '12-'17, '19-) | Arun Kumar (anno '11-, adv. council anno '21; chair and CEO KPMG India) | Dr. Vas Narasimhan (anno '11; Novartis) | V.S. Gopi Gopinath (anno '11; AT&T) | Manoj Singh (anno '11; Deloitte) | Shailesh Rao (anno '11; Google) | Shantanu Narayen (anno '15; with Adobe 1998-, CEO 2007-, chair 2017-) | Raj Nair (anno '15; North American president Ford Motors until fired in '18 over "inappropiate behavior") | Sanjay Nayar (anno '15; chair and CEO KKR India) | Banmali Agrawala (anno '21; president of Infrastructure, Defence & Aerospace for Tata Sons) | Vivek Lall (anno '21; CEO General Atomics' global arm 2020-) | Mahesh Palashikar (president and CEO GE South Asia) | Kevin Lobo (anno '21; ethnic Indian; CEO Stryker 2012-). India advisory council: Sandip Patel (anno '21; general Manager, IBM India and South Asia) | Nivruti Rai (anno '21; country head, Intel India) | Simon George ('21; ethnic Indian; president Cargill India) | Anupam Pahuja (anno '21; man. dir. PayPal India) | Madhusudan Gopalan (anno ' 21; CEO Procter & Gamble India) | Nitin Prasad (chair Shell India 2016-) | Manoj Adlakha (anno '21; CEO American Express Banking Corp. India). Speakers: Kenneth Dam ('02) | Robert Blackwill (twice in '02 on U.S.-India relations) Notes: Traditionally almost exlusively American companies with local or American Indians representing them, with more and more American companies also hiring Indians to run their worldwide or North American business. Examples here include Adobe, Ford, Mastercard, McKinsey, Pepsi, Stryker (the Ford and McKinsey heads ended up in scandals). Companies also represented by board members: GS, AIG, NYSE-Euronext, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, FedEx, Dow Chemical, Warburg Pincus, Salesforce, NY Life. usibc.com/members (accessed: July 28, 2017; about one-third listed here; almost no Indian companies): State Bank of India, Barclays Bank India, 3M, AEGON, Alcoa, 21st Century Fox, Time Warner, Airbnb, Bank of America, Bank of the West, Boeing, Caterpillar, Citigroup, Apple, AMD, Intel, Dell, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, Symantec, Western Digital, Fluor, DuPont, General Mills, GM, Gilead, Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, HP, Honeywell, John Deere, Marsh & McLennan, Monsanto, Moody's, NASDAQ, Rio Tinto, Sandisk, Shearman and Sterling, Standard Chartered, United Technolgies Corp., Walmart, Westinghouse, Western Union, UPS, Verizon, Viacom, Rolls-Royce, Northrop Grumman, Kroll Associates, Herbalife, Ericsson, Eli Lilly, eBay, BHP Billiton, Bentley Systems, BAE Systems, AT&T. |
1975 |
| U.S.-Taiwan Business Council William Cohen (chair) | Frank Carlucci | Paul Wolfowitz | Sen. Jay Rockefeller. |
1976 |
| Canada-China Business Council Founders: Paul Desmarais, Sr. (founding chair, his son Andre is honorary chair) | Maurice Strong | Paul Lin. |
1978 |
| U.S.-Japan Foundation (USJF) 1998 annual report: Ryochi Sasakawa (founder; also founding grant through to the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation (now known as the Nippon Foundation), which he headed) | Jimmy Carter (hon. advisor) | Gerald Ford (hon. advisor) | John Brademas (trustee) | Ms. Robin Chandler Duke (trustee) | Gerald Curtis (trustee). More: Angier Biddle Duke (co-founder) | Robin Chandler Duke (co-founder) | Thomas Foley (trustee anno 2007 and honorary advisor from 2008) | Henry Kissinger (early advisor) | Robert Sarnoff (early advisor). More: George Packard (president 1998-2019). The US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP), "the flagship program of the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF)": usjlp.org/advisory.html (accessed: July 18, 2011): "Walter Mondale ... William Ruckelshaus ... John Whitehead..." |
1980 |
| Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Originally known as the Asian Cultural Program, founded by John D. Rockefeller, III. Trustees: Steven Rockefeller | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Valerie Rockefeller Wayne. |
1980 |
| Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Saburo Okita (international 1986-1988) | Lawrence Clarkson (U.S. chair 1993-2000) | Spencer Kim |
1980 |
| U.S.-Japan Advisory Committee Reagan (met with the group at the White House on June 22, 1983). Directors: David Packard (chair 1983-1985) | Albert Seligmann (executive director) | Nobuhiko Ushiba | Isamu Yamashita | Akio Morita |
Early-mid 1980s (+/-) |
| Hong Kong-United States Business Council (HKUSBC) Westerners: Maurice Greenberg (US chair anno 2006, 2011) | Dr. John Hamre (speaker '09). Asians: Ronnie Chan (HK chair) | Peter Woo (HK chair anno 2006) | Victor Chu (HK chair anno 2021). |
1984 |
| U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) Maurice Greenberg (chair) and son Evan (chair 2013-) | Muhtar Kent (chair) | Roderick Hills (co-founder and chair; husband of Carla Hills) | Alexander Feldman (chair, president and CEO) | John Negroponte (member Chairman's Policy Council since founding in 2013) | J. Stapleton Roy (Chairman's Policy Council 2013-) | Stephen Bosworth (Chairman's Policy Council 2013-). Known visitors of meetings: Henry Kissinger ('09) | George Shultz ('09) | Kurt Campbell ('09) | Lee Kuan Yew ('09). |
1984 |
| Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (SEM), Beijing, China Tsinghua University was founded in 1983. Its SEM was founded in 1996 in partnership with MIT. SEM's ultra-prestigious and low-profile advisory board was founded in Oct. 2000 and meets once a year. Also see Schwarzman Scholars. Advisory council (mainly anno '21-'23): David Rubenstein (chair anno 2016; co-founder and chair Carlyle) | Stephen Schwarzman (co-founder and chair Blackstone) | Maurice Greenberg (chair and CEO AIG) and son Evan | Muhtar Kent (chair and CEO Coca-Cola) | Lloyd Blankfein (chair and CEO GS) | Jamie Dimon (chair and CEO J.P. MorganChase) | Sir John Bond (chair HSBC and Vodafone) | Mark Fields (chair and CEO Ford Motor Co.) | Henry Kravis | Michael Corbat (CEO Citigroup) | Lord John Browne of Madingley (CEO BP) | Robert Dudley (CEO BP) | Ben van Beurden (CEO Shell) | William E. "Bill" Ford (General Atlantic) | Hank Paulson | Lee Scott Jr. (president and CEO Wal-Mart) | Jacob Wallenberg | Robin Li (co-founder, chair and CEO Baidu search engine) | Jack Ma (exec. chair Alibaba) | Elon Musk (founder and CEO Tesla and Space-X) | Mark Zuckerberg (founder and/or owner FB, IG and Whatsapp) | Jim Breyer (chair anno 2020; founder and CEO Breyer Capital) | Tim Cook (CEO Apple) | Michael Dell | Christopher Galvin (chair and CEO Motorola) | Richard Levin | Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft) | Brian Roberts (chair and CEO Comcast) | John Thornton | Larry Fink | Advisory board (Far East): Victor Fung | Nobuyuki Idei (chair and CEO Sony) | Ratan Tata. Speakers: Sir Evelyn and Lynn de Rothschild (April '12) | Dominic Barton (teaches here the "McKinsey course on global leadership" anno '23) | Yann LeCun (director of AI Research, Facebook, who teaches a course at SEM anno '23) | Peter Thiel (appears as a speaker in a '23 brochure). SEM-based Center for China in the World Economy (think tank founded in 2004): David Daokui Li ((man.) director 2015-) | Joseph Stiglitz (advisory board) | John T. (advisory board) | William Kirby (advisory board) | Roland Berger (advisory board). 2023 Tsinghua MBA brochure, pp. 42-42: "Partial List of Tsinghua MBA Recruiters: BNP Paribas ... J.P. Morgan ... HSBC ... Barclays ... Gates Foundation ... Microsoft ... Apple ... Facebook ... Amazon ... UBS ... Back of America ... Goldman Sachs ... Citibank ... KKR ... Sequoia Capital ... Hony Capital ... Bayer ... Shell ... BMW ... Johnson & Johnson ... Bain & Company... Huawei ... [TikTok owner] ByteDance ... Tencent ... Alibaba Group ... Nomura ... Fung Group ..." Source(s): sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/ About_SEM/Advisory_Board/ Advisory_Board_Members.htm (accessed: March 30, 2023): "Updated on 11 October, 2021."; 2023 MBA brochure, Tsinghua University, 'China Roots, Global Vision: Tsinghua's Global MBA Program', pp. 1, 10: "Since 1996 ... Tsinghua SEM [and] and MIT Sloan... have been a natural fit as partners... Initiated by SEM’s Founding Dean ZHU Rongji, who later became the 5th Premier of China, the Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board was established in October 2000. Since its establishment, the Advisory Board has met annually to offer advice on the development of Tsinghua SEM." Source(s) CCWE: www.ccwe.tsinghua.edu.cn/column/index_en and www.ccwe.tsinghua.edu.cn/column/AB (accessed: Sep. 12, 2015 - March 7, 2020; the latter url is the advisory board). |
2000 |
| Hitachi Foundation Elliot Richardson (founder and chair until 1998) | Joseph Kasputys founding member and chair since 1998) | Patrick Gross (trustee since 2003) | David Packard (advisory council 1986-1996) |
1985 |
| Sejong Institute, Seoul Chung Min Lee (employee 1989-1994). |
1986 |
| Philippines-U.S. Business Council & U.S.-Philippine Business Committee Maurice Greenberg (founding chair UPBC) | President Corazon Aquino (co-founder) |
1987 |
| US–Korea Business Council (USBC) Maurice Greenberg (chairman 2002-) | William Rhodes (chair). |
1987 |
| America-China Society (ACS) Henry Kissinger (co-chair) | Cyrus Vance (co-chair until his death in 2002) | Robert McFarlane | Richard Nixon | Jimmy Carter. Corporate members: Chase Manhattan, American Express, Coca-Cola. |
1987 |
| Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies (linked to G8 and G20) Henry Kissinger | Paul Volcker | Joseph Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Renato Ruggiero | Sergei Karaganov. |
1987 |
| Tibet House Robert Thurman (founder and president, who moved in the Rock. sphere) | Richard Gere (co-founder). Board: Henry Luce III (wife and son) | Peggy Hitchcock (Mellon; of Timothy Leary fame) | Uma Thurman. Artist support: David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. |
1987 |
| International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Richard Gere (executive chair). Board of Advisors: Robert Thurman. International Council of Advisors: Harrison Ford | Desmond Tutu | Elie Wiesel. Awarded: Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Danielle Mitterrand (wife of Francois) | Martin Scorsese | Claiborne Pell | Charlie Rose. |
1987 |
| Praemium Imperiale (Japan Art Association) David Rockefeller | S. Dillon Ripley II | Shunichi Suzuki |
1989 |
| National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR) Gen. John M. Shalikashvili | Michael Armacost (advisor anno 2004) | Carla Hills (advisor anno 2004) | Lee Hamilton | Sam Nunn | Zoellick | Pickering | Lawrence Clarkson (chair) | Enders Wimbush (executive director for strategy and development) | Aaron Friedberg (counselor) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (counselor anno 2017) | Joseph Nye (advisor anno 2017). |
1989 |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Richard Boucher | Robert Zoellick | Fred Bergsten (chair Eminent Persons Group and Competitiveness Policy Council of APEC in the 1990s) | Andrey Kostin (chair 2011-2012, continued regular involvement) | George W. Bush (2006) | Victor Fung (member Business Advisory Council 1996, 2001). APEC CEO Summit (1996-): Min Zhu Min ('11) | Julia Gillard ('11, '12; PM Australia 2010-2013) | Eric Schmidt ('11) | Barack Obama ('11, '14-'15) | Jim McNerney Jr. ('11) | Felipe Calderon ('11; president Mexico) | Dominic Barton ('12) | Hillary Clinton ('12) | Sir John Key ('12-'13; PM New Zealand) | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ('12, '13; president Indonesia) | Hu Jintao ('12) | Truong Tan Sang ('12; president Vietnam) | Vladimir Putin ('12, '13) | Anatoly Chubais ('12) | Igor Sechin ('12) | Oleg Deripaska ('12, '13) | Andrey K. ('12) | Fedor Lukyanov ('12) | Peter Voser ('12) | Tony Abbott ('13; PM Australia) | Sebastian Pinera ('13; president Chile) | Nouriel Roubini ('13) | Jeffrey Sachs ('13) | Shinzo Abe ('13) | Park Geun-Hyeof (president South Korea) | Najib Razak ('13; PM Malaysia) | Lee Hsien Loon ('13; PM Singapore) | Yingluck Shinawatra ('13; PM Thailand) | Enrique Pena Nieto ('13; president Mexico) | Ollanta Humala ('13; PM Peru) | Benigno Aquino III ('13, '14; president Philippines) | John Kerry ('13) | Xi Jinping ('13-'18) | U. Thein Sein ('14; president Myanmar) | Abdul Hamid (' 14; president Bangladesh) | Samdech Techo Hun Sen ('14; PM Cambodia) | Michelle Bachelet ('14; president Chile) | Stephen Harper ('14; PM Australia) | Dmitry Medvedev ('15, '18) | Jack Ma ('15) | Ian Bremmer ('15-'17) | Josette Sheeran ('15) | Mark Zuckerberg ('16) | Sheryl Sandberg ('17) | Donald Trump ('17) | Mike Pence ('18). APEC CEO Summit locations: Hawaii ('11) | Vladivostok, Russia ('12) | Bali, Indonesia ('13) | China ('14) | Philippines ('15) | Peru ('16) | Vietnam ('17) | Paupa New Guinea ('18). Companies represented: Freeport-McMoRan, Nippon Steel, Lenovo, Eli Lilly, Nomura, Caterpillar, Rio Tinto, Merck, UPS, Bank of China, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Johnson & Johnson, Deutsche Post DHL, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, Walmart, FedEx, Facebook, ExxonMobil, World Bank, etc. |
1989 |
| Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (SPF-USA) Ryochi Sasakawa (founder) | Adm. Dennis Blair (president). Commission members of a partnership with CSIS (2013-1016): Richard Armitage | Joseph Nye | John Hamre. Awarded Paul Ehrlich of 'The Population Bomb' with its Environment Prize. Other: Kurt Campbell (keynote speaker '13). |
1990 |
| Committee of 100 Nov. 30, 2023, Committee100.org, 'Committee of 100 Mourns the Passing of Dr. Henry [K.]': "Committee of 100 was formed in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square at the recommendation of Dr. Kissinger. He urged renowned architect I.M. Pei to organize a prominent group of Chinese Americans to address issues of both domestic and international concern between the United States and Greater China. Pei teamed up with Yo-Yo Ma, Henry S. Tang, Oscar Tang, Chien Shiung Wu, and Shirley Young [who] would become the first generation of Committee of 100 members." Board: Yo-Yo Ma (governor anno 2000) | Anna Chennault (director anno 2000) | Conference visitors/speakers: Jerry Yang ('98; Co-Founder or Yahoo) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (April 30, '09, 13) | Henry Kissinger (April 30, '09, 15; co-founder) | Daniel Inouye (April 20, '09) | Indra Nooyi (April 30, '09) | Michael Bloomberg (pre-2016 speaker) | Maurice Greenberg (pre-2016 speaker) | Hank Paulson (pre-2016 speaker) | Stephen Schwarzman (pre-2016 speaker) | Quincy Jones (pre-2016 speaker) | J. Stapleton Roy (pre-2016 speaker) | Michael Milken (pre-2016 speaker) | Charlie Munger (pre-2016 speaker) | Gary Locke (again at the '16 annual conference) | Gordon Brown ('16 annual conference) | Ari Emanuel ('16 annual conference) | Bill Moyers ('16 annual conference). Source(s): committee100.org/members /default.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2000); committee100.org/conference/2015-annual-conference-in-new-york/: "Participating Organizations [i.e. funders]: Akin Gump... Alibaba Group ... Blackstone ... Bloomberg. Bristol-Myers Squibb ... Deloitte ... General Motors ... Goldman Sachs ... Hang Lung Properties ... McKinsey & Co. ... Newscorp [and lots of other media] ... UBS. United Airlines. United Nations ... Walmart ... Wells Fargo ... Xerox... [RBF]..." April 15-17, 2017, 'C-100 2016 Annual Conference' 1-page schedule; May 18-20, 2017, C100 1-page flyer, 'C100 2017 Annual Conference': "Highlighted Past Speakers..." |
1990 |
| Institute for Asian Democracy (IAD) Robert Thurman (founding trustee and future advisory council). |
1991 |
| China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) / China Reform Forum John Thornton | George Soros (financier and visiting fellow) |
1991 |
| China-Britain Business Council Founded as the China-Britain Trade Group with the 1991 merger of the 48 Group and the Sino-British Trade Council. Sir Michael Palliser (president). Anno 2015: Lord James Meyer Sassoon (chair; executive director Matheson & Co. Ltd.) |
1991 |
| Eurasia Foundation Trustees: Bill Frenzel (chair 1992-1994, vice chair 1994-2010) | Robert Zoellick (anno 1999) | Maurice Tempelsman (anno 1999, until 2001) | Thomas Pickering (2001-) | Fiona Hill. Advisory board: Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair) | Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | James Baker III (co-chair) | Lawrence Eagleburger | William Luers | Max Kampelman | Bill Bradley | Frank Carlucci | Lee Hamilton | Michael Mandelbaum | Robert Strauss | Joseph Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Casimir Yost | Anders Aslund. Also: Regina Yan (executive vice president and COO). eurasia.org/who/funders.html (accessed: October 14, 2001): "Boeing ... Carnegie Corporation ... Exxon ... Ford Foundation ... Government of the Netherlands ... MacArthur Foundation ... Mobil Corporation ... Mott Foundation. Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations. Phillips Petroleum. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Renaissance Foundation/Soros Foundations. Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry ... Swedish Foreign Ministry. Texaco, Inc. The United States Agency for International Development. The United States Information Agency. United Technologies... The World Bank." eurasia.org/where.html (accessed: Oct. 13, 2001): "The Foundation conducts the bulk of its grantmaking through field offices located in Moscow, Saratov, Vladivostok (Russia), Minsk (Belarus), Kyiv (Ukraine), Chisinau (Moldova), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan, Gyumri (Armenia), and Baku (Azerbaijan)." |
1992 |
| Pacific Century Institute (PCI) Donald Gregg (chair) | Spencer Kim (founder) |
1992 |
| Bhutan Foundation Directors: Bhutan royal family members | Tim Wirth (anno 2009) | Frank Wisner II (anno 2009, 2020) | Robert Blake Jr. (anno 2020). Advisory board: Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Congressman Brian Baird. |
1992 |
| Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Kurt Campbell (member). |
1993 |
| UK-Korea Forum for the Future Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (president 2007-2013). |
1993 |
| Fudan Development Institute (FDI) Directors: Min Zhu Min (anno '21). International Advisory Committee: Adam Posen (anno '17-'20) | Robert Zoellick (anno '17-'20) | Joseph Stiglitz (anno '18-'20). Source(s): fddi.en.fudan.edu.cn/ tuandui/guojiguwen/ (accessed: April 3, 2017 to Feb. 3, 2020; IAC); etc. |
1993 |
| UK India Business Council (UKIBC) Directors: Richard Heald (director 2010-, chair 2020-; 17-year Rothschild banker, including vice chair Rothschild India). Advisory board (disappeared from site after early 2010): Sir Richard Branson (anno '08) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (anno '08) | Sir Martin Sorrell (anno '08) | Sir John Rose (anno '08; Rolls-Royce) | Paul Skinner (anno '08; Rio Tinto). Additional companies represented: GS, Warburg Pincus, Lloyds, HSBC, Nomura PLC, KPMG, BT, Standard Chartered, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The Economist, BNP Paribas, BMW AG, Tata Sons. |
1993 |
| Singapore-British Business Council Lord Charles Powell (founding chair 1994-Nov. 2001) |
1994 |
| United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) J. Stapleton Roy (trustee co-chair) | Robert Blake Jr. (co-chair) | Paul M Cleveland (president; U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia and to New Zealand) | David Merrill (president; director USAID) | Roderick Hills (husband of Carla Hills) | Paul Wolfowitz (co-chair) | Richard Owen (ExxonMobil Indonesia) | George Shultz (hon. chair anno 2020) | Alexander Feldman (trustee anno 2020). Companies as BP and Freeport also represented. |
1994 |
| U.S. China Policy Foundation (USCPF) Maurice Greenberg (honorary chair) | Stapleton Roy | Chas Freeman (co-founder and co-chair) | Alexander Haig | Henry Kissinger | Dianne Feinstein | Chuck Hagel |
1995 |
| Fortune Global Forum / Fortune-Time Global Forum Often held in China. Participants undated (pre-2013): Zhu Rongji | Hu Jintao | Wang Qishan | George H. W. Bush | Shimon Peres | Manmohan Singh | Margaret Thatcher | Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal | Ronnie Chan | Rupert Murdoch | Peter Peterson | Sir Howard Stringer | Ted Turner | Peter Voser | Ma Yun (Alibaba). Participants: Li Ka-shing (listed as "past speaker" anno '99) | Rudolph Giuliani (listed as "past speaker" anno '99) | Jacques Chirac (listed as "past speaker" anno '99, again '00) | Nobuyuki Idei (pre-'99; Sony) | Paul O'Neill (pre-'99) | Richard Parsons (pre-'99, '07, '10) | Carla Hills ('99) | Maurice Greenberg ('99) | Henry Kissinger ('99) | Lee Kuan Yew ('99) | Mickey Kantor ('99) | Jack Welch ('99) | Jiang Zemin ('99, '01-'02) | Charlie Rose ('00) | Bill Clinton ('01-'02, '10) | James Murdoch ('01) | Steve Ballmer ('01) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (pre-'02, likely '01) | Frederick Smith (pre-'02) | Larry Summers (pre-'02, '16, '18) | Meg Whitman (early '00s speaker) | Colin Powell (early '00s speaker) | Jack Ma ('05, '17) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild ('07) | Lloyd Blankfein ('07) | Michael Cherkasky ('07) | Michael Dell ('07) | Hank Paulson ('07, '17) | Victor Chu ('07, '15, '18) | Dominic Barton ('07, '10, '13, '16, '18) | Lord Nicholas Stern ('10) | Josef Ackermann ('10) | Shaukat Aziz ('10) | Jacob Zuma ('10) | F. W. de Klerk ('10) | Jami Miscik ('10, '18) | Jonathan Oppenheimer ('10) | Theodore Forstmann ('10) | Mo Ibrahim ('10, '16, '21) | Katie Couric ('10) | Desmond Tutu ('10) | Mary Robinson ('10) | Peter Seligmann ('10) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('10, '13, '16) | Richard Branson ("past speaker" by '13, '16) | Indra Nooyi ("past speaker" by '13, '16) | Bob Iger ('13) | Ben Keswick ('13) | Kevin Rudd ('13) | Linda McMahon ('13; owner and former CEO WWE) | Jon Huntsman ('13) | Tony Blair ('13) wife Cherie ('16) | Muhtar Kent ('13) | Francois-Henri Pinault ('13) | Zhang Gaoli ('13) | Jeffrey Katzenberg ('13, '17) | Jeffrey Immelt ('13) | Jeff Bewkes ('13) | Xi Jinping ('13 token congratulatory message) | Jamie Dimon ('13, '15) | Frans van Houten ('13, '17; chair and CEO Philips) | Larry Page ('15) | Marc Andreessen ('15) | Jerry Brown ('15) | Lord John Browne ('15) | Leon Panetta ('15) | Ron Conway ('15) | Sheryl Sandberg ('15) | Brian Chesky ('15, '21) | Rajiv Shah ('15) | Hugh Grant ('15) | Ian Bremmer ('15) | Paul Tudor Jones ('15) | Shantanu Narayen (president and CEO Adobe '15) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('15, '19) | Pope Francis ('16; meeting held at the Vatican, with the forum presenting its (pro-"private sector") report to him) | Larry Fink ('16) | Bill Ford ('16, '17; exec. chair Ford Motors) | Joe Kaeser ('16) | Klaus Kleinfeld ('16) | Nicholas Kristof ('16) | James Manyika ('16, '19) | David Miliband ('16) | Judith Rodin ('16) | Darren Walker ('16) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('16) | Henry Kravis ('17) | Jerry Yang ('17) | Xu Lirong ('17; chair COSCO) | Victor Fung ('17) | Tim Cook ('17) | Strive Masiyiwa ('17) | Penny Pritzker ('17) | Joshua Cooper Ramo ('17) | Chuck Robbins ('17, '21; chair and CEO Cisco) | Justin Trudeau ('17, '18) | Ursula Burns ('18) | Chuck Robbins ('18; chair and CEO Cisco) | Paul Polman ('19) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('19) | Prince Constantijn of Orange ('19) | Ngaire Woods ('19) | Christiana Figueres ('19) | James Manyika ('19) | Ajay Banga ('20) | Chip Bergh ('20; president and CEO Levi Strauss) | Mark Carney ('20; GS banker; gov. Bank of England and Canada; chair BIS Committee) | Dan Schulman ('20; president and CEO PayPal and chair Symantec) | Fareed Zakaria ('20) | Ken Barrett ('20; GM) | Natarajan Chandrasekaran ('21; chair Tata Sons) | Arianna Huffington ('21). Source(s): http://www.timeinc.net/fortune/conferences (accessed: June 6, 2013); fortuneconferences.com/global-forum-2013/participants/ (accessed: June 6, 2013); fortuneconferences.com/global-forum-2013/2013-speakers (accessed: June 6, 2013); Jan. 2, 2017, ktfnews.com (Keep the Faith News), 'Fortune Time Global Forum Meets Pope at the Vatican'. |
1995 |
| Carlos P. Romulo Foundation, Philippines Trustees anno 2021: Roberto Romulo (chair) | John Negroponte. Advisory board anno 2021: Anand Panyarachun (chair) | Michael Armacost | Gareth Evans | Maurice Greenberg | Washington SyCip (deceased). |
1996 |
| E.U.-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation Davignon (founder and chair of its annual E.U.-Japan Business Dialogue Round Table 1999-2005) |
1996 |
| Asia House International advisory council, past and present: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Lord Douglas Hurd | Lord David Howell | Lord Charles Powell | Sir Richard Needham | Lord Michael Heseltine | Sir Robert Wade-Gery | Sir Harold Walker | Lord Swraj Paul | Lord Colin Marshall | Nicholas Platt | Lee Kuan Yew | Lord Lamont | Lord Guthrie | Lord Leon Brittan. |
1996 |
| National Institute for South China Sea Studies (NISCSS) / until 2004 the Hainan Research Institute of South China Sea (HRISCS) Shichun Wu (advisory board) Set up the Institute for China-America Studies in Washington, D.C. in 2015: Hong Nong (executive director) | Shichun W. (advisory board) | Gordon Houlden (advisory board; China Inst., Canada). |
1996 |
| China Development Research Foundation (CDRF) Maurice Greenberg (international advisory council) | Jeffrey Sachs ("Senior consultant for child development" anno 2017, 2021) | Li Wei (director anno '20). |
1997 |
| Hong Kong/Europe Business Council (HKEBC) EU members/participants: Sir Peter Sutherland (founding EU chair in 1997) | Sir Leon Brittan (in 1997, as European Commission vice-president | Pascal Lamy ('01-'02, as EU representative) | Michael Treschow (EU chair anno 2006-2011) | "HRH Princess of Sweden" ('09) | Dr. Roland Busch ('13; director Siemens AG) | Paul Achleitner (EU chair 2013-2020s; chair adv. board Deutsche Bank; BB, etc.) | Niall FitzGerald (member anno '14, '17) | Baron David de Rothschild (member anno '14, '21) | Jacob Wallenberg (member anno '14, '21) | Sir Martin Sorrell (member anno '14, '21) | Wolfgang Ischinger (keynote speaker '14) | Hans Wijers (member anno '14, '17) | Lord Green ('17) | Robin Niblett ('17) | Joschka Fischer ('19) | Francois-Henri Pinault (member anno '17, '21). Far East members/participants: Dr. Victor Fung (founding HK chair in 1997-early 2000s; present '18) | Tung Chee Hwa ('97) | Victor Chu (HK chair 2013-2020s). More: Romano Prodi (message of support in 1997). EU companies represented: Goldman Sachs, BP, Credit Lyonnais, Jardine Matheson, Deutsche Bank, Siemens, BASF, Mass Transit Railway Corporation, British Airways, Koninklijke Ahold NV, Unilever, Heineken, Ericsson, Pirelli, Financial Times Group, WPP Holdings, AXA Belgium, Maersk, Allianz, Nestle, Banco Santander, etc. Hong Kong companies represented: Wing Tai Corporation, Hang Seng Bank, Bank of China, Li & Fung Group. |
1997 |
| Washington-based state dinner in honor of Chinese president Jiang Zemin Many Chinese officials | Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Sandy Berger | Joseph Biden | Frank Biondi | Tom Brokaw | William Cohen | Michael Eisner | Dianne Feinstein | Louis Gerstner | Katharine Graham | David Rockefeller | Maurice Greenberg | Alan Greenspan | Alexander Haig | Lee Hamilton | Jesse Helms | Steve Jobs | Lady Bird Johnson | Henry Kissinger | Winston Lord | Sen. Trent Lott | Sen. Richard Lugar | Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Thomas McLarty | Walter Mondale | Thomas Pickering | Dan Rather | Bill Richardson | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Diane Sawyer | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | Steven Spielberg | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. | Strobe Talbott | James Wolfensohn | Mortimer Zuckerman |
Oct. 29, 1997 |
| China Development Forum (CDF) Foreign delegates: Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (almost every year since '00; initially chair of Royal Dutch Shell and later vice chair of the UN Global Compact Board) | Maurice Greenberg ('00, '04-'09, '12-'13, '16-'18) and sons Evan ('09, '12-'13, '15, '18-'19) and Jeffrey ('19) | Robert Hormats ('00) | John Negroponte ('00) | Larry Summers ('01, '17-'19) | Fred Bergsten ('01) | Sir John Bond ('01-'03, '05-'09, '12-'13; chair HSBC) | Martin Feldstein ('03, '05-'07, '09, '12-'13, '16-'18) | Henry Kissinger ('13, '15-'16) | Joshua Cooper Ramo ('17; co-CEO and vice chair Kiss. Assoc.) | William Cohen ('07, '09, '12-'13, '16-'19) | William Rhodes ('07-'09) | John Hamre ('07) | Robert Rubin ('16-'17) | Stephen Schwarzman ('16, '19) | David Rubenstein ('19) | Joseph Stiglitz ('04-'07, '09, '12-'13, '16-'19) | Jeffrey Sachs ('15-'19; also international advisor) | Jacob Frenkel ('05,'07-'09, '12-'17, '19) | Klaus Kleinfeld ('08, '13) | Ronnie Chan ('09, '12) | James McNerney Jr. ('12) | John Elkann ('13; Agnelli) | John Thornton ('14) | Hank Paulson ('17) | Niall Ferguson ('17, '19) | Lord James Meyer Sassoon ('17) | Josette Sheeran ('17, '19) | Graham Allison ('18-'19) | Kurt Campbell ('19) | Lord Mandelson ('16) | Jacob Wallenberg ('13-'17) | Charlie Rose ('16) | Nouriel Roubini ('09, '12-'13, '15-'19) | Merit Janow ('16, '19) | Pascal Lamy ('18-'19) | Kevin Rudd ('18) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('12, '14-'17) | John Manley ('16) | Oleg Deripaska ('15-'17) | Christine Lagarde ('15-'16; managing director IMF) | Robin Niblett ('16; director CH/RIIA) | Ajay Banga ('13, '15-'16; president and CEO MasterCard). Silicon Valley delegates: Peter Thiel ('16, '18) | Mark Zuckerberg ('16) | Tim Cook ('17, co-chair '18, '19) | Sundar Pichai (CEO Google) | Jim Breyer ('18-'19) | Travis Kalanick ('16; co-founder and CEO of Uber). Other interests represented: WTO, World Bank, Shell, Rio Tinto, Jardine Matheson, Goldman Sachs, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Anglo American Corporation, BHP Billiton, Alcoa, Total, Unilever, Nestle, Cargill, Monsanto, Caterpillar, GM, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, J&J, Bayer, Novartis, Swiss Re, Robert Bosch, Siemens, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Mitsui, Toshiba, Vodafone, Ericcson, Nomura Holdings, Maersk, McKinsey & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Boeing, Bombardier, FedEx, Tata Group, S&P Global, etc. |
1997 |
| China Banking Regulatory Commission International advisory board: Josef Ackermann (anno '12) | Sir John Bond (anno '12) | Jean-Claude Trichet (anno '12-'14) | E. Gerald Corrigan (anno '14). |
1998 |
| Hong Kong Chief Executive's Council of International Advisers Craig Barrett (Intel) | Sir John Bond (Vodafone) | Andre Desmarais (Power Corp.) | Christopher Galvin (Motorola) | Maurice Greenberg (AIG) | Gerard Kleisterlee (Philips) | Gérard Mestrallet | Rob Routs (Shell) | Sir Peter Sutherland (BP) | Tasuku Takagaki (bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi) | Shoichiro Toyoda (Toyota) | Paul Volcker. |
1998-2004 |
| U.S.-China Education Trust Advisory council: Thomas Pickering | Kurt Campbell | Nicholas Platt. Runs the Maurice Greenberg Scholarships | Kissinger Institute (partner) Henry Luce Foundation. |
1998 |
| Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) International advisory panel: Brian Duperreault (president and CEO AIG) | Larry Fink | John Waldron | Jamie Dimon. Represented: JPMorganChase, BlackRock, Blackstone, GS, Citigroup, BNP Paribas, Barclays, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Allianz, Credit Suisse Group AG, Deutsche Bank, Munich Re, Swiss Re, UBS, Nomura Holdings, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), Partners Group, Prudential, SCOR. |
1998 |
| Alibaba Group A Chinese business, but important enough to list. Owns the popular ecommerce site AliExpress.com. Directors: Jack Ma (main founder, exec. chair until 2019, director until Oct. 1, 2020; $52 billion fortune as of April 2021) | Tung Chee Hwa (2014-) | Daniel Zhang (exec. chair 2019-). More: Jerry Yang of Yahoo (bought a 40% stake for $1 billion in 2005). April 15, 2019, Marketwatch.com, 'Alibaba’s Jack Ma calls the '996' - China’s 72-hour workweek - a 'huge blessing'; The extreme overtime culture at many Chinese tech companies has drawn backlash.' |
1999 |
| China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development Founding council members: William McDonough (U.S. chair) | Jack Gibbons | John Holdren | James Gustave Speth | Frank Tugwell. Council member by 2001: Frances Beinecke | Thomas Lovejoy. Council members by 2003: Teresa Heinz | Theodore Roosevelt IV. |
1999 |
| E.U.-Japan Business Round Table Davignon |
1999 |
| World Knowledge Forum, South Korea Former speakers: Alan Greenspan | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Maurice Strong | John Howard (PM Australia) | James Wolfensohn | Frank-Jurgen Richter | Tony Blair | Yukio Hatoyama (Japan PM) | Richard Branson | Paul Krugman | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Niall Ferguson | Donald Trump | Gordon Brown | Larry Summers | Amy Chua | Jean-Louis Beffa | Thierry De Montbrial | Joschka Fischer | Wim Kok | Dominique Strauss-Kahn |
2000 |
| Asian University for Women (AUW) International Support Committee: George Soros (important financier) | Mark Malloch Brown | Mary Robinson. Council of Patrons: Laura Bush. Muhammad Yunus ("key supporter"). Financiers: Open Society, Gates, Rockefeller, IKEA, GS, MacArthur and Andrew W. Mellon foundations. |
2001 |
| Boao Forum for Asia, Hainan Island, China Board: Ban Ki-moon (chair anno '21) | Zhou Xiaochuan (vice chair anno '21) | Long Yongtu (former secretary-general for Asia) | Leif Johansson (anno '21; chair AstraZeneca). Participants since the first 2002 conference: Zhu Rongji ('02; Chinese PM) | Junichiro Koizumi ('02; Japanese PM) | Thaksin Shinawatra ('02; Thai PM) | Lee Han-dong ('02; ROK PM) | Mguyen Manh Cam ('02; Vietnam deputy PM) | Tung Chee Hwa ('02) | Hu Jintao ('08; president Thailand 2003-2013) | Bill Gates ('13 anf '14 Seattle Conf.) | George Soros ('13) | Christine Lagarde ('13) | Hank Paulson ('14 Seattle Conf.) | Kevin Rudd ('14 Seattle Conf.) | Xi Jinping ('18, 21; president China 2013-) | Vincent Siew ('18; Taiwman VP 2008-2012) | Pascal Lamy ('15) | Chen Weihong ('16, '18; top Chinese radio host who interviews western elites) | Merit Janow ('16) | Victor Fung ('16, '18) | Zhu Min ('21 speaker). |
2001 |
| Korea-United States Exchange Council (KORUSEC) Officers: Yong Hoo Lee | Soo Gil Park | Edward Stewart | Courtney Alexander Dodson | Henry Kissinger | Ed Feulner | Richard Walker | Otilie English |
2001 |
| E.U.-China Business Association (EUCBA) Lord Charles Powell of Bayswater (chair for the UK) | Lord James Sassoon (overall president) | Niall FitzGerald (member) |
pre-2002 |
| United States Asia Pacific Council (USAPC) Directors: George Shultz (chair) | J. Stapleton Roy (chair) | Morton Abramowitz | Fred Bergsten | Thomas Foley | Chas Freeman | Donald Gregg | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Joseph Nye | Jim Kolbe | Thomas Pickering | Michael Armacost | Stephen Bosworth | Richard Fairbanks | Sen. Adlai E. Stevenson III | Spencer Kim | Merit Janow. |
2002 |
| Asia Business Council, Hong Kong Trustees: Ronnie Chan (founding chair, emeritus chair 2006-) | Yotaro Kobayashi (anno 2002) | Washington SyCip (anno 2002) | Nobuyuki Idei (anno 2012; regular member anno 2008, 2015, 2021; advisory board chair Sony) | Jamshyd Godrej (anno 2012; regular member anno 2002, 2015, 2020) | Dominic Barton (chair anno 2019; regular member anno 2012, 2017; chair McKinsey & Co.). Members: Bertrand Collomb (anno 2002, 2006) | Steve Forbes (anno 2002, 2008) | Marcus Wallenberg (2004-, anno 2021) | Henry Kravis (anno 2006, 2015) | James McNerney Jr. (anno 2002; chair and CEO 3M and Boeing) | John Chambers (anno 2002; president & CEO Cisco) | Philip Condit (anno 2002; chair and CEO Boeing USA) | Gerard Kleisterlee (anno 2002, 2019; president and CEO Philips) | Penny Pritzker (anno 2012, 2021) | David Rubenstein (anno 2021) | Benoit Potier (anno 2012; chair and CEO Air Liquide). Represents business interests from France, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the US, India, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Mongolia. |
2002 |
| Beijing Gender Health Education Institute (BGHEI) Xiaogang Wei (executive director). Pushes AIDS awareness, gay rights, etc. Major financing from the Ford Fdn. |
2002 |
| Asia Security Conference / Shangri-La Dialogue, Singapore Set up by Dr. John Chipman under IISS auspices. U.S.: Paul Wolfowitz | Sen. Jack Reed | Sen. Chuck Hagel | Jim Kolbe | Gen. Martin Dempsey (Joint Chiefs chair) | Donald Rumsfeld | Robert Gates | Ashton Carter | David Petraeus | Leon Panetta | Jim Steinberg (deputy secretary of state) | Sen. John McCain | Adm. Harry Harris (commander Pacific Command) | Adm. Timothy Keating (commander Pacific Command) | Christopher Chadwick (Boeing) | Patrick Dewar (Lockheed) | Melody Meyer (Chevron Asia) U.K.: Lord Powell | Michael Fallon (defense minister) Canada: Gen. Walter Natynczyk (chief of the Defence Staff) Australia: Kevin Rudd (prime minister) | Kevin Andrews (minister of defense) | Peter Varghese New Zealand: Gerry Brownlee (defense minister) | Mike Yardley (Air Force chief of staff) Singapore: Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam (president) | Lee Hsien Loong (prime minister) | Dr. Ng Eng Hen (defense minister) | K. Shunmagam (minister of foreign affairs) Malaysia: Gen. Tan Sri Zulkifeli Mohd Zin (chief of defense forces) China: Wang Guanzhong (deputy chief General Staff) | Shichun Wu | Admiral Sun Jianguo | Colonel Zhao Xiaozhuo (deputy director China-U.S. Defense Relations Research Center) Japan: Shinzo Abe (prime minister) | Gen. Nakatani (defense minister) | Mitoji Yabunaka Indonesia: Gen. Ryamizard Ryacudu (minister of defense) India: Rao Inderjit Singh (minister of defense) Russia: Anatoly Antonov (deputy defense minister) | Gen. Yevgeny Buzhinskiy Germany: Ursula von der Leyen (Defense minister) Also represented: Cambodia | Philippines | Papua New Guinea | |
2003 |
| China-E.U. Business Summit | 2003 |
| China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) International advisory board: Reuben Jeffrey (Rockefeller & Co.) | Henry Kravis | John Thornton. |
2004 |
| Cambridge China Development Trust Trustees: Sir John Bond (until Sep. 2015) | Lord John Browne of Madingley (anno 2016) | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (July 2014-, still anno 2024) | Muhtar Kent (July 2014-, still anno 2024). Source(s): register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/4018866/trustees (accessed: Jan. 1, 2024). |
2005 |
| Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) / U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue Founders: Hank Paulson (treasury secretary at the time) | Wang Qishan (later China's vice president). These meetings were canceled under Trump. |
2006-2017 |
| Khazanah Global Lectures (KGL), Malaysia Speakers (these are the majority): Kofi Annan ('07) | Muhammad Yunus ('07) | Joseph Stiglitz ('07) | Tun Abdullah Hj Ahmad Badaw ('07) | APJ Abdul Kalam ('08) | Carlos Ghosn ('08; 'Managing Diversity'; president & CEO Nissan and Renault) | Sir John Bond ('09) | Manmohan Singh ('10) | Mary Robinson ('11) | Victor Fung ('12) | Boris Johnson ('14) | Jane Goodall ('16). |
2007 |
| China Investment Corporation (CIC) International advisory board: Lord Nicholas Stern (2009-2013) | James Wolfensohn (2009-2014) | John J. Mack (2010-2016) | Shaukat Aziz (anno '21) | Merit Janow (anno '21) | John Thornton (anno '21) | Lord James Meyer Sassoon (anno '21) | Gerhard Schroder (anno '21) | Jean Lemierre (anno '21). Source(s): china-inv.cn/chinainven/ Governance/ InternationalAdvisoryCouncil.shtml (accessed: Oct. 12, 2021; includes former members). |
2007 |
| Kissinger Institute on China and the United States (board members kept hidden) Founders: Kiss. (U.S. chair) | Stapleton Roy (director/head) | Philip Falcone (vice chair) | Robert Rubin | George Shultz | Maurice Greenberg | Carla Hills | David O'Reilly | Fu Chengyu (president China National Offshore Oil Corporation) | Wei Jiafu (CEO China Ocean Shipping) | Xu Lejiang (chair Baosteel Group) |
2008 |
| Center for China and Globalization (CCG) Founders and leadership: Dr. Wang Huiyao (key founder and president) | Dr. Miao Lu (key founder and vice president) | Long Yongtu (chair anno 2021) | Robin Li (senior vice chair anno '19; co-founder, chair and CEO Baidu). International council: Pascal Lamy | Kevin Rudd | Jeffrey Lehman (president Cornell; founding vice chancellor NYU Shanghai) | Neil Bush. Academic Council: Zhu Min. Advisory council: Ronnie Chan (co-chair) | He Yafei (co-chair) | Cao Dewang | Wang Shi | Wang Junfeng | Robin Li | Jiang Xipei. Advisors (examples): Sha Zukang (former UN under secretary-general) | Song Zhiping (chair China National Building Materials Group Corp.) | Xie Boyang (former vice president of All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce) | Zhang Jing-an (former president of Science and Technology Daily) | Liu Yanhua (former vice minister of Science and Technology) | Zhu Guangyao (former deputy finance minister) | Zhang Xinsheng (former vice minister of education) | Zhu Yinghuang (former editor-in-chief of China Daily) | Zhu Yongxin (vice chair China Assoc. for Promoting Democracy). Experts (examples): Huang Yanzhong (senior fellow for global health at the CFR) | Chen Zhiwu (director of Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong University). Speakers at the CCG's annual China Inbound-Outbound Forum (2014-): Zhang Yiming ('19; founder and CEO ByteDance owner TikTok) | He Yafei ('19). Local heads of Tata Group China, BMW Group Region China, Daimler Greater China, Phillips Morris China, Merck China, etc. Also: a VP of Huawei ('19). |
2008 |
| Asan Institute for Policy Studies (AIPS), Seoul, South Korea International advisory board: Edwin Feulner | Dr. John Chipman | Michael Armacost | Paul Wolfowitz | George Packard. Speakers: Jim Steinberg (keynote '19) | Kurt Campbell 9speaker '16). |
2008 |
| Sanya Initiative 2012 U.S. panel: Gen. James Cartwright (vice chair Joint Chiefs 2007-2011) | Gen. Kevin Chilton (retired STRATCOM commander) | Gen. Dave Deptula (former deputy chief of staff, U.S. Air Force) | Adm. William Fallon (former commander U.S. Central Command | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (vice chair Joint Chiefs 2005-2007) | Adm. Bill Owens (vice chair Joint Chiefs 1994-1996). The Chinese first met with Henry Kissinger and Maurice Greenberg. Also involved in meeting Chinese officials in Washington: Sen. John McCain and Dick Gephardt. 2012 Chinese delegation: Gen. Li Qianyuan, former Commander of PLA Lanzhou Military Region Gen. Zhu Qi, former Commander of PLA Beijing Military Region Adm. Hu Yanlin, former Political Commissar of PLA Navy Gen. Zheng Shenxia, former President of the Academy of Military Sciences Lt. Gen. Wang Liangwang, former Deputy Commander of PLA Air Force Lt. Gen. Zhao Xijun, former Deputy Commander of the PLA Second Artillery Force |
2008 |
| China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) Governors: Tung Chee Hwa (founding chair 2008-2020s) | Victor Fung (vice chair anno 2021) | Ronnie Chan (anno 2021) | Peter Woo (anno 2021). Honorary advisors: Henry Kissinger (anno 2021, one of two) | Robert Rubin (anno 2021, the second of two) | Tang Jiaxuan (anno 2021; former PRC state councilor) | Dr. Xu Kuangdi (vice chair 10th People's Political Consultative Conference). Special advisors: Zhu Yinghuang (anno 2021; editor-in-chief emeritus of China Daily Newspaper Group). Counsellors: Ben Keswick (Jardine Matheson), among dozens of Chinese corporations. Hong Kong Forum on U.S.-China Relations: Carla Hills ('21) | Jean Chretien ('21) | Neil Bush ('21) | Romano Prodi ('21) | Stephen Roach ('21) | Tung C. H. ('21) | Victor F. ('21) | He Yafei ('21) | Jerry Liu ('21; president Cargill China) | Zhu Min ('21; VP IMF; dep. gov. People's Bank of China; chair NIFR, Tsinghua Uni.) |
2008 |
| China Finance 40 Forum (CF40) Top-listed think tank in China. Advisors: Zhu Min (anno '21). International advisors: Joseph Stiglitz (anno '21) | Lord Nicholas Stern (anno '21) | Michael Spence (anno '21). Source(s): new.cf40.org.cn/plus/view.php?aid=3042 (accessed: Sep. 20, 2021). |
2008 |
| Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy & Climate Joint project of a variety of established think tanks. Co-chairs: Steven Chu | John Thornton. Senior advisors: Henry Kissinger | Dianne Feinstein | Gavin Newsom | Lee Scott (CEO Wall Mart). Contributors: Larry Brilliant | John Holdren | William Nitze | Peter Schwartz. Source(s): Jan. 2009, Asia Soc. and Pew Ctr., 'A Roadmap for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy & Climate', pp. 2-4. |
2008 |
| Global Think Tank Summits (CCIEE), China Henry Kissinger | Zbigniew Brzezinski (seems to be implied he visited or was at least consulted) | Lord John Prescott (British vice PM) | Li Keqiang (PM China) | Zeng Peiyan (chair; vice PM China) | Zhou Xiaochuan (governor People's Bank of China) | Huang Tianwen (chair China Steel) | Li Shaode (president China Shipping Company) | Nobuo Tanaka (director IEA) | Muhammad Yunus. |
2009 |
| 21st Century China Center Kurt Campbell (member China Leadership Board anno 2020) | Ken Wilcox (chair anno 2020; former chair Silicon Valley Bank). |
2011 |
| Paulson Institute Focused on the US-China relationship. Hank Paulson (founder and chair) | Kevin Rudd (distinguished fellow). |
2011 |
| Asia Global Institute Originally the Fung Global Institute: Victor Fung (founding chair; co-chair advisory board anno 2020) | Andrew Sheng (president) | Michael Spence (founding academic council chair; co-chair advisory board anno 2020) | Marcus Wallenberg (advisory board anno 2020). Speakers Asia Global Dialogue conferences: Paul Volcker ('12) | Nicholas Stern ('12) | Stanley Fischer ('13) | Pascal Lamy ('13) | Marcus W. ('13) | Jacob Frenkel ('16) | Richard Haass ('20) | Peter Seligmann ('20) | Rahimi Koc ('20) | He Yafei | Tung Chee Hwa. |
2013 |
| U.S.-China Strong Kurt Campbell (vice chair) | Stapleton Roy (director 2018-). Corporate Leadership Council: Kurt C. | Ronnie Chan (chair Hang Lung Group) | John Doerr | Carla Hills | Jon Huntsman | Muhtar Kent | Gary Locke | Robert Roche | Stephen Schwarzman | Josette Sheeran | Darren Walker |
2013 |
| Global CEO Council summits Organized annually in Beijing to advise the Chinese premier. Participants: Jeff Bewkes ('13) | Ginni Rometty ('13; chair and CEO IBM) | Peter Voser | Jean-Pascal Tricoire ('14) | Feike Sijbesma ('14). Member companies: BHP Billiton, Carrefour, Coca-Cola, Cummins, Dell, Dow Chemical, DSM, Honeywell, IBM, Metlife, Prologis, Standard Chartered, Volkswagen, Siemens, Walt Disney, Cargill, Nokia, Schneider (France). |
2014 |
| Our Hong Kong Foundation (HKF) Governors: Tung Chee Hwa (founder and chair anno 2021) | Victor Fung (vice chair anno 2021) | Ronnie Chan (anno 2021). Extra participants in a Dec. 14, 2015 conference: Stephen Roach (Yale's Jackson Inst.) | Allan Zeman (German-Jewish lingerie/clothing importer; appointed chair of Ocean Park Hong Kong 2003-2014 by Tung C. Hwa) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire (co-chair France-China Business Council). |
2014 |
| Bund Summits, Shanghai Annual. Until 2019 virtually exclusively Chinese participants. International Advisory Committee (as of Nov. 28, 2020): Robert Rubin | Jean-Claude Trichet | Jason Furman | Lord Adair Turner | Jeffrey Sachs | Masaaki Shirakawa | Adam Posen | Edmond Alphandery | Joseph Stiglitz. Participants 2020: Joseph S. | Jeffrey S. ('19 as well) | Robert R. | Jean-Claude T. | Tony Blair | Timothy Geithner | Pascal Lamy | Jack Ma | Ray Dalio | Jim O'Neill (chair RIIA) | Nicholas Lardy | Martin Wolf | Robert Koopman (chief economist WTO) | Jeff Schott | John Waldron | Noel Quinn (group CEO HSBC) | Bill Winters (group CEO Standard Chartered Plc.) | Peter Grauer | Jean Lemierre (chair BNP Paribas) | Anne Richards (CEO Fidelity Int.) | Frederic Oudea (CEO Societe Generale) | David Tair (CEO World Gold Council) | Alderman William Russell (Lord Mayor, the City of London). Participants 2019: Carla Hills | Euan Harkness (OBE; vice chair Barclays Capital) | Robert Dohner (senior fellow AC; Treasury Dep.) | Sir Dave Ramsden (dep. gov. Bank of England) | Lord Turner. Chinese participants have represented the Chinese government, HSBC, Warburg, Standard Chartered Bank, the People's Bank of China, the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Bohai Bank, China Society for Finance and Banking, the Shanghai Finance Institute, China International Capital Corporation, China Pacific Insurance, China Wealth Management, Tsinghua University, Peking University, etc. |
2014 |
| Schwarzman Scholars, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China International advisory board: Tony Blair | Nicolas Sarkozy | Kevin Rudd | Brian Mulroney | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Henry Kissinger | Hank Paulson | Robert Rubin | Sir James Wolfensohn | John Thornton | Richard Haass | Graham Allison | Richard Brodhead | Richard Levin | Robert Dudley | Sir Colin Lucas | Nicolas Sarkozy | Chen Ning Yang | Yo-Yo Ma | Tung Chee Hwa. Academic advisory council (represented): Yale | Harvard | Duke | Tsinghua | Gates Fdn. | NCUCR. |
2016 |
| The Working Group on U.S. RMB Trading and Clearing Directors: Michael Bloomberg (main founder and chair) | Timothy F. Geithner (founding co-chair) | Hank Paulson (founding co-chair). Focused on China. The group represents major banks and corporations as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bank of China, BNY Mellon, China Construction Bank, Citi, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo. |
2016 |
| U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum Directors: William Cohen (2017-) | Frank Wisner (2017-) | Indra Nooyi (2017-, advisory board anno '21; chair PepsiCo) | Ajay Banga (2017-; president and CEO MasterCard) | Tim Roemer (anno 2020) | James Umpleby III (anno 2020; chair and CEO Caterpillar) | Purna Saggurti (anno '21; chair Global Commercial and Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York). Advisory board: Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020) | Uday Shankar (anno '21; president Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific). Speakers: Henry Kissinger ('18). Corporations represented by the board: Lockheed Martin | Boeing | Cisco | Dell | FedEx | KKR India | McLarty Associates | Walt Disney | The Asia Group | Warburg Pincus. |
2017 |
| Bush China Foundation / George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations Directors: Neil Bush (key founder and founding chair) | Florence Fang (founding vice-chair; also chair of the foundation's 2020 "U.S.-China Coronavirus Action Network") | Carla Hills (honorary chair anno 2021). Advisory board: Sen. Mark Kirk | Lin Gao (research specialist, Rock. Fdn.). |
2017 |
| Chatham House's 'EU–China Economic Relations to 2025' report Senior Advisory Group: Romano Prodi (co-chair) | Mario Monti | Pascal Lamy | Jean-Claude Trichet | Peter Mandelson | Axel Weber | Tom Enders | Jack Ma | Tung Chee Hwa | Victor Chu | Victor Fung | He Yu (China General Nuclear Power Group) | Gerard Kleisterlee. |
2017 |
| "China-US Financial Roundtable" Hastily organized by China in reaction to tariffs imposed on China by Trump. The idea was to meet every 6 months, in that manner continuing the White House-sanctioned Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) meetings that were canceled under Trump. On 22 Sep. 2021 it hit the news again over Blackstone being blocked from acquiring bankrupt Chinese real estate corporation Soho China. Participants China: Wang Qishan (co-organizer and speaker '18; reportedly very arrogant and told the invited Wall Street bankers to get rid of Trump, leave Hong Kong to China, and just make more hundreds of billions of additional profit) | Zhou Xiaochuan (founding co-chair '18; former governor Chinese central bank) | Yi Gang (People's Bank of China). Participants U.S.: John Thornton (founding co-chair '18) | Stephen Schwarzman | Hank Paulson | John Waldron. Companies represented: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Blackstone, Barrick Gold. Source(s): Sep. 9, 2018, Irish Times, 'Chinese government invites top Wall Street bankers to Beijing'. |
Sep. 16, 2018 |
| Kissinger's 2018 China meeting Henry Kissinger meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping and vice president Wang Qishan to help resolve trade issues with Trump. He also met the Chinese president on March 17, 2015, Dec. 2, 2016 and in Nov. 2018 and Nov. 2019. On Sep. 22, 2015, Xi visited Seattle where Henry introduced him. |
Nov. 8-10, 2018 |
| Bloomberg Global Business Forum (BGBF) Michael Bloomberg (founder) | John Elkann Agnelli (founding partner) | Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia (founding partner) | Jack Ma (founding partner; chair Alibaba Group; speaker '17) | Anand Mahindra (founding partner; chair Mahindra Group) | Aliko Dangote (founding partner; president and CEO Dangote Industries). Speakers: LeBron James ('17: opening video presentation) | Bill Gates ('17) | Lloyd Blankfein ('17) | Bill Clinton ('17, '18, '19) | Justin Trudeau ('17) | Mark Rutte ('17, '18) | Emmanuel Macron ('17) | Christine Lagarde ('17, '18, '19) | Larry Fink ('17, '18) | Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates ('17) | Federica Mogherini ('17) | Jim Kim ('17) | Strive Masiyiwa ('17) | Adm. Michael Mullen ('17) | Paul Polman ('17) | Frans Timmermans ('17, '18) | Jacinda Ardern ('18; PM New Zealand) | Ajay Banga ('17, '18) | Henry Kissinger ('18) | "Bill McDermott" ('18) | Jacqueline Novogratz ('18) | George W. Bush ('19) | Jamie Dimon ('19) | Bob Iger ('19) | Hank Paulson ('19) | David Rubenstein ('19) | Stephen Schwarzman ('19) | Bob Iger ('19). |
2018 |
| Bloomberg New Economy Forum (BNEF) Different from the BGBF. Michael Bloomberg (founder). Annual forums: Singapore ('18), Beijing ('19). Advisory board The West: Henry Kissinger (founding hon. chair and official regular member '18-) | Hank Paulson (founding co-chair '18-) | David Rubenstein (founding '18-) | Bill Gates (founding '18-) | Penny Pritzker (founding '18-) | Larry Summers | Condoleezza Rice (founding '18-) | Walter Isaacson | Robert Zoellick | Kevin Rudd (founding '18-) | Strive Masiyiwa | Janet Yellen (founding '18-) | Ursula Burns | Gary Cohn | Ian Bremmer (anno 2021). Advisory board China (extremely strong presence): Jack Ma (founding '18-; exec. chair Alibaba) | Lou Jiwei (founding '18-; Chinese gov.) | Zeng Peyan (co-chair; Chinese gov.) | Tung Chee Hwa (founding '18-) | Fu Ying (founding '18-; ambassador; China's vice foreign affairs minister for European and then Asian affairs; chair Foreign Affairs Committee of China's 12th National People's Congress 2013-2017) | Neil Shen (founding and man. partner Sequoia Capital China) | Zhou Xiaochuan (gov. People's Bank of China; vice chair Boao Forum) | Min Zhu Min (VP IMF; dep. gov. People's Bank of China; chair NIFR, Tsinghua Uni.) | Xie Zhenhua (China's Special Envoy for Climate Change) | Margaret Chan (former director WHO). Advisory board Far East (remaining): Yoriko Kawaguchi | Martin Lau (exec. dir. Goldman Sachs Asia) | Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Singapore gov.) | Raghuram Rajan (former gov. Reserve Bank of India). Advisory board other: Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (finance minister of Nigeria; senior advisor Lazards) | Eyal Ofer (Israel) | Lubna Olayan (chair Saudi British Bank) | Minouche Shafik (dep. gov. Bank of England; director LSE). Partners: Ajay Banga (founding; president and CEO Mastercard) | Darren Woods (founding; chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | Frederick Smith (founding; chair and CEO FedEx) | Mike Roman (founding; chair and CEO 3M) | Euisun Chung (founding; exec. vice chair Hyundai) | Aliko Dangote (founding; West-Africa) | Dr. Sultan bin Ahmad Sultan Al Jaber of the United Arab Emirates (founding) | Noel Quinn (group CEO HSBC) | Yu Liang (chair Vanke) | Natarajan Chandrasekaran (chair Tata Sons under emeritus chair Ratan Tata). Speakers: Christine Lagarde ('18) | Merit Janow (headed a Nob. 2018 roundtable) | Niall Ferguson (moderator 2019 forum) | Peter Mandelson ('19) | Gayle Smith ('19) | David Solomon ('19; CEO Goldman Sachs) | Marietje Schaake ('19) | Xi Jinping (met with delegates in '19; president China) | Wang Qishan (opening keynote address '19; vice president China) | Wang Huiyao (part of various panels '19). Speaker/participants India: Subrahmanyam Jaishankar ('18; president of Global Corporate Affairs, Tata; former foreign secretary of India) | Natarajan Chandrasekaran ('19; exec. chair exec. chair Tata Sons). bloombergneweconomy.com (accessed: Aug. 1, 2021): "Founding partners: ADNOC [Abu Dhabi National Oil Company]. Bayer. Dangote. ExxonMobil. HSBC. Hyundai. Mastercard. Tata. Vanke. Knowledge Partner: ... McKinsey & Company." Source(s): Oct. 3, 2018, Bloomberg.com, '400 of the World’s Most Influential Business and Government Leaders to Attend Bloomberg’s First-Ever New Economy Forum in Singapore on November 6-7, 2018' (PDF); Sep. 16, 2019, Bloomberg / PRnewswire, 'Bloomberg New Economy Forum Announces Preliminary Speaker and Participant Line-Up for the Second Annual Event in Beijing on Nov 20-22, 2019' (PDF); bloombergneweconomy.com/advisors/ (active on Oct. 3, 2018, but the whole site never archived by web archives until 2021); bloombergneweconomy.com/ nef2021/leadership/ (July 29, 2021); bloombergneweconomy.com/ nef2022/leadership/ (accessed: April 23, 2023). |
2018 |
| UC San Diego Forum on U.S.-China Relations Annual forum participants: Kurt Campbell (organizing comm. '19; co-chair '20) | Stephen Hadley ('19; co-chair '20) | Graham Allison ('20) | J. Stapleton Roy ('19; '20) | Jim Steinberg ('20) | Larry Summers ('20) | Philip Zelikow ('20) | Thomas Donilon ('19) | David Ignatius ('19) | Kevin Rudd ('19). |
2019 |
| China Folk House Retreat Kurt Campbell (anno 2020) | John Flower (vice chair; China expert) | Dahlia Neiss (vice chair anno 2020; USAID history) | Capricia Penevic |
2019 |
| Hong Kong Academy of Finance Stephen Schwarzman (inaugural speech and founding international advisory board) | David Rubenstein (international advisory board). |
2019 |
| Middle East Institute (MEI), Washington, D.C. Kermit Roosevelt (CEO 1964-1966). Governors: Richard A. Clarke (chair) | Philip Wilcox | William Webster | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | Richard Debs (donor) | Sen. Wyche Fowler (chair; ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001) | Paula Dobriansky | Gen. Anthony Zinni (chair). |
1946 |
| American Friends of the Middle East (AFME) National council: Lowell Thomas (founding) | James Farley (founding; SMOM and FDR kingmaker) | Pastor Harry Fosdick (founding) | Henry Regnery 1953-). Directors: Kermit Roosevelt (anno 1963) | James Terry Duce (anno 1963; CFR, VP ARAMCO, close to King Faud). Source(s): 1951-1952, 1953-1954, 1963-1964 annual reports. |
1951 |
| America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (AMIDEAST) Sponsors: Saudi Aramco, Lockheed Martin, Occidental Petroleum. U.S. ambassador Theodore Kattouf (president) | Raymond Mabus (director) | John R. Hayes (chair 1990s) | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. (treasurer) | William A. Rugh (president 1990s) | Robert S. Dillon |
1951 |
| The Middle East Institute, Columbia University Rite Hauser (chair) | Leslie Gelb | Indyk | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. |
1954 |
| Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Harvard University Dr. Herbert Kelman (chair or co-chair of the Middle East Seminar since 1977) |
1954 |
| Iran-U.S. Business Council Henry Kissinger and Hushang Ansary (formed the government counterpart named the U.S.-Iran Joint Committee) | David Rockefeller | Paul Volcker | Peter Peterson. |
1974 |
| U.S.-Saudi Joint Economic Commission | 1975 |
| Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Georgetown University Advisory board: Prince Turki al Faisal (2003-) | Abdulrahman bin Saud Al-Thani | Huda Farouki | David D. Bosch (Aramco) | Alexander Ercklentz (BBH) | Raymond Mabus | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | John M. Moore (Aramco) | Suad Juffali [widow Sheikh Admed J.] | Jafar Askari (Juffali & Brothers) | Samer Khoury (CCC) | Ibrahim Dabdoub (CEO National Bank of Kuwait 1983-) | John Duke Anthony (tenured professor) | Michael A. Callen (c. 2003-2005) |
1975 |
| Arab Thought Forum (ATF) Palestinian forum. Sasakawa Peace Foundation (among the financiers). Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (president) | Daoud Istanbuli (chair) | |
1977 |
| Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) Set up in part in response to the sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty. Merle Thorpe Jr. (founder; sole principal: 1979-1994) | Sen. William Fulbright (mentor to Merle; unofficially involved) | Ambassador Philip Wilcox Jr. (president 2001-2014) | Lara Friedman (president). |
1979 |
| Institute for Middle East Peace and Development (IMEPD) Founders: Stephen P. Cohen | Cyrus Vance | Shimon Peres | Moshe Dayan | Boutros Boutros Ghali. Directors: Richard Armitage | Frank Wisner II. ipforum.org/display.cfm?rid=880 (accessed: April 20, 2005; page of Stephen P. Cohen): "With the assistance of Cyrus Vance, then United States Secretary of State, the Institute for Middle East Peace was created at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with Arab, American, and Jewish leading business figures and with financial support from the Ford [Fdn.], Rockefeller [Fdn.], the Agency for International Development, and private philanthropists." |
1979-2015 |
| Arab World Institute, France Dominique Baudis (president 2007-2009). Representatives: Sheik Faisal Al-Hegelan (Saudi ambassador to the U.S. 1979-1983) | Mohammed Ismail al-Sheikh (Saudi ambassador to France) | Shaikha Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa and Nasser al Belooshi (Bahrain) | Hatem Seif el Nasr (Egyptian ambassador to France 2002-2006 and since then to the UK) | Nawaf Jassim (Iraq, pre Gulf War II) and Mouafak Abboud. Maintains relations with: Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Djibouti, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libanon, Libya, Morocco, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia and Yemen. |
1980 |
| Middle East Policy Council (MEPC) George McGovern (president 1991-1997) | Chas Freeman (president 1997-2009) | Frank Carlucci (director 1990s-2008) | Najeeb Halaby (director 1990s-2004) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (director 2000s-2020s) | Graham Fuller (editorial advisory committee) |
1981 |
| Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA) | 1982 |
| Arab Bankers Association of North America (ABANA) Ziad Abdelnour |
1983 |
| National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (NCUSAR) Board: John Duke Anthony (founding president and CEO into the 2020s; countless DOD/national security/foreign affairs links). National Council International Advisory Committee: HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud | H. Delano Roosevelt (2015-, still anno 2022; also board) | Prince Turki al Faisal (anno 2022, along with other members of the Saudi royal family) | Gen. David Petraeus. |
1983 |
| U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council Debs | Turki al Faisal (speech) |
1993 |
| U.S./Middle East Project, a CFR project Includes the CFR leadership and in general the elite of the elite. Paul VoIcker | Zbig B. | Carla HiIIs | Brent Scowc. (chair) | Sen. Chuck HageI | Sam N. | James WoIfensohn | Sir Peter SutherIand | Richard D. | Thomas P.| Daniel Levy (president). The international advisory board included: Lee H. | Lester C. | Hassan bin Talal | Hosni Mubarak | Robert Lifton (co-chair). Executive director of the project's Arab Reform Initiative since 2005: Bassma Kodmani |
1994 |
| American-Turkish Council (ATC) Brent Scowcroft | Richard Armitage | Frank Carlucci | Sam Berger | Alexander Haig | Taft IV | Mustafa Koc | Eli Whitney Debevoise II |
1994 |
| Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (CAAEF) Solarz (chair) |
1994 |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Leading organization supported by many elements of the U.S. government, but repeatedly and severely linked to jihadism and terrorism. Advisory board: Siraj Wahhaj (suspected terrorist). Financiers: Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz al Saud. Also: Tides Fdn. (financed its Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes). |
1994 |
| Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR), United Arab Emirates Trustees: Sheikhs running the UAE's foreign poilicy. Lecturers: Sir Malcolm Rifkind (1996) | Lord David Owen (1998) | John Zogby (2000) | Angela Merkel (2007) | Nicholas Sarkozy (2016) | Tony Blair (2016) | David Miliband (undated) | Bob Woodward (undated) | Susan Pointer (undated; "Responsible for Google’s public policy programs and elite government relationships.") | David Petraeus (2014) | Leon Panetta (2013) | Richard A. Clarke (2010) | Dr. John Chipman (undated) | Richard Haass (2005) | John Duke Anthony (2008) | William Hague (2015) | Martti Ahtisaari (2014). |
1994 |
| U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce Kissinger | James Baker III and IV | Brzezinski | Scowcroft | Perle | Cheney | Armitage |
1995 |
| Qatar Foundation His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani (founder) | Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser (founder). Partner in the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Director: Sir Charles Masefield (executive director BAE) | Vartan Gregorian |
1995 |
| The Foundation for Democracy in Iran Very conservative. Co-founders: Joshua Muravchik | Peter Rodman | David Beasley | Dr. Mehdi Rouhan (Shiite leader in Europe) | Kenneth Timmerman (president and CEO). Governing board: Nader Afshar (chair; USIA and Voice of America Farsi Service background) | Herbert London. Advisory board: James Woolsey | Frank Gaffney | Menashe Amir | Pooya Dayanim | Iman Foroutan (U.S. defense industry past; co-founder Iran of Tomorrow Movement and S.O.S. Iran) | Amil Imani (director and co-founder of Former Muslims United) | Dr. Arash Irandoost ( Pro-Democracy Movement of Iran) | Reza Kahlili (former top CIA spy in Iran) | Robert Reilly (director Voice of America; DOD advisor during the 2003 Iraq invasion). |
1995 |
| Afghanistan-America Foundation (AAF) Brzezinski (co-chair) | Scowcroft (co-chair) |
1996 |
| American Iranian Council (AIC) Cyrus Vance (hon. chair) | Hooshang Amirahmadi (president) | Chas Freeman | Frank Wisner II | Thomas Pickering | Robert Pelletreau, Jr. | George Soros (known visitor) | Dennis Kucinich (visitor in June 2007) | Sen. Chuck Hagel (visitor in June 2007) | Nicholas Kristof (speaker in June 2007) |
1997 |
| Jeddah Economic Forum, Saudi Arabia Amr Al-Dabbagh (founder) | Sheikh Saleh Kamel (president). Speakers: George H. W. Bush ('00) | Neil Bush ('02) | John Major ('00) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing ('01) | Helmut Kohl ('01) | Prince Abdullah bin Faisal bin Turki ('01) | Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain ('01) | Bill Clinton ('02) | Hillary Clinton | Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal | Queen Rania of Jordan ('04, '07) | Shaukat Aziz ('04, '05, '12) | Recep Tayyip Erdogan ('04, '07) | Rafik Hariri ('04) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('05) | Madeleine Albright ('05) | Klaus Schwab ('05) | Tom Ridge ('05) | Hamid Karzai ('05) | Gerhard Schroder ('06) | Steve Forbes ('06) | Jean Chretien ('07) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('07, '08) | Peter Mandelson ('07) | Wesley Clark ('07). |
1999 |
| Amman Center for Peace and Development (ACPD), Jordan Partnered with the West. Gen. Mansour Abu Rashid, former head of Jordanian intelligence (chair) | Dr. Muhammad Kheir Mustafa (director) |
1999 |
| American Islamic Congress (AIC) Neocon front. Zainab Al-Suwaij (founder; fled to U.S. after involvement in a rebellion against Saddam Hussein; major 2003 Iraq War supporter; Yale) | Hillel Fradkin (fellow Hudson Inst.) | Dr. Khaleel Mohammad (uses the Koran to justify his support for the state of Israel) | Nasser Weddady (neocon, pro-Israel) | Zuhdi Jasser (pro-Israel) | Harriet Fulbright (widow of the senator). Lots of neocon backing and anti-CAIR. Description of AIC: "trained young Middle Eastern activists in the methods of non-violent protest and social media mobilization, empowering them to challenge regimes during the Arab Spring [of 2011-2012]." Financiers: U.S government | Cato | Bradley Fdn. | Donors Capital Fund | Sheldon Adelson ($95,500 in 2009) | Klarman Family Fdn. of Seth Klarman ($425,000 2005-2011) | John Templeton Fdn. (partnership). |
Late 2001 |
| National Iranian American Council (NIAC) Thomas Pickering (advisory council; the only elitist). |
2002 |
| Layalina Productions, Inc. Non-profit. Board of Counselors (layalina.tv/meet/counselors.asp (accessed: June 4, 2004)): George H. W. Bush (hon. chair) | David Abshire | Richard V. Allen | James Baker III | Sam Berger | Wayne Berman | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Lawrence Eagleburger | Richard Fairbanks (founding chair of the exec. board) | Fred Fielding | Marc Charles Ginsberg (founding president) | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Henry Kissinger | Sam Nunn | James Schlesinger | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | Robert Strauss | John Whitehead. layalina.tv/about/ (accessed: June 8, 2004): "Layalina Productions, Inc. was inaugurated in March 2002 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit, private sector corporation. Layalina develops and produces informational and entertaining Arabic-language television programming for licensing to satellite and cable TV networks throughout the Arab Middle East and North Africa. The events of September 11, the war against Iraq, and the increasing level of distrust and anger toward the United States emanating from the Arab Middle East and North Africa inspired us to launch this crucial public diplomacy initiative." Funding: Hewlett Fdn., Jm Fdn., etc. |
2002 |
| Afghanistan World Foundation (AWF) Sonia Nassery (official founder, chair and CEO; Afghan refugee who came to the U.S.; successfully called on Reagan to arm Ahmad Massoud's Northern Alliance to resist the Soviet invasion of the 1980s). AWF Celebrity Ambassadors: Tom Cruise | Al Pacino | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Benecio del Toro | Celine Dion | Charlize Theron | Faith Hill | Helen Hunt | Julianne Moore | Penelope Cruz | Sigourney Weaver | Shaquille O'Neil | Mohammed Ali. Senior board of advisors: Henry Kissinger | Prince Albert of Monaco | Dianne Feinstein | Sen. John Kyl. Directors: Keifer Sutherland (anno 2020). Honorary chairs: Hamid Karzai (participant in meetings) | George H. W. Bush | Bill Clinton | Nancy Reagan (her husband knew Nassery from the 1980s). |
2002 |
| U.S. Afghan Women's Council, Georgetown University Members: Laura Bush (hon. co-chair) | Hillary Clinton (hon. co-chair) | Paula Dobriansky | Doris Buffett (oldest sister of Warren Buffett) | Pat Mitchell | Dina Habib Powell | Diana Rowan Rockefeller. |
2002 |
| Friends of Saudi Arabia (FSA) Founders: H. Delano Roosevelt | HRH Prince Abdulaziz Bin Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud (son of the late-King Abdullah) |
2005 |
| Campaign for American Leadership in the Middle East (CALME) mideastcalm.org (accessed: Oct. 9, 2021): "Dear Mr. President ... We write to underscore American public support for your efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ... The basic elements of settlement are both achievable and clear: a two-state solution, rigorous security guarantees and the protection of human rights and access to holy sites." Signers in 2005: Madeleine Albright | Craig Barrett (CEO Intel) | Eli Broad | William Cohen | Lester Crown | Lawrence Eagleburger | Richard Fairbanks | Charles Goodman (director General Dynamics) | Lee Hamilton | John Hamre | Martin Indyk | Walter Isaacson | Thomas Kean | George Mitchell | William Nitze | Sean O'Keefe | Louis Perlmutter (exec. man. director Lazard) | John Podesta | Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | William D. Rogers | Warren Rudman | Frederick Smith (chair and CEO FedEx) | James Zogby. Additional signers by 2007: Richard Burt | Henry E. Catto Jr. | Warren Christopher | Chester Crocker | Adm. William Crowe | Stuart Eizenstat | Episcopal Church Reverend Frank Griswold III | Sidney Harman | Arianna Huffington | Anthony Lake | Mack McLarty | Norman Mineta | Sam Nunn | Leon Panetta | William Perry | Thomas Pickering | Seymour Reich (president Israel Policy Forum; past president, B'nai B'rith Int.) | Tom Ridge | Chuck Robb | William Taft IV | William Webster | John Whitehead | Frank Wisner II | Gen. Anthony Zinni | Mairav Zonszein (former exec. director Union of Progressive Zionists). |
2005 |
| Foundation for the Future, Bahrain Founders: Condoleezza Rice, Liz Cheney and Shaha Riza (Wolfowitz's girlfriend and employee). Directors: Anwar Ibrahim (chair; Malaysia; close friend of Wolfowitz since the mid-1980s) | Rahma Bourqia (vice chair; Morocco) | Kamel Abu Jaber (treasurer; Jordan) | Laila al Hamad (Kuwait) | Bakhtiar Amin (Iraq) | Andreu Claret Serra (Spain) | Sandra Day O'Connor (U.S.; Halliburton) | Abdul Rahman al Rashed (Saudi Arabia) |
2005 |
| Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy (ADA) Trustee: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Mehriban Aliyeva (first lady of Azerbaijan) |
2006 |
| Iranian Freedom Institute (IFI) Richard Perle (co-founder and chair) | |
2006 |
| Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Neocon. Founders: Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami (Hoover Inst.). Founding members academic council (still there as of 2019): Leslie Gelb | George Shultz |
2007 |
| Arab Democracy Foundation (ADF) Trustees: H.H. Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Misnad (chair; Qatar) | Dr. Salim El Hoss (vice chair; Lebanon) | Dr. Ali Fakhro (Bahrain) | H.E. Imam Al Sadiq Al Mahdi (Sudan) | Dr. Azmi Bishara (Palestine) | Joschka Fischer. Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Mauritania, Yemen, England, Canada and Italy are also represented. |
2007 |
| U.S.-Palestinian Partnership "Leadership: Henrietta Fore (founding "U.S. Government Lead" Dec. '07-'08; adm. USAID 2007-2009) | Walter Isaacson (president and CEO anno March '08-'11) | Ziad Asali (co-chair anno March '08-'11; founding president American Task Force on Palestine) | Lester Crown (co-chair anno '08-'11) | Sandy Weill (co-chair anno '08-'11; chair Citigroup) | Madeleine Albright ("leadership" and honorary chair anno 2011) | Samer Khoury (co-chair anno '11) | Craig Newmark (co-chair anno '11) | Robert Mosbacher Jr. (co-chair anno '11). Source(s): : uspalestinianpartnership.org /news/us-palestinian-partnership-newsletter-december (accessed: March 14, 2009): "Since its inception in December 2007... Launched by President ... Bush, Secretary of State [Condi] Rice, USAID Administrator [Mrs.] Fore, and U.S. business leaders..."; uspalestinianpartnership.org/leadership (accessed: March 11, 2009 - Sep. 21, 2011). |
2007 |
| Quilliam Foundation Supposedly a Pro-Islam lobby that combats Muslim extremism. However, the foundation has a rather schizophrenic approach in that it is rather pro-neocon, pro-Israel and pro-spying on alleged Muslim extremists in the West, but at the same time critical of Dutch neocon Geert Wilders. It is also named after a 19th-century British convert to Islam who founded Britain's first mosque and called for a global Caliphate. Claims it works on a "West friendly" version of Islam. Would ordinarily receive liberal establishment backing because it criticizes anti-Islam conservative leaders as Geert Wilders. However, in reality is receives tons of neocon backing. Financiers: Criticized for having received 1 million pounds in start-up funds from the British government. Received a $1,080,997 grant of the John Templeton Fdn. for the period September 2014 - June 2017. Other funders: Templeton Fdn. ($174,248 in 2011) | Stuart Family Foundation ($495,000 in 2011-2012 period; finances both liberal and conservative groups) | Bradley Fdn. ($75,000 in 2013; conservative) | Sam Harris ($20,000 in 2014; "war with Islam" promoter) Co-founder: Maajid Nawaz (spoke at WINEP and the Center for National Policy) | Rashad Zaman Ali | Ed Husain (senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies, CFR, 2011-). |
2008 |
| Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) Founding trustees: Jacob Rothschild | Marie-Josee Kravis | H.E. Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani (daughter of the Emir of Qatar; powerful in art world) | H.E. Sheikh Hassan Bin Mohammed Al-Thani (another important art figure) | H.E. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah (chair Qatar Petroleum; deputy PM Qatar) | H.E. Abdulla Bin Khalifa Al-Attiya (Qatar minister of state) | H.E Sheikh Abdul Rahman Bin Saud Al Thani (military career; sec.-gen. Qatar Olympic Committee) | Dominique de Villepin (PM france 2005-7) | H.E. Dr. Mohamed Abdul Raheem Kafoud | Mansoor Al Khater. |
2008 |
| United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) Liberal, but also Mossad and conservative-linked, most likely because Ahmadinejad proved to be so unreliable. Woolsey (CIA) | Meir Dagan (Mossad) | Dearlove (MI6) | Mark Wallace | Holbrooke | Guthrie | Pauline Neville-Jones (chair JIC) | Leslie Gelb | |
2008 |
| Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat) International advisory board: Dr. Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah (ambassador to the US; deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs of Kuwait; attached to Oxford and Harvard universities) | Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer | Dominique De Villepin | Kevin Rudd. Trustees: Dr. Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar (chair; Bahrain ambassador to the UN, US, Canada, Belgium and Luxembourg) | Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali bin Rashid Al Khalifa (head Bahrain National Security Agency; ambassador and military attache to the UK and US) | Dr. Abdul-Hussain bin Ali Mirza (Minister of Oil and Gas Affairs) | Dr. Ahmed Abdullah Farhan (chief justice High Military Court) | Abdulla Abdulatif Abdulla (ambassador to the UN; Bahrain's undersecretary of state) |
2010 |
| C3 Summit / C3 US-Arab Business and Healthcare Summit Speakers: King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain | Bill Clinton (2012) | Frank Wisner (2012) | Jared Kushner (2012) | James Zogby (2013) | Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal bin Abdulaziz al Saud (2014) | John Duke Anthony (2014, 2015) | Wesley Clark (2015) | Robert Hormats (2015) | Maurice Sonnenberg (2015) | Henry Kissinger (2016) | David Petraeus (2016) | James Woolsey (2016) | Rabbi Arthur Schneier (2016) | H. Delano Roosevelt (2016) | Princess Dina Mired of Jordan (2019). |
2010 |
| World Government Summit, Dubai Partnered with the World Bank, IMF, OECD and United Nations. Past speakers: Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum | Queen Rania of Jordan | Richard Branson | Barack Obama | Jim Kim (president World Bank) | Christine Lagarde (man. dir. IMF; president ECB; gender quota pusher) | Klaus Schwab | Francis Fukuyama | Muhammad Yunus | Jeffrey Sachs | Joseph Stiglitz | Gordon Brown | Dominique De Villepin | Steve Wozniak (Apple) | Peter Baron (Google) | Kevin Kelly (co-founder Wired magazine) | Dr. Elizabeth Rhodes (research director Y Combinator Research) | Dr. Nicholas Negroponte (MIT Media Lab) | Nicolas Cary (co-founder and president of Blockchain; '16) | Kevin Mitnick | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Dr. Paul Litchfield | Dr. Andrew Weil | Michio Kaku | Deepak Chopra | Arianna Huffington | Jose Zapatero | Paul Kagame | Robert De Niro | Ban Ki-moon | Elon Musk ('17, '23). |
2013 |
| Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) Advisory board: Francis Fukuyama (2013-) | Marietje Schaake (2013-) | Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi of the United Arab Emirates (2013-; prominent voice during the "Arab Spring") | Larry Diamond (2013-) | Alex Shalaby (2013-; Egyptian CEO and NGO man with strong western ties). Also: Nancy Okail (executive director). |
2013 |
| Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (AGSIW) Directors: Frank Wisner (founding chair 2015-2013, "outgoing chair" anno Dec. 2023) | Thomas Pickering (founding 2015, still anno 2024) | Fatima Al Jaber (founding 2015, still anno 2024; COO United Arab Emirates-based Al Jaber Group) | Nabil Habayeb (founding 2015-, gone by 2023; president and CEO of GE for the Middle East, North Africa & Turkey 2004-) | Ambassador C. David Welch (anno '23; ass. sec. of State for Near Eastern Affairs 2005-2008; president of the Europe, Africa & Middle East division of Bechtel anno 2023-2024). Corporate members: Raytheon | Chevron | Lockheed Martin | Shell | GE | Aramco. Source(s): agsiw.org/about/ (accessed: Feb. 15, 2015); agsiw.org/about/board/ (accessed: May 15, 2021-Jan. 1, 2024). |
2015 |
| Justice for Kurds Network of Student Ambassadors Board of directors: Thomas Kaplan (chair anno '19-'22, of two directors, "founder") | Bernard-Henri Levy (president anno '19-'22, of two directors, "founder"). Advisory council: William Kristol (anno '19-'22) | Dov Zakheim (anno '19-'22) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (anno '19-'22) | Gen. David Petraeus (anno '19-'22) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno '19-'22) | Tom Tugendhat (anno '19-'22) | Radoslaw Sikorski (anno '19-'22) | Michael Steinhardt (anno '19-'22) | Bill Maher (anno '19-'22) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (anno '19-'22; governor WINEP) | Martin Peretz (anno '19-'22; governor WINEP) | Abraham Foxman (anno '19-'22; nat. director ADL 1987-2015) | Arnaud de Puyfontaine (anno '19-'22) | Marina Abramovic (anno '19-'22) | Garry Kasparov (anno '19) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (anno '19-'22) | Anne Applebaum (anno '19-'22) | James Levinsohn (anno '19-'22; director Jackson Inst.) | Gen. Sir Graeme Lamb (anno '19-'22; UK special forces) | Paul Berman (anno '19-'22) | Max Boot (anno '19-'22) | Daniel Cohn-Bendit (anno '19-'22) | Eric Edelman (anno '19-'22) | Ambassador Peter Galbraith (anno '19-'22) | Howard Berman (anno '22; governor WINEP) | Jeb Bush (anno '22) | Richard Clarke (anno '22) | Laurent Dassault ('22; co-man. director Dassault Group) | Mia Farrow (anno '22) | Ina Giscard d'Estaing (anno '22) | Ben Goldsmith (anno '22; son of Sir James, the elite MI6 asset; married to Kate Rothschild 2003-2012; his older brother, MP Zac, who married Alice Miranda Rothschild in 2013, was a pusher of the Carl Beech "pedocracy" disinformation; Teddy is his uncle) | Jane Hartley (anno '22) | David Howell (anno '22) | Lord John Kerr of Kinlochard (anno '22) | Bernard Kouchner (anno '22) | Lord Jonathan Mendelsohn (anno '22) | Alain Minc (anno '22) | Bill Richardson (anno '22) | Robert Richer (anno '22; former assoc. dep. director of operations CIA) | Eric de Rothschild (anno '22) | Gloria Steinem (anno '22) | Sting (anno '22). Source(s): justiceforkurds.org/about/ (accessed: Nov. 3, 2019 and Aug. 17, 2022; directors and advisors). |
2017 |
| Qatar Economic Forum Partnered with Bloomberg. U.S. speakers: Michael Bloomberg ('21-'23) | Larry Summers ('21) | David Rubenstein ('21) | Larry Fink ('21) | Gen. David Petraeus ('21, '23; as parner KKR and chair KKR Global Inst.) | Stephen Schwarzman ('21, '23) | Michael Chertoff ('21) | Rob Speyer ('21; president and CEO Tishman Speyer) | Ruth Porat ('21; CFO Alphabet and Google) | Hillary Clinton ('21) | Steven Mnuchin ('21-'23; treasury secretary 2017-2021) | Darren Woods ('21-'22; chair and CEO Exxon Mobil) | Ursula Burns ('21, '23) | Michael Novogratz ('21) | Ray Dalio ('21; co-chair and co-CIO Bridgewater Assoc.) | David Calhoun ('21-'23; president and CEO Boeing) | Reeta Roy ('21; president and CEO Mastercard Fdn.) | Dan Morehead ('21; founder and CEO Pantera Capital) | Anthony Capuano ('21-'22; CEO Marriott Int.) | Darius Adamczyk ('21-'22; chair and CEO Honeywell) | Nouriel Roubini ('22-'23) | Elon Musk ('22) | Jeff Koons ('23) | Jack Selby ('23; man. dir. Thiel Capital) | Stephen Pagliuca ('23; senior advisor Bain Capital Private Equity) | Michael Miebach ('23; CEO Mastercard). Speakers U.K.: Gordon Brown ('21; former PM UK) | Boris Johnson ('21; PM UK) | Lord Peter Mandelson ('21) | Mo Ibrahim ('21) | David Beckham ('21) | Jes Staley ('21; group CEO Barclays) | Bill Winters ('21-'22; group CEO Standard Chartered) | Nicolas Cary ('21; co-founder & President Blockchain.com) | Baroness Valerie Amos ('21; the UK's first black cabinet member) | Peter Smith ('23; co-founder and CEO Blockchain.com) Netherlands speakers: Ben van Beurden ('21-'22; CEO Shell) German speakers: Dr. Herbert Diess ('21-'22; CEO Volkswagen AG) | Matthias Rebellius ('21; director Siemens). French speakers: Patrick Pouyanne ('21; chair and CEO TotalEnergies) Swiss speakers: Axel Weber ('21; chair UBS) | Sergio Ermotti ('21; chair Swiss Re). Scandinavian speakers: Borje Ekholm ('21; president and CEO Ericsson Group). Italian speakers: Gianni Infantino (president FIFA 2016-). East European speakers: Atifete Jahjaga ('21; former president Kosovo) | Viktor Orban (PM Hungary). African speakers: Fred Swaniker ('21; founder and CEO African Leadership Group) | Aliko Dangote ('21) | Paul Kagame ('21-'23; PM Rwanda) | Cyril Ramaphosa ('21; president South Africa) | Felix Tshisekedi ('21; president Congo) | Patrick Achi ('21; PM Cote d'Ivoire) | Macky Sall ('21; president Senegal) | Hage Geingob ('22; president Namibia) | Faure Gnassingbé ('22; president Togo) | Kassym-Jomart Tokayev ('22; president of Kazakhstan) | Tidjane Thiam ('22; Côte d'Ivoire businessman with a history at INSEAD, Credit Suisse, McKinsey, etc.; his mother was a niece of Felix Houphouet-Boigny, the anti-communist president of Cote d'Ivoire 1960-1993) | Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo ('23; president Ghana). Qatari speakers: HRH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani ('21-'22) | Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud Al Thani ('21; governor Qatar Central Bank) | Khalid bin Khalifa Al Thani ('21; CEO Qatargas) | Countless other Al Thani family members ('21-) | Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani ('23; PM and foreign minister of Qatar) | Akbar al-Baker ('21-'22; group CEO Qatar Airways) | Saad bin Sherida al-Kaabi ('21; Qatari minister of energy and president and CEO of Qatar Petroleum) | Ali bin Ahmed al-Kuwari ('21; Qatari minister of finance) | Nasser Fahad Al Khater (CEO FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 LLC). Other Middle Eastern speakers: Recep Tayyip Erdogan ('21; president Turkey) | Irakli Garibashvili ('21-'23; PM Georgia) | Armen Sarkissian ('21; president Armenia) | Elham Mahfouz ('23; female CEO Commercial Bank of Kuwait). India speakers: Natarajan Chandrasekaran ('21; chair Tata Sons) | S. Jaishankar ('21; India's minister of external affairs). Bangladesh speakers: Sheikh Hasina ('21; PM Bangladesh) | Chinese speakers: Changpeng Zhao ('21; founder and CEO Binance) Far Eastern speakers: Shou Chew ('23; CEO TikTok) | Jahja Setiaatmadja ('23; president-director Bank Central Asia). Other: Dr. Vera Songwe ('21; nonresident senior fellow, Global Economy and Development, Africa Growth Initiative, Brookings Inst.) | Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ('21; dir. gen. WTO) | Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ('21; dir. gen. WHO) | Amina Mohammed ('21; dep. sec. gen. UN) | Henrietta Fore ('21; exec. dir. UNICEF) | Kristalina Georgieva ('23; man. dir. IMF). Source(s): qatareconomicforum.com/2021-speakers/, 2022-speakers/, 2023-speakers/ (accessed: Dec. 31, 2023). |
2021 |
Arab banks and charities tied to terror, dictators and western elites
| Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Pakistan and England. Involved: Agha Hasan Abedi (founder and president throughout its existence) | Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan (among the initial financiers and the major shareholder; president UAE 1971–2004) | Alfred Hartmann (major Rothschild banker and director and president of BCCI's secret Swiss subsidiary BCP, CFO BCC Holding; also a director of the related BNL bank and reportedly also involved in Banco Ambrosiano) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (director; paid a $225 million fine for his role) | Abur Sakhia (general manager BCCI New York) | Mohammed Hammoud (shareholder; borrowed over $110 million from BCCI which was never repaid (BCCI made a staggering $1,5 billion worth of loans to its own shareholders); suddenly died in 1990) | Sir Frederic Bennett (MI6-connected aristocrat who was honorary director of the BCCI in Hong Kong until 1986 and listed himself as a consultant) | Sir Julian Ridsdale (consultant) | Julian Amery (consultant) | Henry Kissinger (consultant to the BCCI through Kissinger Assoc. 1986-early 1989). Involved in the bank, according to the senate investigative committee: William Casey (CIA director who reportedly met every few months with Abedi at the Madison Hotel in the mid-1980s; used the bank to finance the Afghanistan Mujahideen and reportely also to launder the proceeds of the heroin that the Mujahideen produced) | Clark Clifford | Richard Helms | Adnan Khashoggi | Kamal Adham | Abdul Raouf Khalil | Manucher Ghorbanifar | Esam Ghazzawi (held money for Prince Fahd bin Salman, son of Prince Salman, a brother of King Fahd, in a BCCI branch; later hosted 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta at his home in the months before 9/11; suddenly fled the U.S. less than two weeks before 9/11; Prince Fahd mysteriously died in July 2001, followed a year later by his elder brother and two other princes) | Nicholas Katzenbach (chair 1991-). Also: Prince Turki (shareholder, who funneled over $1 billion dollars in aid to the Mujahideen and would have helped launder the heroin proceeds; reportedly met with Osama bin Laden, his old protege, just weeks before 9/11, along with a CIA officer). |
1972-1991 |
| First Arabian Corporation Founders and shareholders: Saudi intelligence chief Kamel Adham | Prince Abdullah bin Musaid bin Abdul Rahman | Sheikh Salem bin Ladin | Roger Tamraz | Ghaith Pharaon |
1973 |
| Saudi Investment Company (SICO) An international subsidiary of the Saudi Binladen Group ran by Yeslam bin Laden, a half brother of Osama bin Laden. Already in 1999 French intelligence linked the company to the financing of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. In addition, Yeslam owned Avcon Business Jets SA and is known to have sent at least one person to the same tiny Florida airport where 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and some of his aides were trained by CIA and White House-linked individuals. Also on the board: Shakarshi family (linked to drug trafficking and money laundering). |
1980 |
| Saar Foundation Raided in 2002 for connections to the Muslim Brotherhood bank Al-Taqwa and other terrorist financing. Officers: Sulaiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi (founder; worth estimated between $5.9 and $7.7 bln in 2011; major shareholder in the 1957-founded family's Al-Rajhi Bank, one Saudi Arabia's largest banks repeatedly tied to terrorist financing, including 9/11; name appeared on the "Golden Chain", a list of 20 Al-Qaeda financiers; 2003, CIA report, 'Al Rajhi Bank: Conduit for Extremist Finance') | Yaqub Mirza (CEO 1984-2002) | Dr. Cherif Sedky (trustee and secretary; lawyer to Khalid bin Mahfouz, the controversial Bush-tied BCCI banker and "Golden Chain" Al-Qaeda financier) | Abdurahman Alamoudi* (exec. assistant to the president 1985-1990; U.S. immigrant 1979-; repeated Hamas supporter; founder Islamic Soc. of Boston in 1981; founder American Muslim Council in 1990; founder American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Affairs Council in 1991; Islamic affairs advisor and "goodwill ambassador" to Muslim nations under Clinton in the 1990s). More: Mohamed Hadid** (50-50 partner with Saar in many projects in the 1980s and likely 1990s; father of supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid; claims descent from 18th century northern Palestine ruler Zahir al-Umar; family fled Palestine to Syria, where father Anwar joined for USIA and Voice of America, stationed in Damascus, Tunisia, Greece and finally Washington, D.C., where Mohamed became a major real estate developer through a 50-50 partnership with Saar). 1996 Annual Convention in Illinois, Islamic Association of Palestine, words of Abdulrahman Alamoudi: "It depends on me and you, either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I think if we are outside this country we can say, "Oh, Allah destroy America," but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. [Not clear if he was asked this, or just supported these men:] When will you talk to the President to free Brother Musa Marzook [a senior Palestine Hamas member]? ... When will you talk to the President to free Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman ["The Blind Sheikh"; convicted in 1995 for plotting bombings in the US]? Brothers, it's an investment, we all are in this together, unless you help us with it, we cannot do it." **April 24, 1989, WaPo: "The [Saar] foundation is a 50-50 partner in many of Hadid's ventures, a Herndon-based foundation with Saudi roots... He estimates his net worth at $90 million. ... Has had to fight off a series of 30 or more lawsuits from creditors and banks [but is backed by] no less a mainline firm than Morgan Stanley... Mitsubishi Bank Ltd. provided a $60 million acquisition and construction loan for Hadid's new building at 1001 New York Ave. NW in the District." **Oct. 7, 2020, Washington Post, 'U.S. Trails Va. Muslim Money, Ties': "By investing the Rajhis' money with Washington real estate developer Mohamed Hadid, [Saar Fdn. CEO Yaqub Mirza] made SAAR one of the region's biggest landlords in the 1980s. "The funds came very easily," said a businessman who dealt with SAAR. "If they wanted a few milliom dollars, they called the al-Rajhis, who would send it along." ... Steve Emerson, a terrorism expert who has studied SAAR for six years, said that "although the SAAR network presents a moderate profile, they have contacts and connections to Islamic groups here an abroad that are under investigation for ties to terrorism. ... After the 1995 Tampa searches, investigators widened that probe, launching a related investigation the SAAR network, which lasted into the late 1990s. In 1998, National Security Council aides in the Clinton White House pushed the FBI to intensify that SAAR investigation. But knowledgeable sources said the FBI declined because of fears that a probe would be seen as ethnic profiling." July 23, 2003, Committee on Governmental Affairs, 'Terrorism Financing', Volume 4, pp. 83, 120: "Foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal told the Saudi daily Arab News on June 23, 2003 [that] the Saudi Arabian Kingdom only sends funding through the PLO. He denied that the Saudis finance Hamas. Yet during Israel's Operation Defensive Shield last year, a whole array of documents was uncovered which show these repeated Saudi denials to be completely baseless. ... Checks made out to well-known Hamas fronts from the corporate account of al-Rajhi Banking and Investment at Chase Manhattan Bank were also uncovered. ... In the U.S., funding of numerous charities by Suleiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi, a senior member of one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent families. These charities, largely based in Herndon, Virginia, are according to press reports under current investigation by the FBI and have been in turn linked to Muslim Brotherhood specially designated terrorist finance company Al-Taqwa." |
1983-2002 |
| Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) Adel Batterjee (co-founder) | Mohammed Jamal Khalifa (co-founder; Saudi Arabian businessman who married a sister of Osama; killed by JSOC in 2007) | Osama bin Laden (capitalized with $50 million by him and associates of his) | Ibn al-Khattab (financed) | Sheikh Fathi Shishani (financed). The Golden Chain list: The list was found in March 2002 in a raid by Bosnian police of the headquarters of the Benevolence International Foundation in Sarajevo. The Golden Chain is a list of sponsors of Al-Qaeda. Names leaked by the Wall Street Journal are: Saleh Kamel | Khalid bin Mahfouz | Sulaiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi | "the brothers" of Osama bin Laden. |
1988 |
| Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) affair Officers: Alfred Hartmann (director; Rothschild banker also deeply involved in the BCCI affair)/ International advisory board: Henry Kissinger (international advisory board 1985-1991 and encouraged the $4,5 billion in loans made to strenghten Iraq against the Ayatollah in Iran) | David Rockefeller | Pierre Trudeau | Pehr Gyllenhammar (controlled Volvo at the time which was cooperation with BNL in receiving loans for Iraq-based business) |
1989 |
| Muwafaq Foundation / Blessed Relief Yassin al-Qadi (founder and chair; associate of Osama bin Laden) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (principal financier). Opened branches in Mogadishu, Somalia and Bosnia, apparently to support Muslim terrorists. Also lend support to Hamas and Abu Sayyef. |
1991-1998 |
| Al Haramain Foundation Saleh bin Abdul-Aziz Al ash-Sheikh (chair; Saudi minister of Islamic affairs and endowments since 1996; fired officers and disbanded the charity in June 2004 after reports of terrorist financing) | Aqeel Abdulaziz Aqeel al-Aqeel / Aqil Abdulaziz Al - Aqil (founder and general manager 1988- Jan. 2004) | Mansour al-Kadi (deputy general until Jan. 2004) | Wa'el Hamza Julaidan (director from at least 1997 to 2004; president Tuscon Islamic Center 1984-1985) | King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz (donor while crown prince in 2003, as mentioned by al-Aqeel in late 2003). Apparently Ruslan Saidov was the manager of the foundation's Kavkaz/Caucasus center. Saidov was a key partner in Far West Ltd., for which, among other things, he managed a 5% stake of Al Haramain. Other 5% stake holders apparently were Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al Faisal, a reported friend of Saidov, and notorious arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. U.S. partners of Far West included retired top CIA officer Fritz Ermarth, KBR Halliburton (under Cheney when it co-founded Far West in 1998) and Diligence, LLC, co-founded by William Webster and tightly linked to Carlyle and the Bush administration, and, later on, the Rothschild family. United Nations Security Council Committee pursuant to resolutions 1267 (1999) and 1989 (2011) concerning Al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities: "Julaidan was a member of Al-Haramain & Al-Aqsa’s board of directors, and he opened three bank accounts on behalf of the NGO between 1997 and 2001. As at 2003, Julaidan continued to have authority to handle two of Al-Haramain & Al Masjed al-Aqsa’s bank accounts as a signatory of its two Bosnian accounts. Al-Haramain & Al Masjed al-Aqsa Charity Foundation in Bosnia and Herzegovina was linked to the Saudi Arabia-based Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation which presented itself as a private, charitable and educational non-governmental organization. When viewed as a single entity, Al-Haramain was one of the principal NGOs active throughout the world providing support for the Al-Qaida network. Funding generally came from individual benefactors and special campaigns which targeted selected business entities around the world. " |
1988-2004 |
| Banque Al Saoudi / Banque Francaise pour l'Orient Merged with Rafic Hariri's Mediterranee group. Directors: Prince Mohammed Ben Fahd (honorary chair) | Sheik Salem bin Laden | Sheik Bogshan | Khalid Ben Mahfouz |
1989 |
| Mercy International Relief Agency Founding directors: Waheed Almasry, Faisal Alahmadi, Abdalaziz Farsi, Dr Safar Alhawali, Dr Abdallah Aldomaiji, Dr Mohamed Said Algahtani, Dr Soliman Alsaloomi. Founded in Dublin. Forged passports for Osama bin Laden and other terrorists and served as a logistical aide for international terrorism in Kenya and the Balkans. |
1992 |
Virtually non-existent due to the importance of Arab oil. Even the AIFL was largely initiated by pro-Zionist conservative interests. Most relationships with Israel go through the conservatives, both the neocons and radical religious right.
| Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) Founder: Rabbi Arthur Schneier. Dec. '01 trustees: John Brademas | George H. W. Bush | Ronald Lauder (still in 2020) | Thomas Middelhoff | Thomas Pickering (joined in 2001; still in 2020) | Rozanne Ridgway (still in 2020| Paul Volcker | John Whitehead. Later trustees: Robin Chandler Duke | Roy Goodman | Nicholas Burns | William Luers | William Burns | John Negroponte | Josef Ackermann. Event Board '15: Honorary co-chairs: Madeleine Albright | James Baker | Henry Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleeza Rice | George Shultz | Sen. John McCain | John N. | George Pataki (trustee anno 2020) | Brent Scowcroft | Paul V. | Lord Weidenfeld | James Wolfensohn. Trustees and advisory council '15: H.E. Archbishop Khajag Barsamian | H.E. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick | John B. | Nicholas B. | William B. | Ronald L. | John Negroponte | Peter Peterson (son Michael is a trustee) | Paul V. Other listed dinner executives: Muhtar Kent (chair of Warren Buffett's Coca Cola; dinner vice chair '15) and Stephen Schwarzman (dinner vice chair '15) | James W. (dinner '15) | Christopher Ruddy (general dinner chair '15) Listed as past awardees (with photos) in the 2015 50th Anniversary Dinner: Nelson Rockefeller ('73) | Angier Biddle Duke ('74) | Edgar Bronfman Sr ('74) | Averell Harriman ('76) | J. Paul Austin ('77) | Farah Pahlavi ('77) | Armand Hammer ('78) | Margaret Thatcher ('78) | Malcolm Forbes ('80) | Brooke Astor ('81) | Robert O. Anderson ('81) | Betty Ford ('82) | Baron Guy de Rothschild ('83) | Gianni Agnelli ('85) | Vernon Walters ('86) | Alan Greenspan ('88) | Gilbert Melville Grosvenor ('88) | Richard von Weizsacker ('89) | Barbara Bush ('89) | Mikhail Gorbachev ('90) | Jay Pritzker ('90) | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ('92) | Robert Strauss ('92) | H.H. Aleksy II ('93) | Romando Prodi ('96) | King Juan Carlos I of Spain ('97) | Henry K. ('99; also in pictures for '01, '02, '07, '14) | Gerhard Schroder ('00) | Kofi Annan (visible in '01 picture with Henry K.) | President Kim-Dae-jung ('01) | Jean Chretien ('02) | Jose Maria Aznar ('03) | John W. ('04) | Sir John Bond ('04) | John Howard ('05) | President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ('06) | Richard Holbrooke ('07) | Angela Merkel ('07) | Nicolas Sarkozy ('08) | Michael Bloomberg ('08) | Jeffrey Immelt ('08) | Gordon Brown ('09) | John Elkann ('10) | Stephen S. ('10) | President Lee Myung-bak ('11) | Vikram Pandit ('12) | Stephen Harper ('12) | Jerry Speyer ('14) | President Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico ('14) | David Cameron ('15) | Bob Iger ('14) | Dick Cheney | J. Peter Grace | Angela Merkel | Nicolas Sarkozy | Axel Springer. Speakers: Carlos Slim ('16) | Christine Lagarde ('16, '18) | Steve Mnuchin ('18) | Henry K. ('14, '16, '18, '19) | Susan Wojcicki ('19). Other: Christine Whitman (visible in a photo on website). Financiers: J&J, Deloitte, Blackstone, Citi, General Dynamics, Peterson Foundation, Alcoa, Coca-Cola, AT&T, Ernst & Young, IBM, NewsMax, etc. |
1965 |
| America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) Combination of liberal elitists and pro-Zionist conservatives. Nelson Rockfeller (co-founder) | Sen. Henry Jackson (co-founder). National advisory board (listed from April 2006-): Henry Kissinger (anno Aug. '06) | Lawrence Eagleburger (anno Aug. '06) | George Shultz (anno Aug. '06) | Vernon Jordan (anno Aug. '06) | John Brademas (anno Aug. '06) | Elie Wiesel (anno Aug. '06; already "hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Jack Kemp (anno Aug. '06) | Kenneth Duberstein (anno Aug. '06) | Rudy Giuliani (anno Aug. '06) | Alfonse D'Amato (anno Aug. '06) | Rep. Benjamin A. Gilman (anno Aug. '06) | William H. Gray III (anno Aug. '06) | Sen. Max Baucus (anno Aug. '06) | Daniel Moynihan | Lane Kirkland. Directors: Mortimer Zuckerman (hon. president anno '05, director anno '06) | Kenneth Bialkin (chair and president anno Oct. '05) | Abraham Foxman (anno '05) | Malcolm Hoenlein (anno '05) | Ronald Lauder (anno '05) | Michael Ovitz (anno '05) | Michael Steinhardt (anno '05) | Larry King (anno '05, '15) | Rabbi Arthur Schneier (anno '05) | Gen. Paul Vallely (anno '05, '15) | Stephen Schwarzman | Robert Hormats | Steven Rattner | Jacob Frenkel (by 2015) | . More: Ogden Reid ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Lloyd Bentsen ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Jacob Javits ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Philip Klutznick ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Samuel Rothberg ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Max M. Fisher ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | . Awarded (from a 1976 document; goes back further than official founding): JFK (1958) | Abba Eban (1959) | LBJ (1961) | RFK (1966) | Hubert Humphrey (1973; also "honorary sponsor" anno 1976) | Gerald Ford (1974; also "honorary sponsor"). Source(s): aifl.org/html/web/ about_board_us.html (accessed: Oct. 29, 2005 - Aug. 9, 2011; national advisory board tab visible from April 2006, for which the first webarchive goes to Aug. 2006); aifl.org/html/web/ about_board_national.html (accessed: Aug. 23, 2006 - Feb. 23, 2009; national advisory board tab, which exited since at least April 2006, but was only archived from August on). |
1971 |
| New Israel Fund Ford Fdn. and Soros-funded. Accused of being anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian - which it pretty much is. Lady Ellen Dahrendorf (British chair; her husband visited BB). |
1979 |
| Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Co-founders: Bernard Marcus (donated $5 million for the construction of building) | Arya Carmon (founding president). International advisory council: George Shultz (chair anno '12, chair emeritus until his death in 2021) | Henry Kissinger (anno '12) | James Wolfensohn (anno '12) | Sidney Drell (anno '12) | Martin Indyk (anno '12-'22) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (anno '12) | Abraham Sofaer (anno '12-'22) | Josef Joffe (anno '12-'22) | Elliott Abrams (anno '22) | Anne Applebaum (anno '22). Fellows: Dan Meridor. |
1991 |
| Peres Center for Peace International board of governors, past and present: Israel: Shimon Peres (founder; defense minister of Israel 1974-1977, 1995-1996; prime minister of Israel 1977, 1984-1986, 1995-1996; foreign minister 1986-1988, 1992-1995, March 2001-November 2002; president of Israel since 2007) | Abba Eban (since 1990s; ambassador to the U.S. 1950-1959; deputy PM 1963-1966; foreign affairs minister 1966-1974) | Yoram Dinstein (president Tel Aviv University) | Moshe Kaveh (president Bar-Ilan University) | Menachem Magidor (president Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Ephraim Katzir (president of Israel 1973-1978) | Yitzhak Navon (president of Israel 1978-1983). Jewish international: Lester Crown (since 1990s; U.S.) | Jacob Frenkel (since 1990s; U.S.) | Charles Bronfman (since 1990s; Canada)| Edgar de Picciotto (since 1990s)| Baron Eric de Rothschild (since 1990s; owner Chateau Lafite Rothschild, France) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (since 1990s) | Isabel Maxwell (since 1999; daughter of Robert Maxwell) | Bruce Rappaport (since 1990s) | Vladimir Gusinsky (since 1990s; Russian oligarch). U.S.: James Baker III (since 1990s) | Henry Kissinger (since 1990s) | Paul M. Kennedy (since 1990s) | Jimmy Carter | Warren Christopher | Leslie Gelb (since 1990s) | Lee Iacocca | Richard Pratt (Pratt Industries) | Sen. Arlen Specter (since 1990s) | John Whitehead (since 1990s) | Gov. Christine Whitman (since 1990s) | Mortimer Zuckerman (since 1990s) | Dwayne Andreas | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (since 1990s) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan (since 1990s) | Sen. Jay Stein (since 1990s) | John Bryan, Jr. Other: Mikhail Gorbachev (since 1990s) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. (since 1990s) | Helmut Kohl | Jacques Delors (since 1990s) | Michel Rocard (since 1990s) | Roland Dumas (minister of foreign affairs, France) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (since 1990s) | Lionel Jospin (since 1990s) | Felipe Gonzalez Marquez (former Spanish prime minister) | Alfredo Ambrosetti | Boutros Boutros Ghali | Ruud Lubbers (since 1990s) | Ferdinand Piech (chair Volkswagen AG Austria) | Lester Pollack (since 1990s; president Siemens) | Heinrich von Pierer (chair Siemens) | Klaus Schwab (since 1990s) | Louis Schweiter (since 1990s) | Desmond Tutu (since 1990s) | Abdurrahman Wahid (president Indonesia) | John Major (since 1990s). |
1996 |
| If Americans Knew Low level anti-Zionist project, but backed by groups as the Middle East Policy Council. |
2001 |
| The Rights Forum (pro-Palestinian) Netherlands, pro-royal family circle. Dries van Agt (founder and chair) | Henri Veldhuis | Frans Andriessen | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Hans van den Broek | Marcel Brus | Koos van Dam | Wim van Eekelen | Hedy d'Ancona | Pieter Kooijmans | Tineke Lodders | Jan Pronk | Klaas de Vries |
2009 |
| Israel-America Academic Exchange (IAAE) Rabbi Nachum Braverman (executive director) | Thomas Pickering (advisory board) | Robert Hormats | Dalia Rabin (chair Israeli board) | Yehuda Ben-Meir (Institute for National Security Studies) | David Ivry (president Boeing Israel) | Amnon Lipkin-Shahak (former chief of staff Israel Defense Force). International Academic Board: Leslie Gelb | Martin Indyk | Peter Beinart | Stephen Krasner (co-chair) | Martin Feldstein. |
2009 |
| Annual Leadership Dialogue on Israel-UK-Australia Relations Initially known as the Australia Israel Leadership Forum. Kevin Rudd (headed a delegation to Israel in '10, '21) | Shimon Peres ('10) | Tony Blair (pre-'20) | Benjamin Netanyahu (pre-'20) | Ehud Olmert ('20-'21) | Mary Robinson ('21) | Thomas Borody ('21) | Theresa Villiers ('20-'21). |
2009 |
| African-America Institute (AAI) History of CIA funding and later helped train UNITA rebels: 1976 annual report: Trustees: Harold K. Hochschild (honorary chair; his son Adam was a co-founcer of Mother Jones magazine) | Dana Creel (trustee chair; president Rock. Brothers Fund 1968-1975, vice chair after that) | Maurice Tempelsman. International advisory council: Sen. Dick Clark | Ramsey Clark | Sen. Hubert Humphrey | Vernon Jordan | Philip Klutznick | Andrew Young. Individual donors among many corporations (Chevron, Exxon, Ford, Chase, Barclays, Atlantic Richfield, Alcoa, Union Carbide): Stephen C. and David Rockefeller (as their foundations) | George McGhee. The three investment advisory committee members come from the Ford Fdn. and Russell Sage Fdn. Carnegie Endowment also a financier. Kissinger present at the opening of an AAI art center in coordination with Mobutu. 1986 annual report: Same donors, including the two Rockefellers. Trustees: Maurice T. (vice chair) | John Silcox (Chevron Overseas Petroleum) | Dana C. (life trustee) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Maurice Strong. Advisors: John Brademas | Sen. Dick C. | Ramsey C. | William Draper III | Vernon J. | Philip K. | Stephen Solarz | Andrew Y. Discussed: meetings with Sadiq al-Mahdi (PM Sudan), Robert Mugabe (dictator of Zimbabwe), Mobutu (dictator of the Congo), and leaders from countries all over Africa. 1993 report: Maurice T. (chair) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller 1996 annual report: Trustees: Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (vice chair) (daughter of David R.) | Dana C. (life) | Dr. Mathilde Krim (life trustee; co-chair American Foundation for AIDS) | William H. Hayden | William Rhodes | Maurice T. | 2006 annual report: Joseph Stiglitz attended an 2006 AAI conference, organized by trustee Maurice T. September 27, 2012: IIA conference in honor of the (female) heads of state of Liberia and Malawi. At the same event Maurice T., by then a retired trustee but "AAI alumni", becomes a "distinguished trustee." |
1953 |
| National Institute of Policy and Strategic Studies Hub of Nigerian elitism. Alumni: Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (military president Nigeria 1985-1993) | Afakriya Gadzama (former dir.-gen. General State Security Service) | Ita Ekpeyong (former dir.-gen. General State Security Service) | Lawal Musa Daura (acting dir.-gen. General State Security Service). |
1979 |
| Harvard AIDS Institute (HAI) International advisory council: Maurice Tempelsman (chair 1990s and still the senior co-chair anno 2013) | Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Jr. (co-chair under T. all these years). Paul Dietrich (trustee for some years since 1990). No other connected members. |
1988 |
| Association For Constitutional Democracy in Liberia Located in the U.S. Opposed the dictatorship of Samuel Doe, who was in power 1980-1990. Some members support the emerging Khaddafi-backed genocidal warlord Charles Taylor who got rid of Doe in 1990 but initiated a decade-and-a-half of bloody civil war in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Executive board as of April 1990: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (finance minister who escabed Liberia when Doe murdered her president in a right-wing/big business CIA coup; controversially supported and helped fund Charles Taylor and his NPFL early on; first female president Liberia 2006-2018; Nobel Prize in 2011) | Harry Greaves Jr. (treasurer; supported Charles Taylor) | Amos Sawyer (opposed Taylor and the NPFL from the start) | Patrick Seyon (opposed Taylor and the NPFL from the start) | Mamadee Woahtee (opposed Taylor and the NPFL from the start) | Ezekiel Pajibo | Momo Rogers. Source(s): April 9, 1990, ADCL letter of Harry Greaves Jr. to Clarence Simpson Jr., showing the logo and executive board members. |
pre-1989 |
| Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) Maurice Tempelsman (chair and CEO 1999-2002 and 2007-2008) | Frances Cook (director 2006-2012). Representatives of major corporations. |
1992 |
| Southern African Enterprise Development Fund (SAEDF) Bill Clinton (official founder) | Andrew Young (founding chair; AAI) | Maurice Tempelsman (founding director; AAI) |
1994 |
| Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (ZDT) Founding patrons: Lord Carrington | Lord Howe | Lord Hurd | Sir Malcom Rifkind | Chester Crocker. Board: Lord Renwick of Clifton (chair anno 2008). |
2000 |
| International Investment Council, South Africa Founder: Thabo Mbeki (president South Africa 1999-2008). Members: William Rhodes (founding 2000-) | George Soros (founding 2000-) | Percy Barnevik (founding 2000-, still anno 2004) | Niall Fitzgerald (founding 2000-, still anno 2004) | Minoru Makihara (founding 2000-, still anno 2004; exec. vice president Mitsubishi) | Sam Jonah (founding 2000-, still anno 2004; CEO Ashanti Goldfields of Ghana) | Ratan Tata (founding 2000-, still anno 2004) | Hassan Marikan (founding 2000-; president Petronas-Malaysia) | Sir Robert Ross (founding 2000-; president D-Group UK) | Martin Kohlhausen (founder 2000-, still anno 2004; chairman Commerzbank) | Jurgen Schrempp (founding 2000-, still anno 2004; CEO Daimler-Chrysler) | Frank Savage (anno '04) | Roger Agnelli (anno '04; CEO Brazilian mining company Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD); unrelated to the Italian family; died in a plane crash in 2016). Source(s): 2017 edition, IBP Inc., 'South Africa Business Law Handbook Volume 1', p. 275: "... International Investment Council (IIC) held its inaugural meeting in late June, shortly after the conclusion of the [WEF] in Durban. ... The IIC's members include: ..."; dirco.gov.za/docs/ 2004/iic0617.htm (accessed: Feb. 15, 2022; 'President's International Investment Council, 18-20 June 2004, Cape Town'). |
2000 |
| New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Maurice Tempelsman (helped in setting it up). |
2001 |
| ONE Campaign Founded by Bono of U2 (on the board) as Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa (DATA). Changed its name to ONE in 2008/2009. Start-up funding: Bill Gates (on the board) and George Soros, employees of whom have dominated the board ever since. Involved in founding lobbying/proceedings: James Wolfensohn | Queen Noor of Jordan. Involved: Gayle Smith (CEO; NSC and USAID) | Susan Buffett (daughter of Warren) | John Doerr | Larry Summers | Ron Perelman | Sheryl Sandberg | Tom Freston (build MTV) | Morton Halperin | Rajiv Shah. Source(s): Dec. 15, 2009, Time, 'The Constant Charmer': "Bob Geldof, one of Bono's closest friends, came up with the name DATA... Bono refused to bankroll it. After coaxing $1 million grants out of the Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn.], George Soros and software businessman Ed Scott, DATA got real office space and hired lobbyists..." |
2002 |
| African Leadership Academy (ALA) Global Advisory Council (roughly half consists of black Africans): Dr. Khalid Al-Mansour (anno 2012; RH Prince Al-Waleed Bin Talal of Saudi Arabia) | Sir Sam Jonah (anno 2012; president Anglogold Ashanti/Ashanti Goldfields) | Carly Fiorina (anno 2012-2020; CEO HP) | Donald Gips (anno 2020; partner Albright Stonebridge Group) | Gary Cohen (anno 2020; chair IBM Africa) | John Thornton (anno 2020) | Rick Menell (anno 2020; chair Credit Suisse South Africa) | Acha Leke (anno 2020 and co-founder; partner McKinsey and Co.) | Wilfred Griekspoor (anno 2020; director McKinsey and Co.). Mission: "[ALA] seeks to transform Africa by developing a powerful network of over 6,000 leaders who will work together to address Africa's greatest challenges..." |
2002 |
| Truth in Translation Theatrical production of the findings of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Advisory Board (anno 2010 and 2020): Desmond Tutu | Anthony Lake | David Hamburg. |
2006 |
| Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Founders: Rockefeller Fdn. and Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates). Directors: Kofi Annan (chair) | Judith Rodin (president Rock. Fdn.) | Sylvia Mathews Burwell (president Global Development Program of the Gates Fdn.) | Rudy Rabbinge (chair CGIAR science council). |
2006 |
| The Elders, South Africa Sir Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel (founders and advisory board) | Nelson Mandela | Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (first CEO 2008-2012) | Martti Ahtisaari | Pam Omidyar (wife of Pierre) | Jimmy Carter | Kofi Annan | Desmond Tutu. More: Mary Robinson. Founded Girls Not Brides in 2011, headed by Princess Mabel and financed by foundations as Open Society/Soros, Ford, MacArthur, Packard, Skoll, IKEA, Nike and others. |
2007 |
| Africa Progress Panel Panel members: Kofi Annan (founder and chair) | Bob Geldof | Robert Rubin |
2007 |
| Enough Project Founded by George Soros' International Crisis Group to combat atrocities in Southern Sudan (Darfur), Northern Uganda and Eastern Congo. First housed at the Clinton-Soros-Podesta-founded Center for American Progress; then the New Venture Fund, primarily financed by the Ford and Gates foundations. Co-founders: John Prendergast (executive director; Crisis Group employee; former NSC Africa expert) and to some extent by Gayle Smith (former NSC Africa expert). Public supporters: Kristen Bell | Ryan Gosling. |
2007 |
| Not On Our Watch Co-founders: George Clooney | Brad Pitt | Matt Damon | Don Cheadle. These actors founded the group in coordination with Soros/Crisis Group employee John Prendergast, later the executive director of the group. |
2008 |
| Eastern Congo Initiative (ECI) Founded by Ben Affleck, but also described as a "project of the New Venture Fund", an NGO financed by foundations as Ford, Gates and to a lesser extent by Soros' Open Society. The NVF, headed by CGI and BWC member Eric Kessler, is also where the overlapping Enough Project moved to. Others involved: Howard Buffett (founding director; son of Warren) | Pamela Omidyar (advisory committee). |
2010 |
| Tony Elumelu Foundation, Nigeria (TEF) Tony Elumelu (founder). Advisory board: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Shaukat Aziz (prime minister Pakistan 2004-2007) | Stewart Paparin (executive vice president Open Soc. Fdns. and president Soros Economic Development Fund) | Jamie Cooper-Hohn |
2010 |
| Comite des Forges / Foundry Committee Lobby group of steel barons. Met four times a year during certain periods. Members: Eugene Schneider (main founder; founding president 1864-1868) | Charles de Wendel family (founding) | Henri Schneider (vice-president anno 1896; died young in 1898) | Robert de Wendel (president 1898-1903) | Robert Pinot (sec.-gen. 1904 - 1921, vice president 1921-1926) | Alfred Lambert-Ribot (sec.-gen. -1940) | Robert de Nervo (president 1903-1907) | Charles-Francois Laurent (1915-1918) | Francois de Wendel (president 1918-1940). 1993, Allen Douglas, 'From Fascism to Libertarian Communism': "The [right-wing, nationalist, anti-communist] Bloc National was run by the Comite Billiet, dominated by Robert Pinot of the Comite des Forges, while the Cartel was manipulated by Horace Finaly of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas." 1991, Colin Holmes, 'Routledge Library Editions: Racism and Fascism', p. 205: "According to the police, important sums of money were also given to the Croix de Feu by Francois Wendel (an industralist and President of the Comite de Forges), Ernest Mallet and Pierre Mirabaud (both bankers), Schwof d'Hericourt (an industrialist), Jacques de Neuflize (a banker and railroad director), and Otto de la Havraise (a major electrical industry stockholder). [32 - "AN, F7 13241, 29 June 1935."] Subsidies were also provided by the Banque de Paris et des Pays Bas and the Banque Mallet Freres, the latter acting as a go-between for some of France's richest nobility, particularly the Guise and Luynes families and the Duchesse d'Uzes. [33 - "Ibid. 6 July 1935. See also AN, f7 12965, 30 March 1936."] In 1933 [the CDF] called for lower taxes and ' the elimination of government intervention in areas belonging to free enterprise' and the protection of family property and 'legitimate profits' from savings. [34 - "Chambre des Deputes, Rapport general au nom de lacommission d'enquete, p. 120."] It berated communists and socialists... Its motto was 'Fatherland, Family, Work', the same motto which was later adopted by the Vichy regime." |
1864-1940 |
| Wallenberg Foundations Consists of a total of 17 foundations in the modern era. The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation was founded 1917. People: Carl Bildt ("one of the senior advisors"; spoke in honor of Raoul Wallenberg in Budapest in Jan. 2012 and at the U.S. Congress in July 2014) | Kofi Annan (invited the foundation to his UN HQ for the third time on Aug. 4, 2002, at the "90th anniversary of the birth of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg", of whom his wife is a niece. |
1917 |
| Belgian American Educational Foundation Related to Herbert Hoover. Directors: Emile Boulpaep (chair), Baron Daniel Janssen | Count Diego du Monceau de Bergendal | Francqui Foundation (1932), also co-founded with Herbert Hoover: Directors: Etienne Davignon (vice chair) | Emile Boulpaep | Baron Daniel J. Belgian Herbert Hoover Exhibit: Honorary committee: Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans | Count Maurice Lippens | Baron Jan Huyghebaert. Official supporters: Richard Mellon Scaife and Jacques Solvay. |
1919 |
| Colpach Castle cenacles Involved: Emile Mayrisch (Luxembourg's largest steel baron who supplied Germany with steel during WWI 1914-1918; owner Luxemburger Zeitung 1922-) | Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi | Jean Schlumberger | Walter Rathenau (founder AEG; d. 1922) | Andre Gide | Jacques Rivière | Paul Claudel | Jean Guéhenno | Annette Kolb | Théo van Rysselberghe | Maria Van Rysselberghe | Karl Jaspers | Bernard Groethuysen | Ernst Robert Curtius. |
1920 |
| Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt School) Communist-leaning school. Felix Weil (primary founder) | Hermann Weil (wealthy fonding financier) | Gyorgy Lukacs (founding clique; leading promoter of "Western Marxism"; 1923, 'History and Class Consciousness', p. 282: "The natural laws of capitalism do indeed lead inevitably to its ultimate crisis but at the end of its road would be the destruction of all civilization and a new barbarism."; son of Jozsef Lowinger, a top Jewish banker in the Habsburg's Austra-Hungarian Empire at Anglo-Austrian Bank and the Hungarian General Credit Bank). Funding: Rock. Fdn. (1951 report: "Institute for Social Research, University of Frankfurt: $5,000 [$48,500 in 2019]..."). |
1923 |
| Deutsch-Franzosisches Studienkomitee / German-French Study Committee Also known as the Comite Franco-Allemand d'Information et de Documentation / Franco-German Committee for Information and Documentation. Luxembourg members: Emile Mayrisch (key founder, founding chair 1926-1928; Luxembourg's largest steel baron who supplied Germany with steel during WWI). German members: Baron Tilo von Wilmowsky (supervisory chair Krupp Steel; brother-in-law of Gustav Krupp) | Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz (chair 1928-; retired minister of Saxony) | Fritz Thyssen (only briefly a member) | Bruno Bruhn (d15-year supervisory board director of Krupp A.G.; tied into the Quandt family) | Hermann Buecher (chair AEG) | Felix Deutsch (AEG) | Abraham Frowein | Karl Haniel | Louis Hagen (banker of Bankhauses A. Levy in Cologne) | Franz von Mendelssohn (banker) | Ernst Poensgen (chair Vereinigte Stahlwerke) | Ernst von Simson (director IG Farben) | Emil Georg von Stauss (general director of Deutsche Bank) | Max Warburg | Edgar Schlubach (Hamburg Consul General and shipping company owner). French members: Pierre Vienot (key founder; publisher) | Jean Schlumberger (co-founder) | Rene Duchemin | Etienne Fougere (silk industrialist) | Theodore Laurent (also vice president of the Commite des Forges) | Charles-Francois Laurent (chair; French ambassador in Berlin 1920-1922; director Banque des pays du Nord and Suez Canal Company; president Comite des forges; negotiated the International Steel Entente in 1926 with Thyssen and Humbert de Wendel) | Henri de Peyerimhoff | Ernest Mercier | Pierre Lyautey | Louis Marlio | Lucy Romier | John dal Piaz (shipping company owner, died 1928) | Edme Sommier (sugar industrialist) | Etienne du Castel (1883-1964; unsure; Rothschild). Withdrew before officially joining: Francois de Wendel (chair also head of the Committee des Forges, the steel and iron lobby) | Eugene Schneider II (major steel industrialist). |
1926 |
| Le Siecle Monthly dining club at the French Automobile Club in Paris' Place de la Concorde. It includes leading politicians, businessmen and newsmen. Members/participants: Edouard de Rothschild | Gerard Worms (d. 2020; chair Rothschild & Cie Banque 1995-1999; vice chair Rothschild Europe; CEO N. M. Rothschild & Sons; vice chair EU subsidiary of Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild) | Bertrand Collomb | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Nicolas Sarkozy | Louis Schweitzer | Francois Mitterrand | Georges Pompidou | Francois Fillon | Jean-Marie Colombani (editor-in-chief Le Monde 1994–2007) | Michel Pebereau (CEO BNP Paribas) | Alain Minc | Gérard Worms, Etienne Davignon | Ernest-Antoine Seillière. |
1944 |
| Wilton Park conferences Jacques Jonet | Jean Violet | Alfredo Sanchez Bella |
1946 |
| European League for Economic Cooperation (ELEC) Briefly known as the Independent League for European Cooperation (ILEC). Jozef Retinger (founder) | Paul van Zeeland (founder; president 1946-49) | Adolf Berle Jr. (co-founder; head American section) | Edmond Giscard d'Estaing | Harold Butler | Harmann Abs | Pieter Kerstens (president 1950) | Rene Boel (president 1951-81) | Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (president 1985-99). |
1946 |
| International Management Institute, Geneva (IMI) Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (ran educational programs 1960-1968, director 1968-1987, founded a Soros-backed Kyiv/Ukrainian branch in 1989 - while his 1989-founded Vidrodzhennya charity was also backed by Soros - and chaired its supervisory council until his death in 2016) | Maurice Strong (chair Jan. 1972 - Sep. 1977) | Stephen Schmidheiny (chair 1986-). Employed Klaus Schwab here in 1969, who came up with the idea of the first World Economic Forum (Davos) in 1971. uia.org/s/or/en/1100008434 (accessed: Sep. 22, 2021): "International Management Institute, Kiev (IMI-Kiev): ... History: 1989, as a joint venture between U-XF6173 - International Management Institute, Geneva (IMI-Geneva) and the Institute of Economy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, supported by F-XF5262 - Open Society [Fdns.] (OSF). Aims: Develop capable, confident and ethical leaders equipped for a lifetime of productive contribution to business and society." bhfamily.org/en/young-generation-changes-ukraine-stories-new-ukraine-ukraine-house-davos/ (accessed: Sep. 22, 2021): "Christine Hawrylyshyn-Batruch, President of the Bohdan Hawrylyshyn Family Foundation, Senior Strategic Advisor to Lundin Petroleum. ... Ms Hawrylyshyn-Batruch has worked in the non-profit, academic and business sectors. She participated in the establishment in Ukraine of a number of non-profit institutions linked to the Soros network of foundations." |
1946 |
| The Hague Congress (soon led to the European Movement) Participants: Joseph Retinger (founder and secretary general) | Winston Churchill (chair) | Anthony Eden | Lord Layton | Harold MacMillan | Paul-Henri-Spaak | Joseph Luns | Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard of Orange | Alcide De Gasperi | Robert Schuman | Paul van Zeeland | Paul Reynaud | Jean Monnet |
May 1948 |
| American Committee on United Europe (ACUE) June 19, 1956 document directors: William Donovan (chair; OSS founder and founding chair) | Paul Hoffman (vice-chair) | Emmett Connely (treasurer) | George Franklin Jr. (secretary) | Allan Hovey Jr. (executive director) | Raymond Allen | Lucius Clay | Charles Dewey | Stacy May | John McCloy | Frederick Osborn | George Shuster. More: Allen Dulles (co-founder and vice chair) | Rockefeller family (financier) | Ford Fdn. (financier) | CIA (financier) | European Movement (chief recipient of funds) | Walter Bedell Smith (board) | Herbert Lehman (board). |
1948 |
| European Movement Largely financed by the ACUE. Jozef Retinger (founder) | Winston Churchill (founder) | Duncan Duncan-Sandys (founder, international exec. until 1950, kept involved) | Sir David Ormsby-Gore (chair 1969-1975) | Walter Scheel (president 1980-1985) | Sir David Nicolson (chair 1985-1988) | Lord Alan Watson (vice chair 1995-2001). Patrons: Lord Haskins of Skidby | Lord Heseltine | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Lord Hurd of Westwell | Sir Michael Palliser | Lord Patten of Barnes | Lord George Robertson of Port Ellen | Lord Simon of Highbury | Lord Tugendhat. Also: Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb (Belgian chair) | Sir Peter Sutherland (honorary president for Ireland). |
October 1948 |
| Cercle Gaulois, Belgium Members: Viscount Etienne Davignon | Baron Albert Frere | Armand de Decker | Pierre Harmel | Gerard Mestrallet | Karel van Miert | Yves Boel | Baron Daniel Janssen | Wilhelmus Philippa | Xavier Magnee. |
1950 |
| Cini Foundation Count Vittorio Cini |
1951 |
| European Cultural Foundation (ECF) / Fondation Europeenne de la Culture Co-founders: Prince Bernhard of Orange | Robert Schuman | Denis de Rougemont. Also involved: Paul Rijkens. June 8, 1994, Rene Zwaap for De Groene Amsterdammer, 'De wereldregering confereert': "Prins [Bernhard had] ook het voorzitterschap bij de Fondation Europeenne de la Culture in Straatsburg, wederom met boezemvriend Rijkens als linkerhand. Deze Fondation verzorgde onder meer allerlei uitzendingen van Radio Free Europe. Later bleek de stichting rijkelijk van CIA-subsidie te worden voorzien." |
1954 |
| Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE) Jean Monnet (main founder and head) | Guy Mollet (part of the initial Jan. 1956 meeting) | Francois Duchene | Max Kohnstamm | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Willy Brandt | Pietro Nenni | Herbert Wehner | Rainer Barzel | Mariano Rumor | Edward Heath. Also: Pierre Uri. |
1955 |
| Confederation of European Business (BusinessEurope) Founded in 1949 under the wing of the Conseil des Federations Industrielles d'Europe (CIFE) as the Union des Industries des pays de la Communauté Europeenne. This became the Union des Industries de la Communaute europeenne (UNICE) in 1958, and was known under that name until 2007. Presidents: H.J. de Koster (1962-1967) | Ernest-Antoine Selliere 2005-2009. |
1958 |
| Europa Nostra Hans de Koster (president 1980s-early 1990s) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (executive president) | Marquess de Trazegnies (representative) | Prince Henrik of Denmark (chair until 2007) |
1963 |
| Per Jacobsson Foundation (PJF) Mission: "To foster and stimulate discussion of international monetary problems..." Founding "sponsors" (apparently trustees/directors): Warren Burgess (chair) | Eugene Black (chair) | Marcus Wallenberg (chair) | Lord Cobbold | Viscount Harcourt | Gabriel Hauge | Hermann Abs (chair Deutsche Bank) | Marinus Holtrop (chair BIS and the Nederlandse Bank) | Lord Arthur Salter | David Rockefeller | Allen Sproul | Maurice Frere (BIS; Sofina; Banque Nationale de Belgique; family today owns Frere-Bourgeois Group, since 1970 chaired by Albert Frere; d. 1970) | Albert Janssen (chair Societe Belge de Banque, controlled by the Solvay family; seemingly an uncle of Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen) | Jean Monnet | Samuel Schweizer (chair Swiss Bank Corporation). Later trustees: Paul Volcker | Jacob Wallenberg | Christine Lagarde (man. dir. IMF; president ECB; gender quota pusher) | Marcus Wallenberg. More: Jacques Polak (president 1987-1997). |
1963 |
| International Club Chateau Sainte-Anne, Brussels Patroned by the royal family. Count de Kerchove (chair 1970-1973) | Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb* (chair 2005-2008). Leading members: Paul-Henri Spaak | Aurelio Peccei | Jacques Solvay** | Etienne Davignon* | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Armand de Decker | Count Pierre Harmel. * Accused of child abuse in Belgian dossiers, often multiple times. ** Extremely close to the alleged crimes. |
1969 |
| World Trade Center Association, Chateau Sainte-Anne, Brussels [PDF] Involved in building the Brussels World Trade Center (WTC) in the 1960s: Paul vanden Boeynants* (member WTCA) | Charly De Pauw* (a "Charles de Pauw" was certainly in 2007 listed as vice president and contact point of the WTCA) | Ado Blaton*. Lunches are organized 11 times a year at Chateau Sainte-Anne, where also the International Club is located. Historical speakers: Willy de Clercq** (1980) | Wilfried Martens* (1981) | Willy Claes* (1982) | Philippe Moureaux** (1983) | Andre Damseaux** (1983) | Guy Spitaels* (1983) | Leo Tindemans (1983) | Henri Simonet (1983) | Francois-Xavier de Donnea (1984) | Jean Gol** (1984) | Melchior Wathelet* (1986) | Guy Verhofstadt (1986) | Armand De Decker (1988, 2009) | Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1988, 2005) | Yann Piat (1988) | Etienne Davignon* (1988, 2002) | Jean-Luc Dehaene (1989) | Xavier Magnee** (1991) | Gerard Mestrallet (1992) | Raymond Barre (1992) | Guy Coeme** (1992) | Maurice Lippens* (1992) | Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb* (1993) | Count Pierre Harmel (1993) | Karel Van Miert* (1994) | Jacques Santer (1996) | Michel Rocard (1997) | Lord Leon Brittan* (1997) | Elio di Rupo* (1997) | Axel Vervoordt* (1997) | Marc Verwilghen** (head Dutroux commission; later director at Auchi's GMH with Jacques Delors) (1999) | Dominique Baudis* (2003) | Charles Pasqua (2003) | Dominique de Villepin (2008) | Henri Giscard d'Estaing (2008) | Alain Juppe (2009). * Accused of child abuse in Belgian, French (Baudis) or British (Brittan) dossiers, often multiple times. ** Extremely close to the alleged crimes. |
1970 |
| Doctors Without Borders (DWB) / Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) French organization. Dr. Richard Rockefeller (son of David Rockefeller; chair advisory board 1989-2010). Raised $357 million in 2016. Soros' Open Society has been among the financiers. |
1971 |
| European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) Daniel Janssen (chair 1991-1992) |
1972 |
| Paul Henri Spaak Foundation Officers (same for 2003-2013): Etienne Davignon (president since at least 2003) | Francois Danis (secretary general) | David Abshire | Michel Albert | Frank Boas | Willy de Clercq | Herman de Croo | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent | Jacques Delors | Baron Jean Godeaux | Alexis Jacquemin | Baron Andre Jaumotte | Sir Michael Palliser | Paul-F. Smets | Madame Antoinette Spaak | Monsieur Guy Spitaels. |
1973 |
| French-American Foundation 1978 U.S. board of directors list: Nicholas Wahl (chair; Princeton) | C. Douglas Dillon | George Franklin (listed as coordinator, TC; David R.'s college roommate) | Stanley Hoffmann (Harvard) | Amory Houghton | John Irwin II | Yves-Andre Istel (then man. dir., Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb and listed as steering comm. member). Roster of Contributors, 1977: David Rockefeller (likely occasional visitor; contributor as late as '14), NYT Fdn., IBM, Mobil Oil, etc. 1990 U.S. board of directors: Yves A.-I. (treasurer) | John I. II (chair) | John Irwin III (regular board) | Michel David-Weill (since at least '90; also co-financier) | Mrs. Charles Engelhard | George F. | Evan Galbraith | John Macomber | Walter C. (honorary). 2000 U.S. board of directors: Walter Curley (hon. chair) | C. Douglas D. (hon. chair) | John I. II (hon. chair) | John Negroponte (chair) | Yves-Andre I. (treasurer; co-financer through fdn; key Rothschild agent by that time) | Robert Paxton (secretary) Frederick Alger III | Bertrand Collomb | Michel D.-W. | John Deutch | Mrs. Charles E. | Charles Ferguson | Evan G. | James Lowenstein (co-founder). U.S. board of directors '18: James L. (hon. chair) | Michel D.W. | Yves-Andre I. | Felix Rohatyn (joined in late 2001)| Arnaud de Puyfontaine (on the less prestigious French board since at least '11, president '16-; US/on the US board since '18; chair and CEO Vivendi '14-) | John Thain | Charles F. Other: Louis Giscard d'Estaing (French board anno '12-'13; son of President Valery) | Vivien de Gunzburg (French board since at least '13-'14; Bronfman relative). Guests: Jeffrey Immelt ('13) | Larry Summers (Dec. '13) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (Dec. '15) | US ambassador Jane Hartley (Dec. '16) | Michael Bloomberg (Dec. '16) | Nicolas Sarkozy (Jan. '17). Financing: MS, Sogeti, foundations as Ford and Carnegie and countless other corporations. |
1976 |
| European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) Guy Verhofstadt (chair governing board) | Sir Peter Sutherland (governor 1991-1996) |
1981 |
| American European Community Association (AECA) Founding patrons US: George Ball | Henry Kissinger | George McGhee | J. Peter Grace Jr. | Robert Strauss. Founding patrons UK: Sir David Nicolson (founder; chair of Anton Rupert's Rothmans International) | Edward Heath | Roy Jenkins | Lord Pritchard | Dr. Roy Strong | Sir Frank Roberts | Sir Anthony Tuke | Lord Sherfield / Robert Makins. Founding patron Italy (only one): Umberto Agnelli. Advisory board modern era (aeca.org): Etienne Davignon (founding patron in 1981; chair anno 2009, 2021) | Antony Burgmans (anno 2009; chair Unilever) | Bertrand Collomb (anno 2009) | Lord George Robertson (anno 2009) | Baron Daniel Janssen (anno 2009) | Dr. Peter Wallenberg (anno 2009) | Mario Monti (anno 2009, 2021) | Onno Ruding (anno 2009) | Sir Martin Sorrell (anno 2009) | Karel van Miert (anno 2009) | Willy de Clercq (anno 2009) | Count Herman van Rompuy (vice chair anno 2021) | Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans (anno 2021) | Amaury de Seze (anno 2021; vice chair Power Corp.) | Baron Jan Huyghebaert (anno 2021) | Neelie Kroes. Belgian patrons (aeca.org/belgian_patrons.html - nov. 23, 2009): Leo Tindemans (founding patron in 1981) | Etienne D. | Karel van M. | Baron Daniel J. | Willy de C. | Baron Jan H. | Baron Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Charles-Ferninand Nothomb | Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Therese Blaton | Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans | Baron Guido Declerq | Herman de Croo | Count Diego du Monceau | Viscount Mark Eyskens | Baron Philippe Bodson. Directors: Prince Henri d'Arenberg (anno 2021) | Baron Luc Bertrand (anno 2021) | Baron Frans van Daele (anno 2021). Speakers AECA.org: Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('12) | Sir Peter Sutherland ('14) | Pascal Lamy ('14). Directors Dutch branch (AECA.nl): Baroness Bentinck (founding patron in 1981) | Dr. Wisse Dekker (founding patron in 1981; Philips) | Ruud Lubbers (founding patron in 1981) | Johan Witteveen (founding patron in 1981) | Victor Halberstadt (chair anno 2013) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (anno 2013) | Cees van Lede (anno 2013; global management consultant McKinsey & Co.; chair Akzo Nobel 1993-2004; advisory chair Heineken, advisory board Philips, director Air France-KLM, Air Liquide and Sara Lee) | Peter Bakker (anno; president WBCSD; UN WPP global ambassador; Chair of Warchild; formerly big business positions) | Joop Wijn (anno 2013; former MP; director ABN AMRO and exec. vice president Rabobank; state secretary of finance) | Joost van der Does de Willebois (anno 2013; manager Shell; director ING Bank; exec. vice president NYSE Euronext Management Committee) | Volkert Doeksen (anno 2013, 2021; senior advisor Carlyle Group and director Fulbright Center; formerly partner at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in New York, director of Kleinwort Benson. Also worked at Dillon Read and Morgan Stanley in London) | Pauline van der Meer Mohr (anno 2016; executive vice president ABN AMRO 2006-; president Erasmus University 2010-; member advisory board ASML NV and Royal DSM NV; chair Fulbright Committee for US-NL Exchange) | Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands (anno 2021) | Frans Blom (chair Van Lanschot Kempen; director Aegon; founder DenkWerk think tank) | Jan Louis Burggraaf (secretary-treasurer anno 2021; former partner Allen & Overy) | Mirjam van Praag (president Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 2018-; member advisory board De Nederlandsche Bank and The Bankraad (Banking Council); vice chair advisory board Anne Frank Foundation) | Robert Swaak (chair and CEO ABN AMRO 2020-) | Coen Teulings (professor at Utrecht University; president CPD) | Hans Wijers (advisory chair ING Group; and former CEO Akzo Nobel, advisory chair Heineken and deputy chair Shell; director GlaxoSmithKline; chair Natuurmonumenten) | Axel Arnbak (anno 2021; attorney at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek) | Mirjam De Blecourt (anno 2021; director and head of Diversity and Inclusion at Baker & McKenzie Amsterdam). aeca.nl/events/ ("Guest Speakers since 2004"): Henry Kravis ('06) | Madeleine Albright ('08) | Muhtar Kent ('09) | Ad Melkert ('10) | David Rubenstein ('10) | Frits Bolkestein ('10) | Lord Adair Turner ('12) | Robert Zoellick ('14) | Andrew McAfee ('15; MIT) | Jared Cohen ('18) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('19). aeca.org/benefactors.html (accessed: Nov. 23, 2009): "European Union. Holcim. Meridin Capital. Philip Morris International. UPS." aeca.org/membership.html (accessed: Nov. 23, 2009): "Akzo Nobel ... Allen & Overy ... BASF. BAT. Baxter. Belgacom. ... Citigroup / Citibank. Coca-Cola Company. Confederation of Danish Industries. ... Delhaize Group. Deloitte. Deutsche Post. ... Dow. Du Pont de Nemours. ... Eli Lilly. Emerson. ... Euronext. ... Exxon / Mobil Petroleum & Chemical. ... Fortis. ... General Electric. ... Goldman Sachs. GlaxoSmithKline. Hill & Knowlton. ... Holcim ... Intel ... Johnson & Johnson. JPMorgan Chase Bank ... Kodak. Kraft Foods ... Lhoist Group. Louis Delhaize Group. ... Lyondell Chemicals. ... Mastercard. McKinsey & Company. ... Microsoft. Monsanto. ... National Bank of Belgium. Norsk Hydro. Nortel Networks. Novartis. Pfizer. Philip Morris. Procter & Gamble. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Reuters. Rhodia. Rockwell International. Russell Reynolds Associates. ... Schlumberger. ... State of Arkansas. Suez. Sun Microsystems. Swift. Telenet. Toyota. ... UBS. ... Unilever . University of Arkansas. UPS. ... Visa Europe. ... Wall Street Journal. ... Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering." |
1981 |
| Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Distinguished fellows (2019-): Pascal Lamy | Mario Monti | Adam Posen | Jean-Claude Trichet | Axel Weber. |
1983 |
| European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT) Members: Pehr Gyllenhammar (co-founder and first chair 1983-88, member until '94; Volvo) | Etienne Davignon (co-founder at the first meeting, but an official member over 1986-01; Societe Generale) | John Harvey-Jones (1983-85; ICI; more from this company) | Umberto Agnelli (1983-94, 2002-04), Gianni (1994-96) and cousin John Elkann (2005-; Fiat) | Carlo De Benedetti (1983-04; Olivetti) and Rodolfo (2006-) | Hans Merkle (1983-92; Robert Bosch) | Wisse Dekker (1983-93; Philips; ; more from this company) | Stephan Schmidheiny (1984-1993) | Jean-Louis Beffa (1986-10) | Jerome Monod (1987-00, chair 1992-96; Suez) | Yves Boel (1988-96; Sofina) | Vincent Bollore (1991-93) | Gerhard Cromme (1992-, chair 2001-2005; ThyssenKrupp) | Jacques Solvay (1988-91) | Andre Leysen (1989-02) and Thomas (2003-) | Baron Daniel Janssen (1991-06) | Mark Wossner (1994-01; Bertelsmann) | Morris Tabaksblat (1994-03; Reed Elsevier) | Louis Schweitzer (1995-09; Renault) | Bertrand Collomb (1989-07; Lafarge) | Jeroen van der Veer (2004-09; Shell) | Percy Barnevik (1996-2002; representative of the Wallenberg's Investor AB) | Sir Peter Sutherland (1997-09, vice chair 2006-09; BP) | Gerard Mestrallet (2000-; GDF Suez) | Jean-Rene Fourtou (1996-04; Vivendi) | Thierry Desmarest (1997-10; Total) | Cees van Lede (1998-03; AkzoNobel) | Anthony Burgmans (1999-07; Unilever) | Thomas Middelhoff (2000-02; Bertelsmann) | Marcus Wallenberg (2002-05) and Jacob (2005-, anno 2021) | Hans Wijers (2003-; AkoNobel) | Anthony Ruys (2004-05; Heineken) | Peter Voser (2009-; Shell) | Joe Kaeser (CEO Siemens AG 2013-021). Perc Others: Romano Prodi (known to have visited and to have been lectured) | Wilhelmus Philippa (secretary-general) | Keith Richardson (secretary general). Other companies represented: Unilever, Shell, BP, Thyssen(Krupp), Societe Generale, Akzo Nobel, BAT, British Steel, Maersk, Air Liquide, Vodafone, Nokia, Ericsson, Philips, Siemens, Robert Bosch, Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Deutsche Lufthansa, Volkswagen, Fiat, Renault, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, Volvo, DaimlerBenz, BMW, Pirelli, Marconi, Rio Tinto, Nestle, Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Petrofina, Solvay, Heineken, Danone, AstraZenica, Bertelsmann, Reed Elsevier, Wolters Kluwer, Vivendi, Diageo, Repsol YPF, GlaxoSmithKline, etc. Sources: ert.eu/all_members_since_1983.aspx (accessed: Jan. 2, 2007; includes all membership dates as well). |
1983 |
| Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) Prince Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (director 1990s-mid 2013; a younger brother of Hans Adam II) | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (director) | Etienne Davignon (director 1990s-2020s) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (director anno 2020) | Lord Simon of Highbury (director; former CEO of BP) | Onno Ruding (chair anno 2004) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt (anno '20; former Denmark PM) | John Bruton (anno '20; former Irish PM). Other: Marietje Schaake ("chair CEPS Task Force on Software Vulnerability Disclosure") | Nathalie Tocci. |
1983 |
| Action Committee for Europe (ACE) / Comite d'Action pour l'Europe (CAE) A continuation of the old Action Committee for the United States of Europe. Founded in 1984, the group's inaugural meeting took place in June 1985. Members: Max Kohnstamm (secretary general anno 1989; previously a member of the ACUSE) | Sir Peter Sutherland | Rene Foch (anno 2001). Part of a 1988 ACE Working Group: Francois Fillon | Michael Heseltine | Hans van Mierlo. |
1984 |
| The Coudenberg Group About 70 members, including: Jean-Pierre De Bandt (president) | Philippe Bodson (director Fortis 2004-2010) | Carlos Van Rafelghem (chair and CEO Sabena 1970s-early 1990s) | Jan Huyghebaert | Patrick van Ypersele de Strihou |
1984-1999 |
| Association for the Monetary Union of Europe Etienne Davignon (co-founder and president 1991-2002) |
1987 |
| European Institute Directors: Philippe Giscard d'Estaing (emeritus anno 1999) | David Maxwell (emeriti anno 1999; retired chair Fannie Mae) | Jacqueline Grapin (important founder, president 1990s-2000s, co-chair anno 2012, 2017) | Yves-Andre Istel (chair anno 1997, 2002, co-chair anno 2012, regular director late 2015-; Rothschild representative since 1993) | Etienne Davignon (anno 1999, until mid 2007) | Jacques Delors (anno 1999, 2018) | Sir Peter Sutherland (anno 1999, 2011) | Robert Zoellick (anno 1999; emeritus anno 2002) | Onno Ruding (vice chair Citicorp/Citibank) | Lawrence Eagleburger (anno 2002, until early 2005) | Bertrand Collomb (anno 2002, 2018) | Bill Sweeney Jr. (anno 2002, 2005) | Simone Veil (listed as "emeritus" in 2002, but again on the board anno 2004) | C. Boyden Gray (2009/2010-, anno 2018) | Jean-Claude Trichet (2016-; already a program visitor by 1999) | Jessica Einhorn. Advisory board: Helmut Sonnenfeldt (chair advisory board anno 1999; member anno 2002, 2012) | William A. Nitze (anno 1999; chair advisory board anno 2002, 2017) | Eric Melby (anno 2002, 2017; continually listed as, "Principal, The Scowcroft Group"). Listed participants anno 1999 (europeaninstitute.org/ei13.htm (accessed: April 29, 1999)): William Perry | Bill Richardson | Sen. Richard Lugar | Sen. William V. Roth Jr. | Jim Kolbe | Jim Leach | Sandra Day O'Connor | Angela Merkel | Valery Giscard D'Estaing | Wim Duisenberg | Jean-Luc Dehaene (Belgian PM) | Karel van Miert | Jacques Santer. Transatlantic Leadership Award: Stuart Eizenstat ('97) | Sen. Richard Lugar ('98) | Madeleine Albright ('99) | Pascal Lamy ('02) | Joe Biden ('02) | Lord George Robertson ('03) | Chuck Hagel ('03), handed by him to Javier Solana ('99 recipient) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('07) | Michael Chertoff ('08) | Christine Lagarde ('11) | Jean-Claude Juncker ('13) | Robert Hormats ('14). Companies represented by board members: GS, Citicorp/Citibank, Bank of America, GE, Societe Generale, Mobil, World Bank, AT&T, Rothschild, Volvo North America, Daimler-Benz, Honeywell, GATT, Fannie Mae, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, BMW, FED, France Telecom North America, Airbus Americas, Boeing, Motorola, Lafarge. europeaninstitute.org/ei14a.cfm?id=15 (accessed: Aug. 27, 1999): "The only European-American public policy organization in Washington. Non-lobbying and non-profit, it is funded by 24 governments and over 75 multinational corporations." |
1989 |
| Forum Europe Daniel Janssen (speaker) |
1989 |
| European Association for Banking and Financial History (EABH) Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (founding chair 1990-2004, continued as a patron) | Jean-Claude Trichet (became chair in 2005 while president European Central Bank 2003-2011) |
1990 |
| Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA), Ireland Honorary committee: Michael Diggens (anno '15; president Ireland) | Mary Robinson (anno '15) | Pat Cox (anno '15) | Peter Sutherland (anno '01-'15). Board: Garret FitzGerald (president anno 2011; honorary committee member anno '01; past president of Ireland) | Pat Cox (anno '21). Speakers: Javier Solana ('00, '03) | Guy Verhofstadt ('01) | Frits Bolkestein ('01) | Joschka Fischer ('01) | Lord Chris Patten ('01) | Mikhail Gorbachev ('01) | Carl Bildt ('02) | Jack Straw ('03) | Dominque de Villepin ('04) | Christine Lagarde ('13) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('15) | Neelie Kroes ('15) | 2015 annual report, p. 61: "2015 Foundation Members: ... Bank of Ireland ... Central Bank of Ireland ... Deloitte ... Google Ireland ... MetLife ... Ulster Bank Ireland." |
1991 |
| Europaeum Founders council and long time trustees: Lord Weidenfeld | Lord Ronald Grierson | Henry Kravis | Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (important financier and patron). Trustee: Lord Chris Patten | Karel Schwarzenberg. Listed as benefactors: Sir Angus Ogilvy | Mrs Robin Hambro | Fritz Thyssen Foundation. Feb. 2007 conference in partnership with the : Elliott Abrams | Nicholas Burns | Joschka Fischer | Lord Guthrie | Richard Haass | Lee Hamilton | Wolfgang Ischinger | Vernon Jordan | Henry Kissinger | Charles Krauthammer | Pierre Lellouche | Pauline Neville-Jones | Dr Robin Niblett | Joseph Nye | Sir Evelyn and Lynn Evelyn de Rothschild | Gijs de Vries. More: Dr. Andrew Graham (chair of the Academic Council). |
1991 |
| Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Peter Mandelson | Lord Weidenfeld | Sergei Karaganov | Mrs. Wolfgang Ischinger | Josef Ackermann. |
1992 |
| Cercle de l'Industrie / France Industrie French business lobby operating in Brussels. Members: Raymond Levy (founder and president 1993-2001; chair and CEO Renault 1986-1992) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (founder and vice-president 1993-1997) | Louis Schweitzer (founding member and financier; chair and CEO Renault 1992-2005) | Vincent Bollore (founding member and financier) | Bertrand Collomb (founding member and financier; "It is clear that [Raymond Levy's] work at the Cercle [de l'Industrie] has helped to establish his popularity among CEOs.") | Lindsay Owen-Jones (founding member and financier; CEO of L'Oreal) | Pierre Moscovici (vice president until 2012) | Louis Gallois (exec. chair EADS). Represented companies: Air France | EADS | Airbus | Suez | Renault | Total | Lafarge | Elf | L'Oreal | Air Liquide | Bosch | Danone | Dassault | Engie | Michelin | Imerys | Nokia | Schneider Electric | Orange | Saint-Gobain | Siemens | Thales | Solvay | Alcatel-Lucent. |
1993 |
| Tindemans Group Leo Tindemans (founder and chair 1994-1995) | Sammy van Tuyll van Serooskerken (founder and secretary) | Ernst Hirsch Ballin |
1994-1995 |
| Belgian Kids Fund for Pediatric Research Patron: Princess Astrid of Belgium, daughter of King Albert II.* Directors: Baron Herve van Ypersele de Strihou | Prince Amaury de Merode*. Support committee: Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit* (chair) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Viscount Etienne Davignon* | Countess Maurice Lippens*. * Accused of child abuse in Belgian dossiers (or a close relative). |
1995 |
| Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Francois Heisbourg (chair Foundation Council). Individual members of the council are not listed today, but are not high level individuals. Visiting scholars: Alexei Arbatov (1998) | Wim van Eekelen (1998). Speakers: Walter Slocombe (1996 or 1997). Advisory council in 2004: Eliot Cohen (visiting scholar in 1997) | Stephen Flanagan (vice president for research, Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, U.S.). Others: David Michel (executive-in-residence). |
1995 |
| Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility Europe (CSR Europe) "The Business to Business Network on Corporate Social Responsibility". Known as the European Business Network for Social Cohesion (EBNSC) until 2000. Directors represent major corporations, but are lower level company representatives. In contrast to the board of directors, the advisory board was not listed on the website over the years. But also here it turns out, the only top globalist has been the advisory board chair. Advisory board: Etienne Davignon (chair advisory board since its inception in 1998, anno 2003; president anno 2009, 2021; "Has been involved with CSR Europe since its inception...") | Gerard Mestrallet (anno 2000) | Peter Hartz (anno 2000; director Volkswagen) | Hans Zwarts (anno 1999; president and CEO Randstad Holdings). Speakers: Jacques Delors (European Commission chair who called on big business to set up CSR Europe in order "to address Europe's structural problems of unemployment, restructurations and social exclusion.") | Jacques Santer (present at the launch party of CSR Europe in October 1998; European Commission chair ) | Pascal Lamy (Dec. 10, 2002). Listed historical sponsors and members: Shell, BP, Total, Unilever, Nike, Levi Strauss, KPMG, L'Oreal, Motorola, Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citigroup, Fortis, Rabobank, British Telecommunications (BT), Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, Danone, Volkswagen, GM Europe, McDonald's Europe, Microsoft, Norsk Hydro, Royal Ahold, Nestle, Manpower, Intel, Dow Europe, BASF, Bridgestone, Coca-Cola, Engie, Epson, Hellenic Petroleum, Hitachi, Huawei, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Moody's, Pirelli, Samsung, Solvay, Total, Toyota, Volkswagen. |
1995 |
| Notre Europe / renamed to Jacques Delors Institute Jacques Delors (chair and co-president 1996-, steering committee anno 2010, one of five trustees anno 2012) | Erik Belfrage (director anno 2010) | Pascal Lamy (member European steering committee anno 2010, trustee anno 2012 and president at some point) | Etienne Davignon (one of five trustees and member European steering committee) | Karel Van Miert (steering committee member until his death in 2009) | Javier Solana (director anno 2020) | Antoinette Spaak (steering committee member anno 2010; daughter of Paul Henri-Spaak) | Barbara Spinelli (steering committee member anno 2010; daughter of Altiero Spinelli). The European steering committee was seen as a continuation of the old Action Committee for the United States of Europe (ACUSE). |
1996 |
| Centre for European Reform Advisory council: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (2004-2020s, chair anno 2012) | Carl Bildt (anno 2000, 2020) | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (anno 2000) | Sir Peter Sutherland (anno 2000, 2005) | Robert Zoellick (anno 2000) | Lord Simon of Highbury (anno 2000) | Richard Haass (2003-) | Lord George Robertson (anno 2005, 2021) | Francois Heisbourg (anno 2000, 2021) | Lord Adair Turner (anno 2005, 2012) | Pascal Lamy (anno 2012, 2021) | Wolfgang Ischinger (anno 2012, 2021) | Mario Monti (anno 2021) | Roland Rudd (anno 2012, 2017). More: Charles Grant ((managing) director). cer.org.uk/2about/spons.html (accessed: Aug. 18, 2000): "BAT ... BP AMOCO. British Aerospace. ... Daily Mail and General Trust. Diageo. The Economist. ... Goldman Sachs. KPMG. Lockheed Martin. ... Pearson. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Raytheon. Salomon Smith Barney. ... Unilever. Vickers." cer.eu/corporate-donors (accessed: April 25, 2021): "AIG Europe... Allen & Overy. Apple. BAE Systems. Barclays Bank. ... BHP Billiton. Boeing. BP... BVCA... BT plc. Cargill. The Economist. Facebook. Fidelity. Ford. Gilead Sciences... GlaxoSmithKline. Goldman Sachs. HSBC. International Paper. Invesco. JP Morgan. Kingfisher. KPMG. ... Lloyds Banking Group. Lockheed Martin. ... Microsoft. Mitsubishi... Montrose Associates. Morgan Stanley. ... PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Qualcomm. Shell. Teneo. Vanguard. Vodafone." |
1996 |
| European Policy Centre (EPC) Advisory council (later the "strategic council"): Max Kohnstamm (founder EPC, honorary president anno 2007 until death in 2010) | Sir Peter Sutherland (president anno 2000, chairman anno 2001, again president anno 2006 until 2012; chair of GS and BP) | Carl Bildt (must have been 2004-2005 period) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno 2000, until 2001; reappeared as a "senior policy advisor" in 2003) | Ben Knapen (anno 2000, until 2001; also "financial advisor" anno 2000) | Pascal Lamy (anno 2000, until 2001) | Rene Foch (anno 2000, until 2001) | Leo Tindemans (anno 2000, until 2001) | Karel Van Miert (vice president 2001-2007; "Former European Commissioner for Competition Policy.") | Niall FitzGerald (2003-) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (vice president 2007-2016, regular member 2016-2020s) | Gareth Evans (anno 2006, 2007) | Antony Burgmans (anno 2007; chair Unilever) | Hans Blix (anno 2010; first gave a speech in 2006) | Gijs de Vries (anno 2010) | Herman Van Rompuy (president anno 2016, 2021) | Lionel Barber (anno 2021) | Jean-Claude Juncker (anno 2021) | Federica Mogherini (anno 2021) | General Assembly (anno 2007): Sir Peter S. | Gerrit Rauws ("Director of the King Baudouin Foundation"). More: Guy Verhofstadt (presentation to the EPC at Egmont Palace in Sep. '99) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (July 18, 2004 presentation) | Lord Chris Patten (Sep. 10, 2004 presentation to a mixed EPC/RIIR crowd) | James Wolfensohn (Oct. 25, 2004 speech 'Securing the 21st Century' to a mixed RIIR/EPC crowd). epc.eu/en/members (accessed: April 26, 2021): "PLATINUM: Apple ... Johnson & Johnson ... CORPORATE: ... Amazon Europe ... Bain & Company. BASF SE. Bristol Myers Squibb ... Chevron ... Dell ... Dow ... ExxonMobil. Facebook. ... GlaxoSmithKline. Google ... Hyundai ... Merck Sharp & Dohme ... Mitsubishi ... Mitsui ... Oracle Corporation. Philip Morris International ... Qualcomm. Roche. ... Schneider Electric. Siemens AG. Siemens Energy. Suez. Sumitomo Benelux. Teneo. Vodafone. Zurich Insurance Company." 2000 annual report, pp. 10, 13: "Special Thanks to our Sponsors: ... ABB. Adecco. ... BAT. ... BT. Boeing. ... DaimlerChrysler ... DuPont. Hill & Knowlton. Kraft Foods... Microsoft. PricewaterhouseCoopers. Solvay. TotalFinaElf. Toyota. ... CORPORATE MEMBERS: PLATINUM: ... Mars. GOLD: ... ABN Amro. ... Air Liquide. Akzo Nobel. ... BAE System,s. ... BP ... British Airways .. Citigroup. Coca-Cola. Corning. DaimlerChrysler. Dow. ... Ericsson. GlaxoSmithKline. Goldman Sachs. Hydro. ... KPN Orange ... Northrop Grumman ... Philip Morris. Philips. ... Rockwell Automation ... Unilever. United Technologies. UPS... Vattenfall. Viacom. Visa." Pre-2007 website: theEPC.be. |
1996 |
| Cercle de Lorraine, Brussels / Club van Lotharingen More liberal-oriented continuation of Cercle des Nations. One of the most elite clubs of Belgium, if not the most elite. Never mentioned its members or honorary committee on the site. The roughly four directors it did mention eventually, never were recognizable names. Only a handful of articles have ever been produced about the club. Members: Stephan Jourdain (official founder 1998-, still in pictures in 2014) | Etienne Davignon (founding 1998-; still involved anno 2019) | Maurice Lippens (anno 2002), son Alexandre Lippens (anno 2012) and brother Leopold Lippens (anno 2011) | Albert Frere (founding 1998-, still in pictures in 2014; wealthiest man of Belgium) and son Gerald Frere (anno 2011; regent Nationale Bank van Belgium, amidst protest, following up his father 1995-2018, again followed up by his son Cedric 2018-; director RTL Group 2000-2006, Pargesa/GBL, Royale Belge, etc.) | Gerard Mestrallet (founding 1998-, still anno 2012) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (founding 1998-) | Comte Jean-Pierre de Launoit (founding 1998-) | Christian van Thillo (founding 1998-; exec. chair and (hidden) owner of DPG Media, owner of the Belgium De Morgen and HLN.be newspapers and almost all major Dutch newspapers: Algemeen Dagblad, de Volkskrant, Trouw, Het Parool, BN De Stem, Flair, Libelle, as well as Holland's most prominent news aggregate website Nu.nl) | Jean-Pierre Laurent Josi | Pierre Nothomb (anno 2011) | Prince Philippe de Chimay (anno 2011) | Philippe De Selliers De Moranville (anno 2011) | Anton van Rossum (anno 2011; CEO Fortis Bank 2000-2004; trustee Conf. Board; supervisory chair Erasmus University Rotterdam 2005-2014; chair Netherlands Economic Inst. 2006-2016; supervisory board Munich Re; chair Royal Vopak 2007-2017) | Herve Coppens d'Eeckenbrugge [director Solvay 2009-]. Speakers: Armand De Decker (Sep. 28, 2011) | Henri Giscard d'Estaing (Nov. 23, 2011; Danone, Randstad) | David de Rothschild (Sep. 18, 2012; chair Rothschild Group) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (March 20, 2014) | Pascal Lamy (June 25, 2014) | Didier Reynders (May 8, 2012; minister of foreign affairs 2011–2019, defense 2018-2019, EU commissioner for justice 2019-) | Martine Maelschalck ('2012; editor in chief L'Echo). Visitors/spotted in monthly magazine 'Leader': Mark Eyskens ('11, '14, '16, '18) | Thierry De Rudder ('14; Citibank NYC 1975-; managing director GBL 1993-, vice chair 2012-; director GDF Suez, Imerys, Lafarge, Total) | Francois-Xavier Dumont (Nov. '15; wealth manager BNP Paribas Fortis; director Rothschild & Co. 2018-). Source(s): March 17, 1997, De Morgen, 'Nieuwe Brusselse eliteclub krijgt vaste vorm'; Nov. 16, 2002, De Tijd, 'De vijf Bs van Jourdain'; cercledelorraine.be/ en/presentation.aspx (accessed: June 14, 2014); monthly issues of the Cercle de Lorraine / Club van Lotharingen magazine 'Leader' 2011-2018. |
1998 |
| Bplus Tries to keep the wealthy Dutch-speaking Flanders and the poorer, aristocratic, French-speaking Walloon parts of Belgian together. Members general board: Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Willy Claes | Count Jean Pierre de Launoit | Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen | Wilfried Martens. |
1998 |
| Britain in Europe Lord Marshall of Knightsbridge (chair) | Lord Simon of Highbury (one of three vice-chairs). Advisory board: Niall FitzGerald | Lord Howe of Aberavon |
1999 |
| Friends of Europe Trustees (split in "Praesidium" and "trustees" for a while): Etienne Davignon (founder and founding president 1999-, still anno 2024; vice president Societe Generale) | Baron Daniel Janssen (co-founder; trustee anno 2001-2021; director Solvay) | Lord Peter Mandelson (anno 2001) | Keith Richardson (anno 2001) | Carl Bildt (anno 2001, 2010, 2024) | Giuliano Amato | Jean-Luc Dehaene (anno 2001, 2010; Belgian PM 1992-1999) | Pascal Lamy (anno 2001, 2010, 2021) | Javier Solana (anno 2001, 2010, 2021) | Karel Van Miert (anno 2001) | Danier Cardon de Lichtbuer (anno 2005) | Wim Kok (anno 2005) | Michel Rocard (anno 2005, 2010) | Mario Monti (anno 2008, 2010, 2021) | Pat Cox (anno 2008-2010, 2021; president Jean Monnet Fdn.) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno 2010, "praesidium") | Jaap de Hoop-Scheffer (anno 2021) | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (anno 2021) | Alexander de Croo (anno 2021; PM Belgium) | Jean-Claude Juncker (anno 2021; former president European Commission and former PM Luxembourg) | Federica Mogherini (anno 2021) | Marietje Schaake (anno 2021) | Herman van Rompuy (former president of the European Council and former PM Belgium) | Guy Verhofstadt (former Belgian PM) | Toomas Henrik Ilves (anno 2021) | Jesse Klaver (anno 2020-2024) | Thomas Leysen (anno 2021-2024, also president governing board anno 2024). Participants 2007 dinner: Robert Cooper (director general for external and politico-military affairs, Council of the European Union) | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Mark Eyskens | Gerald Frere | Neelie Kroes | Mario M. | Prince Laurent of Belgium | Maurice Lippens | Wilfried Martens | Gerard Mestrallet | Jacques Santer | Jean-Paul Votron. |
1999 |
| European Business Summit Jan Peter Balkenende (among a long list of speakers) |
2000 |
| Institut Montaigne, Paris Directors: Henri de Castries (chair anno '22, also an "expert") | Paul Hermelin ('anno ' 22; chair CapGemini) | Jean-Pierre Clamadieu (anno '22; chair Engie) | Jean-Dominique Senard (chair Renault Group) | Philippe Wahl (anno '22; chair and CEO Groupe La Poste) | Florence Verzelen (anno '22; exec. vice president Dassault Systemes) | Marguerite Bérard (anno '22; head BNP Paribas French Retail Banking). Experts: Strobe Talbott (anno '22). |
2000 |
| European Financial Services Round Table Pehr Gyllenhammar (founding chairman) | Alex Weber. |
2001 |
| European Leadership Network (ELN) Malcolm Rifkind (exec. and adv. board) | Federica Mogherini (exec. director) | Wolfgang Ischinger (adv. board). Members: Marietje Schaake. Funding: RBF, Hewlett Fdn., MacArthur Fdn., Carnegie Corp., etc. |
2001 |
| Academy of Business in Society (ABIS) Supervisory board 2014: Viscount Etienne Davignon (chair) | Baron Andre van Heemstra. 30 board members plus chairman in total. Others are unknown to ISGP. |
2001 |
| Global Security Forum (Globesec), Bratislava, Slovakia International advisory board (anno 2020): Carl Bildt (visitor since at least '15) | Ian Brzezinzki (visitor since at least '16) | James Townsend (visitor since at least '16) | Gen. John Allen (visitor since at least '15) | Michael Chertoff (visitor since at least '15) | Peter van Praagh | Kurt Volker (visitor since at least '15). Participants in annual conferences: Anders Fogh Rasmussen (penalist '09) | Pavol Demes (director GMF for Central and Eastern Europe) | Hans Binnendijk (penalist '09) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('13 penalist) | Radosław Sikorski ('13 penalist) | Karel Schwarzenberg ('11, '13 speaker/penalist, participant '15) | Ariel Cohen (participant '15) | Rob de Wijk (participant '15) | Wolfgang Ischinger (participant '15) | Sen. John McCain (participant '15) | Dan Meridor (participant '15) | Pauline Neville-Jones (participant '15) | Viktor Orban (participant '15) | Urmas Paet (participant '15) | Bruce Stokes ('15; Director, Global Economic Attitudes, Pew Research Center) | Madeleine Albright (penalist '16) | Anne Applebaum (penalist '16) | James Townsend (penalist '16) | John Reid (penalist '16; U.K. secretary of defence) | David Cameron. Partners: Raytheon, BAE Systems, Microsoft. Representatives of these companies have visited conferences. |
2001 |
| European Business Leaders Convention (EBLC) eblc.org/s/History-of-the-EBLC.pdf (accessed: Oct. 10, 2021; redirect to a SquareSpace url): "Jorma Ollila, then CEO of Nokia [BB SC 1994-2014], was present at a crucial planning meeting in June 2002. ... He convinced Peter Sutherland (then chairman of the BP [and chair GS]) and Josef Ackermann (then CEO of Deutsche Bank) to participate in the first conference in June 2003. Stanley Fischer, then vice chair of the IMF, also participated in the first conference. [All Russian names below, except Gref, mentioned here]" Council: Jorma O. (chair anno '07, '14) | Josef A. (anno '21) | Sir Peter S. ('anno '07) | Lord Adair Turner ('07) | Carlo de Benedetti (anno '07) | Roland Berger (anno '07, '21) | Michael Treschow (anno '07; suggested a name that made the Nordic nature of the conferences clear, inspiring the Northern Light Summit name in 2013) | Dr Heinrich von Pierer (anno '07) | Jyrki Katainen (anno '21; PM Finland) | Anatoly Chubais (anno '21) | Viktor Vekselberg (anno '21). Organising Committee Chairman: Esko Aho (anno '14; PM Finland). Participants: Jose Manuel Barroso ('04) | Martti Ahtisaari ('05) | Mikhail Fridman ('05) | Francois Heisbourg ('05) | Wim Kok ('05) | Michael Treschow ('05) | Lord Adair T. ('05) | Jacob Wallenberg ('05) | Robin Niblett ('05, '16) | Anatoly C. ('06, '09) | Viktor V. ('06) | Ernest-Antoine Selliere ('06) | Jeroen van der Veer ('06) | Carl Bildt ('07, '17) | Craig Barrett ('09) | Sir John Kerr / Lord of Kinlochard ('09; deputy chair Shell) | Joe Kaeser ('17) | Eric Schmidt ('18) | Paul Polman ('18, '20) | Herman Gref ('19) | Christine Lagarde ('20) | Gen. Jim Mattis ('20) | Larry Summers ('21) | Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales ('21) | Gen. John R. Allen ('21) | Syrie Crouch (anno '21; Shell) | Jean Lemierre (anno '21; BNP Paribas). Meetings: 2003 (Helsinki) | 2004 (Brussels) | 2005 (Helsinki) | 2006 (St. Petersburg) | 2007 (Helsinki). Source(s): eblc.org/index2.php?id=8 (accessed: Nov. 9, 2007; council members); eblc.org/index2.php?id=13 (accessed: Nov. 9, 2007; past meetings with key participants); eblc.org/governance (accessed: Oct. 10, 2021); eblc.org/past-events (accessed: Oct. 10, 2021). |
2002 |
| Public Advice International Foundation (PA International) Rio Praaning (secretary general and executive director) | Willy Wiguna | Mark Eyskens | Baron Paul De Keersmaeker | Dries van Agt | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Frits Bolkestein | Gijs de Vries | Wim van Eekelen | Chantal Gill'ard | Frank de Grave | Gen. Torgeir Hagen | Dr. Ratna Rosita Hendardji | Dr. Jiang Mingjun | Cao Baijun | Qin Zhenkui | Wakako Hironaka | Younis Al Balushi | Alexander Bessmertnykh | Charles Perry |
2004 |
| Bruegel Jean-Claude Trichet (chair) | Jean Pisani-Ferry (executive director 2005-2013) | Andreas Treichl "external speaker") | Zhu Min ("external speaker"). |
2005 |
| Business for a New Europe Founder and founding chair: Roland Rudd. Advisory council members: Leon Brittan (founding; vice chair UBS) | Niall FitzGerald (founding) | Sir Peter Sutherland (founding) | Sir Martin Sorrell (founding) | Christopher Tugendhat (founding; chair European Advisory Board, Lehman Brothers) | Bryan Sanderson (founding; chair Standard Chartered) | Richard Cousins (founding; director P&O) | Chris Gibson-Smith (founding; chair London Stock Exchange) | Philippe Varin (anno 2008; CEO Corus) | Bob Wigley (anno 2008; "chair - Europe, Middle East & Africa, Merrill Lync"h) Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (from later in 2006, anno 2013). |
2006 |
| European Centre For International Political Economy (ECIPE) Advisory board: Paul Collier (anno 2021). Members: Janet Yellen. Five Freedoms Project advisory board (7 members listed anno 2021): Jacob Wallenberg (chair anno 2021) | Pascal Lamy (anno 2021) | Peter Thiel (anno 2021) | Peter Sutherland (anno 2021, but died in Jan. 2018). |
2006 |
| Berggruen Institute on Governance's Council for the Future of Europe Council members: Nicolas Berggruen | Tony Blair | Jacques Delors | Niall Ferguson | Pascal Lamy | Alain Minc | Mario Monti | Romano Prodi | Gerhard Schroder | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Sutherland | Guy Verhofstadt |
2011 |
| MyEurope Patrons: Josef Ackermann (anno 2013, 2021) | Pat Cox (anno 2013, 2021) | Herman van Rompuy (2014-). |
2011 |
| School of Public Policy at Central European University, Austria Founder: George Soros (also the 1991 founder of the entire CEU). Wolfgang Reinicke (founding dean). Advisory board: Alexander Soros | Joseph Nye | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Professor Ghassan Salame (Sciences-Po). Vartan Gregorian (trustee of the CEU with George and Jonathan Soros, as well as Pierre Mirabaud, anno 2009). |
2012 |
| World Forum for Democracy Anti-"populism" and pro-feminism and pro-Third World immigration forum of the Council of Europe / EU. Founded by Thorbjorn Jagland, the then-secretary general of the Council of Europe. Low-level speakers, who work for governments and elite-financed NGOs. opendemocracy.net/wfd (accessed: June 22, 2018; massively funded by George Soros Open Soc. Fdns., as well as the Mott and Ford fdns.): "We are media partners of the World Forum for Democracy 2017: the subject this year is 'populism'. ... Our second week, in January, will focus on women and populism. ... Women's 'shocking' participation in far-right politics has received much media attention." March 26, 2015, humanrightseurope.org, 'George Soros and the Council of Europe reach agreement on new European Roma Institute' [eriac.org]: "Soros ... and Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland today authored an article published by ‘European Voice,’ which sets out the purpose of the new institute." |
2012 |
| Globe Project globe-project.eu/en (accessed: May 7, 2020): "Funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme, the Project “Global Governance and the European Union: Future Trends and Scenarios (GLOBE)”, addresses the strategic priorities identified in the EU Global Strategy such as – trade, development, security and climate change – as well as migration and global finance, in order to identify the major roadblocks to effective and coherent global governance by multiple stakeholders in a multipolar world." International advisory board: Pascal Lamy (2020-, still anno 2024) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (2020-, still anno 2024) | Igor Ivanov (2020-, still anno 2024) | Elizabeth Sidiropoulos (2020-, still anno 2024; research director South African Institute of Race Relations 1991-1998; national director South African Inst. of Int. Affairs 2005-, also CEO 2012-) | Anna Triandafyllidou (2020-; Schuman Chair at the Global Governance Programme of the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies); editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies). Team: Javier Solana (2020-, still anno 2024). Source(s): globe-project.eu/en/international-advisory-board_543 (accessed: Sep. 21, 2021 - Jan. 1, 2024). |
2020 |
| L'Institut Jean Monnet / Jean Monnet Institute Conseil d’Administration: Nicholas Rostow (founding 2021-). Honorary committee: Henry Kissinger (founding 2021-) | Michel David-Weill (founding 2021-) | Etienne Davignon (founding 2021-) | Pascal Lamy (founding 2021-) | Thierry de Montbrial (founding 2021-) | Jean-Claude Trichet (founding 2021-) | Georges Berthoin (founding 2021-) | Jean-Claude Casanova (founding 2021-) | Pascal Fontaine (founding 2021-) | Philippe Herzog (founding 2021-). Source(s): institutjeanmonnet.eu/linstitut/ gouvernance/ (accessed: Feb. 5, 2022); institutjeanmonnet.eu/en/the-institute/governance/ (accessed: May 3, 2023). |
2021 |
Liberal establishment: institutes of international affairs
| Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House or RIIA) | 1920 |
| Council on Foreign Relations | 1921 |
| Chicago Council on Foreign Relations | 1922 |
| Institute of Pacific Relations (shut down in 1961) | 1925 |
| Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) Board of directors: John Wendell Holmes (president/director general 1960-1973; BB '61, '68) | Roy MacLaren (chair 2000-2006, director until 2007) | Jim Balsillie (chair 2007-) | Andre Desmarais (2007-). Source(s): 2000-2001 annual report, CIIA (thecic.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Annual-Report-2000-2001.pdf (accessed: May 2, 2023): "CIIA BOARD OF DIRECTORS: ... CIIA PATRONS’ COUNCIL: ... CIIA NATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD: ... CONTRIBUTORS 2000 - 2001: ... Bank of Montreal ... Barrick Gold ... Bell Canada ... Bombardier Inc. ... General Electric Canada Inc. ... Placer Dome Inc. ... Power Corporation of Canada ..."; thecic.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Annual-Report-2007-2008.pdf (accessed: May 2, 2023). |
1928 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Affairs Completely unknown institute in the modern era. Founded some time pre 1933, robooted again in 1946, and eventually again in 1983 as Clingendael in 1983. Board: Dr. Bernard H. M. Vlekke (secretary-general anno 1960-1961). Other: Prince Bernhard (speech mid 1960s; 1970, Staatsuitgeverij, 'Koninklijke woorden van H. M. Koningin Juliana, Z. K. H. Prins Bernhard [etc.] 1964 t/m 1968', p. 148). Funding: 1947 and 1955 annual reports Rock. Fdn. 1954 annual report Carnegie Corp. Source(s): 1933 annual report, CIIA (Canada), pp. 46-47: "Europe — The Council has accepted an invitation from the Netherlands Institute of International Affairs to take part in a Research Conference on some aspects of the German Problem, to be held at The Hague."; 1946 annual report, RIIA: "The Netherlands Institute of International Affairs (Oranjestraat 7, The Hague) has expanded rapidly since its inauguration in February 1946." Jan. 26-31, 1946, IPR, 'Documents Presented at the Pacific Council Meetings, Atlantic City, New Jersey', "A Netherlands Institute of International Affairs is about to be established in which some Council members are prominent. It was not expected that these two groups would compete as far as the IPR is concerned, but rather that some way of close cooperation would be found. The Netherlands Indies group has not yet been re - established and its work is still and its work is still handled by the New York Committee. Because of the great interest the members of the Institute in Holland have in acquiring PACIFIC AFFAIRS and the difficulty of getting the necessary foreign exchange, it was requested that the IPR open a guilders account in a Dutch bank..." | 1933 or older |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008) |
1933 |
| South African Institute of International Affairs Elizabeth Sidiropoulos (national director 2005-, also CEO 2012-; research director South African Institute of Race Relations 1991-1998) |
1934 |
| (Italian) Institute for International Political Studies / Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) Alberto Pirelli (key founder in '34, key funder since at least 1935, president '35-; president and then CEO of Pirelli, the tire manufacturer; president Int. Chamber of Comm. 1926-) | Benito Mussolini (a key patron) | Boris Biancheri (president 1997-2011; member TC anno '01) | Giampiero Pesenti (advisory council anno 2002; son of Carlo II, who died in 1984; director Italmobiliare 1967-, chair and CEO 1984-; VP of Confindustria 1992-1996) Corporations: ispionline.it/en/ node/17788/board-directors (accessed: Sep. 25, 2022; anno 2022 AIG is a member, but not represented on the board): "- Giorgia Abeltino, Director of Public Policy for France, Italy, Greece and Malta, Google. ... - Sergio Balbinot, Chairman, Allianz. - Claudio Bassoli, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Italia. - Marco Bizzarri, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Guccio Gucci. - Alberto Bombassei, Chairman Emeritus, Brembo [Brakes]. ... - Lucia Calvosa, Chairwoman, Eni S.p.A. ... - Roberto Colaninno, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Piaggio... - Michele Crisostomo, Chairman, Enel S.p.A. ... - Domenico Fumagalli, Senior Partner, KPMG S.p.A. ... - Marco Hannappel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris Italy. ... - Emma Marcegaglia, Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, Marcegaglia Steel. ... - Nicola Monti, Chief Executive Officer, Edison. - Andrea Munari, Chairman, BNL - BNP Paribas Group. - Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, President [July 2013-], Istituto Affari Internazionali [IAI]. - Nando Pagnoncelli, Country Chairman, Ipsos Italy [polling bureau]. - Roberto Parazzini, Chief Country Officer, Deutsche Bank. - Carlo Pesenti [b. 1967; son of Giampiero], Chief Executive Officer, Italmobiliare. ... - Fabio Pompei, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Italy. ... - Stefano Rebattoni, Chief Executive Officer, IBM Italy. ... - Andrea Sironi, Chairman, Assicurazioni Generali... - Marina Tamagnini, Director Government Relations EMEA, Whirlpool Corporation... - Marco Tronchetti Provera, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Pirelli." Source(s): ispionline.it/it/organi_sociali.htm (accessed: June 22, 2004): "Comitato di Supervisione..."; ispionline.it/en/institute/history (accessed: Sep. 25, 2022): "ISPI's [was] launched on 27th March 1934 by a group of young scholars from the Universities of Milan and Pavia ... inspired by the examples of London's Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs [RIIA] and New York's Foreign Policy Association. [A] meeting in February 1935 with Alberto Pirelli ... did not only guarantee the funding ... but it also provided strong links with the business community, while ensuring some autonomy from the fascist regime. ... Thanks to Alberto Pirelli's efforts, Mussolini allowed ISPI to move its headquarters to Palazzo Clerici, a more prestigious venue than the first one in Via Borghetto. [From] the 25th of July 1940, granting ISPI the use of the Palazzo for 29 years on payment of a rent of ten lire, along with the obligation to deal with the restoration. In December 1940 the renovation work was approved directly by Mussolini..." |
1934 |
| Swedish Institute of International Affairs / Utrikespolitiska Institutet (UI)
Board: Erik Belfrage (chair around or anno '00; BB '05; TC '01-'16; Wallenberg protege) Speakers: Carl Bildt (Sep. 29, 2014). |
1938 |
| Institute of Jewish Affairs (now Institute for Jewish Policy Research). |
1941 |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) | 1944 |
| Polish Institute of International Affairs | 1947 or older |
| Royal Institute for International Relations (RIIR) (Egmont), Belgium Officers, past and present: Etienne Davignon (chairman) | Francois de Kerchove d'Exaerde (director general) | Willy Claes | Willy De Clercq | Guy Spitaels | Baron Daniel Janssen | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete (director of European affairs). Participants in meetings: Jacques Delors | Guy Verhofstadt | Jean-Claude Trichet | Jean Pisani-Ferry | Jean-Herve Lorenzi | Didier Reynders | Mario Monti | Philippe Lagayette (Barclays) | Erik Nielsen (Goldman Sachs) | Herman Van Rompuy | James Wolfensohn (Oct. 25, 2004 speech 'Securing the 21st Century' to a mixed RIIR/EPC crowd) | Lord Chris Patten (Sep. 10, 2004 presentation to a mixed EPC/RIIR crowd). |
1947 |
| Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs | 1949 |
| German Council on Foreign Relations / Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik e.V. (DGAP) Karl Kaiser (head 1974-2003) | Helmut Schmidt (vice president anno 1999) | Dr. Richard von Weizsacker (honorary member anno 2006, 2011) | Helmut Kohl (honorary member anno 2011) | Walter Scheel (honorary member anno 2011) | Count Otto Lambsdorff (listed member anno 2006) | Count Hagen Lambsdorff (managing board) | Horst Teltschik | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (member) | Tom Enders (president 2019-; former CEO Airbus) | Jurgen Chrobog (member anno 2006; representative of the Herbert-Quandt-Stiftung). Advisory committee: Wolfgang Ischinger (anno 2021; earlier listed as steering committee; already in 1999 a conference participant) | Baron Christopher von Oppenheim (anno 2021; earlier listed as steering committee) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (anno 2021; listed as a member in 2006) | Dr. Klaus Mangold (anno 2021) | Henri de Castries (anno 2021) | Fiona Hill (anno 2021, also member Academic Advisory Committee anno 2021). dgap.org/dgap/mitgliedschaft/ (accessed: June 21, 2006): "Förderer [Patrons:]: ... BASF AG, BMW AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Deutsche BP AG, E.ON AG, Henkel KGaA, Roland Berger, Otto Wolff-Stiftung, Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. KGaA, SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG, Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft e.V., Volkswagen AG." |
1955 |
| Prague Institute of International Relations | 1957 |
| Norwegian Institute of International Affairs John Christian Sannes (director '59-'83) | Johan Jorgen Holst (director '83–'86, '89–'90) | Arne Olav Brundtland (senior research fellow anno '91; husband of '81, '86-'89, '90-'96 Norwegian PM Gro Harlem Brundtland) | Jan Egeland (director '07-'11). nupi.no/en/about-nupi/nupi-s-history (accessed: May 2, 2023): "The model was derived from abroad – the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House..." |
1959 |
| Japan Institute of International Affairs | 1959 |
| Finnish Institute of International Affairs | 1961 |
| Atlantic Institute for International Affairs (Paris-based) | 1961 |
| Institute of International Affairs, Rome / Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) Altiero Spinelli (founder, with support of the Olivetti and Ford fdns.) | Giancarlo Elia Valori (secretary-general 1960s-1980s) | Cesare Merlini ( director/chair; TC '73- until at least '98 - but not listed in '85; BB '04) Ferdinando Nelli Feroci (president July 2013-) | Nathalie Tocci (director of research for EU foreign policy) OLDER: Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI). |
1965 |
| French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) Boards: Thierry de Montbrial (founding executive chair 1979-2020s, although simply "director general" anno 2003-2004, "president" anno 2006, "director-general" of the management board in 2008, "director-general" of the smaller board of governors and president of the strategy council anno 2013, and "executive chair" anno 2021) | Pierre Lellouche (co-founder and deputy director 1979-1988) | Jean-Claude Trichet (director anno 2002-2003) | Bertrand Collomb (director anno 2002-2003; president management board anno 2008; member strategy board anno 2006-2009) | Louis Schweitzer (director anno 2002-2003; management board anno 2008; deputy chair and secretary anno 2013, 2021) | Jean-Claude Casanova (director anno 2002-2003; management board anno 2008; member strategy council anno 2006-2013) | Jean Peyrelevade (director anno 2002-2003; chair Credit Lyonnais at the time) | Yves-Thibault de Silguy (director anno 2002-2003; senior exec. VP of Suez at the time) | Michel Francois-Poncet (vice chair and treasurer anno 2002-2003; vice chair BNP Paribas at the time, chair earlier) | Karl Kaiser (member strategy council anno 2006-2013) | Simone Veil (management board anno 2008) | Simon Serfaty (member strategy council anno 2013; held the Brzezinski chair at CSIS). More: Bassma Kodmani (founder and director of Middle East Program 1981-1998; member strategy council per Oct. 13, 2006, until mid 2008; key role in initial 2011-2012 uprise against Assad in Syria that eventually led to the rise of ISIS; spokesperson of the Syrian National Council) | Vladimir Baranovsky. Speakers: Nicolas Sarkozy | Dmitri Medvedev | Hu Jintao | Jalal Talabani | Hamid Karzai | Vladimir Putin (Oct. 31, '00) | Mario Monti ('00) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('00) | Frits Bolkestein ('00) | Pascal Lamy ('00) | Jose Maria Aznar ('00) | Lord Chris Patten ('00) | Onno Ruding ('00) | Alexandre Livshits ('00) | Felix Rohatyn ('01) | David de Rothschild ('01; managing partner de Rothschild & Cie Banque) | Javier Solana ('01) | Hu Jintao (5 Nov. '01) | Stanley Hoffmann ('02) | Lord George Robertson ('02) | George Soros (Nov. 5, '02: 'La monialisation et le role l'Amerique dans le monde') | Anders Aslund ('02) | Mikheil Saakashvili | Vaclav Klaus | Pervez Musharraf | Abdullah Gul | Viktor Yanukovych | Paul Kagame | Herman Van Rompuy | Jose Manuel Barroso | Anders Fogh Rasmussen. IFRI founded the World Policy Conference (WPC) in 2008. Past participants: Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani of Qatar | Stuart Eizenstat | Josef Joffe | Paul K. | James Lowenstein | Kevin Rudd | Louis S. | Jean-Claude T. Funding: 2002 annual report / rapport d'activite, IFRI, p. 41: "Sociétés membres (à la date du 31 décembre 2002): ABN AMRO France. Accor. ... Air France. Air Liquide, Alcatel. American Express. ... Arianespace. Axa. Banque de France. ... Barclays Bank. ... BNP Paribas. ... Citibank ... Credit Lyonnais ... Credit Suisse Group. Daimler Chrysler. Dassault Aviation. Deutsche Bank. ... Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein France. EADS. ... Enterprise Miniere et Chimique. Federation des Industries de la Parfumerie. ... France Telecom. Gaz de France. ... HSBC. IBM France. ... JP Morgan Chase Bank. ... Lafarge. Lazard Freres. ... L' Oreal. LVMH. ... Merrill Lynch France ... Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Novartis France. PSA Peugeot Citroen. ... Renault ... Rothschild & Cie Banque. ... Siemens France. ... Societe General ... Suez. Thales. Total. ... Vivendi ... Wendel Investissement." |
1979 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) Successor to the older, completely unknown Netherlands Institute of International Affairs, originally founded some time before 1933 and again in 1946, that received financing from the Rock. Fdn. in 1947 and 1955, and the Carnegie Corp. in 1954. Governors: Max van der Stoel (pre-1998) | Ruud Lubbers (chair 1995-2001; Dutch PM 1982-1994) | Hans van den Broek (president/chair anno 2001 to 2011) | Ben Bot (president). Supervisory board: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (anno '98). Business advisory board: Alexander R. K. (anno '98) | Herman Wijffels (anno '98). More: Gen. Marcel Urlings | Rob de Wijk (director Security and Conflict Program) | Ida Haisma (director of Training & Development; TNO) | Dr. Jan Rood (head of the Research Department 1997-2004, head of the European Studies Program 2005-2009, head of strategic research 2010-, chief editor Internationale Spectator, and editor Peace and Security / Vrede & Veiligheid) | Dr. Janne Nijman (frequent guest lecturer; "international gender champion") | Sigrid Kaag ("foreign relations training" in the late 1980s). Governors Stichting Fonds Instituut Clingendael and its Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP): Willem O. Russell. Source(s): - clingendael.nl/cli/publ/ jaarverslag/jrvslg98.pdf (accessed: March 8, 2003): "Raad van Toezicht: ... Raad van Toezicht: ... Adviescommissie Bedrijfsleven:..."; - clingendael.nl/cli/clboard.htm (accessed: March 23, 2002): "Board of Governors: Mr. H. van den Broek, president. [Still with Webarchive for Aug 20, 2004; until 2011] Mr. A.P.R. Jacobovits de Szeged, vice-president. Prof.dr. H.J.G. Beunders. Luitenant-generaal b.d. B.A.C. Droste. General (ret.) P.J. Graaff. Mw.prof.dr. G. Lycklama à Nijeholt. Mr. D.H. baron von Maltzahn. Mr. E.H. Pijnacker Hordijk. Cdra b.d. drs. B. de Ruiter, treasurer. Mr. J.H. Schraven. Executive Board: Prof.dr. Alfred van Staden, Director. Drs. Paul W. Meerts, Deputy Director, acting Head of the Department of Training and Education. Dr. Jan Q. Th. Rood, Director of Studies. Advisor to the Board: Drs. Hans H.J. Labohm, Advisor to the Board. Mr. Rob L. Schreurs, Advisor to the Board." |
1983 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs | 1983 |
| Israel Council on Foreign Relations | 1989 |
| Danish Institute of International Affairs | 1993 |
| European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Council members: US/Hungary: George Soros (financier, founding council member and overall huge influence) and son, Alexander. UK: Baroness Glenys Kinnock | David Miliband | Lord Chris Patten (2008-) | Lord George Robertson (2008-) | Heather Grabbe (executive director OSI) | Susan Morgan (senior programme officer OSI) | Daniel Levy | Kirsty McNeill (director Save the Children) | Rob Wainwright (former exec. director Europol) | Charles Grant | Alessandra Galloni (UK/Italy; global managing editor of Reuters) | Valerie Amos (former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator). Also: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (panel discussion). Netherlands: Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (co-founding council member; co-chair) | Prince Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau (younger brother King Willem) | Gijs de Vries (co-founding council member) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Marietje Schaake (2010s-) | Dick Oosting (2010s-; former EU director of Amnesty Int.) | Han ten Broeke (VVD MP) | Sen. Petra Stienen (Arabist scholar) | Lilianne Ploumen (MP; former PVDA / Labour Party chair and minister of foreign trade and development-cooperation (responsible for sustainable development goals); former GreenLeft party member) | Coen van Oostrom (real estate chief) | Kati Piri (EU MP PVDA; former intern of a BB visitor; involved in Turkey's EU negotiations) | Yoeri Albrecht | Beatrice de Graaf (2014-; feminist and terrorism expert) | Bert Koenders (PVDA MP 1997-2007; minister of development-cooperation (responsible for sustainable development goals) 2007-2010; UN undersecetary general; foreign affairs minister 2014-2017; founder of the Parliamentary Network on the WorldBank/IMF.). Germany: Joschka Fischer (co-founding council member) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (anno 2011) | Gerhard Cromme (ThyssenKrupp) | Wolfgang Ischinger (2008-) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (anno 2011) | Sigmar Gabriel (2018-). Austria: Andreas Treichl (anno 2021). France: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (founding council member) | Alain Minc (founding council member) | Lionel Jospin (2008-) | Pascal Lamy (2008-). Belgium: Jean-Luc Dehaene (founding council member) | Etienne Davignon (2008-). Scandinavia: Martti Ahtisaari (co-founding council member) | Carl Bildt (2008-; co-chair anno 2021). Italy: Romano Prodi | Giuliano Amato | Vincenzo Amendola | Marta Dassu | Mauro Petriccione (director-general "Climate Action") | Giuseppe Scognamiglio | Nathalie Tocci. Spain: Javier Solana | Jordi Vaquer (senior OSI manager). Eastern Europe: Tanja Fajon (anno '16) | Karel Schwarzenberg (2008-; Czech Republic) | Goran Buldioski (North Macedonia; senior OSI manager) | Zeljko Jovanovic (Serbia; OSI manager in Rome) | Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz (head, ideaForum, Stefan Batory Foundation) | Aleksander Smolar (chair Stefan Batory Foundation) | Istvan Gyarmati (Hungary). Source(s): ecfr.eu/content/entry/about/ (accessed: Oct. 11, 2007): "Launched in October 2007 to promote a more integrated European foreign policy... ECFR is backed by the Soros Foundations Network..."; ecfr.eu/content/entry/12 (accessed: Oct. 11, 2007): "Council: ... Martti [A.] ... Gijs de [V.] - Jean-Luc [D.] ... Joschka [F.] ... Alain [M.] ... [Lord] Chris [P.] ... George Soros - Dominique [S.-K.] ... [Princess] Mabel Van [O.]..."; ecfr.eu/council/members/ (accessed: April 18, 2016 and on). |
2007 |
| White's (most elite men's club in terms of political discussion) Julian Amery | Lord Astor | Lord Carrington | Lord McGowan | Sir Alec Douglas-Home | David Stirling | Prince Charles | Schroder | Tiarks | Spiro | Keswick | Mowbray | Norfolk | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | H.J. Heinz II | Sen. Claiborne Pell | Rifkind | Lord Guthrie | 1st Baron Renwick |
1693 |
| Society of Knights of the Round Table Members: Lord Leo Amery | David Stirling | Earl of Dalhousie. |
1720 |
| Boodle's | 1762 |
| Brooks's | 1764 |
| Roxburghe Club Rothschild | Cecil | Oppenheimer | Morgan | Norfolk | Devonshire | Lord Rees-Mogg |
1812 |
| Grillion's Lord Carrington | Duke of Norfolk | Dukse of Devonshire | 7th Marquess of Salisbury | Earl of Perth | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Nicholas Baring | John Major |
1812 |
| Garrick Club Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. |
1831 |
| Carlton Club | 1832 |
| Reform Club Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster | Earl Herbert Asquith | 1st Viscount Runciman | Sir Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George (both resigned in 1913) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | H. G. Wells | Sir William Harcourt | Guy Burgess | Sir David Walker | Sir David Omand (GCHQ director 1996-97; 1st Security and Intelligence Co-ordinator in the Cabinet Office in 2002) |
1841 |
| Pratt's Carrington | Hugh Astor | Sir Joseph Ball | 7th Baron Ashburton (Baring) | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Lord Mowbray | 17th Duke of Norfolk | 5th Baron Harlech (Ormsby-Gore) | Lord Gordon Richardson of Duntisbourne | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Nicholas Soames | Sir Collin Campbell Stuart | Sir John Wheeler-Bennett | Sir Philip de Zulueta |
1857 |
| Beefsteak Club | 1876 |
| American Society in London | 1895 |
| Pilgrims of Great Britain | 1902 |
| Compatriot's Club Members: Lord Leo Amery (founder) | Lord Milner (founding president) | Philip Kerr | Lord Robert Brand | Dove | Perry | George Wyndham. Branches in London and Johannesburg. A branch was also attempted in Sidney, Australia. The group debated with the Fabian Socialists in the Coefficients Club, but failed to convince them of their "imperial union" plan. 2017, Andrea Bosco, 'The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the 'Second' British Empire (1909-1919)', p. 7 (Leo Amery quote): "If the vision was [Cecil] Rhodes, it was [Lord] Milner who over some twenty years laid securely the foundations of a system whose power in shaping the outlook and spiritual kinship of an ever-growing body of men throughout the English-speaking world it would be difficult to exaggerate." 2017, Andrea Bosco, 'The Round Table Movement and the Fall of the 'Second' British Empire (1909-1919)', p. 127: "[Milner's] Kindergarten accepted as their natural leader Duncan, who at the age of thirty one--the others being in their late twenties, Brand 24 and Kerr 23--was the oldest of them... The Kindergarten strengthened their Oxford ties by living together near Milner's headquarters at Sunnyside estate, in a house rented by Wyndham until Milner's departure." |
1904 |
| Other Club Lord Carrington | Lord Cecil | Lord Rees-Mogg | Lord Duntisbourne | Rothschild | Prince Charles | Tony Blair | Gordon Brown | Edward Heath | Denis Thatcher | Winston Churchill II | Julian Amery. |
1911 |
| Buck's | 1919 |
| "Alt right" Brown's Hotel meeting in Mayfair, London John Thornton | Steve Bannon | Nigel Farage. |
October 6 or 7, 2018 |
| Union Club | 1836 |
| New York Yacht Club | 1844 |
| Century Association FDR | Allen Dulles | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower | Philip Jessup | Dean Acheson | James Conant | Joseph Grew | William Langer | Robert Lovett | George Kennan | Michael Bloomberg | Brooke Astor | Taggart Whipple | Andy Rooney | Hulbert and Alexander Aldrich | Robert O. Anderson | George Ball | John Morton Blum | John Robert Halsey Blum | Robert E. Blum | Michael Blumenthal | John Brademas | Zbigniew Brzezinski | William T. Buckley | Oliver Buckley | Christopher Buckley | William Buckley Jr. | Hugh Bullock | McGeorge Bundy | William Bundy | Norman Cousins | John Cowles Jr. | Walter Cronkite | Dana Creel | Eli Whitney Debevoise | Richard Debs | William Diebold Jr. | C. Douglas Dillon | William K. Draper | William H. Draper | William F. Draper | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Christopher Forbes | Murray Gell-Mann | Vartan Gregorian | Richard Haass | Lord David Hacking | Pamela Harriman | Caryl Haskins | August Heckscher | Morrison Heckscher | Theodore Hesburgh | William Hewlett | Richard Holbrooke | John Irwin II | Walter Isaacson | John Iselin | Vernon Jordan Jr. | Grayson Kirk | Henry Kissinger | Irving Kristol | Orin Lehman | John Lindsay | Sol Linowitz | Yo You Ma | William McChesney Martin | Andrew Mellon | George McGhee | J.P. Morgan | J.P. Morgan Jr. | Junius Morgan | Junius Morgan Jr. | Henry Sturgis Morgan | Robert Morgenthau | Daniel Moynihan | Paul Nitze | Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis | Robert Oppenheimer | A. Perry Osborn | Fairfield Osborn | Frederick H. Osborn | Henry Fairfield Osborn | William Church Osborn | William Paley | John H. G. Pell (cousin of Claiborne) | Whitelaw Reid | John D. Jr., John D. III, Nelson and David Rockefeller (and David, Jr.) | Felix Rohatyn | Robert Roosa | Eugene Rostow | William Roth | Walter Rothschild (married Caroline Warburg) | Walter Rothschild Jr. | Dean Rusk | Richard Salomon | David Schiff | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Frederick Seitz | William Shirer | Maurice Sonnenberg | Shepard Stone | Julius Stratton | Charles Spofford | Frank Stanton | Benjamin Strong Jr. | Maurice Strong | Arthur Hays Sulzberger (d. 1968) | Henry Taft | Maurice Tempelsman | John Train | Russel Train | Marietta Peabody Tree | Cornelius Vanderbilt | George Vanderbilt | Frank Vanderlip | Jack Valenti | William vanden Heuvel | Frank Weil | Caspar Weinberger | William J. Welch (Gurdjieff Foundation in New York) | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Jerome Wiesner | Langbourne Williams | James Wolfensohn | John M. Woolsey Jr. |
1847 |
| Down Town Association | 1859 |
| Union League Club U.S. members: William E. Dodge (1863-) | Joseph Choate (1867-) | Marshall Field (1868-) | Elihu Root (1869-; president 1898-) | J.P Morgan, Sr. (1873-; still the only family member anno 1910) | James Stillman (1874-) | Alfred R. Whitney (1875-) and Alfred R. Whitney Jr. (1896-) | Ulysses Grant Jr. (1877-; his father, the former president, was a honorary member) | John L. Cadwalader (1879-) | John D. Rockefeller Sr. (1879-) | William Rockefeller (1880-) | Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1884-) | Andrew Carnegie (1884-; vice president anno 1898) | Cornelius Vanderbilt (1885-; still the only family member anno 1910) | Chauncey Depew (president 1886-1892) | Horace Porter (president 1893-1897) | Henry Frick (1895-) | Harry Harkness Flagler (1896-) | Edwin Gould (1897-; son of Jay) | Mark Hanna (1897-) | Andrew W. Mellon (1897-) | Richard B. Mellon (1897-) | Philander Knox (1898-) | Joseph D. Redding (1898-; of BG fame) | Frank Jay Gould (1900-; son of Jay) | Henry Stimson (1901-) | Andrew Carnegie II (1902-) | William G. Rockefeller (1906-; son of Standard Oil co-founder William A.) | Charles Evans Hughes (1907-) | John Buckley (anno 1971 [1]; son of William Jr.). Speeches (likely): William Walter Phelps (June 17, 1894) Sources: 1898, 1903 and 1915 'The Union League Club of New York' booklets (include all the members and the year they joined, as well the officers). (PDF); [1] Dec. 19, 1971, N.Y. Times. |
1863 |
| Metropolitan Club, Washington, D.C. Not to be confused with the similarly elite Metropolitan Club of New York City, founded in 1891. Members 1950s-1990s: Robert F. Kennedy (resigned in Oct. 1961 because the club refused to allow negroes) | Angier Biddle Duke (resigned in Oct. 1961) | George Lodge (resigned in Oct. 1961; "son of the recent GOP candidate for vice president") | Hugh Auchincloss (anno 1961; married to Nina Gore, the mother of Gore V., 1935-1941; married to Janet Lee Bouvier 1942-, the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Princess Lee Radziwill) | Dean Acheson (anno 1961) | Nelson Rockefeller (anno 1961; very popular with negroes, but did not resign) | Allen Dulles (anno 1961) | Douglas Dillon (anno 1961) | Cyrus Vance (membership anno 1976, which drew criticism upon joining the Jimmy C. administration for the club not allowing blacks and women) | Eli Whitney Debevoise | Douglas Fairbanks Jr. | Patrick Gross | Maxwell Rabb | Edward Streator | John Train. More: Henry Kissinger (regularly met NY Times journalist James Reston here during the Watergate Affair of 1972-1974). |
1863 |
| Harvard Club | 1865 |
| University Club U.S. members: John D. Rockefeller Jr. |
1865 |
| Lotos Club Members: Andrew Carnegie (also known 1901 speaker at Choate dinner, in 1908 for Twain, and again a speaker in 1909; financed the moving of the club house in 1906) | J.P. Morgan Sr. (at the very least a guest at the 1905 Choate dinner it appears; also known to have received invitations for meetings) | Mark Twain (also a known speaker in 1901, 1908, and in 1909 with the Carnegie dinner; called it the "ace of clubs") | William Howard Taft | Lyman Bloomingdale and Emmanuel Bloomingdale (both 1895-) | Grover Cleveland | George Harvey (also known speaker in 1904 and in 1906, during the latter pledging his support for Wilson as president here as early as 1906) | Nicholas Murray Butler (president 1923-) | Charles Schwab | Solomon Guggenheim | William Randolph Hearst | Arthur Hays Sulzberger | Orson Welles | William Paley | Dwight Eisenhower | Brooke Astor | Detlev Bronk | Mario Cuomo | Laurance Rockefeller | James Wolfensohn. Honored guests/speakers: Theodore Roosevelt (speaker three weeks after 1901 inauguration as U.S. VP) | Joseph Choate (honored and speaker 1901 and 1905; 1905; "I cannot detain you longer. This table is full of distinguished men who are eager and ardent to be heard. I believe that Mr. Morgan is the only one of them that is under a safe-conduct. He has an absolute safe-conduct. I have undertaken to speak for him.... I will take my seat [now]...") | Elihu Root (speaker 1903) | General Joseph Wheeler (speaker 1903) | Chauncey Depew (speaker 1904 and 1910) | Woodrow Wilson (speaker in 1906, as president of Princeton, and featured in the NYT) | Episcopal bishop Henry Codman Potter (speaker 1907) | Charles Evans Hughes (honored and spoke in Jan. 1909 and Nov. 1910) | George Wickersham (Nov. 1910) | Charlemagne Tower (speaker 1910) | Owen Young (honored guest in 1930 pushed for Democrat office) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Nelson Rockefeller | Joseph Stiglitz (speaker). Source(s): 1911, The Lotos Club, 'Speeches at the Lotos Club'; alexautographs.com/auction-lot/lotos-club-archive_DPEP9AVR3L (accessed: July 21, 2023): "Lotos Club Archive: ... Sold: $2,750.00 [on] November 28, 2007. ... This lot comprises approximately 165 T.L.S.'s and A.L.S.'s (all dated 1905), addressed to George H. Daniels, then Secretary of the Lotos Club, replying to invitations to club dinners given in honor of various members. ... two T.L.S. by J. P. MORGAN... three T.L.S. by Elihu Root; one T.L.S. by Sec. of State P.C. Knox; one T.L.S. by Sec. Of War Charles Bonaparte; one T.L.S. by Senator Chauncey Depew..." |
1865 |
| Knickerbocker Club U.S. members: J.P. Morgan Sr. (resigned around 1890-1891 because his friends weren't allowed and started the Metropolitan Club) | David Rockefeller | Laurence Rockefeller | John D. Rockefeller III | August Belmont | Paul Mellon | John Jacob Astor IV | Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1831-1878; father of the president) | FDR | Elliott Roosevelt (Eleanor Roosevelt's father) | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | Cornelius Vanderbilt III. European members: Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (grandson of August Thyssen) | Gianni Agnelli | Michel David-Weill | Prince Alexander Romanov (1929-2002) | Prince Anthony Radziwill (1959-1999). Members from outside the West: Prince Amyn Aga Khan. |
1871 |
| Bohemian Club, San Francisco | 1872 |
| The Zodiac | 1872 |
| Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Under intense JFK administration pressure, the club allowed its first black member in 1962. In 1973, 1975 and 1980 the club voted against allowing women. In 1987, under threat from Washington, D.C.'s Human Rights Office that the club was violating "anti-discrimination laws", all of a sudden 98% of members voted in favor of allowing women. The club has always been heavily focused on scientists and writers, and less on government officials and businessmen. A popular sayin in the 1960s was: "Over there is the Metropolitan Club whose members have money but no brains. Over there is the Cosmos Club, whose members have the brains, but no money. And here is the Army-Navy Club whose members have neither brains nor money." [1] Members/applicants who resigned/withdrew over not allowing blacks in 1961-1962: John F. Kennedy (resigned membership application over the Rowan controversy, but had been made to wait unusually long for membership anyway; his brother RFK resigned from the Met. Club in 1961) | John Kenneth Galbraith (co-sponsored JFK for membership in 1961; withdrew membership in 1962 after the club refused to allow a black State Dep. official Carl Rowan to join) | James Conant (Harvard president, who co-sponsored JFK for membership in 1961) | Edward Murrow (resigned membership application over the Rowan controversy). Members/visitors - national security-tied: William Colby | Robert McNamara (proposed for membership in 1961, but was passed over several times with JFK in favor of scientists and writers) | Henry Kissinger (member with his portrait on the wall; known May 1969 dinner with leading CFR members over Vietnam) | McGeorge Bundy (member with his portrait on the wall; awarded) | Jamie Jameson (ranking CIA officer) | Neil Livingstone (CIA-tied journalist) | Tom Kimmel (FBI; Pearl Harbor scholar) | Gregory Douglas (author allied with CIA's Robert Crowley) | Harold Brown (membership anno 1976, which drew criticism upon joining the Jimmy C. administration for the club not allowing women). Members/visitors - more: George Foster Peabody (1852-1938; banker tied in with the Morgans) | S. S. McClure (1892-; co-founder and editor of McClure's, which was very critical of the Rockefellers) | Henry Fairfield Osborn | Daniel Coit Gilman | Sidney Dillon Ripley II | Vannevar Bush | Glenn Seaborg | George Larrick (member 1961-; head FDA 1954-1965) | Arthur Burns | George Kennan | Elliott Richardson (May 1969 dinner with leading CFR members over Vietnam) | Adm. John McCain Jr. | Eugene Meyer | Sol Linowitz | Sandra Day O'Connor | Thomas Pickering | Frederic Rene Coudert Sr. | Lester Brown | Robert Wolfe (holocaust scholar). Source(s): [1] Oct. 9, 1961, Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round; Oct. 27, 1985, UPI, 'Male clubs: social dinosaurs?': "Washington's Cosmos Club... According to a club official, the fraternity includes librarian of Congress Daniel Boorstin, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, former secretary of defense Robert [McN.], NBC-TV newsman David Brinkley, and ex-CIA director William [C.]." Source(s) - can't access for names: Feb. 12, 2022, IntelligenceOnline.com, 'Washington's private Cosmos Club: where CIA officials socialised and conducted confidential business': "Declassified CIA files reveal the agency luminaries who mingled at the Cosmos Club, which was a spy refuge for decades. ... In 1990, William [C.], who socialised at the club while CIA director between 1973 and 1976, gave a classified talk there prior to an appearance..."; July 6, 2023, IntelligenceOnline.com, 'Cosmos Club's new president Michael Pocalyko comes with Saudi baggage ': "The elite Washington club, once a haunt for senior CIA officials, announced the private investigator's election only months after he was implicated in the case of Eden Knight, who reportedly committed suicide soon after arriving in Saudi Arabia." |
1878 |
| Corsair Club 12 to 13-member dining club on J.P. Morgan's yacht: J.P. Morgan | William Rockefeller | Chauncey Depew | Joseph Choate. |
1882 |
| Alibi Club, Washington, D.C. Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Norman Armour | Henry Catto | Allen and John Foster Dulles | Christian Herter | Robert Lovett | Gen. George Marshall | Gen. Bernard Rogers | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Walter Cronkite | William Paley |
1884 |
| Gridiron Club, Washington, D.C. Richard Nixon and his VP Spiro Agnew (piano session in 1970) | Clark Clifford (speaker; 1985, to the WaPo: "I've missed one [dinner] in the last 40 years... I know General Eisenhower hated it. Lyndon Johnson despised it. Jimmy Carter couldn't stand it. Harry Truman went through it because he knew it was one of the rites of spring. [not counted for the superclass index] President Reagan, he seems to enjoy it.") | Richard V. Allen. |
1885 |
| Jekyll Island Club Members: J. P. Morgan Sr. (1886-) | J. P. Morgan Jr. (1913-1943) | William K. Vanderbilt (1886-) | William Kissam Vanderbilt (1886-1902) | Cornelius Vanderbilt II | Marshall Field (1886-1906) | Joseph Pulitzer (1886-1911) | Morris Jesup (1888-1908) | Cyrus Hall McCormick Jr. (1891-1936) | Edwin Gould (1899-1933; son of Jay) | George Jay Gould I (1895-1916; son of Jay) | George F. Baker (1901-1931) | William Rockefeller (1905-1922) | Edward Harkness (1911-1923) | Thomas W. Lamont | William Fellowes Morgan (1925-1934). Where the secret Nov. 22, 1910 meeting took place to create the Federal Reserve. Participants: Sen. Nelon Aldrich | A.P. Andrews (ass. sec. of the Treasury) | Paul Warburg | Frank Vanderlip | Henry Davison | Charles D. Norton | Benjamin Strong. Source(s): Original sources not looked up yet. |
1886 |
| Boone and Crockett Club Focused on big game hunting and habitat protection. Members: Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (key founder, president 1888-1894) | George Bird Grinnell (key founder) | Rutherford Stuyvesant (participated in the founding meeting; John Jacob Astor’s son-in-law) | Madison Grant (member 1888-; exec. comm. 1900-, secretary 1903-1913, headed its Game Population Comm.) | Henry Fairfield Osborn Sr. (assoc. member 1899-, hon. life member 1913-) | Kermit Roosevelt Sr. (secretary anno 1921; son of Teddy) | Archibald Roosevelt (member 1922-; another son of Teddy) | Russell Train | Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. Source(s): boone-crockett.org/tags/bc-member-spotlight (accessed: March 2, 2024). |
1887 |
| Pacific-Union Club, Nob Hill, San Francisco Stephen Jr., Warren and Riley Bechtel | Bill Gates | Henry Kaiser | Robert McNamara | David Packard | Caspar Weinberger | Charles Schwab | William Draper III | Walter Haas Jr. | William Randolph Hearst, Jr. | William Randolph Hearst III | William Hewlett | Ron Pelosi (brother-in-law of Nancy Pelosi).. November 27, 2007, Jack Sarfatti for his destinymatrix.blogspot.com: "Also we had money from UFO advocate Laurance Rockefeller's mistress Jean Lanier (widow of founder of a large engineering company Stone Webster) who set us up on two floors across from the Episcopal Church on top of Nob Hill. There is a SF Chronicle article about Brian Josephson's visit there with his new wife when he went to visit Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI about the remote viewing. ... We had [Esalen-tied] seminars at the facility on Nob Hill with the Rockefeller-Lanier money." |
1889 |
| Metropolitan Club, New York City Not to be confused with the similarly elite Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C., founded in 1863. Earliest members: J.P. Morgan Sr. (key founder) | Cornelius Vanderbilt II (founding) | William K. Vanderbilt Jr. (founding) | William Collins Whitney (of the "robber baron" family) | James A. Roosevelt (founding; 1825-1898; uncle of President Teddy Roosevelt) | John Lambert Cadwalader (founding) | John Jacob Astor | Frank Polk | Elihu Root | Edward Loomis | Levi Morton | Spruille Braden | William Harkness | Nicholas Murray Butler | George Harvey. More: Daisy Soros (party host in '15, with Alec Baldwin attending; married to the late Paul S., the older brother of financier George S.) |
1891 |
| Chevy Chase Club | 1892 |
| Yale Club | 1897 |
| Pilgrims of the United States | 1903 |
| The Economic Club Thomas Watson | William Rhodes | Peter Peterson (chair) | Jules Kroll | Henry Kissinger | George W. Bush | Alan Greenspan | Raymond Kelly | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | David Rockefeller | Catherine Austin Fitts (member 1988-2001) | Richard Debs | Henry and Marie-Josee Kravis | David Koch | John Whitehead | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Peter Blair Henry (director). Honor Roll of Speakers: King Abdullah II of Jordan | Gianni Agnelli | Dean Acheson | James Baker | Ben Bernarke | Jeff Bezos | Michael Bloomberg | Clare Boothe Luce | Bill Bradley | Zbigniew Brzezinski | James Buckley | Warren Burger | George H. W. Bush | George W. B. | Nicholas Murray Butler | Andrew Carnegie | Jimmy Carter | William Casey | Dick Cheney | Jacques Chirac | Winston Churchill | Lucius Clay | Hillary Clinton | William Colby | John Connally | Christopher Cox | Mario Cuomo | Douglas Dillon | Bob Dole | Alex Douglas-Home | Willem Duisenberg | John Foster Dulles | Dwight Eisenhower | Martin Feldstein | Gerald Ford | Indira Gandhi | Timothy Geithner | Newt Gingrich | Rudolph Giuliani | Barry Goldwater | Mikhail Gorbachev | J. Peter Grace | Alan G. | Dag Hammarskjold | Averell Harriman | William Randolph Hearst | Herbert Hoover | Jeffrey Immelt | John F. Kennedy | Robert F. Kennedy | Nikita Khrushchev | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Edward Koch | Christine Lagarde | Henry Luce | John Major | Robert McNamara | Francois Mitterrand | Walter Mondale | Henry Morgenthau | Daniel Moynihan | Robert Mueller III | Brian Mulroney | Ed Muskie | Gen. Richard Myers | Richard Nixon | Paul O'Neil | George Pataki | Karl Otto Pohl | Romano Prodi | Sam Rayburn | Ronald Reagan | Donald Regan | Condoleezza Rice | Elliot Richardson | Edward Rickenbacker | D. Rockeller | Nelson Rockefeller | John D. Rockefeller III | Dean Rusk | Anwar Sadat | Brent Scowcroft | William Scranton | Yitzhak Shamir | George S. | Alfred Sloan Jr. | Robert Strauss | Larry Summers | William Taft | U Thant | Margaret Thatcher | Jean-Claude Trichet | Pierre Trudeau | Donald Trump | Stansfield Turner | Paul V. | Caspar Weinberger | Christine Whitman | Harold Wilson | James Wolfensohn | Lee Kuan Yew | Ken Chenault | Gen. H.R. McMaster | Jacqueline Novogratz | John Elkann Agnelli | Bill McNabb | Paul Tudor Jones | Stanley Druckenmiller | Larry Fink. More from the Honor Roll of Speakers: Ajay Banga | Lloyd Blankfein | Erskine Bowles | Mark Carney | Barry Diller | Jamie Dimon | Stanley Druckenmiller | Henry Fowler | Reid Hoffman | Robert Kaplan | Lawrence Kudlow | Jack Ma | John McCain | Indra Nooyi | Henry M. Paulson, Jr. | Gen. David Petraeus | Jerome Powell (chair FED) | Dan Quayle | Yitzhak Rabin | Wilbur Ross Jr. | Robert Rubin | David Rubenstein | Eric Schmidt | Stephen Schwarzman | Peter Thiel | Janet Yellen | Richard Haass (Oct. 2, 2003). Washington branch was founded in 1986: Vernon Jordan (president) | David Rubenstein (president) | Tony Blair (speaker) | Bill Gates (speaker) | Christine W. (speaker) | Ben B. (speaker) | Richard Parsons (speaker) | Eric Schmidt (speech; chair and CEO of Google) | Steven S. | John Hamre | Patty Stonesifer. |
1907 |
| "The Family" club, Washington D.C. Members: Andrew Peters (later Boston mayor) | Benjamin Strong | David Bruce | Joseph Grew | Theordore Roosevelt and family | Longworth family | Charles Evans Hughes. Jan. 2006, The Round Table journal, 'World War I and Anglo-American relations': "[The earliest Anglo-American globalists] also included a coterie of youthful diplomats, augmented by a few journalists, financiers and military men, who formed an exclusive private club at 1718 H Street in Washington, DC." Also described as a "club for the social elite of the Diplomatic Service." |
1907 |
| Piping Rock | 1911 |
| Alfalfa Club, Washington, D.C. Members: Dwight Eisenhower | John F. Kennedy | John Foster Dulles | Richard Helms | Gen. Bernard Rogers | John D. and Nelson Rockefeller | Nixon | Goldwater | Reagan | Barack and Michelle Obama | David Abshire | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell (president 1996-97) | Warren Buffett | Gingrich | Greenspan | Vernon Jordan | Jack Kemp | Kissinger | Mondale | Ross Perot | Dianne Feinstein | Mitt Romney | C. Boyden Gray | Sam Nunn | George H. W. Bush | George W. Bush | Barbara Bush | Jeb Bush | George Prescott Bush | Marvin P. Bush | Laura Bush | William H. T. Bush | Doro Bush Koch | John Ellis Bush, Jr. | Joe L. Albritton | David J. Albritton | Brzezinksi | Shultz | Dick Cheney | Donald Rumsfeld | James Schlesinger | Chuck Robb | William Cohen | James Wolfensohn | Robert Mueller | James Baker III | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Gen. James L. Jones | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. Richard Myers | Henry Kravis | Hank Paulson, Jr. (chair and CEO Goldman Sachs) | Condoleezza Rice | Sen. John McCain III | John Whitehead | Maurice and Jeffrey Greenberg | Alan Greenberg | Christine Whitman | David Petraeus | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | William Webster | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | David Ruben Stein | Gilbert M. Grosvenor (chairman Alfalfa) | Jack Valenti | Paul Laxalt | John Lehman | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Frank Carlucci | John Macomber | William Simon | Steve Forbes | Jane Harman | Donald Graham | Michael Dell | Ken Duberstein | James Billington | Dina Habib Powell. Source(s): Jan. 28, 2012, Alfalfa Club booklet with 'members and guests', 'The Alfalfa Club of Washington, D.C.: 99th Anniversary Dinner'. |
1913 |
| Links Club, New York City 1955 list: Dwight Eisenhower | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (and later Jr.) | Louis S. Cates | Henry Ford II | J. Peter Grace | Augustus Long | Henry Luce | Gwilym A. Price (president of Westinghouse) | Edgar Monsanto Queeny | Walter Teagle | Thomas Watson Jr. | Winthrop Aldrich | Sen. Prescott S. Bush, Sr. (and later Jr.) | Gov. Thomas Dewey | C. Douglas Dillon | Thomas Gates Jr. | Walter Gifford | Amory Houghton Sr. (and later Jr. and III) | George Humphrey | John McCone | Jean Monnet | Winthrop Rockefeller | Sir William Wiseman | Cyrus Vance | John Hay Whitney | Gen. Lucius Clay | Robert Lovett | Paul Nitze | Walter Bedell Smith | Paul C. Cabot | E. Roland Harriman | John McCloy (and later II) | Henry S. Morgan | J. Stillman Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | William E. Boeing | James Doolittle | Robert E. Gross | Frederick B. Rentschler (chair Pratt & Whitney) | Edward V. Rickenbacker | Leon A. Swirbul (founder Grumman Aircraft) | Marshall Field | James McGraw, Jr. | Paul Mellon | Howard Phipps | Joseph Pew | J. Watson Webb (Vanderbilt) | Clifford Roberts (co-founder Augusta Golf Club) | Charles E. Wilson (apparently the General Electric president) | George Merck | Other names: Harold H. Helm | Thomas W. and Thomas Lamont | William E. Simon | Benjamin Strong | Albert Wiggin | Gabriel Hauge | Malcolm Pratt Aldrich | John F. Ball | Gustavo Cisneros | William Farish III | Thomas Foley | John Macomber | Jeremiah Milbank III | William A. Nitze | Peter Peterson | William Rhodes | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Walter V. Shipley | George H. Walker IV | Ogden White Jr. 1995 AP article: Laurance Rockefeller | Peter Jennings | Gerard Roche | John Whitehead. Also: Roy Larsen | Robert Knight | Lindsay Bradford |
1921 |
| River Club, New York City Among the several hundred members and visitors: Kermit Roosevelt (first president) | Hearst | John D. Rockefeller III | Thomas Lamont | Thomas Watson | Dwight Morrow | John F. Kennedy (speech) | Brooke Astor | Harold Vanderbilt | King Faisal of Iraq | David Rockefeller ('90) | Michael Blumenthal ('90) | George Ball ('90) | Adlai Stevenson III ('90) | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. ('90) | James Schlesinger ('90) | Peter Peterson ('90; resident at the above River House) | Angier Biddle Duke | Henry Kissinger (also a resident at the above River House) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (resident River House) | Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (resident River House) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (resident River House), David Brock and James Alefantis (photographed together at "River House") | David Koch | Carl Mueller (president 1980s) Source(s): Jan. 25, 1990, NY Times, 'Chronicle'. |
1931 |
| Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia William Alton Jones | Riley P. and Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. | Peter Peterson | George Shultz | Donald R. Beall (Rockwell International) | Ruben Mettler | Peter H. Coors | Lawrence A. Bossidy (Honeywell) | John F. Welch (General Electric) | Ogden M. Phipps | Nicholas F. Brady | William C. Ford (Ford Motors) | Warren Buffett | Harold W. Andersen | Bill Gates | T. Boone Pickens | Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (Carlyle; IBM) | Condoleezza Rice | Sam Nunn | Walter V. Shipley | James Robinson III. Many other oil companies and such represented. Eisenhower used to be a member. |
1933 |
| Rockefeller Center Club David Rockefeller, Jr. | Robert Hormats | Vernon Jordan | George Pataki | Richard Parsons |
1934 |
| "The Room" and the Walrus Club, New York City Very secret elite intelligence networks that liaised with the British in the run up and during World War II. The Walrus Club is thought to have taken over the functions of "The Room". Members: Vincent Astor (key founder) | Nelson Rockefeller | Winthrop Aldrich | Bill Donovan | Kermit Roosevelt | David Bruce | Nelson Doubleday | Henry Gray | Judge Frederick Kernochan | Sir William Wiseman |
1930s-1940s |
| Martha's Vineyard Gilbert Harrison (summering since the late 1950s; editor-in-chief The New Republic) | Michael Straight (editor The New Republic)| Bill and Hillary Clinton | Sir Evelyn and Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Podesta (stays here occasionally with his wife in summer) | Vernon Jordan | Thornton Bradshaw | Maurice Tempelsman | Walter Cronkite | Jack Valenti | Barack (like to golf here) and Michelle Obama | Prince Andrew | Bernie Sanders (vacationed here during his presidential campaign) | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (married his second wife here in 2014). |
Over time |
| Waltz Group, Washington D.C. Dance club in Washington, D.C. that was active at the very least from the 1950s to the 1970s. Members: Richard Helms and wife | Cord Meyer Jr. and wife (invited by Helms) | Walter Pincus (invited by Helms and Meyer). Source(s): 1998, New York Times Books, Nina Burleigh, 'A Very Private Woman'; 1998, Nina Burleigh, 'A Very Private Woman', pp. 17, 119; 2004, David Heymann, 'The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club', pp. 157-158. |
1930s-1940s |
| National Republican Club of Capitol Hill / Capitol Hill Club Members: Nelson Rockefeller (life anno '73) | David Rockefeller (life anno '73) | Laurance Rockefeller (life anno '73) | Mrs. Richard Nixon (1st VP anno '73) | Sen. Bob Dole (2nd VP anno '73) | Anna Chennault (life anno '73) | William Casey (resident anno '73) and old friend John Shaheen (non resident anno '73) | Gen. Lucius CLay (non resident anno '73) | Barber Conable (life anno '73) | Joseph Coors (life anno '73) | Lammot Dupont Copeland (life anno '73) | Philip Crane (life anno '73) | Douglas Dillon (life anno '73) | Pierre Dupont III (life anno '73) | Pierre Dupont IV (life anno '73) | Mrs. Dwight Eisenhower (life anno '73) | Edwin Feulner (junior resident anno '73) | Hamilton Fish Jr. (resident anno '73) | Max M. Fisher (life anno '73) | Gerald Ford (life anno '73) | Chas Freeman Jr. (non resident anno '73) | Richard Gelb (non resident anno '73) | Barry Goldwater (life anno '73) | Barry Goldwater Jr. (life anno '73) | Chuck Hagel (non resident anno '73) | John Heinz III (life anno '73) | Col. Pak Bo Hi (resident anno '73) | Thomas Kean (non resident anno '73) | Jack Kemp (life anno '73) | Melvin Laird (life anno '73) | Rush H. Limbaugh Jr. (non resident anno '73) | James W. McCord (life anno '73; doesn't say Jr. or a potential Sr.) | John N. Mitchell (resident anno '73) | J. William Middendorf (non resident anno '73) | Jeremiah Milbank Jr. (non resident anno '73) | David Packard (life anno '73) | Gov. Ronald Reagan (non resident anno '73) | Edwin S. Rockefeller (life anno '73; not part of the famous family) | George Romney (life anno '73; father of Mitt Romney) | William Scranton (non resident anno '73) | Robert Taft Jr. and wife (life anno '73) | Richard Viguerie (life anno '73) | John Volpe ("FL" (foreign life"?) anno '73). Source(s): July 1973, Capitol Hill Club, official membership list booklet. |
1951 |
| Oxford: Bullingdon Club King Edward VII | King Edward VIII | Frederick IX of Denmark | Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany | Gottfried von Bismarck | Cecil Rhodes | Nat Rothschild | David Cameron | 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Alan Clark | 9th Earl Spencer | William Sinclair |
1780 |
| Harvard: Porcellian Henry Cabot Lodge | Paul Nitze | Theodore Roosevelt | Theodore Roosevelt IV. | 1791 |
| Yale: Skull & Bones William Russell (founder) | Alphonso Taft (founder) | William Taft (member 1878) | Daniel Gilman (member and Russell Trust founder) | Percy Rockefeller | Averell Harriman | E. Roland Harriman | Henry Stimson | Robert Lovett | Anson Phelps Stokes (1896) | Harold Stanley | Henry Luce | William P. Bundy | McGeorge Bundy | James L. Buckley | William F. Buckley, Jr. | William Draper III | James Angleton | Prescott Bush | George Herbert Walker, Jr. | George H. W. Bush (1917) | Henry Neil Mallon (1917) | George W. Bush | John Kerry | Jacob Weisberg (invited by John K., but declined) | Evan Galbraith (1950) | Henry Heinz II | Malcolm Aldrich | Chauncey Depew | John Beckwith Madden (also manager Russell Trust) | Hugh Wilson | Matty Matthiessen | Gen. Henry R. Jackson | Frederick Smith | Stephen Schwarzman. |
1832 |
| Yale: Scroll & Key Chauncey P. Goss, III (his brother Richard was the father of Porter Goss) | Robert McCormick | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | James Stillman Rockefeller | Paul Mellon | Dean Acheson | Frank Polk | Cyrus Vance | J. Peter Grace | John Hay Whitney | Cord Meyer Jr. | Frank Polk | |
1842 |
| Yale: Book and Snake Harry Gale Nye, Jr. (his daughter Julia was married to Ted Turner) | Ogden R. Reid | Whitelaw Reid | Bob Woodward | Porter Goss | Les Aspin | Nicholas Brady | Sen. Bill Nelson | Henry Ford II. |
1863 |
| Princeton: Ivy Club | 1879 |
| Yale: Wolf's Head Reeve Schley, Jr. (his daughter Eleanor was the mother of Gov. Christine Whitman) |
1884 |
| Princeton: Cap and Gown | 1890 |
| Cornell: Sphinx Head Society Adolph Coors, Jr. (1907) | Peter Coors (1969) | Robert Tishman (1937) | Robert Kennedy (1954; president and CEO Union Carbide) | Charles Knight (1957; director Anheuser Busch 1987-; many otherc key boards) | Colin Campbell (1957; president RBF 1987-2000) | Kenneth Derr (1958; chair and CEO Chevron 1989-1999) | Thomas Reed (1955; secretary USAF; director NRO). Home to more than a few athletes. |
1890 |
| Cornell: Quill and Dagger Stephen Friedman | Wolfowitz | Sandy Berger |
1893 |
| Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity (Boule) July 18, 1990, L.A. Times: "A once-secret black fraternity... One of four black men in their 20s is in jail, in prison, on probation or parole. Black men in poor, inner-city neighborhoods are less likely to live to the age of 65 than men in Bangladesh." Members: Vernon Jordan [1] | Ken Chenault [2] | Frank Savage [2] | Earl G. Graves Sr. (founder Black Enterprise magazine) [2] | Clifton Wharton Jr. | William Coleman Jr. | Percy Lavon Julian (fellow Rock. Fdn. 1929-31) | Eric Holder | Hugh Price | Ken Blackwell | Martin Luther King Jr. (founder Rock.-backed SCLC) [1] | Andrew Young (exec. dir. SCLC) | W. E. B. Du Bois (member, 1948 address; co-founder NAACP) [1] | Roy Wilkins (exec. sec./dir. NAACP 1955-1977) | Carl Rowan (columnist; founding TC member in '73) | Benjamin Hooks (exec. dir. NAACP) | Whitney Young (exec. dir. Rock./Ford Fen.-backed Urban League 1961-1971) | Congressman John Lewis (chair SCLC-derived SDCC 1963-1966; congressman 1987-2020) | Benjamin Payton (program officer Ford Fdn. 1972-1981; BB '72) | Gov. Douglas Wilder (first elected black governor, 1990-1994, of Virginia) | Congressman Kweisi Mfume (president NAACP 1996-2004) | Ron Brown (chair DNC 1989-1993; secretary of commerce 1993-1996; died in a plane crash in 1996) | Broderick D. Johnson (White House Cabinet Secretary 2014-2017). Visitors/hosts: Michael Bloomberg [2] | David Rockefeller [3]. Alpha Kappa Alpha, f. 1913, part of the Boule network: Eleanor Roosevelt (hon. membership) | Dr. Maya Angelou ("1983 Boule") | Jada Pinkett Smith | Alicia Keys ("2004 Boule"). More: Lionel Richie (associated through Alpha Nu Lambda) | Bill Cosby (at least associated through Omega Psi Phi - "the Ques") | William Gray III (at least associated through Alpha Phi Alpha; congressman from Pennsylvania 1979-1991; director JPMorganChase 1992-, Pfizer 2000–, Rockwell, Dell 2000-, etc.) | Kurt Schmoke (at least associated through honorary membership in at least associated through Alpha Phi Alpha) | Clifton Wharton Sr. (at least associated through Alpha Phi Alpha). Source(s): [1] July 11, 2016, emory.edu, 'Records of Sigma Pi Phi, first fraternal organization for African American men, now open at Emory': "Sigma Pi Phi, also known as the Boule... Notable members throughout the years have included..." [2] Spring 2013, Issue 77-1, Boule Journal, p. 95, 'Bloomberg Hosts Reception for Frank Savage': "New York City's mayor, Michael Bloomberg, held a reception for Archon Frank Savage of that city's Zeta Boule on November 15, 2012, at the Bloomberg Family Foundation to launch his memoirs, The Savage Way... The nearly 300 guests included Archon Kenneth Chenault of Zeta Boule said about Archon Savage... Archon Earl Graves, also of Zeta, said..." [3] Early 1990s article with unknown source: "Clifton Wharton [a known Boule member], recently hosted a Boule convention at which the only whiteman in the room was David Rockefeller." |
1904 |
| Gridiron Secret Society / Club, University of Georgia (mainly) "Known members include every Governor and United States Senator from Georgia since the 1930s..." Also various Attorneys General are members. Two banquets a year in Athens, Georgia, but not much is known about it. Members: Dean Rusk | Jimmy Carter | Sam Nunn | Max Cleland | David Shafer | Kaseem Reed | Herschel Walker. |
1908 |
| Oxford: Piers Gaveston Society | 1977 |
| AFS Intercultural Programs Formerly America Field Service. James Woolsey (exchange student who went to Sween) | Wolfgang Ischinger (director) |
1915 |
| The Conference Board Known as the National Industrial Conference Board until 1970. Involved: Alan Greenspan (member for five years) | John Whitehead ("member" early-mid 1980s) | Jacob Frenkel (US counselor anno 2020) | Henry Schacht (US counselor anno 2020) | Anne Tatlock (US counselor anno 2020) | Paul Volcker (US counselor anno 2020) | Sir Peter Sutherland (trustee 1990s) | Charles Barber (senior member) | Alan Dachs (chair anno 2013; Fremont Group) | Washington SyCip (Belgian counselor) | Niall Fitzgerald (British counselor; chair 2003-2005) | Jane Pfeiffer | Gabrielle Sulzberger (trustee anno 2020; 2nd wife of NYT publisher Arthur Jr. 2014-2020). More: David Rockefeller (Sep. 20, 1966 speech in which he urged for greatly expanded business charity) | Lee Dubridge (part of one or more conferences in 1966-1967) | . Mainland Europeans: Alberto Pirelli "foreign correspondent" anno 1929) | Marcus Wallenberg ("foreign correspondent" anno 1929) | Mario Monti (speaker to the board of trustees in 2002) | Bertrand Collomb (French counselor) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (part of one or more conferences in 1966-1967) | Henry Fowler (part of one or more conferences in 1966-1967) | Vittorio Valletta ("Foreign Correspondent" in the 1960s; hon. chairman of Fiat) | Etienne Davignon (Belgian counselor anno 2020) | Josef Ackermann (vice chair anno 2013) | Aarnout Loudon (Dutch couselor) | Cees van Lede (trustee 1990s). Weimar and Nazi Germany: Albert Vogler ("foreign correspondent" anno 1928-1932) | Carl Friedrich von Siemens ("foreign correspondent" anno 1928-1932) | Franz von Mendelssohn ("foreign correspondent" anno 1928-1932). |
1916 |
| Institute for International Education (IIE) 1954 annual report trustees: Grayson Kirk (chair) | Mrs. Henry P. Russell (vice chair) | Maurice T. Moore (executive chair) | Frank Altschul | Ellsworth Bunker | Stephen Duggan | Theodore Hesburgh | Arthur Houghton, Jr. | George McGhee | George Shuster | George Stoddard | Juan Trippe | Edward Warburg | Arthur Watson | James Zellerbach (on leave). 1998 annual report trustees: Henry Kaufman (chair anno 1998) | William Draper III | Henrik Vanderlip (secretary; chair Viking Capital) | Maryam Ansary | Maria Livanos Cattaui | Ella Cisneros | Daniel Moynihan | Rodman Rockefeller | George Rupp | Robin Chandler Duke (life trustee) | Henry Fowler (life trustee) | Mrs. Maurice T. Moore (life trustee) | Joe Allbritton (honorary trustee) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (honorary trustee) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee 1989-1995, honorary after that, considerable funder anno 1998). Other trustees: Richard Debs | Henry Kissinger. Funders: Ford Fdn. ($5 million+ in 1998 alone), Starr Fdn., Freddie Mac, Chase Manhattan Fdn. and J.P. Morgan & Co., Merrill Lynch, etc. |
1919 |
| International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) ICC motto: "World peace through world trade." Economic consultant to the League of Nations throughout the 1920s. By 1927 the dominant economic advisory body for the League, operating as a non-voting member of the League's Economic Consultative Committee (LECC). U.S. board: Alfred Cotton "A.C." Bedford (co-founder from 1919 on, founding vice president from the U.S., chair U.S. committee, president over 5th annual dinner of U.S. Committee; employee of the Rockefellers' Standard Oil of New Jersey 1882-, treasurer 1882-, president 1916-1917, chair 1917-1925; his uncle had been a co-founder of Standard Oil) | Owen Young (co-founder, councel member, chair U.S. committee 1925-1928 ("American Committee of the [ICC]"); chair GE 1922-1939; director NY Fed 1923-1938, chair 1938-1940) | Thomas W. Lamont (co-founder from 1919 on, chair U.S. committee 1928-1930; partner Morgan bank 1911-) | Herbert Hoover (founding U.S. committee 1920-; present 5th annual dinner ICC in 1925) | Silas Strawn (chair U.S. committee 1930-) | Thomas Watson (president 1937-1939) | Winthrop Aldrich (hon. president anno 1936, president/chair 1944-1947) | Philip Reed (chair 1949-1951) | H. J. Heinz II (U.S. vice president anno 1949; member U.S. committe anno 1953). | Peter Peterson (chair U.S. council 1978-1979) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013). U.S. more: Norman Davis (present 5th annual dinner ICC in 1925) | David Rockefeller (present at a 1966 meeting in Essen) | Henry Kissinger (Oct. 6, 1978 speech). Board UK: Baron Arthur Balfour (1923 chair ICC's Transport Group 1923, 1925, reported vice president; the steel baron, not the politician). More UK: Lord Arthur Salter (1923 Rome conference). Board Sweden: Marcus Wallenberg (vice president representing Sweden anno 1936, chair 1965-1967), Peter (chair 1989-1990) and Marcus (chair 2005-2008). Board Netherlands: F. H. Fentener van Vlissingen (international president until 1937; more than 40 advisory board appointments by 1938: KLM airlines, Royal Hoogovens and Staalfabrieken, Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG in Germany, etc.) | Rudolph Mees (president Dutch committee anno 1938) | Karien van Gennip (director 2012-, vice chair 2017-). Board Belgium: Baron Edouard Empain (founding vice president from Belgium 1920-) | Georges Theunis (president anno 1929; PM Belgium 1921-1925; started career at Groupe Empain; board Societe Generale, etc.) | Albert-Edouard Janssen (vice president representing Belgium anno 1936; president Societe Belge de Banque; apparently of the same family as BB's Baron Daniel J.). Board France: Etienne Clementel (founding president 1920-; French minister of commerce 1915-1919, finance 1924-1925) | Edmond Giscard d'Estaing (vice president representing France anno 1936; father of Valery and Oliver; chair Societe Financiere Francaise et Coloniale in the 1930s; said to by a Synarchist) | Gerard Worms (honorary chair anno 2013). Board Germany: Franz von Mendelssohn (founding president "German Group of the International Chamber of Commerce" 1925-) | Abraham Frowein (member German committee, world president 1931-mid 1930s, hon. president anno 1936, again president from about 1945) | Karl Lindemann (chair German committee during Nazi Germany from the mid 1930s) | Otto Wolff von Amerongen (president German committee anno 1966 and "for many years"). More from Germany: Adolf Hitler (present at the 1937 ICC Berlin conference) | Hermann Goering (present at the 1937 ICC Berlin conference) | Hjalmar Schacht (present at the 1937 ICC Berlin conference) | Hermann Abs (present at 1957 and 1966 ICC meetings as far as is known). Board Italy: Sen. Victorio Rolandi Ricci (founding vice president from Italy 1920-) | Alberto Pirelli (co-founder, president 1928-1932, hon. president anno 1936) | Ettore Conti | Gino Olivetti. More from Italy: Benito Mussolini (keynote speaker 1923 conference in Rome, months after his fascist March on Rome in which he took power with support of big business and the king). Board Turkey: Rahmi Koc (president) | Far East board: Victor Fung (chair 2008-). Bienniel conferences: London (1921), Rome (1923), Brussels (1925), Stockholm (1927), Amsterdam (1929), Washington D.C. (1931), Vienna (1933), Paris (1935), Berlin (1937), Copenhagen (1939), Havana (Nov. 1947 - Feb. 1948), Lisbon (1951), Tokyo (1955), Naples (1957). Extra governing council meetings: Amsterdam (Nov. 10, 1939). More: Queen Ingrid of Denmark (present 1939 Copenhagen Conference). Source(s): 1936 board photocopy (PDF). Past and present chairs and presidents up to 1938 (PDF). |
1920 |
| Stable Money League / Stable Money Association Organized from late 1920. Set up in May 1921. U.S. hon. vice presidents: Paul Warburg | Owen Young | Otto Kahn | Elihu Root | Nicholas Murray Butler | John W. Davis | Charles Dawes | Charles Evans Hughes | James H. Rand Jr. | George M. Reynolds. More: Fred Kent (administrative council). U.K. hon. vice presidents: Sir Arthur Balfour | Sir Josiah Stamp. Other hon. vice presidents: Louis Rothschild (Austria) | Max Lazard (France) | Alberto Pirelli (Italy) | Knut Agathon Wallenberg (Sweden). Source(s): 1934, Irving Fisher and Hans R. L. Cohrssen, 'Stable Money: A History of the Movement', p. 411, 'Appendix III: Partial List of Honorary Vice-Presidents of the Stable Money Association'. |
1921 |
| League of Nations Association | 1929 |
| International Rescue Committee (IRC) Trustees / termed directors post '00: Leo Cherne (director 1946-, chair 1951-1991 and chair emeritis until his death in 1999) | Angier Biddle Duke (president 1955-1960) | William vanden Heuvel (president anno 1961, trustee anno '00, board of overseers anno '11, '17) | William Casey (aided the IRC in resettling North Vietnamese refugees to the South 1954-1956; did so again from 1965, starting with a fact-finding mission, followed by joining the IRC's board; chair 1966-1971, chair and president 1970-1971 [1]) | Angier Biddle Duke (president) | John Richardson Jr. (president) | Theodore Forstmann (trustee '99) | Daniel Moynihan (trustee '99) | Sen. Claiborne Pell (trustee '99) | John Train (trustee '99) | Stephen Solarz (trustee '99) | Thomas Labrecque (trustee '99-; CEO Chase Manhattan) | Jami Miscik (anno '11) | David Miliband (president and CEO anno '17, '21) | Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan (anno '17) | Timothy G. (anno '17, '21) | Rajiv Shah (anno '17; advisory board '21) | Larry Fink (anno '21) | Janet Napolitano (anno '21). Overseers / advisors from about '20: John Whitehead (anno '11; trustee chair 1991-, chair emeritues anno '99) | Henry Kissinger (anno '11, '21; trustee '99) | Winston Lord (anno '11, '21; trustee co-chair anno '99) | Morton Abramowitz (anno '17, '21; trustee anno '99, director anno '11) | Michael Blumenthal (anno '17, '21; trustee anno '99) | Princess Firyal of Jordan (anno '11, '21; trustee anno '99) | Indra Nooyi (anno '11, '21; trustee '99) | Elie Wiesel ('11; trustee anno '99) | Robin Chandler Duke ('11) | Felix Rohatyn (anno '11, '17) | James Wolfensohn (anno '11, '17) | Kofi Annan ('11, '17) | Madeleine Albright (anno '11, '21) | Colin Powell (anno '11, '21) | Condoleezza Rice (anno '11, '21) | George Rupp (anno '11, '21; also director anno '11) | Maurice and Evan Greenberg (anno '11, '21) | Timothy Geithner (chair anno '17, co-chair anno '21) | Tom Brokaw (anno '11, '21) | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (anno '21; publisher NYT 1992-2018, chair 1997-2020). 2017 annual report, IRC, p. 61: "LIFETIME GIVING: ... $40 MILLION+: ... NoVo [Fdn.]. ... $20 MILLION+: ... Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn.]. ... $10 MILLION+: ... General Electric ... Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Tides [Fdn.]. ... $7.5 MILLION+: ... Johnson & Johnson. ... $5 MILLION+: ... Google.org. IKEA Foundation. ... Andrew W. Mellon [Fdn.]. Open Society [Fdns.]... Pfizer ... $2.5 MILLION+: ... American Express ... Packard [Fdn.] ... JPMorgan Chase ... Paypal. ... $1 MILLION+: ... American International Group [AIG] ... Bank of America ... BlackRock ... Chevron ... Ford Foundation. ... Goldman Sachs. ... MacArthur [Fdn.] ... Mastercard Foundation ... Microsoft Philanthropies ... Nike Foundation ... PepsiCo, Inc. The Pew Charitable Trusts... Time Warner ... Warner Bros. ... Walton Family Foundation..." More: David Sarnoff (guest of honor at a dinner '67) | Jacob Javits (guest of honor at a dinner '70). [1] March 9, 1971, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs report on Casey's SEC nomination (looking at the Feb. 10, 1971 hearing of Cherne and the Casey letter of March 1, 1971): "[Sometimes I] turn to Bill Casey, first for a period of 2 years [when] the [IRC] participated very actively in Vietnam in 1954 assisting in the resettlement of some of the 900,000 who fled from North Vietnam to South Vietnam. ... I again turned to Bill Casey in 1965. He went to Vietnam, intensively studied the needs, the refugees, the orphans... [His] recommendations led to very substantially more effective and larger programs, humanitarian in nature. ... Organizations like the [IRC] have always had great difficulty of attracting public support for finance. ... I specifically recall Bill Casey's recommendations to his colleagues that above all else we enlarge the assistance we provide to those fleeing Greece, those fleeing Haiti, and those political refugees fleeing totalitarian countries in Africa. ... It was on August 22, 1968, 2 days after Soviet tanks moved into Czechoslovakia ... Casey phoned me and asked if he could be of any help to the committee. If so, he was prepared immediately to fly overseas. [We both did to] survey the situation of outcoming refugees. ... Casey spoke to ... Willy Brandt [incoming German chancellor 1969-1974]. ... Recalling the role that the [IRC] was able to play during the Hungarian revolution in 1956, I made the decision that we would make an effort to get into Czechoslovakia, established contact with some of the student groups involved, and see if we might be of help." |
1933 |
| Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Devised as part of the Young Plan (1929) related to Germany's payment of reparations for World War I. Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan all were represented from the start. American directors: Gates McGarrah (founding chair 1930-1933; grandfather of CIA director Richard Helms) | Leon Fraser (founding director 1930-1933, president and chair 1933-35) | Thomas McKittrick (president 1940-1946) | Alan Greenspan (anno 1996). British directors: Lord Montagu Norman (founding 1931-1943; governor Bank of England 1920-1944) | Lord Cameron Cobbold (alternate 1935-, still anno 1945 and still a director anno 1960; invited to join the Bank of England in 1933 by Norman) | Sir Otto Niemeyer (1933-1965, chair and president 1937 - May 1940; vice chair anno 1960; protege of Norman, director Bank of England 1938-1952) | Lord Catto (1945-; partner Morgan, Grenfell 1928, where his son became a partner in 1957; director Bank of England 1940, governor 1944-1949) | Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (anno 1965) | Maurice Parsons (alternate anno 1965) | Robert Leigh-Pemberton (anno 1990) | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne (anno 1990). German director: Paul Reusch (at least 1932-1938) | Hjalmar Schacht (1932-1938) | Wilhelm Vocke (alternate 1932-1938) | Baron von Schroeder (1932-, still anno Dec. 1944; major Nazi banker of J.H. Stein who helped bring Hitler to power) | Walther Funk (1939-, still anno Dec. 1944; prominent Nazi) | Hermann Schmitz (1939-, still anno Dec. 1944; director IG Farben) | Emil Puhl (alternate 1939-, still anno Dec. 1944; responsible for processing dental gold looted from concentration camp victims) | Otmar Emminger (alternate anno 1970) | Karl Otto Pohl (anno 1990) | Hans Tietmeyer (anno 1996). Italian directors: Alberto Beneduce (at least 1932-, vice chair 1933-1939; d. 1944; as head of IRI the "boss of everything" business-wise in Italy; director Pirelli, Fiat, Montecatini, Edison and Generali; economic advisor to Benito Mussolini) Belgian directors: Paul van Zeeland (alternate director at least 1932-, until 1935) | Marcel van Zeeland (founding exec. comm. "manager" 1930-, still by 1945, executive office anno 1960 as "Baron van Zeeland", a title only existing in relation to Marcel; younger brother of Paul) | Alexandre Galopin (1938-, vice chair 1939-1942, director 1943-; governor Societe Generale 1935-) | Georges Janssen (1938-1941; governor National Bank of Belgium; d. 1941) | Maurice Frere (1944-, chair 1948-1958, director anno 1960, vice chair 1965-1970). French directors: Pierre Fournier (alternate 1934-1938, director 1938-) | Baron Brincard (anno 1937-1945) | Yves Breart de Boisanger (alternate anno 1938, director anno 1941) | Jean-Claude Trichet (anno 1996). Dutch directors: J. W. Beyen ("Executive officers: ... Alternate of the President" 1935-1937, president 1938, gone in 1939; close to Dutch royals; director Philips, Unilever, the Javasche Bank, etc.; BB 1960) | Dr. Leonardus Trip (vice chair 1933-1935, chair 1935-1938, still a director anno 1945; chair The Netherlands Bank -1946, director 1946-) | Marinus Holtrop (chair anno 1960-1965) | J. Zijlstra (chair anno 1970) | Wim Duisenberg (chair 1988-1990, 1994-1997) | Nout Wellink (chair 2002-2006). Swedish directors: Per Jacobsson (executive and "Economic Advisor" anno 1940-1945; director IMF 1956-1963). Swiss directors: Ernst Weber (chair anno 1943-1945). Source(s): bis.org/publ/arpdf/ archive/ar1932_en.pdf all the way to ar1996_en.pdf (accessed: Oct. 13, 2022; last page contains officers' lists). |
1930 |
| Association Royale des Demeures Historiques et Jardins de Belgique Officers: Prince Alexander de Merode (chair 1979-2002) | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (chair since 2003) | Viscount Etienne Davignon | Baron Albert Frere | Marquess de Trazegnies | Prince Lorenz (honorary chair) | Count Ghislain d'Ursel | Count Emmanuel de Lichtervelde. |
1934 |
| Freedom House Founders: Eleanor Roosevelt | Wendell Willkie (Wendell Willkie II on the board 2000s-2010s). Trustees who joined in the 1940s-1980s: Leo Cherne (chairman 1946-1976) | Max Kampelman (chair until '93, anno '01 again) | Angier Biddle Duke (secretary anno '93) | Richard Gardner (anno '93) | Edward I. Koch (anno '93) | Ben Wattenberg (anno '93) | James Woolsey ("on leave" in '93, chair anno '03-'05) | . Trustees who (as far as is known) joined in the 1990s: Morton Abramowitz (until '99) | Paul Wolfowitz (until '99) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (anno '93-, until '04) | John N. Moore (anno '93-'08, secretary '09-'14, regular again '15-) | Donald Rumsfeld (anno '93-'99) | Al Shanker (anno '93-'99) | Bette Bao Lord (chair anno '97-'99; wife of Winston Lord) | Samuel Huntington (anno '97-'06) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno '97-'06) | Steve Forbes (anno '97- until '08) | Theodore Forstmann (anno '97-, until '08) | David Eisenhower (anno '97-'99) | Lane Kirkland (anno '97-'99) | Otto Reich (anno '97-'99). Trustees who in the 2000s: Bill Richardson (chair anno '01, regular '04-'05) | Peter Ackerman (anno '01-'05; chair anno '06-'09) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno '01-'03, vice chair anno '06-'08, regular again anno '09-'10) | Peter Collier (anno '01) | Anthony Lake (anno '01-'09) | Diana Villiers Negroponte (anno '01-, until at least '15) | David Rubenstein ('05-'09) | Nina Rosenwald ('05-'06) | Thomas Foley ('06-'07) | Sidney Harman ('06-'11; husband of Jane Harman) | Robert Hormats (anno '06-'08) | Lawrence Lessig ('08-'09) | William Taft IV (chair '09-'13, regular '14-'17) | Joshua Muravchik ('08-'16) | Tom Dine ('08-, vice chair anno '09-'14, regular again '15; exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Paula Dobriansky ('09-'18) | Walter Russell Mead ('14-'17). Trustees who in the 2010s: Adm. Dennis Blair ('11-'20) | Jim Kolbe ('11-'22) | Stuart Appelbaum ('11-, until at least '14) | Zainab Al-Suwaij (anno '15-'17) | Michael Chertoff (trustee chair late 2018-, still anno '22) | Francis Fukuyama ('20-'21) | Unsorted still: Mark Palmer (vice chair) | David Kramer (executive director, president 2010-2014; leaker of the bogus Steele dossier on Trump to Buzzfeed in Dec. 2016) | Andrew Young Jr. | Rita Hauser | . More: Daniel Pipes (Academic Advisor anno 1998-1999) | Michael Abramowitz (president '17-, still anno '22; son of Morton). Advisory board Freedom in the World (monitors countries round the world): Jeane K. (anno '99) | Joshua M. (anno '99) | Daniel Pipes (anno '95-99). Freedom Award recipients: Winston Churchill | Dwight Eisenhower ('45) | Vaclav Havel | Dalai Lama. Source(s): freedomhouse.org/about.htm (accessed: Jan. 17, 1997 - Nov. 9, 1999; trustees); 1999-2000, FH, Freedom in the World report (lists trustees at the start, including Paul W. and Morton A., not listed on the site); freedomhouse.org/ template.cfm?page=10 (accessed: April 7, 2006 - Jan. 8, 2012); freedomhouse.org/content/our-leadership (acessed: Jan. 21, 2012 - Jun. 30, 2015); freedomhouse.org/content/our-board-and-staff (acessed: Oct. 19, 2015 - May 19, 2020); /freedomhouse.org/about-us/board-leadership (accessed: April 23, 2020). Funding: freedomhouse.org/aboutfh /funders.htm (accessed: June 24, 2001 - Nov. 22, 2005): "Bradley [and] Byrne [and] Carthage [and] Eurasia [and] Ford [and] Mott [and] Sarah Scaife [and] Smith Richardson [and] Tinker [and] Unilever United States [fdns.] Soros Foundations ... Pew Charitable Trusts ... Lilly Endowment ... US Agency for International Development [USAID]. US Information Agency [USIA; changed in early 2005 to "US Department of State" - the only difference]. ... National Endowment for Democracy [NED]..." freedomhouse.org/content/our-supporters (accessed: July 6, 2013): "Freedom Champion: $100,000 or above. ... Bradley [Fdn.] Connect US Fund of Tides Foundation. Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Google. The John Hurford [Fdn.] Jyllands-Posten Fdn.] Leo Levy Fdn.] Lilly Endowment Inc. ... MacArthur Fdn. Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Open Society [Fdns.] The Schloss Family [Fdn.] Walter J. Schloss [Fdn.] Smith Richardson [Fdn.] Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]. U.S. Department of State. United Nations Democracy Fund. ... Freedom Defender: $50,000 or above: ... Facebook, Inc. ... Visa Inc. Freedom Partner: $25,000 or above: American Federation of Teachers... Amgen... [Inst.] of Modern Russia. Levi Strauss & Co. ... Skype. The World Bank Group ... Freedom Supporter: $10,000 or above: ... Center for European Policy Analysis ... Free Press Unlimited ... Kirby Foundation. Lockheed Martin. McLarty Associates. ... SKB Foundation. The Walt Disney Company. Warburg Pincus. Yahoo, Inc. ... Yen Chuang Foundation. ... Freedom Friend: $5,000 or above: Caterpillar Inc." |
1941 |
| Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria No significant directors or advisors anno 2021. Board: Lloyd Cutler (20-year director; Cutler Lecture named after him; Sir Michael Palliser (vice chair anno '07-'08; Palliser Lecture named after him) | Roy Huffington (chair anno '07; also Council of Senior Fellows) | Dr. Walter Massey (became chair in '08) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno '08; also Council of Senior Fellows) | Jacob Frenkel (anno '08) | Philip Lader (anno '08) Council of Senior Fellows: Hodding Carter III | Umberto Colombo | Wyche Fowler Jr. | Richard Gardner | Francois Heisbourg | Michael Huffington | John Jay Iselin | Yves-Andre Istel | William Luers | Bruce MacLaury | Dries van Agt | Jakob von Weizsacker | Lord George Weidenfeld | Otto Wolff von Amerongen. More fellows: Jean-Claude Trichet | Kevin Rudd | Kofi Annan | Pascal Lamy | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Makaziwe Mandela (daughter of Nelson) | Sandra Day O'Connor | Margaret Mead | Warren Burger. Speakers: John Major (Palliser Lecture) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('14) | Josef Joffe ('14) | Prince Karel Schwarzenberg ('14) | James Comey (Salzburg Lecture) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (Cutler Lecture) | Eric Schmidt (Cutler Lecture). 2005 annual report, 'Donor Roll 2005': Paul Volcker ('Founder's Society Gifts of $1,000 to $4,999') | John Whitehead ('Founder's Society Gifts of $1,000 to $4,999') | Austrian National Bank | CSIS | Carnegie Corp. | Ford Fdn. | Kellogg Fdn. | Knight Fdn. | MacArthur Fdn. | Andrew W. Mellon Fdn. |
1941 |
| Committee on International Economic Policy Outgrowth of the 1939 ICC-founded Committee for International Economic Reconstruction, under Thomas Watson, who subsequently, in 1944, set up this committee. Winthrp Aldrich (chair). |
1944 |
| National Committee for a Free Europe Late 1952 members: Allen Dulles (founder) | William Donovan | C.D. Jackson (director and vice chair; "president and the full-time executive" over 1951) | Henry Luce | Gen. Lucius Clay (director) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower | Clark Clifford | Frank Altschul | Joseph Grew (chair). At other times: J. Peter Grace | H. J. Heinz II | Henry Ford II | George C. McGhee. Nore: John Richardson Jr. (president 1961-1968). |
1949 |
| Congress for Cultural Freedom / International Association For Cultural Freedom Shepard Stone (president) | David Rockefeller (acted as a CIA front for the CCF network) | Brian Crozier (consultant and reformer) | John Hay Whitney (financier) | Richard Mellon Scaife (financier) | Irving Kristol (contributor) | Michael Josselson (administrative secretary and then, until 1967, executive director; earlier involved in the de-Nazification of German intellectuals for State) | Roderick MacFarquhar (editor China Observer, published by the CCF 1960-1968). Exposed as the recipient of CIA funding in 1966. As a result, dissolved in 1967, but restarted under a new name. |
1950-1979 |
| Aspen Institute Past and present trustees: Walter Paepcke (founder) | Robert O. Anderson (initial financier) | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Maurice Strong | Lord Weidenfeld | Robert Mosbacher | George McGhee | Robert Ingersoll | William T. Coleman Jr. | Najeeb Halaby | Marvin Goldberger | Philip Hawley | Rita Hauser | Warren Rudman | Paul and William Nitze | Paul Volcker (life) | Robert O. Anderson (chair) | Lester Crown (life) | Prince Bandar bin Sultan | Pehr Gyllenhammar (leading trustee from late 1970s to mid 1990s, vice chair) | Henry Kissinger (life) | Robert McNarama | Cyrus Vance | Thomas Pickering (life) | Leslie Wexner (life) | Sandra Day O'Connor (life) | David Gergen (life) | William Donaldson (life) | John Brademas | Robert Abernethy (Society of Fellows) | Richard Gardner | Patrick Gross | Walter Isaacson (president and CEO; former chair and CEO of CNN) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin | Henry Catto (vice chair) | Jane Harman | Michael Eisner | Michael Armacost | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) (executive vice president 1989-1997) | Lord Charles Powell | Thornton Bradshaw | David Koch | Jacqueline Novogratz | James Manyika (anno 2020) | Miguel "Mike" Bezos (anno 2021; stepfather of Jeff) | Condoleezza Rice (2010-) | David McCormick (2010- and earlier a 2003 fellow; married Dina Habib Powell). MORE: Javier Solana (chair Aspen Institute Spain) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech/member) | Marta Dassu (Senior Director European Affairs) | Dan Glickman (executive director of Aspen's Congressional Program) | James Fallows (part of the Socrates Program). 1995 Aspen Study Group on the Future of the Transatlantic Relations: Pehr G. | Lord Carrington | Sir Peter Sutherland | Jacques Delors | Marie-Jose Kravis | Ruud Lubbers. Annual report 2009/2010, Aspen Germany about recent Friends of Aspen Institute Germany board joiners: Josef Ackermann (CEO Deutsche Bank) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein | Yoram Ben-Zeev (Israeli ambassador to Germany) | Dr. Bernhard Reutersberg (CEO Ruhrgas AG) | Manfred Bischoff (chair Daimler AG) | Bill Schneider (CNN) | Bruce Hoffman (Georgetown University) | Brigitte Zypries (German minister) | Thilo Sarrazin (Bundesbank). Also a member: Josef Joffe. Aspen Institute of Germany, Berlin: Shepard Stone (director 1974-1988). Aspen Institute of France, founded in 1983, officers, past and present: Raymond Barre (founder and long-time board member) | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Gerhard Cromme (ThyssenKrupp) | François Heisbourg | Jacques D. | Jean-Claude Trichet | Jacqueline Grapin | Bertrand Collomb | Gerard Mestrallet. Aspen Strategy Group (founded in 1984): 2013 members: Joseph Nye (co-chair), Brent Scowcroft (co-chair), Graham Allison, Richard Armitage, Dick Cheney, David G., Al Gore, Condoleezza R., William Webster, Wolfowitz, Woolsey, Zoellick, Albright, Eliot Cohen, Deutch, Dianne Feinstein, Robert Gates, Haass, Chuck Hagel, Kagan, William Kristol, Nunn, Thomas O'Gara (Kroll), John Podesta, Talbott, Perry, Zakheim, Zelikow. 1993 members: Kenneth Dam (co-chair 1991-2001) | David M. Rowe (executive director) | David Boren | Richard G. | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Gen. David C. Jones | Sen. Richard Lugar | Sam N. | Condoleezza R. | Brent S. | Sen. John Warner | William W. | Paul W. | Robert Z. Emeritus: Les Aspin | Dick C. | John D. | Sidney Drell (full 1984-1991) | Susan Rice | David G. Also: Gen. James Cartwright | Ashton Carter | Kurt Campbell and wife Lael Brainard | Zoe Baird. Forum for Community Solutions (founded in 2011): Nancy Rubin (financier and advisory board member). Aspen Atlantic Group: Gareth Evans. Aspen Atlantic Group: Madeleine A. | Joschka Fischer | Malcolm Rifkind | Jozias van Aartsen Middle East Strategy Group: Madeleine A., Dianne F., Chuck H., Henry K. Richard Burt, Martin Indyk, Abul Huda Farouki, Queen Noor, Mortimer Zuckerman. Idan Ofer (hon. chair). In 2005 MESG developed the Middle East Investment Initiative (MEII): Madeleine A., Martin I., Thomas P., John Negroponte, Carl Bildt. Aspen Institute/Rockefeller Commission to Reform the Federal Appointments Process: All names already mentioned above, except for Sen. Chuck Robb and Thomas McLarty III. Aspen Security Forum speakers: Michael Chertoff | Stephen Hadley | Adm. Dennis Blair | Gen. Michael Hayden | Cofer Black | Gilles de Kerchove | Robert Gallucci | Richard Ben-Veniste | Brian Michael Jenkins | Janet Napolitano | David Cohen | John N. | Raymond Kelly. Moderators: Wolf Blitzer | John King | Michael Isikoff. Also involved: Maurice Sonnenberg. Aspen's 21st Century National Service Summit (2013) speakers: Gen. Stanley McChrystal (became chair of Aspen's Franklin Project) | Arianna Huffington | Maria Shriver (wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger until 2011). Aspen's Economic Strategy Group: Erskine Bowles (co-chair) | Hank Paulson (co-chair) | Ben Bernanke | Ken Chenault | Timothy Geithner | Gov. Bill Haslam | Michael Nutter | John Podes. | Penny Pritzker | Robert Rubin | Gene Sperling | Larry Summers | Robert Z.. Aspen's Nonprofit Sector Strategy Group (NSSG) (founded in 1997): John Whitehead. Sep. 18, 2007 Aspen-financed conference at the Rome Ministry of Foreign Affairs entitled 'Italy, Europe and Israel': Edward Luttwak | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Carlo De Benedetti | Tremonti | Frattini | Massimo D'Alema. Ananta Aspen Centre (previously known as Aspen Institute India): Jamshyd Godrej (anno '21). |
1950 |
| American Club of Rome Clare Boothe Luce (honorary founding president) | Henry L. (vice president) | Ralph Folwer (president; executive of the Arabian-American Oil Company) |
1953 |
| Eisenhower Fellowships Trustees: Philip Reed (vice chair 1955-1975) | Amory Houghton | Henry Luce III | Henry Kissinger (chair and later chair emeritus) | George H. W. Bush (chair and later honorary) | Gerald Ford (chair and later honorary) | Donald Rumsfeld (chair and later emeritus) | Colin Powell (chair) | Christine Whitman (chair executive committee) | Walter Annenberg | Kenneth Derr | Ken Lay | Ross Perot, Jr. | Madeleine Albright | David and Susan Eisenhower | Brent Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Ernst van der Beugel (since 1979) | Maurice Strong (anno 1989). Advisory council: Warren Christoper (chair) | Lee Hamilton | William Luers | Frank Wisner II. |
1953 |
| European-Atlantic Group Officers: Lord Carrington | Sir Frederic Bennett | Lord Chalfont | Geoffrey Rippon | Robert M. Worcester. Speeches: Lord Guthrie, Lord George Robertson, Shimon Peres, Pehr Gyllenhammar, Sir Peter Sutherland, Adm. William Crowe. Members: Michael Shrimpton. |
1954 |
| International Monetary Conference (IMC) Members: C. Douglas Dillon ('62, '64) | Milton Friedman ('68, '80) | John Connally Jr. ('71; speech about how the EU and Japan need to contribute more to defense) | Arthur Burns ('71; canceled last-minute in '77) | Sen. Jacob Javits ('71) | Walter Wriston ('71, canceled last-minute in '77, '79, '80; board member anno 1980'; '84) | Johann Philipp Freiherr von Bethmann ('71; member of an old Frankfurt-based banking house founded in 1748) | Walter Scheel (opened the '71 conference) | George Shultz ('73 speech: "[The IMC] has become a highlight in the yearly calendar of the international financial community. [I'm] a first-timer.") | David Rockefeller ('74, '80) | Prince Bernhard of Orange ('75) | Chris Karsten ('75; director AMRO Bank) | Henry Wallich ('75; gov. Fed) | A. W. Clausen ('80, '82; considered a key organizer of the conference at the time; president and CEO Bank of America 1970-81; president World Bank 1981-86; chair and CEO Bank of America 1986-90) | Willis Alexander ('80; board member anno 1980; exec. VP ABA) | Wilfired Guth ('74, '80; managing director Deutsche Bank) | Sir Jeremy Morse ('80; chair Lloyds Bank) | John G. Medlin Jr. ('80, where he stated "I think [incoming treasury secretary Donald Regan] should have come [similar to all incoming treasury secretaries]. I don't think he understood the importance of this group."; president Wachovia) | Arthur Burns ('76) | Raymond Larre ('77; general manager BIS 1971-81) | Michael Blumenthal ('77-'79) | David Steel ('77; chair BP 1975-81) | Wilfried Guth ('80) | Paul Volcker ('80, '82, '87) | Paul McCracken ('82) | Willy de Clercq ('87) | Alfred Herrhausen ('87) | Hilmar Kopper ('92) | Alan Greenspan ('95, '97, '04, '05) | Hans Tietmeyer ('95, '97) | Eddie George ('97; gov. Bank of England) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('97) Wim Duisenberg ('01; June 7, 2001 press release, ecb.europa.eu, 'Transcript of the questions asked and the answers given by Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg': "You can be sure, if [the IMC] happens to coincide with the meeting of the [very public] Eurogroup [finance ministers and central bankers], that the ECB will be represented in the Eurogroup by the Vice-President [and I will be at the IMC.] It would have drawn more attention [among financial elites] had I not been [at the IMC], than had I [not] been in Brussels [for the Eurogroup.]") | John Bond (elected IMC president in '02) | Howard Davies ('03) | Michel Pebereau (president anno '04) | Ben Bernanke ('06, '08, '11) | Thabo Mbeki ('07) | Walter Kielholz ('07) | King Juan Carlos ('08) | Brad Rock ('08; participated as chair ABA) | Josef Ackermann ('08) | H. Rodgin Cohen ('11; senior chair Sullivan & Cromwell) | Timothy Geithner ('11) | Jamie Dimon ('13) | Niall Ferguson ('13) | Jacob Frenkel ('13) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('13) | Alex Weber ('13; board member anno 2013) | Jurgen Fitschen ('13; co-chair Deutsche Bank) | John Stumpf ('13; chair and CEO Wells Fargo) | Francisco Gonzalez ('13; chair and CEO BBVA) | Peter Sand ('13; CEO Standard Chartered) | Baudouin Prot (president and chair anno 2013) | Frank Keating (executive vice president anno 2013) | Douglas Flint ('13; chair HSBC and IIF) | Janet Yellen ('13; chair FED 2014-18, after 350 signers of a letter of recommendation to the president) | Mario Draghi (presicent ECB) | Jaime Caruana ('13; general manager BIS) | Lord Adair Turner ('13) | Zhou Xiaochuan ('13; governor People's Bank of China / China's Central Bank) | Tian Guoli ('13; chair Bank of China) | Andrew Sheng ('13) | Jiang Jianqing (chair Industrial and Commercial Bank of China) | Stanley Fischer ('15). More: John McFarlane (president; group chair Barclays 2015-2019) | Andreas Treichl (board member) | Thomas Labrecque (president; Oct. 18, 2000, CentralJersey.com, 'Chase executive universally respected Thomas G. Labrecque, 62, who died Monday, guided bank through difficult time': "I have never had a finer friend or business colleague than Tom Labrecque," said [David] Rockefeller..."). Meetings: Bonn (1968) | Munich (1971) | Montreal (1972; "International Banking Conference"?) | Amsterdam (1975) | Tokyo (1977) | New Orleans (1980) | Vancouver (1982) | Philadelphia (1984) | Hamburg (1987) | Hong Kong (1985) | Zurich (1990) | Toronto (1992) | Interlaken (1987) | Paris (2000) | Montreal/Ottawa (2002) | Berlin (2003) | London (2004) | Beijing (2005) | Washington, D.C. (2006) | Cape Town (2007) | Barcelona (2008) | Tokyo (2009) | Atlanta (2011) | Shanghai (2013) | Munich (2014) | Toronto (2015) | Singapore (2016) | London (2017). Background: Extremely low-profile. Organized by the American Bankers Association (ABA), but no mention of it on the website. The conference itself only sets up temporary websites - imc2019.org, imc2020.org, etc. - without any public information. It is only meant for members to log in to. In 1980 conference visitors were picked up at the airport by unmarked police cars. |
1954 |
| Bilderberg 14 out of 15 initial 1954 U.S. visitors were CFR members by that time: David Rockefeller (visited over 59 years: 1954-2013, only missing 6 conferences: March '55, '56, '60, '73, '86, '07, '10, '12) | Nelson Dean Jay | George Nebolsine | Gardner Cowles Jr. | George Bingham | George Ball | Paul Nitze | C.D. Jackson | H.J. Heinz II | J. D. Zellerbach | George McGhee | Cola Parker | George Perkins | Joseph Spang Jr. Only exception (who became CFR a few month later): John S. Coleman, assigned by Jackson to put the American delegation together. Non-founding U.S. visitors: Paul Hoffman ('55-Oct.'57, '59) | Gabriel Hauge (regular Mar. '55-'78) | Dean Rusk (Mar. and Sep. '55, Feb. '57 (SC), '69) | Henry Kissinger (visited for 67 years: Oct. '57, '64, '77-'23, only missing the '79 and '93 meetings, apart from the aborted '19-'20 ones) | Shepard Stone (Oct. '57, 1961, 1964-'75 (inc. SC), '80; dir. of int. affairs Ford Fdn. 1952-1967, assisting the CIA in financing "cultural projects"; president Int. Assoc. For Cultural Freedom 1967-1974) | John McCloy ('58, '64-'66) | John Brademas ('65) | Robert Roosa ('65, '75, '79, '82) | Eugene Rostow ('67) | Bill Moyers ('67-'71, '73 (SC) | Sen. Charles Mathias ('67-'68, '70, '72, '74-'75, '81, '84-'93'; member Church Comm. 1975-1976) | Cyrus Vance ('70) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller ('70, '71) | Graham Allison ('70-'71) | Thomas Hughes ('71, '72; president Carnegie Endow. '71-'91) | Benjamin Payton ('72) | Nelson Rockefeller ('74) | Walter Mondale ('74, '81) | Donald Rumsfeld ('75, '02) | Bruce MacLaury ('77, '80-'85) | Vernon Jordan ('79-'85 (joined SC), '87, '89-'09, '11-'13, '16-'17, '19) | Paul Volcker ('82-'83, '86-'88, '92, '97, '09-'10 lists; never SC) | A. W. Clausen ('83, '85) | Kenneth Dam ('83, '85-'97 (SC)) | Robert Hormats ('83, '85, '86, '10) | Nicholas Brady ('84-'86 (SC), '88) | Richard Burt ('84, '86-'87, '90) | John Whitehead ('84-'87, '89, '90-'92 (SC), '93-'97) | Bill Bradley ('85) | Rozanne Ridgway (regular '85-'94; also SC) | James Wolfensohn ('85, '87-'00 (joined SC in '87), '02-'03, '05-'15 (SC anno '10), '17) | Sen. Daniel Evans ('86, '88) | Rupert Murdoch ('88) | Thomas Foley ('88, '90, '95, '02) | Marie ('89, '90-'96 (SC '90-), '98-'23 lists (co-chair SC anno '20-'24; president, American Friends of Bilderberg Inc. anno '21-'24)) and Henry Kravis ('92-'93, '96, '98 (first time with wife), '00-'08, '10-'23) | Jeffrey Sachs ('90) | George Soros ('90, '94, '00, '02) | Dianne Feinstein ('91) | Bill Clinton ('91 and made "brief remarks" at the Oct. 1995 BB SC meeting) | Richard Haass ('91, '99, '03-'05, '07) | Sharon Percy Rockefeller ('92, '97 only, but still listed as SC) | Stephen Friedman ('93-94) | E. Gerald Corrigan ('94) | Thomas Pickering ('94) | Joseph Nye ('94) | John Bryan, Jr. ('95) | Sam Nunn ('96-'97) | Chas Freeman ('96) | Martin Feldstein ('96, '98-'99, '01-'03, '05-'08, '10-'11, '13-'15) | Richard Holbrooke ('96-'99, '04-'10) | Lee Hamilton ('97) | Fred Bergsten ('97, '02) | William Rhodes ('98) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('98; met Sir Evelyn here) | Christine Whitman ('98) | Sen. George Mitchell (listed former SC, but never attended an annual conference) | John Deutch ('98, '00, '02) | Larry Summers ('98, '02, '10) | Thomas Donilon ('98-'08, '12, '14, '15) | Susan Eisenhower ('01) | Fareed Zakaria ('03, '05) | Robert Zoellick ('03, '06, '08-'15 (SC), '17) | Merit Janow ('04) | Walter Isaacson ('04) | Max Boot ('04) | Timothy Geithner ('04-'09, '13) | Gen. James L. Jones ('05) | Muhtar Kent ('07) | Eric Schmidt ('07-'08, '10-'19 (SC no later than '17; CEO Google/Alphbet 2001-2017, "technical advisor" after that) | Chester Crocker ('08) | Hank Paulson ('08) | David Petraeus ('09, '13-'18, '19) | Robert Rubin ('10-'15, '17-'19) | John Kerry ('12) | Jon Huntsman Jr. ('12) | David Rubenstein ('17) | John Brennan ('17) | Stacey Abrams ('19; black activist congresswoman 2007-2017). Non-founding U.S. visitors (neocons): Richard Pipes ('81-'82) | Robert Pfaltzgraff ('82, '86) | Richard Perle ('83, '85, '01-'15 (not SC)) | Paul Wolfowitz ('90, '94-'98, '00, '03, '05, '07, '09, '10 lists (SC at one point, likely in the mid 1990s)) | John Bolton ('03) | Douglas Feith ('04) | Michael Ledeen ('05) | Peter Thiel (all meetings '07-'19 (SC since at least '10 and still anno '21)). Canada: Roy MacLaren ('72, '85. '92, '94, '99) | Conrad Black ('81, '83, '85-'03 (largely SC) | Paul Desmarais ('82) and Paul Jr. ('06, '08) | Mark Carney ('11, '12) | Dominic Barton ('19). U.K.: Hugh Gaitskell ('54, '56, '58) | Sir Denis Healey ('54-'58, '60-'65, '67, '71, '73-'75, '80-'81, '84, '86, '92; SC for 30 years) | Sir Kenneth Younger ('59; director RIIA) | Sir Frederic Bennett ('59-'60, '62-'80) | Edward Heath ('63, '67, '69) | Enoch Powell ('68) | Lord Roll ('69-'02; SC since at least '75; chair '85-'89) | Sir Ronald Grierson ('71, '80, '92, '98) | Lord Carrington ('78, '83-'84, '87, '89, BB chair '90-'98, '13) | Andrew Knight ('82-'95, SC from the start) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild ('83, '98) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind ('86, '96) | Sir Peter Sutherland ('89-'98 (SC '91-), '00, '02-'07, '09-'14) | Lord Lamont ('95) | Lord George Robertson ('98, '01) | Lord Peter Mandelson ('99, '08-'09, '11-'14) | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones ('04) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('04- (partly SC)) | David Cameron ('08, '13) | Niall Ferguson ('09-'10, '12, '17-'19). Netherlands: Prince Bernhard (founding chair '54-'75, but forced out of BB due to the 1976 Lockheed affair) | John Loudon ('62, '65, '72; founding family and head Shell; founding chair Chase Manhattan's IAC 1965-) and nephew Aarnout Loudon ('84; chair AkzoNobel until 1994) | Queen Beatrix of Orange ('62, '69, '71-'72, '74, '84, '88-'93, '95-'01, '03-'15; Dutch queen 1980-2013; eldest daughter of BB chair Prince Bernhard and new age anti-BB queen Juliana) | Prince Claus of Orange ('67-'69, '71-'72, '81-'82, '84, '86-'89; married to future Queen Beatrix 1966 until his death in 2002) | Max Kohnstamm (almost annual visitor over '61-'98; one of the "founders of Europe") | Hans de Koster ('64, '65, '72; WWII resistance fighter and good friend of Prince Bernhard; director family company 1946-1967; VVD foreign affairs state secretary 1967-1971; minister of defense 1971-1973) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst ('70, '74, '81; EU Law expert at the Leiden and Groningen universities 1965-1973; D66 foreign affairs, EU, and economics politician after that) | Victor Halberstadt (regular '75-, secretary general '80-'00, chair BB Fdn. anno '19, co-chair anno '22; international advisory board chair GS, BB's most dominant bank, 1991, atill anno '14; long-time financier professor at the prestigious Leiden University, home to the royal family) | Ernst van der Beugel ('59-'95 (SC, AC and BB's "honorary secretary general in Europe" from the start), '96, '99, '01, '03-'11, '13-'15; foreign affairs state secretary focused on EU affairs 1957-1958; president-director Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) 1959-1963) | Feyo Sickinghe ('77; chairman industrial concern Stork and advisory board Nedlloyd) | Wim Duisenberg (occasionally '77-'83 (SC and hon. treasurer by '81), '86; finance minister 1973-1977; president Dutch Central Bank 1982-1997; 1st chair Euro. Central Bank 1998-2003; wife Gretta was/is a "liberal CIA"-tied radical Palestinian activist) | Sen. and Congressman Max van der Stoel ('80; Labour Party member EU parliament 1971-1973; foreign affairs minister 1973–1977, 1981-1982; ambassador to the UN 1983-1986) | Congressman and Sen. Hans van Mierlo ('82; D66 minister of defense 1981–1982 and minister of foreign affairs 1994-1998) | Ruud Lubbers ('83, '91-'92, '94; Christian Democrat Dutch PM 1982-1994) | Hans van den Broek ('86, '88, '95; foreign secretary 1982-1993) | Cees van Lede ('89; one-time Shell intern; president Fed. of Dutch Industries (VNO) anno '89; chair AkzoNobel 1994-2003) | King Willem-Alexander of Orange ('90-'91 and '96 (all as "observer", from age 23), 01, '08, all before becoming king in 2013) | Pieter Korteweg ('91-'95, '97, '98; co-founder anti-royalist, pro-conspiracy Republican Soc. that gathered all kinds of "contra"-figures) | Congressman and Sen. Elco Brinkman ('93; Christian Democrat minister of health and culture 1982-1989 who sat on the advisory board of Philip Morris 2005-2011) | Wim Kok ('93, '03; Dutch PM '94-'02 of the Labour Party) | Cornelius Herkstroter ('94; chair Shell) | Frits Bolkestein ('96, '02, '03, '04; manager Shell 1960-1976 who became a pro-Israel, anti-muslim, anti-leftist, neocon godfather VVD politician with Russian oligarch ties) | Herman Wijffels ('97; major banker, but als a major future pusher of UFO disinformation) | Maarten van den Bergh ('97; group managing director Shell at the time) | Jeroen van der Veer ('00, '03-'05, '07, '09; career at Shell, CEO 2004-2009) | Cees van der Hoeven ('98, '01; director Royal Ahold 1985-, chair 1993-2003, resigning after a massive fraud was brought to light for which initially 20 months prison was demanded by the prosecutor's office) | Ad Melkert ('01; Labour Party leader at the time who was among those calling the hyper-popular Fortuyn a "racist") | Rijkman Groenink ('02; director ABN AMRO Bank 1990-, chair 2000-2007; caught in 2005/2006 in money laundering for Russian oligarchs and for countries as Iran and Libya.) | Gerard Kleisterlee ('02, '06; CEO Philips 2000-2011, chair Vodafone 2011-; director Shell 2010, vice chair 2018-) | Congressman and Sen. Klaas de Vries ('03; Labour Party politician; minister of the interior 2002-2003, who reportedly spied on the assassinated populist Pim Portuyn) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ('03, '05, '07, '09; Foreign minister 2002-2003; NATO sec.-gen. 2004-2009) | Hans Wijers ('04; economic affairs minister 1994-1998; chair AkzoNobel 2003-2012; director Shell 2009-2018, vice chair until 2018; advisory chair Heineken 2010s) | Gijs de Vries ('04; VVD and D66 politician involved in EU affairs; EU Counter-Terrorism Coordinator 2004-2007) | Antony Burgmans ('01, '04; chair Unilever 1999-2007; chair AkzoNobel anno 2021; advisory board ABN AMRO Bank and Allianz; director BP) | Congressman Jozias van Aartsen ('05; foreign minister 1998-2002 and VVD political leader until 2006) | Arthur Docters van Leeuwen ('05; chair Dutch intelligence (AIVD) 1989-1995; chair College of Prosecutor-Generals 1995-1998; chair Authority Financial Markets 1999-2007; switched from D66 to VVD in 2002; advisory board Aegon 2008-; director Oilinvest 2011-) | Maxime Verhagen ('06; party leader who became foreign affairs minister in 2007) | Neeli Kroes (annually '05-'12, but not SC; old minister; VVD European Commissioner 2004-2014; chair advisory board Uber) | Nout Wellink ('06, '09-'10; TC anno '01; president Dutch Central Bank 1997-2011; chair Basel Committee on Banking Supervision 2006-2011; advisory board Bank of China 2012-; director ICBC 2018-, China's largest bank) | Jan Hommen ('07, '10; history at Alcoa; CFO Philips 1997-2005; advisory board Reed Elsevier and ING 2000s; chair ING Group/Bank 2009-2013; chair KPMG NL 2014-2018; chair BlackRock NL anno 2021) | Jan Peter Balkenende ('08; Dutch Christian Democrat PM 2002-2008) | Frans Timmermans ('08; diplomat 1987-; Labour Party congressman 1998-2007, 2010-2012; state secretary for EU affairs 2007-2010; foreign minister 2012-2014 in a VVD cabinet; vice chair European Commission 2014-) | Congressman and Sen. Ernst Hirsch Ballin ('09; justice minister 1989–1994, 2006–2010) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan ('10; chair Federation of Dutch Industries (VNO) 1991-1996; director ING Group/Bank 1996-1006; chair Social-Economic Council 2006-2012) | Congressman Alexander Pechtold ('12; D66 party head 2006-2018) | Mark Rutte ('12, '13, '15, '16; VVD Dutch PM 2010-) | Sigrid Kaag ('18-'19; pro-Palestine activist who has children with a former Arafat official and became Dutch foreign minister in '21) | Kathalijne Buitenweg ('19; GreenLeft chair at EU Parliament '04-'09; MP GreenLeft Party '17-'21; member Council of State '21-). Belgium: Louis Camu (regular '55-'75; chair Bank of Brussel 1952-1975, when it became BBL; involved in the CoR) | Jacques Solvay ('68, '72, '89; chair Solvay pharmaceutical concern) | Baron Daniel Janssen ('69-'77, '79-'81, '83-'84, '95, '00; longest, most elite CoR member 1968-2020s; chair Solvay 1986-2006; vice chair Societe Generale bank; advisory board Kiss. Assoc.) | Baron Leon Lambert (BB '71-'72, '75-'76, '78-'84, '86-'87) | Viscount Etienne Davignon ('72, '74, '77-'78, '80, '83-'92 (became part of SC), '94-'14 (listed as honorary chair '99-'11); EU-focused politician who became chair of Societe Generale 1989-2001) | Karel van Miert ('93) | Jan Huyghebaert ('99). France: Robert Marjolin ('55-'56, '60, '65; founding TC '73-) | Edmond de Rothschild ('68-'77, partly SC; member TC '75 until at least '85) | Thierry de Montbrial ('75-'97 (partly SC), '00-'06, '08-'09, '10-'13) | Michel Rocard ('86) | Bertrand Collomb ('91-'92, '96-'03 (SC), '05-'06, '08) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('00) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('08-'10) | Gerard Mestrallet ('99) | Pascal Lamy ('00-'01, '03, '05, '09) | Christine Lagarde ('13, '14, '16, '17; man. dir. IMF; president ECB) | Georges Berthoin ('77, '82-'83; EU chair TC) | Jean Francois-Poncet ('82, '85, '88; son of diplomat Andre) | Michel Francois-Poncet ('85; as chair BNP Paribas North America) | Pierre-Paul Schweitzer ('63, '65) and son Louis Schweitzer ('89, '93, '02). Germany: Otto Wolff von Amerongen (March '55-'58, '60-'80, '82-01 (AC '83-); son of Otto Wolff, key advisory board member and major shareholder of Fritz Thyssen and Nazi Germany's Vereinigte Stahlwerke) | Hans-Gunther Sohl ('55; chair August Thyssen Hutte AG; founding TC '73-) | Hermann Abs ('58, '61, '66; director IG Farben; director Deutsche Bank 1938-1945, chair of revived bank 1957-1967, advisory chair 1967-1976) | Kurt Birrenbach ('60, '63, '66-'68, '72; key Thyssen representative) | Helmut Schmidt ('66, 73-'74, '77, '80) | Walther Kiep ('74, '75, '77, '80) | Heinrich Treichl ('77-'80) and son Andreas Treichl ('09) | Alfred Herrhausen ('78-'85, '87-'88; partly SC; director Deutsche Bank 1971-, managing director 1982-1985, co-chair 1985-1988; assassinated in 1989) | Count Otto Lambsdorff ('80, '82-'84) | Helmut Kohl ('80, '82, '88) | Walter Scheel (chair 1981-1984, '86) | Karl Otto Pohl ('82, '91) | Horst Teltschik ('82, '84, '88, '90) | Hilmar Kopper ('91-'92 (instant SC), '94-'95, '98-'03, '05; chair Deutsche Bank 1989-1997, advisory chair 1997-) | Kurt Biedenkopf ('92) | Josef Joffe ('93, '06) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('02, '08, '12, '15, '17-'18) | Mathias Dopfner ('06-'07, '14-'19, SC anno '21) | Joschka Fischer ('08) | Tom Enders ('09-'17; partly SC; CEO Airbus) | Josef Ackermann ('10-'16) | Paul Achleitner ('13-'19; parner GS, advisory chair Deutsche Bank and also represented Allianz, RWE, Bayer, Daimler) | Joe Kaeser ('15-'16; chair & CEO Siemens 2013-2021, advisory chair 2021-; IAC JP Morgan Chase) . Switzerland: Klaus Schwab ('95-'97 (SC), '03, '07, '16.; founder Davos/WEF in 1971). Liechtenstein: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein ('85, '86, '87). Sweden: Marc ('58), Marcus Jr. (almost annually Oct. '57-'81), Jacob ('98, '00-'16), Peter ('84, '87) and Marcus Wallenberg (regular '96-) | Anders Aslund ('90, '92, '96, '99) | Bo Ramfors ('91) | Carl Bildt ('92-'93, '96-'97, '99-'00, '06-'11, '13, '14; old Wallenb. agent). Finland: Aatos Erkko ('91) | Martti Ahtisaari ('94, '96). Norway: Thorvald Stoltenberg ('66, '70, '73, '82, '94, '95; defense minister 1979-1981; foreign minister 1987-1989, 1990-1993) and son Jens Stoltenberg ('02, '15, '17-'19; PM Norway 2000-2001, 2005-2013; sec.-gen. NATO 2014-2020s) | Otto Grieg Tidemand (almost annually '67-'84) | Anders Sjaastad ('82-'83; defense minister 1981-1986) | Arne Olav Brundtland ('91; husband of '81, '86-'89, '90-'96 Norwegian PM Gro Harlem Brundtland). Italy: Alcide de Gasperi ('54) | Vittorio Valletta ('54, Oct. '57; president FIAT 1946-1966, representing the Agnellis from the first BB) | Gianni Agnelli (Oct. '57-'60, '62-'79, '81, '84-'98 (SC until at least 1994), '00; FIAT boss) | Gian Cittadini-Cesi ('72-'80 (SC); 1950s EU/OECD-stationed foreign officer; FIAT representative in France 1972) | Umberto Agnelli ('83, '94-95, '99-'00; Agnellis younger brother, whose son was supposed to become the new FIAT head - but died early of cancer) | Aurelio Peccei ('63, '67, '68; manager FIAT early 1930s-1960s, but kept ties into the 1970s as well; founder CoR in 1968) | Altiero Spinelli ('68) and daughter Barbara ('80, '93) | Dr. Umberto Colombo ('72) | Romano Prodi ('80-'82 (SC '81-), '87, '90, '09; PM Italy 1996-1998, 2006-2008; president EU Commission 1999-2004) | Mario Monti (regular '83-'15) | Renato Ruggiero ('86-'87, '90-'96 (SC), '00; EU-assigned foreign service officer; director FIAT 1991-1995, in charge of international relations; advisory board Kiss. Assoc.) | John Elkann Agnelli (annual '05-, becoming SC; FIAT heir). Spain: Javier Solana ('85, '98, '00, '10-'11) | King Juan Carlos I of Spain ('89) and Queen Sophia of Spain ('89-'94, '96, '01, '03, '05, '07-'11, '14). Portugal: Estela Barbot ('19). Eastern Europe: Joseph Retinger ('54-'60; important founder) | Prince Karel Schwarzenberg ('79-'81, '08) | Radoslaw Sikorski (SC anno '20). Russia: Anatoly Chubais ('98, '12). Middle East: Mustafa Koc ('04-'15). Latin America: Gustavo Cisneros ('10). Source(s): Official membership lists 1954- (every year). |
1954 |
| Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) Dwight Eisenhower (co-founder). Honorary trustees per Oct. 18, 2000: Maurice Greenberg | Ken Lay | Lee Raymond | George Shultz | John Whitehead. Directors at that point: Frank Wisner II (vice chair) | Richard Gardner | Maurice Tempelsman. More: Rex Tillerson (honorary trustee). Annual Global Leadership Award gala: Jeffrey Immelt ('06; awarded) | Nicolas Sarkozy ('08; awarded) | Christopher Forbes ('12; brother of Steve) | Anne Eisenhower ('12, '14, '17) | Nancy and Henry Kissinger ('13; '14) | Larry King ('12 and '13) | Carlos Slim ('13; Mexico) | Harold Forsyth ('13; Peru) | William Cohen ('14) | Klaus Kleinfeld ('14; chair and CEO Alcoa; chair and CEO Arconic) | Arianna Huffington ('18). Companies: senior leadership of Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop, Bell Helicopter, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Fluor, GE, Occidental, Texaco, Chevron, Enron, BP Amoco, Exxon, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Verizon, Citigroup, American Express, AIG, Time magazine, Time-Warner, etc. Removed leadership from website in 2007. |
1955 |
| Society for International Development (SID) Geneva chapter: Maurice Strong (exec. comm.). Washinton D.C. chapter speakers: Paul Collier | Francis Fukuyama | Zalmay Khalilzad | Jim Kolbe | Ad Melkert | John Negroponte | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Netherlands chapter speakers: Ben Bot | Bert Koenders | Paul Collier | Jan Pronk | Ad Melkert | Jan-Peter Balkenende. |
1955 |
| Institut Europeen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) Non-profit business school that started in France, but expanded globally over the years, with locations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North America. Directors: Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (founding dean and director-general; "Permanent Invitee" and hon. president "Fondation INSEAD" anno '15) | Claude Janssen (co-founder; chair anno 2010s-2020s) | Cees van Leede (anno '00; chairman anno '05; adv. council anno '15) | Roland Berger (anno '00) | Jean-Pierre Berghmans (anno '00; adv. council anno '15; president Belgian council) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (anno '00) | Baron Daniel Janssen (anno '00; adv. council anno '15) | Ernest-Antoine Selliere (anno '00; adv. council anno '15; hon. chair Wendel anno '15) | Lord Simon of Highbury (anno '00; member UK council anno '15) | Paul Skinner (anno '00, '05; Shell; chair Rio Tinto). Circle of Patrons (created in 1995 for "outstanding contributors"): Roland B. (anno '04-'07) | Jean-Pierre B. (anno '04-'07) | Paul D. Jr. (anno '04-'07) | Ernest-Antoine S. (anno '04-'07) | Oliver G.-E. (anno '04) | Baron Daniel J. (anno '04-'07) | Vivienne Cox (anno '04-'07) | Henry Grunfeld (d. '99, when he was an emeritus member; president S.G. Warburg) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (anno '04-'07) | John Loudon ('95-'96, when he died; former chair INSEAD) | George Mallinckrodt ('95- until at least '07) | Edgar de Picciotto (anno '04-'07) | Baron Eric de Rothschild (anno '04- '07) | Anthony Ruys (anno '04-'07; chair Heineken) | Washington SyCip (anno '04-'07) | Sir Lindsay Owen-Jones (anno '07; chair L'Oreal) | Dr Ralph Shrader (anno '07; chair and CEO BAH). International council: Herve de Carmoy (anno '15) | Jonathan Oppenheimer (anno '15; De Beers) | Simone Veil (anno '15) | Shoichiro Toyoda (anno '15; director Toyota). National councils: Nicolas Boel (Belgium anno '15; chair Solvay anno '15) | Adi Godrej (India anno '15; chair Godrej Group) | Carlo De Benedetti (Italy anno '15) | John Elkann Agnelli (Italy anno '15) | Dick Benschop (Netherlands anno '15; president Shell NL) | Feike Sijbesma (Netherlands anno '15) | Ben Keswick (North East Asia anno '15; chair Jardine Matheson) | David Li (North East Asia; chair and CEO Bank of East Asia) | Yoon Chiang Boon (South-East Asia anno '15; chair and CEO Jardine Matheson Singapore) | Andre Hoffmann (Switzerland anno '15; also director anno '15; vice chair Roche) | John Thain (USA anno '15). Alumni: Kevin P. Ryan (founder BusinessInsider.com). Companies represented by board members: AkzoNobel, ABN AMRO, SAP AG, Unilever, Shell, BP, Heineken, Philips, Deutsche Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Power Corp., Solvay, Bank of England, Rio Tinto, The Economist, GlaxoSmithKline, L'Oreal, BAH, Ford Motors, Morgan Stanley, S.G. Warburg, Colgate-Palmolive, etc. |
1957 |
| Project Hope Maurice Greenberg (director until early 2000s) | Emil Mosbacher, Jr. (director until early 2000s) | Richard T. Clark (director) |
1958 |
| Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard McGeorge Bundy (oversaw the relevant faculty) | Henry Kissinger (co-founder) | Robert R. Bowie (co-founder; CIA) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (early recruit; IAC anno 1998) | Robert Putnam | Graham Allison (exec. anno 1998) | Samuel Huntington (exec. anno 1998) | Stephen M. Walt (exec.) | Joseph Nye (exec. anno 1998) | Jeffrey Sachs (exec. anno 1998) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (exec. anno 1998) | Dr. Herbert Kelman (exec. anno 1998) | Gene Sharp (research appointments since 1965) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (fellow 1973-74) | Larry Summers (conference speaker at times and later Harvard president) | Graham Fuller (2001 speech 'The Future of Political Islam') | Peter Ackerman (IAC anno 1998) | Emma Rothschild (visiting committee 1997-98; half sister of Jacob R.) | Yotaro Kobayashi (visiting committee 1997-98) | Karl Kaiser (visiting committee 1997-98). Financiers (2000-2001 annual report, p. 7): Robert Bosch Fdn., Ford Fdn., Bradley Fdn., Carnegie Corp. MacArthur Fdn. Andrew W. Mellon Fdn., John M. Olin Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn., John Templeton Fdn., Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Carl Duisberg Society, Northrop Grumman, BP Amoco, Department of Defense. John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (1989-2013 which is when the site disappeared): autonomous entity within the Weatherhead Center. Samuel H. (director 1989-2000) | Stephen Rosen (associate director). Fellows (wcfia.harvard.edu/olin/ people/fellowsalumni.htm): John Mearsheimer (1991-1992 and 1992-1993) | Fareed Zakaria (1992-1993) | David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1997-1998). |
1958 |
| Committee for International Economic Growth (CIEG) "Clearing house for all foreign aid programs." Original members: Harlan Cleveland (founding) | Douglas Dillon (founding) | W. Averell Harriman (Founding)| Paul Hoffman (anno 1961) | William Benton (anno 1961). Speaker: President Dwight Eisenhower ('60). Center for International Economic Growth (founded in 1961): Hermann Abs ("International Honorary Advisory Council"). |
1958 |
| Atlantic Institute for International Affairs (AIIA) Governors: Gianni Agnelli | Aurelio Peccei | Carlo de Benedetti | Madeleine Albright | Robert A. Anderson | George Ball | Lord Carrington | Lord Roll | Etienne Davignon | Lawrence Eagleburger | Brent Scowcroft | Donald Rumsfeld | Oliver Giscard d'Estaing | Victor Halberstadt | Baron Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Walther Kiep | Andrew Knight | Henry C. Lodge | George Loudon | John Loudon | Hans Merkle | Sir David Nicolson | Richard Gardner | John Macomber | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | John McCloy (president) | Baron Alfred von Oppenheim | Jonathan Pollard | Chuck Robb | Robert Roosa | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Baron Robert Rothschild | Peter Tennant | Peter Wallenberg | Frank Weil | Paul van Zeeland | William A. M. Burden | William Hewitt | Ernst van der Beugel (1975-1979) | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon). Other: Pierre Uri (director of studies) | Dr. John Chipman (research associate 1985-1987). |
1961 |
| US Agency for International Development (USAID) Coordinates with the more controversial National Endowment for Democracy and International Republican Institute. People: Thomas Farmer (general counsel 1964-1968; CIA covert operations veteran) | John Bolton (general counsel 1981-1982) | Laura Dietrich (deputy director external relations 1982-1983) | Richard Holbrooke | Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) and (CIA) wife Samantha Ankara Fuller | Margarita Assenova | Janusz Bugajski (consultant on eastern European affairs) | Henrietta Fore (first woman administrator 2007-2009). Frontiers in Development Forum: 2012 Forum: Bill Gates (video address) | Rajiv Shah and Judith Rodin (Rock. Fdn.) | Mary Robinson | Mandy Moore (actress). 2014 Forum: Madeleine Albright | Kofi Annan (video address) | Tony Blair | Michael Elliott (ONE Camp.) | Stephen Hadley | John Kerry | Zia Khan (Rock. Fdn.) | Christine Lagarde (video address) | John Podesta | Judith R. and Rajiv S. White House Summit on Global Development (2016): Susan Rice | Barack Obama | Michelle Nunn | Samantha Power. |
1961 |
| Academy for Educational Development (AED) Sol Linowitz (chair) | Robert O. Anderson (director). |
1961 |
| Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University Founders: Adm. Arleigh Burke and David Abshire (president and CEO; life trustee; trustee vice chair 1999-2014 (death)). Board of trustees per August 2, 1989: Anne Armstrong (chair until 1999; chair exec. comm. in the early 2000s) | Maurice Greenberg (trustee vice chair until 1999; trustee again 2011-) | Amos Jordan (former president; CSIS' Kiss. Chair; left in 1990s) | Henry Kissinger (trustee 1980s-, until death in 2023; also an executive) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (trustee 1980s-May 2017; also an executive; co-chair advisory board 1990s and into the 2000s) | Paul Volcker (trustee and also chair of the advisory board; entirely gone by the late 1990s) | Ray Hunt (trustee 1980s-2020s; Hunt Oil) | Joshua Lederberg (pres. Rock. Uni.) | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Morris Leibman | Dwayne Andreas (chair and CEO Archer Daniels Midland) | Donald Beal (chair and CEO Rockwell) | William Brock (trustee 1980s-2020s) | Graham Claytor Jr. (chair and president AMTRAK) | Robert Galvin (chair Motorola) | Louis Gerstner Jr. (chair and CEO Nabisco) | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor (6th Duke of Westminster) | Philip Habib | Timothy Healy (president Georgetown University) | Robert Kirk (chair and CEO Allied Signal Aerospace). Advisory board per August 2, 1989: Paul V. (chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair; trustee chair 1999-2015, still trustee anno 2023) | James Woolsey (vice chair; board/trustee -Dec. 2004) | John Stevenson (vice chair; fully gone by late 1990s; counsel Sullivan & Cromwell) | Norman Augustine (left in the 1990s; later chair CSIS' Homeland Security task force) | William Cohen (left to serve as Clinton's secretary of defense 1997–2001; CSIS trustee 2001-, still anno 2023) | Edmond de Rothschild | Etienne Davignon | Thomas Foley (left in the 1990s) | Richard Gardner (left in the 1990s) | Walter Slocombe (senior advisor 2001-) | Richard Mellon Scaife (left in the 1990s) | Newt Gingrich | Sen. Chuck Robb | Al Gore | Sen. Claiborne Pell (left in the 1990s) | Sen. Tim Wirth | Sen. Bob Dole (left in the 1990s) | Sen. Bill Bradley (left in the 1990s) | Leo Cherne (left in the 1990s)) | Henry Dudley Sr. (left in the 1990s) | Sen. Jake Garn | Sen. John Glenn | Kenneth Gilmore (editor-in-chief Reader's Digest) | Sen. William V. Roth Jr. | Frederick Seitz (pres. Rock. Uni.) | Shoichiro Toyoda (president Toyota) | Sen. Bennett Johnston | Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker | Donald Kendall (chair PepsiCo) | Jeffrey Koo (president Eisenhower Fellows Assoc. in China) | Sen. Carl Levin | John Marous (chair and CEO Westinghouse) | Sen. James McClure | Philip Merrill (chair and publisher The Washingtonian) | Edmund Muskie | Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (left in the 1990s) | Jack Clarke (left in the 1990s; director and senior VP Exxon) | Marshall Coyne (left in the 1990s; proprietor The Madison Hotel) | Kenneth Crosby (left in the 1990s; Merrill Lynch). Trustees 1998 and those joining until the 2000s): Carla Hills (trustee co-chair advisory board 1990s and into the 2000s, still a trustee anno 2023) | Brent Scowcroft (trustee 1990s-2018) | Harold Brown (trustee 1992-2018; counselor 1990s-2000s) | John Hamre (trustee, president and CEO 2000-, still anno 2023) | Richard Fairbanks (joined as senior counsel in 1992; counselor April 2000-2012; trustee 2000-2012) | Felix Rohatyn (trustee 2001-2015) | Rex Tillerson (trustee Apr. 2005 - Jan. 2017) | Joseph Nye (trustee 2005-, still anno 2023) | Thomas Pritzker (trustee late 2000s-2015; chair 2015-, still anno 2023) | Richard Armitage (trustee late 2000s-2020s) | Muhtar Kent (trustee 2008-2017). Trustees 2010s-): Gen. James L. Jones (trustee 2011-, still anno 2023) | Jim McNerney (trustee 2013-, still anno 2023) | Leon Panetta (trustee 2015-, still anno 2023) | Stanley Druckenmiller (trustee 2015-) | Brendan Bechtel (trustee May 2017-, still anno 2023) | Darren Woods (chair and CEO ExxonMobil; trustee anno 2020-2023) | Evan Greenberg (trustee 2019-, still anno 2023; son of Maurice) | Frederick Smith (anno 2020-2023) | Mellody Hobson (anno 2023; wife of George Lucas) | Ray Dalio (anno 2023) | William Ford (anno 2023) | Henriette Fore (anno 2023) | Helene Gayle (anno 2023) | Paul Ryan (anno 2023) | Brad Smith (anno 2023; vice chair and president Microsoft) | Frances Townsend (anno 2023). Counselors (the most senior names): Zbig B. | Henry K. | Harold B. | Richard F. | Frank Carlucci (anno 2009) | James Schlesinger (anno 2009) | Sen. John Warner | Zalmay Khalilzad | Tung Chee Hwa (1983-1997) | Henry K. (at the time of his death in 2023, next to his trusteeship). Senior advisors/scholars: Fred C. Ikle (scholar in residence 1990s-2000s) | Bernard Lewis (scholar 1990s-early 2000s) | Arnaud de Borchgrave (1990s-2000s) | Richard Burt (1990s-2000s) | Max Kampelman (1990s-2000s) | Stephen Solarz (1990s-2000s) | Gen. Wesley Clark (one of two "Distinguished Senior Advisers" 2000-) | Gen. Anthony Zinni (one of two "Distinguished Senior Advisers" 2000-) | Thomas McLarty (2000-) | Antony Blinken ("Senior Fellow, Writer-in-Residence, International Security Program" anno June 17, 2001) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani | Gen. Peter Pace | Louis Freeh | J. Stapleton Roy | William Taft IV | James Tegnelia. 2005 summit: Thierry de Montbrial | Susan Eisenhower | Hans Binnendijk | Graham Allison | Jacqueline Grapin | William Fox (co-chair Commission on Smart Global Health Policy 2009-) Lord Makins | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (''distinguished statesman''). More: Chester Crocker (director of African Studies 1976-1980) | David Kramer (assoc. director Russia-Eurasian Program 1993-1994) | John Hess (trustee) | Joseph Gorman | Richard V. Allen | Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Maurice Tempelsman | Patrick Gross | Lloyd Hand | William Reilly | Frances Townsend | Lord George Robertson (did studies) | Dov Zakheim | John Conger ("non-resident senior adviser") | Anne-Marie Slaughter (member bipartisan Development Council) | Kenneth Courtis (member CSIS' International Research Council in the 1990s) | Kevin Rudd ("Distinguished Statesman" 2014-) | Timothy Geithner (part of a Nov. 2016 CSIS International Councillors Lunch) | Michael Chertoff (the subject of a 2008 CSIS "Statesmen's Forum") | Jami Miscik (commissioner Technology and Intelligence Task Force) | Sylvia Burwell (member Comm. on Smart Power in 2006) | Vivek Krishnamurthy (senior associate of CSIS' Human Rights Initiative) | . More: Paul Craig Roberts (William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy 1982-1993) | Edward Luttwak (researcher international security affairs 1978-1982; senior fellow 1978-1987; Burke chair in strategy 1987-; director of geo-economics 1991-1994; senior associate anno 2015) | Ray Cline (director world power studies 1973-1986) | William Simon | Victor Cha (Korea chair) | Joseph Augustyn (consultant) | Janusz Bugajski (director eastern European project) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (senior associate) | Hubertus Hoffmann (research fellow) | Adm. Thomas Hayward (vice chair Pacific Forum) | Adm. Hank Chiles (adjunct fellow) | Lester Crown (international councillors board and honorary trustee) | Gen. James Cartwright | David Ignatius | Barry Blechman | Chuck Hagel (director program) | Dr. Michael Green | David Rubenstein | Bertrand Collomb | Sandra Day O'Connor (director program) | Robert Strauss | Robert Gates (panel member) | John Kornblum (advisor) | Adm. Michael Mullen (panel member) | Warren Rudman (panel member) | Col. Samuel Clabaugh (research fellow) | Wang Huiyao (Dec. 4, 2019 debater) | Margaret Hamburg (anno 2023 a member of the 2017-founded Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security). 1976 CSIS panel in Italy, warning Paul VI against embracing an alliance of the Christian Democrats with Italy's communist party: William Colby (CIA director and earlier CIA station chief in Rome) | Clare Boothe Luce (US ambassador to Rome) | Ray Cline (CIA) | John Connally (then a member of the PFAIB). Sources advisors/scholars/staff: csis.org/html/4schola1.html (accessed: Feb. 8, 1997 - Feb. 15, 2001; not fully updated anymore by early 2001); csis.org/scholars/alpha.htm (accessed: June 17, 2001; first webarchive of this page); csis.org/about/people/board-trustees-counselors (accessed: June 9, 2023). |
1962 |
| International Executive Service Corps (IESC) Key founders: David Rockefeller (co-founder and chairman) | Sol Linowitz | C.D. Jackson | Frank Pace | William Paley. Directors: William Hewitt | Michael Blumenthal | Nicholas Brady | John Whitehead | William Rhodes |
1964 |
| Population Action International (PAI) (formerly the Population Crisis Committee) Historic board: William Draper Jr. (founder) | William Draper III | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) (co-founder) | Angier Biddle Duke | Robin Chandler Duke | Clare Booth Luce | Ellsworth Bunker | Henry Fowler | George McGhee | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Lee Hamilton (until 2009) | James Gustave Speth | Jack Gibbons. | Amory Houghton Jr. Council (listed in 2007-2008): Robert McNamara | A.W. Clausen. |
1965 |
| Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Governing board: Wolfgang Ischinger | Susan Eisenhower | Vladimir Baranovsky | Hans Blix (chair in 1978) |
1966 |
| TechnoServe Aimed at agricultural aid in Africa. Directors (as of Oct. 27, 2007): Paul Soros (brother of George; director until his death in 2013) | Paul Tierney Jr. (chair) | Michael Bush (co-chair anno 2020) | Peter Flaherty (vice chair; still vice chair anno 2020) | David de Ferranti. Advisory council (as of Oct. 27, 2007; may have been disbanded after 2009): Sen. Christopher Dodd | Theodore Hesburgh | Sen. Richard Lugar | Robert McNamara | John Whitehead. Advisory council (others): Peter Sutherland (2008-). Funders: Gates-, Ford- amd Rock. foundations; USAID, World Bank, American Express, Visa, BP Amoco, Chevron, Chubb, ExxonMobil, JPMorgan Chase Federation, Microsoft, Mobil, Pfizer, Shell, Cargill, Monsanto, Philip Morris, Coca-Cola, Walmart. |
1966 |
| World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos, Switzerland Founded in January 1971 as the European Management Symposium / European Management Forum. Depending on the source, 300 to 450 participants were present at the first 1971 meeting. 150 the second. In 1974 the first politicians were invited. 860 participants in 1975, which included the heads of Shell, Unilever and Philips. By 1977 prominent Americans and Japanese businessmen started entering what became known as the "Davos Club". In 1979 China sent a large delegation to the WEF (then known as EMF). In 1979 and 1980 EMF sent delegations to China, with the 1981 annual meeting of the EMF being the first held in China. A first meeting was organized in India in 1984. The first official Soviet/Russian delegation arrived in 1987. 2018: £450,000 for an "access-all-areas" badge. Founder: Klaus Schwab (founder, president and executive chair of the trustees 1971-2020s). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 1970s: George Pierce Baker (chair '71; dean of Harvard Business School 1962-1969, close to Kiss.) | John Kenneth Galbraith ('71; liberal-socialist economist) | Hermann Kahn ('71) | Ralph Nader ('76) | Gov. Jim Hunt ('79 speaker; liberal Democrat). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 1980s: Henry Kissinger (arguably a co-founder; occasional visitor; '80 opening address on Russia's invasion of Afghanistan, '92, '08 (co-chair meeting), '13, '17 (video session with Schwab), '22-'23 (both by videolink); Schwab's mentor since 1967, four years before Schwab founded WEF) | Ronald Reagan (satellite-linked speech '82) | Bill Bradley ('83, '89, '92-'93, '95 meeting co-chair) | Lloyd Bentsen (IGWEL '84) | A. W. Clausen (IGWEL '84) | Kenneth Dam (IGWEL '84) | Ray L. Hunt (listed as part of the WEF's World Link magazine in 1987, alongside countless known visitors) | Richard Perle ('89, '93, '95) | Roald Sagdeev ('89; warned against global warming) | Joseph Nye ('89, '93, board FYGL anno 2007-2009) | Martin Feldstein ('89, '93-'94, published a '16 paper in collaboration with WEF) | William C. Clark ('89) | Christie Hefner ('89; owner Playboy) | Nicholas Negroponte ('89, '93, '95, '05, pushing the 'One Laptop per Child' campaign) | Jacob Frenkel ('89, '94, '10, '13-'14). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 1990s: Carla Hills ('90) | Barber Conable ('90) | Paul Volcker ('92) | Benoit Mandelbrot ('93) | Jon Huntsman Jr. (GLT-YGL '93) | Joseph P. Kennedy II (GLT-YGL '93; son of RFK) | George Stephanopoulos (GLT-YGL '93) | Zoe Baird (GLT-YGL '93) | Richard Gardner ('93, '95) | John Kerry ('93, '99, '14-'15, '19-'20) | Fred Bergsten ('93-'94, '98, '08) | Larry Summers (GLT-YGL '93, '93-'95, '98, annual meeting co-chair anno '06, visitor '08, '13-'14, '23) | Lester Brown ('93, '95) | Donald Kendall ('93-'95) | Frederick Starr ('93, '95) | Paul Wolfowitz ('93, '95, '07) | Michael Dell (GLT-YGL '93, fdn. board anno '02, visitor '09, '12-'13, '20, '22) | Bill Gates (GLT-YGL '93, '96-'97, '99-'19, '22) and then-wife Melinda ('09, '10 (meeting co-chair), '11) | David Gergen ('93, '13-'14, '22) | Steven Rattner (GLT-YGL '94) | John Bryan Jr. (co-chair '94, '97, '00; chair and CEO Sara Lee 1975-2001) | Gerald Corrigan ('94) | Gen. Joseph Hoar ('94) | Samuel Huntington ('94, '02, '04) | William Rhodes ('94, said to be a "frequent participant" in '07, '08 Latin American forum, '21) | Paul G. Allen (GLT-YGL '95) | Steve Ballmer (GLT-YGL '95) | Joshua Lederberg ('95) | Steven Pinker ('95) | Richard Dawkins ('95) | Richard Saul Wurman ('94-'95) | Rupert Murdoch ('95, '07-'08, meeting co-chair '09) and son Lachlan (GLT-YGL '97) and son James ('06) | Bruce MacLaury ('95) | Jeffrey Sachs ('93-'95, GLT-YGL '95, '05, '13-'14) | Morton Abramowitz ('93, '95) | Paul Krugman (GLT-YGL '95, '95) | Elie Wiesel ('94-'95, '01-'02, board FYGL anno 2007-2009) | James Lilley ('95; fellow AEI, on a "Hot Geopolitical Issues Brainstorming" panel with Richard P., and Paul W. also in attendance) | Jim Kolbe ('95) | Ken Lay ('95, council member anno '99; chair and CEO Enron) | Robert Hormats ('95, '02, '13) | Richard Holbrooke ('96) | Michael Bloomberg ('96) | George Soros ('90 (World Link publication 'From Wall Street to Budapest', but unsure if he attended, despite people he was paying doing so); '96, '98, '01-'20, '22) | Brian Jenkins ('95, while deputy chair Kroll Assoc. USA) | XXX XXX ('96 (promoting Yavlinsky's economic program for the USSR to the oligarchs), '98, '01-'20) | Joe Firmage (GLT-YGL '97) | Ethan Nadelmann (GLT-YGL '97) | Patty Stonesifer (GLT-YGL '97) | Jack Welch (scheduled for '97) | Newt Gingrich ('97, '98) | Eric Schmidt (GLT-YGL '97, '05-'06, '12, '14-'16) | Bill Richardson ('98) | Jeff Bezos (GLT-YGL '98, '02 panel 'Connecting to consumers in uncertain times') | Douglas Ivester (fdn. board anno '99; chair and CEO Coca-Cola) | Donald Keough (council member anno '99; chair Allen & Co.) | Joseph Gorman (council member anno '99; chair, president and CEO TRW 1988-2001) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (fdn. board anno '99; council vice chair). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 2000s: Madeleine Albright ('00) | Bill Clinton ('00, '02-'06, not in '07, '08-'12 (only a few private meetings in town in '12), not any since), wife Hillary ('98, '02) and daughter Chelsea ('12) | James Wolfensohn ('00, '08) | Oprah Winfrey ('01) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('02) | Larry Page (GLT '02, YGL '05, '06, '09) | Paul O'Neill ('02) | Rudolph Giuliani ('02; the WEF meeting was held in NYC this year) | Steve Forbes ('02, director YGL '05-, '06) | Colin Powell ('02, headed a U.S. delegation in '03 to promote defend the looming Iraq War) | Van Jones (GLT '02, YGL '05) | Joe Biden ('02-'03, '16-'17) | Marc Benioff (GLT '02, YGL '05, trustee anno '15- at least '23) | Bill Joy ('03; co-founder Sun Microsystems) | John Ashcroft ('03-'04) | Samantha Power (GLT '03, YGL '05, '23) | Dick Cheney (headed a '04 delegation) | Paul Bremer ('04) | Graham Allison ("selected participant" for '04 but not clear if he went, '10, Jun. '17 speech at WEF China meeting; '22-'23) | Fareed Zakaria ('04, '06, '13, '23) | Joseph Stiglitz ('04, '06, '09, '13-'14, '20, '22) | Orit Gadiesh ('04-'10, trustee anno '16-'22; chair Bain & Co. 1993-) | Carly Fiorina ('05) | John Chambers ('05-'06, '13; chair and CEO Cisco) | Sergey Brin (YGL '05, '06, '17; key founder Google) | Thomas ('06, '13) and Penny Pritzker ('13-'14, '20) | Stephen Schwarzman ('06, '12, '15, '20, '23) | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (first time in '06, '13; chair and publisher NYT) | David Rubenstein ('06, '08, '13-'14, '20, trustee anno '21-'23) | Craig Barrett ('06; chair Intel) | John Thain ('06) | John McCain ('07) | Ian Bremmer (named YGL in '07-'09, '11, banned in '15 after "nearly a decade" of attendance; "Apparently, I shouldn't have listed Switzerland as this year's top risk."; '22-'23) | Condoleezza Rice ('08) | Zalmay Khalizad ('08) | Michael Chertoff ('08) | Robert Zoellick ('08) | Timothy Geithner ('08, '12) | Al Gore ('08, '15, trustee anno '16-'23) | David O'Reilly (co-chair '08 meeting) | Henry Kravis ('08-'10) | Lloyd Blankfein ('08, '13-'15) | Rex Tillerson ('09) | Mark Zuckerberg ('09) | Reid Hoffman ('09) | Jimmy Wales ('09-'20; appointed YGL anno '10, board member Forum of YGL anno '18; founder Wikipedia; Jan. 22, 2015, cityam.com: "A [Davos] party hosted by Sir Martin [S.] and Jimmy [W.]...") | Nouriel Roubini ('09-'10, '13-'14). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 2010s: Congressman Brian Baird ('10) | Peter Blair Henry ('12-'14) | Bob Forbes ('12) | Richard Haass ('13-'14) | John Watson ('15, '18; chair and CEO Chevron 2010-2018) | Nicolas Berggruen ('13-'14) | Gary Cohn ('13-'14, '23; president and COO GS pre-2017; vice chair IBM 2021-) | Jared Cohen ('13, '20, '22-'23) | Stuart Eizenstat ('13-'14, '22-'23) | James Gorman ('13-'14; chair and CEO Morgan Stanley) | Hugh Grant ('06, '13, '17; chair, president and CEO Monsanto) | Sean Parker ('12) | Arianna Huffington ('12-'14, '16) | Joi Ito ('13-'14) | Ben Jealous (YGL '13-) | Muhtar Kent ('13-'14) | Kevin Lynch ('13; CTO Adobe) | Harold McGraw III ('13) | Steve Miller ('13; chair AIG) | Ross Perot Jr. ('13, '20, '22-'23) | Adam Posen ('13) | Dina Habib Powell ('13) | Susan Rice ('13) | Sheryl Sandberg ('12-'15, '20) | Peter Thiel ('12-'13) | Mark Weinberger ('13; global chair and CEO Ernst & Young anno '13) | David Rothkopf ('14) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('14, '22) | Jeff Bewkes ('14) | Brian Chesky ('14) | Merit Janow ('14, '23) | Ray Dalio ('15, '20) | Anthony Lake ('16) | Larry Fink ('14, '20, trustee anno '21-'23) | Hunter Hunt ('14; president and CEO Hunt Consolidated Energy, Hunt Oil Co.) | Robert Kagan ('14) | Klaus Kleinfeld ('14, trustee anno '15) | Jamie Dimon ('15, '20, '23; CEO JP Morgan; claims that socialism failed and leads to an "eroding society") | Howard Buffett ('16; son of Warren) | Susan Wojcicki ('16, '21) | Jacqueline Novogratz ('17, member of various councils) | Sundar Pichai ('18, '20; CEO Google) | Donald Trump ('18, '20) | Arthur Gregg Sulzberger ('19; son of Arthur Jr.; publisher NYT 2018-, plus chair 2021-) | Mike Pompeo ('19) | Tim Cook ('19 (first time), '20; CEO Apple) | Jane Goodall ('19-'20) | Satya Nadella ('19; CEO Microsoft). U.S. visitors who first visited in the 2020s: Alex Soros ('20, '22-'23; son of George, who dropped attendance in 2021 and 2023 after decades of visiting) | Rajiv Shah ('20; president Rock. Fdn.) | Alex Karp ('20, '22-'23) | Jim Breyer ('20, '22-'23) | Paula Dobriansky ('20, '22) | William Burns ('20) | Gen. John Allen ('20) | Jane Harman ('20) | Ivanka Trump ('22) and Jared Kushner ('20, '22) | Chuck Robbins ('20; chair and CEO Cisco) | Robert A. Johnson ('20; president INET) | Elizabeth Cousens ('20) | Larry Brilliant ('22) | Eric Cantor ('22) | Michael Casey ('22; chief content officer CoinDesk) | Marco De Benedetti ('22; managing director Carlyle) | Kyle Delaney ('22; president and chief commercial officer Bridgewater Assoc.) | Thomas Donilon ('22-'23; chair BlackRock Investment Inst.) | Jason Furman ('22) | David Livingston ('22; senior advisor State Dep.) | Andrew McAfee ('22) | Brian Moynihan ('22; chair and CEO Bank of America) | Moises Naim ('22; fellow Carnegie End.) | Adm. James Stavridis ('22; as chair Rock. Fdn.) | Hans Vestberg ('22; chair and CEO Verizon) | Nir Bar Dea ('23; CEO Bridgewater Assoc., visiting alongside 4 more company officers in '23) | Brian Sikes ('23; president and CEO Cargill) | Faryar Shirzad ('23; chief policy officer Coinbase) | Michael Casey ('23; chief content officer CoinDesk) | John Waldron ('23) | J.B. Pritzker ('23) | Sam Altman ('24). U.S. visitors unsorted: Josette Sheeran (vice chair) | Patrick Gross | Joseph Kasputys | Jane Nelson (co-chair of councils) | Al Seckel. Artists/actors: Shirley MacLaine ('89 speaker) | Oliver Stone ('95) | Jodie Foster (GLT-YGL '96) | Michael Jackson (part of the 1998 WEF-organized Southern African Economic Summit in Windhoek, Namibia) | Peter Gabriel (regular at least '04-'15, '20; Crystal Award) | Angelina Jolie ('05-'06) | Brad Pitt ('06) | Bono (GLT-YGL '93, '02, '05-'09, not in '10, but again in '11, '16) | Quincy Jones ('04; Crystal Award) | Sharon Stone ('05) | Richard Gere ('05, Crystal Award) | Lionel Richie ('05, Crystal Award) | James Levine (Crystal Award) | Michael Douglas ('06) | Yo-Yo Ma (GLT-YGL '93, '08, to receive her Crystal Award; '20; trustee anno '21-'23) | Jet Li ('09; Crystal Award) | James Cameron ('10; film director) | Mick Jagger ('12, publicly said he would go, but dodged the media and only stuck to private parties) | Charlize Theron (Crystal Award, '13 visitor) | Pharrell Williams ('15) | Andrea Bocelli ('15 Crystal Award) | Leonardo DiCaprio ('16) | George Clooney and Amal Clooney ('17) | Matt Damon ('17; Crystal Award) | Forest Whitaker ('17) | Shakira ('17) | Gillian Anderson ('17) | Cate Blanchett ('18) | Elton John ('18) | will.i.am ('18, '20) | Nico Rosberg ('20; F1 and "green entrepeneur") | Idris Elba ('23). "New media" visitors (largely; the media is extremely well respresented): William Safire ('95) | Thomas Friedman ('95) | Robert Kaplan ('95; author and contributing editor Atlantic Monthly) | Nicholas Kristof ('13) | Jacob Weisberg ('13-'14; editor Slate Magazine 2002-2008, founding editor Slate Group 2008-2018) | Ben Smith ('20; editor-in-chief Buzzfeed) | Nicholas Thompson ('20; editor-in-chief Wired mag.) | Alyson Shontell Lombardi ('20; editor-in-chief Business Insider USA) | Magdalena Skipper ('20; editor-in-chief Nature) | Kevin Delaney (founding editor Quartz Media, which exposed the full '20 Davos list) | Stephen Brown ('20; editor-in-chief Politico). Represented mainstream media: CNN, NYT, Washington Post, WSJ, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg, Forbes, Time, Fortune, CFR's Foreign Affairs, The Economist, Reuters, BBC, ITV, Sky News, Sky News Arabia, RTL media group, Die Zeit, Der Spiegel, Deutsche Welle, Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Agence France Presse (AFP), Le Figaro (France), Tribune (France), Les Echos (France), La Stampa (Italy), Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ), Le Temps (Switzerland), HandelsZeitung (Switzerland), Die Presse (Austria), etc., etc. A lot of outlets from India, the Middle East, China, Africa and Latin America as well. Additional visitors: Andrew Young ('87; clergyman and U.S. civil rights leader) | Daniel Cohn-Bendit ('87; green activist known as "Danny the Red") | Carl Sagan ('88) | Tessa Bielecki ('89; new age interfaith activist personally invited by Maurice S., dancing with him on location) | John Perry Barlow ('96). Canadian visitors: Roy MacLaren ('95) | Maurice Strong (co-founder and key trustee, chair WEF council at least 1989-1996, member fdn. board anno '99-'02 and gone by '05; '88 speech: "We [could be] redesigning the IMF, WB and the GATT [and] push to bring the Soviet bloc in that system"; Nov. 29, 2015, Klaus Schwab at Weforum.org, 'Maurice Strong: An Appreciation': "He was my mentor since the creation of the Forum: a great friend; an indispensable advisor; and, for many years, a member of our Foundation Board.") | Pierre Trudeau (IGWEL '84) | Edgar Bronfman Jr. (GLT-YGL '93) | Conrad Black ('95 co-chair; "[I was] a former long-time attender") | Chrystia Freeland (GLT-YGL '00, trustee '19-, still anno '22) | Paul Martin ('04; PM Canada) | Dominic Barton ('09, '13) | Mark Carney ('08, '13-'14, trustee anno '15-'21, '23) | Justin Trudeau ('16-'18; PM Canada 2015-). U.K. visitors: Baroness Barbara Ward ('71; UK economist and environmentalist pioneer; professor Columbia University -1974; president Int. Institute for Environmental Affairs (today the IIED) 1974-, funded by David Rock. ally R. O. Anderson) | Edward Heath ('76, chair of the '79 gathering, '90 session chair) | Prince Philip ('86 speech, as WWF president) | Harry Oppenheimer ('89, arguing Apartheid is wrong) | Denis Healey ('89) | Robert Maxwell ('90 (announced he would invest all over eastern Europe); "leader of the media group" '80s and/or '90s) | Isabel Maxwell (unknown when she visited, but a WEF "technology pioneer" for her internet-related work over 1993-1999; daughter of Robert) | Sir Leon Brittan ('90, '95) | Prince Charles of Great Britain ('92, '20) | Tony Blair (GLT-YGL '93, 00, '08-'09, '13-'14, '16, '19-'20, '23; PM UK 1997-2007) | Gordon Brown (GLT-YGL '93, '08, '12-'14, '20) | Sir Richard Branson (GLT-YGL '93, 06, '09, '19) | William Hague (GLT-YGL '94, '23) | Interpol sec.-gen. Raymond Kendall and Harvard's Marshall Goldman ('94; talking about Russian mafia dominance, KGB collusion and even a bit of CIA sometimes) | Sir Peter Sutherland ('94, '95 meeting co-chair; fdn. board anno '99-'05, visitor '13-'14) | Sir John Bond (council member anno '99; chair HSBC anno '99) | Sir John Browne (council member anno '99; group CEO BP Amoca anno '99) | John Bryan (council member anno '99; chair and CEO Sara Lee Corp. 1975-2001) | Mark Malloch Brown ('01, '04, '13, '14, '22) | Jack Straw ('04) | Lord Sir John Chipman ('04, '09, '13-'14, '20, '22-'23) | Nat Rothschild (named YGL by WEF in '04, visited in '18, but also unknown other years; tends to party with Russian oligarchs at Davos) | Lord George Robertson ('03) | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (council member anno '99; chair Shell) | George von Mallinckrodt (council member anno '99, visitor '13; president Schroders) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('04, '06, '08, '13-'15, '22-'23) | Niall Fitzgerald (fdn. board anno '05) | Paul Skinner ('06; chair Rio Tinto) | Lazarus Zim ('06; CEO Anglo American South Africa) | Prince Andrew, Duke of York ('08, '15) | Ken Livingston ('08) | David Miliband ('08, '20) | Peter Mandelson ('08-'09, '12) | David Cameron ('08, '11-'13, '20) | Lord Nicholas Stern ('09, '13, '20, '23) | Nick Clegg ('11, '22 (as new president for global affairs of Meta/FB) '23) | Boris Johnson ('12) | Paul Collier ('13, '20) | Ngaire Woods ('11, '13, '22-'23) | Sir David Walker ('13-'14; group chair Barclays anno '13) | Lord Adair Turner ('13) | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ('14, '22-'23) | Theresa May ('18) | Niall Ferguson ('20) | Alex Younger ('20; head MI6 2014-2020) | Zac Goldsmith ('23). Irish visitors: Denis O'Brien (billionaire) Australian and New Zealand visitors: Robert Muldoon ('83) | Gareth Evans ('95) | Kevin Rudd ('13-'14, '23). Austrian visitors: Otto von Habsburg (keynote speaker '71) | Bruno Kreisky ('81; social democratic Austrian chancellor worried about U.S. support for Latin American dictatorships) | Peter Brabeck-Letmathe ('13: "I've been coming here for 15 years..."; Nestle 1968-, CEO 2001-2008, chair 2005-, chair emeritus anno 2023). Swiss visitors: Carla del Ponte ('95; chief UN prosector on Yugoslavia and Rwanda 1999-2003) | Louis Schweitzer ('03, '06) | Axel Weber ('08, '13-'14, '20; chair UBS) | Thomas Schmidheiny ('14) | Peter Voser ('20) | Andre Hoffmann (trustee anno '21-'23; vice chair Roche) | Colm Kelleher ('22-'23; chair UBS) | Axel Lehmann ('22; Credit Suisse AG). German visitors: Wernher von Braun ('72; former Nazi rocket scientist moved to America by then) | Hermann Abs (initial chair of '72 meeting themed 'Developing a European Corporate Strategy', but he was forced to cancel at the last moment) | Hanns-Martin Schleyer (had agreed to chair the 1978 meeting when he was kidnapped and murdered by the Rote Armee Fraktion; president Fed. of German Industries and the Conf. of German Employers' Assoc.) | Petra Kelly ('82; co-founder German Green Party, The Greens, head 1983-1984) | Helmut Schmidt ('83) | Count Otto Lambsdorff (IGWEL '84) | Hans Tietmeyer (IGWEL '84, visitor '89, '94 meeting co-chair) | Carl Hahn ('85: called for more attention to be paid to the environment, '92, '95) | Franz-Josef Strauss ('78, '86) | Willy Brandt (listed as part of the WEF's World Link magazine in 1987, alongside countless known visitors) | Helmut Kohl ('90, '94-'95) | Karl Otto Pohl ('93 co-chair) | Ernst von Weizsacker ('93) | Hilmar Kopper ('93; Deutsche Bank) | Angela Merkel (GLT-YGL '93, '06-'07, '12-'13, '15, '18-'21) | Gerhard Schroder ('95, '99; German chancellor 1998-2005) | Ferdinand Piech (fdn. board anno '99; chair Volkswagen anno '99) | Heinrich von Pierer (fdn. board anno '99-'05, visitor '06; President and CEO Siemens anno '99, supervisory chair anno '06) | Josef Ackermann (council member anno '99-'05, visitor '06, '10, '13; director Deutsche Bank anno '99) | Joschka Fischer ('02) | Karl-Theodor Freiherr zu Guttenberg ('11) | Frank-Jurgen Richter (director) | Sigmar Gabriel (member GFC 2018-2019) | Paul Achleitner ('13, '20, '22) | Josef Joffe ('13-'14) | Ursula von der Leyen ('13, '20, '23; defense minister 2013-2019; president Euro. Comm. 2019-) | Peter Loscher ('13; president and CEO Siemens) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('14, '17 (moderator), '19 (moderator), '22-'23) | Joe Kaeser ('14, '18, '20, '22-'23; president and CEO Siemens) | Karl-Ludwig Kley ('14; chair Merck) | Gerhard Cromme ('20, '22) | Ursula von der Leyen ('20; president EU Comm. 2019-) | Susanne Biedenkopf-Kurten ('22; daughter of Kurt Biedenkopf, who died in 2021) | Brigitte Mohn ('23; exec. Bertelsmann Fdn.) | Liz Mohn ('23; hon. trustee Bertelsmann Fdn.). French visitors: Jacques Maisonrouge ('71, speaking on data and privacy; vice president IBM World Trade 1962-1967, president 1967-, CEO 1973-, chair 1976-, director 1983-1984; SMOM; director Air Liquide, Moet-Hennesy, Philip Morris; chair American Hospital of Paris and the Assoc. France-United States in Paris) | Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (co-chair '73-'77) | Jacques Cousteau ('73 and/or '74; continued the environmental line) | Francois Mitterrand ('76) | Raymond Barre ('83 co-chair; known participant '89, session chair '90; '93; meeting rapporteur '94-'95, fdn. board anno '99-'02) | Jacques Delors ('86, '89) | Alain Minc ('89) | Pascal Lamy ('89, '08-'09, '13, '16) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('89, '94-'95, '04, '08) | Thierry de Montbrial ('90) | Vincent Bollore (GLT-YGL '93) | Christian Lacroix (GLT-YGL '93) | Bertrand Collomb ('93-'94, council member anno '99, visitor '03) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('93, '08) | Nicolas Sarkozy (GLT-YGL '93, '04, '11) | Pierre Lellouche ('95) | Thierry Desmarest ('03; CEO Total 1995-2007) | Christine Lagarde ('08, '13, '14, trustee anno 15-'21) | Francois Hollande ('15) | Emmanuel Macron ('16; France's youngest president 2017-) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire (member IBC '19-, '23) | Alexandre de Rothschild ('20) | Arnaud de Puyfontaine ('20) | Benoit Potier (chair and CEO Air Liquide) | Andre Francois-Poncet ('20) | Yannick Bollore ('20; son of Vincent; supervisory chair Vivendi) | Maurice Levy ('20, '22-'23; supervisory chair Publicis Group) | Jacques Attali ('23). Belgian visitors: Wilfried Martens ('89) | Willy de Clercq ('89) | Jacques Thierry ('89; chair BBL) | Guy Verhofstadt (GLT-YGL '93; PM Belgium 1999-2008) | Willy Claes ('95) | Crown Princess Mathilde of Belgium ('13, '20) | Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium ('13) | Elio Di Rupo ('14) | Alexander De Croo ('23; PM Belgium 2021-). Luxembourg visitors: Pierre Werner ('72; president Luxembourg 1959-1974, 1979-1984; presented his Werner Plan for a single EU currency) | Jean-Claude Juncker (GLT-YGL '95; president Luxembourg 1995-2013; president EU Comm. 2014-2019) | Jacques Santer ('95). Monaco visitors: Prince Albert II of Monaco ('13, '20, '23). Liechtenstein visitors: Prince Maximilian von und zu Liechtenstein ('20, '22-'23) | Prince Alois of Liechtenstein ('20, '23). Dutch visitors: Prince Bernhard of Orange ("honorary sponsor" '73) | Joop den Uyl ('78; Dutch PM 1973-77) | Pieter Korteweg (IGWEL '84) | H. Onno Ruding (IGWEL '84, visitor '89, '94) | Emile van Lennep ('83, IGWEL '84) | Ruud Lubbers (listed as part of the WEF's World Link magazine in 1987; visitor '92-'93) | Cees Maas ('89) | Victor Halberstadt ('94, '13-'14, '23) | Cornelius Herkstroter ('98; chair Shell 1993-1998; held a speech acknowledging the human effect of climate change) | Wim Kok ('98, honored as "prime minister of the world government" in '99 in World Link magazine) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ('04) | Antony Burgmans ('06) | Rijkman Groenink ('06; chair ABN AMRO) | Jan Peter Balkenende ('08) | Neelie Kroes ('08, '13-'14) | Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme ('12, board FYGL anno 2020, '23) | Frans van Houten ('13; chair and CEO Philips at the time) | Klaas Knot ('13, 23; gov. Dutch Central Bank) | Manuel Kohnstamm ('13, '23; nephew of Max) | Princess Mabel of Orange ('13) | Mark Rutte ('13, '19-'23) | Paul Polman ('13, '20-'22) | Jeroen van der Veer ('06, '13-'14, '20) | Feike Sijbesma ('13, '20, trustee anno '21-'22) | Jeroen Dijsselbloem ('14; finance minister) | Ronald de Jong ('14; exec. VP Philips) | Queen Maxima of Orange ('18-'20, member WEF's Digital Currency Governance Consortium '20-, '23) | Marietje Schaake ("Young Global Leader" 2014-; co-chair WEF's Global Future Council 2018-) | Frans Timmermans ('20) | Dick Benschop ('20) | Tom de Swaan ('20, '23; supervisory chair ABN AMRO) | Dolf van den Brink ('23; CEO Heineken) | Sven Smit ('23; senior partner McKinsey & Co.) | Andrew Bester ('23; director ING) | Steven van Rijswijk ('23; chair and CEO ING) | Stefaan Decraene ('23; managing chair Rabobank) | Sander van ’t Noordende ('23; chair and CEO Randstad) | Wopke Hoekstra ('23; Euro-commissioner Europese Green Deal and former secretary of state) | Kajsa Ollongren ('23; defense minister) | Sigrid Kaag ('23; vice PM, finance and foreign minister) | Karien van Gennip (YGL '08, '23; VP and minister of social affairs and employment) | Vivianne Heijnen ('23; state secretary of infrastructure and water) | Liesje Schreinemacher ('23; minister of foreign trade and development cooperation) | Henk Ovink ('23; Dutch special envoy for water). Swedish visitors: Hans Blix ('90) | Anders Aslund ('91 (assisting Ukrainian president Kravchuk towards a new market economy), '93-'95 (East-Europe and Russia expert)) | Carl Bildt ('93, '94 (warned with regard to Russia that no democracy has ever survived hyperinflation), '95 meeting co-chair, '96, '08, '10, '14, '18, '20, '23) | Jacob Wallenberg (GLT-YGL '93, '06, '11, '13-'14, '20, '23; chair Investor AB) | Marcus Wallenberg (GLT-YGL '94) | Percy Barnevik ('95 meeting co-chair, fdn. board anno '99; chair of the Investor AB anno '99) | Fredrik Reinfeldt ('11, '13, '14; PM Sweden 2006-2014) | Lars Nordstrom ('13; chair Vattenfall) | Greta Thunberg ('19, '20) | Prince Daniel of Sweden ('20, '23) | Nane Annan ('20; Raoul Wallenberg niece; married to Kofi 1983-) | Per Heggenes ('23; CEO IKEA Fdn.). Finnish visitors: Martti Ahtisaari ('00). Norwegian visitors: Gro Harlem Brundtland ('89, '91, '95, '00) | Crown Prince Haakon of Norway (YGL '05, 13-'14) | Jens Stoltenberg ('13, '19-'20, '23) | Erna Solberg ('14, '18). Danish visitors: Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('08; PM Denmark 2001-2009) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt ('12, '23; PM Denkmark 2011-2015). Icelandic visitors: Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ('11; PM Iceland 1996-2016). Spanish visitors: Jose Maria Aznar (GLT-YGL '93, '00) | Javier Solana ('13-'14). Portuguese visitors: Jose Manuel Barroso (GLT-YGL '93, '14) | Antonio Guterres ('20; sec.-gen. UN 2017-). Italian visitors: Aurelio Peccei ('73; delivered his 'Limits to Growth' speech) | Carlo De Benedetti ('94-'95) | Franco Bernabe (council member anno '99; director Fiat anno '99) | Romano Prodi ('99) | Mario Monti ('04, '13). Vatican visitors: "Red Bishop" Helder Camara (liberation theologist who crusaded againt Brazils'1964-1985 military dictatorship) | Pope John Paul II (sent a "special message" in '00: "Globalization which recognizes that human beings are 'the source, the focus and the purpose of all economic and social life...") | Pope Francis ("special message" in '14, "urging business and political leaders to promote inclusion"). Greek visitors: Andreas Papandreou ('86, '88; PM Greece) | George Vassiliou ('95; president Cyprus). East Block visitors: Leonid Kravchuk ('91, '93; chair Supreme Soviet July 1990 - December 1991, president Ukraine 1991-1994) | Vaclav Havel ('92) | Garry Kasparov ('92) | Vaclav Klaus ('93, '95) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (GLT-YGL '94, '95, '04, board FYGL anno 2007-2009; Polish president 1995-2005) | Haris Silajdzic ('96, calling Soros sitting next to him his "friend"; PM Bosnia-Herzegovina 2006-2010) | Zlatko Lagumdzija ('98; PM Bosnia and Herzegovina '01-'02) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('04, speaking to OSI heads; president of Georgia 2004-2007, 2008-2013) | Vaira Vike-Freiberga ('04, sitting in a session with Soros saying something that would be very hard to do 15 years later: "The constitution of the United States says that all people are created equal; We know that they are not equal, in fact. Biologically, obviously they are not. They are equal in right."; president Latvia 1999-2007) | Viktor Yushchenko ('05) | Viktor Yanukovych ('13) | Victor Pinchuk ('12-'13, '20, '22-'23) | Wladimir Klitschko ('22-'23) | Vitaliy Klitschko ('23). Russian visitors (**Solntsevskaya mafia linked in past; *other reported mafia ties) 1970s-1990s-: Vladimir Bukowsky ('77; part of a Soviet prisoner exchange in 1976) | Nikolai Ryzhkov (satellite-link business address in '86, a first time; Soviet PM) | Viktor Chernomyrdin (twice in early '90s, including '94; first chair Gazprom in 1989; PM Russia 1992–1998) | Anatoly Sobchak (opened the '91 regional meeting in Moscow, right after the failed communist coup; speaker at the '92 regional meeting in St. Petersburg; visitor in '95; St. Petersburg mayor 1991-1996 under whom Putin and many other "St. Petersburgers" worked that later came to power) | Vladimir Putin ('92 regional meeting in St. Petersburg; at the '00 meeting the Russian delegation refused to answer questions about him; Oct. '01 WEF meeting in Russia, '09, '21 video address) | Konstantin Kagalovsky ('93) | Boris Fyodorov ('93, GLT-YGL '94) | Aleksandr Shokhin (GLT-YGL '93) | Boris Nemtsov (GLT-YGL '93, '93; activist politician murdered in 2015, whose daughter, Zhanna Nemtsova, continued with activism) | Anatoly Chubais (GLT-YGL '93, '93-'96, '13-'14, '20) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky** ('93, '96; set up a '96 "Davos Pact" to save Yeltsin's presidency) | Boris Berezovsky* ('95-'96, at least scheduled for '97; part of the '96 "Davos Pact") | Vladimir Gusinsky ('96; part of the "Davos Pact") | Vladimir Potanin ('96, GLT-YGL '97) | Mikhail Fridman** ('96, GLT-YGL '98) | Rem Vyakhirev ('96; chair and CEO Gazprom 1992-2001) | Gennady Zyuganov ('96; Stalin-loving Communist Party leader 1993-2020s, who everyone thought was going to be president by '96; promised everyone at Davos a free market, which panicked Yeltsin and allies) | Yury Luzhkov** ('96; Moscow mayor 1992-2010) | Alexey Pushkov (GLT-YGL '97) | Aleksey Kudrin (GLT-YGL '98) | Andrey Kostin (GLT-YGL '99, '01, '19-'20). Russian visitors (**Solntsevskaya mafia linked in past; *other reported mafia ties) 2000-: Oleg Deripaska** (GLT-YGL '00, disinvited for '01 meeting over a criminal investigation; '09 ("paid but not shown yet"), '14, in '15 told to calm down his parties; in '18 still partying with Nat Roths.; disinvited for '19 over U.S. sanctions, than reinvited, but decided not to attend last-minute; '20) | Viktor Gerashchenko ('01; Russian Central Bank chief anno '01) | Andrei Illarionov ('01; presidential economic advisor) | Yuri Ponomarev ('01) | Sergei Karaganov ('04) | Viktor Vekselberg ('06, '13-'14, '19-'20) | Dmitry Medvedev ('07, '11, '13) | Herman Gref ('09, trustee anno '15-'21; chair and CEO Sberbank) | Yuri Milner ('11-'12; protege of Mikhail K.) | Yuri Milner ('11-'12) Vadim Yakovlev ('13; first deputy chair Gazprom Neft) | Eugene Kaspersky ('13, '14) | Alisher Usmanov** ('14) | Vagit Alekperov ('06, '14, '20) | Alexander Bazarov ('14; senior VP Sberbank) | Kirill Dmitriev ('14; CEO Russian Direct Investment Fund, which was hit by U.S. sanctions in 2014-2015) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov ('14, '20; chair Sistema**) | Leonid Mikhelson ('13, '20; CEO Novatek PJSC)| Roman Abramovich (may have officially supported WEF at some point, but details unclear) | Rustam Minnikhanov ('20; chair Tatneft) | Dmitry Konov ('20; chair Sibut) | Anatoly Karachinsky ('20; president and CEO IBS Group) | Sergei Ivanov ('20; chair and CEO Alrosa). Israeli/Jewish visitors: Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits ('89) | Shimon Peres ('94-'97, '01-'02, '07-'09, '12-'13) | Benjamin Netanyahu ('97, '09, '18) | David Rosen ('06; president Int. Jewish Comm. for Interreligious Rel.) | Ehud Barak ('08, '13) | Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt ('13-'14, '20) | Eyal Ofer ('13) | Vivi Nevo ('20) | Jacob Safra ('20, '23; relative of Edmond and Lily Safra living in Brazil) | Jonathan Greenblatt (national director and CEO ADL). Arab visitors: Turgut Ozal ('84 (IGWEL), '86, '88; PM Turkey 1989-1993) | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan ('91 (meeting chair), '93) | Islam Karimov ('92, sitting next to Henry K.; murderous dictator of Uzbekistan 1989-2016) and daughter Gulnara Karimova ('09) | Mustafa V. Koc (GLT-YGL '93) | Yasser Arafat ('94, '96, '01) | Boutros Boutros-Ghali ('95 opening, '08) | Anwar Ibrahim ('95) | Recep Tayyip Erdogan (part of a '98 Turkey meeting, while still Instanbul mayor; '09, walked off stage over Gaza in debate with Peres, vowing he would never return) | Hosni Mubarak ('99, '06) | Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan (June '02 host of an additional "Global Reconciliation Summit") | Mohammed El-Baradei ('04) | Mohammed Khatami ('04, '08; president Iran) | Sheikh Mohammed bin essa Al Khalifa of Bahrain ('06) | Hamid Karzai ('06, '08) | Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of the UAE (June '07) | Tansu Ciller | Queen Rania of Jordan ('02, fdn. board/trustee anno '05-'22; visitor and board FYGL anno 2007-2009) | Wadah Khanfar (YGL '08-; dir. gen. Al Jazeera Channel) | Shaukat Aziz ('08) | Pervez Musharraf ('08) | Salam Fayyad ('12; PM Palestine) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('13) | Samer Khoury ('13-'14, '20, '22-'23; CCC) | Tawfic Khoury ('14; CCC) | Saji Khoury ('22-'23; CCC) | Hassan Rouhani ('14; president Iran 2013-2021) | Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Al Thani of Qatar ('14) | Jahangir Hajiyev ('14; chair International Bank of Azerbaijan) | Sheikh Salman Al Khalifa of Bahrain ('14, '22) | Khaled Juffali ('22-'23; chair Juffali and Brothers, Saudi Arabia) | H.R.H. Princess Reema Bandar Al-Saud ('23). Indian/Bangladesh visitors: Rajiv Gandhi (met with EMF leader in Gevena to organize the first India meeting in '84, where he gave the opening address; son of the assassinated Indira Gandhi) | Pheroza Godrej ('94, listed as "civil activist") and husband Jamshyd Godrej ('13) | Atul Kirloskar (GLT-YGL '93) | Benazir Bhutto (GLT-YGL '94, '94) | Arif Mohammed Khan ('90) | Rajat Gupta (fdn. board anno '15; CEO McKinsey & Co. 1994-2003; jailed for money laundering in '12) | Indra Nooyi (co-chair 2008 annual meeting, '13, trustee anno '15) | Ajay Banga (member international business council, '20) | Manmohan Singh ('09, '12) | Rahul Bajaj ('12) | Azim Premji ('12) | Muhammad Yunus ('13) | Adi Godrej ('13-'14) | Orit Gadiesh (trustee anno '21; chair Bain & Co.) | Narendra Modi ('18; PM India 2014-) | Vikram Kirloskar ('20). Chinese visitors: Dr. Qian Junrui (headed a large Chinese delegation in '79 sent by Deng Xiaoping; at the time director of the Inst. for Global Economic Research in China) | Victor Fung ('95) | Victor Chu (council member anno '99; fdn. board anno '05, visitor '13-'14, '20, '22) | Ronnie Chan* (fdn. board anno '99-'02) | Zhu Rongji ('86 delegation head; later Chinese PM 1998-2003) | Li Peng ('92; PM China 1987-1998) | Wen Jiabao ('10, 4th time; PM China 2003-2013) | Min Zhu Min (trustee anno 15-'22) | Eric Jing (board FYGL anno 2020) | Yi Gang ('13; dep. gov. People's Bank of China) | Li Keqiang ('15; PM China 2013-2020s) | Jack Ma ('18; "Love is Important In Business"; trustee anno '15-'20) | Wang Qishan ('19) | Xi Jinping ('21 video link). *Chan at the 1998 Davos meeting: "After 1989 the world has changed fundamentally. Old World Order ceased to exist. And president Bush at that time used the term "New World Order" . But I'm not sure if anyone has adequately defined it. ... Underlying all these superiorities of Americans - ... militarily.. politically... economically... culturally [and] media-wise... - is their technology. ... The age of Pax Americana has arrived!" Japanese visitors: First official Japanese delegation came in '85 (TC-linked companies, but these persons were not members): Isamu Yamashita (head; chair Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co.), Taiyu Kobayashi (chair Fujitsu), Minoru Inouye (deputy president Bank of Tokyo), Takashi Ishihara (president Nissan Motor Company). More: Saburo Okita (listed as part of the WEF's World Link magazine in 1987, alongside many other known visitors) | Sadako Ogata ('93; UN high commissioner for refugees 1991-2001) | Nobuyuki Idei (fdn. board anno '99-'05, visitor '06; president Sony in '99) | Heizo Takenaka ('08-'09) | Yoriko Kawaguchi (member Global Future Council). Other Far East visitors: Chae Hi Jong ('89; North Korea minister for joint ventures) | Lee Kuan Yew ('89, co-chair '94, Sep. '95 at WEF's Singapore meeting; PM Singapore) | Vo Van Kiet ('89; PM Vietnam 1991-1997) | Spencer Kim (Korea) | Ban Ki-moon ('08, '11, '14) | Bongbong Marcos ('23; president Philippines and son of the former dictator). Latin American visitors: Many sitting presidents over the years. Archbishop Helder Camara ('74, talking about an "unfair distribution of nature's resources"; socialist archbishop under the Brazilian military regime) | Enrique V. Iglesias ('89, '95, '14) | Carlos Andres Perez (headed a large delegation in '92; president of Venezuela) | Carlos Menem ('95) | Ernesto Pizano ('95) | Paulo Coelho ('97, '09, '13; famous author) | Lula da Silva ('03, plus several more times, again '23) | Marina Silva ('23, as Lula's environmental minister | Fernando Haddad ('23, as Lula's financer minister) | Jose Maria Figueres (first CEO) | Ernesto Zedillo ('08; president Mexico 1994-2000) | Christiana Figueres ('13-'15) | Dilma Rousseff ('14) | Michel Temer ('18) | Jair Bolsonaro ('19) | Paulo Guedes. South African visitors: F. W. de Klerk ('92; president South Africa) | Mangosuthu Buthelezi ('92; chief minister of KwaZulu) | Nelson Mandela ('92, '99; widgets.weforum.org/history/1992.html (accessed: Sep. 12, 2021): "The ANC had stood for the nationalization of banks, mines and certain strategic industries, but during his discussions with other leaders at Davos, Mandela reconsidered. "They changed my views altogether... I came home to say: 'Chaps, we have to choose. We either keep nationalization and get no investment, or we modify our own attitude and get investment.'") | Tito Mboweni (gov. South African Reserve Bank 1999-2009; widgets.weforum.org/history/1992.html (accessed: Sep. 12, 2021): ""We decided that the [ANC's nationalization] content was inappropriate for a Davos audience. So I drafted a short message... about how the ANC intended to achieve social justice for the majority black people [with] the creation of a black business class. [Mandela] had some very interesting meetings in Davos with the leaders of the Communist Parties of China and Vietnam. ... They told him frankly as follows: 'We are currently striving to privatize state enterprises and invite private enterprise into our economies. [So] why are you talking about nationalization?'") | Thabo Mbeki ('06; 2nd president SA '99-'08) | Jacob Zuma ('08, '12, '15; president SA '09-'18) | Desmond Tutu ('02, '09, '12) | Cyril Ramaphosa (Jan. '18; president SA Feb. '18-) | Frans Cronje ('20; co-founder and CEO DataProphet). Other African visitors: Robert Mugabe ('89) | Yoweri Museveni ('95; pro-US military, pro-genocide president of Uganda 1986-2020s, with Otunnu representing the opposite camp - yet they are not on the same panel) | Olara Otunnu ('95, on a panel with Kofi) | Kofi Annan ('95, '97-'98, '01-'02, '06, '11, '13-'14; SG UN 1997-2006) | Kumi Naidoo ('13; exec. director Greenpeace) | Goodluck Jonathan ('13; president Nigeria 2010-2015) | Paul Kagame ('13, '14, '16, '18) | Strive Masiyiwa ('14) | Tony Elumelu ('14, '20, '23). EXTRA: Mark Tercek ("digital member"). YGL: Forum of Young Global Leaders. Founded in 1992 as Global Leaders for Tomorrow: a group of 200 young leaders from business, politics, academia, arts and media that would hold its own additional summits. IGWEL: Informal Gathering of World Economic Leaders: seen as a "Davos-within-Davos", with members wearing a badge with a holographic sticker on it at one point. According to Mexican president Salinasm NAFTA started at IGWEL. Also the Rio Earth Summit is said to have started at IGWEL. Member companies anno 1999: BY THE BOARDS: Goldman Sachs, Allen & Co., PricewaterhouseCoopers, HSBC, Schroders, Deutsche Bank, Investor AB (Wallenberg company), Industrial Bank of Japan, Enron, TRW, Fiat, Volkswagen, Siemens, Shell, BP, Sony, Vivendi, Nestle, Lafarge, SAP, Sara Lee, Petronas (Malaysia), Bajaj Auto Limited (India), Industrias Villaris (Brazil), Cemex (Mexico), Nedcor (South Africa), Hang Lung Dev. Corp. (Hong Kong), First Eastern Investment Corp. (Hong Kong), Xenel Industries (Saudi Arabia), more. MEMBER COMPANIES (ABOUT 20% FROM A 1999 LIST): Banque Privee Edmond de Rothschild, Compagnie Financiere Edmond de Rothschild Banque and Rothschild & Cie, Barclays Bank, Barrick Gold, Bechtel, Bertelsmann AG, Blackstone, Chase Manhattan, J.P. Morgan & Co., Chevron, Boeing, Bombardier, BAH, BP Amoco, British Aerospace, British Steel, BAT, Brown Brothers Harriman, Canal Plus, Cargil, Caterpillar, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, Central Bank of Venezuela, 3M, ABN AMRO Bank, Achmea, Aegon, Alcatel, Allied Bank of Pakistan, Allied Irish Banks, AT&T, ARCO, Audi, Bain & Co., Banco Santander, Bank of America, Bank of Jerusalem, Bank of Montreal, Banque de Luxembourg, Banque Generale du Luxembourg, CITIC, China State Construction, Cisneros Group, Coca-Cola, Compaq, Corel, Cosco (Hong Kong), Credit Suisse, Groupe Danone, Dassault, De Beers, Enron, Espirito Santo Financial Group, Exxon, Heineken, HP, Honeywell, Texas Instruments, Godrej, GS, ING, Intel, Dow Jones, Dresdner Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, Dupont, Kodak, Elf Aquitaine, Eli Lilli, Emirates Group, Emirates Holdings, General Mills, GM, Johannesburg Stock Exchange, KPMG, Kuwait Industries, Kuwait International Investment, Kuwait Investment Authority, Lafarge, Lear Corporation, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Mexican Investment Board, Microsoft, Misubishi Electric, Mobil, Moet Hennessy, Monsanto, Morgan Stanley, Paccar, Paribas, Pepsi Co., Perot Systems Corp., Petroleos de Venezuela, Petronas, Pfizer, Philip Morris, Pirelli, Lazard Creditcapital, Lehman Brothers, Manpower, Mastercard, McKinsey, Motorola, Nabisco, Nasdaq, National Australia Bank, National Bank of Egypt, Nestle, NYSE, Newmont mining, Nomura Securities, Nortel, Novartis, Novell, Olivetti, Oracle, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Principality of Monaco, Procter & Gamble, Qatar National Bank, Renault, Repsol, Reutersm Rheinmetal, Compagnie Financiere, Richemont, Rio Tinto, Robeco, Robert Bosch, Roche, Royal Ahold, Shell, Ruhrgas, Samsung, Sandoz Family Fdn., Sara Lee, Saudi American Bank, J. Henry Schroder, Siemens AG, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (Wallenberg), Sony, Soros Fund Management, Standard Chartered, Stork, Suez, Sun Microsystems, Svenska Handelsbanken, Swiss Re, Swiss Post, Swiss Exchange, Swiss Life Insurance, Zurich Financial Services Group, Tata Iron and Steel, Telecom Argentina, Telecom Italia, Telefonica de Argentina, Texaco, McGraw-Hill Co., Time Warner, UBS, Unilever, Union Miniere, United Technologies, Unocal, Van Lanschot Bankiers, Visa, Volkswagen, Volvo, Warburg Pincus, Warburg Dillon Read, Warner-Lambert, Warsaw Stock Exchange, WPP Group. Members of WEF's 2007-2008 West-Islamic World Dialogue panel: Thomas Pickering | Samer Khoury (CCC) | Susan Collin Marks (wife of John Marks) | Mary Robinson ('98) | Pat Mitchell Seydel | Lord Carey of Clifton (co-chair; former Archbishop of Canterbury) | Princess Lolwah Al Faisal (co-chair) | Prince Turki al Faisal | Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz | Feisal Abdul Rauf ('05; imam of NYC's Masjid al-Farah mosque 1983-2009; founder Cordoba Ini.) | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (chair Anglo American) | John Templeton Jr. | Gijs de Vries. Partners/funders included: Gallup, IBM, RBF, Saudi royals. weforum.org/ The_Foundation/history/ (accessed: Oct. 1, 1999): "1976": With the creation of the first Arab-European Business Leaders Symposium in Montreux (2000 participants) and the first Latin American-European Business Leaders Symposium in 1977, foundation activities take on an international dimension." weforum.org/activities/ regional/ies/ (accessed: Jan. 28, 1999): "Since 1985 we have held, each year, an India Economic Summit in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry." weforum.org/activities/ regional/mercosur/ (accessed: May 8, 1999): "Following the invitation received from President Eduardo Frei of Chile, the World Economic Forum has decided to hold its fifth Mercosur Economic Summit for the first time in Santiago, Chile from 5 to 7 May 1999. ... Since 1995, Davosito has provided the Forum's member companies with a time-and cost-efficient mechanism to expand their network and knowledge of the region by meeting the new generation of business and political leaders of the Southern Cone." weforum.org/Activities/ Regional/CEEES/ (accessed: Feb. 20, 1999): "This year's third Central and Eastern European Economic Summit (22-24 June 1998) convened under the theme "Building Business Networks Across Europe". Held again in Salzburg under the patronage of President Klestil of Austria, participation proved that the Summit has established itself as the major high-level business/government meeting in the region." weforum.org/Activities/ Regional/zaes/ (accessed: Feb. 21, 1999): "The World Economic Forum's Southern Africa Economic Summit, held in cooperation with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), enjoys the reputation of being the most powerful platform in the region where African and international business leaders work together with political leaders in a private and informal atmosphere." weforum.org/Activities/ Regional/cbs/ (accessed: Feb. 21, 1999): "Beyond the stabilizing role played by the Chinese government, the 1999 China Business Summit will allow participants to review the ways in which different economic actors overcome the formidable challenges posed by the backlog of structural reforms and by the severity of the Asian crisis. For the first time in seven years, we will invite our members to join us not only in Beijing, but also in Shanghai, where we will focus on the positioning of China's most vibrant business centre and the opportunities it opens for a mainland and foreign investor alike." weforum.org/ The_Foundation/history/ (accessed: Oct. 1, 1999): "1979: The foundation is the first non-governmental organization to initiate a partnership with China's economic commissions and starts activities in China. Since 1980, an annual Business Leaders Symposium is held in Beijing and a high-level Chinese delegation comes every year to Davos. No other organization has brought so many businesses to China; many flourishing joint ventures today originated within the activities of the Forum. The foundation has had a substantial impact on the economic reform policies of China." weforum.org frontpage headlines as of Dec. 24, 2024: "'Report: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Lighthouses 2024' ... 'It’s time to change the way we support refugees' ..." |
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| International Management and Development Institute (IMDI) Directors: Gene Bradley (official founder; president anno 1977, chair and president anno 1981) | Dean Rusk (hon. chair anno 1977, 1981) | Gerald Ford (hon. anno 1981) | Gen. Lucius Clay (anno 1977) | Tom Killefer (anno 1977, 1981). Advisory board: C. Fred Bergsten (1975-1977) | Alexander Haig (anno 1977) | George McGhee (anno 1977) | Gianni Agnelli (anno 1977, 1981) | Aurelio Peccei (anno 1977, 1981) | John Loudon (anno 1977, 1981) | Adm. Stansfield Turner (1981; invited for dinner in 1977 when CIA director) | Herman Kahn (anno 1977, 1981) | Winston Lord (anno 1977, 1981) | Washington SyCip (anno 1977, 1981). More: Dan Quayle and Umberto Agnelli (both part of a Dec. 4, 1989 MDI discussion) | Kurt Waldheim (wrote a "c1978" report for the MDI) | Henry Fowler (co-chair IMDI's Fowler-McCracken Comm. anno 1990). 1977 report 'Government-Business Cooperation in Meeting World Needs': "This top management Report is intended for senior executives of international corporations, governmetn officials, university professors..." Consulted for this report: Jimmy Carter (introductory statement) | Giulio Andreotti (PM Italy) | Joop den Uyl (PM Netherlands) | Roy Jenkins (president European Commission) | Fernand Spaak (European Commission) | Joseph Luns (sec. gen. NATO) | Jose Lopez Portillo (president Mexico) | Takeo Fukuda (PM Japan) | Suharto (president Indonesia) | Malcolm Fraser (PM Australia) | Anwar Sadat (president Egypt). Companies represented: Fiat, Italconsult, IBM World Trade, Ford, Merck, Procter & Gamble, Caterpillar, Archer Daniels Midland, Bank of America, Allied Chemical, BAH, Honeywell, American Stock Exchange, Nestle, SRI, Eastman Kodak, Lehman Brothers Kuhn & Loeb, Federal Reserve, Newsweek, Xerox, Bank of Tokyo. |
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| Trilateral Commission (TC) The TC became what BB was ultimately meant to be, according to David Rock. and Zbig B.: trilateral. While BB never grew beyond 100-120 annual visitors, the Trilateral Commission in the 2020s is nearing 500 members, including several dozen listed "David Rockefeller scholars". The original 1973 TC list contains 65 members North American names. Founding TC members who came over from BB (often steering committee):
U.S. members who joined 1974-1979: Carroll L. Wilson (at least '74-'82) | Richard Gardner ('75-'76, '81-'93, '98-'04, only leaving to serve as ambassador) | Richard Holbrooke (listed '75-'10, but regularly "in public service") | John Brademas ('75 until at least '95) | Paul Volcker ('75- until his death in '19, North American chair) | Caspar Weinberger (at least '78, likely until gov. service in '81) | Carla Hills (at least '78-'84, '95-'20s) | Russell Train (at least '78-'82; EPA administrator 1973-1977) | George Weyerhaeuser (at least '78 until '81) | Thomas Foley (at least '78- until death in '13 as an exec.) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (at least '78-'11) | George H. W. Bush (member around '79-'80, and present at an April 1, 1984 reception) | Henry Kissinger (exec. at least over '78-'98, regular membership until death in 2023). U.S. members who joined 1980-1989: Bruce MacLaury ('80-early '90s) | Elliot Richardson (at least '81-'85) | Alan Greenspan (at least '81-, exec. anno '85, likely until becoming FED chair in '87) | Robert McNamara ('81 until death in '09, except for 1-2 years around '01; exec. at least '85-'95) | Felix Rohatyn (at least '85-'90) | Joseph Nye ('81-'20s; North American chair 2009-2017; regularly "in public service") | John Whitehead ('82-'85) | Alexander Haig (at least '82-'90) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (at least '84-'90) | Frank Carlucci (at least '85-'86, '93-'95) | Vernon Jordan ('85 until at least '98) | Maurice Greenberg (at least '85-'06) and son Jeffrey ('02-'08) | Fred Bergsten (at least '85 until '18, at least '93-'17 an exec.) | Martin Feldstein ('85-, until death in '19) | Katharine Graham (at least '90-'95) | Dianne Feinstein (at least '90-'11) | Gerald Corrigan (at least '90-'20s). U.S. members who joined 1990-1999: Bill Clinton (anno Feb. '90, listed in '93 under "Former Members in Public Service"; BB June '91 and an Oct. '95 steering committee meeting; won the elections in Nov. 1992 and Nov. 1996) | Robert Hormats (at least '90-'95) | Marie Josee Kravis (at least '90-'98) | Chuck Robb (at least '90 until '02) | Strobe Talbott (at least '90-'18 ("In Public Service" '94-01 and briefly gone in '09 and '14, exec. '10-'13) | William Ruckelshaus (at least '93-'95) | Rozanne Ridgway (at least '93-'95) | Lee Hamilton (at least '93-'98) | George Shultz ('93 until at least '98) | Lee Raymond ('93-'05) | Jessica Einhorn ('93-'12s, including as exec.) | David Gergen (at least '93-'93 ("In Public Service"), '98-'20s) | John Deutch (at least '93-'95 ("In Public Service", but not on earlier lists as far as known) until the 2020s) | Kurt Schmoke (at least '95-'98) | Jeffrey Epstein ('95 until at least March '07) | Robert Zoellick (at least 1995-2022, with periods of "in public service") | Riley Bechtel (anno '98 (not on '95 or '01 lists)) | Dick Cheney (anno '98, at the 2002 annual meeting as U.S. VP) | Raymond Seitz (at least '98-'01) | Ken Lay (at least '98 until '04, three years into the massive Enron scandal) | Mortimer Zuckerman (at least '98-'18). U.S. members who joined 2000-2009: Richard Haass (+-'00 until '18) | Paula Dobriansky (+-'00-'20s, incl. '01-'09 "In Public Service") | George Soros (at least May '01 - May '05) | Madeleine Albright ('02-'18) | Joi Ito (present at the '02 meeting, but not a member as far as is known) | David Rubenstein ('02-'20s) | William Webster ('03-'10) | Ken Duberstein ('03-'20s) | Charlie Rose ('06-'11) | Larry Summers ('03-'18) | Adm. Dennis Blair ('03-'18 lists, incl '09-'10 "In Public Service") | Thomas Pickering ('03-'19) | Fareed Zakaria ('04-'09) | Francis Fukuyama ('05-'10) | Susan Rice ('06-'09, as exec. '07-'09, "In Public Service" after) | John Hamre ('06-'18, exec. '10-'17) | Gen. James L. Jones (briefly in '08 it appears, before becoming NSA) | Robert Blackwill ('08-'14) | Kurt Campbell ('08-'09, '09-'13 ("In Public Service"), '13-'18) | Timothy Geithner ('09-'12 ("Former Members in Public Service"), but unknown when he was a member) | Condoleezza Rice ('09-'12) | Nicholas Burns ('09-'20s). U.S. members who joined 2010-2019: Philip Zelikow ('10-'14; former exec. dir. 9/11 Comm.) | Walter Isaacson ('10-'15) | John Negroponte ('10-'20s) | David McCormick ('11-'17; married Dina Habib Powell) | Jamie Gorelick ('12-'20s) | Thomas McLarty ('12-'20s) | Eric Schmidt ('13-'20s) | Dina Habib Powell ('14-'17, "In Public Service" after) | Jami Miscik ('14-'20s; president, vice chair and CEO Kiss. Assoc.) | Michael Chertoff ('14-'20s, exec. anno '22) | Thomas Donilon ('14-'20s) | Michael Bloomberg ('15-'20s) | Adm. Michael Mullen ('15-'20s) | Larry Fink ('19-) | Jacob Frenkel (present Nov. 7-9, 2008 EU group meeting; global member '19-) | Fiona Hill ('19-). U.S. members who joined 2020-2029: David Petraeus ('20-) | Jared Cohen (20-) | Michelle Nunn ('20-; daughter of Sam) | U.S. members still unsorted: Joseph Gorman | David O'Reilly | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Paul O'Neill | Maurice Sonnenberg | Michael Armacost | Louis Gerstner | Sol Linowitz | Eliot Cohen | Gerald Curtis | Jane Harman | Robert R. Bowie | William O. Baker | John Bryan, Jr. | Philip Hawley | Jim Hackett | John Hess | Merit Janow | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Sylvia Burwell | James Manyika | Donald Keough | John Thain | Chas Freeman. Neocon U.S. members: Paul Wolfowitz (anno '98, "in public service" by '01; BB 90, '94-'98, '00, '03, '05, '07, '09, '10) | Donald Rumsfeld (never a member, but present at the '02 annual meeting; BB '75 and '02) | Richard Perle ('03-'08; BB '83, '85, '01-'15). Canadian members: Allan Gotlieb (anno '90, NA chair anno '93-'98, NA deputy chair anno '03 until '12) | Maurice Strong (never a listed member, but wrote the intro of the 1991 TC publication (still listed on the TC site anno '21) 'Beyond Interdependence', the foreword written by David Rock.) | Paul Desmarais Sr. (anno '95) | Conrad Black (at least '93, until '01) | Andre Desmarais (at least '98-'20s; president and co-CEO Power Corp.) | Dominic Barton (anno '12-'19) | Gordon Smith. U.K. members: Lord Eric R. ('73-; all BB meetings '69-'02) | Sir Kenneth Younger (exec. '73-, but gone by '78; former director RIIA 1959-1971; BB '59) | Sir Frank Roberts ('73- until at least '85; ambassador to Germany and Russia; advisory board Unilever and foreign affairs advisor Lloyds) | Sir Philip de Zulueta ('73 until at least '85) | F.S. McFadzean ('75, but gone by '78; managing director Shell) | Sir Henry Keswick (anno '78-'85; chair Jardine Matheson '72-; owner conservative magazine The Spectator '75-'80) | Lord Carrington (anno '78 until '79 foreign sec. appointment; director Barclays Bank, Tio Tinto, etc.; chair GE London; IAC Chase) | Sir Ronald Grierson (anno '78, but gone by '81; man. dir. S.G. Warburg '48-'85; vice chair GE Plc '68-'96; dir.-gen. for industry EU Comm. '72;-'74) | 3rd Earl of Cromer ('75-, until at least '78; ambassador to U.S.; partner Barings bank) | Lord Harlech ('75-, until at least '78; ambassador to U.S.; chair Harlech TV) | Sir Andrew Shonfield (anno '78, but gone by '81; director of studies RIIA 1961-1968, director 1972-1977) | Lord Shackleton (at least '78-'85; chair Rio Rinto) | Sir Anthony Tuke ('75-, until at least '85; chair Barclays and Rio Tinto) | Edward Heath (at least '80-'81; conservative PM '70-'74) | Peter Shore (at least '81-'98; unique left-wing nationalist Labour MP; on Stephen Kock (MI6, Group 13, etc.) in private: "That is another level of government altogether.") | Viscount Sandon (anno '85; deputy chair National Westminster Bank) | Sir Michael Palliser (at least '85-'95 (exec. by '93-'95); chair Samuel Montagu bank '84–'93, vice chair '93-'96; married daughter Paul-Henri Spaak) | Sir Peter Sutherland (at least '92 until death in '18, EU chair '03-'09, exec. until '18; chair GS) | Lord Chris Patten (at least '98, until '11; co-chair ICG) | Sir Mark Moody-Stuart (anno '01-'15; chair Shell '98-'01, director until '05; chair Anglo American '01-'09; director HSBC) | Niall Fitzgerald ('01 list only for now) | Robert Worcester (speech '01 London meeting) | Lord David Simon of Highbury (at least '01, until '10; chair BP; senior advisor Morgan Stanley; deputy chair Unilever; director GDF Suez Group) | Sir Martin Sorrell (at least '01-'18) | Lord Guthrie (anno '02-'13; listed as "director N.M. Rothschild &s Sons") | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('02-'19, exec. '03-'19) | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Lord Peter Mandelson (anno '04-'15; often "In Public Service" until 2010; advisor Lazards) | Nicholas Soames ('04-'10) | Nigel Higgins (anno '08-'20s (exec.); 36-year career at Rothschild & Co. CEO Rothschild Group anno '15; chair Barclays '19-) | David Miliband ('12-'18) | Simon Henry ('15; CFO Shell, London, anno '15) | Ngaire Woods ('19 only). Irish members: Sen. Kenneth Whitaker (anno '81; director Bank of Ireland) | Garret FitzGerald ('01; Irish foreign sec. ' 73-' 77, PM ' 81-' 82, ' 82-' 87). German members: Otto W. von Amerongen ('73-; BB almost annually '55-'01; early member Chase's IAC) | Kurt Biedenkopf ('73-; BB regular '63-'72) | Hans-Gunther Sohl ('73, anno '78; chair August Thyssen Hutte AG; BB '55) | Count Otto Lambsdorff ('73-'77, exec. at least '93 until his death in '09; economics minister '77-'84; BB occasionally since '80) | Karl Kaiser ('73-'05; director/head German Council on Foreign Relations 1974-2003) | Theo Sommer ('73-, anno '78; editor-in-chief Die Zeit) | Karl-Heinz Narjes (at least '78-'84) | Richard Lowenthal (at least '78-'84) | Walter Kiep ('93 only atm) | Kurt Biedenkopf (at least '93-'01) | Carl Hahn (at least '93-'04; CEO Volkswagen 1982-1993; director Perot Systems Corp. anno '01) | Horst Teltschik (at least '95-'01) | Heinrich von Pierer (anno '98; chair Siemens) | Helmut Kohl (not a member, spoke at the '98 annual meeting in Berlin) | Josef Joffe (anno '98-'01) | Michael Fuchs (German group chair anno '04) | Angela Merkel (present at Oct. '04 EU group meeting at the Bundestag) | Gerhard Cromme ('04 EU group meeting at the Bundestag) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('08-'20s) | Joe Kaeser (anno 2018) | Josef Ackermann (anno '98, '01) | Andreas Treichl (anno '12, '15) | Sigmar Gabriel ('18-) | Axel Weber ('18-, European chair '21-; president Deutsche Bundesbank; gov. ECB 2004-2011; chair UBS) | Peter Loscher (anno '11; CEO Siemens) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('20-; nephew of Count Otto). French members: Robert Marjolin ('73 until at least '85; EU comm. for economic and fin. affairs 1958-1967) | Raymond Barre ('73-'76, again at least '85-'01; PM France 1976-1981; EU comm. for economic and fin. affairs 1967-1973) | Francois Duchene (anno '75 (EU deputy chair) and '78) | Edmond de Rothschild ('75 until at least '85; BB '68-77, partly steering comm.) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno '78-'02; founder and executive chair IFRI '79-'20s) | Herve de Carmoy (at least '78-'16, French chair '89-'04, EU vice chair '04-'10; regular member '10-'16; Chase career '63-'78, west EU chief 1970s; EU chief Midland Bank 1978-, CEO '84-; man. dir. Societe Generale '88-'92) | Michel David-Weill (at least '85 until '20s; Lazard) | Jean-Clause Casanova ('73-) | Jean-Claude Trichet (EU chair '12-'21) | Bertrand Collomb (at least '95, until '16) | Pierre Lellouche (anno '01) | Louis Schweitzer (anno '01) | Benoit Potier (anno '09) | Frederic Lemoine (anno '15; chair Wendel Group, Paris). Belgian members: Baron Daniel J. ('73-'13; BB regular '69-'00) | Baron Leon L. (anno '73-'78; BB '71-, '75, etc.) | Mark Eyskens ('73-) | Willy de Clercq (anno '78, until '04) | Etienne Davignon (anno '98) | Paul-Emmanuel Janssen (executive) | Henri Simonet (anno '85) | Maurice Lippens (anno '04) | Baron Jean-Pierre Berghmans (anno '15). Luxembourg members: Jacques Santer (at least '01, until '11) Dutch members:
Norwegian members: Thorvald Stoltenberg ('73-, exec. '98-'01) | Otto Grieg Tidemand ('73-, exec. anno '85-'83) | John Christian Sannes ('73-; director Norwegian Institute of International Affairs 1960-1983) | Johan Jorgen Holst ('90) | Arne Olav Brundtland ('95 list only for now; BB '91; husband of '81, '86-'89, '90-'96 Norwegian PM Gro Harlem Brundtland) | Herbjorn Hansson (anno '15; chair and CEO Nordic American Tankers, Oslo). Swedish members: Marcus Wallenberg (anno '04) | Carl Bildt (at least '98-, deputy EU chair '20-) | Anders Aslund ('08 speech at the regional EU meeting) | Tove Lifvendahl (anno '21; political editor-in-chief, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm) | Peter Wallenberg Jr. (anno '10, '15). Finnish members: Aatos Erkko (at least '95 until '01; chair Sonoma) | Janne Virkkunen (anno '10; senior editor-in-chief, Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki). Danish members: Peter Straarup (anno '10; chair Danske Bank and the Danish Bankers Assoc.). Italian members: Gianni A. ('73-; BB represented '54-, himself '57-'00) | Cesare Merlini ('73- until at least '98 (not listed in '85); director/chair Italian Inst. for Int. Affairs; later chair Council for the U.S. and Italy; BB '04) | Umberto Colombo ('73- until at least '98 when was an exec.) | Mario Monti ('85-, EU chair until 2012, exec. anno '21) | Renato Ruggiero (at least '93-'04; FIAT-tied) | Carlos Ferrer (European deputy chair anno 1998; regional business leader) | Boris Biancheri (anno '01) | Carlo Pesenti (anno '10; COO Italcementi 2001, managing director anno 2010, CEO 2014-; descendent of Carlo Pesenti II) | John Elkann Agnelli ('15) | Maurizio Sella (anno '16; chair Gruppo Banca Sella and the Assoc. of Italian Banks) | Maurizio Sella (anno '21; chair Assoc. of Italian Banks). Spanish members: Luis ('85-; older brother of Javier; socialist MP '70s-'80s; chair Telefonica '82-'89, chair RTVE '89-) and Javier Solana ('11 list only; also listed as a contributor/speaker to the '98/'99/'07 TC meetings) | Emilio Ybarra (anno '08; chair Banco Bilbao-Vizcaya). Portuguese members: Estela Barbot (anno '01, '15) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('07 speaker, but not a member). East European members: Prince Karel Schwarzenberg (anno '01-'15) | Miroslav Singer (anno '16; gov. Czech National Bank, Prague) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves ('21-; president Estonia 2006-2016). Russia members: Russian consultants of the 1994-95 period: Sergei Karaganov (member at least '01 tuntil '12), Andrei Kokoshin (visited in 1999), Alexei Arbatov. Anatoly Chubais (speech at the 2008 EU meeting) Indian members: Ajay Banga ('19-; chair and CEO Mastercard; India-U.S. businessman) | Natarajan Chandrasekaran (anno '20; chair Tata Sons under emeritus chair Ratan Tata) | Banmali Agrawala (anno '21; group president Tata Sons) | Jamshyd Godrej (anno '21). China/Hong Kong members: Victor Fung (anno '04). Japanese members: Toru Hashimoto | Toru Kusukawa | Shunichi Suzuki | Akio Morita (exec. anno '93; chair and CEO Sony anno '93) | Norio Ohga (anno '01; chair Sony anno '01) | Nobuyuki Idei (anno '09; chair and CEO Sony 2000-2005) | Yotaro Kobayashi (anno '09) | Minoru Makihara (exec.) | Shinji Fukukawa. Japanese Companies represented: Sony ('73-) | Nippon Steel, Nippon Electric, etc. ('73-) | Mitsubishi Corp., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Bank ('73-) | Toyota ('73-) | Nissan ('73-) ('73-) | Hitachi ('73-) | Komatsu ('73-) | Fuji Bank ('73-) | Nomura Securities and Nomura Bank ('73-) | Sumitomo Chemical Co. ('73-) | Sumitomo Bank ('73-) | Mitsui Bank ('73-) | Bank of Tokyo ('73-) | Federation of Metal and Mining Industries Labor Unions ('73-) | Japanese Institute of Labor ('73-) | Kyodo News Service ('73-) | Kansai Electric ('73-) | Tokyo Shibaura Electric ('73-) | Matsushita Electric ('73-) | Ushio Electric ('73-) | Seibu Department Store ('73-; sold old imported European and American cars 1960-1995). Many of these companies are still present in the 2010s and 2020s, almost half a century later. Middle Eastern members: HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. MORE for North America: 1975 TC report 'The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies: Samuel Huntington | Michel Crozier | Joji Watanuki (promoted at the time by Zbigniew B.) | James Wolfensohn (present at the 1999 annual meeting, but not listed as a member) | Richard Burt (non-member, present at an April 1, 1984 reception) | Robert Worcester (non-member, but speaker at the 2001 annual meeting). MORE for the E.U.: Christine Lagarde (non-member, but participant March 22-26, 2017 meeting in DC). All listed financiers for 1980: Ford, RBF, Rockefeller, Mellon, Luce, Hewlett, Donner and Kettering foundations | GMF | Sumitomo Fund | BankAmerica Fdn. | Bechtel | Boeing | Cargill | Caterpillar | CBS | Coca-Cola | Corning Glass | Crown Zellerbach Fdn. | Deere & Co. | Exxon | Ford Motor Company Fund | GE | General Foods | General Mills | General Motors | W. R. Grace & Co. | Honeywell | IBM | Levi Strauss Fdn. | Procter & Gamble | Quaker Oats Co. | Scott Paper Co. | Sears Roebuck and Co. | Standard Oil of California | Texas Instruments Fdn. | Time | Wells Fargo Bank | Weyerhaeuser Co. | Xerox | David Packard | David R. | George Franklin | Patrick Haggarty. Source(s): Gathered official membership lists 1973-1975, 1978, 1979 (North America only, and partially), 1981, 1982 (North America only), 1984 (U.S. reception visitors, seemingly most members), 1985, 1990 (North America only), 1992 (third party analysis, mainly of U.S. members), 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001-2022. |
1973 |
| Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School, Harvard Early directors: Paul M. Doty (founder) | Lewis Branscomb (director emeritus anno 2003). Later directors/international council members: Graham Allison (director/head anno 2003) | Robert Blackwill (director anno 2003, 2004; international council anno 2006; "Belfer lecturer" late 1990s) | Ashton Carter (director anno 2003) | John Deutch (director anno 2003, director and international council anno 2006) | John Holdren (director anno 2003) | Joseph Nye (director anno 2003) | Ernest May (director 2003) | Nat Rothschild (international council anno 2006) | James Schlesinger (international council anno 2006) | Paul Volcker (international council anno 2006) | Frank Stanton (international council anno 2006) | David Hamburg (international council anno 2006) | Sam Nunn | Thomas Foley (international council and senior fellow anno 2006) | Nicholas Burns (faculty director of Belfer's Future of Democracy Project anno 2017) | Niall Ferguson | Stephen Walt | Michael Chertoff | Mansoor Al-Mahmoud (CEO Qatar Development Bank, of which the chair is Sheikh Abdullah Bin Saud Al Thani) | Larry Summers (director) | Saad Abdul-Latif (CEO Pepsi Cola) | Aziz Syriani | Oleg Deripaska (international council anno 2006) | Martin Feldstein (expert and director) | Andrei Kokoshin (retained as a long-time expert) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (listed as a researcher; senior fellow of its Future of Diplomacy Project anno 2017) | Gen. James Cartwright (senior fellow) | Richard A. Clarke (associate) | Fiona Hill (expert) | Andy Weber (senior fellow) | Thomas Donilon (senior fellow) | Dina Habib Powell (non-residential senior fellow 2018-) | Eric Rosenbach (exec. dir. of research and co-director) | Kurt Campbell (non-resident fellow) | David Petraeus (senior fellow 2013-2019) | Kevin Rudd (senior fellow 2014-) | Vernon Jordan (international council anno 2020) | Chelsea Manning (senior fellow 2017-) | Mike Morell (senior fellow until 2017, resigned over the Manning appointment) | Jake Sullivan (senior fellow of its Future of Diplomacy Project 2017-) | Paula Dobriansky (senior fellow of its Future of Diplomacy Project anno 2017) | David Ignatius (senior fellow of its Future of Diplomacy Project anno 2017). Crown-Belfer Seminar speakers (Lester Crown partnership): Prince Turki al Faisal (2010 and 2013) | Meir Dagan (2011) | Zaid Rifai (former prime minister of Jordan) | Hussain al-Shahristani (Iran's deputy prime minister of energy). |
1973 |
| International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation (IFRS Foundation) Until March 2010 known as the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation (IASC Foundat ion). The original organization was set up in 1973 and heavily revised in 2000. "Trustee Appointments Advisory Group" anno 2005: Paul Volcker (chair; also listed as "inaugural chair" 2000-2006) | Paul Wolfowitz | Jean-Claude Trichet | Donald Kaberuka (president African Development Bank). Overall foundation trustees anno 2005: Paul V. | Bertrand Collomb | Cornelius Herkstroter. |
1973 |
| International Energy Agency (IEA) Established in the wake of the oil crisis. Etienne Davignon (first president 1974-1977) |
1974 |
| Institute for International Development (HIID), JFK School, Harvard Weatherhead Center spinoff. Dwight H. Perkins (director until 1995) | Jeffrey Sachs (director 1995-1999) | David E. Bloom (deputy director since 1995) | Andrei Shleifer (Russian project director; protege of Larry Summers, who set up the USAID project at HIID) | Jonathan Hay (assistant of Shleifer in the Russian project; Moscow director) |
1974-2000 |
| Ambrosetti Forum Participants U.S.: Joe Biden | Dick Cheney | Henry Kissinger | John McCain | Sen. Lindsey Graham | George Shultz | James Wolfensohn | Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) | Bill Gates | Nouriel Roubini | Geert Wilders (2017). Participants E.U.: Prince Albert II of Monaco | Jose Maria Aznar | Silvio Berlusconi | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Alain Juppe | Christine Lagarde | Mario Monti | Romano Prodi | Joseph Ratzinger | Michel Rocard | Helmut Schmidt | Jean-Claude Trichet. Rest: Shimon Peres | Queen Rania of Jordan. |
1975 |
| Institute for the Study of Diplomacy (ISD), Georgetown University Max Kampelman (chair 1990s) | Robert Gallucci (dean 1990s) | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Rozanne Ridgway | Lee Hamilton (director 1990s-2000s) | Gen. William Odom (director 1990s-2000s) | Frank Wisner II (director 1990s-2000s) | Sir Peter Sutherland (director 1990s-2000s) | Stapleton Roy (director 2000s) | Chester Crocker (advisory board). |
1978 |
| Group of Thirty Historic members: Paul Volcker (chair) | Jacob Frenkel (trustee chair) | Jean-Claude Trichet (management chair since 2012) | Richard Debs | Alan Greenspan | Robert Roosa | Karl Otto Pohl | Duntisbourne | Lord Richardson (chairman) | Sir David Walker | Larry Summers | William Rhodes | William Dudley | E. Gerald Corrigan | Timothy Geithner | Jason Furman (2020-) | Paul Krugman | Martin Feldstein | Alex Weber | Raghuram Rajan (former gov. Reserve Bank of India) | Mark Carney | Josef Ackermann | Wilfried Guth | Victor Fung | Lord Gordon Richardson. |
1978 |
| Open Society Foundations (OSF) Known as the Open Society Institute (OSI) 1993-2010. Board / later Global Board: George Soros (chair global board; member CFR 1988-, director 1995-2004) | Stewart Paperin (exec. VP anno '02-03; CFR '99-) | Aryeh Neier (president and trustee anno '02-03; CFR '88-) | Gara LaMarche (VP and director of U.S. Programs '97-'07; CFR '12-) | Morton Abramowitz (trustee anno '00-, until '02) | Bill Moyers (trustee anno '00-, until '02) | Joan Dunlop (trustee '02-; CFR '89-) | Jonathan Soros (trustee '05-; CFR '04-) | Robert Redford (trustee '08-, for a few years) | Alex Soros (deputy chair) | Andrea Soros Colombel | Mark Malloch-Brown (vice chair since May 2007; vice president of Quantum Fund) | Anya Schiffrin (member Global Board April 2016-; director OSF's Media Program 2008-2017; wife of Joseph Stiglitz) | Daniel Sachs (RIIA and ECFR). More: Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange | Martti Ahtisaari (joint advisors' group) | Morton Halperin (created the Washington office and appointed director of it in Feb. '02, still director anno '09; senior advisor) | Chris Stone (president 2012-2017; unsure if he is CFR member "Christopher B. Stone" 2004-2009; head of Harvard's Kennedy School’s Program in Criminal Justice 2005-2012) | Fiona Hill (advisory board, Central Eurasia Project) | Andreas Treichl (EU advisory board until mid 2017| Yoeri Albrecht (EU advisory board anno 2016, 2019) | Heather Grabbe (executive director) | Leslie Kean (UFO author; received grants) | Viktor Orban (scholarship way back) | Jennifer Daskal ("OSI Fellow" 2016-2017). Nov. 29, 2006 roundtable discussion of OSI: Robert Borosage | Katrina vanden Heuvel | John Podesta. Source(s): Dec. 5, 2002, opensocietyfoundations.org, 'Geoffrey Canada and Joan Dunlop Join OSI Board of Trustees': "The additions of Canada and Dunlop bring to twelve the number of OSI U.S. Programs Board members."; OSI annual reports 2000 (p. 40), 2002 (still "Board of Trustees"), 2004 (p. 189: "Board of Trustees (U.S. Committee)"), 2005 (also p. 189), 2006 (p. 151), 2007 (p. 166: "Board of Trustees (U.S. Committee)", but now only 4 of 11, like Soros and son Jonathan, have specifically the affix "(trustee)"), 2008 (p. 95: now it has become the "U.S. Programs Board", with the same 4 out of 11 individuals having an "OSI trustee" affix); soros.org/about/bios/ (OSI website; no mention of trustees; lists the four top execs: chair (George), president (Aryeh), exec. VP (Stewart), VP (Gara L., left in late 2007 without listed replacement); accessed: Nov. 7, 2003 - Jan. 23, 2010); opensocietyfoundations.org/who-we-are/global-board (accessed: March 7, 2022); etc. |
1979 |
| Refugees International (RI) Past directors: Trish Malloch Brown (vice chair: '90s - '00s) | George Soros ('90s - Jan. '04)| Constance Milstein ('90s - '00s) | Frank Wisner II ('90s - '00s) | Queen Noor of Jordan (early 2002-) | Richard Holbrooke (early 2002-) | Gov. Bill Richardson. Advisory Board '19: Nicholas Burns | Mark Malloch Brown | Thomas Pickering | Samantha Power | Gene Dewey | Gen. William Nash. Source(s): refugeesinternational.org/ about/board.html (accessed: July 2, 2001): "[TMB], Vice Chair... Board Members: ... Robert P. DeVecchi, [CFR] ... [of] Hasbro Inc. Robert Trent Jones, Jr. / Robert Trent Jones II. ... James Lowenstein, APCO Associates. Ken Miller, CS First Boston. Constance J. Milstein, Milstein Properties. Charles Monat, Charles Monat, Ltd. Julia Ormond, Actress. George Soros... Sam Waterston, Actor. Frank Wisner, American International Group." |
1979 |
| Global 2000 (Carter's private project after his term as U.S. president) Jimmy Carter | Agha Hasan Abedi | Ryoichi Sasakawa |
1980 |
| EastWest Institute George H. W. Bush (honorary chair) | Helmut Kohl (honorary chair) | Martti Ahtisaari (has been co-chair) | Berthold Beitz (chairman) | John Kluge | Alexander Voloshin | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Mustafa Koc | Lord Weidenfeld | Ross Perot, Jr. (chair) | Sarah Perot (wife of Perot, Jr.) | Michael Chertoff | Gen. James L. Jones | Joseph Nye | John Whitehead | Wolfgang Ischinger | Giuseppe Scognamiglio (president and chair EastWestEU; editor EastWest magazine) | Francis Finlay (chair). |
1980 |
| Atlas Economic Research Foundation Sir Anthony Fisher (founder). Supporters/speakers: Friedrich von Hayek | Milton Friedman | Jose Maria Aznar |
1981 |
| Search for Common Ground (SFCG) Directors: John D. Marks (founder and president) | Dov Zakheim (anno 2008; Middle East Advisory Board anno 2012) | W. Scott Thompson (anno 2008) | Gen. Jack Sheehan. Advisory board: Michael Murphy | John Mack | Lawrence Chickering | Robert Borosage | W. Scott Thompson | Sir Brian Urquhart | James Zogby (Middle East Advisory Board anno 2012) | Peter Kooijmans (Brussels advisory board anno 2012) | Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein (Brussels advisory board anno 2012) | Michel Rocard (Brussels advisory board anno 2012). Funding: NED, Ploughshares, RBF, Skoll Fdn., John Whitehead Foundation, Chevron. ExxonMobil, BAH, Air Canada, Angola LNG, BBC World Trust, many national governments. |
1982 |
| Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) An innocent-sounding name that has been tied to (attempted) CIA coups (from "the left") in places as Venezuela, Belarus, Zimbabwe. "Lib. CIA" activists came to the institute's aid in a "holding the line" effort of the "new left" network when it started picking up on these type of accusations. Key staff: Gene Sharp (founder; president 1983-91; from the elite Weatherhead Center) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (advisory council; CIA and Army Intelligence (Europe); co-wrote a book with Gen. Schwarzkopf and endorsed by William Colby) | Christopher Kruegler (president since 1991) | Peter Ackerman (student of Gene; director) and wife Joanne (director) | Audrius Butkevicius (contact since at least 1991; hosted an AEI symposium in 1992; joined as a visiting scholar in 1994 to help draft a "Baltic Civilian-Based Defense Mutual Assistance Treaty"; director of the notorious FSB/GRU-tied Far West Ltd.). Extra, even though Einstein was not involved: Nov. 1947, The Atlantic, 'Atomic War or Peace': "I say that nothing has been done to avert war since the completion of the atomic bomb, despite the proposal for supranational control of atomic energy put forward by the United States in the United Nations. ... I am not saying that the United States should not manufacture and stockpile the bomb, for I believe that it must do so; it must be able to deter another nation from making an atomic attack... But deterrence should be the only purpose of the stockpile of bombs. In the same way I believe that the United Nations should have the atomic bomb when it is supplied with its own armed forces and weapons. The Russians have made it clear that they will do everything in their power to prevent a supranational regime from coming into existence. They not only reject it in the range of atomic energy: they reject it sharply on principle, and thus have spurned in advance any overture to join a limited world government." |
1983 |
| Council for the United States and Italy (CONSIUSA) Officers: David Rockefeller (co-founder and co-president) | Gianni Agnelli (co-founder and co-president). More: Henry Kissinger ('95 speech) | Thomas Pickering ('99 speech). Business represented: Pirelli, Fiat. |
1983 |
| Institute for International Finance (IIF) Directors: Sir John Bond (chair anno 2000) | Josef Ackermann (vice chair anno 2000; chair anno 2006) | William Rhodes (vice chair anno 2000) | Tasuku Takagaki (vice chair anno 2000; chair Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubihi) | Sir David Walker (anno 2000) | Cees Maas (anno 2000; vice chair and treasurer anno 2006) | Marcus Wallenberg (anno 2006; treasurer and vice chair designate anno 2012) | James Gorman (anno 2012) | Alex Weber (anno 2012; chair 2016-) | Gary Cohn (anno 2012; president and COO Goldman Sachs) | Hassan El Sayed Abdalla (anno 2012; CEO Arab African International Bank). IFF's Market Monitoring Group (founded in 2009): George Soros (2009-) | Jacques de Larosière (founding chair; managing director IMF and governor Bank of France) | David Dodge (2009-; governor of the Bank of Canada) | Malcolm Knight (2009-; chair BIS) | William R. | Koos Timmermans (ING). Group of trustees of the Principles Consultative Group (PCG): Nicolas Rohatyn (2012) | Axel Weber (co-chair anno 2018) | François Villeroy de Galhau (co-chair anno 2018) | Yi Gang (co-chair anno 2018) | Nicholas Brady (anno 2018) | Paul Volcker (anno 2018) | Jacob Frenkel (anno 2018) | William Rhodes (anno 2018) | Jean-Claude Trichet (anno 2018). Annual meeting participants/members: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1999) | Joseph Stiglitz (1999) | Alan Greenspan (1999) | Larry Summers (1999) | Willem Duisenberg (1999) | Jacob F. (1999) | Dr. Hans Tietmeyer (1999) | Tito Mboweni (1999; governor of the South African Reserve Bank) | Rafael Buenaventura (1999; governor of the Central Bank ofthe Philippines) | Chatu Mongol Sonakul (1999; governor of the Bank of Thailand) | William McDonough (1999; president and CEO NY Fed) | Dr. Rolf E. Breuer (1999; chair of Deutsche Bank AG) | Kiichi Miyazawa (1999; minister of finance of Japan). |
1983 |
| InterAction Council Specifically set up for ex-country leaders to meet and greet, quite similar to the later-founded Club of Madrid. Listed members: Helmut Schmidt (chair 1986-1994; hon. chair 1995-2014; considered a "driving force") | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (president France 1974-1981) | Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter (president US 1977-1981) | Pierre Trudeau (PM Canada 1968-1979, 1980-1984) | Lord Callaghan of Cardiff (PM UK 1976-1979) | Gerhard Schroder | Shin Hyon Hwak (PM South Korea 1979-1980) | Kalevi Sorsa (PM Finland 1972-1975, 1977-79, 1982-1987) | Vigdis Finnbogadottir (president Iceland 1980-1996) | Kiichi Miyazawa (PM Japan 1991 - 1993) | Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo ( PM Portugal 1979 - 1980) | Jose Sarney (president Brazil 1985 - 1990) | Felipe Gonzalez Marquez (PM Spain 1982-1996) | Dries van Agt (dutch PM 1977-1982) | Mikhail Gorbachev | Malcolm Fraser (PM Australia 1975-1983) | George Vassiliou (president Cyprus 1988-1993) | Kenneth Kaunda (president Zambia 1964-1991) | Shaukat Aziz (PM Pakistan 2004-2007) | Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi (PM Malaysia 2003-2009) | Gro Harlem Brundtland (PM Norway 1981, 1986-1989, 1990-1996) | Jean Chretien (co-chair anno 2013; PM Canada 1993-2003) | Bill Clinton (listed member and in photos at various meetings; US president 1993-2001) | Miguel de la Madrid | Vicente Fox (president Mexico 2000-2006) | Mohammad Khatami (President Iran 1997-2005) | Vaclav Klaus (Czech PM 1993-1998, president 2003-2013)| Bronislaw Komorowski (President Poland 2010-2015) | Leonid Kuchma (president Ukraine 1994-2005) | Lee Hong-koo (PM Korea 1994-1995) | John Major | Peter Medgyessy (PM Hungary 2002-2004) | Andres Pastrana Arango (president Colombia 1998-2002) | Romano Prodi | Abdulaziz Al-Quraishi (governor Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency 1974-1983) | Gerhard Fritz | Kurt Schroder | Danilo Turk | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (president Indonesia 2004-2014) | Franz Vranitzky (hon. chair; chancellor of Austria 1986-1997) | Viktor Yushchenko | Ernesto Zedillo | Viktor Zubkov (PM Russia 2007-2008, 2012) | Tung Chee Hwa (listed member and participant anno 2014) | Vaira Vike-Freiberga (ex-president Latvia) | Richard von Weizsacker | Mary Robinson | Yevgeny Primakov (PM Russia 1998-1999) | Michel Rocard (PM France 1988-1991). "Special guests": Henry Kissinger ('91, '93-'94) | Robert McNamara ('91-'94, '98; "high level expert" 2000 meeting; "associate member" 2005 meeting) | Emile van Lennep ('92-'94) | Jaap Rost Onnes (organizing chair 1997 Holland meeting; exec. VP ABN AMRO Bank) | Michael Blumenthal ('03) | Jean Andre Francois-Poncet ('03; "associate member" anno 2005) | Lester Brown ('05). More: Ruud Lubbers (explained to have been involved with it; Dutch PM 1982-1994) | Wim Kok (present at the 1997 meeting; Dutch PM 1994-2002) | Kofi Annan (depicted in various group meetings). Meetings: Vienna (1983) | Brioni, Yugoslavia (1984) | Paris (1985) | Tokyo (1986) | Kuala Lumpur (1987) | Moscow (1988) | Washington D.C. (1989) | Seoul (1990) | Prague (1991) | Queretaro, Mexico (1992) | Shanghai (1993) | Dresden (1993) | Tokyo (1995) | Vancouver (1996) | Noordwijk, Netherlands (1997) | Rio de Janeiro (1998) | Cairo (1999) | Helsinki (2000) | Awaji, Japan (2001) | Berlin (2002) | Moscow (2003) | Salzburg (2004) | California (2005) | Dead Sea, Jordan (2006) | Vienna (2007) | Stockholm (2008) | King Abdullah Economic City, Saudi Arabia (2009) | Hiroshima (2010) | Québec (2011) | Tianjin, China (2012) | Manama, Bahrain (2013) | Newport, Wales (2015) | Baku, Azerbaijan (2016) | Dublin, Ireland (2017). |
1983 |
| International Democrat Union - The Global Alliance of the Centre Right Members: Margaret Thatcher (founding) | George H. W. Bush (founding) | Jacques Chirac (founding) | Helmut Kohl (founding) | Franz-Josef Strauss (founding) | Tatsuo Tanaka (founding). Officers: John Howard (chair anno '05; PM Australia 1996-2007) | Michael Trend (assistant chair anno '05) | William Hague (vice chair anno '05) | Vaclav Klaus (vice chair anno '05) | Jose Maria Aznar (vice chair '05) | Edmund Stoiber (anno '05) | Jan Petersen ('05; Norway MP). Honorary advisory board: Jose Maria A. (anno '21) | David Cameron (anno '21) | Theresa May (anno '21) | Tony Abbott (anno '21; PM Australia 2013-2015). |
1983 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) Foreign influence/intervention group of U.S. Democrats, mirroring the Int. Republican Inst. Top members have been involved from the start, but for some reason have not been replaced by other superclass members over the decades. Instead, these persons for the most part moved to a "senior advisory committee" in the late 1980s, on which they kept serving until death. Directors who joined in the 1980s: Charles Manatt (founding chair '83-'86, only at NED '86- where he was vice chair '88-'92; chair DNC 1981-1985) | Madeleine Albright (founding vice chair '83-, until at least '89; gone in the 1990s, serving as SecState Jan. 2001; chair Jan. '01-, still anno '22) | Walter Mondale (director and hon. chair anno '85, chair '86-'93) | Nina Rosenwald (anno '85) | Frank Weil ('85) | Maurice Tempselsman (anno '89-'22) | Harriet Babbitt (vice chair anno '17-'22; wife of Bruce Babbitt). SAC who joined in the 1980s: Cyrus Vance (director anno '85; SAC anno '89 - until d. '02) | Daniel Patrick Moynihan (director anno '85; anno '89-until d. '03) | Anne Wexler (director anno '85; anno '89 - until d. '09) | Ed Muskie (anno '89 - until d. '96, when he died) | Mike Mansfield (anno '89 - until d. '01) | Stephen Solarz (anno '89 - until d. '10) | Mario Cuomo (anno '89 - until d. '15) | John Brademas (anno '89 - until d. '16) | Richard Gardner (anno '89 - until d. '19) | Bill Bradley (anno '89-'22) | Michael Dukakis (anno '89-'22) | Sen. Chuck Robb (anno '89-'22) | Directors who joined in the 1990s: Nobody (new) recognizable by 2000, although quite a few were CFR. SAC who joined in the 1990s: Ted Sorensen (anno '00-'10, when he died) | Dick Gephardt (anno '00-'22). Directors who joined in the 2000s: Nancy Rubin (just after Madeleine became chair: '01-'22) | Susan Rice (just after Madeleine became chair: '02-'08) | Tom Daschle (anno '08, vice chair anno '09-'22) | Constance Milstein ('02-11) | Howard Dean ('05-, still anno '22) | James Wolfensohn ('09-'12). SAC who joined in the 2000s: Nobody (new) recognizable by Dec. 2009. Directors who joined in the 2010s: Richard Blum ('11-'22; husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Hunter Biden (founding member Chairmen's Council '15-, until at least Dec. '17, briefly before it was unlisted again; son of Joe Biden) | Howard Berman (anno '17-22) | Johnnie Carson (anno Jan. '17-'22). Ambassadors Circle: nobody recognizable 2015-. SAC who joined in the 2010s: Nobody (new) recognizable by Dec. 2019. Directors who joined in the 2020s: Nobody (new) recognizable as of March 2022. SAC who joined in the 2020s: Nobody (new) recognizable as of March 2022. More: Katherine Maher (NDI ICT program officer 2010-2011; CEO Wikimedia Fdn. 2019-2021) | Nancy Soderberg (resident senior director for Kosovo anno '22) | Nina Jankowicz (supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs anno 2014-2015). "Visitors" (curiously, almost all "center left" repesentatives of (still anti-communist) political movements opposing CIA-Mossad-big business-backed dictatorships; this mirrors the old superclass/CIA strategy of supporting the anti-communist leftists besides right-wing dictators):
2005 annual report, NDI, pp. 36-37: "[Initially thanks the NED, USAID and U.S. State Department.] DONORS: ... John Doerr ... Peter Ackerman. AFL-CIO [and] various labor unions] ... Gates [Fdn.] BP ... Mott [Fdn.] ChevronTexaco. Citigroup ... Coca-Cola ... DaimlerChrysler ... Discovery Communications ... Eli Lilly ... ExxonMobil ... Honeywell ... Lockheed Martin. Marsh and McLennan ... Microsoft .... [Soros'] Open Society Institute ... Streisand Foundation. SunTrust Bank ... Time Warner ... Donner [Fdn.] ... Government of Belgium ... Germany ... United Kingdom ... Ireland ... the Netherlands ... Norway ... Yemen ... Sweden... United Nations Development Programme. World Bank." ndi.org/supporters (accessed: March 12, 2022): "NDI expresses special thanks to the The [NED] ... USAID ... and the U.S. Department of State for their continued support. ... [Other financiers:] Amazon ... Chevron ... Google ... Open Society [Fdns.] ... Coca-Cola ... Visa... Jane Harman ... UN Women. United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). World Bank Group. ... European Union ... Government of Australia ... Bahrain ... Belgium ... Canada ... Denmark ... Finland ... Germany ... Ireland ... Japan ... Netherlands ... Norway ... Sweden ... Switzerland ... United Kingdom [and] Yemen." |
1983 |
| American Austrian Foundation (AAF) Co-founders: David Rockefeller | Cyrus Vance | George Ball. |
1984 |
| Synergos Institute Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (founder; daughter of David Rockefeller) | Maurice Strong (advisory board) | Michael Sonnenfeldt. Award Jury for David Rockefeller Bridging Leadership Award: Mo Ibrahim (awarded '12) | Paul Polman (awarded '14) | Valerie Rockefeller | Serge Dumont. Guests of honor: Mark Malloch Brown ('00) | Louise Frechette ('01) | David Rockefeller ('03) | John Whitehead ('04) | Corazon Aquino ('05) | James Wolfensohn ('05) | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ('06; president Liberia) | Ted Turner ('06) | Bill Gates and his father William, Sr. ('07) | Nelson Mandela ('07) | Queen Rania of Jordan ('08) | Jeff Skoll ('08) | Kofi Annan ('09) | Sir Richard Branson ('10) | Jennifer and Peter Buffett ('11; Peter again in '13) | Bill Clinton ('12) | His Highness the Aga Khan ('12) | Michael Bloomberg ('13) | Ratan Tata ('15) | Marc Benioff ('20) | Christiana Figueres ('20). |
1986 |
| World Gold Council (WGC) About 20 gold mining corporations are members, with quite a few major ones of Russia missing. AngloGold Ashanti (Oppenheimer family) | Barrick Gold Corp (Peter Munk) | Newmont Mining. |
1987 |
| The Global Panel Directors: Allen Weinstein (chair 1993-1998) | Malcolm Rifkind | Dov Zakheim. Advisory board: Hans van den Broek | Wesley Clark | Paula Dobriansky | Stuart Eizenstat | Gareth Evans | Mark Eyskens | F.W. de Klerk | Thomas Pickering | Lord George Robertson | James Woolsey. Speakers: Dalai Lama | Robert Maxwell | Paul Volcker | Henry Kissinger | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | George H. W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Gorbachev | Helmut Schmidt | Netanyahu | Shimon Peres | Carlos Menem | Robert Mugabe | Turgut Ozal | Ruud Lubbers | Wim Kok | Dries van Agt | Wim van Eekelen | Onno Ruding (executive director IMF; director AMRO Bank; finance minister 1982-1989; director Citibank) | Max van der Stoel | Morris Tabaksblat | Hans Wijers | Jacob Frenkel | Yasser Arafat | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Muhamed Sacirbey | Louis Schweitzer | Constantinescu | Nakasone | Fidel Castro | Robert Mugabe | Margaret Thatcher | Turgut Ozal | Count Otto von Lambsdorff | King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan | many other world leaders. |
1989 |
| International Institute for Democracy (IID) Board: Allen Weinstein (founding board member 1989-2001) | Heinrich Klebes (president) | Sen. Erik Jurgens (Dutch; son of an Unilever director; chair NOS 1975-1985) |
1989 |
| Points of Light Foundation (PLF) Michelle Nunn (CEO; daughter of Sam N.) | George H. W. Bush (co-founder and honorary chair) | Neil Bush (known speaker) | Vernon Jordan | Ray Chambers (founding chair). |
1990 |
| International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) Ronald Lehman II (international chairman) |
1992 |
| Project on Justice in Times of Transition (PJTT) / Beyond Conflict (International) Advisory board: Vaclav Havel | Arpad Goncz | Mikhail Gorbachev (anno '12) | Nelson Mandela (anno '12) | Shimon Peres (anno '12) | Stephen Heintz (anno '12; president RBF) | John Podesta (anno '12) | Kurt Biedenkopf (anno '12) | George Biddle (anno '12) | Jose Maria Figueres (anno '12; former president Costa Rica) | Oscar Arias (anno '12; former president Costa Rica) | Hanan Ashrawi (anno '12; "Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy, Jerusalem"). Strategy committee / Executive Program Committee: Herbert Kelman (anno '12) | Joseph Nye (anno '12) | Samantha Power (anno '12) | Nancy Rubin (anno '12) | Frank Loy (anno '12; under sec. for Global Affairs 1998-2001) | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Nancy Soderberg | Tim Wirth | Karel Schwarzenberg. Source(s): pjtt.org/who-we-are/international-advisory-board/ (accessed: Sep. 21, 2012). |
1992 |
| Cercle des Economistes Jean-Herve Lorenzi (president). |
1992 |
| Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) Speakers: Arianna Huffington ('03) | chairs and CEOs of AstraZeneca, Cisco, Rio Tinto, Xerox ('04) | Larry Silverstein ('04) | Joseph Stiglitz ('04) | Lord Peter Melchett ('04) | Paul Wolfowitz ('05 opening speech) | Jim Skinner ('05; CEO McDonalds) | Richard Parsons ('06) | Jeffrey Immelt ('08) | Judith Rodin ('10, '15) | Hugh Grant ('10; CEO Monsanto) | Rajiv Shah ('12) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('12) | Mary Robinson ('13) | George Roberts ('13; co-founder, co-chair, co-CEO KKR) | Indra Nooyi ('14; CEO Pepsi) | Darren Walker ('14, '20; president Ford Fdn.) | Robert Reich ('15) | Lord John Browne ('16) | Kevin Rudd ('16) | John Thornton ('16) | Al Gore ('17) | Francois-Henri Pinault ('20). Sponsors: Cisco, Hitachi, Adobe, AT&T, ExxonMobil, Bank of New York Mellon, Ford, Walt Disney, UPS, Chevron, Levi Strauss. |
1992 |
| Baker Institute for Public Policy (BIPP) Leslie Gelb | Lord Hurd of Westwell | John Major | Edward Djerejian | Shimon Peres | Joseph Stiglitz | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Albright | James Baker III and James B. IV | Colin Powell | Sheikh Abdulla bin Ali Al-Thani | Hushang Ansary |
1993 |
| Interpeace Governing council: Lord Paddy Ashdown | Martti Ahtisaari | Jan Pronk (since 2004) | Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (2010-2012) | Sheikha Hind Bint Hamad Al-Thani |
1994 |
| International Crisis Group (ICG) In the 2010s the group had about 50 trustees and about 65 people on the advisory board, most of them former trustees. That's a total of 115 leading individuals. Former foreign ministers, prime ministers and other cabinet-tied indiduals from around the world have consistently been among the favorite recruits. Others are tied to the UN and EU structures, the International Criminal Court, South Africa's ANC, etc. Primary trustees who joined in the 1990s: George Soros (co-founder, seed-financier, financier, exec. committee by '05; trustee anno '95-'23, eventually together with his son, Alexander) | Elie Wiesel (anno '96, gone by '99) | Sen. George Mitchell (founding chair anno '95-'03, trustee until at least '05) | Ed Turner (anno '96- Nov. '99, gone by July '00 and died in 2002; exec. vice president of CNN, owned by non-relative Ted Turner; one of Ted's first chief aides) | Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (anno '96-, until '03; listed as "president CoR"; later a royal family advisor was on the board) | Morton Abramowitz ('95-'17, listed as "Founder and Trustee Emeritus" '17-; former U.S. assistant sec. of state) | Joanne Leedom-Ackerman (anno '96-'16; wife of Peter Ackerman; leader of Pen America and Pen Int. late 1990s - early 2020s) | Gareth Evans (president anno '99, president and CEO 2000-2009; senior advisory board afterwards; former foreign minister of Australia) | Shimon Peres (anno Nov. '99, not in '96 or '00, advisor '09-, still anno '12) | Michel Rocard (anno '99, until '02, advisor '06, still anno '12; former French president) | Christian Schwarz-Schilling (until '99, advisor '09-, still anno '12) | Matthew McHugh (anno '99, until '01; then-counsellor to the World Bank president James W.) | Stephen Solarz (anno '99, until '10, vice chair '00-'04, exec. comm. '04-'10) | Cyril Ramaphosa (anno '99, until '01, advisor '06-; sec gen ANC under Nelson M.; "Deputy Executive Chairman, New Africa Investments Ltd., South Africa" in '99; president South Africa Feb. '18-) Secondary trustees who joined in the 1990s: Nicholas Hinton (founding president '95-'97; died from a heart attack in '97 on a mission in Bosnia) | Peter Kooijmans (anno '96, gone by '99) | Bernard Kouchner (anno '96, gone by '99) | Leo Tindemans (anno '96-, until '99, advisor '06-; former Belgian PM) | Alain Destexhe (until '99, former president; Belgian senator) | Thorvald Stoltenberg (anno '96-'09; former foreign minister of Norway) | Par Stenback (anno '96-'16; president, Finnish Red Cross; former foreign secretary) | Barbara McDougall ('96-'05, advisor '06-; Canada's sec. of state for external affairs 1990-93 under PM Brian M.) | Sir William Shawcross (anno '96, until '06; chair UK's Charity Comm. 2012-2018) | Mark Eyskens (anno '96-, until '16; former Belgian PM) | Malcolm Fraser (anno '96-, until '99, advisor '06-, still anno '13; PM Australia 1975-1983) | Gianfranco Dell'Alba (anno '96-'99; then member European Parliament) | Marianne Heiberg (anno '96-'00; then-special advisor to UNESCO dir.-gen. and senior researcher, Norwegian Inst. of Int. Affairs) | Nobuo Matsunaga (anno '96-, until '99; president Japan Inst. for Int. Affairs at the time) | Olara Otunnu (anno '96-Feb. '00, gone by July '00, advisor '09-, still anno '12) | Michael Sohlman (anno '96, until '02; exec. director of Sweden's Nobel Fdn., of the Nobel Prizes) | Oscar Arias Sanchez (anno '96, until '04; former Costa Rica president) | Max Jakobson (anno '96; former ambassador of Finland to the UN) | Mou-Shih Ding (anno '99, until '00; then-senior advisor to the president, Taiwan, R.O.C.) | William O. Taylor (anno '99, until '06 (exec.), advisor '06-; chair Boston Globe) | Sen. Eduard van Thijn (anno '99, until mid '04 (with Wim K. on the board), advisor '06-; Dutch interior minister 1981-1982, 1994; Amsterdam mayor 1983-1994; progressive Judaist on the supervisory board of the Anne Frank Foundation) | Simone Veil (anno '99, until '04, advisor '09-; former president European Parliament and former French health minister) | Maria Livanos Cattaui (anno '99, vice chair anno '04, still on the board anno '23; sec.-gen. ICC) | Mong Joon Chung (until '99; member of the Korean National Assembly) | Ersin Arioglu (anno '99, until '00; chair Yapi Merkezi construction company, Turkey). Primary trustees who joined in the 2000s: Martti Ahtisaari ('00-, chair '00-'04, chair emeritus after) | Jacques Delors (by July '00-'02, advisor '09-, still anno '13; former president European Comm.) | Mortimer Zuckerman (July '00 - July '01, gone by July '02) | Gen. Wesley Clark (by July '00-'18) | Grigory Yavlinsky (by July 00-'06, advisor '06, still anno '12; member Russian Duma and presidential candidate favored by George S.) | Richard V. Allen (by July '01-'04) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (by July '02-'10, advisor anno '13) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (by July '02 until his arrest in Russia in '03) | Carla Hills (by July '02-'13) | Stanley Fischer ('04-, advisor '06, still anno '13; chief economist World Bank, first deputy man. dir. IMF 1994-2001; gov. Bank of Israel 2005-2013) | Victor Pinchuk ('04-, still anno '09, also a donor since at least '03) | Lord George Robertson ('04-, advisor '06-, still anno '12; sec.-gen. NATO 1999-2003) | Leslie Gelb (joined as co-chair late '04, until '05, continued as a regular trustee) | Lord Chris Patten (co-chair anno '05-'09, advisor anno '12) | Thomas Pickering (joined as co-chair in April '06-'11, chair '12-'14, exec. comm. '14-, trustee until at least '19) | Kenneth Adelman (anno '06-08; former U.S. ambassador and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency) | Joschka Fischer (anno '06-'09; vice chancellor / deputy PM and foreign affairs minister 1998-2005) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('08-'10, advisor anno '10-13; president Poland 1995-2005) | Larry Summers ('08-, in gov. '09-'11 (listed grey), again '11-, still anno '19) | Samantha Power (Dec. '06 - Mar. '09, and also: joined in 1996 as a European analyst and helped set up an office in Bosnia) | Yegor Gaidar ('08-'09; died in '09; former PM Russia and key economic advisor) | Kofi Annan ('08-'14; sec. gen. UN 1997-2006) | Richard Armitage ('08-'13, later advisor) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('08-'13, also advisor '10-). Secondary trustees who joined in the 2000s: Hushang Ansary ('00-, still anno '23, on the advisory board in between) | Louise Arbour ('00-, gone for some years, president and CEO 2009-, still anno '12; supreme court judge; chief prosecutor in The Hague over Yugoslavia and Rwanda) | Volker Ruehe / Volker Ruhe ('00-'02, advisor '06-; German defense minister under Helmut K. 1992-98) | Bronislaw Geremek ('00-'06, advisor '06-; Polish foreign minister 1997-00, under Alek K.) | Sen. Emma Bonino ('00-'06, gone for some years, 14-'21; European Parliament 1979-88, 1999-06; foreign minister of Italy 2013-2014) | Fidel Ramos ('00-'10; former president of the Philippines) | Lord Paddy Ashdown ('00-'02, '08-'09, advisor '06-; leader Liberal Democrats UK 1988-99; High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina 2002-06) | Inder Gujral ('00-'06, advisor '06-; former India PM 1997-98) | Cheryl Carolus (anno '02-'21, exec. comm. '05-'18; "former sec. gen. ANC and South African High Commissioner to the UK) | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (July '02-'05; controversial Liberia president 2006-2018; again at ICG '19, still anno '23) | S. Daniel Abraham ('03-'04) | Saud Nasir Al-Sabah ('03-'04; Kuwait ambassador to U.S. and U.K., and oil minister) | Ayo Obe (anno '03-'09, vice chair anno '12-'16, regular again anno '23; "Chair of Steering Committee of World Movement for Democracy, Nigeria") | Wim Kok (by Sep. '03-'18; Dutch PM in 1994-2002) | Uta Zapf (by July '03-; then-chair German Bundestag Subcommittee on Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation) | Victor Chu (by July '04-'08, advisor by '11) | Ruth Dreifuss ('04-'06; former president Switzerland) | Uffe Ellemann-Jensen ('04-'09; former foreign minister of Denmark) | Surin Pitsuwan ('04-'06; former foreign minister of Thailand) | Itamar Rabinovich ('04-'06; president Tel Aviv University; former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. and chief negotiator with Syria) | Mohamed Sahnoun ('04-'06, advisor '06-; then-special adviser to the UN sec.-gen. on Africa) | Salim Salim ('04-'06, advisor '06-; former Tanzania PM; former sec.-gen. of the Organisation of African Unity) | Pat Cox ('04-'10; liberal democrat and president European Parliament 2002-04) | Ghassan Salame ('04-'22, vice chair anno '12; former Lebanon minister; Sciences Po professor) | James C.F. Huang ('04-'06; dep. sec. gen. Taiwan's president) | Lena Hjelm-Wallen ('04'-'09; former deputy PM (1990, 1995-02) and foreign minister (1994-98) of Sweden) | Ernesto Zedillo ('04-'10; former Mexico president) | Kim Campbell ('05-'10, advisor anno '13; PM Canada June - Nov. 1993, justice minister 1990-93) | Ricardo Lagos ('06-'11; president Chile 2000-06) | Shlomo Ben-Ami ('06-'10; Israel's internal security minister 1999-2001 and foreign minister 2000-2001, both under Ehud B.) | Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker ('06-'07; widow of Sen. Howard Baker; chair of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs 1981, pressuring Reagan government into Apartheid sanctions; voted in favor of the bill establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday) | Mo Ibrahim ('08-'20; former deputy PM Malaysia). Primary trustees who joined in the 2010s: Igor Ivanov ('10-'13; foreign affairs minister of Russia 1998-04) | Sandy Berger ('10-'15; died in 2015.) | Javier Solana ('10-'18) | Lord Mark Malloch-Brown ('10-, co-chair '14-'18, chair '18-'19, co-chair '19-'21, listed as "Founder and Chairman Emeritus" from '21) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('14-'18) | Carl Bildt ('14-, still anno '23) | Alexander Soros ('18-, still anno '23) | Sigmar Gabriel ('18-, still anno '23) | Juan Manuel Santos Calderon ('18-, still anno '23; president Colombia 2010-18) | Jake Sullivan (July 2018 - Jan. 2021) | Adm. William McRaven ('18-, still anno '23) | Tzipi Livni ('18-, still anno '23; Likud / Kadima / Zionist Union Israeli justice minister 2006-7, 2013-14, foreign minister and designated acting PM 2006-9; still against shutting down "lib CIA" NGOs in Israel) | Stephen Hadley ('19-, still anno '23). Secondary trustees who joined in the 2010s: Nahum Barnea ('10-'18; "chief columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel") | Mohamed ElBaradei ('10 and "suspended" from Jan. '11 upon returning to Egypt; UN veteran; interim VP of Egypt July-Aug. 2013) | Jan Egeland ('10-'11; Director Norwegian Inst. of Int. Affairs; former UN under-sec. gen. for humanitarian affairs) | Benjamin Mkapa ('10-'14; president Tanzania 1995-2005) | Lalit Mansingh ('10-'16; foreign minister India 1999-01) | Wadah Khanfar ('12-, still anno '23; man. dir. Al Jazeera Channel 2003-06, dir. gen. Al Jazeera Network 2006 - Sep. 2011) | Wu Jianmin ('12-'16; member Foreign Policy Advisory Committee China and ambassador to the UN and France) | Lykke Friis ('13-'16; former climate and "gender equality" minister of Denmark) | Yoriko Kawaguchi ('15-'19; environmental minister of Japan 2001-02, foreign minister 2002-04) | Shivshankar Menon ('16-, still anno '23; foreign minister of India 2006-09, nat. sec. advisor 2010-14) | Marty Natalegawa ('16-'22; Indonesia's UN representative 2007-09, foreign minister 2009-14) | Andrey Kortunov (anno '18-'23; dir.-gen. Russian Int. Affairs Council) | Bert Koenders ('18-, still anno '23; joined right when Wim K. left; UN representative 2011-14; Dutch foreign affairs minister 2014-17) | Meghan O'Sullivan ('19-, still anno '23) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt ('16-'22; social democrat PM of Denmark 2011-15) | Alexander Downer ('18-'22; foreign affairs minister Australia 1996-2007 under John H.) | Juan Manuel Santos Calderon ('18-, still anno '23; president Colombia 2010-2018) | Ahmed Charai ('19-, still anno '23; Moroccan media baron) | Nathalie Delapalme ('18-. still anno '23; "Executive Director and Board Member of the Mo Ibrahim [Fdn.]") | Gerard Araud ('19-, still anno '23; France's dir. gen. for political and security affairs at the Foreign Affairs Ministry 2006-09, UN rep., 2009-14, ambassador to the U.S. 2014-19). Trustees who joined in the 2020s: Federica Mogherini (early '20-, still anno '23) | Alexander Stubb ('19-; PM Finland 2014-15; "Director of the School of Transnational Governance, Italy"). Unsorted trustees: Yoichi Funabashi ('00-'13, exec. comm. '05-'13). International Advisory Board, the later Senior Advisory Board (Listed on the site from late 2003. Initially quite a few corporate donors listed, but from Oct. 2006 it was fully dedicated to dozens and dozens of former trustees.): Peter Corcoran (Dec. '03-) | Victor P. (Dec. '03-; long-time financial contributor as well) | John Whitehead (Dec. '03-) | Marc Abramowitz (Dec. '03-) | "Allen & Co.", Quantum Limited" and "JP Morgan Global Foreign Exchange and Commodities" (Dec. '03-) | Anglo American PLC (Dec. '04-'05) | Rita Hauser (chair by mid '04-, still anno '06) | "Credit Suisse Group/Credit Suisse First Boston" ('05-'06) | BHP Billiton ('06) | Chevron ('06) | Baroness Williams of Crosby ('06-; president Social Democratic Party 1982-1987 and leader Liberal Dems, House of Lords, 2001-04) | Christoph Bertram (anno '10-'13; former director German Inst. for Int. and Security Affairs - DGAP; never a trustee) | Jorge Castaneda (anno '11; former foreign minister of Mexico) | Naresh Chandra (anno '11; former Indian Cabinet sec. and Amb. to the U.S.) | Joaquim Alberto Chissano (anno '11; former President of Mozambique). Donors: crisisweb.org/annual/1998/funding.htm (accessed: May 1, 1999; annual review): "ICG Funding: Governments: Australia. Canada. Denmark. Finland. Ireland. The Netherlands. Norway. Republic of China (Taiwan). States of Jersey (Channel Islands). Sweden. United States. Private sector: ... Kofi A. ... Hewlett [Fdn.] ... Loews [Corp.] ... Mott [Fdn.] Open Society [Inst.] Ploughshares [Fund]... Xerox..."; Steve Killelea (president's council member / $100,000+ annual donor since 2011 AR) | Paul Tudor Jones II ($100,000+ donor in 2011 AR; also event leader) | Sir Joseph Hotung ($25k-$100k, international advisory council) | Jonathan Soros | John Brademas (minor) | Pierre Mirabaud (minor) | James Wolfensohn (minor). Gala participants: Fareed Zakaria (master of ceremonies (2010)) | Bill and Hillary Clinton (Bill awarded in '09 and speaker in '10; Hillary awarded in '14; couple has donated to ICG) | George H. W. Bush (awarded in '09) | Queen Noor of Jordan (speaker and event leader) | Colin Powell (event leader). Remaining: Desmond Tutu (1990s involvement allegedly, but needs to be reconfirmed) | Vernon Jordan (1990s involvement allegedly, but needs to be reconfirmed) | Robert McNamara (1994-1995 involvement according to his own papers) | Nancy Soderberg (vice president of Multilateral Affairs) | John Prendergast (special advisor to the ICG president) | Scott Malcomson (director of communications 2013-2015). Listed in 2004 annual report as special contributors in 2003: Madeleine Albright (also event leader) | Byron Wein | Bono | Peter Jennings | Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (crisisweb.org/annual/1998/staff.htm (accessed: May 1, 1999; annual review): "Acknowledgments ICG would like to thank the following individuals for their contribution to the organisation's work during 1997: ... Mabel [W. S.].") crisisweb.org/about/program.cfm?typeid=4 (accessed: Dec. 5, 2001; 'About ICG'): "ICG raises funds from governments, charitable foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governments currently provide funding: Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Foundation and private sector donors include the Ansary Foundation, the Carnegie [Corp.] of New York, the Ford [Fdn.], the William and Flora Hewlett [Fdn.], the Charles Stewart Mott [Fdn.], the Open Society Institute, the Ploughshares Fund and the Sasakawa Peace [Fdn.]. December 2001. 2004 annual report: "ICG gratefully thanks the following governments for their financial contributions during 2003: ... Australia ... Austria ... Canada ... Denmark ... Finland ... France ... Germany ... Ireland ... Japan ... Luxembourg ... Netherlands ... New Zealand ... Norway ... Taiwan ... Sweden ... Switzerland ... Turkey ... United Kingdom ... United States (U.S. Agency for International Development). Foundations: ... Atlantic Philanthropies ... Gates Foundation ... Carnegie Corporation ... Mott Foundation. Ford Foundation. Fundacao Oriente. Henry Luce Foundation. ... MacArthur [Fdn.]. John Merck Fund. Open Society Institute Ploughshares Fund. ... Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Smith Richardson Foundation. United States Institute of Peace ... Hewlett Foundation... ICG gratefully thanks the following key individual and corporate benefactors of ICG both for their financial contributions during 2003 and theiradvice as members of the International Advisory Board: Marc Abramowitz ... Peter Corcoran ... JP Morgan Global Foreign ... John C. [W.][also event leader]... Pro Bono Legal Counsel: ... Shearman & Sterling. White & Case." 2006 annual report: "Funding: [all the same governments and foundations, plus] Korea Foundation ... Omidyar Fund ... Anglo American PLC ... BHP Billiton ... Chevron, Citigroup ... Credit Suisse ... McKinsey & Company ... Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors ..." Trustee sources: crisisweb.org (accessed: March 1, 2000; 'ICG Board'-section): "Board of Trustees, November 1999: ..."; crisisweb.org/about/board.cfm (accessed: Feb. 5, 2001 - Oct. 1, 2003; infrequent updates: July 2000, July 2001, July 2002 and Sep. 2003 boards); crisisweb.org/home/ index.cfm?id=1139&l=1 (accessed: Nov. 10, 2003 - Nov. 10, 2004; "ICG's Board"); crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=1139&l=1 (accessed: Feb. 7, 2005 - Sep. 3, 2009; "Crisis Group's Board"); crisisgroup.org/en/about/board.aspx (accessed: April 4, 2010 - Jan 4, 2016); crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board (accessed: Oct. 15, 2016 - Dec. 10, 2019); crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board-trustees (accessed: Aug. 25, 2023). Advisory board sources: crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2349&l=1 (accessed: Dec. 8, 2003 - Feb. 3, 2005); crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2349&l=1 (accessed: March 1, 2005 - Aug. 1, 2006): "Our International Advisory Board comprises key individual and corporate benefactors of Crisis Group."; crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=4399&l=1 (accessed: Oct 24, 2006 - May 13, 2009); crisisgroup.org/en/about/board/crisis-group-senior-advisers.aspx (accessed: April 14, 2010 - Sep. 5, 2012): "Crisis Group's Senior Advisers are former Board Members (to the extent consistent with any other office they may be holding at the time) who maintain an association with Crisis Group, and whose advice and support are called on from time to time." |
1995 |
| International Economic Forum of the Americas (IEFA) Montreal Conference: Alan Greenspan ('15) | Prince Albert II of Monaco (speaker '17) | Oleg Deripaska (speaker '17) | Helene Desmarais (speaker '17, '19) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (speaker '17, '18, '19; chair Montreal conference) | David Rubenstein (speaker '17, '18) | Adam Wolfensohn (speaker '17; son of James; Investment Committee Member RBF; trustee Rock. Phil. Adv.) | Ban Ki-moon (speaker '18) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (speaker '18, '19; speaker Toronto Conference in '19; announced speaker '20 in Miami) | Pascal Lamy (speaker '18, '19) | Gerard Mestrallet ('18, '19 speaker; governor Montreal conference) | Hashim Thaci (speaker '18) | Jacques Delors (governor Montreal conference) | Jean-Claude Trichet (governor Montreal conference) . Miami World Security Forum: Sheikh Meshal Bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar (speaker '19). Toronto conference / Toronto Global Forum (2007-): Joseph Stiglitz ('11) | Dick Cheney ('13) | Henry Kissinger ('14) | Fareed Zakaria ('14) | Mark Thompson ('14; president and CEO New York Times) | Dominic Barton ('14. '15; McKinsey & Co.) | Shimon Peres ('15) | John Negroponte ('15) | Ben van Beurden ('15; CEO Shell) | Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ('15; president of Iceland) | Christine Lagarde ('16) | Lynn Forester de R. ('19). |
1995 |
| Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) Francois Heisbourg (chair) | Dr. Fred Tanner |
1995 |
| Leaders For Business Past speakers: Joseph Stiglitz | Jeffrey Sachs | John Deutch | Fred Bergsten | Garry Kasparov | Lester Brown | Thomas Friedman | Sir Elton John | Sir Bob Geldof | Piers Morgan. |
1995 |
| New Atlantic Initiative (NAI) Conrad Black (co-founder, but never listed as a member). aei.org/research/nai/about/projectID.11/default.asp (accessed: Oct. 3, 2003): "Patrons: Vaclav Havel. Margaret Thatcher ... Helmut Schmidt ... Leszek Balcerowicz ... Henry Kissinger ... George Schultz ... Executive Director: Radek Sikorski [Radoslaw Sikorski]. International Advisory Board: Henry [K.] Chairman. ... John Bolton ... Zbigniew Brzezinski. Richard Burt. Lord Chalfont. ... Midge Decter. Paula Dobriansky. Pete du Pont. ... Edwin Feulner. Thomas Foley. ... Newt Gingrich ... Robert Hormats ... [Samuel Huntington] ... Josef Joffe. Donald Kagan. Max Kampelman. ... Jack Kemp. Jeane Kirkpatrick. Charles Krauthammer. William Kristol. ... Michael Ledeen. ... R. F. M. [Ruud] Lubbers ... Mitch McConnell ... Joshua Muravchik ... [William Odom] ... Viktor Orban. Richard Perle. ... Daniel Pipes. Norman Podhoretz. Sir Charles Powell. Colin Powell. ... Donald Rumsfeld ... Karel Schwartzenberg ... Lord Weidenfeld ... Robert Zoellick." aei.org/research/nai/about/projectID.11/default.asp (accessed: April 17, 2006): "Jose Maria Aznar ... Mikhael Khodorkovsky [since 2004] ... Rupert Murdoch ... Lord [George] Robertson ... Lord Salisbury." More: Daniel Moynihan. Exec. committee: Edward Streator, Peter Mandelson. Lee Raymond (trustee vice chair). Seminar attendants: Jon Kyl | Sen. John McCain III | Paul Wolfowitz. |
1996-2005 |
| Emergency Coalition for U.S. Financial Support of the United Nations Leadership council: James Baker III | Frank Carlucci | Jimmy Carter | Warren Christopher | Lawrence Eagleburger | Alexander Haig | Max Kampelman | Henry Kissinger | Claiborne Pell | Elliot Richardson | David Rockefeller | William D. Rogers | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | George Soros | William Taft IV | Cyrus Vance | Paul Volcker | Robert Zoellick |
1996 |
| Council of Women World Leaders Founders: Vigdis Finnbogadottir (president Iceland 1980-1996) and Mary Robinson (president Ireland 1990-1997). Members: Madeleine Albright (anno '21) | Gro Harlem Brundtland (PM Norway 1981, 1986-1989, and 1990-1996) | Kim Campbell (chair emeritus anno '21; PM Canada '93) | Kolinda Grabarkitarovic (chair emeritus anno '21; president Croatia 2015-2020) | Dalia Grybauskaite (chair emeritus anno '21; president Lithuania 2009-2019 ) | Tarja Halonen (chair emeritus anno '21; president Finland 2000-2012) | Theresa May (anno '21) | Angela Merkel (anno '21) | Yulia Tymoshenko (president Ukraine 2005, 2007-2010) | Tansu Ciller (anno '21; PM Turkey 1993-1996) | Dilma Rousseff (president Brazil 2011-2016) | Erna Solberg (PM Norway 2013-2020s) | Jacinda Ardern (PM New Zealand 2017-) | Corazon Aquino (president Philippines 1986-1992) | Sirimavo Bandaranaike (PM Sri Lanka 1960-1965, 1970-1977, 1994-2000) | Benazir Bhutto (PM Pakistan 1988-1990, 1993-1996, assassinated by Al Qaeda and allied Islamic elements in 2007; came from a wealthy, influential Pakistani family; her father, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, educated at UC Berkeley and Oxford, was president/PM of Pakistan 1971-1977, and executed in 1979 ; stydied at Harvard and Oxford). Anno 2021 listed members of the group involves the former prime ministers and presidents of United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, France, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland, Greece, Malta, Netherlands Antilles, Serbia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Romania, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Kosovo, Ukraine, Peru, Moldova, Philippines, Indonesia, Chile, Malawi, Nicaragua, Turkey, Bermuda, Mozambique, South Korea, Bermuda, Mauritius, Bangladesh, Marshall Islands, Argentina, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Namibia, Costa Rica, Panama, Sao Tome et Principe, Kyrgyzstan, India, Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Jamaica, Liberia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Georgia. |
1996 |
| U.S. Committee to Expand NATO / U.S. Committee on NATO Bruce Jackson (president) | Ronald Asmus (co-chair) | Julie Finley (founder) | Robert Kagan | Perle | Rothkopf | Scheunemann | Albright (speaker) |
1996 |
| Grameen Foundation Directors: Muhammad Yunus (anno 1999-2009; "Founder and Managing DIrector, Grameen Bank") | Steven Rockefeller Jr. (2001-, until March 2008) | John Doerr (2005-, until March 2008). Advisory council: Mrs. Trammell Crow (2006-, until at least 2009) | John Whitehead (2006-, until at least 2009). Source(s): grameenfoundation.org/boardstaff.html (accessed: May 6, 1999); gfusa.org/boardstaff.html (accessed: June 10, 2001); gfusa.org/about_us/ our_people/board_members/ (accessed: Oct. 18, 2005). |
1997 |
| Pi Capital, London Listed past speakers in 2007 (same list as 2014): Jimmy Carter | Bill Clinton ('21) | Jeb Bush | Sir Richard Dearlove | Boris Johnson | Mark Malloch Brown ('20) | David Miliband ('20) | Mary Robinson | John Major | Lord Chris Patten | Muhammad Yunus ('15, '16) | Lord Peter Mandelson ('17) | Desmond Tutu | Larry Brilliant | Niall Ferguson ('17, '20, '21) | Laurence Tisch | Lord Nicholas Stern ('15) | Lord Martin Rees ('15, '18, '21) | Lionel Barber | Dominic Barton ('16, '20) | Sir Richard Branson | Mo Ibrahim | Elon Musk | Paul Polman | Eric Schmidt | Sir Martin Sorrell | Lord Adair Turner ('15, '19) | Garry Kasparov ('15) | Peter Gabriel | Kevin Spacey | Will.i.am. "Events"/speakers 2015-: Joseph Stiglitz ('15) | Ian Bremmer ('15, '17) | Gen. David Petraeus ('16, '20-'21) | Kofi Annan ('16) | Carl Bildt and Michael Chertoff (joint talk '16) | Christiane Amanpour ('16) | Jacqueline Novogratz ('17) | Peter Smith ('17; CEO and co-founder Blockchain) | Christiana Figueres ('17) | Bill Gates ('17, '21) | Jane Goodall ('18) | Reid Hoffman ('18) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('18) | Ingrid Betancourt ('18) | Francis Fukuyama ('18) | Madeleine Albright ('18) | John Negroponte ('18) | Garrick Hileman ('18; crypto) | Samantha Power ('19) | Al Gore ('19) | Robert Zoellick ('20) | Deepak Chopra ('20) | John Bolton ('20) | Richard Haass ('20) | Paul Krugman ('20-'21) | James Comey ('21) | Mark Carney ('21) | Tom Tugendhat ('21). |
1997 |
| Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS Richard Holbrooke (president and CEO) | William Roedy (chair; of MTV). Advisory board: Victor Pinchuk | Bertrand Collomb | Raymond Gilmartin. |
1997 |
| Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG) Members/letter signers: Stephen Solarz | Richard Perle | Elliott Abrams | Richard V. Allen | Armitage | Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Douglas Feith | Frank Gaffney | Fred Ikle | Robert Kagan | Sven Kraemer | William Kristol | Michael Ledeen | Bernard Lewis | Robert McFarlane | Joshua Muravchik | Donald Rumsfeld | Gary Schmitt | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Caspar Weinberger | Paul Wolfowitz | Dov Zakheim | John Bolton | William Clark | Richard Burt | David Wurmser | Zalmay Khalilzad. |
1998 |
| International Center for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) Present at founding: Hillary Clinton. Present at the London launch: Sir Richard Branson. Honorary board: Margarida Sousa Uva Barroso (wife of the President of the European Commission) | Mrs. Bernadette Chirac (wife of the French president) | HRH Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol of Thailand | Valentina Matvienko (chair Federal Council of the Russian Federal Assembly) | HRH Princess Lalla Meryem of the Kingdom of Morocco | Queen Paola of Belgium | Queen Silvia of Sweden. Directors: Dr. Franz Humer (chair Roche Holdings) | Arnold Burns (founding chair; former attorney general | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer (became chair in 2005; later honorary chair) | Daniel Broughton (vice chair Mayo Clinic) | James A. Levine (Mayo Clinic) | Anne-Marie Lizin (president Belgian senate) | Sen. Dennis DeConcini | Victor Halberstadt | Hilmar Kopper (former chair and CEO Deutsche Bank) | Juan Miguel Petit (UN special rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution, and child pornography) | Patty Wetterling (chair NCMEC). NCMEC: national U.S. organization, founded in 1984. Child Focus: Belgian Center for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, founded in 1997. The idea came from the father of one of the victims of the Dutroux affair, who learned about the NCMEC, after which the government created the center. Founding chair 1997-2007: Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer. |
1998 |
| PlaNet Finance Group International advisory board, past and present: Robert Hormats | Michel David-Weill | Felix Rohatyn | Etienne Davignon | Jacques Delors | Pehr Gyllenhammar | Shimon Peres | Boutros Boutros-Ghali (Egypt) | Herve de Carmoy | Guillaume Sarkozy (older brother of French president Nicolas) | Michel Rocard (French PM) | Edouard Balladur (French PM) | Yusuf bin Alawi Bin (foreign affairs minister of Oman since 1982) | Abdou Diouf (Senegal) | Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh) | Ishrat Husain (Pakistan) | Shashi Tharoor (India) | David Li (Hong Kong) | Pedro Moreira (Brazil). |
1998 |
| Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Advisory board: Thierry de Montbrial (founder '99-'10, moved to the separate advisory board for 'Cultural Diplomacy in Europe' instead of the ICD in early '10) | Erkki Tuomioja ('10, still anno '22; foreign minister and PM Finland) | Dr. Emil Constantinescu ('10, still anno '22; president Romania) | Janez Jansa (Nov. '10-, still anno '22) | Michael Chertoff (Jan. '11-; secretary Homeland Security 2005-2009) | Adm. James Milton Loy (Jan. '11-, still anno '22; former deputy secretary Homeland Security) | Paula Dobriansky (early '11, still anno '22) | Gen. Clarence McKnight ('12, still anno '22) | Dr. Jan Pronk ('12, still anno '22) | Jermaine Jackson (anno '22; brother of Michael Jackson). Speakers: Joseph Nye Jr. ('09). Source(s): culturaldiplomacy.org/"about_origins.htm (accessed: June 5, 2002); culturaldiplomacy.org/ index.php?en_advisoryboard (accessed: May 31, 2011 to February 9, 2022). |
1999 |
| Liberalization of Trade in Services (LOTIS) 14 meetings in total. Controlled the process of the WTO. Lord Leon Brittan of Spennithorne (chair) | Sir Peter Sutherland. Other names not made public by investigative journalist Greg Palast, who actually received key documents and major support from none other than close Rockefeller-intimate Joseph Stiglitz. Also: Mark Brown Vestey (extreme left-wing protestor against the WTO who coordinates a lot of the action - yet a member of an elite family. Also involved with Corporate Watch). |
1999-2001 |
| World Technology Network Organizes annual World Technology Summits. Awarded: Al Gore | Maurice Greenberg | Mark Zuckerberg | Larry Page and Serge Brin | Tony Blair. |
1999 |
| Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF), Geneva Co-founders: John Whitehead (honorary co-chair anno 2006) | Robert Zoellick | two former UN officials | Peter Bell (president CARE USA). Co-founders of BHF included executives from Merck, Unocal and Goldman Sachs. bhforum.ch/en/partnership/brochure_02.cfm (accessed: June 8, 2003): "Kofi Annan... Geneva, 27 January 1999: ... "It gives me great pleasure to convey my greetings to the first meeting of the Business Humanitarian Forum. The business community is fast becoming one of the United Nations' most important allies."" |
1999 |
| Global Forum 2000, Regent Wall Street Hotel, New York City Rupert Murdoch (founder). Madeleine Albright (opening speech). Henry Kissinger (chair). Penalists: James Wolfensohn | Gorbachev | Robert Rubin | Newt Gingrich | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Colin Powell. Attendants: Jean-Claude Trichet | Koichi Kato | Kurt Beidenkopf. |
2000 |
| Council for a Community of Democracies Founders: Polish foreign affairs minister Bronislaw Geremek and Madeleine Albright. Senior advisors: Frank Carlucci (anno Jan. '06; "principal" anno '10) | John Whitehead (anno Jan. '06) | John Brademas (anno Jan. '06) | Max Kampelman (anno Jan. '06; "principal" anno '10) | Hodding Carter III (anno Jan. '06). More: Paula Dobriansky ('02 Seoul conference; "principal" anno '10) | Walter Raymond, Jr. |
2000 |
| Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Princeton University Hans Adam II on L. (founder and advisory council) | Prince Alois von L. (advisory council) | Richard Falk (advisory council; linked to false 9/11 conspiracy ideas) | Claiborne Pell (at the opening conference, as a close family friend). |
2000 |
| Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Finance by Peter Munk |
2000 |
| Oil Club Chairman: Lord Lamont |
Unknown |
| Doha Forum Participants/speakers: Grover Norquist ('13) | Paula Dobriansky ('13) | Hunter Biden ('14) | Rev. Jesse Jackson ('14) | Mohamed Krichene of Al-Jazeera TV (session chair '17) | leaders of Mali, Somalia, Lebanon and other countries ('17) | Omar Hassan Al-Basheer of Sudan ('17) | Martin Indyk ('17) | Marietje Schaake ('18) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('18, '19) | Alexander Soros ('19) | Carl Bildt ('19) | Jane Harman ('19) | Sheikh Tamin bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar ('19) | Zalmay Khalilzad ('19) | Bill Richardson ('19) | Peter Mandelson ('19) | Lindsey Graham ('19) | Sigmar Gabriel ('19) | Paul Kagame ('19) | Ivanka Trump ('19) | Steve Mnuchin ('19) | Rachel Rizzo ('19) | Jeffrey Feltman ('19) | Ban Ki-Moon ('19) | Princess Dana Firas ('19). |
2000 |
| Shadow G8 / Shadow Group of Eight --- Shadow G7 / Shadow Group of Seven Members: C. Fred Bergsten (chair '00-'05, also listed as co-chair) | Henry Kissinger (anno '01) | Paul Volcker (anno '01) | Renato Ruggiero (anno '01; member before becoming foreign affairs minister 2001-2002) | Robert Zoellick (anno '01; member before becoming Trade Representative 2001-2005) | Heizo Takenaka (anno '01; member before becoming economics minister 2001-) | Joseph Stiglitz (initiator, seemingly of a follow-up group, and its chair anno '07). Participants: Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul (German minister for Economic Development and Cooperation who met with the group on April 17, 2007 at UN HQ) | Jose Antonio Ocampo (involved anno 2007) | Paul Martin (involved anno 2007; PM Canada 2003-2006). Source(s): publications.hse.ru/pubs/ share/folder/cryoeh58ap/79906368.pdf (accesed: Jan. 2, 2024; p. 99; the groups clearly had the same agenda of including the Third World): "The Shadow G8 functioned until 2006; in 2007 a different “Shadow G8” appeared under the leadership of the Nobel-laureate economist Joseph E. [S.]" July 20, 2001, NY Times, ''Shadow' Group Seeks to Open G-8 to Poorer Nations': "...members also include three experts from the United States, Japan and Italy who are now top government officials..." May 28, 23, Washington Post, 'G-8 Summit: Photo Op, Or Serious?': "...includes former foreign and finance ministers."; Nov. 2012, C. Fred B. for PIIE.com, 'Global economics in Extraordinary Times': "He chaired the“Shadow G-7” during 2000–05..." May 2007, Joseph E. [S.] and Stephany Griffith-Jones for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung's Dialogue on Globalization magazine, 'Growth with Responsibilityin a Globalized World –Findings of the Shadow G-8', Preface: "... the “Shadow G-8,” a meeting of a diverse group of concerned citizens from around the world, including former government officials, G-8 alumni, and leading economists, which was initiated and chaired by Nobel laureate economist Joseph E. [S.]. The group met on February 9, 2007, at Columbia University in New York. A second event took place at the United Nations in New York on April 17, 2007... The results are presented in two parts: in the Chairman’s Summary, Professor Stiglitz succinctly conveys the Shadow G-8’s key findings and recommendations... [p. 28:] Key Recommendations: 1. A new forum, the G-N, should be created immediately. It would include as full members G-8 leaders and leaders from developing countries, both middle and low income. ... 2. G-8 countries should commit now to doubling the historical rate of energy efficiency improvements, to agreeing to a set of standards for fuel efficiency in cars, housing, airplanes, and other major sources of pollution, and to eliminating subsidies for fossil fuels and distortionary tariffs on alternative biofuels. ... [p. 29:] List of Participants: [lists no one major, except Joseph.]..." |
2000 (no later than) |
| London Speaker Bureau (LSB) Speakers U.S.: James Wolfensohn | Jeffrey Sachs | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Newt Gingrich | Robert Reich | James Rubin | Neil Armstrong | Naomi Campbell | Michael Douglas | Larry King | Elle Macpherson | Jane Seymour | Kevin Spacey | Sigourney Weaver | Donald Trump (pre 2011) | Steve Wozniak | Gerald Levin | Mary Buffett (daughter-in-law of Warren Buffett) | Charles Leadbeater. Speakers E.U.: Carl Bildt | Martti Ahtisaari | Sigmar Gabriel | Joschka Fischer | Gerhard Schroeder | Dominique De Villepin | Henri Giscard d'Estaing | Bernard-Henri Levy | Herman Van Rompuy | Guy Verhofstadt | Jeroen Van der Veer (appointed global chair in Oct. '15) | Johan Cruijff (soccer player). Speakers U.K.: Sir Richard Branson | Jack Straw | Ken Livingstone | David Miliband | Peter Mandelson | William Hague | Maurice Saatchi | Nigel Farage | David Beckham | John Cleese | Stephen Fry | Bob Geldof | Gordon Ramsay | Sir Salman Rushdie | Earl Spencer. Speakers Africa: Desmond Tutu | F.W. de Klerk (South Africa). Speakers Asia: Muhammad Yunus | Shaukat Aziz | Rami Khouri. Speakers Latin America: Vicente Fox. Russian speakers: Igor Ivanov | Garry Kasparov | Petra Nemcova. |
2001 (no later than) |
| Center for Dialogues: Islamic World–U.S.–The West Advisory board: John Brademas | Richard Haass | Etienne Davignon | Mortimer Zuckerman | Frank Wisner II | Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (France) | Ambassador Nassir Abdelaziz Al-Nasser (Qatar) | Hoda Badran (Egypt) | H.M. Queen Noor and HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal (Jordan) | Maleeha Lodhi (Pakistan) | Chandra Muzaffar (Malaysia) | Farhan A. Nizami (India/U.K.) | Thoraya Obaid (Saudi Arabia) | Rakhamim Emanuilov (Russia). Center's 2002 dialogue report was entitled, 'Clash of Civilizations or Clash of Perceptions?' |
2001 |
| Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Canada International Board of Governors (anno 2004): Jim Balsillie (CIGI founder and chair) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2003-2007) | Yegor Gaidar (anno 2004) | Allan Gotlieb (anno 2004-2007) | Bill Graham (anno 2004; Canada's foreign affairs minister) | Thomas Pickering (anno 2004-2007) | Maurice Strong (anno 2004) | Joseph Stiglitz (anno 2004-2007) | Rita Hauser (joined Oct. 2004, anno 2007) | Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (anno 2007) | Strobe Talbott (anno 2007). Big names were all gone by 2011. More: Ngaire Woods (board member) | Chester Crocker (fellow) | Michael Chertoff (fellow) | Carl Bildt ("distinguished fellow" 2014-). Funding: Pierre Trudea Fdn. |
2001 |
| Atlantic Partnership Lord Charles Powell (chair) | Kissinger | Sen. Joseph Biden | John Major | Sam Nunn | William Cohen | Scowcroft | McCain III | Lord George Robertson | Colin Powell | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Paula Dobriansky | John Drexel IV | Richard Burt (trustee) |
2001 |
| Energy Future Coalition (EFC) Advisory council: James Woolsey. Steering committee: Richard Branson | Frances Beinecke | Charles B. Curtis | Tom Daschle | Susan Eisenhower | Michael Finley (Turner Fdn.) | C. Boyden Gray | John Podesta | Adm. Dennis McGinn | Steve Symms | Ted Turner. |
2001 |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) Ted Turner (co-founder and co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-founder and co-chair) | Alexei Arbatov | Igor Ivanov | Sergei Rogov | Susan Eisenhower | Warren Buffett | William Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Andrei Kokoshin | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Malcolm Rifkind | Gen. James Cartwright | Michael Douglas | Adm. Michael Mullen | Laura Turner Seydel | Pierre Lellouche. 2016 #NoGreaterThreat signers (additional): Graham Allison | Kofi Annan | James Baker III | Hans Blix | Michael Bloomberg | Larry Brillant | Zbigniew Brzezinski | William Burns | Jimmy Carter | Ken Chenault | Joseph Cirincione | Sidney Drell | Gareth Evans | Jamie Gorelick | Vartan Gregorian | David Hamburg | Lee Hamilton | John Hamre | Carla Hills | Stephen Heintz (president RBF) | Jon H. Jr. | Wolfgang Ischinger | Gen. James L. Jones | Thomas Kean | Henry Kissinger | Ruud Lubbers | Richard Lugar | Robert McFarlane | Adm. Michael M. | Nathan Myhrvold | Steve Nesbit | Richard Parsons | Peter Peterson and son Michael | David Petraeus | Thomas Pickering | Lord George Robertson | David Rockefeller Jr. | Stephen Schwarzman | George Shultz | Andy Weber | Lord West of Spithead | Steve Wynn. Other: Margaret Hamburg (senior scientist) |
2001 |
| Club of Madrid Wim Kok (president). Members: John Major | Jose Maria Aznar | Jacques Delors | Bill Clinton | Jimmy Carter | Carl Bildt | Mikhail Gorbachev | Amine Pierre Gemayel | Helmut Kohl | Martti Ahtisaari | Ruud Lubbers | Jan Peter Balkenende | Romano Prodi | Mario Monti | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Jose Zapatero | Guy Verhofstadt | Gro Harlem Brundtland | Jean Chretien | Vincente Fox | Amine Gemayel | Francois Hollande | Dominique de Villepin | Alain Juppe | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Mary Robinson | Jorge Sampaio | Kevin Rudd | Herman van Rompuy | Guy Verhofstadt | Felipe Calderon | Thabo Embeki | Ernesto Zedillo | Fidel Ramos. Includes many other former leaders from countries around the world. |
2001 |
| Center for Global Development (CGD) Historical directors: Edward Scott (founder; from PIIE) | Fred Bergsten (founder) | Mark Malloch-Brown | David Rothkopf | C. Boyden Gray | Robert Mosbacher Jr. | Larry Summers (chair) | Paul O'Neill | David Gergen | Rachel Pritzker | Timothy Geithner | Robert McNamara (hon. anno 2008) Joseph Stiglitz (honorary anno 2008, 2020) | Enrique V. Iglesias | Anne Krueger | Peter McPherson (chair Dow Jones & Co.) | Dina Habib Powell | William Ruckelshaus | Jeffrey Sachs | Sheryl Sandberg | James Gustave Speth | Patrick Gross | Patty Stonesifer. More: Jane Nelson (advisory group) | Ngaire Woods (advisory group) | Ernesto Zedillo (advisory group). CGD's Energy for Growth (2017-): Francis Fukuyama | Rachel P. Funding: Rockefeller Fdn., Pritzker Innovation Fund, Chevron, GE. |
2001 |
| Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), Ireland International advisory board (anno 2005): Sir Peter Sutherland (also a major financier, alongside Atlantic Phil.) | C. Fred Bergsten | Jacques Delors | Jeffrey Sachs (already an initial lecture in 2002) | Klaus Schwab. |
2001-2015 |
| World Security Network Focused quite a bit on younger people. Hubertus Hoffmann (founder; Fritz Kraemer protege 1978-2003) | Fritz Kraemer (founder) | Ronald Asmus | Lord Peter Inge | Sergei Rogov | Gen. Edward Rowny | Samy Gemayel (Lebanon) |
2001 |
| Project on Transitional Democracies Bruce Jackson (president) | Julie Finley (chair) | Randy Scheunemann (treasurer): Co-signers May 2006 open letter to G7 on democracy in Russia: Ian Brzezinski, William Kristol, Richard Pipes. |
2002 |
| European Economic Round Table At Waddesdon Manor. Organizers: Jacob Rothschild & Warren Buffett | Schwarzenegger | Bono | Nicky Oppenheimer | James Wolfensohn | Paul Volcker | David Frum | Harold Rhode | Barbara Walters | Anatole Kaletsky | Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
2002 |
| Collegium International Listed members (same names 2007-2020): Michel Rocard (founder; still listed anno '24) | Pascal Lamy (still anno '24; vice president) | Milan Kucan (co-president; still listed anno '24; president Slovenia 1991-2002) | Miguel de la Madrid (still anno '24) | Gareth Evans (still anno '24) | Malcolm Fraser (still anno '24) | Morton Halperin (still anno '24) | Vaclav Havel | Robert J. Lifton (still anno '24; "Professor, University of Cambridge, Massachussets, USA"; psychiatrist tied to MKULTRA) | Yevgeny Primakov (still anno '24) | Mary Robinson (still anno '24) | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (still anno '24) | Helmut Schmidt (still anno '24) | Joseph Stiglitz (still anno '24) | Andreas van Agt (still anno '24, died in Feb. '24) | William vanden Heuvel (still anno '24) | Richard von Weizsacker (still anno '24). Members check 2024: Bernard Kouchner | James Bolger | Lloyd Axworthy (foreign minister, Canada) | Oscar Arias Sanchez | Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Ricardo Lago (president Chile) | Evgeny Primakov (PM Russia) | Fidel Ramos (President Philippines) | Jerry Rawlings (president Ghana) | George Vassiliou. Sep. 2005 NGO Roundtable at the American University of Paris, with CI involvement: Bernard K. (co-chair) | Dennis Kucinich | Harry Belafonte | Rob Riemen (exec. director NEXUS Inst., NL) Source(s): collegium-international.org/membres-collegium-international?lang=en (accessed: Sep. 20, 2024). |
2002 |
| Consultative Board of the Director General of the WTO Sir Peter Sutherland (founding chair 2003-2005) | Niall Fitzgerald (founding member) | Thierry de Montbrial (founding member). Informal Business Advisory Body to the World Trade Organization (another short-lived advisory group set up this same year): Victor Fung. |
2003 |
| Network 20/20 Advisory council: Rita Hauser (anno 2006-2012) | Onno Ruding (anno 2006, 2021) | Frances Townsend (anno 2011, 2021) | Leslie Gelb (2012-) | Frank Wisner II (anno 2021). More: Fareed Zakaria (visitor '04) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (visitor '04) | Nella Habsburg-Lothringen ("Committee of Twenty" anno 2006; lives in Israel) |
2003 |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) Hans Blix | Alexei Arbatov | William Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. |
2003 |
| WTO Public Forum Participants: Pascal Lamy ('06 High Level Panel member; many other years) | Ted Turner ('06 High Level Panel member) | Antony Burgmans ('06 High Level Panel member). |
2003 |
| International Committee for Democracy in Cuba (ICDC), Prague Members: Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno 2006) | Arpad Goncz (anno 2006, 2021) | Madeleine Albright (anno 2006, 2021) | Jose Maria Aznar (anno 2006, 2021) | Vaclav Havel (anno 2006, 2021) | Karel Schwarzenberg (anno 2006, 2021). |
2003 |
| World Leaders Forum (WLF), Columbia University Past speakers: Madeleine Albright | Condoleezza Rice | Newt Gingrich | Michael Bloomberg | Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Robert Hormats | Adm. Michael Mullen | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Gen. David Petraeus (planned for 2021) | George Soros | Joseph Stiglitz | George W. Bush | Kevin Rudd | Martti Ahtisaari | Tony Blair | Pascal Lamy | Queen Rania of Jordan | Kofi Annan | Dalai Lama | Nicolas Sarkozy | Ban Ki-moon | Paul Kagame | Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland | Shaukat Aziz | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | Hamid Karzai | Pervez Musharraf | Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi of the United Arab Emirates | Hans Blix | William Dudley | Tayyip Erdogan | Yegor Gaidar | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Crown Prince Haakon of Norway | Queen Mathilde of Belgium | Herman Van Rompuy | Boris Johnson | Mikheil Saakashvili | Mikhail Gorbachev | Vladimir Putin | Howard Dean | David Rothkopf | Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero | Frans Timmermans | Lance Armstrong. |
2003 |
| Chairman Mentors International (CMi) cmi.eu.com (accessed: Sep. 13, 2015): "The first and only provider of services dedicated to the development of high calibre board directors [within the EU]." Url to chairmanmentors.com in 2016. Mentors: Viscount Etienne Davignon (2003-2011) | Sir John Egan (anno 2012) | Niall FitzGerald (anno 2006, 2015) | Lord Simon of Highbury (anno 2006) | Bertrand Collomb (anno 2008, 2015) | Sir Christopher Hogg (anno 2008, 2015) and wife (anno 2010) | Sir John Buchanan (anno 2010) | Wim Kok (anno 2010, 2015) | Sir Peter Sutherland (2010-, anno 2015) | Louis Schweitzer (anno 2012) | Sir Richard Sykes (anno 2006, 2015) | Morris Tabaksblat (anno 2006) | Michael Treschow (anno 2015) | Jeroen van der Veer (anno 2015, 2021) | Peter Voser (anno 2015, 2021) | Hans Wijers (anno 2015, 2021) | Feike Sijbesma (anno 2021; DSM, Philips, Unilever, Dutch Central Bank) | Gerard Mestrallet (anno 2021) | Victor Chu (anno 2021) | Wout Dekker (anno 2021; Randstad). chairmanmentors.com (accessed: May 11, 2021): "[Sponsors:] Anglo American. BP. BT. ... Ericsson. GlaxoSmithKline. ... KPN. LafargeHolcim. ... Novo Nordisk. Rio Tinto." |
2003 |
| Schranner Negotations Institute (SNI) Offices in Switzerland, New York City and Dubai. Experts (anno 2020): Matthias Schranner (founder) | John Kerry | David Petraeus | Joschka Fischer | Wolfgang Ischinger | Karl Theodor zu Guttenberg | Anders Fogh Rasmussen. |
2004 |
| Global Leadership Foundation (GLF) F.W. de Klerk (member chair anno 2010; president South Africa 1989-1994) | Hans van den Broek (member anno 2010-2013) | Jose Maria Aznar (member anno 2010) | Michel Rocard (member anno 2010-2013) | Lord Chris Patten (member anno 2010) | Chester Crocker (member anno 2010-2013) | Valav Havel (hon. patron anno 2010) | George H. W. Bush (hon. patron anno 2010) | Helmut Schmidt (hon. patron anno 2010) | Nelson Mandela (hon. patron anno 2010) | Thomas Pickering (member anno 2013; board chair anno 2020) | Tom Daschle (member anno 2013) | Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (member anno 2013 and later patron) | Gareth Evans (member anno 2013) | Louise Frechette (member anno 2013) | Vicente Fox (member anno 2013) | Mohamed ElBaradei (member anno 2016) | Carl Bildt (member anno 2016) | Stephen Brenninkmeijer (international council anno 2020) | Kevin Rudd (member). |
2004 |
| Oxford Martin School, Oxford University Advisory council anno 2015: Larry Brilliant | Victor Chu | Ben Goldsmith | Reid Hoffman | Pascal Lamy | Joseph Nye | Joseph Stiglitz | Sir Crispin Tickell | Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford | Sir Martin Sorrell | Prince Talal Bin Muhammad of Jordan | Amory Lovins (co-founder, chair and chief scientist Rocky Mountain Inst.) | Mark Shuttleworth (founder Linux Ubuntu) | Lord Martin Rees of Ludlow | Ernesto Zedillo (Mexican president; director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization) | Vittorio Colao (CEO Vodafone) | Francis Finlay | Orit Gadiesh (chair Bain & Co.) | Mo Ibrahim. |
2005 |
| Horasis, Switzerland Frank-Jurgen Richter (founder and chair) | Jean-Claude Trichet |
2005 |
| Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual New York conferences set up through the Clinton Foundation. First meeting was organized at the Rockefeller's Museum of Modern Art. The meetings were funded by many contributors, including names as Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Vernon Jordan | Thomas McLarty | Rahm Emanuel | Richard Holbrooke | Jamie Gorelick. Visitors/speakers (years of visiting is far from complete): George Soros ('05, '15) | Pierre Omidyar ('05, occasionally after that) | Pamela Omidyar ('13, occasionally) | Judith Rodin ('05, '06, '07, '10, '12, '13, '14, '15; chair Rockefeller Fdn.) | Rupert Murdoch ('05, '06, '07, '10) | Robert Rubin ('05, regular; chair CFR) | Muhammad Yunus ('05, '06, '07, '13) | Madeleine Albright ('05, '06, very regular) | Condoleezza Rice ('05) | Paul Wolfowitz ('05) | Sandy Berger ('05, '06, '07) | James Wolfensohn ('05, '06) | Laura Bush (husband of George W.; '06, '10, possibly more) | George H. W. Bush ('10) | Barbara Bush (daughter of W.; '13, '14) | Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton (always, or virtually always) | Al Gore ('05, '06, '07, '10) | John Holdren ('06, '07,'10) | Jimmy Carter ('06) | Harold McGraw III ('06, '10) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('06) | Christiane Amanpour ('06, '10) | Eli Broad ('06) | Bill Gates ('06, '13, '15, some other years; employees visit a lot) | Melinda Gates ('14, occasionally) | Warren Buffett ('06, '10) | Peter Buffett (son of Warren; '07, '09) | Jennifer Buffett (daughter-in-law of Warren; '09) | Muhtar Kent (chair of Warren Buffett's Coca Cola; '10, '11, '12, '13) | Sir Richard Branson ('06, occasionally, '15) | Gustavo Cisneros ('06, '07, '10) | Bertrand Collomb ('05, '06) | Katie Couric ('06, '10) | John Doerr ('06) | Dick Gephardt ('06) | John Glenn ('06, '10) | Vartan Gregorian ('06, '07, '10) | George Mitchell ('06) | Jonathan Oppenheimer ('06) | John Podesta ('06, '07, '10, '11, '12, '13) | Colin Powell ('06, '10) | John Prendergast ('05, '06) | Cindy McCain (wife of the senator; founding member Eastern Congo Initiative; '14) | Steven Rattner ('06) | Haim Saban ('06) | Jeffrey Sachs ('06) | Joseph Stiglitz ('12) | Mitt Romney ('12) | Diane Sawyer ('06) | Klaus Schwab ('06) | Terry Semel ('06) | Jeff Skoll ('06) | George Stephanopoulos ('06, '07) | Ted Turner ('06, '07, '11) | Elie Wiesel ('06, '12) | Fareed Zakaria ('05, '06, '12) | James Zogby ('06) | Jane Goodall ('07) | Maurice Tempelsman | Lee Kuan Yew | Tony Elumelu | Barack and Michelle Obama | David Mayer de Rothschild | Michael Peterson (son of Peter Peterson) | Charlie Rose ('13, '14) | Eric Schmidt ('10) | Jerry Yang (founder and CEO Yahoo!; regular) | Joe Gebbia (co-founder Airbnb; '14) | Howard Stringer (chair and CEO Sony | Judy McGrath (chair and CEO of MTV; '07) Stephen Friedman (president MTV Networks; '11, '12) | Sophie Gasperment (CEO The Body Shop; '11) | Donna Karan (founder Urban Zen; regular) | Paul Collier ('07) | Larry Summers ('07) | Ernesto Zedillo ('08, '12; Mexican president; director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization) | Rex Tillerson ('09) | Robert Zoellick ('07) | Tom Brokaw ('06, '07, '10, '11) | Jean Chretien (regular; PM of Canada) | Arianna Huffington ('10, '11) | Nicholas Kristof ('07, '10, '11, '12, '14) | Steve Chen (co-founder YouTube) | Chad Hurley Co-founder and CEO YouTube; '11, '12) | Anderson Cooper ('07, '10) | Mike Duke (Wal-Mart; regular) | Bill Frist ('07, '10) | Jeffrey Immelt ('05, '10) | Richard Parsons ('05; chair of Citigroup and Time Warner) | Van Jones ('10) | Ban Ki-moon ('08, '10) | T. Boone Pickens ('10) | Gen. Wesley Clark ('11, '12, '15) | Jim Donald (CEO Starbucks; '05) | Charles Holliday ('05) | Hank Paulson (chair and CEO Goldman Sachs Group; '05) | Lloyd Blankfein (chair and CEO Goldman Sachs Group; regular) | Jamie Dimon (chair and CEO JPMorgan Chase) | Brian Moynihan (president and CEO Bank of America Corp.) | Joseph Saunders (chair and CEO Visa) | Robert Diamond (president Barclays) | Seth Waugh (CEO Americas Deutsche Bank; '12) | Richard Adkerson (president and CEO Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.) | Hugh Grant (chair and CEO Monsanto; '14) | Lisa Jackson (VP, environmetal initiatives, Apple; '14) | John Chambers (chair and CEO Cisco; regular) | Jacqueline Fuller (director Google.org; '13, '14) | Jim Rogers (chair and CEO Duke Energy Corporation; regular) | David Hawkins (director, Climate Center, Natural Resources Defence Council; '07) | Carl Pope ('10; chair Sierra Club) | Yolanda Kakabadse (president WWF Int.; '11) | Carter Roberts (president and CEO WWF; '14) | Raymond Offenheiser (president Oxfam America; '11, '12) | Fred Krupp (president Environmental Defense Fund; '11, '12) | Mark Tercek (president and CEO The Nature Cons.; '11, '14) | Patrick Bergin (CEO African Wildlife Foundation; '13, '14) | Luis Ubinas (president Ford Fdn.; '11, '12) | Darren Walker (president Ford Fdn.; '14) | Kevin Jenkins (president and CEO World Vision Int.; '11, '12) | George Rupp (president and CEO IRC; '11) | Salil Shetty (secretary general Amnesty Int.; '11) | Michael Lomax (president and CEO United Negro College Fund; '11) | Michel Sidibe (executive director United Nations AIDS; '11) | Kathleen Rogers (president Earth Day Network; '14) | Michael Bloomberg ('11) | Michelle Bachelet (exec. director UN Women; '11) | Tim Wirth (president UN Foundation; '05, more) | Kathy Calvin (president and CEO UN Fdn.; '15) | Antonio Guterres (UN High Commissioner for Refugees; '07, '12) | Babatunde Osotimehin (executive director UN Population Fund; '11) | Leesa Carter (executive director Captain Planet Fdn.; '13) | Irina Bokova (director-general UNESCO; '12) | Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (executive director UN Women; '13, '14) | Luis Alberto Moreno (president Inter-American Development Bank; '12) | Jim Yong Kim (president World Bank Group; '12, '13, '14) | Louise Arbour (president & CEO Int. Crisis Group; '12) | Steve Capus (president NBC News; '12) | Tina Brown (editor Newsweek and Daily Beast; '12) | Richard Stengel (managing editor Time magazine; regular) | Pat Mitchell Seydel ('13, '14) | Seth Meyers ('14) | Zoe Baird ('14) | Howard Schultz ('14; chair, CEO and president of Starbucks) | Piers Morgan ('13) | Charlie Rose ('13) | Sheryl Sandberg ('13) | Shane Smith ('15; Vice Media) | Eli Broad (regular) | Laviana Limon (president and CEO U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants; '15) | Eric Kessler | Jacqueline Novogratz ('15) | Paul Polman ('15) | Eric Garcetti (LA mayor 2013-; hosted a CGI meeting in '14 at LA City Hall). Actors/artists/athletes: Bono ('05, '10, '13, '16) | Martin Scorsese (listed as "past visitor" in 2012 list; possibly '05) | Leonardo DiCaprio ('05, '14) | Lance Armstrong ('06, '10) | Don Cheadle ('06, '10) | Hugh Grant ('06) | Brad Pitt ('07, '09, '10) | Angelina Jolie ('07, '10) | Ricky Martin ('09) | Ashton Kutcher ('09, '10) | Matt Damon ('09, '14) | Jim Carrey ('10) | Ashley Judd ('10, '14; for Population Services International) | Alicia Keys ('10) | Ben Stiller ('10) | Kevin Spacey ('10) | Muhammed Ali ('10) | Maggie Gyllenhaal ( '10) | Andre Agassi ('10) | Usher ('10) | Petra Nemcova ('10) | Jessica Alba ('12) | Deepak Chopra ('12) | Michael Douglas ('12; Project Apogee) | Rosario Dawson ('12) | Kate Hudson (ANNpower advisory council; '13) | Sienna Miller (as Global Ambassador International Medical Corps; '13) | Sean Penn ('13, '15; in both cases not listed on offical site) | Eva Longoria ('13, '14) | Sting ('14, '16) | Idris Elba ('14) | Jessica Biel ('15) | Charlize Theron ('15) | Freida Pinto (global ambassador and producer, Girl Rising; '15) | Ben Affleck ('16) | Jon Bon Jovi ('16). Israel: Shimon Peres ('05, '06, '10, '14) | Ehud Barak (regular) West Europe: Tony Blair ('05, '07, '08, '11, '12, '13, '14) | Cherie Blair ('12, '13, '14) | Lord Mark Malloch Brown ('06) | Ken Livingstone ('06; "Red Ken") | Gordon Brown ('06) | Gerry Adams ('10, '11, '12; president of Sinn Fein) | George Papandreou (president Socialist International since '06) | Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik of Norway ('05) | Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway ('12) | Rijkman Groenink (chair ABN AMRO Bank; '05) | Peter Bakker (Dutch; '05) | Wim Kok ('06, more) | Jan Peter Balkenende ('07) | King Willem Alexander of Orange ('08) | Martti Ahtisaari ('06, '08, '11) | Christine Lagarde | Philippe Douste-Blazy ('11; accused pedo) | PM of Finland Tarja Halonen | PM of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt | PM of Italy Massimo D'Alema ('12) | Prince Albert II of Monaco ('12) | King Juan Carlos I of Spain ('12) | President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio ('13) | PM of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt ('14) | Marieke van Schaik (managing director Dutch National Lottery; '14). Queen Rania of Jordan ('05, annually) | King Abdullah II of Jordan ('05-) | Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia ('05-, regular) | Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia ('12) | Amre Moussa of Egypt ('05) | Mohammed Al Gergawi of the United Arab Emirates ('05) | President Pervez Musharraf ('06) | Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan ('07, '08) | Ambassador of Oman Hunaina bint Sultan Al-Mughairy ('07) | President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan ('07) | Prince Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa of Bahrain ('10) | Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabr Al-Thani of Qatar ('07, '10) | H.E. Sheikh Abdullah Al Thani of Qatar ('13) | President Jalal Talabani of Iraq ('08) | Erdogan of Turkey ('05, '10) | Prime minister Mohammad Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah of Kuwait ('11) | Minister Reem Al-Hashimy of the United Arab Emirates ('11) | Oman ambassador Hunaina Al-Mughairy ('11) | H.E. Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi of the United Arab Emirates ('13) | Princess Dina Mired of Jordan ('13) | Princess Basmah Bint Saud of Saudi Arabia ('13) | Mohammad and Peyman Parham Al Awadhi of the United Arab Emirates ('14) | Minister (female) Reem Al Hashimy of the United Arab Emirates ('14). Africa: President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa ('05) | Desmond Tutu ('06, '07) | Kofi Annan ('05) | President Paul Kagame of Rwanda ('05, '06, '08, '09, '10, '11) | President Bingu wa Mutharika of Malawi ('06, '07, '08) | President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria ('05, '06, '11, '12) | President Umaru Yar'Adua of Nigeria ('09) | President Hifikepunye Pohamba of Namibia ('06, '11) | President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria ('07, '08) | Prime Minister Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania ('07, '11) | Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam of Mauritius ('07) | Trevor Andrew Manuel of South Africa ('07) | Minister George Saitoti of Kenya ('07) | Prime minister Raila A. Odinga of Kenya ('09) | First Lady Maureen Mwanawasa of Zambia ('07) | President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia ('08, '10, '12, '15) | Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone ('08, '09) | President Bwezani Banda of Zambia ('09) | President John Atta Mills of Ghana ('09) | President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal ('09) | President Pakalitha Mosisili of Lesotho ('09) | President Navinchandra Ramgoolam of Mauritius ('09) | Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda of Tanzania ('10) | Patrice Tlhopane Motsepe (chair and CEO African Rainbow Minerals; '11, '12) | James Mwangi (CEO Equity Bank Ltd.; '11) | President Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania ('12) | Education minister of The Congo Maker Mwangu Famba ('13) | Theo Sawa (CEO African Women's Development Fund; '13) | Martha Omoekpen Alade (president Women in Technology in Nigeria; '13) | Chi Yvonne Leina of Camaroon (founder Gender Danger; '13) | Rwandan minister of health Agnes Binagwaho ('14) | Agnes Kalibata (president Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa) | Musimbi Kanyoro (CEO Global Fund for Women) | foreign affairs minister of Liberia Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan ('14). East Europe: Mikheil Saakashvili ('11) | President Stjepan Mesic of Croatia ('07) | President Branko Crvenkovski of Macedonia ('07, '11, '12) | Petar Stoyanov, former president of Bulgaria ('07, '11) | Haris Silajdzic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ('08) | Zeljko Komsic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ('11, '12) | President Bamir Topi of Albania ('08) | Prime Minister Sali Berisha of Albania ('11) | President Filip Vujanovic of Montenegro ('08) | President Valdis Zatlers of Latvia | Viktor Yushchenko ('05, '09, '11) | President Danilo Turk of Slovenia | Victor Pinchuk (Clinton Foundation trustee and conference visitor). China: Jack Ma (chair and CEO Alibaba; regular, incl. in '15) | Xiaogang Wei (executive director Beijing Gender Health Education Institute; '14) Over 150 heads of state in total, countless from Africa, the Near East and Eastern Europe. Leaders of Haiti and even Papua New Guinea have been featured. Latin American leaders have also visited. More: Gary M. Cohen (advisor). |
2005 |
| North America Forum Shultz (U.S. co-chair) | Perry (U.S. co-chair). Invited speakers: George H. W. Bush (2008) | Robert Gates (2008) | John Negroponte (2008) | Tom Ridge (2009) | Gen. Peter Pace (2009) | James Woolsey (2009). Known participants: Carla Hills | Rumsfeld | James Schlesinger | Ronald Lehman (co-founder) | Kenneth Dam | William Schneider, Jr. | Robert Pastor. |
2005 |
| Founders Forum Started out as Europe's leading tech conference, annually organized in London. In the 2010s it started expanding to the U.S., Brazil, India, Turkey, Israel, China and other countries. Set up to be network and brainstrom sessions with very little speeches. Does include discussion panels. Participants/speakers (often over multiple years): Sir Richard Branson ('13, '16) | Edgar Bronfman Jr. ('14) | Queen Rania of Jordan ('19) | Peter Soros (possibly the London-based son of Paul Soros, George Soros' older brother) | Eric Schmidt (chair and CEO of Google's parent company for decades) | Reid Hoffman ('16; co-founder, chair and CEO LinkedIn) | Elon Musk ('16; founder of Tesla and Space-X) | Mark Zuckerberg ('16; founder FB and owner IG and Whatsapp) | Peter Thiel ('16; founder Palantir) | Bill Gates ('16; founder MS) | Jack Ma ('16; co-founder Alibaba) | Jack Dorsey ('16; founder, chair and CEO Twitter) | Jimmy Wales (founder Wikipedia) | Lachlan Murdoch | HRH Prince Andrew and wife Duchess of Cambridge | Duke of York | Viscount Rothermere | Nicolas Berggruen | Al Gore ('18) | David Cameron ('12) | Arianna Huffington ('16) | Sir Tim Berners-Lee (founder World Wide Web Fdn.) | Rene Obermann (CEO Deutsche Telekom) | Arthur Sulzberger Jr (chair NYT) | Mark Thompson (president and CEO NYT) | Sean Parker ('14) | Niklas Zennstrom | Mikitani Hiroshi | Ben Horowitz | Natalie Massenet | Charles Dunstone | Tony Fadell | Natalie Vodianova | Jessica Alba ('16) | Peter Gabriel ('13) | Ashton Kutcher ('13) | John Johnson III ('14; co-founder Buzzfeed) | Strive Masiyiwa ('13) | Steve Case (chair and CEO Revolution (AOL)) | Archie Norman (chair ITV) | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Daniel Ek (founder and CEO Spotify) | Joe Lonsdale (co-founder Palantir) | Lucian Grainge (chair and CEO Universal Music Group) | Ari Emanuel (CEO of WME) | Michael Lynton (CEO of Sony America and Sony Pictures) | Tim Armstrong (CEO and chair of AOL) | will.i.am ('13, '16) | Kenneth Lerer ('14) | Andrew Fisher (CEO of Shazam) | Emmanuelle Macron ('16). |
2005 |
| Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP) George W. Bush (co-founder) | Michael Chertoff (founding U.S. representative) | Condoleezza Rice (founding U.S. representative). Members North American Competitiveness Council, founded in 2006 as part of the SPP: Paul Desmarais, Jr. U.S. members only listed as corporations: Chevron (chair and CEO David O'Reilly 2000-2009), Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Lockheed, Merck. |
2005 |
| Forum for a Responsible Globalization Conference held in Lyon on October 26 and 27. Honorary board members of the meeting included: Jacques Delors | Pascal Lamy | Michel Rocard | Bertrand Collomb | Etienne Davignon | Gerard Mestrallet. |
2006 |
| World Justice Project (WJP) Founder: Bill Neukom (CEO). Honorary chairs: Warren Christopher | Sir Peter Sutherland | Paul Volcker | Madeleine Albright | Jimmy Carter | George Mitchell | Desmond Tutu | James Baker | William Gates Sr. (father of Bill Jr.) | Lee Hamilton | Sandra Day O'Connor | Colin Powell | Andrew Young. Financiers: Boeing, Intel, LexisNexis, Micosoft, Merck, GE, HP, J&J, Texas Instruments, Viacom, Colgate, DuPont. NGO financiers: Gates-, Carnegie-, Ford-, Oak- and Hewlett foundations. |
2006 |
| Managing Global Insecurity Joint project of Brookings, Stanford and CIC. U.S. advisory group: Armitage, Sandy Berger, Perry, Pickering, John Podesta, Scowcroft, Talbott, James Wolfensohn. Worked with representatives from Brazil, Darfur, Afghanistan, Malaysia, China, Canada, India, Nigeria, Japan, Australia and worked with the chairman of BHP Billiton. |
2007-2008 |
| Nuclear Security Project (NSP) Founded by four men: Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | William Perry | Sam Nunn. |
2007 |
| International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrope Organizing committee: Moshe Kantor (president; chair initial organizing committee 2007-) | Vladimir Dvorkin (anno '21) | Sergei Oznobishchev (anno '21) | International advisory council: Alexei Arbatov (anno '21; also org. comm.) | Robert Einhorn (anno '21) | Francois Heisbourg (anno '21) | Sergei Karaganov (anno '21) | Alexander Nikitin (anno '21) | Vladimir Orlov (anno '21). Supervisory board: Hans Blix (anno '21) | Gareth Evans (anno '21) | Igor Ivanov (anno '21) | Sam Nunn (anno '21) | William Perry (anno '21) | Roald Sagdeev (anno '21; former husband of Susan Eisenhower) | Henry Kissinger (anno '21). Participants: Mohamed ElBaradei ('07) | Vladimir Putin ('07) | Avigdor Lieberman ('07) | Vagif Guseinov (sat on one of the boards as well). |
2007 |
| Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) Founder: Steve Killelea (president's council of the ICG). Advisory council: Gareth Evans (president and CEO of the ICG) | Wim Kok (trustee of the ICG) |
2007 |
| Munk Debates, Canada Founder: Peter Munk. Keynote debaters: Charles Krauthammer and Niall Ferguson vs. Samantha Power and Richard Holbrooke (May 2008) | Gareth Evans and Mia Farrow vs. John Bolton and Rick Hillier (Dec. 2008) | Stephen Lewis and Paul Collier vs. Hernando de Soto Polar and Dambisa Moyo (June 2009; the latter: Zambia; Chevron, etc.) | Sen. Bill Frist vs. Howard Dean (Jun. 2010) | Tony Blair (Nov. 2010) vs. Christopher Hitchens (Nov. 2010) | Niall F. and David Daokui Li vs. Henry Kissinger with Fareed Zakaria (Jun. 2011; the latter won with a huge 22% swing-margin, arguing against the notion that "the 21st century will belong to China") | Paul Krugman and David Rosenberg vs. Larry Summers and Ian Bremmer (Nov. 2011) | Niall F. and Josef Joffe vs. Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Peter Mandelson (May 2012) | Amos Yadlin and Charles Krauthammer vs. Fareed Z. and Vali Nasr (Nov. 2012) | George Papandreou and Paul Krugman vs. Newt Gingrich and Arthur Laffer (May 2013) | Maureen Dowd (Nov. 2013) | Gen. Michael Hayden (wanted to put SNowden on a kill list) and Alan Dershowitz vs. Glenn Greenwald (the new left journalist who worked with Edward Snowden) and Alexis Ohanian (co-founder Reddit and partner Y Combinator) (May 2014; won by a 13% post-debate swing for the latter) | Bret Stephens and Robert Kagan vs. Anne-Marie Slaughter and Fareed Z. (Nov. 2014) | Stephen Cohen and Vladimir Pozner vs. Anne Applebaum and Garry Kasparov (April 2015) | Canadian politicians Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair and Justin Trudeau (Sep. 2015) | Steven Pinker and Matt Ridley vs. Alain de Botton and Malcolm Gladwell (Nov. 2015) | Louise Arbour and Simon Schama vs. Nigel Farage and Mark Steyn (April 2016; won by a 22% post-debate swing by the Farage camp, one of the largest swings ever) | Newt G. and Laura Ingraham vs. Robert Reich and Jennifer Granholm (Sep. 2016; won by a 6% post-debate swing by the former camp) | Niall F. vs. Fareed Z. (Apr. 2017) | Newt G. (Oct. 2017) | Michael Eric Dyson and Michelle Goldberg vs. Stephen Fry and Jordan Peterson (May 2018; won by a 6% post-debate swing for Fry and Peterson) | Steve Bannon vs. David Frum (Nov. 2018; a tie, with 28% "open" to Bannon's views before and after the debate) | Gen. H. R. McMaster (Trump's former national security advisor) and Michael Pillsbury vs. Kishore Mahbubani (Singapore Foreign ministry civil servant 1971-2004) and Wang Huiyao (May 2019; won with a 2% margin by the latter, who argued China is not a threat) | Katrina Vanden Heuvel and Yanis Varoufakis (bot left-wing) vs. conservatives Arthur Brooks and David Brooks (Dec. 2019; won by a 2% margin by the latter, who argued the capitalist system is not broken). Attendees: John Thornton (Nov. 2018, encouraging his friend Bannon with the words that he is the "intellectual horsepower of the [alt right] movement" more influential than Trump) |
2008 |
| Credit Suisse Salon Opinion Leaders/speakers: Kofi Annan | Ben Bernanke | Tony Blair | Nicholas Burns | Ashton Carter | Amal Clooney (wife of George Clooney) | Joschka Fisher | John Kerry | Henry Kissinger | Vaclav Klaus | Paul Krugman | John Major | Thabo Mbeki | Leon Panetta | Colin Powell | Romano Prodi | Nouriel Roubini | Javier Solana | Larry Summers | Janet Yellen | Lee Kuan Yew | Muhammad Yunus | Ernesto Zedillo | Mohammed ElBaradei | Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al-Thani (PM Qatar). Source(s): credit-suisse.com/sites/salon/ en/login/overview/opinion-leaders.html (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021) |
2008 |
| Americas Business Council Foundation Emilio Azcarraga Jean Milmo (co-founder and co-chair) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay Rockefeller; fellow). Involved in its Continuity Forum (co-financed with the Knight Fdn): Desmond Tutu | Mikhail Gorbachev | Kofi Annan (2012) | Jeb Bush (2012) | Richard Branson | Muhammad Yunus | Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny | Alexandra Cousteau (2012) | David de Rothschild (2012) | Steve Wozniak (2012) | Arianna Huffington (2013) | Buzz Aldrin (2013) | Larry Summers (2013) | Jane Goodall (2013) | Nicholas Kristof (2014) | |
2008 |
| Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect Patrons: Kofi Annan | Desmond Tutu | Lee Hamilton | David Hamburg | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Fidel Valdez Ramos (president The Philippines 1992-1998) | Mary Robinson. IAC: Gareth Evans (co-chair; president ICG and thus linked to Soros) | Mohamed Sahnoun (co-chair) | Jan Egeland | Thelma Ekiyor | Rosemary Foot | Frank Majoor | Ricardo Lagos Escobar. Early funders: George Soros' Open Society Fdns. and MacArthur Fdn. Also: governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, The Netherlands, Norway, Rwanda, Sweden and Great Britain. Later: Carnegie Corp., Humanity United, Keller Fdn. and the governments of Denmark, Germany, etc. |
2008 |
| Global Zero Organizes occasional summits. Slogan: A World Without Nuclear Weapons. Financiers include Ploughshares Fund and Skoll Global Threats Fund. Co-founders who inspired the founding of Global Zero through a newspaper column: Henry Kissinger | Sam Nunn | George Schultz | William Perry. Summit visitors and/or listed "movement leaders"/signatories: U.S./Canada: Barack Obama | James Baker | George S. | Richard Burt | Richard Branson | Jeff Skoll (also financier) | Sam Berger | Gen. James Cartwright | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Frank Carlucci | Jimmy Carter | Lawrence Eagleburger | Sen. Jake Garn | Lee Hamilton | Sen. Gary Hart | Max Kampelman | Robert McFarlane | Walter Mondale | Steve Killelea | Cardinal Edwin O'Brien | Pamela Omidyar | Thomas Pickering | Strobe Talbott | Philip Zelikow | Douglas Roche | Hans Blix | Barry Blechman | Anthony Lake | Chuck Hagel | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Charles Rivkin | Valerie Plame. Listed actors: Matt Damon | Michael Douglas | Morgan Freeman. Starred in PR videos: Alec Baldwin | John Cusack | Robert De Niro | Danny DeVito | Whoopi Goldberg | Martin Sheen | Naomi Watts. UK: Lord Douglas Hurd | Paul Ingram | David Miliband | Lord David Owen | Sir Malcolm Rifkind. EU: Wolfgang Ischinger | Carl Bildt | Wim Kok | Ruud Lubbers | Hans van den Broek | Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange. Remaining members/visitors come from ever corner of the world: Queen Noor of Jordan | Desmond Tutu | Jose María Aznar | Muhammad Yunus | Michel Rocard | Mohamed Elbaradei | Mikhail Gorbachev | Sergei Karaganov | Vladimir Orlov | Sergey Rogov | Karim Agha Kan |
2008 |
| B20: Business 20 Advisory Group to the G20 Members: Marcus Wallenberg (co-chair anno '13) | Stephen Schwarzman (chair amp; CEO Blackstone) | Klaus Kleinfield (anno '13; chair and CEO Alcoa) | Rory O’Connor (anno '13; man. director Blackrock Alternative Investments Group | Gao Xiqing (anno '13; vice chair and president China Investment Corp.) | Eduardo Eurnekian (chair & CEO Corporacion America) | Javier Milei (anno '13; head Economist, Corporacion America; "alt right" president Argentina 2023-) | Abdullah Almobty (anno '13; chair Council of Saudi Chamber) | Jurgen Fitschen (anno '13; co-chair Deutsche Bank) | Mark Weinberger (anno '13; chair and CEO, Ernst & Young) | Suma Chakrabarti (anno '13; president EBRD | Gerard Mestrallet (anno '13' chair amp; CEO GDF Suez) | Philipp Freise (anno '13; director KKR) | Michael J. Andrew (anno '13; chair KPMG Int.) | Darya Borisova (anno '13; partner McKinsey & Co.) | Paul Bulcke (anno '13; CEO Nestle) | Mikhail Shamolin (anno '13; CEO Sistema JSFC) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire (anno '14). More: Vladimir Putin ('13 speech). Source(s): Dec. 2020, Basil Inst. on Governance, 'The G20's responsiveness to B20 anti-corruption recommendations 2010–2017', pp. 9-10: "It took until 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis of 2008-09, to establish a structured and inclusive involvement of business in the G20 process. [The G20 wanted] stronger cooperation between governments and other stakeholders... As the first official engagement group to the G20, [6] the B20 also paved the way for ... engagement groups include the C20 for civil society, L20 for labour unions, W20 for women’s issues, Y20 for youth engagement, S20 for the science community, and U20 for urban development." 2013, B20 Business Russia 2013, 'B20–G20 Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Recommendations from Business 20', pp. 2, 6, 64-65. July 2014, 'G20: The Official ICC CEO G20 Advisory Group Publication' ("In-depth read on the topics that will be address at this years G20 Business Summit in Sydney."), pp. 8, 41. |
2008 |
| Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation (TLG - inspired by the NSP) 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Carrington | Lord Guthrie | Lord Howe | Lord Howell | Lord Hurd | Lord Owen | Malcolm Rifkind | Lord George Robertson | Margaret Beckett |
2009 |
| Skybridge Alternatives / SALT Conferences Annual conference in Las Vegas brings about 2,000 people together. Also a SALT Abu Dhabi. Past speakers: Joe Biden | George W. and Jeb Bush | Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Michael Bloomberg | Richard Haass | Eric Schmidt | T. Boone Pickens | David Rubenstein | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. James L. Jones | Adm. William McRaven | Sir Richard Branson | Tony Blair | David Cameron | Nicolas Sarkozy | Ben Bernanke | Jim Breyer | Will Smith | Mike Tyson | Al Pacino | Andre Agassi | will.i.am | Kobe Bryant | Michael J. Fox | Mark Cuban | Michael Milken. |
2009 |
| Global Policy Journal (GPJ), Durham University (formerly at LSE) Advisory board: Paul Collier (2009-2020s) | Jeffrey Sachs (2009-2020s) | Lord Nicholas Stern (2009-2020s) | Joseph Stiglitz (2009-2020s) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2020). Practitioner's Board: Sir Peter Sutherland (2009-) | Romano Prodi (2009-) | Pascal Lamy (2009-2020s) | George Soros (2009-2020s) | Muhammad Yunus (2009-2020s) | Bill Emmott (2009-2020s). |
2009 |
| Italian Institute of Strategic Studies (Instituto Machiavelli) IAC: Fritz Ermarth |
2010 |
| Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University International advisory board: Dominic Barton (anno '15-'17) | Lord Weidenfeld (anno '15-'17) | Lord John Browne (anno'15-'21; group CEO BP 1995-2007) | Mark Carney (anno '15-'21) | Bill Clinton (anno '15-'21) | Mathias Dopfner (anno '15-'21) | Eric Schmidt (anno '15-'21) | Sir John Hood (anno '21). Academic advisory board: Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno '15) | Wolfgang Reinicke ('15). |
2010 |
| Global Progress Council Organized by Bill Clinton, Felipe Gonzalez and Tony Blair in preparation for the Global Progress Summit in 2011, about which little is known. |
2010 |
| NATO Defense College Foundation Senior advisory board: Gen. Wesley Clark | Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar (Bahrain) | Nabeela Al-Mulla (Kuwait) | Ghazi Al Bahar Al Rawas (Oman) | Mohammed Ali Al-Naqbi (UAE) | Sheikh Ali Bin Jassim Al-Thani (Qatar) | Dr. Ahmad Masa'deh (Jordan) | Abdulaziz Sager | Mahmoud Karem (Egypt) | Mesut Ciceker (VP Lockheed) | Ambassador Robert Hunter | Ian Lesser | Fred Tanner | Sinan Ulgen | Damon Wilson. More (regular college): Gen. John Allen ("ancien"; frequent lecturer) |
2011 |
| Concordia Summit, New York City Annually. Speakers: Jacob Frenkel ('14) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('14, '17) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('14) | Joe Biden ('15) | Muhtar Kent ('15) | Jose Maria Aznar ('15, '17) | Sir Richard Branson ('15) | John Hamre ('15) | Paula Dobriansky ('14-'18) | Jon Huntsman Jr. ('15) | Michael Isikoff ('15) | John Kerry ('15) | Sen. John McCain ('14, '15) and wife Cindy ('14) | Kevin Rudd ('14, '15) | Prince Abdulaziz bin Talal al Saud of Saudi Arabia ('15) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('15) | Princess Lamia Bint Majed Saud Al Saud ('18) | Kurt Volker ('15) | Victor Yushchenko ('15, '17) and wife Kateryna ('16, '17) | Warren Buffett ('16) | Madeleine Albright ('16) | George Soros ('16) | Gen. David Petraeus ('16, '17) | Tom Brokaw ('16) | Cherie Blair ('16) and husband Tony Blair ('17) | T. Boone Pickens ('14, '16) | Sen. Lindsey Graham ('16) | Jane Harman ('16, '18) | Gen. James L. Jones ('16) | Frederick Kagan ('16; brother-in-law of Robert K.) | Kimberley Kagan ('16; mother of Robert K.) | Sen. George Mitchell ('15-'18) | John Negroponte ('15-'18) | Bill Richardson ('16) | Judith Rodin ('15, '16; president RBF) | Donald Rumsfeld ('16) | Marietje Schaake ('16) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('16) | Frans Timmermans ('16) | Frances Townsend ('16) | Cyrus Vance Jr. ('14-'16) | Paul Wolfowitz ('16) | David Axelrod ('17) | Michael Chertoff ('17) | Bill de Blasio ('17) | Christine Lagarde ('17) | Paul Polman ('17, '18) | John Prendergast ('17) | Lord Michael Hastings ('17) | David Miliband ('17) | Wilbur Ross Jr. ('17) | William Kristol ('18) | Ivanka Trump ('18) | Olusegun Obasanjo ('18; president Nigeria) | Michel Temer ('18; neoliberal president of Brazil) | Alexander Acosta ('18) | Jennifer Lawrence ('18) | Bernard-Henri Levy ('18) | Strive Masiyiwa ('18). Very strong Africa presence among speakers by 2018, and to an extent also from the Muslim world and India. |
2011 |
| Halifax International Security Forum Peter van Praagh (president). U.S. participants: Robert Gates | Chuck Hagel | Leon Panetta | Janet Napolitano | Stephen Hadley | Paula Dobriansky | Jane Harman | Condoleezza Rice | Sen. John McCain (wife Cindy later became a director) | David Kramer (director-secretary anno '11, director-treasurer anno '14-17; leaked the bogus Steele dossier on Trump to Buzzfeed) | Sen. John Barrasso | Sen. Susan Collins | Sen. Lindsey Graham | Sen. Tim Kaine | Sen. Barbara Mikulski | Sen. Jeff Sessions | Sen. Jeanne Shaheen | Sen. Mark Udall | Eliot Cohen ('17) | Michael Abramowitz (2019) | Alyssa Ayres (CFR senior fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia) | Dov Zakheim (2019) | Kenneth Weinstein (2019) | Randy Scheunemann (2019). Canada: John Baird | Steven Blaney | Peter MacKay | Rob Nicholson | Vic Toews Great Britain: Pauline Neville-Jones | Liam Fox | Michael Arthur (2019; President, Boeing UK) New Zealand: Wayne Mapp Latin America: Juan Carlos Pinzon Bueno (Colombia) | Rodrigo Hinzpeter Europe: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (Germany) | Wolfgang Ischinger | Pieter de Crem (Belgium) | Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (Netherlands) | Pedro Morenes (Spain) | Nicolai Wammen (Denmark). Israel/Russia: Ehud Barak | Moshe Yaalon | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (2019). Middle East: Abdul Rahim Wardak (Afghanistan) | Ahmed Rashid | Raed al-Saleh (2019; Co-Founder and Director, Syria Civil Defence, Turkey) | Mohammed Abulahoum (2019; Head, Justice and Building Party, Yemen). Source(s): halifaxtheforum.org/2011-forum/speakers-2/ (accessed: Nov. 12, 2011); halifaxtheforum.org/about-us/our-leadership/ (accessed: Sep. 12, 2011); halifaxtheforum.org/participants (accessed: Oct. 19, 2014 - Dec. 19, 2016); halifaxtheforum.org/our-board (accessed: Oct. 16, 2014 - April 16, 2017). |
2011 |
| Vatican conferences First few conferences on stem cell research, containing no interesting names. Later participants: Pope Francis ('16, '21) | Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello ('16; foreign service Holy See 1971-2011, stationed at the UN 1981-1987, 1995-1997; representative to the WTO) | The Edge of U2 ('16) | Joe Biden ('16) | Sean Parker ('16) | Katie Couric ('16, '18) | Sanjay Gupta ('16, '18) | Deepak Chopra ('18, '21) | Peter Gabriel ('18) | Katy Perry ('18) | Prince Dominque de La Rochefoucauld-Montbel ('18, '21; SMOM representative) | Cindy Crawford ('21) | Ray Dalio ('21) | Anthony Fauci ('21) | Jane Goodall ('21) | Joe Perry of Aerosmith ('21) | Cardinal Pietro Parolin ('21; Vatican foreign secretary ('21). |
2011 |
| Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT) / FCLT Global Joint initiative of CPP Investments and McKinsey & Co. Strategic advisors (anno 2020): Larry Fink | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Paul Polman | Natarajan Chandrasekaran (chair Tata Sons under emeritus chair Ratan Tata). |
2013 |
| Athens Democracy Forum Founded by the New York Times. Speakers: Aga Khan ('15) | Paul Krugman ('15, moderator '16) | Paula Dobriansky ('15) | Sir Richard Dearlove ('15) | Jeff Koons ('15) | Valerie Plame ('15) | Edward Snowden ('16 video link) | Kofi Annan ('17) | Kevin Rudd ('17) | Sergei Karaganov ('18, '19) | Bert Koenders ('18) | Bernard-Henri Levy ('19) | Paul Polman ('19, '20) | Wietse Van Ransbeeck ('19, '20; co-founder and CEO CitizenLab) | Huiyao Wang ('19, '20) | Jeffrey Sachs ('20) | Brad Smith ('20; president Microsoft) | Mario Monti ('20) | Niall Ferguson ('21) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('21) | Joseph Stiglitz ('21). Various additional top EU bureacrats, European ministers and prime ministers also visited. Sponsors: New York Times (founder and main organizer 2013-2018) | Facebook (largest sponsor anno 2021). |
2013 |
| Women Political Leaders (WPL) Global advisory board: Muhammad Yunus (anno '17) | Jane Goodall (anno '17) | Sir Peter Sutherland (anno '17) | Kathy Calvin (anno '17-'21; president and CEO UN Fdn.) | Lakshmi Puri (anno '17; dep. exec. director UN Women) | Jose Manuel Barroso (anno '17-'21) | Mo Ibrahim (anno '17-'21) | Tarja Halonen ('17-'21; first female PM Finland) | Pascal Lamy ('21). Speakers: Wolfgang Ischinger ('17) | Emmanuel Macron ('21) | Mario Draghi ('21) | Ursula von der Leyen ('21) | Christine Lagarde ('21) | Jens Stoltenberg ('21). Members and the group as a whole have been deeply involved in the 2015-launched W20 group by the G20, focused on empowering women. W20 participants: Christine L. and Lakshmi P. ('15 speakers at launch) | Queen Maxima of Orange ('17 summit) | Angela Merkel ('17 summit) | Ivanka Trump ('17 summit). Source(s): womenpoliticalleaders.org /about/advisory-board/ (accessed: July 12, 2017 and Oct. 10, 2021); etc. |
2013 |
| Obama Foundation Founder: Barack Obama. Trustees: John Doerr (anno '19) | Connie Ballmer (anno '21; chair; wife of Steve Ballmer) | Penny Pritzker (anno '21) | Sean Parker (anno '19, '21) | Robert Wolff (anno '21; CEO UBS America)> "Leaders": - Vidhya Ramalingam (anno 2021; author of the 2013 paper 'Integration: What Works?', funded by Soros' OSF; "Vidhya is the Founder of Moonshot CVE, a company that uses technology to disrupt and counter global violent extremism and other online harms. [It's] her own personal mission to end white supremacist extremism."; Moonshot has been hired by the Swedish Ministry of Justice, European Commission and U.S. Military; June 2021, moonshotteam.com and the ADL, 'White Supremacy Search Trends in the United States', p. 5: "'The truth about black lives matter': This search suggests that the BLM movement has nefarious motives, and is a disinformation narrative perpetuated by white supremacist groups..."); - Marina Agaltsova (anno 2021; Russian human rights lawyer combating abuses of Putin's Russia); - Ahmed Abdirahman (founder Global Village Fdn. in Sweden); _ Flava Kleiner (anno 2021; Swiss "grassroots" activist who fights "the nationalist and populist agenda of the Swiss People’s Party" and co-founded "Helvetia ruft!" to forcibly increase the amount of women in public office). - Other similar "leaders" are active in Germany, Greece, the UK and US. As of July 21, 2021 every board member is identifying him/herself as "he/him/his" or "she/her/hers" as their gender pronouns, which is funny, because there is not a single transsexual on the board, making the whole political statement rather moot. Funding: Ford Fdn. grants list 2006-2021: "The Barack Obama Foundation: 2017: $1,522,290. ... 2021: $5,000,000." 2019 annual report, p. 48: "As of December 31, 2019: Net Assets: $429,545,259. ... Fundraising: Individual: ... $92,872,201. Corporate and foundation: ... $48,606,893. [Total:] $141,479,094." |
2014 |
| Global Commission on Drug Policy (GCDP) Members: George Shultz | John Whitehead | Paul Volcker | Kofi Annan | Sir Richard Branson | Mohamed ElBaradei | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Fernando Henrique Cardoso (founding chair; president of Brazil) | Helen Clark (chair; PM of New Zealand) | Sir Nicholas Clegg | Ruth Dreifuss (former chair; former president of Switzerland) | Cesar Gaviria (former president of Colmbia) | Ricardo Lagos (former president of Chile) | Kgalema Motlanthe (former president of South Africa) | Olusegun Obasanjo (former president of Nigeria) | George Papandreou (former prime minister of Greece) | Thorvald Stoltenberg | Cassam Uteem (former president of Mauritius) | Ernesto Zedillo (former president of Mexico). |
2014 |
| The Education Commission Members: Gordon Brown (chair) | Anthony Lake | Larry Summers | Shakira | Jose Manuel Barroso | Felipe Calderon (president Mexico) | Aliko Dangote | Julia Gillard (prime minister Australia) | Jakaya Kikwete (president Tanzania) | Jim Kim | Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (minister of state for tolerance, UAE). Nigeria, Chile, Denmark, etc. also represented. |
2015 |
| Youth & Leaders Summit, Paris School of International Affairs of Sciences Po (PSIA) Speakers: Emmanuel Macron ('16) | Martti Ahtisaari ('16) | Pascal Lamy ('16) | Kevin Rudd ('16) | Giuliano Amato ('16) | Romano Prodi ('16) | Javier Solana ('16) | William Burns ('18) | Mohamed ElBaradei ('18) | Richard Branson ('19) | Gro Harlam Brundtland ('19) | Jeffrey Sachs ('20) | Ban Ki-moon ('20). |
2016 |
| The Rise Fund "Founders Board" (as listed in July 2021): Bono of U2 (key-organizer) | Jeff Skoll (key-organizer) | Jim Coulter | Lynne Benioff | David Bonderman | Richard Branson | Mellody Hobson | Reid Hoffman | Mo Ibrahim | Laurene Powell Jobs | Anand Mahindra | Pierre Omidyar | Paul Polman. |
2016 |
| Boris Mints Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions to Global Challenges, Tel Aviv University International advisory board: Vaclav Klaus (2016-) | Jacob Frenkel (2019-). Awarded: Jeffrey Sachs ('17, the first). |
2016 |
| G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance Members: Jacob Frenkel | Jean-Claude Trichet | Lord Nicholas Stern | Min Zhu Min | Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Chair; Singapore) | Sufian Ahmed (Ethiopia) | Ali Babacan (Turkey) | etc. Contributors: George Shultz | Stephen Schwarzman | Marc Andreessen | Gordon Brown | Adam Posen | Fei-Fei Li (Google). |
2017-2018 |
| The Village Global "Featured Luminaries: Some of the leaders backing Villagers with their time, energy, and money..." (as of July 2021): Ken Chenault | Bill Gates | Reid Hoffman | Eric Schmidt (Google) | Jeff Bezos | Mark Zuckerberg | Bob Iger | Anne Wojcicki (Goolge) | Diane Greene (founder VMWare) | Michael Dell | Jerry Yang (founder Yahoo) | Ben Silbermann (founder Pinterest) | John Thompson (former CEO Symantec) | Magic Johnson | Judy Estrin (former CTO Cisco) | Bobby Kotick (CEO Activision Blizzard). |
2017 |
| United States-Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Founders: Ivanka Trump, Dina Habib Powell. and Justin Trudeau. |
2017 |
| Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI) Directors: Garry Kasparov (founding chair) | Max Boot (president) | Anne Applebaum | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. Advisory board: Asha Rangappa (Yale-employed former FBI-CI agent) | Bernard Henri-Levy | William Kristol | Bret Stephens | Dan Benton (founder tech hedge fund Andor Capital) | Daniel Hurwitz | John Avlon | Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg. Manifesto signers ("The core principles of liberal democracy that once defined a centrist political majority across the free world are being pulled apart as once fringe views [i.e. mainly Third World immigration opposition] from the left and right [now] gain public acceptance."): Jose Maria Aznar | Natan Sharansky | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Rob Reiner. Funders: Stavros Niarchos Fdn. |
2017 |
| Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) Housed at the GMF, but not an exclusive project of it. Set up to counter alleged Russian/conservative propaganda and disinfo. Advisory board anno 2020: Michael Chertoff | William Kristol | Mike Morell (deputy director CIA 2010-2013, acting director 2011, 2012-2013)| John Podesta | Mike Rogers (chaired the House Intelligence Committee) | Marietje Schaake. More: Clint Watts (non-resident scholar). |
2017 |
| Global Service Institute (GSI) Founded in 2017 as Long Island University's Global Institute. Changed its name and created a dedicated website in late 2020. Management: Rita Cosby (founding chair GSI 2020-; journalist). Honorary advisory board: Gen. Maurice Greenberg (2020-) | Wesley Clark (2020-) | Bill Richardson (2020-) | Trammell Crow (2020-) | Sharon Bush (2020-; ex-wife of Neil Bush) | Michael Reagan (2020-) | Bob Woodruff (2020-) | Gary Sinise (2020-) | Buzz Aldrin (2020-) | Dionne Warwick (2020-) | Evander Holyfield (2020-) | Robert Arning (2020-; chair KPMG Fdn.). GI speakers: Colin Powell ('17) | Bill Clinton ('17) | Gen. David Petraeus ('17) | Joe Biden ('18; sold out 1,300 people crowd) | George W. Bush ('18). GSI speakers: Ehud Olmert ('20; virtual due to Corona epidemic) | Ben Carson ('20; virtual) | Susan Eisenhower ('20; virtual) | Jessica Lynch ('21; virtual). |
2017/2020 |
| Paris Peace Forum Executive committee: Pascal Lamy (anno 2021) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno 2021) | Prince Amyn Muhammad Aga Khan (anno 2021) | Dino Patti Djalal (anno 2021; founder Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia) | . General Assembly: Pascal L. | Thierry de M. | Prince Amyn | Dino P. D. | Mark Malloch Brown (anno 2021; "representing OSF"). Steering committee: Wang Huiyao (anno 2021) | Patrick Gaspard (black; vice president of programs Soros' OSF 2017-2018; president 2018-). Participants: 2018: Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, Justin Trudeau and many other European and African heads of state (Palestine and India also represented). Alexander Soros ('18) | Francois Heisbourg ('18) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('18) | Christine Lagarde ('18) | Mary Robinson ('18) | Marietje Schaake ('19) | Michael Chertoff ('19). |
2018 |
| Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity (TCEI) Members: Anders Fogh Rasmussen (founding co-chair) | Michael Chertoff (founding co-chair) | Joe Biden | John Negroponte | Victor Pinchuk | Marietje Schaake. Launched at the Munich Sec. Conf. |
2018 |
| Transatlantic (High Level) Working Group Founding members: Michael Abramowitz | Michael Chertoff (steering committee anno 2020) | Marietje Schaake (one of three "leadership" members anno 2020) | Katherine Maher (listed as "Executive Director, Wikimedia Foundation [Wikipedia].") | Clint Watts (founding steering committee, but gone by 2020) | Peter Chase (steering committee anno 2019-2020). March 6, 2019, TWG press release, 'Press Release: Governments and industries from both sides of the Atlantic must protect freedom of speech even as they address online hate speech and disinformation.' |
2019 |
| Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy (GCPPP) Jacques Attali | Andre Hoffmann (Roche) | Margaret Hamburg | Francois Heisbourg | Federica Mogherini. |
2020 |
| Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge University International Advisory Board: John Lehman | Joschka Fischer | Lord Mark Malloch Brown | Javier Solana. Source(s): cfg.polis.cam.ac.uk/ about/IAB (accessed: Oct. 13, 2021). |
2020 |
| The Lancet Covid 19 Commission The Lancet publishes a series of medical journals. Members: Jeffrey Sachs (chair 2020-) | Paul Polman (2020-) | Rajiv Shah (2020-; president Rock. Brothers Fund) | Min Zhu Min (2020-). |
2020 |
| G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response Members: Larry Summers (2021-) | Jacob Frenkel (2021-) | Min Zhu (2021-) | Jean-Claude Trichet (2021-) | Ngaire Woods (2021-). Source(s): pandemic-financing.org/about-us/ (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021). |
2021 |
Liberal: New Left: interfaith and "anti-racism" groups
This list does not include the 100+ lower-level "liberal CIA" pro-Third World immigration NGOs these elite multinationals, foundations and individuals are funding.
| American Colonization Society (WCS) Bishop Henry Codman Potter (life director 1868-, vice president 1886-1892, president 1892-1899; campaigned for equal education opportunities for blacks and for bringing an educated black elite to Liberia and Africa). |
1817 |
| Protestant Episcopal Freedman's Commission to Colored People / American Church Institute for Negroes (1906-) Trustees: George Foster Peabody (Morgan family and major banker/businessman; also trustee of the black Hampton University 1884-1930; treasurer DNC 1904-1905). |
1865-1967 |
| World's Parliament of Religions / Parliament of the World's Religions Original one took place in 1893, but revived in 1993, 1999 (Cape Town), 2004, 2009, 2015 and 2018. More research needed. 1893 conference: Jain preacher Virchand Gandhi | Buddhist preacher Anagarika Dharmapala | Soyen Shaku (Zen Buddhism) | Swami Vivekananda (Indian Hindu monk) | G. Bonet Maury (Protestant Christian historian) | Septimus Hanna (Christian Science) | Mohammed Alexander Russell Webb (Anglo-American convert to Islam) | Rev. Henry Jessup (Baha'i Faith religion) | Pratap Chandra Majumdar (Theism or Brahmo Samaj) | William Quan Judge and by activist Annie Besant (Theosophism) | Pung Quang Yu (Chinese religions). Not invited were the Mormons, Native American, Sikh and "Earth centered" religions. 1993 conference: Dalai Lama (keynote address) | Hans Kung (wrote the draft for the discussion: 'Towards a Global Ethic', which led to the 2001 Dialogue Among Civilizations; president of the Foundation for a Global Ethic) | Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. 2009 conference: NYC imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (speaker). |
1893 |
| United Negro College Fund (UNCF) / United Fund C.D. Jackson (chair early 1950s) | Michael H. Jordan (chair 1990s-2000s; chair and CEO of Westinghouse) | Raymond Gilmartin (chair 2000s; chairman, president and CEO of Merck) | William Gray III (president and CEO 1990s-2000s) | Vernon Jordan (executive director 1970-1971; apparently a later president as well) | Michael Lomax (president and CEO) | Lee Raymond (director at least in 2005-2006) | Rex Tillerson (director-at-large 2007-2010; presented Bill Clinton with the UNCF annual award in 2007) | Jamie Dimon (director-at-large 2007-2010 at least) | Ashton Phelps Jr. (director-at-large 2007-2010 at least; president and publisher The Times-Picayune, New Orleans). UNCF alumni: Martin Luther King Jr. | Spike Lee | Samuel L. Jackson | Dr. Walter Massey (president Morehouse College; institutional director in the 2000s) | Lionel Ritchie. Others: Cyrus Vance and Jimmy Carter ("saw each other from time to time at [UNCF] meetings [in the mid 1970s].") | Prescott Bush (chair Connecticut branch in 1951). Past donors: John D. Rockefeller Jr. (major early donor), John D. Rockefeller III (chair advisory board 1940s and major donor), Winthrop Rockefeller (major early donor), Ford Fdn. (countless millions from at least the 1960s to the 2000s), Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (millions), Walter Annenberg (largest single donation in 1990 of $50 million), Carnegie Corp., Dell, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Foot Locker Foundation, Burger King, Coca-Cola, Mastercard, GlaxoSmithKline, Nestle, Cargill, Alcoa, MetLife, Oberlin College, companies below and dozens more. Over the years directors-at-large have represented: Merck, Walmart, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, UPS, Wells Fargo, American Express, Intel, Seagate, Siemens, McKinsey & Co., GM, ExxonMobil, Booz Allen Hamilton, Procter & Gamble, Chubb Corporation. |
1946 |
| Oude Loo Conferenties / Oude Loo Conferences 17 weekly interfaith conferences organized between 1951 and 1957 at castle Oude Loo, owned by Princess Wilhelmina of Orange-owned (Dutch queen 1890-1948). The first meeting counted 130 participants, after 200 had been invited. Later meetings counted about 180 participants. Regular conference visitor Professor Gilles Quispel (author on hermeticism and Gnostic Christianity) in 'Andere Tijden': "America and Russia were never discussed. Neither the arms race. The meetings were meant to try to find a synthesis between Christianity and the world religions. [Hofmans] was an introvert, sexless woman..." The group was inspired by Queen Julia advisor Greet Hofmans and her ally, Johan Willem Kaiser. Both were heavily inspired by the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian Theosophist who each summer between 1921 and 1929 came to the Netherlands as part of the Order of the Star, the Dutch branch operating from Castle Eerde from 1924 to 1929. The castle was provided to the group by Baron Philip van Pallandt, whose cousin Rudolf was a senator. During the last "star camp" in 1929 3,000 followers from 48 countries were brought together by Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti had been raised from age 11 by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant, the leaders of the Theosophical Society, to become the new World Teacher / Maitreya, making the Oude Loo Conferences at the very least an offshoot of the Theosophical Society. Apart from Bernhard's extramarital affairs, the conferences caused a rift between Prince Bernhard and Queen Julia. When the latter eventually told Bernhard to leave the palace, Bernhard leaked details of his wife's association with Greet Hofmans and the conferences to his journalist friend Sefton Delmer, which in turn resulted in an article in Der Spiegel, causing a political crisis. The so-called Greet Hofmans Affair forced Juliana to distance herself from the group. Afterwards, the group continued under the name "Oude Veld Conferences" until 1968. As part of her terms for leaving the Oude Loo Conferences, Juliana demanded that Bernhard withdrew himself from Bilderberg, but the investigative committee never made this public and the association between Bilderberg and the royal house of Orange continued unhindered. Participants: Greet Hofmans (central figure, but only behind the scenes, because she did not speak English; spiritual medium who advised Queen Juliana since 1948, when Bernhard brought her to Palace Soestdijk in relation to Princess Marijke's eye-disease; her spirit communications guided the content of the conferences) | Johan Willem Kaiser (conference organizer and close ally of Hofmans; former director Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland; financed by Princess Wilhelmina) | Baroness Van Heeckeren van Molecaten (member organizing committee; personal secretary of Queen Juliana; after Greet Hofmans contacted her in 1946, she provided her with a place at her domain, from which her fame grew) | Queen Julia of Orange and friends (annual conference visitor) | Queen Mother Wilhelmina (annual conference visitor) | Eleanor Roosevelt (present at the second conference, but labeled it "fanatical") | Frits Philips (of the elite Philips company) | Pierson banking family | Viruly industrial family | Fokker family (of the Dutch airplane builder) | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Martin Buber (Jewish religious philosophist) | Rabbi Jacob Soetendorp | Friedrich Würzbach (founder Nietzsche Society; half-Jew who was a complete Nazi, but still dismissed by the party) | Annemarie Schimmel (German scholar on Islam and Sufism; Harvard professor 1967-1992) | Zafrullah Khan (founding father of Pakistan). |
1951-1957 |
| Religions for Peace International trustees: Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (hon. president anno '21) | John Brademas | Thomas McLarty III | Richard Blum (co-chair; husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Steve Killelea | Jeffrey Sachs (anno '21). |
1970 |
| World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) Organized by the United Nations through Unesco. The conferences were held in 1978, 1983, 2001 (Durban, South Africa), 2009 and 2021. 2001: Gareth Evans (co-organizer as "Eminent Persons Group" member and known 2001 speaker) | Martti Ahtisaari (present at the 2001 conference). Co-organizers as "Eminent Persons Group" members (2001-): Mary Robinson (founder in June 2001, as the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) | Elie Wiesel ("holocaust survivor") | Jimmy Carter (former U.S. president) | Garent E. | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Coretta Scott King (widow of Martin Luther King) | Nelson Mandela (patron) | Mikhail Gorbachev (former USSR president) | Vigdis Finnbogadottir (former president of Iceland) | Oscar Arias (former President of Costa Rica) | Patricio Aylwin Azocar (former president of Chile) | I.K. Gujral (former India PM) | Cardinal Roger Etchegaray | chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks | Soheib Bencheikh El Hocine (grand mufti of Marseilles) | Kuett Ketumile Masire (former president of Botswana) | David Lange (former PM of New Zealand) | Federico Mayor (former Director-General of UNESCO) | Dr. Nafis Sadik (former exec. director UN Population Fund and UN special representative WACR | Mario Soares (former president of Portugal). 2009: Ban Ki-Moon (opening address 2009 conference). Source(s): - crisisweb.org/projects/ showreport.cfm?reportid=377 (accessed: Aug. 28, 2001; reports on G.A.); intl-crisis-group.org/projects/icgnews.html (accessed: Aug. 22, 2023; page dates to August 2001): : "'Fighting Racism: Statement by Gareth Evans...' "At the Eminent Persons Group Roundtable, a preparatory meeting for the "World Conference against Racism" to be held in Durban this year, Gareth [E.] stated: "There's nothing I want to see more than consensus from this Conference - with clear and unmixed messages, a clear program of action, and a new kind of pressure being able to be placed on governments, and political and ethnic leaders, as a result." ... June 21, 2001 ... 'High Commissioner for Human Rights Establishes Eminent Persons Group to Sketch a Vision of Future Free of Racism': ICG Chairman Martti [A.], former President of Finland, and ICG President Gareth [E.], for eight years Australian Foreign Minister, have been invited to join an Eminent Persons Group under the patronage of Nelson [M.] to provide leadership and inspiration in the run-up to the World Conference against Racism in Durban at the end of August. The Group also includes ICG Board Members..."; - ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2009/10/leading-international-figures-meet-geneva-support-world-conference-racism (accessed: Aug. 22, 2023): "2 August 2001... The nine are part of the Eminent Persons Group set up by High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary [R.] in June [2001] to help advance the aims of the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance to be held in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 7 September [2001]. They are: [M. A. and G. E.] ... Full Membership of Eminent Persons Group: ..." |
1978 |
| Interfaith consultations Founders: Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Crown Prince El Hassan of Jordan and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild. Led to the 1994 Interfaith Declaration: A Code of Ethics on International Business for Christians, Muslims, and Jews. |
1984 |
| Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) Interfaith group that is a New York City-based Hollywood and music industry-focused spin-off of the super-elite Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF). People: Rabbi Marc Schneier (founder; son of the ACF founder; serial adulterer married five times) | Joseph Papp (founding chair; theatrical producer and director) | Russell Simmons (secretary 2002, chair 2002-2018; co-founder Def Jam Records; former PCP and cocaine user; stepped down after rape accusations). Awarded: LA Reid | Clive Davis. Promoters/activists: Jay-Z. Financiers: Samuel Bronfman Foundation and Steven Spielberg's Righteous Persons Foundation (the rabbi is a long-time associate of both), Miramax (of Harvey Weinstein, accused by over 50 women of sexual abuse), HSBC, AT&T, Time Warner, etc. Will Smith and family (in '15). |
1989 |
| United Religions Initiative President's council: George Shultz Founding charter: "We, people of diverse religions, spiritual expressions and indigenous traditions throughout the world, hereby establish the United Religions Initiative to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings." |
1995 |
| United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) 1998 origin with Iranian president Mohammad Khatami proposing a "Dialogue of Civilizations", which in 2001 was announced as the United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations (which didn't result in much due to 9/11). Sponsored by the Japan Soc. Founders: Kofi Annan and his former UN chief of staff, Iqbal Riza of Pakistan. 2006 High-Level Group: Desmond Tutu | Rabbi Arthur Schneier | Seyyed Mohammad Khatami (former president of Iran) | representatives from Turkey, Morocco, India, Great Britain, Spain, Russia, etc. The report of this group: - rejected and countered Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations" theory and instead attributed Muslim attacks on the West to poverty. - calls for fighting "stereotypes and misconceptions" that recognize Islam as a threat to the West, or that it is violent. - declares the Jewish homeland of Palestine to be Arab territory and denouces Israel for retaliating to attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah in 2006. - calls for increased migration of Muslims to the West, described as "increased diversity". - calls for Hollywood to "gauge the influence of film and television on attitudes and behavior and to increase the portrayal of normalized Muslim and other under-represented or negatively stereotyped communities in popular media." 2008 Forum participants: Queen Noor of Jordan | Prince Turki al-Faisal | Vartan Gregorian | Gareth Evans (Int. Crisis Group) | John Marks and Susan Collins Marks | Mary Robinson | Ban Ki-Moon | Jose Luis Zapatero | President of Portugal Jorge Sampaio | Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Richard Barret | Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu (sec.-gen. Org. of the Islamic Conference) | Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Ricken Patel (co-founder Avaaz) | Eboo Patel (Interfaith Youth Core, Aga Khan Foundation). Soliya ("aims to improve intercultural understanding in the world, particularly between young adults in the US and the Arab & Muslim World."; founded in 2004; became part of UNAOC in 2009): Advisory board anno 2007 (counted a second time in index where necessary): Martin Indyk | John Marks | Robert Pelletreau Jr. | Prince el Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Dr. John Zogby. Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute: In relation to the above groups, also search for this one, founded in 2002. |
1998, 2005 |
| U.S.-Muslim Engagement Project Founded out of Search for Common Ground and the Consensus Building Institute. The initial Jan. 2007 summit was hosted by RBF at their Pocantico Conference Center. Leadership Group Members: Madeleine Albright | Richard Armitage | Dov Zakheim | Tom Dine (exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Dennis Ross (consultant WINEP) | Vin Weber | Stephen Heintz (president RBF) | Paul Brest (president Hewlett Fdn.) | Robert Jay Lifton | John Marks and Susan Collin Marks. Muslims: Ziad Asali (president and founder American Task Force on Palestine) | Daisy Khan (exec. director American Society for Muslim Advancement) | Dalia Mogahed (exec. director Gallup Center for Muslim Studies) | Feisal Abdul Rauf (imam of Masjid al-Farah in New York City 1983-2009; founder and chair Cordoba Ini.) | Mustapha Tlili (director Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, New York University) | Etc. |
2006 |
| Partnership for a New American Economy (NAE) renewoureconomy.org/about (accessed: December 26, 2010): Founding co-chairs: Michael Bloomberg (main founder) | Steve Ballmer (CEO Microsoft) | Bob Iger (chair and CEO Disney) | Jim McNerney (chair, president and CEO Boeing) | Rupert Murdoch | Antonio Villaraigosa (mayor Los Angeles) | Michael Nutter (mayor Philadelphia). "Other Founding Members:" Richard Anderson (CEO Delta Airlines) | Ursula Burns | Ken Chenault | Daniel Fulton (president and CEO Weyerhaeuser) | James Gorman | Rob Speyer (president and CEO Tishman Speyer) | Jerry Yang | Mark Zuckerberg | Mort Zuckerman. Members per Jan. 2019 (extra): Sam Altman | Tim Armstrong (chair and CEO AOL) | Jeff Bewkes | Lloyd Blankfein | Henry Cisneros | John Doerr | Rahm Emanuel | Reid Hoffman | Harold McGraw III | Pierre Omidyar | Richard Parsons | Haim Saban | Stephen Schwarzman | James S. Tisch | Diane von Furstenberg. Pro-Third World immigration propaganda group: renewoureconomy.org/about/ (accessed: April 25, 2020): "The Partnership for a New American Economy brings together more than 500 Republican, Democratic, and Independent mayors and business leaders united in making the economic case for streamlining, modernizing, and rationalizing our immigration system." September 29, 2010, renewoureconomy.org, 'Mayor Bloomberg on the Partnership for a New American Economy': "Immigrants come here to work, start businesses, and create jobs. ... Business leaders and mayors from all parts of the country are joining the Partnership for a New American Economy, because they understand that keeping America competative is not a Democratic or a Republican issue. ... The time has come to fix our broken immigration system and to keep the American economy growing and the American Dream alive." September 29, 2010. renewoureconomy.org, 'Rupert Murdoch On Why He Supports Immigration Reform': "As an immigrant, I feel an obligation to speak up about immigration polices that will keep America the most creative and economically competative in the world. .. I had the freedom to pursue my dreams, to secure the best opportunities for my children, and to participate in the open dialogue that is essential to a free society. Today America is deeply divided over immigration policy. Many people worry that immigrants will take their jobs, challenge their culture, or change their community. Others want to punish those who fled poverty or oppression in their native countries and came to the U.S. outside the legal system. ... Sadly, immigration has become a wedge issue to some partisan interests used to advance a political agenda. ... Immigration is to important to be a partisan cause [all parties simply need to get in line and fully open the borders so our multinationals benefit]." Source(s): renewoureconomy.org/about (accessed: Dec. 16, 2010): "To raise awareness of the economic benefits of sensible immigration reform. ... Co-Chairs of The Partnership: ... Other Founding Members: ..." |
2010 |
| Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism (CIC) Working group members: Lynn Forester de Rothschild (founder and CEO; CEO EL Rothschild) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (director EL Rothschild) | Paul Tudor Jones II | Darren Walker (president Ford Fdn.) | John Studzinski (vice chair Blackstone) | Dr. Adam Posen (president Peterson Inst.) | Larry Fink (chair and CEO BlackRock)| Lord Brian Griffiths (director GS) | Paul Polman (CEO Unilever) | Tony Elumelu | Indra Nooyi (chair and CEO PepsiCo) | Herman Daems (chair BNP Paribas) | Peter Harrison (CEO Schroders) | Jeff Conway | Dominic Barton (global managing director McKinsey & Co.) | Richard Adkerson (president, CEO and vice chair Freeport-McMoran) | Eric Spiegel (president Siemans). inc-cap.com (accessed: August 8, 2016): "[Financiers:] Ford [Fdn.] Rockefeller [Fdn.] E.L. Rothschild. ... Tony Elumelu [Fdn.]. ... McKinsey & Company. ... Hosted by: the City of London Corporation [and] E.L. Rothschild." Originated with the Henry Jackson Society's Initiative for Inclusive Capitalism in 2012. As HJS executive director Alan Mendoza explained: "We felt that such was public disgust with the system [in the aftermath of Occupy Wall Street], there was a very real danger that politicians could seek to remedy the situation by legislating capitalism out of business." HJS Inclusive Capitalism taskforce of 2012: Dominic B. (co-chair) | Lynn F. de R. (co-chair) | Dr. Adam Posen | Jon Huntsman Jr. Founding NYC conference of October 11, 2012: Lynn F. de R. | Dominic B. | Larry Summers | Glenn Britt (chair and CEO Time Warner Cable Inc.) | Michael Bloomberg (located at his company's offices). Speakers: Prince Charles of Windsor / HRH The Prince of Wales (May 27, 2014, '15) | Bill Clinton (May 27, 2014, '15) | Christine Lagarde ('14) | Eric Schmidt | Mark Carney | Larry S. | Lionel Barber | Chen Yilong | Dr Fang Xinghai | David Cote (chair and CEO Honeywell) | John Micklethwait. Council for Inclusive Capitalism (With the Vatican) / Guardians for Inclusive Capitalism (launched in Dec. 2020): Lynn Forester de R. (standing next to the Pope during a founding meeting) | Desmond Tutu (standing on the other side of the pope) | Rajiv Shah (pres. Rock. Fdn.) | Darren W. (pres. Ford Fdn.) | Ajay Banga | Alfred Kelly (chair and CEO VISA) | William Lauder | Brian Moynihan. Source(s): inc-cap.com (accessed: Jan. 20, 2015); inc-cap.com/speakers.html (accessed: Jan. 23, 2015); inc-cap.com/leadership/ (accessed: Sep. 8, 2015 - Aug. 23, 2016 and on): "Working Group: ..."; inclusivecapitalism.com/about/ (accessed: Sep. 22, 2022; still contains the photo of founding members with the pope). |
2014 |
| Inclusive America (IA) inclusiveamerica.org/endorsers-partners/ (accessed: Nov. 28, 2020): "Richard Armitage ... [Gen.] Michael Hayden ... Christine Todd Whitman [Christine Whitman] ... Madeleine Albright ... Henry Cisneros ... John Deutch ... Stuart Eizenstat ... Mickey Kantor ... Anthony Lake ... John Podesta ... Strobe Talbott ... John Brennan ... William Joseph Burns ... [CIA deputy director] David Cohen ... Chuck Hagel ... John Kerry ... Michael Morell [Adm. Mike Morell]... Leon Panetta ... Gayle Smith..." |
2014 |
| CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion Tons of corporations, but not many major names. Signers (as of March 30, 2023 there a close to 2,500 signers, too much to go through): Bill Ford (steering comm. '17-; for General Atlantic) | Larry Fink ('17-; for BlackRock) | James Murdoch ('17-; son of Rupert) | Ken Chenault ('17-; for American Express) | Ajay Banga ('17-; for Mastercard) | Indra Nooyi ('17-'; for PepsiCo.) | William Conway Jr. ('17-; for Carlyle) | Meg Whitman ('17-; for HP) | Anne Wojcicki (anno '23; 23andMe, married into Google fortune) | Bob Bechek ('17-; Bain & Co.) | Marc Benioff ('17-; for Salesforce) | Jeffrey Graves (anno '23; 3D Systems) | Shantanu Narayen (for Adobe) | Dr. Lisa Su (for AMD). Companies: 3M, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Dow Chemical, Dupont, HSBC, Home Depot, IBM, Kellogg's, KPMG, Levi Strauss, Major League Baseball, Mattel, Merck, McKinsey & Co., MITRA, Morgan Stanley, Northrop Grumman, PayPal, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Seagate, Swiss Re, Symantec, T-Mobile USA, Tupperware, Unilever, United Airlines. Source(s): July 25, 2017, ceoaction.com, 'Nearly 100 New CEOs Join The CEO Action...'; ceoaction.com/ceos/ (accessed: Oct. 11, 2017 - March 30, 2023): "*Denotes Steering Committee Member." |
2017 |
| Coalition for the American Dream Signers: Lester Crown (chair Henry Crown and Company) | Stephen Schwarzman (chair, CEO and co-founder Blackstone) | Penny Pritzker | John Doerr | Mark Zuckerberg (founder FB) | Sheryl Sandberg (COO FB) | Ajay Banga (president and CEO Mastercard) | Tim Cook (CEO Apple) | Brad Smith (president MS) | Ginni Rometty (president, chair and CEO IBM) | Alex Gorsky (chair and CEO Johnson & Johnson) | Hans Vestberg (CEO Verizon) | Randall Stephenson (chair and CEO AT&T) | James Dinkins (president Coca-Cola N.A.) | Chip Bergh (president and CEO Levi Strauss & Co.) | Doug McMillon (president and CEO Walmart Inc.) | Alfred Kelly Jr. (CEO Visa) | Antonio Neri (president and CEO HP) | Devin Wenig (president and CEO eBay) | Sundar Pichai (CEO Google) | Lars Petersson (president & CEO IKEA N.A.) | Mary Barra (chair and CEO GM) | Dan Schulman (president and CEO PayPal) | Jack Dorsey (CEO Twitter) | Shantanu Narayen (chairman, president and CEO Adobe) | Bob Swan (CEO Intel) | Kevin Johnson (president & CEO Starbucks) | Dion Weisler (president and CEO HP) | Dara Khosrowshahi (CEO Uber) | Chuck Robbins (CEO Cisco) | Brian Chesky (co-founder and CEO Airbnb) | Don Graham (chair Graham Holdings / Washington Post) | Todd Schulte (president FWD.us) | Ali Noorani (National Immigration Forum) | Martin Slark (director Koch Industries). Oct. 20, 2017, Business Journal: "A new coalition that's being formed to push for a permanent path to U.S. residency for young illegal immigrants." |
2017 |
| Faith and Philanthropy Summit Organized annually at the Vatican. It brings together wealthy philanthropists from different religions and provide each other with the Galileo Foundation's "Prophets for Philanthropy Award". UBS was a key seed financier. Catholics, Jews and Muslims were among those included. The other two religions are unclear. Participants: Pope Frances ('22; co-founder) | John McCaffrey ('22; official founder through his Galileo Fdn.; secured a $230 million donation of the Gates Fdn. to Cambridge University in 1999; Labour Party's Director of Fundraising 2012-2013) | Jeff Bezos (keynote speaker '22; jointly received the "Prophets for Philanthropy Award") and partner Lauren Sanchez | Laura Turner Seydel ('22; daughter of Ted Turner from his first wife, who accepted an award on his behalf) | Denis O'Brien ('22; awarded for building 188 schools for 60,000 students, as well as training 1700 teachers and school principals in Haiti and Papua New Guinea). Source(s): Oct. 19, 2022, Forbes, 'How The Galileo Foundation Brought Together Leading Philanthropists For The First Faith And Philanthropy Summit': "Brought together 145 leading philanthropists from five different faiths..." |
2022 |
Liberal: New Left: communism, socialism, eugenics, birth control, United Nations, anti-nuclear protesting, sustainable development, and UFO cultism
Includes South African think tanks.
| Zoological Society of London Charles Darwin | Dr. Geoffrey Bourne (fellow). |
1826 |
| Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Global youth organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. All kinds of regional involvement of big business elites, at least back in the early part of the 20th century. Officers: Andrew Mellon (member National War Council of the YMCA during WWI) | Morris Jesup (co-founder NY YMCA) | Cleveland Dodge (president NY YMCA 1925-1935) | 2nd Viscount Astor (Pres. South Western Division around 1950) | Thomas Dewey (trustee NY YMCA around 1950) | Maurice Strong (member international committee of USA and Canada 1956-1968; president national council of YMCAs of Canada until 1961, chair 1961-) | Robbins Strong (secretary of the extension and intermovement aid division of the international YMCA in the 1950s; apparently a distant cousin of Maurice, and Maurice met him) | Harold Rea (president Canadian YMCA 1961; director Power Corp. and help Maurice become vice president and then president of Power Corp.) | George von Mallinckrodt ("Pres., German YMCA, London, 1961–" | Maurice Moore (trustee greater NY YMCA 1964-1982; married Henry Luce's sister and director and chair Time magazine). |
1826 |
| Smithsonian Institution Government-funded. Trustees: Gen, Joseph Wheeler (regent 1886-1900) | Henry F. Osborn (elected secretary in 1906, but declined) | Dwight Morrow (regent) | William H. Taft (chancellor 1921-1930) | Charles Hughes (chancellor 1930-1941) | Foster Stearns (regent 1941-1945) | S. Dillon Ripley II (secretary 1964-1984, emeritus for years after) | Edward K. Thompson (hired by Ripley to set up and run the Smithsonian magazine; psywar expert who worked for Henry Luce and C.D. Jackson at Time Life) | Robert Bliss (vice chair Art Commission) | Clarke Gilmore (Art Commission 1940-1967) | Caryl Haskins (regent 1956-1980, emeritus after that) | Warren Burger (chancellor 1969-1986) | William Hewitt | John French III | Henry Catto | Anne Armstrong | William A. M. Burden (regent) | Patrick Gross (member Smithsonian Luncheon Group) | William Rehnquist (1986-2005) | David Rubenstein (trustee 2009-2017, chair 2017-2020) | Patty Stonesifer (board of regents chair 2008-2012, vice chair 2012-2013). |
1846 |
| Peabody Education Fund Set up immediately after the American Civil War as the first major foundation. Purpose: To "encourage the intellectual, moral, and industrial education of the destitute children of the Southern States." This only involved existing schools, which excluded recently freed blacks. Four U.S. presidents served on the board, the first before becoming U.S. president. Trustees: George Peabody (founder; 1854 co-founder with Junius Spencer Morgan, the father of J.P. Morgan, of J.P. Morgan & Co.; "father of modern philanthropy; d. 1869) | Gen. Ulysses Grant (1867-1885; U.S. president 1869-1877) | Gen. Henry R. Jackson (1875-1889; Confederate general) | Anthony J. Drexel (1881-1893; Morgan partner; d. 1893) | J. P. Morgan Sr. (1885-1913) | Grover Cleveland (1885-1899; U.S. president 1885-1889, 1893-1897) | Joseph Choate (1893-1900s) | Daniel Coit Gilman (1893-1908) | William McKinley (1899-1901, while president; U.S. president 1897-1901, when he was assassinated) | Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1914, elected upon the death of McKinley; U.S. president 1901-1909) | Morris Jesup (1902-1908). More trustees: Hamilton Fish (1867-1893; secretary of state under president Ulysses Grant 1869-1877; previously sen. and gov. New York; didn't care much about blacks with state secretary) | Robert C. Winthrop (1867-1894) | William Evarts (1867-1900; leading lawyer of Evarts, Choate & Beaman) | William Aiken Jr. (1867-1887; owned the largest rice plantation with 700 slaves) | Adm. David Farragut (1867-1871) | George Peabody Russell (anno 1893) | George Peabody Wetmore (1893-) | William Endicott (1891-1897). Source(s): 1888, 'Proceedings of the Trustees of the Peabody Education Fund, 1881-1887', opening page ("The board as originally appointed... The vacancies created by death or resignation have been filled by the election of: ...") and p. 255: "Oct. 1885: ... J. Pierpont [M.] ... was chosen a Trustee. ... Grover [C.], President of the United States, was chosen to fill the vacancy in the Board caused by the death of General Grant." |
1867 |
| American Museum of Natural History Founding trustees: J. P. Morgan Sr. (founding 1869-1913, treasurer anno 1884) | A. G. Phelps Dodge (founding 1869-1872) | Joseph Choate (anno 1869-, still anno 1916) | Morris Jesup (trustee president 1869-1908) | Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (1869-1878) and Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt Jr. (1886-1891) | Remaining trustees who joined in the 1800s: William E. Dodge Jr. (1872-1903) | Joseph W. Drexel (1872-1888) | Percy Pyne (1872-1895, namesake 1900-, still in 1916) | Charles Lanier (1874-, still anno 1916) | Cornelius Vanderbilt (anno 1881-1884) | Oliver Harriman (1878-1895) | Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn Sr. (only listed as a trustee 1901- on a 1916 historical trustees list; however, also on other lists: president anno 1884, assistant to president 1899-1901, vice president 1901-1908, again president 1908-1933; since 1893 a great friend of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club) | William Rockefeller Jr. (1895-1913). Trustees (early 1900s - still rough on dates): Cleveland H. Dodge (1904-, first vice president anno 1916, re-elected in 1917) | J. P. Morgan Jr. (1908-, second vice president anno 1916, re-elected in 1917) | Ogden Mills (1910-) | Henry Frick (1914-) | Madison Grant (1911-, still anno 1916) | Henry Davison (1916-, treasurer 1916-) | George F. Baker (1914-) | Mrs. Russell Sage (benefactor) | Clarke Gilmore | Robert Bliss | Frederick Osborn | Cleveland E. Dodge. Early members: John Jacob Astor ($10 annually, anno 1878) | David H. McAlpin ($10 annually, anno 1878). Trustees (post-WWII): Caryl Haskins (trustee 1973-1989) | Maurice Greenberg | David Koch | Theodore Roosevelt IV. Also: Andrew Carnegie established the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Source(s): Annual reports AMNH for 1878, 1881, 1884, 1915 (list of historical trustees on pp. 129-131 (PDF)), 1916. |
1869 |
| (Permanent) Commission on Home Missions to Colored People, Episcopal Church Bishop Henry Codman Potter (involved in its founding and activities). |
1870 |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) William Osborn (president 1941-1947) | John Cadwalader | Caryl Haskins | Chauncey Depew | Thomas Lamont | Ogden Mills | Harry Morgan | David Schiff | C. Douglas Dillon | Malcolm Pratt Aldrich | Walter Annenberg | Brooke Astor | Kissinger | Michael Bloomberg | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice G.) | Michel David-Weill | Mrs. H. J. Heinz II | |
1870 |
| National Rifle Association (NRA) Clinton Gutermuth (director 1963-1973, president 1973-1975, executive council since 1975) |
1871 |
| John F. Slater Fund for the Education of Freedmen (Slater Fund) Contributed to Southern schools which provided the education of black students. Founding trustees: William Slater (and son) | Rutherford Hayes | William E. Dodge | Daniel Coit Gilman | Morris Jesup. Later trustees: William E. Dodge Jr. | Bishop Henry Codman Potter | Cleveland H. Dodge. |
1882 |
| Eugenics Movement Sir Francis Galton (founder; cousin of Charles Darwin) |
1883 |
| New York Zoological Society Trustees: William Vanderbilt (founding life member) | Andrew Carnegie (founding life member) | Vincent Astor (organized an expedition to the Galapagos Islands in honor of Darwin) | Brooke Astor | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (besides being a trustee, made a $1,000,000 donation in 1923) | Edward Harkness ($100,000 dollar donation) | Mrs. Russell Sage ($750,000 donation) | Harry F. Osborn (executive chair 1896-1903) | Madison Grant (president) | Morris Jesup | Ogden Mills | Mortimer Schiff | George F. Baker, Sr. | Cornelius Agnew | Kermit Roosevelt | Fairfield Osborn (trustee since 1923, president 1940-1968) | Laurance Rockefeller (trustee since 1941). Also: Clinton Gutermuth. Members of the Ladies' Auxilliary of the New York Zoological Society: Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan | Mrs. George F. Baker, Jr. | Mrs. Marshall Field | Mrs. Cleveland E. Dodge | Mrs. William G. Rockefeller | Mrs. George Whitney | Mrs. J. Borden Harriman | Mrs. Percy R. Pyne. Madison Grant wrote the 1916 book Anglo-Saxon white race superiority book 'The Passing of the Great Race', with a foreword of Henry F. Osborn. Adolf Hitler later wrote back to Grant that this book had become "his bible" and replaced the term "nordic" with "aryan". |
1895 |
| General Education Board (GEB) Sen. Nelson Aldrich (Rockefeller-in-law who arranged for a congressional charter for the GEB). Part of two founding meetings: John D. Rockefeller Sr. (seed financier with $1 million) | Morris Jesup (organized a first meeting at his home; initial board member) | John D. Rockefeller Jr. (organized a second meeting at his home) | Robert Curtis Ogden (initial board member) | George Foster Peabody (initial board member) | Daniel Coit Gilman (only at second meeting; initial board member) | Walter Hines Page (only at second meeting; initial board member). Also: Frederick Gates (original board member and president, chair 1907-1917; principal business advisor to John D. Rockefeller Sr. 1891-1923, who invested most Rockefeller money with syndicates organized by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and to a lesser extent J.P. Morgan & Co.; also advised Rockefeller Jr. later on philanthropic affairs). March 28, 1919, New York Globe, Dr. W. S. Spillman, former federal farm management chief under the secretary of agriculture: "Nine years ago [1910] I was approached by an agent of Mr. Rockefeller with the statement that his object in establishing the General Education Board was to gain control of the educational institutions of the country so that all men employed in them might be 'right.' I was then informed that the Board has been successful with smaller institutions but that the larger institutions had refused to accept Rockefeller money with strings tied to it. My informant said that Rockefeller was going to add $100,000,000 to the Foundation for the express purpose of forcing his money on the big institutions." "Henry Demarest Lloyd, in Wealth Against Commonwealth, published in 1894, and Ida Tarbell, in a [19-piece McClure's] magazine series [running from 1902 to 1904, followed with a book], had tarred and feathered the Standard Oil Trust. The Socialist movement was winning the support of working people throughout the country for its program to do away with private capital altogether. And perhaps most frightening at all, upstanding middle-class Americans... were joining the call for Progressive reforms ... for constraints on the accumulation and concentration of private wealth. [Theodore] Roosevelt was elected in 1904 on a platform that at least threatened to break up monopolies. "I trembled," Gates later recalled, "as I witnessed the unreasoning popular resentment at Mr. Rockefeller's riches, to the mass of the people a national menace." Gates might believe that Rockefeller "used his wealth only in the public interest," that his fortune had been created by economies rather than theft [etc.] But few people in the country ... agreed with him. In the fall of 1906 the federal government launched a major suit to break up the Standard Oil Trust." |
1902 |
| Eugenics Society, London and American Eugenics Society Henry F. Osborn (vice president) | Fairfield Osborn | Frederick Osborn (president) | Margaret Sanger | Madison Grant | Charles Darwin | Charles Davenport | Julian Huxley (vice president 1937-1944, president 1959-1962) | John Maynard Keynes (director 1937-1944) | Neville Chamberlain | Arthur Balfour. |
1907 |
| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Zbigniew Brzezinski (member anno 1971) | W. E. B. Du Bois (co-founder) | Roy Wilkins (executive director) | William Coleman Jr. (member national legal committee). |
1909 |
| Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Original financiers: Carnegie Institute, Mary Harriman (mother of Averell H.). Rockefeller Fdn. support came when the great depression hit. Charles Davenport (founder) | Reginald Harris (headed eugencis research; son-in-law of Davenport) | Harry Laughlin (director) | Alexander Graham Bell (committee member. Became a center of genetics research. Elite laboratory trustees: Norris Darrell, Jr. (director 1974-1981) | Taggart Whipple (vice chair 1986-1992) | Walter Page II (director) |
1910-1940 |
| International Congresses of Eugenics of 1911, 1921 and 1932 Henry F. Osborn (co-president) | Leonard Darwin (co-president; a son of Charles Darwin) |
1911 |
| Eugenics Research Association (ERA) Charles Davenport (founder) | Madison Grant (director). |
1913 |
| Sufi Order International / Inayati Order The name was changed in 2016. Inayat Khan (founder; 1882-1927) | Vilayat Inayat Khan (1916-2004; head) | Zia Inayat Khan (b. 1971; head). Sufi Ruhaniat International: Founded in 1970 by Vilayat Inayat Khan disciple Samuel Lewis of the "liberal CIA"-financing Levi Strauss fortune. Lewis' father, Jacob Lewis, was a vice president of Levi Strauss, the jeans company founded in 1853. His mother was the daughter of Lenore Rothschild (1871-1919), reportedly (!) a member of the famous banking family. |
1914 |
| Save the Redwoods League Madison Grant (co-founder) | Henry Fairfield Osborn (co-founder) | Fairfield Osborn (director) | Caryl Haskins |
1918 |
| Save the Children Trustees: Anthony Lake (1975–1977) | Zoe Baird (1997-2006) | Eric Holder (2004-2009) | Sen. Bill Frist (2007-) | Jill Biden (chair 2010s; wife of Joe Biden) | Cecilia Salinas Occelli (president for Mexico; wife of Mexican president Carlos Salinas) | Jennifer Garner (2010s-2020s; wife of Ben Affleck) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt (chair of Save the Children Int.; social democrat PM of Denmark 2011-2015; trustee Soros' ICG anno '19; co-chair Facebook Oversight Board 2020-) | Janti Soeripto (U.S. president and CEO anno 2020; advisory board U.S. Global Leadership Coa.) |
1947 |
| American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Ernest Angell (chair) | William M. Roth (director) | Morton Halperin (Washington director 1984-1992; head of its "National Security Archive") | George Soros (major financier). |
1920 |
| American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood) Margaret Sanger (primary founder). Paul Ehrlich among the board of advocates members. Prescott Bush (initial treasurer PP in 1947). Early major contributors to the Citizens Committee for Planned Parenthood of the American Birth Control League: John D. Rockefeller III | Felix M. and Frieda Warburg Foundation. Supporters of the 1940 national campaign of Planned Parenthood: Thomas Lamont (national treasurer) | Barry Bingham (national vice chair) | Winthrop Aldrich | John Schiff (Rothschild-related family) | George F. Baker | Edward Harkness | Dwight Morrow | Mrs. Walter N. Rothschild (Carola Warburg Rothschild) | Mrs. James Stillman Rockefeller. 1960s sponsors: Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt | Lammot Du Pont Copeland | Mrs. Robert E. Blum | Francis T. P. Plimpton | William H. Draper, Jr. (vice chairman of the Planned Parenthood Federation and special counsel to the International Planned Parenthood Federation). |
1921 |
| American Eugenics Society Leon F. Whitney (secretary; dog breeder). Whitney sent his 1934 book 'The Case for Sterilization' to Hitler, for which he received a congratulatory note. The book of his colleague Madison Grant had an even greater effect on Hitler. |
1922 |
| Lucis Trust Originally named Lucifer's Trust. In the 1980s Robert McNamara was repeatedly named as a member/director by Lyndon Larouche's group, which also talked to representatives of the trust. Of course, Larouche's groups tend to be rather cultic and skimpy when it comes to providing physical evidence, but they seldom - if ever - make up memberships. Lucis Trust has refused to answer this author regarding any questions about past directorships or financial support, but looking at this list of conservation-linked NGOs it would be almost strange if Robert M., Maurice S. and the Rockefeller Fdn. haven't been involved to a degree. |
1922 |
| Central Selling Organization De Beers diamond cartel. Oppenheimer family controlled. |
1934 |
| Pioneer Fund Founding directors: Wickliffe Preston Draper | Harry Laughlin | Frederick Osborn. Other directors: John M. Woolsey, Jr. | Charles Codman Cabot. Lost a lot of relevancy after WWII in terms of elitism, after Anglo-Saxon eugenics policies were banned. However, since the 1990s Fund director Richard Lynn has been making waves as the premier investigator of worldwide IQ differences among races. |
1937 |
| Wilderness Society Governing council: Theodore Roosevelt IV (1998-, still anno 2020). Really the only recognizable name over the decades. |
1937 |
| War of the Worlds broadcast A psychological warfare experiment financed by the Rockefeller Fdn. |
Oct. 30, 1938 |
| Outward Bound Trust David Schiff (director 1983-1999). Lynn Forester (a trustee) and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild organized a fundraiser in September 2002. Present: Jacob Rothschild | Prince Andrew | Arthur Sulzberger (chair of the New York Trust). Funders: Donors to the New York Trust include every major liberal establishment bank and corporation, as well as individuals as John Whitehead and Richard Holbrooke. |
1941 |
| Temple of Religion, New York World Fair William Osborn (director NYWF, president of the temple; married into Dodge family) |
1939 |
| United Nations Association (UNA) Set up just before the creation of the UN. Board members: Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford (US co-chairs national council) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (national VP 1946-1963) | Robert Roosa (governor) | John Whitehead (US chair until 1999 and director World Federation; also a major financier) | Elliot Richardson (US co-chair) | Cyrus Vance (US co-chair) | John McCloy | Maurice Greenberg | Ted Turner | Lee Hamilton | William Luers (chair and president) | William vanden Heuvel (US director and president of Friends of the World Federation of the UNA) | Richard Gardner | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Barber Conable Jr. | Max Kampelman (National Council) | Steven Rockefeller (National Council) | Maurice Tempelsman (National Council) | William Coleman Jr. (National Council) | Robin Chandler Duke (National Council) | Louis Perlmutter | Paul Volcker | William Draper III | Frank Wisner II | Thomas Pickering (US co-chair) | William Hewitt | Gustavo Cisneros | H.R.H. Princess Firyal of Jordan | U. Thant (president World Federation 1973-1974) | Maurice Strong (president World Federation 1987-1991) | Hans Blix (president World Federation 2006-2009) | Nancy Rubin | Robert Worcester (vice president). Others: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (prominent Austrian member of UNA's international club) | Nelson Mandela (honorary president WF). Known visitors: Lord Jacob Rothschild | Henry Kissinger | David Rockefeller (major financier, along with his brother Laurance) | Mrs. Nelson "Happy" Rockefeller. |
1943 |
| Natural Resources Council of America (NRCA) Clinton Gutermuth (co-founder, secretary 1946-1957, chair 1959-1961, spokesperson until his death in 1987) |
1946 |
| North America Wildlife and Natural Resources Conferences Clinton Gutermuth (chair 1946-1971) |
1946 |
| Pacifica Radio / Pacifica Foundation Non-profit radio network. Financed by Ford Fdn. ($150,000 in 1951; $75,000 in 1998; $475,000 in 2000-2002 to the closely-related Astraea Foundation) | George Soros ($40,000 in 1995) | Carnegie Corp. ($25,000 in 1996 to help launch Democracy Now!) Kaplan Fund ($13,000 in 1997 and $10,000 in 1998) | Alan Watts (KPFA radio program 1953-1973 (death)) | Allen Ginsberg (Beat Generation show since 1955; worked with Pacifica in 1991 to oppose Sen. Jesse Helms) | Norman Cousins (writer) | George Carlin 1975 routine Dirty Words You Can't Say on Television broadcasted and causes years of controversy) | | Gave voice to: Korean War opponents, Vietnam War opponents (I.F. Stone and Bertrand Russell), civil rights movement (Andrew Goodman, son of Pacifica president, was murdered for it), Che Guevara (1967 interview), My Lai massacre (1969), Iran Contra coverage. Owns: Free Speech Radio News Owns/began in Feb. 1996: Democracy Now! Anti-Zionist/anti-neocon. Hosts: Amy Goodman (previously WBAI on Pacifica) | Juan Gonzalez. - Ford Fdn. Annual Report 1998: "Pacifica Foundation (North Hollywood, Calif.) $75,000 For a marketing promotion and program development activities for Democracy Now!" - Ford Fdn. Annual Report 2002: "Deep Dish TV, Inc. (New York, NY) $75,000 For the television news series "Democracy Now" to continue incorporating the aftermath of the September 11th attacks into future broadcasts." - Ford Fdn. Annual Report 2004: "Democracy Now Productions, Inc. (New York, NY) $150,000 To produce, broadcast and distribute a series of radio, television and Internet reports on the media reform movement in the United States. |
1946 |
| U.S. Fund for UNICEF / United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Directors: Anthony Lake (director 1998-2007, chair 2004-2007, listed until mid 2008) | Susan Rice (-2008) | Susan Berresford (2008-2010) | Tea Leoni (anno 2009) | Gary M. Cohen (anno 2008-2020). National ambassadors: Laurence Fishburne | Katie Couric | Sarah Jessica Parker | Claudia Schiffer. | 1947 |
| Conservation Foundation Trustees: Laurance Rockefeller (co-founder, anno '59, vice chairman anno '61-'65, on the board until '68) | Fairfield Osborn (trustee anno '59, staff president 1948-1961, chair 1961-1969) | Frank Wisner (not in '59; anno '61; OSS and OPC veteran; CIA deputy director of operations 1951-1958; suffered a breakdown in '58, retired from the CIA in '62, and committed suicide in '65) | Samuel Ordway Jr. (exec. VP of the staff until 1961, president 1961-1965; also trustee) | Russell Train (treasurer anno '65, president 1965-1969) | David McAlpin (founding, still anno '59-'65) | Eugene R. Black (anno '65; not in '61) | H. J. Heinz II (anno '59-'65, until '68) | Gen. Lucius Clay (anno '61-'65, until '67) | S. Dillon Ripley (anno '65) | Howard Phipps Jr. (anno '61-'65) | William Whyte Jr. ('65, vice chair anno '77) | Barbara Ward (anno '76-'78) | future Sen. and Gov. Pete Wilson (anno '76-'78) | William Ruckelshaus (anno '76-'78). More: William Vogt (secretary; author on population control) | Matthew Huxley (early staff member; son of Aldous H.) | Max Nicholson (conference steering committee member anno 1965). The founding was timed to take place just after the publication of Osborn's book 'Our Plundered Planet' and was intended to expand the field of conservation beyond wildlife protection, as the Zoological Society has done. Source(s): 1959, 1961, 1965, 1969, 1977 annual reports. |
1948 |
| International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) The WWF was later set up with the primary intention to generate funds for the IUCN. Julian Huxley (primary founder, remained an advisor) | Sir Peter Scott (chairman Survival Service Commission 1962-1981, later honorary chair) | Luc Hoffmann (vice president 1966-1969, continued involvement and financial support) | Maurice Strong (chair at some point, director, continued involvement) | Ted Turner (involved in conferences) |
1948 |
| The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Directors: William Vogt (1950-1956) | George Cooley (director 1960-1974, vice president 1964-1966, vice chair 1966-1974) | Mrs. David Rockefeller (1972-1979) | William K. du Pont (1975-1978) | Roy Larsen (1974-1979) | Robert O. Anderson (1986-1989) | Winthrop P. Rockefeller (1986-1994) | John W. Hanes, Jr. (1988-1997, member president’s conservation council anno 2010; CIA) | John Whitehead (1991-2001) | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf (1992-1998) | Steve McCormick (president and CEO 2001-2007) | Mary Ruckelshaus (2009-2010; daughter of William R.). Also: Clinton Gutermuth (member) | David Packard (vice chair California Nature Conservancy 1983-1990) | Larry Fink. British counterpart: Max Nicholson (head). |
1951 |
| Resources for the Future (RFF) Paley (key founder and chairman) | Fairfield Osborn | Laurance Rockefeller | Robert O. Anderson | John L. Fisher (president) | Ruckelshaus (president) | Donald Kerr | John Deutch (vice chair) | Joseph Stiglitz |
1952 |
| Population Council John D. Rockefeller III | Frederick Osborn | Detlev Bronk | John Foster Dulles | Cyril Haskins (1954-1980) | Henry King | Elizabeth McCormack | Justin Rockefeller (Sen. Jay Rockefeller). |
1952 |
| New World Foundation (NWF) Founders: Founded by the will and fortune of Anita McCormick Blaine (married to the son of Senator James Blaine, also secretary of state 1881, 1889-1892; daughter of Cyrus McCormick; a brother, Harold McCormick, married the youngest daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Edith) | Gilbert Harrison (co-founder; married into the Blaine family in 1951). Board: Vernon Eagle (exec. director 1957 until his premature death in 1974; CFR 1957-1962) | Vernon Jordan (early 1980s; CFR 1978-; also on the boards of the John H. Whitney and Rock. fdns.) | Peter Edelman (anno '82-84) | Hillary Clinton (trustee 1982-1988, chair 1987-1988) | Colin Greer (president 1985-, still anno 2001; very close to Hillary Clinton when her husband was president) | Anthony Romero (vice chair anno 2001, the only CFR member at the time (since 1999); history at the Rock. and Ford Fdns. and exec. director ACLU 2001-, still anno 2022, where he started as the first gay Latino activist). More: Marian Wright Edelman (black civil rights activist, similar to Jordan; founder and president Children's Defense Fund when it employed Hillary, who moved over to NWF in 1982; husband Peter was a NWF trustee anno 1982; herself CFR 1981-) Financing: Tides Fdn., Ford Fdn., etc. Financed and finances the ultra-left, including Grassroots International (which provided funds to the PLO), Christic Institute, IPS, IMI, ACLU, conservation groups, etc. Source(s): May 24-25, 2004 interviews, millercenter.org, 'Peter Edelman Oral History': "Hillary [was] substantively an advisor and connected to Marian and the work with the [CDF] ... We always thought so [that Hillary was more liberal than Bill]. On the other hand, I put her on the board of something called the [NWF] that I was on the board of in about 1983 or '84. We served on that board together for four or five years. That was a very liberal foundation and compared to the rest of us she was the conservative voice on the board and very useful." |
1954 |
| American Conservation Association Established in 1958 at the Rockefellers' Jackson Hole Preserve. Later also located at Rockefeller Plaza, Room 2500, New York City. This NGO eventually merged with WWF-US. Trustees: Laurance Rockefeller (co-founder; vice chair anno '65, president anno '70-'80) | Laurance S. "Larry" Rockefeller Jr. (co-founder; anno '76-'80) | Russell Train (anno '65-'80) | William Conway (anno '76-'80) | Dana Creel (anno '76-'80) | Melville Grosvenor (anno '76-'80) | Mrs. LBJ (anno '76-'80) | . Source(s): 1976 Conservation Directory, p. 39: "American Conservation Association, Inc. ... President: ... Trustees: ..."; 1980 Conservation Directory, p. 40. |
1958 |
| Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands Founders: Julian Huxley and S. Dillon Ripley II. |
1959 |
| Business Council of the United Nations (BCUN) Very obscure history, but apparently founded in 1959. For the first 50 years it was part of the United Nations Association, alternately referred to as a "partner organization" or as a program. Since at least the early 2000s it has been listed as a program of the United Nations Fdn., set up in 1998. BCUN.org has been registered since 2001, but it always linked back to the UNF. Eventually, no later than September 2018, the group's website became businesscouncilfortheun.org, where we find the exact same logo as the September 14, 1994 Rockefeller speech. And yet, the page's history says the group is "an initiative of the [1998-founded] United Nations [Fdn.]." The council could have been revived, and certainly was transferred, but, as said, its history remains rather obscure. Board: Samuel Brookfield (president anno 1994) | Richard Voell (chairman anno 1994; president and CEO Rockefeller Group/Rockefeller Center anno 1982-1995). Speakers: David Rockefeller (speaker on Sep. 14, 1994) | Rudolph Giuliani (speaker on Sep. 14, 1994) | R. William Murray (chair of the dinner committee and co-presenter; chair Philip Morris tobacco company anno 1994). More: Organized a 2nd World Congress in June 1994: "Free Markets and Free Peoples". A third one followed in 1995. businesscouncilfortheun.org/bcun-members (accessed: Sep. 6, 2021): "Coca-Cola ... Ericsson. Google. ... Johnson & Johnson. LexisNexis. ... Mastercard. Merck. Nestle. ... Pfizer. Roche. Salesforce. ... Verizon." |
1959 |
| South Africa Foundation (SAF) Primary founders: Anton Rupert (Rothmans; Rembrandt; Gold Fields of South Africa; relationship with Edmund de Rothschild through Carreras Tobacco goes back to at least 1958) | Harry Oppenheimer (Anglo American Corporation) | Sir Francis de Guingand. Members: Charles Engelhard (vice president) | Donny Gordon (Liberty Life), Marinus Daling (Sanlam), Conrad Strauss (Standard Bank) | Mike Levett (Old Mutual), Julian Ogilvie Thomson (Anglo American Corporation), Clive Menell (Anglovaal) | Warren Clewlow (Barlows). |
1959 |
| Institute of Directors in Southern Africa (IDSA) Harry Oppenheimer (founder, president 1960-1968) | Bail Hersov (president 1968-2001, life honorary patron) | Johann Rupert (trustee) |
1960 |
| Temple of Understanding Juliet Hollister (founder). Founding friends: Eleanor Roosevelt | Henry Luce III | Dalai Lama | Pope John Paul XXIII | U Thant | Anwar al-Sadat. Mother Teresa (involved). Awarded: Nelson Mandela | Desmond Tutu | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Jonathan Granoff (trustee) | Sherry Bronfman (trustee anno 2012; ex-wife of Edgar, Jr.). |
1960 |
| International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) Spurred the Green revolution. Co-founder: John D. Rockefeller III. Same network set up the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) in 1970. Co-founders: Raymond Fosdick (Rock. Fdn.) | George Harrar (Rock. Fdn.) | Frosty Hill (Ford Fdn.) | Paul Hoffman (Ford Fdn.) | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong | Ingrid Hagen. |
1960 |
| Sierra Club Foundation Finances the activities of the Sierra Club, founded in 1892 by John Muir and Theodore Roosevelt. Officers: Vernon Lyman Kellogg (pre-WWII; wrote Darwinism ToDay (1907)) | George Cooley (financier in 1965-1969 period, possibly a board member) | David Brower (joined in the 1930s, editor Sierra Club Bulletin since 1946, executive director in 1952-1969, again a director over 1983-1988 and 1995-2000) | Carl Pope (executive director 1992-2010). Pusblished Paul Ehrlich's book (in)famous 'The Population Bomb' (1968). Foundation officers: Brower (official founder) | Michael McCloskey (hired by Brower in 1961, executive director 1969-1985, honorary treasurer until 2010) | Melvin Lane (trustee 1977-1984) | Robert McKinney (has been trustee, treasurer, chair, advisory council member and an important donor) Additional facts on financing: Ford Fdn.: gave $170,000 to the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund between 1979 and 1981. Atlantic Richfield of Robert O. Anderson is known to have given $30,000 to the Sierra Club Federation in 1979-1980. The Rockefeller Family Fund, of which David Rockefeller is the honorary trustee, makes annual donations between $25,000 to $55,000 to the Sierra Club Foundation, even today. Trustees generally hold mid-level positions in larger companies or control less important corporations. Important: executive director David Brower left in protest in 1969 after clashes about opposition to nuclear energy (Brower did not support it). That same year he founded Friends of the Earth with support of Robert Anderson. Additional: Steven Greer has lectured the Sierra Club. |
1960 |
| Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) New left antifa-type group allied with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and such. Tied in with the Weathermen. Wade Rathke (involved while at Williams College 1969-1971) | Walter Crowe, Jr. (member; tried to set up an SDS chapter at Pasadena City College in 1964-1965, where he was a friend of future RFK killer Sirhan Sirhan; tried to recruit him into the group) | Douglas Layfield (member; more superficial Sirhan friend) | Dr. Noel Ignatiev (leader). Sojourner Truth Organization (1969-1985): Dr. Noel Ignatiev (key founder). |
1960-1974 |
| African Wildlife Foundation Founders: Russell Train | Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. | Arthur Windsor Arundel. Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp (president's council). |
1961 |
| World Wildlife Fund / World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Conservationists who played a role in the founding: Julian Huxley | Max Nicholson | Guy Mountfort | Sir Peter Scott (trustee chair 1961-1985). They received support from: Godfrey Rockefeller (hired some of the first staff; executive director 1972-1977, director and international council 1977-2006; director Freeport McMoran mining company): P. HQ / international trustees: Prince Bernhard of Orange (first president 1962-1976) | John Loudon (president 1976-1981; Shell chair) | Luc Hoffmann (vice president anno '77 and president French branch; sponsor of many projects) | Maurice Strong (anno '77; exec. Oct. 1978 - Dec. 1986, VP Oct. 1978 - Dec. 1981) | Dr. Aurelio Peccei (anno '77) | Thomas Watson Jr. (anno '77) | S. Dillon Ripley (anno '77) | Robert O. Anderson (anno '77) | John W. Hanes, Jr. (anno '77) | David Ogilvy (anno '77) | Guy Mountfort (anno '77) | H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of Orange (anno '77) | Prince Philip (president 1981-1996) More: Clinton Gutermuth (founding U.S. director 1961-1973 and later president | Ruud Lubbers (president in 2000) | Ila Kasem (Dutch supervisory board 2005-2014) | Anton Rupert (founding trustee and president in South Africa) | Charles Engelhard (founding trustee for South Africa) | Gavin Relly (became trustee chair for South Africa in 1987; Oppenheimer front man through chairmanship Anglo American mining company) | William Reilly (chair) | Mayari Pritzker (U.S. national council '22) | Abraham Sofaer (U.S. national council '22) | Philippe Cousteau (U.S. national council '22). 1962 fundraiser in New York City of the two princes: Sir David Ormsby Gore | Mr. and Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke | Mr. and Mrs. William Paley | Richard K. Mellon | Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel III | Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kellogg | Gen. and Mrs. Paul E. Peabody. Also: In 2008 Shell backed off from sponsoring a prestigious wildlife photography exhibition after major protests from Friends of the Earth and WWF. The man heading the protest campaign was Mark Brown (Vestey), member of a wealthy, elite British family who coordinates much of Britain's radical left-wing protests. WWF India: Jamshyd Godrej (president). |
1961 |
| Amnesty International (AI) Directors: Zbigniew Brzezinski (anno 1970). International Council anno 2020 (very low level and ultra-diverse): Sarah Beamish (chair) | Vincent Adzahlie-Mensah (vice chair) | Aniket Shah (treasurer) | Christopher Schlaeffer | Dr Anjhula Mya Singh Bais | Fabiola Gutierrez Arce | Greg Marsh | Lulu V. Barrera (also: Gender Diversity Taskforce) | Michael Bergmeijer | Peter Fa'afiu | Ritz Lee Santos III. Secretaries General (low level): Pierre Sane (1992-2001; Senegal-born; UNESCO assistant director-general; LSE-educated; founder West Africa Institute) | Irene Khan (2001-2010; Bangladesh-born; Harvard-educated; UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)) | Salil Shetty (2010-2018; India-born; LSE-educated; at Harvard 2018-2019) | Kumi Naidoo (2018-present; South Africa-born; anti-Apartheid, ANC-linked activist; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford; Nelson Mandela-ally; intern. exec. director Greenpeace; WEF visitor). Other: Dick Oosting (former EU director) | Ila Kasem (chair Dutch branch; close Dutch royal family ally) | Bianca Jagger (member of the Executive Director's Leadership Council; married to Mick Jagger 1971-1978 and one daughter, Jade, with him; they have remained friends). Funding: US State Department, European Commission, various governments and foundations as Rockefeller, Ford and Open Society. |
1961 |
| Esalen Institute Michael Murphy and Dick Price (founders; Stanford graduates; Price also spent time at Harvard; land owned by Murphy's family). Involved: Alan Watts (co-founder; close friend of Price since the 1950s) | Aldous Huxley (co-founder) | Laura Huxley (co-founder) | Hunter Thompson (a young security guard) | Joan Baez | Abraham Maslow | Richard Alpert/Ram Dass | Buckminster Fuller | Timothy Leary | J.B. Rhine | Linus Pauling | Carlos Castaneda | Deepak Chopra | Moshe Feldenkrais | Stanislav Grof (live-in scholar 1973-1987) | Rick Doblin (protege of Grof) | Albert Hofmann | Sam Keen | Ken Kesey | John Lilly | Terence McKenna | Rupert Sheldrake | Dean Ornish | Humphry Osmond | Arnold Toynbee | Andrew Weil | Jack Sarfatti (director of a physics program in the 1970s) | Laurance Rockefeller (provided a 3-year-grant in 1986 for the Program on Revisioning Philosophy; in 1988-1990 funded three The Body and Spirituality conferences though his Fund for the Enhancement of the Human Spirit) | Laura Rockefeller Chasin (daughter of Laurance) | Jean Lanier | Karl Pribram | Sen. Claiborne Pell | Dean Radin | Robert McDermott | Russell Targ | Charles Tart | Stephan Schwartz | Jim Tucker | Fred Wolff | Gordon Wasson | Elizabeth Kubler-Ross | Ralph Metzner | Adam Crabtree | Jacques Vallee | Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange Program (1980) James Garrison (founder). Allowed him to meet with top Soviet leaders and brought over Yeltsin to the United States. Largely responsible for the top level connections of Garrison. Yeltsin (hosted). |
1962 |
| Universal House of Justice, Baha'i religion world center, Haifa, Israel First year nine-member council began operating as head on the religion. Farzam Arbab (council member 1993-beyond 2003; long time Baha'i leader in Colombia where he worked for the Rock. Fdn.) | Steven Greer (worked at this center 1978-1981 and married his wife here) |
1963 |
| Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) Co-founders: Marcus Raskin (aide to McGeorge Bundy 1961-1962) and Richard Barnet (co-director 1963-1978 and active until 1998; aide to John McCloy 1961-1962 at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; later member Council on Foreign Relations). Trustees 1980s: Paul Warnke (founding TC member 1970s-1980s; "master of ceremonies" during a 1983 20th anniversary celebration; former trustee by the early 1990s). Part of the 20th anniversary celebration in 1983: Ralph Nader | George McGovern. Trustees in 1999: Harry Belafonte (since about 1999-) | Lisa Fuentes | Robert Borosage (director 1979-1988; advisor to Rev. Jesse Jackson and Paul Wellstone) | Katrina vanden Heuvel | Marcus Raskin | John Cavanagh (exec. director since 1998; anti-NAFTA). Additional trustees in 2003: Barbara Ehrenreich. Senior fellows (since 2002): Noam Chomsky | Richard Falk | Gore Vidal. Publisher of CounterSpy magazine. Start-up financing: James Warburg, Philip Stern (Sears), Samuel Rubin Foundation. Later financing: Ford Fdn., Rockefeller Fdn., Rockefeller Bros Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Fdn., MacArthur Fdn., Turner Fdn. Transnational Institute (TNI): Founded in 1973 in Amsterdam. Originally meant to be the international branch of IPS. People: Orlando Leletier (director of TNI in 1976; former foreign and defense minister of Chile and ambassador to the U.S.; assassinated in Sep. 1976) | John Cavanagh (founding fellow) | Phyllis Bennis (fellow) | Boris Kagarlitsky (associated fellow and coordinator of TNI's Global Crisis project; major Putin opponent) | Baker Vashee (head; marxist Rhodesian activist and Ian Smith opponent) | Eqbal Ahmad (staff; Pakistani suspected of terrorimsm) | Gretta Duisenberg (closely involved; famous pro-Palestine activist; married to European Central Bank president Wim Duisenberg) | Philip Agee (controversial CIA officer; lived at the TNI HQ before evicted from the Netherlands). Organizing Committee for the Fifth Estate (CO-5): founded in 1973 by IPS and part of CNSS. It published Philip Agee's controversial anti-CIA, anti-death squad magazine CounterSpy, published from 1973 to 1984. In 1975 issue Agee first began publishing names of CIA officers around the world. In 1978 Agee also founded CovertAction Information Bulletin, which was published until 2005. In 1992 the magazine was renamed CovertAction Quarterly. Center for National Security Studies (CNSS): Founded in 1974. Robert Borosage (founding director 1974-1975, advisory board after that) | Morton Halperin (co-chair of the anti-CIA 'Covert Operations and Decision Making' committee that was part of the CNSS founding; director 1975-1992; advisory board, including chair, since then; later key Soros man; also project director of the ACLU- and CNSS-sponsored Project on National Security and Civil Liberties) | Anthony Lake (co-chair of the anti-CIA 'Covert Operations and Decision Making' committee) | Peter Weiss (advisory board 1970s-1980s while IPS trustee). Board anno Nov. 2015: Kate Martin (director of ligitation 1988-1992; director 1992-) | Nancy Soderberg (vice chair; former NSC staffer; vice president Soros' Crisis Group) | Vivian Schiller (chief digital officer NBC; president NPR; senior vice president NY Times and Discovery Channel) | Gen. William Smith (deputy commander NATO; president IDA). |
1963 |
| Inter Press Service (IPS) Non-profit, Socialist International-type, UN-tied news agency. Founders (in Rome, by Italian-Argentineans): Roberto Savio (chairman and president emeritus for life)| Pablo Piacentini. Trustees: Martti Ahtisaari (since early 2000s) | Kofi Annan (2008-2011) | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Mario Soares | Toshiki Kaifu. Financing: Western EU countried, UN agencies and foundations as Rock., Open Soc., Ford and Mott. |
1964 |
| Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, Africa and Latin America (OSPAAAL) Communist group that opposed "globalisation", "imperialism", "neoliberalism" and the "defending of human rights". Founded during the Tricontinental Conference of Havana, held Jan. 3-16, 1966. Participants here: Mehdi Ben Barka (initial conference organizer; kidnapped by two French police officers, shipped to Moroccan intelligence chief General Oufkir and never heard from again) | Fidel Castro | Salvador Allende | Che Guevara (not present, but sent a letter to be read to the crowd) | Nguyen Van Tien (first speaker; Viet Cong representative) | Amilcar Cabral of Guinea-Bissau. |
1966 |
| University of South Africa Foundation (UNISA) Gavin Relly (chair 1975-1996; Oppenheimer employee) |
1966 |
| World Future Society (WFS) Directors anno 2000: John Gardner | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | John L. Petersen | Irving Shapiro (chair E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co) | Maurice Strong. Council members: Arthur C. Clarke. Global advisory council anno 2013: Maurice S. | John L. P |
1966 |
| California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Heavily focused on Indian philosophy. Involved: Stanislav Grof (adjunct faculty member; scholarship named after him) | Robert McDermott | Laurance Rockefeller (top financier) | Elizabeth McCormack (chair; major Rockefeller representative). Council of Sages (2011): Richard Alpert/Ram Dass | Rupert Sheldrake. More financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn., Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Fdn., Esalen, etc. Former names (1950-1956): American Academy of Asian Studies & California Institute of Asian Studies. Involved: Dr. Frederick Spiegelberg (founder; Stanford) | Alan Watts (co-founder) | |
1968 |
| Club of Rome (CoR) Stands at the basis of the sustainable development movement. Founded to organize supranational problem-solving on issues as environmental deterioration, poverty, health, crime, etc. It started out as a partnership between top OECD scientists and Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei. The club's best known work is 'Limits to Growth' (1972). The group largely consists of scholars and scientists. The Club of Budapest is a more new age offshoot of the CoR with overlapping membership. Executive committee (about half a dozen men historically): Aurelio Peccei (founder; manager Fiat 1930s-1960s, and remained affiliated even after through Italconsult; BB '63, '67, '68) | Alexander King (co-founder; president 1984-1990; honorary member anno 2001) | Max Kohnstamm (part of the 6-member founding group of the CoR, but not (long) on the steering committee; BB regular '61-'98; founding EU chair TC '73-) | Carroll L. Wilson (full member 1970-1981; BB '73; TC '74-) | Saburo Okita (full member 1969-, executive anno 1972; founding member TC '73-) | Hugo Thiemann (co-founder, full member 1969-, executive anno 1972) | Dr. Roberto Peccei (full member anno 2001-2020, executive anno 2012; U.S.-based particule physicist; son of Aurelio) | Dr. Eberhard von Koerber (anno 2012; vice president 2007-2012, co-president 2007-2012; former manager BMW who joined the supervisory boards of Allianz and Dresdner Bank; d. 2017). Associate and full members: Louis Camu (full member 1969-1975; BB regular '55-'75; chair Bank of Brussel 1952-1975, when it became Banque Bruxelles Lambert) | Baron Daniel Janssen (full member 1970-1984, associate member 1985-2020s; BB regular and steering comm. '69-'00; chair Solvay) | Altiero Spinelli (1970-1979; Italian communist politician and one of the "founders of Europe"; BB '68) | Umberto Colombo (full member 1972-1990s, executive committee and steering committee member anno 2001; BB '72; founding member TC '73-) | Elisabeth Mann Borgese (1973-) | Sen. Claiborne Pell (April 24, 1974 Senate FRC comments: "We are conducting a luncheon seminar here for [Mr. Peccei] in the Senate on May 6... We are also having a meeting of the American Members of the Club of Rome at my home that night talking about these problems. ... I think I am the only politician who is a member... "; associate member anno 2000, 2007; BB '92) | Anton Pannenborg (full member 1973-1984; director and vice president Philips) | Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (full member 1974-, still anno 1991) | Sol Linowitz (full member 1974-1981, associate member 1982-) | Ervin Laszlo (full member 1977-; founder Club of Budapest in 1993) | Robert Maxwell (full member 1978-1984, associate member 1985-1987; "Chair Pergamon Press; Publ. Daily Mirror"; Aurelio Peccei's 1977 book, 'The Human Quality', was published by Pergamon) | Harlan Cleveland (full member 1980-) | Thorvald Stoltenberg (full member +-1980-1984; occasional BB '73-) | George Livanos (full member 1983-; BB visitor '82, '93) | Nello Celio (full member 1974-1981, honorary member 1984-) | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (honorary member 1985-, president anno 2001, 2007) | Henryk Jablonski (honorary member 1985-; communist head of state of Poland 1972-1985) | Queen Beatrix of Orange (honorary member 1988-2020s) | Jimmy Carter (honorary member 1988-) | Sadruddin Aga Khan (honorary member 1988-) | Maurice Strong (full member 1988-) | Paul Biya (associate member 1987-; president of Camaroon) | Ruud Lubbers (full member anno 2001, 2004, honorary member anno 2005, 2012; Dutch PM 1982-1994) | Karl Schwarzenberg (member anno 2000) | Karan Singh (full member 1988-) | Mammohan Singh (member anno 2000, 2021) | King Juan Carlos (honorary member anno 2001) | Mikhail Gorbachev (honorary member anno 2001) | Eduard Shevardnadze (honorary member anno 2001) | Joseph Stiglitz (full member 2015-2018) | Jacques Delors (honorary member anno 2000, 2021) | Vaclav Havel (honorary member anno 2001) | Ernst von Weizsacker (member anno 2001; exec.; co-president 2012-2018) | Raymond Barre (hon. member anno 2001) | Carlos Menem (hon. member anno 2001; president Argentina 1989-1999) | Olara Otunnu (full member anno 2002; exposed Ugandan genocide, partly backed by World Bank and U.S. in a super-unknown documentary released around 2006/2007) | Werner Weidenfeld (associate member anno 2007; director Bertelsmann Fdn.) | Reinhard Mohn (honorary member anno 2009; founder Bertelsmann Fdn.) | Arpad Goncz (honorary member anno 2001, 2009) | Crown Prince Philippe of Belgium (honorary member anno 2012) | Lord George Weidenfeld (honorary member anno 2012, 2016) | Daisaku Ikeda (honorary member anno 2001, anno 2012; president Soka Gakkai Int.) | Estela Barbot (full member anno 2008) | William E. Rees (full member mid 2010s-; old peak oil advocate) | Dr. Jay W. Forrester (honorary member 1984-, anno 2008; developed the 'Limits to Growth' algoritm). More: Gianni Agnelli (owner Fiat; BB visitor '57-'00; Feb. 27, 1972, NY Times, 'Club of Rome a Worldwide Organization': "While [The Club of Rome's] early work was supported by a grant from the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation in Italy, the more recent support, including that for the [Limits to Growth] M.I.T. project, has come largely from the Volkswagen Foundation.") | Mark Eyskens (Belgian member 1972-1978) | Robert O. Anderson (reported by EIR to have been an advisory board member of the U.S. Association of the Club of Rome) | Thornton Bradshaw (reported by EIR to have been a member of the U.S. Association of the Club of Rome; worked under Anderson at Atlantic Richfield and the Aspen Inst.) | Javier Perez de Cuellar (as UN sec.-gen., a speaker to the 1984 Helsinki conference of the CoR) | Pierre Trudeau (visitor of a 1971 CoR conference in Salzburg; welcome letter at the 1974 opening of a Canadian chapter) | Thierry De Montbrial (1979 report) | Muhammad Yunus (guest speaker '16). Supporters who may have visited CoR conferences (likely wrongly identified as "members"): Bill Gates (June 5, 2007, ABC News Australia, ''Club of Rome' member warns against council amalgamations' ("membership"); December 12, 2013, GatesNotes.com (says he "went back" to read the CoR's 'Limits to Growth') | Al Gore (June 5, 2007, ABC News Australia ("membership"); explained Limits to Growth was a major issue while he was a Vanderbilt University on a Rock. Fdn. scholarship in 1972) | Ted Turner (friends like J.J. Ebaugh explained he "read such books as The Limits to Growth and other reports from the Club of Rome" at the time he turned into an apocalyptic environmentalist). Chapters: Dutch (the first), Italian, Spanish, German, Austrian, Finnish, Canadian (set up in 1974), Australian, Czech, Slovanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Argentine, Colombian, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, Mexican. Source(s): Webarchive 2000-; for old membership lists: 1991, Peter Moll, 'From Scarcity to Sustainability', pp. 279-300. |
1968 |
| Primitive People's Fund / Survival International Edward Goldsmith (co-founder; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Robin Hanbury Tenison (long-time chair). |
1968 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights (RFK Center) Founded in 1968 as the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, in the wake of the RFK assassination. Board: Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy (founder) | Robert S. McNamara (UNCONFIRMED, but close friend of the Kennedies at the time of the center's founding; early exec. chair) | Harry Belafonte (anno '15-'21) | Martin Sheen (anno '15-'21) | Joseph P. Kennedy III (anno '21) | Kerry Kennedy (anno '21; president) | Dermot McDonogh (anno '21; COO GS Int.) | Scott Minerd (anno '21; managing partner and chief investment officer, Guggenheim Partners) | Alex Gorsky (CEO Johnson & Johnson) | Susan Livingston (anno '21; partner BBH). Trustees: Ted Sorenson (anno '12) | Hodding Carter III (anno '12-'15) | Dan Glickman (anno '12-'15) | Danny Glover (anno '12-'15) | Vernon Jordan (anno '12-'15) | William vanden Heuvel (anno '12-'15) | Andrew Young (anno '12-'15). Leadership Council: Alec Baldwin (anno '21) | Tony Bennett (anno '21) | Michael Bolton (anno '21) | Chris Tucker (anno '21) | Forest Whitaker (anno '21). LC page: "Founders": Bill Clinton (anno '21) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno '21) | Desmond T. (anno '21). LC page: "Nobel Peace Prize Laureates": Muhammad Yunus (anno '21) | Mohamed ElBaradei (anno '21). LC page: "Ripple of Hope Laureates" (speaker/award series): Hillary Clinton (speech anno '14; anno '21) | Bono (anno '21) | George Clooney (anno '21) | Robert de Niro (anno '21) | Wyclef Jean (anno '21) (anno '21) | Barack Obama (anno '21) | Desmond Tutu (anno '21) | Howard Schultz (anno '21; Starbucks) | Taylor Swift (anno '21) | Tim Cook (anno '21; Apple) | Dr. Anthony Fauci (anno '21) | Colin Kaepernick (anno '21) | Scott Minerd (anno '21; Guggenheim Partners) | Nancy Pelosi (anno '21) | Joe Biden (anno '21) | Hans Vestberg (awarded in '21; chair and CEO Verizon). Source(s): rfkcenter.org/trustees?lang=en (accessed: May 28, 2012); rfkhumanrights.org/who-we-are/board/ (accessed: Nov. 15, 2015); rfkhumanrights.org/who-we-are/board-of-directors (accessed: Jan. 20, 2022) | rfkhumanrights.org/who-we-are/leadership-council (accessed: Jan. 20, 2022). |
1968 |
| The Ecologist magazine Edward Goldsmith (founder, editor until 1987, continued as publisher; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Zac Goldsmith (joined in 1997 and became editor; son of Sir James). |
1969 |
| Friends of the Earth Began as an anti-nuclear spin-off movement of the Sierra Club, founded by resigned Sierra Club executive director David Brower. Robert O. Anderson (co-founder; may or may not have put up finances). Advisory council in the 1970s: Aurelio Peccei | Maurice Strong | Paul Ehrlich. Director: Ted Turner. Patron: Desmond Tutu. George Soros (financier). Great Britain: Mark Brown Vestey (supporter; elite-connected prominent activist). Dutch branch: Milieudefensie, founded in 1971. Wijnand Duyvendak (prominent radical 1970s-1980s; joined in 1993; managing director 1999-2002; Groenlinks congressman 2002-2008) |
1969 |
| Greenpeace Foundation Founding based on individual action against nuclear weapon tests. Began with a group of Canadian protestors who protested against a bomb test at Amchitka island, Alaska. One of the participants was Jim Bohlen, a Sierra Club member frustrated with the club's lack of action against nuclear bomb tests. Journalist Ben Metcalfe was another among the board members and was part of the small group that continued protests against French atmospheric nuclear tests at Mururoa. He became the Greenpeace Foundation's first chairman. Metcalf left when focused shifted from anti-nuclear protesting to anti-whaling actions. Significant contributors since at least the mid-1990s include: Rock. Brothers Fund | Ted Turner Fdn. | MacArthur Fdn. | Mott Fdn. | David and Lucile Packard Fdn. | John Merck Fund. Grants anywhere from $30,000 to $450,000 were provided for specific projects. Mark Brown Vestey (supporter; more recent elite-connected prominent activist). June 2012 PDF, Greenpeace International, 'SaveTheArctic.org: Celebrities supporting the Greenpeace campaign': "Greenpeace thanks the following actors, musicians, environmentalists, explorers and business leaders for placing their name on the Arctic Scroll to be planted on the seabed at the North Pole. ... Bianca Jagger, activist, UK ... David de Rothschild, explorer, UK ... Edward Norton ... Emily Blunt ... Hannah Rothschild, writer/director, UK ... Hugh Grant ... Jude Law ... One Direction, band, UK ... Pamela Anderson ... Sir Paul McCartney ... Peter Gabriel ... Radiohead ... Red Hot Chili Peppers ... Sir Richard Branson ... Rita Ora ... Robert Redford ... Stella McCartney, fashion, UK ... Vivienne Westwood, fashion, UK ... Woody Harrelson..." |
1969 |
| Commission on Population Growth (CPG) John D. Rockefeller III (chair) | Sen. Alan Cranston |
1969 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Founders: James Gustave Speth (co-founder and senior attorney 1970-1977). Trustees: Robert Redford ('75-, anno '79) | Barbara Ward (anno '79) | Laurance Rockefeller (anno '79) | Joshua Lederberg (anno '79) | Leonardo DiCaprio (trustee since 2003 or early 2004) | Frances Beinecke (chair) | Patricia Bauman (vice chair in the 2000s) | Van Jones. Source(s): 1979, Natural Resources Defense Council, 'Clean Air Special'. Funding: Heavy Ford and Rockefeller Fdn. financing. George Soros (financier). |
1970 |
| Earth Day Network Directors 1990: Dennis Hayes (chair and CEO) | Ralph Nader (special counsel) | Gaylord Nelson (founder and hon. chair) | David Brower | Lester Brown | Sen. John Chafee | Mario Cuomo | Sidney Drell | Paul Ehrlich | Sen. Al Gore | Sen. John Heinz | Teresa Heinz | Theodore Hesburgh | Jim Hightower | Rev. Jesse Jackson | Mitchell Kapor | Gov. Thomas Kean | Sen. John Kerry | Sen. George Mitchell | Doug Phelps | Laurance Rockefeller | Ted Turner | John Young (president and CEO HP). International advisory council (since at least 2000) who joined in the 2000s or earlier, primary members: Gro Harlem Brundtland (anno '02-, until '10) | Robert Kennedy Jr. (anno '02-, until '10) | Queen Noor of Jordan (anno '02-, until '10) | Jane Goodall (anno '02-, until '10) | Maurice Strong (anno '02-, until '10) | International advisory council who joined in the 2000s or earlier, secondary members: James Gustave Speth (anno '02-'16) | Lester B. (anno '02-'23) | Sen. Bob Brown (anno '02-, until '10; leader of the Australian Greens 2005-12) | Sen. Marina Silva (anno '02-, until '10; minister of the environment and climate change under Brazilian President Lula da Silva 2003-08, 2023-) | Bill Drayton (anno '02-, until '10; president and chair Ashoka: Innovators for the Public) | Jonathan Lash (anno '02-, until '10; president World Resources Inst.) | Peter Seligmann (anno '02-, until '10) | Klaus Toepfer (anno '02-, until '10; exec. dir. UN Environment Programme) | Nafis Sadik (anno '02-, until '10; exec. dir. UN Population Fund) | Qu Geping (anno '02-, until '10; China MP) | Wakako Hironaka (anno '02-, until '10; MP Japan) | Choi Yul (anno '02-, until '10; sec. gen. Korean Fed. for Environmental Mov.) | Yolanda Kakabadse (anno '02-'16; Ecuador environmental minister and president IUCN) | Vandana Shiva (anno '02-, until '10; "Director, Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Natural Resources Policy, India") | Anil Agarwal (anno '02-, until '10; "Director, Centre for Science and Environment, India") | Emil Salim (anno '02-, until '10; Indonesia environmental minister) | Julia Carabias (anno '02-, until '10; natural resource secretary, Mexico). International advisory council who joined in the 2010s, primary members (huge shakeup of the board in 2011, possibly because it hadn't been updated online in the years previous): Ted T. (anno '11-) | Princess Lalla Hasnaa Alaoui of Morocco (anno '11-'23) | Sir Richard Branson (anno '11-'23) | Phillipe Cousteau Jr. (anno '11-'23) | Leonardo DiCaprio (co-chair anno '11-'23) | Shaquille O'Neal (anno '11-'17) | Martin Scorsese (anno '11-'17) | Barbra Streisand (co-chair anno '11-'17) | John Podesta (anno '11-'17) | Bernie Sanders (anno '11 - July 2017) | Mrs. Gaylord Nelson (anno '11-'17; "Wife of the late Senator Gaylord Nelson, the Founder of Earth Day") | William Ruckelshaus (not in '17, but at the time of his death in '19) | Prince Albert II of Monaco ('20-, still anno '23) | Kathy Calvin (anno '23; president and CEO UN Fdn.) | Zac Efron (anno '19-'23) | Steven Haft (anno '23; "Earth Day 1970 Organizer in DC") | Tarja Halonen (anno '19-23; Finnish foreign minister 1995-2000, PM 2000-2012) | Al G. (anno '11-'17) | John K. (anno '19-23) and Teresa H. (anno '23) | Alan Horn (anno '21-'23; chair Walt Disney Studios) | Norman Lear and wife (anno '23) | David Levy (anno '23; "Vice President of US Government and Nonprofits at Amazon Web Services") | Christine Todd Whitman (anno '23) | International advisory council who joined in the 2010s, secondary members: Carl Pope (anno '11; exec. dir. Sierra Club) | Mohamed Sahnoun (anno '11; previously at the ICG) | Bill McKibben (anno '11; "Founder, 350.org") | Rabbi Warren Stone (anno '11; "Environmental Chair, Central Conference of Rabbis") | Eric Spiegel (anno '11; "President and CEO, Siemens Corporation; Member, Business Roundtable") | Len Sauers (anno '11; "Vice President of Global Sustainability, Procter & Gamble") | Jigar Shah (anno '11; "CEO, Carbon War Room") | Larry Schweiger (anno '11; president National Wildlife Fed.) | Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri (anno '11; "Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [2002-15, until multiple seual abuse allegations.]") | Julia Marton-Lefevre (anno '11; dir. gen. IUCN 2007-15) | Sheri Liao (anno '11; "President, Global Village of Beijing") | Ben Jealous (anno '11; organizer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; president and CEO NAACP 2008-13; president PFAW 2020-; exec. dir. Sierra Club 2020-) | Denis Hayes (chair anno '11; "President and CEO, Bullitt Foundation; Coordinator of the First Earth Day (1970)") | David Hunke (anno '11; "President and Publisher, USA Today") | Jose Maria Figueres (anno '11) | James West (anno '11; "CEO, Alamy Limited") | Mark Tercek (anno '11; man. director and partner at Goldman Sachs; president and CEO The Nature Cons.) | Jamie Rappaport Clark (anno '23; "President & CEO of Defenders of Wildlife") | Michael Brune (anno '23; exec. dir. Sierra Club 2010-2021) | Lonnie G. Bunch III (anno '20-'23; secretary of the Smithsonian). The Earth Gratitude Project is a 2016 spin-off. Contributors: Dalai Lama | Prince of Wales / Prince Charles | Elon Musk | Duchess of Northumberland | Arianna Huffington and sister Agapi Stassinopoulos (NXIVM). United Nations Earth Day International Award recipients: Bianca Jagger (married to Mick Jagger 1971-1978 and one daughter, Jade, with him; they have remained friends) Sources for the board of directors: 1990 board of directors list (PDF). Sources for the International advisory council: earthday.org/about/ww-council.stm (accessed: June 2, 2002 - April 5, 2004; link existed from 2000, but not archived until 2002); earthday.org/about/Interntl_council.aspx (accessed: Oct. 5, 2006 - Dec. 10, 2007); http://ww2.earthday.net/node/64 (accessed: April 7, 2008 - April 30, 2009); earthday.net/node/64 (accessed: Nov. 22, 2010); earthday.org/global-advisory-committee (accessed: Feb. 2, 2011 - Sep. 5, 2015); earthday.org/about/global-advisory-committee/ (accessed: Feb. 16 2016 - July 6, 2017); earthday.org/50th-anniversary-global-advisory-committee/ (accessed: Jan. 5, 2020 - Aug. 27, 2023): . |
1970 |
| Common Cause Left-liberal watchdog group with the slogan "Holding power accountable". Advocacy group for minorities and the working class. Initially focused on ending the Vietnam War and lowerering the voting age from 21 to 18. People: John Gardner (founder and chairman) | Neil Elles | Robert Reich (gov. '81-'85) | Sen. Bob Kerrey (elected gov. in '87). |
1970 |
| International Peace Institute (IPI) / Previously Int. Peace Academy (IPA) Group with a very strong United Nations and Arab influence, and largely serves as an interfaith body. Founder: Ruth Forbes Young (first-rate deep cover CIA asset and most complex conspiracy story ever, explained, with charts, in ISGP's JFK assassination article: Forbes family heir; known as Ruth Forbes Paine until 1948, she was the mother of Michael Paine, who, along with his wife Ruth Paine (yes, correct, Ruth's daughter-in-law) befriended Lee Harvey Oswald and wife Marina through infamous elite CIA asset George de Mohrenschildt and became the couple's "handlers", to the point that Michael's wife arranged a job for Oswald at the Texas School Book Depository (of CIA asset D. Harold Byrd) from where Oswald assassinated JFK weeks later; additionally, Ruth Forbes Young was a close friend of Mary Bancroft, a lover of CIA director and Warren Commissioner (investigating the JFK assassination) Allen Dulles -------; in 1952, Ruth Forbes Young and her husband Arthur Young - who worked with later Oswald handler Michael Paine at Bell Labs and remained close to him for decades - set up the new age Foundation for the Study of Consciousness, followed in 1973 by the overlapping Institute for the Study of Consciousness at Berkeley, which in turn overlapped greatly with SRI and the Esalen Institute that all stood at the basis of the creation of organized, systematic (CIA) disinformation on topics as spirituality, UFOs and ancient history; Ruth Forbes Young's husband Arthur Young actually had been second-in-command of a 4th such group, Andrija Puharich's Round Table Foundation (Puharich was into psychedelics "research" and brought Uri Geller over from Israeli Mossad circles to the US), which involved Alice Astor as well, and involved in the Round Table's (very unimpressive) channelling of "The Nine" gods of Ancient Egypt; later, Arthur Young, who himself was involved in the Laurance Rockefeller-backed Esalen Institute, served as chief inspiration for the (false) theory that the Dogon tribe was visited by space aliens from the Syrius Star System). Directors: Kofi Annan (1990s-2000s; honorary chair) | Rita Hauser (chair 1990s-2000s) | Ban Ki-moon (2000s; honorary chair) | David Hamburg (1990s-2000s) | Amy Gordon (2000s; MacArthur Fdn.) | Mortimer Zuckerman (2009-2010s; chair emeritus anno 2021) | Kevin Rudd (chair anno 2021) | Jean Todt (15-, anno '21; director Edmond de Rothschild SA 2008-; president FIA 2009-, which oversees Formula 1 and such and appoints stewards to races). Advisory board: Prince Turki al Faisal (anno '21) | Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | Olara Otunnu (president 1990-1998, 2000s, still anno '21; a major case of controlled opposition: exposed Ugandan genocide, partly backed by World Bank and U.S. (elites) in a super-unknown documentary released around 2006/2007) | Sir Brian Urquhart | Karel Jan Gustaaf van Oosterom (Netherlands) | Lisa Shields | Bishop Camillo Ballin (Vatican representative) | Sh. Salah Bin Yosuf Aljowder (anno '21; head Dialogue Table of Religions and Cultures) | Rev. Hani Aziz (anno '21; rev. National Evangelical Church, Bahrain) | Ebrahim Nonoo (head Jewish Community in Bahrain). Funding: ipacademy.org/AboutIPA /Support/ AbouSupport_body.htm (accessed: July 21, 2006): "...IPA's special relationship with the United Nations. The Forbes Family continue to generously support the Fellowship Program... Foundation Donors: Carnegie [Corp.] ... Hewlett [Fdn.] ... Ford [Fdn.] ... MacArthur [Fdn.] ... Rockefeller [Fdn.] ... Rockefeller Brothers [Fund] ... Guggenheim [Fdn.] ... United Nations [Fdn.] ... Government Donors: Austria ... Australia ... Brazil ... Canada ... Colombia ... Denmark ... Finland ... France ... Germany ... Iceland ... Italy ... Ireland ... Liechtenstein ... Luxembourg ... Netherlands ... Norway ... Portugal ... Singapore ... Sweden ... Switzerland ... United Kingdom..."; 2014 IPI brochure: "Support to IPI: ... Gates Foundation. Carnegie [Corp.]..." ipacademy.org/AboutIPA/ AboutIPA.htm (accessed: Oct. 19, 2000): "777 United Nations Plaza New York, NY 10017... [OO] assumed leadership of IPA, acting as the organization's President from 1990 to 1998..." |
1970 |
| Ecological Foundation Edward Goldsmith (founder and environmental advisor; brother of Sir James Goldsmith). |
1971 |
| Zero Population Growth Foundation (ZPGF) The movement itself goes back to 1968. President was Paul Ehrlich, author of the book 'The Population Bomb.' At least partly financed by the Rockefeller Fdn. in the 1970s-1980s. Movement evolved into Population Connection in 2002. |
1971 |
| International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Founded as the International Institute for Environmental Affairs (IIEA). Founder and financier: Robert O. Anderson. Directors: Baroness Barbara Ward | Princess Nora von Liechtenstein. Other: Maurice Strong (cooperated with IIEA in preparation for his Stockholm Conference). Barbara Ward Lecture speakers: Mary Robinson | Lindiwe Sisulu | Connie Hedegaard (European Commissioner for Climate Action) | Christiana Figueres | Gro Harlem Brundtland. Source(s): 2003, Nigel Cross, 'Evidence for Hope: The Search for Sustainable Development', opening chapter 3, pp. 19-21 (written by M. F. Strong): "IIED began as the International Institute for Environmental Affairs, established on the initiative of [Bob] Anderson who was its Chairman and principal source of funding. ... When I was appointed Secretary General of the UN Conference on the Human Environment in late 1970, Bob Anderson offered to put the IIEA at my service... I welcomed the assistance, and the Institute convened a number of sessions in New York, Washington and at Aspen which helped to build a constituency for the Conference in some influential circles in business, policy and non-governmental communities at the USA. ... I met Barbara Ward (Lady Jackson) when she visited Ottawa in 1971 to see [ex] Prime Minister Lester Pearson [PM 1963-1968] whose Chief of Staff, Tom Kent [in reality: Pearson's principal policy adviser 1963-1966; deputy minister of manpower and immigration in 1966, later deputy minister of forestry and rural development; Oxford-educated press baron and industrialist: worked for the Manchester Guardian and The Economist early on; editor of The Winnipeg Free Press 1954-59; head Devco 1971-77 and Sydney Steel 1977-79 in NS; dean at Dalhousie 1980-83] was a friend of Barbara's and had worked with her at The Economist. When I first met her in the living room of Tom Kent's home in Ottawa, I had just agreed to take on responsibility for managing preparations for the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and was eager to have her advice. At that time, developing countries were deeply suspicious of the emerging environment issues as a 'disease of the rich' which could impose new constraints on their central priority of economic development. Thus began one of the most important relationships and valued friendships I have ever been privileged to enjoy. It was key to the success of the Stockholm Conference." |
1971 |
| 1001: A Nature's Trust (1001 Club) Historical members: Prince B. of Orange | Prince Philip | Anton Rupert | David Rockefeller | Laurance Rockefeller | Edmund and Edmond de Rothschild | Nelson Bunker Hunt | John Murchison | Sir Henry Keswick | David Keswick | Sir Francis de Guingand | 1st Baron Renwick | Peter Munk | Sir David Barran | Michel David-Weill | David Samuel Montagu | Edmond Safra | C. Douglas Dillon | John Olin and brother Spencer | Bechtel family | Robert McNamara | Astor | Robert O. Anderson | Peter Grace | H. J. Heinz II | Conrad Black | Maurice Strong | Agnelli | Henry Ford II | John Loudon | Gustavo Cisneros | Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, Jr. | Stavros Niarchos | Mrs. Charles Engelhard | Duchess of Alba | Thomas Jones | Berthold Beitz | Thurn und Taxis | Baroness Gabrielle von Oppenheim | Baron Heinrich II von Thyssen-Bornemisza (and family) | Princes of Liechtenstein | Habsburg | Herbert Batliner | Aga Khan family | John W. Hanes, Jr. | Michel Relecom | Tibor Rosenbaum | Edgar de Picciotto | Louis Bloomfield (Canada) | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | Karim Aga Khan | Prince Hussein Aga Khan | Salem bin Laden | Agha Hasan Abedi | Ardeshir Zahedi (married the eldest daughter of the Shah of Iran) | Sheikh Ahmed Juffali | Princess Mahnaz Zahedi | Alfred Hartmann | Stephan Schmidheiny | Count Leopold and Marie Lippens | Count and Countess Rene Boel | Pierre and Denis Solvay | Baron Daniel Janssen | Luc and Andre Hoffmann | Bertrand Collomb | Manuel Fraga | Basil Hersov | Dirk Hertzog | Thomas Watson, Jr. | Arthur Watson | John F. Ball | Sir William Purves | Wallenberg family (four members) | George Cooley | Clinton Gutermuth | Baron Alain de Gunzburg (married Minda Bronfman, a sister of Edgar B., Sr.) | Edmund Vestey | Sue Erpf van de Bovenkamp | Max Nicholson | Julius Tahija | Gen. Ibnu Sutowo | Mobutu Sese Seko | Guy Mountfort | Sir Peter Scott | Jean Riboud (Schlumberger) | Mrs. Pierre Schlumberger | John Fleming Ball | Francis Kellogg | Abraham Sofaer. |
1971 |
| Stockholm Earth Summit / U.N. Conference on the Human Environment Maurice Strong (secretary general; soon became the first executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme). Present: Ben Metcalfe and wife (chair of the new Greenpeace Foundation; Ben was a board member of the Phyllis Cormack expedition; they primarily focused on measures against nuclear tests) | Paul Ehrlich (focused on overpopulation). |
1972 |
| United Nations University Advisory council: Maurice Strong (chair Jan. 1981 - Dec. 1983). Nothing is known about this council, but it is listed in one of Strong's books. Council members: Yevgeny Primakov (listed in the 1983–1989 period with others; PM Russia 1998-1999) | Dr. Umberto Colombo (listed in the 1986–1992 period with others). |
1972 |
| Lindisfarne Association Fellows: Maurice Strong (key founder as well) | Robert Thurman | Pir Zia Inayat Khan | Stewart Brand (1970s) | Dorion Sagan (son of Carl Sagan). Members: Lynn Margulis | Michael Murphy. Key financier: Laurance Rockefeller. |
1972 |
| Public Interest Research Groups (US-PIRG) Ralph Nader (founder) | Donald Ross (proposed the model and first executive director; secretary and director Rockefeller Family Fund 1985-1999 and chair Greenpeace US) | Blair Horner (executive director) |
1973 |
| National Institute for Urban Wildlife (NIUW) Clinton Gutermuth (director and president 1976-1985) | Dr. Joseph P. Linduska (vice president; Remington Arms) |
1973 |
| Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Edgar Mitchell (founder and life-long executive committee member) | Willis Harman (president 1975-1996) | Wink Franklin (president 1996-2003) | James O'Dea (president and CEO 2003-2008) | Marilyn Mandala Schlitz (president and CEO 2008-2012). Involved: James Garrison | Maurice Strong (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Rupert Sheldrake (fellow) | Deepak Chopra (distinguished advisor) | Sam Keen | Dr. Amit Goswami (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Lynne McTaggart | Robert Radford | Dr. Fred Alan Wolf | Dr. Jim Tucker | Dr. Russell Targ (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Charles Tart (fellow) | Dr. Gary Schwartz | Dr. Steven Schwartz | Desmond Tutu (distinguished advisor) | Dr. Dean Ornish (distinguished advisor). Also: Dr. Dean Radin (director of research) | Dr Marilyn Schlitz (director of research) | Steven Greer (has lectured the board of directors) | John Mack (lecture) | Jacques Vallee (present at John M.'s speech) | Catherine Austin Fitts (interviewed) | Steven Halpern (involved, listed on site) | Van Jones (fellow anno 2013). Financing: Tides Fdn. IONS' Friendly Favors Event at June 5, 2002: Daniel Sheehan | John Mack | Joe Firmage (giving a two hour presentation together). On other occasions: Jacques Va11ee. |
1973 |
| International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) Founding board: Robert O. Anderson (co-chair) | Maurice Strong (one of two members of the advisory council) | Robert McNamara (one of two members of the advisory council) | Aurelio Peccei (regional vice chair) | Lord Solly Zuckerman (general member). The Board of trustees anno 2021 contains no important names. |
1973 |
| Cornwall Nuclear Alarm Edward Goldsmith (founder and active protester against the dumping of nuclear waste; brother of Sir James Goldsmith). |
1974 |
| Worldwatch Institute Lester Brown (founder, president 1974-2000, chairman 2000-2001) | Christopher Flavin (president). The founding was financed by Rock. Brothers Fund, headed by Laurance Rockefeller from 1958 to 1980. Worldwatch launched the State of the World reports in 1984. In later years millions have been received from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Ted Turner Foundation and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. |
1974 |
| Ecoropa Edward Goldsmith (founder and vice president and president French branch; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Christine von Weizsacker (president; wife of Ernst). |
1975 |
| Institute for European Environmental Policy Ernst von Weizsacker (director). |
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| Population Resource Center (PRC) At various times financed by the Ford Fdn., Rock. Brothers Fund, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Fdn. |
1975 |
| Center for International Policy (CIP) Very left-wing oriented: anti-CIA and foreign coups. Officers: Robert E. White (president 1990s-2010) | Sen. Claiborne Pell (director anno 1998, gone by 2000) | Cynthia McClintock (co-chair anno 1998; sole chair by 2003 until at least 2009) | Maurice Tempelsman (director 2013-) | Stewart Mott (director anno 1998, until 2003; of the Mott Fdn.) | Sally Lilienthal (director anno 1998, 2004; president Ploughshares Fund). Fellows: Wayne Smith (senior fellow 1994-2014; "senior fellow, Cuba program" anno 2009; diplomat who served as chief of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana 1979-1982 and continued with tons of back-channel diplomacy trying to establish U.S. relations with Cuba; very prominent expert in the somewhat anti-U.S. imperialist / pro-Cuba 2006 Channel 4 documentary '638 Ways To Kill Castro'; fellow Carnegie End. 1982-1984; adjunct professor SAIS until 1995, where he established a Cuba program as well). Financiers: Mott, Ford, Open Society and Tides foundations; Ploughshares Fund. ciponline.org (accessed: May 13, 1998): "In recent years, the Center has worked for the restoration of the Aristide government in Haiti, the adoption of a more rational policy toward Cuba, and the promotion of Central America's peace process [as well as] performing a fundamental review of the CIA." |
1975 |
| United Nations Parapsychology Society (UNPS) / Society for Enlightenment and Transformation (SEAT) One of about 50 member clubs of the United Nations Staff Recreation Council. Renamed from UNPS to SEAT in 1993. Mohammad Ahmad Ramadan (president). Known speakers: Uri Geller | Richard Hoagland ('92) | Colin Andrews ('93) | Ingo Swann ('92) | Lee Carroll (Kryon channeler, related to 2012 earth changes and Indigo children; '95, '96, '98, '05, '06, '07, '09) | Braco (2012; UN ambassador to Croatia, Ranko Vilovic, present). Executive committee: Denise Scotto (also UN Assoc. and Rotary) |
1975 |
| Urban Foundation, South Africa Primary founders: Anton Rupert | Harry Oppenheimer |
1976 |
| World Wilderness Conferences Participants: David Rockefeller | Edmund de Rothschild | James Baker III | Maurice Strong | Ruckelshaus | Michael McCloskey | Michael Sweatman |
1977 |
| Omega Institute for Holistic Studies Named after the teachings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his "Omega point". The institute contains a Ram Dass Library and the Omega Center for Sustainable Living. Sufi order inspiration: Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan (inspiration; son of Inayat Khan, the 1914 founder of the Sufi Order International) | Pir Zia Inayat Khan (member; son of Vilayat; fellow Laurance Rock.-backed Lindisfarne Assoc.; head Sufi Order International / Inayati Order) eomega.org/sponsors-and-partners (accessed: May 1, 2021): "Leader: [Warren Buffett's] NoVo Foundation [listed at no. 1] ... Steward: ... Skoll... [Over 20 foundations listed]..." The Alcoa Foundation gave "$5,000+" in 2007, with the Roy A. Hunt Foundation, named after a former president of Alcoa (and the son of a co-founder of the company), giving more often in the "5,000+" category. The NoVo Foundation started donating in 2009 in the "$5,000+" category. Board: Dr. Stephan Rechtschaffen (key founder and chair until 2008) | Elizabeth Lesser (one of two key founders, director and senior advisor anno 2012, listed as "ex officio" anno 2021; student of Vilayat 1971-; helped Oprah produce a 10-week webinar for Eckhart Tolle) | Gary Krauthamer (chair 2008-, anno 2012; old representative of Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan on the board) | David Orlinsky (treasurer anno 2012, chair anno 2019; co-founder NetJets, baught by Warren Buffett) | Jamia Wilson (anno 2021; black feminist; vice president and executive editor Random House). April 13-15, 2007 'Being Fearless' speakers at the Omega Center for Sustainable Living: Al Gore | Jane Goodall | Arianna Huffington. Listed "people" on the site over the years who also were on new age/conspiracy disinformation show Coast to Coast AM: Deepak Chopra ("faculty member" 2000s) | Dr. Brian Weiss ("faculty member" 2000s), Carol Bowman (and Hans Holzer) (Sep. 2000 retreat) | John Perkins ("faculty member" 2000s; already listed as "faculty" on an Oct. 10, 2000 on the institute's frontpage, years before his famous 'Confessions of an Economic Hit Man' book (2004)) | Sylvia Browne ("faculty member" 2000s; psychic) | Robert Moss (MI6 asset turned shamanic dream teacher) | Jean Houston | Robert Thurman | Russell Targ (remote viewing) | Paul Smith (remote viewing) | Lyn Buchanan (remote viewing) | Angela Thompson Smith (remote viewing) | Col. Tom McNear (remote viewing) | Stephen Schwartz (remote viewing; fellow at the Samueli Institute) | Pam Coronado (remote viewing) | Bill Ray (remote viewing) | Lori Lambert Williams (remote viewing) | John Kruth (Rhine Research Center) | Michael Breus (American Academy of Sleep Medicine) | Whitley Strieber | Howard Bloom ("faculty member" 2000s; author 'The Lucifer Principle' and such) | Lauren Thibodeau (medium) | Madame Pamita (tarot reader/scholar and rootworker) | Shaheen Miro (psychic reader) | Lorna Byrne | Bill Philipps (psychic medium) | Dean Radin | Stephen Dinan | Suzanne Giesemann (former aide chair JCS turned medium) | Karen Noe (medium) | Kevin Todeschi (of Edgar Cayce's A.R.E. and Atlantic University) | Theresa Reed (Tarot card reader) | Matthew Fox (spiritual theologian and Episcopal priest) | Stewart Pearce (angel medium, sound healer) | Les Stroud (Survivorman) | Dr. Gary Schwartz | Carrol McLaughlin (distinguished professor at the University of Arizona) | Sue Morter ("quantum field visionary") | Karen Newell ("Sacred Acoustics") | Harold Roth | Barbara Marx Hubbard | Paul Selig (medium) | Steve Taylor (author on psychology and spirituality) | Penney Peirce (clairvoyant) | Lisa Williams (medium) | Gregg Braden | Colette Baron-Reid (medium) | Deirdre Hade ("mystic" and "healer") | John Holland (medium) | Maureen St. Germain ("transformational teacher") | James Van Praagh | Joe Dispenza ('What the BLEEP Do We Know!?') | Tony Stockwell (medium) | Dr. Gabriel Cousens (founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation) | Wayne Dyer | Andrew Holecek ("spiritual teacher") | Sandra Anne Taylor | Douglas Rushkoff ("faculty member" 2000s). Other "people" listed on the site (at the very least "guests" of seminars): Desmond Tutu (listed as "faculty" in 2000 and part of a May 2000 retreat, but "forced to cancel due to ill health") | Maya Angelou ("faculty member" 2000s; major black feminist and civil rights activist) | Mellody Hobson (wife of George Lucas) | Bill Clinton | Kevin Rudd | Ted Turner (founder Captain Planet Fdn.) | Leesa Carter-Jones (president & CEO Captain Planet Fdn.) | Courtney Kimmel (vice president Captain Planet Fdn.) | Pat Mitchell Seydel ("faculty member" anno 2006) | Peter Buffett (son of Warren; co-chair NoVo Fdn.) | Jennifer Buffett (wife of Peter) | Bill Moyers | Amy Goodman | Van Jones | Richard Gere | Stanislav Grof ("faculty member" 2000s) | Dr. Richard Alpert / Ram Dass ("faculty member" 2000s) and Laura Huxley (Sep. 2000 retreat) | Christopher Reeve (part of an April 2000 "Being Alive" conference in NYC) | Gary Zukav ("The Dancing Wu Li Masters") | Eckhart Tolle (teacher at the institute) | Cornel West | Jane Fonda ("faculty member" 2000s) | Gloria Steinem ("faculty member" 2000s) | Eve Ensler ("faculty member" 2000s) | Kerry Washington | Christiana Figueres | Bill McKibben | Jordan Peterson | Alanis Morissette | Erin Brockovich | Maya Soetoro-Ng (Obama's sister) | Tarana Burke (#MeToo movement) | Pamela Shifman (NoVo Fdn.) | Maria Teresa Kumar (Voto Latino) | Sarah Jane Glynn (CAP) | David Bollier (senior fellow Norman Lear Center) | Ai-Jen Poo (National Domestic Workers Alliance) | David Dalton (founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine) | Jeremy Rifkin | Congressman Tim Ryan | Hibaaq Osman (major Muslim feminist) | Loung Ung (worked with Angelina Jolie - Netflix) | Mallika Dutt (feminist with CFR and OSF ties) | Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner (MomsRising) | Montel Williams (dated Kamala Harris). |
1977 |
| Green Alliance Edward Goldsmith (co-founder; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Christine von Weizsacker (president; wife of Ernst) | Zac Goldsmith (trustee anno 2012; son of Sir James) | Matthew Spencer (director; also campaign director Greenpeace UK and head of government affairs at the Carbon Trust). Financing: Tides Fdn., etc. |
1978 |
| American Himalayan Foundation Richard Blum (founder; husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Sir Edmund Hillary | Richard Holbrooke | Walter Mondale | Sharon Stone |
1980 |
| Ashoka: Innovators of the Public Purpose: stimulates "social entrepreneurship". Bill Drayton Jr. (founder, chair and CEO 1980-). Fellows: Jimmy Wales (2008; a full year after his Wikipedia entered the top 10 of U.S. websites - and claims of censorship increased). Funders: Ford Fdn. (millions). |
1980 |
| American Farmland Trust (AFT) Mrs. David Rockefeller (key founder and long-time board member) |
1980 |
| Christic Institute (1980-1991) / Romero Institute (since 1998) Partly financed by the New World Fdn., RI later financed by Tides Fdn. James Garrison (co-founder) | Daniel Sheehan (co-founder). Exposed the Iran-Contra drug trafficking scandal for State Department friends George Shu1tz and John C. Whitehead, as well as secretary of defense Caspar W. Weinberger. William Casey and conservative McCarthyites, as well as CIA friends as Ted Shackley, had become too influential on Reagan at the time. In addition, Garrison was close to Condi Rice. |
1980 |
| Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament / Peace Coalition peacecoalition.org/sponsors.html (accessed: August 21, 2018): "Harry Belafonte ... Noam Chomsky. ... William Sloane Coffin* ... Harvey Cox [Harvard Divinity School] ... Freeman Dyson ... Daniel Ellsberg ... [9/11 truther] Richard Falk ... John Kenneth Galbraith [Harvard] ... [superclass member] George Kennan* ... Coretta Scott King*, President, The King Center. Lawrence J. Korb, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense. ... [top superclass member] Thomas Pickering ... Frank von Hippel, Nuclear Policy Analyst, Princeton University. Andrew Young, Former US Ambassador to the United Nations. Howard Zinn*, Historian." |
2011 |
| International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS) Col. John Alexander (president 1984-1986; did his Ph.D work under Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) | Jack Houck (part of a fundraiser; taught Gen. Stubblebine spoon-bending techniques) |
1981 |
| People for the American Way (PFAW) PFAW began as a project of the Tides Fdn., which provided the start-up funds. Set up to counter Moral Majority. Norman Lear (key founder and chairman; still director anno 2015) | Tony Podesta (founding president 1981-1987; brother of John P.) | Ralph Naes (president 1999-2007) | David Altschul (chair PFAW Fdn.). Directors: Eileen Growald (also director Rockefeller Family Fund) | James Hormel (U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg) | Republican congressman John Buchanan, Jr. | Alec Baldwin | Seth MacFarlane | Bianca Jagger (board member; married to Mick Jagger 1971-1978 and one daughter, Jade, with him; they have remained friends). Financing apart from Tides: Ford Fdn. (millions), George Soros (millions), Rock. Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Family Fund, Annenberg Fdn. |
1981 |
| World Resources Institute (WRI) Directors: James Gustave Speth (founder and president 1982-1993) | Maurice Strong (chair) | William Ruckelshaus (chair) | Stephan Schmidheiny | Al Gore | Bill Richardson | Jack Gibbons | Jamshyd Godrej (anno '21; chair WRI India anno '21). Global advisory council, launched in 2013: Theodore Roosevelt IV (chair) | Jonathan Lash (president). Fina Financing: Tides Fdn., etc. |
1982 |
| Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (NAPF) Advisory board (Nov. 2016): Harry Belafonte | Noam Chomsky | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Michael Douglas | Paul Ehrlich | Daniel Ellsberg | Jane Goodall | 14th Dalai Lama | Robert Jay Lifton | Queen Noor of Jordan | Ted Turner | Desmond Tutu. Listed former advisory board members (Nov. 2016): Theodore Hesburgh | Max Kampelman | Claiborne Pell | Elisabeth Kubler Ross | Carl Sagan | Jonathan Schell | Jan Tinbergen | Niko Tinbergen. World Citizenship Award: Bianca Jagger (married to Mick Jagger 1971-1978 and one daughter, Jade, with him; they have remained friends). |
1982 |
| Foundation for Gaia Trustees: Edward Goldsmith | Willis Harman. |
1983 |
| Institute for Security and Cooperation in Outer Space (ISCOS) Board: Dr. Carol Rosin (founder and president) | Daniel Sheehan (general counsel) | Alfred Webre (secretary-treasurer) | Sir Arthur C. Clarke (honorary chair) | Dr. Edgar Mitchell | Brian O'Leary ISCOS Peace in Space: Dr. Carol R. | C. B Scott Jones | Dr. Abe Kriger (Boeing engineer and business development executive) | Sen. Claiborne Pell | Paul Hellyer | Dr. Edgar M. | Commander Will Miller Follow up founded in 2001: Institute for Cooperation in Space (ICIS): same people. |
1983 |
| Global Sciences Congresses / Global Sciences Conferences Dean Stonier (founder, head, organizer of conferences; d. 2001). Visitors: Lindsey Williams ('87) | Steven Halpern (new age music; '90) | Al Bielek ('90, '91, '92, '93, '95) | Eustace Mullins ('90, '93, '94, '00) | Jacob Lieberman (light; '91) | David Oates ('91-'92)| Gordon Michael Scallion ('91-'92) | Dr John Coleman ('92) | Col. Bo Gritz ('92) | Stanley A. Meyer (water as fuel; '92; d. '98) | Cleve Backster (plants; '92-'93) | Bob Dratch ('92, '99, '00; later clamed he was very good friend of James Woo1sey) | Col. Wendelle Stevens ('93) | Steven Greer and Shari Adamiak ('93) | Anthony Hilder ('94) | Phil Schneider ('95) | David Icke ('96) | Alex Collier ('96, '02) | Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips (MKULTRA child abuse; '96) | Gene "Chip" Tatum ('97-'98) | David Adair ('97-'98) | Ted Gunderson (MKULTRA child abuse; Oklahoma; '97, '98, '01) | Brice Taylor (MKULTRA child abuse; '97, '98, '00) | Fritz Springmeier (MKULTRA child abuse; '97-'98) | Edgar Mitchell ('98) | Robert Morning Sky (Hopi prophecy; '98) | Dr. Len Horowitz ('98, '02) | Rayelan Allan (Rumor Mill News; '99) | Stewart Swerdlow ('99) \ Duncan Rhoades (Nexus Magazine; '99) | David Hatcher Childress ('99) | Linda Moulton Howe ('00) | Arizona Wilder ('MKULTRA child abuse; 00-'01) | Cisco Wheeler (MKULTRA child abuse; '01-'02) | Jon Rappoport ('01) | Skip Atwater ('02) | Mark Hazlewood (Planet X; '02). Virgil Armstrong | Phyllis Atwater | Dr. Robert Beck (d. 2002) | Mark Benza | Bob Beutlich (psychotronics; d. 2009)| Christopher Bird | Dr. Harley Byrd | Caryl Dennis | J.M. Donaldson | Ms. Sharry Edwards | Bernard Eppich | Paul Esch | Robert Flower | Jerry Fridenstine (psychotronics; d. 1992) | George Green | George Gordon | Sarah Hieronymus | Wendell H. Hoffman | Leon Hyatt | Peter Inman | Dr. Jim Jeffrey | Harry Jordan | Klark Kent | Gary and Chris Kersey | Werner Kropp | Dr. Roy Kupsinel | Gene Litwiler | Dr. Dietrich Luedtke (d. 2003) | Dr. Alvin Marks | George Merkl | Howard Metz | Dr. Norma Milanovich | Nick Nocerino | Doyle Noyes | Dr. Hazel Parcells | Don Paris | Dr. Buryl Payne | Dr. Wayne Pharr | Troy Reed | Dr. Michael Rice | Lee Ritter | Steven Rochlitz | Dr Leo Roy | Mark Rodin | H.H. Robertson | Dr. Peter Rotschild | Harry Schneiber | Connie Shaw | Norm Shealy | Ed Skilling | Dr. Eva Lee Snead | Ed Sopcak | Frank Strangers | Dr. Robert Strecker | Larry Thatcher Phil | Thomas Patricia Trinity | Tom Valentine | Richard Welch | Lori Williens |
1983-2001 |
| Ted Talks Richard Saul Wurman (founder) | Chris Anderson (curator and owner since 2001 through his Sapling Foundation) | Jacqueline Novogratz (repeat speaker; wife of Chris). Speakers: Rachel Pritzker |
1984 |
| National Security Archive Board of Directors: Russell Hemenway (chair 1999-2014) | Nancy Soderberg | Michael Abramowitz | Vivian Schiller (NYT). Advisory Board: Dr. John Steinbruner (1985-2015). Financing: the typical "liberal CIA" foundations. |
1985 |
| Conservation Fund Board of Directors anno 2001: Gilbert Melville Grosvenor | Nelson Rockefeller Jr. | Rutherford Seydel. Corporate Council anno 2001: Riley Bechtel | Evan Greenberg | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | William Ruckelshaus | Edmund Pratt Jr. (chair and CEO of Pfizer) | Nicholas Reding (vice chair Monsanto). National council anno 2010: William Reilly. |
1985 |
| Better World Society Board: Ted Turner (founder) | Jean Michel Cousteau (co-founder) | Maurice Strong (founding president, "briefly"; in his 'Where on Earth Are We Going?' book he claimed he first met Ted after Ted called him in 1981 (!) to ask him to become president of this society) | Yasushi Akashi (founding; UN under-secretary general) | Gro Harlem Brundtland | Jimmy Carter | Dr. Georgy Arbatov (introduced Ted to Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow to discuss an end to the Cold War) | Alan F. Kay (In his bio, p. 151: "I recall one surprising point [Ted] made: "I spent time with Fidel Castro. We went fishing together. You can tell what kind of a man [someone] is by goin' fishing with him. Fidel is okay.""). |
1985 |
| Sarfatti Institute Based on the ideas of Coast to Coast AM-affiliated physicist Jack Sarfatti, but never launched. A founding board had (allegedly) been put together already when key Sarfatti-backer Harold Chipman died. Founding board members: Harold Chipman (president; CIA covert operations veteran and key protege of the notorious Ted Shackley) | Ray Cline (CIA covert operations veteran) | Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. (grandson of Teddy Roosevelt Jr.; CIA officer from a generational CIA family; at the time director International Relations, Chase Manhattan; d. 1990) | Father Joseph Fessio (Jesuit priest who was the director St. Ignatius Institute, University of San Francisco) | Albert Morris (senior vice president Bank of California) | Chester Bunnell Jr. (director Henry F. Swift & Co.) | Donald Haenlein (president Sarfatti Corporation) | Dr. Arthur Schawlow (physics department, Stanford). Source(s): Founding document papers, provided by Sarfatti himself to ISGP (after ISGP contacting him over his ties to Chipman). |
1986-1986 |
| American Water Development, Inc. Private company looking to exploit a giant water reservoir underneath the San Luis Valley, raising worries that it would turn the valley into a desert. Major conflict of interest, especially with the 1998 World Water Commission. Maurice Strong (founder and chair) | William Ruckelshaus (director) |
1986 |
| Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Left-leaning "liberal CIA"-backed think tank. epi.org/content.cfm/about (accessed: Dec. 10, 2005): "EPI was established in 1986 ... by a group of economic policy experts that includes Jeff Faux [director anno '06], EPI's first president; economist Barry Bluestone [director anno '06] of Northeastern University; Robert Kuttner [director anno '06], columnist for Business Week and Newsweek and editor of The American Prospect; Ray Marshall [director anno '06], former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas-Austin; Robert Reich [director anno '06], former U.S. secretary of labor and professor at Brandeis University; and economist Lester Thurow of the MIT Sloan School of Management." epi.org/about/funder-acknowledgments-and-disclosure-principles/ (accessed: Oct. 4, 2021): "EPI 2020 Donor Acknowledgment List: $200,000 and up: ... Ford Foundation ... Silicon Valley Foundation ... Hewlett Foundation ... Kellogg Foundation... $100,000–$199,999: AFL-CIO. ... Teamsters [and many other labor unions] ... Peter G. Peterson Foundation ... Surdna Foundation. United Auto Workers. United Steelworkers. ... $50,000–$99,999: ... New Venture Fund ... Rockefeller Family Fund... $5,000-$9,999: ... Omidyar Network Services LLC... Robert Reich ... F.D. Roosevelt III..." At least in 2000-2005 EPI, also in its annual report, would not spell out the exact "foundations" it received funding from. |
1986 |
| Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) Rick Doblin (founder) | Aubrey Marcus (minor donor) | Dr. Richard Rockefeller (major financier and partner; son of David Rockefeller) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (partner). More financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn. |
1986 |
| Goodwill Games Ted Turner (founder) | Mikhail Gorbachev (opening speech) | Vladimir Gusinsky (stage director at the Kremlin Palace in '86, well before he became a notorious oligarch). |
1986-1998 |
| Global Business Network (GBN) Co-founders: Peter Schwartz | Jan Ogilvy | Stewart Brand | Napier Collyns | Lawrence Wilkinson. Listed members in Feb. 2002: John Perry Barlow | John Brockman | Douglas Engelbart | Freeman Dyson | Brian Eno (producer U2 and David Bowie) | Francis Fukuyama (also advisory board) | Peter Gabriel (also advisory board) | John Holdren | Robert Hormats | Lynn Margulis (9/11 truther) | John L. Petersen (founder and president Arlington Inst.; tied to UFO disinfo) | Jon McIntire (also advisory board; Grateful Dead manager) | Michael Murphy (co-founder Esalen) | Michael Naylor (past director of strategic planning at GM) | Edward Newland (also advisory board; past head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell) | Kees van der Heijden (past head of scenario planning, Royal Dutch/Shell). Additional member by 2011: Larry Brilliant | Mark Malloch-Brown | Pierre Omidyar. |
1987-2013 |
| Conservation International (CI) Directors: Peter Seligmann (chair, still anno 2021) | Henry H. Arnhold (uncle of Peter) | Harrison Ford (vice chair, still anno 2021) | Nicholas (vice chair) and Isaac Pritzker (anno 2021) | Meredith Brokaw (vice chair; wife of Tom) | Lewis Coleman (vice chair) | Michael Eisner | Barry Diller | Queen Noor of Jordan | James Wolfensohn | Edward Norton | Wes Bush (chair exec. comm. anno 2021; former chair and CEO of Northrop Grumman) | Victor Fung (director anno 2021) | Laurene Powell Jobs (director anno 2021) | Idris Elba (director anno 2021). More: Hillary Clinton (at the 2013 annual meeting). |
1987 |
| Partners in Health (PIH) 2019 annual report, p. 36: "Trustees: ... Barbara Bush ... Chelsea Clinton [since at leasdt 2015]..." 2015 annual report, p. 24: "$1 million and above [funders this year:] Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn.] ... Open Society [Fdns.] ... Larry Page ... GE Foundation ... Cargill Foundation ... Kellogg [Fdn.]" |
2009 |
| Green Earth Foundation Ralph Metzner | McKenna brothers. Financier: Laurance Rockefeller. |
1988 |
| Albert Hofmann Foundation Albert Hofmann (Swiss inventor of LSD) | Dr. John Beresford (secretary and advisor) | Myron Stolaroff (treasurer) | Dr. Betty Eisner. Advisors: Dr. Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) | Allen Ginsberg | Dr. George Greer | Dr. Charles Grob | Dr. Stanislav Grof | Dr. Willis Harman | Laura Huxley (wife of Aldous) | Dr. Oscar Janiger | Dr. John Lilly | Dr. Dennis McKenna | Terence McKenna | Dr. Ralph Metzner | Dr. David Nichols | Dr. Humphrey Osmond | Jonathan Ott | Dr. Richard Evans Schultes | Myron Stolaroff | Dr. Charles Tart | Dr. Andrew Weil | Dr. Richard Yensen |
1988 |
| Manitou Foundation, Baca Ranch, San Luis Valley Founders: Maurice Strong and Laurance Rockefeller. Also involved: Steven Greer (Baha'i follower who organized CSETI UFO contact trainings at the Baca Ranch and surrounding areas from at least 1993 to 1998, in the same period he was cooperating with Laurance on UFO disclosure). It's a remote spiritual retreat center at the Sangro de Cristo mountains where many world religions have one or two representatives. The location is known for its past UFO activity and for being the first location where cattle mutilations were reported (1967, Snippy case). There appears to be a lot of gnostic symbolism involved and the retreat seems to have a lot in common with the globalist ideas of the Baha'i Faith, which in turn is completely, one hundred percent compatible with the United Nations ideas on world government. |
1988 |
| Robin Hood Foundation Paul Tudor Jones II (founder) | Stanley Druckenmiller (chair) | John F. Kennedy, Jr. | Marie-Josee Kravis | Ted Forstmann | Tom Brokaw | Diane Sawyer | Harvey Weinstein | Lachlan Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch) | Jeffrey Immelt | Jacklyn Bezos (wife of Jeff) | Jeff Zucker | Emma Bloomberg (oldest daughter of Michael) | Larry Fink. Veterans Advisory Board: Adm. Michael Mullen | Jon Stewart [since at least 2013]. Prize Advisory Board: Casey Wasserman. Annual gala: Oprah Winfrey. Financier(s): George Soros ($50 million pledge at the 2009 gala; Democrat fundraising ally of RHF founder and employed Druckenmiller) |
1988 |
| Human Potential Foundation (HPF) C. B. Scott Jones (president; six year special assistant to Sen. Pell) | Claiborne Pell | Laurance Rockefeller (financier to the tune of $700,000) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein | John Mack (abduction researcher who received $200,000 from HPF). Helped finance the Center for Treatment and Research of Experienced Anomalous Trauma (TREAT) conferences on abductions and other paranormal phenomena. Rima Laibow (founder and organizer; psychiatrist; later wife of Army Intelligence Gen. Albert Stubblebine; both major disinformers) | Victoria Lacas (abduction researcher married to Col. John Alexander, a friend of Stubblebine and Hans Adam) | Budd Hopkins (close friend of Hans Adam; both tried to find out details of the alleged alien kidnapping of UN secretary general Javier Perez de Cuellar) | Lyn Buchanan (remote viewer). Laurance R. financed John Mack's 1993 Program for Extraordinary Experience Research (PEER), an alien abductee support group which laid the groundwork for Mack's 1994 best-selling book 'Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens'. Allegedly provided Mack with $250,000 annually in the early 1990s. Colin Andrews: The premier British crop circle researcher (and certainly in recent years a believer in a global warming armageddon) was financed by Laurance R. in the late 1990s. Already in 1992 Greer accompanied Andrews, doing meditation experiments. 1995 HPF conference: John Mack | Zecharia Sitchin (According to Richard Hoagland on Coast to Coast AM, I believe with Sitchin critic Mike Heiser, Sitchin had an office at Rockefeller Plaza. Hoagland was discussing his/their experiences with Sitchin.) |
1989 |
| Intruders Foundation Budd Hopkins (founder and executive director) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (financier). Advisory committee: Edward H. Davis, Jr. (psychologist; applied behavior specialist with autistic children) | Carol Rainey (documentary producer) | Peter Robbins (UFO researcher) | Greg Sandow (journalist who writes about UFOs) | Jed Turnbull (psychiatrist with a MA from Fordham) | Oliver von Kemenczky (global account manager Honeywell Corp.) | Dennis K. Anderson (media consultant) | Cathy Del Grosso (forensic psychologist) | Sal Amendola (comic book artist with DC Comics) 1992: Intruders movie. Running time: 2 hours and 40 minutes. Budd Hopkins is played by Richard Crenna. Several reasonable well known actors appear in this very television movie. June 13-17, 1992: MIT Abduction Study Conference: Hans Adam and Robert Bigelow (financiers) | Dr. David Pritchard (chair). Participants: John Mack | David Jacobs | Budd Hopkins | Thomas Bullard | John Carpenter | David Gotlib | Richard Hall | Pam Kasey | Joe Nyman | Mark Rodeghier | Walter Webb. Produced a 700 page book on the subject. |
1989 |
| Arlington Institute John L. Petersen (founder and chair) | Woolsey (director) | Napier Collyns (director; Shell) | Joe Firmage (director; UFO cultist) | Catherine Austin Fitts (black budget critic; invited to a meeting she said was in part about aliens living among us) | linked to Coast to Coast AM show and Steven Greer (UFOs). Hal Puthoff (speech) |
1989 |
| Psi-Tech Corporation Ed Dames (founder) | "four-star general" (founder) | 1-star General Albert Stubblebine (first chairman) | Colonel John Alexander (consulting director) | Ingo Swann (consultant) | Jim Schnabel (trained here) | Colin Andrews (trained here)|Robert Wood (reported co-founder) | Ryan Wood (sales executive) |
1989 |
| Fund for UFO Research Roswell conference, Washington, D.C. Held at the Smithsonian. Heads of FUFOR: Don Berliner and Bruce Maccabee. Financiers of the conference: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein and Robert Bigelow. Brought together numerous witnesses of the 1947 Roswell crash. Interviews with the witnesses leads to the video 'Recollections of Roswell', which appears to be good for the most part - except for the questionable San Agustin crash witnesses. Bigelow was involved in financing part of the research into that aspect of the crash, as a picture can be seen in Stanton Friedman's book 'Crash at Corona' of Bigelow and Friedman looking out over the San Agustin plains. |
1990 |
| International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Maurice Strong (long-time distinguished fellow) |
1990 |
| Turner Foundation Same group of family members as the Captain Planet Foundation. |
1990 |
| Captain Planet Foundation Based on the cartoon 'Captain Planet and the Planeteers' of 1990-1996, co-developed by Ted Turner. The foundation had some challenging periods, but was relaunched at Earth Day Kids Fest in 2003. Directors: Laura Turner Seydel (president and chair; daughter of Ted from his first wife, who married Rutherford Seydel, a son of Ted's employee Pat Mitchell Seydel) | Rutherford Seydel (secretary) | Beau Turner (married into the Hunt family of Dallas) | Rhett Turner | Teddy Turner. |
1991 |
| Goldsmith Foundation Sir James Goldsmith and brother Edward Goldsmith (co-founders). Sir James was deeply involved with the UK Independence Party (UKIP), ultra-right MI6-connected activists and covert SAS operations while Edward has been one of the chief green agenda promoters. Beneficiaries: Brian Crozier. |
1991 |
| International Academy of the Environment, Geneva Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (director 1996-1997) | Maurice Strong (Head of four "outside experts" assisting the Swiss Science Council in 1995 in evaluating the academy's work). |
1991-1999 |
| International Foreign Policy Institute (IFPI) Co-founders: James Garrison | Eduard Shevardnadze | George Shultz |
1991 |
| Environmental Working Group (EWG) Directors: Drummond Pike (chair at one point) | Laura Turner Seydel (daughter of Ted Turner) | Alicia Wittink (director Mother Jones magazine) |
1992 |
| UNCED's Rio Earth Summit Participants: Maurice Strong | Mikhail Gorbachev | Ruud Lubbers | Queen Beatrix of Orange | John Kerry and Teresa Heinz (met a second time here, the first time at a 1990 Earth Day rally; got married in '95) | Richard Gardner ("UN special advisor" at the conference; 1992, 'Negotiating Survival: Four Priorities After Rio', p. 1: "the Rio Earth Summit has launched the world into a new era of eco-diplomacy, eco-negotiation and eco-lawmaking. It was the largest international conference ever held, with over 100 heads of state... 8,000 delegates, 9,000 members of the press, and 3,000 accredited representatives of ... NGOs.") | Christopher Flavin (participant). More: 1991, TC publication, 'Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology' - the foreword written by David Rockefeller and the intro by Maurice Strong - suggested that "the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro would likely be the last chance this century for leaders and decision-makers to seriously address and arrest the accelerating environmental threats to economic development, national security, and human survival." |
1992 |
| World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Founded in the wake of the Rio Earth Summit. Executive committee (often hard to find on the site): Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny (founder; hon. chair anno 2001, 2012) | Christopher Flavin (founding director) | Bertrand Collomb (chair 2004-2005) | Gerard Worms ("ex-officio" anno 2012) | Paul Polman (co-vice chair anno 2011, chair anno 2015) | Peter Bakker (president since 2012) Advisory council (little known about it): Maurice Strong (founder). wbcsd.org/memlist.htm (accessed: Oct. 18, 2000; companies largely remain the same over the decades): "List of Members: ... 3M ... ABN AMRO ... Alcoa. Allianz. Anglo American ... AT&T ... BASF. Bayer. Billiton. ... BP ... BT. Cargill... CEMEX ... China Petro-Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) ... Conoco. DaimlerChrysler... Deutsche Bank. Dow Chemical... DuPont. ... Eastman Kodak ... Fiat Auto ... Ford Motor Company ... General Motors ... Heineken ... Hitachi ... Italcementi ... Kikkoman Corporation. KPMG. ... Lafarge ... L'Oreal. Michelin ... Mitsubishi ... Mitsui ... Nestle. Newmont... Nippon... Nissan. Nokia. ... Norsk Hydro ... Novartis ... Novo Nordisk ... Gazprom. Ontario Power ... Petro-Canada. Phelps Dodge Corporation. Placer Dome ... Procter & Gamble... Rabobank ... Rio Tinto ... Royal Philips ... Samsung ... Shell ... Skandia Insurance... Skanska ... Sony ... Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux ... Swiss Re ... Texaco ... Time Warner. Tokyo Electric Power Company ... Toyota ... UBS. Unilever. Unocal. ... Volkswagen ... Weyerhaeuser ... Xerox..." |
1992 |
| Earth Council Alliance (ECA) Founding members: Maurice Strong (founding chair) | Ruud Lubbers | Robert McNamara | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Desmond Tutu | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Jonathan Lash. |
1992 |
| Gorbachev Foundation/USA James Garrison (founder and president) | Paul Dietrich (founding trustee) | Sen. Alan Cranston (trustee chair) | George Shultz (advisory board chair) | Victor Kuvaldin (founding executive Russian branch; still in place anno 2015; former speechwriter for Gorbachev). Organized the State of the World Forums. |
1992 |
| Green Cross International (GCI) Members: Mikhail Gorbachev (founding president) | Shimon Peres | Ruud Lubbers | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Ted Turner | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Robert Redford. U.S. branch is Global Green. Board: Scott Seydel (chair 2004-2013; Turner family member) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (director; Turner family member) | Ambassador Richard Butler (chair and CEO UNSCOM) | Gary Hart (since at least 2001-2004; later advisory board member) | Lee Hamilton (since at least 2001-2015) | Wyche Fowler (2002-2000s) | Leonardo DiCaprio (mid 2006 - early 2014) | Edward Norton (mid 2006 - mid 2014) | Lisa Shields | Trammall S. Crow (co-chair; son of the new age oil man). Advisory board: Jane Goodall | Norman Lear. |
1993 |
| Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) John Stauber (founder; ran into until 2008) | Lisa Graves (executive director). Supported by the Ford Fdn., Open Society Inst. (George Soros), Rockefeller Assoc., Rockefeller Family Fdn., Threshold Foundation, Tides Fdn., Ted Turner Fdn. More than 50% of CMD's financing comes through the Schwab Charitable Fund, which preserves the anonimity of donors. Publishes: - PR Watch. - SourceWatch. - BanksterUSA: $200,000 from the Open Society Institute. - ALECExposed: American Legislative Exchange Council. |
1993 |
| Heffter Research Institute Psychedelics research. Co-founders: Ralph Metzner | Dennis McKenna. Financiers: Laurance Rockefeller | Bob Wallace (Microsoft; old Bill G. friend) |
1993 |
| Global Witness Advisory board: Alexander Soros (founder) | Bennett Freeman (chair) | Baroness Glenys Kinnock (wife of the Labour Party leader 1983-1992; ECFR) | Edward Zwick | Misha Glenny | Silas Siakor | Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange. Financiers: Open Society Fdns. | Alexander Fdn., MacArthur Fdn, Ford Fdn., National Endowment for Democracy, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. |
1993 |
| Rockefeller Initiative on UFO disclosure Laurance Rockefeller (prime mover). White House: Bill Clinton (on April 14, 1993 Laurance meets Clinton at the White House over the issue) | Jack Gibbons (White House scientist briefed by Rockefeller and C. B. Scott Jones on the subject) | John Podesta (Clinton's assistant and later chief of staff; spoke out publicly in favor of disclosure) | Webster Hubbell (Clinton's associate attorney general; looked into UFOs and JFK, but got nothing). Round table discussion at the JY Ranch: representatives from Gibbons office | Richard Farley | Laurance Rockefeller | Henry Diamond | C. B. Scott Jones | John Mack | Dr. Bruce Maccabee | Leo Sprinkle | Linda Moulton Howe | Steven Greer | Keith Thompson. Bill and Hillary Clinton were also been guests of Laurance at the ranch. Eventually Laurance Rockefeller and the president back off, apparently fearing repurcussions. The only thing published is 'UFO's: The Best Available Evidence', at different times funded by Laurance Rockefeller, Robert Bigelow and Joe Firmage. |
1993-1996 |
| Disclosure Project Dr. Steven Greer (founder and CEO) | Daniel Sheehan (long-time lawyer to the project and witness) | Laurance Rockefeller (limited financial supporter) | Mary and Evan Galbraith (cooperated with Greer for some time in the 1990s in writing 'UFO's: The Best Available Evidence' - until they had a falling out). Examples of witnesses used: - Dr. Fred Bell (listed as "Dr. B.". Not mentioned: new age guru, Pleiadean contactee who believes in reptilians, that Greys eat humans dissolved in acid, that no plane hit the WTC and that 2012 was going to be the end of the world) - Jim Dilettoso (identity kept hidden, but reported as being reliable. Not mentioned: murky past and known UFO cultist. George A. Hormel II, owner of the Wrigley Mansion, invested in Dilettoso's projects.) - James Angleton, Jr. (Greer has hinted that this person gave him information. Not mentioned: Reportedly no relationship to the CI chief. However, he is an AFIO leader with the nation's CIA covert operations establishment - with people who would absolute have no interest in releasing classified information) - Sergeant Robert O. Dean, backed by L. Rockefeller and Claiborne Pell in Congress in 1996, became an important Disclosure Project witness (talking about "ACIO" and 20-something levels about top secret), but these days talks about Annunaki and reptilians to anyone who wants to hear it. In addition, an interested and moderate NATO historian rationally debunked papers he provided as being fake. - Gordon Creighton and Lord Admiral Hill-Norton are presented as reliable. In fact, both have viewed the abduction subject as being done by demons. Already in the 1970s Creighton was warning that people "have been carried off and ... certainly haven't come back again." Already back then Creighton promoted an author who in turn inspired Erich von Daniken. Without naming their names directly, Greer has claimed that General Albert Stubblebine and Colonel John Alexander have tried to recruit him into a cell that has infiltrated the civilian UFO community. Those who watched the Hans Adam-financed movie 'Intruders' can see that the same thing happened to Budd Hopkins (by an actor who plays a general who looks like the twin brother of Gen. Stubblebine). Mentioned by Greer as not having any inside knowledge: 1) General Patrick Hughes, DIA director 1996-1999, who has a major special operations background but is far from an elitist. 2) Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, J-2 intelligence chief for the joined chiefs and DIA head 1999-2002. Mentioned by Greer as having inside knowledge on the subject (true or not, he spoke to these people or persons close to them): George Shultz | the Bechtel family | David Rockefeller | Peter Peterson | Maxwell Rabb | Claiborne Pell | the Rothschild family | Pehr Gyllenhammar (indirect, but controlled Volvo until the early 1990s) | Hans Adam | Adm. Harry Train | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman. Also: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld (warned against their re-election in 2004 and that these individuals have direct knowledge of these topics - then again, Greer is politically hundred percent in line with men as Al Gore and Maurice Strong). Interesting observation: Greer most definitely had a dinner party in 1993 with then-sitting CIA director James Woolsey (who was never allowed to meet president Clinton one-on-one) and John Petersen and their wives on the subject. The participants in the dinner disagree, however, with Greer's account of it. Greer claimed the CIA director was almost in tears that he wasn't told anything about the subject. The other participants, claim, however, that they were just politely listening to his views, but did not necessarily believe in them. Strangely, James W. has incredibly deep ties to the defense industry, the liberal and conservative establishment, and the Navy at the highest levels. If he doesn't know anything about the subject, then pretty much no one does. |
1993 |
| Club of Budapest The website disappeared in late 2020 and was moved to the site of the The Hague Center for Global Governance. C - clubofbudapest.org/About the Club/mission.htm (accessed: December 10, 2005): "The Mission of the Club of Budapest is to be a catalyst for the transformation to a sustainable world through - Promoting the emergence of planetary consciousness; - Interconnecting generations and cultures; - Integrating spirituality, science, and the arts; - Fostering learning communities worldwide." - clubofbudapest.org (accessed: May 12, 2013): "The idea of the Club of Budapest was developed in 1978 in a discussion between Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of Rome, and Ervin Laszlo, systems philosopher and also member of the Club of Rome at that time. They were convinced that the enormous challenges to humanity can only be dealt with through the development of a cultural and cosmopolitan consciousness. Based on these ideas, the Club of Budapest was founded by Dr. Laszlo in 1993." - clubofbudapest.org/wwc.php (accessed: May 12, 2013): "The World Wisdom Council (WWC) has been convened by the Club of Budapest in cooperation with the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality..." Founder: Dr. Ervin Laszlo (founder, continued as president into the 2010s; author 'Science and the Akashic Field' (2004), 'The Immortal Mind: Science and the Continuity of Consciousness Beyond the Brain' (2014 - with 2014, 2016 C2C AM guest Anthony Peake), 'What is Reality?' with Stan Grof and Deepak Chopra; and 'Reconnecting to the Source: The New Science of Spiritual Experience' (2020); featured in the 2017 'Ancient Aliens' show 'The Akashic Record'). Members: Sir Arthur C. Clarke (hon. member anno 2004, until death in 2008) | H.E. The XIVth Dalai Lama (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | H.E. Pir Vilayat Inayat-Khan (hon. member until his death in 2004; head and founding family Sufi Order International / Inayati Order) | Peter Gabriel (hon. member anno 2004, 2020; World Wisdom Council anno 2004) | Arpad Goncz (hon. member anno 2005, 2020) | Jane Goodall (hon. member anno 2004, 2020; World Wisdom Council anno 2005) | Mikhail Gorbachev (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Vaclav Havel (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Edgar Mitchell (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Mary Robinson (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Karan Singh (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Desmond Tutu (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Princess Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld (hon. member anno 2005, 2020; daughter of Prince Bernhard of Orange; younger sister of Queen Beatrix) | Richard von Weizsacker (hon. member anno 2004, until his death in 2015) | Elie Wiesel (hon. member anno 2004, 2020) | Muhammad Yunus (honorary member anno 2004, 2020) | Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (World Wisdom Council anno 2005) | Bianca Jagger (hon. member 2005-, 2020) | Herman van Veen ("creative member" 2005-, 2013) | Herman Wijffels ("creative member" 2005-, 2013) | Barbara Marx Hubbard ("creative member" anno 2005-, hon. member anno 2013, 2020) | Jean Houston (hon. member 2011-2012) | Daniel Pinchbeck ("creative member" anno April 2011, 2013; after that the "creative members" were not listed anymore) | Deepak Chopra (hon. member 2013-, anno 2020) | Willis Harman (hon. member anno 2014-, 2020). More: Kofi Annan (1996 Planetary Consciousness award) | Shimon Peres (2002 Planetary Consciousness award) | Nelson Mandela (2004 Planetary Consciousness award) | Stanislav Grof (key presenter at the December 5-6, 2014 21st Anniversary Conference, alongside Ervin and Princess Irene). |
1993 |
| President's Council on Sustainable Development Members: William Ruckelshaus (anno '96) | Jonathan Lash (co-chair anno '96-'99) | Bruce Babbitt (anno '96-'99) | Kenneth Derr (anno '96) | Ken Lay (anno '96-'99) | Fred Krupp (anno '96-'99; exec. director Environmental Defense Fund) | James Baker III ("ex-officio" anno '96-'99) | Tim Wirth ("ex-officio" anno '96) | Michele Perrault (anno '96-'99; int. VP Sierra Club) | John Sawhill (anno '96-'99; president and CEO Nature Cons.) | Andrew Cuomo (anno '99) | Bill Richardson (anno '99). Principal Liasons: Frances Beinecke (anno '97; for the NRDC) | Wade Greene (anno '97; for Rock. Fin. Services). Key companies represented: Chevron, Enron, GM, Pacific Gas and Electric Company. |
1993 |
| State of the World Forum conferences Co-financiers: the major foundations, as well as many major companies. Included: Joe Firmage (over $1 million) | Warren Buffet ($150,000 for Gen. Butler's Nuclear Weapons Initiative) | Carnegie Corp. ($400,000 in total) | Rockefeller Fdn. (over $300,000 in total). Co-chairs of conferences: Mikhail Gorbachev (key organizer) | Ruud Lubbers | George Shultz | Maurice Strong | Ted Turner | James Baker III | Elie Wiesel | Yasuhiro Nakasone | Queen Noor of Jordan | Sen. Alan Cranston (co-founder and co-chair until 2000) | Tansu Ciller of Turkey. Other elite participants: James Garrison (founder, chair and president) | Daniel Sheehan (founder) | Max Kampelman | Steven and Peggy Dulaney Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) (forum organizers) | Eduard Shevardnadze (counselor) | Alexander Yakovlev (introduced Garrison to Gorbachev) | Milton Friedman | Zbigniew Brzezinski | David Packard | Dwayne Andreas | Rupert Murdoch | Sen. George Mitchell | Gen. Lee Butler (SAC commander against nuclear weapons) | Margaret Thatcher | Askar Akaev of Kyrgystan | Oscar Arias of Costa Rica | Vaclav Havel of the Czech Republic | Brian Mulroney | Thabo Mbeki | Eduard Shevardnadze. Lower level participants: Mitchell Kapor | Hal Puthoff | John Mack | Sam Keen | Deepak Chopra | Thich Nhat Hanh | Carl Sagan | Alvin Toffler | Jane Goodall | Tony Robbins | Shirley MacLaine | Jane Fonda | John Denver | Rigoberta Menchu Tum | Masahiko Horie | Peter Gabriel. Source(s): May 31, 1995, San Francisco Weekly, 'One World, Under Gorby (Part II)'; September 25, 1995, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Gorbachev Foundation's S.F. Meeting / Celebrities, scholars to discuss world's future'; October 16, 1995, Weekly Standard, 'The Global Brain Trust: A Vivisection'; October 30, 1995, The New American, 'Global Gorby'; 2004, James Garrison, 'America As Empire: Global Leader Or Rogue Power?'. |
1994 |
| International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Edward Goldsmith (director) | John Cavanagh (director and president). Financing: Threshold Fdn. |
1994 |
| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Founded as the William H. Gates Sr. Foundation. Trustees (only three): Bill Gates and wife (co-chairs) | William Gates Sr. (co-chair, but non-trustee) | Warren Buffett (trustee 2006-2021 alongside the Gates couple, until their relationship ended in controversy in 2021; and long-time financial partner; CFR '14-). Advisors (with CFR overlap): Vartan Gregorian (1990s-2000s advisor; trustee Gates Library Foundation; CFR '84-) | Dr. Margaret Hamburg (member (international) scientific advisory comm. anno '22; CFR '86-) | Dr. Harold Varmus (member (international) scientific advisory comm. anno '22; CFR '01-). Management board (with CFR overlap): Patty Stonesifer (first CEO 2006-2008; co-chair; involved since 1990s; worked at Microsoft 1988-1997, including as senior vice president; CFR '03-) | Sylvia Mathews Burwell (management board and president of global development until '11; CFR '08-) | Christopher Elias (management board and president of global development '12-14; CFR '08-) | Allan Golston (president US Program anno '12-'14; CFR '11-) | Mark Suzman (president Global Policy & Advocacy 2014-; CFR '19-). Source(s): gatesfoundation.org/about /leadership/warren-buffett (accessed: March 6, 2022); "As a trustee from 2006 – 2021... Warren’s contributions to the Gates [Fdn.] total $32.7 billion valued at the time of receipt."; gatesfoundation.org/about/ leadership/scientific-advisory-committee (accessed: March 6, 2021). |
1994 |
| Earth Institute, Colombia University Also look at the Millennium Villages Project. Leadership: Jeffrey Sachs (director/head 2002-2016). External advisory board: Mary Robinson (founding April 2003-, gone by 2007) | Bono (founding April 2003-mid 2016) | George Soros (founding April 2003-mid 2016) | Carl-Henric Svanberg (anno '11-'16) | Howard Buffett (mid 2016-; grandson of Warren Buffett). More: Adam Prizker (studied with Jeffrey S. at Columbia and went to work for him at this institute, seemingly around 2010). Source(s): earth.columbia.edu/ news/2003/story04-17-03.html (accessed: Oct. 16, 2021; announcement of EAB founding); earth.columbia.edu/ about/eab.html (accessed: March 13, 2007); earth.columbia.edu/ articles/view/1006 (accessed: March 25, 2016; EAB). |
1995 |
| National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS) Relatively low-profile UFO/paranormal investigation institute that often didn't share its research with the public. Various investigators were guests at Coast to Coast AM, however. Financed and headed by Robert Bigelow. Scientists: Colonel John B. Alexander (a close friend of Bigelow) | Victoria Alexander | Edgar Mitchell | Hal Puthoff (advisor Bigelow Aerospace) | Jacques Vallee | Colm Kelleher | Bruce Maccabee (only written papers for NIDS) | John Mack (known to have been present at one or more meetings) | Sen. Harry Reid | Sen. Harrison Schmitt. |
1995-2004 |
| Coast to Coast AM / Art Bell Show Guests: Frank Gaffney (listed as a guest, but no dates visible; CSP founder) | Richard Hoagland (in the 1980s in contact with SDI/Star Wars figure George Keyworth II, later of the CSP; Keyworth may also have had a hand in providing Hoagland with fake THEMIS IR imagery in 2002 - likely to promote interest in space adventures, military or not) | Joe Firmage | Michael Lindemann (employee of Firmage) | John L. Petersen | Steven Greer | Catherine Austin Fitts (wrote a foreword to one of Mike Ruppert's books) | Mike Ruppert | Daniel Sheehan | Bill Moore (into electric transportation; bio says he has been in contact with James Woo1sey and Gen. Wesley C1ark) | Gordon Novel | Edgar Mitchell | Alex Jones | Stanley Monteith | Dean Radin | Colin Andrews | Hal Puthoff | Russell Targ | Uri Geller | Ingo Swann | Jacques Vallee | Rupert Sheldrake | Joseph McMoneagle | Deepak Chopra | Amit Goswami | Dr. John Mack | William Jasper | Joel Skousen | Malachi Martin and Father Nicholas Gruner | Col. John Alexander | Robert and Ryan Wood | Stanton Friedman | Dr. John Gray | David Kirkpatrick | Dianne Arcangel (protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross) | Dr. Lynne McTaggart | Dr. Fred Alan Wolf | Dr. Jim Tucker | Dr. Russell Targ | Dr. Charles Tart | Dr. Gary Schwartz | Dr. Stephan Schwartz | Mark Lane | Robert Moss (Shackley-connected CIA/MI6 operative turned dream shaman) | Zecharia Sitchin | Dr. Fred Bell | Dr. Len Horowitz | Robert O. Dean | Alfred Webre | Graham Hancock | Leslie Kean | Bev Harris Also: Ann Finkbeiner (wrote official history on the JASON Group, a year after ISGP's first article which had led to harressment by the JASONs. Ian Punnett thanked this author for a number of questions sent in, but subsequently forgot to ask a single one of them to Finkbeiner (or even one critical question). Since C2C is a show on UFOs and the paranormal, what's the purpose of bringing Finkbeiner on if there's no focus on these topics? And why would Finkbeiner target the conspiracy community if she wants to be taken seriously?) |
1995 |
| Earth Charter Commission Permanent commission members: Mikhail Gorbachev (co-chair) | Maurice Strong (co-chair) | Steven Rockefeller (member and also co-chair of the international council; son of Nelson, younger brother of Jay) | Ruud Lubbers | Princess Basma bint Talal of Jordan | Rabbi Awraham Soetendorp. More: Jan Pronk (Netherlands; key author of the Charter) | Queen Beatrix of Orange (official host of the Earth Charter launch in 2000). earthcharter.org/about-the-earth-charter/history/ (accessed: Aug 12, 2023): "In the pictures: Some of the members of the Earth Charter Commission: Maurice [S.] ... Ruud [L.] ... Mikhail [G.], HRH Princess Basma Bint [T.], Steven [R.]... [Picture:] Jan [P.], Mikhail [G.], Ruud [L.], Maurice [S.] and Mohammed Sahnoun. First Earth Charter Workshop meeting, Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands, May 1995. ... On June 29, 2000, the Earth Charter Commission with the support of Queen [B.] of the Netherlands formally launched the Earth Charter at the Peace Palace in The Hague." |
1997 |
| Brennan Center for Justice "Liberal CIA" action group. Patricia Bauman (co-chair anno '21). Economic advisory board: Larry Summers (founding 2016-) | Joseph Stiglitz (founding 2016-) | Jason Furman (founding 2016-) | Peter Orszag (CEO of financial advisory at Lazard) (founding 2016-). Source(s): Feb. 17, 2016, brennancenter.org, '[New] Resource: Economic Advisory Board': "a new initiative ... to[wards] ending mass incarceration." |
1996 |
| Peace Parks Foundation (PPF) Manages the nature and wildlife parks of the WWF. Patrons include heads of state around Africa. Founders: Prince Bernhard | Nelson Mandela | Anton Rupert. Primarily financed through the Club 21. Besides many corporations, individual members of this club include: Nicky Oppenheimer | David and Laurance Rockefeller | Baron Benjamin de Rothschild and the Rothschild Foundation | Russell Train | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan | Joseph F. Cullman III. |
1997 |
| Gorbachev Foundation of North America (GFNA) Mikhail G. (president) | John Deutch (senior fellow 1990s-2010s). |
1997 |
| Meridian Institute William Ruckelshaus (chair) | Jonathan Lash (director) |
1997 |
| White Men as Full Diversity Partners (WMFDP) Founded in Portland, Oregon. Founders: Bill Proudman ("roots" at Outward Bound) | Michael Welp. Participants: Lockheed Martin. wmfdp.com/our-history/ (accessed: May 31, 2021): "First White Men and Allies Learning Lab held March 26-29, 2000 at Rex Ranch in Amado, Arizona (Organizations represented include: Florida Hospital, Prudential, Army Corps, DTE Energy, Home Depot, Shell Oil Company, CH2M Hill..." October 09, 2017, PRweb, 'WMFDP: Negative Approaches to Diversity Could Be Part of a $300 Billion Dollar Problem': "Its client list includes Alaska Airlines, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Northwestern Mutual, Rockwell Automation, Chevron Drilling & Completions, The Nature Conservancy, Mass Mutual, and others. ... One study by Intel and Dalberg Global Development Advisors found that the tech industry could generate an additional $300-$370 billion annually if the racial/ethnic diversity of tech companies' workforces reflected that of the talent pool." |
1997 |
| Humpty Dumpty Institute (HDI) Very UN-focused. Directors: Constance Milstein (co-founder; early chair; board NDI and Refugees Int.) | Michael Sonnenfeldt (vice chair, co-founder) | Richard Holbrooke | Congressman Benjamin Gilman | Peter Grossman (veteran at Rock.'s Chase Manhattan | Mark Epstein (2007-; brother of Jeffrey). Congressional Advisory Board: Barbara Lee | Adam Schiff | Robert Wexler. Sponsors: "Chicken Soup for the Soul". 2007-2008 report, p. 12: "Institutional and Government Funders: United Nations [Fdn.]... United States Department of Agriculture... State Department... forges innovative public-private partnerships .... foster dialogue between the United Nations and the U.S. Congress." |
1998 |
| World Water Commission Set up through the World Water Council. Advised that bodies of water should be privatized to protect them. Among the 20 members: Ismail Serageldin (chair; vice president World Bank) | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong | Jerome Monod (chair water company Suez Lyonnaise des Eaux). Honorary members: Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands | Gorbachev. |
1998 |
| International Space Sciences Organisation (ISSO) Joe Firmage's UFO cult website. Starts promoting the idea that human technological progress has been spurred on occasion by alien technology, as with Roswell. Through his website he releases the MJ-12 documents, including clearly faked ones of Tim Cooper. Dr. Robert and Ryan Wood are the ones who verify the documents for him. Daniel Sheehan is general counsel to ISSO. 9th Annual International UFO Congress Convention, held on March 5-11, 2000: Sheehan and Firmage are speakers at the meeting. Dr. Robert and Ryan Wood give a presentation. They are aske how much Firmage has paid them for their research, a question they refuse to answer. To this day they maintain the most prominent website on the MJ-12 documents. Obvious fakes are still listed with a 3 out of 5 star rating. |
1998 |
| Independent Media Institute / AlterNet Don Hazer (founder, executive editor, former Mother Jones publisher). Allied with Salon, The Guardian, Truthdig, Truthout, TomDispatch, The Washington Spectator, Al Jazeera English, Center for Public Integrity, Democracy Now!, Waging Nonviolence, Asia Times, New America Media and Mother Jones. Financing: Tides Fdn., Threshold Fdn., Ford Fdn., Open Society Inst. and Drug Policy Alliance (both Soros). |
1998 |
| United Nations Foundation (UNF) Board members: Ted Turner (founder and chair; board anno '15) | Tim Wirth (founding president 1998-2013; board anno '15-'21) | Maurice Strong ('98-'00) | Emma Rothschild ('98-'15; half sister of Jacob R.) | Andrew Young ('98-'15; top aide MLK; Georgia congressman) | Ruth Cardoso ('98-'08) | Liang Dan ('99-'06) | Hisashi Owada (anno '00-'18) | Nafis Sadik ('01-'15; Pakistan) | Muhammad Yunus (anno '01-'20s) | Gro Harlem Brundtland ('04-'20s) | N. R. Narayana Murthy (anno '05-'21; India; 1981 founder of Infosys) | Queen Rania of Jordan (anno '06-'21) | Kofi Annan ('07-'18) | Yuan Ming (anno '07-'19) | Fernando Henrique Cardoso ('08-'10) | Igor Ivanov ('09-'18) | Hans Vestberg (anno '15-'21; Ericsson and Verizon chief) | Laura Turner Seydel (anno '21) | Mark Malloch Brown (anno '21) | Baroness Valerie Amos (anno '21; black; director School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) '15-'20) | Elizabeth Cousens (president and CEO anno '20). Source(s): unfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-board/ (accessed: Sep 6, 2021; Lists past board members and their terms). |
1998 |
| Better World Campaign Revival of the old Better World Society. Sees itself as a "sister organization" of the UNF and UNA-USA, all focused on promoting the U.S.-UN relationship. Essentially a U.N. lobby that has focused on the U.S. paying its old debts to the U.N., maintaining annual funding, and supporting its various organs and peacekeeping operations. Founder: Ted Turner. Global Leadership Council (appeared after the formal UNA-USA partnership): Thomas Pickering (co-chair anno '20, chair anno '23) | William Draper III (anno '20-'23) | John Negroponte (anno '20-'23). Source(s): betterworldcampaign.org/about-bwc/global-leadership-council/ (accessed: June 20, 2020 -). |
1999 |
| World Commission for Global Consciousness and Spirituality Extremely obscure NGO with unknown funding, but big names. Globalspirit.org was up from 1999 to 2013. Co-chairmen in 2011: Dr. Ervin Laszlo | Dr. Robert Muller (former assistant secretary general of the UN) | Dr. Karan Singh (MP in India). Also: Elizabeth Mann Borghese and Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (invited to join initial commission, but unknown if he accepted). Consisted or consists of 17 different Global Councils: - Global Council on Education in the 21st Century: Jane Goodall. - Global Council on Peace & Conflict Resolution: Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel. - Global Council on Spirituality & Deep Ecology: Rupert Sheldrake, Jean Houston. - Global Council on Spiritual Politics & Global Citizenship: Al Gore, Dennis Kucinich, Deepak Chopra, Robert Thurman. - Global Council on Personal & Planetary Security: Jonathan Granoff, Mikhail Gorbachev, Douglas Roche, James George. - Global Council on Interfaith Dialogue & Inter–religious Relations. - Global Council on Integral Medicine & Planetary Health: Andrew Weil. - Global Council on Frontier Science & Sustainable Technologies: Fritjof Capra, Fred Alan Wolf. - Global Council on Islam & The West: Prince Hassan of Jordan, Queen Noor of Jordan. - Global Council on Awakening Arts & Entertainment: Bono, Peter Gabriel, Steven Spielberg, Michael Douglas, Robert Redford. |
1998 |
| International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) Founders on photo website (1999 and on): John Alexander | Hal Puthoff | Russell Targ | Stephan Schwartz | Lyn Buchannan | Paul Smith | David Hathcock | Skip Atwater | Angela Thompson-Smith | Marcello Truzzi. |
1999 |
| Global Security Institute (GSI) Focused at nuclear disarmament. Sen. Alan Cranston (founder) | Kim Cranston (chair since 2000; daughter of Alan) | Jonathan Granoff (president). More board members: Jane Goodall | Gorbachev | David Hamburg | Ambassador Thomas Graham, Jr. (nuclear treaty expert) | Ambassador Robert Grey, Jr. |
1999 |
| Initiative for Policy Dialogue Joseph Stiglitz (founder, still co-president anno 2024) | Jose Antonio Ocampo (anno '10 (co-president), still anno 23; major UN figure and Colombian finance minister 2022-2023) | Martin Guzman (co-president anno '23; Argentinian economics minister 2019 - 2022) | . policydialogue.org/about/ (accesssed: Jan. 1, 2024): "Founded in July 2000 by Nobel Laureate Joseph [S.]..."; policydialogue.org/about/funders/ (accesssed: Jan. 1, 2024): "[Japanese, Swedish and U.S. government] ... Mott [Fdn.] ... Open Society Institute [at] soros.org ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund ... Ford [Fdn.] ... MacArthur [Fdn.] ... Hewlett [Fdn.] ... UNDP ... UNICEF ..." |
2000 |
| Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders Maurice Strong (financial backer who played an important role in organizing the summit) | Ted Turner (honorary chair; his UN Foundation provided $600,000 for the event). Brought together representatives of the "Baha'i Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shintoism, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism, as well as indigenous religions from nearly every continent." |
2000 |
| Fluoride Action Network (FAN) Edward Goldsmith (founding member) | John Stauber (advisory board) | Dr. Mercola (donor). |
2000 |
| Institute for Media, Peace and Security (IMPS) of the Council of the University for Peace (UPEACE) Maurice Strong (founding ex officio president) |
2000 |
| Linux Foundation Formally founded in 2007. Donors/members from the start: Intel | AMD | Google | Adobe | Dell | HP | IBM | Novel | Nec | Oracle | Redhat | Sun Microsystems | Texas Instruments | Cisco | Motorola | Nokia | Fujitsu | Hitachi | Mitsubishi | Toshiba. |
2000 |
| Shadow Conventions 1st convention: George Soros (background-organizer; financed 1/3 of the costs) | Arianna Huffington (organizer) | Hamilton Fish V (organizer) | Sen. John McCain (opening speaker and one of the few mainstream ones) | Congressman Tom Campbell (opening speaker) | Ethan Nadelmann |
2000 |
| Committee for a World Parliament (COPAM), Paris Founded to build support for a world parliament under UN banner. Appears to have been largely sidelined due to 9/11 and the War on Terror, but in 2009 COPAM joined the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (CEUNPA). Board: Olivier Giscard d'Estaing (founding president and chair anno '09). Honorary board: Raymond Barre | Georges Berthoin | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Otto von Habsburg | Michel Rocard | Jacques Delors | Dries van Agt | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Felipe Gonzalez (former President of Spain) | Mario Soares (former President of Portugal) | Gaston Thorn (former PM of Luxemburg) | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Sir Peter Sutherland | Lord Judd (chair Oxfam) | Ernst Ulrich von Weizsacker | Shimon Peres | Leah Rabin (d. 2000) | Nelson Mandela | Sonia Gandhi | Prince Hassan of Jordan. Source(s): parlementmondial.com /index.en.htm: "Created at the beginning of the year 2000... President/Chairman: Olivier [GDE]..."; parlementmondial.com /en/comite.htm (accessed: Oct. 12, 2007): "Dernière mise à jour: 09/03/2005." |
2000 |
| United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Founded as the Millennium Development Goals (2000-2015), after which it continued as the SDG. Persons involved: King Felipe VI of Spain | Jeffrey Sachs ("special advisor" anno 2021, "Project Director of the SDG Index"). |
2000- |
| Earth Policy Institute Lester Brown (founder). Has received grants from the Earth Policy Inst. and Ted Turner Fdn. |
2001 |
| Acumen Fund Directors: Jacqueline Novogratz (founder and CEO; daughter of George) | Joseph Stiglitz (anno 2008) | Andrea Soros Colombel (anno 2020). Board of global advisors: Arianna Huffinton (anno 2020) | Chris Anderson (anno 2020) | Princess Noor Pahlavi (anno 2020; granddaughter Shah of Iran) | Per Heggenes (anno 2020; CEO Ikea Fdn.; deep into refugee NGOs). Seed funding from the Rock. Fdn and Cisco. Subsequent funding: Gates, Rock., Ford, Omidyar, Skoll, Metlife and Ikea foundations, as well as corporations as FB, Pfizer, Merrill Lynch, etc. |
2001 |
| We Are Family Foundation (WAFF) Nile Rodgers (founding chair 2002-2020s; black singer) | Nancy Hunt (president 2002-) | Susan Rockefeller (director 2014-2020s; wife for David Rock. Jr., son of David Rockefeller) | Robert Light (VP anno 2020) | Dr. Michael Levine (treasurer anno 2020; senior vice president for learning and impact at Nickelodeon) | Caryl Stern (exec. dir. Walton Fam. Fdn.). Board of governors: Tommy Hilfiger (anno '11) | Larry King (anno '03, '11; CNN) | Deepak Chopra (anno '11) . Awarded: Peter Gabriel | Sir Elton John | Maya Angelou ('05) | Quincy Jones ('06) | Deepak C. ('08) | Desmond Tutu ('09) | Pastor James Wuye and Imam Muhammad Ashafa ('10; co-founders Interfaith Mediation Centre - IMC Nigeria) | Jimmy Carter ('15 and '16) | Nelson Mandela ('17). Friends: Tyson Beckford | Carmen Electra | Faith Evans. Three Dot Dash program, a "globalist initiative" (2007-): Mentors: people from Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, AmeriCares, Palantir, UN Women, PepsiCo, BBC, CNN, Facebook, TED, NRDC, ADL, Acumen, Soapbox Fdn. / Feminist Camp, Obama Fdn., Ashoka Africa, Ahmed Flex Omar (from UAE; UBS, Am. Express, etc.; "One of his uncles is a cleric linked to Al Qaeda, while another uncle is a World Bank economist"; Muslim American "diversity" promoter), etc. Also Oprah's chief of staff. Kweku Mandela (mentor: "Three Dot Dash is ... my global family. ... I cannot count the valuable relationships I have formed and the doors that have opened.") Historic sponsors/partners: PBS, Nickelodeon, Disney Channel, Toys R Us, FedEx, Asia Soc., ADL, etc. |
2002 |
| OneVoice International interfaith group between Christians, Muslim and Jews. Founding announced at the HQ of George Soros. Funding from Ford Fdn., Google, Rock. Brothers Fund, etc. Founding advisory council: Fathi Arafat [younger brother of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat] | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Danny DeVito | James Zogby. Entertainment Council: Danny D. | Edward Norton | Brad Pitt | Jennifer Aniston | John Alexander | Annie Cusack | Nathalie Portman. The later Honorary Board of Advisors: Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (anno '14) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno '14) | Muhammad Ali (anno '14) | Sir Paul McCartney (anno '14) | Martin Indyk (anno '14) | Thomas Pickering (anno '14) | Brad P. (anno '14) | Natalie P. (anno '14) | Danny D. (anno '14) | Samer Khoury (anno '14) | Gen. Danny Rothschild (anno '14) | Klaus Schwab (anno '14) | Abraham Sofaer (anno '14). Trustees advisory council: Craig Newmark (anno '14). Source(s): 2014 annual report, OneVoice, p. 18. |
2002 |
| Coalition for Freedom of Information (CFI) John Podesta and Leslie Kean (co-founder) | Stephen Bassett (involved) |
2002 |
| B612 Foundation Wants to build a space vehicle to protect the earth against asteroids. Strategic advisors anno 2014: Lord Martin Rees | Richard Bingham (trustee Kuhn Loeb and Lehman Brothers) | Freeman Dyson | Philip Lader |
2002 |
| Children's Investment Fund Foundation Trustees: Lord Mark Malloch-Brown (2011-2016; interim chairman in early 2016) | Ben Goldsmith (son of Sir James, the elite MI6 asset; married to Kate Rothschild 2003-2012; his older brother, MP Zac, who married Alice Miranda Rothschild in 2013, was a pusher of the Carl Beech "pedocracy" disinformation; Teddy is his uncle) | Masroor Siddiqui (director News Corp.; GS banker). |
2002 |
| The Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute / Dialogue of Civilizations Founded in the aftermath of the "UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity" and the UN's General Assembly ratifying the "Global Agenda for Dialogue Among Civilizations". In relation to this group, check the U.N.'s Alliance of Civilizations. Key founders: Jagdish Kapur (1920-2010) | Nicholas Papanicolaou | Vladimir Yakunin (chair). Conference attendants / board: Richard Falk (2016) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2016) | Czech president Milos Zeman (2016; regular visitor) | Vaclav Klaus (2016, 2017; supervisory board anno 2019) | Dominique de Villepin (2017) | Joschka Fischer (2018) | Ehud Olmert (2018) | Wang Huiyao (supervisory board anno 2019 and 2019 penalist) | Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis (supervisory board anno 2019). |
2002 |
| Oriental Environmental Institute (OEI) Maurice Strong (honorary chair) |
2002 |
| Breakthrough Institute (BI) Environmental research center. Trustees: Rachel Pritzker (chair anno 2020; granddaughter of Bob (1926–2011), and a daughter of Linda (b. 1953)) | Stewart Brand (anno 2020) | Ross Koningstein (anno 2020; director Google) | Reihan Salam. (anno 2020; executive editor National Review). Listed funders (2020): Pritzker Innovation Fund | Hewlett Fdn. |
2003 |
| Institute for Global Development (IGD) Robert Mosbacher Jr. (board chair). Leadership council (per Oct. 5, 2011): Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell (long-time co-chairs) | Sen. Daniel Evans | William Gates Sr. (father of Bill Jr.) | Chuck Hagel | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Walter Isaacson | Charles Kolb | Jim Kolbe | Mark Malloch Brown | Harold McGraw III | Robert M. Jr. | Anna Roosevelt (Boeing) | William Ruckelshaus | Sheryl Sandberg | Ted Turner | John Whitehead | James Wolfensohn. Directors ('08): Gen. John M. Shalikashvil | William G. Sr. | William R. Members-at-large: Thomas Pickering | Robert Shapiro (former chair and CEO Monsanto). Financiers: Rock. Fdn. (official advisor too), RBF, Hewlett Fdn., Gates Fdn., Nike Fdn., UN Fdn., GMF, Boeing, Cargill, etc. |
2003 |
| Post-Carbon Institute (PCI) Low level, but tied to the peak oil pish in conspiracy circles of the 2000s. Richard Heinberg (co-founder; by 2006: fellow; 2021: "board secretary" and "senior fellow-in-residence"; prominent peak oil author of the 2000s) | Julian Darley (co-founder and creator of the original 2003 website; by 2006: fellow; co-author of Heinberg on peak oil) | Colin Campbell (by 2006: fellow: "Colin J. Campbell is the founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO), and is a Trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC)... served in executive positions with Shenandoah Oil, Amoco, Fina and was Chairman of the Nordic American Oil Company."; very prominent peak oil author of the 2000s) | Tom Whipple (2021: "fellow, peak oil ... A retired 30-year CIA analyst who has been following the peak oil story since 1999, Tom is the editor of the daily Peak Oil News and the weekly Peak Oil Review, both published at Peak-Oil.org.") | William E. Rees (co-founder, director by 2006, fellow 2000s-2020s; full member CoR since the mid 2010s). Anno 2021 the PCI prominently discusses the CoR's 1972 Limits to Growth report. postcarbon.org (accessed: Oct. 18, 2003): "PRESENTATION: 'US Natural Gas: When Crunch Becomes Crisis' by Julian Darley, from June 17th, 2003, at CSIS... Washington DC. ... If you would like to see, hear and read interviews with world authorities on global oil peak & North American petroleum peak (gas & oil), please visit GlobalPublicMedia.com." globalpublicmedia.com: "6 May, 2003: 'Oil Peak? What Now?' ... Richard Heinberg of New College, California... - Julian Darley, journalist and environmental philosopher, Executive Director of GlobalPublicMedia.com. ... Bill Rees, UBC Professor and Author of Our Ecological Footprint." postcarbon.org/about/supporters (accessed: Oct. 7, 2006): "Wallace Global Fund ... JMG Foundation ... Tides Foundation..." |
2003 |
| International Environmental Forums, China Early speakers: Maurice Strong | Lester Brown | Dennis Hayes (Earth Day) | Allen Brewster (Yale School of Forest and Environment) |
2004 |
| American Renewable Energy Day conferences, Aspen, Colorado Speakers: T. Boone Pickens ('10, '11, '13, '16) | Ted Turner ('10, '11, '13) | Edgar Bronfman Jr. ('13) | Jimmy Carter ('14) | Kevin Rudd ('15) | Jeffrey Sachs ('16, '17) | Rev. Jesse Jackson ('13) | Tom Steyer ('19; 2020 presidential candidate) | James Cameron ('10, '11) | Thomas Friedman ('10, '12, '15; columnist NYT) | Tim Wirth ('11, '15, '16, '18, '19) | Laura Turner Seydel ('15) | John Rutherford Seydel II ('13, '15) | John R. Seydel ('15, '16) | Amory Lovins ('15; chief scientist Rocky Mountain Inst.) | Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ('16; president of Iceland) | Michael Brune ('16, '17; executive director of Sierra Club) | Inger Andersen ('16; director general IUCN) | Paul Watson ('18, '19; founder Sea Shepherd society) | Lester Brown ('11, '12, '13, '16, '17) | Gov. Bill Ritter ('11, '12, '13, '15, '16, '18) | John Perry Barlow ('11) | Mariel Hemingway ('12) | Pat Mitchell Seydel ('17) | | Adm. Dennis McGinn ('12) | Bryan Welch (publisher Mother Earth News '13) | Leilani Munter ('16; Carbon Free Girl). Sponsors: Rocky Mountain Inst. UN Fdn., etc. Organizer, which was built around the conferences around 2016 (certainly the website): American Renewable Energy Institute (AREI): trustees: Chip Comins (chair and CEO anno 2020; founder conferences) | Gen. Wesley Clark (anno 2020; '11, '12, '13, '16, '17, '18, '19 conferences) | Trammell S. Crow (anno 2020; '15, '16, '17, '18, '19 conferences). June 18, 2018, Aspen Times, 'American Renewable Energy Day Summit kicks off in Snowmass Village': "What do block chain technology, the Black Lives Matter movement and renewable energy have in common? They each relate to climate change, according to American Renewable Energy Day Summit founder Chip Comins..." |
2004 |
| Where on Earth are We Going? Symposiums The first small group of panel members included Maurice Strong (after whose book the name has been inspired), Lester Brown and Steven Rockefeller. The men kept involved over the years. |
2004 |
| World Future Council (WFC) Offices in Hamburg, London, Geneva and Windhoek (Namibia). Bianca Jagger (chair 2007-2009; former wife of Mick Jagger). Councillors: Dr. Auma Obama (half-sister of Barack Obama) | Prince El Hassan Bin Talal. Honorary Councillors: Walter Cronkite (d. 2009) | Olivier Giscard d'Estaing | Jane Goodall | Ernst von Weizsacker. |
2004 |
| United Nations' Millennium Villages Project (MVP) Launched by Jeffrey Sachs through his Earth Inst., with Earth Inst. advisor George Soros donating $50 million in 2006. By 2011 it had built 80 Millennium Villages in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda, inhabited by about half a million people. Its use of GM seeds is among the criticism on the project. Source(s): September 13, 2006, BBC, 'Soros donates $50m to help Africa'. |
2004 |
| Brenthurst Foundation, South Africa Oppenheimer family (founders) |
2005 |
| World Sustainable Development Forum Patrons: Jeffrey Sachs (anno '08, '12) | Kofi Annan (anno '08, '12) | Lord John Browne (anno '08) | Jeffrey Immelt (anno '08, '12) | Jens Stoltenberg (anno '08, '11; ex-PM Norway) | Olafur Ragnar Grimsson ('08; ex-president Iceland 1996-2016) | Maumoon Abdul Gayoom ('08; ex-president Maldives 1978-2008) | Jose Antonio Ocampo ('08) | George Soros ('12) | Shoichiro Toyoda ('12; hon. chair Toyota) | Arnold Schwarzenegger ('21) | Danilo Turk ('21) | Hamid Karzai ('21) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('21) | Kevin Rudd ('21) | Lawrence Gonzi ('21; ex-PM Malta) | ('21; ex-president Chile) | Yukio Hatoyama ('21; ex-PM Japan). |
2005 |
| MUSE School, Calabasas, Los Angeles / MUSE Global First school to be 100% solar powered, with zero waste and with a 100% organic food. The Camerons turned vegan in 2012 after watching the documentary Forks Over Knives, which blames overweight, diabetes, cancer and just about every other disease on eating meat (an old game: for many decades elites have thrown meat in with sugar and overlooked rancid vegetable oil and artificial sweeteners and such). Since 2015 the MUSE school has become fully vegan. MUSE Global was launched in 2018 to promote veganism worldwide. Its first franchised school was opened in San Francisco in 2019. Founders: Suzy Amis Cameron (president and advisory board chair; wife of James Cameron;) | Rebecca Amis. Directors: Dr. Dean Ornish. December 13, 2018, Plantbasednews.org, 'James Cameron's Company Joins $140 Million Drive To Create Vegan Protein'. June 17, 2019, livekindly.co, 'James Cameron and Peter Jackson to Build Vegan Meat Factories In New Zealand'. June 19, 2020, plantbasednews.org, 'Vegan James Cameron Says: 'We Need A Meatless World In 20 Years'': ""What we see is that the rivers and the lakes are extremely polluted here [in New Zealand because of meat-eating..." ... Cameron said there are 'a lot of problems with meat' - citing the amount of land and other resources required for its production. ... "[Animal agriculture] is the second largest sector for greenhouse gas emissions next to electrical generation. And it puts it in front of all of transportation combined - so all ships, all planes, all automobiles." |
2006 |
| Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) Strive Masiyiwa (chair) | Kofi Annan (chair emeritus) | Akinwumi Adesina (vice president of policy and partnerships). Founded by the Rockefeller Fdn. and Gates Fdn. |
2006 |
| Panthera Corporation Actually a conservation NGO. Directors: Thomas Kaplan (anno '22) | Gen. Sir Graeme Lamb (anno '22; Aegis Defence Services) | Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al-Saud (anno '22). Conservation Council: Jane Alexander (anno '22) | David Petraeus (anno '22) | Wendi Deng Murdoch (anno '22; ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch) | Dr. John Mitchell (anno '22) | Jonathan Powell (anno '22) | Arnaud de Puyfontaine (anno '22) | Jacqui Safra (anno '22; nephew of Edmond Safra) | Daisy Soros (anno '22; married to Paul Soros, George Soros' brother) | Col. Timothy Spicer (anno '22) | Michael Steinhardt (anno '22) | Princess Reema Bandar Al Saud (anno '22; daughter of Prince Bandar bin Sultan) | Baron Lorne Thyssen-Bornemisza (anno '22) | Shania Twain (anno '22). |
2006 |
| Cool Earth British anti-global warming NGO. Advisory board: Dr. John Chipman (founding Jul. '07-) | William Cohen (founding Jul. '07-) | Maurice Greenberg (founding Jul. '07-) | Olafur Ragnar Grimsson (founding Jul. '07-) | Michael Howard (founding Jul. '07-) | Sir Martin Sorrell (founding Jul. '07-) | Lord Nicholas Stern (founding Jul. '07-) | Michael Ancram / 13th Marquess of Lothian (founding Jul. '07-) | Dr. John Hemming (founding Jul. '07-) | Sheikh Mubarak Fahad al Salem Al-Sabah of Kuwait (anno Sep. '07-) | Theodore Forstmann (anno Nov. '07-). Available on the site with the same make-up until at least June 2012. However, by 2010 the 'About' section had disappeared from the site, and in later years only a 'Team' and eventually 'Trustee' section was availble, not listing any advisory board. "Business partners": Rothschild & Co. ('anno '21), Brother (anno '09, '21; printers) and smaller companies. Patrons/donors: Tony Blair (founding '07-, '09) | Morgan Stanley ('07-, '09) | Ricky Gervais (founding '07-) | Alamy (anno '09) | Vivienne Westwood (announced she would donate 1 million pounds in 2011; one of two listed donors anno 2021) | Pamela Anderson (auctioned her engagement ring to Cool Earth in '15). Source(s): coolearth.org/295/ coolearth-31/who-we-are-153/advisory-board-319.html (accessed: Nov. 13, 2007); etc. |
2007 |
| Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) Co-creators who lobbied the Pentagon to create it: Robert Bigelow | Sen. Harry Reid | Sen. Daniel Inouye | Sen. Ted Stevens. |
2007-2012 |
| Kofi Annan Foundation Board: Kofi Annan (founder and chair 2008-2018) | Nane Annan (2019-; wife and widow of Kofi 1984-2018; niece of Raoul Wallenberg). |
2007 |
| Ethical Humanitarian Foundation (EHF) Founders: Keith Raniere, with Clare and Sara Bronfman (daughters of Edgar, Sr., who publicly began to oppose this network in 2003). In 2008 this group founded the World Ethical Foundations Consortium: Dalai Lama (guest of honor at 2009 conference). Official endorsements on site: Desmond Tutu | Richard Branson. Listed VIP participants: Agapi Stassinopoulos (the sister of Arianna Huffington) | Abigail Disney (granddaughter and grandniece of Walt Disney founders; major white guilt financier/pusher) | Emiliano Salinas and Cecilia Salinas Occelli (son and wife of Mexican president Carlos Salinas) | Richard Mays (top black Democrat Party member) This is the same network of what turned out to be the NXIVM cult, where we could addionally find: Pamela Cafritz (daughter of the liberal elite-connected couple Bill and Buffy Cafritz), Enron CEO Stephen Cooper, and Sheila Johnston, wife of key Black Entertainment Television (BET) founder Robert Johnson - the richest black person in the U.S. |
2007 |
| European Climate Foundation Advisory board: Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
2008 |
| Tony Blair Faith Foundation Tony Blair (founder) | Ed Husain (senior advisor). International Religious Advisory Council: representatives of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism. Financiers: Victor Pinchuk ($500,000) | Haim Saban ($650,000). |
2008 |
| Breaking the Climate Deadlock Tony Blair (founder). Financiers: Oleg Deripaska |
2008 |
| Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) Founded as the Revenue Watch Institute in 2008 as a joint project of OSI (Soros), the main funder; the Hewlett Fdn. and the Norwegian government. Changed names in 2013. Smita Singh (interim chair anno 2020; founding director Hewlett Fdn.'s Global Development Program) | Paul Collier (director anno 2020) | Anya Schiffrin (advisory council anno 2020; wife of Joseph Stiglitz). |
2008 |
| Khan Academy Board (anno 2020): Sal Khan (founder and CEO) | Ann Doerr (chair; wife of John) | Larry Cohen (MS veteran) | James Manyika. Global advisory board (anno 2020): John Doerr | Bill Gates | Craig McCaw and Susan | Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Steve Jobs) | Eric Schmidt | David Siegel | Carlos Slim | Ratan Tata. Thought Leadership Council: Thomas Friedman | Walter Isaacson | Fareed Zakaria | David Coleman. khanacademy.org/about/our-supporters (accessed: January 1, 2021): "Lifetime giving: $10,000,000 and above: Bank of America ... Comcast ... Ann and John Doerr ... Gates Foundation. Google [$2 mln in 2010 alone]. ... $1,000,000 to $4,999,999: AT∓T. The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation. ... Walt Disney ... Reed Hastings ... Craig and Susan McCaw Foundation. Omidyar Network. Oracle. ... Eric and Wendy Schmidt ... Skoll Foundation..." Salary of Sal Kahn: $824,000 annually in 2018. Salary of COO Ginny Lee: $700,000 annually in 2018. |
2008 |
| Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Advisory board: Lord Nicholas Stern (anno '21; founding chair of the institute 2008, still anno '21) | Lord Martin Rees | Jennifer Morgan (co-exec. director Greenpeace) | Carter Roberts (president and CEO WWF). |
2008 |
| Meat Free Monday campaign Founder: Paul McCartney. Listed supporters over the years: Sir Richard Branson and son | Zac Goldsmith ('11; tied into MI6 and the Rothschild family, together with his brother and father) | David de Rothschild ('11) | Avery Agnelli ('11; widow of Giovanni) | Kate Bosworth ('11) | Woody Harrelson ('11, '21) | Kevin Spacey ('11) | Bryan Adams ('11) | Alec Baldwin ('11) | Sheryl Crow ('11) | Ricky Gervais ('11) | Yoko Ono ('11) | Moby ('11) | Kelly Osbourne ('11) | Gwyneth Paltrow ('11, '21) | Jeff Koons ('11) | Sir Crispin Tickell ('13) | Gillian Anderson ('13) | Leona Lewis ('14) | Vivienne Westwood ('14, '21) | Jamie Oliver ('14, '21) | Emma Thompson | Ringo Starr ('21) | Alicia Silverstone ('21) | Tom Hanks ('21) | Rita Wilson ('21). More: Lord Nicholas Stern (not a listed supporter, but repeatedly praised by MFM for his promotion of vegetarianism to combat climate change, which he prominently did in The Times in Oct. 2009, at the time MFM was set up) Source(s): meatfreemondays.com/supporters (accessed: Nov. 6, 2011), etc. |
2009 |
| Carbon War Room Absorbed by the Rocky Mountain Institute in later years. Founders: Richard Branson | Boudewijn Poelmann | Strive Masiyiwa (Rock. Fdn.) | Mark Shuttleworth (founder Linux Ubuntu). Jose Maria Figueres (chair 2009-) | |
2009 |
| Africa Governance Initiative Tony Blair (founder). Financiers: Bill Gates | Paolo Pellegrini | Swedish Postcode Foundation |
2009 |
| Chopra Foundation Speakers: Gen. Wesley Clark | Amit Goswami |
2009 |
| Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) Board: Thor Halvorssen (founder). Patrons: Sergey Brin | Peter Thiel. Speakers/participants: Elie Wiesel ('09) | Vaclav Havel ('09) | Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York ('09: listed as a speaker, but apparently canceled) | Akhmed Zakayev ('09; former PM of Chechnya) | Lech Walesa ('10; president Poland) | Jimmy Wales ('10, '12; founder Wikipedia) | Julian Assange ('10; founder Wikileaks) | Peter Thiel ('10****, reportedly also '17; financier) | Garry Kasparov ('10, '18) | Jan Egeland ('11) | Ethan Nadelmann ('12) | Pyotr Verzilov ('12; Pussy Riot) | Nadezhda Tolokonnikova ('14; Pussy Riot) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky ('14****) | Stewart Baker ('14; former general counsel NSA) | Steven Pinker ('14, '17) | Viktor Yushchenko ('15) | Zineb El Rhazoui ('16; Charlie Hebdo columnist) | Erna Solberg ('17; PM Norway) | Anne Applebaum ('17) | Zhanna Nemtsova ('17; daughter of murdered Russian journalist Boris Nemtsov) | Anders Aslund ('18) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves ('18; president Estonia 2006-2016) | Yevgeni Kiselev ('18) | Rick Doblin ('18) | Jack Dorsey ('20) | Alexei Navalny ('21: listed as planned "theater speaker", but locked up in Russia) | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ('21: listed as planned "theater speaker"; leader democratic Belarus) | Hatice Cengiz ('21: listed as planned "theater speaker"; fiancee of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi) | Leopoldo Lopez ('21: listed as planned "theater speaker"; Venezuelan opposition leader) | Agnes Callamard ('21: listed as planned "theater speaker"; sec.-gen. Amnesty Int.). Generally lots of Middle Eastern and African refugees and opponents of undemocratic regimes. More: Amber Lyon (present at the '11; source: 2010-2011 annual report, The Instiutute for Global Leadership, p. 116) | Sara Bronfman (listed as a participant for '09 on Wikipedia, likely added by an insider - however, no source; daughter of Edgar Sr.; key funder NXIVM cult 2001-2019). Source(s): oslofreedomforum.com/speakers/ (accessed: Sep. 18, 2021): lists all speakers per year. ****Not listed on normal speaker lists anymore (Thiel was in 2011). However, their speeches can be seen on the YT channel of "Oslo Freedom Forum". Funding: oslofreedomforum.com/about.html (accessed: Oct. 24, 2011): "The Freedom Forum has garnered support from Amnesty International Norway, Civita, the City of Oslo, Color Line, the Nobel Peace Center, Reporters Without Borders, Freedom House, Human Rights Action Center, the Freedom of Expression Foundation, the International Society for Human Rights, the John Templeton Foundation, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee, the Thiel Foundation, the University of Oslo, and other internationally respected bodies and individuals." |
2009 |
| One Young World Corporate-financed. Counsellors (also annual summit participants): Bill Clinton | John Kerry | Justin Trudeau | Kofi Annan | Desmond Tutu | Muhammad Yunus | Mary Robinson (former president of Ireland) | Sir Richard Branson | Jimmy Wales | Arianna Huffington | Lauren Bush (granddaughter of George H. W.) | Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) | Jean-Paul Agon (chair and CEO of L'Oreal) | Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway | Crown Prince Haakon of Norway | Jan Peter Balkenende (former Dutch PM) | Mayor Pauline Krikke (mayor of The Hague) | Eberhard von Koerber (co-president Club/Rome) | Kathy Calvin (president and CEO UN Fdn.) | Nick Haysom (UN Director of Political Affairs) | Lord Michael Hastings | Ken Costa (Lazard Int. chair) | Kenneth Roth (exec. director Human Rights Watch) | Mike Davis (Asia director Global Witness) | Carolyn Everson (Facebook/Instagram VP) | Kal Penn (Actor and Ex-Associate Director at the White House Office) | Paul Polman (CEO Unilever) | Carl-Henric Svanberg (BP & Volvo chair) | Harley Finkelstein (COO Shopify). Non-western Counsellors: Vicente Fox (president of Mexico) | Jorge Quiroga (president of Bolivia 2001-2002) | Vinicio Cerezo (president of Guatemala 1986-91) | President Santos (president of Colombia) | Alvaro Uribe (former president of Colombia) | Oscar Morales (founder One Million Voices Against FARC) | Ahmed Kathrada (South African politician) | Fatima Bhutto | Maajid Nawaz (Muslim; founder Quilliam Foundation) | Tawakkol Karman (Muslim). Celebrity counsellors: Nadya Tolokonnikova (Pussy Riot) | Meghan Markle | Emma Watson | Cher | Bob Geldof | Jamie Oliver | Natalia Vodianova | Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden) | Boris Becker | Roger Federer | Clarence Seedorf | Joss Stone | Doutzen Kroes | Nargis Fakhri | Wyclef Jean. |
2009 |
| Decade of Vaccines Collaboration / Global Vaccine Action Plan December 2, 2010, who.int, 'Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration': "The Leadership Council is comprised of: Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO; Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of NIAID [and future US Corona crisis chief]; [1993-1997 U.S. National Security Advisor] Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director for UNICEF; Ms. Joy Phumaphi, [chair] African Leaders Malaria Alliance; Dr. Tachi Yamada, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn]. ... The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines." dovcollaboration.org (accessed: March 14, 2016): "At the end of December 2012, the DoV Collaboration finalized [and transitioned into] the development of the GVAP [i.e. the Bill Gates-, WHO- and World Bank-funded Global Vaccine Action Plan]" |
2010 |
| The Guardian's Global Development Advisory Panel Anno 2010: Bono (U2) | Paul Collier | Mark Malloch-Brown | Jeffrey Sachs | Mark Weisbrot | Ethan Zuckerman (researcher Berkman Center) | many African and Indian names. This newspaper is funded by the Ford and Rockefeller fdns. |
2010-2010? |
| Mary Robinson Foundation - Climate Justice (MRFCJ) Trustees: Mary Robinson (chair; first female president of Ireland 1990-1997). International advisory council (for both 2012 and 2019): Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Richard Branson | Gro Harlem Brundtland (female PM of Norway) | Ray Chambers | Sir Gordon Conway | Al Gore | HH Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al-Missned of Qatar | Judith Rodin | Vartan Gregorian | Mitchell Kapor | Jeffrey Sachs | Jane Wales | Tim Wirth. Funding: Oak Foundation, Rock., Kapor, Skoll, Packard and Tides foundations; RBF, Virgin Unite, Wallace Global Fund. |
2010 |
| Avoided Deforestation Partners (ADP) Participants of the Rio+20 High Level Forestry Event, June 21, 2014 at the Windsor Barra Hotel in Rio de Janeiro: Jane Goodall | Sir Richard Branson | Ted Turner | The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) | Ban Ki-moon (planned) | Mary Robinson | Paul Polman | Muhtar Kent | Edward Norton | Lord Nicholas Stern. Remaining listed partners: Barack Obama | Bill Clinton and wife Hillary | Jens Stoltenberg (PM Norway) | Al Gore | George Soros | Robert Zoellick | Thomas Friedman | Jim Rogers (CEO Duke Energy) | Frances Beinecke | Bianca Jagger (married to Mick Jagger 1971-1978 and one daughter, Jade, with him; they have remained friends). Listed "Honored Speakers and Supporters": Thomas Lovejoy | Maurice Strong | Tim Wirth | John Holdren | Stuart Eizenstat | Sen. Patrick Leahy | Sen. Richard Lugar | Rob Walton (chair Walmart). |
2010 |
| WIE Symposium / WIE Suite Feminist network. Participants: Queen Rania of Jordan | Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates) | Arianna Huffington | Diane von Furstenberg | Nancy Pelosi | Jill Biden (wife of Joe Biden) | Naomi Campbell | Tyra Banks | Mellody Hobson | Katia Beauchamp | Lauren Bush | Rosario Dawson | Christy Turlington. |
2010 |
| Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN) Board overlaps with the Earth Law Center, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal, the Wild Law Institute, Movement Rights, Indigenous Environmental Network, NatureRights, the End Ecocide movement, the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network,etc. therightsofnature.org/founding-meeting/ (accessed: Nov. 28, 2020): "In September 2010, a groundbreaking International Gathering for Rights of Nature met in Patate, Ecuador. ... They recognized the unique opportunity to further galvanize the momentum of Ecuador's recent adoption of Rights of Nature in its Constitution, the Universal Declaration of Rights of Mother Earth from the People's Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia [on April 22, 2010]..." |
2010 |
| High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing Gordon Brown (co-chair) | Jens Stoltenberg | Larry Summers | George Soros | Nicholas Stern | Zhu Guangyao (assistent finance minister China). Also represented: Deutsche Bank, Bank of France, etc. |
2010 |
| Climate Reality Project Born out of 2011 merger of the Alliance for Climate Protection and the Climate Project, both founded in 2006. Board: Al Gore (founder and chair anno '22) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (anno '22, secretary at one point) |
2011 |
| Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES) Directors: Theodore Roosevelt IV (founding chair, into the 2020s) | Trammell S. Crow (son of Trammell Crow). Business Environmental Leadership Council (2020): Amazon, Apple, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Honda, GM, Toyota, Berkshire Hathaway Energy, Alcoa, BHP, BP, Duke Energy, PG&G, etc. |
2011 |
| Ocean Elders Elders council: Ted Turner (key founder 2011-) | Sir Richard Branson (key founder 2011-) | Jean-Michel Cousteau (co-founder 2011-; son of the famous explorer) | Neil Young (co-founder 2011-) | Queen Noor of Jordan (listed with a few weeks delay, from Oct. 2011-) | Prince Albert II of Monaco (2013-) | James Cameron (2013-) | Jose Maria Figueres (2014-) | Jane Goodall (2017-) | Bob Weir (2018-). Source(s): oceanelders.org (accessed: Sep. 14, 2011 - Oct. 27, 2017); oceanelders.org/ocean-elders/ (accessed: Jan. 23, 2018). |
2011 |
| The B Team Fights global warming, etc. Founding team: Sir Richard Branson (key founder; co-chair) | Kathy Calvin (president and CEO UN Fdn.) | Arianna Huffington | Francois-Henri Pinault | Paul Polman (CEO of Unilever) | Muhammad Yunus | Ajay Banga | Mary Robinson | Ratan Tata | Zhang Yue (chair and founder Broad Group China) . Funding: Ford Fdn., Luminate/Omidyar, OSF, Hewlett Fdn. |
2011 |
| Council on Strategic Risks (CSR) The Center for Climate and Security (CCS) was founded in 2011. In 2018 the CSR was created as an overseeing structure. The directors overlap to a large degree, with most being little more than research fellows and mid-level managers at more leading think tanks. The DOD presence is very dominant. Directors CSR: Sherri Goodman (chair 2018-; senior strategist CCS 2017-) | Caitlin Werrell (CEO; co-founder and president CCS; director IMCCS; wrote the article 'The Arab Awakening in a Changing Climate' for the Earth Journalism Network in 2013) | Christine Parthemore (founding director; CEO 2020-) | Alice Hill | John Conger | Andy Weber (expert; advisory council CCS; exec. director David Rock. Fund, which co-financed the CCS). Advisory council: Gen. John Adams. Projects: - Converging Risks Lab and its Climate-Nuclear-Security Project (CNSP). - The Janne E. Nolan Center on Strategic Weapons: Adm. Kenneth Bernard (advisor). - Center for Climate and Security (founded 2011): David Michel (senior research fellow) | Gen. Charles Wald (advisory board). - Planetary Security Initiative (ran through CCS 2016-2019 in coordination with Dutch NGOs; organized conferences in 2016, 2017, 2019). - International Military Council on Climate and Security (founded 2019 in The Hague with Dutch NGOs). |
2011 |
| Global Citizen Directors: Arianna Huffington (2016-) | Chris Anderson (Anno 2016, 2020) | Sean Parker (anno 2020). Funding: Gates, Packared, Hewlett and Caterpillar foundations; and various corporations as MSNBC, Johnson & Johnson, Comcast NBCUniversal and the music industry. |
2012 |
| Four Freedoms Park Conservancy / FDR Four Freedoms Park Known park opening attendees: William vanden Heuvel (key fundraiser who raised $56 mln) | Henry Kissinger | Bill Clinton | Michael Bloomberg | Mario Cuemo | Funding: fdr4freedoms.org/acknowledgments/: "fdr4freedoms is made possible by the generous financial support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. ... Park benefactors include: ... Rockefeller Brothers Fund — David Rockefeller — Felix and Elizabeth Rohatyn [Felix Rohatyn] ... John C. Whitehead [John Whitehead] — Elaine and Jim Wolfensohn [James Wolfensohn]... William [and] Katrina vanden Heuvel ... Starr [Fdn.] ... Sir Evelyn and Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Eranda Foundation ... William Randolph Hearst [Fdn.] ... Achelis Foundation, Walter J.P. Curley ... J.M. Kaplan Fund ... Heineken, Royal DSM & TNT Express [from the Netherlands] ... George Stavros Livanos ... Jerry Speyer ... — Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund [niece of Laurence Tisch]..." Source(s): Oct. 17, 2012, N.Y. Times, 'Dedicating Park to Roosevelt and His View of Freedom'. |
2012 |
| Sustainable Development Solutions Network Founding Leadership Council: Jeffrey Sachs (still anno 2021) | Ted Turner (still anno 2021) | Paul Polman (still anno 2021) | Carl-Henric Svanberg (chair BP and Volvo) ) | Hans Vestberg (still anno 2021; president and CEO Ericsson) | Josette Sheeran | Prince Albert II of Monaco | Peter Bakker (still anno 2021) | Frances Beinecke | Paul Collier | Christiana Figueres | Jose María Figueres | George Papandreou (still anno 2021). Later added Leadership Council members: Shaukat Aziz (anno 2019-2021) | Jan Egeland (anno 2019-2021) | Tarja Halonen (anno 2019-2021) | Michelle Nunn (anno 2019-2021). Source(s): unsdsn.org/leadership-council/ (accessed: Jan. 30, 2013); unsdsn.org/leadership-council/ (accessed: Feb. 2, 2019). |
2012 |
| Lesbians Who Tech + Allies 'Past Speakers' (as of May 26, 2021): Hillary Clinton | Sheryl Sandberg | Gloria Steinem | Marc Benioff | Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple's Steve Jobs). June 2021 Pride Summit announced speakers: Hillary C. | Sheryl S. | Kamala Harris | Elizabeth Warren | Melinda Gates (ex-wife of Bill Gates) | Nancy Pelosi | Mellody Hobson | Rosie O'Donnell | London Breed | Susan Wojcicki | Jen Wong (COO Reddit) | Mary Trump (wrote a book against her brother, President Donald Trump) | Bozoma Saint John (CMO Netflix) | Brooke Baldwin (anchor CNN) | Megan Rapinoe. Sponsors: Amazon, Google, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Facebook, Wells Fargo, PayPal, LinkedIn, Apple, Cisco, Warner Media, Deloitte, eBay, BlackRock, Nike, Microsoft, JP Morgan, The Walt Disney Company, Pinterest, Adobe, Bloomberg, IKEA, Salesforce, Intel, Boston Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, Booz Allen Hamilton, Morgan Stanley, Spotify, PwC, Robin Hood Foundation, Vanguard, ActBlue, Western Digital, Merck |
2012 |
| Global Commission on the Economy and Climate Members: Lord Nicholas Stern (founding vice chair '13-, member anno'21; also founding chair of the Economic Advisory Panel) | Paul Polman (founding '13, '21) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire (anno '15, '21) | Felipe Calderon (founding chair '13, member anno '21) | Jens Stoltenberg ('13-, anno '15) | S. Gopalakrishnan (anno '14; president Conf. of Indian Industry) | Jamshyd Godrej (anno '21). |
2013 |
| Carbon War Room Richard Branson (founder) | Strive Masiyiwa (co-founder) |
2014 |
| World Ayahuasca Conference, Ibiza Co-financiers/organizers: ICEERS, RiverStyx Foundation, MAPS and Drug Policy Alliance (all Rockefeller/Soros-linked). Speaker: Rick Doblin | Dennis McKenna | Ethan Nadelmann | Joshua Wickerham | Adele van der Plas | Jeffrey Bronfman |
2014 |
| Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Steering committee: Gerard Mestrallet (co-chair). |
2015 |
| Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC) Founding members: Mark Zuckerberg | Bill Gates | Jeff Bezos | Meg Whitman (CEO HP) | Jack Ma (chair Alibaba). More founding or early members: HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia | Michael Bloomberg | Richard Branson | Aliko Dangote | George Soros |
2015 |
| Global Perspectives Founder: Mikhail Fridman (through his Level One business; initiated the new agy term "Indigo Economics", referring to "Indigo children" with special abilities, with the site being fully indigo-purple colored). Contributors: Carl Bildt | Dominic Barton | Michael Bloomberg | David Lipton | Ian Bremmer. global-perspectives.org.uk/volume-one/indigo-score/ (accessed: ): alternative to GDP. |
2016 |
| United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG) Listed "advocates": Muhammad Yunus (2016-, gone by 2019) | Forest Whitaker (2016-) | Sheikha Moza bint Nasser of Qatar (2016-) | Lionel Messi (pre-2019) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno 2019) | Paul Polman (anno 2019) | Jack Ma (anno 2019) | Erna Solberg (anno 2019) | Queen Mathilde of Belgium (anno 2019) | His Highness the Emir of Kano (anno 2019) | BlackPink Korea-pop group (2020-). |
2016 |
| Ban Ki Moon Centre for Global Citizens Headquartered in Austria. Board: Ban Ki-moon (founding co-chair 2017-) | Heinz Fischer (founding co-chair 2017-; president of Austria) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno 2021) | Jean Todt (anno 2021). |
2017 |
| Future Now Group that helps fund progressive, socialist, "centrist" political candidates. Founders: Jeffrey Sachs, Adam Pritzker and Sen. Daniel Squadron. Source(s): October 8, 2017, Buzzfeed, 'New Group Promises Real Money For Local Candidates...'; futurenowusa.org and futurenow.org. |
2017 |
| Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB) "Co-convenors": World Bank and WHO. Members: Gro Harlem Brundtland (co-chair anno 2021) | Sigrid Kaag (2018-; still listed as of Aug. '21 while Dutch foreign minister) | Anthony Fauci | Henrietta Fore (anno 2021; exec. dir. UNICEF). |
2017 |
| Imagine.one Mission: "Set up in 2019 to galvanise industry leaders around the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals." Founders: Paul Polman. "Mission board": Sir Richard Branson (anno '21) | Suzy Cameron (anno '21; wife of James Cameron) | Arianna Huffington (anno '21) | Mo Ibrahim (anno '21) | Susan Rockefeller (anno '21; wife of David Jr.; daughter-in-law David). "Circle of Alumni CEOs": Bill McNabb (anno '21) | Feike Sijbesma (anno '21). |
2019 |
| Bezos Earth Fund (BEF) Founded right after Jan. 2020 action from "Amazon Employees for Climate Justice" (i.e. "liberal CIA"). Founder: Jeff Bezos ($10 bln start-up fund). |
2020 |
| Bloomberg Green Festival (BGF) Speakers: Michael Bloomberg ('20) | Bill Gates ('20) | Lord Jacob Rothschild ('20) | Hannah Rothschild ('20; oldest daughter of Jacob) | Sundar Pichai ('20; CEO Google) | Gov. Jerry Brown ('20) | Jane Goodall ('20) | Prince Albert II of Monaco ('20) | Klaus Schwab ('20) | Matt Damon ('20) | Robert Redford ('20) | Sting ('20) | Eric Garcetti ('20; mayor LA) | Fred Krupp ('20; president Environmental Defense Fund) | Carl Pope ('20; former exec. dir. Sierra Club). Chief funders in 2020: Amazon, HP. Speakers for '20 also represented: Alliaz, BNP Paribas, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Nike, Philips, Unilever, Verizon. Additional groups represented in 2020: the European Commission (the president), the Black Economic Alliance, Hip Hop Caucus (founder and president Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.), Justice for Migrant Women, the National Congress of American Indians, WWF, The Nature Conservancy. |
2020 |
| LCV's Climate Power 2020 League of Conservation Voters (LCV): Theodore Roosevelt IV (honorary chair anno 2021). Climate Power 2020 advisory board: Dr. John Holdren (founding May 2020-; gone by May 2021) | John Kerry (founding May 2020-; gone by May 2021) | Samantha Power (founding May 2020-; gone by May 2021) | John Podesta (founding May 2020-, anno 2021) | Harry Reid (founding May 2020-, anno 2021). |
2020 |
| 'President Biden: You can be the Climate President'-letter Signers: Jeff Bezos | Hank Paulson | Pascal Lamy | John Podesta | Arianna Huffington | Kevin Rudd | David Miliband | Paul Polman | Ajay Banga | Mary Robinson | Gov. Jerry Brown | Mark Ruffalo | Jane Fonda | Leonardo DiCaprio | Natalie Portman | Piper Perabo | Bill Ford of Ford Motor Company | Laurene Powell Jobs (widow of Apple's Steve Jobs) | Andre Hoffmann (vice chair Roche) | Mo Ibrahim | Marc Benioff | Christiana Figueres. |
Jan. 25, 2021 |
| All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Pentagon (Managing) directors: Sean Kirkpatrick | Tim Phillips. |
2022 |
| Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA) Group tied in with the disinformative July 2023 congressional testimonies about UAPs/UFOs, as well as NIDS and To The Stars of antifa conspiracy disinformer Tom DeLonge. safeaerospace.org/#advisors (accessed: Jan. 22, 2024): "Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 with provisions to establish a secure system to collect information about UAP from witnesses. We know what it takes. Ryan Graves and several of our Aircrew Leadership Council including David Fravor and Alex Dietrich were the first Navy pilots to come forward to Congress [in July 2023] about UAP. Our advisor Chris Mellon has played a leading role in helping UAP witnesses come forward since 2017, and advisor Jay Stratton previously led the UAP Task Force. If you are aircrew or a military UAP witness and you want help coming forward, we can help. ... Aircrew Leadership Council [mainly former F/A-18 pilots]: - Alex Dietrich ... - David Fravor ... - Michael Greene: [also] ex AATIP analyst ... Advisory Board: Christopher Mellon ... - Garry Nolan: Professor @ Harvard, Pathology. Head of The Galileo Project. - Susan McCue: Founding President & CEO, The One Campaign. Ex Chief of Staff, [Sen.] Harry Reid. ... - Bryan Bender: VP Communications Strategy, SMI. Ex Defense Editor, Politico. - [Adm.] Tim Gallaudet: Ex Head of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA]. ... - Mike Gold: NASA UAP Independent Study Team member. Ex Associate Administrator for Space Policy and Partnerships, NASA. - Robin Hanson: Professor @ GMU, Economics. Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute of Oxford University. ... - Garry Nolan: Professor @ Stanford, Pathology. Founder, [UAP-focused] Sol Foundation. ... - David Radzanowski: Ex VP and CFO, The Aerospace Corporation. Ex CFO and Chief of Staff, NASA. - Ravi Starzl: Professor @ Carnegie Mellon, Computer Science. Phd, Machine Learning and AI. - Jay Stratton: Sr. Portfolio Advisor, Radiance Technologies. Former Director, UAP Task Force." |
Early 2023 |
The rent-a-skeptic network
| Committee for Scientific Inquiry and Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) Founding fellows: Paul Kurtz | Carl Sagan | Ray Hyman | James Randi (co-founder in 1976, but resigned in early 1990s during trial with Uri Geller and Eldon Byrd; tape played at trial of Randi sollicitating sex with underage boys, which appears to have only been reported in The Toronto Star; rejoined CSI as a fellow in 2010). More fellows: Phil Klass (premier UFO debunker for decades) | Kendrick Frazier (executive; editor Skeptical Enquirer; founder NMSR) | Phil Plait | Susan Blackmore | Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Elizabeth Loftus | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Murray Gell-Mann | Dave Thomas | Steve Novella | Massimo Pigliucci | Robert Carroll | Harriet Hall. |
1976 |
| Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) Founders: Anne Nicol Gaylor | Annie Lauri Gaylor. Honorary board: Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Steven Pinker | Ron Reagan | Julia Sweeney | Christopher Hitchens. |
1978 |
| Cult Awareness Network (CAN) Galen Kelly ("deprogrammer"; JINSA board). Taken over by Scientology. American Family Foundation advisors: Margaret Singer | Joly West (CAN speaker) | David Halperin |
1978 |
| International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) Founded in 1979 as the American Family Foundation (AFF), with its 1984-2001 journal Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ.org). Allied for some time with the Cult Awareness Network. The AFF was renamed to ICSA in 2004. Rabbi Maurice Davis (director). AFF advisors: Margaret Singer | David Halperin | Joly West (CAN speaker). (very hard to get sources on the names from fully accepted sources). csj.org/aff/board_aff.htm (accessed: October 11, 1999; first archive): "Board of Directors: ... David A. Halperin, M.D. ... Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D." No. 1, 1999, The Cult Observer: "Louis Jolyon West, M.D., the renowned psychiatrist, scholar, and educator associated for many years with the work of AFF, publisher of The Cult Observer, died..." No. 1, 1994, The Cult Observer, 'Rabbi Maurice Davis: Human Rights Champion': "Rabbi Maurice Davis, Director Emeritus of the American Family Foundation [publisher of The Cult Observer], died late last year after a long illness." |
1979 |
| Project Alpha hoax Project to mislead scientists into thinking that psychic powers are real. James Randi (orchestrator; conducted similar operations in later years) | Banachek (Randi's plant) | Michael Edwards (Randi's plant) |
1979-1981 |
| Southern California Skeptics (SCS) SCS cooperated with CalTech, Cal State Fullerton, the L.A. Times and the Santa Monica Monthly. Al Seckel (founder) | Murray Gell-Mann (director) | Jeffrey Lehman (president Cornell University; cooperated with the SCS to combat creationism) |
1984-1990 |
| TED Conferences (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Richard Saul Wurman (founder). First conference speakers: Stewart Brand ('84, '06, '09, '10, '13) | Nicholas Negroponte ('84, '06, '08, '14) | Benoit Mandelbrot | Steve Jobs (Apple computer demonstrated). Second conference held in 1990 and from there things grew. Chris Anderson (bought TED in 2000). In 2006 attendance cost was $4,400 and by invitation only. In 2007 annual membership fee became $6,000. Speakers: Bono ($100,000 TED Prize) | Larry Brilliant (TED Prize) | Jill Tarter (TED Prize) | Jamie Oliver (TED Prize) | Manal al-Sharif ('13) (Saudi woman who dared to drive) | Madeleine Albright ('10) | Julian Assange ('10) | Jeff Bezos ('03) | David Blaine ('09) | Richard Branson ('07) | Sergey Brin ('04, '13) | Gordon Brown ('09) | James Cameron ('10) | Jimmy Carter ('15) | Bill Clinton ('07; TED Prize) | Aubrey de Grey ('05) | David Deutsch ('05, '09) | Freeman Dyson ('03) | George Dyson ('02, '03) | Roger Ebert ('11) | Niall Ferguson ('11) | Bran Ferren ('14) | Bill Gates ('09, '10, '11, '13, '14, '15) | Melinda Gates ('14) | Jane Goodall ('02, '07) | Billy Graham ('98) | Glenn Greenwald ('14) | Sam Harris ('10) | Stephen Hawking ('08) | Jenna Jameson ('13) | Paul Tudor Jones II ('15) | Ray Kurzweil ('05, '09, '14) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('11, '14) | Nathan Myhrvold ('07, '10, '11) | Joseph Nye ('10) | Jamie Oliver ('10) | Larry Page ('04, '14) | Wadah Khanfar ('11; on the "Arab Spring") | T. Boone Pickens ('12) | Samantha Power ('08) | Sarah Silverman ('10) | Jeff Skoll ('07) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('13) | Edward Snowden ('14) | Jimmy Wales ('05) | Philip Zimbardo ('08, '09, '11) | Bettina Warburg (June '16). Features many professional skeptics: Susan Blackmore ('08) | Richard Dawkins ('02, '05) | Daniel Dennett | Murray Gell-Mann ('07) | Steven Pinker ('03, '05, '07, '12) | James Randi ('07) | Jon Ronson ('12, '15) | Adam Savage ('11) | Michael Shermer ('06, '10) | Julia Sweeney ('06, '07, '10). Banned TED Talks: Graham Hancock | Rupert Sheldrake. 'Countdown', "a global initiative to champion and accelerate solutions to the climate crisis": Prince William | Pope Francis | Don Cheadle | Christiana Figueres | Al Gore | Chris Hemsworth | Mark Ruffalo | Jaden Pinkett Smith. |
1984, 1990- |
| Edge Foundation Focused on the promotion of science as genetics, physics, mathematics, psychology, evolutionary biology, philosophy and computer technology. Founder: John Brockman. Outgrowth of The Reality Club (John B. (founder); George Dyson and son Freeman; Stewart Brand), which was active from 1981 to 1996. Clients of Edge: David Gelernter (IT specialist at Yale; Unabomber victim in 1993) | Richard Dawkins | Michael Shermer | Seth Shostack | Freeman Dyson | Murray Gell-Mann | Al Seckel | Sam Harris | Eric Weinstein | Rupert Sheldrake. Almost all of the 700 past and present Edge Foundation clients have been affiliated with major universities and promoted by major media outlets. Annual Billionaires Dinner: John Brockman | Stewart Brand | Freeman Dyson | George Dyson | Ray Kurzweil | Katinka Matson (president Brockman, Inc.) | Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett ('02, '06, '08, '09, '10) | Steve Case (AOL; '99, '08, '09) | Daniel Hillis (Disney; almost annually since '99) | Rupert Murdoch (Newscorp; '02) | Jeffrey Epstein ('99, '00, '02) | Sergey Brin (Google; '02, '03, '05, '07, '08) | Larry Page (Google; '03, '05, '07, '08, '09, '15) | Lori Park (Google; regular in later years) | Nathan Myhrvold (Microsoft; '99, '00, '02, '08, '09) | Charles Simonyi (Microsoft; '00, '02, '06, '10, '13) | Jeff Bezos (Amazon; almost annually since '99) | Christie Hefner (Playboy; '02) | David Rockwell (Rockwell Group; '02, '10) | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks; '02) | Bran Ferren (national security; '99, '00, '02) | Peter Schwartz (GBN; '02, '05, '08) | Ronna Tanenbaum (Alexa; MacArthur Fdn.; regular) | David Braunschvig (Lazard; Bear Stearns; '00) | Martha Stewart ('01) | Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Ebay; '09) | Matt Groening (The Simpsons; '09, '10) | Rupert Sheldrake ('09 in London) | Sam Harris ('10) | Larry Brilliant ('10) | Paul Allen (Microsoft co-founder; '12, '14) | Dave Morin (Facebook co-founder; '12) | Jacqui Safra (chair Encyclopedia Britannica; '09, '12, '13, '14) | Alain Elkann (married the daughter of Gianni Agnelli; '12 Torino) | Ginevra Elkann (daughter of Alain; host '12 Torino with the Italian Wired editor) | Peter Gabriel (regular in later years) | Salar Kamangar (YouTube, Google) | Anne Wojcicki (co-founder DNA analysis firm 23andMe; regular in later years) | Marlies Carruth (director MacArthur fellows program; '15). NY Times, Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, Newsweek, Wired, Newsweek, Time, Economist, Huffington Post, etc. journalists all present. |
1988 |
| European Skeptics Congresses (ESCs) (since 1994 ran by the newly-established European Council of Skeptical Organisations) Board: Catherine de Jong (Dutch; chair Vereniging tegen de Kwakzalverij 2011-2015). Speakers: Joe Nickell. |
1989 |
| New Mexicans for Science and Reason (NMSR) Kendrick Frazier (founder; CSICOP) | Dave Thomas (president) | Kim Johnson |
1990 |
| The Skeptics Society Publisher of Skeptic since 2010 a co-sponsor of the TAM meetings. Michael Shermer (founder TSS). Members: Julia Sweeney | Richard Dawkins | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Steven Pinker | Philip Zimbardo |
1991 |
| Center for Inquiry Formally brought together CSICOP and the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). Paul Kurtz (founder) | Ronald Lindsay (president and CEO) | Susan Jacoby | Joe Nickell (associate dean) | D.J. Grothe (vice president and director of outreach until 2009; host Point of Inquiry). Point of Inquiry guests: Lindsay Beyerstein (host) | Josh Zepps (host) | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Richard Dawkins | Adam Savage | Christopher Hitchens | Peter Boghossian (speaker in 2014). Financiers: annual report 2013: James Hanson (NASA astronomer-turned-well-financed climate change pioneer; $100k+) | Peter and Pamerla Freyd (between $5-$25k) | no well-known names among the 200 others. Annual report 2015: eight $100k donors | Craigslist Charitable Trust ($25-$100k) | Freyd family ($5-10k). |
1991 |
| False Memory Syndrome Foundation (FMSF) Ralph Underwager* (founder | Hollida Wakefield (wife of Underwager) | Pamela Freyd* (founding exececutive director) | Peter Freyd* (founding exececutive director). Scientific advisory board: Ray Hyman (early 1990s) | Joly West** (1990s) | Dr. Martin Orne** (wife | David Dinges** | Dr. Harold Lief** | Dr. Elizabeth Loftus | Paul McHugh** | Richard Ofshe** | Michael Persinger | James Randi* | Margaret Singer. * Accused of child abuse or outspokenly pro-pedophile. ** Linked to MKULTRA mind control research by Dr. Colin Ross. |
1992 |
| James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) D.J. Grothe (president January 2010-September 2014). Massimo Polidoro (European representative). Magazine: Skeptical Inquirer. James Randi (founder) | Banachek (head of the One Million Dollar Challenge). The Amazing Meeting (founded in 2003) speakers/performers: Phil Plait (2003, Sep. 2007, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009, Oct. 2009, Jul. 2010) | Penn & Teller (2004, Jun. 2008) | Banachek (2004, Jan. 2007, 2012) | Ian Rowland (2004) | Lance Burton (2004) | Dr. Richard Dawkins (2005, Jul. 2010) | Christopher Hitchens (2005) | Dr. Richard Wiseman (2005, Jun. 2008) | Dr. Joe Nickell (2005, Jul. 2009) | Dr. Michael Shermer (2005, Sep. 2006, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009) | Adam Savage and/or Jamie, Kari and Tory of Mythbusters (Jan. 2006, Jan. 2007, Jun. 2008, Jul. 2009, Oct. 2009) | Murray Gell-Mann (Jan. 2006) | Anderson Cooper (Jan. 2007) | Sylvia Browne (Jan. 2007) | Julia Sweeney (Jan. 2007) | Peter Sagal (Jan. 2007) | USAF Col. Hal Bidlack (2003, Jan. 2007, Sep. 2007; Clinton's director of global environmental affairs, NSC; TS-SCI) | Trey and Matt from Southpark (Jan. 2007) | 9/11 debunker Mark Roberts (Jan. 2008) | Neil DeGrasse Tyson (Jun. 2008, Jul. 2011) | Bill Prady of The Big Bang Theory (Jul. 2009) | Richard Novella | Steve Novella | Jon Ronson (Oct. 2009) | D.J. Grothe (Jul. 2010) | Jennifer Michael Hecht | Carol Tavris | Roy Zimmerman | Massimo Pigliucci | Robert Carroll (Skeptic's Dictionary) | Harriet Hall (2012) | Dr. Deirde Barrett (2012) | Brian Dunning (2012) | Sean Faircloth (director of strategy and policy, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science) | Peter Boghossian (2013) | Ray Hyman (2013) | John W. Loftus (2013). Ordinary visitors: Mick West (2013; Metabunk) | Jonathan Ross (Oct. 2009, 2010) |
1996 |
| World Skeptics Congress Speakers: James Randi | Joe Nickell | Kendrick Frazier | Paul Kurtz | Richard Wiseman | Jan Willem Nienhuys (Dutch mathematician; director Stichting Skepsis and editor of the magazine Skepsis) | Elizabeth Loftus | Dave Thomas | Harriet Hall Ray Hyman | Massimo Polidoro | Chris Mooney. |
1996 |
| Secular Coalition of America (SCA) Advisory board: Richard Dawkins | Daniel Dennett | Sam Harris | Steven Pinker | Todd Stiefel | Julia Sweeney |
2000 |
| Richard Dawkins Foundation for Science and Reason Directors: Richard Dawkins (founder and chair). Advisory board: Bill Nye | Julia Sweeney | Woody Kaplan | Norman Lear | Todd Stiefel. Speakers/representatives: Peter Boghossian |
2006 |
| Joe Rogan Experience podcast Joe Rogan | Eddie Bravo | Bryan Callen Professional skeptics: Mick West | Brian Dunning | Jon Ronson | Neill deGrasse Tyson | Sam Harris | Peter Boghossian | Josh Zepps | T.J. Kirk | Michael Shermer | C2C AM/alternative media guests: Graham Hancock (half a dozen times at least) | Freeway Rick Ross (1x) | Mike Ruppert (2x) | Jan Irvin (1x) | Peter Duesberg (1x) | Amit Goswami (1x) | Amber Lyon (2x) | Abby Martin (5x) | Ana Kasparian | Cenk Uygur | Dennis McKenna (2x) | Rick Doblin (1x) | Ethan Nadelmann (1x) | Daniel Pinchbeck (1x) | Peter Schiff (1x) | Rupert Sheldrake (1x) | John Anthony West (1x) | Georgio Tsoukalos (2x) | Steven Greer (1x) | Eric Dubay | Maynard James Keenan (Tool) | Tom DeLonge | Paul Stamets | Owen Benjamin | George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell. Other strange guests: Mike Baker (founder top-level CIA front Diligence, LLC) | Michael Wood Jr. ('15, '16) (anti-police violence activist who turned up in the anti-Trump hate group RefuseFascism.org) | Lawrence Lessig (top "lib. CIA" professor) | Bret Weinstein (anti-racist at the center of Evergreen State College race riots) and Eric Weinstein (managing director Thiel Capital) | Thaddeus Russell | Kyle Kulinski | Dr. Carl Hart | Ben Shapiro | Kurt Metzger | Gavin McInnes (Vice Media; in betweener right-left) |
2009 |
| Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Lawrence Lessig (key professor 1997-2000; long-time affiliation, also through the director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics; countless "lib. CIA" ties) | Aaron Swartz (protege of Lawrence; famopus suicide) | Vivek Krishnamurthy (clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Center, 2010s; director of the Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) anno 2020). The Stanford Center for Internet & Society was founded in 2000 by Lawrence Lessig. Financiers: cyber.harvard.edu/wg_home/sponsors (accessed: June 5, 2019): "The Berkman Family ... Bradley Foundation ... eBay [Omidyar]... Ernst & Young Foundation ... Google, Inc. Hivos. IBM. Lenovo. ... MacArthur [Fdn.] ... Knight [Fdn.] ... Andrew W. Mellon [Fdn.] ... Microsoft ... Craig Newmark Philanthropic Trust. Novell. The Oak Foundation. The Omidyar Network. The Open Society Institute... Oracle Corporation. PayPal. Philip L. Graham Fund. Reuters, Inc. ... Sun Microsystems. United States Department of State." |
1996 |
| Oxford Internet Institute (OII) Advisory board: Dr. Andrew Graham (key fundraiser, acting director 2001-2002, founding chair advisory board 2001-2011, senior fellow 2011-2020s) | James Manyika | Sir Alex Allan (2011-; former principal private secretary to the PM, chair Joint Intelligence Committee and Head of Intelligence Assessment). More: Philip N. Howard ((managing) director anno 2020; his wife works at the institute too; "In 2014 he hypothesized that political elites in democracies would soon be using algorithms over social media to manipulate public opinion..."). |
2001 |
| Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), Princeton Advisory board: Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2020-2024) | Brad Smith (anno 2020-2024; president and vice chair Microsoft) | Richard Sarnoff (anno 2020-2024; senior advisor KKR and chair of its Media section anno 2024; co-chair Bertelsmann Inc. 2008-2011) | Gabriel Weinberg (anno 2020-2024; founder and CEO DuckDuckGo, provided with $200,000 from CITP in 2021) | Ronald D. Lee (anno 2020-2024; gen. counsel NSA 1994-1998; chief of staff to the CIA director in 1996; director; partner Arnold & Porter) | Irene Cheng (anno 2020-2024; man. dir. Lazard Asset Management). Source(s): citp.princeton.edu/people /filters/#advisory-council (Aug. 10, 2020 (first listing of an advisory board) - Feb. 9, 2024) |
2007 |
| Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development (BCSD) Commissioners (anno 2020): Paul Kagame (co-chair) | Carlos Slim (co-chair) | Jeffrey Sachs | Nicholas Negroponte | H.E. Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori of the United Arab Emirates | Sheikh Abdullah Bin Mohammed Bin Saud al Thani of Qatar. Former commissioners: Anthony Lake | Muhammad Yunus | Neelie Kroes. |
2010 |
| Google's DeepMind AI Fellows: James Manyika (anno 2020) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno 2020). |
2010 |
| MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy Advisory board: Eric Schmidt | Reid Hoffman | Mitchell Baker (chair and co-founder Mozilla) | James Manyika. |
2013 |
| Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) Project of RIIA and CIGI. Members: Carl Bildt (chair) | Michael Chertoff | Joseph Nye | Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi of the United Arab Emirates. |
2014-2016 |
| OpenAI Key people: Elon Musk (co-founder and co-chair until 2018 over conflicts-of-interest with his business; remained a "sponsor") | Sam Altman (co-founder, co-chair and one of six "sponsors") | Peter Thiel ("sponsor") | Reid Hoffman ("sponsor"). Additional funders: Microsoft, Amazon Web services, NVIDIA, Github, etc. Creates the public GPT AI systems, which increasingly has the ability to mimic human-generated writing and even the ability to take over coding and webdesign from humans. Also created ChatGpt, the chat bot that took the world by storm in late 2022. Source(s): openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/ (accessed: Dec. 11, 2015; first webarchive): "Sam [A.], Greg, Elon [M.], Reid [Hoffman] ... Peter [T.], Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years." |
2015 |
| Global Privacy and Security By Design Michael Chertoff | Gilles de Kerchove (EU director for CT). |
2016 |
| Digital Freedom Fund (DFF) Team: Nani Jansen Reventlow (founding managing director) | Aurum Linh ("embedded as a Mozilla Fellow within the Digital Freedom Fund"). Board: Raegan MacDonald (chair; "head of EU Public Policy at Mozilla") | Rupert Skilbeck (former "Litigation Director at the Open Society Justice Initiative"). Other: Marietje Schaake (listed "friend"). digitalfreedomfund.org/about/ (accessed: January 25, 2020): "DFF is currently supported by Open Society [Fdns.], Adessium Foundation, Luminate, and Ford Foundation. We previously received support from the Renewable Freedom Foundation and project funding from the Democracy and Media Foundation." |
2017 |
| Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace Commissioners: Michael Chertoff (founding co-chair) | Joseph Nye | Latha Reddy (founding co-chair; deputy NSA of India) | Marietje Schaake (2017-) | Uri Rosenthal (also special representative). Special advisors: Carl Bildt. Initiated by the The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and the EastWest Institute (EWI). Launched at the Munich Security Conf. |
2017 |
| Center for Humane Technology (CHT) Tristan Harris (main founder and president; "design ethicist" at Google) | Randy Fernando (co-founder and COO; manager of dev. education NVIDIA; exec. dir. Mindful Schools; director Spirit Rock Meditation Center) | Ben Rattray (founder and CEO Change.org). "Key Advisors & Community": Chris Hughes (co-founder FB) | Tom Gruber (co-founder Siri) | Marietje Schaake | Evan Sharp (co-founder & COO Pinterest). Funders: Omidyar-, Knight-, Ford- and Hewlett foundations. Aim: understanding "how technology hijacks our minds [and] warning [the public about things as] Russia's use of social media to manipulate American voters." |
2018 |
| National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) Commission members: Eric Schmidt (chair 2018-2021) | Dr. Steve Chien (JPL) | Chris Darby (CEO In-Q-Tel) | Eric Horvitz (Microsoft) | Andy Jassy (Amazon Web Service) | Dr. William Mark (SRI) | Andrew Moore (Google). Summit speakers: Madeleine Albright ('21) | Jake Sullivan ('21) | Anthony Blinken ('21) | Lloyd Austin ('21) | Eric Lander ('21) | Sam Altman ('21) | Chuck Schumer ('21) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('21) | Fareed Zakaria ('21) | Sen. Mark Warner ('21) | Jacinda Ardern ('21). |
2018 |
| Design 4 Democracy Coalition (D4DC) Purpose: Studying and answering questions related to: "How do we develop technology that distinguishes between genuine, "organic" online discourse and computational propaganda?... [How do we prevent] disinformation? ... [How do we] ensure that platforms don't artificially preference extremist viewpoints, rather than mainstream opinion? [And how to] protect human rights defenders and political actors from cyber attacks?" Advisory board: Eric Rosenbach (Harvard's BC; extensive top-level DOD, CIA, NSA, NSC experience) | Raegan MacDonald ("head of EU Public Policy at Mozilla") | Marietje Schaake. |
2018-2021 |
| Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), Stanford Advisory board (2020): Jim Breyer | Ken Chenault | Reid Hoffman | Condoleezza Rice | Eric Schmidt | Stephen Schwarzman | James Manyika. Fellows: Marietje Schaake ('20) | Daniel Dennett ('20, "distinguished"). |
2018 |
| Cyberpeace Institute Marietje Schaake (founding president) | Stephane Duguin (founding CEO; head Europol's EU Internet Referral Unit). Executive directors: Anne-Marie Slaughter | Brad Smith (pres. MS) | Eli Sugarman (Program Officer for Cyber Initiative, Hewlett Fdn.). Advisory board: Chung Min Lee |
2019 |
| Institute for AI International Governance (I-AIIG), Tsinghua University, China Leadership: Fu Ying ("leadership team ... honorary dean" anno '21-'23) Strategic Cooperation and Development Committee (not part of the 'team' section on the website): Jenny Zeng (anno '22; co-founder MSA Capital with Kiss. protege Ben Harburg). International AI Cooperation and Governance Forum (2020-):. |
2020 |
French speaking
| Suez Group Officers: Etienne Davignon (chair 1988-2001, after the take over of Societe Generale; director until 2010; held 10,000+ shares while other directors held 2,000-5,000 shares) | Gerard Mestrallet (chair and CEO; held 30,000+ shares) | Baron Albert Frere (vice chair) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. | Jean-Louis Beffa | Thierry de Rudder | Jacques Lagarde | Lord Simon of Highbury. The Suez Group is jointly controlled by Albert Frere's Charleroi Group in Belgium and the Power Corporation in Canada of the Desmarais family, this through a company called PARJOINTCO (50-50). PARJOINTCO owns Pargesa, which owns Groupe Bruxellus Lambert (GBL), which in turn has majority stakes in Suez, Total and Imerys and a minority stake in Bertelsmann, which owns 90% of the RTL Group, Europe's largest broadcaster. Suez controlled the Belgian Societe General de Belgique, which always controlled a huge aspect of the Belgian economy. Part of companies in this structure: Jerome Monod | Baron Paul Janssen. GBL: Albert Frere (chair) | Maurice Lippens (director since 2001). Took over Societe Generale de Belgique in 1988: Catholic nobility always held major stakes. Etienne D. (joined the board in 1985, chair 1988-2001) | Maurice Lippens (vice chair) | Herve de Carmoy (lists himself as chair supervisory board 1988-1991 - other sources say managing director/CEO) Frere Bourgeois: Surprisingly low profile and no website. Baron Albert Frere (chair since 1970, chair and CEO since 1983, today still CEO) | Gerard Frere (chair; son of Albert) | Gilles Samyn (managing director; right hand of Frere since 1983). |
1858 |
| Solvay Officers: Jacques Solvay (chair management/supervisory board 1971-1991) | Denis Solvay (director since 1997, chair Solvay North America, vice chair Solvay SA since 2006) | Yves Boel (chair of Solvay until 1998, major shareholding family) | Baron Daniel Janssen (executive chair 1986-1998, and supervisory chair since then, supervisory chair Solvay Business School, established Friends of Europe in Bibliotheque Solvay) | Etienne Davignon (director until 2003) | Karel van Miert (succeeded Davignon as director in 2003) | Guy de Selliers de Moranville | Jean-Marie Delwart (family is a shareholder). Francoise Dehaye (quality and innovation manager | Guy Spitaels (director Solvay Institute for Sociology). The Solvay family owns Chateau des Amerois. This whole network is closely linked to child abuse accusations in the Dutroux X-Dossiers. |
1863 |
| Power Corporation of Canada Officers, past and present: Maurice Strong (executive vice-president 1961-1963, president 1963-1966) | James Wolfensohn (recruited by Strong in the early 1960s to run Power Corp.'s Australian subsidiary) | PM Paul Martin (hired by Strong in the 1960s to run one of the company's subsidiaries) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (president) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (controlling shareholder since 1968, chair and CEO 1968-1996) | Paul Desmarais, Jr. (chair and CEO since 1996) | Andre Desmarais | Laurent Dassault (of the French airplane manufacturer). International advisory council, in existence from 1988-2005: Paul Volcker (1988-2005) | Charles Bronfman (1988-2005) | Helmut Schmidt | Lord Armstrong of Ilminster (listed as a N. M. Rothschild & Sons consultant (director); also a director of Rio Tinto) | Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani (Saudi minister of oil 1962-1986) | Gustavo Cisneros | Michael Francois-Poncet (BNP-Paribas) | Baron Albert Frere | Pierre Haas (Paribas International) | Brian Mulroney | Viscount Rothermere. PM Pierre Trudeau. |
1925 |
English language
| N. M. Rothschild & Sons Edmund de Rothschild (chair until 1976) | Jacob Rothschild (left in 1980) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (chair an CEO 1976-2003) | Baron David de Rothschild (chair since 2003) | Nat Rothschild (apprentice at the risk management and private banking divisions) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (vice-chair Rothschild Europe, a division of N. M. Rothschild, since 2003, chair of Rothschild pension funds and senior advisor Rothschild Group) | Lord Guthrie (director) | Felix Rohatyn (director Rothschild Continuation Holdings AG and advisor to Baron David de R.) | Lord Lamont (bankker 1968-1979, director Rothschild Asset Mgt in 1978, director 1993-1995) | Alfred Hartmann (director and president of Rothschild Bank AG of Zurich) |
1811 |
| American International Group (AIG) Strategic partner Kissinger Assoc. and Blackstone since 1980s. Richard Helms (all round consultant, possibly until his death in 2002) | Maurice Greenberg | Kissinger (chair advisory board since 1987 for at least two decades) | MacArthur II (director early 19802-1997) | David Cohen (CIA) | Sir Richard Dearlove (MI6) | Carla Hills (director 1993) | Holbrooke (became a director in early 2001) | Martin Feldstein (director 1987-2008) | Stephan Schmidheiny (reportedly) Starr Foundation, founded in 1955: Cornelius Vander Starr (founder AIG and the foundation; top level OSS veteran and mentor to Maurice) | Maurice G. (chair) According to "CIA sources", Maurice has teamed up with Adnan Khashoggi in exploiting oil and natural gas resources in (ultra-corrupt) Uzbekistan and in the Ural neighborhood of Russia. What is certain is that Maurice and his allies have great interest in Russia, eastern Europe and Central Asia as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed. |
1919 |
| JPMorgan Chase (date of IAC founding) International advisory council Chase Manhattan, renamed in 2001 the international council: David Rockefeller (until 2004) | John Loudon (founding chair in 1965-1977) | Gianni Agnelli (founding member 1965-, anno 1990) | David Packard (1969-1980) | Eugene Black (anno 1970) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (1971-1995; president Volvo) | Henry Ford II (anno 1972) | Otto Wolff van Amerongen (anno 1972) | Robert Marjolin (anno 1972) | William Blackie (anno 1972; chair Caterpillar) | Donald Burnham (anno 1972; chair Westinghouse) | Carl Gerstacker (anno 1972; chair Dow Chemical) | P. Haggerty (anno 1972; chair Texas Instruments) | Erwin Kelm (anno 1972; chair Cargill) | William Hewitt (anno 1972; chair Deere & Co.) | C. Douglas Dillon (anno 1972, 1977; also a director earlier) | Gustavo Cisneros (1981-) | Henry Kissinger (vice chairman May 1977 - Jan. 1978, chair Jan. 1978-; still a member anno 2003, 2020) | Lord Carrington (anno 1990) | Lord Gordon Richardson (vice chair IAC 1996-1998) | George Shultz (chairman international council 1990s-2009) | David O'Reilly (anno 2003, until 2009) | Brian Mulroney (anno 2003, until 2009) | Andre Desmarais (anno 2003, until 2009) | Jean-Louis Beffa (anno 2003, until 2009) | Bill Bradley (anno 2003, until 2009) | Fritz Gerber (anno 2003; chair Roche) | Cees van Lede (anno 2003, 2018) | Karen Katen (anno 2003; president Pfizer) | Carla Hills (anno 2007, 2018) | Jurgen Grossmann (anno 2007; president and CEO RWE AG) | Michael Pram Rasmussen (anno 2007, 2018; chair Moller-Maersk Group) | Anatoly Chubais | Martin Feldstein (2001-2019; before that on the international council of J.P. Morgan 1984-1993) | John Watson (anno 2015, 2018; chair and CEO Chevron 2010-2018) | Walter Shipley (anno 2003) | Riley Bechtel (anno 2007; earlier director, anno 2003) | Jacob Frenkel (chair 2009-2010) | Tony Blair (anno 2007, chair 2010-, anno 2020) | Condoleezza Rice (anno 2015, 2020) | Robert Gates (anno 2015, vice chair anno 2018, 2020) | Bernard Arnault (2017-; chair and CEO Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH)) | John Elkann Agnelli (anno 2018, 2020) | Joe Kaeser (anno 2018, 2020; president and CEO Siemens AG 2013-2021) | Paul Bulcke (anno 2018, 2020; CEO Nestle SA) | Alex Gorsky (anno 2020; chair and CEO Johnson & Johnson) | John Howard (anno 2020; PM Australia) | Nancy McKinstry (anno 2020; chair and CEO Wolters Kluwer, Netherlands). International council Chase Manhattan, Russia and Far East: Sir Y.K. Pao (anno 1972, 1977) | JRD Tata (anno 1972, 1977; chair Tata Sons 1948-1988, India's largest industrial group) | Ratan Tata (anno 2003, 2020; chair Tata Sons 1990-2012, interim chair 2016-2017, emeritus chair 2017-) | Yotaro Kobayashi (anno 2003) | Lee Kuan Yew (anno 2003, 2007) | Tung Chee Hwa (anno 2015, 2020) | Xi-Qing Gao (anno 2007) | Chujiro Fujino (anno 1972; chair Mitsubishi) | Minoru Makihara (anno 2007; chair Mitsubishi) | Herman Gref (anno 2018, 2020; chair Sberbank) | Yang Yuanqing (anno 2018; chair and CEO Lenovo) | Joseph Chai (anno 2020; vice chair Alibaba under Jack Ma). International council Chase Manhattan, Middle East: Rahmi Koc (anno 2003) | Mustafa Koc (anno 2007) | Mohammed Ali Abalkhai (anno 2003) | Abdallah S. Jum'ah (anno 2007; president and CEO Saudi Aramco) | Amin Nasser (anno 2020; president and CEO Saudi Aramco). National advisory council: Maurice Sonnenberg | John Kluge (until 2004) | David Rubenstein (anno 2003-2005; Carlyle) | Stephen Schwarzman (anno 2003-2005; Blackstone) | Mortimer Zuckerman (anno 2003-2005) | Leon Black (anno 2003-2006) | Lee Raymond (Exxon; also: director anno 2003) | Edgar Bronfman Jr. (2005-2006). Advancing Black Pathways Advisory Council: Colin Powell (anno 2021) | Condi Rice (anno 2021) | James Bell (anno 2021; former president Boeing) | Kevin Hart (anno 2021; comedian) | Mellody Hobson (anno 2021) | Soledad O'Brien (anno 2021). More: John McCloy (chair Chase National Bank 1953-1960) | Herve de Carmoy (protege of David R.; European executive director Chase Manhattan 1963-1978) | Robert O. Anderson (director anno 1973, with Chase holding 4.5% stock in his Atlantic Richfield oil company) | Alexander Haig (independent director 1979-1980) | Jamie Dimon (chair and CEO 2000s-2010s; IC ex-officio anno 2016, 2018) | John T. Connor (director Chase Manhattan) | Thomas Higgens (managing director, global head of operational control and exec. vice president; CIA) | Stephen Macklow-Smith (managing director Asset Management) | William Coleman Jr | Andreas Treichl (worked at various EU-US Chase branches 1983-1986; chair Chase Manhattan Bank Austria 1986-1993). J.P. Morgan: Thomas Lamont (J. P. Morgan chair until 1959) | Winthrop Aldrich (Chase exec. and uncle to the Rockefeller brothers) | Walter Page II (chair J. P. Morgan until 1979) | Lord Howe (director J.P. Morgan in the 1990s). |
1965 |
| Creative Artists Agency (CAA) Bryan Lourd (partner, managing director and co-chair 1995-) | Robert Light. Globalist speakers: Joseph Stiglitz | Sir Richard Branson | Susan Rice | Nicholas Burns | Randi Zuckerberg (sister of Mark) | Muhammad Yunus | David de Rothschild | Jane Goodall | Philippe Cousteau | Andrew Yang | Van Jones | DeRay Mckesson (BLM activist) | Sen. Barbara Boxer | Agapi Stassinopoulos | Bill Maher (HBO) | Anderson Cooper (CNN) | Ana Navarro (ABC) | Andrea Mitchell (NBC) | Ari Shapiro (NPR) | Bill McDermott. Actor speakers: Alec Baldwin | Ashton Kutscher | Al Pacino | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Cate Blanchett | Gwyneth Paltrow | J.J. Watt | Keith Urban | Kristen Bell | Laird Hamilton | Mark Cuban | Natalie Portman | Reese Witherspoon | Sandra Bullock | Spike Lee | Sylvester Stallone |Alyssa Milano | Andy Garcia | Billy Crystal | Bradley Cooper | Buzz Aldrin | Channing Tatum | Cindy Crawford | Dan Aykroyd | Diane von Furstenberg | Dr. Jordan Peterson | Drew Barrymore | Eva Mendes | GSP | Gloria Estefan | Guy Ritchie | Halle Berry | Heidi Klum | Herschel Walker | Jamie Foxx | Jeremy Renner | Jessica Alba | Josh Brolin | Julianne Moore | Kate Hudson | Kerry Washington | Margot Robbie | Michelle Yeoh | Morgan Freeman | Oliver Stone | Rob Reiner | Sean Penn | Shannen Doherty | Shirley MacLaine | Stephen Colbert | Uma Thurman | Whoopi Goldberg | Zac Efron | Zoe Saldana | Tom Selleck | Tommy Chong | Tommy Lee Jones | Tracy Morgan | Tyrese Gibson | Woody Harrelson | Will Smith | Zach King | Robert De Niro. Musicians/athletes: Tom Morello | Travis Barker | Tony Hawk | Lenny Kravitz | Snoop Dogg | Sean "Diddy" Combs | will.i.am | Charlamagne tha God | Oscar de la Hoya | Andre Agassi. |
1975 |
| Kissinger Associates Directors, officers or advisors who joined in the 1980s: Henry K. (founder and chair; IAC Chase) | Brent Scowcroft (founding president 1982-1984, vice chair 1982-1989) | Lord Carrington (founding director 1982-1984, 1988-1997; IAC Chase) | William D. Rogers (founding director 1982-, anno 1986, anno 1989, vice chair 2004-2007; maintained contacts with BCCI on behalf of KA) | Robert O. Anderson (founding director 1982-, anno 1986; chair Atlantic Richfield; director Chase) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (founding director 1982-, anno 1986; president Volvo; IAC Chase) | Jeff Cunningham (anno 1982-1984; August 24, 1982, Washington Post: "formerly with a Chase Manhattan Bank-affiliated firm in the Eurocurrency market, is to be its secretary...") | Lawrence Eagleburger (president 1984-1989) | William Simon (director mid 1980s-) | Lord Roll (director 1984-) | Timothy Geithner (consultant 1985-1988) | Edward Palmer (anno 1986; chair Citibank) | T. Jefferson Cunningham III (director 1980s-1990s, vice chairman; international adviser Midland Bank 1984-; chief of int. operations for Chase Manhattan Bank) | Paul Bremer (managing director 1989-2000). Directors, officers or advisors who joined in 1990s or 2000s: Etienne Davignon | David Rothkopf (managing director) | Thomas McLarty III (Kissinger McLarty Assoc. in Washington, D.C.) | Richard Burt (McLarty and Assoc.) | Bill Richardson (senior managing director) | Renato Ruggiero | Robert Hormats (vice chair Oct. 2013-2020s) | Frank Wisner II (senior advisor) | Directors, officers or advisors who (certainly) joined in the 2000s: Stapleton Roy (managing director Jan. 2001-, vice chair; Henry: "I am delighted that Stape will join us," after Roy's staff managed to lose a laptop with top secret info, with Roy heavily criticized by secstate Albright for refusing to take responsibility and shifting the blame) | Joshua Cooper Ramo (managing director 2006-2011, vice chair 2011-, co-CEO 2015-; fluent in Mandarin; managing partner JL Thornton mid 2000s with a focus on China; past journalist) | Thomas E. Graham (joined 2007-, managing director anno 2023) | Jami Miscik (LinkedIn: president Jan. 2009-2015, CEO Jan. 2009-Jun 2022, also vice anno 2012). Directors, officers or advisors who joined in 2010s: John Brennan (senior advisor "on world events" anno 2018, 2020; director CIA 2013-2017). More: Sergio Da Costa (consultant; also consultant to BCCI) | Alan Stoga (partner; in contact with the BCCI's Abol Helmy) | Sir Y. K. Kan (director anno 1984, 1986) | Saburo Okita (director anno 1984, 1986; founding exec. comm. member TC) | Joshua Cooper Ramo (co-CEO and vice chair). Just about the only important company with no website, and, despite being at the center of the globalist movement, the only company to never appear anywhere as a partner or financier among think tanks and conferences. Anno 2003 his 10th floor firm was not listed in the building lobby's directory of companies. On the floor itself, it was the only company without a nameplate. (March 29, 2003, Hartford Courant, 'Kissinger Still Wears Cloak of Secrecy'.) "Strategic Advisory Venture" with Blackstone and AIG, ran by close friends. Clients: Hakluyt, Unocal, Freeport McMoran, Enerjoprojeckt, BNL, Hunt Oil, American Express, Anheuser-Busch, Chase Manhattan Bank, Coca-Cola, Daewoo, Disney, Fiat, H.J. Heinz, ITT, Ericsson, Midland Bank, Shearson Lehman Brothers, Union Carbide, and Volvo. |
July 1982 |
| Barrick Gold Peter Munk (founder and chair) | Adnan Khashoggi (existing business partner, co-founder and shareholder for the first several years). Directors, past and present: Trevor Eyton (retired in 1999; formerly a Bronfman empire CEO) | Anthoney Munk | Gustavo Cisneros | Brian Mulroney | Nat Rothschild (joined supervisory board in 2005; left as a director in 2012). International advisory board, founded in 1995: George H. W. Bush (1995-1997) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (from 1995 until 2000s) | Sen. Howard Baker, Jr. (since 1995) Brian M. (founding member, chair) | Jose Maria Aznar | Lord Charles Powell (since the 1990s) | Karl Otto Pohl | Gustavo C. | William Cohen (since 2002) | Vernon Jordan (since 1990 until today) | Andronico Luk | John Thornton | Newt Gingrich (advisor). |
1983 |
| The Blackstone Group Strategic partner Kissinger Associates and AIG since the 1980s. Owned the lease on WTC 7 when it, controversially, collapsed on 9/11. Directors: Stephen Schwarzman (founder, chair and CEO, still anno '21) | Peter Peterson (founder) | Brian Mulroney (long-term, still anno '21) | Wayne Berman ('21) | Sir John Hood (anno '21) | James Breyer (anno '21). European Advisory Board (set up in 1994): Sir Ronald Grierson | Jacob Wallenberg | Lord Kenneth Baker | Maurice Levy. International advisory board (stopped listing this board in 2011): Sir Ronald G. (co-chair and chair) | Marice L. | Roland Berger (co-chair) | Niall FitzGerald (until Jan. 2008) | Jacob Rothschild (since mid 2008 - 2011) | Shaukat Aziz (-2011). Others: Jonathan E. Colby (general partner) | Paul O'Neill (special advisor 2003-2010). |
1985 |
| Hollinger International Financier of the National Interest magazine. 2000 annual report, Hollinger Inc., pp. 77-81: Officers: Conrad Black. Senior International Advisors: Margaret Thatcher | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Lord Carrington | Henry Kissinger | Zbigniew Brzezinski. International Advisory Board: Gianni Agnelli | Dwayne Andreas | William F. Buckley Jr. | Martin Feldstein | New Gingrich | Allan Gotlieb | Richard Perle | Lord Jacob Rothschild | Robert Strauss | Paul Volcker. Hollinger International: Conrad B. | Richard Burt | Henry K. | Marie-Josee Kravis | Shmuel Meitar | Richard P. | Robert S. | Alfred Taubman | Lord Weidenfeld | Leslie Wexner. Telegraph Group Limited: Conrad B. | Peter Buckley | Lord C. | Viscount Cranborne | Paul Desmarais | Rupert Hambro | Henry Keswick | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Raymond Seitz. The Spectator (1828) Limited: Conrad B. | Lord Tebbit. Others (at other times): Sir James Goldsmith | Lord Kenneth Roy Thomson | Chaim Herzog | Lord Hanson. |
1986 |
| The Carlyle Group James Woolsey (lawyer late 1980s-early 1990s) | David Rubenstein (co-founder and co-CEO since 1987) | Frank Carlucci (vice-chair 1989-1992; chair 1992-2005) | James Baker III (partner) | George H. W. Bush (partner) | John Major (chair Carlyle Europe) | Leslie L. Armitage (managing director) | Jonathan E. Colby (managing director; son of CIA chief and Opus Dei member William Colby) | William A. Long (managing director) | Peter Clare (managing director; BAH) | Ian Fujiyama (managing director; BAH) | Daniel Akerson (managing director; BAH) | Thomas McLarty III (senior advisor since 2003) | Richard Burt (adviser) | Paul Desmarais, Sr. (advisory board) | Karl Otto Pohl (advisory board) | Cees van Lede (European advisory board) | Edward J. Mathias (co-founder, director and one of the managing directors) | Jerome Powell (partner; later FED chair) | Arthur Levitt Jr. (senior advisor 2001-2020s). Saudi relations: Shafig bin Laden (guest of honor on 9/11 at a Carlyle meeting; the family invested in Calyle beginning in 1995) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (two sons of his became Carlyle partners and investors in 1995) | Saudi ambassador Bandar bin Sultan and his father, Prince Sultan, Saudi defense minister 1963-2011 (investors since the mid- to late 1990s) BDM International was controlled by Carlyle 1990-1997. Until 1990: - Earle Williams (early Standard Oil and Sandia Corp. career; joined BDM in 1962, president and CEO of BDM 1972-1992 when annual revenue grew from $7.7 m to $424 m, director 1990-1997; anno 1999 director Earle C. Williams GTS Duratek, in which Carlyle is the second largest shareholder, right behind the directors; in 1999 at Wolf Trap Fdn, with Carlucci's wife; CFR 1990s; director emeritus Wolf Trap Foundation anno 2014 (first lady is honorary chair); at the Professional Services Council with Odeen and Mantech head Pedersen). - Michael Stolarik (joined BDM in 1975 as a technical staff member; vice president of Information Systems of BDM 1985-1987; vice president and general manager BDM's Communications and Data Systems Division 1987-1989; CIO BDM 1994-1995; president and CEO Space Applications Corporation (SAC) March 1995-1997, where Gen. Stubblebine was a consultant; director Professional Services Council; executive vice president Titan Corporation's Technical Resources Sector 2002-2003 (Titan is linked to 9/11, drugs, coups, and Abu Graib); president and COO of QinetiQ North America since 2009, a firm where former CIA director George Tenet was a director 2006-2008, followed by Adm. Edmund Giambastiani, present at Rumsfeld's side on 9/11, a vice chair of then Joint Chiefs, a ranking CIA official and MITRE trustee) - Gen. Albert Stubblebine (vice president of BDM's Intelligence Systems 1984-1990; chair Psi-Tech since 1990; consultant Space Applications Corporation in the 1990s). 1990-1997 new officers: Frank C. (chair since 1990) | Philip Odeen (president and CEO since 1992) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Walter Leisler Kiep (director since 1995) | Neil Goldschmidt (child abuse scandal) | Joseph Gorman (chair and CEO of TRW which took over BDM in 1997) | EG&G (controlled by Carlyle 1999-2002): Michael Bayer (director) | Donald Kerr (director 1985-1992) Majority shareholder in Booz Allen Hamilton since 2008. Still listed separately. Frontier Group, founded in 2005: Frank C. (Carlyle) | David Robb (Carlyle) | Raymond A. Whiteman (Carlyle) | Norman Augustine | Sanford McDonnell (of McDonnell Douglas) | Danny Pang Baker & Taylor Holdings, Inc. (owned by Carlyle): Patrick Gross (chair), very close to Joseph Kasputys, owner of the WTC South Tower collapse floors. The North Tower impact and collapse floors were controlled by Carlyle's closest friends. Le Figaro: from 1999 to 2002 Carlyle held a 40% stake in the newspaper, in partnership with long-time Figaro owner Robert Hersant who kept 60%. In May 2000 Dominique Baudis was appointed chairman of the editorial board. A year later he left, after Chirac provided him with a government post. In 2003 Baudis was embroiled in a major child abuse scandal, but was never prosecuted. Interestingly, various employees of Hersant at Le Figaro (as well as staffers of Chirac) have been liaisons for the CAUSA (the Moonie Cult) and Le Cercle, both closely affiliated with the CIA, as is Carlyle. |
1987 |
| UI Energy Corporation Advisory board: Stephen Solarz (anno 2008) | Paul Laxalt (anno 2008) | Anthony Lake (anno 2008). Named : Frank Carlucci | Gen. John Abizaid. Tony Blair (2008; "Advice to a consortium of investors led by the UI Energy [which he kept secret]"). |
1987 |
| RIT Capital Partners Jacob Rothschild (founder and chair) | Nat Rothschild (alternate director 2000-2004, non-executive director 2004-2010; began at Lazard Brothers in 1994) | Andrew Knight (director anno 1996, until 2008) | James Leigh-Pemberton (non-executive director since 2004) | Graham Thomas (chair 2011-2014) | Baron Leon Lambert (director anno 1988). Strategic partnership with Rockefeller Financial Services, Inc. since 2012. David Sr., David Jr., Mark F. and Michael S. Rockefeller are all on the board. |
1988 |
| Lightbridge Corporation (founded as Thorium Power) Dr. Alvin Radkowsky (founder and chair; former head U.S. Navy Nuclear Propulsion Program). Strategic advisory council (2009): Victor Chu (Hong Kong-based financier) | Sir Ronald Grierson (co-chair) | Lord Guthrie | Susan Eisenhower | Michael Howard. Later on: Hans Blix. A few years earlier: Guy de Selliers. |
1992 |
| Intellibridge intellibridge.com/about.html (accessed: July 11, 2000): "Founded in January 1998 [by] Anthony Lake ... John Deutch [and] David Rothkopf [chair and CEO]." intellibridge.com/advisory.html (accessed: March 1, 2001): Anthony L. (co-chair) | John D. (co-chair) | Lord David Young (vice chair) | Morton Abramowitz | Joseph Nye | Stephen Solarz | Peter Tarnoff (president CFR) | Peter Hakim | Nick Dowling (exec. director adv. council; director for European Affairs at the NSC 1996-1999) | Geoffrey Kemp (senior director for the Near East and South Asian Affairs at the NSC) | Sandra Kristoff (senior director for Asia at the NSC) | Brian Atwood (administrator USAID 1993-1999) | Kenneth Courtis (chief economist Deutsche Bank; managing director and vice chair Goldman Sachs Asia) | Frederick Starr (president Oberlin College) | Judy Rosenblum (VP Coca-Cola). Other board members represent Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, France, Germany, Poland, Israel, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan. This included Shinji Fukukawa. "Intellibridge Expert Network" (2004): Carl Bildt | Kurt Campbell | Al From | Robert Gallucci | Gen. John Galvin | Richard Holbrooke (chairman) | Martin Indyk | Lawrence Korb | John Prendergast | Susan Rice | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Gayle Smith | Jim Steinberg | Washington SyCip. Acquired by the Eurasia Group in 2007. Board Eurasia Group: Ian Bremmer (founder in 1998, president 2020). Advisory board anno 2020: James Murdoch (son of Rupert Murdoch) | Thomas Pickering (since at least 2006) | Lord Mark Malloch-Brown | Radek Sikorski (former PM of Poland) | Kevin Rudd | Sigmar Gabriel (2019-). Corporate advisory board (2001): Ali Koc | Maurice Tempelsman | Theodore Roosevelt IV. |
1992 |
| Amazon Directors: Jeff Bezos (founder, president, CEO and chairman; wealthiest man alive) | John Doerr (1996-2010; early investor in Amazon in 1995; remained on the Google board in 2010) | Jamie Gorelick (2012-2018) | Gen. Keith Alexander (2020-) | Rosalind Brewer (2019-; CEO Starbucks) | Indra Nooyi (2019; former CEO PepsiCo) | Judith McGrath (anno 2020; chair and CEO MTV Networks 2004-2011; part of the original MTV founding team) | Patty Stonesifer (anno 2020; senior advisor Gates Fdn. 2008-2012). |
1994 |
| Trireme Partners LP Set up in November, immediately after 9/11 to invest in homeland security-related projects. Richard Perle | Conrad Black | Henry Kissinger (advisory board) | Adnan Khashoggi (brought together Richard P. and the Saudi businessman Harb Saleh al-Zuhair). This firm is one amazing display of conflicting interests. Not just the Saudis and Richard, but also the fact that Henry and Richard were the biggest enemies during the Cold War over the policy of detente. In addition, Conrad B., a patron of Richard's career, is neoconservative Zionist who also has the closest ties to the liberal establishment of Henry K. |
2001 |
| Albright Stonebridge Group Managing board: Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | Sandy Berger (co-chair) | Warren Rudman | James O'Brien. Team: Joschka Fischer | Susan Eisenhower and former husband Roald Sagdeev | Gerald Curtis |
2001 |
| Theranos Main product turned out to be a scam. theranos.com/leadership (Board of Directors section; 7 names total; accessed: July 8, 2016): Elizabeth Holmes ("Founder, CEO, Chairman") | Gen. Jim Mattis | Riley Bechtel (also an investor; joined in March 2014; left in Dec. 2016). theranos.com/leadership (Counselors section; 5 names total; accessed: July 8, 2016): Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | William Perry | Bill Frist | Sam Nunn | Adm. Gary Roughead. The board of counselors was dropped in early 2017, amidst increasing controversy. |
2003-2018 |
| International advisory council, National Bank of Kuwait The first Arab bank in the world to have an IAB. Members: Josef Ackermann | William Rhodes | Martin Feldstein | John Major | Prince Turki al Faisal | Abdlatif Al Hamad, (chair Arab Fund-Kuwait) | Arleigh Burke (chair of strategy CSIS) |
2008 |
| Genie Energy Ltd. 2011 is when the firm became independent. New Jersey-based corporation that develops conventional oil and oil shale projects in the United States, Mongolia, Israel (Golan Heights). Founder: Howard Jonas. Director: Gen. Effie Eitam. Strategic advisory board: Michael Steinhardt (since before Nov. 2010; later chair) | Dick Cheney (since before Nov. 2010) | Lord Jacob Rothschild (since. Nov. 2010) | Rupert Murdoch (since Nov. 2010) | Sen. Mary Landrieu (Sep. 2015-) | James Woolsey (Sep. 2015-) | Larry Summers (Sep. 2015-) | Gov. Bill Richardson (Sep. 2015-). |
2011 |
| Mark 43 mark43.com/about.html (accessed: September 20, 2013): "Over the past two years our software has grown from a Harvard engineering project to a production-level platform deployed throughout the U.S." mark43.com/about/ (accessed: July 8, 2020; "Advisors & Investors"): Gen. David Petraeus (CIA; KKR) | Jeff Bezos | Sophia Bush (actress) | Ashton Kutcher | Vance Serchuk (director KKR) | Jonathan Smidt (investor KKR). |
2011 |
| AT&T Walter Gifford (president 1925-1949) | Vannevar Bush (director 1947-1962) | Winthrop Aldrich | John McCloy | John W. Davis | C. Douglas Dillon | Charles Brown (chair and CEO 1979-1980) | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Henry Schacht | Myron Taylor | Edmund Hawley | Winthrop Aldrich | Thomas Coolidge | James Evans | Walter Page II | Washington SyCip. Bell Labs, subsidiary of AT&T , which ran Sandia National Laboratories from 1949 to 1993: Dr. Oliver Buckley (president 1940-1950, chair 1950-1952) | Robert Dynes (at semi and superconductor department 1964 to 1990) |
1885 |
| Bechtel Group (and foundation) Warren E., Stephen P. Sr., Stephen P. Jr., Riley Bechte1 | John McCone | Edmund Littlefield | Ruben Mettler | Richard Helms (consultant since 1978) | Farouk Mian (low level but ASC advisory boar member) | Walter Wriston (counselor) | Philip Habib (consultant) | George Shultz (president and director 1974-1982, 1989-2006) | Caspar Weinberger (vice president and general counsel 1975-1981) | John Weiser (director and general counsel 1980-1996) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (vice president since 1998) | William C. "Bill" Dudley | Bob Peck | Dan Chao (joined in 1986, executive vice president and managing director) | Judith A. Miller (senior vice president and general counsel) | David O'Reilly (director since 2010) |
1898 |
| TRW, Inc. William Perry (founder and president of ESL 1964-1977, until merged with TRW) | Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (became chair of TRW's STL, consultant to TRW in the 1960s) | Ruben Mettler (executive vice president of TRW's STL, president and COO TRW 1969-1977, chair and CEO 1977-1988, director 1964-1994) | Joseph Gorman (became vice president in 1972, president 1985-1988, chair and CEO 1988-2001)| Lloyd Hand (senior vice president 1970s-1980s; White House connected at the time) | John Stenbit (executive vice president 1977-2001) | George Heilmeier (director since 1992) | Robert Gates (director 1994-2002) | Philip Odeen (1997-2002) | Adm. Bill Studeman (vice president and deputy group manager of TRW 1996-2005) | John S. Foster, Jr. (vice president, Science & Technology -1988, director 1988-1994) | Martin Feldstein (director 1981-1982 and again since 1984 to 2002) | Paul O'Neill (director) | Arthur Money (vice president and deputy general manager of TRW's Avionics and Surveillance Group and at TRW/ESL 1972-1994) | Michael Armacost (director since 1993) | Carl Hahn (director since 1993; chair Volkswagen 1981-1992 and director BP and Thyssen AG) Also: Stanton Friedman (nuclear physicist 1969-1970 at TRW, full time UFO investigator since 1970) |
1901-2002 |
| Booz Allen Hamilton (BAH) Majority owned by Carlyle since 2008. High technology consultancy firm. William Simon (consultant 1970s) | Miles Copeland | James Allen (chair) | James Woolsey (vice president since July 2002 and later senior executive advisor) | Kissinger (founding chair international advisory board (IAB) 1991-; BAH partnered with Kiss. Associates) | Renato Ruggiero (IAB; of Kiss. Associates) | Robert Galvin (founding member IAB) | Peter Wallenberg (founding member IAB) | Dov Zakheim (senior vice president 2004-2010) | Adm. Vernon Clark (advisor) | Philip Odeen (director) | Peter Clare (director; Carlyle) | Ian Fujiyama (director; Carlyle) | Daniel Akerson (director; Carlyle) | Joan Dempsey (executive vice president) | Michael M. Thomas (executive vice president) | Gen. James Clapper (vice president 1997-1998) | Adm. Mike McConnell (since 1996 and rose to vice chair; briefly left to become DNI) | Stephen Kaplan (principal; CIA; vice chair National Intelligence Council) | Enders Wimbush (analyst) | Edward Snowden | Joseph Augustyn (principal) | Lloyd Howell Jr. (CFO and treasurer) |
1914 |
| Merck Historical ties to Rockefeller University for Medical Research, USAMRIDD and MKNAOMI biological warfare research. George W. Merck (of the founding family, president 1925-1950) | Vannevar Bush (director 1949-1957, chair 1957-1962; OSRD) | John T. Connor (OSRD; joined in 1947, CEO 1955-1967, headed Allied Chemical after that) | Kissinger (advisory board) | Niall FitzGerald | Ruben Mettler | Walter Page II | Charles Tillinghast | Anne Tatlock | Raymond Gilmartin | Richard T. Clark (president and CEO) |
1917 |
| Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Governors are the heads of companies as Raytheon, Northrop and Lockheed. Mark Esper (executive vice president 2006-2007) |
1919 |
| ITT Corporation John McCone (director 1965-) | Harold Geneen (president and CEO 1959-1977, chair 1977-1979) | J. Patrick Lannan | Felix Rohatyn | Eugene R. Black | John Hamre. |
1920 |
| Raytheon / RTX Corporation (2023-) Vannevar Bush (founder) | Charles Adams IV (director, president, CEO and chair in period 1938-1997) | Harold Geneen (senior vice president 1956-1959) | Warren Rudman (director 1993-2006) | Gen. John Galvin (director since 1996) | Robin Beard (joined Raytheon as an executive in 1998; congressman and former assistant secretary general of NATO) | Daniel Burnham (CEO 1998-2003, briefly at the company) | John Deutch (director since 1998) | Jamie Gorelick (director 2008-2014) | Adm. Vernon Clark (director 2005-) | Gen. James Cartwright (director 2012-) | Gen. Lloyd Austin (director 2016-) | William Swanson (rose through company ranks, CEO since 2003, chair and CEO since 2004) | Matthew Riddle (president; came from BAE) | Mark Esper (vice president of government relations 2010-). Hughes Aircraft, taken over in 1994: Ruben Mettler (director? 1977-1989). E-Systems, taken over in: William Raborn (director 1970-1990) | Inman (director) | Peter Marino (senior vice president 1991-1996) | A. Lowell Lawson (joined in 1964, president and COO 1989-1994, chair and CEO 1994-1995, chair and CEO Raytheon E-Systems 1995-1998). More: CEO Greg Hayes introduced Raytheon's "anti-racist" 'Stronger Together' program in the summer of 2020. In it, white employees are told to "identify [their] privilege", "step aside" for "marginalized identities" and "give [immigrant ethnicities] the floor in meetings or on calls, even if it means silencing yourself to do so." The program recommends "75 Things White People Can Do for Racial Justice," including backing the "defund the police" movement, "participate in reparations," "decolonize your bookshelf," and "join a local 'white space." Also recommended is the resource "21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge," in which employees are asked to learn about the "weaponization of whiteness," quantify the "racial composition" of their friend groups, and "interrupt the pattern of white silence." |
1922 |
| Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Vincent Vitto (president and CEO) | Robert Hermann (chair 1995-2001) | Gen. John Gordon (chair - CIA and national security background) | Franklin Miller | Robert Gates (director from at least 1993 to 1997) | Ashton Carter |
1932 |
| Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) (JASON-related) James Killian (founder) | William O. Baker (co-founder) | Richard Bissell | William A. M. Burden (trustee) | Chas Freeman (trustee) | Luis Alvarez | Gen. Maxwell Taylor (president 1966-1969) | Gen. Paul Gorman (consultant) | Gen. Larry Welch (president 1990-2004, trustee since then) | Gen. John Galvin (trustee anno 2000) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (president) | Adm. Dennis Blair (president 2004-2009) | David Chu (president since 2009) | Suzanne Woolsey (trustee since 2000, chair since 2010) | Adm. Harry Train (trustee) | Gen. Russell Dougherty (trustee) | John P. White (trustee) | William Press (trustee since 1988, executive committee since 1990) | Robert Worley (research staff) | Samuel Huntington (trustee anno 1999) | Gen. William Smith (former president) Security Policy Advisory Board (SPAB), founded in 1996 at IDA. Advised the National Security Council. Advisory board: Gen. Larry W. (president) | Adm. Thomas A. Brooks. |
1947 |
| RAND Corporation Caryl Haskins (trustee 1955-65, 66-75, adv. trustee since 1988) | Thomas Jones | Rowan Gaither (co-founder and chair; trustee 1948–1959, 1960–1961) | Dr. William Webster (co-founder and chair; trustee 1950-1971) | Franklin Collbohm (co-founder and president, trustee 1948-1967) | Frank Stanton (trustee 1957-1978; advisory trustee 2000s; trustee Rock. Fdn. 1961-72) | Phil Graham (1961-1963; husband of Katharine of the WaPo; died in '63) | William Hewlett (trustee 1962-1972) | J. Paul Austin (chair, trustee 1971-1981) | Julius Stratton (trustee 1955-1965) | Lewis Branscomb (trustee 1972-1982; advisory trustee 2000s) | William T. Coleman Jr. (trustee 1972–1975, 1977–1987; advisory trustee 2000s) | Andrew Marshall (nuclear expert) and protege Robert Worley | Charles Townes (trustee 1965-1970) | Henry Kissinger (consultant 1961-1969) | Walter Wriston (trustee 1973-1983) | George Weyerhaeuser (trustee 1975-1985; advisory trustee 2000s) | Donald Rumsfeld (trustee 1977-2001) | Harold Brown (trustee 1982-2019, emeritus from mid 2000s) | Carla Hills (trustee 1983-1987) | Brent Scowcroft (trustee 1984-1989, 1993-1997; advisory trustee in the 2000s) | Alan Greenspan (trustee 1986-1987) | Walter Mondale (trustee 1991-1993; advisory trustee 2000s) | Condoleezza Rice (trustee 1991-1997) | Paul Volcker (trustee 1993-2000) | Walter Massey (trustee 1983–1991, 1993; advisory trustee 2000s) | Carl Bildt (trustee 2002–2006, again anno 2021) | Frank Carlucci (trustee 2000s, vice chair late 2000s; CMEPP; family granted $10 million to RAND after his death in 2018) | Paul Kaminski (trustee 2000s; chair 2010s) | Jerry Speyer (trustee 2000s) | Rita Hauser (trustee 2000s; CMEPP) | Philip Lader (trustee 2000s, anno 2021; vice chair 2010s) | Paul O'Neill (trustee 2000s-2010s; chair) | Jensen Huang (trustee 2000s; founder, president and CEO NVIDIA Corp.) | Donald Rice (trustees 2000s-2010s) | Ronald Olson (board of overseers for RAND's Institute of Civil Justice 1990-2000; trustee 1994-2001, chair 2001-2004, briefly left, trustee 2005-2016; overlapping directorships Berkshire Hathaway and WaPo) | Timothy Geithner (trustee late 2000s) | Francis Fukuyama (trustee 2010s) | Dick Gephardt (trustee 2010s) | Peter Lowy (trustee late 2000s - anno 2021; son of Frank) | Michael Lynton (trustee 2010s, anno 2021; chair and CEO Sony) | Carlos Slim Helu (trustee 2010s) | Chuck Hagel (trustee anno 2021) | Janet Napolitano (trustee anno 2021) | Karen Elliott House (trustee chair 2009-). Center for Middle East Public Policy (CMEPP): Brzezinski (advisory board chair) | Frank C. | Lester Crown | Hushang Ansary | Stephen Hadley (advisory board chair) | Ryan Crocker (advisory board chair) | Howard Berman (advisory board vice chair anno 2020). Center for Asia Pacific Policy: Robert Hormats (chair advisory board) | Anthony Pritzker (advisory board 2010s). Trustees RAND Europe: Sir John Boyd (anno 2010) | Neil Kinnock (anno 2010) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno 2010). RAND-Qatar Policy Institute Board of Overseers: Mohammad Fathy Saoud (co-chair; president Qatar Fdn.) | Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned (chair Qatar Fdn.) | Sheikh Hamad Bin Faisal Bin Thani Al-Thani of Qatar More names: James Thomson (president and CEO 1989-2011) | Michael Rich (president and CEO 2011-) | James Schlesinger | Fred Ikle | Albert Wohlstetter | Charles J. Hitch | Lord Robin Renwick | Palliser | John P. White (trustee and senior vice president for national security research programs) | Graham Allison | Robert Abernethy | Richard Burt | James Thomson (president) | Jim Steinberg (senior analyst 1989-1993) | David Chu (executive 1991-2001 period) | Richard Solomon (senior fellow since 2012) | Ermarth (strategic and Soviet affairs analyst 1968-1972 and director of strategic programs 1977-1978) | Graham Fuller (political scientist) | Paul Henze (political scientist) | Adm. Harry Train (participated in a few studies) | Enders Wimbush (Soviet specialist 1976-1980) | Zalmay Khalilzad (director of strategy) and wife Cheryl Benard (analyst) | Erik Frinking (13 year veteran RAND Corp., Leiden University) | Spencer Kim (Center for Asia-Pacific Policy) | Leon Goure (top analyst for the Vietnam War who relentlessly pushed bombing policies) | Chung Min Lee (policy analyst 1995-1998) | Sherri Goodman (consultant) | Robert Blackwill (senior fellow 2008-2010). |
1948 |
| General Dynamics Frank Pace, Jr. (CEO 1957-1962) | Henry Crown (bought a controlling share in 1959, CEO 1966-1966, bought back control in 1970) | Lester Crown (president 1953-1966, chair 1970-1983, 1986, director until 2006, after which GD donated $2,5 million dollars to the Crown Center for Middle East Studies) | James Crown (director since 1987) | Maurice T. Moore (director 1962-1972) | Richard Patterson, Jr. (director) | Gen. Bernard Rogers (director) | Cyrus Vance (director) | Adm. William Crowe (director) | Paul Kaminski (director 1997-beyond 2008) | James Beggs (joined in 1974, later executive vice president ) | Ray Cline (risk consultant) | Gen. George Joulwan (director 1998-beyond 2008) | Gen. Jack Keane (director) | Carlucci (director 1991-1997) | Gen. Carl Mundy (director 1998-beyond 2008) | Gen. Jim Mattis (director 2013-2016) | Donald Rumsfeld (consultant 1990s) | James Woolsey (lawyer in the late 1980s-early 1990s). |
1952 |
| Wackenhut Deeply involved in domestic spying and privatized CIA/FBI operations. George Wackenhut (founder) | Gen. Mark W. Clark | Lloyd Wright | Eddie Rickenbacker | Gen. Bernhard Schriever | Carlucci | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | John S. Foster, Jr. | Carol Boyd Hallett | Adm. David Jeremiah (chair since 2002). As an exception, preferred not to make directors available during the early days of the internet. |
1954 |
| MITRE Corporation Set up by MIT, RAND and Ford Fdn. people. James Killian (key founder) | Rowan Gaither (founding chair) | Hap Halligan (founding president; came from: director of military engineering, Bell Labs) | John M. Woolsey, Jr. (co-founder; lawyer) | Dr. William Webster (co-founder; became 2nd chairman in 1960) | Lewis Branscomb | George Heilmeier (trustee) | Charles Townes | James Schlesinger (trustee chair since 1985) | Gen. William Hartzog (advisory board) | Cindy Williams | Jane Garvey | Adm. David Jeremiah | Adm. Giambastiani | Ashton Carter (trustee) | Gen. Paul Gorman | John Hambre | Richard Kerr | Donald Kerr | Gen. Montgomery Meigs | John Stenbit | Vic Demarines (president and CEO 1994-2000) | Martin Faga (president and CEO 2000-2006; director NRO) | Chuck Robb (trustee 2001-, vice chair 2006-2014, chair 2014-) | John Hamre (trustee 2001-2016, chair 2016-2018). More: Michael Chertoff (speaker in '17). |
1958 |
| JASON Group James Killian (co-founder) | Charles Townes (co-founder) | Marvin Goldberger (co-founder) | William O. Baker (co-founder) | Joshua Lederberg | Freeman Dyson | William Nierenberg | Sidney Drell | Luis Alvarez | Lewis Branscomb | Richard Garwin | Murray Gell-Mann | Gordon MacDonald | Dr. Kenneth Watson | William Press (since 1977, chair 1995-1998). Also: Ann Finkbeiner (wrote an official history) | Paul Horowitz | Ronald Pandolfi (known to have initiated a study in 2008). |
1958 |
| Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) James Killian (founder) | John S. Foster, Jr. (missile defense committee) | Gen. Paul Gorman (Army-DARPA) | George Whitesides (defense science research council) |
1958 |
| Aerospace Corporation Gen. Russell Dougherty | William A. M. Burden | James Woolsey (trustee 1982-1989) | Pete Aldridge (president and CEO) | Vincent Vitto (trustee since 2008) | John Stenbit (engineer 1962-1968) |
1960 |
| Logistics Management Institute McNamara (founder) | Joseph Nye (trustee 1997-2009)| Joseph Kasputys (1999-2009) | Paul Kaminski (joined in 2002) |
1961 |
| ManTech International Corporation George Pedersen (founder, CEO and chair since 1968) | Evan Hineman (executive vice president 2001-2004 and president Mantech Security Mission Assurance Corp. and the National Security Solutions Group) | Richard Kerr (director and advisory board member/ chairman since 2002) | Richard Armitage (director since 2005, later advisory board) | Mary K. Bush (advisory board; childhood friend of Condi Rice) | Adm. David Jeremiah (member advisory board since its founding in 2002, chair 2002 for some years, ordinary member again) | Mark Chadason (senior vice president Mission, Cyber and Technology Group; CIA) Board of Aegis Research Corporation, taken over by ManTech's NSSG in 2002: Evan H. (head) | Robert Huffstutler (CEO | Richard K. (director 1996-2002) - all three were top-level CIA guys. Advisory board Aegis: Gen. Lincoln Faurer. |
1968 |
| Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) / Leidos (2013-) Adm. William Raborn (director) | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) (assistant vice president 1979-1989) | Dr. Kenneth Watson (consultant 1981-2004) | John Deutch (director 1980-1993) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (director 1982-2003) | Adm. Harry Train II (manager SAIC's Hampton Roads Operations 1989-2006) | Robert Gates (1993-1994) | Donald Kerr (exec. vice president and director 1993-1996) | Adm. Bill Owens (vice chair SAIC 1996-1997, president and COO 1997-1999) | Glen Howard (research analyst Strategic Assessment Center 1997-2003) | Victor Reis (vice president for strategic planning 1983-1989) | Adm. Richard Mies (senior vice president 2002-2007) | Larry Cox (senior vice president and general manager IIS business unit) | Stuart Shea (CEO) | Gen. John Jumper (director 2007-2018, chair and CEO 2012-2014, chair 2014-2015) | Adm. Normant Saunders (vice president for corporate development) | Fritz Ermarth (part-time senior analyst for its Strategies Group) | James Woolsey (lawyer) | Enders Wimbush (analyst) | Maurice Sovern (consultant, or "senior executive advisor Mission Integration Business Unit") | Patti Benner Antsen (defense analyst) | Leon Goure (director of Soviet studies) | Sherri Goodman (defense analyst) | John Hamre (director 2013-). Pan Heuristics (owned by SAIC): Albert Wohlstetter (founding partner and senior consultant 1974-1997) |
1969 |
| United Technologies Corporation Owns Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky. Robert Knight (counsel to the board 1974-1985) | Haig (president in 1980, in between government jobs - later UTC was the principal client of Worldwide Associates) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (director until 1998) | Robert Hermann (senior vice president for science and technology until 1998) | William Perry (director until 1999) | Gorelick (director since 1999) | Christine Whitman (director since 2003) | Harold McGraw III (director since 2003) | Gen. Richard Myers (director since 2006)| Irving Yoskowitz (executive vice president and general counsel) | James Woolsey (lawyer) | George Whitesides (consultant) |
1975 |
| Technology Strategies & Alliances Original name: H&Q Technology Partners. William Perry (founder and chair 1985-1993) | Paul Kaminski (chair and CEO until 1994) | Adm. David Jeremiah (president since 1994, later CEO, chair and partner - still in 2007) | Conrad Lautenbacher | Howard Schue (partner and executive vice president anno 2013) | |
1985 |
| Defense Group, Inc. (DGI) Directors anno 2000: James P. Wade, Jr. (chair and CEO; under secretary of defense for research and engineering) | James Beggs (NASA head 1981-1985; manager at Westinghouse and General Dynamics) | Richard P. Godwin (under secretary of defense; vice chair and president of Bechtel) | Adm. Thomas Hayward (chief of naval operations; Joint Chiefs) | Wiilaim A. Long (managing director Carlyle). Directors anno 2013: James P. W., Jr. (still chair and CEO) | William Schneider, Jr. (since 2001) | John Stenbit | John Deutch. |
1987 |
| Crescent Investment Management in New York Mansoor Ijaz (founder; close to bin Laden's network in Pakistan and to Pakistan's nuclear elite) | Gen. James Abrahamson (co-founder; close to WTC security) | James Woolsey (vice chair) | Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein (vice chair) | Maurice Sonnenberg (advisory board) |
1991 |
| Northrop Grumman Corporation Thomas Jones (president, chair and CEO Northrop 1952-1990) | Wes Bush (chair and CEO) | Tom Killefer (director) | Adm. Charles Larson (director early 2000s) | Robert W. Helm (corporate vice president governmental relations) | Lewis Coleman | Adm. David Jeremiah | Gen. Richard Myers | Philip Odeen | Ralph Crosby, Jr. (rose to president 1981-2002) | Scott D. White (corporate vice president intelligence programs) | John S. Foster, Jr. (consultant) | Bran Ferren (consultant) | Paul Wolfowitz (consultant 1990s) | Fritz Ermarth (senior technical analyst 1980-1983) | Robert Blackwill (controversial lobbyist in India around 2005-2007). |
1994 |
| Lockheed Martin Lockheed and Martin Marietta merged in 1995. Controls Sandia National Laboratories since 1993. Historic financier of the ASC, AFIO and FARI. Robert E. Gross (president Lockheed 1934-1956) | Roy Anderson (CEO 1977-1985, director until 1990) | William A. M. Burden (director) | Lamar Alexander (director) | Jack Horton (director) | John Swearingen (director) | Warren Christopher (director) | James Day Hodgson (vice president) | John McMahon (exec. VP Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. 1986-1988, president and CEO 1988-1994) | Prince Bernhard (lobbyist) | Yoshio Kodama (lobbyist; Black Dragon & Yakuza) | James Woolsey (lawyer and director Martin Marietta 1989-1991) | Peter Marino (president, COO and senior vice president 1986-1988) | Norman Augustine (vice president of technical operations Martin Marietta since 1977, CEO since 1987 and chair since 1988; founding chair and CEO Lockheed Martin 1996-2005) | Bruce Jackson (vice president for strategy and planning Lockheed 1993-2002)| Sir Anthony Cleaver | Larry Cox (vice president of signals intelligence strategy) | Bran Ferren (consultant) | John Stenbit (consultant) | Leo Mackey (vice president ethics and business conduct) | Robert Blackwill (controversial lobbyist in India around 2005-2007) | Frank Savage (director 1990-2002, when forced to leave over being a director of Enron). Lockheed is owner of Sandia National Laboratories since 1993: John Deutch (director) | James Schlesinger (director) | Al Roming, Jr. (various high level functions) | James Gosler | Miriam E. John. National Security Advisory Panel for Sandia National Laboratories: Michael Bayer | Richard Kerr | James Tegnelia (co-chair) | Elizabeth Stanley | Gen. John Michael Loh | Victor Reis |
1995 |
| Hakluyt company and Hakluyt Foundation Founders: Sir David Spedding (MI6 chief who gave his blessing for the firm) | Christopher James (former MI6 business liaison) | Mike Reynolds (former MI6 station chief in Germany) | Fitzroy MacLean (founding chair/president Hakluyt Fdn.) | Sir Peter Cazalet (co-founder; former deputy chair of BP and director of P&O) | Christopher Wilkins ("the architect and first chairman of Hakluyt"; retired in 1996). June 30, 2003 363S Annual Return form, Hakluyt Foundation (on Shellnews.net website): Sir Ralph Robins (chair) | Lord Robin Renwick of Clifton | Lord Peter Inge (also company adv. board 1999-2004; resigned over conflict interest) | Sir William Purves (company chair 2000-2008; former chair HSBC) | Sir Brian Crossland Cubbon | Lord Alexander James Trotman | Philip John Weston | Dr. Martin Kohlhaussen (chair supervisory board) | Carl Reichardt (US) | Frank Wisner II (US; Rock.-CIA history) | Susan Stafford (secretary). Others: Sir Peter Holmes (president Hakluyt Fdn.; former chair Shell) | Henry Kissinger (adv. board) | Niall FitzGerald (chair 2008-2013; advisory chair 2013-) | Bill Bradley (2005-2010s) | Sir Ralph Robins (chair Rolls Royce) | Minoru Makihara (adv. board; chair Mitsubishi) | Don Argus (chair BHP Billiton) Australia: Philip Morrice (director for Australia) | Sir Rod Eddington (adv. board 2005-) | Alexander Downer (foreign minister; adv. board 2008-). Senior advisors: Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell). |
1995 |
| Blackwater USA / Xe Services / Academi Blackwater USA 1997-2009. Xe Services 2009-2011. Academi 2011-. Used as a CIA front to run the War on Terror assassination program through. Directors: Erik Prince (founder, chair and CEO 1997-2009, chair 2009-2010) | Al Clark (co-founder) | Cofer Black (vice chair 2005-2008) | Buzzy Krongard (advisory board since 2007) | Joseph Yorio (president and CEO Xe) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (director since March 2011) | John Ashcroft (director since March 2011) | Red McCombs (chair since March 2011; billionaire; co-founder and still director Clear Channel Communications, which controls alternative radio show C2C AM) | Joseph E. Schmitz (refused to investigate BW as DOD inspector general 2002-05; then joined Prince Group as general counsel and COO; SMOM) |
1997 |
| Global Technology Partners, LLC Partners: William Perry (founder) | John Deutch (1990s-2010s) | Paul Kaminski (1990s-2010s) | John Stenbit (1990s-2010s) | Robert Hermann (1990s-2010s; NSA/Air Force/NRO) | John P. White (1990s-2010s) | Ashton Carter (1990s-2010s) | George Whitesides. In 2000 a strategic partnership was formed with Rothschild, still headed by Sir Evelyn at that point. |
1997 |
| GlobalOptions Group, Inc. Livingston founded Executive Action in 2007 and soon left the company. Over 2008-2012 only 5 or 6 advisory board members were left, albeit with two big names. In 2012 the company stopped listing its officers. The group seems to have largely died at this point (at the same time as Executive Action), certainly in terms of remaining important names. It became the CoventBridge Group in 2016, but no relevant names by that point anymore. Officers: Neil Livingstone (founding CEO 1998-) | Thomas Ondeck (president Jan. 1999 - still anno Nov. 2005) | Harvey Schiller (chair '03-; adv. board: '02-; major sports CEO; president 2004 NYC Host Committee for the RNC). Advisory board: Neil. L. (anno '05) | Adm. William Crowe (chair anno '02-'07) | James Woolsey (vice chair anno '02- until '07; former CIA director) | William Webster ('03-, still anno '12; former FBI and CIA director) | William Sessions ('04-, still anno '12; former FBI director) | Ambassador Frances Cook (anno '02-'12) | Sir Richard Needham (anno '02-'06) | Congressman Bob Livingston ('02-'06; "established the Livingston Group" after leaving congress in 1999) | Everett Alvarez ('02-'03; former dep. director Peace Corps) | Gen. Charles Vyvyan (anno '02) | Gen. John Tilelli ('02-'04; top general of the Korea War) | Gen. Gordon Sullivan ('02-'04; director Shell Oil) | Rodney Slater ('04-, still anno '12) | Wesley Clark (anno '12; already joined by '06-, but function not clear and not listed) |. Also: Oleg Deripaska (important client of the firm) Source(s): globaloptions.com/ advisory_board.html (accessed: June 13 - Dec. 10, 2002); globaloptions.com/ advisory_board.htm (accessed: Aug. 12, 2003 - Aug. 11, 2006) | globaloptions.com/ Invest_Advisory.htm (accessed: ) | globaloptionsgroup.com/ Index.cfm?PageID=124 (accessed: July 25, 2012). |
1998-2012 |
| In-Q-Tel Founded at the request of CIA director George Tenet to support the CIA in the high-tech arena. Gilman Louie was the founding CEO. Shareholders and voting control: Norman Augustine | Adm. David Jeremiah | Paul Kaminski | William Perry. Other directors ("trustees" by '21, with the "executives" being insignificant names): John Seely Brown (founding 1999-, unknown when left; advisory board Forstmann Little 2000-; technical advisory board Warburg Pincus 1989- ) | Stephen Friedman | Buzzy Krongard (still anno '21) | Jami Miscik (2010- still anno 2023; CEO Kiss. Assoc. 2009-2022) | John McMahon | David McCormick (anno '21; married to Dina Habib Powell) | Adm. Michael Mullen (anno '21) | George Tenet (anno '21) | Howard Cox (anno '21) | Anita Jones (anno '21). |
1999 |
| European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) Jean-Claude Trichet (director since 2012) | Sean O'Keefe (CEO EADS North America) | Evan Galbraith (director Groupe Lagardere, which controls EADS with Daimler Benz) | Ralph Crosby, Jr. (North American chair since 2002) |
2000 |
| Paladin Capital Group Suzanne (minor function) and James Woolsey (chair strategic advisory group) | Richard A. Clarke | Gen. Wesley Clark | Bran Ferren | |
2001 |
| Los Alamos National Security, LLC (manages the nuclear site) Founding partners: Bechtel, University of California (Caltech), Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services, and URS Energy and Construction. Norman Pattiz (chair board of governors) | Adm. Richard Mies (independent governor) Advisory board Los Alamos National Laboratory: Richard Kerr (also at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) |
2006 |
| Monument Capital Group Douglas B. Baker (co-founder, another son of James B. III, seven years younger than James B. IV). Management board: James Rothschild (protege of Jacob and Nat Rothschild). Four-member advisory board: James Baker III, Thomas McLarty III, Frank Carlucci, Mustafa Koc. Operating advisors: Thomas Malatesta |
2007 |
| Private Security Company Association of Iraq (PSCAI) Some of the companies who were members in this period: Aegis Defence Services, founded in 2002: Lord Inge (chair) Tim Spicer (founder and CEO) | Nicholas Soames (director and later chair) | Gen. Sir Roger Wheeler | Sir John Birch | Robert McFarlane Armor Group: Sir Malcolm Rifkind (non-exec. chairman) | Noel Philp (CEO since 2002) | Laura Dietrich (unknown work) Blackwater USA, founded in 1997: Erik Prince (founder and chair) | Cofer Black (vice chair 2005-2008; head of the CIA's Counter-Terrorist Center (CTC)) | Robert Richer (vice-president for operations) | Enrique Prado (vice president for special government programs; CIA Counter-Terrorist Center (CTC) operations chief) | Buzzy Krongard (Blackwater advisory board; CIA contact with Blackwater until 2004; CIA executive director) New Bridge Strategies, founded in May 2003: Mike Baker (CEO) | John Howland (president) | Ed Rogers | Lanny Griffith | Neil Bush (consultant) Diligence, LLC, founded in July 2003 in Baghdad: William Webster (founder, chair advisory board '03-, still anno '05, (regular?) member of the advisory board anno '07) | Richard Burt (founding chair '03-, executive chair anno '06, gone by late '06 to mid '07) | Mike Baker (CIA ops officer; founder, CEO 2003-2005) | Nick Day (founding partner, CEO anno '06; "former officer of ... MI5 and a member of the U.K. Special Boat Service (SBS)...") | Joe Allbaugh (FEMA head February 2001-March 2003)| Ed Rogers (vice chair anno '03, advisory board anno '06) | Lord Charles Powell of Bayswater ("senior advisory board" '03-, until at least '07) | Arnaud de Borchgrave ("senior advisory board" '03-, until at least '07) | Edward J. Mathias ("senior advisory board" '03-, until at least '06; managing director Carlyle) | Thomas McLarty III (advisory board anno '06) | Robert Blackwill (advisory board '06'07) | Lord Michael Howard (advisory board anno '07) | Whitley Bruner (former CIA station chief in Bagdad) | Haley Barbour | Thomas H. Boggs. Jr. (son of the Warren Commissioner) | Prince Michel Karadordevic of Yugoslavia (senior advisor Geneva office) Source(s): diligencellc.com/staff.html (accessed: June 22, 2003); diligencellc.com/sab2.html (accessed: April 16, 2003 - March 10, 2005); diligencellc.com/index.cfm ?fuseaction=section.home&id=14 (accessed: June 16, 2006 - August 16, 2007). DynCorp, founded in 1946 (sold to CSC in 2003 and far less stable leadership since then. Still has a role in the war against drugs): Eugene Blanchard (vice president and CFO 1979-1997, director 1997-2003) | Daniel R. Bannister (president and CEO 1985-1997, chairman 1997-2003) | Paul V. Lombardi (president and CEO 1997-2003) | Paul Kaminski (director 1988-2002 - not mentioned on site, only in annual/SEC reports) | Gen. Russell Dougherty (director 1988-2001) | James Woolsey (director 1988-1989) | Michael P. C. Carns (director since 2000) | Michael Bayer (2006-2010) | Gen. Barry McCaffrey (director, certainly in 2006-2010 period) Erinys, founded in 2003 (DSL spin-off): SAS gen. John Holmes | Alastair Morrison (executive 2003-2004, rejoined in 2008; SAS, co-founder Delta Force) | Lord Westbury (chair) Hart Group, founded in 1999 (DSL spin-off - today owns Erinys): Lord Westbury (chair) | Alastair Morrison (director) Kroll Associates, founded in 1972: Jules Kroll (founder and head) | Michael Cherkasky | Brian Michael Jenkins | Alastair Morrison (became head Kroll Security Group in 2004) | Aldwin Wight (Kroll Security Group) | Mark Blagbrough (Kroll Security Group) | Maurice & Jeffrey Greenberg (CIA; important shareholders 1997-2004) | Hugh E. Price [CIA; director since Oct. 1996] | Raymond Mabus (director Nov. 1996) | William Sessions [FBI chief; director since Nov. 1996]. |
2004-2011 |
| ExecutiveAction, LLC In the years before founding this firm, Neil, James, William and Sir Richard all sat on the board of the GlobalOptions Group. Executive Action stopped making news updates after Feb. 2012. The senior advisory board always had the same make up. The "/ea" location after 2013 likely also indicates that by this time the company ceased to exist, which is at the same time that GlobalOptions seemed to lose its last remaining top advisors. Officers: Neil Livingstone (founding chair and CEO '06-) Senior advisory board: James Woolsey (advisory board chair anno Jan. '08-'16) | William Sessions (advisory board vice chair anno Feb. '08-'16) | Sir Richard Needham (anno Feb. '08-'16) | Celia Sandys (anno Feb. '08-'16) | Adm. James Stark (anno Feb. '08-'16). Source(s): executiveaction.com/ executives (accessed: Jan. 12, 2008) | executiveaction.com/ advisoryboard (accessed: Feb. 13, 2008) | executiveaction.com/ seniorboard (accessed: Dec. 13, 2012) | executiveaction.com/ ea/seniorboard.html (accessed: June 12, 2016). |
2006-2012 |
| Flynn Intel Group Co-founders: Gen. Mike Flyn and son Michael G. Flynn | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (company registered at his home) | Bijan Rafiekian. |
2014-2016 |
Liberal (mainly): "independent" national security committees and advisory panels to all intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and State Department
| Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (AFSAB) No major names in recent years. Historical: Theodore von Karman (chair 1944-1954, chair emeritus until 1963) | Gen. Curtis Lemay (military director 1946-1947) | Gen. Jimmy Doolittle (chair 1955-1958) | John S. Foster, Jr. (member until 1956) | Edward Teller | Detlev Bronk | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Gen. Robert Dickman | Gen. James McCarthy | Antonio Pensa | Gen. Theodore Milton | William Swanson | John Gardner |
1946 |
| National Security Agency Advisory Board (NSAAB) Members are officially listed as classified. John C. McPherson (IBM) | John von Neumann | Dr. Howard T. Engstrom (Engineering Research Associates, Remington Rand) | Dr. William O. Baker (president Bell Labs) | Adm. Joseph Wenger | Michael P. C. Carns | Richard Kerr | John Stenbit | Francis Landolf | Patrick Swygert | Bran Ferren | Larry Cox | Ruth A. David. More: Zoe Baird (part of a sub-panel called the "Cyber Awareness and Response Panel" in 2010-2011). |
1953 |
| 5412 Special Group (government body; later 303 and 40 Committee) | 1954 |
| American Astronautical Society (AAS) Senior fellows: Gen. James Abrahamson | Buzz Aldrin | Neil Armstrong | Norman Augustine | William Ballhaus, Jr | Lloyd Berkner | Arthur C. Clarke | Jimmy Doolittle | Gen. Walter Dornberger | John S. Foster, Jr. | Donald Menzel | William Perry | Simon Ramo | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Wernher von Braun | James E. Webb |
1954 |
| Army Science Board Relatively low level. Michael Bayer | Elizabeth Stanley | James Tegnelia (chair) | Gen. David Maddox | Bran Ferren | Bruce Tarter | John S. Foster, Jr. | Gregory Canavan |
1954 |
| President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) / President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) Advisory board on intelligence to the U.S. president, serving as an additional, private sector voice based on information coming from the various intelligence agencies. Abolished from May 1977 to October 1981, the idea being that the three-member IOB - which is mainly focused on assassing the legality of CIA operations - would suffice. In October 1981 Reagan reestablished the PFIAB, in which the chairman of the IOB would automatically also be a member of the PFIAB. Members who joined in the 1950s: James Killian (initial chair 1956-1958, member until Jan. 1960, again chair 1961-1963, ceased being a member right after) | Jimmy Doolittle (1956–1964) | Gen. John B. Hull (initial board) | Joe Kennedy (initial board Jan. - July 1956) | Gen. Omar Bradley (initial board in 1956 only) | David Bruce (1956–1957) | Robert Lovett (initial board 1956-1961) | William O. Baker (1959–1977, 1981–1990; Bell Labs). Members who joined in the 1960s: Clark Clifford (1961-1963, chair 1963-1968) | Frank Pace, Jr. (member 1961-1973) | Gen. Maxwell Taylor (May-June 1961, 1965-1970) | Edwin Land (member 1961-1977) | Gordon Gray (1961–1977) | Adm. George Anderson Jr. (1969-, still anno 1977) | Nelson Rockefeller (1969-1974). EXTRA: J. Patrick Coyne (executive secretary 1969, but also earlier under Ike, JFK and LBJ [1]; tied to Nelson) Members who joined in the 1970s: Gov. John Connally (Dec. 1970 - Jan. 1971, Aug. 1972 - Jan. 1975, March 1976 - unknown) | Edward Teller (1971-1977) | John S. Foster Jr. (1973-1977, 1981-1990; TRW) | Clare Booth Luce (1973–1977, 1981–1987) | Leo Cherne (1973–1976, chair March 1976 - May 1977, founding vice chair upon the reboot 1981–1990) | Robert Galvin (1973-1977; Motorola) | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer (1976-1977) | George Shultz (1974-1976) | William Casey (1974-1976) | Members who joined in the 1980s: Glenn Campbell (member 1981-1990) | Alfred Bloomingdale (1981-1982) | Anne Armstrong (founding chair upon reboot 1981-1990) | David Abshire (1981-1982) | Adm. Thomas Moorer (1981-) | Ross Perot (1981-) | Gen. Norman Wood (executive director 1982-1984) | Alan Greenspan (1982–1985) | Gen. Bernard Schriever (Reagan and Bush years) | Henry Kissinger (1984-1990) | Albert Wohlstetter (1985-1988) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (1985-1990) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (1987-1989) | Caspar Weinberger (1987-1988). Members who joined in the 1990s (incomplete): John Tower (chair 1990-1991) | Michael Swetnam (special consultant 1990-1992) | John Deutch (1990–1993) | Adm. Bobby Inman (acting chair 1991-1993) | Adm. William Crowe Jr. (chair 1993-1994) | Les Aspin (chair 1994-1995) | Robert Hermann (1993-2001) | Sidney Drell (1993–2001) | Maurice Sonnenberg | Les Aspin (chair 1994-1995) | Zoe Baird (1994–2000) | Warren Rudman (chair 1995-1996 and 1997-2001 ) | Thomas Foley (chair 1996-1997) | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt (1996–2000). Members who joined in the 2000s: Brent Scowcroft (chair Oct. 5, 2001 - Feb. 25, 2005) | Pete Wilson (2001-2003) | Philip Zelikow (2001–2003, 2011–2013) | Adm. David Jeremiah (2001–2010) | Stephen Friedman (chair Dec. 2005 - Oct. 2009; partner Goldman Sachs 1973-, co-COO 1987-1990, chair and co-chair 1990-1994, director 2005-; senior principal Marsh & McLennan Capital Corp. 1998-2002) | Ray L. Hunt (Texas oil) | Rita Hauser | Arnold Kanter (national security official in the elder Bush's administration and a founding member of the Scowcroft Group) | Martin Feldstein (2007-2008) | Paul Kaminski (2009–2013). Members who joined in the 2010s: Sen. Chuck Hagel (co-chair 2009-2013) | Sen. David Boren (co-chair 2009–2013) | Lee Hamilton | Rita H. | Jami Miscik (co-chair 2014-2017) | Shirley Ann Jackson (co-chair 2014-2017; black physicist) | Mike Morell (2013-2014) | Gen. John Abizaid (2016-) | Philip Z. | Sen. Chuck Robb | Adm. Mike McConnell | Steve Feinberg (chair 2018-; Jewish billionaire who founded Cerberus Capital Management, which owned DynCorp, and also Tier 1 Group, which in 2017 provided paramilitary and surveillance training to 4 Saudis who in 2018 kidnapped and murdered Jamal Khashoggi, and in general do kidnapping and torture for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman) | Safra Catz (2018-; Jewish billionaire) | Jim Donovan (2018-; vice chair of Global Client Coverage at GS) | Charles E. Allen (Feb. 2019-; CIA veteran tied to Oliver North, Continuity of Government and Iran Contra; Al Qaeda hunter who served as Assistant Director of Central Intelligence (ADCI) for Collection from June 1998 until June 2005; under secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis 2005-2009). Members who joined in the 2020s: Gilman Louie (May 2022-; Asian American; founding CEO of the CIA's technology investment firm In-Q-Tel 1999-) | Adm. Sandy Winnefeld (May 2022-) | Janet Napolitano (May 2022-) | Richard Varma (May 2022-; Indian with a background at MasterCard, the Asia Group and at Albright Stonebridge Group) | Anne Finucane (Oct. 2022; vice chair of Bank of America and chair of the board of Bank of America Europe) | Margaret Hamburg (Jan. 2023-; formerly Rock. Fdn.) | Kim Cobb (Jan. 2023-; climate scientist) | Kneeland Youngblood (Jan. 2023-; old anti-Apartheid activist) Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB), a three-member panel part of PIAB and founded in March 1976 in response to the Church Committee which documented countless CIA abuses: Leo C. (1976–1977) | Thomas Farmer (chair 1977-1981; CIA covert operations veteran who was an advisor to the JFK presidential campaign and became general counsel USAID 1964-1968) | William Scranton (May 1977 - Jan. 1981) | Al Gore (May 1977 – Jan. 1981) | W. Glenn Campbell (chair 1981-) | Charles Tyroler (1981-; also director CPD) | Glenn C. (appointed chair in 1980; member until 1990) | Adm. David J. (2003-2009) | Jami M. (2009–2015) | David B. | Chuck H. (chair). Source(s): [1] March 24, 1969, 'Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents'; Remaining: March 1977, CIA document with all past members and dates 1956-1977 (Document); Oct. 20, 1981, White House press conference (Document); obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/ administration/eop/piab/members (accessed: Oct. 8, 2023; also lists IOB members). |
1956 |
| Defense Science Board (DSB) Dr. Kenneth Watson | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Sidney Drell (1974-1976) | Norman Augustine (chair 1981-1983, later RDT & E strategy integration) | John S. Foster, Jr. (chair 1990-1993) | Ashton Carter (1991-1993, 1997-2001) | Paul Kaminski (chairman 1993-1994, again since 2009, member in between) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (1997 summer study) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (1997-1999) | Joseph Nye (pre-1996-1998) | Robert Mueller (pre-1996-2000) | Joshua Lederberg (1999-2005) | Gen. Russell Dougherty | William Perry | Albert Wohlstetter (member 1986-1992) | Phillip Odeen (pre-1996-2006) | Adm. David Jeremiah | Gen. Paul Gorman (consultant) | John Stenbit (pre-1998-2013) | Adm. Bill Studeman (pre-1996-2008) | William Taft IV (1998-1999) | Gen. John Vessey (1997-1999) | Martin Faga (pre-1996-2000) | Donald Kerr (pre-1996-2000) | Brent Scowcroft (1999-2000) | Dov Zakheim (1999-2000) | Gen. Larry Welch (since 1997) | Vincent Vitto (vice chair) | Gen. Russell Dougherty | Gen. William Hartzog (2002-2009) | Ruth A. David | Zoe Baird | James P. Wade, Jr. (vice chair) | Gen. James McCarthy | Antonio Pensa | Judith A. Miller | Arthur Money | William Schneider, Jr. (chair 2000-2009) | John Deutch (since 2010) | James Gosler (since 2010) | Miriam E. John (since 2010) | James Schlesinger (co-chair) | Robert Hermann (from 1985 until beyond 2013) | George Heilmeier | Peter Marino | James Tegnelia | Howard Schue (studies) | Michael P. C. Carns | Adm. Richard Mies (task force member on nuclear surety) | Adm. Harry Train (Task Force on Information Warfare Defense) | Michael Swetnam (task force member). 2006 board (13 members): Michael Bayer (chair) and represented were SAIC, Raytheon, CSIS, IDA, RAND, Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. |
1956 |
| NRO Technical Advisory Group Adm. David Jeremiah | Deutch | Paul Kaminski | William Press | Bran Ferren | Robert Dickman | Vincent Vitto | James Frey | John Stenbit | Gen. Robert Dickman | Robert Hermann (former NRO head) | Michael Swetnam |
1961 |
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) John McCloy (founder) | Richard Barnet (aide to John M. in 1961-1962; rebelled) | Albert Wohlstetter | Sidney Drell (consultent 1969–1981) | Fred Ikle (head 1973-1977) | Paul Warnke (director/head 1977-1978) | Eugene Rostow (head 1981-1983) | Ronald Lehman II (head 1989-1993) | Henry Kissinger (consultant 1961-1968) | Joseph Churba (advisor 1981-1982) | John N. Moore (consultant) | Keith Payne (consultant). General Advisory Committee of the ACDA 1962-1994 (absorbed in 1994 by the PSPAC): Peter Peterson (anno 1970) | Harold Brown (anno 1970) | John McC. (anno 1970) | Sen. William Scranton (anno 1970) | Dean Rusk (anno 1970) | C. Douglas Dillon (anno 1970) | James Killian (anno 1970) | William Casey (anno 1970) | Henry K. (anno 1970) | Cyrus Vance (anno 1970) | Brent Scowcroft (-1982) | McGeorge Bundy (-1982) | John Roche (1982-) | Donald Rumsfeld (1982-). |
1961 |
| Warren Commission Members: Earl Warren (chair) | Allen Dulles | John McCloy | Gerald Ford | Sen. Richard Russell | Sen. John Sherman Cooper | Hale Boggs. Assistant counsel: William T. Coleman Jr. Senior counsel: Joseph A. Ball (chief organizer of all incoming police, FBI and CIA information and chief author Warren report; later a lawyer for key Watergate figure John Ehrlichman and lawyer for Adnan Khashoggi 1980-1982) |
1963 |
| Task Force 157 Paul Nitze | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Edwin Wilson. |
1966 |
| Public Advisory Committee on Trade Policy (PACTP) Founder: LBJ. Members: David Rockefeller | Rudolph Peterson | Armand Hammer | Jack Valenti | Arthur Watson | Sidney Weinberg | George Meany (president AFL-CIO). Liaison as Special Representative for Trade Negotiations: William M. Roth. |
1968 |
| Scientific Advisory Group, Joint Strategic Targeting and Planning Staff Meetings at Offutt AFB. All approved by secretary of defense. Fred A. Payne (chair; Martin Marietta) | James Woolsey (1987-1988) |
1968 |
| U.S. Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group, Offutt AFB Gen. Larry Welch (since pre-1996) | Vic Demarines (since 2003) | Victor Reis (since 2000) | John Stenbit (since 2004) | James Woolsey (2006-2010) | Joan Dempsey (since 2010) | Eric Edelman (since 2009) | Adm. Richard Mies (since 2012) | Franklin Miller (Scowcroft Group) | Gen. James McCarthy | Gregory Canavan (chair) | Keith Payne (chair) | Antonio Pensa |
1968 |
| Executive Panel, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Albert Wohlstetter (1971-1997) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (executive secretary) | Fred Ikle (since 1970s) | Morton Abramowitz (1997-1998) | Kenneth DeGraffenreid | David Abshire | James Woolsey (1980-1992, CIA director 1993-1995, served again from 1996 until today) | Joshua Lederberg (pre-1996-2008) | William Press (1994-2000) | Phillip Odeen (pre-1996-2012) | Richard Solomon (pre-1996-2012) | Dov Zakheim (since 2004) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (pre-1996-2012) | Michael Bayer (since 2006) | William Luti | Eli S. Jacobs | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis (pre-1996-2012) | Lloyd Hand (1998-2005) | Bran Ferren (since 2000) | Paul Bracken | Walter Morrow | John Egan | Jerry MacArthur Hultin |
1970 |
| Professional Services Council Anno 2014 emeriti directors: George Pedersen | Philip Odeen (former chair around 1990) | Earle Williams. Michael Stolarik (not listed, but also a past director) |
1972 |
| Citizens' Commission on Science, Law, and the Food Supply Commissioned by 1969-1973 FDA head Charles Edwards. Headquartered at Rockefeller University. Members: Dr. Frederick Seitz (chair; president Rock. University) | Dr. George Harrar (past president and then life fellow Rock. Fdn.) | Dr. Channing Lushbough (assoc. dir. Consumers Union) | Laurence Wood and Daniel O'Keefe (presidents Food and Drug Law Inst.) | Dr. Allen Barnes (vice president Rock. Fdn.) | John Bowers (president Josiah Macy Fdn.) | Dr. H. E. Carter (president National Science Board) | Dr. William Darby. Planning Panel: Dr. Joshua Lederberg. Financiers: Rock. Fdn. Source(s): March 21-22, 1977, U.S. Congress: House, 'Proposed Saccharin Ban, Oversight', pp. 518-519 (members); 1975 annual report, Rock. Fdn., p. 21.: "Citizens' Commission on Science, Law and the Food Supply, New York, for orderly termination of its activities. $5,000." |
1973-1975 |
| Advisory Group on Electron Devices (DOD committee) Gen. Paul X. Kelley | William Schneider, Jr. |
1974 |
| Naval Studies Board (NSB) John Stenbit |
1974 |
| United States President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States (Rockefeller Commission) Prelimiray look at the JFK assassination, MK-ULTRA and Mockingbird. Nelson Rockefeller | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer | Ronald Reagan | C. Douglas Dillon. |
1975 |
| United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee) Sen. Frank Church (chair) | Walter Mondale | Gary Hart | John Tower | Howard Baker |
1975 |
| Outer Continental Shelf Policy Committee (OCSPC) Linked to oil and gas retrieval. James Woolsey (member anno 2005) |
1975 |
| Defense Intelligence Agency Advisory Board (DIAAB) No major names, certainly not civilian. Adm. Bill Studeman (pre-1996-2008) | Gen. Larry Welch (pre-1996-2000) |
1977 |
| Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Advisory board: Herman Kahn (anno 1982) | Brent Scowcroft (anno 1984) | Samuel Huntington (anno 1984) | Paul Nitze (anno 1984) | Edward Teller (anno 1984) | Dr. William O. Baker (anno 1984; chair Bell Labs) | Dr. Eugene Wigner (anno 1984) | Robert Everett (anno 1984; president MITRE) | Alexander Flax (anno 1984; president emeritus IDA) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (anno 1984; president IDA) | Gen. Glenn Kent (anno 1984; RAND Corp.). |
1979 |
| Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) Frances Townsend (chair) | Adm. Mike McConnell (chair) | John Brennan (chair) | John Negroponte | Timothy Reardon (Lockheed) | Scott White (Northrop Grumman) | Dewey Houck (Boeing) | Robert Griffin (IBM) | Jim Allen (Booz Allen Hamilton) | Lynn Dugle (Raytheon) | DeEtte Gray (BAE Systems) | Bernard Guerry (General Dynamics) | Al Munson (Potomac Institute | Michael Johnson (Homeland Security) | Barbara McNamara (NSA) | Aris Pappas (Microsoft) | Michael Rodrigue (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency) | Stuart Shea (SAIC) | David Shedd (DIA) | Adm. Bill Studeman (Northrop Grumman) | Michael M. Thomas (Booz Allen Hamilton) | Adm. Thomas A. Brooks (past director) | Gen. James Clapper (visitor and expert) |
1979 |
| President's Commission on Executive Exchange Mission: "Promotes mutual understanding and cooperation between American business and the Federal Government." Members: James Burke (chair; chair and CEO Johnson & Johnson) | James Baker III | Samuel Armacost | Thornton Bradshaw | Willard Butcher | William P. Clark | Ruben Mettler | Donald Regan | David Rockefeller | John Whitehead. Companies represented: Chase, GS, GM, IBM, United Technologies, Westinghouse, NYSE, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, RCA, Price Waterhouse, Time, Equitable Life, Xerox, PepsiCo, Manufacturers Hanover, Texaco, TRW, Litton Industries, US Steel. |
1981 |
| National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) James Olsen (-'88; chair and CEO AT&T) | Robert Allen ('89-; chair and CEO AT&T) | John Stankey | Ms. Renee James (chair; Carlyle, Vodafone, Citigroup, Oracle) | Scott Charney (vice chair; Microsoft) | David DeWalt (17-year CEO of McAfee) | Christopher Young (CEO McAfee) | Kay Sears (Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company) | Jeffrey Storey (L3 Communications) | John Stratton (Verizon). Not top-level. |
1982 |
| National Bipartisan Commission on Central America See Latin America section. |
1983-1984 |
| President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission) Members: Brent Scowcroft (chair) | James Woolsey | John Deutch | Alexander Haig | Richard Helms | William Perry | Nicholas Brady. Senior counselors: Harold Brown | Lloyd Cutler | Henry Kissinger | Melvin Laird | John McCone | Donald Rumsfeld | James Schlesinger. |
1983 |
| Defense Policy Board (DPB) Gen. Peter Dawkins | Graham Allison (from the 1980s to late 1990s) | Armitage (1990s) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (1995-) | Nye (1996-2000, since 2009) | Robert Zoellick (1997-2000, 2006-2007) | Paul Wolfowitz (1997-2000) | Adm. Bill Owens (1997-2003) | Richard Haass (1997-2000) | Maurice Greenberg (1997-2000) | Norman Augustine (1997-2000) | Richard Burt (1997-2000) | Ashton Carter (1997-2000) | Stephen Hadley | Henry Kissinger (since 2001, renewed anno 2017) | James Schlesinger (since 2001) | Brent Scowcroft (since 2009) | George Shultz (Nov. 2001-) | Pete Wilson (Nov. 2001-) | Martin Anderson (Nov. 2001-) | Richard V. Allen (Nov. 2001-) | James Woolsey (2001-2005) | Richard Perle (1996-2005, also chair 2001-2003) | Devon Gaffney Cross (2001-2008) | Newt Gingrich (2001-2010) | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Thomas Foley | fred Ikle | Adm. David Jeremiah (1997-2005) | Gary Hart | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (2001-2005) | Chuck Hagel | Eli S. Jacobs | Eliot Cohen (2001-2006) | William Perry (since 2007, renewed in 2017) | John Hamre (chair) | Gen. Peter Pace (2007-2011) | Harold Brown | Adm. Vernon Clark (2006-2011) | Gen. Jack Keane | Gen. Larry Welch (since 2009) | Col. John Nagl | Robert Kaplan | Robert Gallucci | Rudy de Leon | Stephen Biddle | Madeleine Albright (renewed anno 2017) | Gorelick (2011-2013) | Gen. Richard Myers (2006-2010) | Sam Nunn (since 2009) | Dan Quayle (2001-2005) | Walter Slocombe (2002-2004) | Barry Blechman | Franklin Miller | Jane Harman | Michael Armacost | Jeane Kirkpatrick (1985-1993) | John S. Foster, Jr. (since 2010) | Thomas Donilon | Kurt Campbell | Aaron Friedberg | David McCormick (2017-; married Dina Habib Powell) | Eric Cantor (2017-). |
1985 |
| Chemical Warfare Commission (CWC) Brzezinski (member 1986-1987) |
1985 |
| Report of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Overseas Security Inman (chair) | Eagleburger | Warren Rudman | Anne Armstrong |
1985 |
| President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission) Established after the Pentagon had grossly overpaid for a wide variety of item, including $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat and $7,000 for a coffee pot. David Packard (chair) | Nicholas Brady | Louis Cabot | Frank Carlucci | William Clark, Jr. | Barber Conable | Paul Gorman | Carla Hills | James Holloway III | William Perry | Brent Scowcroft | James Woolsey |
1985-1986 |
| Independent committee on U.S.-Mexican relations (exact name unknown) William B. Rogers (co-chair) | Sen. Hugo Margain (co-chair) | Lawrence Eagleburger | Robert McNamara | Carlos Fuentes | Mario Ojeda (president Colegio de Mexico) | Ernesto Fernandez Hurtado (director Central Bank of Mexico) | Fernando Canales Clariond (Monterrey businessman). Source: Sep. 10, 1986, L.A. Times. |
1986-1988 |
| NASA Advisory Council Daniel J. Fink (chair; of GE) | John Warner (1996-1998; CEO Boeing) | Freeman Dyson (2001-2003) | Sen. Jake Garn (2001-2003) | Sen. John Glenn (2002-2006) | Gen. James Abrahamson (2005-2009; of SDI) | Neil Armstrong (2005-2007) | Susan Eisenhower (1999-2002)| Stephen Katz (2005-2009) | NASA Federal Laboratory Review Task Force: John S. Foster, Jr. (chair) |
1987 |
| Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (CILTS) Albert Wohlstetter (co-chair) | Anne Armstrong | Brzezinski | William Clark | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Adm. James Holloway | Samuel Huntington | Kissinger | Joshua Lederberg | Gen. Bernard Schriever | Gen. John Vessey |
1988 |
| Advisory Committee on the Future of the United States Space Program Norman Augustine (chair) | Laurel Wilkening (vice chair; provost University of Washington) | Edward Aldridge (president McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company) | James Baker III | Robert Herres (former commander of the United States Space Command) | Thomas Paine (former NASA administrator) |
1990 |
| Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB) Known from 1978 to 1990 as the Energy Research Advisory Board (ERAB). Sidney Drell (1978-1980). Ken Lay (founding member 1990-, chair and CEO of Enron) | Richard Stegemeier (founding member 1990-; Unocal president) | Walter Massey (chair in the 1990s; BP, Bank of America, MacDonalds) | Robert Galvin (member and chaired a 1994-1995 commission) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (appointed in Dec. 1998) | Marie-Josie Kravis (appointed in Dec. 1998) | Peter Bijur (appointed in Dec. 1998; chair of Texaco) | Lee Raymond (anno 2003-2004) | Joseph Kennedy II (anno 2003-2004) | James P. Hoffa (anno 2003-2004) | Norman Augustine (since 2010 | John Deutch (since 2010) | William Perry (since 2010) | Bruce Tarter |
1978 / 1990 |
| James Madison Council The Library of Congress' national private-sector advisory group. Council members have given at least $1 million. Officers: James Billington (founder; librarian of Congress since 1987) | John Kluge (founding chair) | Roger Hertog (founding council member) | Ray Smith (long-time founding council member; chair Rothschild, North America) | David Rubenstein (long-time founding council member) | John Thain | Laura Bush (visitor) | Henry Kissinger (visitor) John W. Kluge Center, founded in 2000: George Shultz was a Henry K. lecture speaker. |
1990 |
| Director's Advisory Committee, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sidney Drell (1991-1993) |
Pre-1991 |
| Managing the Nation’s Defense Industrial Strength in a Changing Security Environment Produced the Oct. 1991 paper 'American Military Power: Future Needs, Future Choices', which was chartered by Jack Gibbons, director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA). Advisory Panel: Walter Slocombe (chair) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | John Mearsheimer | Joseph Nye | William Perry | Adm. Harry Train | Gen. John Vessey Jr. |
1991 |
| CIA's Intelligence Technology Innovation Center (ITIC) Sidney Drell (chair Senior Review Board 2001-2002). |
Unknown-2007 |
| Vice President's [Post Cold War] Space Policy Advisory Board Gen. James Abrahamson | John S. Foster, Jr. | Daniel J. Fink | Pete Aldridge |
1992 |
| Defense Trade Advisory Group, State Department William Schneider, Jr. (chair 1992-2010 and only high level member in this period; continued as ordinary board member). Other members: varying representatives of Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Lockheed, Northrop, SAIC and other defense contractors. |
1992 |
| Secretary of State's International Security Advisory Board Formerly the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Advisory Board. Gen. Larry Welch (1993-2001) | Richard Garwin (chair, 1993-2001) | Gary Hart (chairman, since 2013) | Graham Allison (since 2011) | Ashton Carter (2006-2008) | Robert Gallucci (since 2011) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (since 2011) | William Perry (since 2011) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2006-2009) | Chuck Robb (2006-2008) | James Schlesinger (2006-2009) | William Schneider (2006-2008) | Brent Scowcroft (since 2011) | Walter Slocombe (since 2011) | William Van Cleave (2006-2009) | Adm. Giambastiani (2008-2009) | Paul Wolfowitz (2008-2009) | James Woolsey (2006-2009) Maintaining U.S.-China Strategic Stability (study initiated in 2011). |
Pre-1993 |
| Potomac Institute for Policy Studies (PIPS) Michael Swetnam (founder, chair and CEO; worked for CIA directors William C. and William W. 1986-1990) | Gen. Al Gray (chair, also senior fellow and management board member) | Donald Kerr | Francis Landolf | Robert Worley (senior research fellow) | Howard Schue (director) | James Beggs (chaired a 1997 study) |
1994 |
| U.S. Agency for Global Media Broadcasting Board of Governors. name change in August 2018 to United States Agency for Global Media. Oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. Governors (presidential appointments; secretaries of state left out): Kenneth Weinstein (2013-2017, chair 2017-2020) | Walter Isaacson (2010-2012) | Enders Wimbush (2010) | Amanda Bennett (CEO anno 2022; wife of WaPo publisher Donald Graham). Board for International Broadcasting, overseeing Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (founded in 1973): David Abshire (1st chair 1974-1977) | Steve Forbes (chair 1985 - about 1993). |
1994 |
| President's Advisory Board on Arms Proliferation Policy Ronald Lehman (founding member) | Paul Warnke. |
1995 |
| Commission on Roles and Capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community Les Aspin (chair) | Warren Rudman (vice chair) | Gen. Lew Allen (director NSA) | Zoe Baird | Ann Caracristi (dep. director NSA) | Stephen Friedman (senior chair Goldman Sachs) | Paul Wolfowitz | Wyche Fowler | Sen. John Warner. New appointments by 1996: Harold Brown (chair) Porter Goss. |
1995 |
| Center for Global Security Research, Lawrence Livermore Robert F. Lehman II (director/head) |
1996 |
| Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel / National Defense Panel Philip Odeen (chair 1997) | Stephen Hadley (co-chair 2001-) | William Perry (co-chair 2001-) | Richard Armitage (2001) | John Lehman (2001) | Adm. David Jeremiah (2001) | Gen. Larry Welch (2001) | Rudy de Leon (2001) | Andrew Krepinevich | Gen. James McCarthy | Gen. George Joulwan | Gen. Jack Keane | Sherri Goodman (2010). |
1997 |
| CIA's National Security Advisory Panel Adm. David Jeremiah (chair) | Stephen Hadley | Jamie Gorelick (since 1997) | Carol Boyd Hallett (member 1999-2005) | Randy Jayne (served for 11 years) | Robert Gallucci (since 2000) | Robert Kimmitt | Richard Betts | Bran Ferren | James Frey | |
1997 (+/-) |
| Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy Sen. Daniel Moynihan (chair) | Jesse Helms | Lee Hamilton | John Deutch | Martin Faga | Samuel Huntington | John Podesta | Maurice Sonnenberg |
1997 |
| Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy (study group) Collaborative study of Harvard, Stanford and MIT. Members of the study group: Ashton Carter (co-chair) | John Deutch (co-chair) | Philip Zelikow (project director) | Vic DeMarines | Robert Gates | Jamie Gorelick | Fred Ikle | Joseph Nye | Graham Allison | William Perry | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Zoellick | Ernest May. |
1997-1998 |
| Commission on Maintaining U.S. Nuclear Weapons Expertise Commissioners: Sidney Drell | Gen. Larry Welch | Adm. Hank Chiles. |
1997-1999 |
| Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States Rumsfeld (chair) | Wolfowitz | Woolsey | William Schneider, Jr. | William R. Graham | Gen. Larry Welch | Richard Garwin | Barry Blechman | Keith Payne |
1998 |
| U.S. Space Command and Northern Command (NORAD) Independent Strategic Assessment Group Advisory board, set up by IDA, later split, but with much of the same membership apparently. Gregory Canavan (member pre-9/11, later chair) | Gen. James McCarthy | Adm. Normant Saunders | Richard Foster (2004-2005) | Adm. Jim Eckleberger | Gov. Dick Celeste | Antonio Pensa |
1998 |
| NASA Earth Systems Science and Applications Advisory Committee Gregory Canavan | |
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| White House Science Council Military Committee Gregory Canavan |
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| US Commission on National Security Gary Hart | Warren Rudman | Anne Armstrong | Augustine | Leslie Gelb | Gingrich | Lee Hamilton | James Schlesinger | Harry Train II | Andrew Young, Jr. | Charles Boyd. Staff: Jeffrey Bergner | Chas Freeman | Richard Haass | Gen. William Hartzog | Barry Blechman | Gen. Patrick Hughes |
1998 |
| National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Advisory Group Bran Ferren | James Frey | Peter Marino (chair) | Evan Hineman | Edward P. McMahon |
1998 (+/-) |
| Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) Gen. Larry Welch (chair) | Norman Augustine | Gen. James Clapper | John Deutch | Joshua Lederberg | Jamie Gorelick | Dr. Ronald Lehman (Lawrence Livermore, brother of John) | Rich Wagner (Los Alamos) | Paul Robinson (Sandia) | William Perry | James Schlesinger | Hal Smith | Paul Wolfowitz | Don Kerr (FBI) | Philip Odeen | James Tegnelia | Adm. Richard Mies |
1998 |
| Vulcan Team Put together the incoming Bush administration policy. Members: George Shultz | Condoleezza Rice | Richard Armitage | Richard Perle | Dov Zakheim | Zoellick | Paul Wolfowitz | Dick Cheney | Colin Powell. |
1998 |
| Report of the Accountability Review Boards on the Embassy Bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Adm. William Crowe (chair) | Philip Wilcox | Michael Armacost |
1999 |
| National Commission on Terrorism Paul Bremer (chair) | Sonnenberg (vice chair) | Ikle | Woolsey |
1999 |
| Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP), Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs, State Department C. Fred Bergsten | Robert Hormats | Robert Haines | Thomas Pickering | John Duke Anthony | Robert Abernethy | Richard Gardner | Matthew Slaughter |
Pre-2000 it appears |
| Federal Advisory Committee for the End-to-End Review of the U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System (NCCS) Review takes place aboard the National Airborne Command Center and at U.S. Strategic Command Headquarters Conference Room, Offutt AFB. Members: Brent Scowcroft | Arthur Money | Michael P. C. Carns | William Crowell |
2000 |
| U.S.-China Security Review Commission Roger Robinson Jr. (chair 2001-2005) |
2000 |
| Commission on the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Industry Robert S. Walker (chair) | William Schneider, Jr. | Buzz Aldrin | Neil deGrasse Tyson | John Hamre |
2001 |
| President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) Members: Norman Augustine (anno 2005) | William Press. Predecessor boards (PSAC): Sidney Drell (PSAC 1966-1971 and OSTP 1977-1982) | William O. Baker | Caryl Haskins (1955-58, consultant 1959-70) |
2001 |
| Deterrence Concepts Advisory Group (DCAG) Members: Keith Payne (co-chair) | James Woolsey | Barry Blechman |
2001 |
| Task Force on State Department Reform Co-sponsored by the CFR and CSIS. Members: Frank Carlucci (chair) | Ian Brzezinski (project coordinator; a son of Zbig) | David Abshire | Barry Blechman | Adm. William Crowe | Paula Dobriansky | Thomas Donilon | Ken Duberstein | Richard Gardner | Lee Hamilton | John Hamre | Carla Hills | Zalmay Khalizad | Felix Rohatyn | Stephen Solarz | James Woolsey | Casimir Yost. |
2001 |
| National Nuclear Security Administration Advisory Committee Adm. Henry Chiles (chair) | John S. Foster, Jr. | Sidney Drell | Gen. Larry Welch |
2001-2003 |
| Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) William Webster (chair) | James Schlesinger (vice chair) | Gary Hart (vice chair) | William Bratton (vice chair) | Norman Augustine | Louis Freeh | Lee Hamilton | Mitt Romney |
2002 |
| DNI's Intelligence Science Board (ISB) Antonio Pensa | Al Roming, Jr. | Paul Marino | Margaret Hamburg (anno 2006). Oct. 14, 2010, FAS.org, 'DNI Disbands the Intelligence Science Board': "“My understanding is that the Director will be disbanding all 20 of his advisory boards, which includes the ISB."" |
2002-2010 |
| 9/11 Commission Members: Henry Kissinger (initial chair) | George J. Mitchell (initial vice chair) | Thomas Kean (chair) | Lee Hamilton (vice chair) | John Lehman | Jamie Gorelick | Tim Roemer | Slade Gorton. Executive director: Philip Zelikow. |
2002 |
| NYFD Task Force for Future Preparedness Against Terrorism James Woolsey (named both as head and chief counsel) | NYFD chief Daniel Nigro | Shabtai Shavit (director Mossad 1989-1996) | Gregory Canavan | Joshua Lederberg. |
2002 |
| Defense Business Board (DBB) Michael Bayer (chair) | Richard Perle (2002-2004) | William Schneider (2002-2006) | Mortimer Zuckerman (2002-2007) | Dov Zakheim (since 2004) | John Hamre (since 2007) | Philip Odeen (since 2008) | Rudy de Leon (2009) | Paul Kaminski (2012-2014) | Patrick Gross (2012-2013). |
2002 |
| FBI Director's Advisory Board Arthur Money (chair) | Paul Kaminski | Lee Hamilton (since 2005) | Chuck Robb (since 2005) | John Hamre | Richard Thornburgh | James Q. Wilson |
2003 |
| United States European Command Senior Advisory Group Brent Scowcroft | Thomas Pickering | Michael Bayer | Newt Gingrich | John Hamre | Robert Kagan | George Shultz | Jacquelyn Davis | Lloyd Hand |
2003 |
| Missile Defense Advisory Committee (MDAC) Gregory Canavan | Adm. Dennis Blair (classmate of Ollie North) | Norman Augustine | Gen. Larry Welch | Robert Joseph | John Stenbit | Graham Allison |
2004 |
| Iraq Intelligence Commission Sen. Chuck Robb (co-chair) | Sen. John McCain | Walter Slocombe | Adm. Bill Studeman | |
2004 |
| Iraq Study Group Co-chairmen: James Baker III and Lee Hamilton | Chas Freeman | Vernon Jordan | Edwin Meese | Sandra Day O'Connor | Leon Panetta | William Perry | Chuck Robb |
2006 |
| State Department's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion Condoleezza Rice (founder) | Paula Dobriansky (ex-officio member) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (chair) | Joshua Muravchik | Michael Novak | Vin Weber | Aaron Friedberg | Clifford May. |
2006 |
| Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim | Adm. Richard Mies | Adm. Giambastiani | Adm. Bill Studeman | Maurice Sonnenberg |
2007 |
| International Commission on Non-Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament Turki al Faisal | William Perry | Hans Blix | Kissinger | Sam Nunn | Hans van den Broek | Lord George Robertson | Rocard | Shultz | Yoriko Kawaguchi. |
2008 |
| Task Force on Nuclear Weapons Management James Schlesinger (chair) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Gen. Michael P. C. Carns | John Hamre. |
2008 |
| Maintaining the Defense Industrial Base (DOD committee) Philip Odeen | Michael Bayer |
2008 |
| Disruptive Technology (DOD committee) James Woolsey | Bran Ferren |
2008 |
| Independent Advisory Board (IAB), World Bank Establishment recommended by an "Independent Panel Review" panel chaired by Paul Volcker in 2007. Members: Peter Costello (chair) | Chester Crocker. |
2008 |
| Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States Facilitated by the U.S. Institute for Peace. Commission members: John Glenn | James Schlesinger | William Perry | Lee Hamilton | John S. Foster, Jr. | Fred Ikle | James Woolsey | Bruce Tarter. |
2009 |
| CIA External Advisory Board Jane Harman | Madeleine Albright | Sen. Bob Graham | Lee Hamilton | Vernon Jordan | Arnold Kanter (Scowcroft Group) | Jeong Kim, (president Bell Labs) | Gen. Richard B. Myers | Thomas Pickering | Sen. Warren Rudman | Hal Smith (vice president CSC) | Jeffrey Smith (former CIA general counsel) |
2009 |
| President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB) Paul Volcker (chair) | Martin Feldstein | Robert Wolf. |
2009 |
| National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community Maurice Sonnenberg |
2009 |
| Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (BRCANF) Brent Scowcroft (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton (co-chair) | Susan Eisenhower | Chuck Hagel |
2010 |
| BASIC Trident Commission (on the UK's nuclear weapons) Rifkind (chair) | Lord Guthrie |
2011 |
| Future of Navy Force Structure (FNFS) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim | James Woolsey |
2011 |
| Navy Personnel Policy (NPP) Michael Bayer | Philip Odeen | James Woolsey |
2011 |
| Blue Water People's Liberation Army-Navy (committee) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim | Philip Odeen |
2011 |
| DOD Cyber Resiliency (committee) Adm. Bill Studeman | Donald Kerr | Michael Swetnam |
2011 |
| Eastern Mediterranean and the Maghreb (DOD committee) Jacquelyn Davis | Dov Zakheim |
2011 |
| Advisory Committee on the 100,000 Strong Initiative (State Department) Joseph Nye | Thomas Pickering | Chuck Hagel | Thomas McLarty | J. Stapleton Roy | Sen. David Boren |
2011 |
| Foreign Affairs Policy Board, State Department Founding members: Stephen Hadley | Jane Harman | Carla Hills | Robert Kagan | Jim Kolbe | Thomas McLarty III | Adm. Michael Mullen | John Negroponte | Thomas Pickering | John Podesta | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Strobe Talbott | Jacqueline Novogratz | Helene Gayle | James Steinberg | laura Tyson. Later members: Christine Whitman | Stephen Hadley | Nicholas Burns | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Joseph Nye | Johnnie Carson | Jared Cohen | Paula Dobriansky. |
2011 |
| Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise (committee) Norman Augustine (co-chair) | Adm. Richard Mies (co-chair) | William Schneider, Jr. |
2014 |
| Director of National Intelligence's Senior Advisory Group Jane Harman | Joanne Isham (CIA, NRO, BAE Systems) | Rod Beckstrom (cybersecurity executive) | Gen. James McCarthy | William Crowell (appointed chair in 2007; deputy director NSA) |
Unknown |
| FCC Technical Advisory Council Bran Ferren | Gen. Wesley Clark |
Unknown |
| CIA's Science and Technology Advisory Group John Stenbit (chair) |
Unknown |
| Science Advisory Group to the Directors of Naval Intelligence John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Research and Development Advisory Group to the Director of the FAA John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Science Advisory Group to the Director of the Defense Information Systems Agency John Stenbit |
Unknown |
| Technical Advisory Board, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Paul Kaminski | Michael Swetnam | Bran Ferren | Ruth A. David. Predecessor: Sidney Drell ((technical/science) consultant SSCI 1978-1982). SSCI established in 1976. |
Unknown |
| Non-Proliferation Treaty Policy Advisory Group, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Ashton Carter (co-chair) | Ronald Lehman II |
Unknown |
| Strategic Analysis Advisory Board, National Intelligence Council Sen. Chuck Robb |
Unknown |
| Defense Innovation Advisory Board Eric Schmidt (founding chair; chair and CEO of Google since 2001) | Reid Hoffman (co-founder and executive chair LinkedIn) | Adm. William McRaven | Walter Isaacson | Neil deGrasse Tyson (2016-) | Jeff Bezos (appointed in 2016, but not sworn in because he didn't want a security clearance) | Marne Levine (COO Instagram). |
2016 |
| Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity Thomas Donilon (chair) | Sam Palmisano (vice chair; former CEO of IBM) | Gen. Keith Alexander (CEO of IronNet Cybersecurity and former director NSA and commander of U.S. Cyber Command) | Ajay Banga. |
2016 |
| Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) Part of Homeland Security to counter globalt and racism-related conspiracy theories. Key persons: Nina Jankowicz (founding executive director April - May) | Robert Silvers | Jennifer Daskal (past OSI fellow)| Michael Chertoff (brought in as advisor in May during a DB "pause", this under loud conservative protest for past anti-conservative disinfo peddling). Jan. 25, 2021 tweet of Nina Jankowicz: "Common disinfo narratives were racist, transphobic, or sexual. Women of color faced compounded abuse." She's also active on TikTok. |
April - Aug. 2022 |
| Naval and Military Club, London ("In & Out") Sir John Cuckney |
1862 |
| Army and Navy Club, Washington, D.C. Quite popular among elites in some other groups here. John Davis Lodge | Maxwell Rabb | William Draper Jr. | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Robert Knight | Gen. Theodore Milton | Adm. Robert Hanks (president) | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Jamie Jameson |
1885 |
| Order of Daedalians, Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay | Gen. Nathan Twining | Gen. George Kenney | Gen. Clements McMullen |
1934 |
| Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI (SFSAFBI) Created the Former Agents of the FBI Foundation in 1957. James T. Kesler (interviewed Warren Reynolds and Richard Carr, stange cases linked to the JFK assassination) |
1937 |
| Stay-Behind networks Colby | Critchfield |
1949-55 |
| CIA Officers Memorial Foundation Officers: William Swanson | Michael Hayden | Thomas Higgins | Scott D. White (treasurer) | Mark Chadason |
1947 |
| Veterans of the OSS (OSS Society) The top of the CIA largely ties in with the liberal establishment. Gen. John Singlaub | James Schlesinger | Arthur Schlesinger | Porter Goss | Ross Perot | George H. W. Bush | Paul Mellon | William Webster | James Woolsey | William Colby | William Casey | Bernadette Casey Smith | William vanden Heuvel | S. Dillon Ripley II | Richard and Cynthia Helms | John Negroponte | Robert Gates | David Petraeus | Gen. John Mulholland | Gen. Michael Mullen | Beurt SerVaas |
1947 |
| Human Resources Research Institute (HRRI) CIA-linked. James Monroe (psychological warfare expert). Advisory board: Charles Dollard (chair; president Carnegie Corp.) | Dr. Leland DeVinney (Rock. Fdn.) |
1949 |
| Scientology L. Ron Hubbard (founder, leader until the late 1970s) | Heber Jentzsch (president since 1982, but missing since 2004; listed as a CIA source on the Crowley list) | David Miscavige (leader after a power struggle since 1987; listed as a CIA source on the Crowley list; accused of being very cruel and abusive to his personnel) | Tom Cruise (extremely close to Miscavige, very clingy, and reports of a sexual relationship; according to Remini, Cruise has a large, totally obedient staff) | Ron Miscavige (David's father; defected) | John Travolta (Miscavige largely directed his Battlefield Earth movie, but denied any involvement after it failed; according to Remini, given "Kha-Khan" status, meaning he can kill anyone and Church memnbers have to clean up and cover up the mess) | Hal Puthoff | Pat Price | Ingo Swann | Col. L. Fletcher Prouty | Dustin Hoffman | Goldie Hawn | Joe Reaiche | John Brousseau | Vicki Remini (OTVII and leader of some significance; Leah's mother who took her out of school age 12-13 to work for the church) | Leah Remini (whistleblowing former member who in 2013 reported Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who seems to have been locked away for years now, as missing; police claimed they had made contact with her and that she wasn't missing; denounced Trump's attacks on the media as being Scientologist) | Juliette Lewis | Lisa McPherson | Sonny Bono | Lisa Marie Presley | Amy Scobee | Jada Pinkett Smith | Will Smith. |
1953 |
| Jonestown Cult Persons involved with the cult: Jim Jones (founder and head) | local police commissioners in San Francisco were associated with Jones | Walter Heady (associate of Jones; head JBS in San Francisco) | Walter Mondale (associate of Jones) | Jimmy Carter (associate of Jones) | Layton family (major financial supporters of Jones; CIA linked) | George Philip Blakey (husband of Debbie Layton; reportedly bought the land for the cult in Guyana; ran a program to send cult members to Angola to fight against the communists; handler of the surviving cult members who brought them to Grenada; family had extensive stock in Solvay) | John Burke (U.S. ambassador to Guyana) | Richard Dwyer (station chief CIA in Guyana; a friend of Jones) | Mark Lane (JFK investigator who became the cult's lawyer) | Dr. Geoffrey Bourne and his son Peter (suspected of having ran much of the mind control for the cult, including the surviving members who ended up on Grenada; worked for various U.S. administrations) | Robert Pastor (as national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean 1977-1981, he gave the order to remove all ID tags form the cult victims; married to the daughter of Robert McNamara) | Alexander Haig (SHAPE commander; allegedly passed the order on to Pastor) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (Carter's national security advisor who allegedly gave the original order to strip all bodies from ID tags). Jim Jones ordered Dwyer and Lane to be evacuated just before all cult members were murdered in 1978. Jim Jones was found dead, shot in the back of the head. Angola. Took street kids and people from U.S. elderly homes, psychiatry buying children in Guyana, |
Mid-1950s |
| Society for Human Ecology / Human Ecology Fund CIA front for handing out funds for MKULTRA research. Officers: Dr. Harold Wolff (founder and president; treated Allen Dulles' son) | James L. Monroe (executive director 1961-1963) | Cees van den Heuvel (visited with a study study group in February 1959, before setting up a Dutch branch) |
1957-1965 |
| George Town Club, Washington, D.C. About 330 members in 1977. Founded with KCIA support to lobby congress to get the U.S. to station troops again in the country. Led to the 1976 Koreagate scandal. Lots of CIA-tied people. Originally very conservative, but quickly Democrats were visiting too, as were those of the globalist persuasion. Founders and officers: Tongsun Park (main founder; KCIA frontman; fled the US in 1976 after Koreagate, but hosted a dinner at the club in 1982) | Robert Keith Gray (co-founder and chair) | Tommy Corcoran (co-founder; "usually there with Anna") | Anna Chennault | Rita Chappiwicki (president 1966-76; former secretary of the CIA's Bill Harvey) | Kenneth Crosby (president; knew Dulles) | Lloyd Hand (vice president; TS/SCI clearance) | Norman Larsen (club manager 1960s and 1970s; former H.L. Hunt associate) | Thomas Malatesta (director) | Dr. John H. McDonough (Edgewood arsenal) | Monsignor John J. Murphy | Marion H. Smoak | William E. Timmons | Carol T. Crawford | Robert L. Shafer (gov. anno 1977; Washington VP of Pfizer at the time) | Lucien J. Sichel (gov. anno 1977; retired former VP of Abbott Laboratories). Members/visitors: Barry Goldwater | Gen. Graves Erskine | Edwin Wilson | Richard Viguerie | Ernst Werner Glatt | Neil Livingstone | John Brademas (friend of Park) | Henry Kissinger | Dick Cheney | John Tower | Hale Boggs | Sen. Lloyd Bentsen | Claiborne Pell | Princess Nora Liechtenstein (younger sister of Hans Adam II) | Emil Mosbacher | Warren Burger | Ardeshir Zahedi | George H. W. Bush | Ed Meese | Caspar Weinberger | Donald Regan | Sandra O'Connor | Republican congressman Richard Hanna ("nearly always there"; 1-year prison sentence due to Koreagate) | Democrat congressman Carl Albert | Democrat congressman Tip O'Neill Jr. | Melvin Laird | AG William Saxbe | then-VP Gerald Ford | Supreme Court justice William Brennan Jr. (member by 1977). Visitors: Ivanka Trump (2016). Source(s): Oct. 17, 1977, Washington Post, 'Tongsun Park's Club'. |
1966 |
| Unknown underground lodge in Belgium Reported members in Belgian judicial files: Willy De Clercq | Jean Gol | Willy Claes | Eric Haemers (crime boss linked to strategy of tension) |
1970s-1980s |
| Nugan Hand Bank Criminal enterprise. Involved in large scale drug trafficking. Founders: Frank Nugan and Michael Hand. Directors: William Colby (legal advisor after 1979) | Adm. Earl Yates | Gen. Edwin Black | Gen. LeRoy Manor | Walter McDonald (Saudi and economics expert at the CIA) | Bishop, Baldwin, Rewald, Dillingham and Wong (BBRDW: similar purposes to Nugan Hand) bank accounts: George H. W. Bush | Richard Armitage | William Casey. |
1973-1980 |
| National Military Intelligence Association (NMIA) Gen. Vernon Walters (founder and president 1974-1975) | Gen. Daniel Graham (founder and president 1975-1976) | Col. Charles Thomann (became president in 1976 and greatly expanded the national chapters) | Gen. Jack Thomas (director) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (president) | Gen. James Williams (chair anno 2014) | Jim Leusner (journalist) | Col. John Guenther. More: Gen. Mike Flynn (speaker at 04 and 11/12 2011 symposiums) |
1974 |
| Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO) The top of the CIA largely ties in with the liberal establishment. James J. Angleton (article published; rest TBD)| James J. Angleton, Jr. (president Ted Shackley chapter) | Ted Shackley | Richard Helms | Thomas Spencer | David Atlee Phillips (founder and 1st president) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell (2nd president) | Gen. Richard Larkin (president) | Eugene Poteat (president) | George Joannides | Carl Jenkins | Ray Cline | James Schlesinger | Max Hugel | John Gittinger | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Frank Carlucci | Kenneth DeGraffenreid | Robert T. Crowley | William Colby | Raymond Wannall | William Webster | Sully de Fontaine (Vegas) | Col. John B. Alexander (Vegas) | T.D. Barnes (Vegas) | Gerald Ford | James Woolsey | George H. W. Bush | Porter Goss | George Tenet | Gen. John Singlaub | John McMahon | Col. Hayden Peake | Gen. Michael Hayden | Albert Wedemeyer (son of the general) | James and Lois Critchfield | Martin Faga | Gen. Edward Heinz | Gen. Lincoln Faurer | Gen. Georges Guay | Gen. Norman Wood | Maurice Sovern | Ransom Haig | Robert Steele | Gen. James Williams | Sanford Stone | Gen. James Enney | Samuel Halpern | Adm. Thomas Brooks | Adm. John Butts | Adm. Ralph Cook | Adm. Paul Dillingham | Adm. Robert Geiger | Adm. Ronald Hays | Adm. Donald Harvey | Adm. John Marocchi | Adm. Don McDowell | Adm. William Mott | Adm. Earl Rectanus | Adm. Sumner Shapiro | Adm. U. S. Grant Sharp, Jr. | Col. Charles Thomann | Gen. Norman Wood | Gen. Jack Thomas | Col. Michael Aquino | Michelle Van Cleave | Eli S. Jacobs | Clare Lopez (guest) | Neil Livingstone | Richard M. Cumming | Robert "Bob" Dreyfuss | Jim Leusner | Mary Ferrell | Rodney Stich | Walter Hodge | Col. John Guenther | Cofer Black (speaker) | Erik Prince (speaker) | Dr. Hal Puthoff (speaker) | Edgar Mitchell (speaker) | General Mike Flynn (speaker in 2012). Sponsors: SAIC, Lockheed Martin, TRW, Motorola. |
1975 |
| Central Intelligence Retirees Association (CIRA) Christian MacRitchie Freer (provisional president; high level CIA officer) | Maurice Sovern (chair; 45-year colleague of Ted S.) | Adm. Thomas Brooks (president) | Sam Halpern (member) | T.D. Barnes (member) | William Webster (speech) | David Cohen (speech 1996, then CIA DDO) |
1979 |
| Highlands Group / Highlands Forum An unofficial meeting group initially founded to be the "Pentagon's 'ideas lab'", consisting of "key DOD, industry, and academic IO [Information Operations] experts ... to coordinate IO across federal military intelligence agencies." In 1998, on the advice of lawyers, the Highlands Group was renamed the Highlands Forum "and moved into the private sector to manage it as a consultant to the Pentagon." The operator of the Forum became the intellectual capital venture firm Highlands Group Inc. The reason for these changes was that the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA, or 'open government' law) forbids U.S. government officials from holding closed-door meetings or have secret consultations with persons from outside the government (big business, big business-funded think tanks) to prevent private interests from shaping government policy. Leadership: William Perry (the sec. of defense who appointed Captain O'Neill to head initial group; founding director In-Q-Tel 1999-) | Captain Richard Patrick "Dick" O'Neill (founding president) | Andrew "Andy" Marshall (co-chair anno 2001; attended from the beginning; held in high esteem; nicknamed "Yoda"; head of the DOD's Office of Net Assessment (ONA); VP Dick C., Donald R. and Paul W. were considered among his proteges) | Anthony J. Tether (co-chair anno 2001; appointed by Donald R.; vice president of SAIC's Advanced Technology Sector; director DARPA) | Anita Jones (co-chair, still involved anno 2015; director In-Q-Tel anno '21). Participants: John Seely Brown (1994-; chief scientist Xerox; founding director In-Q-Tel anno 1999-; director Amazon; trustee MacArthur Fdn.) | Jeffrey Cooper (founding director SAIC-CISP 1995-) | Daniel Yergin (chair IHS Cambridge Energy Research Assoc.) | senators and congressmen | David Ignatius (associate editor WaPo) | Thomas Friedman (columnist NYT) | Arnaud de Borchgrave | John Poindexter (2004) | Gilman Louie (2006; founding CEO In-Q-Tel 1999-) | . Companies represented: SAIC | Booz Allen Hamilton | RAND | Cisco | Human Genome Sciences | eBay | PayPal | IBM | Google | Microsoft | AT&T | BBC | Disney | General Electric | Enron. Meetings: 1994 ("to consider the impacts of IT and globalization on the United States and on warfare. How would the Internet and other emerging technologies change the world?) Source(s): Jan. 22, 2015, Nafeez Ahmed ("liberal CIA"-type journalist tied The Guardian, Middle East Eye and Vice) on his Medium.com channel, 'How the CIA made Google - Part I' (conducted various interviews). |
1994 |
| SAIC's Center for Information Strategy and Policy (CISP) Purpose: "To bring together the best and brightest minds in information warfare..." Leadership: Jeffrey Cooper (founding managing director). Source(s): Jan. 22, 2015, Nafeez Ahmed ("liberal CIA"-type journalist tied The Guardian, Middle East Eye and Vice) on his Medium.com channel, 'How the CIA made Google - Part I' (conducted various interviews). |
1995 |
| Third Option Foundation (TOF) Supports "CIA Special Operations operators" and their families. Board of advisors anno 2020: John Brennan | James Clapper | Leon Panetta | Porter Goss | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Gen. Michael Hayden | Dr. Michael Vickers | Mike Rogers | Gen. John Mulholland. |
2016 |
| Ergo's Global Flashpoints Roundtable Ergo's advisory board anno 2021: Sir Richard Dearlove | Frank Wisner II | David Cohen (deputy director CIA; tied by ISGP to 9/11) | Richard A. Clarke (already in 2011). Past advisory board: Admiral Sir Ian Forbes (anno 2011). Senior advisors: H. R. McMaster. Conference speakers outside of the above individuals: Sen. George Mitchell | Tom Barrack ("Longtime Friend and Advisor to Pres. Trump") | Reince Priebus (Trump chief of staff '17) | Evan Greenberg | Stacey Cunningham (president NYSE) | Paula Dobriansky ('17) | Karl-Theodor Zu Guttenberg ('17) | David Miliband ('17) | Gov. Bill Richardson ('17) | Adm. Dennis Blair ('17) | Kevin Rudd ('17) | Gen. Michael Hayden ('17) | Garry Kasparov ('17) | Frank W. II ('17) | H. R. McM. ('17). |
TBD |
| The Cypher Brief Conferences Set up in 2017 by The Cypher Brief news service, founded in 2015. Held annually and certainly visited by many, if not all, of its listed experts. Experts network (anno 2020): Gen. Michael Hayden (founding chair of TCB's advisory board 2017-2020s) | Gen. David Petraeus (director CIA) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Michael Chertoff | Jane Harman | James Clapper | Gen. Keith Alexander (director NSA) | Gen. Jack Keane | Tom Ridge | John McLaughlin | Adm Eric Olson | Dr. Michael Vickers | David Cohen (deputy director CIA; tied by ISGP to 9/11) | Raymond Kelly (NYC police commission 1992-1994, Jan. 1, 2002 - Dec. 31, 2013 - in the aftermath of 9/11) | Chris Inglis (deputy director NSA) | Rick Ledgett (deputy director NSA) | David Omand (director GCHQ) | Robert Hannigan (director GCHQ) | Conrad Prince (director general for operations and deputy director GCHQ) | Glenn Gerstell (general counsel NSA) | Raj De (general counsel NSA) | Stewart Baker (general counsel NSA) | Kevin McLaughlin (deputy director Cyber Command) | Vincent Stewart (director DIA) | Mark Kelton (CIA deputy director for CI) | Robert Richer (CIA assoc. dep. director for ops) | Carol Rollie Flynn (CIA officer in Africa, station chief in South East Asia, then executive director CIA Counterterrorism Center) | Bruce Hoffman | Gilman Louie | Richard Boucher. Conference visitors (additional): Sir John Scarlett ('20; director MI6) | Paul Kolbe ('20; director The Intelligence Project, Harvard's Belfer Center). |
2017 |
| International Spy Museum Directors anno 2020: Gen. Michael Hayden. Advisory board anno 2020: William Webster ("Founding Board Member") | Carol Rollie Flynn | Eugene Poteat ("Founding Board Member Emeritus"). Honorary advisory board: James Clapper | Robert De Niro | Harrison Ford | Robert Gates | Congressman Will Hurd | David Ignatius | John McLaughlin | Adm. William McRaven | Mike Morell | John Negroponte | George Tenet | James Woolsey. |
2017 |
| Tulane University Various Whitney family members in the 19th century served as trustees | Charles Fenner (trustee since 1882, president 1893-1906; father of Darwin) | Esmond Phelps (trustee 1915-1950) | Ashton Phelps (trustee 1955-1972) | Sam Zemurray (trustee 1920-1961; United Fruit) | Joseph Montgomery (trustee 1947-1967; United Fruit) | Darwin Fenner (trustee 1953-1963, chair 1963-1968, member president's circle 1982-1996) | Langbourne Williams (board of visitors 1954-61; Freeport Minerals) | Caryl Haskins (board of visitors 1957-1982) | James Killian (board of visitors 1961-1969) | Detlev Bronk (board of visitors 1961-1974). Also: Alton Ochsner (chair surgery department 1927-1961) | Dr. Robert G. Heath (chair Department of Psychiatry and Neurology 1949-1980) | Eberhard Deutsch (has the Chair of Public International Law named after him). Also: Jim Garrison was a student here, together with friend and later political backer Joseph Rault, Jr. |
1834 | ||||
| Boston Club, New Orleans Charles Fenner (president; died in 1963) | Darwin Fenner | James Pierce Butler, Jr. (president; headed Canal Bank, the largest bank in the South which was tied to Chase in New York) | C. C. Walther | Crawford Ellis | Joseph Montgomery | Anton Ochsner | Leonard Nicholson | Edward Butler (both of his grandfathers) | |
1841 | ||||
| Hibernia National Bank Directors in the 1960s: Rudolph Hecht (chair) | William Zetzmann (director) | Theodore Brent (director) | Wallace M. Davis (president) |
1870 | ||||
| New Orleans Athletic Club Members: Clay Shaw | Jim Garrison | family who accused Garrison of sexually molesting their 13-year-old child here (Feb. 2, 1970, Jack Anderson column, 'New Orleans District Attorney in New Scandal') |
1872 | ||||
| United Fruit Headquartered in New Orleans since 1933. Directors: Sam Zemurray (president until 1954; died in 1961) | Tommy Corcoran (joined in 1954 as a lobbyist and special consultant to deal with company problems in Latin America) | George Gardner, Jr. (elected chair in 1958) | Joseph Montgomery (director, vice president and legal aid) | Gen. Walter Bedell Smith (joined as vice president in 1955) | Thomas Dudley Cabot (president) | Henry Cabot Lodge | John Moors Cabot (shareholder) | John McCloy | General Robert Cutler | Robert Hill | Crawford Ellis | Edmund Whitman (vice president; anti-communist/socialist activist) | Allen Dulles (shareholder, legal representative and reported president) | John Foster Dulles (had written the 1930 and 1936 agreements with Guatemala for Sullivan & Cromwell) | Spruille Braden (shareholder) |
1899-1970 | ||||
| Freeport Minerals / Freeport McMoRan Headquartered in New Orleans until 2007. Has been known as Freeport Texas, Freeport Sulphur, Freeport Minerals and Freeport McMoRan. Directors: John Hay Whitney (majority shareholder, chair 1933-1957, resigned to become ambassador to the UK; major CIA and MI6 connections) | Langbourne Williams (president 1933-1958, chair 1958-1967) | Chauncey Stillman | Godfrey Stillman Rockefeller (director 1931-1980) | Robert Lovett | Augustus Long (Texaco; Federal Reserve) | Paul W. Douglas (president, CEO, and chair 1975-1983) | James Moffett (founding partner McMoRan Exploration in 1969; chair and CEO Freeport McMoRan 1984-1997; today co-chairman, president and CEO of McMoRan Exploration and chairman Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | John Beckwith Madden | Henry Kissinger (director 1988-1995; Moffett and Henry K. at the ASC in modern times)| Marine Corps Gen. Victor Krulak | Julius Tahija (co-founder and head Freeport Indonesia) More: Richard White. Intelligence report from the recovered files of Guy Banister, the ultra-right private investigator who was the handler of Oswald in New Orleans:
Freeport and Richard White came up on another occasion in the JFK investigation. During an October 1, 1968 interview with an anti-Castro activist, Garrison's investigator was told:
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1912 | ||||
| Mississippi Shipping Company / Delta Steamship Co. Officially changed it name in 1962, but known as Delta for quite a while by then. Rudolph Hecht (chair) | Theodore Brent (president) | Captain J. W. Clark (president; John Willis Clark) |
1919 | ||||
| New Orleans Petroleum Club This is where Jim Garrison's initial 1967 fund raiser was held to finance his private investigation into the death of President John F. Kennedy. Present: John M. Rault, Jr. (Rault Petroleum) | Willard E. Robertson | Cecil Shilstone | Eberhard Deutsch (mentor of Garrison). |
Unknown | ||||
| Dallas Petroleum Club Founders: Carl Young (American Petroleum Institute) | Russell S. McFarland (chair Seaboard Oil Co.) | Harry Moss. First members: Jack Pew (Sun Oil) | R.B. Whitehead (chief geologist Atlantic Refining Co.). Trammell Crow (key patron since 1986). Members: George de Mohrenschildt (ran Oswald in Dallas) | Paul Raigorodsky (invited de Mohrenschildt) | Sen. Joseph McCarthy (visited with Murchsion, Sr.) | Clint Murchison, Sr. | Clint Murchison, Jr. | John Murchison | H.L. Hunt | Lamar Hunt | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Oliver North (1985 meeting with Nelson B. Hunt). |
1934 | ||||
| Inter-American Municipal Organization (IAMO) Alfred Ochsner (chair in the 1960s) | Joseph Rault, Jr. (temporary director in the 1960s) | Alberto Fowler (replaced Rault). Headquarters for many years located at the ITM (29th floor) where all these men worked. |
1930s | ||||
| Ochsner Foundation Hospital Dr. Alton Ochsner (founder and head) | Meredith Mallory (student of Ochsner at Tulane) | John Murchison (major financier; his daughter Patricia married Mallory) | Clint Murchison (major financier) | Theodore Brent (trustee until his death in 1953). In the 1950s and 1960s additional financing was received through United Fruit and the Ford Fdn, mainly under the leadership of John McCloy. |
1942 | ||||
| International House (IH), New Orleans (now WTC New Orleans) Directors appointed in 1943-1945: Rudolph Hecht (first brought up the idea to Cordell Hull in 1939; primary founder and chair until his death in 1956) | William Zetzmann (primary founder and president) | Adolph Hegewisch (first vice-president and president in 1945) | Theodore Brent (vice-president; in 1946 he recommended Clay Shaw for the post of managing director of IH) | Lloyd Cobb | Joseph Rault, Sr. (director; his son was the primary corporate organizer of funds for Jim Garrison's JFK/Clay Shaw investigation) | C. C. Walther (director) | Dr. Alton Ochsner (director) | Alonzo Ensenat (director; later wrote a detailed history of IH and ITM where much of this info comes from). Also: Nelson Rockefeller (speaker; coordinator of Latin American Affairs) | Charles Nutter (managing director 1945-1961; bureau chief Associated Press in New Orleans until 1945) | Clay Shaw (managing director 1961-1962) | Dr. Paul Fabry (took over as managing editor for Shaw in 1962) | Hale Boggs (founding secretary until late 1943 and life-long supporter; congressman for Louisiana 1941-Jan. 1943, 1947-1973; Warren Commission). Modern times: James Moffett (director WTC New Orleans) |
1943 | ||||
| International Trade Mart (ITM), New Orleans Sister of International House. Among the 41 founding directors: Theodore Brent (president until death in 1953) | William Zetzmann (president 1953 until his death in 1962) | Lloyd Cobb (president 1962 until his death in 1972; received a CIA security clearance around 1968) | Captain J. W. Clark (president since 1972) | Joseph Montgomery (United Fruit) | Leonard Nicholson (with his son publisher of the Times Picayune) | Ralph Nicholson (publisher News Orleans States Item, controlled by the Times Picayune) | Harvey Koch (vice president and executive committee 1960s-1970s) | Charles Nutter (close to Shaw). Also: Alberto C. Fowler (director of international relations) | Clay Shaw (managing director 1946-Oct. 1965). More: Gordon Novel (visited Shaw's office at the ITM on occasion for business deals; involved in the Schlumberger arms heist with persons of Lee Harvey Oswwald's/Guy Banister's circle; major disinformer in the conspiracy community until his death in 2012; has been photographed sitting in between Col. John B. Alexander and wife Victoria Lacas. The location where Lee Harvey Oswald was handing out pro-Castro leaflets in the early 1960s. He was ran by the ultra-right Guy Bannister at the time who had high-level contacts at the CIA and FBI.. |
1945 | ||||
| Latin American Report Ran by William Gaudet, who was a CIA recruit and had his office in the ITM. Very close associate of both Ochsner and Nelson Rockeller who supported his efforts. Had seen Oswald handing out leaflets in front of the ITM, knew that Ferrie and Shaw were friends and gays, believed there was a conspiracy involved in the assassination of Kennedy, but didn't for a minute think that Ferrie or Shaw would be capable of doing that by themselves. |
Late-1940s | ||||
| World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth Henry Neil Mallon (primary founder; chair Dresser Industries; S&B friend of George H. W. Bush (WAC's Mallon awardee)) | George de Mohrenschildt (member) | Hunter Hunt (director anno 2013; grandson of H.L. Hunt and son of Ray Hunt) | Ray L. Hunt (advisory board anno 2013) | Ross Perot, Sr. and Jr. and wives (advisory board anno 2013). Speakers: King Baudin of Belgium | William Casey | Queen Noor of Jordan | Ytizhak Shamir | Dick Cheney | General David Petraeus | Prince Turki al Faisal | Henry Kissinger (2013). |
1951 | ||||
| Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education Ran an Latin American exchange program for school teachers. Founding trustees: John W. Davis | Thomas Watson, Sr. | Henry C. Alexander | Dr. Harvie Branscomb (father of Lewis Branscomb) | Frank K. Houston (president Chemical Bank). Moved to International House headquarters in 1954. Officers in 1960: Gov. of Tennessee Earl Buford Ellington (chair) | Frank K. H. | Dr. Alton Ochsner (president in the 1960s) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Bob Kleberg (Texas). Others: Captain J. W. Clark (trustee 1960s-1970s) | DeLesseps Morrison, Jr. (executive vice president; son of the mayor of Louisiana 1946-1961 and ambassador to the Organization of American States 1961-1963). |
1951 | ||||
| New Orleans Metropolitan Crime Commission Aaron Kohn (managing director). Among the executive directors 1960s: William Monaghan | Alton Ochsner | J. D. Grey | Eustis Reily. Non-executive directors C. C. Clifton, Jr. | |
1952 | ||||
| Anti-Communism League of the Caribbean, New Orleans Guy Banister (head) | Maurice Brooks Gatlin (legal counsel; attorney of American Nazi Party chief George Lincoln Rockwell, who was also seen at Banister's office; reportedly provided funds to have de Gaulle assassinated) | Felix Rodriguez (joined in 1958; later top CIA assassin) |
Early 1950s | ||||
| Mississippi Valley World Trade Council Sponsored annual conferences in New Orleans to promote American exports in the 1950s and '60s. Officers: C. C. Walther (president) | Clay Shaw (secretary) |
1956 | ||||
| Permanent Industrial Expositions (Permindex) Company seems a logical expansion on Shaw's international trade activities. Permindex's Italian branch was Centro Mondiale Commerciale (CMC), which had similar or close to similar officers. Company registered in Switzerland. Directors (from newspapers at the time of the CMC scandal): Louis Bloomfield (president, from Canada) | Giorgio Mantello | Prince Guitere de Spadaforo | Dr. Enrico Mantello | Clay Shaw (director since 1958) | Ferenc Nagy. From a less reliable source (a 1982 court document of JFK researchers) added these names: Jean de Menil (Schlumberger) | Paul Raigorodsky. Larouche in Dope, Inc. stated they had done the sensible thing of getting the 1958 Swiss incorporation papers of Permindex. They named all these men, as well as: Roy Cohn | Joseph Bonanno | Hans Seligman | Carlo d'Amelio | Max Hageman | Munir Chourbagi | Giuseppe Zigotti | Ferenc H. Simonfay. Incredible that after 50 years we still don't have photocopy proof of who the directors of this company were. |
1958 | ||||
| Crusade for Freedom, Texas Raised money for anti-Castro Cubans. Neil Mallon (contact and recruiter for CIA director Allen Dulles) | Paul Raigorodsky | Earle Cabell | Clint Murchison, Sr. | H. L. Hunt | D. Harold Byrd | MacNaughton | Everette DeGolyer | Ted Dealey (publisher Dallas Morning News) | Fred Florence (head CIA-linked bank) Crusade for Freedom (1950): Raised money for Radio Free Europe and the like. Dwight Eisenhower (co-founder) | Allen Dulles (co-founder) | Herbert Lehman (co-founder) | Gen. Lucius Clay (founding chair 1950-1952; executive after) | Henry Ford II (elected chair on Aug. 5, 1952) | Frederick Osborn (NYC chair). |
1950s | ||||
| Information Council of the Americas (INCA) International advisory council from a 1966 brochure: Edward Butler (director; established Lee Harvey Oswald's credentials as communist during a live debate on radio three months before the assassination) | Alton Ochsner (chair) | Alberto Fowler (IAMO; Cuban exile; said he was stalking and annoying JFK the weekend before his death) | George Albertini (member Otto von Habsburg's Cercle group) | Patrick Frawley (ASC financier) | C. C. Too. Undated document: Wallace M. Davis (vice president for financial affairs). Additionally named as directors in a 1968 New Orleans States Item article: Captain J. W. Clark | Eberhard Deutsch (Jim Garrison's mentor and law partner) | J. D. Grey | Darwin Fenner (accused of child abuse with many unmentioned friends) | H. Eustis Reily (employed Oswald) | William E. Robertson | Cecil Shilstone | C. C. Walther (IH) | C. C. Clifton, Jr. | Dr. John Ochsner (son of). Other reported members/financiers: Joseph Montgomery | Murchison family | Nelson Rockefeller (speech, according to William Gaudet) | Dr. Mary Sherman (minor financier). |
1961 | ||||
| Truth and Consequences Joseph Rault, Jr. (primary organizer; son of International House director and Ochsner friend) | Willard E. Robertson (co-founder and chair; INCA director) | Cecil Shilstone (co-founder; INCA director). Known financial contributor: Eberhard Deutsch (law partner of Jim Garrison, his political mentor and INCA director). Committee of New Orleans businessman that decided to privately finance the investigation of Jim Garrison into the JFK assassination, with a primary focus on Clay Shaw -- instead of Shaw's superiors, who were some of the persons financing the investigation. Joseph Rault, Jr. Rault quoted in the National Observer, 'The Kennedy Case', of Feb. 26, 1967:
Jim Garrison was inspired to investigate JFK after conversations with his friends Joseph Rault, Jr. and Senator Russell Long on a plane trip to a conference of the American Petroleum Institute. Estimates of how much the group raised range from $30,000 to $100,000. |
1967 |
Based on the directorships of friends and aides of Gen. Douglas MacArthur: Gen. Bonner Fellers, Gen. George Stratemeyer, Gen. Pedro del Valle, Gen. Albert Wedemeyer, Gen. Charles Willoughby, as well as the financiers of MacArthur's campaign in 1952: Gen. Robert E. Wood (his wealthy campaign manager), H.L. Hunt, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and reportedly Clint Murchison, Sr. (a close supporter in any case).
| Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem (early Shickshinny Knights) Charles Pichel (Nazi and apparent sadistic sexual abuser who maintained ties with the White Russian community). Counted the involvement of families as Habsburg, Thurn und Taxis, Wittelsbach, Windisch-Graetsch and Radziwill. |
1908 | ||||||
| America First Committee Wood | Regnery | Wedemeyer | Ford |
1940 | ||||||
| Hotel del Charro Clint Murchison | Sid Richardson | J. Edgar Hoover | Clyde Tolson | McCarthy |
1951 | ||||||
| Fact Forum/Life Line H.L. Hunt | Wood | Wedemeyer |
1951 | ||||||
| Constitution Party and MacArthur-For-President (Eisenhower opponent) H.L. Hunt | Wood | Gale | del Valle | Fellers | |
1952 | ||||||
| Citizens for Taft Committee (also opposed Eisenhower) Wedemeyer (chairman) |
1952 | ||||||
| Defenders of the American Constitution Del Valle | Chennault | Fellers |
1953 | ||||||
| For America Wedemeyer | Wood | Gen. Mark Clark | Smoot | Buckley |
1953 | ||||||
| Ten Million Americans Mobilizing for Justice [for McCarthy] Del Valle | Stratemeyer |
1954 | ||||||
| Mid-American Research Library (soon the ASC) Gen. Robert Wood |
1954 | ||||||
| National Military-Industrial Conferences (hosted by ASC) Frank Barnett | Gen. Robert Wood | John Fisher | Martin Blank | Baron Friedrich August von der Heydte | Robert Strausz-Hupe | Wernher von Braun (speaker) |
1955 | ||||||
| Citizens Foreign Relations Committee Willoughby Stratemeyer | Wedemeyer | Manion | Menjou. |
1955 | ||||||
| Shickshinny Knights of Malta Charles Pichel. Eugene Tabbutt (KKK). Military advisory committee: Willoughby | Del Valle | Wedemeyer | Stratemeyer | Fellers. |
1957 | ||||||
| Americans for Constitutional Action Moreell | Fellers | Wood |
1958 | ||||||
| Liberty Lobby Founding members advisory council: Willis Carto | Gen. Pero Del Valle | Gen. George Stratemeyer | Taylor Caldwell. Also: General Alfred Wedemeyer (at the very least lots of correspondence with the lobby in the early years) | Mark Lane (attorney to the Lobby, including to Victor Marchetti, since the 1980s and speaker at its conventions) | Col. L. Fletcher Prouty (member of the Lobby's populist action committee; his book 'The Secret Team' was published by Noontide Press, which belongs to the Lobby; special operations expert for the Joint Chiefs under JFK). Zionist Watch, set up in 1987 by the lobby. Mark Lane (basically CIA) and Victor Marchetti (CIA) were the original editors. Lawyer for the lobby who supposedly took over its assets in 1993. Lane was a JFK investigator and lawyer for the Jonestown Cult, just before the massacre began. Earlier he had been the same to Martin Luther King and JFK investigator Jim Garrison. Lane is one of the most prominent authors on the JFK case. Spotlight and American Free Press are anti-Jewish and anti-black (thus, Nazi) conspiracy-oriented publications of the Lobby. July 2008, AFP staff: James Tucker (national editor; anti-BB) | Michael Piper Collins (national corresponding editor) | Willes Carto (national correspondent) | Ted Gunderson (co-editor Southwest regional bureau; employee ultra-right CIA-linked Murchison family) | Anthony Hilder (anti-BB, Illuminati, etc.) and Rev. Ted Pike (co-editors regional bureau West). Speakers at the 2006 American Free Press-Barnes Review International Conference in Washington: Dave Von Kleist (major 9/11 disinformer) | Collins Piper | Doug Rokke (anti-depleted uranium activist) | Colonel Donn de Grand Pre (9/11 disinformer) | Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani (Wing-TV 9/11 disinformers) | Ellen Mariani | William Rodriguez (major 9/11 disinformer; reversed 9/11 testimony, claiming all of sudden a bomb went off in the basement of the WTC) | Lindsey Williams (abiotic oil/peak oil disinformer) | Eustace Mullins (protege of the Nazi poet Ezra Pound and H.L. Hunt; major anti-NWO author) | Ted Gunderson (disinformer on chemtrails, child abuse and everything else) | Willis Carto (Nazi) | Texe Marrs (religious extremist Illuminati believer and extremely anti-Jewish) | Mark Lane. Lyndon Larouche: allied with Willis Carto and the Liberty Lobby 1974-1979, until Carto became involved in holocaust denial. Was more socialist thinking, however, and also always maintained ties with the Soviet Union, as well persons in the U.S. government. By far the most knowledgeable conspiracy group ever, but very manipulative, radical and holds a lot of info and sources back. Institute for Historical Review (IHR), founded by Carto in 1978, was part of the Lobby. It tries to provide "science" that the holocaust never happened or had very limited impact. Has become the leading group for holocaust denial/revisionism. Principals: David Duke | David Irving | Mark Weber. Jeff Rense website and radio program, founded in the 1990s, is today's most prominent continuation of Liberty Lobby Nazi-inspired conspiratorial thinking. Terry Arnold (columnist at Rense since 2002; associate of Neil Livingstone and his CIA/Pentagon group) | Paul Craig Roberts (columnist since 2010) | Webster Tarpley (columnist; Larouche background) | William Engdahl (columnist; Larouche background) | David Duke (long-time columnist; KKK and Nazi background) | David Irving (long-time columnist; IHR Nazi) | Mark Weber (long-time columnist; IHR Nazi). |
1958 | ||||||
| John Birch Society Primary publication has been the New American, which attacks BB, the TC, the CFR and does not distinguish between liberalism, communism and socialism. Early(McCarthyite) board members: Robert Welch | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer | Gen. Charles Stone | Clarence Manion | Adolphe Menjou | Larry MacDonald | Harry Bradley | Fred Koch | Spruille Braden | Edward Butler (ordinary member). Also: Gary Allen (famous author on the CFR and TC; speech writer for George Wallace and advisor to Nelson Bunker Hunt) | William Jasper (prominent editor The New American) | Ron Paul and Father Nicholas Gruner (supporters who were in JBS documentary 'United Nations: Global tyranny, step by step') | Malachi Martin (interviewed in 1997 and major critic of the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Fdns.) | John McManus (protege of Welch since 1966 at the JBS and president since 1991). The Alex Jones Show is largely a modern spin-off of the JBS with an additional focus on modern conspiracy. On March 23, 2009, John McManus stopped by at Jones HQ, where Jones stated on air:
Some of Alex Jones guests from the JBS and CNP: Phyllis Schlafly | G. Edward Griffin | Stanley Monteith | William Jasper | Dr. Michael Coffman (also in Jones' Endgame movie) | Gina Parker Ford (in Endgame) | Joel Skousen (son of Cleon Skousen, also of the ASC)
| Jerome Corsi (close to JBS leadership and a propagandist against Kerry and Obama who pushed for war with Iran) | Paul Craig Roberts | Ron Paul (about the only dovish but fervant JBS backer). Also: James Tucker (until his death Jones' BB expert). Other guests: Ted Gunderson of the Liberty Lobby and John De Camp (cooperated in apparently limiting the fall-out of the Franklin child abuse scandal and in Oklahoma).
On July 1, 2011, while being confronted with a guest who is just as right-wing as the CNP, but frustrated by its lack of what appears to be political compromise:
At least in 2011 Alex Jones received his "pocket constitution" flyers from the Heritage Foundation, which he sent to people who purchased items from his website. Considering the Heritage Foundation is the main U.S. arm of the secretive CIA, MI6 and Opus Dei-ran Cercle group, that explains why Jones all of sudden withdrew all support for ISGP when it began to focus on the right-wing of the spectrum in late 2006, starting with a massive article on Le Cercle, in which the Heritage Foundation, the CNP and the JBS were also put under the magnifying glass. Before, while writing much less detailed articles about the liberal establishment and globalization, there hadn't been any issues. |
1958 |
Important roles have been played by Rev. Wesley Swift and Rev. Col. William P. Gale, another former aide to Gen. MacArthur.
| Ku Klux Klan (KKK) | 1865 |
| America Legion | 1919 |
| Order of '76 Nazi. Royal S. Gulden (head) | Thomas Alexander (cooperated with Gulden) |
1932 |
| Silver Legion Nazi. William Dudley Pelley (leader) | Gerald L. K. Smith |
1933 |
| Southern Committee to Uphold the Constitution Nazi. Founders: Vance Muse and John Kirby. Financiers: du Pont family. |
1934 |
| Christian Anti-Communism Crusade (CACC) Main financier: Pew Memorial Trust. Also: Patrick Frawley | Schick Razor | Richfield Oil | Lilly Endowment | Berry Foundation. |
1953 |
| California Rangers | 1959 |
| Minutemen | 1961 |
| Intelligence Digest Kenneth De Courcy |
1938 |
| Christian Identity (British Israelites) | 1946 |
| Congress of Freedom | 1951 |
| League of Empire Loyalists | 1954 |
| Veritas Foundation | 1955 (+/-) |
| White Citizen's Council | 1956 |
| New Order (American Nazi Party) | 1958 |
| National States Rights Party | 1958 |
| Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation Phyllis Schlafy (research director early 1960s) | Eleanor Schlafly (president anno 2013) |
1958 |
| California Rangers | 1959 |
| American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom | 1961 |
| Defenders of American Liberties Robert J. Morris (founder) | Fred Schlafy (president) |
1962 |
| Christian Defense League | 1964 |
| Friends of Rhodesian Independence | 1966 |
| Eagle Forum Phyllis Schlafy (founder) | Gina Parker Ford (chair of the National Eagle Forum for Judicial Reform) |
1967 |
| The Spotlight (magazine of the Liberty Lobby) | 1975 |
| Western Goals Foundation | 1979 |
| Ludwig von Mises Institute | 1982 |
| Edwin A. Walker Society | 1999 |
| American Free Press (website of the Liberty Lobby) | 2001 |
| University of Chicago Founded by John D. Rockefeller, Sr., as his first major philanthropic project. Not a major globalist presence on the board of trustees, far from it, but important because this has been the home of the ultraright neoliberal "Chicago School" of economics that opposed any kind of "corporate responsibility". Trustees: Paul Hoffman (anno 1950) | Marshall Field III (anno 1950) | Walter Paepcke (anno 1950) | David Rockefeller (1947-1963, hon. trustee 1963-1966, life trustee 1966-2007; earlier received his Ph.D. here) | John D. Rockefeller IV / Jay Rockefeller (1967-, still anno 1978) | William McCormick Blair ("recently elected" in 1932, "on June 8, 1933, the following Trustees were re-elected..." in 1933, anno 1950, life trustee anno 1978; Yale S&B; a cousin married John D. Rockefeller's daughter Edith) | Edward McCormick Blair (trustee anno 1978; son of William) | David M. Kennedy (anno 1978) | Peter Peterson (anno 1978) | Jay A. Pritzker (anno 1978). More: Robert Hutchins (president 1929–45, chancellor 1945–51) | Prof. Milton Friedman (1946-) | George Shultz (professor of industrial relations 1957-; dean Chicago Graduate School of Business dean 1962-1968; heavily tutored by Stigler and especially Friedman) | Prof. George Stigler (1958-; earlier graduated here) | D. Gale Johnson (provost anno '78). Reported visitors/contributors to an inaugurual George P. Shultz chair in 1987: David R. | Henry Kissinger | Stephen Bechtel Jr. | Milton Friedman | David Packard | William Simon. Source(s): 1932-1933 compilation, The University Record of the UC, pp. 103, 230. |
1890 |
| College Republican National Committee (CRNC) Jack Abramoff (chairman 1981-1985) |
1892 |
| Military Order of the Carabao Guests: Strom Thurmond | Adm. Moorer | Adm. James L. Joy | Adm. Wesley McDonald | Gen. Jack Merritt | Pete Aldridge, Jr. | Dov Zakheim | Gordon England | James Roche | Colin Powell | Robert Gates | James Schlesinger | Ike Shelton | Sean O'Keefe | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. Richard Myers | Gen. Paul. X. Kelley | Gen. Al Gray | Adm. James Loy | Gen. Jack Merritt | Gen. Carl Mundy | Louis Dechert, Sr. |
1900 |
| National Security Industrial Association / National Defense Industrial Association (with its Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) Division that organizes the annual SO/LIC Symposium & Exhibition) Russell E. White (chair) | John S. Foster, Jr. (advisory board) | Robert W. Helm (Northrop) | William Swanson (Raytheon) | Bob Amick (a former questionable security director at E-Systems who went to SO/LIC in 1995) | Roger Zakheim (son of Dov Z.) | Sherri Goodman (awarded). |
1919 |
| H. Smith Richardson Foundation Elite conservative foundation that financed the 1955-founded National Military-Industrial Conferences, out of which the term Military-Industrial Complex grew. By the late 1970s it became known as a "neocon" foundation - although it also heavily finances "Eastern Establishment" think tanks as the CFR and TC, and even "lib CIA" projects on occasion. The foundation as been accused for a long time of being close to the CIA. The entire Richardson clan has been involved in it generation after generation (individual members not listed here), always supplemented with a handful of right-wing CFR elites. The foundation runs the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) in North Carolina. Anno 2017 Peter L. Richardson, president of the foundation, is a governor and trustee chairman of the CCL, which counts admirals and generals on its board sitting next to a variety of civilian leaders. Reportedly the center is deeply tied to the CIA and military top. Co-founders and random officers: Eugene Stetson, Jr. (co-founder; son of an elite Morgan banker; H. Smith Richardson's son-in-law) | Frank Barnett (vice president and director of research 1955-1962) | Leslie Lenkowsky (director of research early 1980s) | Devon Gaffney Cross (director of research mid 1980s, anno '94) | Roger Kaplan (program officer). Governors: Bill Stetson (anno '94-'22; son of Eugene Jr. and Grace Stuart Richardson, a daughter of H. Smith Richardson, Sr.; married a granddaughter of IBM founder Thomas Watson; into global warming activism) | Donald Kagan (anno '94) | James Q. Wilson (anno '94) | Gen. Edward Meyer (anno '94-'03) | Donald Rumsfeld (anno '98-'99) | Fred Ikle (anno '99-'09) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (anno '99-, until '16) | Christopher DeMuth (anno '02, again anno '19-'22) | Samuel Huntington (anno '03) | Dr. Roderick MacFarquhar (anno '03) | James Woolsey (anno '04-, until '18) | Ben Wattenberg (anno '03) | Martin Feldstein ('07-'16) | Gen. Jack Keane ('11-, still anno '22) | Paula Dobriansky ('13-, until '17) | Adm. James Stavridis (anno '17-'22) | Gen. H. R. McMaster (anno '18-22) | Dr. John B. Taylor (anno '18-'22) | Karen Elliott House (anno '20-'22). |
1935 |
| Achelis and Bodman Foundation Merger of the 1940-founded Achelis Foundation and 1945-founded Bodman Foundation. In 1969 the Bodman foundation financed the UN's Temple of Understanding. Endowment of about $38 million in modern times. Decidedly neocon in its "Public Policy" financing. Guy Rutherfurd, the lawyer of both the Achelis and Bodman families forged the friendship between the two families and chaired the board of both foundations at some point. In the early 2000s, after half a decade of service to the foundations, he was made honorary chairman. He was a grandson of Levi Morton. Board 2017: John Irwin III (executive chair) | Russell Pennoyer (president anno 2017; already pre-2003) | Peter Frelinghuysen | Mary Phipps (trustee emeritus). Trustees 1987-2003 (at the very least) Bodman / Achelis Fdns.: Walter Curley Jr. | Peter Frelinghuysen | John Irwin II | Anthony Drexel Duke | Mary Phipps | Leslie Lenkowsky (resigned in late 2001) | Mary B. Braga (apparently widow of Virginia sugar baron B. Rionda Braga; resigned in 2002). |
1940, 1945, but only formally merged in 2015 |
| Sarah Mellon Scaife Foundation / Sarah Scaife Foundation (later on turned conservative and was CIA-linked) Trustees in 2001: Richard Mellon Scaife (chair) | Bill Bennett (Reagan's education secretary and Bush 41's drug czar) | Allan Meltzer | Kenneth Cribb Jr. (Reagan advisor; CNP president) | Ed Feulner | Michael Gleba (exec. vice president) | Daniel McMichael | Roger Robinson Jr. (former personal assistant to David Rockefeller at Chase) |
1941 |
| Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Milwaukee-based. In 1985 the foundation's asset increased from $14 million to $290 million, making it a major conservative donor source. Harry Bradley (founder) | David Uihlein Jr. (grandson of H. Bradley; director 1970s - 2006, vice chair 2006-) | David and Charles Koch. 1988 board: Andrew Rader (president 1970s; chair until 1982, and 1985-2000, director 2000-2003) | Michael Joyce (president 1985-2001) | George Stigler (University of Chicago "Chicago School" economist) | Clayburn LaForce Jr. (UCLA business management dean). William Kristol (director in 1993). More: Allen Taylor (long-time director, chair 2000-2002; Princeton and Yale-educated) | Michael Grebe (president and CEO 2002-2016) | Dusty Rhodes (director 1990s-2000s, chair later on; M. Decter classmate at Wharton; Goldman Sachs partner 1986-1992; president National Review) | Frank Shakespeare (director) |
1942 |
| Freedoms Foundation Kenneth Wells (co-founder; executive vice president 1949-1951; president 1951-1970) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (chair) | John Fisher (board of visitors 1964-1965) | Adm. Felix Stump (vice chair) | Gen. Edwin Black (executive vice president 1970-1971) | Patrick Frawley (trustee) | Henry Hazlitt (repeatedly honored) | Henry Regnery (involved in publications) | Richard Mellon Scaife (financier with Olin Fdn. and others) |
1949 |
| Council Against Communist Aggression (CACA) / Council for the Defense of Freedom (CDF) since 1980 Marx Lewis (chair 1980s) | Reed Irvine (director) | Murray Baron | Wilson Lucom Bernard Yoh | James Tyson (president). 1969 founded Accuracy in Media (AIM) was located at CACA and shared many board members: Reed Irvine (founder and chair until his death in 2004) | Don Irvine (follow up of Reed as chair) | Roger Aronoff (editor and executive secretary | Deborah Lambert (fund raiser) | Marx Lewis (advisory board 1980s) and others above. National advisory board anno 2000: Midge Decter | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Adm. William Mott (died in 1997, so not updated) | Dr. Frederick Seitz | Dr. Edward Teller | James Tyson. In the late 1990s, Joseph Goulden of AIM went on the air to counter the charges of journalist Gary Webb and DEA agent Mike Levine of CIA drug trafficking that led to the crack-cocaine epidemic. 1985-founded Accuracy in Academia (AIA): Spin-off of AIM and controlled by the same people. Reed Irvine (founder and chair until his death in 2004) | Don Irvine (follow up of Reed as chair) | Deborah Lambert (fund raiser) |
1951 |
| John M. Olin Foundation Considered conservative, but also very much liberal elite-linked. John Olin | William Simon (president 1977-1979 and again in the 1980s and 1990s) | John McCloy (trustee 1970s until his death in 1989) | John Hanes (trustee 1970s) | Michael Joyce (executive vice president 1979-1985) | George J. Gillespie III (secretary and treasurer, 1980s; partner Cravath, Swaine & Moore since 1963; director William S. Paley Foundation; President Pinkerton Foundation; close friend Warren Buffett) | Charles Horn | Peter Flanigan (trustee; Anheuser Busch family member). |
1952-2005 |
| Koch Family Foundations Various foundations. Supports conservative, but also liberal establishment think tanks. |
1953 |
| Moonie Cult (freed by MacArthur, later backed by two MacArthur-freed yakuza leaders); Edward Heath (gave speeches) | Alexander Haig (gave speeches) |
1954 |
| Asian People's Anti-Communist League (APACL) Ray Cline (reportedly) | Kai-shek | Sasakawa |
1954 |
| American Security Council (ASC) Robert Wood | Sid Richardson | Patrick Frawley | Robert Galvin (chair NSC, chair Motorola 1964-2001) | Cleon Skousen (field director; assistant to the ultra-right Hoover; Mormon scholar; major conspiracy author) | Gen. Douglass MacArthur | Gen. Willoughby | Gen. Curtis Lemay | Gen. Thomas Power | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer | Gen. Edward Lansdale | Richard Bissell | James Angleton | Ray Cline | Daniel Arnold | Gen. Schriever | Leon Goure | Gen. Harkins; Gen. Edwin Black | Gen. Singlaub | Gen. Richard Larkin | Gen. Robert Richardson | Gen. Milnor Roberts | Gen. Alexander Haig | Col. Raymond Sleeper | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Mark Clark | Gen. Lewis Walt | Gen. Woellner | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Wedemeyer | Gen. Vernon Walters | Gen. Abrahamson | Adm. Radford | Adm. Moreell | Adm. Robert Spiro | Col. Sam Dickens | Adm. Felix Stump | Adm. Chester Ward (co-author anti-detente books 'Soviet Strike from Space' and 'Kissinger on the Couch', both with Phyllis S.)| Adm. Moorer | Adm. Zumwalt | Dr. Kenneth Watson | Sven Kraemer | Bendetsen | Lev Dobriansky | Van Cleave | Feulner | Kirkpatrick | Luttwak | McCain, Jr. | Pennington | James Atkinson | Gen. Theodore Milton | Raymond Wannall | William Pawley | Richard Pipes | Andy Messing | Oliver North | Neil Livingstone | Gregg Hilton | George Hearst, Jr. | Albert Wohlstetter | Sen. Henry Jackson | Sen. John Tower | Jack Kemp | Edward Teller | Sam Cohen | Eugene Wigner | Stefan Possony | Joseph Coors | Robert J. Morris | Scaife (very minor financing) | Spruille Braden | Monique Garnier-Lancon | Roberto D'Aubuisson | Mario Sandoval | Stedman Fagoth | Col. Bermudez | Adolfo Calero | Roberto Alejos | Jonas Savimbi | Ian Smith | Gen. van der Westhuizen | Gurmit Singh Aulakh | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Nelson Rockefeller | Eugene Rostow | Henry and Clare Boothe Luce | John D. Lodge | Averell Harriman | Henry Kissinger | George Pataki | Christine Whitman | Scott Thompson | James Moffett | Mark Wallace | T. Boone Pickens | Russell E. White | John S. Foster Jr. | Col. Charles Thomann (member) | Col. Michael Aquino (listed as an advisory board member) | Bob Dole (awarded and visitor of meetings) Also: - Henry Regnery: the family publishing firm published books of Ezra Pound (the fascist mentor of Eustace Mullins), UFO authors as Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek and Raymond Drake, and the first prominent book on Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder. Gen. Twining: his publishing firm - also the one of the husband of Jeane K. - published Mark Lane’s Rush to Judgment, the prominent critique of the JFK assassination and the Warren Commission. It was published while Twining was vice chair. A.S.C. project: - National Security Caucus (NSC), founded in 1978 (name 1978-1986: Congressional Division of the Coalition for Peace Through Strength). Chair in the 1980s: Howard Phillips. Co-chairmen in 1998: Sen. Trent Lott | Sen. Richard Shelby | Sen John McC., Jr. | Sen. Bob Graham | Sen. Ted Stevens | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Sen. Chuck Robb. - National Security Caucus Foundation (NSCF) directors in 2002: John F. (chair) | Adm. Robert S. (president and COO) | Walter Fauntroy (vice president) | Jack Abramoff | Gregg H. Representatives from South Korea, France, Portugal and Colombia. - NMIC, founded in 1955. Virtually same leadership as ASC. - Institute for American Strategy (IAS: the later ASCF), founded in 1958 at the NMIC: John F. (president) | Frank B. (program director) | Gen. Edward Lansdale (administrative director). - Freedom Studies Center, founded in 1966 as part of the IAS ($11m budget, 400 students) Planning and Development Committee: Gen. Edward L. (administrative director) | Ed B. | Col. James A. | Dr. Stefan P. | Lev D. | Walter Judd | Scott T. Education Advisory Committee: Evron Kirkpatrick (husband of Jeane). Also involved: Patrick F. | Gov. George Romney (Father of Sen. and Gov. Mitt R.) |
1954 |
| National Military-Industrial Conferences (NMIC) Frank Barnett | Gen. Robert Wood | John Fisher | Martin Blank | Baron Freidrich August von der Heydte | Robert Strausz-Hupe | Wernher von Braun (speaker) |
1955 |
| Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) Robert Strausz-Hupe | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Stefan Possony | William Kintner | William Y. Elliott | Adm. Arthur Radford | Henry Kissinger | Alexander Haig | Donald Rumsfeld | John Lehman (trustee anno 2021) | Daniel Pipes | James Schlesinger | Dov Zakheim (vice chair anno 2021) | David Eisenhower | Robert McFarlane (advisor anno 2021) | Samuel Huntington | Midge Decter | Bernard Lewis | Robert Kaplan | Robert Zoellick (advisor anno 2021) | John Nagl (advisor anno 2021) | David Eisenhower (advisor anno 2021) | John Templeton Jr. (vice chair 2000s) | Carol Rollie Flynn (president) | Devon Gaffney Cross (vice chair anno 2021). Keynote speakers annual dinners: Charles Krauthammer ('06) | Philip Zelikow ('07) | John Bolton ('08) | Niall Ferguson ('10; also a contributor) Walter Russell Mead ('12) | Gen. James Mattis ('13) | Gen. Michael Hayden ('14) | Ashton Carter ('17) | Anne Applebaum ('18) | Gen. H.R. McMaster ('19; trustee anno 2021). More: Malcolm Hoenlein (Middle East expert) | Patrick Clawson (research scholar) | Stuart Eizenstat (listed "contributor"). |
1955 |
| Operations and Policy Research, Inc. (OPR) USIA and CIA financed. Employed 100 part-time social scientists. Evron Kirkpatrick (founding president) | Jeane K. |
1955 |
| Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) Friedrich Hayek (founder; wrote the 1944 book The Road to Serfdom, which claimed Hitler was a communist/socialist and that any economic regulations would lead to another rise of fascism) | George Stigler (co-founder and president 1976-1978; professor of Greg Palast at the Uni. of Chicago) | Frank Knight (co-founder, vice president and mentor to Stigler) | Sir Anthony Fisher | Otto von Habsburg | Max von Thurn und Taxis | Ed Feulner (treasurer 1979-1996; president 1996-1998; senior vice president 1998-2000; treasurer 2000-) | Lord Ralph Harris (secretary 1967-1982, president 1982-1984) | Arthur Seldon (vice president) | William Simon | Henry Hazlitt | Alain de Benoist | Frits Bolkenstein | James Buchanan | William Buckley, Jr. | Arthur Burns | Martin Feldstein | Niall Ferguson | Steve Forbes | Milton Friedman | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Alan Greenspan | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | John Howard | Lord Howe | Reinhard Kamitz | Charles Koch | Walter Lippmann | Salvador de Madariaga | Edwin Meese | Ludwig von Mises | Stefan Possony | Murray Rothbard | Gunter Schmolders | George Shultz | Julian Simon | John Templeton | Daniel Peters | Michael Joyce | Allen Meltzer | Lawrence Chickering | Enoch Powell (until 1972). |
1947 |
| National Captive Nations Committee (NCNC) Gen. Dwight Eisenhower | Lev Dobriansky (founder and long-time chair) | Phyllis Schlafy (director) |
1959 |
| Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) William F. Buckley | Dick Cheney (speaker 1991) | Barry Goldwater | Philip Crane | Gingrich | Trent Lott | Dan Quayle | Reagan | Alfred Regnery | Strom Thurmond | Richard Viguerie | Wedemeyer | Neil Livingstone (member) |
1960 |
| Hudson Institute Herman Kahn (founder) | Leslie Lenkowsky (president) | Richard Burt (consultant 1973) | Elliott Abrams (senior fellow 1990-1996) | Nina Rosenwald | Fred Ikle | Marie-Josee Kravis (trustee vice chair anno 2019) | Russell Pennoyer | Scooter Libby (senior vice president anno 2019) | Herbert London (president) | Alexander Haig | Conrad Black | Richard Perle | Pierre duPont IV | Donald Kagan | Dan Quayle | Steven Price | John Wohlstetter (nephew of Albert) | Beurt SerVaas | Norman Podhoretz | Jeffrey Bergner (trustee) | Robert McKinney (trustee) | Paul Bracken (senior staff) | William Schneider, Jr. (adjunct fellow) | Keith Payne (researcher) | Niall Ferguson (senior fellow) | Enders Wimbush (senior vice president) | Mey Wurmser (director, Center for Middle East Policy) | Douglas Feith | Walter Mead (distinguished scholar 2014-) | Hillel Fradkin (fellow) | Merit Janow (business consultant and research fellow anno 1984) | Kenneth Weinstein (joined 1999, CEO) | Christopher Ashley Ford (senior fellow 2008-2013) | Mike Pompeo (distinguished fellow Jan. '21-) | Gen. William Odom (joined '88-; director of National Security Studies anno '01). Trustees (1970s): Robert R. Barker (anno '72; "William A.M. Burden & Company") | Dr. Donald P. Ling (anno '72; VP Systems Research Bell Labs) | John R. Menke (anno '72; 'Director United Nuclear Corporation") | William D. Mulholland Jr. (anno '72; president and CEO British Newfoundland Corp.) | Professor Roger Fisher (anno '72; Harvard Law School) | Kenneth T. Young (anno '72; listed as CFR). Several more insignificant names. "Public members": Rodman Rockefeller (anno '72; president IBEC) | Thomas Watson Jr. (anno '72) | J. Paul Austin (anno '72; founding TC) | Eugene Wigner (anno '72) | William A. M. Burden (anno '72) | Helmut Schmidt (anno '72; "Member of the Bundestag, Bonn, Germany") | Frank Altschul (anno '72; CFR VP and sec.) | Leo Cherne (anno '72) | John Diebold (anno '72) | Amory Houghton Jr. (anno '72) | Irving Brown (anno '72; exec. director African-American Labor Center) | Oscar Reubhausen (anno '72, also trustee; Debevoise, Plimpton) | Henry Sherwood (anno '72; "Diebold Europe, West Germany") | Gardner Stout (anno '72; president Am. Museum of Nat. Hist.) |. Various additional Harvard, etc. professors. "Fellow members": Henry Kissinger (anno '72) | William D. Rogers (anno '72; "partner Arnold & Porter" law firm; future Henry K. protege) | Irving Kristol (anno '72) | Albert Wohlstetter (anno '72) | Edward Teller (anno '72) | Milton Friedman (anno '72) | Alastair Buchan (anno '72) | Freeman Dyson (anno '72) | William Kintner (anno '72) | Max Lerner (anno '72; Brandeis University) | Professor Hans Morgenthau (anno '72; Un. of Chicago) | Prof. Richard Neustadt (anno '72) | Prof. John P. Roche (anno '72). Various additional Harvard, etc. professors. Steering committee: Lord Byers of Rio Tinto Zinc (anno '72) | Pehr Gyllenhammar (anno '72) | Dieter Spethmann of August Thyssen-Hutte A.G. (anno '72) | Jerome Monod (anno '72) | Yoshizo Ikeda of Mitsui (anno '72). Speakers: Wang Huiyao (Sep. 26, 2018 speaker) | Benjamin Netanyahu and Roger Hertog (Sep. '16 discussion) | Paul Wolfowitz. U.S. corporate donors anno 1972: Bechtel, Boeing, Chemical Bank, Coca-Cola, Ford, General Electric, General Foods, Gulf Oil, IBM, Mobil Oil, MITRE, Olin Corp., Standard Oil of New Jersey, etc. European corporate donors anno 1972: Rio Tinto, Royal Dutch Shell, Philips, August Thyssen-Hutte A.G., Volkswagenwerk A.G., Stockholms Enskilda Bank (Wallenberg) and Volvo. Other corporate donors anno 1972: Mitsui & Co., Ltd. Mitsui Shipbuilding. Nippon Steel Corporation. |
1961 |
| National Strategy Information Center (NSIC) William Casey (founder) | Bendetsen | Sven Kraemer | Scaife (finances) | Dr. Roy Godson (president). 1984 officers list: Frank Barnett | Adm. William Mott. 1984 directors list: Prescott Bush, Jr. (brother of George, Sr.) | John N. Moore | Morris Leibman | Adm. Thomas Moorer. 1984 advisory council list: Joseph Coors | Henry Folwer | John Hanes, Jr. | Dr. Frederick Seitz | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. More: Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) Consortium for the Study of Intelligence project of NSIC (founded in 1979): Richard Bissell | Ray Cline | Samuel Huntington | John N. M. | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Richard Pipes | Antonin Scalia | Allen Weinstein. |
1962 |
| American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Originally founded in 1938, changed name in 1962, and only really influential since 1970s through financing by foundations as Olin, Scaife, Bradley and various major banks and corporations. Trustees: Willard Butler (chair AEI fundraising committee late 1970s; chair in the late 1980s; close ally of David Rockefeller, whom he followed up in 1979-1980 as CEO and then chair of Chase Manhattan) | David Packard (trustee 1978-1996) | George R. Roberts (KKR & Co.) | Christopher Galvin (Motorola) | chairs and CEOs of Dow Chemical, Rockwell, Cox Oil, Exxon, Amoco, Aluminum Co. of America, General Motors, Eli Lilly, Citicorp, Morgan Stanley, Procter & Gamble, Pfizer, SmithKline Beecham, etc. | M. Douglas Ivester (president and COO Coca-Cola) | Ken Lay (co-founder, chair and CEO of Enron) | James Schadt (Reader's Digest). Additional trustees since 1990s: Christopher DeMuth (president) | John Bolton (officer only; senior vice president for public policy research 1997-2001; scholar 1990s and 2008-) | Dick Cheney (trustee vice chair late 1990s; trustee again after public service - into 2010s) and wife Lynne (scholar in the 2000s-2010s) | Roger Hertog (1999-) | Joe Ricketts [1999-) | Lee Raymond (vice chair anno 2005) | Robert Pritzker | Dick DeVos (2017-). Council of Academic Advisors: D. Gale Johnson (chair AEI Council of Academic Advisers in the 1980s; chair economics department University of Chicago 1971-1975 and 1980-1984; TC 1978-1980s) | William Landes (Chicago School economist) | Thomas Sowell (Chicago School economist) | Sam Peltzman (Chicago School economist) | Samuel Huntington (1990s-2008) | Paul Wolfowitz (late 1990s; scholar 2008-| Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 2000s: Eliot Cohen. | Martin Feldstein. Scholars / research fellows: George von Furstenberg (scholar for 6 months mid 1970s) | Michael Novak (scholar 1978-at least 2000s) | Robert Nisbet (scholar) | Nicholas Eberstadt (2000s-2010s) | Newt Gingrich (2000s) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (2000s) | Irving Kristol (2000s) | Michael Ledeen (2000s) | Allan Meltzer (2000s) | Joshua Muravchik (2000s) | Richard Perle (2000s) | Ben Wattenberg (2000s) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (visiting fellow 2006-) | Frederick Kagan (2010s; brother-in-law of Robert K.) | Roger Zakheim (son of Dov Z.) | Sen. Phil Gramm. Other: George Shultz (advisory council anno 1977) | Leslie Lenkowsky (research fellow) | Bruce Jackson (advisor) | Glenn Campbell (research director) | John Lenczowski | Sen. Jon Kyl and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (co-chairs AEI's American Internationalism Project, with the former a visiting fellow in the 2010s) | Anne Applebaum (adjunct fellow) | Norman Ornstein (resident scholar) | Radoslaw Sikorski (resident scholar 2001-2005; Polish minister of national defense 2005-2007, foreign affairs minister 2007-2014). National Council 2012-: C. Boyden Gray (co-chair) | Joe and Todd Ricketts (co-chair) | David Koch | David Coulter (vice chair Warburg Pincus) | Lewis Eisenberg (co-chair) | Robert McCormack | Mayari Pritzker (president of the family foundation) | Dick Uihlein (co-chair). Need to verify (again?): William Simon | Richard Pipes. |
1962 |
| Korean Culture and Freedom Foundation (KCFF) Sun Myung Moon (founder) | Col. Bo Hi Pak (founder) | Harry Truman (honorary president) | Dwight Eisenhower (honorary president) | Richard Nixon (director; former vice president at the time) |
1964 |
| American Conservative Union (ACU) William Buckley (founder) | David Keene (chair 1984-2011) | Michael Keene (director of online communications; David's son; sentenced to 10 years in 2003 for attempted murder during a road rage incident) | Diana Hubbard Carr (administrative director; ex-wife of David; pleaded guilty in June 2011 to embezzling between $120,000 and $400,000 from 2006 to 2009) |
1964 |
| World Anti-Communist League (WACL) Ray Cline | Roger Pearson | Gen. Singlaub (chairman) | Gen. Daniel Graham (vice chairman) | Gen. Lewis Walt | John Fisher | Paul Bethel | Andy Messing | David Rowe | McCain III | Col. Ray Sleeper | Possony | Lev Dobriansky | Fred Schlafy | Anna Chennault | Gen. Milnor Roberts | Anthony Kubek | Steve Symms | Robert J. Morris. Outside U.S. : Mario Sandoval Alarcon | Adolfo Calero | Gen. Robert Close | Paul Vankerhoven | Stefano Delle Chiaie | Count Hans Huyn | Ryoichi Sasakawa | Yoshio Kodama | Ferdinand Marcos | Blas Pinar | Alfredo Stroesser. |
1966 |
| Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy (CMPDP) Dean Acheson and Paul Nitze (founders) | Albert Wohlstetter | Paul Wolfowitz | Richard Perle | Peter Wilson. |
1969 |
| Confederación Anticomunista Latina (CAL - WACL) John Carbaugh | Margo Carlisle | Stephano Delle Chiai | Roberto D'Aubuisson. |
1970s (+/-) |
| Committee for the Defense of the Mediterranean Philip Guarino* | John Connally * Recruit and friend of OSS chief Bill Donovan. Catholic priest. Co-founder U.S. branch Supreme Military Order of the Jerusalem Temple. Close to Bushes. Alleged P2 and Cosa Nostra ties. |
1970s (+/-) |
| America-Israel Friendship League (AIFL) See U.S.-Israel relationship. Founders: Nelson R. and Senator Henry J. Directors: John B. | Jack K. | Lawrence E. | Vernon J. | Henry K. | Rudolph G. | George S. | Paul V. | Mortimer Z. (president) | Abraham F. | Malcolm H. |
1971 |
| Office of Net Assessment (ONA) Andrew Marshall (founder and head for decades) | Andrew Krepinevich (worked at ONA with Marshall) | James Schlesinger (colleague who transferred ONA to the Pentagon) | Henry Kissinger (Marshall and ONA started out as his advisor on Soviet affairs, but Marshall was too much on the extremist/hawkish side) | Henry Sokolski | Enders Wimbush (analyst) |
1971 |
| Coalition for a Democratic Majority (CDM) Sen. Henry Jackson | David Boren | Daniel Inouye | Sen. Moynihan | Sam Nunn | Sen. Chuck Robb | Les Aspin | Thomas Foley | Hubert Humphrey | Ben Wattenberg (co-chair) | Irving Kristol (co-chair) | Angier Biddle Duke | Samuel Huntington | Kampelman | Kirkpatrick | Joshua Muravchik | Richard Pipes | Eugene Rostow | Walter Slocombe | James Woolsey | Allen Weinstein | Michael Novak |
1972 |
| Heritage Foundation Trustees: Ed Feulner (trustee '73-today, president '77-'13 and '17) | Paul Weyrich (co-founder) | Joseph Coors ('73-'98; initial funder and long-time trustee) | Holly Coors ('98-) | Frank Shakespeare ('79) | Richard Mellon Scaife (1985-2014, vice chair at least early 1990s-2014)| Midge Decter ('81-'15, emeritus '15-) | William Simon (until death in '00) | William Simon Jr. ('08-'15) | Dusty Rhodes (trustee '93-'99) | Steve Forbes ('01-) | Rebekah Mercer ('14-) | Michael Gleba ('16-) | Ed Meese (holds the Ronald Reagan Chair in Public Policy since 1988; '17-). More: Mark Esper (chief of staff 1996-1998) | Bechtel (later note: financier?) | Habsburg (later note: visitor?) | Richard V. Allen | Bill Bennett (fellow) | Zakheim (scholar) | Fritz Ermarth (2009 penalist) | Ariel Cohen (2009 penalist) | David Brock (John M. Olin Fellow in Congressional Studies around 1990) | Kenneth Weinstein (director of the Government Reform Project 1996-1998). Conspiracy disinformer Alex Jones has used its "pocket constitutions". Headquartered at the Heritage Foundation: Citizens for America (CFA), founded in 1983: Lewis Lehrman (co-founder and president) | Oliver North | Jack Abramoff (became executive director in 1984) | Jack Stevens (later executive director). United Students of America Foundation (USA Foundation): Jack Abramoff (chair) |
1973 |
| American-Chilean Council Lev Dobriansky | Anthony Kubek | Stefan Possony | Francis Bouchey | James Atkinson | David Rowe | Lord Alun Chalfont (British-Chilean Council) |
1974 |
| Institute for Contemporary Studies (ICS) Directors: Ed Meese (key founder) | Caspar Weinberger (co-founder | Lawrence Chickering (president) | Donald Rumsfeld (chair and CEO late 1980s). Other: Jack Sarfatti (peculiar resident scientist). Funded by Scaife and Hearst foundations. |
1975 |
| European American Institute for Security Research (EAISR) Formerly known as the European-American Workshop. Albert Wohlstetter (president since 1975) | Fred Ikle | Richard Burt | Pierre Hassner | Devon Gaffney Cross | Scaife (minor financier) |
1975 (+/-) |
| Team B Created in 1975 after various members of the PFIAB early that year started wondering if the CIA's intelligence estimates on the Soviet Union in terms of military build up weren't structurally underestimated to keep Henry K.'s Detente and nuclear arms control negotiations America's dominant foreign policy with regard to the Soviet Union. This was an unpopular opinion, especially with Henry K. still as secretary of state and then with the subsequent Democrat Jimmy C. administration. Jimmy C. actually ended up dismantling the PFIAB over it in May 1977, with Team B also hounded in the press. Team B's conclusions though, that the Soviet Union did not fully ascribe to Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) as a given (as Henry K. and his followers did) and was looking for ways to make a nuclear war winnable, all the while largely using disarmament negotiations to secretly reach nuclear parity with the U.S., weren't all that far-fetched. That view also became the dominant one during the 1980s. Despite that Team B certainly made good points, it is also clear that the group largely involved a group of right-wing radicals - with the truth likely either somewhere in between or simply based how much of an economic powerhouse the Soviet Union would be able to become. Creators: Albert Wohlstetter (published work in 1974 making the case that the CIA had structurally underestimated Soviet military power, which led to questions by the PFAIB; reportedly also helped set up the Team B effort more directly) | George H. W. Bush (approved its creation as CIA director) | John Paisley (CIA liaison) | Richard Pipes (chair of the B Team) | Richard B. Foster (from SRI who employed Richard in 1973-1974 for conducting studies on Soviet foreign policy) | Richard Perle (Richard P. picked Paul W. for his team, because this person "recommended him so highly".). Members (picked by Richard from a list of potential experts compiled by the CIA): General John Vogt, Jr. (recently retired commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe) | Gen. Jasper A. Welch, Jr. (missile expert). Members (proposed by Richard and approved by the CIA): Paul Nitze (Richard had seen him on TV, thought he was "so good", but hadn't met him before) | Gen. Daniel Graham | William van Cleave | Paul Wolfowitz | Foy Kohler (ex-ambassador to Moscow) | Thomas Wolfe (from RAND) | Seymour Weiss (recently retired director of the Bureau of Political and Military Affairs at State). Three names were rejected by the CIA: two for not having the proper security clearances, and another one whose reasons for rejection were not explained. Source(s): Oct. 1987, Richard P. for Commentary Magazine, 'Team B: The Reality Behind the Myth'; 1998, Anne Cahn, 'Killing Detente'. |
1975-1976 |
| Second Committee on the Present Danger (2nd CPD) According to Richard P., many at CPD were allied with Team B, including Henry F., David P., Richard V. A., as well as Eugene R., Lane K., Dean R. Members: Paul Nitze | Max Kampelman | William Casey | William Bendetsen | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Richard V. Allen | Richard Pipes | Fred Ikle | William Van Cleave | Geoffrey Kemp | Jeane Kirkpatrick | John Lehman | George Shultz | Richard Perle | Reagan | John Connally | J. Peter Grace | Clare Boothe Luce | C. Douglas Dillon | John M. Cabot | Henry Fowler (co-chair 1980s). Also: John McCone | John S. Foster, Jr. | David Packard (1976-1981). |
1976 |
| Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) Co-founders: Michael Ledeen and Sen. Henry Jackson. Others: Morris Amitay (vice chair) | James Woolsey | Dick Cheney | Wolfowitz (co-chair) | Richard Perle | Feith (vice chair) | Shoshana Bryen (executive director; managing editor) | Adm. David Jeremiah | Adm. Sumner Shapiro | Max Kampelman (chair advisory board) | Nina Rosenwald | Phyllis Kaminsky | Kirkpatrick | Bolton | David Steinmann | Joshua Muravchik | Stephen Solarz | Ken Blackwell | Galen Kelly (director anno 1985; CAN deprogrammer). Advisory board anno 1985: Senator Rudy Boschwitz | Gen. Devol Brett | Dr. Lawrence Goldmuntz | Jack Kemp | I.L. Kenen | Dr. Walter Laqueur | Eugene Rostow | Edward Sanders | Gen. Eugene Tighe | Jacques Torczyner | Gen. John Vogt | Gordon Zacks | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. (member JINSA's Generals and Admirals Program to the Middle East 2011-2012). Experts: Gen. Yaakov Amidror | Gen. James Conway | Eric Edelman | Ronald Lehman II | Dr. Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. | Dr. William Schneider Jr. | Roger Zakheim (son of Dov) | Mortimer Zuckerman. Note: Michael L., James Woo1sey and Richard Per1e all quit at the same time in 2012, immediately after Bryen. |
1976 |
| Nathan Hale Institute (NHI) Founder: Raymond Wannall |
1976 |
| Security and Intelligence Fund (SIF) Founding chairman: James Angleton | Gen. Robert Richardson | John M. Fisher (ASC) |
1976 |
| Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) Elliott Abrams (president 1996-2002) |
1976 |
| Council for Inter-American Security (CIS) Directors: Gen. Gorden Sumner (chair) | Francis Bouchey (president) | Pat Buchanan | Col. Sam Dickens | Francis Graves | Andy Messing | Gen. John Singlaub | Frank Aker. Members of its first and second Committee of Santa Fe: Francis B. | Roger Fontaine | Gen. Gordon S. Others: John Lenczowski |
1976 |
| National Intelligence Study Center (NISC) Ray Cline (president) | Marjorie Cline (vice president; editor World Intelligence Review) | Col. Hayden Peake | Gen. J. Milnor Roberts | John Mapother | Warren Frank (editor) | John Guenther | Samuel Halpern |
1977 |
| Defense Advisory Committee for President-Elect Reagan John Lehman | Gen. Singlaub | Gen. Daniel Graham | Lawrence Korb | Richard V. Allen | William Clark | Charles Lichenstein | Adm. James Nance | Adm. Edward Outlaw | Gen. George Patton IV | Richard Pipes | Gen. Gordon Sumner, Jr. | Louis Dechert, Sr. |
1977 (+/-) |
| Institute For Education Affairs (IEA) / Madison Center for Educational Affairs (MCEA) Founders: William Simon and Irving Kristol. |
1978-2000s |
| National Black Leadership Roundtable (NBLR) Walter Fauntroy (founder and chairman thoughout its existence) |
1978-1991 |
| National Defense Council Foundation (NDCF) Andy Messing (executive director) | Coors (financing) | Dick Cheney (congressional advisor) | Newt Gingrich (congressional advisor) | Christopher Cox (congressional advisor) | Bob Stump (congressional advisor) | Gen. Singlaub | Robert Brown (SoF editor) | Tommy Corcoran | Gen. Lansdale. |
1978 |
| Jonathan Institute and conferences Named after Yonatan Netanyahu, a brother of important institute founder Benjamin Netanyahu, who died during Operation Entebbe in 1976. All Netanyahu brothers have been members of Sayeret Matkal. "Public committee" / "administrative committee" anno 1978: Golda Meir (chair) | Moshe Dayan | Shimon Peres | Menachem Begin | Yitzhak Rabin | Ariel Sharon | Ezer Weizman | Ephraim Katzir (hon. president). July 2-5, 1979 conference in Jerusalem: Douglas Feith (Bibi reached out to him to help organize the conference) | George H. W. Bush | Ray Cline | Sen. Henry Jackson | Claire Stirling | Richard Pipes | Jack Kemp | Brian Crozier | Robert Moss | Gen. George Keegan | Jacques Soustelle (also a reported board member) | Norman Podhoretz | Ben Wattenberg. June 24, 1984 conference in Washington, D.C.: Lord Chalfont (chair) | Yitzhak R. | Ray C. | George Shultz | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Charles Krauthammer | Michael Ledeen | Bernard Lewis | Sen. Daniel Moynihan | Midge Decter | Paul Laxalt | Edwin Meese | Jack K. | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Daniel Schorr | Ted Koppel. Others:Caspar Weinberger | Fred Luchsinger | David Bar-Illan (organized a 1985 conference for Bibi in NYC). Source(s): May 6, 1980, The Gleaner, 'Soviets and terrorism'; 1986, Bibi Netanyahu, 'Terrorism: How the West Can Win' (bbok is based on the 1984 conference); 2013, Dr. Lisa Stampnitzky (University of Sheffield), 'Disciplining Terror: How Experts Invented 'Terrorism'', pp. 112-126 (gives many original sources). Benjamin Netanyahu in relation to the 1984 conference: "If you take away state support there is virtually no international terrorism. You don't have the weapons... the embassies that are used as terrorist fortresses [and] safe houses, you don't have the intelligence." |
1978 |
| Religious Roundtable, Council of 56 Jerry Falwell | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Keegan | James Kennedy | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Phyllis Schlafly | Dr. Gary North |
1979 |
| Western Goals Foundation International directors: Larry MacDonald | John Rees | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Gen. John Singlaub | Roy Cohn | Gen. Robert Close | Roberto D'Aubuisson. | Gen. George Patton IV. Also: William Jasper (adviser for the documentary foundation's 'No Place to Hide: The Strategy and Tactics of Terrorism'). Source(s): March 1983, WGF letter and board (photocopy). |
1979 |
| Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies (IEDSS) Feulner (chair) | Richard V. Allen | Albert Wohlstetter | Melvin Lasky | Sir Ray Whitney |
1979 |
| CAUSA (Moonies) Members: Gen. Woellner | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Ray Cline | Gen. Daniel Graham | Douglas MacArthur II | Lynn Francis Bouchey. French liaisons for Col. Bo Hi Pak and CAUSA: Alain Griotteray (Le Figaro) | Louis Pauwels (Le Figaro) | Jacques Toubon | Jacques Soustelle. |
1980 |
| Colloquium on Counterintelligence conference Part of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. Participants (loaded with questionable CIA operatives): Daniel Arnold | Frank Barnett | Ted Shackley | Richard Bissell | Ray Cline | Kenneth deGraffenreid | John Dziak | Edward Epstein | Gen. Schlomo Gazit (director Israeli Military Intelligence 1974-1979) | Dr. Roy Godson | Col. John Guenther | Sam Halpern | Adm. Donald Harvey | George Kalaris | Roger Kaplan (H. Smith Richardson Fdn.) | Newton Miler | John N. Moore | Adm. William Mott | Robert Nisbet | James Nolan (FBI) | Gen. William Odom | Richard Pipes | Raymond Rocca | P.L Thyraud de Vosjoli (SDECE) | Gen. Edmund Thompson | Joe Volz (NY Daily News) | Raymond Wannall | David Ignatius (WSJ) | William Kuzewicz (WSJ) | Charles Lichtenstein (PBS) | Edwin Warner (Time mag.) | Allen Weinstein. |
April 1980 |
| Colloquium on Clandestine Collection conference Consortium for the Study of Intelligence. Participants not counted again here. Participants (loaded with questionable CIA operatives): Daniel Arnold | Ray Cline | Ted Shackley | Allen Weinstein | Samuel Huntington | Richard Pipes | Edward Luttwak (counted) | Antonin Scalia. |
Dec. 1981 |
| Committee for the Free World Scaife | Rumsfeld (co-chair) | Decter (co-chair) | Chalfont | Sir James Goldsmith | Kirkpatrick | Perle | Podhoretz | Ledeen | Richard Pipes | Irving Kristol | Eugene Rostow | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Elliott Abrams |
1981 |
| Committee for a Free Afghanistan Chairman: Gen. J. Milnor Roberts |
1981 |
| Council for National Policy (CNP) J. Peter Grace | Nelson Bunker Hunt | Mary Reilly Hunt | Joseph Coors | Jeffrey Coors | Paul Weyrich | Pierre duPont IV | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Gen. Daniel Graham | Andy Messing | Oliver North | Gen. John Singlaub (still on 2014 membership list) | T. Spencer | Albion Knight | Feulner | Kenneth Cribb Jr. (president) | Falwell | Max Hugel | Teller | Dick Armey | Jesse Helms | Elsa Prince (mother of Erik Prince, who helps finance the group) | Richard V. Allen | Bolton | Phyllis Schlafy | Jack Abramoff | Jack Kemp | Rush Limbaugh | Tim LaHaye | Pat Robertson (wrote a well-known book against the CFR, TC, etc.) | Pat Buchanan | Mitt Romney | Tom Delay | Tom Clancy | Trent Lott | Lynn Francis Bouchey | Pat Matrisciana | Stanley Monteith | Barbara Monteith | Dr. Gary North | Beurt SerVaas | Cleon Skousen | Mark Skousen | Joel Skousen | John A. Stormer | Michael Coffman | Robert Waring Stoddard | Gen. Gordon Sumner | Frank Aker | Richard Viguerie (still on 2014 membership list) | Edwin Meese III | John Lehman | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Paul Craig Roberts | Jon Kyl (co-chair CNP's Defense and Foreign Policy Committee) | James Dobson | Jack McLamb (went with Dobson; head of Police and Military Against the New World Order and Alex Jones supporter) | George W. Bush (1999) | Cheney (speech) | Rumsfeld (speech) | Rudy Giuliani (speech) | James Woolsey (speech '02) | Schwarzenegger (speech) | Thomas Spencer | Alton Ochsner, Jr. | Newt Gingrich (at least a speaker/visitor; fell out with the group). Extra names from a 2014 membership list: Joel Chertoff | Jerome Corsi | Steve Forbes | Frank Gaffney (also part of a debate in '02) | Grover Norquist | Christopher Ruddy | Rick Santorum | John Templeton Jr. | Joyce Weyrich | Orit Sklar (FrontPageMagazine contributor 2005-09) | Mark Gregg (CEO Kiwi Energy). Protected by Alex Jones, who really dislikes to criticize the group. |
1981 |
| U.S. Global Strategy Council (USGSC) Directors: Ray Cline (chair) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Daniel Graham | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | William Colby | Luce | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Brent Scowcroft | Edward Teller | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Gen. David Woellner | William Middendorf II. Also: Janet Morris (research director; wife of Robert J. Morris; co-author of Col. John Alexander; both cooperated with Newt G. for his 1984 book 'Window of Opportunity'; Alexander is a known friend of men as Stilwell and Teller). |
1981 |
| Intelligence Support Activity (ISA) Frank Carlucci | Fred Ikle | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell |
1981 |
| National Institute for Public Policy (NIPP) Keith Payne (long-time president and chair). Advisory board: Eugene Rostow | Adm. Harry Train II | Amb. Henry Cooper (SDI) | William Van Cleave | Gen. George Blanchard | Gen. William Odom. Robert Joseph (senior scholar) |
1981 |
| Institute on Religion and Democracy (IRD) Michael Novak (founder) | George Weigel |
1981 |
| American Foreign Policy Council (AFPC) Website since at least 1995, but didn't list its advisory board members until 2010. These are anno 2014: Paula Dobriansky | Newt Gingrich | Robert Joseph | Sen. Robert Kasten, Jr. | Richard McCormack | Robert McFarlane | Gov. Thomas Ridge | William Schneider, Jr. | James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim. Until 2011: Fred Ikle. Experts anno 2014: Kenneth DeGraffenreid (distinguished fellow in intelligence studies) | Sven Kraemer (distinguished fellow in national security affairs). Others: Monique Garnier-Lancon (special advisor in 1985, director 1987-1995) |
1982 |
| AmeriCares J. Peter Grace | Brzezinski | William Simon | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Stilwell, Jr. | Eagleburger | Robert Macauley (friend of George H. W. Bush) | Prescott S. Bush, Jr. | Jeb Bush | George P. Bush | Barbara Bush | Bruce Ritter | Elie Wiesel | Sen. Gordon Humphrey | A. James Forbes, Jr. | Robert Galvin | James Earl Jones | Colin Powell | Thomas L. Sheer |
1982 |
| Refugee Relief International Gen. John Singlaub | Gen. Harry Aderholt | Col. Robert K. Brown (owner and publisher of Soldier of Fortune) |
1982 |
| Henry M. Jackson Foundation James Schlesinger | John McCain III | Philip Odeen (chair) |
1983 |
| International Republican Institute (IRI) Republican counterpart of the NDI, orginally known as the National Republican Institute of International Affairs. It has offices in most second and third world countries, advising and training heads of state, ministers, party leaders and staffers on how to sell their political and economic agendas to the masses. It heavily focuses on building up "grassroots" youth and feminist activist networks. IRI's funding originally came from the government through NED and USAID, but soon came to involve a massive network of multinationals, whose only purpose for funding IRI is that it helps prevent the election of communist parties. Directors who joined in the 1980s: Jack Kemp (anno '89) | Jeb Bush (anno '89) | Richard Lugar (anno '89) | William Middendorf II (anno '89-'08, secretary treasurer anno '97-'08). Advisory council who joined in the 1980s (only existed in the 1980s and maybe the 1990s: Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno '89-, listed as a director '00 - until d. '06; only CFR member on all boards in '89) | Richard V. Allen (anno '89) | Lee Atwater (anno '89). Directors who joined in the 1990s: John McCain III (chair 1993-2018) | Edwin Feulner (anno '96-'00) | Brent Scowcroft (anno '96-'09) | Lawrence Eagleburger (anno '96-'09) | Lewis Eisenberg (anno '99, until mid or late '01) | Chuck Hagel (anno '99-'08) | Jim Kolbe (anno '99-'09). Officers who joined no later than the 1990s: Lorne Craner (vice president '93-'95, president anno '95-'01, again '04-'14) Directors who joined in the 2000s: Randy Scheunemann ('03-, still anno '08) | Paul Bremer ('06-, still anno '09). Directors who joined in the 2010s: Sen. Dan Sullivan (chair 2018-; considers himself a protege of John McC.) International advisory council (2015-): John Howard ('15-; PM Australia 1996-2007) | Mo Ibrahim (anno '17-'19) | Paula Dobriansky (anno '17-'19 | Vitaly Klitschko (anno '17-'19 | Naheed Farid (anno '17-'19; MP Afghanistan) | Mikulas Dzurinda ('17-'19; PM Slovakia 1998-2006) | Andrius Kubilius (anno '17-'19; PM Lithuania 1999-2000, 2008-2012) | John Kufuor (anno '17-'19; president Ghana 2001-2009) | Andres Pastrana (anno '18-'19; president Colombia 1998-2002). Directors who joined in the 2020s: ... Visitors/speakers to IRI (visitors hosted at the RNC 1988-) / IRI Forums, Freedom Dinners and awards (1996-): Colin Powell (honored at IRI's 1996 Freedom Dinner) | Alexander Haig ('96 IRI Forum speaker) | Henry Kissinger ('96 IRI Forum speaker, Freedom Award in '09) | George Shultz ('96 and '00 IRI Forum speaker, awarded in '10) | Frank Carlucci (listed as a donor for '96, which generally means he attended the annual fundraising dinner) | Sen. William Coleman Jr. (listed as a donor for '96) | William Taft IV (listed as a donor for '96) | Shirley Temple Black (listed as a donor for '96) | Ronald Reagan (honoree Freedom Dinner '97) | Natan Sharanksy (Freedom Award '99) | Bob Dole (honoree Freedom Dinner '98) | Richard Armitage ('00 speaker) | Paul Wolfowitz ('00 speaker) | Robert Zoellick ('00 speaker) | Dick Cheney (Freedom Award '01) | Bill Frist and Hamid Karzai (honoree Freedom Dinner '03) | C. Michael Armstrong (chair '03 dinner; CEO Comcast) | Maurice Sonnenberg (listed as donor for the '03 Freedom Dinner) | Condoleezza Rice (Freedom Award '04) | William Kristol ('04 IRI Forum speaker) | George W. Bush (Freedom Award '05) and Laura Bush (Freedom Award '06) | C. Boyden Gray (donor 2007-2008) | Richard Burt ('08 IRI Forum speaker) | John Lehman ('08 IRI Forum speaker) | John Negroponte (present at a 2011 award meeting honoring James Baker) | Boris Nemtsov (Freedom Award '15 - posthumously) | Mo Ibrahim (Freedom Award '15). Foreign ties IRI: Aung San Suu Kyi (Freedom Award '99; general secretary of Myanmar's National League for Democracy 1988-2011, chair 2011-; Myanmar's foreign minister 2016-2021, until it was overthrown in a military coup) | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Freedom Award '06; part of Liberia's "globalist-nationalist" oligarch in the 1970s who financed genocidal warlord Charles Taylor in his efforts to overthrow a right-wing CIA-Mossad-big business puppet Samuel Doe) | Antonio Saca (Freedom Award '07; president El Salvador 2004-2008, part of the "moderate wing" of ARENA, a party founded by CIA death squad and cocaine trafficking Contra Roberto D'Aubuisson, with D'Aubuisson's son, Eduardo, an ARENA politician, being tortured and murdered in 2007 which led to a whole bunch of police officers, prosecutors and consultants tied to the case also getting murdered (drug cartels and security state officials are suspected); sentenced to 10 years prison in 2018 for laundering $260 million of public funds). More: Donald Rumsfeld (headed a 9-member IRI commission about Macedonia in 1994) | Porter Goss (led a 20-member IRI team in Haiti in 1995) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (involved in organizing a 1998 conference) | Christine Whitman (lead IRI Election Observation in Cambodia in 2003) | Ken Blackwell | Janusz Bugajski (consultant on eastern European affairs) | Robert O'Brien (member of the IRI delegations observing Georgia's 2013 presidential election and Ukraine's 2014 parliamentary election) | Chester Crocker ("Volunteer" for 1996). Source(s): 1989, IRI and NDI joint report, 'The May 7, 1989 Panamanian Elections' (board members of both institutes in the opening); 1996, 1999 annual reports; iri.org/board.asp (accessed: April 12, 2000 - April 16, 2009); iri.org/03-freedom.asp and iri.org/03-freedomdonors.asp (accessed: March 4, 2003); iri.org/who-we-are/international-advisory-council (accessed: July 17, 2015 and on): "IRI established the International Advisory Council in 2015."; etc. 1996 annual report, IRI, p. 22: "IRI receives financial support from individuals, foundations, and corporations, as well as the U.S. government (through the [NED] and [USAID]). Increasingly, IRI will look to the private sector... Donors: ... Heritage [and] Olin [and] Whitehead [Fdns.] ... Chevron ... Philip Morris ... Texaco .. FELLOWS: Arco. AT&T Lockheed Martin. ... United Airlines. SPONSORS: Akin, Gump... American Express ... Amoco ... Caterpillar ... Chrysler ... Delta Air Lines ... Embassy of Kuwait. FannieMae. Federal Express ... Ford ... General Motors ... Goldman Sachs ... ITT ... McDonnell Douglas ... Motorola ... Rockwell ... Time Warner. Union Pacific...United Technologies ... PATRONS: United Airlines ... Boeing ... Eli Lilly ... Enron ... General Dynamics ... Halliburton ... Mazda Motor of America ... Phelps Dodge ... RJ Reynolds ... TRW ... SUPPORTERS: Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly ... BP America. Cal-Tex. ... Coca-Cola ... E-Systems ... Jefferson Waterman International ... Mantech ... MW Kellog Company ... Pfizer ... Unocal ... Westinghouse..." 2001 annual report, IRI, p. 22: "Donors: ... Chairman's Circle: American International Group [AIG] ... ChevronTexaco ... Federal Express ... Halliburton ... Star [Fdn.]. Fellows: Akin, Gump... AOL Time Warner. Archer Daniels Midland ... Boeing ... BP America ... ExxonMobil ... Lockheed Martin ... Sponsors: Amgen. The Blackstone Group ... DaimlerChrysler ... Kuwait Petroleum ... Motorola ... Union Pacific... Supporters: ... AT&T ... Carlyle ... Goldman Sachs ... KPMG ... Microsoft ... Viacom... Friends: ... BAE Systems ... Cargill ... Citigroup ... Alexandra de Borchgrave ... Hill & Knowlton ... UBS Warburg..." 2008, IRI, '25th Anniversary Report', p. 30: "Highlighted below are the donors from 2007 and 2008: CORPORATIONS & FOUNDATIONS: ... AIG ... Anheuser-Busch ... AT&T. Blackwater Worldwide. Bristol-Meyers Squibb ... Coca-Cola ... Eli Lilly ... [GMF] of the United States ... Goldman Sachs ... Lockheed Martin ... Mercedes-Benz USA ... [SM] Foundation ... TimeWarner ... Donner [Fdn.]" 2001 annual report, pp. 10-17: "ALBANIA: IRI provided technical assistance to Albania's parliament to help increase its transparency, public accountability, and capacity to develop legislation. The Institute trained parliamentary staff... BULGERIA: IRI assisted Bulgaria’s main political parties in developing their campaigns for the June 2001 parliamentary elections. IRI also trained candidates and campaign managers in grassroots organization. IRI launched a voter education Web site, www.daglasuvame.org ("let’s vote"), targeted at youth. ... Following the parliamentary elections, IRI conducted a series of polls and focus groups... IRI trained local party leaders in party organization, internal communications and youth organization. For the [anti-communist alliance] Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) [headed by the heavily pro-NATO 1997-2001 Bulgarian PM Ivan Kostov], IRI conducted a study ... Although the study was highly critical of the party, UDF's leaders accepted its accuracy and used the findings... CROATIA: ... IRI continued to advise and train senior-level staff and officials... An IRI national opinion poll conducted in February showed that while the government still enjoyed popular support, the Croatian people were growing impatient to see progress in economic and social reforms. Using strategic opinion research, IRI worked closely with government spokespersons from the prime minister’s and the president’s offices to promote effective communication between the government and the Croatian public. ... IRI also developed seminars for young political reporters and helped establish a Young Journalists’ Club, designed to instill higher professional standards in the next generation of media professionals. The club has become a center for professional discussions and is planning to expand into a regional network of young journalists throughout Eastern Europe. MACEDONIA: IRI assisted the president’s communications team in its development of an effective strategy to explain the peace accord to the public. [IRI headed the development of a national youth network to identify common political goals to bridge the inter-ethnic divide among the nation’s youth and the creation of a speaker’s series to bring together political and civic youth organizations from across ethnic, political and regional lines... In preparation for 2002 parliamentary elections, IRI began training Macedonia’s main political parties. ROMANIA: IRI continued providing political communications training for Romanian government spokespersons and completed the final two exchange missions to the United States... Nearly 30 Romanian officials participated in the IRI-conducted exchanges... IRI also trained members of the president’s communication office and other ministry spokespersons...SERBIA: ... IRI focused on assistingthe new government in developing and implementing itsreform agenda... IRI trained local political leaders, city managers and senior-level civil servants in five municipalities on how to involve citizens in decision making... TURKEY: IRI made significant headway in its youth participation programs. ... IRI continued to assist Turkish partner organizations in theirefforts to raise public awareness of the social costs ofcorruption in Turkey. IRI supported social research and publications on corruption that were released at a press conference with the interior minister. BELARUS: IRI opened an office in Vilnius, Lithuania to better facilitate programs for Belarusian political activists as they prepared for the September 9 presidential election... IRI used trainers from other Central and Eastern European countries to provide practical advice on door-to-door campaigning and get-out-the-vote activities. ... GEORGIA ... RUSSIA ... UKRAINE: From party building to youth outreach and Women InPolitics (WIP) programs, IRI’s Ukraine program reached thousands of democratic political party activists... IRI helped Ukrainian nongovernmental organizationsgrow and develop. ... ARGENTINA ... CUBA ... ECUADOR ... GUATEMALA ... HAITI ... MEXICO: Since 1987, IRI has worked in Mexico to encourage citizens to exercise their rights and contribute to the consolidation ofa fully representative, multi-party democracy. That work continued in 2001 through IRI’s support of the Asociacion Nacional Civica Femenina (ANCIFEM). ... NICARAGUA: [There is a] possible return to power of theSandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). ... Prior to the elections, IRI and HD worked to encourage citizen participation in the country’s political discourse andpromoted accountability for elected officials. ... IRI also dispatched a 56-member delegation that spread out over 13 of Nicaragua’s 17 departments for the November 4 election monitoring mission. PERU: ... Leading up to thenational elections in April, IRI trained more than 3,445 political party poll watchers and worked with civic groupsto increase citizen participation in the electoral process. VENEZUELA: ... In 2001, the once fractured and weak political opposition began to gain strength and increase coordination in its efforts to mount an effective democratic challenge to the increasingly authoritarian regime of President Hugo Chavez. ... IRI worked closely with the leaders of political parties to help strengthen democracy..." |
1983 |
| Special Operations Policy Advisory Group (SOPAG) Frank Carlucci | Fred Ikle | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Edward Luttwak | Gen. John Singlaub | Gen. Richard Secord | Andy Messing | Gen. Richard Lansdale | Gen. Harry Aderholt. |
1983 |
| Symposium on the Role of Special Operations in U.S. Strategy Ted Shackley | Terry Arnold | Donald Jameson | Lisa Jameson | Margo Carlisle | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Edward Luttwak | Oliver North | Richard Stilwell | Maurice Tugwell | Patti Benner Antsen. |
March 1983 |
| Friends of the Americas Woody Jenkins (founder; chair) | Diane Jenkins (co-founder and exec. director) | Sen. Daniel Richey (director) | Gen. John Singlaub (aided in fund raising). |
1984 |
| Jamestown Foundation Jamie Jameson | William Casey | James Woolsey | Alexander Haig | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dick Cheney | Donald Rumsfeld | Max Kampelman | Richard V. Allen | Tom Clancy | Midge Decter | Sam Nunn | William Regnery | Patrick Gross | John McCain III | Frank Carlucci (wife) | Michael Hayden | Michelle Van Cleave | Margarita Assenova (project director for the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia) | Glen Howard (president since 2003) | Fritz Ermarth (June 9, 1999 speaker) | Graham Fuller (2008 speaker). |
1984 |
| International Security Council (ISC) Moonies-linked. Gen. Paul X. Kelley | William Van Cleave | Fred Ikle | Donald Rumsfeld | Adm. Zumwalt | Gen. Al Gray | Woellner | Gen. Gordon Sumner | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Leon Goure (visitor) | Eugene Rostow | Charles Lichenstein | Bo Hi Pak. |
1984 |
| Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Clean Break report | Douglas Feith | Richard Perle |
1984 |
| Citizens for a Sound Economy (CSE) David and Charles Koch | Ron Paul (initial chairman) | Dick Armey (chairman) |
1984 |
| Institute for Regional and International Studies (IRIS) General John Singlaub (founder) | Alexander McColl (chair; editor Soldiers of Fortune) | Col. Robert K. Brown |
1984 |
| International Freedom Foundation (IFF) Jack Abramoff (founder and chairman) | Russel Crystal (executive director) | Duncan Sellars (later chairman). Huge financing by apartheid South African government, up to $1.5 million a year until 1992 - in line with A.S.C. projects in southern Africa. Abramoff soon became executive producer of Dolph Ludgren's 'Red Scorpion' (1989), financed by the same interests. |
1985 |
| Maldon Institute Raymond Wannall | John Rees | Robert Moss | Dr. James Kennedy | Martha Powers | Jack Abramoff (secretary and treasurer 1999-2003) | Scaife-funded |
1985 |
| Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) Director: Larry and Barbi Weinberg (founders) | Martin Indyk (founding executive director) | Roger Hertog (director anno '97, '10, emeritus anno '22) | Nina Rosenwald (director) | Patrick Clawson ("staff" '97, director of research anno '11, also of AIPAC). Advisory board (a lot of them for life; considerably expanded in '91 over '88): Walter Mondale (anno '88-'91) | Alexander Haig (anno '88, '99-'10) | Lawrence Eagleburger ('88, '01-'11) | Richard Perle (anno '88, '99-'22) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno '88-'91) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno '88-'91, '99-'06) | Martin Peretz (anno '88, '99-'22; editor-in-chief- and chair The New Republic) | Edward Luttwak (anno '88-'91, '99-'22) | Samuel Lewis (anno '88-'91, '99-'14) | Max Kampelman (anno '91-'13) | George Shultz (anno '91-'21) | Mortimer Zuckerman (anno '91-'22) | Robert McFarlane (anno '91-'22) | James Roche (anno '91-'01, '05-'22) | Paul Wolfowitz (anno '97-'01) | Eugene Rostow (anno '97-'02) | Warren Christopher (anno '97-'11) | Michael Mandelbaum (anno '99-'22) | James Woolsey ('03- at least '22) | Henry Kissinger ('09- at least '22) | Eliot Cohen (Dec. '13- at least '22) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (Dec. '13- at least '22) | Condoleezza Rice (Dec. '13- at least '22) | Howard Berman (Dec. '13- at least '22) | Gen. John Allen (Dec. '13-'14, '16- at least '22) | Adm. James Stavridis (anno '17- at least '22). WINEP's Presidential Study Group on U.S. Policy in the Middle East (1988; some of the above advisors not listed again): Walter M. (co-chair) | Lawrence E. (co-chair) | Francis Fukuyama | Graham Fuller | Richard Haass | Charles Krauthammer | Robert Kurz | Joseph Nye Jr. | Daniel P. | Donald Rumsfeld | Michael M. | James R. Adjunct scholars: Joshua Muravchik (anno '88, '91, '97, '04-'09) | Daniel Pipes (anno '88, not listed in '91, again '97, '04-'09). Fellows: Michael Eisenstadt (Kahn Fellow and director, Military and Security Studies Program '89-'20s) | Dennis Ross (involved '90s-'20s). Military Fellows: Gen. Michael Herzog (anno '04; IDF) | Moshe Yaalon (anno '06) | Martin Kramer (anno '12). More: Dov Zakheim and Moshe Yaalon (involved with WINEP's policy forums) | Philip Klutznick (involved in the 1988-1990 period) | Joshua Muravchik (scholar) | Tim Roemer (presidential task force member). Source(s): 1988, The Washington Institute, 'Building for Peace: The Washington Institute's Presidential Study Group on U.S. Policy in the Middle East', pp. 117-118 (advisors and committee members); 1991, WINEP document, 'Damascus Courts the West: Syrian Politics, 1989-1991', last page ("Board of Advisors" and "Institute Staff"); washingtoninstitute.org/ staff/: "Board of Advisors." (anno Feb. 21, 1999 to Dec. 22, 2004); washingtoninstitute.org/ about/board-of-advisors/ (accessed: Jun. 15, 2012 - Nov. 28, 2020); washingtoninstitute.org/ about/board-advisors (accessed: Feb. 3, 2022). |
1985 |
| Francisco Marroquin Foundation, Guatemala Elliott Abrams (chairman) |
1980s |
| John Templeton Foundation Sir John Templeton (founder and president 1987-2008; Yale; Rhodes scholar; 12-year chair Princeton Theological Seminary) | John Templeton, Jr. (CNP governor; president 2008-2015) | William Simon (trustee) | Heather Templeton Dill (president 2015-) | Stephen Klimczuk (vice president; trustee neocon Inst. for World Politics) | Prince Heinrich Liechtenstein (trustee anno 2016-2017) | Yoram Hazony (director of the project in Jewish Philosophical Theology 2015-2017). Primarily a foundation focused on science, but has also funded neocon causes as the strange Muslim/neocon outfit the Quilliam Fdn. (over $1 million), the AEI, groups backing the Tea Party and those that oppose climate change science. |
1987 |
| American Freedom Coalition (AFC) Associated with the Moonies. Arranged a fundraiser for Oliver North's legal defense 1987-1988. Board of directors: Richard Ichord (chair) | Bob Wilson (co-chair) | Robert Grant (president). National advisory board: Walter Judd | Alton Ochsner Jr. (son of) | Richard Viguerie (secretary). National policy board: Dr. Joseph Churba | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. John Singlaub | Cleon Skousen. Board of advisors: Gen. Gordon Sumner |
1987 |
| Nicaraguan Resistance Educational Foundation Elliott Abrams (chairman) |
1987 |
| Philanthropy Roundtable Started out in 1987 as a project of the Institute For Education Affairs (IEA). Became independent in 1991. Founders: William Simon and Irving Kristol. First chairman: Michael Joyce. Directors: Michael Grebe | Daniel Peters (chair 2002-2008) | James Piereson | Betsy DeVos | Leslie Lenkowsky |
1987 |
| Clare Boothe Luce Fund Michael Boyce (director). |
1987 |
| A Night for Afghanistan, Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix George H. W. Bush (co-chair) | Sen. John McCain (co-chair) | Ronald Reagan (prominent guest) | Jon Kyl |
Feb. 20, 1988 |
| Center for Security Policy (CSP) Frank Gaffney (founder) and Devon Gaffney Cross (advisory board; sister) | Woolsey (co-chair) | Sen. Jon Kyl (co-chair) | Col. John Nagl (president) | James Schlesinger | Rumsfeld (regular visitor/advisor) | Weinberger (regular visitor) | Gen. James L. Jones (regular visitor) | Cheney | Perle | Feith | Ikle | John Lehman | Gen. McInerney | Gen. Carl Mundy | Bruce Gelb (chair board of regents) | Sven Kraemer | Paula Dobriansky | Kenneth deGraffenreid | James T. deGraffenreid (chair) | Margo Carlisle | Decter | Feulner | Bill Bennett | Charles Fairbanks | Jamie Jameson | Zakheim | Phyllis Kaminsky | James Roche | Evan Galbraith | William and Michelle Van Cleave | Morris Amitay | George Keyworth (major SDI figure; in contact with Hoagland over Cydonia) | Charles Lichenstein | Gen. Piotrowski | William Schneider, Jr. | Gen. Schriever | Edward Teller | Gen. Vallely | Robert Kagan (member and signatory to CSP letters) | Bruce Jackson | Garry Kasparov | Elliott Abrams | Nina Rosenwald | Roger Robinson Jr. (speaker). Family Security Matters, a project of the CSP, board of advisors: Frank G., R. James W. and Gen. Paul V. on board of advisors. A random headline from the frontpage: "Huffington Post blogger's Islamophile Insanity Continues." |
1988 |
| Council of Conservative Citizens Official policy is to "oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind". Jared Taylor |
1988 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville Institution (AdTI) Jack Kemp (co-chair) | Christopher Cox (co-chair) | Robert W. Helm (director in the 1990s) | David Kirkpatrick (appears to be a relative of Jeane) | Sen. Mike Gravel (director since 2001 and chair since 2004). Financing: Koch, Bradley, Olin and Scaife foundations. AdTI program: Committee for the Common Defense (founded 1995, funded by the Olin Fdn.): senior advisory board: Frank Carlucci | Sen. John McCain | Donald Rumsfeld | Ike Skelton | John Whitehead. AdTI program: American Immigration Institute (early 1990s): ""A 1990 survey of 38 leading U.S. economists (including seven Nobel winners), conducted jointly by the Hudson [Inst.], the American Immigration Institute, and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, found that 80 percent believe that 20th-century [mainly white-European] immigration has had "a very favorable impact on the nation's growth." Not a single one thought the impact had been unfavorable."" |
1988 |
| Christian Coalition of America (CCA) Pat Robertson (founder) | Paul Weyrich (co-founder) | Stanley Monteith (member) |
1989 |
| Institute for International Health and Development (IIHD) Philip Morris scam which tried to deal with the WHO's anti-smoking stance. David Morse (founder and chair) | Paul Dietrich (president) | Laura Dietrich (magazine editor) | Elizabeth Kristol (executive director and publisher of IIHD's magazine; sister of neocon William K.) |
1989 |
| Hertog Foundation Roger Hertog (founder). Lecturers: Paul Wolfowitz | Lewis Libby | Christopher DeMuth | William Kristol | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Gen. David Petraeus. |
1990 (est.) |
| Institute of World Politics (IWP) Non-profit graduate school that offers studies on "national security, statecraft, counterintelligence, counterpropaganda, economic statecraft and warfare; information operations; political warfare". IFW holds the private library of former CIA Director William Casey and the American Security Council Foundation Library. Financed for about 35% by private donors, including the following foundations: Allegheny, Bradley, Shelby Cullom Davis, Donner, DonorsTrust, Earhart, Gilder, Hickory, Koch Charitable, John Templeton, Smith Richardson, Sarah Scaife, Diana Davis Spencer. Founder and president: John Lenczowski. Trustees: William Webster. Advisory board: John Lehman | Christopher Ruddy (Newsmax) | William Middendorf II | Stephen Klimczuk. Faculty members: James Woolsey | Norman Bailey | Kenneth deGraffenreid | Roger Fontaine | Joshua Muravchik | Henry Sokolski | Robert Stephan (CIA) | Brian Kelley (CIA) | David Burgess (Peace Corps chief of operations) | Paul Goble (Voice of America) | John Tsagronis (vice president SAIC). Alumni: Eugene Poteat. Speakers: Gen. Mike Flynn |
1990 |
| Committee on U.S. Interests in the Middle East John Lehman | Perle | Gaffney | Elliott Abrams | Eugene Rostow | Douglas Feith | |
1992 |
| Project for the Republican Future (PNR) William Kristol (founding chair 1993-1994) | Michael Joyce (co-founder) |
1993 |
| National Policy Forum (NPF) Haley Barbour (founder; chair Republican National Committee) | Bolton (president 1995-1996) | Gingrich (fundraising consultant) |
1993 |
| Empower America Co-directors: Theodore Forstmann (founding chair) | Jack Kemp | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Vin Weber | William Cohen (the secretary of defense) | Bill Bennett |
1993 |
| Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation Brzezinski | Claiborne Pell | George W. Bush (honorary chair) | Abshire | Lev Dobriansky | Gingrich | Feulner | Richard Pipes | Singlaub | Jack Kemp | Brian Crozier | Bob Dole |
1994 |
| Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (NPEC) Henry Sokolski (executive director) | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Mark Wallace |
1994 |
| American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) National council members: Lynne Cheney (chair; wife of Dick C.) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (co-founder) | Irving Kristol | Martin Peretz | Max Kampelman | Bill Bennett. Scholars Council (2001): Herbert London | James Q. Wilson. More: Ed Meese III (director) | James Schlesinger (donor; member ACTA's society of fellows). |
1995 |
| American Institute for Strategic Cooperation (AISC) Albert Wohlstetter (president) and Roberta | Samuel Huntington | James Roche |
1995 |
| Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) Past and present directors: Andrew Krepinevich (executive director) | James Roche (chair) | Wolfowitz | Devon Gaffney Cross | James Woolsey | Pete du Pont | Eric Edelman (distingushed fellow) |
1995 |
| Project for the New American Century (PNAC) "Initiative of the New Citizens Project." Directors: William Kristol (chair anno 2000-2002) | Robert Kagan (director anno 2002) | Bruce Jackson (director anno 2002). June 3, 1997 Statement of Principles: Frank Gaffney | Fred Ikle | Donald Kagan | Jeb Bush | Dick Cheney | Donald Rumsfeld | Dan Quayle | Elliott Abrams | Eliot Cohen | Midge Decter and husband Norman Podhoretz | Paula Dobriansky | Steve Forbes | Aaron Friedberg | Francis Fukuyama | Zalmay Khalilzad | Scooter Libby | Stephen Rosen | Paul Wolfowitz | George Weigel | Vin Weber. Signatories Sep. 20, 1998 'Mr. President, Milosevic is the Problem'-letter: William K. | Robert K. | Richard Perle | Paul W. | Dov Zakheim | Morton Abramowitz | Elliott A. | Richard Armitage | Jeffrey Bergner | John Bolton | Frank Carlucci | Eliot C. | Dennis DeConcini | Paula D. | Morton Halperin | Zalmay K. | Lane Kirkland | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Stephen Solarz | Peter Kovler | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | William Taft IV | Ed Turner (exec. vice president of CNN, owned by non-relative Ted Turner; one of Ted's first chief aides). Signatories Jan. 26, 1998 'Iraq War'-letter to the U.S. president: William K. | Robert K. | Richard A. (not on the subsequent Iraq letter) | Richard Pe. | Paul W. | Donald R. | R. James Woolsey | Robert Zoellick | Jeffrey B. | Zalmay K. | Elliot A. | John B. | Paula D. | Francis F. | William Schneider Jr. | Vin W. Signatories May 29, 1998 'Iraq War'-letter to Congressman Newt G. and Sen. Trent L.: William K. | Robert K. | Richard Pe. | Paul W. | Donald R. | R. James W. | Robert Z. | Jeffrey B. | Zalmay K. | Elliot A. | John B. | Paula D. | Francis F. | William S. Jr. | Vin W. Signatories Aug. 20, 1999 'Statement on the Defense of Taiwan'-letter: William K. | Robert K. | R. James W. | Richard Pe. | Paul W. | Elliot A. | Richard A. | John B. | Jeane K. | Edwin Meese III | Scooter L. | Midge D. and husband Norman P. | William Buckley Jr. | Richard V. Allen | Edwin Feulner | William Schn. Jr. | Caspar Weinberger | Paul Weyrich. 2000, PNAC report, 'Rebuilding America's Defenses': William K. | Paul W. | Dov Z. | Devon Gaffney Cross | Donald K. | Fred Kagan | Scooter L. | Eliot C. | Stephen R. Signatories Sep. 20, 2001 'War on Terror'-letter to the U.S. president: William K. | Donald K. | Robert K. | Frank G. | Richard Pe. | Richard V. A. | Jeffrey B. | Eliot C. | Midge D. and husband Norman P. | Francis F. | Bruce J. | Jeane K. | Stephen S. | Martin P. | William Schn. Jr. | Nicholas Eberstadt | Charles Krauthammer | John Lehman | Stephen R. | Randy Scheunemann | Henry Sokolski | Vin W. Signatories Feb. 5, 2002 Arafat letter: William K. | Robert K. | Donald K. | Frank G. | R. James W. | Richard Pe. | Eliot C. | Bruce J. | John L. | Martin P. | Midge D. and husband Norman P. | Stephen P. | Nicholas E. | Randy S. | William Schn. Jr. | Daniel Pipes | Joshua Muravchik | Clifford May | Kenneth Adelman | Linda Chavez. Signatories Nov. 25, 2002 'Defend Hong Kong letter': William K. | Robert K. | Morton A. | Midge D. and husband Norman P. | Bruce J. | Martin P. | Max B. | Stephen S. | Max Kampelman | Bette Bao Lord. More: Frank and Devon Gaffney | John McCain III | Eli S. Jacobs | Bill Bennett | Michael Joyce (signatory) | Peter Beinart (signatory) | David Kramer (senior fellow 2000-2001). Source(s): newamericancentury.org/ statementofprinciples.htm (accessed: Feb. 5, 2002); newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm (accessed: Feb. 5, 2002); newamericancentury.org/ iraqclintonletter.htm (accessed: Oct. 17, 2001; letter date: Jan. 26, 1998); newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm (accessed: Dec. 1, 2002; letter date: May 29, 1998); newamericancentury.org/ balkans_pdf_04.pdf (accessed: June 15, 2003; letter date: Sep. 20, 1998); newamericancentury.org/ Bushletter-112602.htm (accessed: Dec. 6, 2002; letter date: November 25, 2002, with 44 signatories; the letter asked Bush to defend Hong Kong from Chinese influence). |
1997 |
| United States Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL) Golden circle: Elliott Abrams | Douglas Feith | Jesse Helms | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Richard Perle. Advisory board: Ziad Abdelnour (founder) | Morris Amitay | Paula Dobriansky | Arnaud de Borchgrave | Joseph Farah | Amine Gemayel (president Lebanon 1982-1988) | Michael Ledeen | Brigitte Gabriel | Rachel Ehrenfeld | Daniel Pipes | James Woolsey | David Wurmser | Mey Wurmser | Martin Kramer |
1997 |
| Donors Forum on International Affairs Devon Gaffney Cross | David Steinmann |
2000 |
| NGO Monitor International advisory board: Elliott Abrams | James Woolsey | Elie Wiesel | Abraham Sofaer | Alan Dershowitz | Col. Richard Kemp | Nina Rosenwald | Dr. Judea Pearl (anno 2011; father of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl). |
2001 |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Set up in response to 9/11. Officers: James Woolsey (chair)| Clifford May (president; Fox News terrorism expert) | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Jack Kemp | Richard Perle | William Kristol | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Paula Dobriansky | Steve Forbes | Louis Freeh | Max Kampelman | Robert McFarlane | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Michael Ledeen (Freedom Chair) | Dr. Walid Phares (senior fellow). Financiers 2001-2004 period: Roland Arnall of Ameriquest Capital Corp. ($1,802,000) | Bronfman family ($1,050,000) | Michael Steinhardt ($850,000; also director at one point) | Leonard Abramson ($822,523) | Hyperion Partners ($250,000) | Charles Schusterman ($385,325) | Bernard Marcus ($350,000) | Lewis Ranieri ($350,000) | Jerome Goodman ($244,425) | Barrack Foundation ($200,000) | Joe Weber ($200,000) | Dalck Feith Revocable Trust ($200,000; father of Douglas Feith) | Sanford J. Grossman Charitable Trust ($125,000) | Sarah Scaife Foundation ($125,000) | R. & H. Rubin Charitable Foundation ($100,000) | Russell Berrie Foundation ($100,000) | Peter May ($100,000) | David Cutler ($100,000) | Tony Gelbart ($50,000) | Jennifer Mizrahi ($25,000) | Nina Rosenwald ($35,000) | George Rohr ($25,000). |
2001 |
| Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprise (ACFCE) Michael Joyce (said he founded it for Karl Rove) | William Kristol | Midge Decter |
2001 |
| American Center for Democracy (ACD) Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Woolsey | Perle | Gen. Thomas McInerney | Gen. Paul Vallely | Norman Bailey | Harvey Stone | Dr. Nicholas Rostow | Dr. Jean-Charles Brisard (lead investigator for lawyers representing over 6,500 9/11 families trying to sue the financiers of 9/11) |
2001 |
| Benador Associates Public relations firm. Experts (for clients to pick from): Arnaud de Borchgrave | Frank Gaffney | Alexander Haig | Mansoor Ijaz | Charles Krauthammer | Lord Lamont | Michael Ledeen | Richard Perle | Richard Pipes | Gen. Paul Vallely | James Woolsey. |
2001-2007 |
| Americans for Community and Faith-Centered Enterprises Founders: Michael Joyce (founder and president) | Karl Rove (urged founding) | George W. Bush (urged founding). |
2001 |
| The Policy Forum / Policy Forum on International Security Affairs (US) / Policy Forum on International Security Issues (UK) Neocon propaganda front from the Bush administration. Devon Gaffney Cross (founder and head). Roundtable Speakers: Henry Kissinger | James Woolsey | Jack Keane | Michael Barone | Eric Edelman | Peter Rodman. |
2002 |
| American Alliance of Christians and Jews (AACJ) Board: Rabbi Daniel Lapin (founder and Jack A.'s religious advisor) | Jack Abramoff | James Dobson | Pat Robertson | Jerry Falwell. |
2002 |
| Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI) Directors and international panel: Bruce Jackson (chair) | Randy Scheunemann (executive director) | Carl Bildt (co-chair international panel) | Adam Michnik (co-chair international panel) | Christopher Hitchens | Petar Stoyanov (president Bulgaria) | Misha Glenny | Baroness Emma Nicholson | Asla Aydintasbas (columnist for the Turkish newspaper Sabah). Advisory board (as listed on the website in early 2003, not to be confused with the international panel often described as the "advisory board" of CLI): George Shultz (chair) | Sen. John McCain (hon. co-chair) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (hon. co-chair) | Barry Blechman | Eliot Cohen | Tom Dine (exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Gen. Wayne Downing | Peter Galbraith | Maurice Sonnenberg | Steve Solarz | James Woolsey | Newt Gingrich | Gen. Buster Glosson | James Hoffa (the son of mafia boss Jimmy Hoffa; similarly served as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters) | Bob Kerrey | Robert Kagan | William Kristol | Bernard Lewis | Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Will Marshall | Joshua Muravchik | Richard Perle. |
2002-2003 |
| American Congress for Truth (ACT) / ACT! for America Brigitte Gabriel (founder and president). Board of advisors: James Woolsey | Gen. Paul Vallely | Robert Spencer | John Loftus | Robert Katz | Rachel Ehrenfeld | Kenneth Timmerman | Dr. Walid Phares | Gen. Mike Flynn (held speeches and joined in June 2016 while he and Woolsey were advising presidential candidate Donald Trump; Flynn pushed Pizzagate before the elections and then became Trump's national security advisor). A few headlines from the website in 2007: "Sign Our Petition: Stop Islamic totalitarianism" and "Christian Perscution in the Middle East". This group became secretive in late 2007 when its new website stopped publishing board members. |
2002 |
| International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) Peter Ackerman (founding chair) |
2002 |
| Coalition for Democracy in Iran James Woolsey | Michael Ledeen | Frank Gaffney | Jack Kemp | Joshua Muravchik |
2002 |
| Anglo-Arab Organization Nadhmi Auchi (founder and president) |
2002 |
| Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG) Government group, overseen by the "Special Operations Executive" in the National Security Council. Plans of its creation were leaked at the time, but little is known about the group. Its creation was recommended by the "independent" Defense Science Board's 2002 Summer Study on Special Operations and Joint Forces in Support of Countering Terrorism. It is not known if the group has been created and under what name. |
2002 |
| International Commission on the Balkans Bruce Jackson | Pauline Neville-Jones | Richard von Weizsacker |
2004 |
| We Remember Foundation Bruce Jackson (director) | Irina Krasovskaya (founding president) |
2004 |
| FreedomWorks (Tea Party) Scaife (largest financier) | Dick Armey (founding co-chair) | Kemp (founding co-chair) | C. Boyden Gray (founding co-chair) | Steve Forbes |
2004 |
| Third Committee on the Present Danger (3rd CPD) James Woolsey (leader) | George Shultz (leader) | Jon Kyl (co-chair) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (co-chair) | Robert McFarlane | Midge Decter | Steve Forbes | Frank Gaffney | Newt Gingrich | Jerome Hauer | Edwin Meese | Joshua Muravchik | Norman Podhoretz | Nicholas Rostow | William Van Cleave | John Whitehead | Elie Wiesel | Zakheim | Jose Maria Aznar | Moshe Yaalon (chief of staff Israeli Defense Force). |
2004 |
| Iran Policy Committee James Woolsey | Neil Livingstone | Paul Vallely | McInerney (chair) | William Nitze |
2005 |
| Henry Jackson Society Patrons: James Woolsey | Richard Perle | Robert Kagan | Joshua Muravchik | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Michael Chertoff | Sir Richard Dearlove | 13th Marques of Lothian (Kerr) | Hubertus Hoffmann | Bruce Jackson | Stephen Solarz | Clifford May | Max Kampelman | Michael Sturmer | Herbert London. William Shawcross (trustee). Speakers: Ariel Cohen ('07) | Joseph Nye ('08) | Erik Prince ('18). Signatories: Lord Charles Powell. HJS Initiative: Towards a More Incluse Capitalism task force: Lynn Forester de Rothschild (co-chair), Larry Summers, Lord Tugendhat. |
2005 |
| Friends of Abe Hollywood secret conservative club, with an inner core that met about twice per month. Schism since Trump election in 2016, when it had about 1500 to 2000 members. Has initiation meetings for new members. Known members/participants: Gary Sinise (founder; key financier; never missed events; supported John McC., not Donald T.; speech at CIA HQ in 2013 on philanthropy, introduced by CIA Executive Director Meroe Park) | Jon Voight (co-founder; supported Donald T.) | Andrew Breitbart (influentual member) | Steve Bannon | Clint Eastwood | James Woods | Robert Davi | Jerry Bruckheimer | Scott Baio | Robert DuVall | Kelsey Grammer | David Cole (initiated in 2009; Holocaust denier who got Sinise involved in it; set up a spin-off in 2016) | John Schneider (Bo Duke of the Dukes of Hazzard) | Tom Selleck | Clint Howard (brother of Ron Howard) | Kristy Swanson | Dwight Schultz (Murdock from the A-Team) | Jeremy Boreing (executive director). Speakers/guests at events: Donald Trump | Antonin Scalia | Dick Cheney | Condoleezza Rice | Rush Limbaugh | Glenn Beck | Ann Coulter | Mark Levin | Karl Rove | Charles Krauthammer | Rick Perry | Michele Bachmann | Newt Gingrich | Marco Rubio |
2005 |
| National Policy Institute (NPI) Nazi outfit. William Regnery II (founder) | Louis Andrews (chair 2005-2010, president -2011) | Richard Spencer (president 2011-) | Jared Taylor (present at Nov. 2016 conference). |
2005 |
| Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Kimberley Kagan (founder and president; wife of Donald, mother of Robert) | Gen. Jack Keane (founder) |
2007 |
| Prague Democracy and Security Conference Participiants: Peter Ackerman | Sheldon Adelson | Jose Maria Aznar | Devon Gaffney Cross | John Glenn | Karl-Theodor von Guttenberg | Vaclav Havel | Bruce Jackson | Josef Joffe | Garri Kasparov | Eli Khoury | Martin Kramer (Adelson Inst. for Strategic Studies) | Ronald Lauder | Joseph Lieberman | Herb London | Clifford May | Joshua Muravchik | Michael Novak | Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) | Richard Perle | Walid Phares | Nina Rosenwald | Michael Rubin | Karel Schwarzenberg | Natan Sharansky. |
June 5-6, 2007 |
| Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding Principles and History (JMC) William Kristol (director anno 2014). |
2008 |
| Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) Robert Kagan | William Kristol |
2009 |
| Friends of Israel Initiative Founder members: Jose Maria Aznar (main founder) | John Howard | Vaclav Havel | John Bolton | George Weigel | Uri Rosenthal | Gov. Bill Richardson | Karel Schwarzenberg | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | William Shawcross | Lord Weidenfeld |
2010 |
| Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) Directors anno 2020: Aaron Friedberg | Roger Hertog. Advisory board anno 2020: Elliott Abrams ("Currently in Government Service") | Max Boot | Ian Brzezinski (son of Zbig) | Eliot Cohen | Elbridge Colby (son of CIA director William) | William Inboden | Robert Kagan | William Kristol | Gen. David Petraeus | Roger Zakheim (son of Dov). |
2010 |
| Emergency Committee for Israel Founding board: William Kristol (main founder) | Gary Bauer | Rachel Abrams (wife of Elliott Abrams). More Noah Pollak (executive director). Produced a 2011 video portraying Occupy Wall Street as anti-Semitic. |
2010 |
| Secure America Now Devon Gaffney Cross (prominent member) | Mike Huckabee and Bolton (advisory board) |
2011 |
| Langley Intelligence Group Network (part of Newsmax) Hayden | Rees-Mogg | Bolton | Borchgrave | Ermarth | Otto Reich |
2012 |
| London Center for Policy Research (LCPR), Lower Manhattan, New York City Directors: Herbert London (founder) | Col. Tony Shaffer (senior fellow 2013-; "Vice President for Strategic Initiatives and Operations" anno 2015; CI, SAP, SOCOM and JSOC background; responsible for the Able Danger controversy, alleging that the DIA refused to inform the FBI about the 9/11 ringleader's terrorist cell pre-9/11) | Robert McFarlane (2020-). More: John Wohlstetter (fellow 2013-, advisory board anno 2020; nephew of Albert) | Clare Lopez (fellow 2013-2020) | Walid Phares (fellow 2013-2020s) | Gen. Mike Flynn (listed as "senior fellow" Dec. 2016-Jan. 2017; Trump's national security advisor Jan.-Feb. 2017, but withdrew in scandal; Pizzagate pusher) | Monica Crowley (senior fellow 2017-; appointed deputy national security advisor by Trumo in Dec. 2016, but forced to withdraw over a plagiarization scandal) | James Woolsey (distinguished fellow late 2016-2020s) | Derk Jan Eppink (senior/distinguished fellow 2013-2020s; secretary and speechwriter to Dutch neocon godfather Frits Bolkestein 1999-2004 (also published a book together)) | Emmett Tyrell (senior fellow 2013-2020s; editor American Spectator). LCPR's American Liberty Award Dinner: Norman Podhoretz (May 2013) | Midge Decter (May 2013). |
2012 |
| Counter Extremism Project (CEP) Leadership: Mark Wallace (CEO 2014-) | Frances Townsend (president 2014-) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (2014-; later advisory board) | Elliott Abrams (2014-; later advisory board) | Howard Berman (2014-; later advisory board) | Radoslaw Sikorski (anno 2020; PM Poland). |
2014 |
| Edmund Burke Foundation Leadership: Yoram Hazony (founding chair 2019-, still anno 2023) | Christopher DeMuth (founding chair of the foundation's National Conservatism Conference 2019-, still anno 2023). Source(s): burke.foundation/people/ (accessed: July 17, 2019 -) Not to be confused with the Dutch Edmund Burke Stichting ("Foundation") in the Netherlands, founded in 2000, which is (similarly) tied to controlled opposition in society. |
2019 |
| Society for Individual Freedom (SIF) Officers: George Kennedy Young (president) | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Rodgers |
1942 |
| Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) Friedrich Hayek (inspiration/guide) | Sir Anthony Fisher (founder) | Oliver Smedley (founder) | Lord Ralph Harris (general director 1957-1988) | Graham Mather (general director 1988-) | Arthur Seldon (editorial advisor 1958-1959, editoral director 1959-, president) |
1955 |
| Monday Club Leaders: 5th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil; president 1961-1972) | 6th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil; president 1974-1981) | Sir Patrick Wall (chair 1978-1980) | Julian Amery (patron). Others: Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Biggs-Davison (president 1974-1976) | George Kennedy Young. |
1961 |
| Anglo-Rhodesian Society Cecil | John Biggs-Davison | Julian Amery | Stephen Hastings | Sir Patrick Wall |
1966-1980 |
| Institute for the Study of Conflict Brian Crozier (founder and chairman); Scaife (financier) |
1970 |
| Washington Institute for the Study of Conflict (WISC) Crozier | George Ball | Brzezinski | Komer | Kermit Roosevelt | John Diebold |
1975 |
| The Freedom Association (TFA) Founded as the National Association for Freedom (NAFF). Eurosceptic. Directors: Viscount De L'Isle | Norris McWhirter (chair until beyond 2000) | Robert Moss | Brian Crozier | Stephen Hastings (until beyond 2000) | Chapman Pincher | Sir Frederic Bennett | Sir John Biggs-Davison and daughter Lisl (meeting secretary) | Lord Ralph Harris (regular speaker) | Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly | Winston Churchill II | 3rd Viscount Monckton (global warming critic of Gore who wrote '35 Inconvenient Truths'; the family has deep ties to MI6, the SAS, the Group 13 assassination team and the DSL private military firm). |
1975 |
| Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) Crozier | Casey | Scaife | Cline | Gen. Daniel Graham | Sir Frederic Bennett (chair) | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Chalfont |
1976 |
| Safari Club Gen. Vernon Walters | Ted Shackley | Frank Carlucci | George H. W. Bush | Richard Helms | Alexander de Marenches (founder) | Kamal Adham | Prince Turki al Faisal | Anwar Sadat | Saddam Hussein | Shah of Iran |
1976 |
| 6I Crozier | Gen. Walters | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Fraser (S.A.) | Georges Albertini. Financiers: Rupert Murdoch | Sir James Goldsmith | Richard Mellon Scaife. |
1977 |
| Shield Committee Sir Stephen Haskings | Harry Sporborg | Nicholas Elliot | Crozier | Lord Carrington (about the only outsider who was kept in the loop) |
1978 |
| British Anti-Communist Council (BACC) The year that the BACC joined the WACL. Peter Dally (chair; Intelligence International Ltd.); Sir Patrick Wall (hon. president) |
1983 |
| Global Economic Action Institute (Moonies) Chairman: Lord Julian Amery (Cercle) | Lord Brian Griffiths |
1984 |
| Institute for the Study of Terrorism (IST) Founder and chairman: Lord Alun Chalfont |
1985 |
| Western Goals UK / Western Goals Institute The institute was created from Western Goals UK in 1989: Gen. Sir Walter Walker (patron) | Sir Patrick Wall (parliamentary consultant) |
1985 |
| Research Foundation for the Study of Terrorism Paul Wilkinson (chair) | Michael Ivens | Norris McWhirter | Ian Greig | John Biggs-Davison | Nicholas Elliott |
1986-1989 |
| Mackenzie Institute for the Study of Terrorism (Canada) | 1986 |
| Committee for a Free Britain (CFB) | 1987 |
| Bruges Group Margaret Thatcher (major speech) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (involved in the Thatcher speech) | Lord Ralph Harris of High Cross (founder, chair 1989-1991) | Lord Lamont (co-chair and vice president) | Michael Shrimpton (co-chair in 2002) | 13th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) (conference participant) | Nigel Farage (conference participant) | |
1988 |
| Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (Vatican-linked) Michael L. M. Brenninkmeyer (commander Netherlands since 2013) | Jan Brenninkmeijer (Dutch member) | Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley (commander East Coast of the U.S.) | John Fleming Ball |
1099 |
| Knights of Malta (SMOM) (Vatican-linked) Holds annual ceremonies at the Vatican that have been held for centuries. The CIA-Vatican ties started with OSS head William Donovan supporting the Vatican intelligence agency Pro Deo during WWI. [1] Americas: Allen Dulles (said to have been inducted around 1943 in Switzerland) | William Colby (offered, but preferred to remain "low key") [1] | John McCone [1] | Alexander Haig [1] | J. Peter Grace (8 directors of his company board were members, including SMOM chancellor John D.J. Moore) [1] | William Simon [1] | Myron Taylor | Paul Dietrich | Laura Dietrich | Joseph Kennedy | Thomas L. Sheer | James Angleton (awarded in 1946; ran both the "Vatican Desk" and "Israeli Desk" at the CIA) [1] | William Casey [1] | Bernadette Casey Smith | Prescott S. Bush, Jr. | Nicholas Brady | Dean Rusk | Elmer Bobst | Gen. Mark Clark (honorary) | Gen. David Woellner | Gen. Vernon Walters (at least associated) | Gen. Daniel Graham (rumors) | Clare Boothe Luce | Michael Joyce | Frank Shakespeare | Ed Feulner | Robert McKinney | Robert Shafer | Duncan Bauman | William Wilson [1] | Foster Stearns | Roberto Alejos Arzu | Mary Reilly Hunt | Lee Iacocca [1] | Joseph Califano Jr. | Michael Novak | William Buckley, Jr. [1] | Sen. James Buckley [1] | Cardinal Francis Spellman (SMOM "Grand Protector and Spiritual Advisor") | Michael Malone Jr. (Cardinal Spellman aide; Braga company) | Pete Domenici | Joseph E. Schmitz | Peter Lynch (Fidelity) | Eugene Sullivan (CEO Borden) | James Frick (Notre Dame) | William Agee and wife (Morrison Knudsen Corp.) | Thomas Monaghan (founder Domino's Pizza) | Thomas Labrecque (CEO Chase Manhattan) | Sen. Pete Domenici | Theodore Black (Ingersoll-Rand) | Joseph Flannery (Ingersoll-Rand) | Richard Torrenzano (spokesman NYSE) | Hugh Carey (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Robert Dilenschneider (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Morrison Knudsen Agee (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Gerard Roche (W.R. Grace & Co.) | Spyros Skouras [1] | Alfred Bloomingdale | Gustavo Cisneros | Robert Abplanalp [1] | Barron Hilton [1] | John Volpe [1] | Robert Wagner [1] | Geoffrey Boisi. Southern European members: Luigi Gedda (honored; right-winger who Catholic Action, CIA-funded under the recommendation of Angleton and support of Pope Pius XII, that helped undermine the communists in the run up to the 1948 Italian elections and managed to the Christian-Democrats elected) [1] | Gulio Andreotti| Manuel Fraga | Baron Luigi Parrilli | German and East European members: Konrad Adenauer (honorary) | Otto von Habsburg (honorary) | Gen. Reinhard Gehlen (honorary) [1] | Furst Mariano Hugo zu Windisch-Graetz | Prince Michel Karadordevic of Yugoslavia | Belosselsky-Belozersky family Belgium and France: Jacques Jonet | Prince Baudouin de Merode | Princess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz | Antoine Pinay (honorary) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Jean-Claude Gaudin British members: Mark Brenninkmeyer (UK leadership; Dutch family) | Earl Richard Fitzalan-Howard (UK leadership) | Stephen Macklow-Smith (U.K. leadership) | Dukes of Norfolk | Lord Mowbraw | Sir Michael Craig-Cooper | Lord Guthrie | 12th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord Jude Kerr | Edward Leigh | John Fleming Ball | Sir Patrick Wall Dutch members: Barons and Baronesses van Voorst tot Voorst (Dutch chairs: 1911-1931, 1936-1939, 1953-1964, 1970-2002, 2005-2010) | numerous barons and baronesses van Hovell tot Westerflier (Dutch heads: 1931-1936, 2002-2005, co-chair anno 2014) | Jonkheer Jeroen Alting von Geusau | Christiaan Alting von Geusau | Jonkheer Barend de Roy van Zuidewijn (family on the Dutch board anno 2014) | Jonkheer Frans Eugene Joseph Marie de Roy van Zuidewijn | Jan Brenninkmeijer (friends of SMOM). Source(s): [1] July/August 1983, Mother Jones, 'Their Will Be Done': "And who are the American Knights? Mother Jones managed to obtain part of the secret membership list. On it we found some familiar names..." |
1099 |
| Society of Jesus / Jesuits Daniel Sheehan | Malachi Martin | Pierre Teilhard de Chardin | Charles De Selliers De Moranville | Cardinal Avery Dulles (nephew of Allen and son of John Foster) | Father Gregory Brenninkmeyer (the whole family is a major financier of the Jesuits and in touch with its leadership) | Barons of Voorst tot Voorst (had quite a few family members becoming Jesuit priests) | Ruud Lubbers (educated and active for Catholic causes throughout life) |
1534 |
| Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George Prince Carlo de Bourbon, the Duke of Calabria (head; the Bourbon-Parma family has headed the order since 1699) | Lord Norman Lamont (member) | Nadhmi Auchi (honory) | Anthony Cavendish (knight first class) | Bernard Kerik (knight commander) |
±1535 |
| Paneuropa Union (PEU) Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi | Otto von Habsburg | Vittorio Pons | Sir John Biggs-Davison (council member until at least 1965) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing The Belgian branch was known as the Conseil Belge pour l'Union Europeenne and later, since 1969, as the Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite Europeenne: Radbot de Habsburg-Lorraine (b. 1938; title: honorary title: Archduke of Austria; married to Caroline Proust) | Florimond Damman (secretary general and the PEU's International Events Committee) | Baron and Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Count Alain de Villegas | Count Paul van Zeeland | Gaston Eyskens | Baron Pierre Nothomb | |
1922 |
| Coudenhove-Kalergi Foundation Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi | Otto von Habsburg | Count Hans Huyn | Jakob Coudenhove-Kalergi | Prince Carlo della Torre e Tasso | Nikolaus von Liechtenstein. |
1923 |
| Opus Dei Radical Catholic fascism. Basically the belief system of everyone in the Vatican-Paneuropa network, but seldom official. Membership overlaps greatly with the Knights of Malta. Reported members: Otto von Habsburg (arguably the movement's chief political force until his death) | Radbot de Habsburg-Lorraine | Prince Miguel de Bourbon (didn't mind being referred to as an arms dealer for Opus Dei) | Prince Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (named as a chief financier) | Pope John Paul II (according to his assistant, Malachi Martin, John Paul II had assigned the Knights of Columbus and Opus Dei a key role in upholding the church's worldwide influence) | Frans Alting von Geusau | William Colby | Tommy Corcoran | Giulio Andreotti | Gen. Franco | Manuel Fraga | Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti | Alois Mertes | Silva Munoz | Antoine Pinay | Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin | Jean-Paul Dumont | Franz Josef Strauss | Jean Violet | Sir Peter Sutherland | Brenninkmeyer family | Frederico Trillo | Alberto de la Hera | Jose Manuel Romay \ Joaquin Abril | Pablo Guardans | Isabel Tocino | Father Marc van Rossem (Van Lanschot internship) | Michel Poniatowski> Opus Dei's Catholic Information Center in Washington D.C.: Leonard Leo (board; exec. vice president Federalist Soc.) | Pat Cipollone (board; Trump White House counsel) | William Barr (attorney general 2019-). Noon mass participants: Robert Bork | Sen. Sam Brownback | Larry Kudlow | Newt Gingrich. |
1928 |
| P2 Lodge (Italy) U.S. side: Shackley (Cercle), Haig and agents and Frank Gigliotti and Ledeen. Top Italian leaders, according to member Roberto Calvi (top down): Giulio Andreotti (Cercle), Francesco Cosentino, Giordano Gamberini, Licio Gelli. | Giancarlo Elia Valori (groomed by Cosentino at the Vatican) | Florio Fiorini | Prince Vittorio Emanuele | Elio Ciolini | Silvio Berlusconi | Adm. Emilio Eduardo Massera (Argentina; with Videla and Agosti a key 1976 coup plotter against Isabel Peron; assassintaed about 30,000 political opponents) |
1945 |
| Institut Français des Sciences Administratives (IFSA) Jean Violet | Father Yves-Marc Dubois |
1947 |
| Comité International de Défense de la Civilisation Chrétienne / International Committee for the Defence of Christian Civilization (CIDCC) Paul van Zeeland (first president Belgian national committee) | Pierre Andre Simon (Belgian secretary general) | Friedrich Holzapfel (president German national committee) | Hermann Lindrath (elected chair in 1958) | Pinay (vice president) | Solis Ruiz (chair Spanish national committee and national president) | Manuel Fraga-Iribarne (vice president) | Federico Silva Munoz (speaker) | Gaetano Martino (vice president) | Oliveira Salazar (president Portuguese council) |
1948 |
| World Veterans Federation (WVF) Gilbert Harrison (founder as co-founder in 1943 and chair since 1948 of the American Veterans Committee) | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (founding treasurer general 1951-1957, president 1957-1994, and honorary president until his death in 2001) |
1951 |
| Centre of Documentation and Information (CEDI) Otto von Habsburg (key founder) | Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Paul Vankerkhoven (head Belgian section) | Gaston Eyskens | Paul van Zeeland | Vittorio Pons (known visitor) Count Jacques Pirenne | Jacques-Ernest Solvay (co-founder) | Ernest-John Solvay (co-founder) | Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Nicolas de Kerchove | Sir John Rodgers | Geoffrey Rippon | Kenneth Clarke | Jose Napoleon Duarte | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado | Marcel de Roover (founding president Belgian branch in 1961) | Finne Veikko Reinikainen | |
1952 |
| Le Cercle United States: Ted Shackley | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | William Casey | James Critchfield | Paul and Laura Dietrich | Jamie Jameson | William Colby | Fritz Ermarth | Arnold Silver | Ron Silver | Herbert E. Meyer | Thomas Spencer | Chas Freeman | Walter Raymond, Jr. | Samuel Hoskinson | William Schneider, Jr. | Richard V. Allen | Sen. Henry Jackson | Richard Perle | Paul Wolfowitz | Donald Rumsfeld | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Fred Ikle | Sven Kraemer | Gen. James Abrahamson | Adm. Thomas Moorer | Gen. Schwarzkopf | Edwin Feulner | Paul Weyrich | Ronald Lehman II | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Adm. Robert Hanks | Robert McKinney | Jeffrey Bergner | Sen. Steve Symms (1984) | John Carbaugh | Margo Carlisle | Edward Rollins | John Barron | Edward W. Carter | James Cicconi | Sen. Howard Baker and George Montgomery | William Henry Moore II | Audna England | Robert Lighthizer | Sir Eldon Griffiths | Wayne Berman | Stefan Halper | James Lucier | Richard McCormack | Constantine Menges | Richard Nixon | Sen. William V. Roth Jr. | Joseph Schuchert | Marshall Shulman | Robert B. Anderson | Norman Bailey | Arkady Shevchenko | Louis Freeh | Antonin Scalia | John Bolton | Sen. Wyche Fowler (2011; ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1996-2001) | Richard Armitage (2011) | United States (Rockefeller/Kissinger clique invitees or not mainly associated with (neo)conservatism or CIA covert operations): Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | Henry Kissinger (late 1960s-, 2011) | Paul Volcker | Robert Knight | Zbigniew Brzezinski | John Negroponte | Brent Scowcroft | Paul Bremer | John Bryan, Jr. | Alan Greenspan | Chuck Hagel (2011) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) Great Britain: Brian Crozier | Julian Amery | Sir Peter Tennant | Robert Moss | Nicholas Elliot | Col. Billy McLean | Alan Clark | Jonathan Aitken | Lord Chalfont | Lord Charles Powell | Margaret Thatcher | Lord Lamont (chair 1996-2008) | Timothy Landon and Chester Nagle | Col. Tim Spicer | Sir Henry Grierson | William Hague | Lord Michael Cecil | 7th Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) | Frank Steele | Sir John Leahy | Sir Stephen Lander | Sir John Biggs-Davison | Winston Churchill II | Lord Thomas of Swynnerton | David Burnside | David Faber (grandson of Harold Macmillan, a nephew of Julian Amery, and through his mother also has Cavendish/Dukes of Devonshire blood) | Patricia Rawlings | Sir Steven Hastings | Jack Dellal | Bruce Anderson | Xan Smiley | Eddie Bell | Alistair Horne | Michael Howard | Lord David Howell | Sir John Killick | 4th Earl of Kimberley | Sir Steven Lander | Sir John Leahy | Edward Leigh | Dr. Julian Lewis | David Roy Lidington | Geoffrey Tantum | Philip Vander Elst | John Wilkinson | Sir Philip Goodhart | Rupert Allason | Margaret Beckett | South Africa: Anton Rupert | Basil Hersov | Dirk Hertzog | Gavin Relly (key Oppenheimer representative) | Harold Taswell | Gen. Charles Fraser | Robert du Plooy. Rhodesia: Peter van der Byl | Conrad Gerber. Mozambique: Evo Fernandes Germany: Otto von Habsburg (co-founder '53 and decades long visitor) and son Karl von Habsburg ('00s-'10s) | Count Hans Huyn | Konrad Adenauer | Franz Joseph Strauss | Dr. Franz Josef Bach | Gen. Reinhard Gehlen | Alois Mertes | Bruno Heck | Baron Hans Christoph Schenk von Stauffenberg | Fritz Konig | Alphons Horten | Friedrich Voss | Theo Waigel | Werner Marx | Bruno Heck | Philipp Jenninger | Fritz Konig | Gerhard Lowenthal | Fred Luchsinger | Karl-Heinz Narjes | Hans Ruhle | Dieter Schmidt | Gerd Schulte-Hillen | Gen. Franz-Joseph Schulze | Jurgen Warnke | Dr. Bernard Worms Switzerland: Philippe de Weck | Robert Zoelly Belgium: Baron de Bonvoisin | Armand de Decker | Gen. Robert Close | Florimond Damman | Jacques Jonet | Nicholas de Kerchove | Paul Vankerkhoven | Christian Schwarz-Schilling | Leo Tindemans | Maurice Brebart | Jan Sabbe France: Jean Monnet (liberal establishment) | Paul Violet | Antoine Pinay | Jean Violet | Robert Schuman | Georges Albertini | Francois de Grossouvre | Gen. Pierre Gallois | Adm. Francois Lacoste | Charles Pasqua | Monique Garnier-Lancon | Alain Griotteray (Figaro) | Raymond Bourgine | Francois d'Orcival (Figaro writer 1977-1978) | Francois Vallet | Alain Juppe | Patrick Stefanini | Jean-Claude Gaudin | Philippe Malaud | Pierre Mehaignerie | Alain Poher | Marcel Clement. Luxembourg: Pierre Werner Italy: Carlo Pesenti II | Giulio Andreotti | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Oscar Luigi Scalfaro | Enrico Franzoni | Gen. Umberto Capuzzo | Filippo Maria Pandolfi Vatican: Father Yves-Mark Dubois | Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti | Spain: Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Manuel Fraga-Iribarne | Federico Silva Munoz | Guillermo Kirkpatrick | Carlos Robles Piquer | Countess Eline de Romanones Portugal: Gen. Kaulza de Arriaga | Gen. Antonion de Spinola | Jaime Nogueira Pinto Latin America: Antonio Sanchez de Larragoiti (Brazil) | Luis Maria Otero Monsegur (Argentina) | Alvaro Gomez Hurtado (Columbia) | Enrique Gomez Hurtado (Colombia) | Daniel Mazuera (Colombia) | Francisco Bulnes (Chile) | Manuel Prado y Ugarteche (Peru) | Netherlands: Frans Alting von Geusau | Frans Otten Eastern Europe: Tedo Japaridze (Georgia) | Gen. Nikolay Malomuhz (Ukraine; foreign intelligence chief; 2011) | Urmas Paet (Estonia; minister of foreign affairs 2005-2014; 2011) | Ion Iliescu (Romania) | Crown Prince Alexander II Karadordevic of Yugoslavia (Serbia; hosted a 2004 meeting) | Russia: Yegor Gaidar | Victor Kuvaldin (2011) Israel: Shimon Peres (1996) | Benjamin Netanyahu (1996) | Dan Meridor (2011) | Natan Sharansky Turkey: Eymen Topbas Saudi Arabia: Prince Turki al Faisal | Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (invited in 2012) Jordan: King Hussein bin Talal of Jordan | Marwan al-Muasher | Zaid al-Rifai | Kamel Abu Jaber | Samih al-Batikhi Oman: Sultan Qaboos of Oman Iraq: Nadhmi Auchi Iran: Ardeshir Zahedi (Shah representative) | Hooshang Amirahmadi for Iran | Pakistan: Yegor Gaidar | Shaukat Aziz India: Benazir Bhutto | Manmohan Singh (born into a Sikh family; Ph.D. in economics from Oxford; worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 1966-1969; professor of international trade Delhi School of Economics; hired by Lalit Narayan Mishra as chief economic advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Trade; governor of the Reserve Bank of India 1982-1985; deputy chair planning commission 19885-1987; minister of finance 1991-1996; liberalized India's economy; member of parliament since 1991, opposition leader 1998-2004; prime minister 2004-2014) Japan: Tsutomu Hata |
1953 |
| Verein zur Erforschung sozial-politischer Verhaltnisse im Ausland Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig |
1950s |
| German counterpart: Deutsche Vereinigung für Ost-West Beziehungen Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig |
1950s |
| Centre de Recherche du Bien Politique Colonel Antoine Bonnemaison (head 1955-1963) | Jean Violet (head since about 1963) | Brian Crozier | General Foertsch (head of the German delegation and senior deputy to Gen. Reinhard Gehlen) | Professor Hans Lades | Dr. C. D. Kernig | Gen. Jean Olie (head French delegation and de Gaulle's Chief of the General Staff) | Louis Einthoven (head of the Dutch delegation) | Cees van den Heuvel |
1955 (+/-) |
| Konrad Adenauer Foundation Bruno Heck (head 1968-1989) | Kurt Biedenkopf (trustee anno 2010) | Horst Teltschik (trustee anno 2010) | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar). More: Udo Ulfkotte (planning committee 1999-2003; journalist and later populist author who exposed CIA influence in the German media in his May 2017-released book 'Journalists for Hire: How the CIA Buys the News' (unreleased in English, but stil in 2019 under Presstitutes); explained how he was one of the elite journalists who (almost) word-for-word would regularly put out stories written by German intelligence (BND) officers, drafting these stories right at newspaper HQs; these journalists would also be given special access to classified documents; apparently the German media is completely subservient to the Americans; died in Jan. 2017). |
1955 |
| Institut d'Etudes Politiques Vaduz / Institute for Political Studies, Vaduz Publisher of International Background: An International Journal of Current Political, Social and Economic Affairs. Liechtenstein: Prince Henry of Liechtenstein. Germany: George von Furstenberg | Harald von Bohlen und Halbach (Krupp) | Count Max Thurn und Valsassina | Count Hans van der Golz | Gerard Bauer (Uhrenindustrie) | Arend Oetker | Dieter Spethmann | Fredborg | Count Hans Huyn Switzerland: Rudolf Ernst | Luregn Mathias Cavelty Austria: Reinhard Kamitz (president Austria's National Bank 1960-1968) Czech Republic: Prince Karel Schwarzenberg Scandinavia: Arvid Fredborg (president) | Matts Calgren (Sweden) | Alvar Lindencrona (Sweden) | Kaj Kjellqvist (Sweden) | Christian Norgren (Sweden) | Thede Palm (Sweden) | Finn Andreen (Sweden) | Finne Veikko Rainikainen (Finland) | Georg Ehrnrooth (Finland) | Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen (Denmark) | Gunther Smolders Netherlands: Theodoor Joekes | Alfred Vas Nunes (UN ambassador; Shell external relations director 1958-1974) | Gwendolien E. Vrins Belgium: Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Jacques Jonet ("Club de Vaduz") | France: Jean Violet (July 1968 meeting) | Count Armand du Chayla | Pierre-Bernard Couste | Jean Cuene-Grandidier Spain: Marquis de Miralrio | Vincente Mortes Alfonso | Antonio Valero y Vicente Portugal: Jaime Nogueira Pinto ("Club de Vaduz") | Sarmento Rodriguez Italy: Prince Nicolo Pignatelli Aragona Cortes | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Achille Albonetti | Giuseppe Baranco Britain: Sir Anthony Fisher, Lord Ralph Harris, and Arthur Seldon of the IEA | Sir John Rodgers | Lord Robin Balniel (29th Earl of Crawford) | Lord Kenneth Baker | Lord John Selwyn Gummer | Baroness Diana Ellis U.S.: Kenneth Wells | Henry Hazlitt | Richard McKean Far East: Eric Hotung |
1959 |
| Charlemagne dinners Otto von Habsburg | Jacques Jonet | Florimond Damman | Count Alain de Villegas | Paul Vankerkhoven | Bernard Mercier | Jean-Pierre Grafe | Leo Tindemans | Willy De Clercq | Gaston Eyskens | Comtesse Antony de Meeus | Baron Jean de Marcken de Merken | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Father Yves-Marc Dubois | Baron Patrick Nothomb | Alfredo Sanchez-Bella | Ernest Tottosy | Vincent van den Bosch | Richard van Wijck | Kai-Uwe von Hassel | Giulio Andreotti | Brian Crozier | Jean Violet | Count Hans Huyn | Giancarlo Elia Valori | Yves Guerin-Serac | Prince and Princess de Merode (1969 dinner; same table as Serac) | Emile Lecerf (1969 dinner; same table as Serac) |
early 1960s |
| l'Institut Europeen de Developpement Baron de Bonvoisin (founder) | Paul Vankerkhoven | Bernard Mercier (director) |
1960s |
| International Freedom Foundation (INFRA) Ludwig Erhard | Fin Andreen | Carlo Pesenti II | Sir Evelyn Baring (3rd Earl of Cromer) | Antoine Pinay | Matti Virkkunen | Harald von Bohlen | John Lenczowski |
1962 |
| Centre d'Observation du Mouvement des Idées | 1963 |
| Europe-Action A small fascist think tank and publishing agency. Very pro-OAS. Leading figures: Dominique Venner (knew Francois de Grossouvre) | Alain de Benoist | Francois d'Orcival. Members/contributors: Raymond Bourgine | Maurice Gingembre | Gen. Otto Skorzeny (SS) | Erich Kern (SS officer) | Leon Degrelle (SS commander and collaborator). |
1963-1967 |
| Ordre du Rouvre Jacques Jonet | Vincent vanden Bossche | Paul Vankerkhoven | |
1964 |
| Hanns Seidel Foundation Otto von Habsburg (foreign policy advisor since 1975) | |
1966 |
| Aginter Press (Portugal) Yves Guerin-Serac (founder) | Otto Skorzeny (founder) | Francis Dessart (Belgian contact) | Stefano Della Chiaie (Italian contact) |
1966 |
| CREC Florimond Damman (co-founder) | Yves Guerin-Serac (co-founder) |
1969 |
| Academie Europeene des Sciences Politique (AESP) Jean Violet | Florimond Damman | Paul Vankerkhoven | Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Count Alain de Villegas | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Jacques Jonet | Richard van Wyck | Bernard Mercier | Ernest Tottosy (P7) | Carlo Pesenti | Manuel Fraga | Bassma Kodmani (student and later researcher). Not based on documents (yet): Founding life members: Alfredo Sanchez Bella | Otto von Habsburg | Father Yves-Marc Dubois | Carlo Pesenti. Life members since the 1970s: Jacques Soustelle | John Biggs-Davison | Peter Agnew | Sir John Rodgers | Baron von Stauffenberg. Permanent delegation members: Vincent Van den Bosch | Marcel de Roover | Rudolf Dumont du Voitel | Count Alain de Villegas | Elia Giancarlo Valori (P2) | Vittorio Pons (P7) | Count Hans Huyn | Francois Vallet | Cees van den Heuvel. |
1969 |
| Mouvement d'Action pour l'Union de l'Europe (MAUE - PEU) Jacques Jonet | Florimond Damman | Gaston Eyskens | Yves Guerin Serac | Emile Lecerf | Bernard de Marcken de Merken | Luc Beyer de Rycke | Pierre Nothomb | |
1969 |
| Cercle des Nations Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin | Emmanuel de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Jean-Paul Dumont | Aldo and Philippe Vastapane | Ado Blaton | Jacques Jonet | Serge Kubla | Charly De Pauw | Roger Boas | Jean Violet | Felix Przedborski | Pierre Salik | Xavier Magnee | Guy Mathot. Prince Francois de Merode | Philippe Cryns | Nicholas de Kerchove | Philippe de Kerchove | Bernard Marcken de Merken | Philippe Boel | Comte Philippe and Louis de Meeus d'Argenteuil | Prince Albert de Croy | Prince Rodolphe de Croy-Roeulx | Prince Antoine de Ligne | Comte Bertrand, Herve and Yannick d'Ursel | Comte de Launoit | Edgar Parser | Philippe Cruysmans | Paul Vankerkhoven | Florimond Damman | Baron Jean van den Bosch | Vincent van den Bossch | Jo Gerard | Henri Simonet | Richard van Wijck | Michel Relecom | Jean-Pierre Grafe | Baron Paul Kronacker. |
1969 |
| Ligue Internationale de la Liberté (LIL) Paul Vankerkhoven | Emile Lecerf | Florimond Damman |
1969 |
| European Institute of Management (EIM) Michel Relecom (owner) | Douglas MacArthur II | Col. Rene Mayerus | Jean Bougerol | Faez El Ajjaz (Saudi intelligence agent; apparently a client). |
1960s |
| P7 Lodge (Belgium) Vittorio Pons | Ernest Tottosy | Victor de Stankovich |
1970 |
| Nouvel Europe Magazine (Belgium) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Emile Lecerf | Francis Dossogne |
1971 |
| CEPIC (Belgium) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Jean-Paul Dumont | Paul Vankerkhoven | Jean Breydel | Jo Gerard | Joseph Franz | Bernard Mercier |
1972 |
| Public Information Office (PIO) Baron de Bonvoisin | Paul vanden Boeynants | Major Jean-Marie Bougerol |
1974 |
| Comite Hongrie (at CEPIC headquarters) Ernest Tottosy | Victor de Stankovich | Emile Lecerf | Florimond Damman | Bernard Mercier | Francis Dessart | |
1977 |
| American-European Strategy Institute / Western Goals Europe Count Huyn | Werner Marx | Gen. Robert Close (WG Belgium) |
1981 |
| Europaeisches Institut fuer Sicherheitsfragen Otto von Habsburg | Leo Tindemans | Kai-Uwe Von Kassel | Gen. Robert Close | Nicholas de Kerchove | Gerhard Lowenthal | Fred Luchsinger | Monique Garnier-Lancon |
1981 |
| Institut Européen pour la Paix et la Sécurité (IEPS) Jacques Jonet | Gen. Robert Close | Paul Vankerkhoven | Nicholas de Kerchove | Brian Crozier | Count Hans Huyn | Gen. Daniel Graham | Gen. Robert Richardson | Wolfgang Reinecke | Jean Gol | Willy De Clercq | Giovanni Spadolini. |
1983 |
| Balmes Foundation & Razon Espanola Federico Silva Munoz | Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora |
1983 |
| Papal Foundation Geoffrey Boisi (trustee). |
1988 |
| National Leadership Roundtable on [Catholic] Church Management Board of directors: Gen. James Dubik (chair) | Betsy Bliss (managing director J.P. Morgan Securities) | Charles Geschke (chair Adobe) | Hans Brenninkmeyer | Anthony Brenninkmeyer | Leon Panetta |
2005 |
NGOs set up by Zionist Jews, not American neocons.
| Chabad Lubavitcher movement / sect Heads: Rabbi Menachem Schneerson (7th head 1951-1994). Members/involved: Mordechai Korf and Uri Laber (US agents of Ihor Kolomoyskyi, himself additionally described as an advisor to a leading Chabad Rabbi in Ukraine) | Roman Abramovich | Lev Leviev | Berel Lazar (chief Rabbi of Russia close to Putin) | Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki (chief rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine) | Victor Pinchuk (advisor and "close friend" to Rabbi Kaminezki) | Gennadiy Bogolyubov (advisor in 2008 to Rabbi Kaminezki; partner of Kolomoisky in the notorious Privatbank). Source(s): Jan. 1, 2008, 'Chief Rabbi of Ukraine's Largest Jewish Community Named Among Top Foreigner': "Three of whom [also named] are members of Rabbi Kaminezki’s advisory board: Igor Kolomoisky and Victor [P. and] Gennady Bogolubov..."; Oct. 7, 2014, chabad.org, 'In Chaos of Ukraine, Dnepropetrovsk Again Stands as a Beacon of Refuge': ""That is the last address where Rabbi Levi Yitzchak lived in this city,"" explains Kaminezki, referring to Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson-the mystic, scholar, and father of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson..."; April 9, 2017, Politico, 'The Happy-Go-Lucky Jewish Group That Connects [T.] and [P.]'; March 6, 2021, New York Post, 'Businessmen accused of Ukraine money laundering gave millions to New York charities'. |
1775 |
| Gesellschaft der Freunde, Berlin Founders include: Joseph Mendelssohn (1770-1848) | Nathan Oppenheimer. Members: Samuel Bleichroder (1779–1855; founder of the banking house in 1803, Rothschild representative in Berlin 1828-1870) | Gerson Bleichroder (1822-1893; became Otto von Bismarck's banker in 1858, at the recommendation of the Rothschilds) | Julius Bleichroder (1828–1907; brother of Gerson; interned at the Rothschild Bank in Frankfurt until 1844) | Felix Deutsch (1858–1928) | Jakob Goldschmidt (1882–1955) | Paul Mankiewitz (1857-1924) | Countless members of the Mendelssohn banking family throughout the's group's existence | Julius Stern (1858-1914; banker) | Franz Oppenheim (1852–1929) | Hugo Oppenheim (1847-1921) | Walther Rathenau (1867–1922) | Adolph Salomonsohn (1831-1919) | Arthur Salomonsohn (1859-1930) | Georg Solmssen [Salomonsohn] (1869–1957) | Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970) | Carl Friedrich von Siemens (1872–1941) | Emil Georg von Stauss (1877–1942) | Meyer Warburg (d. 1801). |
1792-1935 |
| B'nai B'rith Philip Klutznick (international president 1953-1959) | Jack J. Spitzer (international president) | Edmond Safra (board of overseers) | Max M. Fisher (board of overseers) | Edgar M. Bronfman (chair board of overseers) | Chella Safra (in Brazil) | Larry Silverstein (hosted a meeting for B'nai B'rith Real Estate in 2012 in the new 7 WTC building) |
1843 |
| Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) Advisory board anno 1911: Arthur Concors (superintendent and director;***)| Jacob Schiff (key financial backer and known as the leader of NYC Jewry) | Louis Marshall (close fried of Jacob and attorney for Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) | Isaac Seligman (married to Guta Loeb, daughter of banker Solomon Loeb, a co-founder of Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) | Dr. Morris Loeb (son of Solomon; chemist; d. 1912) | Cyrus Leo Sulzberger I (from the family that founded the NYSE and became publishers of the NYT; his son was a NYT journalist internally referred to as a "known asset" by the CIA) | Mayer Sulzberger (close advisor to Jacob) | Oscar Strauss (first Jewish cabinet member under Teddy Roosevelt; close advisor to Jacob). More: Warburg family members (at least some involvement through meetings 1910s-1920s). *** Awaited Leon Trotsky - a secular Jew - on the pier, with many unidentified friends, upon arrival in New York City in Jan. 1917. As Trotsky spoke no English, on the pier he promoted him to the NYT and NY Herald Tribune as a persecuted "peace advocate" (Jan. 15, 1917, NYT, 'Expelled From Four Lands; Pacifist Editor Here from Russia, Germany, France and Spain.') and brought him to "Astor Hotel, 42nd Street". Trotsky himself actually preferred to portray himself as a "fighter for the Revolutionary International" (to NYC's newspaper Novy Mir, edited by his close friend, Nikolai Bukharin). To the New Yorker Volkszeitung Trotsky said soon afterwards: "Honestly, this [expulsion from Europe] isn't surprising in light of the fierce opposition we posed to the 'socialist' and the 'capitalist' war warmongers." Upon hearing of the Russian Revolution of February 1917, Trotsky and Bukharin left for Russia and were able to siege power, partly by agreeing to withdraw from WWI. |
1881 |
| World Zionist Organization Presidents: Theodor Herzl (1897–1904), Otto Warburg (1911–1921) Chaim Weizmann (1921–1931 and 1935–1946), David Ben-Gurion (1946–1956). Tibor Rosenbaum (chair finance committee) |
1897 |
| Zionist Organization of America Awarded: Pat Robertson (2002) | Nina Rosenwald (2003). |
1897 |
| Jewish United Fund (Chicago) Philip M. Klutznick (chair in the 1960s) |
1900 |
| Jewish National Fund Traditionally advertized with the number of trees planted in Israel, dams build, etc. Only the top leader and one or two name really big at the most. National Board of Directors: Salman Schocken (1877-1959; family has owned Haaretz for about a century; his son, Gershom Schocken (1912-1990), was a progressive Party MP 1955-1959 and Haaretz editor over 1939-1990; Gershom's son, Amos Schocken, was editor since 1990 and listed as the publisher in the early 21st century; German editing group DuMont Schauberg bought a 25% stake in 2006; since 2011 Schocken owns 60%, Leonid Nevzlin and DuMont both 20%) | Ronald Lauder (president anno 2002-2007, chair anno 2011, chair emeritus anno 2017). Advisory board: Mortimer Zuckerman (anno 2002-2007; also a director anno 2002-2007). More: Bernard Bloomfield (Canada), brother of Louis B. | Peter Munk (hon. board member of its Toroto branch; Canada) | Leonid Nevzlin (names as a "member" in the media of the 2010s; Israel) | Source(s): jnf.org/site/ PageServer?pagename=exec_comm (accessed: April 25, 2002- Aug. 18, 2007; includes president, advisory board and directors). |
1901 |
| American Jewish Committee (AJC) Jacob Schiff (exec. comm. anno 1917) | Oscar Straus (exec. comm. anno 1917) | Cyrus Sulzberger (exec. comm. anno 1917) | Mayer Sulzberger (exec. comm. anno 1917) | Louis Marshall (among the founders) | Count Otto Lambsdorff (advisory board of AJC's Berlin Ramer Institute for German-Jewish Relations; non-Jewish, but highly respected in the Jewish community; also on the board of Khodorkovsky's Menatep) | Elliott Abrams. Visitors/speakers: James Woolsey (2007) | Zalmay Khalilzad (2007). Financiers: Seth Klarman | Lester Crown| Casey Wasserman. |
1906 |
| American Jewish Congress (AJC) Felix Frankfurter | Philip Klutznick (involved in the 1970s and 1980s) | Maurice Tempelsman (trustee, vice president, chair, and chair of AJC's Commission on International Affairs 1980s-1990s) | Phil Baum (chair) | Robert Lifton (president 1988-1994) | Zoe Baird (chair National Board of Advisors 1994-1998). |
1918 |
| Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Board: Abraham Foxman (nat. director ADL 1987-2015) | Ronald Lauder | Philip Klutznick (vice chair national commission) | Kenneth Bialkin (national chair 1983-1986) | Jonathan Greenblatt (CEO anno 2019). Centennial celebration (2013): Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Madeleine Albright | Diane von Furstenberg | Elie Wiesel | Giancarlo Elia Valori. |
1913 |
| Joint Distribution Committee, New York Seed financier: Jacob H. Schiff (Raised the money after Henry Morgenthau asked him to help save Palestinian Jews under Ottoman rule). Board members: Felix Warburg (founding chair 1914-1932, hon. chair 1932-1937) | Alexander Kahn (co-founder in 1914; vice-chair 1937-1961) | Edward Warburg (vice chair 1938-1939, co-chair 1940, chair 1941-1943, 1946-1965, hon. chairman 1966-; son of Felix) | Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (viuce chair anbno 1954) | Bernhard Kahn (founding managing director 1924-1939, vice chair 1950-1955) | Abe Bronfman | Samuel Bronfman | George Alpert | Harry Oppenheimer | Henry Kissinger | Baron David de Rothschild | Charles Bronfman | Edgar Bronfman | Alan Greenberg | Lord Weidenfeld | Ronald Lauder International Council anno 2019: Baron David de R. (chair) | Stuart Eizenstat | Henry K. | Harvey Meyerhoff | Margot Pritzker | Michael Steinhardt | Simone Veil (already died in 2017). Executive committee: Andrew Tisch. |
1914 |
| United Palestine Appeal / United Israel Appeal Board members: Rudolf Sonneborn (chair 1940s) | George Alpert (vice chair 1940s) | Albert Einstein (honorary chair 1940s) |
1925 |
| Jewish Agency for Israel Moshe Tov | Edmond de Rothschild | Tibor Rosenbaum | Simcha Dinitz (executive chair) | Mendel Kaplan (chair) | Max M. Fisher | Leonid Nevzlin | Mikhail Chlenov (governor 1998-2002; committee member since 2006) | Chella Safra (Brazilian representative to the Jewish Agency Board 1986-) | Natan Sharansky (executive chair since 2009). Present at a meeting of Jewish Agency governors: Charles Bronfman, Edmond Safra. |
1929 |
| World Jewish Congress (WJC) Nahum Goldman (president 1949-1977) | Philip Klutznick (president 1977-1979) | Tibor Rosenbaum (former treasurer) | Edgar M. Bronfman (president 1979-2007) | Matthew Bronfman (chair governing board 2007-2009) | Eduardo Elsztain (became chair of the governing board in 2009) | Baron David de Rothschild (chair governing board since May 2013) | Chella Safra (treasurer since May 2013; sister-in-law of Edmond S.) | Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (vice president since May 2013; American-born chief rabbi of Ukraine) | Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (chair policy council since May 2013) | Yuri Kanner (vice president since may 2013) | Ronald Lauder (president since 2007) | Mikhail Chlenov (vice president) | Mark Shabad (general council member) | Avi Beker (secretary general) | Vladimir Gusinsky (elected vice president in 2000; had a meeting with Clinton at the WJC in September 2000; in June 2000 Clinton, while on his way to visit Putin, first called in to Gusinsky's NTV network, angering the Russian president). |
1936 |
| American Zionist Emergency Council Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver (co-chair) | Stephen Wise (co-chair) |
1939-1949 |
| United Jewish Appeal (UJA) George Alpert (chairman in 1946) | Henry Morganthau Jr. (chair late 1940s - early 1950s) | Philip Klutznick (general chair until 1961) | Laurence Tisch (president). |
1939-1986 |
| YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York City Bruce Slovin (chair) | Martin Peretz (long time trustee) | Baron David de Rothschild (guest of honor at a 2012 meeting) |
1940 |
| Institute for Jewish Policy Research, London (moderate) Jacob Rothschild (president) |
1941 |
| Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA) | 1944 |
| Sonneborn "Institute"/network David Ben-Gurion | Rudolf Sonneborn (founder, married a granddaughter of Jacob Schiff) | Abe Feinberg | Louis Bloomfield |
1947 |
| American Zionist Council (AZC) Louis Lipsky (chairman 1950s) | Moses Epstein (vice chair 1950s) | Si Kenen (head of the Washington, D.C. branch 1951-1953) |
1949 |
| American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Board: Si Kenen (founder and head) | Larry and Barbi Weinberg (president and vice president; also founded WINEP) | Morris Amitay (executive director 1974–1980) | Tom Dine (exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Martin Indyk (deputy research director; founding exec. director of WINEP) | Patrick Clawson (director of research, also at WINEP) | Robert H. Asher (president) | Nina Rosenwald (director) | Lewis Eisenberg (director 1998-2003; remained an ordinary member) | Mickey Kantor (member national board) | Malcolm Hoenlein (exec. committee). More: Philip Klutznick (known to have at the very least corresponded intensely with AIPAC between 1975-1985 and to be close to Asher) | Haim Saban (Saban National Political Leadership Training Seminar). Speeches: Caspar Weinberger (1989; not a big fan of Israel). |
1953 |
| American-Israel Society Morris Bram (founder) | Ambassador Abba Eban (1950s; ambassador to the U.S. 1950-1959; deputy PM 1963-1966; foreign affairs minister 1966-1974) | Klutznick (interaction between 1965 and 1990) |
1954 |
| Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (CPMAJO) Nahum Goldman (key founder) | Philip Klutznick (key founder and president until 1961) | Malcolm Hoenlein (exec. vice chair 1986-) | Ronald Lauder | Mortimer Zuckerman (chair 2001-2003) |
1956 |
| LEKEM/LAKAM Benjamin Blumberg | Rafi Eitan | Arnon Milchan (billionaire Hollywood movie producer, including Once Upon a Time in America, Under Siege, JFK and Fight Club; recruited as an agent by Peres; helped acquire uranium for Israel) |
1957 |
| Rothschild Foundation (England) / Yad Hanadiv (Israel) Jacob Rothschild (chair/patron since 1989) |
1958 |
| Israel-America Chamber of Commerce | 1965 |
| Jerusalem Foundation Teddy Kollek (founder, also US and UK trustee; ran Haganah/Mossad operations in the US with Reuven Shiloah) | Dan Meridor (international chair) | Mark Sofer (president) | Charles R. Bronfman (Canadian president, later honorary) | Kenneth Bialkin (30-year president) | Neri J. Bloomfield (Canadian trustee) | Harry J. F. Bloomfield and Evelyn Bloomfield Schachter (Canadian trustees) | Alan Hassenfeld (US chair; CEO of Hasbro toys) | Max Kampelman (US chair emeritus) | Alan Greenberg (US director) | John Whitehead (US director, later emeritus) | Frans Alting von Geusau (Dutch chair, later honorary; SMOM) | Lester Crown (US trustee) | Robert de Rothschild (US trustee ) | John Deutch (US trustee 1990s) | Michael Ledeen (in the 1980s he spent time in Israel with financial aid of the foundation) | Lord Weidenfeld (UK trustee). Desmarais family (among the Canadian financiers) |
1966 |
| Canadian Zionist Federation (CZF) Bernard Bloomfield (president), brother of Louis B. | Neri Bloomfield (first female president) | Thomas Hecht (vice president) |
1967 |
| European Council of Jewish Communities (ECJC) Vadim Rabinovich (vice president April 2008-2011) | Igor Kolomoiskyi (president in 2010-2011 in a "hostile takeover" that almost no board members were made aware of beforehand; soon left due to the controversy). More: Alexander Machkevich (at a 2010 conference; Kazakh mining and minerals magnate). Source(s): ejp.eu/members/vadim-rabinovich/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "In 2008 became the Vice-President of the European Council of Jewish Communities"; Oct. 29, 2010, Jerusalem Post, 'A necessary putsch?'. |
1968 |
| Israel Corporation Not an NGO. Founders: Shaul Eisenberg | Pinchas Sapir (then-Israeli finance minister). Directors: Baron Edmond de Rothschild (chair late 1960s - 1970s) | Michael Tzur (managing director; sentence to 15 years prison after in Feb. 1975 arrest) | Tibor Rosenbaum | Samuel Rothberg | Ernest Japhet (until Sep. 1973 over unhappiness with some of the board's business; appointed his deputy at Bank Leumi) | Mordechai Liman (exec. comm. acting chair who didn't check properly on Tzur's activities) | David Golan (manager Foreign Trade Bank and the First International Bank) | Moshe Arens (deputy chairman 1992-1997) | Gen. Yaacov Amidror (post-2000) | Idan Ofer (chair, post 2000). |
1968 |
| Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Benjamin Netanyahu (contributor to studies; PM) | Gen. Uzi Dayan (contributor to studies; nephew of Moshe Dayan) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon. Nina Rosenwald (member). |
1976 |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Board: Haim Saban (director anno '02; major financier and annual gala visitor) | Peter Weintraub (national chair) | Robert Cohen (national president) | Jay Zises (president anno '00-'02; Likud financier) | Kenneth Biualkin (director anno '02) | Mortimer Zuckerman (director anno '02; Likud financier). Involved in annual galas in Beverly Hills ("Western Region"): various IDF generals | Ehud Barak | Moshe Yaalon | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ehud Olmert ('05) | Israeli President Reuven Rivlin | Michael Bloomberg | Sheldon Adelson (2014; donated $10 mln in 2018, matching Haim's; Likud financier and right-wing media owner in Israel) | Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein (founder and President of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews). Actor gala participants: Jason Alexander | Pamela Anderson (2014) | Sylvester Stallone (2014) | Arnold Schwarzenegger (2014, 2017) | Chris Tucker | Andy Garcia (2018) | Gerard Butler (2018) | Ashton Kutcher (2018). Musician gala participants: Barbra Streisand (2014) | Lionel Richie | David Draiman of Disturbed (2018) | Pharrell Williams (2018) | Katharine McPhee (2018). |
1981 |
| Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) Winifred Weiselman (founder) | Nina Rosenwald (director). |
1982 |
| Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress Neoliberal think tank. Founder: Daniel Doron Board of Advisors: all Israeli names. Anno 2001 all unknown. US Board of Governors: Prof. Irving Kristol (hon. chair anno '01-'09) | Midge Decter (anno '01-'10s) | Abraham Sofaer (anno '01-'10s) | Roger Hertog ('01-'10s) | Daniel Do. (director anno '01-'10s) | James S. Tisch ('05-10s). Website seemingly not updated anymore. UK Board of Governors: Lord Harris of High Cross (patron '01). Speakers: Milton Friedman ('90, '05 video link to ICSEP's first annual United States Awards Dinner in NYC: "Israel has the potential of being the Hong Kong of the Middle East.") | Benjamin Netanyahu ('05 ICSEP's first annual United States Awards Dinner in NYC) | William Kristol (NYC '05) | Kenneth Bialkin (NYC '05) | Abraham Foxman (NYC '05). |
1983 |
| Solntsevskaya Bratva (Zionist-Russian oligarch mafia) Leaders: Sergey Mikhailov | Viktor Averin. Close allies: Semion Mogilevich and his "Mogilevich Organization" (handled Solntsevskaya's finances). Reported to be closely connected to Solntsevskaya and/or the "Mogilevich Organization" (often accused of being members): Shabtai Kalmanovich (arranged Israeli passports for Mogilevich, etc.; KGB spy with deep Mossad and Israeli government ties) | Robert Maxwell | Edmond Safra | Vadim Rabinovich | Pyotr Aven | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Oleg Deripaska | Alisher Usmanov | Andrei Skoch | Lev Kvetnoy | Roman Abramovich | Anatoly Chubais | Michael Cherney | Yury Luzhkov | Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Evgeny Novitsky | Xavier Magnee (named as a Russian mob intermediary; lawyer for Mikhailov, Marc Dutroux, VdB, BdB, various strategy of tension and Agusta scandal figures; also good at promoting disinfo). (Rothschild family is close to various people in this list) Closely related: ATLAS dossier link between Boris Nayfeld, Riccardo Fancini, Mike Brandwein and Maurice Tempelsman. Also: reports of historical ties to the mafia of Lester Crown and the Bronfman family. |
mid-1980s |
| Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies Among two dozen listed co-founders: Lester Crown | Charles Bronfman | Baron Edmond de Rothschild | Cyrus Vance. The boards of the institute are completely staffed by Israelis. Also: Martin Indyk (visiting scholar) | Shimon Shamir (staffer). |
1985 |
| Jewish Policy Center (JPC) Decter | Kristol | Ledeen | Medved | Daniel Pipes | Podhoretz | Shoshana Bryen |
1985 |
| Republican Jewish Coalition (formerly: National Jewish Coalition) Sam Fox (chair) | Lewis Eisenberg (director) | |
1985 |
| Ir David Foundation Elie Wiesel (chairman) |
1986 |
| UJA Federation of New York Edgar Bronfman | Edmond Safra | Max M. Fisher | Baron Alain de Gunzburg | Larry Silverstein (chair in the 1990s and listed as a honorary director today) | Rupert Murdoch | Alan Greenberg (life benefactor, along with his wife). Also: Baron David de Rothschild (chair of UJA France) |
1986 |
| European Jewish Congress Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (president since 2007) | Vladimir Slutsker (vice president in 2005) |
1986 |
| Zionist Forum (Soviet Jewry Zionist Forum) Natan Sharansky (founder) |
1988 |
| Israel Council on Foreign Relations David Kimche (founder and president until his death in 2010) | Avi Primor (president) | Dan Meridor (president 2014-) | Indyk (speech in 1997): Speakers: James Wolfensohn | Karel Schwarzenberg | Victor Yushchenko | Frans Timmermans | Jimmy Carter | Joschka Fischer | Martti Ahtisaari. |
1989 |
| "Mega Group" / "Study Group" Members: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Charles Bronfman | Lester Crown | Max M. Fisher | Michael Steinhardt | Leslie Wexner | Steven Spielberg | Harvey Meyerhoff | Laurence Tisch | Leonard Abramson | Charles Schusterman | Marvin Lender. |
1991 |
| Tikvah Fund A philathropic foundation that also funds national security think tanks in Israel as the Institute for Zionist Strategies, Jerusalem Inst. for Strategy and Security, and the Kohelet Policy Forum. Board: Zalman Bernstein (billionaire founder) | Mem Bernstein ('09-'22; widow of Zalman) | Roger Hertog (chair anno '09, chair emeritus in '22) | William Kristol (anno '09) | Jay Lefkowitz ('09-'22'; Bush administration official in the 2000s) | Arthur Fried (anno '09-'22; "retired as a Managing Director and CFO of Lehman Brothers in 1981 to become the CEO of The Rothschild Foundation, Jerusalem/Geneva, a position he held until November 1999") | Steven Price (anno '22; dep. ass. sec. of defense (Spectrum, Space and Communications) 2001-2004) | Elliott Abrams (chair anno '22) | Raanan Agus (anno '22; "global co-head and co-chief investment officer of Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) within Goldman Sachs Asset Management"). Source(s): tikvahfund.org/board.html (accessed: Aug. 8, 2009); tikvahfund.org/about/board/ (accessed: Feb. 3, 2022). |
1992 |
| Israeli Policy Forum (IPF) Directors: Peter Joseph (chair) | Robert Lifton (president) | Charles Bronfman. Advisory council: Thomas Dine | Marshall Breger | Edward Walker, Jr. | Robert Pelletreau. Program director: David Halperin. |
1993 |
| Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies International advisory board, Canada and England (2002): Thomas Hecht (founder and chairman - still in 2014) | Robert Hecht (still in 2014) | Marion Hecht (still in 2014) | Neri Bloomfield | Sir Robert Rhodes James | International advisory board, United States (2002): Gen. Alexander Haig | Sen. Daniel Moynihan | Brian Mulroney | Eugene Rostow | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (still in 2014) | Robert Lifton (still in 2014) Brian Mulroney (still in 2014) International Academic Advisory Board: John J. Mearsheimer (2002) | Eliot Cohen (2014). International advisory board , Israel (2002): Yuval Neeman | Gen. Ori Orr | Yitzhak Shamir | Gen. Dan Shomron | Moshe Arens (still in 2014) | Shlomo Hillel | Gen. Mordechai Hod | | Gen. Daniel Matt |
1993 |
| Israel Policy Forum (IPM) Robert Lifton (founding chair) | Yitzhak Rabin (co-founder) | Susie Gelman (chair). 10th Anniversary Tribute Dinner: Thomas Friedman (keynote speaker) | William Cohen ("Over the last several months, The Cohen Group and Israel Policy Forum have engaged in a joint effort to launch the Middle East Policy Initiative"). U.S. Advisory Council ('11): Robert Pelletreau Jr. Israel Advisory Council ('11): David Kimche | Gen. Danny Rothschild. Advisory council (12/'19): Charles Bronfman (chair; also director) | Matthew Bronfman | Lester Crown | Ronald Lauder | Haim Saban | Michael Sonnenfeldt. Other: Stephen P. Cohen (scholar) Past speakers: Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Sen. Joseph Biden | Ehud Barak | Ehud Olmert. |
1993 |
| Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes (president) | David Steinmann (treasurer) | Ziad Abdelnour | Elliott Abrams (Signatory of a 2000 report urging action against Syria) | Nina Rosenwald. Financiers: Seth Klarman. |
1994 |
| Shalem Center A conservative think tank located in Jerusalem. shalem.ac.il/en/about/history/ (accessed: July 1, 2013): "Shalem College was the driving vision behind the Shalem Center, a research and education institute established in 1994..." "Foundation Board" / "directors" / "governors" (varies over time): Yoram Hazony (founding president 1994-, director until at least 2009; Netanyahu's aide and ghost writer) | Roger Hertog (anno 2006-2009) | Ronald Lauder (anno 2008-2013) | William Kristol (anno 2006-2009) | Natan Sharansky (anno 2006-2009) | Martin Kramer (president-designate anno 2012; president anno 2013; governor anno 2023). Fellows: Natan S. (anno 2013) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon. Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies (2006-): Sheldon Adelson ($4.5 million financier) | Natan S. (founder and chair until 2009). Sources: shalem.org.il/about/?did=54 (accessed: Nov. 29, 2006 - Feb. 18, 2009). |
1994 |
| Peres Center for Peace See liberal establishment-Israel relations section. Very high level. |
1996 |
| Russian Jewish Congress Directors from 2003 list: Vladimir Gusinsky (president 1996-2001) | Leonid Nevzlin (president 2001-2003) | Vladimir Slutsker (president 2004-2005) | Viacheslav Moshe Kantor (president 2005-2009) | Yuri Kanner (president) | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Yakov Urinson | Andrei Rappoport | Leonid Melamed | Alex Knaster | Igor Linshits | Vitaly Malkin | Vitaly Mashitsky | Mikhail Mirilashvili | Vadim Moshkovich | Henri Reznik | Vitaly Ginzburg | Pavel Feldblum | Gennady Khazanov | Mikhail Chlenov | Mark Shabad | David Yakobashvili | Alexander Chigirinskiy | Yevgenia Albats | Andrey Kozyrev | Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt | Mikhail Simonov | Yuri Kanner | Viktor Chernomyrdin (speech in 1997) | Sam Nunn (present in 1997) |
1996 |
| International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (IICT), Herzliya, Israel Directors: Shabtai Shavit (key founder; chair, one of three directors anno '99-'20s; director Mossad 1989-1996). Trustees: Gen. Eli Zeira (anno '99; former director of Military Intelligence) | Gen. Yanush Ben-Gal (anno '99; chair Israel Aircraft Industries) | Ron Ben-Ishai (anno '99; national security commentator "Yediot Aharonoth" newspaper) | Zeev Schiff (anno '99; defense editor Haaretz newspaper) | Gad Yaacobi (anno '99; chair Israel Electric Corporation). "Associates": Gen. Meir Dagan (anno '03). Conference visitors: Carmi Gillon and Amy Ayalon (former Shabak heads) | Gijs de Vries ('05) | Gen. Wesley Clark ('08) | Daniel Pipes ('08) | Ehud Barak ('08) | Gen. Danny Yatom ('11; head Mossad 1996-1998, and PM Barak's chief of staff and security advisor 1999-2001) | Gen. Danny Rothschild ('11-'12) | Nicholas Rostow ('11) | Dr. Jan Techau ('11; Carnegie EU) | Tzipi Livni ('11) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon ('11, '13, '19, '21) | Dan Meridor ('11-'12) | Abraham Sofaer ('12) | Cyrus Vance Jr. ('12) | Ehud Olmert ('12) | Gen. Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash ('12; head Military Intelligence Directorate, Israel) | Dr. Martin Kramer ('13) | Amir Peretz ('19 World Summit on Counter Terrorism; former defense minister) | Sir Julian King ('19; EU Security Union commissioner) | Benny Gantz ('21; defense minister) | Yair Lapid ('21; foreign affairs minister) | Isaac Herzog ('21) | Ayelet Shaked ('21) | Yaakov Amidror ('21) | Jose María Aznar ('21) | Craig Jones ('21; director Cybercrime Directorate, INTERPOL) | Gen. Amos Yadlin ('21; commander Military Intelligence Directorate; director INSS, Israel). Professional Advisory Board: Brian Jenkins (anno '21) | Bruce Hoffman (anno '21) | Dan Mer. (anno '21) | Peter Neumann (anno '21) | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones (anno '21) | Jim Steinberg (anno '21). Source(s): ict.org.il/ AnnualConference/ PreviousConferences/ Highlights8thConference/ Workshops/tabid/293/ Default.aspx (accessed: Feb. 10, 2014): "Speakers 2013 [etc.]" |
1996 |
| All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress (UJC) Vadim Rabinovich (chair since 1998) | Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (conflicted with Rabinovich along with other Jewish leaders in Ukraine) | Victor Pinchuk (financier). Source(s): ejp.eu/members/vadim-rabinovich/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "In May 1998 became the chair and the major supporter of the All-Ukrainian Jewish Congress, was re-elected to this position four consequent times and keeps it to the date." |
1997 |
| Ariel Center for Policy Research, Israel acpr.org.il (front page): "Israel, a tiny democracy, whose total area is 600 times smaller than that of its enemies, is being demanded to give up precisely the very asset it does not have – territory. In exchange, its enemies, 21 Muslim tyrannies, are being asked to provide the one and only thing they do not have – peace." Directors: Yitzhak Shamir (key founder; anno '99, '01) | Yair Shamir (anno '99, '01). Advisory council: Moshe Arens (anno '99) | Eugene Rostow (anno '99) | William Van Cleave (anno '99) | Moshe Sharon (advisor on Arab affairs to former Israeli PM Menachem Begin) | Yitzhak S. (anno '99) | Yair S. (anno '99) | Moshe Shamir (anno '03). Contributing experts: Frank Gaffney Jr. (anno 2001) | Rachel Ehrenfeld (anno 2001) | Benjamin Netanyahu (anno 2001) | Dr. Walid Phares (anno 2001) | Joseph Farah (anno 2003) | Mey Wurmser (anno 2003). Source(s): acpr.org.il/people/index.html ("Contributing Experts"; accessed: Feb. 3, 2001); acpr.org.il/about/about2.html (" Board of Directors" and "Advisory Council"; accessed: Dec. 4, 1999). |
1997 |
| Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Co-founders: Col. Yigal Carmon (Israeli military intelligence) and Meyrav Wurmser (Israeli-born, American political scientist). Directors and advisory board members: Oliver Revell (former FBI C-I chief) | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Hayden | Rumsfeld | Jose Maria Aznar | James Woolsey | Bolton | Ashcroft | Ehud Barak | Mortimer Zuckerman | Norman Podhoretz | Deborah Lipstadt (Holocaust researcher) | Yehuda Bauer (holocaust researcher) | Christopher DeMuth | Paul Bremer | Lord Weidenfeld | Herb London | Holbrooke | Jack Kemp | Kirkpatrick | Irving Kristol | Max Kampelman. More: Alberto Fernandez (vice president). Financiers: Seth Klarman |
1998 |
| United Jewish Communities (UJC) "Lunch with a Legend" guests: Larry Silverstein | Charles Bronfman | Lester Crown. |
1999 |
| United Jewish Community of Ukraine Vadim Rabinovich (president 1999-2009; vice president since then; tied to Solntsevskaya mafia) | Ihor Kolomoyskyi (president 2008-, still anno 2022; an even more notorious Ukraine oligarch). Source(s): jew.org.ua/eng/leaders (accessed: March 1, 2022; official website that lists Ihor as president: "He was elected the President of the UJCU on the Fifth congress of "the United Jewish community of Ukraine" in Kiev in 2008."); ejp.eu/members/vadim-rabinovich/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "From 1999 till 2009 headed the United Jewish Community of Ukraine (OEOU), and remains its Vice-President." |
1999 |
| E.U.-Israel Forum Lord Weidenfeld (vice chair since 2002, later chair). Speakers: Shimon Peres | Silvan Shalom | Joschka Fischer |
1999 |
| Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Mikhail Chlenov (president since 1992) | Roman Abramovich (trustee chair) |
1999 |
| Taglit - Birthright Israel Founders and key financiers: Charles Bronfman | Michael Steinhardt. Others key financiers: Edgar Bronfman | Sheldon Adelson | Daniel Och | Lynn Schusterman | Israeli government (25%). |
1999 |
| Fondation pour le Mémoire de la Shoah (FMS), Paris Simone Veil (honorary president; Auschwitz survivor) | Baron David de Rothschild (president) | Eric Rothschild (board member) U.S. Shoah Foundation: Susan Crown, daughter of Lester C. (chair) |
2000 |
| Herzliya Conference (IPS) Gen. Danny Rothschild. 2007 conference speakers/panelists: Aznar | Matthew Bronfman | Nicholas Burns | Newt Gingrich | Rudolph Giuliani | Lord Guthrie | Malcolm Hoenlein | Robert Hunter | Bruce Jackson | Ronald Lauder | John McCain III | Dan Meridor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ehud Olmert | Shimon Peres | Richard Perle | Thomas Pickering | Mitt Romney. 2012 conference speakers/panelists: Ehud Barak | Robert Blackwill | Henry Kissinger | Niall Ferguson | Jacob Frenkel | Francois Heisbourg | Ban Ki-moon | Vyacheslav Nikonov | Karel Schwarzenberg | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | James Woolsey | Zakheim | Zoellick. Other speakers: Michael Chertoff ('16). |
2000 |
| One Jerusalem Co-founders: Douglas Feith | Natan Sharansky | David Bar-Illan | Baroness Cox | Nancy Montgomery | Michael Siegal | Ron Silver |
2000 |
| World Congress of Bukharian Jews (WCBJ) Lev Leviev (president) | Ben Binyaminov (vice president) Visitors: Lev Nektalov, Raphael Nektalov, David Gurevich, Avi Miel. |
2000 |
| Michael Cherney Foundation | 2001 |
| Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) Alexander Mashkevitch (founder; president 2002-2011; Kazakh-Israeli nationality; billionaire natural resources explorer; arrested at a cruise ship with underage prostitutes in 2010) | Mikhail Chlenov (founding secretary general) | Vitaly Mashitsky (vice president) | Mark Shabad (vice president) | Rabbi Pinkhas Goldschmidt (vice president) | Yuri Kanner (present at meetings). |
2002 |
| The Israel Project Jennifer Mizrahi (founder and president 2003-2012) | Josh Block (president and CEO 2012-). Advisory board: numerous senators and congressmen, but the only major name was Sen. Joe Lieberman. Financiers: Seth Klarman. |
2003 |
| Jihad Watch Robert Spencer (head; appears to be a Catholic Jew from the Intelligence Summit) |
2003 |
| Jerusalem Summit Key founders: Michael Cherney and John Loftus. Paul Vallely (speaker in 2004). 1st summit participants, 2003: Ehud Olmert | Benyamin Netanyahu | Avigdor Liberman | Dr. Uzi Landau (Israel's Minister for the Strategic Cooperation between US and Israel) | Congressman Eliot Engel | Richard Perle | Daniel Pipes | Alan Keyes (religious leader and former ambassador) | Avi Beker (secretary general WJC) | Mike Evans (president Jerusalem Prayer Team) | Frank Gaffney | Sergei Filatov (president Congress of Russian Intelligentsia) 2nd summit, Nov. 2004, Jerusalem’s King David Hotel: Daniel P. | Xu Xin (Center for Jewish Studies, China ) | Gen. Mansour Abu Rashid, former head of Jordanian intelligence | Amb. Sonmez Koksal, former Turkish intelligence chief | Ana de Palacio, Spanish foreign minister in Aznar's government | G. Parthasarathy, former Pakistani high commissioner to India | Shabtai Shavit, former Mossad head | vice premier and foreign affairs minister Silvan Shalom | Gen. Isaac Ben-Israel (IAF) | Gen. Yaacov Amidror (IDF) | Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski. |
2003 |
| Intelligence Summit Key founders: Mikhail Cherney and John Loftus. Robert Katz (executive director). Clare Lopez (vice president). Executive council: Norman Bailey | Richard Marcinko | Gen. Thomas McInerney. Advisory council 2005: Gen. Paul Vallely | Gen. Thomas Mclnerney | James Woolsey | John Deutch | Pauline Neville-Jones | Yoram Hessel ("former Senior Mossad Officer") | Col. Oded Shoham (IDF). Later advisory board members: Brigitte Gabriel | Rachel Ehrenfeld | Robert Spencer. Others: Mossad, CIA, MI6 people. 2005 Summit advisory board (plus many listed above; also speakers): Robert Baer | Jamie Gorelick | Slade Gorton | Michael Ledeen | Dr. Walid Phares | Daniel Pipes. Speakers: Joseph Trento ('Stop Pandering To the American People') | Michael Shrimpton ('Amending The Patriot Act') | Michael Scheuer | Michelle Malkin | Maureen Baginski (NSA) | Arnaud de Borchgrave. 2008 Summit speakers: Sen. John McCain ("Pending Final Confirmation"; seemingly not spoke) | Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz (deputy PM of Israel; "Pending Final Confirmation"; seemingly not spoke) | Reza Pahlavi ("Crown Prince of Iran") ("Pending Final Confirmation") | "Sen. Barack Obama, Democratic Presidential Nominee" ("invited") | James WooIsey (who earlier resigned because he supposedly didn't know the summit was linked to the Russian mafia; seemingly not spoke). Listed under "featured speakers" (but clearly not all speakers): Conrad Black | Frank Gaffney | Sir Winston Churchill | Dr. John Coleman (Committe of 300 conspiracy disinformer) | Rush Limbaugh | Bill O'Reilly | Vladimir Putin | Kenneth Timmerman. Sponsors: The United West ("dedicated to defending and advancing Western Civilization against the kinetic and cultural onslaught of Shariah Islam") | Tea Party Tribune. |
2004 (+/-) |
| Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI) Directors: Stuart Eizenstat (chair anno '11, co-chair anno '22) | Leonid Nevzlin (associate chair anno '11) | Gen. Yaakov Amidror (anno '11) | Dennis Ross (co-chair anno '22) | Elliott Abrams (anno '22). International board of governors: Bernard-Henri Levy (anno '22) | Michael Steinhardt (anno '22) | James S. Tisch (anno '22). Source(s): jppi.org.il/board/ (accessed: Aug. 16, 2011); jppi.org.il/en/staff/board-members/ (accessed: Feb. 3, 2022). |
2004 |
| Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture Directors: Abraham Sofaer (anno '10; advisory board anno '22). Advisory Board Members: Abraham Foxman (anno '10) | Daniel Pipes (anno '10). Honorary Members: Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno '10) | Ronald Lauder (anno '10) | George Shultz (anno '10) | Elie Wiesel (anno '10). |
2004 |
| Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET) Founders: Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Leonard Abramson | Michael Steinhardt | Israeli Foreign Ministry (founding co-financier) | Malcolm Hoenlein (founding consultant) | Abraham Foxman (founding consultant). Advisory board: Ariel Cohen | Frank Gaffney | Daniel Pipes | Jeane Kirkpatrick | James Woolsey | Dr. Meyrav Wurmser | Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld | Alex Grobman | Ambassador Yossi Ben-Aharon | Ambassador Yoram Ettinger. Speakers: Gen. Mike Flynn (2014). |
2005 |
| World Holocaust Forum Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (founder and chair). Present at founding: Putin, Moshe Katsav, Cheney. Second meeting: Viktor Yushchenko. |
2005 |
| Institute for Zionist Strategies Moshe Arens (co-founder, fellow anno '13) | Gen. Yaakov Amidror (part of the "Constitution Group" anno '07, but "executives" and "governors" not visible for this period) | Moshe Yaalon ("Founding Associate (Until March 31st, 2009)") | Natan Sharansky ("Founding Associate (Until June 28th, 2009)"). In collaboration with NGO Monitor, produced the Nov. 2009 report 'Trojan Horse - The Impact of European Government Funding for Israeli NGOs', which exposed EU and western NGO funding of some 20 Israeli NGOs. As a result in 2011 a law was passed in Israel that forces Israeli NGOs to publicly declare their foreign funding. |
2005 |
| European Jewish Fund Viatcheslav Moshe Kantor (founder and chairman) | Mikhail Fridman | German Khan |
2006 |
| Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) Directors: Abraham Foxman (anno '22) | Alan Dershowitz (co-chair anno '14, chair anno '17) | Elie Wiesel (honorary president anno '14, emeritus '17). Trustees: Roger Hertog (anno '07-'14) | . International academic board of advisors: Josef Joffe (anno '14-'17) | Natan Sharansky (chair anno '22). |
2006 |
| Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) Frank Lowy (co-founder and founding chairman) | Martin Indyk (founding director) | Mortimer Zuckerman (founding trustee) | Nina Rosenwald (director) Speakers: George Mitchell ('08) | Francois Heisbourg ('09, '14, '16-'20) | John Deutch ('09) | Angela Merkel ('09) | Ehud Barak ('12) | Benjamin Netanyahu ('12) | Prince Hasan Bin Talal al Saud ('13) | David Ignatius ('13-'19) | Gen. Michael Herzog ('13, '16) | Stephen Hadley ('14) | Gen. David Petraeus ('14, '16-'20) | Joschka Fischer ('14) | Elliott Abrams ('14) | Thierry de Montbrial ('16) | Abraham Foxman ('16) | Jane Harman ('16-'17, '19) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind ('17) | Walter Russell Mead ('17) | Sigmar Gabriel ('18) | H.R. McMaster ('20) | Richard Haass ('20). |
2006 |
| Genesis Philanthropy Group, Moscow Founders: Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven | Alexander Knaster (chair) | Benjamin Netanyahu and Natan Sharansky (both helped in setting up Genesis Prize in 2009) |
2007 |
| Tomorrow: The Israel Presidential Conferences Founder: Shimon Peres. Trustees 2009 conferences: The Jewish Agency for Israel (co-chair) | Aharon G. Frenkel (co-chair) | Victor Pinchuk (co-chair) | Daniel Abittan | Daniel Abraham | Alfred Akirov | Philippe Amon | Jo Benhamou | Pierre Besnainou | Alexander Bronshtein | Nochi Dankner | Dan David | Lev Leviev | Baron David de Rothschild | Shlomo Eliyahu | Vladimir Gusinsky (also trustee of the 2008 conference) | Maurice Hatchwell Toledano | Marcos David Katz | Berl Katznelson Foundation | Yossi Maiman | Alexander Machkevitch | Antonio Moura Santos | Leonid Nevzlin | Marc Rich Foundation | Sami Sagol | Leslie Wexner | Chaim Zabludowicz. Speakers 2008: Yaakov Amidror, Jose Maria Aznar (also in 2009), George W. Bush, Ehud Barak (also in 2009), Tony Blair, Matthew Bronfman (also in 2009), James Wolfensohn (also in 2009 and 2011), Martin Indyk (also in 2009 and 2011), Mikhail Gorbachev (panel member 2008), Rupert Murdoch (2008 panel member), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2008 panel member), Henry Kissinger (panel member and speaker in 2012) | Leonid Kuchma (also in 2009), Edward Luttwak (also in 2009), Marlies Leegwater (coordinator Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and coordinator here of internationalisation higher education since 2010), Benyamin Netanyahu (also in 2009 and 2011), Susan Rice (also in 2009), Baron David de Rothschild (also in 2009), Mortimer Zuckerman (also in 2009). Speakers 2009 (extra): Elliott Abrams (also in 2011), Tony Blair. Speakers 2011 (extra): Meir Dagan (also in 2012), Jacob Frenkel (also in 2012), Niall Ferguson (also in 2012), Abraham Foxman, Lord Peter Goldsmith, Malcolm Hoenlein (also in 2012), Larry Summers, Robert Wexler. Speakers 2011 (extra): Richard Haass |
2008 |
| Ukrainian Jewish Encounter (UJE) Advisory board: Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (anno '16-'21; American-born chief rabbi of Ukraine) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno '16-'21) | Abraham Foxman (anno '16-'21) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (anno '16-'21) | Bernard Henri Levy (anno '16-'21; French intellectual) | Kateryna Yushchenko (anno '16-'21; first lady of Ukraine 2005-2010) | Sen. Raynell Andreychuk (anno '16-'21; Canada). |
2008 |
| "U.S. Honorary Delegation to attend celebrations in honor of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel on May 14-15, 2008 in Jerusalem, Israel" George W. Bush | Henry Kissinger | Mortimer Zuckerman | Elie Wiesel | Ronald Lauder (president WJC; chair Jewish Nat. Fund; board ADL) | Abraham Foxman (nat. director ADL) | Malcolm Hoenlein (exec. vice chair CPMAJO) | Sheldon Adelson | Leslie Wexner | Kenneth Bialkin (national chair ADL 1983-1986, etc.) | Ron Silver (president emeritus Actors' Equity Assoc.). STILL NEED TO ADD NAMES. |
May 4-5, 2008 |
| European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation (ECTR) Moshe Kantor (co-chair) | Jose-Maria Aznar | Igor Ivanov. |
2008 |
| European Jewish Union (EJU) Founded by Vadim Rabinovich (vice president 2011-; tied into the Russian-Jewish Solntsevskaya mafia leadership) and Ihor Kolomoyskyi (president 2012-; a just as controversial Ukrainian oligarch). Source(s): ejp.eu/members/vadim-rabinovich/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "In 2011 was elected the Vice-President of the European Jewish Union."; March 22, 2015, Jerusalem Post, 'Ukrainian oligarch under fire after night raid on state oil firm UkrTransNafta': "Kolomyski, together with fellow Ukrainian tycoon Vadim [R.], founded the European Jewish Union. He has a home in Herzliya Pituah and has given to charities in Israel, including Yad Vashem..." |
2011 |
| Gatestone Institute James Woolsey (founding chair) | Nina Rosenwald (founding president; anti-Muslim financier; brought anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders to the U.S. in 2008) | Elie Wiesel (director; holocaust survivor) | Daniel Pipes ("contributor"; participated in a conference) | Douglas Feith ("contributor") | Steven Rosen ("contributor"; AIPAC director) | Alan Dershowitz (governor and "Distinguished Senior Fellows") | Rebekah Mercer (governor). |
2011 (+/-) |
| Kohelet Policy Forum “The right-wing think tank that quietly 'runs the Knesset.'” Officers/advisors/fellows: No one recognizable, but has a Zionist billionaire co-funder. Source(s): [1] Oct 5, 2018, Haaretz, 'The Right-wing Think Tank That Quietly 'Runs the Knesset''. |
2012 |
| European Jewish Parliament (EJP) Founded by: Vadim Rabinovich (co-chair) and Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Source(s): November 4, 2011, Jweekly.com, 'European Jewish Parliament off to a semi-comedic start': "[It's] the brainchild of billionaires Igor [K.] and Vadim [R.]."; ejp.eu (accessed: Aug. 26, 2013; a few dozen members are listed): "The [EJP] welcomes as a step forward the decision of the European Union to add the military wing of Hezbollah to the EU list of designated terrorist organizations." |
2012 |
| Babi Year / Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Supervisory board: Wladimir Klitschko (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Natan Sharansky (founding '16-, chair anno '22) | Mikhail Fridman (founding '16-, still anno '22; co-founder Russia's Alfa Group) | German Khan (founding '16-, still anno '22; co-founder Russia's Alfa Group) | Victor Pinchuk (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Joschka Fischer (founding '16-, still anno '22) | Leonid Kravchuk (anno '22) | Ronald Lauder (anno '22) | . Sources: Nov. 3, 2016, aejm.org (Assoc. of European Jewish Museums), 'New Holocaust Memorial Center at Babi Yar': "The Initiative Group of the [BMHMC] represents an unprecedented collaboration of the public and private sector and led by the strong leadership of [Kyiv] Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The members include: ..."; babynyar.org/en/about#about-supervisory-board (accessed: March 3, 2022): "The Meeting of the Supervisory Board 11.06.2020 ... 14.01.2021 ... 11.06.2020." |
2016 |
| Jewish Leadership Conference (JLC) Founding co-chairs: Roger Hertog | Eric Cohen. Participants: Natan Sharansky ('18) | William Kristol ('18) | Elliott Abrams ('18) | Martin Kramer ('18) | Malcolm Hoenlein ('19) | Norman Podhoretz '19) | Henry Kissinger ('19; conversing with Roger H.). |
2017 |
| Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) Founded as the Jerusalem Institute for Strategic Studies in 2017, but changed its name in 2019. Global Board of Advisors: Roger Hertog (anno '22) | Josef Joffe (anno '22) | Ahmed Charai (anno '22) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (anno '22) | Dov Zakheim (anno '22) | Col. Yair Shamir (anno '22; "Former Chairman of Israel Aerospace Industries, El Al Airlines and Scitex, and Minister of Agriculture.") | Gen. Doron Almog (anno '22; "Chairman, ALEH Negev-Nahalat Eran. Former OC IDF Southern Command") | Greg Rosshandler (key financier and founder). Experts: Gen. Yaakov Amidror (anno '22). Funding: Tikvah Fund (major founder donor); Greg Rosshandler (major founder donor; director Taub Center for Social Policy Studies in Israel). Source(s): Nov, 7, 2017, Times of Israel, 'New hawkish security think tank launched in Jerusalem'. The Jerusalem Strategic Tribune (founded in 2021; closely tied to JISS, at least in name and through directorships): Publisher: Ahmed Charai (chair and CEO World Herald Tribune) Board of Directors: Gen. James L. Jones (anno '22, one in three at that point) | Gen. Yaakov Amidror (anno '22, one in three at that point) | Ahmed Charai (anno '22, one in three at that point). Advisory Board: Dov Z. (chair anno '22) | Gen. James Clapper (anno '22) | Dan Meridor (anno '22) | Eric Edelman (anno '22) | Adm. James Foggo III (anno '22) | Gen. Ruth Yaron (anno '22). |
2017 |
| Russian Geographical Society Old members: Adm. Alexander Kolchak (awarded under the Tsars and reported member; later a West-supported extreme-right White Russian leader who oversaw widespread atrocities during the Russian Civil War). Trustees as of 2013: Sergei Shoigu (president; governor of the Moscow region) | Pyotr Aven (still anno 2021; chair Alfa Group) | Vagit Alekperov (also 2021; president Lukoil)| Viktor Vekselberg (also anno 2021; major oligarch) | Alexey Gromov (also 2021; Putin aide) | Boris Gryzlov (chair State Duma and Putin crony) | Oleg Deripaska (top oligarch) | Evgeny Dod (chair RusHydro) | Alexander Dyukov (still anno 2021; chair Gazprom) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov (still anno 2021; chair Sistema) | Yuri Luzhkov (mayor of Moscow 1992-2010) | Magomed Magomedov (chair Kardo-Alliance) | Alexey Miller (still anno 2021; chair Gazprom) | Vladimir Potanin (still anno 2021; top oligarch) | Vladimir Pronichev (Federal Security Service) | Mikhail Prokhorov (top oligarch) | Vitaly Savelyev (general director Aeroflot) | Victor Sadovnichy (rector Moscow State University) | Sergei Sobyanin (still anno 2021; mayor of Moscow) | Vladimir Strzhalkovsky (chair Norilsk Nickel) | Gennady Timchenko (still anno 2021; top oligarch) | Alisher Usmanov (still anno 2021; top oligarch) | Sergey Chemezov (still anno 2021; head Russian Technologies State Corporation) | Prince Albert II of Monaco (still anno 2021) | Frederik Paulsen (chair Ferring Pharmaceuticals) | Robert Dudley (CEO BP). Trustees anno 2021 (not listed above): Putin (earlier a visitor already) | Jack Ma | Tigran Khudaverdyan (deputy CEO Yandex search engine) | Gref Herman Oskarovich (chair Sberbank) | Pyotr Fradkov (chair Promsvyazbank) | Viktor Khmarin (chair RusHydro) | Sergei Ivanov (chair Rosneft) | Bernard Looney (CEO BP Group) | Oleg Belozerov (chair OAO "Russian Railways") | Andrey Kostin (chair VTB Bank). Source(s): rgo.ru/en/society/structure/board-trustees (accessed: Oct. 11, 2017 - April 25, 2023); rgo.ru/en/society/structure/board-trustees/board-trustees-meeting-2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 (accessed: April 25, 2023). |
1845 |
| Institute of World Economy and International Affairs (later IMEMO) | 1925-1948 |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) Very elite. Many names here studied at this institute. | Alexander Nikitin (director Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of MGIMO) | Alexei Bogaturov (in 2006 set up the Department of Applied International Analysis within MGIMO) | Victor Kuvaldin (political history professor) Trustees (2013): Sergei Lavrov (chair) | Vladimir Potanin (deputy chair) | Alisher Usmanov (deputy chair) | Alexander Avdeev (ambassador to the Vatican) | Andrey Kostin | Mikhail Kuzovlev (president-chairman Bank of Moscow) | Alexander Lebedev (KGB; $3.1 b.; shareholder in Sberbank, Gazprom, RAO UES, Ilyushin Finance, Aeroflot, and since 2006, Novaya Gazeta; closed down Moskovski Korrespondent for spreading a rumor about Putin; suspects he was poisoned in 2006 for publishing Litvinenko's theories; owner London Evening Standard and the Independent; close friend of Gorbachev) | Yevgeny Primakov | Sergei Prikhodko | Alexey Pushkov | Victor Cherkesov | Sergey Yastrzhembsky. Source(s): fund.mgimo.ru/126429.phtml (accessed: Feb. 6, 2010 - Oct. 24, 2014): "Состав Попечительского совета МГИМО (У) МИД России:" "Composition of the Board of Trustees of MGIMO (U) MFA of Russia:" |
1944 |
| Kapustin Yar (The USSR's most secret base, comparable to Area 51) General Vasily Voznyuk (supervised creation of the site; 1906-1976) |
1946 |
| Soviet Committee for the Defense of Peace (Soviet Peace Committee) Yevgeny Primakov (first deputy chair; KGB/SVR chief 1991-95; Russian foreign affairs minister 1996-98; Russian PM 1998-99) | Mikhail Kotov | Oleg Kharkhardin | Alisher Usmanov (at the committee's Foreign Economic Association) |
1949-1991 |
| Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences Yevgeny Primakov (educated here; director 1977-85) | Gennady Chufrin (deputy head 1979-1997) | Mikhail Piotrovsky |
1950 |
| Russian (version of the) United Nations Association Anatoly Torkunox (chairman) | Alexei Arbatov | Sergei Rogov | Jami Miscik. |
1956 |
| Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) Yevgeny Primakov (deputy director 1970-77; director 1985-89)| (has a Ukrainian counterpart, established in 1991) | Alexander Medvedev (1978-1989; KGB rumors; later deputy chair Gazprom under old friend and reported KGB reporter Andrey Akimov) | Oleg Bykov | Vladimir Gantman | Gennady Chufrin (director) | Sergei Oznobishchev (section head) | Vladimir Baranovsky (deputy director; at France's IFRI council) | Alexander Dynkin (deputy director) | Aleksei Arbatov (director) | Vyacheslav Trubnikov | Victor Kuvaldin |
1957 |
| Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies (ISKRAN) Dr. Georgy Arbatov (founder and head 1965-1995; protege of KGB chief Yuri Andropov; politburo-KGB liason; father of Alexei) | Sergei Rogov (head 1995-today) | Sergei Oznobishchev (from fellow to director of ISKRAN's Center for National Security 1973-1996) | Andrey Kortunov (deputy director and head Foreign Policy Department) | Gen. Boris Surikov | Anton Surikov (military strategist; in 1996 pro-Baltic invasion and nuclear deterrent) | Alexei Bogaturov (deputy director) | Aleksandr Kislov | Andrei Kokoshin | Viktor Kremenyuk (deputy director Foreign Policy and Domestic Policies) |
1967 |
| Russian Foreign Policy Association Sergei Rogov (director) | Alexander Bessmertnykh (chair) | Sergei Kortunov (vice president) | Alexander Bessmertnykh (chair) |
Unknown |
| Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Smelyev Nikolay Petrovich (long time director; Gorbachev advisor) | Sergei Karaganov (deputy director) | Andrei Kokoshin (chief scientist) |
1987 |
| Centre for Political and International Studies (CPIS) Alexander Nikitin (head) |
1989 |
| International Center for Research into Economic Transformation (ICRET), Moscow Lord Ralph Harris (chair) | Yegor Gaidar (co-chair scientific board; also described as a "contact", brought over to London for a speech) | Ljubo Sirc (co-chair scientific board) | Konstantin Kagalovsky (contact). |
1990 |
| Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy / Inst. for the Economy in Transition Yegor Gaidar (founder and director/head until his death in 2009) | Victor Mau (deputy director; Assistant to the prime minister on economic policy) | Andrei Nechayev (became minister of economics) | Vladimir Mashchits (became minister of CIS relations) | Pyotr Aven (became minister of international economic affairs) | Leonid Grigoryev (went to the World Bank, head Committee on Foreign Investment) | Sergei Vasilyev (became head Center for Economic Reform) | Sergey Prikhodko (executive director in later years; deputy prime minister since 2013) | Board of Guardians anno 2013: Aleksey Kudrin (chair), German Gref and Anatoly Chubais. Anno 2013: Cooperates with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Stanford, MIT, the NBER, UCLA and other international institutes. |
1990 |
| Russian Political Science Association (RPSA) Alexander Nikitin (president) | Sergei Oznobishchev (vice-president) |
1991 |
| Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) Arkady Volsky (confidant of Gorbachev) | Aleksandr Shokhin (deputy prime minister CIS; Lukoil; governor IMF & World Bank) | Igor Yurgens (vice president) | Anatoly Chubais (no. 1 privatizer in Russia) | David Yakobashvili | Vladimir Yevtushenkov | Pyotr Aven | Andrey Kostin | Putin (2000) |
1991 |
| Russian National Committee, Asia-Pacific Council on Security Coop. Gennady Chufrin |
1992 |
| Center for National Security and International Relations Sergei Oznobishchev (chair 1992-1996) | Sergei Rogov (president) |
1992 (+/-) |
| Institute for National Security and Strategic Studies (INBSP) Serguei Blagovolin (president; member Russia's presidential council) |
1992 |
| Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS) Yevgeni Kozhokin (director) | Leonid Reshetnikov (director) | Victor Surikov (apparently a founding member) | Vladimir Novikov (leading research officer) |
1992 |
| Russian Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation Vladimir Baranovsky (vice president) |
1992 |
| Institute for Defense Studies (INOBIS) Yuri Maslyukov (co-founder; defense industry minister in the USSR; as first deputy PM under Yeltsin 1998-1999, Anton Surikov was his spokesperson) | Victor M. Surikov (founding head) | Anton Surikov (advisor) |
1992 |
| Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (SVOP) Vitaly Shlykov (founder: GRU spy; deputy defense minister under Yeltsin) | Sergei Karaganov (founding vice-chair; chair; Gorbachev, Yeltsin & Putin advisor; close to Sergei Prikhodko, Putin's foreign policy advisor 2000-2008 & later chief of staff; primitive, not particularly humanistic mindset) | Sergei Oznobishchev (chair) | Alexei Arbatov (chair) | Fyodor Lukyanov (chair) | Vyacheslav Nikonov | Sergey Brilev (deputy director & anchor Channel Rossiya) | more from a Oct. 25, 1999 list: Arkay Volsky | Yuli Vorontsov (deputy sec.-gen. UN; head of Iraq-Kuwait negotiations) | Mikhail Delyagin | Major-General Vagif Guseinov (bio reads: "board of directors... Joint-Stock Financial Corporation "Sistema"; also: director of AFK Sistema analytical center, Moscow 1995-96) | Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin (head 4th Central Research Institute, Ministry of Defence since 1993; nuclear expert) | Alexander Dynkin | Alexander Zdanowicz (FSB's head of public relations) | Yevgeny Kiselyov (chief anchor and general director of NTV, owned by oligarch Vladimir Gusinsky; backed by all other oligarchs in his support for Yeltsin and loathing of Putin) | Andrei Kokoshin | Alexei Kondaurov (KGB general; head analyst YUKOS and Bank Menatep) | Sergei Prikhodko (foreign policy advisor to Yeltsin, Medvedev and Putin; deputy PM and chief of staff to Putin since 2013; director Tactical Missiles Corp. and Sukhoi) | Yevgeny Primakov (SVOP was one of his primary brain trusts; served on the board for years) | (dozens of other council members in 2000 represent various aspects of the military, government, banking and corporations. Less members as time went on.). 2001 list: Anatoly Adamishina (ambassador; VP Sistema) | Nikolai Mikhailov (director Sistema) | Leonid Parfyonov (NTV achorman; editor in chief Newsweek Russia) | Sergei Yushenkov (vice chair State Duma Committee on Security; critic of Chechen war and skeptic of Moscow bombings; murdered in April 2003) 2011 list: Ilya Ponomarev (among over a hundred board members) |
1992 |
| Russian-Ukrainian Forum Sergei Karaganov (co-chair 1992-2002; grandson of Stalin's foreign minister; taught at Caltech) | Putin (speech in 2001) | Medvedev (visitor in 2011) | Viktor Yanukovych (visitor in 2011) | |
1992 (+/-) |
| Polity Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov (president since 1993) |
1993 |
| Carnegie Moscow Center Vyacheslav Nikonov | Sergei Karaganov (advisor) | Andrey Kortunov | Thierry de Montbrial | Alexei Arbatov (scholar in residence) | Dmitri Trenin | |
1993 |
| Presidential Council (government body) | 1993 |
| Russian Business Round Table Ivan Kivelidi (founder and chair; assassinated with the hyperpotent nerve agent Novichok in mid 1995, illegally sold by top chemical warfare researcher Leonid Rink to mafia elements) | Aleksandr Orlov (exec. director). |
1993 |
| Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) Alexei Arbatov | Andrey Kortunov | Alexander Nikitin | Vladimir Novikov | Yuri Fedorov |
1994 |
| Institute of Globalization Studies (IPROG) (anti-Putin) Mikhail Delyagin (founding head until April 2002; advisor to deputy PM Yuri Maslyukov, for whom Anton Surikov was spokesman, and PM Primakov in 1999; advisor to pro-oligarch PM Mikhail Kasyanov 2002-2003) | Boris Kagarlitsky (head since April 2002, at the recommendation of Surikov; left-wing activist; head political section Novaya Gazeta; contributor to The Nation) | Anton Surikov (listed as staff member 2004-05) | Alexei Kondaurov (KGB general; head analyst/security department of Khodorkovsky's YUKOS and Bank Menatep; very rich; SVOP; Communist Party Duma member; reported financier IPROG) | Heydar Dzhahidovich (Islamic leader) | Anatoly Baranov (coordinator of media projects) | Ilya Ponomarev (YUKOS employee; Open Russia Fdn.; anti-Putin communist Duma member) |
1995 |
| Brussels International Banking Club (BIBC) Alexander Livshits (president 2000-2001) |
1996 |
| Association of Financial and Industrial Groups of Russia Oleg Soskovets (long-time founding president) |
1997 |
| Russian-Chinese Committee of Friendship, Peace and Development Arkady Volsky (Russian chair) | Shaolei Feng | Ilya Klebanov (Russian minister of industry, science and technology; and also military industries) | supported by Putin and Hu Jintao. |
1997 |
| St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) Russian visitors: Vladimir Putin ('07, '13, '15-'19, '21) | Dmitry Medvedev ('07, '09, '11) | Alexander Medvedev ('07-'08; first deputy chair Gazprom; director-general of Gazprom's export arm Gazprom Export 2006-2014; suspicions he was KGB in Vienna 1989-1991) | Yuri Luzhkov ('08; mayor Moscow) | Alexey Miller ('08-'11, '14, '16-'18; chair Gazprom anno '08) | Alexander Dyukov ('11, '14, '16; chair and CEO PJSC Gazprom Neft anno '11) | Herman Gref ('07-'18; chair and CEO Sberbank) | Valentina Matviyenko ('07; governor St. Petersburg) | Sergey Ivanov ('07, '09, '11-'12, '14-'16, '18; senior VP Sberbank) | Yegor Gaidar ('07) | Anatoly Chubais ('07, '09-'11, '15-'17) | Alexey Kudrin ('07, '11, '17) | Andrey Kostin ('07-'08, '15-'16) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov ('07, '18; chair Sistema) | Sergey Naryshkin ('07) | Viktor Vekselberg ('07-'09, '11-'12, '14-'15, '17-'18) | Vladimir Dmitriev ('07, '15) | Alexei Kudrin ('07) | Alexander Shokhin ('07, '11, '15, '17; president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs) | Vagit Alekperov ('08-'10, '17; president Lukoil; chair Lukoil) | Andrey Kuzyaev ('12, '14; vice presient Lukoil) | Sergei Karaganov ('08-'09, '12, '15, '17-'18) | Sergey Ivanov ('08) | Leonid Melamed ('08; head Russian nanotechnology corp.) | Oleg Deripaska ('08, '10-'14, '16-'17, '21) | Andrey Rappoport ('08; director RAO UES of Russia) | Michael Shipster ('08; director Rolls-Royce) | Alisher Shaikhov ('08; chairman commercial-industrial chamber of Uzbekistan) | Joseph Chkhikvishvili ('08; CEO Georgian-Russian Business Council, Georgia) | Igor Sechin ('09, '11-'12, '14-'15, '17-'19, '21; Rosneft) | Vladislav Soloviev ('11, '14; chair and CEO RUSAL) | Yevgeny Primakov ('11-'12, '17) | Sergei Sobyanin ('11; mayor Moscow) | Igor Demin (Transneft) | Vladimir Potanin ('14) | Alexei Kudrin | Vladimir Semashko (Belarus) | Georgy Poltavchenko (St. Petersburg governor) | Suleiman Kerimov (major oligarch) | Gennady Timchenko ('14, '17-'18) | Alisher Usmanov ('13, '18) | Vladimir Yakunin ('13, '15) | Mikhail Shamolin ('15; president, CEO and chair Sistema) | Kirill Androsov ('15; chair Aeroflot) | Sergei Lavrov ('16) | Vasileios Rapanos ('16; chair Alpha Bank) | Andrei Komarov | Mikhail Prokhorov | Ziyavudin Magomedov ('17; oligarch; with Transneft controls Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port) | Bo Andersson | Barry Salzberg | Artem Volynets | Anton Siluanov | Artem Volynets | Vladimir Dmitriev | Ivan Glasenberg | Frederic Oudea | Farhad Moshiri | Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Frederic Oudea | Vadim Moshkovich ('17) | Alexey Rakhmanov ('15, '17-'18; president United Shipbuilding Corp.) | Konstantin Goncharov ('18; president Novotrans Group) | Aleksandrs Insurins ('18; exec. chair FESCO) | Tigran Khudaverdyan ('21; managing director Yandex) | Natalie Vodianova ('15, '17) | Alexander Zhukov ('16) | Andrey Duhvalov ('16; chief software architect, Kaspersky Lab) | Vitalik Buterin ('17) | Elvira Nabiullina ('18; governor Bank of Russia) | Alexey Mordashov ('18; chair Severstal) | Maria Vorontsova (June 7, 2024; daughter of Putin) | Katerina Tikhonova (June 7, 2024; another daughter of Putin). American, Canadian and Australian visitors: Francis Fukuyama ('07) | James Turley ('07-'12; chair and CEO Ernst & Young) | James Wolfensohn ('07, '10-'11) | David O’Reilly ('07-'09; chair Chevron) | Michael Klein ('07; chair and CEO Citigroup) | Michael White ('07; chair and CEO PepsiCo) | Muhtar Kent ('07-'08; U.S.-Indian) | Rex Tillerson ('08; chair and CEO Exxon Mobil) | Craig Barrett ('08-'09, '11; chair Intel) | Thomas Graham ('08; special assistant to the U.S. president and senior director for Russian Affairs) | Andrew Liveris ('08; president, CEO and chair Dow Chemical) | Andrew Gould ('08; chair Schlumberger) | John Lipsky ('08; first dep. director IMF) | Vikram Pandit ('09; CEO Citigroup) | Neville Isdell ('09; CEO Coca-Cola) | Nouriel Roubini ('09) | Klaus Kleinfeld ('09-'12; chair and CEO Alcoa) | Jamie Dimon ('10; chair and CEO JPMorgan Chase 2005-) | Samuel Allen ('10; president and CEO Deere & Co.) | John Watson ('10, '12; chair and CEO Chevron Corp.) | Jeffrey B. Kindler ('10; chair and CEO Pfizer) | John J. Mack ('10; chair Morgan Stanley) | Stanley Fischer ('10) | Stephen Schwarzman ('11) | Bill Richardson ('11) | Edward Luttwak ('11) | Lloyd Blankfein ('12) | Henry Kissinger ('12) | Orit Gadiesh ('12-'13) | Mark Weinberger ('13; global chair and CEO Ernst & Young 2013-2019) | Kevin Rudd ('15-'16) | Daniel Russell ('15, '17-'18; president and CEO US–Russia Business Council) | Jacob Frenkel ('15) | Frederick William Engdahl ('15; EIR conspiracy author) | Charlie Rose ('15) | Fareed Zakaria ('16) | Bertrand-Marc Allen ('18; president Boeing International). European visitors: Jens Stoltenberg ('07) | Klaus Schwab ('07-'09, '11, '17) | Tony Hayward ('07-'10; CEO BP) | Jeroen van der Veer ('07-'09; CEO Shell) | Christophe de Margerie ('07; CEO Total) | Helg Lund ('07; president and CEO Statoil) | Esko Aho ('07; former PM Finland) | Josef Ackermann ('07, '10-'11) | Hans-Joachim Korber ('07) | Phillip Pratt ('07; VP Kraft Foods) | Peter Mandelson ('07, '11-'15) | Lee Kuan Yew ('07) | Ryan Chilcote | Michael Corbat | John Chambers ('11-'13) | Gerhard Schroder ('07, '09, '18) | Pascal Lamy ('07 (meeting with Russian president), '13) | Jean Lemierre ('07) | Eric Boyer ('08; exec. board ING Group, Netherlands) | Timothy Flynn ('08; chair and CEO of KPMG Int.) | Greg Page ('08; chair and CEO Cargill) | Caio Koch-Weser ('08; vice chair Deutsche Bank) | Steven Elliott ('08; senior vice chair Bank of New York Mellon) | Dominic Casserley ('08; man. partner U.K. and Ireland, McKinsey and Co.) | Leif Pagrotsky ('08; vice chair National Bank of Sweden anno '08) | Luis Cantarell ('08; exec. VP Nestle, Europe) | Paul Bulcke ('09; CEO Nestle SA) Samuel DiPiazza ('08; CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers Int.) | Gerard Mestrallet ('08; chair Suez) | Laurent Beaudoin ('08; chair and CEO Bombardier) | Baron Jim O'Neill ('08; man. director and chief economist, Goldman Sachs; coined the BRICs acronym) | Mario Monti ('09, '11) | Carlos Ghosn ('09; president & CEO Nissan Motor Co.; chair and CEO, Renault) | Nils Smedegaard Andersen ('09-'11; CEO A.P. Moller-Maersk Group) | Michael Treschow ('09-'10; chair Unilever) | Dennis Nally ('09, '11-'12, '15; chair PricewaterhouseCoopers) | Alois Michielsen ('10; chair Solvay) | John Chambers ('10; CEO Cicsco) | James Quigley ('10; CEO Deloitte) | Peter Jenner ('11; producer and ex-manager of Pink Floyd and The Clash) | Tarja Halonen ('11) | Peter Voser ('11, '15-'16; CEO Shell 2009-2014) | Robert Dudley ('11, '15-'18; Group CEO BP) | Dominic Barton ('11-'12, '14-'16; managing director McKinsey) | Peter Loescher ('12; president and CEO Siemens AG ('12) | Frans van Houten ('12, '14; head Philips) | Andrei Shleifer ('12) | Michael Andrew ('13; chair KPMG) | Paul Polman ('13) | James Harding ('12; editor-in-chief The Times) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Mark Rutte ('13; "chaired a meeting of Russian and Dutch business community members") | Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis ('14, '16-'18) | Francois Fillon ('15) | Angela Merkel ('13) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire ('14-'15, '17, chair and CEO Schneider Electric) | Tony Blair ('15) | Ben van Beurden ('15, '17-'18; CEO Shell) | Romano Prodi ('15) | Vaclav Klaus ('15) | Nicolas Sarkozy ('16) | Jean-Claude Juncker ('16; president Euro. Comm.) | Patrick Pouyanne ('16-'18; chair and CEO Total) | Mark Malloch Brown ('17) | Jeremy Anderson ('17; chair Global Financial Services, KPMG) | Bill Thomas ('18; chair KPMG Int.) | Emmanuel Macron ('18) | Christine Lagarde ('18) | Emmanuel Macron ('18 guest of honor) | China: Lou Jiwei ('08; chair and CEO China Investment Corp.) | Hu Jintao ('11) | Zhu Yunlai ('11; CEO China International Capital Corp.) | Dr. Fan Gang ('14) | Jack Ma ('15-'16) | Ronnie Chan ('15) | Wang Qishan ('18) | Xi Jinping ('19) | Hu Bing. Japan: Junichiro Koizumi ('09; PM Japan) | Nobuo Tanaka ('11, '15; chair Sasakawa Peace Fdn.) | Shinzo Abe ('18 guest of honor). India: Narendra Modi ('17) | Sadhguru ('18; Indian mystic). Middle East: Sheikh Hamad Ibn Jassem Ibn Jabr al Than ('07; PM Qatar) | official from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait ('09) | Ehud Barak ('15). Other: Ban Ki-moon ('16) | Nursultan Nazarbayev ('16). Attended by countless heads of state from around the world. U.S. corporations represented, albeit by second-tier execs to avoid too much controversy due to U.S. sanctions: Visa, Mastercard, PepsiCo, ExxonMobil. Summit of Energy Companies (at SPIEF): Robert Dudley ('17; CEO BP) | Darren Woods ('17; chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | Patrick Pouyanne ('17; CEO Total) | Alexander Novak ('17; Russian energy minister) | Nelson Martinez (Venezuelan oil minister ) | Michael Wirth ('17; deputy chair Chevron) | Tatsuo Yasunaga (president and CEO Mitsui) | Various Russian governors | Nobuo Tanaka (moderator '17; exec. director IEA 2007-2011). Source(s): forumspb.com/upfile/ file/312.pdf (312.pdf to 342.pdf; 2007 conference agenda); forumspb.com/upfile/ file/299.pdf (accessed: Nov. 12, 2011; full 2008 conference agenda); forumspb.com/en/about/ programme/spief_2009/ programm/2009 (accessed: Jun. 7, 2010); forumspb.com/en/spief_2010/ participants/participantslist (accessed: June 5, 2010); forumspb.com/en/archive/ (accessed: Feb. 10, 2022; 'Archives 2011–2021', includes agenda's with speakers). |
1997 |
| Centre for Strategic Research Herman Gref | Aleksei Kudrin (neoliberal economics minister) | Putin (visited on occasion; centre was assigned to write a plan to reform Russia's economy) |
1999 |
| Institute of International Security Affairs (IPMB) Andrei Kokoshin (founder) | Alexei Bogaturov (deputy director) | Alexei Fenenko (fellow) |
1999 |
| Managers of a New Era Fund (FBM.ru) Board: Rem Vyakhirev (hon. chair for the Golden Steering Wheel award anno 2003) Golden Steering Wheel award: Martti Ahtisaari (pre '04) | Klaus Topfer (pre '04; exec. director UNEP) | Klaus Schwab (pre '04; president WEF) | Sadako Ogata (pre '04; UN high commissioner for refugees 1991-2001) | Vladimir Potanin (pre '04). More: Boris Yeltsin (wished the foundation well in 1999) | Vladimir Putin (present to receive his award somewhere pre-'04). |
April 1999 |
| Institute of Strategic Studies and Analysis (ISSA - Journal of Intel.) Major-General Vagif Guseinov (Head of Azerbaijan's KGB 1989-92; head since 2000 and chief editor of the magazine) | Sergei Oznobishchev (director and editorial board) | |
2000 |
| International Foundation for Civil Liberties, New York City (IFCL) The recently exiled Boris Berezovsky (founder and financier) |
2000 |
| Window into Russia, Social Responsibility in Business meeting, Moscow Michael Carter (World Bank since 1972; World Bank director for Moscow 1995-2001; Rusnano) | Alexander Zhukov (State Duma Budget Committee) | Vladimir Potanin | Khodorkovsky | Vyacheslav Shtyrov | Yuri Maslyukov (they met with unknown representatives of 50 large corporations of Russia, Great Britain, and Holland) |
Nov. 25, 2000 |
| Center for the National Glory of Russia Vladimir Yakunin (chair) | Sergei Ivanov |
2001 |
| Russian-Arab Business Council (RABC) Yevgeny Primakov (primary founder) | Vladimir Yevtushenkov (Russian chair; chair Sistema JFC) | Anatoly Chubais (listed a member, not supreme council) |
2002 |
| Russia in Global Affairs (co-founded by SVOP) Vladimir Potanin (trustee chair; oligarch worth almost $20 billion)| Ruben Vardanian (trustee) | Sergei Karaganov (chair) | Vyacheslav Nikonov (deputy chairman) | Fyodor Lukyanov (chief editor)| Vladimir Pozner (president President Russian Television Academy) | Yevgeny Primakov | Fred Bergsten | Thierry de Montbrial | Helmut Kohl | James F. Hoge Jr. (CFR's Foreign Affairs editor) | Graham Allison (Belfer Center, Harvard) | Fedor Lukyanov (editor-in-chief) | Alexei Bogaturov (contributing author). |
2002 |
| Council for National Strategy Apparently set up by the Kremlin to attack Khodorkovsky. Stanislav Belkovsky (founder and head). |
2002 |
| Unity for Russia Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov (president) | Sergei Naryshkin (chair) |
2003 |
| National Strategy Institute Stanislav Belkovsky (founder and head; marginalized Putin's and Russia's power and claimed Putin had amassed a private fortune of $40 billion) |
2004 |
| New Eurasia Foundation Andrey Kortunov (founder and president) |
2004 |
| Valdai International Discussion Club (co-founded by SVOP) Sergei Karaganov | Tim Colton (Harvard's Belfer Center) | Shaolei Feng | Toby Trister Gati (advisor to Clinton on Russia, Ukraine and Eurasian states) | Andrew Kuchins (director of Russia and Eurasian programs at CSIS) | Sergei Rogov | Savid Hearst (The Guardian) | Sergei Oznobishchev ("contributor") | Vagif Guseinov ("contributor") | Putin (speaker '23 and also earlier) | Dmitry Medvedev. Speakers: Jamal Khashoggi ('07) | Gen. Paul Vallely ('07) | Shaukat Aziz ('07) | Moshe Yaalon ('07). |
2004 |
| MINEX Forum conferences, Moscow Oleg Soskovets (speaker) |
2005 |
| Foundation for Democracy in Russia (U.S.-based) / The Other Russia (anti-Putin coalition) Key people: Mikhail Kasyanov | Mikhail Delyagin | Andrei Illarionov | Garry Kasparov |
2006-2010 |
| Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR) Dmitry Medvedev (founder) | Igor Yurgens (trustee chair) | Ilya Ponomarev (director) |
2008 |
| The Russia Forum ("Russian DAVOS") Ruben Vardanian (primary founder) | Sergei Sobyanin (Moscow mayor) | Zeljko Bogetic (lead economist for Russia, World Bank) | Joseph Stiglitz (U.S. economist; Rockefeller-clique) | Richard Branson | Paul Wolfowitz | Alan Greenspan | Stephen Sackur (BBC journalist) | Sergey Brilev | Fyodor Andreyev (ALROSA mining) | Anatoly Chubais (free market reformer under Yeltsin; RAO UES) | Sergei Shvetsov (Central Bank of Russia) | Sergey Kravchenko (Boeing Russia) | Putin. (all major banking, retail, infrastructure, utility, media, mining and oil companies are invited: Sberbank, Gazprom, Rosneft, Highland Gold Mining, Petropavlovsk, Metalloinvest, Uranium One, MMK Group and dozens of others) |
2008 |
| Eurasian Business Council Oleg Soskovets (chair) | Mikhail Slipenchuk (chair) |
2008 |
| Yaroslavl Global Policy Forum (GPF) Medvenev | Berlusconi | Romano Prodi | Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama | South Korean President Lee Myung-bak | Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero | French Prime Minister Francois Fillon. |
2009 |
| International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea (BSCSIF) Victor Khmarin (vice president) |
2009 |
| Russian-Ukrainian Interregional Economic Forum President Medvenev of Russia (co-chair) | President Yanukovich of Ukraine (co-chair) |
2010 |
| Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) Yevgeny Primakov (founding trustee chairman) | Igor Ivanov (president). Council members: Aleksei Arbatov, Sergei Karaganov, Andrei Kokoshin, Vyacheslav Nikonov and Sergei Rogov | Lukoil | Alfa Group | ITAR-TASS |
2010 |
| Russia International Affairs Council (RIAC) Andrey Kortunov (director general anno '22). Not looked into yet. |
2010 |
| Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) Hit with U.S. sanctions in 2014-2015. However, about general investment in Russia one insider explained, "Sanctions "[towards Russia] are perfectly set up not to work at all but to make a political statement." International advisory board (no members listed anno 2021): Leon Black (founding member 2011-) | Stephen Schwarzman (founding member 2011-) | Joseph Schull (founding member 2011-; EU head, Warburg Pincus) | Lou Jiwei (founding member 2011-; chair and CEO China Investment Corp.) | Chong-Suk Choi (founding member 2011-; chair and CEO Korea Investment Corp.) | Bader Mohammad Al-Sa'ad (founding member 2011-; managing director Kuwait Investment Authority) | Ahmad Mohamed Al-Sayed (anno 2014; CEO Qatar Investment Authority) | Khaldoon Khalifa Al-Mubarak (anno 2014; CEO & managing director Mubadala) | Tadashi Maeda (anno 2014; Japan Bank for Int. Coop.). Supervisory board: Dominique Strauss-Kahn (anno 2014, 2017) | Sergei Ivanov (anno 2014, 2017) | Andrey Belousov (anno 2014, 2017; aide to the Russian president) | Anton Siluanov (anno 2014, 2017; Russian finance minister) | Elvira Nabiullina (anno 2014, 2017; governor Central Bank of the Russian Federation). More: Putin (involved in the founding). |
2011 |
Russia: Putin's "St. Petersburgers"
| Putin's "St. Petersburgers" (city known as Leningrad until 1991) Anatoly Sobchak (St. Peterburg mayor 1991-1996 under whom Putin and many others worked) | Vladimir Putin | Dmitry Medvedev | Igor Sechin | Alexey Miller | Sergei Ivanov | Nikolai Patrushev (through family) | Viktor Ivanov | Viktor Cherkesov | Alexei Kudrin | German Gref | Boris Gryzlov | Dmitry Kozak | Victor Hmarin | Gennady Timchenko | Vladimir Yakunin | Yuri Kovalchuk | Mikhail Putin | Sergey Fursenko | Valery Golubev | Valery Musin | Vladimir Kozhin Others: Sergey Chemezov (KGB in East Germany in the 1980s). |
Early 1990s |
| Aeroflot – Russian Airlines Boris Berezovsky (major shareholder in the 1990s) | Nikolai Glushkov | Putin (controls appointments since 2000) | Viktor Ivanov (chair since 2004) |
1932 |
| Alfa Group (Russian Zionist) Mikhail Fridman | German Khan | Pyotr Aven | Alexander Knaster (CEO Alfa Bank) | Richard Burt (advisory board Alfa Capital Partners). LetterOne (L1, controlled by Alfa Group): Mikhail F. | German K. | Pyotr A. | Richard B. | Lord Davies of Abersoch. |
1989 |
| Bank Menatep / Group Menatep Limited The holding company for Yukos. Mikhail Khodorkovsky (primary owner of Yukos 1996-2004) | Platon Lebedev (president 1991-1995, director Yukos since 1996) | Leonid Nevzlin (first deputy chair Menatep 1993-1996, vice chair 1994-1996, first deputy chair since 1996, vice president of Yukos since 1996; first deputy general ITAR-TASS news agency) | Konstantin Kagalovsky (deputy chair since 1994, director/vice president Yukos since 1998) | Alexei Kondaurov (KGB general; head analyst/security department of Khodorkovsky's YUKOS and Bank Menatep; very rich; SVOP; Communist Party Duma member; reported financier IPROG). Members International advisory board, founded in April 2003: Count Otto von Lambsdorff (founding member) | Stuart Eizenstat | J. Dudley Fishburn | Margery Kraus | Frits Bolkestein (since May 2005) Deeply tied to IMF money laundering scandal through the Bank of New York-Inter Maritime, headed by CIA-Mossad-linked businessman Bruce Rappaport (chair and CEO) and Rothschild banker Alfred Hartmann (vice chair; also featured in the Banco Ambrosiano, BCCI and Iraqgate affairs). Konstantin Kagalovsky's wife, Natasha, was the Bank of New York's head of the Eastern European division. Kagalovsky himself, a close friend of Russia's key privatizers Gaidar and Chubais, was Russia's representative to the IMF 1992-1994. |
1990 |
| Gazprom Putin (controls appointments since 2000) | Medvedev (chair 2000-2008) | Alexey Miller (CEO since 2001, deputy chair and later chair) | Valery Golubev (director since 2003 and deputy chair since 2006) | Valery Musin (director) | Nikolay Shamalov (Gazfund) | Victor Hmarin (arranges supplies for Gazprom) | Mikhail Putin (head medical administration) | |
1992 |
| RAO UES Anatoly Chubais (management board chair 1998-2008) | Alexander Voloshin (supervisory board chair supervisory board 1999-2008) | Leonid Melamed | Andrey Rappoport | Yakov Urinson |
1992 |
| Rosneft (took over Yukos in 2004) Bogdanchikov (vice president 1997-1998, president 1998-2010) | Putin (controlled appointments since 2000) | Igor Sechin (supervisory chair '04-, exec. chair '12-) | Andrey Kostin (director since at least 2002, until June 27, 2014) | Andrei Patrushev | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (director of a subsidiary). |
1993 |
| Norilsk Nickel / Nornickel Anatoly Chubais (oversaw privatization) | Alexander Voloshin (chair 2008-2010) | Mikhail Prokhorov (chair) | Alisher Usmanov (co-owner through Metalloinvest) | Vladimir Potanin (35% key owner as of Dec. 2019) | Oleg Deripaska (28% co-owner through Rusal) | Roman Abramovich (co-owner through Crispian Investments Ltd.) | Gareth Penny (non-exec. chair; previously chair De Beers 2006-2010; member senior advisory board TowerBrook Capital Partners, formed out of Soros Fund Management in 2005). |
1993 |
Far West, Ltd. (GRU-linked) Founders: Ludmila Rozkina, Anton Surikov, Vladimir Filin, KBR Halliburton | Aleksei Likhvintsev (his wife is Liudmila) | Major Ruslan Saidov | Leonid Kosyakov (general director and president) | Anatoly Baranov | Col. Valery Lunev | Alfonso Davidovich | Yakov Kosman | Audrius Butkevicius | Natalia Roeva | Sergey Petrov (murdered after falling out with the company) | Armen Sargsyan (seemingly murdered after falling out with the company). Shareholders in Far West: KBR Halliburton, Diligence LLC (bought in 2007 by the Rothschild's JNR UK Ltd.), Meteoric Tactical Solutions, Fritz Ermarth (5%), Adnan Khashoggi, almost certainly with another person close to Prince Turki al Faisal, or Prince Turki himself (5%). Seemingly also: Al Haramain Foundation (Al Qaeda front), National Iranian Oil Company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA. Less confirmed, but likely partners: Aegis Defence Services, Erinys International. Business partners: Saad Hariri, Prince Turki, Nawaz Sharif (Pakistan), Ali Larijani, Jurgen Hambrecht. Also: some business was conducted with Rafic Hariri's son in Libanon. Erinys, Aegis Defence, Turki al-Faisal, Prince Rasheed as Rasheed, the family of Adnan Khashoggi, representatives of the intelligence services of Lithuania, Belarus, and Chechnya. Reported participants in the July 1999 Khashoggi meeting: Anton Surikov | Alfonso Davidovich | Yakov Kosman | Ruslan Saidov. Russia: Alexander Voloshin. Chechnya: Basayev. Abhkazia, Georgia: Ruslan Tsveiba, Gary Aiba, Sultan Sosnaliev. |
Oct. 1998 |
| Almaz-Antey (producer of SAM missile sites as S-300, S-400 and S-500) Putin (controls appointments) | Igor Klimov (director general; shot dead in 2003) | Viktor Ivanov (chair since 2002) |
2002 |
| NPO Mashinostroyenia (produces Oniks, Brahmos, Brahmos II cruise missiles) Putin (visited company in 2002 during the Joint Stock restructuring he ordered; controls appointments) | Medvedev (visited company HQ in 2009) | Alexaner Leonov (general director and designer) |
2002 |
| United Aircraft Corporation (since 2006 controls Sukhoi, MiG and Tupolev) Putin (controls appointments) | Sergei Ivanov (chairman) | Alexei Fyodorov (president) | Sergey Chemezov (director) | Andrey Kostin (director) | Mikhail Pogosyan (general director) Sukhoi Company (independent until 2006): Pavel Sukhoi (founder) | Mikhail Pogosyan (chair since 1995) | Sergey Chemezov (director since 2001) | Aleksey Akimov (director) | Sergei Prikhodko Moscow Aircraft Production Organisation (MAPO, controlled MiG until 2006): Nicholas F. Nikitina (general director and designer MiG) | Anton Surikov (advisor to Nikitana 1999-2000) | Vladimir Kuzmin (president) | Col. Evgeny Ananiev (bank) | Gafur Rakhimov and Sergey Mikhailov (gangster reportedly involved with the bank in the 1990s) | Alisher Usmanov |
2006 |
| Rusnano Putin (controls appointments) | Anatoly Chubais (director general, chair and CEO) | Leonid Melamed (director general) | Andrei Kokoshin | Mikhail Prokhorov | Andrey Rappoport | Yakov Urinson |
2007 |
Extra: anti-Vatican masonic, deist and esoteric groups
| Rosicrucian Order / Fraternity of the Rose Cross Founder: Christian Rosenkreutz. According to the Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis of 1607. |
1407 (+/-) |
| Fratres Lucis A mythical esoteric research group, supposedly existing for centuries. Mythical, because the first reference dates to 1873, when the spirit of Count Cagliostro allegedly appeared in the crystal ball of Herbert Irwin. Named members (remains interesting to get a sense of who some of the classic Western mystics were): Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | Emanuel Swedenborg | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin | Epithas Levi | Martinez de Pasqually. |
1498 |
| Fama Fraternitatis Rosae Crucis The first public manifesto of the Rosicrucian Order. Caused great excitement. Work influenced by John Dee and Heinrich Khunrath. The second manifesto is the Confessio Fraternitatis. The third manisfesto is The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616). |
1607 |
| Grand Lodge of London and Westminster / Grand Lodge of England James Anderson's The Constitutions of the Free-Masons dates to 1723. |
1717 |
| Scottish Rite (1-33) Date refers to the first evidence of lodges conferring degrees as "Scots Master", which was entirely new at the time. |
1733 |
| Grand Orient de France Date refers to the first braches of the London Grand Lodge in France, now also the official founding date of the Grand Orient. This used to be 1773, the year it was founded as a separate body. The English Grand Lodge of France was founded in 1743. Members: Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Duke d'Orleans. |
1733 |
| Martinist Order Martinez de Pasqually (founder) | Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (founder). |
1740 (+/-) |
| Hellfire Club (the Dashwood version) Sir Francis Dashwood (founder) | Benjamin Franklin (attended meetings in 1748 as a guest). |
1746 |
| Amis Reunis Lodge, Paris Allied with the Bavarian Illuminati. Named members/visitors: Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Antoine Barnave (1761-1793) | Duke Francois de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) | [Pierre Samuel?] DuPont | Maximilien de Robespierre (1758-1794) | Jean-Paul Marat (1743-1793) | Ludwig X of Hesse-Darmstadt |
1771 |
| The Nine Sisters Lodge, Paris Voltaire | Benjamin Franklin (U.S. minister to France 1778-1785). Reported close associates or members: Franz Mesmer | Cagliostro | Mirabeau | Thomas Jefferson (U.S. minister to France 1785-1789) |
1776 |
| Illuminati Bavarian deist group pretending to be masonic which indeed became linked to the U.S. and French revolutions. Named members/allies: Adam Weishaupt (founder) | Joachim Christian Bode | Adolf Freiherr Knigge | Baron Karl Theodor von Dalberg | Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach | Ewald Friedrich von Hertzberg | Karl von Hessen-Kassel | Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | Count de Saint-Germain (1712-1784) | Franz Mesmer | Duke d'Orleans | Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) | Count de Mirabeau (1749-1791) | Jean-Pierre Brissot (1754-1793) | Antoine Barnave | Duke Francois de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1747-1827) | Nicolas de Bonneville (1760-1828) | Claude Fauchet | Prince Henry of Prussia | Duke of Saxe-Gotha | Thomas Paine. |
1776 |
| Rite of High Egyptian Masonry Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) (founder) |
1784 |
| Rite of Misraim Count Cagliostro (founder) |
1788 |
| Knights of the Golden Circle Extension of the 1834-founded Southern Rights Clubs, an elite pro-slavery outfit in the South of the U.S. The KGC was a Confederate (Southern U.S.) secret society - centered in Texas - founded by George W. L. Bickley to create a "golden circle" of territories in Mexico, Central America, Confederate States of America and the Caribbean as slave states. Twice tried to invade Mexico, in order to turn that country into a slave state. After the election of Abraham Lincoln, the society pushed for secession from the Union, leading to the American Civil War of 1861-1865. Reportedly continued to exist until 1916 and played a key role in establishing the KKK (in 1865) as its military arm. (Alleged) members in the cabinet of President James Buchanan (1857-1861): secretary of war John Floyd | treasury secretary Howell Cobb | vice president John Breckenridge. Other: Gen. Elkanah Greer (established chapters in Texas and Louisiana; married to the sister of the "Queen of the Confederacy"). |
1854 |
| Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA) Operated under the United Grand Lodge of England. Robert Wentworth Little (founder). The Golden Dawn founders were all SRIA members: William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Mathers. |
1865 |
| Theosophical Society Inspired by Far East mysticism. Later established the United Lodge of Theosophists. Co-founders (New York City): Henry Steel Olcott (first president 1875-1907) | Helena Blavatsky (founding secretary; most prominent face of the movement; first met Olcott in 1874; d. 1891) | William Quan Judge. Other leaders: Annie Besant (face of the society after Blavatsky's death in 1891; president 1907-1933; became a protege of Blavatsky in 1889 after Pall Mall Gazette asked her to write a review on Blavatsky's book The Secret Doctrine; Fabian Society Marxist until 1890; campaigned against British imperialism in India) | Charles Webster Leadbeater (member 1883; met Blavatsky when she came to London in 1884 and became her protege; founded the English Buddhist Academy in Ceylon with Olcott in 1885 and served as its headmaster; met Besant in 1894, with the two become close allies for life) | Jiddu Krishnamurti (discovered and raised by Besant and Leadbeater in Adyar from age 11; groomed to become the new World Teacher / Maitreya, until he rejected that in 1929; met the later Rockefeller- and Mellon-backed author Joseph Campbell; the Rockefeller- and Mellon-backed Alan Watts: "One of the most original and profound thinkers of the world.") | Alice Bailey. Theosophical Society Adyar, India: new HQ founded in 1882 by Olcott and Blavatsky. |
1875 |
| Memphis Misraim (34-99th degree) Count Cagliostro (1743-1795) | General Giuseppe Garibaldi | Joseph Balsamo |
1881 |
| Society for Psychical Research Sir William Crookes | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge | Arthur Balfour | Gerald Balfour | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Dianne Arcangel (protege of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross). Members: Sir Walter Leaf. |
1882 |
| Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Founders were all SRIA members: William Robert Woodman, William Wynn Westcott and Samuel Mathers. Seemingly made up co-founder: Countess Anna Sprengel (German Rosicrucian). First temple: Isis-Urania, followed by the Osiris, Horus and Ra temples. |
1888 |
| Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) Influenced by Memphis Misraim and the Swedenborg Rite. Carl Kellner (co-founder; first head) | Theodor Reuss (co-founder; second head) | Aleister Crowley (inducted in 1910; UK-Ireland head in 1912). |
1895 |
| Martinist and Synarchist Order | 1921 |
| Lucis Trust / Lucifer's Trust Alice Bailey (founder). |
1922 |
| Victoria's Secret Bought in 1982 for $1 million by billionaire Les Wexner. By 1992 the brand was worth $1 billion. The company's sales peaked in 2016 at $7.8 billion. Victoria's Secret is added here with regard to parallel research and because the brand's annual shows from at least [xxxx] on increasingly [xxxxxxx] the [xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxx]. The annual show ran from 1995 to 2018 (its peak viewership was in 2001), and was rebooted in 2024 after a forced "feminist", (extra) "diversity" and transsexual element being put in place since 2019 - which the brand had earlier resisted (apart form hiring several perfectly-shaped black models). Mentioned reasons for decline after 2016: The annual shows were canceled after 2018, with the brand's sales strongly starting to decline from 2020 on. Reasons mentioned for the brand's decline include controversy over the pedophile activities of Jeffrey Epstein (Leslie's 1987-2007 financial advisor), who was re-arrested in July 2019; Victoria's Secret chief marketing officer and "angel selector" Ed Razek being the subject of a string of (previously ignored) complaints of inappropiate sexual behavior; additional #MeToo controversy over not hiring obese, unattractive and transgender models; "activist shareholder" James A. Mitarotonda demanding women on VS' executive board; people supposedly getting tired of all-similarly-shaped models, also with regard to breast size; overpriced lingerie that declined in quality, at least in the early 2010s; much cheaper lingerie alternatives as Fashionnova and AliExpress becoming available; and a loss of prestige after the annual show was canceled. A renewed annual show was announced for 2024, after a few years of heavy Kardashian-Jenner-tied "extra woke" reorganization. Victoria's Angels: Tyra Banks (1997-2005) | Heidi Klum (1997–2005, 2007–2009, host 2006-2009) | Adriana Lima (1999–2008, 2010–2018) | Gisele Budschen (1999–2006) | Alessandra Ambrosio (2000–2017) | Doutzen Kroes (2005–2006, 2008–2009, 2011–2014) | Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (2006-2010) | Miranda Kerr (2006–2009, 2011–2012) | Behati Prinsloo (2007–2015, 2018) | Candice Swanepoel (2007–2015, 2017–2018) | Elsa Hosk (2011–2018) | Cara Delavigne (2012-2013 annual shows) | Barbara Palvin (2012-2018) | Romee Strijd (2014-2018) | Stella Maxwell (2014 show, 2015-2021) | Kendall Jenner (2015-2018, but unofficial: 2015, 2016, 2018 annual shows) | Gigi Hadid (2015-2018) | Bella Hadid (2015 Pink campaign, 2016-2018 annual shows, 2021-) | Irina Shayk (2016 annual show and May 2017 VS model at the Cannes Film Fest.). Victoria's Secret fashion show performers: Ricky Martin ('05) | Justin Timberlake ('06) | will.i.am ('07) | Spice Girls ('07) | Usher ('08) | The Black Eyed Peas ('09) | Katy Perry ('10) | Akon ('10) | Kanye West ('11) | Maroon 5 ('11) | Jay-Z ('11) | Nicki Minaj ('11) | Rihanna ('12, canceled her '15 performance one week beforehand to work on her album 'Anti') | Justin Bieber ('12) | Bruno Mars ('12, 16) | Taylor Swift ('13-'14) | Ariana Grande ('14) | Ed Sheeran ('14) | Selena Gomez ('15) | The Weeknd ('15-'16) | Lady Gaga ('16) | Harry Styles ('17) | Shawn Mendes ('18) | Rita Ora ('18) | Halsey ('18). More: Emily Ratajkowski (hanging out the day after the 2018 show with VS angels Kendall, Romee and Elsa at the Revolve Awards) Post-2018 (the "extra woke" era): Valentina Sampaio (2019-, the first transgender model hired). "VS Collective" (2021-): Valentina S. (2021-) | Priyanka Chopra Jonas (2021-; old Kardashian-Jenner friend) | Hailey Bieber (2021-; old Kardashian-Jenner friend) | Bella Hadid (2021-; anti-Israel, Hamas-absolving activist; old Kardashian-Jenner friend) | Megan Rapinoe (2021-; purple-haired, non-model, extremist LGBTQ/feminist, Democrat activist soccer player invited to many globalist groups) | Adut Akech (2021-; South Sudan refugee). |
1977 |
| Rotary International Paul Volcker (Rotary Foundation fellow) |
1905 |
| Lions Club International | 1917 |
| International Marnixring (Dutch-Flemish counterpart of the above) |
1968 |
| Dark Ocean Society (Genyosha) Mitsuru Toyama (founder and leader) | Ryohei Uchida (founder and protege of Toyama). |
1881 |
| Black Dragon Society (Kokuryukai) Continuation of Genyosha. Ultraright, nationalist, anti-West, anti-Mitsui zaibatsu, anti-Mitsubishi zaibatsu and anti-"liberal" terrorist organization. Members: Mitsuru Toyama (founder and leader until WWII) | Ryohei Uchida (founder and protege of Toyama) | Yoshihisa Kuzu (president until the end of WWII) | Yoshio Kodama | Sankichi Takahashi | Col. Kingoro Hashimoto (Sakurakai leader; involved in coup plots and assassinations of the 1930s) | Gen. Kenji Doihara (organized the 1931 Mukden false flag incident) | Koki Hirota (foreign minister; PM after the Feb. 1936 assassinations and coup) | Sasaki | Kanaya | Adm. Takahashi | Adm. Suetsugu | Adm. Hasegawa | Adm. Yamamoto | "Sekine" ("Shanghai branch") | "Kanaya" ("Shanghai branch") | Seigo Nakano (director; society meetings took place at his house, which was next-door to foreign corrspondents). Source(s): Dec. 21, 1942, Time, 'Letters, Dec. 21, 1942'; Sep. 20, 1945, Sydney Morning Herald, 'Black: Dragon Society; What It Stands For'; etc. |
1901 |
| "The black network" | On July 29, 1991, Time Magazine reported in great detail how the corrupt BCCI bank had been controlled by what senior officers termed the "black network", which had ties to many western intelligence agencies (including the CIA, DIA and Mossad), arms merchants and dictators around the world. This hugely powerful conglomerate was involved in drug running, arms trafficking, gold smuggling, assassinations and bribing government officials. From other sources it became clear that black network operatives were working with the CIA and Mossad, indicating these two elements really controlled the network. See the La Nebuleuse article for some details. July 29, 1991, Time Magazine, 'The Dirtiest Bank of All': "B.C.C.I. is more than just a criminal bank. From interviews with sources close to B.C.C.I., TIME has pieced together a portrait of a clandestine division of the bank called the "black network," which functions as a global intelligence operation and a Mafia-like enforcement squad. Operating primarily out of the bank's offices in Karachi, Pakistan, the 1,500-employee black network has used sophisticated spy equipment and techniques, along with bribery, extortion, kidnapping and even, by some accounts, murder. The black network -- so named by its own members -- stops at almost nothing to further the bank's aims the world over." "The more conventional departments of B.C.C.I. handled such services as laundering money for the drug trade and helping dictators loot their national treasuries. The black network, which is still functioning, operates a lucrative arms-trade business and transports drugs and gold. According to investigators and participants in those operations, it often works with Western and Middle Eastern intelligence agencies. The strange and still murky ties between B.C.C.I. and the intelligence agencies of several countries are so pervasive that even the White House has become entangled. As TIME reported earlier this month, the National Security Council used B.C.C.I. to funnel money for the Iran-contra deals, and the CIA maintained accounts in B.C.C.I. for covert operations. Moreover, investigators have told TIME that the Defense Intelligence Agency has maintained a slush-fund account with B.C.C.I., apparently to pay for clandestine activities..." "U.S. agents collaborated with the black network in several operations, according to a B.C.C.I. black-network "officer" who is now a secret U.S. government witness. Sources have told investigators that B.C.C.I. worked closely with Israel's spy agencies and other Western intelligence groups as well, especially in arms deals. The bank also maintained cozy relationships with international terrorists, say investigators who discovered suspected terrorist accounts for Libya, Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization in B.C.C.I.'s London offices..." "The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the resulting strategic importance of neighboring Pakistan accelerated the growth of B.C.C.I.'s geopolitical power and its unbridled use of the black network..." "The bank was in a unique position to operate an intelligence- gathering unit because it dealt with such figures as Noriega, Saddam, Marcos, Peruvian President Alan Garcia, Daniel Ortega, contra leader Adolfo Calero and arms dealers like Adnan Khashoggi. Its original purpose was to pay bribes, intimidate authorities and quash investigations. But according to a former operative, sometime in the early 1980s the black network began running its own drugs, weapons and currency deals." "I was recruited by the black network in the early 1980s," says an Arab- born employee who has ties to a ruling family in the Middle East and has told U.S. authorities of his role in running one of the black units. "They came to me while I was in school in the U.S.; they spoke my language, knew all of my friends and gave me money. They told me they wanted me to join the organization, and described its wealth and political power, but at first they never said exactly what the organization did." "This operative -- call him Mustafa -- underwent a year of training that began with education in psychology and the principles of leadership and proceeded into spycraft, with lessons in electronic surveillance, breaking and entering, and interrogation techniques. "Then the nature of our advisers changed," says Mustafa. "The pleasantness was gone, and we moved to Pakistan, where we trained with firearms." Mustafa's first operational assignment took him to London. "They gave us passports and identification, and we moved a shipment of ((unidentified)) goods. In England they had more I.D. waiting for us, because customs and immigration are strict, but when we moved many places, into India or China or Latin America, matters were taken care of, and we just slipped through borders. We would be met. It was always all arranged."" "A typical operation took place in April 1989, when a container ship from Colombia docked during the night at Karachi, Pakistan. Black-unit operatives met the ship after paying $100,000 in bribes to Pakistani customs officials. The band unloaded large wooden crates from several containers. "They were so heavy we had to use a crane rather than a forklift," says a participant. The crates were trucked to a "secure airport" and loaded aboard an unmarked 707 jet, where an American, believed by the black-unit members to be a CIA agent, supervised the frantic activity..." "The black network was the bank's deepest secret, but rumors of its activities filtered through the bank's managerial level with chilling effectiveness. Senior bankers voice fears that they will be financially ruined or physically maimed -- even killed -- if they are found talking about B.C.C.I.'s activities... Businessmen who pursued shady deals with B.C.C.I. are just as frightened. 'Look,' says an arms dealer, 'these people work hand in hand with the drug cartels; they can have anybody killed.'... Currently the black units have focused their scrutiny and intimidation on investigators. 'Our own people have been staked out or followed, and we suspect tapped telephones,' says a New York law-enforcement officer." |
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| "The Octopus" | Term that was created by the murdered journalist Danny Casolaro to describe the global, criminal, CIA-ran conglomerate he was investigating. Although it isn't known if this term was also used by people involved in this network, his work was very unique and he was clearly digging very deep -- too deep, it appears. Before he was killed (as have many, many others), Casolaro had already received numerous warnings and death threats, but apparently he couldn't back off. As for me, I agree with Casolaro's take on the subject.
Parts of his investigation are discussed in the 1996 book The Last Circle of Cheri Seymour. Kenn Thomass and Jim Keith also discussed Casolaro's work in their 1996 book The Octopus: Secret government and the death of Danny Casolaro, pp. 69, 73 (revised edition of 2004): "Although Danny Casolaro does not state it explicitly in his notes, he apparently conceived the Octopus starting as an anti- Communist response to Philby's betrayel [found out about in 1963]; a conclave of OSS/CIA veterans, dispersing and coalescing in what Casolaro called "tag team compartments" and reaping huge profits through assassinations, arms sales, the control of governments, international drug trafficking, and the promotion of international fascism... "Danny Casolaro believed the Octopus responsible for criminal conspiracies which, linked, formed a virtual history of intelligence double dealing from 1950 to the present. These events, in Casolaro's view, included the ousters of US President Richard Nixon, Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, the Shah of Iran, and the murders of Chilean President Allende, and, of course, of President John F. Kennedy. Casolaro saw the Octopus' tentacles entwined throughout the creation of the Golden Triangle and Latin America drug trade, the Cuban Bay of Pigs debacle, the October Surprise, the BCCI banking scandal, and, almost as an afterthought, the theft of the PROMIS software. Casolaro found a "Secret Team," a high cabal of players operating a clandestine, parallel government, identified previously by other writers. The cabal had operated beyond the control or scrutiny of the elected government, financed by drug- running from Southeast Asia and the Americas... Casolaro believed the crimes could best be identified by linking them to a small network of named individuals that made up his Octopus. He outlined their hierarchy and provided specific detail about their behind-the-scenes role in contemporary political history. "Casolaro named people both familiar and unfamiliar to other researchers. He deemed the "first level" operatives to be Richard Helms, George Pender, John Philip Nichols, and Ray Cline [ASC; close to Cercle group]. The second level included Robert Chasen, E. Howard Hunt, Edwin Wilson, Thomas Clines, and Ted Shackley [Shackley was influential in Le Cercle; Shackley was definitely the leader of what Casolaro terms "second level"]. Working backward from the PROMIS theft, Casolaro saw them in a new relationship, a nearly organic entity that impacted on both past and then current events..." The Octopus', p. 71, interview with investigative reporter Virginia McCullough: "Danny would say that he couldn't believe the government would do drugs for arms. He was God, motherhood, and apple pie. I would say, 'Look Danny, let's get real, we're living in the 20th century.'" |
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| "The nebula" | Spoken about in the 1994 ATLAS dossier on this website. It involves a network of Mossad agents and Russian mafia, but also CIA, politicians and bankers. Elements are very recognizable compared to the previous two terms: "black network" and "Octopus". Intro of the the relevant ATLAS dossier document: "To comprehend this nebula, it is necessary to abandon traditional financial or political logic; this is not merely a question of nation, political party, or of ordinary economics... Our conclusion would be that at least over the last twenty years, the economic powers, some of which mafia types, have allied themselves with political forces and organized criminal structures, and reached the 4th stage of money laundering, namely, Absolute Power. It has been specified to us that at the present moment these characters control 50% of the world economy." |
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| "The Joint" | Network described by Kay Griggs. "Joint" is actually one of several terms her husband, a top Marine Corps official, used for the network he was involved with. "Joint" specifically refers to his group's alliance with the Zionist network headquartered in New York. I have interacted with Kay Griggs, did extensive research on her claims and see no reason at all to doubt her statements, despite the fact that she has a severe bias against Jews. This is only to be expected, as Kay Griggs was protected by Sarah McClendon, part of the old non-neocon, anti-liberal establishment and old anti-Zionist American Security Council and John Birch Society network. That also seems to explain why she is allowed to speak out, as shows like Alex Jones and Jeff Rense have their roots in these same groups.
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| Committee of 26 | This group is mentioned in Simon Regan's book 'Who killed Diana?' The author was informed about this group through his intelligence contacts, including the one who advised him to look into Le Cercle. I quote from his book:
"My own security contacts, including the Baroness, had also told me about a highly mysterious organization called the Committee of 26, which is apparently based in Bristol, in England’s West Country. I have never heard of this and can find no other official reference in any file. But it is apparently a super-secret "liaison desk" between the highest echelons of British and American agencies and has the "co-operation" of the French. I was told it was "Old Guard" and worked unilaterally. That is, it was a kind of uncontrolled "super-agency" which answered to no one. I cannot show that this agency even exists... I trust the Baroness, but she was unable to give me any feasible further "chapter and verse." This could well be disinformation, as this is certainly the case with John Coleman's Committee of 300 ("the Olympians"). I read Coleman's book years back, looking for evidence of the committee's existence, but couldn't find it. Virtually all of the information could be found in the work of EIR and Eustace Mullins (both also propagandists, but who never used the Committee of 300 term), and most of the names he mentions have at least once visited Bilderberg. Especially since Coleman gathered so many names of this alleged Committee of 300, you'd guess he could at least point you in the right direction for proof of its existence. But he has never done that. Coleman, a former MI6 agent, is typical of conservative establishment propagandists à la Brian Crozier and others, in the sense that he links liberalism, socialism and communism all on one heap and the West has been a victim of this joint "plot". This alone is a dead giveaway that he's spreading disinformation. Maybe it's different with the Committee on 26, but don't get your hopes up. |
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| Group 13 | Said to be an assassination team from Britain. You can find some information about it here. The supposed head of Group 13 turned out to be someone whose background could not be fully traced, not even by the British Parliament. This person and his allies had also infiltrated the boards of arms companies. Apparently, when these companies aren't useful anymore, they are run into the ground. This group, which appears to have close ties to the Pinay Cercle leadership, will be slightly more expanded on in the future. |
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| Company 14 | Another assassination team from England. The well-respected and well-connected author Gordon Thomas spoke about this group in March 2010. Supposedly this group is hunting down IRA members who killed two British soldiers and a policeman in Northern Ireland. |
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| Knight's Templar (CIA) | In his 1977 book The Night Watch, former CIA officer David Atlee Phillips wrote on page 123 (according to Lobster): "...that small circle of well-bred, highly educated adventurers who were known to some in the CIA as the 'Knights Templars' - Allen Dulles, Frank Wisner, Kermit Roosevelt, Tracey Barnes, Dick Bissell, and kindred spirits. Other CIA veterans have confirmed the existence of similar associations within the agency, with names like the "Century group" and the "Gold Key group".
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| Synarchist Movement of Empire | The Synarchist and Martinist order existed, but nothing is really known about it and it may well have been very insignificant in terms of influence. But some have claimed that the philopsophies of Synarchism played a role in the French version of an underground fascist, pre-World War II movement. 1969, William L. Shirer, 'The Collapse of the Third Republic', pp. 218-219: "Later Coutrot would be generally credited with being the man behind a technocratic movement called Synarchie, which to this day, despite many studies of it, remains - at least to this writer, who has pondered most of them - somewhat of a mystery... That some Synarchists organized as far back as 1922 a secret society with revolutionary aims has been established. It was called "Le Mouvement Synarchique d'Empire," or MSE, and its secret "Pact," containing "Thirteen Fundamental Points and 598 Propositions" for the Synarchist revolution, was discovered by the Vichy police in 1941 and published after the war... so far as one can make out from reading the lengthy document the movement would set up a sort of super monopoly capitalism, with competition abolished and endless plans drawn up for production and distribution, the whole - as well as the government - to be run by knowledgeable technocrats... That at one time the MSE was linked to the terrorist Cagoule [CSAR] also seems clear... this secret society of technocrats never got close to staging a revolution." A number of other authors disagree with that last notion. You can find more about the SME and the Synarchie in ISGP's Pilgrims Society article, as well as in >note 3 of ISGP's Cercle article. Here's a quick timeline compiled from the work of Roger Mennevée in Les Documents Politiques, Diplomatiques et Financiers, which was published from 1946 to 1962.
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| Taipan Society | Ron Rewald of the CIA investment bank BBRDW reportedly was invited in 1983, after his bank became controversial and he attempted a suicide. Reportedly had about a dozen lifetime members coming from high-level Asian multinationals and banks. Hookers were available during get-togethers. |
Over the years I came across certain and alleged coups in the countries below, usually carried out by by the CIA and other times by MI6 and French intelligence. Several of the coups also involved the Israelis. The dates are picked based on either a major event in that year or when a slower, more drawn-out coup went into action - like in Tibet, for example. This list is just a guide. Google the country listed, togeter with "coup" and "CIA", and you are likely to find more than enough information. Some curious assassinations, which could be suspected as having been part of coup, have not been listed. An example of this are the deaths of the left-leaning Indian politicians Sanjay Gandhi (1980), Indira Gandhi (1984) and Rajiv Gandhi (1991).
Keep in mind that "open action", instead of "covert action", has become the norm since the early 1980s, meaning that major thinks tanks and foundations continue to support student and "pro-democracy" groups in all countries the West takes an interest in. Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute the Open Society Fdns. of George Soros have been examples of this type of activity. Like Allen Weinstein, co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy, acknowledged: "A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA." [1]
| 1. | Albania | 1948 | 35. | Chile | 1973 | ||
| 2. | Italy | 1948 | 36. | Angola | 1975 | ||
| 3. | Burma | 1951 | 37. | Portugal | 1975 | ||
| 4. | Egypt | 1952 | 38. | Australia | 1975 | ||
| 5. | Iran | 1953 | 39. | Great Britain | 1976 | ||
| 6. | Philippines | 1953 | 40. | Nigeria | 1976 | ||
| 7. | Vietnam | 1954 | 41. | Jamaica | 1976 | ||
| 8. | Guatemala | 1954 | 42. | Afghanistan | 1979 | ||
| 9. | Hungary | 1956 | 43. | Turkey | 1980 | ||
| 10. | Guatemala | 1957 | 44. | Nicaragua | 1981 | ||
| 11. | Laos | 1957 | 45. | Ecuador | 1981 | ||
| 12. | Tibet | 1957 | 46. | Panama | 1981 | ||
| 13. | Thailand | 1958 | 47. | Seychelles | 1981 | ||
| 14. | Congo | 1960 | 48. | Suriname | 1982 | ||
| 15. | Cuba | 1961 | 49. | Chad | 1982 | ||
| 16. | Ecuador | 1961 | 50. | Fiji Islands | 1987 | ||
| 17. | Algeria | 1961 | 51. | Ethiopia | 1989 | ||
| 18. | United Nations | 1961 | 52. | Haiti | 1991 | ||
| 19. | Yemen | 1962 | 53. | Sierra Leone | 1995 | ||
| 20. | France | 1962 | 54. | Azerbaijan | 1995 | ||
| 21. | United States | 1963 | 55. | Turkey | 1997 | ||
| 22. | Iraq | 1963 | 56. | Kosovo | 1998 | ||
| 23. | Dominican Rep. | 1963 | 57. | Eritrea | 2000 | ||
| 24. | Bolivia | 1964 | 58. | Venezuela | 2002 | ||
| 25. | Brazil | 1964 | 59. | Georgia | 2003 | ||
| 26. | Italy | 1964 | 60. | Ukraine | 2004 | ||
| 27. | Indonesia | 1965 | 61. | Equatorial Guinea | 2004 | ||
| 28. | Ghana | 1966 | 62. | Lebanon | 2005 | ||
| 29. | Greece | 1967 | 63. | Palestine | 2006 | ||
| 30. | Iraq | 1968 | 64. | Honduras | 2009 | ||
| 31. | United States | 1968 | 65. | Ecuador | 2010 | ||
| 32. | Cambodia | 1970 | 66. | Kyrgystan | 2010 | ||
| 33. | Bolivia | 1971 | 67. | Ecuador | 2011 | ||
| 34. | Uganda | 1971 | 68. | Ukraine | 2014 |
Notes
| [1] | September 22, 1991, Washington Post, 'Innocence Abroad: The New World of Spyless Coups'. |