Trilateral Commission: Historical Membership List plus Biographies

Source(s): 1973-1978, 1985 ("In Public Service")

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Source(s): 2002-2018 lists. Not on a 2001 or 2019 list.

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Source(s): 2018

President Boeing International.

Source(s): 1978, (not 1990), 2006, 2013, 2018, 2020

Defense secretary advisor. Director Belfer Center. Dean John F. Kennedy School at Harvard.

Source(s): 1973-1981 lists

Rockefeller Republican. Illinois congressman 1961-1981. Chair of the House Republican Conference 1969-1979. Founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 1973. Independent presidential candidate during the 1980 election campaign, won by Reagan-Bush over Carter-Mondale. Received 6.6% of the popular vote.

President of the World Federalist Association. Member advisory board Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). First executive director of the elite Council for the National Interest, founded in 1989. Member international council of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute. Supporter of the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA).

Source(s): 1998

Chairman Archer Daniels Midland Company.

Source(s): 1973, 1975, 1978, 1979 lists

Chairman Coca-Cola. Recruiter of future president Jimmy Carter.

Source(s): 1998

U.S. Ambassador to Japan. President Brookings Institution.

Source(s): 2007-2010 lists

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Source(s): 1998

Chairman Schlumberger Limited.

Source(s): 1993-1998 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not on a 1990 and maybe 1992 list.

Attorney General of Arizona 1975-1978. Democrat Governor of Arizona 1978-1987. Bill Clinton's secretary of the interior 1993-2001. Dedicated environmentalist. Director (emeritus) WWF.

Source(s): 1973, 1975, 1979 lists. Not on a 1981 list or beyond. Always went as "Senior Partner, Lehman Brothers".

Senior partner Lehman Brothers. Helped set up the structures of the European Union alongside Jean Monnet. Founding member of Bilderberg alongside the CIA and David Rockefeller in 1954, and continued to visit annually until 1993, just before his death. Member Pilgrims Society and the Bohemian Grove.

Source(s): 1998 list. Not on a 1995 list and gone by 2001.

Son of Stephen Bechtel, Jr. Joined Bechtel in 1981, president and COO 1989-1990, CEO 1990-1996, chair and CEO 1996-2017. Member international council, JPMorgan Chase 1995-.

Source(s): 1985-1990 (listed as regular member), 1993-2017 (listed as exec.), 2018 (listed regular member; gone in 2019) lists.

Senior fellow CFR 1967-1968. Assistant for international economic affairs to national security advisor Henry Kissinger 1969-1971. Senior fellow at the Brookings Institution 1972-1976. Visited Bilderberg in 1972, 1974, 1984, 1997, 2002. Assistant secretary for international affairs, Treasury Department, under Carter 1977-1981. Senior fellow Carnegie Endowment in 1981. Key founder in 1981 of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, alongside founding Trilateral Commission member and close David Rockefeller friend Peter Peterson. (Managing) director PIIE 1981-2012. Continued as senior fellow. David Rockefeller, George Soros and Lynn Forester de Rothschild are among those who became directors of PIIE. Member Trilateral Commission 1985-2018, executive early 1990s - 2017. Lifetime involvement in over 20 important NGOs.

Source(s): 1998-2001 lists.

Executive vice president Ford Foundation 1981-1996, trustee and president 1996-2007. Member CFR since 1989. Director U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

Source(s): 1990, 1993, 1998

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Source(s): 2008-2014

Special assistant to State Department counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt in 1974. In this position Blackwill worked closely with Paul Bremer, chief aide to secretary of state Henry Kissinger. Blackwill and Bremer forged a close relationship through mediating policy differences between their bosses. Various NSC/State Department positions 1975-1989. Member CFR 1985-. Special assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and as senior director for European and Soviet Affairs 1989-early 1990s. Regular visitor Munich Security Conference since the 1990s.

Foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush's presidential campaign in 2000. Ambassador to India 2001 - April 2003, turning this country into an ally of the U.S. as a counterweight to China. Helped force India back into negotiations with Pakistan after a number of major terrorist attacks. Deputy assistant to President Bush and deputy national security advisor for strategic planning under Condoleezza Rice August 2003-2004. Also tasked with coordinating between Washington, D.C. and Baghdad at the time, once again putting him in close contact with Paul Bremer.

Joined the lobbying firm Barbour Griffith & Rogers (BGR) in November 2004- and involved with Bilderberg law firm Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld since Jan. 2005, through which Blackwill came to represent the Indian government in the U.S. At the same time it came out that Blackwill was lobbying the Indian government on behalf of defense companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman (Dec. 30, 2007, DNAindia.com, 'Former US envoy Blackwill is a 'double agent'').

Director of Harvard's Belfer Center by 2003-2004 (known lecturer here in the late 1990s), even when working for the Bush administration. No later than 2006 he shared Belfer's international council with former CIA directors John Deutch and James Schlesinger, Nat Rothschild (the son of Lord Jacob Rothschild), Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, and Paul Volcker. Senior fellow RAND Corporation 2008-2010. Member Trilateral Commission 2008-2014. Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow at the CFR 2010- (still anno 2021). Distinguished scholar at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs 2018-.

October 1, 2018, sais.jhu.edu press release, 'Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs Appoints Robert Blackwill as Distinguished Scholar': ""Robert Blackwill has been a trusted friend and advisor for decades. ... I am delighted he is joining the Kissinger Center.""

Source(s): 2003-2018 lists, incl 2009-2010 "In Public Service". Not on a 2002 or 2019 list.

President and CEO Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). Director of National Intelligence 2009-2010. President Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Director Atlantic Council.

Source(s): 2015- (2021) lists. Not on a 2014 list.

NYC mayor. Founder and CEO, Bloomberg LP, New York. Short-lived Democrat presidential candidate in 2020.

Source(s): 1973-1977.

Founding member of the Trilateral Commission, listed as "Chairman, Bendix Corporation." Carter's secretary of the treasury 1977-1979.

Source(s): 1975-1995 lists. Not on a 1998 one anymore.

Rhodes scholar. Congressman from Indiana 1959-1981. CFR member 1973-. House Majority Whip 1977-1981. President of New York University 1981-1991. Member boards of Overseers of Harvard. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1981-1992. Chairman Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1983-1986, president 1986-1988. Director New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Lifetime involvement in over three dozen important NGOs.

Source(s): 1973-1977, 1981-2019 lists (founding life member).

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1945; A.M., Columbia University, 1946; Doctor of Philosophy in Physics (Lydig fellow 1948-1949), Columbia University, 1949. Nuclear physicist and weapons designer.

Member Polaris Steering Committee 1956-1958. Member President's Science Advisory Committee (PSAC) 1960-1961. Senior science advisor Conference Discontinuance Nuclear Tests 1958-1959. 2nd Director of Defense Research and Engineering under secretary of defense Robert McNamara (1961-1965), who became a life trustee of the Trilateral Commission. Secretary Department Air Force, Washington, 1965-1969. President Caltech 1969-1977, in which capacity he became a founding (life) member of the Trilateral Commission in 1973. United States delegate Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Helsinki, Vienna and Geneva, 1969-1977 (Kissinger was prominently part of this). Chairman Technology Assessment Advisory Council to the United States Congress 1974-1977.

Director of the J. Henry Schroder Bank of New York / Schroders Ltd. until 1977, alongside Paul Nitze and a long history of Pilgrims Society members. Secretary of defense under Carter 1977-1981. December 5, 1976, New York Times, 'Nominees of Carter Differ on Club Role': "Mr. Carter said Monday that he personally would not join private clubs that discriminate on the basis of sex or race. He said he hoped his Cabinet members would not join such clubs but that he would not tell them what to do. ...
[So] two top level Carter administration appointees say they will quit private clubs that have no black members and do not routinely accept women...
The Carter transition office said it did not know whether the two Cabinet nominees—Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense‐designate, or Cyrus R. Vance, Mr. Carter's choice for Secretary of State—planned to retain their club memberships or resign. The two officials could not be reached for comment. ...
Mr. Brown, president of the California Institute of Technology, 'belongs to the Cosmo[s] Club in Washington and the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, both clubs confirmed. Women are barred from membership and, at the Bohemian Club, must enter by a side door when brought as guests.
Mr. Vance Is a member of the Links Club, in New York City, which bars membership to women and blacks. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Club in Washington, another club, that does not allow women members. ...
Clarence Mitchell, Washington director of the National Association for the Advanced of Colored People [NAACP], said that Mr. Carter's action "is a healthy thing and I commend him." But Mr. Mitchell said that Mr. Carter should have checked out his Cabinet choices first to see whether they belonged to such private clubs." Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1982-1993. Life trustee RAND Corporation 1982-2019. Trustee Beckman Foundation 1982-1995, chair 1993-1995. Professor Johns Hopkins University 1980s. Trustee CSIS 1990s-2018, as well as a counselor 1990s-2000s, alongside Trilaterals Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz. Member Metropolitan Club, Cosmos Club and Bohemian Grove/Club. Member Bretton Woods Committee no later than 1999. Advisory council member U.S. Global Leadership Coalition in the 2000s and 2010s, alongside Trilaterals Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and George Shultz. Chairman of the Commission on Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community 1995-1996.

Member of the board of CBS, Mattel, IBM, Philip Morris, Evergreen Holdings, Cummins Engine Company, Chemical Engineering Partners. Member of the board of Schroders Ltd. General partner Warburg Pincus & Co. 1990-1997.

Source(s): 1973-1976 ("Director"), 1982 (no executives specified), 1985-2009 (exec.) lists. Left in 2009.

Leading political scientist. Regular Bilderberg visitor 1966-1985. Member CFR 1968-, director 1972-1977. Key founder Trilateral Commission in 1973 with David Rockefeller, executive from at least 1985 until 2009. National security advisor under Carter 1977-1981. Top 5 globalist at the time of his death in 2017, involved in at least 85 important NGOs.

December 8, 1991, Daily Yomiuri, 'Japan–US Relations – Past, Present and Future': "[David] Rockefeller: The idea [of creating the Trilateral Commission] was incorporated in a speech that I made in the spring of 1972 for the benefit of some industrial forums that the Chase held in different cities around Europe... Then Zbig [Brzezinski] and I both attended a meeting of the Bilderberg Group ... and was shot down in flames. There was very little enthusiasm for the idea. I think they felt that they had a very congenial group, and they didn't want to have it interfered with by another element that would--I don't know what they thought, but in any case, they were not in favor."

Source(s): 2020 list.

Son of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Source(s): 2009-2021 lists. 2021 list the last checked.

CFR member since 1995. Spokesperson for the State Department and acting assistant secretary for public affairs for secretary of state Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright 1995-1997 under Clinton. Ambassador to Greece 1997-2001 under Clinton. Ambassador to NATO 2001-2005 under Bush. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs 2005-2008 under Bush. Director Belfer Center, Harvard.

Source(s): 1981-1982 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1984 (reception/annual meeting visitor with wife), 1990 lists ("Former Members in Public Service")

CIA director 1976-1977. U.S. vice president 1981-1989. U.S. president 1989-1993.

December 5, 2018, Rolling Stone, 'Is It Possible to Separate George H.W. Bush's GOP From Trump's?': "Ronald Reagan's victory in 1980 brought the breakthrough of anti-establishment sunbelt conservatism, and as Reagan's running mate and then his loyal vice president, Bush duly resigned from the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission (internationalist bogeymen to the hard right), and altered his stance on issues ranging from gun control to legalized abortion. Yet his gestures toward becoming a pork-rind eating, cowboy boot-wearing Reagan Republican were always as awkward as his syntax could sometimes be."

1982, Vol. 25, Robert Welch for his American Opinion, p. 98: "during the Florida Republican primary, candidate Reagan was asked if he would allow any members of the Trilateral Commission into his Cabinet if elected. He gave the following reply to that question in a campaign briefing on March 17, 1980: "Let me just say that I believe what prompts your question is that the present Administration, beginning with the President [Carter] and Vice President [Mondale], ... has something in the neighborhood of 19 of its top appointees all from a single group. Now, I don't believe that the Trilateral Commission is a conspiratorial group, but I do think its interests are devoted to international banking, multinational corporations, and so forth. I don't think that any Administration of the U.S. Government should have the top nineteen positions filled by people from any one group or organization representing one viewpoint. No, I would go in a different direction."
Unfortunately, the first few chances Reagan had to free himself from the C.F.R. and Trilateral crowd he went in the wrong direction, picking William Casey [a CFR member since 1973] to run his campaign and George Bush [member 1972-, CFR director 1977-1979, Trilateral 1979-1980] as his running-mate. Now that he is in the Oval Office, President Reagan has appointed members of either the Trilateral Commission or the C.F.R. to the five top Cabinet posts (State, Defense, Treasury, Commerce, and C.I.A. Director)...
Of course, with John Anderson also on the campaign trail, four of the five candidates for President and Vice President came from a Rockefeller-led Trilateral Commission having only seventy-six U.S. members."

1984, American Opinion, p. 94: "Cabinet is full of people from such elitist and internationalist organizations as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Wall Street executive Donald T. Regan (C.F.R.) was named secretary of..."

Source(s): 2008-2009, 2009-2013 ("In Public Service"), 2013-2018 lists.

BA UCSD. Distinguished Marshall Scholar at Oxford University. Officer in the U.S. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit. Associate Professor of public policy and international relations at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Assistant director and senior fellow of the Belfer Center at Harvard University.

Director on the National Security Council Staff under Clinton around 1994. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific under Clinton around 1995-2000. Deputy Special Counselor to the president for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury

Senior vice president, director of the International Security Program, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from about 2000 to 2007. Co-founder in 2007, CEO and later chair of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Assistant U.S. Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs under Obama 2009-2013.

Chair and CEO, The Asia Group. Member of the Defense Policy Board. Director of the Aspen Strategy Group. Co-chaired the executive committee of the 9-11 Pentagon Memorial Fund. Director Metlife 2013-.

January 29, 2018, Businesswire, 'Kissinger Fellowship Taps Kurt Campbell to Tackle China': "The McCain Institute for International Leadership today announced its 2018 Kissinger Fellow, Kurt Campbell. His one-year fellowship begins tonight at an annual dinner in New York City with Dr. Henry Kissinger [and] Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, the McCain Institute's chairman of this fellowship program. ...
"I salute the Institute for picking Kurt Campbell, a leader of character and impact clearly cut from the Kissinger mold," said Senator John McCain. ...
Singularly focused on China in this fellowship, Campbell plans to lead a bi-partisan project aimed at establishing a new, comprehensive framework to strike the best balance of competition and cooperation."

Source(s): 1985, 1993, 1995 lists. Not on a 1984 reception list. Not on a 1998 one.

Very close friend of Donald Rumsfeld since college days. CIA deputy director 1978-1981. Deputy secretary of defense 1981-1982. National security advisor 1986-1987. Secretary of defense 1987-1989. Vice chair Carlyle Group, chair 1992-2003, chair emeritus 2003-2005. (succeeded as chair by Louis Gerstner Jr. 2003-2008) George H. W. Bush and James Baker were key advisors to the Carlyle Group during his time as chair.

Source(s): 2020

Secretary of defense 2011-2013, 2015-2017. Director, Harvard's Belfer Center.

Source(s): 1998 list and present at the annual 2002 meeting as U.S. vice president. Not on a 1995 list or the 2002 list.

Director CFR 1987–1989, 1993–1995. Secretary of defense under George H. W. Bush. President, chair and CEO of Halliburton in the 1990s. Vice president under George W. Bush 2001-2009.

Source(s): 2014-2020s lists. Not on a 2013 list.

Judge. 2nd secretary of Homeland Security 2005-2009. Chairman and co-founder The Chertoff Group.

Source(s): 1973 founding member, 1975, 1978, 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1982, 1984 reception with wife, 1985, (not on 1990-1992 lists), 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service") lists.

Clinton's secretary of state: 1993-1997.

Source(s): 1990, 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service")

Source(s): Feb. 1990 ("Governor of Arkansas"), 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service").

Governor of Arkansas.

Source(s): List(s): 2020

Member of Department of State's Policy Planning Staff. Founder and President of Jigsaw, a Google think tank in New York.

Source(s): List(s): 1978, 1985, 1990, 1992, not on 1993 list, 1995, 1998 ("Former Members in Public Service").

Secretary of defense.

April 30, 1992, Bangor Daily News (Maine), 'Global policy group focus of controversy - Trilateral Commission membership includes Maine Sen. William Cohen': "The commission historically has caused minor flaps during presidential election years, usually because one or both major party candidates have ties to the Rockefeller group. ...
Sen. William S. Cohen, one of 325 members of the Trilateral Commission ... has had an inside view since 1973, when former third-party presidential candidate John Anderson, a Trilateralist himself, recommended Cohen for membership in the society of global policy makers. [Already] during Maine's Senate 1978 campaign, independent candidate Hayes Gahagan blasted Cohen for associating himself with the Trilateral Commission, which Gahagan characterized as "a bunch of elite socialist nationalists who work against the best interests of foreign policy." ...
"You can't imagine how much grief one suffers simply for agreeing to be a member," Cohen said Monday. ... The periodic controversy about the commission, Cohen said, is much ado about nothing. For one thing, he said, all of the group's meetings and documents are open to the public. Recently, a number of journalists — Time's Strobe Talbott [who would come to serve as Clinton's deputy secretary of state] is one — have become members of the commission and participate during all of its forums.
"The meetings are just a chance to mix people of high intelligence and positions of responsibility from many countries and give each other insights into what's going on in their countries. It's pretty harmless study," Cohen said. "There's no coordinated, sub-rosa policy," said Cohen.
It's also not one of Cohen's major priorities. The Maine senator said he has been to only three Trilateral forums since 1973. The most recent conference was held last weekend in Lisbon, Portugal. Cohen was invited, but chose to hold constituent meetings back in Maine."

April 30, 1992, Bangor Daily News (Maine), 'Global policy group focus of controversy - Trilateral Commission membership includes Maine Sen. William Cohen': "Lyndon LaRouche,the fringe Democratic presidential candidate who has charged from jail that the Trilateral Commission is a front for international drug traffickers. Or conservatives, who claim the group secretly is plotting to impose one-world government. Or TV minister Pat Robertson, who alleged in a book that Trilateralists are linked to the occult, the Freemason movement, and things that spring "from the depth of something that is evil."

Source(s): List(s): 1990-2020s lists. Not on a 1985 list.

Partner and managing director Goldman Sachs. President NY Federal Reserve Bank.

Source(s): List(s): 1998, 2013, 2015, 2020

Deputy chair, president and co-CEO Power Corporation of Canada. Member of the family that has controlled Power Corporation for decades.

Source(s): List(s): 1993 and 1995 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1998, 2001, 2004 (exec.), 2006, 2013, 2015, 2020. Not on a 1992 or 1990 or 1985 list, or any before that.

MS in Chemical Engineering from MIT 1961. Ph.D. in Chemistry from MIT in 1966. Director of energy research, acting assistant secretary for energy technology, and undersecretary DOE 1977-1980. Provost of MIT from 1985-1990, as well as MIT dean of science. Undersecretary of defense for acquisition and technology April 1993 - March 1994. U.S. deputy secretary of defense and undersecretary of energy 1994-1995. CIA director 1995-1996. Director Belfer Center, Harvard. Director of Citigroup, Cummins, Raytheon, and Schlumberger Ltd.

Source(s): 2001-2008 ("In Public Service"), 2010, 2013, 2015, 2020, 2021 lists. Not on a 2013 list. 2021 is the latest seen.

U.S. Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs. Senior Fellow, Belfer Center, Harvard.

Source(s): 2014-2021 lists. Not on a 2013 list. 2021 is the latest seen.

Recruited to law firm O'Melveny and Meyers by partner Warren Christoper, a top elitist. Assistant secretary of state for public affairs under Bill Clinton 1993-1996. Member CFR 1996-. Executive vice president for Law and Policy, Fannie Mae, 1999-2005. Trustee Brooking Institution anno 2005.

National security advisor under Obama 2010-2013, deputy NSA 2009-2010. Member Trilateral Commission 2013-. Distinquished fellow CFR July 2013-. Senior fellow Belfer Center. Widely considered a candidate to become secretary of state or CIA director if Hillary Clinton had won the election in 2016. Member Defense Policy Board.

Wife Catherine M. Russell: chief of staff to Jill Biden when Joe Biden was Obama's vice president. In March 2013 was named the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues at the U.S. State Department.

Brother Mike Donilon: Counselor to Joe Biden when was Obama's vice president.

Brother Terrence Donilon: Communications director for Roman Catholic cardinal Sean O'Malle.

Source(s): 1990 ("Former Members in Public Service")

Executive assistant to Nixon's National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger in 1969. Member CFR 1974-. Executive assistant to Secretary of State [Henry Kissinger] 1975-1977. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs under Reagan 1982-1984. President Kissinger Associates 1984-1989. Deputy secretary of state under Bush 1989-1992. Secretary of state under Bush 1992-1993. Director International Republican Institute anno 1996-2009. Chair of The Forum for International Policy. Member advisory board of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP).

2001-2009.state.gov/secretary /former/40402.htm (accessed: Aug. 25, 2022): "Lawrence Sidney Eagleburger: ... President of Kissinger Associates, Inc., 1984-1989. ... Member of National Security Council staff, 1966-1967; Special Assistant to Under Secretary of State, 1967-1969; Executive Assistant to the President's advisor for National Security Affairs [Henry Kissinger], 1969; Political Advisor and Chief of the Political Section of the U.S. Mission to NATO, 1969-1971; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, 1971-1973; Executive Assistant to Secretary of State [Henry Kissinger], 1975-1977..."

Sep. 10, 1994, deseret.com (AP-based), 'Kissinger Held Secret Talks with Cuba 20 Years Ago': "It was the summer of 1974, 13 years after Washington and Havana had broken relations. ... Only [William D.] Rogers, Kissinger and Lawrence Eagleburger, then a top Kissinger aide, were fully informed of the initiative. As Kissinger recalls it, President Ford was aware of the talks but not the details."

August 19, 2002, abc.net.au, 'Caution urged on Iraq': "LINDA MOTTRAM: Divisions appear to be deepening in the United States over the wisdom of launching an attack against Iraq, as members of the Bush Administration, senior Republicans and former White House insiders trade their views. The latest to join the slanging match is Lawrence Eagleburger who was Deputy Secretary of State under President Bush the elder. He's fanned the dispute by accusing senior defence officials of deviously trying to convince Bush the younger to oust Saddam Hussein.
LEIGH SALES: It's well known in Washington that two of the strongest advocates of military action against Saddam Hussein are Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defence Policy Board, and Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defence. Lawrence Eagleburger is accusing the two of virtually misleading the President.
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER: I think they're devious. I think they are committed to getting rid of... and have been for years, committed to getting rid of Saddam Hussein because they think we should have done it the first time around. And secondly, I think they have convinced themselves that it can be done on the cheap by using these rebels, if you will, these people who are anti-Saddam Iraqis. I think there are at least six of them and the point is I have no idea whether they can be used or not, whether they are real people or not and whether they would succeed or not and I don't think there's any evidence one way or another. I am scared to death that they are going to convince the President that they can do this, overthrow Saddam on the cheap and we'll find ourselves in the middle of a swamp because we didn't plan to do it in the right way.
LEIGH SALES: Mr Eagleburger's cautious position is backed by other past White House luminaries, including Nixon's Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, and Brent Scowcroft, National Security Adviser to both Presidents Ford and Bush senior. But their comments are strongly at odds with those of Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice and some Republican congressional leaders. For now, the current Administration continues to stick to the line that the President still hasn't decided how to proceed on Iraq. Lawrence Eagleburger says one of the crucial issues to be addressed is the lack of support from allies. ...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER: We don't have the allies on our side. In fact we have many questions on their part. We have no demonstrated appearance on the part of the Administration that they have really thought through what it's going to take to overthrow him.
LEIGH SALES: General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, backs Lawrence Eagleburger's analysis.
GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF: First of all you have to understand that the Iraqi military is four hundred thousand active duty people, probably three hundred thousand of them you can discount, but you can't discount the hundred thousand Republican Guard and Palace Guard. Not only are they a good military force, but they're also, you know, they have a lot of good equipment behind them. They're going to have over eight thousand tanks and armoured personnel carriers, a large amount of artillery. It's not going to be an easy battle and certainly I think that we will prevail but I think it would be much more effective if we didn't have to do it alone.
I think we need the base rights to muster our forces, not just in the obvious places like Kuwait and Turkey, but it would be... one of our strengths during the Gulf War was the fact that we were able to use Saudi bases that put us in a great position to use their port facilities and their unused airfield facilities and therefore I don't think that we need to go it alone militarily."

Source(s): 1995-March 2007 lists. Not on a 1993 or January 2008 list.

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Source(s): 1998

Chairman and CEO, Sprint Corporation.

Source(s): Not on a 1985 list. 1990-2011 lists. Not on a 2012 list.

Senator from California 1992-. Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee 2009-2015 (succeeding Sen. Jay Rockefeller, who remained a member), vice chair 2015-2017. Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee 2017-.

January 6, 2009, New York Times, 'Obama picks outsider to lead CIA': "Among the lawmakers who expressed skepticism about the choice was Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat who is the new chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Feinstein, who would oversee any confirmation hearing for Panetta, issued a statement that signaled clear disapproval and said she had not been notified of the choice. "My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time," she said. A second top Democrat, Senator John Rockefeller 4th of West Virginia, the departing chairman of the Intelligence Committee, shares Feinstein's concerns, Democratic congressional aides said."

Alongside Californian congresswomen (since 1987) Nancy Pelosi, for a long time Feinstein has been responsible for suggesting Californian judges to presidents for appoinment.

Source(s): 1985-2019 lists (died in 2019).

Harvard economics professor. Chair President's Council of Economic Advisors. President and CEO National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Source(s): 2019-

Founder in 1988, chair and CEO of BlackRock. Member CFR 2012-. Member Trilateral Commission 2019-.

Source(s): (not on a 1975 list), 1978, 1985, 1990, 1993, 2005-2006 ("North American Chair"), 2013 (exec.)

Died in 2013.

Source(s): Jan. 2020 list ("global member")

Governor Bank of Israel. Chair JPMorgan Chase International, JPMorgan Chase & Co., New York. Trustee chair The Group of Thirty (G30).

Source(s): 2005-2010 lists. Not on 2004 or 2011 lists.

Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC.

Source(s): 1975-1976, 1981-1993, 1998-2004.

Harvard and Yale-graduate. Oxford University Rhodes Scholar. Professor of law and international organization at Columbia University, and listed as such in Trilateral Commission lists from 1975 to 2004. Ambassador to Italy (1977-1981) and Spain (1993-1997). Counsel to Coudert Brothers early 1990s. Counsel to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. Died in 2019.

April 1974, Richard Gardner for the CFR's Foreign Affairs, 'The Hard Road to World Order': "Certainly the gap has never loomed larger between the objectives and the capacities of the international organizations that were supposed to get mankind on the road to world order. We are witnessing an outbreak of shortsighted nationalism that seems oblivious to the economic, political and moral implications of interdependence. Yet never has there been such widespread recognition by the world's intellectual leadership of the necessity for cooperation and planning on a truly global basis, beyond country, beyond region, especially beyond social system. Never has there been such an extraordinary growth in the constructive potential of transnational private organizations—not just multinational corporations but international associations of every kind in which like-minded persons around the world weave effective patterns of global action."

Source(s): Jan. 2009-2012 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not known when he was a member.

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Source(s): 1995-1998 lists (not on 2001 list).

Director CFR 1993–2001, 2002–2003, president 1993-2003.

Source(s): 2006

Source(s): Not on a 1985, 1991 and limited 1992 list. 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not on a 1995 list. 1998-2020s lists.

Source(s): 1998

Chairman and CEO, IBM.

Source(s): 1990

Chair and CEO, Coca-Cola.

Source(s): 2012-2021 lists.

Founding member CIA's National Security Advisory Panel 1997-. Member Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC) and Catastrophic Terrorism: Elements of a National Policy (study group) 1997-1998, with various other elites. Director United Technologies Corporation 1999-. Director MacArthur Foundation 2001-2013. Member 9/11 Commission 2002-2003. Member advisory board of the 2005 Intelligence Summit gathering (top Mossad and top CIA-tied).Member Defense Policy Board (DPB) 2011-2013. Member CFR. Member Renaissance Weekends. At the Carnegie Endowment and Business Executives for National Security (BENS). Chair Urban Institute.

Source(s): 1990-1995 lists. Not on a 1985 or 1998 one.

Head of the Washington Post. Close to long-time Washington Post investor, director and advisor Warren Buffett.

Source(s): 2004-, still anno 2022.

Chair and CEO Washington Post.

Source(s): 1998

Congressman. President and CEO United Negro College.

Source(s): at least 1985-2006 lists (gone on 2007 list).

Chair AIG.

Source(s): 2002-2008 lists.

Chair AIG.

Source(s): 1981, 1985 (exec.), 1990 and 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service")

Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers 1974-1977. Chairman Federal Reserve 1987-2006.

May 20, 2010, Alan Waite (praxisforlife.org president) interview with Jack Sarfatti: "I was part of a group of superkids, these genius kids that were being studied at the Columbia University Laboratory of William Sheldon, and one of his assistants, a Walter Breen [in 1953-1956]. ...
There was a bunch of them, a guy named Robert Solovay, who became a famous mathematician at Berkeley. And even Alan Greenspan who became head of the [Federal Reserve]. Yeah. Greenspan is older than I am, but Greenspan became part of this group. It was all also connected somehow with Ayn Rand. Somehow Ayn Rand had something to do with it. It was also connected to the government. It had something to do with what later became Sandia Labs in New Mexico.
In fact, we used to have these guys come up (they looked like FBI guys), and this was the McCarthy era, to get pep talks about being patriotic and anti-communist and all that kind of stuff. So there were a lot of weird things going on. ...
Apparently there was a similar program at Berkeley – there's a friend of mine named Hank Harrison who was a part of it, who's the father of Courtney Love, actually Courtney Love's dad. And he apparently ... You might want to actually talk to him about the program. ...
It was tied up with the intelligence community, definitely with the government. It was kind of like the X-Men. I mean what they were trying to do. ... We were tested. They were trying to induce paranormal powers in us... like telepathy, psychokinesis, and things like that. There were experiments, and they would just sit with the kids, you know, trying to get them to move objects. We never moved anything, but there was a whole program going on about this. Also, they talked about aliens and flying saucers, trying to figure out how they fly, and all that kind of stuff. It was a lot of science fiction. Oh, and I met Isaac Asimov at that time.
Walter wanted me to go to the University of Chicago for some reason. And when I graduated from high school in 1956, the people in this program wrote the recommendations for me for the schools I applied to. So I applied to MIT, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. For some reason my mother didn't want me to go to Chicago; it was too far away. Also the people in the neo-conservative movement came out of Chicago. One of the people, I forget the name, but one of the professors there who was an inspiration for neo-cons was in some way connected with this. So, at this point I wouldn't go to the University of Chicago.
But I'm actually wondering, where did Greenspan go? Is he from Chicago? That'd be interesting to find out. Greenspan was part of this experiment. Or so I'm told. I never met Greenspan at the time. He would have been four or five years older. I was about thirteen when it started. So from about thirteen to sixteen. ...
So I went to Cornell, and I remember Breen wrote the recommendation that got me into Cornell. ... My mother didn't have any money, and my parents were divorced, so I got a full scholarship to Cornell. My professors were the guys who built the atomic bomb in Los Alamos. You know, like (Nobel laureate physicist) Hans Bethe? A lot of them were at Cornell and other Ivy League schools. ... My voice teacher, who later became Sir Keith Faulkner (became knighted by the Queen of England), became the head of the Royal College of Music…but there's this very tight relationship between the British and the Americans in the intelligence services. Of course, this is the Fifties. I mean, it was very different back then, it was a small world. The Ivy League was a recruiting ground for the intelligence services.
My grandfather, even before this Columbia Project, which was definitely some kind of intelligence thing... before that, my grandfather worked for the US Army. He was a veteran, and this is when I was 8 or 9 years old. I was actually living with the grandparents. And after school, I would go to meet my grandfather, who was at the Army Quartermaster Corps, in the Garment District of New York. And that was a very strange situation. Maybe I was 10 or 11 years old, but I would hang out there and play. And they had a laboratory there. They had the different cold weather uniforms, hot weather, that sort of stuff. It was like a museum.
I was given free reign in this place. My grandfather drove around with these Army officers – my grandfather was driving the car, and I would sit in the back seat, with these colonels. They must have been psychiatrists. I mean they were always analyzing. And it's all kind of consistent. Because at time I was going to build rockets, go to the moon, or all this kind of stuff. But all of this was encouraging me. I was actually in the company of these Army officers a lot. That's when I saw this fun colonel named Phil Corso who wrote a book, "The Day After Roswell", many years later. I'm pretty sure Col. Corso's one of those guys, really... though I can't prove it. This would've been around 1950. But it's a consistent story, and it all makes sense.
Then there were other scientists. A guy named Hal Puthoff [who] also had similar experiences, and has been involved... It was Hal Puthoff who was involved in a CIA project at Stanford Research Institute back in the 70's [to set up remote viewing]. That's where I first met him.
So this has all been kind of a consistent picture of what looks like a very long term intelligence effort, definitely involving the British, definitely involving the Americans and probably other agencies as well, to investigate these kind of fringe areas which are now called UFO's and the paranormal, and how physics could explain it. This idea to try to explain consciousness and possible flying saucers, the big thing back then, was part of this project. So I was involved in that from the very beginning. ...
So, the military, they were always interested in stuff like that. I mean the military's more open to the paranormal. So one reason that possibly the Army became interested in me was because of my uncle. That they wanted to see if any of the... if there's any kind of familial sort of thing in the gene pool And this is speculation. I don't really know for sure.
My mother's brother, Arthur, was in the war... in the Pacific. ... He had a reputation for being psychic, you see, because he was in a lot of combat – he was overseas for four and a half years. And even when he was not in the jungles, they had him teaching, in New Zealand or something, as a jungle warfare instructor.
And I think at one point, they had him working with the Navajo Indians, you know, the Whisperers? Yeah, the Windtalkers, 'cause apparently he got this sort of, they used to call him "the Jewish Indian". He had this reputation, everybody wanted to be wherever he was because he had a sense in the jungle... the snipers in the tree, he sort had an accurate sense for where they were. And there was one outfit, I think when he first went over, the 25th Division or something, it was famous since around 90% of them were killed. Tremendous casualties. And he was one of the few that survived without getting shot... I have photographs of him during the war...
I was not really actively involved with the fringe stuff when I was at Cornell although when I would go to New York I would visit Walter [Breen] ... but, I guess it's more of something we had to do really. This actually involves his dad (pointing to Daniel Geller [Uri Geller's son]). When I was thirteen or maybe twelve, I got a very strange set of phone calls in which there was a mechanical voice, and it could have been simulated, but the story is of this mechanical voice that it was a computer onboard a spacecraft in the future! The Godphone [of Uri Geller fame]. And you know, it wanted to teach me things, and I was supposed to meet these "others" in 20 years. This was 1953 and twenty years would be 1973. So this kind of whole weird thing happened. And the odd thing about it was that I only remember one of the phone calls. But my mother, I only found this out later, my mother remembers weeks of them and hours at a time, which I have no memory of whatsoever. I was walking around glassy-eyed. And finally she got worried…finally she grabbed the phone from me and says "who's this?" and heard this metallic sounding voice. And it said "this is a computer aboard a spacecraft and it wanted to speak to me." She got angry and said "Don't ever call here again," and slammed the phone down. That was her memory of it that she told me about later.
Well, I think that maybe it was. It's one of two things. Either it was what it says it was, or a government program, take your choice. I mean, given everything else, it sounds like it's a government project. They're still playing psychological games on these kids, quite possibly. So that's the most likely explanation. ...
[However] Uri's [rob of light] experience was about the same time as my phone calls were happening. And whatever was on the other end of that the telephone said I would begin to link up with the others, part of the group, in twenty years. [and we met 20 years later] ...
I was involved with SANE, the people at SANE, S-A-N-E, the Sane Nuclear policy. I was sort of on the periphery of all that. Then I wound up at UCSD. And UCSD back in the mid Sixties. Now UCSD is part of the Military-Industrial-Complex. We had Edward Teller would come down there all the time. Harold Uri, these are all famous, you know… John Wheeler, Keith Brueckner was the head of the JASONS...
Back in my generation, it was all taken for granted – you did things for your country. It was not even questioned until the Sixties. I was on the periphery; I can tell you what happened. In the 'Sixties when I left Cornell, I spent two years at Brandeis University, the graduate program at Brandeis, I ran out of time at Cambridge. There, I met Eleanor Roosevelt, Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis … and I got involved with a lot of that stuff… I was fairly naive, but I must say my main interest was Science. ... But the liberal arts department had Herbert Marcuse taken in from Brandeis and Angela Davis. My wife was more into liberal arts. So I knew them socially, and got involved with the formation of the Peace and Freedom Party in San Diego… also I must say, before that, at Cornell, a lot of my friends were involved in the freedom movement in Mississippi. ...We had the Black Panthers …Huey Newton's… he used to come to La Jolla… so, I was a sort of Forest Gump and Zelig witness to a lot of these historical things on the Left. ...
I was a professor of physics at this time at San Diego State, and it happened that I was leaving town. I was on my way to, in fact, see a Pakistani physicist named Abdus Salam – he had invited me to Europe to the UNESCO Institute of Physics, which is also a part of the International Atomic Energy Agency, you know, the ones who now monitor Iran. I was invited there as a scientist, and I made it there by a very weird set of circumstances. ... Okay, it's 1974, I'm commuting between Trieste, working with Abdus Salam at UNESCO's – International Center for Theoretical Physics - very straight science. But the institute we were at in Trieste was a meeting ground between the Russians and Eastern Europeans; it was still the Cold War. That project was definitely an intelligence thing... it was CIA, and we were right in the middle of it, Fred Alan Wolf and I. ...
Fred was invited to Bulgaria in 1974 and he had an affair with this woman who turned out to be the daughter of the KGB chief – the secret police in Bulgaria.
Another interesting thing was in the Spring of 1974. There was a very wealthy woman in London; I think Daniel's dad [Uri Geller] knows her... Judith... was that her name? Anyway, there's this wealthy American heiress living in London, who was very into the paranormal, and she had this beautiful house in London, I remember it had an Olympic-sized swimming pool in the basement. Ira Einhorn stayed with her more than once. So we were staying there with some of the people from the SRI...
There was a group of guys from the CIA there too. One of those people invited me to dinner, his name was Dennis Bardens. Dennis Bardens, if you look him up on the Internet, well, he's dead now, but he was definitely with British Intelligence. He was the biographer of Winston Churchill. He was also into the paranormal. Oh, in fact he was a producer... he invented Panorama on the BBC. He even did something during the war in Czechoslovakia. You know, we're talking about the MI6, James Bond, OSS, one of those guys…he was that era, and he looked it. ...
I met Edgar Mitchell, the astronaut who was on the moon. Edgar Mitchell was very into the paranormal as was a guy named Brenden Regan, one of the people running the [SRI] project. And I was asked at the time because I had been the assistant to a man named David Bohm at the University of London. And I was asked to help arrange tests of Danny's father, Uri, at the University of London. At the time of course, you know, this was a CIA operation, but I didn't know that."

Source(s): 1981-1995 lists. Not on a 1978 or 1998 list.

Chairman Levi Strauss & Co.

Source(s): 1990, 1993, 1998 (exec.)

Chair and CEO Levi Strauss & Co.

Source(s): not on '98 list or any before it. 2001 ("Former Members in Public Service."), 2004 (exec.), 2005 (not an exec.), 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018 lists. Left after 2018.

Director of Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution. President CFR.

Source(s): 2007-2012 lists

Director Halliburton. Chairman Adarnarko Petroleum Company / Anadarko Energy.

Source(s): 1982-1990 lists (gone by 1992).

Henry Kissinger protege. U.S. Secretary of State. President, Worldwide Associates, Inc. Founding advisory board member of "conservative CIA" outlet Newsmax. Advisory board member of Israel lobby group Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). Etc.

Source(s): 2006-2018 lists (exec. 2010-2017). Not on a 2005 or 2019 list.

President CSIS.

Source(s): October 2011-, 2020 lists

JD from Harvard. Special counsel to the DOD, and deputy secretary of the Cabinet during the Jimmy Carter years in the late 1970s. Congresswoman from California 1993-1999, 2001-2011. Spent 6 years on the House Committee on Armed Services and 8 years on both the House Intelligence Committee and the Homeland Security Committee's intelligence subcommittee. Made numerous congressional fact-finding missions to hotspots around the world, including North Korea, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Guantanamo Bay. Apart from DOD and DNI awards, Harman also received the CIA Agency Seal Medal in 2007, and the CIA Director's Award.

Regular visitor of the Munich Security Conference since 2003. Member CFR. Member of the Defense Policy Board. Member Homeland Security Department Advisory Group. Founding member of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, State Department. Member of the Director of National Intelligence's Senior Advisory Group. Trustee Aspen Institute and member Aspen Strategy Group. Director, President and CEO, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) 2011-, succeeding Trilateral Commission member Lee Hamilton.

Source(s): Jan. 2020

Senior director for European and Russian Affairs on the NSC. Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, Washington. Expert at the Belfer Center, Harvard. Member CFR. Conference participant Ditchley Foundation. Visitor Munich Security Conference in 2013. Advisory board, Central Eurasia Project of George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Trustee Eurasia Foundation. Advisory board member of the primarily George Soros-funded Democracy Coalition Project. Joined the Trilateral Commission in late 2019 or January 2020.

November 21, 2019, realclearpolitics.com, 'Fiona Hill: Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About George Soros Are "The New Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion"': "The comments came after Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi asked about her being labeled a "mole for George Soros in the White House" by some of President Trump's more radical supporters, including Roger Stone."

Source(s): 1978, 1982, 1984 lists. Not on a 1985 list. 1990 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not on a July 1993 list, 6 months after leaving office. Again on 1995-2020s lists.

Co-chair CFR 2007–2017.

Source(s): 1975, 1978 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1982, 1985, 1990, 1995 ("In public Service"), 1998, 2007, 2008-2010 (again "Former Members in Public Service" 2008-) lists.

Of Polish-Jewish immigrant origin, with his father changing the family name from Goldbrajch to Holbrooke. His father died when he was 15. As a result, during his youth in the 1950s, Holbrooke became the "surrogate son" of top Rockefeller man Dean Rusk (trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1950-1961, president 1951-1961; SecState 1961-1969), with whose son he was best friends.

Foreign Service officer, partly stationed with USAID, in Vietnam 1962–1967. Quickly hung out with very elite upcoming ambassadors. His best friend became Anthony Lake, who helped make him staff assistant to Ambassadors Maxwell Taylor and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.

Peace Corps director in Morocco 1970-1972. CFR member 1970-. Managing editor Foreign Policy 1972-1976. Contributing editor to Newsweek International in the same period. Lifelong member Trilateral Commission 1975-2010, although often listed as being "in public service".

Assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs 1977-1981. Ambassador to Germany 1993-1994. Primary founder of the American Academy in Berlin in 1994, alongside founding chairman Henry Kissinger. Assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs 1994-1996. Bilderberg visitor 1996-1999, 2004-2010. Ambassador to the United Nations 1999-2001. Special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan 2009-2010, considered Obama's "top diplomat" in the Afgan War. Died in 2010. Strived to become secretary of state, but never reached that position. Still considered an extremely influential diplomat and foreign policy expert on the Democratic side. Lifetime involvement in about 30 important NGOs.

Known behind-the-scenes as an absolutely relentless self-promotor trying to insert himself with anyone who had power: July-August 2019, Atlantic Monthly, 'The Hustling, Sweating, Flawed Greatness of Richard Holbrooke'. Ronan Farrow considered him a "father figure" in the diplomatic corps and "the rare asshole who was worth it."

Source(s): 1993, 1995, 1998 lists. Not on a 1990 and partial 1992 one. Not on a 2001 one.

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Source(s): 1985, 1990

President University of Notre Dame. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1961-1981, chair 1977-1981.

Source(s): 1990, 1993, 1995 lists. Not on a 1985 or 1998 one.

Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs. Vice chair Goldman Sachs International.

Source(s): 2013-2017, 2018 ("Former Members in Public Service")

Chairman Atlantic Council.

Source(s): 2013, 2015

Columnist Washington Post.

Source(s): 1981, 1985, 1990

Chairman Japan Society.

Source(s): 1984, 1985, 1990 lists. Not on a 1982 or 1992 list.

Director of Naval Intelligence 1974-1976. Vice director Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) 1976-1977. Director NSA 1977-1981. Deputy director CIA 1981-1982. President and CEO Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) 1983 - January 1986. Chairman/president and CEO Westmark Systems Inc. 1985-. Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) 1991-1993.

Source(s): 2010-2015 lists. Not on a 2009 or 2016 list.

President and CEO The Aspen Institute, Washington, DC.

Source(s): 2002 annual meeting visitor only.

Godson of LSD guru Timothy Leary. Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum from 2001 to likely about 2004, but visited the Davos annual meeting at least in '13-'14 as well. Visited the Trilateral Commission annual meeting in 2002. Speaker to the Latin America-focused G50 forum, alongside countless Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission elites.

Deeply involved in the internet. Board member Mozilla Foundation 2005-2016. Managing director MIT Media Lab 2011-2019, under co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. Advisory board InternetHallOfFame.org for 2012, alongside Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Trustee Knight Foundation 2011-2019. Trustee MacArthur Foundation 2012-2019. Director New York Times Company 2012-2019. Director MIT Media Lab until 2019, when the Epstein affair forced him to resign from most of his boards.

Sep. 7, 2019, New York Times, 'Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein': "Almost immediately, the M.I.T. official, Joichi Ito, left the boards of three other organizations: the MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and The New York Times Company, where he had been a board member since 2012. He also left a visiting professorship at Harvard. ...
[Ito] acknowledged last week that he had received $1.7 million from Mr. Epstein, including $1.2 million for his own outside investment funds.
Mr. Ito’s resignation came less than a day after an article in The New Yorker described the measures that he and other media lab officials took to conceal its relationship with Mr. Epstein. The internal emails, which a former media lab employee shared with The New York Times, described the handling of donations that Mr. Epstein made and apparently solicited from the rich and powerful over the years, including a $2 million gift from the Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
In an email in October 2014 — six years after Mr. Epstein had pleaded guilty to a sex charge involving a minor in Florida — Mr. Ito wrote that the gift from Mr. Gates had been "directed by Jeffrey Epstein.""

Davos

September 23, 2002, joi.ito.com, 'Global Leaders for Tomorrow Summit 2002': "Just finished an intense weekend in Geneva at the Global Leaders for Tomorrow Summit 2002. This was one of the best conferences I've ever attended. The Global Leaders of Tomorrow is a group of 100 or so people under the age of 37 that are chosen by the World Economic Forum every year. Then for 3 years or so, these leaders attend an annual meeting in September in Geneva and a meeting at Davos during the WEF Annual Meeting. By the time you "graduate" you end up with quite an interesting network of friends. The group is very diverse. There are probably around 40% women and 40% non-business people. Geographically, members are from everywhere. Afghanistan, Africa, Arab countries, Europe, Asia, Australia, etc. We have some rather important government officials as well as successful business people. It really shows how young people are able to rise much more quickly in other countries than in Japan. This year, the only two members from Japan were me and Oki Matsumoto. I think there are more Turkish women who are members than Japanese... This is the first year I attended the summit. The meeting at the Davos annual meeting was less focused because the WEF Annual meeting was going on at the same time. Since this summit is just for the GLT's it was much friendlier and more focused.
Also, the meeting took place in the headquarters of the World Economic Forum. The location was beautiful. It is situated on the lake across from the WTO and the UN."

Source(s): 1981, 1985

Rockefeller Foundation-financed economist who arrived at the neoliberal Rockefeller-backed "Chicago School" in the mid 1940s and ended up as chairman of the economics department here in 1971-1975 and 1980-1984. Scholar at the neoliberal American Enterprise Institute (AEI) since at least 1977. Trustee AEI in the 1980s and 1990s. Chairman of the AEI Council of Academic Advisers in the 1980s until at least 1999.

Source(s): 1982-1998 lists. Not on a 1981 and 2001 list.

White House Fellow mid-late 1960s. Member CFR 1973-. Publisher of the Dallas Times Herald 1975-late 1970s. President Los Angeles Times late 1970s-1989, publisher 1980-1989, and vice chair of its Times Mirror Co. President CNN 1990-2001. Visitors of the Bohemian Grove and Trilateral Commission in the 1980s and 1990s.

Source(s): Not on a Jan. 2008 list or any before it. Jan. 2009-2010 ("In Public Service"). Did not rejoin after 2010.

Commandant of the Marine Corps 1999-2003. Supreme Allied Commander Europe 2003-2006. National security advisor Jan. 2009 - Oct. 2010.

Source(s): 1985, 1990

Engineer at the Douglas Aircraft Company since 1942. Became a researcher at the RAND Corporation in 1953. Chairman and CEO Northrop Corporation 1960-1989 (president 1959-, chairman 1963-).

Source(s): 1985-1998 lists. Not on a 1984 or 2001 list.

JD from Howard University School of Law in 1960. Member of the Omega Psi Phi and Sigma Pi Phi fraternities. Practiced law for a few years, partly in cases dealing with racial discrimination. Georgia field director for the "liberal CIA"-funded National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 1961-1963. Active for the Southern Regional Council and then to the Voter Education Project from 1963 to 1970. First introduced to young Yale Law School activist Hillary Clinton in 1969, and again at another activist conference in April 1970.

March 8, 2022, The Saturday Evening Post, 'Bill Clinton and Vernon Jordan: Two Brothers of the South': "Jordan had known of Clinton for years through Hillary, whom he met in 1969, minutes after Hillary had given a speech at an activist conference in Colorado. She was sitting on a park bench, going over the rest of the day’s schedule with Peter Edelman, a former Robert Kennedy aide, when “into my eyesight came a pair of highly polished shoes and a voice that said, ‘Well Peter, aren’t you going to introduce me to this earnest young woman,’” Hillary remembered. “I looked [up]... From that day forward we stayed in touch with each other until I introduced him to Bill years later." ... Forty-three years later, Bill Clinton vividly recalls the first time the two met: "The Urban League banquet... Vernon and I were sitting on either side of the lectern where she was speaking, and her back was visible to Vernon. And he said to me after we were walking out, he said, 'She's a very attractive lady...'"

2007, Don Van Natta Jr. and Jeff Gerth, 'Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton', opening of Chapter 3: "An idealistic Hillary entered Yale Law School in September 1969 filled with a desire to become a citizen-activist who might just change the world. ... "The decision to apply and attend law school for me was an expression of belief: the system can be changed from within. ... The law can be an incredible vehicle for social change--and lawyers are at the wheel." ...
Of the students entering Yale Law School in September 1969, Hillary was one of twenty-seven women--barely more than 10 percent... That spring [1970], eight Black Panthers, including party leader Bobby Seale, went on trial for murder in a New Haven courtroom. The city was invaded by thousands of angry activists who believed that the Panthers had been set up by [the] FBI and federal prosecutors. The unrest spilled onto the leafy New Haven campus [leading to] arson...
Yale had avoided much of the chaos that had overwhelmed many college campuses over vietnam, in part because its president, Kingman Brewster, and the university chaplain, the Reverend William Sloane Coffin, had publicly challenged the escalation of the war. Coffin, in particular, had become a leader of the national anti-war movement. ...
On May 7 [1970], Hillary spoke at ... the League of Women Voters in Washington, DC. ... Hillary's "emotions were close to the surface" as she delivered her speech, in which she argued that the American military's push into Cambodia was illegal and unconstitutional. Her fellow law students had recently voted 239 to 12 to join more than three hundred schools in a national strike to protest "the unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged." ... Joining Hillary on the dais that May at the League of Women Voters was Marian Wright Edelman, the convention's keynote speaker and a woman who would become one of Hillary's most important and influential friends. ... Hillary [earlier had] met Edelman's husband, Peter Edelman, a Harvard Law School graduate who ... worked for Bobby Kennedy. ... At the conferene, Hillary was also introduced to the director of the Voter Education project of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta. His name was Vernon Jordan. ... Hillary's friendship with Jordan would become one of the most important and influential of her life."

Executive director of the United Negro College Fund 1970-1971. President Rockefeller and Ford Foundation-funded National Urban League 1971-1981. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1971-1984. Member CFR 1978-. Partner in Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld. Visitor of Bilderberg 1979-1985 (joined the steering committee), 1987, 1989-2009, 2011-2013, 2016-2017, 2019. Director New World Foundation anno 1982, when Hillary Clinton joined it (board 1982 - March 1988, chair 1987-1988). Closest elite advisor of governor and then president Bill Clinton. Bilderberg. Visitor Sun Valley Meetings.

1998, David Brock, 'The Seduction of Hillary Rodham', p. 113: "Hillary [Clinton] appears to have gotten involved with the New World Foundation through Marian Wright Edelman; when Hillary joined the organization Edelman's husband Peter was a member of the New World's board, as was Democratic lawyer Vernon Jordan [p. 113]. When she signed onto the board in 1982, Hillary had already been serving since 1976 on the board of the Children's Defense Fund, where she had once worked as a young lawyer just out of Yale."

March 2, 2021, USA Today, 'Vernon Jordan, civil rights champion and 'first friend' to Bill Clinton, dies at 85': "Before becoming a prominent adviser and aide to Clinton, Jordan had roles with the NAACP, National Urban League and United Negro College Fund. ... While president of the Urban League, Jordan nearly died after being shot by a white supremacist with a hunter's rifle in 1980...
Jordan left the Urban League in 1982 and became a partner at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld. Eventually he became a key campaign adviser to Clinton and co-chaired Clinton’s transition team, the first Black person in that role. Jordan’s influence was rooted in his friendship with the former president, which started in the 1970s and turned into a partnership and political alliance. Clinton was a young politician from Arkansas when Jordan met him and they bonded over their similar upbringings and Southern roots. ...
Jordan “never gave up on his friends or his country," Clinton said Tuesday. “From his instrumental role in desegregating the University of Georgia in 1961, to his work with the NAACP, the Southern Regional Council, the Voter Education Project, the United Negro College Fund, and the National Urban League..." Doesn't mentioned the CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission or the Rockefeller Foundation.

March 3, 2021, David Gergen for CNN, 'Vernon Jordan -- Clinton's best friend and my personal mentor': "I knew him best as the closest friend that President Bill Clinton had during his eight years in the White House...
When Clinton and his first chief of staff, Mack McLarty, recruited me to join his White House team as a senior counselor five months into his presidency, I soon saw a pattern: Whenever disputes erupted among his advisers (as they did a lot in those early days), the best answer was always the same: "Let's call Vernon." He was practicing law a few blocks away and could arrive in the Oval Office while arguments were still raging. Vernon's counsel was always wise and served the President -- and those who worked for him -- well.
He also became a quiet mentor to several of us White House staffers. When time permitted, the two of us would slip away for lunch at the F Street Club where he filled me in on the backstory of every political battle. Simply put, whatever use I had in advising Clinton depended heavily upon what I learned from Vernon.
Shortly after I arrived, Vernon and I, along with our wives, attended a large dinner at the home of Ben Bradlee, the executive editor of the Washington Post. There I saw another reason why Clinton valued him. Midway through the meal, a young staff member delivered the same note to each of us: a White House aide from Arkansas, Vincent Foster, had suddenly died. Immediately, Vernon and I drove together to the Foster home. The President was already there, consoling his widow; and Clinton himself was devastated. ...
There was one big problem, however: the President's personal secretary had previously asked Vernon to find a job for Lewinsky, which he had done. With an investigation quickly starting up, lawyers advised both the President and Vernon that they shouldn't talk to each other. I cannot be sure about who the President ultimately took counsel from, but I have often wondered if Clinton would have come through the Lewinsky saga less beaten up had he been able to talk to his closest friend about navigating the political landscape." Doesn't mentioned the CFR, Bilderberg, Trilateral Commission or the Rockefeller Foundation.

February 22, 1998, New York Times, 'For Jordan, Lewinsky Matter Tests a Friendship': "Jordan's associates said the President and his lawyers had not told him a crucial bit of information at the time he was asked to help Lewinsky find a job -- that she had been dragged into the sexual misconduct lawsuit filed by Paula Corbin Jones against the President. Jordan, several friends said, felt he was treated badly by this omission. ... On the CBS News program "60 Minutes," Jordan's mentor and law partner, Robert S. Strauss, said bluntly last Sunday that there were limits to Jordan's loyalty to Bill Clinton... It has become clear in recent days, in private conversations and public forums, that if the Washington establishment must choose, it will stand by Vernon Jordan and not Bill Clinton. When people fall from grace in the capital they can fall slowly, or quickly, depending on whether the establishment -- a mix of political and journalistic royalty -- decides to help break their fall or kick them as they go down. ... For the President, one of the most painful parts of the Starr investigation has been that it has deprived him of the advice and company of Jordan, who has served as First Friend since Clinton moved into the White House."

Source(s): 2006

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Source(s): 1973

Chair Kaiser Industries. Member Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay.

Source(s): 1990

Chair Chevron.

Source(s): 1993, 1998

Top player in Coca-Cola. Chairman of the Board, Allen & Co., Inc. Visitor of the Allen & Co.-organized Sun Valley Meetings. Long-time neighbor and close friend of Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska.

Source(s): 1981 (exec.), 1990

President, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO).

Source(s): 1990

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Resident scholar American Enterprise Institute. Major neocon.

Source(s): 1978 (exec.), 1981 (exec.), 1985 (exec.), 1990 (exec.), 1998 (exec.), 2006, 2020, 2022 (exec.)

"Editorial Note On March 31, 1975, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger met with Dean Rusk, Cyrus Vance, McGeorge Bundy, George Shultz, Douglas Dillon, W. Averell Harriman, Robert McNamara, David Rockefeller, George Ball, William..." 1971, New York Magazine: "David Rockefeller agreed: "Why, I've known the two Bundy brothers since they were little boys! ... Another effective ally in Bundy's corner is George Ball, who as Under Secretary of State in 1 96 1-66 was the only in-house dissenter on Vietnam"

Source(s): Not on a 1985 list. 1990, 1993, 1995, 1998 lists. Not on a 2001 list or beyond.

Fellow CFR. Executive director Hudson Institute. Top globalist with her husband.

Source(s): 2018, 2019, 2020

Columnist, The New York Times.

Source(s): 1990, 1993

President, chair and CEO of David Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank.

Source(s): 1998-2004 lists. Not on a 1995 or 2005 list.

Kay executive of Houston energy company Enron since the company was formed in 1985, and even with its predecessor. Director Eli Lilly 1993-2001. Director Texas Commerce Bank. Friend of George H. W. Bush and James Baker, who attended his funeral in 2006. He advised both Bush Sr. and Jr. on energy issues. Chair and CEO Enron Corporation until Feb. 2001, staying as chair for some time after while the Enron fraud-bankruptcy scandal developed. Died in 2006 from a heart attack, three months before his sentencing. Always features high in "most crooked CEOs" lists.

Nov. 28, 2001, Los Angeles Times, 'Enron’s Many Victims': "Enron, the Houston energy company that helped throw California into crisis last year, spirals downward. Its stock has fallen from a high of near $85 to $4 Tuesday. ....
15,000 Enron employees have seen their retirement accounts tank right along with the company stock. [Enron] urged them right up until the stock crashed to keep buying Enron, then froze the retirement fund so employees couldn’t sell their stock while the price skidded. The freeze was billed as an administrative necessity while plan managers were being changed.
Considering ... Lay made about $145 million on his stock options in 2000 and the first few months of 2001 alone, maybe he’ll volunteer to cover some of the $890 million in retirement plan losses. Fat chance. Ditto the nearly $60 million that former Enron President Jeffrey K. Skilling cleared on his options in 2000. It was Skilling’s August resignation that helped trigger Enron’s decline--that and disclosures that its executives had formed off-the-books partnerships that essentially concealed company debt. ...
Lay was also a chief energy advisor to President Bush, as he had been to Bush’s father. Along with a handful of other companies, Enron profited so handsomely from deregulation that California consumers, except those in areas with municipal power like Los Angeles, will pay the price in higher electric bills for years. Pacific Gas & Electric declared bankruptcy, and Southern California Edison nearly did. The state itself is deeply in debt for the power it was forced to buy. Major shareholders in Enron, including the state employee pension fund, got burned. There is a lot of blame to pass around--after all, Edison itself was a main cheerleader for deregulation--but Enron remains a fat target.
Lay’s tendency to fulminate at the state and its officials at the height of the electricity crisis for not getting onto the free-market bandwagon deepened the wounds. When the price bubble fell victim to this year’s cool summer, a declining economy and the state’s purchase of long-term power contracts, the damage was done.
Californians can hope that the Securities and Exchange Commission will require companies to disclose the sorts of shenanigans that concealed Enron’s debt. Voters can ask themselves whether state legislators’ inexperience, a product of term limits, helped produce such a shoddily constructed deal on deregulation.
Nothing will bring back the ordinary shareholders’ lost money. At least the Enron employee lawsuit stands a chance of recovering some percentage of the retirement fund loss, even if not a penny comes from Kenneth Lay’s $145 million."

May 26, 2006, Los Angeles Times, 'Enron’s Top Executives Are Convicted of Fraud': "Enron’s auditors, then-Big Five accounting giant Arthur Andersen, went out of business after being indicted on an obstruction-of-justice charge in the wake of Enron’s collapse. Testimony showed that Andersen employees shredded mounds of Enron-related documents after the federal probe was launched. The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the firm’s 2002 conviction because of faulty jury instructions."

Source(s): 1998

Chairman and CEO Time-Warner. Visitor Sun Valley Meetings.

Source(s): 2015, 2020

COO of Mark Zuckerberg's Instagram.

Source(s): 1978, 1981, 1990 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 2006, 2015, 2018 lists. Not anymore on 2019 list.

Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Co-chair IRC.

Source(s): 1973, 1975, 1978-1981 (exec.), 1985, 1990 lists. Gone by 1992.

Joined the Federal Reserve of New York in 1959, left as a vice president in the research division in 1969. Member CFR 1968-. Deputy under secretary for monetary affairs under Nixon 1969-1971. President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, 1971–1977. President Brookings Institution 1977-1995. Founding member Trilateral Commission in 1973 until at least 1990 (executive in the late 1970s and early 1980s). Visitor Bilderberg 1977, 1980-1985, steering committee 1981-1985. Member of the Bretton Woods Committee in the 1990s and 2000s, alongside David Rockefeller, George Soros, Henry Kissinger and countless other elites.

Source(s): 2013, 2020

President and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Communications (Discovery Channel). U.S. Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. President and CEO of Cane Investments, LLC, Hastings on Hudson.

Source(s): 2012-2021 lists. Not on a 2013 list. 2021 is the last list checked.

Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton. President McLarty Asssociates, Washington.

Source(s): Not on a 1978 list. 1981 (from the day he left as World Bank president; not an exec.), 1985 (exec.), 1990, 1993 (exec.), 1995 (exec.), 1998 (not an exec. anymore) lists. Not on a 2001 list. Listed as "Lifetime Trustee" 2002-2009 lists. Died in 2009.

1916-2009. Secretary of defense 1961-1968. See biography in the Bilderberg membership list.

Source(s): 1990

Chairman TRW.

Source(s): 2014-2022 lists. Not on a 2013 list. 2022 last one checked.

Executive assistant to then-CIA deputy director George Tenet 1996-1997. CIA deputy director of the Nonproliferation Center Jan. 1998 - Jan. 1999, CIA director of Transnational Issues Jan. 1999-. CIA deputy director for Intelligence 2002-2005, responsible for all CIA analysis and for preparation of the President Bush's Daily Brief. Member CFR 2003-, director 2007-, vice chair 2017-. Left the CIA after a few years of opposition to linking Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda, pressure that was exerted on the CIA through Dick Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby. Global Head of Sovereign Risk for Lehman Brothers 2005-2008. At Barcalys in 2008, after it took over Lehman Brothers. Worked on intelligence transmission for Obama November 2008 - January 2009. Member Obama's President's Intelligence Advisory Board 2009-2014, chair 2014-2017. Senior Advisor on Geopolitical Risk to Barclays Capital 2009 - until at least 2012. Vice chair and CEO Kissinger Associates 2009 - still anno 2022, also serving as president 2009-2015. Trustee In-Q-Tel 2010 - still anno 2022. Director EMC Corporation (2012-), Morgan Stanley (2014-), General Motors (2018-).

linkedin.com/in/jami-miscik-6154467b/ (accessed: August 7, 2022): "CEO, Kissinger Associates Jan 2009 - Present · 13 yrs 8 mos New York. President 2009 to 2015. ...
- Morgan Stanley: Member Board Of Directors, Morgan Stanley Nov 2014 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos... New York. ....
- Member Board Of Directors, General Motors Oct 2018 - Present. ...
- Member of Board of Trustees, In-Q-Tel 2010 - Present. ...
- Deputy Director for Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency 2002 - 2005... Served s in CIA's Directorate of Intelligence for more than 20 years, ultimately becoming the Deputy Director for Intelligence (DDI) responsible for all CIA analysts and their analytic products."

Source(s): 2015-2021 list. 2021 last one checked.

Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff. CEO, MGM Consulting, Annapolis. Director Atlantic Council.

Source(s): 2010-2021 lists. Not on a 2009 list. 2021 last one checked.

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Source(s): 2020-2021 lists. Not on a 2019 list. 2021 last one checked.

Daughter of globalist elitist Sam Nunn and Colleen Ann Nunn, a CIA agent under foreign service cover, before becoming a stay-at-home mother.

Studied at Oxford University in the 1980s. Earned a Master of Public Administration degree from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2001. Democrat political aspirations. Member President's Council on Service and Civic Participation 2006-2007. CEO of Points of Light 2007-2013. President and CEO, CARE USA, Atlanta.

Source(s): 1981, 1990, 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1998 (exec.), 2008-2017 ("North American Chairman"), 2020 (exec.) (North American chair 2009-2017)

Rhodes scholar. Leading political scientist at Harvard since 1964, who developed the international relations theory of neoliberalism (not the economic one). Member of the Trilateral Commission since at least 1981, and chairman over 2008-2017. Continued as an executive after that. Chair of the National Intelligence Council under Clinton 1993-1994. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs 1994-1995. Later appointed a member of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board and the Defense Policy Board. Co-chair, Aspen Strategy Group. Involved in more than three dozen important NGOs over his lifetime.

Source(s): 2013, 2015 (exec.), 2020 ("North American Chairman, Trilateral Commission")

Special Assistant to President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan. Evron and Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard.

Source(s): 1973-1981 lists

President of Hewlett Packard (HP) 1947–1964, CEO 1964–1968, chair 1964–1968, 1972–1993. Deputy secretary of defense under Nixon 1969-1971. Never a member of the CFR. Visitor Bohemian Grove. Member of the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution 1972-1996. Vice chair Atlantic Council 1972-1980. Member Trilateral Commission 1973-1981. Member of the committee on science and technology, U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council, 1975-1982.

Source(s): 2003-2008 lists.

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Source(s): 1998-2004

CLinton's secretary of defense 1994-1997.

Source(s): 1973, 1975, 1978; long-time indirect membership: 2010 list: "*C. Fred Bergsten, Director, Peterson Institute for International Economics... Adam S. Posen, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics... David Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation, New York, NY."

Chair and CEO Lehman Brothers 1973-1984. Co-founder Blackstone Group in 1985, which held the mortgage on WTC 7 on 9/11. Member CFR 1970-, director 1973-1984, chair 1985–2007. Founding member Trilateral Commission from 1973 until about 1978. Member Pilgrims Society. Good friend of David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger and a major superclass member involved in many NGOs. CHair of the CFR.

CFR international advisory board:

Source(s): 2020-

Member of the CFR since 1986. CIA director 2011-2012, but fired after news came out of an extramarital affair he had. Part of the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers (AFIO), where he was photographed talking to former CIA directors William Webster and Robert Gates, as well as John Negroponte. Trump's initial national security advisor, General Mike Flynn (who helped push the bogus Pizzagate and was close to Blackwater's Erik Prince in JSOC), was a protege of the controversial General Stanley McChrystal (of JSOC), who himself was a protege of David Petraeus. Senior vice president of Royal United Services Institution (RUSI). Director Atlantic Council. Visitor Forstmann Little Conferences.

Source(s): 2003-2019 lists. Not on a 2020 list.

Executive secretary, State Department 1973-1974. Member CFR 1975- director 2002-2007. Ambassador to Jordan 1974-1978, Nigeria 1981-1983, El Salvador 1983-1985, Israel 1985-1988, United Nations 1989-1992, India 1992-1993, Russia 1993-1996. Under secretary of state for political affairs 1997-2001. Top 10 Superclass Index with lifetime involvement in more than 70 NGOs.

Source(s): 2013

Chair failed 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.

Source(s): 2014-2016, 2017 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not on a 2013 list.

Born in Cairo, Egypt to a middle-class, Coptic Christian family. The Habib family settled in Dallas, Texas, where they had relatives within the Coptic community. Her family strongly identified with the Republican Party and greatly admired Ronald Reagan. BA from the University of Texas at Austin College of Liberal Arts. Never finished law school.

Interned for Kay Bailey Hutchison and worked for congressman Dick Armey. Director of Congressional Affairs at the Republican National Committee, through which she became involved in the George W. Bush campaign of 2000.

Deputy assistant to president Bush for presidential personnel 2001-2003, assistant 2003-2005. Assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs under George W. Bush 2005-2007. Joined the CFR in 2005.

April 19, 2017, Vogue, 'Who Is Dina Powell? Ivanka Trump's Right-Hand Woman Is a Rising Star in the White House': "Appointed as assistant secretary of state for education and culture affairs, and traveled to the Middle East with former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice [a protege of George Shultz], who has nothing but praise for Powell. "She did crucial work for me at the State Department where we were trying to be more effective in outreach to the Muslim world and to empower women. Because of her own background as a woman of Egyptian descent she was a cultural ambassador—absolutely an essential member of my team.""

Managing director Goldman Sachs 2007-, partner 2010-. President Goldman Sachs Foundation 2010-. Advisory council George W. Bush Presidential Center. Joined David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission in 2014. Director for the Center for Global Devlopment (CGD). Came to the Trump White House in 2016 through Ivanka Trump (wife of Jared Kushner), Trump's daughter, working on the "empowerment" of women.

January 5, 2017, politico.com, 'Ivanka Trump turns to Goldman Sachs partner for advice': "At Goldman Sachs, Powell, 42, is viewed as a leading voice on women's empowerment in the workplace, overseeing "10,000 Women," one of the investment bank's biggest charitable initiatives, which focuses on helping female entrepreneurs around the world. ...
Powell, multiple sources said, has become an invaluable resource to Ivanka Trump, who wants to position herself as a national leader on women's economic empowerment, an issue that allows her to serve as a potential bridge to some liberals and moderates troubled by her father's election as president.
In Powell, she has also found an adviser who knows her way around the White House, and who knows about staffing, which Ivanka Trump will also need help with if she fills the expected role of functional first lady.
And over the past few weeks, the sources said, Powell has been discussed as a top candidate to advise Ivanka Trump in a more official way...
Trump ... has chosen former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin to serve as Treasury secretary and Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn as top economic adviser to the White House. Former Goldman Sachs banker Anthony Scaramucci sits on the transition team. Trump's senior counselor and former campaign CEO, Steve Bannon, is also a former Goldman banker. And Trump's pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, is a lawyer with ties to Goldman Sachs.
[Not a word about the Trilateral Commission]"

April 19, 2017, Vogue, 'Who Is Dina Powell? Ivanka Trump's Right-Hand Woman Is a Rising Star in the White House': "In President Trump's White House, a recent highly publicized power struggle has divided the administration into two opposing factions. On the one hand, there's the camp led by chief strategist Steve Bannon, former editor of the alt-right website Breitbart News. ....
On the other side, there's the group led by Trump's daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, a senior advisor who, despite a lack of previous government experience, has been tasked with everything from providing a solution to conflicts in the Middle East to criminal justice reform. The Kushners have allied themselves with national economics adviser Gary Cohn, and also with Dina Powell [both from Goldman Sachs]...
Ivanka first started working with Powell during the campaign, when she was traveling and meeting women from all over the country. During the transition, Ivanka started to heavily rely on Powell for advice on staffing and how to shape her then-informal role in her father's future administration. After informally advising Ivanka during the transition, Powell later gained an official White House role as the senior counselor for economic initiatives. Some of the first projects Ivanka and Powell worked on together were the launch of the United States-Canada Council for the Advancement of Women Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
[George Shultz associate and Trump national security advisor] General McMaster told the AP he hired her "because of her exceptional expertise and leadership skills, to lead an effort to restore the strategic focus of the national security council." Powell was also invited to attend principal and deputy meetings at the National Security Council, just a few weeks before Bannon was removed from the NSC entirely."

1st United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy March 2017 - January 2018. Partner Goldman Sachs 2018-. Non-residential senior fellow Harvard's Belfer Center 2018-.

Source(s): 1993-2005 lists.

Director ExxonMobil 1984-, president 1987-1993, CEO 1993-1999, chair and CEO 1999-2005. Director JPMorgan Chase 1987-2020, with persons as Henry Kissinger, George Shultz and David Rockefeller on the international advisory council. Member CFR 1988-. Visited Bilderberg in 1990. Member Trilateral Commission 1993-2005. Honorary trustee Business Council for International Understanding anno 2000, alongside George Shultz and Maurice Greenberg. Trustee vice chair of the neocon American Enterprise Institute in the 2000s. Member Secretary of Energy Advisory Board anno 2004. Chair National Petroleum Council (NPC). Member American Petroleum Institute. Director United Negro College Fund anno 2005-2006.

Raymond was a major opponent of global warming science since the 1990s. Eventually it was due to pressure from "liberal CIA" action groups, with aid from newspapers as the New York Times, that he was forced off the board of JPMorgan Chase in December 2020.

Source(s): 1990

President and CEO, RAND Corporation.

Source(s): 2009-2012 lists. Not on any other lists.

George Shultz protege. National security advisor 2001-2005 and secretary of state 2005-2009 under George W. Bush. Top 20 globalist with lifetime involvement in over 50 NGOs.

Source(s): 2006, 2007-2008 (exec.), 2009-2017 ("In Public Service" during the Obama years) lists. Not on a 2005 list.

Protege of Madeleine Albright, and similarly a Democrat. Senior fellow Brookings Institution. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs, National Security Council.

Feb. 21, 2026, Breitbart, 'Susan Rice Threatens Trump Supporters: ‘Revenge Is Best Served Cold’' (Rice words): "A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me .... ‘Revenge is best served cold,’ and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that. ... When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media ... it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump. ...
They’re now starting to realize, wait a minute, no... what [Trump] is doing, whether on the economy and affordability or on immigration now, is not popular, and there is likely to be a swing in the other direction, and they are going to be caught with more than their pants down. ...
And I can tell you, Preet, as I talk to leaders in Washington, leaders in our party, leaders in the states, if these corporations think that the Democrats when they come back in power are going to, you know, play by the old rules and [say] ‘”Never mind, we’ll forgive you for all the people you fired, all the policies and principles you violated, all the laws you’ve skirted,” I think they’ve got another thing coming … they’re going to be surprised. Democrats have had a bellyful, and we’re not going to play by, you know, the old set of rules. ... We’re not going to be suckers ...WW there will be an accountability agenda."

Source(s): 1981-1985 lists (not on a 1990 list any more).

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Source(s): 1993-1995 lists. Not on a 1991, partial 1992, or 1998 list.

Ambassador to Finland 1977-1980, East Germany 1983-1985. CFR member 1980-. Assistant secretary of state for European and Canadian affairs 1985-1989. Regular Bilderberg involvent over 1985-1994. President Atlantic Council 1989-1993, co-chair 1993-1996. Member Trilateral Commission mid 1990s. Trustee Brookings.

Source(s): 1990-2002 lists. Not on a 1985 or 2003 list.

Senator. Governor of Virginia.

Source(s): 1973- lists; 1978-1985 minimum ("North American Chairman" [really: 1977-1991]); 1993 ("Honorary Chairman"); April 5-8 2002 meeting list ("Guests: ... David Rockefeller... Observers: ... James Ford, Assistant to Mr. Rockefeller"); 2003-2017 lists ("Founder, Honorary Chairman and Lifetime Trustee, Trilateral Commission"), 2018 ("In Memoriam"), 2020 ("David Rockefeller Fellows") lists (North American chair 1977-1991)

"In addition he is a member of the secretive Pilgrim Society, former president of the World Bank, and former trustee of the Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Council. David Rockefeller presides as chairman of the C.F.R. with other top officers."

Founder and honorary chairman Trilateral Commission.

December 8, 1991, Daily Yomiuri, 'Japan–US Relations – Past, Present and Future': "The idea [of creating the Trilateral Commission] was incorporated in a speech that I made in the spring of 1972 for the benefit of some industrial forums that [my] Chase [Manhattan Bank] held in different cities around Europe. [Next] Zbig [Brzezinski] and I both attended a meeting of the Bilderberg Group. [The idea] was shot down in flames. There was very little enthusiasm for the idea. I think they felt that they had a very congenial group, and they didn't want to have it interfered with by another element that would--I don't know what they thought, but in any case, they were not in favor."

2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', p. 405: "For more than a century ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents such as my encounter with Castro to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure--one world, if you will. If that's the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it."

2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', pp. 415-418: "The organization with which I have played a founding role has attracted as much public scrutiny and attention as the Trilateral Commission. Pat Robertson has insisted that Trilateral is trying to create a world government and claims that it springs "from the depth of something evil." My son Richard, when he was a student at Harvard in the 1970s, told me his friends assumed that Trilateral was part of a "nefarious conspiracy." ...
Trilateral, like Bilderberg, is a much more benign organization than the conspiracy theorists have depicted. It is a broadly based effort to bridge national differences and, in this case, invite the Japanese into the international community.
The idea for an organization including representatives from North America, Europe, and Japan - the three centers of democratic capitalism - resulted from my realization in the early 1970s that power relationships in the world had fundamentally changed. The United States, although still dominant, had declined relatively in terms of its economic power as both Western Europe and Japan recovered from the devastation of World War II and entered a period of dramatic economic growth and expansion. As a result the comity that characterized relationships among these regions for more than two decades had deteriorated alarmingly, and I believed something needed to be done.
I spoke about this in March 1972 before Chase investment forums in Montreal, London, Brussels, and Paris, calling for an "international commission for peace and prosperity" composed of private citizens drawn from the NATO countries and Japan to examine "such vital fields as international trade and investment; environmental problems; control of crime and drugs; population control; and assistance to developing nations."
I thought it essential to include the Japanese for a number of reasons. First of all, Japan had become a global economic power, and its high-quality products, especially automobiles and electronics, had made inroads into markets everywhere. Japanese export success, however, had produced a hostile reaction in the United States and Europe, and there was a strong perception that Japan was a "free rider" on the international trading system, aggressively exploiting opportunities abroad while only grudgingly opening their domestic market. Japan’s economic prowess combined with its curious reluctance to engage seriously in international dialogue made it imperative to include them in the process I had in mind.
Zbigniew Brzezinski [CFR '68-, director 1972-1977], then teaching at Columbia University, was a Bilderberg guest that year, and we spoke about my idea on the flight to Belgium for the meeting. I had been urging the Steering Committee to invite Japanese participants for several years, and at our session that April, I was again politely but firmly told no. Zbig considered this rebuff further proof that my idea was well founded and urged me to pursue it. I arranged a follow-up meeting with Zbig, Robert Bowie [CFR '47-'08] of the Center for International Studies at Harvard, Henry Owen [CFR '66-] of the Brookings Institution, and McGeorge Bundy [CFR '48-; brother of Willam Bundy: director CFR '64-'74 and editor-in-chief CFR's Foreign Affairs magazine '72-'84] the Ford Foundation, who all heartily endorsed my proposal to form a trilateral organization.
I then convened a larger group, including five Europeans and four Japanese, for a meeting at my country home in the summer of 1972. Among the Japanese were Saburo Okita [Club of Rome full member 1969-, executive anno 1972; founding member TC '73-], who later became minister of foreign affairs, and Kiichi Miyazawa [Minister of International Trade and Industry (1970–1971)], who would serve as minister of foreign affairs, minister of finance, and prime minister. After a lengthy discussion we determined to set up the new organization. Zbig agreed to serve as director, and Benjy Franklin, my college roommate and colleague at the Council on Foreign Relations, agreed to help with organizational matters.
Trilateral was established on a trial basis; at the end of three years we would review its activities and accomplishments and decide whether it should be continued. Each region had its own executive committee and secretariat. At our first executive committee meeting in Tokyo in October 1973, two task forces reported on political and monetary relations among the three regions, and we published their findings in an effort to influence the behavior of our respective governments. For the second executive committee meeting in Brussels in June 1974—just after the first OPEC “oil shock” and calls for a “new international economic order”—we concentrated on the energy crisis and relations with developing countries.
We cast our nets widely in terms of membership and recruited labor union leaders, corporate CEOs, prominent Democrats and Republicans, as well as distinguished academics, university presidents, and the heads of not-for-profits involved overseas. We assembled what we believed were the best minds in America. The Europeans and Japanese assembled delegations of comparable distinction.
The inclusion among that first group of an obscure Democratic governor of Georgia - James Earl Carter - had an unintended consequence. A week after Trilateral’s first executive committee meeting in Washington in December 1975 [wrong: December 1974], Governor Carter announced that he would seek the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. I have to confess that at the time I thought he had little chance of success. Much to my amazement, however, he not only won the Democratic nomination but defeated President Gerald Ford in the November election.
Carter’s campaign was subtly anti-Washington and anti-establishment, and he pledged to bring both new faces and new ideas into government. There was a good deal of surprise, then, when he chose fifteen members of Trilateral, many of whom had served in previous administrations, for his team, including Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, Secretary of the Treasury Michael Blumenthal, and Zbigniew Brzezinski as national security advisor. In his 1975 autobiography, Why Not the Best?, Carter wrote that “membership on this commission has provided me with a splendid learning opportunity, and many of the other members have helped me in the study of foreign affairs.” Predictably, I was accused of trying to take control of Carter’s foreign policy.
As economic conditions worsened in the late 1970s and the United States suffered a series of foreign policy reverses culminating in the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Trilateral attracted a great deal of unfavorable attention. In the 1980 presidential primary campaign, for instance, one of Ronald Reagan’s supporters ran an advertisement that stated, “The people who brought you Jimmy Carter now want you to vote for George Bush,” and highlighted the membership of both in Trilateral. I am not sure how many votes were changed by this ad, but such is the nature of politics in a democratic society. I should note, however, that President Reagan ultimately came to understand Trilateral’s value and invited the entire membership to a reception at the White House in April 1984.
In December 1999, on the trip back from the ceremonies marking the official return of the Panama Canal, President Carter and I, who were both members of the U.S. delegation, spoke about Trilateral. He again generously credited the commission with broadening his understanding of international issues and their impact on the United States. And that, I would argue, is really the point. Trilateral has never been a sinister force; rather, it has provided an invaluable forum for dialogue among the leadership of three pivotal regions of the world. I am pleased that Trilateral remains a vigorous and effective collaborator on the world scene."

August 25, 1980, letter to the New York Times: "nonsensical defamation... I never cease to be amazed by those few among us who spot a conspiracy under every rock, a cabal in every corner. [I'm] singled out as the 'cabalist-in-chief'." April 28, 1996, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "It's so absurd I can't help but, to some extent, find it amusing."

April 6, 2002, Washington Times, 'Trilateral meeting to discuss terrorism': "Members of the 29-year-old commission laugh off the conspiracy theories. Although it is a private organization, its publications and memberships are public. “It’s so absurd I can’t help but, to some extent, find it amusing,” Mr. Rockefeller said in a 1996 interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette."

The 1980 George Wald letter and David Rockefeller's reply (very obscure):

March 12, 1981, UPI, 'Nobel peace laureate George Wald Thursday night led more...': "Nobel peace laureate George Wald Thursday night led more than 2,000 people carrying signs and chanting in a protest against U.S. involvement in El Salvador."

1985, Hans Kochler, International Progress Organization, 'The Reagan Administration's Foreign Policy: Facts and Judgement of the International Tribunal', p. 18: "It is people like Kissinger, people like the members of the Trilateral Commission to which George Wald referred..."

1985, Executive Intelligence Review, 'The Trilateral Conspiracy Against the U.S. Constitution: Fact Or Fiction?', p. 117: "Professor George Wald, a Nobel laureate, who postulates in an Aug. 19 letter that “ John Anderson's try for the Presidency was invented by, or with the connivance of, the Trilateral Commission to cut into the Democratic vote ."

July-Sep. 1986, María Fernanda Arias in Estudios Internacionales, 'Trilateralismo y Politica Noteamericana en la Decada Del 80: El Caso de la Aministracion Reagan' (JSTOR): "su parte, George Wald consideró la candidatura de Anderson corno una forma utilizada por la Comisión Trilateral para restarle votos a Carter, ya que Anderson... ["For his part, George Wald considered Anderson's candidacy as a way used by the Trilateral Commission to take votes away from Carter, since Anderson..."]"

August 20, 1980, David Rockefeller letter to the New York Times: "I never ceased to be amazed at those few among us who spot a conspiracy under every rock, a cabal in every corner. Surprisingly, the latest to join the conspiracy theorists is Professor George Wald, a Nobel laureate, who postulates in an Aug. 19 letter that "John Anderson's try for the Presidency was invented by, or with the connivance of, the Trilateral Commission to cut into the Democratic vote..."
Professor Wald, alas is not alone in his suspicions. To some, the Trilateral Commission is a sinister plot by Eastern Establishment businessmen who will do almost anything - including going into cahoots with the Kremlin - for the sake of financial gain. The fact that many former members, including President Carter, are now members of the Administration is hailed as proof of how devilishly well the conspiracy works.
As founder of the Trilateral Commission and its current North American chairman, I am usually singled out as the "cabalist-in-chief". One recent tirade had me orchestrating a plot "...to reduce New York's population to approximately four million and siphon off the surplus population into slave labor camps..." The same publication asserts that I'm already responsible for a fascist scheme in Latin America that "...led to shifts in global weather patterns, marked by droughts and severe winters in the United States."
Originally, this sort of nonsensical defamation was easy to dismiss. It came from the extreme fringes of the left and the right, and I suppose being called a Communist and a fascist at the same time puts me somewhere near the center of the political spectrum where I am most comfortable anyway.
Lately though, the drum beat of inanities has grown louder, and a few overactive imaginations have attempted somehow to link the commission with the 1980 Presidential election campaign. I thought therefore that Professor Wald and his co-conspiracy theorists might appreciate an explanation of the mysterious organization that seems to haunt their every moment. I am afraid the reality is much less juicy than the theories.
The Trilateral Commission now has about 300 members from North America, Western Europe and Japan. About one-quarter are from the United States and include not only business people, but labor union leaders, university professors and research institute directors, congressmen and senators, media representatives and others. There are about as many Republicans and Democrats, and most regions of the nation are represented.
Among present and former U.S. members are the chairman of the Republican National Committee, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and others who surely would have difficulty hatching the same plot.
The Trilateral Commission does not take positions on issues or endorse individuals for elective or appointive office. It holds meetings that rotate from region to region and assigns task force reports that are discussed in commission sessions. Reports have dealt with different aspects of world trade, energy resources, the International Monetary System, East-West relations and more.
Is the commission secretive? Not at all. For $10 a year, anyone can subscribe to its quarterly magazine, "Trialogue," and also receive periodic mailings of task force reports. Further, we publish a list of the source of all U.S. contributions in excess of $5.000. The only part of our proceedings that is "off the record" are discussions at commission meetings, and we keep these private to encourage uninhibited criticism and debate.
Is the commission exclusive? Yes, in that we try to select only the most able and outstanding citizens from the industrial democracies. In that context, it is gratifying and not at all surprising that many former members are now Administration officials. My point is that far from being a coterie of international conspirators with designs on covertly conquering the world, the Trilateral Commission is, in reality, a group of concerned citizens interested in identifying and clarifying problems facing the world and in fostering greater understanding a cooperation among international allies.
My apologies, Professor Wald. But, as Walter Cronkite would say, "That's the way it is."
DAVID ROCKEFELLER
Chairman, The Chase Manhattan Bank."

Feminism in the Trilateral Commission: 1973 list: 3 among 65 founding North American members were women: 4.6%. It involved the President of the League of Women Voters, a magazine editor, and an economics professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Jan. 2020 list: 46 women (give or take 1 or 2) among 150 North American members, including "Former Members in Public Service" and "David Rockefeller Fellows": 31%. There's the CEO and vice chair of Kissinger Associates, as well as the North American chair.

Source(s): 1978-2011 lists

Governor of West Virginia. Senator. Chairman . A pre-2002 member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, vice-chair 2002-2007, chair 2007-2009, and regular member since.

December 2, 2002, New York Times, 'Shuffling at the Top Is Set for Intelligence Committees': "Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia will take the place of Senator Bob Graham of Florida as the senior Democrat on the [Senate Intelligence Committee]... In the House, Representative Porter J. Goss, Republican of Florida, a former C.I.A. worker, is expected to continue as chairman, but Representative Nancy Pelosi, the new Democratic leader, will step aside to be succeeded by Representative Jane Harman of California or Representative Sanford D. Bishop Jr. of Georgia. ... Mr. Graham is a friend of Mr. Rockefeller's, and the two Democrats have already met to discuss the changes in committee leadership. Mr. Rockefeller has kept a low profile on the panel and aides said the senator, known mainly on health issues, is working hard to gain expertise in intelligence."

Source(s): 2013

A daughter of David Rockefeller. Member CFR 1986-. Trustee African-America Institute, with its its history of CIA funding, anno 1986. Trustee Rockefeller Brothers Fund 1986-. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1989-. Trustee David Rockefeller Fund, founded in 1989. Founder (in 1986) and chair, Synergos Institute, New York. Participant in the elite, new agy State of the World Forum conferences of the 1990s.

Source(s): 1985, 1990 lists. Not on a 1984 reception list. Not on a 1992 and 1993 list.

Partner, Lazard Freres & Co.

Source(s): 1973-1984 lists.

Rhodes scholar. Staffer Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1946-, eventually becoming a vice president in the bank's research department. Trained Paul Volcker and others at NY Federal Reserve. Undersecretary for Monetary Affairs under JFK in the early 1960s. Partner Brown Brothers Harriman 1965-1991. Director CFR 1966-1981. Trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation 1967-1982, vice chair 1978-1982. Founding member Trilateral Commission 1973-1984. Chairman Brookings Institution 1975-1986. Visitor Bilderberg 1975, 1979, 1982. Director Atlantic Council anno 1977. Governor Atlantic Institute for International Affairs and United Nations Association. Member Bretton Woods Committee, Group of Thirty, Pilgrims Society and more.

Source(s): 2006-2011 lists. Not on 2005-2012 lists.

Famous interviewer, often of elite guests, also at places as the Sun Valley. "Canceled" in November 2017 after allegations dating back 20-30 years of sexual harassment.

Source(s): 2002-2020, 2021- (exec.; checked until 2022) lists.

Co-founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group.

Source(s): 1993, 1995 lists. Not on a 1991, partial 1992, or 1998 list.

Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Major globalist greener.

Source(s): Never a member, but present at the 2002 annual meeting as defense secretary.

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Source(s): 2013-2020 lists; 2020 ("Susan Molinari, Vice President for Public Policy, Google, Inc., Washington; Former Member of Congress")

Chair and CEO of Google.

Source(s): Not on a 1985 list. 1990 ("Former Members in Public Service").

Deputy national security advisor under Henry Kissinger 1973-1975, although de facto national security advisor from Sep. 1973 when Kissinger was simultaneously appointed secretary of state. National security advisor under president George H. W. Bush 1989-1993. Chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board 2001-2005, but opposed the Iraq invasion.
August 24, 1984, Washington Post, 'Kissinger's New Team': "Kissinger is chairman of the new firm, which was formed last month. Its president is retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft [until 1984]..."

academyofdiplomacy.org/member/brent-scowcroft/ (accessed: Aug. 25, 2022): "From 1982 to 1989, he was Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc."

millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-oral-histories/brent-scowcroft-oral-history-part-i (accessed: Aug. 25, 2022; recorded: November 12-13, 1999): "Henry Kissinger is a dear friend of mine, and I have enormous admiration for him. He has, to my mind, one of the true strategic minds in this country. ...
I learned some negatives from Kissinger. His first NSC staff was, from his perspective, pretty much a disaster. He got a bunch of young intellectuals in who deserted him, especially over the bombing in Cambodia. Choosing people is an instinct. It’s an art, not a science. ...
One of the things that happened when I first joined Henry Kissinger, I said, "Look, I don’t have any experience in dealing with the press. I have never given a press interview. I don’t do press. You do the press." Well, he had enough insight not to let me get away with that. So the first thing he did is turn Joe Alsop over to me. So gradually through Joe Alsop, Meg Greenfield, and a few others, I lost my—I’m going to have to say it—fear of the press, that I would say something that would turn out to be stupid. I had done enough that it wasn’t a disagreeable job, and I did realize the importance of talking to the press. I used to have weekly meetings with a half-dozen of them, off the record, or background meetings, to discuss what we were doing. So I was somewhat accustomed to working with the press. ...
The Air Force said, "How would you like to go to the White House as military assistant?" I had no idea what that was. It was a management job in charge of all the Defense Department resources that are used by the White House—Air Force One, the motor pool, the helicopters, Camp David, all those things. So in the absence of any attractive job, I said, "Fine. I'd be happy to do that." I spent about a year doing that, and then Henry Kissinger needed a new assistant. Al Haig was going back to the Army, and he asked if I wanted to join him. I said, "Sure. I’d be happy to." And that's what launched me on a semi-political career. ...
Now, how I got to the White House is a little bit of military politics. Henry Kissinger's deputy at that time was Al Haig, and the Air Force very badly wanted that position. There was no notion that Al Haig would ever leave, but I think one of the things they did is look around for who they might get close in case Al Haig left. I had the kinds of credentials that would most likely appeal to Henry Kissinger--in terms of my teaching, my graduate degree, and so forth.
So they sent me over to a job that had absolutely nothing to do with Henry Kissinger, but it got me inside the White House. And the Air Force strategy, inasmuch as it was a strategy, worked. ... No, the end of ’71, as the military assistant [I went to the White House]. ...
First of January '73 [I became part of the National Security Council staff]. I was military assistant for one year. One week after I arrived in the White House, I was on the advance trip for President Nixon’s visit to China. Three months after I’d been there, I ran the advance trip for his visit to the Soviet Union, so I started out with a marvelous opportunity to visit parts of the world and learn...
[You have to realize] I didn’t start at the bottom of the National Security Council. I replaced Al Haig as Henry’s deputy, and for the first few months, that was awkward. I didn’t know anything about the NSC, and there were at least three people who thought they should have been in my shoes. So it was a steep learning curve. In 1973, after I had been in the job about nine months, President Nixon made Henry Kissinger Secretary of State, but left him as National Security Advisor.
So my role increased. In fact, I became the National Security Advisor because he spent more and more time over there and less and less time in the White House. I pretty much ran the thing—other than sharing the meetings and so on—until '75, when President Ford did his own Saturday night massacre and replaced the Secretary of Defense, the Director of Central Intelligence, and took the National Security hat from Henry Kissinger. ...
I think that one of the reasons for the switch in making me National Security Advisor was to make that separation so that Ford would not be so intimately linked with Henry Kissinger in the eyes of the Republican primary voters. ... Kissinger was a bête noir of the conservatives at that time because of détente and "dealing" with the Soviet Union and this dark menace. ...
I had absolutely nothing to do with any of that [of making George H. W> Bush CIA director]. I don’t know how all that happened. Well, I do know, Bill Colby--it was time for him to go. We’d gone through this horror of the investigation of CIA. [And] President Ford and [Colby's replacement] Jim Schlesinger simply did not get along. Jim used to come over and meet with the President once every week or two, and I usually sat in just to take notes on anything that came out of it. Jim Schlesinger has a kind of professorial air about him... and I could see the red rising in the President’s neck. I told Jim, "You know, that’s not the right approach, Jim. You shouldn't talk to him that way." Well, he changed, but not enough. The President decided something had to be done. He claimed to me that the whole thing was his idea. I think his Chief of Staff had a lot to do with what happened, Don Rumsfeld. Don Rumsfeld was Chief of Staff and ended up as Secretary of Defense. ...
I had, of course, been a close observer of the Reagan administration, and there were a couple of things I admired and some that I did not. I thought that the Shultz/Weinberger enmity was a real drag on the ability to make coherent policy. I think that the way they handled the NSC at the outset of the administration cost them dearly. They looked back at the [Jimmy] Carter administration and at the competition between Brzezinski and Vance and said, "We’re not going to have that." So Dick Allen, the first National Security Advisor, reported not to the President, but to Ed Meese. That made him, in my mind, largely ineffective. The National Security Advisor is junior in grade to all of the people he works with. He’s able to be effective to the degree that he can represent the President and understand what the President’s thinking is, what he wants done, how he wants it done, and also has access to the President.
In my opinion, the Reagan administration never recovered from that first error. As a matter of fact, they ended up with more National Security Advisors than the total before them. I wanted that not to happen. There was one very complicating factor in our administration, and that was Baker’s relationship to the President. It was close, personal, and created an imbalance, in a way, as you look at it. One of the great advantages of the Bush structure was that we had all worked together before. So we were not strangers in working habits and points of view and attitudes. ...
So, faced with the benefits on the one hand, and the Baker situation on the other, I set out to form a relationship with Baker that would deal with this kind of intimacy. The first part was to reassure him that there would be no repetition of Vance/Brzezinski or Kissinger/Rogers. I told him that I would never go on press talk shows... I also told him there would be no secrets between the President and me that he didn’t know about. After the first jockeying, it worked well. And after time, Baker got very relaxed about it.
I had no such problem with Cheney. In this great massacre that President Ford perpetrated - incidentally, I had no role in what happened - Cheney was elevated to Chief of Staff at the time I was made National Security Advisor. Cheney and I have been good friends ever since, so I had no such problems with Cheney."

Source(s): 1998-2001 lists. Not on a 1995 one.

Pilgrims Society

Source(s): 2015-2022. Not on a 2014 list. Not checked any later lists than 2022.

Administrator USAID. President Rockefeller Foundation. Director Atlantic Council.

Source(s):

Chair BP, London. Minister for Trade & Competitiveness in Europe. Advisory Director of Unilever, Morgan Stanley Europe and LEK.

Source(s): 1993, 1995, 1998 lists. Not on 1992 or 2001 lists.

Close David Rockefeller friend. President Bechtel. Secretary of state under Reagan. Back to Bechtel as a director. Hoover Institution. Etc.

Source(s): 2013

Director, Policy Planning, U. S. Department of State. President and CEO New America Foundation.

Source(s): May 2001-May 2005 lists. Not on any before or since.

Member CFR 1988-, director 1995-2004. Bilderberg '90, '94, '00, '02. Founded his International Crisis Group in 1995.

Source(s): 1990

Director U.S. Office of Management and Budget. General Partner, The Blackstone Group.

Source(s): 1990

Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.

Source(s): 2003-2018 lists. Not on a 2002 or 2019 one.

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Source(s): 1992-2002, 2003-2009 ("European Chairman"), 2010-2018 (executive). No lists atm for 1986-1991.

Practiced alaw in Ireland 1968-1980. Attorney general of Ireland 1981-1984. European Commissioner for Competition 1985-1989. Visitor of David Rockefeller's Bilderberg group 1989-1998, joining the steering committee in 1991; 2000, 2003-2007, 2009-2015. Chairman Allied Irish Banks 1989-1993. Joined Goldman Sachs' international advisory board in 1990. Director Delta Air Lines Inc. 1990-1993. Member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission from at least 1992, European chairman 2003-2009, continuing as an executive 2010-2018. Director-General of GATT 1993-1994, and then the first director general of its follow-up, the World Trade Organization (WTO), in 1995. Meeting co-chair of Davos in 1994-1995 and member of its annual, secretive IGWEL meetings. A member of the Davos Foundation board from at least 1999 to 2005. Chair Goldman Sachs International 1995-2015. Director Ericsson, a Wallenberg company, 1996–2004. Director of the Wallenberg-owned company ABB 1999-2001. Chair BP 1997–2009. Member of the secret Liberalization of Trade in Services (LOTIS) committee, an outgrowth of the British Invisibles that controlled the WTO, 1999-2001. Director Royal Bank of Scotland 2001–2009. Chairman of the Consultative Board of the Director General of the WTO 2003–2005. UN Special Representative for International Migration 2006-2017. Consultor, Admin of Patrimony of the Vatican / Holy See, 2007–. Chair London School of Economics 2008-2015. Director Koc Holdings AS 2009–. Member advisory board of Allianz 2010-.

November 9, 2001, archive.globalpolicy.org, 'The WTO's Hidden Agenda' (Greg Palast excerpt): "Three confidential documents from inside the World Trade Organization Secretariat and a group of captains of London finance, who call themselves the "British Invisibles," reveal the extraordinary secret entanglement of industry with government in designing European and American proposals for radical pro-business changes in WTO rules. One set of documents, minutes of the private meetings of the Liberalization of Trade in Services (LOTIS) committee were discovered by the Dutch think tank Corporate Europe Observatory. They record 14 secret meetings from April 1999 and February 2001 between Britain's chief services trade negotiators, the Bank of England and the movers and shakers of the Euro-American business world. Those attending the closed LOTIS include Peter Sutherland, International Chairman of US-based investment bank Goldman Sachs and formerly the Director General of the World Trade Organization. LOTIS is chaired by The Right Honorable Lord Brittan of Spennithorne Q.C., who, as Leon Brittan headed the European Union. He currently serves as Vice-Chairman of international banking house UBS Warburg Dillon Read. ...
Other LOTIS members include the European chiefs of US service industry giants Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, Prudential Corporation and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. LOTIS is an outgrowth of the self-styled, "British Invisibles," more formally known as the Financial Services International London group. They were joined at various times by specially-invited members of the European Commission's trade negotiating team."

cmsny.org/address-by-sir-peter-sutherland-on-migration-as-a-moral-issue/ (accessed: May 17, 2021): "On June 15, 2012, Sir Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Migration and Development, delivered an important speech...
It urges that integration — which Sir Peter defines as enabling immigrants "to become who they want to be" through education, work, and political and social participation -- become a top national and international priority.
The speech identifies four pillars of social cohesion: schooling (the "sine qua non" of cohesive societies), political incorporation, fair and equal access to employment, and a path to citizenship for truly permanent residents." June 15, 2012, Sir Peter Sutherland, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Migration and Development, in a speech at the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland: "So just at the moment in history when centripetal forces -- globalization, immigration -- are bringing us all closer together and introducing unprecedented diversity into our communities, we also must contend with the tendency of centrifugal forces like political extremism that push us apart. ... Darker forces are ... at work: political extremists and populists seek to appeal to our basest prejudices in order to propel themselves into power. ...
We have the chance to re-imagine and rebuild our communities [and to] show solidarity with one another, and restore faith in a shared future. ...
If you were, let us say, Germany and wanted to maintain the current social welfare structure and dependency ratio, you would likely have to welcome 3 million new immigrants. Every year. Between now and 2050. ...
A decade ago, when the children of the baby boomers were coming into the labour force and the small crop of Depression babies was retiring, there were 10 new additions to the labor force for every new retiree. Ten years from now, those numbers will have flipped—there will be 10 new retirees for every new entrant into the labour force.
It is worth noting that the decline in birth rates is not unique to the West. In South Korea, the fertility rate is at 1.1, in Japan at 1.3, and in the city of Shanghai it has fallen below 1, touching 0.9. It appears that young people throughout the world are going on strike and not having children. It is worth considering why this is the case; I imagine it is because we have changed the social contract for the younger generations, and not for the better But we should leave that debate for another time.
Even assuming Western countries do their best to boost the working population through non-migration measures--increasing the workforce participation rates especially of women and minorities; raising the retirement age; promoting larger families--migration will certainly be part of the policy mix. Between now and 2020, the European Commission concludes that 100 million new job openings will occur in the EU--80 million of which will be positions created by the retirement of baby boomers. The number of new jobs in manufacturing will be very small. ...
By 2050 there will be 500 million working-age sub-Saharan Africans with a secondary or higher education. Today, there are fewer than 100 million. It is worth considering where these well-educated individuals will look for work. By contrast, in Europe today there are 350 million working-age individuals, a number that will fall below 300 million in the next 40 years. This is a fantastically divided demographic world.
Why does all this matter? It implies, quite simply, that forces that are beyond any of us and any one government--and probably even of the combined efforts of many governments--will lead to the continued movement of people across borders for generations to come. I would argue this is a good thing...
Vicious hate crimes have scarred societies from Norway to France, where this Spring a serial killer targeted both Muslims and Jews... Landlords refuse to rent houses to people of color. Immigrants are subjected to psychological and physical abuse. Employment is denied based on faith or ethnic origin. Police engage in racial profiling."

Source(s): 1990, 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not on a 2001 list. 2002-2008. Not on a 2009 list. 2010-2013 (exec.). Not on a 2014 list. 2018 list.

Clinton's deputy secretary of state 1994-2001. President Brookings Institution 2010s.

Source(s): 1990

President CFR.

Source(s): 2006

CIA director under Clinton and Bush.

Source(s): 2006

President and co-CEO Goldman Sachs & Co. CEO New York Stock Exchange, Inc.

Source(s): 1978, 1981, 1982 lists (not on a 1975 or 1984 one).

Administrator U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Source(s): 1973, 1975 lists (not anymore on a 1978 list).

General counsel DOD 1961-1962. Secretary of the army 1962-1964. Member CFR 1968-. Member Pilgrims Society from at least 1969 to at least 1995. Deputy secretary of defense 1964-1967. Bilderberg visitor in 1970. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1970-1976, chair 1975-1976. Founding member of David Rockefeller's Trilateral Commission 1973-. Secretary of state 1977-1980. Lifetime involvement in more than 40 important NGOs.

Source(s): 1978, 1990, 1993-1998 ("North American Chairman" - 1991-2001), 2006, 2013 (exec. and "North American Honorary Chairman"), 2019, 2020 ("In Memoriam" (died in 2019)) (North American chair 1991-2001)

Economist at the New York Federal Reserve Bank 1952-1957, mentored by Robert Vincent Roosa. Financial economist with the Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank 1957-1962. Brought into the Treasury Department by Roosa 1962-1965. Vice president and director of planning at the same Chase Manhattan Bank 1965-1969. Secretary of the Treasury for international monetary affairs under Nixon (and besides Kissinger) 1969-1974, playing a key role in doing away with the Bretton Woods system in which the dollar was pegged to gold reserves. CFR member 1970-.

President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 1975-1979. Chair of the Federal Reserve 1979-1987. Chair President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board under Obama 2009-2011. Member Trilateral Commission from at least 1978 until his death in 2019, following up David Rockefeller as chairman over 1991-2001. Remained a Trilateral Commission executive after stepping down as chairman for many years to come (Peter Sutherland took over as chairman). Regular visitor Bilderberg 1982-2010.

Close associate in many NGOs of David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Lifetime involvement in about 70 important NGOs, placing him around the 10th place in ISGP's Superclass Index at the time of his death.

Source(s): 1973, 1975, 1978 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 1981, 1982, 1985 lists. Not on a 1990 list.

General counsel to LBJ's secretary of defense Robert McNamara 1967-1968, Clark Clifford 1968-1969, and briefly to Melvin Laird (probably 1969). Already in 1967, under McNamara, he was invited to participate in weekly, off-the-record discussions with Cyrus Vance, Paul Nitze, Richard Helms, Averell Harriman and other elites to find a "peaceful solution" to the Vietnam War. Joined Clifford, Warnke, Glass, McIlwaine & Finney around 1969-1970, where former boss Clark Clifford was a partner as well.

Under Carter he was chief SALT negotiator and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He helped negotiate the unratified SALT II (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) agreement of 1979. Unlike many of his critics, most famously Paul Nitze, Warnke didn't believe in the late 1970s that the Soviets had a desire to attack the United States or that they would succeed if they did.

Source(s): List(s): 1978 list. Not on a 1975 list or any post government service.

Vice president under president George Shultz at Bechtel in the late 1970s. Member of the Bohemian Grove with Shultz and Reagan in the late 1970s. Reagan's secretary of defense 1981-1987, with Shultz becoming secretary of state 1982-1989.

Source(s): 1990, 1993 ("Former Members in Public Service"). Not invited back.

Among the few African-Americans in elite circles. In 1950 he married Dolores Duncan, whom he met at Harvard. By the 1980s she was president of the Fund for Corporate Initiatives, Inc., focused on enhancing the situation of women and minorities within American corporation. She came to serve on the boards of Phillips Petroleum, Kellogg, and Gannett.

Entered Harvard College at age 16, in 1942/1943. BA in history from Harvard in 1947. Harvard College radio station's first African American voice. Founder and first black secretary of the National Student Association (NSA) at Harvard (the NSA was CIA funded and founded in 1947, but a connection is not clear). First African American to earn an MA in international affairs from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1948.

Employed at the Nelson Rockefeller-founded American International Association for Economic and Social Development 1948-1953. Master of arts in 1956 and Ph.D. in economics in 1958, both from the Rockefeller-founded University of Chicago. Employee at John D. Rockefeller III's Agricultural Development Council in Malaysia starting in 1958, leaving as vice president in 1970. CFR member 1966-. Trustee Rockefeller Foundation 1970-, chair 1982-1987. President Michigan State University 1970-, at a time of many student riots. First black chancellor of the State University of New York, the largest university system in the country and considered hopelessly bureaucratic at the time, 1978-mid 1980s.

Visited Bilderberg in 1978. Founding member Bretton Woods Committee in 1985, alongside Bilderberg veterans as David Rockefeller and George Ball. Director of Time Inc., Ford Motor Company and Federated Department Stores anno 1988. Member Trilateral Commission by 1990. Involved in the elite Boule black fraternity and various other elite NGOs. U.S. deputy secretary of state Jan.-Nov. 1993, but forced to resign after secretary of state Warren Christopher leaked rumors he wasn't satisfied with Wharton. Speculation existed that Wharton was being used as a scapegoat. Director New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) from late 1993.

Source(s): 2003-2010 lists.

Former FBI director, former CIA director, GlobalOptions director, Diligence LLC advisory chair, and Homeland Security advisory council chairman.

Source(s): 1982-1985 lists. Not on a 1981 or 1990 list.

Partner Goldman Sachs 1956-1984 and senior partner and co-chair 1976-1984. Chair of the international advisory board of Goldman Sachs 1984-1985. Advisory chair SEC 1968-1970. Director New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Member Conference Board, the CFR, and the Trilateral Commission (1982-1985), a bilderberg regular between 1984-1997, and a councilor at CSIS. Deputy secretary of state under George Shultz 1985-1989. Lifetime involvement in over 65 important NGOs, many alongside David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger.

Source(s): 1998, 2001 ("Former Members In Public Service").

Became a protege of neocon Albert Wohlstetter at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s. In 1969, Wohlstetter arranged for Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Peter Wilson to join the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy, set up by elitists Paul Nitze and Dean Acheson. Political science professor at Yale 1970-1972, where Scooter Libby was one of his students. Came to work in Senator Henry Jackson's office in the 1970s, along with rising neocons Richard Perle, Edward Luttwak (earlier Perle's roommate at the London School of Economics), Elliott Abrams, Douglas Feith and Frank Gaffney.

Brought to the State Department under Nixon by Fred Ikle in 1973. Became part of "Team B" in the 1970s, opposing the CIA's assessment of the strength of the Soviet Union. According to Team B, it much much greater. Obsessed with the national security of Israel. Director of Policy Planning at the State Department under Reagan 1981-1982. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs 1982-1986. Ambassador to Indonesia 1986-1989. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 1989-1993. Deputy Secretary of Defense 2001-2005. President World Bank 2005-2007.

May 20, 2007, Seattle Times, 'Wolfowitz, World Bank Just Didn't Fit': "Wolfowitz crossed swords with Reagan's first secretary of state, Alexander Haig, who reportedly considered him too "theoretical" and planned to fire him. But George Shultz, Haig&'s successor, promoted Wolfowitz to assistant secretary, though he apparently shared some of Haig's concerns. "Paul, this is an administrative job," Shultz warned Wolfowitz, according to Mann. "It's not just thinking." ...
In mid-1999, he joined the George W. Bush campaign team, for which he was one of two top foreign-policy advisers, along with Condoleezza Rice [who became] national-security adviser. Wolfowitz wanted to return to the State Department, but Bush's secretary of state, Colin Powell, turned him down. They weren't "ideologically in sync," Powell later said. ... Rumsfeld [however] planned to run the [DOD] with a strong hand, leaving Wolfowitz free to think."

World Bank drama:

May 20, 2007, Seattle Times, 'Wolfowitz, World Bank Just Didn't Fit': "As he prepared to assume the World Bank presidency in spring 2005, Paul Wolfowitz reached out to the bank's skeptical senior managers. In informal meetings, he took copious notes and asked respectful questions. He knew they had doubts about him, Wolfowitz said, not least because of his role in designing the Iraq war. But he told them he was committed to the bank's goal of reducing world poverty, that he would learn from them and rely on their guidance.
According to several attendees, they were won over by his humility. I went back and reported to my staff that I didn't see any horns, one senior official recalled. "He was personable, charming, intelligent and said all the right things. None of which he lived up to." ...
The immediate cause of Wolfowitz's resignation [as World Bank president in 2007] was a pay deal he ordered for Shaha Riza, a bank employee with whom he was romantically involved. ... Far from respecting the bank, member governments and staff members charged, Wolfowitz surrounded himself with doctrinaire former White House and Republican officials and gave them wide authority. He altered long-standing policies and imposed new ones without consulting the staff or member governments. ...
In a signed letter to the Financial Times, more than 36 former top [World] bank officials described [Wolfowitz's] signature anti-corruption initiative as "implemented with no consultation, and little transparency or apparent consistency." Employees wore blue ribbons supporting "good governance," a signal they wanted Wolfowitz to go. ...
The final proof of Wolfowitz's estrangement from the bank came when he hired a famously aggressive lawyer to fight for his job and warned that if he were fired, the bank's reputation would fall along with his own. ...
Another former colleague who served with Wolfowitz in four administrations said "the kinds of problems he got into were predictable for anybody who really knew Paul." Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the source voiced admiration for his intellect but said Wolfowitz "couldn't run a two-car funeral."

Source(s): 2004-2009 lists.

Born in India in 1964. Son of Rafiq Zakaria (1920–2005), an Islamic theologian and politician involved with the Indian National Congress. Himself Yale Scroll and Key. Ph.D in government from Harvard University in 1993, where he studied under Samuel Huntington. Managing editor of the CFR's magazine Foreign Affairs 1992-. Columnist and editor for Newsweek 2000-2010.

April 11, 2003, New York Magazine, 'Man of the World': ""My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State," Fareed Zakaria muses... [Walter] Isaacson [who spotted Zakaria at Harvard and is among those praising him] later recommended Zakaria for a job at [the CFR's] Foreign Affairs [magazine], and not long after he was hired, Kissinger asked to meet the young man."

Editor for Newsweek (2000-2010) and Time magazine (early 2010s). Host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS 2008-. Columnist for the Washington Post since at least 2011. Accused of plagiarism in 2012, for which he apologized. More accusations followed in 2014, but were inconclusive. Producer for HBO's Vice documentary channel in 2013.

Visitor of Bilderberg in 2003 and 2005. Member Trilateral Commission 2004-2009. Visited the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2006. Involved in over a dozen important NGOs.

Source(s): Not on any pre-1995 lists (without having a 1994 one). 1995-2022 lists, with periods of "In Public Service": 2001, 2004, 2008, 2009, etc.

Graduated from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government in 1981. Counselor State Department 1989-1992. CFR member since 1991. Undersecretary of state for economic and agricultural affairs under George H. W. Bush 1991-1992. White House deputy chief of staff under George H. W. Bush 1992-1993.

Executive vice president and general counsel of Fannie Mae 1993-1997. Research Scholar at Harvard's Belfer Center in the 1990s. Director CFR 1994-2001. Member Trilateral Commission since at least 1995, continuing off and on in later decades. Director Aspen Strategy Group on Foreign Policy 1996-1999. President and CEO CSIS 1998-1999. Member Defense Policy Board anno 2000, as well as a board member of the European Institute, the Eurasia Foundation, the National Bureau of Asian Research, the German Marshall Fund, the American Council on Germany, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, etc. By 2001 he was a senior international advisor of Goldman Sachs.

Part of Bush's 2000 Vulcan election team, together with James Baker III and George Shultz protege Condoleezza Rice. Involved in overseeing the controversial Florida recount of 2000 that won Bush the elections. U.S. Trade Representative under George W. Bush 2001-2005. Regular Bilderberg visitor since 2003. Deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush 2005-2006.

Chairman international advisory board of Goldman Sachs 2006-2007. President World Bank 2007-2012. Senior fellow at Harvard's Belfer Center 2012-. Again chairman international advisory board of Goldman Sachs 2013-2016. Involved in at least 40 important NGOs over his lifetime.

Source(s): 2010-2014 list. Not on a 2009 or 2015 one.

Executive director 9/11 Commission.

Source(s): 1998-2018 lists. Not on a 1995 and 2019 list.

Chair and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, New York City.

Source(s): 1993

See the Bilderberg membership list for Agnelli and Fiat-related biographies.

Source(s): 1973-

See the Bilderberg membership list for Agnelli and Fiat-related biographies.

Source(s): 1973-1998. Not on a 2011 list.

Jewish-Italian chemical engineer who worked on nuclear energy. Post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow at MIT in the U.S. in 1953-1954. Bilderberg visitor in 1972 as "Director of the Committee for Scientific Policy, OECD", his first and only time. Full member of the Club of Rome 1972-1990s, executive committee and steering committee member anno 2001. Founding member of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, until at least 1998, when he was an executive. President of the large Italian energy multinational ENI November 1982 - January 1983. Chair ENEA (Italian national agency for new technology, energy and the environment) 1983-1993. Chair United Nations' advisory committee on science and technology for development 1984-1986. Counil member of the United Nations University anno 1986–1992. President of the European Science Foundation 1991-1993.

Source(s): 1995, 1998 lists. Not on a 1993 or 2001 one.

Governor of the Central Bank of Sweden. Senior advisor to the Wallenbergs' Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken, Stockholm.

Source(s): 1978-1998 list. Not on a 1975 list. Died in 1998.

Chair International Bank for West Africa. President Associatioin of French Banks 1982-1986. Chairman, Union des Assurances de Paris. Chair Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Paris, 1990-1998. Chair Doctors Without Borders Foundation 1990-1998 (helped create the foundation). Chair French American Foundation 1992-1996. Died in 1998 at age 69.

Source(s): David Rockefeller fellow on the 2020-2023 lists.

Dutch prime minister 2026-.

2026 Van Berkel scandal during formation: Jetten almost hired his junior party member and congressional colleague Nathalie van Berkel (a black person) for the role of state secretary for finance (the number 2 position), when the media found out she superheavily misrepresented her education. Suggesting she had a master in Management from the University of Leiden, with an additional unfinished Law study at Erasmus University for 5 years, in reality she only had a Havo high school diploma and an HBO (college) propedeuse - the latter a semi-official award students get for having obtained all points for the first study year. (Feb. 16, 2026, Volkskrant, 'Beoogd staatssecretaris Nathalie van Berkel stelt opgepoetst cv bij na vragen over opleiding'.) Somehow, she ended up on the board of directors of UWV - the government agency for social security - and then in Dutch congress as a protege of a "diversity"-obsessed Rob Jetten. (Ibid.) Parlement.com had her listed as "Drs.", i.e., a person who finished a master at university level. (Ibid.) That's a problem, because, "according to the handbook for new ministers, candidates are responsible for ensuring that their public CV is in order." (Feb. 16, 2026, AD, 'D66’er Nathalie van Berkel geen staatssecretaris om onjuistheden cv'.)

Fascinatingly, Rob Jetten never criticized her, kept strongly insinuating he still wanted her for the position, and tried to keep her in congress as a party member ("It's up to her"), despite it having come out that Van Berkel had to downsize her CV three times due to repeatedly lying about it to the Volkskrant. To the media, Jetten only said that Van Berkel withdrawing from the selection process was a "courageous decision", and also "a shame, because with her vast experience in implementation and strong motivation to make the government work better for people." (Feb. 16, 2026, Nu.nl, 'Jetten over terugtrekken Van Berkel: 'Jammer, maar moedig besluit''.)

Feb. 16, 2026, Volkskrant, 'Beoogd staatssecretaris Nathalie van Berkel stelt opgepoetst cv bij na vragen over opleiding' (keepsake): "Tijdens een opgenomen telefonisch gesprek op dinsdag 10 februari en een schriftelijke verklaring op woensdag 11 februari meldde Van Berkel dat ze na haar middelbare school eerst vijf jaar rechten aan de Erasmus Universiteit had gestudeerd (2004-2009), gevolgd door drie jaar lang de ‘bachelor bestuurskunde’ op de Haagse Hogeschool (2008-2011) en daarna ook nog twee jaar de ‘master bestuurskunde’ aan de Universiteit Leiden (2011-2013). ...
Op vrijdag 13 februari stuurde Van Berkel nóg een keer een gewijzigde versie van haar cv (versie drie) naar de Volkskrant. Daarop staat nog wel dat ze de pre-master bestuurskunde volgde, maar durft zij daar niet meer jaren 2011-2013 aan te hangen. Ook laat ze inmiddels in het midden of ze voor dit toelatingstraject stond ingeschreven aan de hogeschool of de universiteit."

Source(s): 1973-1985 lists. Not on a 1993 one.

Ph.D. from the University of Cologne in 1962, with a dissertation entitled 'EEC and free trade zone. England and the Continent in European Integration'. Also studied at Oxford 1961-1963.

Research associate, lecturer and head tutor in social studies and as a research associate at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard with Henry Kissinger, focused on international relations and transatlantic relationships 1963-1968.

March 11, 2021, University of Cologne: Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (wiso.uni-koeln.de), 'Professor Karl Kaiser im Interview': "In 1963, Henry Kissinger, then a professor in Harvard's Government Department, was looking for someone who would help him organize an international working group to produce a report or book on what was then West Germany. Richard Neustadt, a Harvard colleague who met me at Oxford College, recommended me for the position. I learned more from Kissinger than can be presented here. When analyzing international politics, he remains a role model for me. ...
Brexit was a victory for self-destructive populism and has weakened Europe. ... I am convinced that in a few years Great Britain will seek a way back into the EU."

Bilderberg visitor in '70, '71, '74, '85. Head of the German Council on Foreign Relations / Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Auswartige Politik e.V. (DGAP) 1974-2003. Visitor of the Munich Security Conference in 2010. Co-chair of the European Union Seminar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard anno 2022. Fellow at the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School anno 2022. Founded the Program on Transatlantic Relations of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, which moved to the Belfer Center. Fellow and senior associate Belfer Center anno 2022.

Source(s): 1973- (founding EU chair).

Bilderberg regular over 1961-1998. See the Bilderberg membership list for Agnelli and Fiat-related biographies.

Source(s): 1973-.

Chairman and CEO of Royal Dutch Shell 1952-1965, chairman advisory board 1965-1975. Bilderberg 1962, 1965, 1972 (in 1984 family member Aarnout Loudon visited). Founding chairman of the initial board of Chase Manhattan's International Advisory Council 1965-, together Gianni Agnelli and other Bilderberg/1001 Club elites. President WWF. Member 1001 Club.

Source(s): 2016 (not 2020).

Research fellow Institute for Public Policy Research 1989–1994, set up in 1988 to counter free market fundamentalism. Director of Number 10 Policy Unit, working for Tony Blair. MP 2001-2013 under Blair and Gordon Brown. British minister 2004-2010. President and CEO IRC 2013.

Source(s): 1985, 1993, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003-2004 ("Former Members in Public Service"), 2005-2009, 2010-2012 (European chair).

Bilderberg regular between 1983 and 2015, much of it as steering committee member. Member Trilateral Commission since at least 1985, EU chair -2012. Director-general World Trade Organization (WTO).

Source(s): 1984, 1985, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001 and 2002 lists.

Politician 1960s-1990. One of the "Gang of Four" who left the Labour Party in 1981 to set up the Social Democratic Party (SDP), which he headed until 1990.

Initially a major supporter of the European Union, but grew skeptical of a functional United States of Europe concept. Chair of New Europe 1999-2005, a cross party organisation that successfully campaigned against the UK adopting the euro. Voted in favor of Brexit in 2016.

Chair Daedalus Trust 2011-2017. Chair Middlesex Holdings, which became GNE. Chair Europe Steel. Consultant to Epion Holdings and USM Holdings. Chair of Yukos International 2002-2005. Non-executive Director of Abbott Laboratories 1996-2011. Director of the oil concern Hyperdynamics Corporation 2009-2014.

Source(s): 1973-.

Attended all Bilderberg conferences between 1969-2002 and was part of the steering committee.

Source(s): 1985 list.

Managing drector FIAT anno 1985.

Source(s): 2001 list.

Visited Bilderberg. Details of his biography can be found there.

Source(s): 2001 list.

University assistant at Richard Löwenthal's chair for international relations at the Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science in the early 1970s. Confidante of Helmut Kohl since 1972. Managing director of the Bertelsmann Foundation 1991-1992, and also a member of its advisory board. Director BMW 1993-2003. Chair BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt 1993-2003. President Boeing Germany and vice president Boeing International 2003-2006. Head Munich Security Conference 1999-2008.

Source(s): 2006

Chairman Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB), Stockholm, Sweden.

Source(s): 1973-2007 lists and executive from at least 1981 to at least 1998.

1918-2007. First Bilderberg was in March 1955 and only missed three meetings between 1955 and 2001, two in the 1950s and one in 1981. Joined Bilderberg's advisory committee in 1983.