Supranational Society: Masterlist of 1,500 NGOs and the Top 400 People in Them
Contents
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. |
| GRAY: | 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: November 30, 2020. Recent deaths kept in for the time being for historical perspective. The situation will be analyzed and corrected in a few years.
"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: 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 | Lee Raymond | Barbara Bush | Walter Mondale | Anne Tatlock (since 2002) | Hugh Price | Anne Sweeney. Trustee Mayo Foundation: Cyrus Vance |
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 Institute for Science Andrew Carnegie | Harry F. Osborn | Cleveland Dodge | Robert Bliss | Lindsay Bradford | Vannevar Bush (president) | Walter Gifford | Caryl Haskins | Charles Townes | John Macomber | Walter Page II (trustee 1971-1979) | John Cadwalader | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (vice chair) | William Hewlett (trustee) | Walter Isaacson (trustee). |
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 Tisch (into 2020s) | Michael Bloomberg (ex-offfico). Trustees 2020: Bill de Blasio (ex-officio). Also: Laurence Tisch (honorary trustee and major benefactor). |
1895 |
| Bohemian Grove Part of the Bohemian Club. Members: Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller ('91, '08) | David Rockefeller Jr. ('08, '18) | Bechtel family ('71, '91, '08, '18) | George Shultz (joined in 1975; '89, '91, '08, '18) | Henry Kissinger ('91, '08, '18) | Paul Volcker ("frequent", likely 70s-90s) | Brent Scowcroft | John McCone | Richard Helms | 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) | Weinberger | Seitz | William Simon | 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) | Rumsfeld ('91, '08, '18) | Dick Cheney | Thomas Foley | David O'Reilly | 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 | Feulner | Frederick Mielke, Jr. | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Maurice Greenberg ('91, '08, '18) | Richard Boucher | Gen. 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 | Fukuyama | Charles Brown | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | Alton Ochsner (1965) | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Melvin Lane | Michel Rocard | Helmut Kohl | Weldon Gibson | Walter Cronkite ('08) | Gaylord Freeman | Malcolm Forbes, Sr. | Antonin Scalia | David Packard ('91) | Harold Brown ('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) | Clint Eastwood ('08, '18) | James Woods ('08) | Michael York ('08, '18) | Rowan Gaither III ('08, '18) | Stephen Harper ('08, '18; PM of Canada 2006-2015) | Mickey Hart ('08, '18) and Bob Weir ('08, '18) | Charles ('08, '18) and David Koch ('08) | Conan O'Brien (speaker '13, '18) | 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.) | Alexander Shulgin ('08; psychedelics expert) | Craig Stapleton ('18) | Ken Starr ('08) | Patrick John Wayne ('08, '18; son of actor John Wayne) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('08, '18) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('13) | Ronald Reagan ('67, 1975-1980, '89-) | William Clark | William Hewlett | William Hewitt | Vernon Jordan ('91 speaker) | Vartan Gregorian ('91 speaker) | Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia ('92 speaker) | James Wolfensohn ('93 speaker) | Willie Brown ('93 speaker) | Jim Belushi ('18) | William Perry (speaker '98) | Eric Schmidt (named a member in '11 by SF Chronicle, but not in 2008 or 2018 lists). 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 | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; trustee until 2006) | Nancy Kissinger | Maurice Greenberg | John Macomber | John Whitehead | William O. Baker (long-time trustee and chair) | Brooke Astor | Katherine Graham | John Gardner | Tom Killefer | Dr. Frederick Seitz (president) | Jeffrey Epstein | Gustavo Cisneros | Richard Salomon | David Koch | Henry Kravis | David Hamburg. Scientists: Detlev Bronk | Joshua Lederberg | William Nierenberg. |
1901 |
| American Political Science Association (APSA) Almost completely very low-level. 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 | William Perry. Speakers: FDR (New Deal speech) | Dwight Eisenhower | Nikita Khrushchev | Condoleezza Rice | James Baker | Madeleine Albright | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Hillary Clinton ('10) | Al Gore | Leon Panetta | Eric Schmidt | David O'Reilly | Janet Yellen | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Muhammad Yunus | Christopher Hitchens | Michael Crichton | Rob Reiner ('13) | Francis Ford Coppola. 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 |
| New York Peace Society (NYPS) Officers: Andrew Carnegie (president and financier) | Elihu Root (vice president) | Jacob Schiff (vice president). 4th incarnation founded as a result of the the 1899-1902 Philippine–American War. "Anti-imperialist". Merged into the Quaker World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion. |
1906-1940 |
| Russell Sage Foundation Trustees: Dwight Morrow | Cleveland Dodge | Lindsay Bradford | David H. Morris, Jr. | Claude Steele |
1907 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Nicholas Butler | Elihu Root | Dwight Morrow | John Foster Dulles | Dwight Eisenhower | Joseph Johnson | William Hewitt | Richard Debs | Leslie Gelb | Kofi Annan | Chas Freeman | Stapleton Roy | Jamie Gorelick | William Perry | John Cadwalader | Strobe Talbott | David Rockefeller (trustee 1947-1960) | Bill Bradley | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Philip Reed | Stephen Duggan | Morton Abramowitz | Penny Pritzker (chair 2018-) | Robert Zoellick | David Rothkopf (visiting scholar; author of 2008 book 'Superclass') | Fukuyama (scholar) | Robert Kagan (13-year senior associate) | Fred Bergsten | Stephen Hadley | Barry Blechman | Bill Burns (president) | Anatoly Chubais (speech on privatization in 1999) | Robert E. White (senior associate in the 1980s) | Anders Aslund (director Russian and Eurasian program) | Oleg Deripaska (financier and speech-giver) | Chung Min Lee (senior fellow Asia program) | Jake Sullivan (senior fellow) | Morton Halperin (senior associate 1992-1994). Carnegie Middle East Center (founded in 2009) advisory council: Turki al Faisal | Khaled M. Al-Fayez (Bahrain) | Richard D. | Ibrahim Dabdoub Euro-Atlantic Initiative: Wolfgang Ischinger (co-chair) | Igor Ivanov (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Robert Legvold (co-chair) | Herman Gref | Stephen H. | Tedo Japaridze | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | John Kornblum | Vyacheslav Trubnikov. (effort co-sponsored by Maurice Greenberg's Starr Foundation) Partnership for Countering Influence Operations: Michael Chertoff (advisory board) | Craig Newmark (liaison). More: Kurt Campbell (speaker '16). |
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 2013-2020) | Sam Nunn (Jan. 1997-2005) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee and president 1997-2020s) | 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) | 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 | Helene Kaplan | 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. Trustees 1913-: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1913-1923) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (president 1913-1916, trustee 1913-1939, first chair 1917-1939) | Raymond Fosdick (1921-1948; president 1936-1948) | 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 and 2010s-: Margaret Hamburg | Mamphela Ramphele (man. dir. World Bank) | Strive Masiyiwa (2003-) | Judith Rodin (trustee and president-elect 2004, president March 2005-) | Sandra Day O'Connor (2006-2013) | David Rockefeller Jr. (2007-, chair Dec. 2010 - June 2016) | Richard Parsons (2007-, chair 2016-) | Surin Pitsuwan | Martin Leibowitz (2012-; man. dir. Morgan Stanley) | Helene Gayle (CARE USA; president and CEO Chicago Comm. Trust) | Walter Isaacson (2018-) | Sharon Percy Rockefeller (Nov. 2017-). Rajiv Shah (president March 2017-; director Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. 2001-2009; administrator USAID 2009-2015, appointed by Obama). More: Vannevar Bush (work financed 1935-1946; Rock. Institute developed an award with his name) | 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). 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). 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.) |
1913 |
| Federal Reserve System (FED) 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 | Roosa | Brademas | Debs | Vance | Whitehead | Volcker | 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). |
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 Cohen ('16). |
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| Brookings Institution Robert Roosa (chair 1975-1986) | Robert McNamara | James Wolfensohn | John Whitehead (chair) | C. Douglas Dillon | Haass | Vernon Jordan | Lee Hamilton | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Michael Armacost (president 1995-2002) | Frank Lowy, Victor Pinchuk and Nat Rothschild (international advisory council) | Rozanne Ridgway (trustee) | Fred Bergsten | Robert Hormats | Graham Allison | Larry Summers | Jeffrey Sachs (economic advisor) | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Robert Kagan (senior fellow) | Stapleton Roy | Adm. Inman | Stephen Friedman | Wolfowitz (speaker and panel member) | Barry Blechman (senior fellow) | Kenneth Dam (senior fellow, director and lifetime trustee) | Teresa Heinz (lifetime trustee) | David Rubenstein (lifetime trustee and former chair) | John Thornton (lifetime trustee; former chair) Henry Louis Gates Jr. (lifetime trustee) | Jim Steinberg (VP and director of Brookings' Foreign Policy Studies Program) | Robert Gallucci (penalist) | William Cohen (study group involvement) | John Thornton (trustee chair) | Fiona Hill (director Center on the United States and Europe) | James Cicconi | George von Furstenberg (pre-doctoral fellow mid-1960s) | Leslie Gelb (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Lincoln Gordon (scholar 1984-) | James Robinson III (senior trustee) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (trustee) | Andrew Tisch (trustee) | Philip Knight (trustee) | Kenneth Duberstein (senior trustee) | Mario Morino (senior trustee) | Steven Rattner (senior trustee) | Gen. John Allen (president Nov. 2017-) | 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) Zoe Baird (senior trustee) | Timothy Geithner (2010 and 2012 guest conversation) | Morton Halperin (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee 1994-1997) | Jason Furman (senior fellow). Brookings Doha Center in Qatar (2008): Strobe Talbott (co-chair). H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani (co-chair) | Albright | Sandy Berger | 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 | 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. |
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). 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 Otuunu (Oct. 9, 1996) | Richard Falk (Nov. 19, 1997) | James Hoge | Jane Fonda. |
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| 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. 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) | Michael Abramowitz (fellow). 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). |
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| 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) 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 1977-1982 and again from 1984 until beyond 2000) | Jeffrey Sachs (listed as a research associate of NBER when invited to BB in 1990) | Jacob Frenkel (director at large anno 2013). |
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| 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 (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-, 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) | Brent Scowcroft (member 1974-, director 1983-1989) | Harold Brown (member 1974-, director 1983-1992) | 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-) Marie-Josee Kravis (2005-) | Larry Summers (1991-) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (member 2002-). More important names: Jami Miscik (director 2007-, vice chair 2017-; CEO Kiss. Assoc. and TC 2014-) | Frank Wisner (1946-) | George H. W. Bush (member 1972-, director 1977-1979; UN ambassador 1971-73; DCI 1976-77) | William Casey (member 1973-; SEC chair 1971-73; DCI 1981-87) | Donald Rumsfeld (member 1974-; White House chief of staff 1974-75) | James Woolsey (member 1975-) | Frank Carlucci (member 1976-; DD/CIA 1978-81; later chair Carlyle Group; chair CFR's 2001 'State Department Reform' report) | Madeleine Albright (member 1976-, director 2004-) | George Soros (member 1988-, director 1995-2004), brother Paul (member 1992-), and son Jonathan (member 2003-) | William Perry (1999-). 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-) | Walter Bedell Smith (member 1952-; CIA director 1950-1953 who co-founded BB, but did not attend) | 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-). 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–). Remaining: Joseph Grew (member 1928-) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (member 1948-) | Gen. Lucius Clay (member 1949-) | Walter Isaacson (member 1979-) | Paula Dobriansky (1993-, director 1997-2001, senior vice president 2001) | John Kerry (member 1994-) | Penny Pritzker (member 1994-1998, 2004-) | Thomas Pritzker (member 2000-) | Lee Hamilton (member 1995-) | Ken Chenault (director anno 2020) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Thomas Donilon (member 1996-; member CFR task force 'Renewing the Atlantic Partnership' (2004), distinguished fellow 2013-) | Robert O. Anderson | Richard Salomon (vice chair) | Dick Cheney (director) | Gen. John Abizaid (member 1985-) | William Webster | Colin Powell | Frank Wisner II | Tom Brokaw | David Ignatius | Warren Christopher | John Deutch (director) | Gustavo Cisneros (IAB) | Christine Whitman | Richard Gelb (director) | Bruce Gelb | Bill Bradley | Zoellick | Graham Allison | Richard Helms | Lewis Branscomb | Thomas Foley | William Cohen | Richard Holbrooke | Cyrus Vance | Robert Roosa | Condoleezza Rice | William Press | Caryl Haskins | Hedley Donovan | Talbott | Walter Mondale | George Mitchell | Jeffrey Sachs | Robert Bliss | S. Dillon Ripley II | Peter Ackerman | Owen Young | Malcolm Muir | Lloyd Hand | Vannevar Bush | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Taft IV | Elliot Richardson | Jane Harman | William Rhodes | Greenspan | Taggart Whipple | Gen. Peter Pace | Conrad Black | Ermarth | John T. Connor | Sidney Drell (member 1980-2007) | Jamie Gorelick | Adm. Stansfield Turner (member 1973-) | Francis Fukuyama | Eric Melby | Victor Pinchuk | Gen. Larry Welch | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Henry Catto | Rozanne Ridgway | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | William T. Coleman Jr. | Donald Gregg | Zelikow | Zuckerman | Norman Pattiz | Martin Indyk | Mundy | Thomas McLarty | Irving Kristol | Lee Raymond | David O'Reilly | Sandra Day O'Connor | Walter Page II | John Diebold | Kenneth Dam | Stapleton Roy | Lewis Coleman | Felix Rohatyn | David Gergen | Robert Pastor | Paul O'Neill | Franklin Miller | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | John Thornton | 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 | Desmarais | Etienne Davignon | Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Stephen Hadley | James Baker III | 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 | Huntington | Adm. David Jeremiah | Weinberger | William Schneider, Jr. | MacArthur II | Eagleburger | Philip Hawley | Tempelsman | Robert Gates | McNamara | C. Douglas Dillon | Norman Augustine | John McCone | Robert R. Bowie | Abramowitz | Perle | Klutznick (1980s) | Fred Ikle | McCain III | Clinton | James Schlesinger | Ronald Asmus | Robert Kagan | Lawrence Clarkson | Rudman (chaired two task forces) | Vernon Jordan | Solarz | Lincoln Gordon | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Chuck Hagel | Teller | Neil deGrasse Tyson (published by) | Hayden | Kean | John Lehman and brother Ronald | Sandy Berger | Gerald Curtis | Gary Hart | Claiborne Pell | Dean Rusk | Buffett | Kampelman | Frances Townsend | John Negroponte | J. Paul Austin | Richard V. Allen | Haig | Brademas | 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. | Sergei Karaganov (IAB) | Yevgeny Primakov | Potanin (IAB/GAB) | Mikhail Fridman (IAB) | Anatoly Chubais (IAB/GAB) | Oleg Deripaska (important financier) | Georgy Arbatov | Stiglitz | Maurice Strong (1970s) | Ruckelshaus | Bremer | Walther Kiep | Abshire | Rothkopf | Richard Pipes | Daniel Pipes | Richard Falk | John Gardner | Robert Hormats | Wesley Clark | Douglas Feith | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | Bolton | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Evan Galbraith | Sen. Jon Kyl (2004 speech) | Sen. (2010 speech) | Berezovsky (1997 speech) | Igor ivanov (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 | 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 | Rupert Murdoch | Lord Charles Powell (global advisory panel) | William Hewitt | Hamid Karzai (speaker) | Jacob Frenkel (speaker) | Peter Mandelson (talk) | Thomas Schmidheiny | Al Gore | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Fiona Hill | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Daniel Moynihan | Malcolm Hoenlein | Eliot Cohen | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Carl Bildt | Frank Barnett | Joschka Fischer ("distinguished visiting diplomat" in 2006) | Vartan Gregorian | Zalmay Khalilzad | Dianne Feinstein | Bill Moyers | Robert Gallucci | 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 | Jared Cohen | William vanden Heuvel | McGeorge Bundy | Robert Wolf | Walter Mead (Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy) | Nina Rosenwald | Susan Rice | Steven Rattner | Rex Tillerson (2007 and 2012 speaker) | Strive Masiyiwa (global adv. panel) | James Roche | Robert Abernethy | John Duke Anthony | Eric Schmidt | Frits Bolkestein (2003-2004 participation) | George Clooney and John Prendergast (Africa lecture) | Michael Bloomberg | 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 | David Petraeus (member 1986-) | Adm. Dennis Blair (co-chair CFR's 2007 U.S.-China Relations task force and chair of the CFR's 2008 Indonesia Commission) | Mark Esper | Teresa Heinz | Gen. H.R. McMaster (member 2004-) | Dina Habib Powell (member 2005-) | Hans Binnendijk | Chester Crocker | Anne Applebaum | Max Boot | William D. Rogers (co-chair CFR's Cuba Task Force) | Hank Paulson (member 2001-) | 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) | Anthony Lake (member 1979-) | 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. Cohen (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-) | Timothy Geithner (member 1996-, director 2015-) | 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 | Laurence Tisch | 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-) | Melissa Ma (wife of Robin Li, chair and CEO of Baidu) | Larry Fink (member 2012-). 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: Sullivan & 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. |
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| Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) Originally the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR). 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 ('12) | Aaron Friedberg ('12) | Thomas Pickering | Jeb Bush | John Hamre ('14) | Thomas Pritzker ('14). |
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 | Volcker (chair) | Kissinger (chair) | Whitehead (chair) | Wisner II (chair) | George Ball (chair) | John J. McCloy (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. More: Eric Schmidt (lived at IH Berkeley for four years while attending UCLA) |
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 Commission): Zoe B. (co-chair) | Jim Barksdale (co-chair) | Philip Z. (executive director, similar to the 9/11 Commission) | 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) Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (trustee 1948-, president 1958-, chair 1963-June 1993, chair emeritus June 1993-) | William Paley (vice chair anno 1963) | John Hay Whitney | Gianni Agnelli | C. Douglas Dillon | John de Menil | Peter Peterson (life trustee) | Duke Franz of Bavaria (honorary) | Maurice Greenberg (honorary) | Jerry Speyer (chair) | Marie-Josee Kravis (president) | Ronald Lauder (chair 1995-2005) | Clarissa Alcock Bronfman | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (wife of Gustavo) | Philip Niarchos | Richard Parsons | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | William A. M. Burden (trustee 1939-, president 1963-, later chair) | Vartan Gregorian | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; employee for 3 years, then international council) | Larry Fink. |
1929 |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Marvin Goldberger (director 1987-1991) | James Wolfensohn (chair 1986-2007) | Charles Simonyi (trustee 1998-2008; chair 2008-) | Sidney Drell (1974-1983) | Toru Hashimoto | Helene Kaplan | Marie-Josee Kravis | Nathan Myhrvold | Eric Schmidt | Michael Bloomberg | Vartan Gregorian | David Rubenstein | Nancy Peretsman. Jeffrey Epstein (financier). Faculty members: Noam Chomsky | Paul Dirac | Freeman Dyson | J. Robert Oppenheimer | George Kennan | John von Neumann | Marvin Goldberger. |
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 Cohen | 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. (chair 1958-59 and 1987-88) and later Riley B. | 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). |
1933 |
| Association pour la Constitution aux Etats-Unis d'un Office Français de Renseignements Headquartered at Place de la Concorde and Rockefeller Center. 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. |
1935 |
| 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 |
| 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 (1986-2001, chair 1992-2001; 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-) | 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) | 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) 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) | 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) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | James Wolfensohn (finance committee chair anno 1991) | David Sarnoff | Felix Rohatyn (finance committee anno 1977) | William Luers (trustee anno 1990) | Russell Train (trustee (anno 1993) | Wisner II | Thornton Bradshaw | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; chair and later advisory trustee) | David Rockefeller Jr. (exec. chair anno 1988-1989) | Rodman Rockefeller | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Anne Bartley. Special Studies Project: America at Mid-Century (1956): Nelson R. (founding chair) | Henry Kissinger (director of the staff) | Adolf Berle Jr. | Chester Boweles | Arthur Burns | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Cowles | Gordon Dean | John Gardner | 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) |
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 Roth | James Webb. Research advisory board: George Shultz (later life trustee). Trustees mid-1990s-: John Diebold | Carlucci | Brademas | Patrick Gross | Joseph Kasputys | Hugh Price. Also: Ken Duberstein (trustee 1976-1980) | Ruben Mettler (honorary trustee). |
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 John Negroponte (until 2001) | Maurice Greenberg (trustee until 2005) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) |
1945 |
| Stanford Research Institute / SRI International Originally the Stanford Research Institute. 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 to about 1980) | Edgar Kaiser (director 1940s to 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) |
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) | Kenneth 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) |
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) Cord Meyer, Jr. (founding president 1947-1949; CIA) | Sen. Alan Cranston (president 1949-1952) | Norman Cousins (founding vice president 1947-1952, president 1952-) | |
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 | Brzezinski (speaker) | Stapleton Roy (moderator) | Chas Freeman (speaker) | Peter Galbraith (speaker) | McNamara (speech in 2005) | Jane Harman ('speaker '11) | Jane Wales (president and CEO). 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 Perry | William Webster (1989) | Albright | King Hussein and Queen Noor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ryutaro Hashimoto | Margaret Thatcher | the Dalai Lama | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Wolfensohn | Lee Kuan Yew | Jack Valenti | Strobe Talbott | Ehud Barak | William Cohen | Kofi Annan | Jack Kemp | Joseph | Jean Luc Dehaene | 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 G.). "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 |
| Lincoln Laboratory Advisory board: Sidney Drell (1985-1990) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Anita Jones | Paul Kaminski | Donald Kerr | John Stenbit. |
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 |
| 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 (CSDI) Lost its influence. Robert Maynard 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 |
| World Policy Institute (WPI) / Institute for World Order Founder(s): C. Douglas Dillon. Others: Walter Eberstadt. |
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 |
| 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. Jan. 2010 trustees (extra): Nicholas Burns | Stephen Schwarzman. Trustees in 2020 (extra): Paula Dobriansky | Carla Hills | William Webster. National Council of Advisors in 1998: not a single interesting name. National Council of Advisors in 2008: John Brademas (anno 2008) | John Marks (anno 2008) | Adm. Richard Mies | Norman Ornstein | Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. | David Rothkopf | Michael Maibach (President & CEO European-American Business Council) | John Zogby (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) |
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 | 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. (since 1995) | 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) David Rockefeller (founder) | Robert O. Anderson | C. Douglas Dillon | Kip Forbes | Robert Sarnoff | Frank Stanton | Eli Broad | Christie Hefner (Playboy) | John Mack (Morgan Stanley). |
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) | 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) William Hewitt | James Billington (director 1973-1987) | James Baker III (trustee 1977-1985) | Lee Hamilton (director/head early 2000s) | Jane Harman (director, president and CEO). Public members: Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton. Council: Bruce Gelb (president), Carla Hills, George Shultz | Cynthia McClintock (expert). Members/penalists: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Kagan | Graham Allison | Janet Napolitano | Michael Chertoff | David Horovitz | Kissinger | 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). Visitors due to corporate citizenship award: Ray Hunt | Ted Turner | Adm. 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. 's Strengthening America's Global Engagement (SAGE) project (2010): Condoleezza Rice (co-chair) | William Perry (co-chair) | David Abshire | Paula Dobriansky | John Marks |
1968 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Paul Mellon (founder and life-long trustee) | Mary Patterson McPherson (vice president) | William O. Baker (chair emeritus by the mid-1990s) | John Whitehead (trustee chair until 1997) | Anne Tatlock (trustee since at least the mid-1990s, appointed chair in 2005) | Taylor Reveley III (trustee 1990s and later president) | Walter Massey | Stephanie Bell-Rose (counsel and program officer). |
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 |
| Common Cause John Gardner (founder and chairman) | Neil Elles | Sen. Bob Kerrey (elected to governing board in 1987) |
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). 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 |
| 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. |
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) | Anthony Drexel Duke | Paul Volcker (hon. chair) | Nancy Soderberg (vice chair) | Thomas Pickering | Richard Pipes | Wesley Clark | George Kennan | Maxwell Rabb | Anthony Drexel Duke | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | Nina Rosenwald. Advisory board: Winston Lord | Stapleton Roy. Other: David Rockefeller (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). Listed financiers: Carnegie Corp, Rock. Brothers Fund, Luce Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn. |
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 (2010-2020s) | Mel Karmazin | Tim Armstrong | Les Moonves | Bob Iger | Sumner Redstone | Terry Semel | Barbara Walters | David Zaslav | Norman Lear | Wallis Annenberg. |
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 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John MacArthur (director 1970-1978) | Paul Doolen (director 1970-1979, chair 1979-1984) | Elizabeth McCormack (director since 1970, chair 1986-1995; advisor Rockefeller Family & Associates and Rockefeller family in general) | Jonathan Fanton (chair 1999-2009; protege of McCormack) | 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) | Murray Gell-Mann (director 1979-2002) | Thorton Bradshaw (director 1985-1986, chair 1986-1988; chair RCA; Rockefeller friend)| Margaret Mahoney (director 1985-2002) | William Simon (director 1979-1981) | Walter Massey (director 1989-1991; Bush 41's National Science Foundation director; chair Bank of America; BP) | John Holdren (director 1991-2005; one of Clinton's science advisor 1994-2001; Obama's chief scientist since December 2008) | Jamie Gorelick (director 2001-2013) | Mary Graham (director 2001-2013) | Robert Gallucci (president 2009-2014) | Claude Steele (director anno 2014; National Science Foundation) | Ronna Tanenbaum (advisor to president 2003-2004) | Morton Halperin (fellow 1985-1991) 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). |
1975 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Kenneth Lay (ENRON) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss | Ken Duberstein. |
1975 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Kenneth Lay (ENRON) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss |
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 Edward H. Crane and Charles Koch (founders) | David Koch | Peter Ackerman | Paul Craig Roberts (distinguished Fellow 1993-1996) | Penn and Teller (fellows) | Theodore Forstmann | Rupert Murdoch | George Shultz (advisory board Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies) | Thomas McLarty (advisory board Inter-American Dialogue). |
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., Sullivan & 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. 2020s) | 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 (founder) | John Thain | Jeffrey Greenberg | Stephen Schwarzman | Lionel Pincus (chair Warburg Pincus) | Preston Robert Tisch (former chair) | James Tisch | 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. 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 | Jamie Dimon | Ajay Banga. More: Michael Peterson (son of Peter). |
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) | Eliot Cohen (dean 2019-). Fellows: Wolfowitz, Fukuyama, Brzezinski (long term), Joshua Muravchik. Key funder and advisory board member of SAIS: Robert Abernethy. SAIS: Bert Koenders (visiting professor). |
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) |
1981 |
| Peterson Institute for International Economics (IIE) Directors in past and present: David Rockefeller | Conrad Black | Michael Blumenthal | Zoellick | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | George Shultz | Maurice Greenberg | Peter Peterson and son Michael (chair) | Volcker | Carla Hills | Greenspan | Jacob Wallenberg | Victor Pinchuk | David O'Reilly | Jacob Frenkel | Jean-Claude Trichet | Geithner | Lee Kuan Yew | Paul O'Neill | David Rubenstein | Edward Scott | Fred Bergsten | Larry Summers | Stephan Schmidheiny | Richard Salomon | Dr. Adam Posen (president) | Jason Furman (senior fellow). Advisory board: Stiglitz | Montbrial | Jeffrey Sachs. Also: Anders Aslund (senior fellow) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech) | Dick Gephardt (part of a January 14, 2013 conference). |
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 Clinton | Wesley Clark | Gerald Ford | William Perry | Strobe Talbott | Buzz Aldrin | David Gergen | Sen. Bob Graham | Gorelick | Robert Hormats | Nye | Kampelman | Viguerie |
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) Henry Kissinger | Maurice Greenberg | Michael Hayden | William Webster | Philip Lader | Adm. Vernon Clark | Gen. James. L. Jones | Thomas Pickering | John Whitehead | Ross Perot, Jr. | Gen. Thomas McInerney | Gen. Montgomery Meigs | Jeffrey Bergner | Gen. Peter Pace (advisory board anno 2020) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. (advisory board anno 2020) | David Cohen (advisory board anno 2020). Membership: James Angleton, Jr. | Norman Augustine | Carlucci | Draper III | Jamie Gorelick | Patrick Gross | Peter Peterson and son Michael. |
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). |
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 (IFRI) | 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 Dophner | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (2003; not fully confirmed) | Robert Johnson | Henry Crumpton | Bryan Lourd | Marc Andreessen | Jeff Bewkes | Jeff Bezos | Eric Schmidt | Sergey Brin | John Hendricks. |
1983 |
| National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Allen Weinstein (co-founder) | Mark Palmer (co-founder) | Walter Raymond, Jr. | John Brademas (chair) | Paula Dobriansky (vice chair) | Brzezinski | Abramowitz | Ikle | Taft IV (wife) | Wolfowitz | Holbrooke | Thomas Kean | Lee Hamilton | Carlucci | Wesley Clark | Dick Gephardt (chair) | Vin Weber (vice chair) | Barbara Haig (daugther of Alexander) | Sen. Bob Graham | Sen. Jon Kyl | Fukuyama | Solarz | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Richard V. Allen (conference participant and public supporter) | Julie Finley (trustee) | Zalmay Khalilzad | Christopher Cox (trustee) | Graham Fuller (attended a 2004 conference) | Elliott Abrams | Robert Zoellick | Steve Forbes | Anne Applebaum | 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). |
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. |
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 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 | 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) | Chester Crocker (chair 1994-2004) | 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) | William Kinter (director 1990) | Evron Kirkpatrick (director 1990; husband of Jeane) | W. Scott Thompson (director 1990s) | Ronald Lehman II | Eric Edelman | Ron Silver. Listed "ex officio" members over the years: Madeleine Albright | Douglas Feith | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Rumsfeld | Hillary Clinton | Walter Slocombe | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel. Advisory council: Thomas Pickering | Peter Ackerman. 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 | Daniel Glickman. 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 | Nancy Soderberg. |
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 |
| 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 | 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-). 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 | Bill Clinton | Al Gore (vice president) | Joe Biden (vice president) | Michael Steinhardt (chair). |
1985 |
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation / Reagan Foundation 1985 trustees and governors: Ronald and Nancy Reagan (founders) | Neil, Maureen, Ron, Michael and Patricia Reagan | W. Glenn Campbell (founding chair) | Edwin Meese (founding vice chair) | William Clark (treasurer) | Billy Graham | Joseph Coors | Malcolm Forbes | Barry Goldwater | Paul Laxalt | Joe Allbritton | Thomas Jones (Northrop) | Jay Pritzker | David Rockefeller | David Packard | Robert O. Anderson | Thornton Bradshaw | Rawleigh Warner (Mobil) | Roger Smith (GM) | William Clay Ford | Ross Perot | Clare Boothe Luce | Robert Strauss | Jane Weinberger (husband of Caspar W.) | J. Willard Marriott | . 2016 trustees: Steve Forbes | Rudolph Giuliani | Jon Huntsman | Rupert Murdoch | T. Boone Pickens | George Shultz | |
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. |
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 Foundations). 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 | Carlucci | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Shultz. Advisors: Shirley Temple Black. Directors: Marc Grossman (chair) | 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 |
| 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 |
| Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (DLC-tied) Will Marshall (founder and president) | Bill Clinton (chair) | Sen. Dick Gephardt (chair) | Al From (chair) | Sen. Joseph (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/Open Society foundations. |
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 Fisher | Richard Gelb | Kenneth 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) |
1991 |
| Milken Institute / Milken Institute Global Conference Conference speaker(s): 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 | Ivanka Trump | Meg Whitman | Reese Witherspoon. 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. |
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 | Brzezinski | Kristol | Perle | Conrad Black | Daniel Pipes | Abramowitz | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | 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 | 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 (civilian observer here for the pre-trial hearings of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (member). |
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 | 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) 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: Rosemont Seneca. [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: Bill Gates (organizer, as part of his Microsoft company) | Al Gore | Gen. Kenneth Minihan (director NSA 1996-1999) | Steve Forbes | Riley Bechtel | William Esrey (Sprint) | Frank Biondi (Universal Studios) | Seigfried Hecker (director Los Alamos) | Paul Hazen (CEO Wells Fargo). Interests represented: 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." |
1997 (one-of possibly) |
| 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 |
| 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. 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). 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) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (president GSF) | 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: Geoffrey Boisi (partner 1978-) | Robert Rubin (partner 1971-1992, vice chair 1987-1990, co-chair 1990-1992) | Sir Peter Sutherland (chair GS Int. 1995-) | Hank Paulson (partner GS 1982, COO GS 1994-1998, co-chair and co-CEO 1998-1999, sole chair and CEO 1999-2006) | Lloyd Blankfein (COO GS -2006, CEO 2006-) | Richard Mnuchin | Robert Hormats (vice chair GS Int.) | John Thain (president and COO GS 1999-2004). GS at the Federal Reserve: William Dudley | Robert Kaplan | Stephen Friedman (chair and co-chair GS 1990-1994, director 2004-) | E. Gerald Corrigan. GS in the Trump administration: Anthony Scaramucci (transition team member) | Dina H. P. (advised Ivanka 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). |
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) George Shultz | Frank Carlucci | Paul Volcker | George Soros | Deepak Chopra | Walter Cronkite | Sting | Richard Branson | Ethan Nadelmann. |
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 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 Sergei Brin (Google founders) | Jack Valenti | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks) | Barry Diller | Bill Joy (Sun Microsystems co-founder) | 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 | 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: Gen. Wesley Clark | C. Boyden Gray | Robert McFarlane | Roger Ballentine | James Woolsey | Adm. Dennis McGinn |
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). 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 | Carla Hills | 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). 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) | Bob Iger (still anno 2020) | Judith Rodin (until 2017) | Vartan Gregorian (still anno 2020) | Robert De Niro (still anno 2020) | Michael Eisner | Richard Parsons. Additional trustees anno 2011: Billy Crystal | George Pataki (hon. chair; co-appointed initial board)| Gov. Chris Christie (hon. trustee) | Andrew Cuomo (hon. trustee) | Rudy Giuliani (hon. trustee). Additional trustees anno 2020: Jon Stewart (comedian) | Gov. Eliot Spitzer (hon.). Hon. board members (anno 2011): Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | George W. Bush | Bill Clinton. |
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). Senior advisors and trustees: David Rothkopf. |
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 | Brzezinski | Shultz | Albright | Berger | Whitehead | Wisner II | John Lehman | Lee Hamilton | Slade Gorton | Thomas Kean | Pickering | Nunn | William Perry | McFarlane | Carla Hills | Paula Dobriansky | William Cohen | Warren Christopher | Rita Hauser | Frances Townsend | Anthony Lake. |
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) Leadership council: John L. Petersen | James Woolsey | Robert McFarlane | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (co-chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark | Maurice Greenberg | John Lehman (co-chair) | Fredrick Smith (co-chair; chair, president and CEO) | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Bill 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 Todd 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). 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 Trustees: Peter Peterson (founder) and son Michael (chair and CEO) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | Bill Gates | Ted Turner | Oprah | Leslie Gelb | Bill Bradley | Robert Rubin | Sheryl Sandberg | Barry Diller. |
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. |
2008 |
| Invictus Foundation Tries to help PTSD victims the traditional way. Board of advisors: Gen. Robert Dees | Sen. Slade Gorton | Sen. Mike Gravel |
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). More Robert Johnson (exec. director; former managing director Soros Fund Management). 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). 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: Woolsey | Wolfensohn | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Stephen Roach. |
2010 |
| 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 Tisch | Diane von Furstenberg. Por-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]." |
2010 |
| Americans Elect Peter Ackerman | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Will Marshall | Christine Whitman |
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: Carl Bildt | Tony Blair | Jacques Delors | Niall Ferguson | Pascal L. | Alain Minc | Romano Prodi | Nouriel R. | Gerhard S. | Joseph S. | Guy Verhofstadt | Alex Weber. |
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) Woolsey | Shultz | McFarlane | Wesley Clark | Augustine | John Lehman | Greenspan | William Perry | Gary Hart | C. Boyden Gray | James Roche | Gen. Keith Alexander | Harold Brown | Stephen Hadley | T. Boone Pickens | Tom Ridge Interlinked with the 2003-founded Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. |
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 Todd Whitman | Tim Wirth July 2015 at IssueOne.org: members/advisors: Gen. Wesley Clark | William Cohen |
2011 |
| 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 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) | Radek 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. |
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 George Soros' Open Society Foundations. The MacArthur Foundation 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Commission; trustee Ploughshares Fund; brother David served as CBS president 2011-2019). - Jake Sullivan (co-chair; Hillary Clinton campaigner who served as director of policy planning at State under secretary Clinton; Obama campaign speechwriter who served as national security advisor to vice president Joe Biden 2013-2014). 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) 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 or 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 | Lord Humphrey Trevelyan | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Lord Greenhill | Lord Shackleton | Sir Frank Roberts | Sir John Birch | Lord Paddy Ashdown | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Hurd (co-president 2002-2009). Donors: Lord Howe | Sir Philip Goodhart | Sir Joseph Hotung | John Major | Marietje Schaake (member Comm. on Dem. and Tech. in Europe) | Chester Crocker (member IAB). Ordinary members: Carrington | Sir Peter Sutherland (speech) | Niall Fitzgerald (speech) | Jack Straw (speech) | Peter Mandelson (speech) | Jaakko Kooroshy (research fellow) | Michael Shrimpton. Panel of senior advisors, established in 2008: Andre Hoffmann | Nicholas Burns | Victor Chu | Lord Hurd of Westwell | Lord George Robertson | John Whitehead (also has a lecture named after him). U.S. members: Kissinger (speech 1982) | Brzezinski (speech) | Volcker | Sir Evelyn 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). |
1929 |
| 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). |
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) Willem of Orange | Queen Wilhelmina | Queen Juliana | Prince Bernhard | Queen Beatrix | King Willem Alexander. Families: 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. Also: 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 (very early) 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) | Johan Willem Beyen (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, '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) Governors: Max van der Stoel (1990s) | Ruud Lubbers (president) | Hans van den Broek (president) | Ben Bot (president) | 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"). Governors Stichting Fonds Instituut Clingendael and its Clingendael International Energy Programme (CIEP): Willem O. Russell. |
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 |
| 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 Human Rights Watch) | Mike Smith (executive director UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate). Beatrice de Graaf (founding research fellow). |
2010 |
| The Hague Institute for Global Justice Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Lord Chris Patten | Jozias van Aartsen (co-founder) | Igor Ivanov |
2011 |
| 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) Lord Nathaniel Rothschild | Cecil Rhodes | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (trustee 1997-2010) | Frank Barnett | Adm. Stansfield Turner | Dean Rusk | James Woolsey | Walter Slocombe | Robert Roosa | John Brademas | Walter Isaacson | Harold Anderson (Buffett friend) | Hedley Donovan | Malcolm Forbes, Sr. | 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 | Bob Peck | Adm. Bill Owens | Gen. David Fadok | Richard Gardner | Nicholas Kristof (trustee) | Dr. George H. Estabrooks | Sir John Templeton | Walt Cooper | Gen. Wesley Clark | Bill Bradley | Lincoln Gordon | Frank Wells | Allan Gotlieb | Jared Cohen | Ronan Farrow | Chesa Boudin | Jake Sullivan | Robert Reich | Gareth Penny. |
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 | Percy Pyne II | Morris Jesup | 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 | 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. |
1902 |
| 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 |
| 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) | 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 |
| 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. 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 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 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). |
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 Fowler | 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 | Rupert Murdoch | Larry Summers | Stephen Schwarzman | Lord George Robertson | Jacob Wallenberg | Martin Sorrell | Josef Ackerman | 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 (2018 - new names only): Madeleine Albright | Carl Bildt | Evan Greenberg | Victor Pinchuk | Robert Zoellick. IAB (2020 - new names only): Kevin Rudd 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) | 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) 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. |
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 Carrington | Lord George Robertson | Brademas | Diana Villiers onte | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
1985 |
| Train Foundation (formerly the Northcote Parkinson Fund) John Train (founder and chair) | Edward Straetor (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). 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 |
| Industrieclub (basically national) | 1912 |
| Ruhrlade Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Ernst Poensgen | Gustav Krupp | Frederick Springorum | Fritz Winkhaus of Hoechst AG | Martin Blank |
1928-1939 |
| Atlantik-Brucke Max Warburg (founder) | John McCloy (co-founder) | Henry Kissinger | Nelson Rockefeller | Walter L. Kiep (chair 1984-2000, honorary chair since 2004) | George H. W. Bush | Gen. James L. Jones | Richard von Weizsacker | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar) | Tom Enders (chair 2005-2009) | Nagila Warburg (director 2019-) | Sigmar Gabriel (chair 2019-). |
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 |
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) 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: 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) | 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 | Gen. James L. Jones (regular since at least 2000) | 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) | Wolfowitz (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2013) | Rumsfeld (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2001-2002) | Bolton (2002) | William Kristol (2002) | Strobe Talbott (2002, 2009, 2010) | David Ignatius (occasional visitor since 2002) | 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) | Zakheim (2013) | Chuck Hagel (2000-2005, except for 2003) | Eliot Cohen (occasionaly visitor since at least 2000) | Robert Kagan (2002, 2008) 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 (2009, 2016, 2019) | Madeleine Albright (2010) | Eric Edelman (2010) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) | Randy Scheunemann (virtually annual since 2001) | Richard Burt (regular since the 1990s) | Evan Galbraith (regular 2002 until his death in 2008) | Frank Wisner II (2011, 2013) | Shultz (2010) | Col. John Nagl (2010) | Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2010) | George Soros (2011-2012; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting; member advisory board) | Pickering (2006) | William Perry (2009, 2010) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (2004) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (2004) | Sam Nunn (2010, 2011, 2012) | Joseph Nye (2012) | Lynn Forester and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (2013) | Hillary Clinton, secretary of state 2009-2013 (2005, 2011, 2012) | Sen. John Kerry. (2012; member advisory board) | Holbrooke (annual from 2003 until his death in 2010) | Sen. John McCain III (regular since at least 2001) | Sen. Jon Kyl (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Joe (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Lindsey Graham (regular since 2003) | Richard Haass (1999, 2010) | Ashton Carter (regular since 2001) | Stephen Hadley (regular since 2009) | Sean O'Keefe (2012) | Michael Chertoff (2013) | 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) | Robert Blackwill (regular since the 1990s) | Fiona Hill (2013) | 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 (2018; Facebook security director). British visitors: Lord Guthrie (1999, 2000) | Lord Charles Powell (annual since 1990s) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (2010, 2012, 2013) | Lord Inge (2003, 2004, 2006) | Lord George Robertson (2000-2001) | Sir Henry Grierson (2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (2012) | Malcolm Rifkind (2012, 2013) | Dr. John Chipman (regular) | Tony Blair (2011) | David Cameron (2011) | William Hague (2011) | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace/BAE) | David Miliband (2009; member advisory board) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2009, 2010) German visitors: Gerhard Schroder (1999, 2001) | Wolfgang Ischinger (regular visitor since the 1990s, later chair) | Joschka Fischer (regular since the 1990s) | Jose Joffe (regular since the 1990s) | Dr. Edmund Stoiber (annual since 2002; member advisory board) | Angela Merkel, PM since 2005 (regular since 2002) | Walter Kiep (2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (2010, 2012, 2013) | 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 (2012) | Helmut Schmidt (2014 50th anniversary panel) | Dr. Manfred Bischoff and Dr. Wolfgang Piller (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG) | Dr. Horst Teltschik (BMW). Great many more Germans from the government, business and the military visited. Liechtenstein: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) French visitors: Francois Heisbourg (regular) | Thierry de Montbrial (regular) | Nicolas Sarkozy (2009) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (2014 50th anniversary panel). Israeli visitors: Gen. Yaakov Amidror (2013) | Ehud Barak (2013) | Martin Indyk (2003, 2013) Arab visitors: 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) | 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. 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) | Gabriela von Habsburg (a daughter of Otto), ambassador of Georgia to Germany | Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan since 2004 (2008). Russian visitors: Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister 1998-2004 and Security Ouncil seretary (regular visitor) | 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 (2012) | Dmitri Trenin (2012). Other countries: Federica Mogherini (2016, 2019; member advisory board) | Carl Bildt of Sweden (regular since 2008; member advisory board) | Zhijun Zhang, Chinese politician (2006, 2012)| Yesui Zhang, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. 2008-2010 (2007) | 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) | Marietje Schaake (2018) | Armand de Decker (2004) | Herman van Rompuy (2011). |
1962 |
| Carl Duisberg Society (CDS International since 1987) Partnered with Atlantik-Brücke 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). 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) | Alexander Graf 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 | Deatche 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) Chairmen's council: Helmut Sonnenfeldt. 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). |
1983 |
| 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 |
| American Academy in Berlin (AAB) Richard Holbrooke (primary founder) | Henry Kissinger (co-founder and chairman) | David Rockefeller (personal donor $10,000-$50,000) | Richard von Weizsacker (co-founder and chairman) | Wolfgang Ischinger (trustee) | David Rubenstein (trustee) | Niall Ferguson (trustee) | Josef Joffe (trustee) | Wolfgang Marchow (Robert Bosch) | Christopher von Oppenheim (trustee) | C. Boyden Gray (trustee) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee) | Richard Haass (distinguished visitor) | Philip Zelikow (fellow) | Francis Fukuyama ("distinguished visitor, class of 2016") | Anne Applebaum (fellow '06) | Julie Finley | Jeffrey Sachs ("Distinguished visitor"). Major financiers: DaimlerChrysler AG, Allianz AG, General Motors-Adam Opel AG, Siemans AG, John W. Kluge Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, etc. |
1994 |
| Transatlantic Forum U.S. advisory board: Kenneth Dam | Richard Burt | Edward Djerejian | Richard Holbrooke | Henry Kissinger | Sen. Joseph | 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 |
| 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 Count Alexander Lambsdorff (co-founder) | Jan Techau (co-founder; Carnegie Europe) | Walter Kiep | Lord Wallace | Mark Brzezinski |
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 |
| 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)| Prince Sadruddin Khan (founding trustee Pugwash Foundation). Russians: Alexander Nikitin | Sergei Oznobishchev | Georgy Arbatov (since 1969) | Primakov. Financiers: governments of Helmut Schmidt (Germany) and Olof Palme (Sweden). |
1957 |
| 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) | Gabriel Hauge (1961) | Robert R. Bowie (CIA; 1961) | John Brademas (1972) | William Ruckelshaus (1972) | Brzezinski (1972-1976) | Vernon Jordan (1977) | Hedley Donovan (1972-1979) | Milton Eisenhower (1971) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1972-1977) | Stephen Solarz (1979-1989) | Scowcroft (1981-1988) | Cyrus Vance 1985-1987) | Sam Nunn (1986) | Morton Abramowitz (1989) | Holbrooke (1989) | Albright (1989) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1988-1989) | Ted Warner (RAND; 1986-1992) | 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) |
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 | 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. |
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 |
| 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 |
| European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (founder) | Margaret Thatcher | Simon Wiesenthal | Valery Giscard d'Estaing |
1994 |
| Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO (CEERN) William Colby | Teller | Ira Straus | Alan Lee Williams | Gen. Geliy Batenin | Mihajlo Mihajlov |
1992 |
| Russian-American Bankers Forum (RABF) David Rockefeller | Vance | Whitehead | Debs | Gerald Corrigan | John Opel |
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) Brzezinski | Kissinger | Carlucci | George Soros | Steve Forbes | Jimmy Carter (chair) |
1994 |
| 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: Brzezinski | Stiglitz | Haass | Nye | Karaganov | Wolfensohn | Anders Aslund | Ana de Palacio | George Soros (financier) | Kofi Annan | Gorbachev | Jeffrey Sachs | Anne-Marie Slaughter (since 2012) | Martin Feldstein. |
1995 |
| American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFOCR) Directors: Thomas Dine | Michael Rokos. Advisory board (long term): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Others on advisory board: Michael Novak | Craig Stapleton. Received awards: Maurice Greenberg | James Wolfensohn (as World bank chief). Albright (speech; Czech born) |
1995 |
| Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) Founders: Graham Fuller (CIA) and Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) |
1995 |
| 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 |
| Balkan Action Committee (BAC) Abramowitz | Brzezinski | Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Philip Kaiser | Kampelman | Kirkpatrick | Perle | Eugene Rostow | Rumsfeld | Solarz | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Taft IV | Elie Wiesel | Wolfowitz | Zumwalt |
1999 |
| American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC - pro-Chechnya) Co-founders: Brzezinski, Alexander Haig, Kampelman. Others: 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 | 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. |
2000 |
| Open Russia Foundation (ORF) openrussiafoundation.org/ Board_of_Trustees.asp (accessed: Dec. 3, 2003): Mikhail Khodorkovsky | 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). Website up mid 2003 - Dec. 2005. Open Russia Club in London (Nov. 2015-): Mikhail K. | George Soros (June '16 speech). |
2001 |
| Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) Roger Robinson Jr. (key founder and chair). International advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Elie Wiesel | 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) | 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 board member) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (chair; president Poland 1995-2005) | Carl Bildt | Wolfgang Ischinger Annual meeting participants: Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('04, '08, '09, '10, '12, '13, '15, '18, '19) | Boris Nemtsov ('05, '06, '08) | Leonid Kuchma ('06, '08, '09, '10, '11, '12, '13, '14, '15, '17, '18, '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, '09, '10, '12, '14, '15, '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, '17, '18, '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, '13, '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, '15, '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, '17, '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 |
| 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 (reference to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine) Founding dinner: Brzezinski (advisory board) | Carla Hills | Albright | Vitali Klitschko | Viktor Yushchenko. Advisory board: Carl Bildt | Bruce Jackson |
2005 |
| 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) International advisory council: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Hans Binnendijk | Madeleine Albright | Anne Applebaum | Eliot Cohen. Also: Peter Doran (director of research). |
2005 |
| 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 |
| International Advisory Group, Ukraine Sen. John McCain | Mikhail 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 |
| 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. Henry Luce (speech in 1964). The Luce family, with its long history with China, has been a major financial patron of the institute. Also: Maurice Greenberg (speaker in 2013) |
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 |
| National Committee for a Free Asia (today 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 |
| Japan Society John D. Rockefeller III (founder) | 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). 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 |
1952 |
| Asia Society Caryl Haskins | William Hewitt | Grayson Kirk (chair 1956-1964) | John D. Rockefeller III (chair 1964-1974) | George Ball (chair 1974-1982) | 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) | Nicholas Platt (president anno 2000) | Frank Weil (trustee anno 2000) | John Thornton (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) | John Thornton (trustee; co-chair 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. . |
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 |
| East-West Center (EWC) Kurt Campbell (vice chair anno 2020) | Peter Ho (vice chair anno 2020; chairman, president and CEO Bank of Hawaii). |
1960 |
| National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) Directors: Robert O. Anderson | Henry Kissinger (exec. vice chair) | Maurice Greenberg (exec. vice chair) and son Evan | Carla Hills (chair anno 2002) | William Rhodes (vice chair) | James Sasser (vice chair) | Adm. David Jeremiah | Adm. Dennis Blair | Michael Armacost | Robert McNamara | William Hewitt | James Schlesinger | Madeleine Albright | Thomas Kean (vice chair) | Lee Hamilton | David Gergen | Thomas Pickering | John Thornton | Martin Feldstein | Stapleton Roy (vice chair) | Sen. Chuck Robb | Kurt Campbell | Michael Blumenthal (chair) | Peter Franz Geithner (father of Timothy Geithner) | Merit Janow. 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 | David Boren | 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. 2003 "contributors": Thomas M. O'Gara | David Rockefeller. 2003 "sponsors": John Brademas | Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. David Jeremiah. 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. |
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 |
| 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 |
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 (. 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.-Taiwan Business Council William Cohen (chair) | Carlucci | 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 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 (+/-) |
| 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 Also see Schwarzman Scholars. Advisory council (annual meetings): David Rubenstein (chair anno 2016; co-founder and chair Carlyle) | Stephen Schwarzman (co-founder and chair Blackstone) | Maurice Greenberg (chair and CEO AIG) | Muhtar Kent (chair and CEO Coca-Cola) | Lloyd Blankfein (chair and CEO Goldman Sachs) | 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 Browne of Madingley (CEO BP) | Robert Dudley (CEO BP) | Ben van Beurden (CEO Shell) | 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 | Nobuyuki Idei (chair and CEO Sony) | Larry Fink. Speakers: Sir Evelyn and Lynn de Rothschild (April '12). |
1984 |
| 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) Kissinger | Vance | McFarlane |
1987 |
| Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies (linked to G8 and G20) Kissinger | Volcker | Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Renato Ruggiero (WTO) | 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 Graf 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) | George W. Bush (2006) |
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 |
| 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) | Thomas Pickering | Fiona Hill. Advisory board: Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair) | Albright (co-chair) | James Baker III (co-chair) | Lawrence Eagleburger | William Luers | Max Kampelman | Bill Bradley | Carlucci | Tempelsman | Lee Hamilton | Michael Mandelbaum | Robert Strauss | Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Casimir Yost. Also: Regina Yan (executive vice president and COO) |
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 |
| 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) | Haig | Kissinger | Dianne Feinstein | Chuck Hagel |
1995 |
| 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 |
1997 |
| Washington-based state dinner in honor of Chinese president Jiang Zemin Many Chinese officials | Clinton | Al Gore | 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) | Henry Paulson Jr. ('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 ('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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Rooosevelt 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, China Bill Gates | George Soros | Christine Lagarde | Vincent Siew | Pascal Lamy | Hu Jintao | Zhou Xiaochuan (vice chair) | Merit Janow. |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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: Dr. Wang Huiyao | Dr. Miao Lu. International council: Pascal Lamy | Kevin Rudd | Jeffrey Lehman (president Cornell; founding vice chancellor NYU Shanghai). Academic Council: Min Zhu Min. Advisory council: Ronnie Chan (co-chair) | He Yafei (co-chair) | Cao Dewang | Wang Shi | Wang Junfeng | Robin Li | Jiang Xipei. |
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 |
| Global Think Tank Summits (CCIEE), China Kissinger | 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 Originall 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). |
2013 |
| U.S.-China Strong Kurt Campbell (vice chair) | Stapleton Roy (director 2018-). Corporate Leadership Council: Kurt C. | Ronnie Chang (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) Tung Chee-Hwa (founder) | Victor Fung (vice chair). 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 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 | Richard Brodhead | Richard Levin | Robert Dudley | Sir Colin Lucas | 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-; chair PepsiCo) | Ajay Banga (2017-; president and CEO MasterCard) | Tim Roemer (anno 2020) | James Umpleby III (anno 2020; chair and CEO Caterpillar). Advsiory board: Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020). Corporations represented by the board: Lockheed Martin | Boeing | Cisco | Dell | FedEx | KKR India | McLarty Associates | Walt Disney | The Asia Group | Warburg Pincus. |
2017 |
| 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 ('17l 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 Economic Forum (BNEF) Different from the BGBF. Michael Bloomberg (founder). Annual forums: Singapore ('18), Beijing ('19). Advisory board The West: Henry Kissinger (hon. chair) | Hank Paulson (co-chair) | David Rubenstein | Bill Gates | Penny Pritzker | Larry Summers | Condoleezza Rice | Walter Isaacson | Robert Zoellick | Kevin Rudd | Strive Masiyiwa | Ursula Burns | Gary Cohn. Advisory board China (extremely strong presence): Jack Ma (exec. chair Alibaba) | Lou Jiwei (Chinese gov.) | Zeng Peyan (co-chair; Chinese gov.) | Tung Chee-Hwa | 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.) | 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) | 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). Speakers: Christine ('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). |
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 |
| 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 Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, 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 2010s; 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-; also board). Prince Turki al Faisal (speech). |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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). AWF Celebrity Ambassadors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Mohamed Ali | Tom Cruise | Shaquille O'Neil | Al Pacino. Senior board of advisors: Kissinger | Prince Albert of Monaco | Dianne Feinstein | Sen. John Kyl. Honorary chairs: Hamid Karzai (participant in meetings) | George H. W. Bush | Bill Clinton | Nancy Reagan (her husband knew Nassery from the 1980s). |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | Thomas Dine (former exec. director AIPAC) | 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; founder and chair Cordoba Initiative) | Mustapha Tlili (director Center for Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West, New York University) | Etc. |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 onte (MIT Media Labs) | 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. |
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 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). 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 |
| Saar Foundation Connected to Al-Taqwa. Suleiman Abdul Al-Aziz al-Rajhi (founder) | Yaqub Mirza (CEO 1984-2002) | Khalid bin Mahfouz (was suspected of being linked to the foundation). |
1970s-2002 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
1988 |
| Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) affair Alfred Hartmann (director; Rothschild banker also deeply involved in the BCCI affair) | 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 (on the board with Kissinger in the same period) | 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: Christie 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 2000s-2010s: John Brademas | Lawrence Eagleburger | Vernon Jordan | Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | Elie Wiesel (already "hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Daniel Moynihan | Ken Duberstein | Alfonse D'Amato | Rudolph Giuliani | Lane Kirkland. Directors: 2000s-2010s: Stephen Schwarzman | Robert Hormats | Abraham Foxman | Malcolm Hoenlein | Ronald Lauder | Michael Ovitz | Steven Rattner | Michael Steinhardt | Michael Meyers | Jacob Frenkel (by 2015) | Larry King (by 2015) | Gen. Paul Vallely (by 2015). Also: Ken Duberstein. More: Ogden Reid ("hon. sponsor" anno 1976) | Mortimer Zuckerman (president) | 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 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"). |
1971 |
| New Israel Fund (accused of being anti-Israel) Ford Fdn. funded. |
1979 |
| Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) Interfaith group that is a New York City-based Hollywood and music industry-focused apin-off of the super-elite Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF). 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 |
| Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) Co-founders: Bernard Marcus (donated $5 million for the construction of building) | Arya Carmon (founding president). Advisory council: Shultz (chair) | Kissinger | Wolfensohn | Sidney Drell | Martin Indyk | Sen. . Fellows: Dan Meridor. |
1991 |
| Peres Center for Peace International board of governors, past and present: Israel: Shimon P. (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 1990s; 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 (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 | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Martin Indyk | 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) |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. 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. |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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: 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). Board: Walter Bedell Smith | Herbert Lehman. |
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) | 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 (founder and head) | Francois Duchene | Max Kohnstamm | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | Willy Brandt | Pietro Nenni | Herbert Wehner | Rainer Barzel | Mariano Rumor | Guy Mollet | Edward Heath. Also: Pierre Uri. |
1956 |
| Europa Nostra Henri J. 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 | Herman 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 |
| Club of Rome Agnelli | Peccei | Dean Rusk | Carroll L. Wilson | Lubbers | Robert O. Anderson | Thornton Bradshaw | Maurice Strong | King Juan Carlos | Queen Beatrix of Orange | Max Kohnstamm | Gorbachev | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Daniel Janssen (associate member) | Jacques Delors (honorary member) | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Ernst von Weizsacker (exec.) |
1968 |
| 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 |
| 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) Pehr Gyllenhammar (co-founder and first chair 1983-88, member until '94; Volvo) | John Harvey-Jones (1983-85; ICI; more from this company) | Umberto Agnelli (1983-94), 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) | Etienne Davignon (1986-01; Societe Generale) | 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-) 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) | Sir Peter Sutherland (1997-09; 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-) | Hans Wijers (2003-; AkoNobel) | Anthony Ruys (2004-05; Heineken) | Peter Voser (2009-; Shell). Others: Romano Prodi (known to have visited and to have been lectured) | Wilhelmus Philippa (secretary-general). Other companies represented: BAT, British Steel, Maersk, Air Liquide, Vodafone, Nokia, Siemens, Deutsche Telekom, Volkswagen, Rolls-Royce, Airbus, DaimlerBenz, Marconi, Rio Tinto, Nestle, Norsk Hydro, Statoil, Petrofina, etc. |
1983 |
| Centre for European Policy Studies Prince Nikolaus von Liechtenstein (director 1990s-mid 2013; a younger brother of Hans Adam II) | Etienne Davignon (director 1990s-2020s) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (director) | Baron Philippe de Schoutheete de Tervarent (director) | Lord Simon of Highbury (director; former CEO of BP) | Onno Ruding (chair) | John Bruton (former Irish PM). Other: Marietje Schaake ("chair CEPS Task Force on Software Vulnerability Disclosure") | Nathalie Tocci. |
1983 |
| 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 Davignon (co-founder and president 1991-2002) |
1987 |
| European Institute Yves-Andre Istel (long-time chair and co-chair; Rothschild, Inc.) | Lawrence Eagleburger (director early 2000s) | Davignon (director early 2000s) | Sutherland (director early 2000s) | William A. Nitze (chair advisory board early 2000s) | C. Boyden Gray | Collomb | Delors | Zoellick | Nitze | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Philippe Giscard d'Estaing | David Maxwell (chair Fannie Mae) | Eric Melby (principal Scowcroft Group) |
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 |
| 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. |
1991 |
| Alfred Herrhausen Society for International Dialogue Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Peter Mandelson | Lord Weidenfeld | Karaganov | Mrs. Wolfgang Ischinger |
1992 |
| 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 |
| CSR Europe Etienne Davignon (chair advisory board anno 2004). Board members represent major corporations. |
1995 |
| Notre Europe Jacques Delors (chair and co-president since 1996) | Pascal Lamy (co-president, trustee and member European steering committee) | Etienne Davignon (one of five trustees and member European steering committee) | Karel Van Miert (director until his death in 2009). 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, past and present: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (chair 2004-) | Carl Bildt | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones | Sir Peter Sutherland | Lord George Robertson | Lord Simon of Highbury | Francois Heisbourg | Pascal Lamy | Wolfgang Ischinger. Directors: Charles Grant. |
1996 |
| European Policy Centre Peter Sutherland | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (vice president 2007-) | Karel Van Miert | Max Kohnstamm | Hans Blix |
1996 |
| Cercle de Lorraine More liberal-oriented continuation of Cercle des Nations. Davignon | Maurice and Leopold Lippens | Gerard Mestrallet | Albert Frere | Baron Daniel Cardon de Lichtbuer | Comte Jean-Pierre de Launoit | Jean-Pierre Laurent Josi. |
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 Etienne Davignon (founder and president). Praesidium members: Baron Daniel Janssen (co-founder) | Carl Bildt | Giuliano Amato | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Jean-Luc Dehaene | Pascal Lamy. Michel Rocard (trustee). 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 Monti | Prince Laurent of Belgium | Maurice Lippens | Wilfried Martens | Gerard Mestrallet | Jacques Santer | Karel Van Miert | Jean-Paul Votron. |
1999 |
| European Business Summit Jan Peter Balkenende (among a long list of speakers) |
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 |
| 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) |
2005 |
| Business for a New Europe Founding advisory council member: Niall FitzGerald, Peter Sutherland, Christopher Tugendhat. Anno 2013: Lord Kerr of Kinlochard. |
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 |
| School of Public Policy at Central European University, Austria Founder: George Soros. 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 |
| 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 | 1928 |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008) |
1933 |
| South African Institute of International Affairs | 1934 |
| Swedish Institute of International Affairs | 1938 |
| Institute of Jewish Affairs (now Institute for Jewish Policy Research) | 1941 |
| Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) | 1944 |
| Royal Institute for International Relations (Egmont), Belgium Officers, past and present: 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. |
1947 |
| Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs | 1949 |
| German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) Karl Kaiser (head 1974-2003) | Count Hagen Lambsdorff (managing board) | Wolfgang Ischinger (steering committee) | Baron Christopher von Oppenheim (steering committee) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (member) | Tom Enders (president 2019-; former CEO Airbus). |
1955 |
| Prague Institute of International Relations | 1957 |
| Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Jan Egeland (director) |
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). Nathalie Tocci (director of research for EU foreign policy) |
1965 |
| French Institute for International Relations (IFRI) Bertrand Collomb (chair) | Thierry de Montbrial | Vladimir Baranovsky | Bassma Kodmani (founder and director of Middle East Program 1981-1998). 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 Kagame | James Lowenstein | Kevin Rudd | Louis Schweitzer | Jean-Claude Trichet. |
1979 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) | 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 | Count Alexander Lambsdorff | 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 (2008-) | 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) | Gerhard Cromme (ThyssenKrupp) | Wolfgang Ischinger (2008-) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Sigmar Gabriel (2018-). 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-). Italy: Romano Prodi | Giuliano Amato | Vincenzo Amendola | Marta Dassu | Mauro Petriccione (director-general "Climate Action") | Giuseppe Scognamiglio | Nathalie Tocci. Eastern Europe: 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). Other: Jordi Vaquer (Spain; senior OSI manager). |
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 Leopold 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 |
| Other Club Carrington | Cecil | Lord Rees-Mogg | Duntisbourne | Rothschild | Prince Charles | Tony Blair | Gordon Brown | Edward Heath | Denis Thatcher | Winston Churchill II | Julian Amery |
1911 |
| Buck's | 1919 |
| 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 | 1863 |
| Harvard Club | 1865 |
| University Club | 1865 |
| Knickerbocker Club | 1871 |
| Bohemian Club, San Francisco | 1872 |
| The Zodiac | 1872 |
| Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C. Neil Livingstone. Dinner together: Tom Kimmel (FBI; Pearl Harbor scholar) | Robert Wolfe (holocaust scholar) | Gregory Douglas (author allied with CIA's Robert Crowley) | Harold Brown | Elliott Richardson (May 1969 dinner with leading CFR members over Vietnam) | Henry Kissinger (May 1969 dinner with leading CFR members over Vietnam). |
1878 |
| Corsair Club | 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 |
| 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 John McCloy | Maxwell Rabb | Cyrus Vance | Harold Brown. Most other elites here are familiar with the club. 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. Honor Roll of Speakers by January 2018: 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. Also: Larry Fink. 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 |
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 | Frank Carlucci | John Macomber | William Simon | Steve Forbes | Jane Harman | Donald Graham | Michael Dell | Ken Duberstein. |
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 | Michael Blumenthal | George Ball | Adlai Stevenson III | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | James Schlesinger | Angier Biddle Duke | Henry Kissinger (also a resident at the above River House) | Peter Peterson (visitor and 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) |
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 (summaring 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 Valentis | Barack and Michelle Obama | Prince Andrew | Obama (likes to golf here) | Bernie Sanders (vacationed here during his presidential campaign) | Arthur Sulzberger Jr. (married his second wife here in 2014). |
Over time |
| 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 Rooosevelt 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 | Stephen Schwarzman | 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 | Evan Galbraith (1950) | Henry Heinz II | Malcolm Aldrich | Chauncey Depew | John Beckwith Madden (also manager Russell Trust) | Hugh Wilson |
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 other 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 |
| 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. 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) | Cees van Lede (trustee 1990s) | Alan Dachs (chair anno 2013; Fremont Group) | Josef Ackermann (vice chair anno 2013) | Aarnout Loudon (Dutch couselor) | Washington SyCip (Belgian counselor) | Niall Fitzgerald (British counselor; chair 2003-2005) | Jane Pfeiffer | Bertrand Collomb (French counselor) | Marcus Wallenberg (Swedish counselor) | Gabrielle Sulzberger (trustee anno 2020; 2nd wife of NYT publisher Arthur Jr. 2014-2020) | Etienne Davignon (Belgian counselor anno 2020). More: David Rockefeller (1966 speech in which he urged for greatly expanded business charity). |
1916 |
| International Chamber of Commerce Peter Peterson (chair U.S. council 1978-1979) | Thomas Watson (chair 1937-1939) | Winthrop Aldrich (chair 1944-1947) | Philip Reed (chair 1949-1951) | Marcus Wallenberg (chair 1965-1967), Peter (chair 1989-1990) and Marcus (chair 2005-2008) | Rahmi Koc (president) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) | Gerard Worms (honorary chair anno 2013) | |
1919 |
| 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. | Vartan Gregorian (1989-1995) | George McGhee | George Shuster | George Stoddard | Juan Trippe | Edward Warburg | Arthur Watson | James Zellerbach (on leave). Others in later times: Henry Kaufman | Debs | Brzezinski | Draper III | Kissinger | Maryam Ansary | Henry Fowler. |
1919 |
| League of Nations Association | 1929 |
| International Rescue Committee (IRC) Leo Cherne (chairman 1951-1991 and chairman emeritis until death in 1999) | William vanden Heuvel (president in the 1960s) | William Casey (president) | Angier Biddle Duke (president) | John Richardson Jr. (president) | John Whitehead (president) | Albert Jolis | Henry Kissinger | Maurice and Evan Greenberg | Madeleine Albright | Morton Abramowitz | Felix Rohatyn | James Wolfensohn | Tom Brokaw | Winston Lord | Claiborne Pell | John Train | Colin Powell | Princess Firyal of Jordan | Jami Miscik | David Miliband (president and CEO) | Timothy Geithner (co-chair board of overseers). |
1933 |
| 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 Trustees: Leo Cherne (chairman 1946-1976) | Bill Richardson (chair anno 2001) | Max Kampelman (chair) | James Woolsey (chair) | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Samuel Huntington | Donald Rumsfeld | Paul Wolfowitz | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Richard Gardner | Thomas Foley | Morton Abramowitz | Diana Villiers onte | William Taft IV (chairman) | Peter Ackerman (chair) | Stuart Eizenstat (vice chair) | Lawrence Lessig (2008-2009) | Mark Palmer (vice chair) | David Kramer (executive director) | John N. Moore (secretary) | Anthony Lake | Thomas Dine | Paula Dobriansky | David Eisenhower | Joshua Muravchik | Theodore Forstmann | Otto Reich | Steve Forbes | Andrew Young, Jr. | Robert Hormats | Rita Hauser | David Rubenstein | Nina Rosenwald | Zainab Al-Suwaij (trustee) | Michael Abramowitz (president) | Michael Chertoff (trustee chair 2018-) | Francis Fukuyama (trustee anno 2020) | Adm. Dennis Blair (trustee anno 2020) | Jim Kolbe (exec. trustee anno 2020). More: Daniel Pipes (Academic Advisor anno 1998-1999). |
1941 |
| 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. |
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: 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) | Kissinger (life) | McNarama | Cyrus Vance | Thomas Pickering (life) | Leslie Wexner (life) | Sandra Day O'Connor (life) | David Gergen (life) | William Donaldson (life) | 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. MORE: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech/member) | Marta Dassu (Senior Director European Affairs) | Dan Glickman (executive director of Aspen's Congressional 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 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: Nye (co-chair), Scowcroft (co-chair), Graham Allison, Armitage, Cheney, David G., Al Gore, Condoleezza Rice, 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). 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 Negroponte | 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. |
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 | Kenneth Lay | Ross Perot, Jr. | Albright | David and Susan Eisenhower | Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Ernst van der Beugel (since 1979). 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) | David Rockefeller ('74, '80) | Paul Volcker ('80) | George Shultz ('73 speech: "[The IMC] has become a highlight in the yearly calendar of the international financial community. [I'm] a first-timer.") | A.W. Clausen ('80) | Walter Wriston ('80; board member anno 1980) | Willis Alexander ('80; board member anno 1980; exec. VP ABA) | Wilfired Guth ('74, '80; managing director Deutche Bank) | Milton Friedman ('80) | 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) | Michael Blumenthal ('78) | 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.]") | Alan Greenspan ('05) | Ben Bernanke ('08) | Timothy Geithner ('11) | Jamie Dimon ('13) | Niall Ferguson ('13) | Jacob Frenkel ('13) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('13) | Alex Weber ('13; board member anno 2013) | 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) | Stanley Fischer ('15). Meetings: New Orleans (1980) | Vancouver (1982) | Toronto (1992) | Montreal (2002) | Beijing (2005) | Barcelona (2008) | Tokyo (2009) | 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 Initial 1954 U.S. visitors ALL were CFR members by that time: David Rockefeller | 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. Joseph Retinger (came up with the idea. Prince Bernhard (co-founder; initial chairman) | Queen Beatrix (for decades) | King Alexander of Orange | Henry Kissinger (for decades) | George Soros ('90, '94, '00, '02) | Lord Carrington (chair) | Lord Roll (chair) | Sharon Percy Rockefeller | Nicholas Brady | Gabriel Hauge | Richard Holbrooke | Richard Haass | John Whitehead | Davignon (chair) | John Loudon | Aarnout Loudon ('84) | Max van der Stoel | Wim Kok ('03) | Wolfensohn | Vernon Jordan | Victor Halberstadt (went since 1975, secretary general 1980-2000) | Max Kohnstamm | Conrad Black | Wolfowitz | Perle | Marc, Marcus Jr., Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg (1950s-) | Paul-Emmanuel and Daniel Janssen (steering committe) | Romano Prodi | Kenneth Dam | Sir Frederic Bennett | Peter Thiel (steering) | Sir Peter Sutherland | Roosa ('65, '75, '79, '82) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst ('70, '74, '81) | Edward Heath ('63, '67, '69)| Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('04-, steering committee) | Henry and Marie Kravis (regular since 1990s) | Edmond de Rothschild | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (1970, 1971) | Montbrial | McCloy | Agnelli | Gabriel Hauge | Bertrand Collomb (steering comm.) | Sen. George Mitchell (steering comm.) | Mustafa Koc | Grierson (4x) | Ruud Lubbers ('83, '91, '92, '94) | Count Otto Lambsdorff (1980, 1982-1984) | Walther Kiep ('74, '75, '77, '80) | Feyo Sickinghe ('77) | Rozanne Ridgway | Robert Hormats ('83, '85, '85, '10) | Dean Rusk ('57, '69) | Graham Allison (1970, 1971) | Karel Schwarzenberg | Lord George Robertson (2x) | Sam Nunn (2x) | John Deutch (3x) | Hans van den Broek (3x) | Bill Clinton (2x) | Donald Rumsfeld ('75, '02) | John Brademas (2x) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (2x) | Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein ('85, '86, '87) | Bo Ramfors ('91) | Helmut Kohl | Rifkind ('86, '96) | Walter Mondale ('74, '81) | Sen. Daniel Evans ('86, '88) | Chas Freeman ('96) | Richard Pipes ('80) | Robert Pfaltzgraff ('82, '86) | William Rhodes ('98) | Douglas Feith (2004) | Michael Ledeen ('05) | Larry Summers ('98, '02, '10) | Joschka Fischer ('08) | Martin Feldstein (2008, 2010) | Anatoly Chubais ('98, '12) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan ('10) | Jeffrey Sachs (1990) | Fred Bergsten (1997, 2002) | Nelson Rockefeller ('74) | Bill Bradley ('85) | Rupert Murdoch (1x) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2004) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn (2000) | Jan Hommen ('07, '10) | Rijkman Groenink ('02) | Cees van der Hoeven ('01) | Ad Melkert ('01) | Lee Hamilton (1x) | Eugene Rostow ('67) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (1x) | Thomas Pickering (1x) | Joseph Nye | (1x) | Peter Mandelson | Christine Whitman (1998) | John Bolton (2003) | Gen. James L. Jones (1x) | Stephen Friedman | Frans Timmermans | Cees van Lede ('89) | Maxime Verhagen | Ernst van der Beugel (secretary) | Herman Wijffels ('97) | Pieter Korteweg (steering committee) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer ('03, '05, '07, '09) | Susan Eisenhower ('01) | Dianne Feinstein ('91) | Hans van Mierlo ('82) | Gerard Kleisterlee ('02, '06) | Frits Bolkestein ('96, '02, '03, '04) | Hans Wijers ('04) | Jozias van Aartsen ('05) | Nout Wellink ('06, '09) | Arthur Docters van Leeuwen ('05) | Mat Herben ('02) | Neeli Kroes ('05-'11) | Jeroen van der Veer ('00, '03-'05, '07, '09) | Martin van den Bergh | Antony Burgmans ('04) | Jan Peter Balkenende ('08) | Ernst Hirsch Ballin ('09) | Karl Otto Pohl | Michel Rocard (1986) | Paul Desmarais (1982) | Lord Lamont (1995) | David Cameron ('08, '13) | Jan Huyghebaert (1999) | Trichet ('08-'10) | Gerard Mestrallet ('99) | Pascal Lamy | Cyrus Vance | Klaas de Vries ('03) | Gijs de Vries ('04) | Elco Brinkman ('93) | Aatos Erkko ('91) | John Bryan, Jr. ('95) | Gustavo Cisneros ('10) | Niall Ferguson | Eric Schmidt (since 2007) | Alexander Pechtold ('12) | Mark Rutte ('12, '13, '15, '16) | Mathias Dophner | Martti Ahtisaari ('94, '96) | Christine Lagarde ('13, '14, '16, '17; man. dir. IMF; president ECB) | Robert Rubin ('10-'15, '17, '18, '19) | Walter Isaacson ('04) | John Kerry ('12) | Stacey Abrams ('19) | Max Boot ('04) | David Petraeus ('09, '13-'18, '19) | Gerald Corrigan ('94) | Mario Monti (regular '83-'15) | Tom Enders (steering committee) | Hank Paulson ('08) | Timothy Geithner | David Rubenstein ('17) | Richard Burt ('84, '86, '87, '90) | Muhtar Kent ('07) | Merit Janow ('04) | Radoslaw Sikorski (steering comm. '20) | Jon Huntsman Jr. ('12). |
1954 |
| Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) Dwight Eisenhower (co-founder). Honorary trustees per Oct. 18, 2000: Maurice Greenberg | Kenneth 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 |
| 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) | Brzezinski (early recruit) | Robert Putnam | Huntington (exec.) | Joseph Nye (exec.) | Stephen M. Walt (exec.) | Gene Sharp (research appointments since 1965) | Gen. Edward B. Atkeson (fellow 1973-74) | Larry Summers (conference speaker at times and later Harvard president) | Karl Kaiser | Graham Fuller (2001 speech 'The Future of Political Islam') | Dr. Herbert Kelman |
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 the International Republican Institute. 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) |
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-2020s; also an executive) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (trustee 1980s-May 2017; also an executive; cochair advisory board 1990s and into the 2000s) | Paul Volcker (trustee and chair of the advisory board; entirely gone by 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) | 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 2001-2020s) | 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 Roth Jr. | Frederick Seitz (pres. Rock. Uni.) | Shoichiro Toyoda (president Toyota) | Sen. Bennett Johnston | Sen. Nancy Kassebaum | 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 later: Carla Hills (trustee co-chair advisory board 1990s and into the 2000s, alongside Zbig) | Brent Scowcroft (trustee 1990s-2018) | Harold Brown (trustee 1992-2018; counselor 1990s-2000s) | John Hamre (trustee, president and CEO 2000-2020s) | 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 2005-2020s) | Thomas Pritzker (trustee late 2000s-2015; chair 2015-) | Richard Armitage (trustee late 2000s-2020s) | Muhtar Kent (trustee 2008-2017) | Gen. James L. Jones (trustee 2011-) | Jim McNerney (trustee 2013-) | Leon Panetta (trustee 2015-) | Stanley Druckenmiller (trustee 2015-) | Brendan Bechtel (trustee May 2017-) | Darren Woods (chair and CEO ExxonMobil; trustee anno 2020) | Evan Greenberg (trustee 2019-; son of Maurice). 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. Senior advisors: 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) | Thomas McLarty (2000-) | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. 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) | 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) . 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). |
1962 |
| 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 |
| Americas Society / Council of the Americas 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. 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). |
1963 |
| 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 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 |
| Religions for Peace International trustees: Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | John Brademas | Thomas McLarty III | Richard Blum (co-chair; husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Steve Killelea |
1970 |
| World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos, Switzerland Jose Maria Figueres (first CEO) | Klaus Schwab (founder, president and executive chair) | Louis Schweiter (president) | Victor Chu (foundation board) | Bill Clinton | Tony Blair | David Cameron | Angela Merkel | Shimon Peres | Colin Powell | Bill Gates | Sutherland | Victor Halberstadt | Larry Summers (co-chair) | John Bryan, Jr. (co-chair 1994, 1997, 2000) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (council vice chair) | Frank-Jurgen Richter (director) | Patrick Gross | Kasputys | Condoleezza Rice | James Wolfensohn | George von Mallinckrodt | Kofi Annan | George Soros (early or mid 1990s, promoting Yavlinsky's economic program for the USSR to the emerging oligarchs; '98, '03, more) | Berezovsky ('95, '96) | Lula da Silva ('03) | Henry Kravis | Queen Rania of Jordan | Yasser Arafat | Bono | Conrad Black | Joseph Gorman | Haass | Maurice Lippens | Victor Pinchuk | David Rockefeller | Maurice Strong | Christine Lagarde (IMF) | Howard Buffett (son of Warren) | Nat Rothschild | David O'Reilly | Fred Bergsten | Turki al Faisal | Tansu Ciller | Gusinsky | Roman Abramovich | Rem Vyakhirev | Khodorkovsky | Mikhail Fridman | Vladimir Potanin | Putin | Anatoly Chubais | Gennady Zyuganov | Leonid Mikhelson | Oleg Deripaska | Martin Feldstein | Richard Gardner | Niall Fitzgerald | Peter Mandelson | John Watson | Dominique Strauss-Kahn | Carl Bildt | Spencer Kim | Larry Page (2002's Global Leader for Tomorrow) | Al Seckel | Newt Gingrich | David Ignatius | Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) | Gareth Evans | Queen Maxima of Orange | Marietje Schaake ("Young Global Leader" 2014-; co-chair WEF's Global Future Council 2018-) | Kumi Naidoo | Jacqueline Novogratz (member Global Agenda Council for Sustainable Development) | Eyal Ofer | Min Zhu Min (trustee) | Yoriko Kawaguchi (member Global Future Council) | Sigmar Gabriel (member GFC 2018-2019) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (fellow) | Anthony Lake | Josette Sheeran (vice chair) | Timothy Geithner | David Rubenstein (trustee and member international business council) | Merit Janow | Congressman Brian Baird ('10) | Jane Harman ('20) | Jean-Pascal Tricoire (member IBC '19-) | Feike Sijbesma (WEF's Pioneers of Change 2020 summit). The Forum of Young Global Leaders, board: Klaus Schwab (founder in 2004 and chair) | Queen Rania (anno 2007-2009) | Joseph Nye (anno 2007-2009) | Elie Wiesel (anno 2007-2009) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno 2007-2009; Polish president 1995-2005) | Prince Jaime de Bourbon de Parme (anno 2020) | Eric Jing (anno 2020). |
1971 |
| Trilateral Commission (TC) David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski (key founders) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller | Kissinger | Peter Peterson | Robert Roosa | John McCloy | George Ball | Alexander Haig | Maurice and Jeffrey Greenberg | David Packard (1973-1981) | Sen. Daniel Evans ('73-) | Henry Owen ('73-) | Paul Volcker (member since '75, North American chairman) | Allan Gotlieb (North American chairman in '90s) | Joseph Nye (chairman) | Winston Lord ('73) | John Whitehead ('82-'85) | Jean-Claude Trichet (European chair 2012-) | Carl Hahn | Martin Feldstein | Elliot Richardson | William T. Coleman Jr. | Cyrus Vance | Prince Willem Alexander of Orange | Maxime Verhagen | Jeroen van der Veer | Holbrooke | Donald Keough | Michel David-Weill | Francois Duchene (European vice chair) | Herve de Carmoy (member 1978-1989; French chair 1989-2004; vice chair European section 2004-2010; member 2010-) | Jean-Clause Casanova | Warren Christopher | Thomas Foley ('73-) | George Franklin | Sutherland (chairman) | Lord Guthrie | Edward Heath (1980) | Sir Ronald Grierson | David Abshire ('73-) | Sen. Alan Cranston ('73-) | Maurice Strong | Walter Mondale | Russell Train | Sir Henry Keswick | Edmond de Rothschild | John Brademas | Riley Bechtel | Carla Hills | Andre Desmarais | Marie Josee Kravis | William Webster | Carrington | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Lord Simon of Highbury | Haass | 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | Davignon | Daniel and Paul-Emmanuel Janssen (executive) | Conrad Black | Jacob Frenkel | Maurice Lippens | Clinton | Deutch | Vernon Jordan | John Thain | Rumsfeld | Perle | Condoleezza Rice | Cheney | Carlucci | Rohatyn | Wolfowitz | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Walter Kiep (1993) | Lee Raymond | George Soros | McNamara | Joseph Gorman | Rozanne Ridgway | Renato Ruggiero | Carlos Ferrer (European deputy chair) | David Rubenstein | Kenneth Lay | Gorelick | David O'Reilly | Raymond Seitz | Katharine Graham | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gergen | Zuckerman | Paul O'Neill | Karel Schwarzenberg | Neil Goldschmidt | Philip Hawley | Maurice Sonnenberg | Lee Hamilton | Fukuyama | Michael Armacost | Greenspan | Paula Dobriansky | Chas Freeman | Albright | Charlie Rose | Gen. James L. Jones | Larry Summers | Pickering | Max Kohnstamm | Karl Otto Pohl | Willy de Clercq | Louis Gerstner | Toru Hashimoto | Toru Kusukawa | Shunichi Suzuki | Ruckelshaus | George Shultz | Weinberger | Michael Bloomberg | Michael Blumenthal | Niall Fitzgerald | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Robert Hormats | Cees Maas (EU treasurer) | Strobe Talbott | Sol Linowitz | Paul Warnke | Sir Philip de Zulueta | Eliot Cohen | Gerald Curtis | Jane Harman | Henri Simonet | Kurt Biedenkopf | Walter L. Kiep | Wolfgang Ischinger | Collomb | Philip Zelikow | Robert R. Bowie | Ruud Lubbers | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | William O. Baker | Graham Allison ('73-) | Peter Mandelson | J. Paul Austin | Dianne Feinstein | Jeffrey Epstein | Eric Schmidt | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Maarten van Traa (1986) | John Bryan, Jr. | James Wolfensohn (1999 annual meeting) | Eli Leenaars | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | David Petraeus | Jami Miscik | Thomas McLarty | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam) | Adm. Michael Mullen | Adm. Dennis Blair | Dina Habib Powell | Walter Isaacson | Susan Rice | Thomas Donilon | Jim Hackett | Kurt Campbell | Michael Chertoff | Gerald Corrigan | Mario Monti ('85-, EU chair until 2012) | Marcus Wallenberg | Gordon Smith (Canada) | Jared Cohen | John Hess | Timothy Geithner | John Hamre | George H. W. Bush (member around 1979-1980, and present at an April 1, 1984 reception) | Merit Janow | Alex Weber | Nicholas Burns | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Larry Fink Other: Christine Lagarde (participant March 22-26, 2017 meeting in DC) | Sigmar Gabriel (2018-) | Richard Burt (present at an April 1, 1984 reception, but not a member). Dutch visitors: Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer (fellow; niece of Jaap) | Mark Rutte, Jozias van Aartsen, Onno Ruding, Bernard Wientjes, Agnes Jongerius, Maxime Verhagen, Uri Rosenthal, Hans Wijers and Eli Leenaars (part of a Nov. 2011 regional conference). Russian consultants of the 1994-95 period: Sergei Karaganov (regular in recent years), Andrei Kokoshin (visited in 1999), Alexei Arbatov. The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies (1975 TC report): Samuel Huntington | Michel Crozier | Joji Watanuki (promoted at the time by Zbigniew B.) Japanese members: Shinji Fukukawa. 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. |
1973 |
| Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, JFK School, Harvard Paul M. Doty (founder) | Graham Allison (director/head) | Lewis Branscomb | John Deutch | Joseph Nye | Nat Rothschild | James Schlesinger | Paul Volcker | Sam Nunn | Thomas Foley | Nicholas Burns | Ashton Carter | Niall Ferguson | John Holdren | 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 | Robert Blackwill (international council) | Oleg Deripaska (international council) | Martin Feldstein (expert and director) | Andrei Kokoshin (retained as a long-time expert) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (listed as a researcher) | 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). 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 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 (chairman) | 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). |
1978 |
| Open Society Foundations (formerly Open Society Institute) (OSF) Global Board: George Soros (chair global board) | 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 | Morton Abramowitz (trustee 1990s-2000s) | Bill Moyers (trustee 1990s-2000s) | Martti Ahtisaari (joint advisors' group) | Morton Halperin (created the Washington office and appointed director of it in Feb. 2002; senior advisor) | Fiona Hill (advisory board, Central Eurasia Project) | Yoeri Albrecht (EU advisory board) | Heather Grabbe (executive director). Nov. 29, 2006 roundtable discussion of OSI: Robert Borosage | Katrina vanden Heuvel | John Podesta Leslie Kean (UFO author; received grants) Scholarships: Viktor Orban |
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. |
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) John D. Marks (founder and president) | W. Scott Thompson | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Prince Alfred von Liechtenstein | Dov Zakheim. Advisory board: Michael Murphy | John Mack.Funded by several dozen Eastern Establishment foundation, as well as governments. |
1982 |
| Albert Einstein Institution (AEI) 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"). |
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 |
| National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI) Walter Mondale (chair 1986-1993) | Madeleine Albright (vice chair in the 1980s; later chair) | Nina Rosenwald | Dick Gephardt | Patrick Moynihan | John Brademas | Maurice Tempselsman | Cyrus Vance | James Wolfensohn | Richard Gardner | Mike Mansfield | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Sen. Chuck Robb | Susan Rice | Bill Bradley | Ed Muskie | Stephen Solarz | Mario Cuomo | Ted Sorensen | Michael Dukakis | Anne Wexler | Katherine Maher (Wiki) | Constance Milstein (director 2000s) | Nancy Rubin (director 2010s-2020s). |
1983 |
| Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) Members in November 1999 (some of them directors): Jimmy Carter | A.W. Clausen | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Gen. John Galvin | David Hamburg | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills (co-vice chair anno 2002; still a director in '20) | Sol Linowitz | Thomas McLarty III (still in '20) | William Reilly | Elliot Richardson | Rozanne Ridgway | Brent Scowcroft | Cyrus Vance | Robert Zoellick | Bruce Babbitt ("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 (director anno 2011). Remaining: McGeorge Bundy | Robert McNamara | Theodore Hesburgh | Dianne Feinstein | Peter Hakim (president). Listed funders in November 1999: Arca Fdn. | Chase Manhattan Fdn. | Ford Fdn. | Hewlett Fdn. | Kellogg Fdn. | MacArthur Fdn. | Andrew W. Mellon Fdn. | Whitehead Fdn. | USAID | U.S. Institute of Peace | World Bank | Canadian International Development Agency. Companies: American Airlines | AIG | GE | Xerox | BP America | Texaco BankAmerica | Pfizer | Time-Warner | BankBoston | Andean Development Corporation | Banco Itau | Banco Latinoamericano de Exportacion | Trans-Brasil Airlines. |
1983 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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 | Graf 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 |
| Cercle des Economistes Jean-Herve Lorenzi (president) |
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) Trustees: George Soros (co-founder, seed-financier, financier, exec. committee) | Lord Mark Malloch-Brown (co-chair; executive committee) | Prince El-Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (1990s; later a royal family advisor was on board) Vernon Jordan (1990s) | Mark Eyskens (1990s-2000s) | Robert McNamara (1990s) | Malcolm Fraser (1990s; later advisor) | Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1990s; later advisor) | Stephen Solarz (1990s-2000s; vice chair) | Thorvald Stoltenberg (1990s-) | Brian Urquhart (1990s) | Akio Watanabe (1990s) | Elie Wiesel (1990s) | Peter Kooijmans (1990s) | Desmond Tutu (1990s) | William Shawcross (1995-2005) | Martti Ahtisaari (chair; later advisor) | Gareth Evans (president and CEO 2000-2009; senior advisory board since) | Louise Arbour (president and CEO 2009-; chief prosecutor in The Hague over Yugoslavia and Rwanda) | Thomas Pickering (co-chair by early 2000s; chair) | Lord Chris Patten (co-chair 2000s; later advisor) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (later advisor) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (joined in 2002, together with Zbig) | Victor Chu (later advisor) | Leslie Gelb | Samantha Power (2000s) | Daniel Abraham | Richard V. Allen | Saud Nasir Al-Sabah (Kuwait) | Sen. George Mitchell (chair) | Morton Abramowitz | Sandy Berger | Gen. Wesley Clark | Carla Hills | Igor Ivanov | Wim Kok (joined after stepping down as Dutch PM in 2002) | Ayo Obe (Nigeria) | Salim Salim (Tanzania) | Mohamed Sahnoun (UN advisor on Africa) | William O. Taylor (chair Boston Globe) | Joschka Fischer | Larry Summers | Par Stenback | Yoichi Funabashi | Wu Jianmin | Yegor Gaidar (2008-) | Kofi Annan (2008-) | Lord Paddy Ashdown (2008-) | Richard Armitage (2008-; later advisor) | Prince Turki al Faisal ((2008-; later advisor) | Pat Cox (president EU Parliament) | Carl Bildt | Wolfgang Ischinger | Alexander Soros | Helle Thorning-Schmidt (PM of Denmark) | Federica Mogherini (trustee Dec. 2019-) Yoriko Kawaguchi (trustee) | Sigmar Gabriel (2018-). Senior Advisory Board (2013 annual report: "our Senior Advisers, former members of the Board of Trustees who maintain an association ... and whose advice and support are called on from time to time..."): Rita Hauser (chair anno 2006) | Hushang Ansary | Jacques Delors | Victor Pinchuk (long-time financial contributor as well) | Shimon Peres | Lord George Robertson | Leo Tindemans | Michel Rocard. Donors: 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: 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 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 Foundation. 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. Whitehead [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 ..." |
1995 |
| United Religions Initiative President's council: George Shultz |
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 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. 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 PodhoretzSir 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 |
| 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: John Doerr (until March 2008) | Steven Rockefeller Jr. (until March 2008) | Muhammad Yunus (anno 2006-2009). Advisory council: Mrs. Trammell Crow (anno 2006-2009) | John Whitehead (anno 2006-2009). |
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 |
| Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba (US-Cuba Trade Assoc.) Directors: David Rockefeller | Volcker | Whitehead | Carla Hills | James Schlesinger | Carlucci | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Oliver Stone (since the 1990s; producer of the pro-conspiracy 'JFK' movie and anti-conspiracy movie 'World Trade Center'; strong "liberal" bias) | Francis Ford Coppola | William D. Rogers |
1998 |
| 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 |
| 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 Albright | Carlucci | Whitehead | Brademas | Kampelman | Paula Dobriansky | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 (at least) |
| 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 |
| 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 disappeared were all gone by 2011. More: Chester Crocker (fellow) | Michael Chertoff (fellow). 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-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Alexei Arbatov | Igor Ivanov | Sergei Rogov | Susan Eisenhower | Warren Buffett | William Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Kokoshin | Malcolm Rifkind | Gen. James Cartwright | Michael Douglas. 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 Huntsman Jr. | Wolfgang Ischinger | Gen. James Jones | Thomas Kean | Henry Kissinger | Ruud Lubbers | Richard Lugar | Robert McFarlane | Adm. Michael Mullen | 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 | Romano Prodi | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Jose Zapatero | Guy Verhofstadt. 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 | Joseph E. Stiglitz (honorary anno 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. 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 (aims towards young 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) | Pascal Lamy (vice president) | Miguel de la Madrid | Gareth Evans | Malcolm Fraser | Morton Halperin | Vaclav Havel | Robert Lifton (psychiatrist tied to MKULTRA) | Evgenyn Primakov | Mary Robinson | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | Helmut Schmidt | Joseph Stiglitz | Andreas van Agt | William vanden Heuvel | Richard von Weizsacker. |
2002 |
| Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (WMDC) Hans Blix | Alexei Arbatov | William Perry | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Joran |
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 |
| CMi cmi.eu.com. Established to create better corporate directors. Listed as mentors, past and present: Sir John Buchanan | Bertrand Collomb | Viscount Etienne Davignon | Sir John Egan | Niall FitzGerald | Sir Christopher Hogg (and wife) | Wim Kok | Lord Simon of Highbury | Sir Peter Sutherland | Sir Richard Sykes |
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.). |
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, besides names as Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Vernon Jordan | Thomas McLarty | Rahm Emanuel | Richard Holbrooke. 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 Conservancy; '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 (president and CEO Paley Center for Media; '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. 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) | 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) Kissinger | Shultz | Perry | Nunn |
2007 |
| International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrope Moshe Kantor (president; chair initial organizing committee) | Blix | Nunn | Perry | Karaganov | Oznobishchev | Alexei Arbatov | Vagif Guseinov | Alexander Nikitin | Roald Sagdeev (former husband of Susan Eisenhower) | Gareth Evans |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Global Progress Council Organized by Bill Clinton, Felipe González 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 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) | 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). |
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). |
2013 |
| 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 president of Switzerland (former Chair)) | 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 |
| 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 | Lord Brian Griffiths (director Goldman Sachs) | Paul Polman (CEO Unilever) | Tony Elumelu | Indra Nooyi (chair and CEO PepsiCo) | Herman Daems (chair PNP 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." 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). May 27, 2014 Inclusive Capitalism Conference: Co-hosted by the City of London Corporation and EL Rothschild. Participants: Prince Charles | Christine Lagarde. June 26, 2015 conference: Prince Charles | Lynn F. de R. | Bill Clinton. |
2014 |
| Inclusive America (IA) inclusiveamerica.org/endorsers-partners/ (accessed: Nov. 28, 2020): "Richard Armitage ... [Gen.] Michael Hayden ... Christine Todd 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 |
| 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 |
| G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance Members: Jacob Frenkel | Jean-Claude Trichet | Lord Nicholas Stern | Zhu Min | Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Chair; Singapore) | Sufian Ahmed (Ethiopia) | Ali Babacan (Turkey) | etc. Contributors: George Shultz | Stephen Schwarzman | Marc Andreessen | Gordon Brown | Fei-Fei Li (Google). |
2017-2018 |
| 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 |
| Paris Peace Forum Executive committee: Pascal Lamy | Thierry de Montbrial. Steering committee: 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 |
| Oil Club Chairman: Lord Lamont |
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Liberal: New Left: 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 |
| 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). |
1846 |
| Peabody Education Fund Together with the Peabody Trust in England the first foundations in existence. Trustees: George Peabody (founder; founded Peabody, Morgan & Co. with J.P. Morgan, Sr.'s father, Junius) | Gen. Ulysses Grant | J. Pierpont Morgan (treasurer) | Joseph Choate | Morris Jesup |
1867 |
| American Museum of Natural History Theodore Roosevelt (considered a young co-founder). Trustees 1881: Morris Jesup (president 1881-1908) | J. Pierpont Morgan | Cornelius Vanderbilt | Oliver Harriman | William E. Dodge, Jr. | Percy Pyne | Joseph Choate | James Constable. Some other later trustees: Dr. Henry F. Osborn (assistant to president 1899-1901, vice president 1901-1908, president 1908-1933; since 1893 a great friend of John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club) | Madison Grant | Frederick Osborn | Cleveland H. Dodge (vice president) | Cleveland E. Dodge (trustee) | Mrs. Russell Sage (benefactor) | Clarke Gilmore | Robert Bliss | Caryl Haskins (trustee 1973-1989) | Maurice Greenberg | David Koch | Theodore Roosevelt IV. Also: Andrew carnegie established the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. |
1869 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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). |
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 |
| 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 International; trustee Soros' ICG) | 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) | Morton Halperin (Washington director 1984-1992; head of its "National Security Archive") | George Soros (major financier). |
1920 |
| American Birth Control League (Planned Parenthood) All names gathered from NY Times articles. Margaret Sanger (primary founder). Paul Ehrlich among the board of advocates members. 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). 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. Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford (US co-chairs national council). Board members: 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. Others: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (prominent Austrian member of UNA's international club) | Nelson Mandela (honorary president WF). Known visitors: Jacob Rothschild | Henry Kissinger | David Rockefeller (major financier, along with his brother Laurance) | Mrs. Nelson "Happy" Rockefeller. |
1943 |
| 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].") 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 |
| 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 Laurance Rockefeller (co-founder) | Fairfield Osborn (president 1948-1961, chair 1962-1969) | Samuel Ordway, Jr. (president 1961-1965) | Russell Train (president 1965-1969) | David McAlpin (founding trustee) | 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. |
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) 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 Jordan (1980s) | Hillary Clinton (trustee 1982-1988, chair 1987-1988) | Colin Greer (president 1985-; very close to Hillary Clinton when her husband was president). 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. |
1954 |
| American Conservation Association Laurance Rockefeller | Russell Train | Samuel Ordway, Jr. |
1958 |
| Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Islands Founders: Julian Huxley and S. Dillon Ripley II. |
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: George Cooley (financier in 1965-1969 period, possibly board member) | David Brower (joined in the 1930s, editor Sierra Club Bulletin since 1946, executive director in 1952-1969, again director 1983-1988 and 1995-2000). Pusblished Paul Ehrlich's book 'The Population Bomb'. 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. Also: Steven Greer has lectured the Sierra Club. |
1960 |
| 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 (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): Prince Bernhard (first president 1962-1976) | Prince Philip (president 1981-1996). A few others: Clinton Gutermuth (founding U.S. director 1961-1973 and later president) | John Loudon (president 1976-1981; Shell chair) | Luc Hoffmann (international vice president and president French branch; sponsor of many projects) | 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). 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. |
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 |
| 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 |
| Primitive People's Fund / Survival International Edward Goldsmith (co-founder; brother of Sir James Goldsmith) | Robin Hanbury Tenison (long-time chair). |
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 of FIAT | 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: Rockefeller Brothers Fund | Ted Turner Foundation | MacArthur Foundation | Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | David and Lucile Packard Foundation | 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). |
1969 |
| Commission on Population Growth (CPG) John D. Rockefeller III (chair) | Sen. Alan Cranston |
1969 |
| Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Heavy Ford and Rockefeller Fdn. financing. George Soros (financier). Trustees: Frances Beinecke (chair) | Patricia Bauman (vice chair in the 2000s) | Robert Redford (since 1975) | Leonardo DiCaprio (trustee since 2003 or early 2004) | Van Jones |
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: Maurice Strong | Queen Noor of Jordan | Jane Goodall | Robert Kennedy, Jr. | Princess Lalla Hasnaa Alaoui of Morocco | Sir Richard Branson | Phillipe Cousteau Jr. | Leonardo DiCaprio (Co-Chair) | Shaquille O'Neal | Martin Scorsese | Barbra Streisand (Co-Chair) | John Podesta. 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) |
1970 |
| International Peace Institute (IPI) / Previously Int. Peace Academy (IPA) Ruth Forbes Young (founder). 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) | Kevin Rudd (chair). Advisory board: Prince Turki al Faisal | Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan | Olara Otunna (president 1990-1998; 2000s; exposed Ugandan genocide, partly backed by World Bank and U.S. in a documentary around 2006/2007) | Sir Brian E. Urquhart | Karel Jan Gustaaf van Oosterom (Netherlands) | Lisa Shields. |
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) Robert O. Anderson (founder) | Princess Nora von Liechtenstein | |
1971 |
| 1001: A Nature's Trust (1001 Club) 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 | 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 |
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 |
| 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 |
| 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). The founding was financed by Rockefeller 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 and mother of Richard). |
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., Rockefeller 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. Robert E. White (president 1990s-2010) | Claiborne Pell (director 1990s) | Cynthia McClintock (chair since the 1990s) | Maurice Tempelsman (director since 2013) |
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 e |