Supranational Society: Masterlist of 2,000 NGOs and the Top 400 People in Them
Contents
- ISGP's Superclass Index: visual oversight
- Sources and importance
Liberal elite NGOs - U.S.-centered: politics, economics, national security
- U.K. domestic
- Dutch domestic
- Anglo-American relations
- Australian relations
- Weimar and Nazi Germany
- Post-WWI U.S.-German relations
- Russian and (former) CIS relations
- Latin American relations
- Far East relations
- Middle East relations
- Arab banks and charities tied to terror, dictators and western elites
- Israel relations
- Africa relations
- European Union
- Institutes of international affairs
- U.K. clubs
- U.S. clubs
- Fraternities
- International focus: politics, economics, national security
- "New Left": Interfaith and "anti-racism"
- More New Left: eugenics, birth control, United Nations, anti-nuclear protesting, sustainable development, and UFO cultism
- The rent-a-skeptic network
- Internet freedom and AI
Liberal (mainly) - Elite banks and corporations
- Key defense and military-related corporations
- "Independent" national security committees and advisory panels to all intelligence agencies, the Pentagon and State Department
Liberal/conservative - Liberal/conservative: particularly strong CIA, NSA, MI6, GCHQ-tied groups
- Liberal/conservative: New Orleans and Dallas elite (JFK-related)
Conservative / McCarthyite - Rising "military-industrial complex"
- Lower level
- U.S. - intelligence
- Mainly U.K. - intelligence
- Vatican-Paneuropa network - intelligence
Zionist - Set up by Zionist Jews, not American neocons
USSR and Russia - Think tanks
- Putin's "St. Petersburgers"
- Key corporations
Other groups - Anti-Vatican masonic, deist and esoteric groups
- Humanist groups
- Secret societies Japan
Networks and existence uncertain - The "black network", "octopus", "nebula" and "Joint"
- Existence uncertain
Extra: coups by the West - Reported coups
Above and below the reader can find names of prominent individuals ranked according to the number of NGOs - and a number of key corporations - they (at the very least) have historically been involved with. Overall, this appears to be a very accurate "influence index" when it comes to, once and for all, and in rather scientific manner, identifying the "powers-that-be". The focus is on the West, including Israel, but it is also possible to get a good sense of the situation in Russia.
As the reader will soon realize, most of the individuals listed in the "Superclass Index" - whether they are "liberal elite", "conservative elite", or "neocons" - know one another VERY well and all have the same opinions when it comes to Third World immigration and opposition to "conspiracy theory" in particular. Anyone with an interest in globalization or parapolitical issues would do well to become familiar with this network. After all, it is what secretly dominates our society at every level.
It's possible to check the rankings for yourself by doing searches on this page for particular (sur)names. Over 300 still-alive persons are listed at this point. Hundreds of additional "helpers" can be added if we start looking at individuals having been involved in less than 10 NGOs. The absolute top, mainly consisting of the closest friends of the late David Rockefeller, is by far the most important though. They have built and dominated this global network from at least the 1950s to the 2020s.
| GREEN: | Career in banking, corporations, in economic government posts, or science. |
| YELLOW: | Congress, senate, judiciary, lower level government position, or (vice) president. |
| RED | Military career, defense secretary, CIA, national security advisor or national security scholar/scientist. |
| BLUE: | State Department. |
| PURPLE: | Soviet/nationalist Russian |
The above colors have been used to give an indication of each person's professional background. The reader can count all the think tanks, foundations, and other NGOs each person in this list is involved in by going through ISGP's NGO list.
Last update: Oct. 9, 2024
Green and yellow in particular only properly visible in "light theme".
"The Kay [Graham] of the permanent establishment never lost sight of the fact that societies thrive not by the victories of their factions but by their ultimate reconciliations. Kay and I met in 1969 at the home of Joe Alsop, another member of Washington's permanent establishment."
July 23, 2001, Henry Kissinger, Eulogy for Katharine Graham of the Washington Post. |
"[Think tanks] exert definite and even considerable influence on the process of elaborating and making political decisions. It is connected with the fact that ... leaders of such centers have as a rule personal close links with the [government]. Second, the centers are created in order to prepare and adopt the major political decisions in the shade, far from public. Third, such analytical and expert centers really accumulate the best intellectual forces of the country and fourth, not always but rather often, the centers were founded simply to provide jobs to [retired] politicians."
1999, Yuri Pivovarov, 'Power Institutions in Post-Communist Russia: Official Forms and Hidden Transcripts,' p. 18 (NATO library). The influence of Russian think tanks on the executive body seems to be many times less than is the case in the United States, but the reasons for their existence seem to be the same. |
"In addition to supplying experts for incoming administrations, think tanks provide departing officials with institutional settings [where they] remain engaged in pressing foreign policy debates, and constitute an informal shadow foreign affairs establishment. This "revolving door" is unique to the United States, and a source of its strength. ...
"Think tanks provide policy-makers with venues in which to build shared understanding, if not consensus, on policy options... Among think tanks, the non-partisan Council on Foreign Relations has been most adept at this convening role, hosting hundreds of meetings annually in New York, Washington, and major cities around the country. For U.S. officials, events at major think tanks offer non-partisan settings to announce new initiatives, explain current policy, and launch trial balloons."
November 1, 2002, future CFR president Richard Haass, State Department Archive, 'Think Tanks and U.S. Foreign Policy: A Policy-Maker's Perspective'. |
"Long after the Iraq War went south, when its failures could no longer be minimized, the elite newspapers and weeklies finally got around to offering sound analyses and asking the Bush Administration tough questions. ...
"My initial support for the [2003 Iraq] war was symptomatic of unfortunate tendencies within the foreign policy community, namely the disposition and incentives to support wars to retain political and professional credibility. We 'experts' have a lot to fix about ourselves."
Summer 2009, Mo. 13, Democracy Journal, 'Mission Not Accomplished', by Leslie Gelb, CFR president 1993-2003. |
Sources
The names of institutes and individuals on this page have been gathered over the course of more than a thousand hours over 17 years from sources as:
- books;
- newspapers;
- official websites (don't forget Webarchive);
- unofficial websites (names were always double checked);
- a number of membership lists;
- and the Who's Who.
Many fully-written-out sources can be found in various articles and mixed membership-biography lists on this website. However, providing specific sources on the names with each institute has proven to be completely impossible due to time constraints.
All mid- to low level institutes - those without any recognizable superclass names on the various boards - have been left out of these lists. This oversight really is about the 1,500 most important NGOs, with a few dozen key corporations mixed in where elites have also gathered through various board memberships over the decades.
Importance
This page has primarily been put together to make cross-referencing - as to who is involved in what - a hundred times easier than before. And maybe even more important, also to figure out in a rather scientific way as to which players are the most influential within the globalist movement.
People studying political science should have a good idea of the non-government organizations listed on this page. They vary considerable in purpose and influence, but are an integral part of the globalization process, as well as intelligence and covert operations. For an explanation of how various establishments overlap with each other, or maybe "oppose" one another, the reader can visit the introduction page.
What keeps this entire network afloat are funds from corporations and foundations, membership fees, fund raisers and occasional government grants. Ban the foundations, curb corporate contributions, and the whole network will start to fall apart.
Let's face it, if you don't know anything about the NGOs making up the private, supranational superclass running national governments in the West, it doesn't matter how many political degrees you have: you don't know, and never will know, anything about real politics.
Interestingly, back in early 2004 this author was unable to find more than six or seven of the more important organizations below on one website or in one book, even after looking for it all over the place. Often groups like the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission were mixed in with the "Illuminati", the "Freemasons" and the "New World Order". Tiny bits of information on such groups as the Pilgrims, Le Cercle, the 1001 Club, the JASON Group, the Sun Valley Meetings and others were scattered all over the place and often not freely accessible. Information on mainland Europe with regard to these kind of groups was especially scarce. And in all cases no one had a clue how various groups related to each other.
As the reader can see on ISGP, this situation has changed. A lot.
| Harvard University / Harvard Corporation Trustees: huge amounts of elites. Global advisory council: David Rubenstein (founding chair; also: trustee Harvard Corporation; trustee Johns Hopkins University; trustee University of Chicago; trustee Duke University 2005-2012, vice chair 2012-2013, chair 2017-2020)). |
1636 |
| New York University (NYU) Trustees as of March 2001: Laurence Tisch (trustee 1966-2003, chair 1978-1998) and son Daniel (anno 2020) | Larry Silverstein (vice chair; still anno 2020) and daughter Lisa (anno 2020) | Brooke Astor (life) | Maurice Greenberg (life; non-voting trustee anno 2020) | Baron Edouard de Rothschild (partner Rothschild & Cie Banque) | Mortimer Zuckerman | John Brademas | Barry Diller | Michael Steinhardt | Larry Fink (still anno 2020) | Alan Greenberg | Henry Kaufman | Elmer Bobst | Paul Fribourg | Thomas Murphy (chair and CEO ABC). Later trustees: Fiona Druckenmiller (wife of Stanley) | Rima Al Mokarrab and Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak of Abu Dhabi. NYU Langone Health (2020): Fiona D. (co-chair) | Larry Fink (co-chair) | Larry S. | Edgar Bronfman Jr. (major financier of NYU) | Ken Chenault | Gary Cohn | Ron Perelman | Isaac Perlmutter | Alan Schwartz (exec. chair Guggenheim Partners). Dominated by wealthy Jews. Overseers (2020): Jamie Dimon | Paul Tudor Jones | Michael Novogratz (brother of Jacqueline). More: Edgar Bronfman Sr. (founder of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU). |
1831 |
| American Bankers Association (ABA) Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury (IAC 1962-1965) | Howard McCall | Rudolph Hecht (president) | Gabriel Hauge | Warren Burgess (chair Economic Policy Commission 1940-1944, president ABA 1944-1945, chair Commission on Public Debt Policy 1946-1947; married a granddaughter of J.P. Morgan) |
1875 |
| Academy of Political Science, Columbia University Honorary members anno 2013: Madeleine Albright | John Brademas | Zbigniew Brzezinski | George H. W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Robert Gates | Sandra Day O'Connor | David Rockefeller | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | Richard van Weizsacker. Other honorary members in 2001: LBJ and wife | Reagan | Gerald Ford | Lord Roll. Director: John J. Iselin. Started publishing Political Science Quarterly in 1886. |
1880 |
| American Economic Association (AEA) Directors: George Stigler (1954-1956, president 1964, fellow 1965) | Milton Friedman (1955-1957, president 1967, fellow 1968) | Martin Feldstein (1980-1982, president 2004, fellow 2005) | Joseph Stiglitz (1982-1984) | Larry Summers (1989-1991) | Ben Bernanke (ex-officio director anno 2020, president 2019). Fellows: George Shultz (2004) | Ludwig von Mises (1969) |
1885 |
| National Geographic Society (NGS) Alexander Graham Bell (president 1898-1903 | Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (president 1920-1954; married Alexander Bell's daughter) | Melville Bell Grosvenor (president 1957-1967) | Gilbert Melville Grosvenor (president 1980-1996, trustee 1966-2014, trustee chair 1987-2011). Trustees: Rozanne Ridgway | Brendan Bechtel (anno 2020) | Strive Masiyiwa (anno 2020) | Alexandra Grosvenor Eller (anno 2020). |
1888 |
| Mayo Clinic Trustees: Paul Volcker (since 1979, emeritus today) | Tom Brokaw | Dick Cheney | Tom Johnson | Lee Raymond | Barbara Bush | Walter Mondale | Anne Tatlock (since 2002) | Hugh Price | Anne Sweeney. Trustee Mayo Foundation: Cyrus Vance | Frederick Smith. |
1889 |
| California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Theodore von Karman (professor of Aeronautics at Caltech 1928-1949; founder JPL in 1936; director Caltech's Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory 1928-1945) | Jack Parsons (co-founder JPL with Karman at Caltech; occultist of the OTO) | James G. Boswell (trustee since April 1947) | John McCone (trustee April 1947 and during 1950s, before he became CIA director; UCLA trustee since 1965; a $2,5 million gift in 1992 to Caltech of his established a chairmanship in his name; Bechte1 business partner since 1937) | Robert Ingersoll (trustee 1961-1980s) | Thomas Watson, Jr. (long-time trustee since 1961) | Dean Wooldridge (upon retiring from TRW in 1962 became a professor here) | Si Ramo (trustee 1964-1985, life trustee since then; co-head of TRW and Bunker-Ramo) | Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. (financier; trustee 1967-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert O. Anderson (trustee 1967-1989, life trustee since then) | Ruben Mettler (Caltech Ph.D. electrical and aerospace engineering; trustee 1968-2006, chair 1985-1993; chair TRW) | William Hewitt (life trustee) | Ira Bowen | Robert McNamara (trustee 1969-1988, life trustee since then) | Lew Wasserman (trustee 1971-1987, life trustee since then) | Harold Brown (president) | Stanton Avery (chair) | J. Paul Austin (trustee since 1975) | Philip Hawley (trustee 1975-1997, life trustee since then) | Robert Galvin (trustee 1977-) | Marvin Goldberger (president 1978-1987) | Charles Townes (trustee 1979-1987, life trustee after that) | Bobby Ray Inman (trustee since 1989, senior trustee since 2003, JPL Oversight Committee) | Suzanne Woolsey (JPL Oversight Committee) | Robert Schultz (trustee 1991-2002, life trustee since then). Also: John Gardner (advisory committee JPL) | Murray Gell-Mann (faculty member) |
1891 |
| National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) Members: Lammot du Pont | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Philip Singleton (director 1961-1963) | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson (director 1993-1999) |
1895 |
| Carnegie Institution for Science Founder: Andrew Carnegie. Presidents: Daniel Gilman (1902–1904) | Vannevar Bush (1939–1955) | Caryl Haskins (1956–1971). Trustees: William E. Dodge, 1902–1903 | Elihu Root, 1902–1937 | Cleveland H. Dodge, 1903–1923 | John L. Cadwalader, 1903–1914 | William H. Taft, 1906–1915 | George Wickersham, 1909–1936 | Robert S. Brookings (1910-1929) | Henry Cabot Lodge, 1914–1924 | Herbert Hoover, 1920–1949 | Andrew Mellon, 1924–1937 | William Church Osborn, 1927–1934 | Julius Rosenwald, 1929–1931 | John J. Pershing, 1930–1943 | Walter Gifford, 1931–1966 | Charles Lindbergh, 1934–1939 | Alfred Loomis, 1934–1973 | Charles P. Taft, 1936–1975 | Henry S. Morgan, 1936–1978 | Elihu Root Jr., 1937–1967 | Walter A. Jessup, 1938–1944 | Lindsay Bradford, 1940–1958 | Ernest O. Lawrence, 1944–1958 | Juan Trippe, 1944–1981 | James Forrestal, 1948–1949 | Omar N. Bradley, 1948–1969 | Robert A. Lovett, 1948–1971 | Caryl P. Haskins, 1949–1956, 1971-2001 | David Rockefeller, 1952–1956 | Robert E. Wilson, 1953–1964 | Vannevar Bush, 1958–1971 | Richard S. Perkins, 1959–2000 | Frank Stanton, 1963–2006 | William McChesney Martin, 1967–1983 | William M. Roth, 1968–1979 | Robert M. Pennoyer, 1968–1989 | Walter Page II, 1971–1979 | William Hewlett, 1971–2001 | Lewis M. Branscomb, 1973–1990 | Robert O. Anderson, 1976–1983 | J. Paul Austin, 1976–1978 | John Diebold, 1975–2005 | Sidney J. Weinberg, Jr., 1983–2010 | John Macomber (emeritus anno '14) | William I. M. Turner, Jr. (anno '14, vice chair at one point) | William Hearst III (anno '21) | William T. Coleman Jr. (anno '21) | Walter Isaacson. More: Harry F. Osborn | Charles Townes. Source(s): 2013-2014 Year Book, Carnegie Inst. for Science, pp. 2, 4. (long list of former presidents and trustees, with only trustees joining in the 1980s at the latest). |
1895 |
| World Conservation Society Trustees: Henry F. Osborn (founder) | Fairfield Osborn (son of; head) | Mrs. Vincent Astor | George Fisher Baker II | George Fisher Baker III | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Goelet | Mrs. Edgar Cullman | Eben Pyne | Judith Sulzberger | Frederick Beinecke | Sue Erpf van den Bovenkamp | Paul Gould | John Irwin III | Ashley Schiff | David Schiff (chair) | Walter Sedgwick | Mrs. Leonard Stern | Andrew Tisch | Ogden Phipps II | Howard Phelps, Jr. (chair) | Murray Gell-Mann | Bill de Blasio |
1895 |
| New York Public Library (NYPL) Vartan Gregorian (president 1981-1989). Trustees (1997-2003): Brooke Astor | John Birkelund | Elizabeth Rohatyn (wife of Felix Rohatyn). Trustees (2011): John Hess (into 2020s) | Stephen Schwarzman (into 2020s) | Princess Firyal of Jordan (into 2020s) | Harold McGraw III (into 2020s) | James S. Tisch (into 2020s) | Michael Bloomberg (ex-offfico). Trustees 2020: Bill de Blasio (ex-officio). Also: Laurence Tisch (honorary trustee and major benefactor). |
1895 |
| American Anti-Imperialist League Similar to the American and New York Peace Society, this group countered the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Presidents: George S. Boutwell (founding 1898-). Vice presidents: Andrew Carnegie (founding 1898-) | Grover Cleveland (founding 1898-) | Episcopal Bishop Henry Codman Potter Source(s): 1899, William Jennings Bryan (U.S. sec. of state 1913-1915), 'Republic Or Empire?: The Philippine Question', p. 700. |
1898 |
| Bohemian Grove Part of the Bohemian Club. Members/visitors: Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (annual visitors since at least the early '70s; '91, '08) | David Rockefeller Jr. ('08, '18) | Bechtel family ('71, '91, '08, '18) | George Shultz (joined in 1975; '89, '91, '08, '18) | Henry Kissinger (annual visitors since at least the early '70s; '76, '77 known visits; membership '91, '08, '18) | Paul Volcker ("frequent" since at least the early/mid 70s) | Brent Scowcroft | John McCone | Richard Helms | Harold Brown (membership B.C. anno '76, criticized at the time for the club only allowing women in from a side entrance; '91) | Warren Buffett (known to have given a speech) | A. W. Clausen | Myron Du Bain | Pehr Gyllenhammar (invited by D. Rockefeller, but withdrew after 3 years) | Edmund Littlefield | Amory Houghton, Jr. | Andrew Knight | Philip Reed | James Baker III ('08, '18) | James Baker IV ('18) | Caspar Weinberger | Frederick Seitz | William Simon | Bobby Ray Inman ('08) | Kenneth Derr | Norman Augustine | George H. W. Bush ('08, '18) and son George W. | Nicholas Brady ('08, '18) and Jr. ('18) | William Casey | James Woolsey | J. Dennis Bonney | Thomas Gates | Larry Summers | David Gergen ('08, '18) | Donald Rumsfeld ('91, '08, '18) | Dick Cheney | Thomas Foley | David O'Reilly | Tom Johnson | Alexander Haig | Colin Powell ('08, '18) | John Swearingen (Cave Man) | Vernon Walters | Newt Gingrich | Karl Rove | Rupert Murdoch | William Webster (visited in 1980s; '08, '18) | Joseph Coors | William Draper III | Dwight Eisenhower | Gerald Ford | Henry Ford | Lamar Alexander | Jack Horton (Mandalay) | Evan Galbraith | Edwin Feulner | Frederick Mielke, Jr. | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Maurice Greenberg ('91, '08, '18) | Richard Boucher | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Thomas Jones | Lewis Coleman | Tom Killefer | Adm. Charles Larson | Kaiser family | Joseph Califano Jr. | Phillip Carroll | John Kluge | Henry Kravis | Gen. Victor Krulak | John Lehman | Daniel Ludwig | John Major | Edwin Mees III | Morgan family ('71) | Prince Philip | William Alton Jones | Eddie Rickenbacker | William P. Rogers | Francis Fukuyama | Charles Brown | James Evans | Louis Gerstner | Philip Hawley | James Olson | Alton Ochsner (1965) | William Turner | Warner Rawleigh | Joseph Williams | Melvin Lane | Weldon Gibson | Walter Cronkite ('08) | Gaylord Freeman | Malcolm Forbes Sr. | Antonin Scalia | David Packard ('91) | Keith Alexander ('18) | Haley Barbour ('08, '18) | Michael Bloomberg ('08) | Christopher Buckley ('08, '18) | Harlan Crow ('08; son of Trammell Crow) | Christopher DeMuth ('08) | Michael York ('08, '18) | Rowan Gaither III ('08, '18) | Stephen Harper ('08, '18; PM of Canada 2006-2015) | Charles ('08, '18) and David Koch ('08) | Sean O'Keefe ('08, '18) | Paul Pelosi ('08, '18; husband of Nancy Pelosi) | William Reilly ('08, '18) | William Richardson ('08, '18; president and CEO Kellogg Fdn.) | Craig Stapleton ('18) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('08, '18) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('13) | Ronald Reagan ('67, '75-'80, '89-) | William Clark | William Hewlett | William Hewitt | Vernon Jordan ('91 speaker) | Vartan Gregorian ('91 speaker) | James Wolfensohn ('93 speaker) | Willie Brown ('93 speaker) | William Perry (speaker '98) | Eric Schmidt (named a member in '11 by SF Chronicle, but not in 2008 or 2018 lists) | Dr. Franklin D. Murphy ('71, Silverado S.). Foreign visitors: Helmut Schmidt (repeatedly 1980s-1991) | Michel Rocard | Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia ('92 speaker) | Actors/musicians (on membership lists): James Woods ('08) | Clint Eastwood ('08, '18) | Mickey Hart ('08, '18) and Bob Weir ('08, '18) | Patrick John Wayne ('08, '18; son of actor John Wayne) | Jim Belushi ('18) | Other unexpected: Alexander Shulgin ('08; psychedelics expert) | Ken Starr ('08) | Conan O'Brien (speaker '13, '18). Nuclear scientists: Ernest Lawrence (1942 Manhattan project at Redwood clubhouse; later Sons of Toil camp) | Edward Teller (1942 Manhattan project at Redwood clubhouse; later speaker) | Glenn Seaborg (Owl's Nest and Wayside camps) | Marvin Goldberger (speaker '81) | Luiz Alvarez ('visitor '85) | Sidney Drell (speaker '86) | Charles Townes (ICBM expert; speaker '07). |
1899 |
| Rockefeller University / Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Trustees: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. | Frederick Osborn | David Rockefeller (listed as a trustee with "honorary chair" asterisk anno '03; "Honorary Chair and Life Trustee" anno '07-'10) | Dr. Richard Rockefeller (anno '03, until '06; son of David R.) | Maurice Strong (1972 - 1978) | Brooke Astor (life trustee anno '03) | John Whitehead (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Maurice Greenberg (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Nancy Kissinger (anno '03-'08; trustee emeritus anno '10) | John Macomber | William O. Baker (long-time trustee and chair) | Neva Goodwin Rockefeller (anno '03-'08; daughter of David) | Katherine Graham | John Gardner | Tom Killefer | Dr. Frederick Seitz (president) | Jeffrey Epstein | Gustavo Cisneros | Richard Salomon | David Koch (anno '03-'10)| Henry Kravis ('04-, vice chair '05-'19) | David Hamburg (trustee emeritus anno '03) | Charles Barber | William E. "Bill" Ford (mid '06-'15, vice chair '15-'18, chair '18-, still anno '23). Scientists: Detlev Bronk | Joshua Lederberg | William Nierenberg | Dr. Margaret Hamburg (anno '06). Source(s): rockefeller.edu/corp/board.php (accessed: March 4, 2003 - March 4, 2008) ; rockefeller.edu/about/ board_corp (accessed: Feb. 25, 2010 - March 10, 2017): "Board of Trustees: ... Life Trustees ... Trustees Emeriti... Corporate Officers..." rockefeller.edu/about/board-governance/ (accessed: July 8, 2017 - ). |
1901 |
| American Political Science Association (APSA) Almost completely very low-level. Major names: Samuel Huntington (president 1986-1987) | Evron Kirkpatrick (executive director since 1954; husband of Jeane Kirkpatrick) | Hubert Humphrey (vice president 1954-1955) | Francis Fukuyame (member). Hubert H. Humphrey Award: Lee Hamilton ('98) | Madeleine Albright | Gen. David Petraeus | Susan Rice | Condoleezza Rice ('18). Congressional Fellowship Program Advisory Committee (anno 1997): David Gergen | Richard Lugar | Vin Weber | Bob Dole | Thomas Foley. Funding: Mellon Fdn (1997). |
1903 |
| Commonwealth Club of California Early membership: Warren Bechtel | Herbert Hoover | Isaias Hellman (biggest banker late 19th - early 20th century in California; president Wells Fargo 1905-1920, followed by family members) | A. P. Giannini (founder Bank of America in SF in 1904) | architect Bernard Maybeck | Haas family (Levi Strauss) | Sen. James Phelan | Gov. James Rolph (SF mayor 1912-1931; California governor 1931-1934) | Ray Lyman Wilbur (interior secretary 1929-1933; president Stanford 1933-1943) | William Chapman Ralston (founder Bank of California/Union Bank) | J. C. Zellerbach. President: Shirley Temple Black | Ming Chin (Supreme Court Justice) | Julius Krevans (UCSF Chancellor). Later membership: George Shultz (also speaker in '70, '88, '91, '95, '97, '01, '04, '09-'10) | William Perry (regular speaker '96-'12). Speakers (source: Hoover Institution Library & Archives - except FDR): FDR ('32: New Deal speech) | Earl Warren ('45, '50) | Jimmy Doolittle ('46) | Kermit Roosevelt ('48) | Dean Rusk ('49, '64, '68) | Gen. Albert Wedemeyer ('49) | Claire Chennault ('49; 'Can the Communists Conquer all of China?') | Eddie Rickenbacker ('50) | John Foster Dulles ('50, '52) and Eleanor Dulles ('73; daughter of Allen) | Lord Halifax ('51; 'U.S.-British Friendship'; d. 1959) | Richard Nixon ('52) | Queen Juliana of Orange ('52) | Konrad Adenauer ('53) | President Syngman Rhee of South Korea ('54) | Larry King ('54) | Nelson Rockefeller ('59, '72, '76) | Robert Kennedy ('59, '68) | Dwight Eisenhower ('60) | Charles de Gaulle ('60) | W. Averell Harriman (1960, 1969, 1971, 1980) | Douglas Dillon ('61) | James Conant ('61) | Herman Kahn ('61, '68, '78) | Stefan Possony ('63, '68, '73) | William Randolph Hearst ('63, '68) | Barry Goldwater ('64) | Ronald Reagan, ('66, '70-'73, '78, '80) | Henry Fowler ('66) | Wernher von Braun ('67) | Joseph Alioto ('67, '69) | Clare Booth Luce ('67) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('67) | Glenn Seaborg ('67, '70, '72) | Shirley Temple Black ('68, '77, '83, '92) | Edmond Muskie ('68, '80) | Warren Christopher ('68) | Jay Lovestone ('68) | Richard Allen ('68) | Thomas Watson ('68) | Eugene Rostow ('68) | Arthur Burns ('68) | Nicholas Katzenbach ('68) | Yitzhak Rabin ('68) | Sol Linowitz ('68, '72, '80, '92) | Spiro Agnew ('69) | Caspar Weinberger ('69-'72, '75, '81, etc.) | Jack Valenti ('69, '92, '99) | Jacob Javits ('69, '67, '77) | Carla Hills ('70, '94) | Russell Train ('70) | David M. Kennedy ('70) | Edvard Isak Hambro ('70; of the Norwegian-British Hambro banking family) | Elliot Richardson ('71) | Paul Laxalt ('71, '77) | Edgar Mitchell ('71) | Melvin Laird ('71) | Willie Brown (regularly '71-'11) | George Moscone ('71, '77) | Vernon Jordan ('72) | Hubert Humphrey ('72) | Katharine Graham ('72) | William Casey ('72) | Peter Flanigan ('72) | Billy Graham ('72) | James Schlesinger ('72) | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt ('72) | Donald Rumsfeld ('72) | Paul Ehrlich ('72) | Joseph Alsop ('72) | William P. Rogers ('72) | David Packard ('72) | Paul Ehrlich ('72, '92, '95, '09) | Adlai Stevenson ('73) | McGeorge Bundy ('73) | Adm. Thomas Moorer ('73) | Jesse Jackson ('74, '04) | Winston Lord ('74) | John McLaughlin ('74) | Robert McNamara ('74, '95, '99, '01) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('74, '77, '81, '90, '92, '95) | Howard Baker Jr. ('75) | William Colby ('75) | Frank Church ('75) | George McGovern ('75, '01, '05) | Philip Zimbardo ('75, '07, '08) | Gen. William Westmoreland ('76) | George H. W. Bush ('76, '80; on the CIA) and George W. Bush ('02) | Henry Kissinger ('76, '84, '93, '01) | Gen. Richard Stilwell ('76) | Walter Mondale ('76) | Jack Kemp ('76, '79, '91, '93, '95) | William Ruckelshaus ('77) | Saud Al-Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz ('77) | Milton Friedman (regularly: '77-'92) | Stansfield Turner ('77) | Michael Blumenthal ('78) | Harold Brown ('78, '79) | Joseph Califano ('78) | Frank Carlucci ('78) | Gen. John Singlaub ('78) | David Rockefeller ('79) | Alexander Haig ('79) | Armand Hammer ('79) | William M. Roth ('79) | Sen. Alan Cranston ('79) | John Holdren ('79) | Dianne Feinstein ('79) | Walter Haas ('79) | Paul Nitze ('79) | Gen. Richard Secord ('80; before Iran-Contra) | Edward Teller ('80) | Howard Berman ('80) | Norman Cousins ('80) | John Swearingen ('80) | Neil Goldschmidt ('80) | Victor Palmieri ('80) | Jerry Brown ('80) | Hale Boggs ('80) | Harry Conger ('81) | William Webster ('81) | James Stockdale ('82; 'Eight Years in a Hanoi Prison: Survival and Dignity') | Walter Cronkite ('83, '04, '07) | Cezar Chavez ('84) | Jerry Falwell ('84) | Queen Noor of Jordan ('84 or around, '05), King Abdullah II of Jordan ('04) and Princess Firyal of Jordan ('97) | T. Boone Pickens ('85, '93, '09) | Rudolph Giuliani ('87) | Benjamin Netanyahu ('87) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley ('87) | Steve Wozniak ('87) | Linda Chavez ('88, '91) | James Baker III ('89) | Dick Cheney ('89, '91, '02) and Lynne Cheney (95) | William Sessions ('90) | Chaim Herzog ('90) | Gilbert Grosvenor ('90) | Lee Iacocca ('90) | Henry Cisneros ('91) | Condoleezza Rice ('91, '19) | C. Fred Bergsten ('91) | John Denver ('91) | Rozanne Ridgway ('91) | Lord Colin Marsh Marshall ('91) | Bill Clinton ('91) and Hillary Clinton ('10) | William Reilly ('91-'92, '09, '11) | Sen. Tim Wirth ('91) | Nicholas Brady ('91) | Sen. Bill Bradley ('92, '95, '96, '07) | Alexander Lamar ('92, '97) | Dan Quayle ('92) | Gov. Pete Wilson ('92) | Steve Forbes ('92, '95, '96, '98, '01) | Michael Armacost ('92) | Walter Isaacson ('92, '03, '11) | Arnaud de Borchgrave ('92) | Henry Catto ('92) | Richard Pipes ('92) | Walter Wriston ('92) | Richard Haass ('92, '97, '98) | Bill Bennett ('92) | Gen. Victor Krulak ('93) | Muhamed Sacirbey ('93, '96) | Madeleine Albright ('93, '98, '04, '06, '08, '09, '10, '13) | Leon Panetta ('93, '97, '05, '09) | Bill Gates ('93) and William Gates Sr. ('01, '03, '09) | Fidel Ramos ('93) | Michael Huffington ('94) | Arianna Huffington (regular: '94-'10) | Lord Chris Patten ('94) | Vaclav Havel ('94) | Donald Kendall ('94) | Jean-Bertrand Aristide ('94) | Kenneth Derr ('94, '98) | Robert Pritzker ('94) | Carla Hills ('94) | Haley Barbour ('94) | David Gergen ('94, '00, '10, '19) | Christine Whitman ('94, '98, '05) | Hugh Price ('95) | Julie Packard ('95) | Michael Dell ('95) | Richard DeVos ('95) | Count Otto Lambsdorff ('95) | Walter Massey ('95) | James Woolsey ('96, '04, '08) | Sidney Drell ('96) | Robert V. Allen ('96) | Peter Peterson ('96) | Robert Rubin ('96) | Joseph Stiglitz ('96, '08, '10, '12) | John Doerr ('96, '98, '00) | Ruth Simmons ('97) | Jane Goodall ('97, '03) | William Cohen ('97) | Javier Solana ('97) | Warren Rudman ('97) | Howard Dean ('97) | Dick Gephardt ('98) | Lawrence Korb ('98, '00, '05) | Bruce Babbitt ('98, '00, '06) | Thomas Sowell ('98) | Vicente Fox ('98) | Jeff Bezos ('98) | A. W. Clausen ('98) | Rob Reiner ('98) | Edgar Bronfman ('98) | Kofi Annan ('98) | William Buckley Jr. ('98) | Lewis Lapham ('99, '06) | John McCain III ('99, '01) | George Stephanopoulos ('99) | Bob Woodward ('99) | Marc Andreessen ('99) | Carly Fiorina ('99, '03, '06) | Ernesto Zedillo ('99) | Charles Schwab ('99) | Wesley Clark ('99, '01, '07) | Steve Ballmer ('00, '06) | Newt Gingrich ('00) | Louis Gerstner ('00) | Jim Hightower ('00) | Thabo Mbeki ('00) | David O'Reilly ('00, '09) | John Kerry ('00) | Yuri Popov ('00) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman ('00) | Guy Verhofstadt ('00) | Daniel Inouye ('00) | Barbara Ehrenreich ('01, '09) | Naomi Wolf ('01) | Richard Blum ('01) | Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google (Feb. '01, 'The Future of the Internet') | Bill O'Reilly ('01) | John Glenn ('01) | Christopher Dodd ('01) | Sam Nunn ('01, '05, '12) | Gavin Newson ('02-'05, '07, '09-'11) | Ethan Hawke ('02) | Norman Mineta ('02-'03, '06, '08) | Gen. Richard Myers ('02) | Robert Armistead ('02) | Robert Kaiser ('02) | Al Gore ('02, '13) | Robert Mueller ('02, '11) | Abraham Sofaer ('02) | Paul Wolfowitz ('02) | Michael Dukakis ('02) | Patrick Buchanan ('02) | Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein ('02) | Francis Fukuyama ('02) | Joseph Nye ('03) | Strobe Talbott ('03) | Al Sharpton ('03) | Paul Kagame ('03) | Ted Turner ('03) | Martin Peretz ('03) | Jane Wales ('03) | Sidney Blumenthal ('03) | Reed Hastings ('03) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('03) | Ashton Carter ('03) | Peter Schwartz ('03, twice in '06, '08) | Terry Semel ('04) | Richard Ben-Veniste ('04; 9/11 Comm.) | Slade Gorton ('04; 9/11 Comm.) | David Horowitz ('04) | David Frum ('04) | George Soros ('04) | Empress Farah of Iran, consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (Shah of Iran) ('04) | Hans Blix ('04) | Marc Spitzer ('04, '05) | Walter Slocombe ('04) | Graham Allison ('04) | Seymour Hersh ('04) | David Horowitz ('04) | Paul Krugman ('04) | Kamala Harris ('04-'06, '10) | Morton Halperin ('05) and Mark Halperin ('10) | Jack Welch ('05) | Scott Ritter ('05) | Louis Freeh ('05) | Nancy Soderberg ('05) | Bill Frist ('05) | Michael Chertoff ('05-'06) | Jeffrey Sachs ('05, '08, '11) | Gary Hart (twice in '06) | David Walker ('06, '07, '10) | Tom Brokaw ('06) | Craig Newmark ('06) | Katie Couric ('06) | Anthony Fauci ('06) | Norman Ornstein ('06) | Mark Zuckerberg ('06) | Reid Hoffman ('06) | Ian Bremmer ('06) | Maria Shriver ('03) and Arnold Schwarzenegger ('06, '09, '10) | Bob Woodruff ('07) | John Stauber ('07) | Joe Biden ('07) | Egil Krogh ('07) | John Bolton ('07) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('07) | Russell Simmons ('07) | Paul Krassner ('07, '09) | Sen. George Mitchell ('08) | Scott McClellan ('08) | Christopher Buckley ('08) | Robert Scheer ('08) | Adm. Bill Owens ('08, '09) | Steve Diller (twice in '08) | Dee Dee Meyers ('08) | Frances Beinecke ('08) | Fred Krupp ('08) | Fareed Zakaria ('08) | Eric Schmidt (08) | Naomi Klein ('08) | Mohammad Yunus ('08) | Janet Yellen ('09) | Andre Agessi ('09) | Lester Brown ('09) | Michael ('09) | Jacques Cousteau ('91) and Jean-Michel Cousteau ('09) | Gen. Anthony Zinni ('09) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('09) | Nancy Pelosi ('09) | Timothy Geithner ('10, '14) | Ted Sorensen ('10) | William Taft ('10) | Eliot Spitzer ('10) | Paul Collier ('10) | Margaret Hamburg ('10, '12, '20) | Robert Pastor ('11; 'The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future') | Sen. Bob Graham ('11) | Peter Seligmann ('11) | Paul Allen ('11) | Jim Rogers ('11) | Annie Jacobsen ('11: The Uncensored History of Area 51) | William Draper III ('11) | Jack Dorsey ('11) | Brian Chesky ('11) | Cherie Blair ('11; wife of Tony Blair) | William Clay Ford ('11) | Muhtar Kent ('11) | Colin Powell ('12) | Elizabeth Holmes | Sheryl Sandberg ('16) | Janet Napolitano ('17) | Adam Hochschild ('20) | John Brennan ('20). Speakers (often/generally considered "anti-establishment"): John Schlafly ('58) and Phyllis Schlafly ('73) | Martin Luther King Jr. ('67) | Saul Alinsky ('68) | Eugene McCarthy ('68, '72, '90) | Ralph Nader ('69, '02, '12, '16) | Linus Pauling ('71, '90) | Sen. Mike Gravel ('71, '07; pusher of aliens disinfo) | Olof Palme ('77) | Daniel Ellsberg ('80. '02, '08) | Joan Baez ('81) | James Zogby ('88, '04, '10) | Ron Paul ('88) | Audrey Hepburn ('92) | Ross Perot ('93, '95, '96) | James A. Garrison ('93) | Danny Glover ('93) | Carl Sagan ('94) | Dean Ornish ('94, '08) | Paul Craig Roberts ('95) | John Gray ('95, '11) | Robert Reich ('95, '06-'10, '12) | Michael Moore ('96, '02 - on his book Stupid White Men; '09) | Oliver Stone ('97) | Robert Thurman ('97) | Seth Shostak ('98) | Gore Vidal ('00) | Paul Theroux ('01, '04) | Harrison Ford ('01) | Christopher Hitchens ('01-'03, '09) | Stewart Brand ('02, '04, '07, '09; 'Earth Day '04: Thinking and Acting Globally') | Gloria Steinem ('02; feminist) | Eve Ensler ('02, '10; feminist) | Norman Mailer ('03) | Ethan Nadelmann (twice in '03) | Greg Palast ('03; 'The Silence of the Media Lambs: Why Journalism in America Has Gone to Hell') | Dennis Kucinich ('03, '07; chemtrails-pushing, Alex Jones supporting congressman) | Eleanor Coppola ('03, '08; wife of Francis Ford Coppola) | Lawrence Lessig ('04, '08, '11) | Larry Flynt ('04, '11; 'One Nation Under Sex', 'Sex, Lies and Politics: The Naked Truth'; porn king who publishes Hustler; ) | Christie Hefner ('05; owner Playboy) | Cornel West ('04, '14) | Richard Heinberg ('05, '11; peak oil guy) | Anthony Bourdain ('06) | Deepak Chopra ('06) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali ('07) | Jimmy Wales ('07-'09; founder Wikipedia) | Neil deGrasse Tyson ('07, '09) | Robert Baer ('08, '09) | Van Jones ('08, '17) | John Perkins ('08; yes, of "Economic Hitman" fame) | Noam Chomsky ('09) | Aubrey De Grey ('09) | John Marks ('10; Muslim immigration-pushing author of The CIA ('74) and the Cult of Intelligence and the The Search for the Manchurian Candidate ('79)) | Mitch Galbraith ('10; COO Funny or Die) | Amy Goodman ('10; Democracy Now!) | Katrina vanden Heuvel ('11; The Nation) | Richard Rockefeller ('13; Treating Trauma (with XTC)) | Larry Brilliant ('07, '11, '13; Treating Trauma (with XTC)) | Sal Khan ('13, '15) | Peter Thiel ('14) | Chris Anderson ('16) | Robert Kennedy Jr. ('19) | Adam Savage ('09, March and June '10, '19; MythBusters). Guests of The Michelle Meow Show at The Commonwealth Club (live, one day a week, since 2018; Meow also is host of LGBTQ radio): Alicia Garza (co-founder BLM) | Katie Sowers (NFL LGBTQ coach). |
1903 |
| American Peace Society First founded in 1828. Reconstituted in the 1903-1906 period to counter the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Merged into the Quaker World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion. Officers: Andrew Carnegie (financier since 1903, eventual vice president) | William H. Taft (vice president) Source(s): March 1918, American Peace Society secretary and Advocate of Peace editor Arthur D. Call for the Committee on Public Information's War Information Series 'The War for Peace', p. 5 (gives the Andrew C. and William H. T. a vice presidents). Jan. 1907, The American Peace Society's Advocate of Peace Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood, p. 32: "Rabbi Fleischer of Boston does not believe that "Zionism" is a movement that promises to solve the Jewish question. On the contrary, he holds that it is a backward step and out of harmony with the growing international spirit of the time. At a reception and banquet at the Hotel Somerset tendered last month to Dr. Lewin of Russia, who was a member of the Douma, and is in this country to awaken interest in the persecuted Jews of Russia, and is also conducting a propaganda in favor of Zionism, Dr. Fleischer, taking exception to Dr. Lewin's remarks , said: "Though Zionism interests me, I do not believe in it nor accept it as a solution of the so-called 'Jewish question'..." |
1903-1940 |
| New York Peace Society (NYPS) Founded to prevent the rise of an American empire, as seen in the Philippine–American War of 1899-1902 and other conflicts. Merged into the Quaker World Alliance for International Friendship through Religion. Officers: Oscar Straus (key founder and founding president) | Charles Levermore (key founder) | Andrew Carnegie (key financier and president anno 1909; also a vice president of the American Peace Society at the time, together with William H. Taft) | Elihu Root (one of the vice presidents anno 1909) | James Speyer (anno 1909) | Robert C. Ogden (anno 1909). "Committee of invitation" and regular members/participants anno 1909-1911: Jacob Schiff (also a reported vice president) | William Jay Schieffelin | Meyer D. Rothschild (annual contributor) | Lindsay Russell | Henry Taft | George Perkins | Isaac Seligman | Adolph Ochs | Hamilton Holt. Source(s): Jan. 1911, Advocate of Peace, pp. 15-16, 'The New York Peace Society': "The following gentlemen constitute a committee of invitation..."; 1909, New York Peace Society, 'Year Book', pp. 3 (trustees), 29: "Treasurer: Astor Trust Company... turning the Hague Conferences into a real international parliament. Elihu Root planned the idea of having the Second Hague COnference create a world court modeled on the United States Supreme Court, and now Secretary Knox has announced its early establishment. President Roosevelt's Christiania address is nothing else than a plea for the federation of the world. Not since..." |
1906-1940 |
| Russell Sage Foundation Trustees: Dwight Morrow | Cleveland Dodge | Lindsay Bradford | David H. Morris, Jr. | Claude Steele |
1907 |
| New York Foundation Trustees: Paul Warburg (1909-1932) | Jacob Schiff (1909-1920) | Felix Warburg (1912-1937) | Mortimer Schiff (1912-1931) | Herbert Lehman (1920-1954) | Arthur H. Sulzberger (1932-1960) | Frederick Warburg (1937-1973) | Edward Warburg (1959-1976) | George Woods (1959-1975; president World Bank 1963-1968) | Fairfield Osborn (1963-1969) | Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger (1964-1968) | John Gardner (1970-1976). |
1909 |
| Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Founding trustees and officers: Andrew Carnegie (main founder, but not on the board) | John Cadwalader (1910-1914) | Joseph Choate (founding vice president 1910-, trustee until 1917) | John W. Foster (founding 1910-1917) | Cleveland H. Dodge (founding 1910-1919) | George W. Perkins (founding 1910-1920) | Charlemagne Tower (founding 1910-1923) | Oscar Straus (founding 1910-1926) | Robert S. Brookings (founding 1910-1932) | Elihu Root (founding president 1910-, trustee until 1937) | Nicholas Butler (founding 1910-1947). Trustees 1920-: Robert Lansing (1920-1928) | John W. Davis (1921-1950) | Dwight Morrow (1925-1930) | James Shotwell (1925-1951) | Silas Strawn (1926-1946). Trustees 1930-: Thomas Watson (1934-1951) | Eliot Wadsworth (1937-1951) | Philip Jessup (1937-1960) | Leon Fraser (1938-1945). Trustees 1940-: Henry Wriston (1943-1954) | John Foster Dulles (1944-1952) | Philip Reed (1945-1953) | Alger Hiss (1947-1950) | David Rockefeller (1947-1960) | Dwight Eisenhower (1948-1952). Trustees 1950-: Joseph Johnson (1950-1976, president 1950-1971) | Edward R. Murrow (1951-1957) | Lee Dubridge (1951-1957) | Grayson Kirk (1953-1961) | George Shuster (1954-1965) | Milton Katz (1954-1978) | Arthur Watson (1957-1970) | Clare Boothe Luce (1958-1964). Trustees 1960-: John Hay Whitney (1961-1964) | Edgar Kaiser (1961-1966) | Gabriel Hauge (1962-1968) | Hedley Donovan (1966-1985) | Alfred Brittain III (1968-1976). Trustees 1970-: William Hewitt (1971-1975) | Thomas Hughes (president 1971-1991, trustee 1971-1996) | Lane Kirkland (1975-1981) | Kingman Brewster Jr. (1976-1988) | Richard Debs (1977-2010) | Henry Fowler (1979-2000). Trustees 1980-: William Perry (1983-1993 and 1999-2006) | Strobe Talbott (1986-1993, 2001-2004) | Richard Parsons (1987-1988) | Newton Minow (1987-1993) | Condoleezza Rice (1988-1989). Trustees 1990-: Morton Abramowitz (1991-1997) | Leslie Gelb (1991-2005) | Olara Otunnu (1993-2008) | Jamie Gorelick (1997-2010) | Bill Bradley (1997-, still anno 2023) | Stephen Hadley (1999-2001). Trustees 2000-: Susan Eisenhower (2000-2005) | J. Stapleton Roy (2006-2018) | Kofi Annan (2009-). Trustees 2010-: Chas Freeman (2010-2016) | Ratan Tata (2013-, still anno 2024) | William Burns (president 2015-2021) | Penny Pritzker (2017-, chair 2018-, still anno 2023) | Robert Zoellick (2018-, still anno 2024) | Jonathan Oppenheimer (2018-, still anno 2024) | Henri de Castries (2019-, still anno 2024). Trustees 2020-: Jim Balsillie (2020-, still anno 2024) | Margaret Hamburg (anno 2023-2024) | . Unsorted: Fred Bergsten (senior fellow in 1981) | Stephen Duggan | Barry Blechman. Non-trustees: Anthony Lake (anno '74) | Richard Holbrooke (anno '74) | 2st Baron Sherfield (Makins). Commission on the Middle East: David R. | Herman Abs | Kurt Birrenbach | Eugene Black | Jacob Javits | Joseph J. | Edward Kennedy | Aurelio Peccei | Lord Eric Roll. Carnegie Middle East Center (founded in 2009) advisory council: Turki al Faisal | Khaled M. Al-Fayez (Bahrain) | Richard D. | Ibrahim Dabdoub Euro-Atlantic Initiative (effort co-sponsored by Greenberg's Starr Fdn.): Wolfgang Ischinger (co-chair) | Igor ov (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Robert Legvold (co-chair) | Herman Gref | Stephen H. | Tedo Japaridze | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | John Kornblum | Vyacheslav Trubnikov. Partnership for Countering Influence Operations: Michael Chertoff (advisory board) | Craig Newmark (liaison). Senior associates and fellows: Robert E. White (senior associate in the 1980s) | Morton Halperin (senior associate 1992-1994) | Chung Min Lee (senior fellow Asia program) | David Rothkopf (visiting scholar; author of 2008 book 'Superclass') | Francis Fukuyama (scholar) | Robert Kagan (13-year senior associate) | Jake Sullivan (senior fellow) | Thomas E. Graham (senior associate in the Russia/Eurasia program 1998-2001) More: (assoc. director Russia-Eurasian Program 1994-1999) | Anatoly Chubais (speech on privatization in 1999) | Kurt Campbell (speaker '16) | Oleg Deripaska (financier and speech-giver) | Anders Aslund (director Russian and Eurasian program). Source(s) 2011, Carnegie End., '100 Years of Impact', pp. 104-112 (provides all historical trustees and their years); carnegieendowment.org/about/trustees (accessed: June 25, 2016). |
1910 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York Trustees: Andrew Carnegie (1911-1919) | Elihu Root (1911-1937) | Elihu Root Jr. (1937-1961) | Nicholas Murray Butler (1925-1937, chair 1937-1945) | Russell Leffingwell (1923-1959, also president) | Frederick Osborn (1936-1962) | Vannevar Bush (1939-1955) | Charles Spofford (1953-1973) | John Gardner (president 1955-1965, trustee until 1967) | Caryl Haskins (1955-1975, chair 1975-1979, honorary anno 1997) | Charles Dollard (1948-1955, also chair) | Walter Wriston (1964-1972). More modern trustees: David Hamburg (1979-1997, president -1997) | Laurence Tisch (1985-1994) | John Whitehead (1978-1985, 1989-1993) | Warren Christopher (1989-1990, chair 1990-1993) | Robert Rubin (1990-1993) | Newton Minow (1986-1993, chair 1993-1997) | Thomas Kean (1991-1997, chair Jan. 1997-2002, trustee 2004-2007, again chair 2007-2012, chair 2013-, still anno 2022) | Sam Nunn (Jan. 1997-2005) | Vartan Gregorian (trustee and president 1997-2021) | Teresa Heinz Kerry (1993-2001) | Condoleezza Rice (1994-1998) | Thomas Pickering (2003-2011) | Fiona Druckenmiller (2004-2008; wife of Stanley) | Joshua Lederberg (1985-1993) | Olara Otunnu (1998-2007) | Adm. Bill Owens (1999-2008) | Geoffrey Boisi (2000-2017; son of a senior senior J.P. Morgan executive; SMOM; vice chair and co-CEO JPMorganChase late 1990s-early 2000s) | James Johnson (1992-2000; chair and CEO Fannie Mae) | Raymond Smith (1999-2007; chair Rothschild, Inc.) | Norman Pearlstine (2005-2013; editor-in-chief Time; senior advisor Carlyle)| Janet Robinson (2005-2012, chair 2012-2013, trustee 2014; president and CEO NYT) | Kofi Annan (2007-2010; sec.-gen. UN 1997-2006) | Kurt Schmoke (2007-2017) | James Wolfensohn (2009-2017; president World Bank 1995-2005) | Don Randel (2010-2018; president Andrew W. Mellon Fdn.) | John Hendricks (2012-2016; founder and chair Discovery Comm.) | Anne Tatlock (2014-2020s). Others: McGeorge Bundy (scholar-in-residence 1990-1996) | Scott Malcomson (fellow). Carnegie Commission on Educational Television 1965-1967: James Killian (chair). Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government (1988-1994). Members: Joshua L. | Sidney Drell | John Brademas | Jimmy C. | William Perry | Bobby Ray Inman | Lewis Branscomb | Norman Augustine | William T. Coleman Jr. | Gen. Andrew G. Advisory council: Graham A. | William O. Baker | Gerald Ford | Walter Massey | David Packard | James Reston. Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict (1994-1999): Cyrus Vance (co-chair) | John W. | Morton Abramowitz | Graham Allison | McGeorge Bundy | Sidney D. | Lawrence Eagleburger | Leslie Gelb | Gorbachev | Jimmy Carter | Lee Hamilton | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | Elliot Richardson | George Shultz | Richard Lugar | Condi R. | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Richard Solomon | Javier Perez de Cuellar | Elie Wiesel | Desmond Tutu | Sam N. Contributors: Alexei Arbatov | Andrei Kokoshin | Andrei Kortunov. |
1911 |
| Rockefeller Foundation (RF) All trustee data comes from annual reports at rockefellerfoundation.org/annual-reports/ (accessed: Dec. 5, 2022). Trustees 1913-: John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (1913-1923) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (president 1913-1916, trustee 1913-1939, first chair 1917-1939) | Jerome Davis Greene (founding secretary and exec. comm. 1913-1916, again trustee 1928-1939) | Charles Evans Hughes (1916-1921, resigned to become sec. of state, again 1925-1928) | Harry Fosdick (1916-1920; brother of Raymond) | Frederick Strauss (1916-1930) | . Trustees 1920s-: Raymond Fosdick (1921-1948; president 1936-1948; brother of Harry) | Walter Stewart (1931-1950, chair 1939-1950) | Owen Young (1928-1939) | John W. Davis (1922-1938). Trustees 1930s-: John D. Rockefeller III (trustee 1932-1971, exec. comm. 1933-1971; president 1952-1953, trustee and exec. comm. chair 1953-1971; honorary chair after) | Winthrop Aldrich (1935-1951) | John Foster Dulles (1935-1952, chair 1950-1951) | Arthur Sulzberger (1939-1957). Trustees 1940s-: William Meyers (1941-1957)| Walter Gifford (1936-1950) | John McCloy (1946-1949, 1953-1958) | Robert Lovett (1949-1961) | Dr. Robert Loeb (1947-1960). Trustees 1950s-: Detlev Bronk (1953-1963) | Dean Rusk (trustee 1950-1961, president 1951-1961) | Chester Bowles (1954-1961) | John Kimberly (1953-1968) | Arthur Houghton, Jr. (1958-1972) | Barry Bingham (trustee 1958-1971). Trustees 1960s-: C. Douglas Dillon (1960-1961, 1965-1974, president-chair late 1960s, chair 1971-1974) | Orvil Dryfoos (1960-1963) | George Harrar (1961-1972) | Frank Stanton (1961-1972) | Theodore Hesburgh (1961-1981, chair 1977-1981) | Lord Oliver Franks of Headington (1961-1971) | Thomas Watson Jr. (1963-1971) | Frederick Seitz (trustee 1964-1976) | Robert Ebert (1966-1976) | Robert Roosa (1967-1982, vice chair 1978-1982) | Whitney Young Jr. (1968-1971) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller / IV (1968-) | Bill Moyers (trustee 1969-1980). Trustees 1970-: Cyrus Vance (1970-1976, chair 1975-1976) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (trustee 1970-, chair 1982-1987) | Maurice Strong (trustee 1971-1976) | Vernon Jordan (trustee 1971-1984) | Michael Blumenthal (1971-1986) | Mathilde Krim (1971-1984; founding chair of Hollywood-linked amfAR in '83) | Jane Pfeiffer (1974-1985; vice president IBM 1972-76; NBC chair 1978-81) | Paul Volcker (trustee 1975-1978) | Henry Schacht (1977-1981) | James Wolfensohn (1979-1986). Trustees: 1980s-: Victor Palmieri (1980-1989; chair nominating comm.) | John Brademas (1981-1992) | Harold Brown (1982-1993) | John R. Evans (1982-1995, chair 1987-1995) | Peter Goldmark Jr. (president 1988-) | Henry Cisneros (1989-1992) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (1989-) | Frank Wells (1989-1994; president and COO Walt Disney; died in a heli crash in 1994) | Trustees: 1990s-: James Orr (chair Dec. 2000 - Dec. 2010) | David de Ferranti (1993-2004; World Bank). Trustees: 2000s: Margaret Hamburg (2004-2008) | Mamphela Ramphele (man. dir. World Bank) | Strive Masiyiwa (2003-, still anno 2010) | Judith Rodin (trustee and president-elect 2004, president March 2005-) | Rajat Gupta (2006-2011) | Sandra Day O'Connor (2006-2013) | David Rockefeller Jr. (2007-, chair Dec. 2010 - June 2016) | Richard Parsons (2007-, chair 2016-). Trustees: 2010s-: Surin Pitsuwan (2010-2011) | Helene Gayle (2010-; CARE USA; president and CEO Chicago Comm. Trust) | Martin Leibowitz (2012-; man. dir. Morgan Stanley) | Rajiv Shah (president March 2017-; director Gates Fdn. 2001-2009; administrator USAID 2009-2015, appointed by Obama) | Sharon Percy Rockefeller (Nov. 2017-) | Mellody Hobson (2018-; wife of George Lucas) | Adm. James Stavridis (2018-) | Walter Isaacson (2018-) | Patty Stonesifer (2019-). More: Vannevar Bush (work financed 1935-1946; Rock. Institute developed an award with his name) | Thomas Farmer (grant to study the "the legal status of Germany’s pre-war commercial treaties" in Berlin in the early 1950s) | Eli Whitney Debevoise (cousel 1959-1965) | John Irwin II (associate counsel 1964-1966, counsel 1966-1970) | Robert Pennoyer (counsel from 1970) | Hugh Price (vice president for philanthropy 1988-1994) | Akinwumi Adesina (associate director for food security) | Jane Nelson (advisory council of RF's Bellagio Center). Other: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith (partnership since 2016) | Jacqueline Novogratz (founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership program) | Kurt Campbell (consultant) | Al Gore (scholarship 1971-1972). Since at least the early 1980s the board has lost much of its prestige. Since at least the 2010s it is not unusual to see that the board of trustees is one-third to 50% black, with up to 80% of the board black, hispanic, Indian, Asian, and Jewish. Rockefeller (Foundation) fellows: John Hamre (1974). Extra: Farzam Arbab (head Colombia branch 1974-1978; head Rock. Fdn.-financed Foundation for the Application and Teaching of the Sciences in Colombia 1974-1988, and director since then.) | Anthony Bourdain (prominently featured in the 2016-2017 shot RF-funded documentary 'Wasted! The Story of Food Waste'). |
1913 |
| Federal Reserve System (FED) George Foster Peabody (director NYC FED 1914-1921, also vice chair) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. (chair FED system 1951-1970) | Arthur Burns (chair 1970-1978; mentor to Alan G. and Milton Friedman) | Owen Young | Allen Sproul | Philip Reed | Alan Greenspan | Robert Roosa | John Brademas (chairman NY Fed 1983-1986, president 1986-1988)| Richard Debs | Cyrus Vance | John Whitehead | Paul Volcker | Maurice Greenberg (director 1988-) | Robert Knight | Marie-Josee Kravis | Larry Summers | William Dudley | Martin Feldstein | Emmett Rice (second black governor; father of Susan Rice) | Lael Brainard (governor; wife of Kurt Campbell 1998-) | Gerald Corrigan (NY president) | Timothy Geithner (president NY Fed 2003-2009). More: Peter Blair Henry (member Economic Advisory Panel, NY FED) | Alfred Hayes (president NY FED 1956-1975). |
1913 |
| Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs Trustees: Robert J. Myers (president 1980-1995, continued as trustee; State Department; CIA) | Jonathan E. Colby (treasurer; son of William C.) | Anthony Lake. Fellows: Maurice Sonnenberg. Lectures: Zbigniew Brzezinski ('95). Speakers: Sir Peter Sutherland ('16) | William vanden Heuvel ('16) | Stephen ('16). |
1914 |
| National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) Also organized the National Foreign Trade Convention from 1914. Members: Frank Vanderlip (1914-) | Cyrus McCormick Jr,. (1914-; Rock. inlaw) | Robert Dollar (1914-) | Charles Muchnic (1914-). |
1914 |
| National Security League Focused on pushing America into World War I. Funded by J. P. Morgan, who subsequently received a virtual monopoly on buying war supplies for allies England and France. Officers: Joseph Choate (founding hon. president) | National Committee: Henry Stimson (anno 1915) | A. J. Dreel Biddle (anno 1915) | Frederick Coudert (anno 1915) | Thomas Edison (anno 1915) | William Fellowes Morgan (anno 1915; not part of the Morgan family). Funders: Carnegie Corp. ($100,000; largest) | John D. Rockefeller Sr. ($35,000; second largest) | J. P. Morgan Jr. ($1,000 personal and $1,300 from his bank; worried about criticism due to WWI trade monopoly) | Nicholas F. Brady ($4,500; great-uncle of the later treasury sec.; director Anaconda Copper, Westinghouse Electric, National City Bank, Union Carbide, General Rubber, U.S. Rubber, and over two dozen other corporations) | Henry Frick ($3,500; director U.S. Steel, Mellon Nat. Bank, Penn. Railway, etc.) | Jacob and Mortimer Shiff ($3,250). Source(s): ... |
1914-1942 |
| Brookings Institution Founded in 1916 as the Institute for Government Research (IGR), only partly by the generally-credited founding vice chairman Robert Brookings. [1] Since 1910 Brookings had been a trustee of the Carnegie Inst. and a founding trustee of the Carnegie Corp. from that same year. Initially the IGR was focused on advising any government administration on domestic social and economic issues. Questions were asked in the media, because founding member (trustee 1917-) Jerome Greene [2] was a founding secretary and trustee of the Rock. Fdn., as well as general manager of the Rock. Institute (later Rock. University). The suspicion was that the Rockefellers were trying to prevent any further anti-trust legislation, such as the Supreme Court one in 1911 that broke up Standard Oil. [3] Founding trustee, Raymond Fosdick, had a brother on the board of the Rock. Fdn., and would later join the Rock. Fdn. himself, even becoming president. Reportedly Greene and Fosdick were the one who recruited Brookings into the IGR. [4] Despite all these ties, Jerome Greene of the Rock. Fdn. stated/lied point-blank to the media that there was "no connection" between the IGR and the Rockefeller interests. [5] The IGR similarly was co-founded by Morgan-allied banker Charles D. Norton. [6] In 1927 Brookings, Greene and Fosdick (all still on the board) merged the IGR, IoE and Brookings' his own graduate school into the new Brookings Institution. In 1927-1928 the IGR, on behalf of the interior secretary and with Rock. Fdn. funding, conducted a landmark study on Native Indians, concluding that their reserves were unsuitable for agriculture and that their culture was repressed by the white majority. In 1973 Nixon's dirty tricks team considered burning down the Brookings Inst. Founding steering committee members of 1914-1916 ("Committee of Nine"): Charles D. Norton (key author statutes; Morgan-tied banker) | Jerome D. Greene (key author statutes; Rock.-tied manager) | Anson Phelps Stokes (key author statutes) | Raymond Fosdick (him and brother trustees Rock. Fdn.) | Frederick Strauss (partner in banking firm J. W. Seligman Co.; trustee Rock. Fdn. 1916-1930) | Theodore N. Vail (president AT&T) | James F. Curtis (ass. treasury sec. 1909-1914; counsel and deputy gov. NY Fed 1914-1919) | Charles P. Neill (Commissioner U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 1905-1913) | Robert Fulton Cutting (co-founder and NY head (a similarly-named and purposed bureau existed in Toronto) of the Bureau of Municipal Research by 1914, a Harriman-, Eastman Kodak- and American Smelting-funded "non-partisan citizens organization [that] published nearly 800 research bulletins and reports on urban issues in Canada, covering almost every area of public policy, from budgeting to housing, welfare to city planning, policing to parks."). Founding trustees: Frank Goodnow (founding chair 1916-1918) | Robert Brookings (founding vice chair 1916-1918, chair anno 1918-1932) | Raymond Fosdick (founding 1916-, still anno 1929; Rock. Fdn. trustee at the time and future Rock. Fdn. president, whose brother was a Rock. Fdn. trustee as well in 1916-1920) | Mrs. Edward H. Harriman (1916-1917; her husband was the father of Averell and E. Roland) | Felix Frankfurter (1916-1925) | Frederick Strauss (1916-1925; partner in banking firm J. W. Seligman Co.; trustee Rock. Fdn. 1916-1930) | Martin Ryerson (1916-1925; trustee president Un. of Chicago, trustee Carnegie Inst.) | A. Lawrence Lowell (1916-1925; president Harvard) | Cesar Lombardi (1916-1919; Houston merchant, president of Dallas News, and had married the daughter of "Confederate blockade runner" Cornelius Ennis). Other trustees until the end of WWII: Charles Norton (key founder and trustee 1917-1923; secretary to U.S. president Taft 1910-1911; vice president of the Morgan-tied First Nat. City Bank 1911-1918) | Jerome Davis Greene (key founder and trustee 1917-, until at least 1942; general manager Rockefeller Inst./University 1910-1912; the founding Rock. Fdn. secretary and trustee until 1916 who so hard denied a Rockefeller connection in 1916; again a Rock. Fdn. trustee 1928-1939) | Elihu Root (1920-1921) | Franklin Lane (1920-1921) | Herbert Hoover (1920-1925) | William Taft (1920-1925) | Silas Strawn (1920-1925) | Edwin Gay (1920-1925; dean Harvard) | Frederic Adrian Delano (1920-, chair 1933-1937; uncle of FDR; railroad exec.; vice chair FED 1914-1916) | Richard B. Mellon (1921-1925) | Paul Warburg (1922-, until at least 1929) | George Eastman (anno 1922-1929; founder Eastman Kodak Co.) | Vernon Lyman Kellogg (1925-, until at least 1933) | Morton Hull (anno 1933, gone by 1937; trustee Rock. Fdn.) | Clarence Phelps Dodge (anno 1933-1937) | Anson Phelps Stokes (II) (anno 1937-1942; 1874-1958) | Marshall Field III (anno 1937-1942) | John Winant (anno 1937-1942) | Edward Stettinius Jr. (anno 1942) | Vannevar Bush (anno 1942) | Dean Acheson (vice chair anno 1942) | Amory Houghton (anno 1942) | Harold W. Dodds (anno 1942: trustee Rock. Fdn 1936-1955) | John McCloy (anno 1946) | David Bruce (anno 1946). Post-WWII trustees: Eugene Black (chair 1962-1968) | C. Douglas Dillon (chair 1968-1975) | Robert Roosa (chair 1975-1986) | Bruce MacLaury (president 1977-1995). Trustees that joined pre-2000 (work in progress): Vartan Gregorian (trustee 1994-1997) | Michael Armacost (president 1995-2002) | Rozanne Ridgway (trustee anno 1999) | Judith Rodin (anno 1999) | Zoe Baird (trustee anno 1999, senior trustee anno 2021) | Kenneth Dam (trustee anno 1999; senior fellow, director; lifetime trustee anno 2021) | Steve Rattner (trustee anno 1999, senior trustee anno 2021) | Teresa Heinz (trustee anno 1999; lifetime trustee anno 2021) | Warren Rudman (anno 1999, hon. anno 2005). Trustees that joined 2000-2009 (work in progress): John Thornton (trustee 2000-, chair anno 2005, 2007; lifetime trustee ann 2021) | Strobe Talbott (president anno 2005) | Haim Saban (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Jeffrey Greenberg (anno 2005; son of Maurice Greenberg) | Thomas Donilon (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Lawrence Fish (anno 2005, lifetime anno 2021) | Larry Summers (anno 2005; fellow Jan. 2001-) | Robert McNamara (hon. anno 2005) | James Wolfensohn (hon. anno 2005) | John Whitehead (chair; hon. anno 2005) | Richard Haass | Vernon Jordan (hon. anno 2005) | Lee Hamilton (hon. anno 2005) | William Coleman Jr. (hon. anno 2005) | Roy Huffington (hon. 2005; married to Arianna Huffington from 1986-1997) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Fred Bergsten (senior fellow 1972-1976) | Robert Hormats | Graham Allison | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Stapleton Roy | Adm. Inman | Stephen Friedman | David Rubenstein (lifetime trustee and chair anno 2016) | Henry Louis Gates Jr. (lifetime trustee) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (trustee anno 2021) | Andrew Tisch (trustee anno 2021) | Philip Knight (trustee anno 2021) | Kenneth Duberstein (senior trustee anno 2021) | Mario Morino (hon. anno 2005; senior trustee anno 2021) | James Robinson III (senior trustee anno 2021) | Gen. John Allen (president Nov. 2017-) | Jeff Bewkes (anno 2021) | Robert Abernethy (anno 2021) | Suzanne Nora Johnson (co-chair anno 2021; former vice chair GS). International advisory council: Frank Lowy (anno 2016) | Victor Pinchuk | Nat Rothschild | Paul D. Jr. (anno 2016) | Nicolas Berggruen (anno 2016) | Marcus Wallenberg (anno 2016) | Philip Mallinckrodt (anno 2016) | Andronico Luksic. More: George von Furstenberg (pre-doctoral fellow mid-1960s) | Leslie Gelb (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Lincoln Gordon (scholar 1984-) | Jim Steinberg (VP and director of Brookings' Foreign Policy Studies Program) | Robert Gallucci (penalist) | William Cohen (study group involvement) | Fiona Hill (senior fellow and director Center on the US and Europe) | James Cicconi | Susan Rice (senior fellow 2002-2008) and Lois Dickson Rice (mother of Susan R.; Miriam Carliner Guest Scholar in Economic Studies since 2002) | Dr. John Steinbruner (director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program 1978-1996) | David de Ferranti (senior fellow) | Lael Brainard (senior fellow 2001-2009, vice president and director of Brooking's Global Economy and Development program 2006-2009; wife of Kurt Campbell 1998-) | Henry Owen (director Foreign Policy Studies Program anno 1973) | Timothy Geithner (2010 and 2012 guest conversation) | Morton Halperin (senior fellow 1969-1973) | Jason Furman (senior fellow) | Peter Blair Henry (senior fellow) | James Manyika (senior fellow) | Jane Nelson (senior fellow anno 2020) | Peter Beinart (nonresident fellow) | Wang Huiyao (past visiting scholar; invited to its podcast on Dec. 9, 2019) | Jeffrey Sachs (economic advisor) | Robert Kagan (senior fellow) | Paul Wolfowitz (speaker and panel member) | Barry Blechman (senior fellow) | Brookings' Doha Center in Qatar (2008): Strobe T. (co-chair). H.E. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabr Al-Thani (co-chair) | Madeleine Albright | Sandy Berger | Zbignieuw Brzezinski | Martin Indyk. Also: Anne-Marie Slaughter. Brookings' Saban Center for Middle East Policy (Saban Forum): Haim Saban (lifetime trustee BI) | Elliott Abrams | Sandy B. | Zbig | Nicholas Burns | Lester Crown | Tony Blair | Jane Harman | Rita Hauser | Holbrooke | Robert K. | David Ignatius | Robert Lifton | Joseph Nye | Thomas Pickering | Condoleezza Rice | Strobe T. | George Tenet | John T. | James W. | Mortimer Zuckerman | Ehud Barak | Michael Herzog (chief of staff Defense Ministry) The Hamilton Project (2006-): Advisory board: John Deutch | Dick Gephardt | Timothy Geithner | Penny Pritzker | David R. | Robert Rubin | Sheryl Sandberg | Eric Schmidt | Lawrence S. | Jason F. Brookings' John L. Thornton China Center (founded in 2006): John T. (chair 2006-2018). Brooking's Global Forum on Democracy and Emerging Technology: Alina Polyakova (founding director). Source(s): 1963, Brookings Inst., 'Directory of Staff and Publications, 1916-1961', pp. 1-6 (list of founding and early trustees, and mostly their dates): "Proposed November 20, 1914 and Chartered March 10, 1916. ... At the organization meeting on March 25, 1916 the following were elected to the Board: From the original group, Messrs. Brookings, Curtis, Cutting, Fosdick, Frankfurter, Goodnow, Hadley, Lowell, Neill, Ryerson, Strauss, Van Hise, and Woodward; Theodore N. Vail from the Committee of Nine; and six others who associated themselves with the effort early in 1916: Edwin A. Alderman, Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, Cesar Lombardi, and Samuel Mather."; March 1, 1922, The Inst. for Gov. Research, 'Its Organization, Work, and Publications' (p. 2 has a 1922 list; pp. 5-6 lists its studies on gov. budgeting/accounting, pensions, purchasing, etc.); 1922, 1927, 1929 IGR trustee lists; 1933, 1937, 1946 Brookings Inst. trustee lists; 2005 annual report. [1.] Sep. 27, 1919, U.S. Congress: House, National Budget System Hearingss, pp. 373-374, 'Statement of Dr. Robert S. Brookings, Chairman Institute for Government Research: "For a few months only [have I been chair]. I was vice chairman from the date of its organization. I was one of its organizers... About a year ago President Goodnow, who was the original chairman, was unable to give it any attention and I assumed the chairmanship. ... My attention was first called to the necessity for some legislation covering our business methods during the Taft administration. I knew Mr. Taft personally very well, and just before he made his budget report to Congress he asked me to come to Washington and go over it with his expert, Dr. Cleveland [and realized] the probable needs of a budget system..." [2.] dimes.rockarch.org/agents/ GcZr6MVw9utiVszSWzinx2 (accessed: Jan. 2, 2024; only accessible through Google cache): "Jerome Greene, the son of American missionaries, was born in Japan in 1874 ... He was also a founding member of the Institute for Government Research..." [3.] July 25, 1916, New York Times, 'Denial by Rockefellers; Neither John D. Nor Foundation Contributor to National Research.' 1956, Brookings Inst., 'Institute for Government Research: An Account of Research Achievements', p. 14: "Greene's statement did not settle the dust. That same day the Washington Times flatly called the work of the Institute a "Rockefeller Inquiry." On August 12, the New York Times noted a "connection" of Rockefeller money with it. And the Saturday Evening Post, taking off from hearsay reports of the Rockefeller interest, opined on August 26, 1916 , that Rockefeller could not do better with his money than to support governmental research, even if official Washington did resent it." [4.] Jan. 1, 1986, Eric D. Feller in Sigma: Journal of Political and International Studies, 'The Brookings Institution and Public Policy', pp. 32-33: "Brookings was asked to join the Institute for Government Research (lGR) by [other] men [such as] two of the institution's original trustees (Raymond B. Fosdick and Jerome P. Greene) [who] had ties with John D. [R.]..." Note: this is at least partially incorrect, because Greene wasn't a founding trustee. [5.] July 25, 1916, Pittsburgh Post, p. 7, 'Denies Rockefeller Interest in Institute': "Jerome D. Green, secretary of the Rockefeller [Fdn.], in a statement issued here tonight, denied that the Rockefeller interests were responsible for the incorporation recently in the District of Columbia of the Institute for Government Research. Mr. Green's statement said: "The Rockefeller Foundation has no [formal] connection with the Institute for Government Research though some of its members, including members of its associated boards, have taken a keen personal interest in the institute and are among its incorporators. Neither Mr. Rockefeller personally, nor the Rockefeller Foundation, is contributing or pledging a cent of money to the enterprise." [6.] 1956, Brookings Inst., 'Institute for Government Research: An Account of Research Achievements', pp. 6-7, 10: "The idea of an institute for government research [IGR] was born. Chief among its authors was Charles D. Norton. Others were Mr. Jerome Greene [and] Mr. Anson Phelps Stokes. They formed a steering committee in the fall of 1914 that perfected the conception and structure and arranged for initial financing of the new organization . They were part of a Committee of Nine; the others included R. Fulton Cutting, Chairman of the Board of the New York Bureau; Messrs Raymond B. Fosdick, Frederick Strauss, Charles P. Neill, James F. Curtis and Theodore N. Vail." |
1916 |
| Foreign Policy Association (FPA) Directors and honorary directors: John Foster Dulles (co-founder) | Robert Bliss | Walter Page II | Angier Biddle Duke | Robert Lindsay (chair 1986-1990) | Henry Luce III | Warren Christopher | William vanden Heuvel | John Train | John Whitehead | Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | James Baker III | Maurice Greenberg (also a major financier) | Patrick Gross | William Rhodes | Harold McGraw III | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Maurice Sonnenberg. Other: Thomas Pickering | William Perry (speech 1995) | Frank Carlucci (speech 1988) | John Brademas (fellow and associate) | Peter Peterson (speaker and awarded) | Bill Clinton (visitor) | Cyrus Vance (his wife was also very active for the FPA in the 1980s) | Allen Weinstein (editorial advisory board 1982-1991) | Gareth Evans (fellow) | Henry H. Arnhold (member). Off The Record speakers (1938-; ran by women under the auspices of the FPA; up until July 2020): William van den H. | Thomas P. | William P. | Gareth E. | Robert Zoellick | Leslie Gelb | Joseph Nye | Susan Rice | Frank Wisner II | Paula Dobriansky | Francis Fukuyama | Martin Indyk | Nicholas Burns | Robert Kagan | Richard Haass | Susan Eisenhower | Joseph Stiglitz | Morton Abramowitz | Gen. David Petraeus | Brent Scowcroft | William D. Rogers | Niall Ferguson | Larry Summers | Richard Holbrooke | J. Stapleton Roy | Thomas Kean | Sen. Tim Wirth | James Woolsey | John Bolton | Zalmay Khalilzad | Paul Bremer | Robert McFarlane | William Kristol | John Lehman | Stephen Bosworth | Michael Mandelbaum | Elliott Abrams | Arnaud de Borchgrave | William Taft | Richard A. Clarke | Robert Hormats | Madeleine Albright | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Anthony Lake | Jared Cohen | Arianna Huffington | Max Boot | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | William Burns | David Miliband | David Rothkopf | Frank Gaffney | Gary Hart | Peter Ackerman | Donald Gregg | Al From | Gayle Smith | Lawrence Korb | Gen. Wesley Clark | Winston Lord | Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani of Qatar | Tom Brokaw | Christiane Amanpour | Fareed Zakaria | Nicholas Kristof | Richard Pincus | Paul Krugman | Thomas Friedman | Robert Kaplan | John Micklethwait | Philip Taubman | Gen. John Allen | Amb. Peter Galbraith | Kenneth Pollack | Peter Maass | George Packer | Walter Russell Mead | Olara Otunnu (Oct. 9, 1996) | Richard Falk (Nov. 19, 1997) | James Hoge | Jane Fonda. |
1918 |
| Hoover Institution Directors: Glenn Campbell. Board of Overseers: David Packard (1972-1996) | Edmund Littlefield | Jeremiah Milbank | Jeremiah Milbank III | William Draper III | Donald Rumsfeld | Richard Mellon Scaife | James Buckley | Stephen Bechtel Jr. | Ruben Mettler | Peter Thiel | David Rubenstein | Tung Chee Hwa (1982-1996). Scholars/fellows: Ronald Reagan (honorary) | Alexander Solzhenitsyn (honorary) | Margaret Thatcher (honorary - later not listed as such) | Ronald Lehman (senior fellow) | Michael Armacost | George Shultz | Richard V. Allen | Pete Wilson | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | William Perry | Milton Friedman | Thomas Sowell | Condoleezza Rice | Ed Meese III | Sam Nunn | Joseph Nye | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | Robert J. Myers | John P. Dunlop | William Van Claeve | Ed Teller | Sidney Drell | Newt Gingrich | Henry Kissinger (Jan. 2013-) | Niall Ferguson (senior research fellow) | Gen. Jim Mattis (visiting fellow at least late 2014 to 2017) | Abraham Sofaer (George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs fellow in the 1990s) | Michael Abramowitz (fellow) | Dr. John B. Taylor ("George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics" anno '22). Controversial: Anthony Sutton (research fellow 1968-1973) | Barbara Honegger (researcher) | Paul Craig Roberts (long-time scholar) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali (research fellow 2006-today) | Alex Stamos (visiting scholar tied to Cult of the Dead Cow). More: Larry Diamond (senior fellow) | Gen. John Abizaid (visiting fellow 2007-) | David Michel (research fellow) | Alice Hill (research fellow) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (national security affairs fellow 2002-2003; visiting fellow 2003-2017; senior fellow 2018-) | Francis Fukuyama (member of Hoover's Working Group on Foreign Policy and Grand Strategy). |
1919 |
| American Petroleum Institute (API) William Alton Jones (executive director; d. 1962) | James E. Lee (director; Chevron) | Charles Fogarty | Raymond R. Wright (secretary 1959-1970) | John Swearingen (director 1970s, chair 1978-1979; chair Standard Oil Company of Indiana) | Phillip Carroll (honorary life member; chair and CEO Shell) | J. Dennis Bonney (director) | J. Dennis Bonney (vice chair Chevron 1987-1995) | Ray L. Hunt | Stephen Bechtel | Vince Murchison (advisory board) | David O'Reilly (chair and CEO Chevron) | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO Exxon) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Rex Tillerson (chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | John Hess (executive). Also: in November 1966 Jim Garrison, Sen. Russell Long and oil man Joseph M. Rault, Jr. were on their way to an API conference in New York during which Garrison became inspired to revisit the Kennedy assassination. |
1919 |
| Century Foundation Very progressive. Founder: Edward Filene (d. 1937). Trustees: Max Lowenthal | J. Robert Oppenheimer | Hodding Carter III | John Podesta | Theodore Sorensen | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Joseph Califano Jr. | Melissa Harris Perry (founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center on Gender, Race, and Politics) | Congressman George Miller | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Lewis Kaden (vice chair Citigroup) | Mark Zuckerman (president anno 2018). |
1919 |
| National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) 2006 Officers: Arthur Burns (protege of a co-founder, director and honorary chair anno 1981) | Robert Roosa (director anno 1981) | Peter Peterson (director anno 1981 and director emeritus anno 2013) | Martin Feldstein (president and CEO 1977-1981, 1983-2008) | Dr. John B. Taylor (research associate 1981-) | Jeffrey Sachs (listed as a research associate of NBER when invited to BB in 1990) | Jacob Frenkel (director at large anno 2013) | Peter Blair Henry | Jessica Einhorn (director anno 2021). |
1920 |
| Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Historic chairmen: Russell Leffingwell (chair 1946–1953; partner J.P. Morgan & Co. 1923-, chair 1948-1950) | John McCloy (member 1940-, chair 1953–1970; chair Rock.'s Chase Manhattan 1953-60, where David Rock. succeeded him as well) | David Rockefeller (member 1942-2017; chair 1970–1985, member 1942-1949, director 1949-1985; key TC founder) | Peter Peterson (member 1970-, director 1973-1984, chair 1985–2007; founding member TC; son Michael also a CFR member) | Carla Hills (co-chair 2007–2017; member of David Rock.'s TC since late '80s) | Robert Rubin (member 1981-; co-chair 2007–2017) | David Rubenstein (director 2005-, vice chair 2012-2017, chair 2017–; primary founder Carlyle Group; TC 2002-). Key historic names: John Foster Dulles (founding member 1922-1955, non-resident 1955-1958) | Allen Dulles (member 1927-1955, director 1928-early 1950s, secretary 1933-1945, vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1950, non-resident member 1956-) | John D. Rockefeller III (member 1931-) | Henry Luce (1934-) | Nelson Rockefeller (member 1938-) | David Rock. (member 1942-) | Henry Kissinger (member 1956-2023, director 1977-1981) | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (non-resident member 1958-1972, resident member 1973-1982) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (member 1968-, director 1972-1977) | George Shultz (member 1974-, director 1980-1982, when he entered gov.) | Paul Volcker (non-resident member 1970-1973, resident member 1973-, director 1975–1979, 1988–1999) | Harold Brown (member 1974-, director 1983-1992) | Brent Scowcroft (member 1974-, director 1983-1989) | Thomas Pickering (member 1975-; director 2002-2007) | Maurice Greenberg (member 1977-, director 1992–1994, vice chair 1994-2002, director 2004–2009) | John Whitehead (member 1978-) | James Wolfensohn (member 1981-) | Henry (1992-, director 2006-) and Marie-Josee Kravis (2005-) | Larry Summers (1991-) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (member 2002-). Secretaries of state: Charles Evans Hughes (member 1930-; SecState 1921-1925) | Frank K. (NOT a member; SecState 1925-1929) | Henry Stimson (member 1924-; SecState 1929-1933) | Cordell H. (NOT a member; FDR's SecState 1933-1944) | Edward Stettinius Jr. (his father, a Morgan banker, was a member 1924-, himself 1939-; SecState 1944-1945) | James B. (NOT a member; SecState 1945-1947) Gen. George M. (NOT a member; SecState 1947-1949) | Dean Acheson (member 1948-; SecState 1949-1953) | John F. D. (founding member 1922-; SecState 1953-1959) | Christian Herter (member 1930-; SecState 1959-1961) | Dean Rusk (member 1952-; SecState 1961-1969) | William P. Rogers (member 1975-; SecState 1969-1973; appointed to be insignificant in influence next to NSA Henry K.) | Henry K. (member 1956-; SecState 1973-1977) | Cyrus Vance (member 1968-; SecState 1977-1980) | Edmund Muskie (member 1973-; SecState 1980-1981) | Alexander Haig (member 1973-; SecState 1981-1982) | George S. (member 1974-, director 1980-1982; SecState 1982-1989) | James Baker III (member 1978-; SecState 1989-1992) | Lawrence Eagleburger (member 1974-; SecState 1992-1993) | Warren Christopher (member 1973-; SecState 1993-1997) | Madeleine Albright (member 1976-, director 2004-; SecState 1997-2001) | Colin Powell (member 1986-; SecState 2001-2005) | Condoleezza Rice (member 1984-; SecState 2005-2009) | Hillary Clinton (husband a member 1990-, daughter 2012-, herself (officially) never; SecState 2009-2013) | John Kerry (member 1994-; SecState 2013-2017) | Rex T. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; SecState 2017-2018) | Mike P. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; 2018-) | Anthony Blinken (member 1991-; SecState 2021-). CIA directors: Walter B. S. (member 1952-; CIA director 1950-1953 who co-founded BB, but did not attend) | Allen D. (member 1927-1955, director 1928-early 1950s, secretary 1933-1945, vice president 1945-1946, president 1946-1950, non-resident member 1956-; CIA director 1953-1961) | John McCone (member 1957-; CIA director 1961-1965) | Richard Helms (1973-; CIA director 1966-1973) and his grandfather, a major banker, Gates McGarrah (founding member 1922-) | James Schlesinger (member 1986-; CIA director 1973) | William Colby (member 1975-; CIA director 1973-1976) | George H. W. Bush (member 1972-, director 1977-1979; UN ambassador 1971-73; CIA director 1976-77) | Adm. Stansfield Turner (member 1973-; director CIA 1977-1981) | William Casey (member 1973-; SEC chair 1971-73; CIA director 1981-1987) | William Webster (member 1987-; CIA director 1987-1991) | Robert Gates (member 1983-; acting CIA director 1986-1987, CIA director 1991-1993) | James Woolsey (member 1975-; CIA director 1993-1995) | John Deutch (member 1976-, director; father CFR since 1958) | George Tenet (member 1998-; CIA director 1996-2004) | Porter Goss (member 1999-; CIA director 2004-2006) | Gen. Michael Hayden (member 2003; CIA director 2006-2009; director NSA 1999-2005) | Leon P. (never been a member, before or after; CIA director 2009-2011) | Gen. David Petraeus (member 1986-; CIA director 2011-2012, when forced to resign over an affair) | John B. (never been a member, before or after; career officer; director 2013-2017) | Mike Pompeo (never been a member, before or after; director 2017-2018) | Gina H. (never been a member, before or after; career officer; director 2018-2021) | William Burns (member 1993-; director 2021-). Secretaries of defense: James Forrestal (member 1927-; 1st SecDef 1947-1949) | Louis J. (NOT a member; 1949-1950) | Gen. George M. (NOT a member; SecDef 1950-1951) | Robert Lovett (member 1927-; SecDef 1951-1953) | Charles Erwin W. (NOT a member; SecDef 1953-1957) | Neil McElroy (member 1955-; SecDef 1957-1959) | Thomas Gates Jr. (member 1961-; SecDef 1959-1961; Drexel and Morgan banker previously) | Robert McNamara (member 1968-; SecDef 1961-1968; came from Ford Motors) | Clark C. (NOT a member; SecDef 1968-1969) | Melvin Laird (member 1974-; SecDef 1969-1973, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | Elliot Richardson (member 1969-; SecDef 1973, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | James S. (member 1986-; SecDef 1973-1975, under the "anti-liberal elite" Nixon) | Rummy (member 1974-1979; SecDef 1975-1977) | Harold Brown (member 1969-; SecDef 1977-1981) | Caspar Weinberger (member 1982-, but worked under George S. at Bechtel; SecDef 1981-1987) | Frank Carlucci (member 1976-; DD/CIA 1978-81; SecDef 1987-1989; later chair Carlyle Group; chair CFR's 2001 'State Department Reform' report) | Dick Cheney (member 1982-, director 1987–1989, 1993–1995; SecDef 1989-1993) | Les Aspin (member 1973-; SecDef 1993-1994) | William Perry (member 1999-; SecDef 1994-1997) | William Cohen (member 1981-; SecDef 1997-2001) | Donald Rumsfeld (member 1974-1979; SecDef 1975-1977, 2001-2006) | Robert G. (member 1983-; SecDef 2006-2011) | Leon P.(never been a member, before or after; SecDef 2006-2011) | Chuck Hagel (member 1999-; SecDef 2013-2015) | Ashton Carter (member 1984-; SecDef 2015-2017) | Gen. Jim M. (Trump's "anti-establishment choice", never been a member; SecDef 2017-2019) | Mark Esper (Trump's "anti-establishment choice"; member 2008-; SecDef 2019-2020) | Lloyd Austin III (member 2013-; SecDef 2021-). National security advisors: Robert C. (NEVER a member; NSA 1953-1955, 1957-1958) | Dillon Anderson (member 1959-; NSA 1955-1956) | Gordon Gray (member 1951-; NSA 1958-1961) | McGeorge Bundy (member 1948-; NSA 1961-1966) | Walt Whitman Rostow (member 1955-; NSA 1966-1969) | Henry K. (member 1956-, director 1977-1981; NSA 1969-1975) | Brent S. (member 1974-, director 1983-1989; NSA 1975-1977; Kiss. protege) | Zbigniew B. (member 1968-, director 1972-1977; NSA 1977-1981) | Richard V. Allen (member only from 1999-; NSA 1981-1982) | William P. C. Jr. (NEVER a member; NSA 1982-1983; seemingly not to be confused with CFR member William Clark Jr. (1930-2008) that was a member of the CFR until 2008) | Robert McFarlane (member 1983-; NSA 1983-1985) | John P. (NEVER a member; NSA 1985-1986) | Frank C. (member 1976-; DD/CIA 1978-81; NSA 1986-1987; SecDef 1987-1989) | Colin P. (member 1986-; 1987-1989) | Brent S. (member 1974-, director 1983-1989; NSA 1989-1993) | Anthony Lake (member 1971-; 1993-1997) | Sandy Berger (member 1985-; 1997-2001)| Condi R. (member 1984-; NSA 2001-2005) | Stephen Hadley (member 1993-; NSA 2005-2009) | Thomas Donilon (member 1996-; member CFR task force 'Renewing the Atlantic Partnership' (2004), distinguished fellow 2013-; NSA 2010-2013) | Susan Rice (member 1992-; NSA 2013-2017) | Gen. Michael F. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; for 24 days in 2017) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; member 2004-; NSA 2017-2018) | John Bolton (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; member 2000-; NSA 2018-2019) | Charles K. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; acting NSA for 8 days in 2019) | Robert O'B. (part of Trump's "anti-establishment" cabinet; sep. 2019-) | Jake Sullivan (summer intern around 2000 at the president's office of Leslie G.; NSA 2021-). Treasury secretaries: Andrew Mellon (member 1934-1937 (d.); treasury sec. March 1921-1932) | Ogden Mills (member 1924; treasury sec. 1932-1933) | William Woodin (member 1921/22-; treasury sec. March - Dec. 1933) | Henry Morgenthau Jr. (treasury sec. 1934-1945; Morgenthau Sr. a member 1922-1940) | Fred V. (never a member; treasury sec. 1945-1946) | John Wesley Snyder (never a member; treasury sec. 1946-1953) | George Humphrey (never a member; treasury sec. 1953-1957) | Robert B. Anderson (member 1953-; treasury sec. 1957-1961) | C. Douglas Dillon (son of Clarence Dillon, a founding member 1922-; himself a member 1940-; treasury sec. 1961-1965) | Henry Fowler (member 1950-; treasury sec. 1965-1968) | David M. Kennedy (treasury sec. 1969-1971; member 1976-) | John Connally (never a member; treasury sec. 1971-1972) | George S. (treasury sec. 1971-1974; member 1974-) | William Simon (member 1973/1974-; treasury sec. 1974-1977) | Michael Blumenthal (member 1970-; treasury sec. 1977-1979) | G. William Miller (treasury sec. 1979-1981; member 1981-) | Donald Regan (member 1973-; treasury sec. 1981-1985) | James B. III (member 1978-; treasury sec. 1985-1988) | Nicholas Brady (member 1983-; treasury sec. 1988-1993) | Lloyd Bentsen (member 1973-; treasury sec. 1993-1994) | Robert Rubin (member 1981-; treasury sec. 1995-1999) | Larry S. (member 1991-; treasury sec. 1999-2001) | Paul O'Neill (never a member, only visited; treasury sec. 2001-2002) | John W. Snow (never a member; treasury sec. 2003-2006) | Hank Paulson (member 2001-; treasury sec. 2006-2009) | Timothy Geithner (member 1996-, director 2015-; treasury sec. 2009-2013) | Jack Lew (member 2006-; treasury sec. 2013-2017) | Steven Mnuchin (never a member; treasury sec. 2017-2021) | Janet Yellen (member 2006-; treasury sec. 2021-). More important names: Jami Miscik (director 2007-, vice chair 2017-; CEO Kiss. Assoc. and TC 2014-) | Frank Wisner (1946-) | George Soros (member 1988-, director 1995-2004), brother Paul (member 1992-), and son Jonathan (member 2003-). Initial 1954 BB visitors alongside CFR director David Rock.: Nelson Dean Jay (member 1942-; director J.P. Morgan & Co.) | George Nebolsine (member 1944-) | Gardner Cowles Jr. (member 1945-) | George Bingham (member 1946-) | George Ball (member 1948-) | Paul Nitze (1949-) | C.D. Jackson (member 1950-) | H.J. Heinz II (member 1952-; father Howard: member 1924-) | J. D. Zellerbach (member 1952-) | George McGhee (member 1953-) | Cola Parker (member 1953-) | George Perkins (member 1953-) | Joseph Spang Jr. (member 1954-) | John Coleman (member mid 1954- or 1955-; commissioned by Jackson to organize the initial BB participants in 1953-1954). Others involved in the BB founding: Walter Bedell Smith (member 1952-; CIA director 1950-1953 who co-founded BB, but did not attend) | Dwight Eisenhower (member 1949-; was interested in using the BB plan in his 1952 presidential campaign, but others did not like that; agreed that (incoming) administration officials worked on the BB plan) | Averell Harriman (member 1924-; didn't want to touch the BB plan during the 1952 elections, because it was "[political] dynamite".). Presidents: John W. Davis (founding president 1921-1933, director 1933-1955) | George Wickersham (president 1933–36) | Norman Davis (president 1936–44) | Russell L. (1944–46) | Allen D. (1946–50) | Henry Wriston (1951–64) | Grayson Kirk (1964–71) | Bayless Manning (1971–77) | Winston Lord (1977–85) | John Temple Swing (1985–86) | Peter Tarnoff (1986–93) | Alton Frye (1993) | Leslie Gelb (1993–2003) | Richard Haass (2003–). International advisory board / global advisory board / global advisory panel: Gustavo Cisneros | Sergei Karaganov | Vladimir Potanin | Mikhail Fridman | Anatoly Chubais | Lord Charles Powell | David Rubens. (chair anno '21) | Paul Desmarais Jr. (anno '21) | Victor Pinchuk (anno '21) | Javier Solana (anno '21) | Mo Ibrahim (anno '21) | Frank Lowy (anno '21) | Strive Masiyiwa (anno '21) | Oliver Bate (anno '21) | Hakeem Belo-Osagie (anno '21) | Claudio Descalzi (anno '21) | Andre Esteves (anno '21) | Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal (anno '21) | Fred Hu (anno '21) | Ali Koc (anno '21) | Sunil Bharti Mittal (anno '21) | Takeshi Niinami (anno '21) | Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor (anno '21) | Suzan Sabanci Dincer (anno '21; member Turkish billionaire family) | John Sawers (anno '21) | Nassef Sawiris (anno '21) | Tidjane Thiam (anno '21) | Helle Thorning-Schmidt (anno '21) | Patrick Walujo (anno '21). Remaining: Dwight Morrow (member 1924-; Morgan partner) | Henry Davison (member 1928-; Morgan partner) | E. Roland Harriman (member 1933-) | Joseph Grew (member 1928-) | John Kenneth Galbraith (member 1946-1971) | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (1946-2007) | Shepard Stone (member 1947-1989) | Gen. Lucius Clay (member 1949-) | Michael Deutch (1958-; father of John) | Herman Kahn (member 1963-1983) | Fidel Castro (speech during an 11-day visit to the US in April 1959; said he wouldn't beg the US for economic assistance and stormed out after finding some of the questions insulting) | Richard Gardner (1969-) | Gen. Wesley Clark (1983-) | Paula Dobriansky (1993-, director 1997-2001, senior vice president 2001) | Penny Pritzker (member 1994-1998, 2004-) | Thomas Pritzker (member 2000-) | Lee Hamilton (member 1995-) | David McCormick (member 1998-; later married Dina Habib Powell) | Ken Chenault (director anno 2020) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Robert O. Anderson | Richard Salomon (vice chair) | Gen. John Abizaid (member 1985-) | Frank Wisner II | David Ignatius | Christine Whitman | Richard Gelb (director) | Bruce Gelb | Bill Bradley | Zoellick | Graham Allison | Lewis Branscomb | Thomas Foley | Richard Holbrooke (member 1970-) | Robert Roosa | William Press | Caryl Haskins | Hedley Donovan | Talbott | Walter Mondale (member 1973-) | George Mitchell | Jeffrey Sachs (member 1994-) | Robert Bliss | S. Dillon Ripley II | Peter Ackerman (member 1986-) | Owen Young | Malcolm Muir | Lloyd Hand | Vannevar Bush | Gen. Jack Sheehan | Taft IV | Jane Harman | William Rhodes | Greenspan | Taggart Whipple | Gen. Peter Pace | Conrad Black | Ermarth | John T. Connor | Sidney Drell (member 1980-2007) | Jamie Gorelick | Francis Fukuyama | Eric Melby | Gen. Larry Welch | Samuel and Michael Armacost | Henry Catto | Rozanne Ridgway | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | William T. Coleman Jr. | Donald Gregg | Philip Zelikow | Norman Pattiz | Martin Indyk | Mundy | Thomas McLarty | Irving Kristol | Lee Raymond (member 1988-) | David O'Reilly | Sandra Day O'Connor | Walter Page II | John Diebold | Kenneth Dam | Stapleton Roy | Lewis Coleman | Felix Rohatyn | David Gergen | Robert Pastor | Franklin Miller | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | John Thornton (member 1997-) | Neil Goldschmidt | Robert Knight | Joseph Gorman | C. Boyden Gray | William Simon | Stephen Schwarzman | Arthur Burns | Philip Odeen | Seitz | Walter Gifford | Robert Strauss | Jane Pfeiffer | Gianni Agnelli | Eli S. Jacobs | Kirkpatrick | John P. White | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Lord Carrington | Rifkind | Gabriel Hauge | Lord George Robertson | Peter Sutherland | Etienne Davignon | Paul-Emmanuel Janssen | Jay Rockefeller, IV | Bruce Jackson | Raymond E. Mabus | Morris Amitay | Nicholas Rostow | Adm. William Crowe | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | Richard Burt | William A. M. Burden | Samuel Huntington | Adm. David Jeremiah | William Schneider, Jr. | Douglas MacArthur II | Philip Hawley | Maurice Tempelsman | C. Douglas Dillon | Norman Augustine | Robert R. Bowie | Morton Abramowitz (member 1975-) | Richard Perle | Klutznick (1980s) | Fred Ikle | McCain III | Clinton | Ronald Asmus | Robert Kagan (member 1984-) and father Donald (member 2001-) | Lawrence Clarkson | Warren Rudman (chaired two task forces) | Vernon Jordan (member 1978-) | Stephen Solarz | Lincoln Gordon | Edgar Bronfman, Sr. | Edward Teller | Neil deGrasse Tyson (published by) | Thomas Kean | John Lehman and brother Ronald | Gerald Curtis | Gary Hart | Claiborne Pell | Max Kampelman | Frances Townsend | John Negroponte | J. Paul Austin | Patrick Gross | Wolfowitz | Goss | Gen. James L. Jones | Norris Darrell, Jr. | James Billington | Adm. Giambastiani | Nunn | Col. John Nagl | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Macomber | Winthrop Aldrich | Clare Boothe Luce | Dwight Morrow | Maxwell Rabb | Philip Lader | Gingrich | Gen. James Cartwright (speaker) | Debs | Maurice Sonnenberg | Jimmy Carter | Ross Perot | Walter Slocombe | Zakheim | Paul X. Kelley | Al Roming, Jr. | Yevgeny Primakov | Oleg Deripaska (important financier) | Georgy Arbatov | Joseph Stiglitz | Maurice Strong (1970s) | Ruckelshaus | Bremer | Walther Kiep | Abshire | Rothkopf | Richard Pipes | Daniel Pipes | John Gardner | Robert Hormats | Douglas Feith | Fred Bergsten | Chuck Robb | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Evan Galbraith | Sen. Jon Kyl (2004 speech) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (2010 speech) | Berezovsky (1997 speech) | Igor ov (published in 2000) | Ruud Lubbers (2001 speech) | Turki al Faisal (2006 speech) | Peres (speech) | Netanyahu (speech) | Cynthia McClintock (published in Foreign affairs) | Rita Hauser | Bruce Tarter | Paul Bracken | Montbrial | Jean-Claude Trichet (speaker) | Tony Blair (speaker) | Pauline Neville-Jones (speaker and has been published) | Ogden R. Reid | Joseph Choate | Whitelaw Reid II | David Kirkpatrick | Kofi Annan (speech) | Desmond Tutu (speech) | Romano Prodi (speech/conversation) | Michel Rocard (chair Strengthening Palestinian Public Institutions) | Niall Fitzgerald (international advisory board) | Brian Mulroney | Lester Crown | William Hewitt | Hamid Karzai (speaker) | Jacob Frenkel (speaker) | Peter Mandelson (talk) | Thomas Schmidheiny | Al Gore | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Fiona Hill (member 2003-) | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Daniel Moynihan | Malcolm Hoenlein | Eliot | Elliott Abrams | Elie Wiesel | Carl Bildt | Frank Barnett | Joschka Fischer ("distinguished visiting diplomat" in 2006) | Vartan Gregorian | Zalmay Khalilzad | Dianne Feinstein | Robert Gallucci (member 1993-) | Susan Eisenhower (involved in studies) | Richard Lugar | Robert Pfaltzgraff | Spencer Kim | Jeffrey Epstein | Michael A. Callen | Murray Gell-Mann | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | John Bryan, Jr. | Steve Forbes | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (speaker) | Edward Luttwak | Jeffrey Bergner | David Braunschvig | John Podesta | Norman Cousins | Federica Mogherini (speech) | Morton Halperin (member 1968-) | Jared Cohen (member 2013-) | William vanden Heuvel (member 1986-) | McGeorge Bundy | Robert Wolf | Walter Mead (Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy) | Steven Rattner | Rex Tillerson (2007 and 2012 speaker) | James Roche | Robert Abernethy | John Duke Anthony | Eric Schmidt | Frits Bolkestein (2003 or 2004 speaker) | John Prendergast (Africa lecture) | James Robinson III | Lisa Shields (vice president for communications & marketing) | Scott Malcomson | Bob Kerrey (author 2001 report) | Christine (speaker Nov. 2008 and Dec. 2018, pushing gender quotas at the latter) | Jacqueline Novogratz (member 2002-) | Michael Abramowitz | Christine Parthemore (international affairs fellow in Tokyo in 2016) | Sherri Goodman (director CFR's Center for Preventive Action) | Andy Weber | Adm. Kenneth Bernard | Alice Hill (senior fellow for Climate Change Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations) | Adm. Michael Mullen | Nancy Soderberg | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adm. Dennis Blair (co-chair CFR's 2007 U.S.-China Relations task force and chair of the CFR's 2008 Indonesia Commission) | Teresa Heinz | Dina Habib Powell (member 2005-) | Hans Binnendijk | Chester Crocker | Anne Applebaum | Max Boot | William D. Rogers (co-chair CFR's Cuba Task Force) | Gerald Corrigan (member 1986-, director 1993-95) | Lloyd Blankfein (member 2009-) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (member 1994-) | Kurt Campbell (member 1991-) and wife Lael Brainard (member 1990-; int. affairs fellow) | Henry Owen (member 1981-) | Henry Fowler (member 1982-) | Stuart Eizenstat (member 1993-) | James Lowenstein | Jean-Claude Trichet (speeches April '06, April '10) | Bill Drayton Jr. (member 1973-) | Susan Berresford (member 1989-) | Gary M. (repeatedly published by) | Josette Sheeran (member 2007-) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (member 1993-) | Jim Steinberg (member 1988-) | Zoe Baird (member 1996-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (member 2001-) | John Hess (member 1984-) | Gen. John Jumper (member 1995-) | Muhtar Kent (member 2010-) | John Hamre (member 2001-) | Michael Chertoff (never a member, but speaker in 2009 and 2011) | Lula da Silva (speaker Sep. 25, 2003) | Merit Janow (member 1985-) | Aaron Friedberg (member 1995-) | Martin Feldstein (member 1986-2019, trustee 1999-2016, life trustee 2016-2019) | Nancy Rubin (member 1989-) | Abraham Foxman | Adm. William McRaven (member 2014-) | Bill Richardson (member 1985-) | Nicholas Burns (member 1995-) | Erskine Bowles | Nicholas Rockefeller (member 1994-) | Jon Huntsman Jr. (term member 1994-) | Roy Huffington (member 1980-; his son Michael was married to Arianna Huffington 1986-1997) | Mike Morell (member 2013-) | Ken Duberstein | Richard Garwin (senior research fellow for science and technology) | Marshall Field III (member 1927-1956) | Marshall Field Jr. (non-resident member anno 1955) | Jason Furman (member 2017-) | Larry Fink (member 2012-) | Sylvia Burwell (2006-; 2007-2013, 2017-) | Peter Blair Henry (member 2008-, director 2012-2017) | James Manyika (member 2013-, director 2015-) | James Gustave Speth (member 1990s, until 2005) | Jacob Weisberg (1997-) | Eric Garcetti (member 2015-) | Kurt Schmoke | Peter Beinart (senior fellow 2007-2009) | Alfred Hayes | Charles Barber | Christopher Ashley Ford (member 2015-) | Nicholas Katzenbach (member 1967; his brother, Edward Jr., already was a member for a few years at that point) | Hugh Price (1990-2004) | Patty Stonesifer (member 2003-) | Edward Cox (member 1991-; Nixon's son-in-law) | Frederick Smith (member 2006-) | John F. Cook (member 1991-; president Disney Channel 1985-1995) | Mark Brzezinski (member 1997-) | Henry H. Arnhold (member 1985-) | Horst Teltschik (IAB) | Jessica Einhorn (member 1973-; director) | Joseph Nye (member 1970-) | Robert Blackwill (member 1985-) | Laurene Powell Jobs (member 2011-, director 2017-) | Barack Obama (speech '06) | Joseph Califano Jr. (member 1973-) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (speech '14) | Dick Gephardt (member 1991-) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (member 2003-; initially under the name "Patricia E. Mitchell") | Norman Ornstein (member 1978-) | William Rosenwald (member 1968-; husband of Nina) | Nina Rosenwald | William M. Roth (member 1968-2013) | Emily MacFarquhar (member 1985-2001; wife of Roderick, died in 2001) | Rory MacFarquhar (member 2017-; son of Roderick) | Adm. James Stavridis (member 2005-) | Karen Elliott House (member 1978-) | Dr. John B. Taylor (member 2012-) | Sally A. Shelton-Colby (member 1979-) | Lorne Craner (member '97-) | David Kramer (member 1998-) | Mark Tercek. Far East members: Ronnie Chan (member 1994-) | Tung Chee Hwa (IAB 1995-1997) | Victor Fung (1996-) | Ajay Banga (2009-) | Melissa Ma (2018-; wife of Robin Li, chair and CEO of Baidu). Print media: Walter Lippman (founding member 1922-; founding editor The New Republic 1913-; member NY Socialist Party) | Frank Wisner (member 1946-; CIA directorate of operations chief 1951-1958 until a nervous breakdown, retired in 1962; oversaw the recruiing of the media in CIA intelligence gathering and propaganda) | Cord Meyer Jr. (member 1947-; CIA) | Malcolm Muir (member 1944-; Newsweek's editor from its founding in 1937 until its sale to the Washington Post Company in 1961) | Harry Kern (member 1954-; assistant editor Newsweek 1937-, associate editor 1941-, war editor 1942-, senior editor international affairs and editor-in-chief international edits 1950-1956) | Barry Bingham Sr. (member 1946-; owner The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times newspapers, plus WHAS Radio and WHAS Television until handing everything over to his son in 1971) | Henry Luce (member 1947-; founder and publisher Time 1923-, and Fortune 1930-; bought Life magazine in 1936) | C.D. J. (member 1950-; managing director of Time-Life International 1945-1949; later publisher of Time's Fortune Magazine) | Arthur Hays Sulzberger (life member 1927-1968; publisher NYT 1935-1961)| Orvil Dryfoos (member 1958-; publisher NYT 1961-1963) | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger (member 1966-1971; publisher NYT 1963-1992) | Nicholas Kristof (member 2003-; assoc. man. director and op-ed columnist NYT) | Eugene Meyer (member 1930-; publisher Washington Post (WaPo) 1933-1946; d. 1959) | Phil Graham (son-in-law of Meyer; member 1961 until his suicide in 1963; 70% owner and publisher WaPo 1946-1963) | Katharine Graham (member 1970-2000; publisher WaPo 1969-1979; her son Donald - never a CFR member - was publisher 1979-2013) | Warren Buffett (member 2014-; major investor 1973- and leading director WaPo 1974-2014 and right hand to Kay Graham) | Ronald Olson (member 1999-; director WaPo 2003-; director of Berkshire Hathaway) | Lee Bollinger (member 2003-; director WaPo 2007-) | Anne Mulcahy (member 2002-; director WaPo 2008-) | Walter Pincus (member 1973-; exec. editor The New Republic 1972-1975; top national security reporter and editor WaPo 1975-2015) | Robert Kaiser (member 1979-; intern WaPo early 1960s, D.C., Saigon, Moscow reporter 1964-1974, assoc. editor 1982-1990, managing editor 1991-1998, associate editor and senior correspondent 1998-2014) | David Ignatius (member 1987-; leading writer, editor and columnist Washington Post 1986-) | Tom Johnson (member 1973-; White House Fellow mid-late 1960s; publisher of the Dallas Times Herald 1975-late 1970s; president LA Times late 1970s-1989, publisher 1980-1989, and vice chair of its Times Mirror Co.; president CNN 1990-2001) | David Remnick (member 2006-; decades-editor The New Yorker 1998-) | Robert Silvers (member 1971-2017; founding editor NY Review of Books 1963-2017; early history at Paris Review and Harper's) | Barbara Epstein (member 1997-2006; founding editor NY Review of Books 1963-2006) | Mortimer Zuckerman (member 1988-; chair The Atlantic 1980-1999; publisher U.S. News & World Report 1984-; publisher New York Daily News 1993-2017) | Rupert Murdoch (member 1994-2014; owner News Corp. and Fox) and son James (member 2020-) | Michael Bloomberg (member 1999-) | Matthew Winkler (member 2003-; co-founded Bloomberg News in 1990, editor-in-chief 1990-2015, emeritus 2015-; director Bloomberg L.P. 2006-) | Arthur Levitt Jr. (member 2004-; director Bloomberg L.P. anno 2001-, still anno 2022; senior adviser Carlyle 2001--2020s; special advisor AIG 2005-; consulant Kroll Inc. anno 2006; policy advisor to GS 2009-2015) | Jane Bryant Quinn (member 1994-; director Bloomberg L.P. 2015-; long-time Newsweek contributor about 1989 until 2009) | Frank Savage (member 1982 (black); director Bloomberg L.P. 2010-) | Theodore Forstmann (member 1995-). Print media with a historic presence (without listing all the different journalists, editors and publishers): NY Times | Washington Post | The New Yorker | New York Post | New York Review of Books | U.S. News & World Report | Time-Life | Wall Street Journal | Financial Times | The Economist | The Sun | The Telegraph | Reuters | The National Interest | Foreign Affairs | Foreign Policy. Online media and/or "anti-establishment" social democrat media: George Plimpton (member 1924-) and Francis Plimpton (member 1947-) (their grandson/son, George, founded The Paris Review in 1953) | Bill Moyers (member 1966-1985, director 1967-1974; deeply involved in alternative media) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (member 1993-; editor-in-chief The Nation 1995-2019, contributing editor and publisher since then) | Richard Falk (member 1967-; editor The Nation since at least the early 1980s-2020s; 9/11-no-planer) | Christopher Hedges (member 2003-) | Jacob Weisberg (member 1997-; editor Slate Magazine 2002-2008, founding editor Slate Group 2008-2018) | Barry Diller (member 2008-; chair of InterActiveCorp, which, apart from The Daily Beast (founded 2008), controls just about every online dating app) | Joe Allbritton (member 1973-; his son, Robert, founded Politico.com in 2007) | David G. Bradley (member 2006-; owner Atlantic Media, which owns The Atlantic and National Journal) | Alberto Ibarguen (member '01, director 2006-2013; director PBS 1997, chair 2003-2005). TV Media: William Paley (member 1936-1989; builder CBS 1928-1986) | Henry Schacht (member 1971-; director CBS 1971-1990s) | Laurence Tisch (member 1985-; took over control of CBS 1986) | David Sarnoff (member 1955-; president NBC owner RCA 1930-1947, chair RCA 1947-1970) | John Brademas (member 1973-; director RCA/NBC) | Michael Eisner (member 1999-; chair and CEO Disney 1984-2005) | Michael Froman (member 1996-; director Walt Disney 2018-) | Maria Lagomasino (member 2003-; director Walt Disney 2015-) | Gerald Levin (member 1993-; COO Time Warner 1991-1992, president and co-CEO 1992-, bought Turner Broadcasting System (CNN) in 1996, chair and CEO mid 1990s-2002) | Richard Parsons (member 1991-; director WarnerMedia 1991-, on the recommendation of Laurance Rock., president 1995-, chair and CEO 2002-2007; interim chair CBS 2018) | Gary Ginsberg | Candace Beinecke (member 2006-; director Viacom (owns CBS, MTV, BET, VH1, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures) anno 2022) | Barbara Byrne (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Linda Griego (member 1996-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Judith McHale (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Charles Phillips Jr. (member 2016-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Frederick Terrell (member 2014-; director Viacom anno 2022) | Glenn Hutchins (member 1995-; director AT&T (owner WarnerMedia, Warner Bros., CNN, HBO) anno 2022) | Luis Ubinas (member 2011-; president Ford Fdn. 2007-2013; director AT&T anno 2022) | Jeff Bewkes (member 1996-; president WarnerMedia 2005-2018, CEO 2005-2018, and chair 2009-2018) | Cesar Conde (member 2003-; chair NBCUniversal News Group 2020-) | Walter Isaacson (member 1979-; president CNN 2001-2003) | Diane Sawyer (member 1981-) | Dan Rather (member 1980-; covered the JFK assassination for CBS in 1963; news anchor CBS Evening News 1981-2005) | Tom Brokaw (member 1998-, director 2005-2015; anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News 1982–2004) | Katie Couric (member 2007-; co-host NBC Today / NBC Dateline 1992-2006; anchor and managing editor CBS Evening News and contributor to 60 Minutes 2006-2011; special correspondent ABC News 2011-2014; Yahoo's Global News Anchor 2013-2017) | Charlie Rose (host and executive producer of the talk show Charlie Rose on PBS and Bloomberg L.P. 1991-2017) | Hartford Gunn Jr. (member 1972-; founder and initial president PBS) | Jim Lehrer (member 1980-; anchor of PBS in 1973, initially covering the Watergate affair, and from 1975-2011 a program that became known as PBS NewsHour; even after he continued as a programmer) | Donald Baer (member 1999-; director PBS Fdn. 2008-, chair PBS 2011-). Artists: Michael Douglas (member '05-) | Warren Beatty (member '05-) | Richard Dreyfuss (member '05-) | Angelina Jolie (member '07-) | George Clooney (life member '10-) | Bono ('06 speech and meeting with the board) | Forest Whitaker (member '16-). Corporate members (Founders' ($100,000), Presidents' ($60,000) and Premium ($30,000) Circle membership vary all the time - but largely the same corporations): BANKS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES: JPMorgan Chase & Co. | Morgan Stanley | Blackstone Group | Lazard | KKR | Goldman Sachs | Rockefeller Group | Rohatyn Group | Warburg Pincus | Bank of New York Mellon | Rothschild N.A. | Soros Fund Management | Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder Holdings / First Eagle Investment Management | Bank of America Merrill Lynch | Barclays | Citi | Credit Suisse | Deutsche Bank AG | UBS | BNP Paribas | BlackRock | Bridgewater Associates | American Express | Visa | McKinsey & Co. | PricewaterhouseCoopers | Deloitte | Nasdaq OMX Group | S&P | NYSE Euronext | Moody's | Abraaj Group. OIL AND MINING: Chevron | ExxonMobil | BP | Shell | Marathon Oil | ConocoPhillips | Duke Energy | Hess Corporation | Aramco Services | TOTAL S.A. | Occidental Petroleum | Noble Energy | Newmont Mining | Freeport-McMoRan | Alcoa | Rio Tinto | De Beers | Energy Intelligence Group. DEFENSE AND AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES: Lockheed Martin | Northrop Grumman | Boeing | Raytheon | Airbus Americas | United Airlines. TECH AND COMMUNICATION: Google | Microsoft | Facebook | PayPal | IBM | Dell | Palantir | Xerox | AT&T | Telefonica Internacional U.S.A. | Verizon. MANUFACTURERS: GE | Fluor Corporation | Toyota N.A. | Volkswagen of America | Hitachi | Mitsubishi | Mitsui | Tata Group. PHARMACEUTICAL: Merck | Pfizer | GlaxoSmithKline | BASF | Johnson & Johnson. MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT: Coca-Cola Company | PepsiCo | Nike | Sony | Bloomberg | McGraw-Hill | MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings | Time Warner Inc. | News Corp. | Thomson Reuters | The Economist Intelligence Unit. LAW FIRMS: Sull & Cromwell LLP | Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. REMAINING: Walmart | Booz Allen Hamilton | DynCorp | Marsh & McLennan | Cisneros Group of Companies | Deere & Company | FedEx | KBR | New York Life | Tishman Speyer Properties | U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Source(s): Official membership list photocopies 1922-2022. |
1921 |
| Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA) Originally the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations (CCFR). Philip Klutznick (worked on international affairs 1970s-1980s) | Kenneth Dam (director) | John Bryan, Jr. (chair) | Lester Crown (president since 2004) | Michelle Obama (until 2008; the Crown family has been a huge donor to Barack Obama) | James Bindenagel (vice president of programs). Speakers: Madeleine Albright ('01, '12) | Aaron Friedberg ('12) | Thomas Pickering | Jeb Bush | John Hamre ('14) | Thomas Pritzker ('14). Mid-America Committee for International Business and Government Cooperation, Chicago (1966-; joint events with the CCGA since at least 1981; became the Chicago Council's Corporate Program in 2004): Board: Thomas Miner (founder, board anno 1983) | Donald Rumsfeld (anno 1983). Speakers: William Casey (invited in 1983) | Gerald Ford | Henry Kissinger | Herman Kahn ('81) | Malcolm Fraser ('81) | William Draper III ('81) | Robert Hormats ('81) | Jeane Kirkpatrick ('82) | Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan ('82) | Queen Beatrix and Prince Claus of Orange ('82) | Caspar Weinberger ('82) | Carl Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden ('82) | Moshe Arens ('82) | George H. W. Bush ('83) | George Shultz ('83) | Saburo Okita ('83) | A. W. Clausen ('83) | Robert McFarlane ('83) | Vernon Walters ('83) | Amintore Fanfani ('83; PM Italy Jan.-Feb. 1954, 1958-1959, 1960-1963, 1982-1983, April-July 1987) | Wu Xueqian ('83; foreign affairs minister of China 1982-1988) | Prince Talal bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud ('83) | Sen. William V. Roth Jr. ('83) | Madeleine A. ('01 joined CCGA and MAC speech). |
1922 |
| Sentinels of the Republic Fascist/Nazi group. Leading members: Thomas Cadwalader (executive chair) | Raymond Pitcairn (national chair) | Harold Frederick Pitcairn | Rev. Theodore Pitcairn | Pierre S. du Pont | Irenee du Pont | Henry du Pont | A. B. Echols (du Pont) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Edward T. Stotesbury (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co. and Drexel & Co) | Horatio Lloyd (partner of J.P. Morgan & Co.) | J. Howard Pew. |
1922-1944 |
| International House, New York City John McCloy (chair 1954-1971, honorary chair 1971-1989) | John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (financier/founder) | David Rockefeller | Paul Volcker (chair) | Henry Kissinger (chair) | John Whitehead (chair) | Frank Wisner II (chair) | George Ball (chair) | George Marshall (chair) | Henry Stimson (chair) | George Wickersham (chair) | Gerald Ford (chair) | Frederick Osborn | Daisy Soros (George's sister-in-law) | John Robert Halsey Blum (life trustee) | John French III | Walid Ahmed Juffali. IH's Marshall Visitor Program: Jeffrey Sachs | Robert Hormats | Richard Holbrooke. Residents IH Berkeley: John Kenneth Galbraith (1931-32) | Glenn Seaborg (1934-35 non-resident member) | Michael Blumenthal (IH 1947–49) | Gov. Jerry Brown (IH 1960-61) | Gov. Pete Wilson (IH 1960) | Eric Schmidt (lived at IH Berkeley for four years while attending UCLA) | Eric Schmidt (1976-80) &and future wife Wendy Boyle (1978-82). |
1924 |
| Institute of World Affairs (IWA), Washington, D.C. Norman MacKenzie (director 1950s) | John McCone (director 1950s) |
1924 |
| Institute of Pacific Relations (closed in 1961) | 1925 |
| Markle Foundation Directors: Thomas W. Lamont (director and president in the 1930s; key Morgan representative) | Zoe Baird (president 1998-2020s) | Slade Gorton (director 2009-2018) | Philip Zelikow (visiting managing director 2014-) | James Manyika (director McKinsey & Co.) | Suzanne Johnson (vice chair Goldman Sachs) | Stanley Shuman (senior advisor Allen and Co.). Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age (2002, reported to the 9/11 Comm.): Zoe B. (co-chair) | Jim Barksdale (co-chair) | Philip Z. (executive director, similar to the 9/11 Comm.) | Ashton Carter | Gen. Wesley Clark | Sidney Drell | Slade G. | Morton Halperin (representing OSI) | Margaret Hamburg | John Hamre | Arnold Kanter | Abraham Sofaer | Jim Steinberg (also senior advisor to the MF 2000-2001). Rework America: the Markle Economic Future Initiative (launched at CGI in 2014): Zoe B. | Howard Schultz (co-chair; chair president and CEO of Starbucks) | Philip Z. |
1927 |
| Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Trustees: William A. M. Burden (1939-, president 1963-, later chair) | Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (trustee 1948-, president 1958-, chair 1963 - June 1993, chair emeritus June 1993-, life trustee anno '09) | William Paley (vice chair anno 1963) | John Hay Whitney | Gianni Agnelli | C. Douglas Dillon | John de Menil | Michael Ovitz (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Richard Parsons (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Peter Peterson (life trustee anno '04-'09) | Jerry Speyer (vice chair anno '04, chair emeritus anno '23)) | David Rockefeller Jr. (anno '04, honorary anno '09) | Marie-Josee Kravis (anno '02-'09, president, chair anno 2023) | Ronald Lauder (chair 1995-2005) | Clarissa Alcock Bronfman (anno '08) | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (anno '09-'23; wife of Gustavo) | John Elkann Agnelli ('10-, still anno '17) | Ron Perelman (anno '17) | Philip Niarchos | Sharon Percy Rockefeller (anno '04-'23) | Vartan Gregorian (anno '08) | Larry Fink ('10-, still anno '23) | Leon Black (chair 2008-, regular trustee anno '23) | Wallis Annenberg (anno '09). Honorary trustee board (overlaps with regular trustees): Maurice Greenberg (honorary anoo '09) | Duke Franz of Bavaria (honorary anno '09). More: Justin Rockefeller (employee for 3 years, then international council; son of Sen. Jay). Source(s): moma.org/about_moma/trustees/index.html (accessed: June 16, 2004), moma.org/about/trustees (accessed: March 22, 2009 - April 21, 2023). |
1929 |
| USC School of Cinematic Arts Board of Councilors: Barry Diller | Kevin Feige | David Geffen | Jeffrey Katzenberg | George Lucas | Steven Spielberg | Kevin Tsujihara. Source(s): cinema.usc.edu/about/board.cfm (accessed: Oct. 16, 2021). |
1929 |
| Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University Directors: Frank Aydelotte (1939-1947) | J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947-1966) | Marvin Goldberger (1987-1991). Trustees: Sidney Drell (1974-1983, listed as emeritus anno 2013) | James Wolfensohn (chair 1986-2007, emeritus anno 2013) | Michael Bloomberg (anno 1999-, until 2001) | Marie-Josee Kravis (anno 1999-2004) | John Huntsman Jr. (anno 1999, until 2001) | Nathan Myhrvold (anno 1999, until 2003) | Mortimer Zuckerman (anno 1999, until 2002) | Vartan Gregorian (anno 1999-2013) | Robert Menschel (anno 1999; partner GS) | James Schiro (anno 1999; CEO PricewaterhouseCoopers) | Charles Simonyi (1998-2008, chair 2008-, still anno 2013, regular trustee 2023) | Martin Leibowitz (anno 1999, vice chair anno 2004-2009; future man. dir. Morgan Stanley) | Peter Kann (anno 1999-2006; chair and CEO Dow Jones) | Nancy Peretsman (2002-, still anno 2013-, vice chair anno 2023; exec. VP and man. director Allen & Co.) | Jeff Bezos (2004-2009) | David Rubenstein (2006-, still anno 2023) | Eric Schmidt (2008-, still anno 2016). Non-U.S. trustees: Toru Hashimoto (anno 1999; chair Fuji Bank) | Mario Draghi (anno 1999-2023; president ECB 2011-2019; PM Italy 2021-2022) | Fernando Henrique Cardoso (2002-2006)| Robbert Dijkgraaf (managing director and trustee 2012-2022; Dutch minister of education and culture 2022-). Faculty members: Paul Dirac (1934 sabbatical, followed by more over the decades) | Noam Chomsky (1958-1959) | Albert Hirschman (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | George Kennan (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | Freeman Dyson (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | John von Neumann (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99) | Stephen Adler (listed under "Present and Past Faculty" anno '99). Financiers: Jeffrey Epstein. Sources: www2.admin.ias.edu/pr/Trustees.htm (accessed: Sep. 9, 1999 - April 23, 2004): "Trustees: ... Trustees Emeriti ... Present and Past Directors: ... Present and Past Faculty: ..."; admin.ias.edu/pr/trustees.php (accessed: June 23, 2004 - Feb. 6, 2005); ias.edu/About/trustees.php (accessed: March 10, 2005 - Oct. 13, 2006); .ias.edu/about/trustees (Dec. 7, 2006 - Aug. 1, 2009); ias.edu/people/trustees (accessed: Oct. 11, 2009 - March 12, 2016); ias.edu/about/trustees (accessed: May 21, 2016 - Dec. 23, 2023). ias.edu/scholars/noam-chomsky (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023); ias.edu/idea-tags/paul-dirac (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023). |
1930 |
| Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation (Macy Foundation) Board: Kate Macy Ladd (founder; good friend of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family bought her family's oil business) | Colonel Marlborough Churchill (founding executive secretary 1930-) | John Dewey (1930-1944) | Harry Fosdick (founding director 1930-1961; pastor of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; brother Raymond a trustee of the Rockefeller Fdn. 1920s-1940s) Frank Fremont-Smith (medical director, executive secretary and in charge of the Macy Conference Program 1936-early 1960s; faculty member neuropathology department at Harvard Medical School). Clarence G. Michalis (chair 1941-1969, director until 1976; reportedly affiliated with Montagu Norman) | Clarence F. Michalis (chair 1969-2005; son of Clarence G.) | Willard Rappleye (director 1933-1976, president 1941-1965) | George Packer Berry (director 1943-1981; dean Harvard Medical School) | Charles S. McVeigh (1943-1960) | John Z. Bowers (president 1965-1980, revived the Macy Conference Program in 1965, after a stop in 1960; staffer at the Rockefeller Fdn. in 1964) | James G. Hirsch (president 1981-1987; staffer Rockefeller University for 31 years, dean of graduate studies 1972-1980) | Louis S. Auchincloss (1968-1997) | William N. Rothschild Jr. (1974-1992) | Harold Amos (1974-1990; professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School) | Mary Patterson McPherson (director 1977-2010; vice president Mellon Fdn.) | S. Parker Gilbert (1985-late 2000s) | John Jay Iselin (1989-2007) | Arthur H. Hayes, Jr. (1991-2008) | William H. Wright II (director 2000-, chair; managing director Morgan Stanley). Cerebral Inhibition Meeting (May 1942) and the Cybernetic Conferences (1946-1953) participants (cross-expertise conferences to try and understand the human mind): Harold Abramson (reporting secretary of two conferences) | Gregory Bateson | Kurt Lewin | Margaret Mead | Oskar Morgenstern | John von Neumann. Group Process Conferences (1954-1960) participants (in April 1959 there was an LSD conference): Gregory B. | Margaret M. | Robert Lifton | Jean Piaget. More LSD-related: Anthony Busch | Sidney | Oscar Janiger The Macy Foundation was used as an CIA MKULTRA conduit for about two years, apparently in the mid-1950s. |
1930 |
| The Business Council Averell Harriman (chair 1937-39) | Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. (member 1950-, chair 1958-59 and 1987-88) and later Riley B. | Thomas Watson Sr. and son Thomas Jr. (1950s) | Juan Trippe (1950s) | David Packard (chair 1973-74) | Ruben Mettler (TRW; chair 1985-86) | Joseph Gorman (TRW) | James Gorman (chair Morgan Stanley) | Donald Graham (chair and CEO Washington Post) | Henry Kravis | Harold McGraw III | Rupert Murdoch | David Rubenstein | Charles Scharf (CEO VISA) | Stephen Schwarzman (Blackstone) | Dick Cheney | David O'Reilly | Daniel Burnham | Niall FitzGerald | James Robinson III | Ken Chenault | John Bryan, Jr. (CEO Sara Lee 1975-2000, chair 1976-2001; director Goldman Sachs, BP, Amoco, GM); Jeff Bezos (chair; owner Washington Post and Amazon) | Jim McNerney (chair 2007-2008; chairman and CEO of 3M; director GE, Boeing, IBM and Procter & Gamble; trustee Northwestern University) | Rex Tillerson (member) | John Hess (member) | Larry Fink (member) | Frederick Smith (member). |
1933 |
| American Liberty League (ALL) Fascist. Founding directors: John W. Davis (J.P. Morgan attorney) | Grayson Murphy (treasurer) | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont representative). Contributors: Pitcairn, Pew, Rockefeller and Mellon families. |
1934 |
| The Crusaders Fascist. National advsiory board: Sewell Avery (director Morgan-controlled U.S. Steel) | Thomas Alexander (linke to Order of '76) | Francis B. Davis, Jr. (Morgan and du Pont man) | Cleveland E. Dodge | Alfred Sloan, Jr. (GM/du Pont man) | John W. Davis (Rockefeller/Morgan man). |
Early 1930s |
| National Policy Association (NPA) Carlucci | Hushang Ansary |
1934-2003 |
| Association pour la Constitution aux Etats-Unis d'un Office Francais de Renseignements / Association for the Constitution in the United States of a French Information Office / L'Office Francais de Renseignements aux Etats-Unis Headquartered at Place de la Concorde and Rockefeller Center. Members: Marshall Petain (president; later head of pro-Nazi Vichy France) | Rothschild | Masson | Banque de France | Paul Reynaud | Raymond Patenotre | Morgan | Rockefeller | Vanderbilt | Frank Polk | Eugene Meyer | Ogden Reid | Louis Wiley. Source(s): 1998, Robert Boyce and Robert W. D. Boyce, 'French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power', p. 206: "The association was registered in Paris in January 1935... [Lists all the names here.]"; March 12, 1937, Le Figaro, 'Hier, Le Marechal Petain': "Yesterday, the first annual general meeting of the French intelligence office in the United States took place at the Hotel Crillon. An audience as large as it was chosen had responded to the call of Marshal Petain, president of the young association, all that Paris has of personalities in official circles, and major administrations, etc., was represented there. Alongside them thronged these Franco-American personalities, who for years have been the link between the two countries and have cemented a friendship that has proven its worth. We recognized among those present the Marquis de Mun, Mr. Henri de Laboulaye, Ambassador of France, General and the Countess of Chambrun, Count Charters of Chambrun, Ambassador of France, Admiral Lacaze, Count Serge Fleury, Count de Vassaigne, Count R. de Dampierre, Count and Countess de Remusat, Count and Countess Rene de Chambrun, Baron de Cramer, MM. Achille Fould, R. Dautry, E.-E.-C. Mathis, Andre Jager Schmidt, Pierre de Montesquiou, Gerard de Launay, Louis Gillet, of the French Academy Léon Cotnaréanu, Pierre Guimier, S. Charlety, rector of the Academy of Paris. The marshal first gave the floor to Mr. Emile Moreau, honorary governor of the Banque de France and administrator of the Office." |
1935 |
| Research Institute of America (RIA) Started as a tax aid/shelter institute to help corporations file their taxes in the wake of the New Deal. By 1938-1939 the institute was deeply involved in studying and writing legislation for the War and Navy departments with regard to defense mobilization for World War II. Officers: Leo Cherne (founder) | William Casey (employed as a staffer out of law school in 1937; staff head from late 1938). |
Jan. 1936 |
| Ford Foundation A reorganization away from just Ford Motors was initiated in the late 1940s and in place by 1950. All trustee data comes from annual reports. All trustees in 1950: Henry Ford II (president 1943-50, trustee 1950-1976, chair 1950-1956) | Benson Ford (at least 1950 - 1976) | Karl Compton (chair MIT) | John Cowles (at least 1950 - 1968) | Donald David (at least since 1950 - 1966, trustee vice chair 1955-1966, chair exec. comm. 1955-1958) | James Webber Jr. | Charles Wilson (since at least 1950 - 1956; president GE and chair W. R. Grace). Later that year: Paul Hoffman (trustee, director and president 1950 - March 1953). Trustees joining 1951-1959: Frank Abrams (1952-; then chair of the Rock. Standard Oil of NJ) | Rowan Gaither (president 1953-56) | John McCloy (trustee 1953-, chair 1958-1964; key Rock. man) | James Brownlee (1954-1960; partner J.H. Whitney & co.) | Julius Stratton (1955-1971, chair 1964-1971) | Henry Heald (trustee and president 1956-1965) | Roy Larsen (1957-1969; pres. and chair Time). Trustees joining 1960-1969: Eugene Black (1960-1968) | Stephen Bechtel Sr. (1961 - Dec. 1970) | Bethuel Webster (1961-1970) | McGeorge Bundy (trustee and president 1966-1979) | Alexander Heard (1966-1986, chair 1971-1986; advisor to JFK, LBJ and Nixon) | Kermit Gordon (1967-1975; pres. Brook. Inst.) | John Loudon (1966-1975; Shell; BB; close Rock. ally) | Robert McNamara (1968-1986) | Trustees joining 1970-1979: Walter Haas Jr. (1970-1982; chair Levi Strauss) | Hedley Donovan (1975-1984; editor-in-chief Time) | Edson Spencer (trustee 1976-1992, vice chair 1986-1987, chair 1987-1992; chair and CEO Honeywell) | Irving Shapiro (1978-1986; Du Pont) | Trustees joining 1980-1989: Susan Berresford (exec. vice president 1981-1996, trustee and president 1996-2007) | Henry Schacht (1986-2000, chair 1992-2000; Lucent and Warburg, Pincus) | Vernon Jordan (1987 - Sep. 1999, chair Audit and Management Comm. 1994-1999 and member of the exec. committee 1993-1999) | Sir Christopher Hogg (1987 - Sep. 1999; exec. comm. 1994-1999) | Francis Fergusson (1989-2001; pres. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie). Trustees joining 1990-1999: Robert Haas (1991-1997; chair and CEO Levi Strauss) | David Kearns (1993-2001; chair and CEO Xerox) | Kathryn Fuller (1994-2010, chair 2004-2010; pres. and CEO WWF) | Paul Allaire (1997-2004, chair 2001-2004; chair and CEO Xerox) | Trustees joining 2000-: Luis Ubinas (president 2007-2013) | Irene Hirano Inouye (chair 2010-) | Francisco Cigarroa (chair anno 2019; Obama representative for hispanics) | Bryan Stevenson (anno 2019; founder Equal Justice Initiative) | Darren Walker (president anno 2019; former VP Rock. Fdn.) | Kofi Appenteng (anno 2019; pres. Afr.-America Inst.) | Ursula Burns (anno 2019; Xerox CEO 2009-16; Obama appointee) | Gabrielle Sulzberger (2016-; wife NYT publisher Arthur Jr. 2014-2020) | Chuck Robbins (anno 2019; chair and CEO Cisco). Other: Shepard Stone (director of international affairs 1952-67) | Richard Bissell | Philip Reed | William Simon | Zbig Brzezinski (six months in Japan on Ford Fdn. fellowship in 1971) | Richard Debs (fellowship) | Vartan Gregorian (foreign area training fellow) | Francois Duchene (fellow) | Bassma Kodmani (headed a Middle East and North Africa program located in Egypt for 7 years) | Anthony Lake ("Summer 1968—Supervised five rural surveys for Kenya Min. of Economic Planning and Development through the Ford [Fdn.]") | Peter Franz Geithner (director of Asia Programs and other foundation projects around the world for 30 years; father of Timothy Geithner) | Shirley Ann Jackson (Advanced Study Fellowship while a "visiting science associate" at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland 1974-1975; first black woman to earn a doctorate degree from MIT in 1973, in her case in nuclear physics; president Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1999-2022). Extra: Similar to the Rock. Fdn., the Ford Fdn. has lost direct involvement of major Eastern Establishmentarions, with the board of trustees, especially since the 2010s large consisting of minorities, a large number of them blacks. |
1936 |
| Henry Luce Foundation (HLF) Directors: Henry Luce III (chair and CEO) | John Hamre (anno 2020) | George Rupp (anno 2020). |
1936 |
| Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller (trustee 1940-1990, exec. vice chair 1970s, exec. chair 1980-1987; 1987 annual report, RBF, p. 7: "At the [1987] annual meeting of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which was held on November 14 in Bangkok, Thailand ... David Rockefeller retired from the board of trustees.") | Henry Kissinger (trustee 1977-1987; 1987 annual report, RBF, David Rockefeller, p. 13: "I should like to make special mention of Henry [K.], who retired as a trustee at the same time Bill Dietel and I did. Henry's guidance, wisdom, and friendship as a member of the board were for me without equal.") | Laurance Rockefeller (trustee 1940-1989, exec. chair 1958-1980, exec. vice chair 1980-1982, adv. trustee 1982-1985) | John D. Rockefeller III | Winthrop Rockefeller | Detlev Bronk (trustee anno 1957-1975) | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | John Gardner (trustee 1968-1977) | James Wolfensohn (finance committee chair anno 1991) | David Sarnoff | Felix Rohatyn (finance committee anno 1977) | William Luers (trustee anno 1990) | Russell Train (trustee (anno 1986, 1993) | Frank Wisner II | Thornton Bradshaw (trustee 1981-, anno 1986) | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; chair and later advisory trustee) | David Rockefeller Jr. (exec. chair anno 1988-1989) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (trustee anno 1986) | Neva Goodwin (trustee anno 1986) | Rodman Rockefeller (trustee anno 1986) | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Anne Bartley | S. Frederick Starr (trustee anno 1986; president Oberlin College 1983-1994) | Jessica Einhorn (trustee late 1990s - early 2000s). Special Studies Project: America at Mid-Century (set up in 1956): Nelson R. (founding chair 1956-1958) | Henry K. (staff director 1956-1958) | Adolf Berle Jr. | Chester Bowles | Arthur Burns | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Cowles | Gordon Dean | John G. | Caryl Haskins | Theodore Hesburgh | Milton Katz | Henry Luce | Dean Rusk | David Sarnoff | Charles Spofford | Edward Teller | James Killian Jr. More: Peter Franz Geithner (advisor; father of Timothy Geithner). Source(s): annual reviews at rbf.org; 1957 annual review, RBF, pp. 4-6: "Special Studies Project: Organized by the Fund in 1956... [gives names]..." |
1940 |
| Committee for Economic Development (CED) Trustees 1952/1957 (always consists of about 200 members): Stephen D. Bechtel | Clark Beise. Trustees in 1966: Roy Larsen (chair) | James Allen | Robert O. Anderson | Paul Austin | William Hewitt | C. Douglas Dillon | Harold Geneen | Katharine Graham | Gabriel Hauge | H. J. Heinz II | Paul Hoffman (founding chair) | Philip Klutznick | John McCone | Neil McElroy | David Packard | Peter Peterson (until well post-9/11) and son Michael (anno 2020) | Philip Reed | Allan Sproul | Charles Tillinghast, Jr. | Sidney Weinberg, Jr. | Frank Altschul | Robert Lovett | Malcolm Muir. Trustees on leave for government service: George McGhee | William M. Roth | James Webb. Research advisory board: George Shultz (later life trustee). Trustees mid-1990s-: John Diebold | Frank Carlucci (anno 2002) | John Brademas | Patrick Gross (still anno 2020) | Joseph Kasputys | Hugh Price | Larry Summers (2002-) | James Robinson III (2002-). More trustees: Ken Duberstein (1976-1980) | Ruben Mettler (hon.) | A. W. Clausen (hon. anno 2002) | Richard Gelb (hon. anno 2002) | Frank Stanton (hon. anno 2002) | Sidney Weinberg Jr. (hon. anno 2002) | Frederick Smith (anno 2020). More: David Rockefeller (a member of the 1958-1961 CED-established Commission on Money and Credit. |
1942 |
| American Society of Corporate Executives (ASCE) Extremely low-profile even anno 2020. Year of founding is not an absolute certainly. Apparently brings together about 30 business executives at any one point at regularly-held meetings. Riley and Brendan Bechtel | Robert Shapiro (chair and CEO Monsanto) | Nancy Southern (chair and CEO ATCO) | David Novak (chair and CEO of Yumi Brands). |
1942 |
| United States Council for International Business Trustees: John Negroponte (until 2001) | Maurice Greenberg (until 2005) | Harold McGraw III (chair anno 2013) | Frederick Smith. |
1945 |
| Stanford Research Institute / SRI International Originally the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). It split off from the university in 1970 and changed its name to SRI in 1977. Most officers were BG visitors with many advisors having been invitd to the 1001. Directors: Stephen D. Bechtel (director 1940s until about 1980) | Edgar Kaiser (director 1940s until about 1980) | John McCone (director before and after term as CIA director 1961-1965) | David Packard (late 1960s) William Perry (director 1981-1983 period, while out of government) | A. W. Clausen (director emeritus by early 1980s) | Philip Hawley | Frederick Mielke, Jr. (until 1993) | Edmund Littlefield (chair at some point) | Roy Anderson (director early 1980s; CEO Lockheed) | Myron Du Bain (chair 1985-1989; in 1981 he had taken over a company of Wally Hilliard, a later owner of the primary 9/11 terrorist flight school) | Samuel Armacost (chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark (chair). Advisory board 1970s: Kamel Abdul Rahman | Adnan Khashoggi | Paulo Ayres Filho (Brazil; CIA) | Gianni Agnelli | Nik Kamil (Shell; Rothmans Malaysia) | John Loudon | Shantanurao Kirloskar (India) | Sukum Navapan (Thailand) | Harry Oppenheimer | Julius Tahija | Marcus Wallenberg. JASON Group: throughout the 1970s located at SRI, after which it moved to MITRE. 1970s-1990s SRI employees: Alfred Webre (senior policy analyst in 1977 at SRI's Center for the Study of Social Policy late 1970s; later prominent new age exopolitics promoter) Richard Hoagland (first became interested in Cydonia here in 1982). Project Stargate was largely carried out at SRI from the 1970s-1995, in coordination with SAIC. Those involved: Hal Puthoff (program director) | Russell Targ | Ingo Swann | Joseph McMoneagle | Ed Dames | Edgar Mitchell studied Uri Geller here. Also: Willis Harman (director of the Educational Policy Research Center and the Center for the Study of Social Policy; involved in LSD research; worked for Mitchell) | Alfred Hubbard (hired by Willis H.; 1960s-1970s; ''Johnny Appleseed of LSD'') | Peter Schwartz (director of the Strategic Environment Center) | Richard Pipes (consultant from 1973 for 1-2 years at SRI's Strategic Studies Center in Washington, D.C., studying Soviet foreign policy). |
1946 |
| National Petroleum Council (NPC) John Swearingen (chair 1974-1975). Anno 1996: Robert O. Anderson | Kenneth Derr (chair and CEO Chevron) | Ray L. Hunt (chair Hunt Oil) | Ken Lay (Enron) | T. Boone Pickens | Lee Raymond (chair and CEO ExxonMobil). Anno 2013: David O'Reilly (vice chair at some point; chair and CEO Chevron 2000-2010) | Lee R. | Ray L. H. | John Deutch | Riley Bechtel | John Hamre | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Frederick Smith (member) | Robert Mosbacher (member). |
1946 |
| Fulbright Scholarships Sen. William Fulbright (a Rhodes Sholar; June 5, 1996, President Clinton: "my mentor and friend..."). Scholars: Hanna Holborn Gray ('50-'51 at Oxford; born in Germany, moved to the US) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan ('50-'53) | Richard Wall Lyman ('51; president Rock. Fdn. 1980-1988) | Milton Friedman ('53) | Dr. Umberto Colombo (post-doctoral study at MIT '53-'54) | Norman Podhoretz ('50s) | Rita Hauser ('54) | Thomas Pickering ('55) | Joshua Lederberg ('57) | Sen. Harrison Schmitt ('57-'58; astronaut) | Donald Kagan ('58) | Henry Kissinger ("Fulbright Specialist in India, 1962-63") | Sally A. Shelton-Colby (in the '60s or '70s at Sciences Po) | Mary Robinson ('64) | Muhammad Yunus ('65) | Joseph Stiglitz ('69) | Allen Weinstein ('71) | John Brademas ('86) | Paula Dobriansky (Fulbright-Hays alumni) | David Bradley (likely in the 70s, in the Philippines; owner The Atlantic 1999- and CFR '06-) | Richard Debs | Craig Barrett ('72; chair Intel 2005-) | Boutros Boutros-Ghali | Jessica Einhorn ('80) | Lamberto Dini (late '50s; major banker; PM Italy 1995-96, foreign minister 1996-2001) | Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazilian president 1995-2000) | Philip Odeen | Norman Ornstein ('86) | Andreas Papandreou ('59; PM Greece 1981-89, 1993-96) | Emmett Rice (father of Susan Rice) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('91-'93) | Bill Rowling (PM New Zealand) | Robert Scalapino (co-founder and chair NCUSCR) | Javier Solana ("... spent six years as a Fulbright Scholar in the United States...") | Ben Harburg (early '00s it appears; son of the pilot of Henry K. on the secret trips to open China) | Alina Polyakova (in Germany for a year around '10; later trustee Fulbright Fdn.) | Dolph Lundgren | Linus Pauling ('88) | Andrew Robinson (Star Trek) | Dr. Gloria Wekker (Fulbright fellow 1987-1988, "sponsored" 1987-1992; first black Dutch professor deeply involved in "liberal CIA" ops). Fulbright Commission: Henry Luce III | Ronald Freeman (co-chair finance committee UK-US FC) | Charles McVeigh III (1993–2005) | Edward Streator (adv. comm. 1995-2001) | Rick Trainor (US-UK FC 2003-) | Robert Worcester. Fulbright Prize for International Understanding: Nelson Mandela (1993) | Jimmy Carter (1994) | Vaclav Havel (1997) | Mary R. (1999) | Martti Ahtisaari (2000) | Kofi Annan (2001) | Colin Powell (2004) | Bill Clinton (2006) | Desmond Tutu (2008) | Bill Gates (2010) | Hans Blix (2014; received Fulbright scholarship at age 19) | Richard Lugar (2016) | Angela Merkel (2018). More: Nina Jankowicz ("In 2016-17, I got this [FB] fellowship ... advising the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on ... how to keep western attention on Ukraine after ‘Ukraine fatigue’ was setting in.") Feb. 11, 2008, ABC News, 'Exclusive: Peace Corps, Fulbright Scholar Asked to 'Spy' on Cubans, Venezuelans; Fulbright scholar said he was shocked by the U.S. Embassy official's request.' Feb. 19, 2019, Dave Lindorff to "lib CIA magazine" Counterpunch, 'Using Students, Teachers, Journalists and other Professionals as Spies Puts Everyone in Jeopardy': Claims a senior Fulbright overseer told everyone at a Fulbright conference that they should see themselves as "behind-the-lines paratroopers". Then explains this person used to be a special forces operative and draws a parallel between the special forces and the CIA. Also explains that he was never asked to spy on anyone, but did criticize a CIA agent of feeling him out and possibly trying to recuit him, against a Church Committee ruling that the CIA can't use journalists as spies. Goes on to claim it is hypocritical to make claims that China spies on the U.S. |
1946 |
| Committee for the Marshall Plan to Aid European Recovery Executive committee: Henry Stimson (national chair) | Robert Patterson (executive chair) | Dean Acheson | Winthrop Aldrich | Frank Altschul | Allen Dulles | Alger Hiss | Herbert Lehman | Philip Reed | John Ferguson (executive director). Members: Charles Adams IV | Barry Bingham | Henry Davison | William Donovan (OSS) | Rudolph Hecht | H. J. Heinz II | Richard K. Mellon | Mrs. Dwight Morrow | Malcolm Muir | Nelson Rockefeller | Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt | Elmo Roper | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | Thomas Watson, Sr. | John Hay Whitney | Owen Young | Sam Zemurray. Funds that were left over in 1949 were donated to the U.N. Association and the first Committee on the Present Danger. |
1947-1949 |
| United World Federalists (UWF) / Citizens for Global Solutions (2003-) Cord Meyer, Jr. (founding president 1947-1949; CIA) | Sen. Alan Cranston (president 1949-1952) | Norman Cousins (founding vice president 1947-1952, president 1952-). National advisory council (created in 2020): Martin Sheen ('20-, still anno '22) | Daniel Ellsberg ('20-, still anno '22) | Randy Kehler (' 20-, still anno ' 22; "Conscientious objector" to the Vietnam War who played a role in the release of the Pentagon Papers; anti-nuclear activist) | Benjamin Ferencz ('20-, still anno '22; Nuremberg prosecutor). |
1947 |
| World Affairs Council of Northern California John L. Simpson (president; director Bechtel) | William Draper III (chair) | William Perry (advisory co-chair) | George Shultz (advisory co-chair) | A. W. Clausen | Jane Wales (president and CEO). More speakers, World Affairs, San Francisco HQ: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Stapleton Roy | Chas Freeman | Peter Galbraith | Robert McNamara (speech in 2005) | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | Michael Chertoff | Gen. Keith Alexander | Leon Panetta | Kurt Campbell | Bill Clinton | Gen. James Cartwright | William Cohen | Michael Armacost | Joe Biden | Samantha Power | Gen. Anthony Zinni | Niall Ferguson | Marc Andreessen | Anne Applebaum | Max Boot | Ian Bremmer | John Brennan | Gov. Jerry Brown | Lester Brown | R. Nicholas Burns | Jimmy Carter | Eliot Cohen | William Draper Jr. | Sidney Drell | Gareth Evans | Francis Fukuyama | Gen. John Allen | Jason Furman | Robert Gates | Sherri Goodman | Al Gore | Richard Haass | Chuck Hagel | John Hamre | Jane Harman | Reid Hoffman | David Ignatius | Martin Indyk | Walter Isaacson | Robert Kagan | Robert Kaplan | Salman Khan | Paul Krugman | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Gen. H. R. McMaster | Federica Mogherini | Ethan Nadelmann | Janet Napolitano | Moises Naim | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam) | Joseph Nye Jr. | Sarah Palin | Nancy Pelosi | Thomas Pickering | Adam Posen | John Prendergast | Joshua Cooper Ramo | Steven Rattner | Susan Rice | David Rothkopf | Robert Rubin | Adam Schiff | Eric Schmidt | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adlai Stevenson III | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Thiel | Laura D'Andrea Tyson | Zoe Baird | Christiana Figueres | Queen Rania Al Abdullah | Nicholas Kristof | Prince Albert II of Monaco | Ban Ki-moon | David Miliband | Anders Fogh Rasmussen | Mary Robinson | Kevin Rudd. Los Angeles World Affairs Council, founded in 1953: George S. | John McCone (founding president and later chairman in the 1950s) | Thomas Jones (life director) | Warren Christopher (director) | Michael Eisner (director) | Buzz Aldrin (director) | Robert Van Dine (director) | Walter Coombs (executive director 1953-1967). Speakers/panel members: William Colby (speech 1973) | John McCain | Sam Nunn | William P. | William Webster (1989) | Madeleine Albright | King Hussein and Queen Noor | Benjamin Netanyahu | Ryutaro Hashimoto | Margaret Thatcher | the Dalai Lama | Henry Kissinger | Colin Powell | James Wolfensohn | Lee Kuan Yew | Jack Valenti | Strobe Talbott | Ehud Barak | Kofi Annan | Jack Kemp | Joseph Lieberman | Jean Luc Dehaene | John Deutch | Muhamed Sacirbey. Project: Global Philanthropy Forum (2001): Pamela Omidyar | Vartan Gregorian | Stephen Heintz | Teresa Heinz Kerry | Wyclef Jean | Peter Gabriel | William Draper III | Desmond Tutu | Muhammad Yunus | William Gates (father Bill Gates). "Peace & Security" speakers: David Hogg (student activist tied to the 2018 March for our Lives) | Anthony Lake. |
1947 |
| Kaiser Family Foundation Henry Kaiser (founder) | Joseph Califano Jr. (director) | Timothy Leary. Financed UCLA, Harvard, John Hopkins. Until 1985 associated with Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Industries. |
1948 |
| World Affairs Council of Boston Christian A. Herter (co-founder) | Christian A. Herter, Jr. (founding president) | Elliot Richardson (president in the 1960s) | Henry Cabot Lodge (chair) | Charles Adams IV. Speakers/awarded: George H. W. Bush, James Baker III, Dick Cheney, George Shultz, Henry Kissinger, Paul Volcker. |
1949 |
| American Assembly Trustees: Paul Volcker | Henry Cisneros | Dwight Eisenhower | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Bobby Ray Inman | David Gergen | Frank Weil | Bill Bradley | Anya Schiffrin (January 2016 - mid 2018; wife of Joseph Stiglitz) |
1950 |
| 1st Committee on the Present Danger (to promote containment) | 1950 |
| MIT's Lincoln Laboratory Advisory board: Sidney Drell (1985-1990) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Anita Jones | Paul Kaminski | Donald Kerr | John Stenbit. Artificial Intelligence (AI) Software Architectures and Algorithms Group: its 2014-launched Reconnaissance of Influence Operations (RIO) program identifies "conspiracy theories" meant to influence elections in the West. In 2021 the program was given attention by the WEF. |
1951 |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Founded with a Ford Fdn. grant. Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1954-1955, Spring-Summer 1967). Officers: Caryl Haskins (trustee 1960-1975) | Milton Friedman (fellow) | George Stigler (fellow) | George Shultz (fellow 1968-1969) | Dr. Joly West (fellow 1966-1969) | Edmund Littlefield | Claude Steele (executive vice chancellor and provost of UCLA Berkeley) | Daniel Dennett (fellow). |
1954 |
| Stanley Center for Peace and Security (SCPS) Conference (to Plan a Strategy for Peace) participants: C. Maxwell Stanley (founder and chair) | Henry Kissinger (May 20-23, 1965 invitee, talked it over with Stanley, and stated he might chair a session) | Brent Scowcroft (Feb. 1964, as "Professor of Political Science, Air Force Academy") | Anthony Wiener (Feb. 1964, as "Assistant to the Director, Hudson [Inst.]"). Interests represented at the conference in 1964: Brookings, SRI, IDA, JPL, GE, Missile and Space Systems Division of Douglas Aircraft, Missiles and Space Division of Lockheed Aircraft, Raytheon, IBM, Booz-Allen Applied Research, Rand Corp., Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, etc. Source(s): Yale archive, 'Henry A. Kissinger papers, part II > Series I. Early Career and Harvard University > Correspondence > Strategy for Peace Conferences > Full Folder View' (accessed: Oct. 11, 2023). |
1956 |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Directors: John D. Rockefeller III (founder and chair) | Louis Gerstner Jr. (emeritus anno 2006) | Walter Shipley (emeritus anno 2006) | David Rubenstein (vice chair anno 2006-2007, director anno 2012-2020) | Michael Bloomberg (ex-officio anno 2006) | William Donaldson (emeritus anno 2012) | Bryan Lourd (anno 2012) | David Koch (anno 2012) | Rita Hauser (anno 2012-2020) | Elizabeth Rohatyn (anno 2012; wife of Felix) | Daisy Soros (director anno 2006, 2012, emeritus anno 2020) | David Geffen (anno 2020) | John Thain (anno 2020). |
1956 |
| Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Grew out of the Fund for the Republic (1951-1959), founded by the Ford Fdn. to counter McCarthyism. Fund for the Republic: Robert Hutchins (founding president 1951-) | Bethuel Webster (legal counsel, representing it at hearings before the McCarthyite House Un-American Activities Committee. Directors: Robert Hutchins (anno '67) | William O. Douglas (chair anno '67) | Paul Hoffman (hon. chair anno '67) | Percy Lavon Julian (anno '67) | James Howard Marshall II (anno '67; 16% owner of Koch Industries; married to Anna Nicole Smith until her death in 2007) | Elmo Roper (anno '67) | Louis Schweitzer (anno '67). Consultants: Henry Luce (anno '67) | George Shuster (anno '67; pro-birth control, pro-feminist Catholic leader; exec. comm. UNESCO) | Scott Buchanan (anno '67; trustee and sec. Fdn. for World Government) | Raghavan Iyer (anno '67; founder United Lodge of Theosophists) | John Courtney Murray (anno '67; Jesuit priest, closely connected with the Dulles and Luce families) | Isidor Isaac Rabi (anno '67; funded by Rock. Fdn. around 1928). Staff: Milton Mayer (visiting fellow; adviser to Hutchins; his stepson was Rock Scully, one of the principal managers of the Grateful Dead; very close to Bayard Rustin; best known for his long-running column in The Progressive magazine) | Stanley Sheinbaum (organized the legal defense of Daniel Ellsberg after his releasing of the Pentagon Papers; co-founder of PFAW; advisor ACLU) | Linus Pauling (anno '67). Conference participants: Joseph Johnson (May 17-19, 1964) | George McGovern (May 17-19, 1964; May 30 - June 2, 1966) | Professor Hans Morgenthau (May 17-19, 1964) | Gaylord Nelson (May 17-19, 1964) | Andrew Shonfield (May 17-19, 1964) | Hubert Humphrey (principal speaker Feb. 18-20, 1965, New York City, Assembly Hall of the UN meeting) | J. William Fulbright (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Philip Jessup (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | George Kennan (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Paul-Henri Spaak (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Adlai E. Stevenson (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | U Thant (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Abba Eban (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Linus P. (Feb. 18-20, 1965; June 1965) | Arnold Toynbee (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Yevgenyi Zhukov (Feb. 18-20, 1965; director Institute of History, Academy of Sciences, USSR) | Norman Cousins (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Herman Kahn (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Henry L. (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Pietro Nenni (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Eugene McCarthy (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Earl Warren (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | George McGovern (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Professor Hans Morgenthau (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Claiborne Pell (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Elmo Roper (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Bayard Rustin (Feb. 18-20, 1965) | Al Gore (May 30 - June 2, 1966) | Alastair Buchan (May 30 - June 2, 1966). Source(s): 1967, CSDI booklet, 'Pecem in Terris II - Peace on Earth II', as sent by R. Hutchins to UU sec. gen. Thant on March 10, 1967, pp. 24-35 ('Appendix', provides past conference participants; p. 35 gives board, consultants and staff). |
1957-1987 |
| Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) Lost its influence. Robert Hutchins (founder; associate director Ford Fdn. 1951-). 1979 board: Stewart Mott (linked to the foundation) | Paul Newman | Philip Klutznick | Ramsey Clark. 1985 board: Allen Weinstein (president) | Max Kampelman | Paul Manafort Jr. Conference participants: Sen. Alan Cranston | Milton Friedman | Aldous Huxley | William Douglas. |
1959 |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Trustees: Dr. Franklin D. Murphy ("instrumental in the creation", president '70-'74; '83-'84; member BG from at least '71; chancellor UCLA 1960-1968; chair and CEO of the LA Times parent company 1968-1980, and a director until 1986; director BankAmerica and Ford; trustee Getty Trust) | Armand Hammer ('68-'89) | Robert O. Anderson (at least '76-, '83-'84, life trustee anno '01; oilman close to David Rock.) | Charles Ducommun (VP, anno '76, '78, treasurer anno '83-'84; member BG; trustee Stanford 1961-1971) | Mrs. Edwin Pauley (anno '83-'84) | Walter Annenberg (life trustee anno '00-'01) | Frank Biondi Jr. (anno '00-'01). Other: Robert "Beto' de la Rocha (part of the Chicano "Los Four" artist group founded in 1973; in 1974 "Los Four" became famous through their art becoming part of a LACMA exhibition; Rage Against the Machine singer Zack de la Rocha was his son). Source(s): trustee lists 1976, 1979, 1983-1984, 2000-2001 (the last included past presidents). |
1961 |
| World Policy Institute (WPI) / Institute for World Order Founder(s): C. Douglas Dillon. Advisory board anno 2005: Walter Eberstadt (chair and funder) | Henry H. Arnhold (also a funder) | Katrina vanden Heuvel. Other funders: Rock. Brothers Fund. |
1961 |
| Suite 8F Group LBJ | Tommy Corcoran | George Brown | Herman Brown | Jesse Jones (Houston Chronicle owner) | Sam Rayburn | John Connally | Hugh Cullen | Governor William Hobby | Morgan Davis (Humble Oil) |
Early 1960s |
| Council for a Livable World (CLW) Gary Hart (director and former chair) |
1962 |
| Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS), Atlanta Directors: No one special. Past speakers listed on website per 2019: Sandra Day O'Connor | Donald Rumsfeld | Madeleine Albright | Robert Rubin | Jeane Kirkpatrick | James Wolfensohn. Also featured: Tenzin Gyatso (Dalai Lama) | Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan | President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. Financing: Smith Richardson Fdn., etc. |
1962 |
| Atlantic Richfield Foundation (ARF) Robert O. Anderson (founder and head) | Thornton Bradshaw (co-founder; worked under Anderson at ARCO) |
1963 |
| Scientists' Institute for Public Information Trustees: Dr. Marvin Goldberger (anno '94). Media Resources Services Committee (1980-founded; "a referral service for journalists seeking information from scientists, engineers, physicians, and policymakers"): Walter Cronkite (anno '94) (anno '94) | John Connolly | Frederick Seitz (anno '94) | Joseph Nye (anno '94). |
1963 |
| George C. Marshall Foundation Trustees and advisors: Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Sen. Harry Byrd, Jr. | Paul Nitze | Cyrus Vance | Bernard Rogers | Dick Cheney | Edward Meyer (chair) | Warren Rudman | Abshire | Colin Powell | C. Boyden Gray | Gen. Paul Gorman | Melvin Laird | Brent Scowcroft | John Whitehead | Thomas Pickering | Richard Armitage | Rozanne Ridgway. More: George H. W. Bush and David Rockefeller (jointly honored on March 8, 2002; photographed joking with each other), John W. and Happy Rockefeller (also present). Henry Kissinger and Michael Bloomberg (jointly awarded in June 2017). |
1964 |
| Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs (WIFA) Monroe Leigh (president) | Charles W. Whalen Jr. (vice president) | Robert Knight | Thomas Pickering (chair) | Philip Wilcox | McCloy | Patrick Gross | Philip Kaiser | Lee Hamilton (speech in 1998) | Rozanne Ridgway (director) | Wesley Egan (director) | Chas Freeman (speech 2007) | Elliot Richardson |
1964 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation One of the largest U.S. foundations with an endowment of about $6 billion. David Packard (founder and chair, interrupted by a tenure as Nixon's deputy defense secretary 1969-1971) | William Reilly (trustee; president WWF until 1989, later chair; EPA administrator 1989-1993; chair ClimateWorks Foundation; director and counsel of the secretive Sustainable Markets Foundation; executive director NY-PIRG) |
1964 |
| International Industrial Conference, San Francisco Co-sponsored by the Conference Board and the Stanford Research Institute. Participants: David Rockefeller | Peter Peterson | George Ball | Henry Ford | John McCone | |
1965 |
| Committee for an Effective and Durable Peace in Asia (CEDPA) Helped sell the Vietnam War to the public through the New York Times. 48 member committee: Arthur Dean (chair) | Dean Acheson | Eugene Black | John Cowles | Arthur Dean | Roswell Gilpatric | John McCloy | David Rockefeller | James Conant | C. Douglas Dillon | Oveta Culp Hobby | James Killian, Jr. | Benjamin Mays | Lewis Powell. |
1965 |
| National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Lynne Cheney (chair 1986-1993) |
1965 |
| Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC) Known as the Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP) until early 2009. The group had two websites from 1999 to the early 2010s: the defunct cspresidency.org (confusingly, a 2006-or so copy of the site was put back up on this domain in early 2018) and the still actual thepresidency.org. Trustees/councellors in 1998: Chas Freeman (soon executive chair; 1990s-2000s) | C. Boyden Gray (1990s-2000s) | Sophia Casey (wife of CIA director William; gone by 2000) | Bernadette Casey Smith (daughter of CIA director William; gone by 2000). Trustees in 2000 (extra): David Absire | Wayne Berman | David Gergen (co-chair Council of Scholars) | Max Kampelman | Mack McLarty III. Trustees in 2008 (extra): Eli Broad | Jonathan E. Colby | Ed Meese III | Thomas Pickering (chair 2010-) | Chuck Robb | Tom Ridge | Anne-Marie Slaughter | George Stephanopoulos. Jan. 2010 trustees (extra): Nicholas Burns | Stephen Schwarzman. Trustees in 2020 (extra): Paula Dobriansky | Carla Hills | William Webster. "Global board of directors": Abigail Disney (anno 2020). National Council of Advisors in 1998: not a single interesting name. Later: John Brademas (anno 2008) | John Marks (anno 2008) | Adm. Richard Mies (anno 2008) | Norman Ornstein (anno 2008) | Robert Pfaltzgraff Jr. (anno 2008) | David Rothkopf (anno 2008) | Michael Maibach (anno 2008; president & CEO European-American Business Council) | John Zogby (anno 2008; president and CEO Zogby poll). Jan. 2010 National Council of Advisors (extra): Susan Eisenhower. Board of Counselors in 2016: Norman Augustine. Board of Advisors in 2002: Lee Hamilton | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Joseph Nye | Richard V. Allen | Leon Fuerth | Bill O'Keefe | Buzz Aldrin | Richard McCormack | Ed M. III | Thomas P. | John B. Scholars in 2002-2003: Graham Allison | Lewis Branscomb. National Committee to Unite a Divided America (set up in Jan. 2005); "The National Committee encourages our current national leaders to bridge political division and forge national unity."): David A. (co-chair) | Max K. (co-chair). "Steering members": James Baker III | Wayne B. | William Brock | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Walter Isaacson | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Melvin Laird | Thomas McL. III | Peter McPherson | Gen. Edward Meyer | Sam Nunn. "Members": Madeleine Albright | Buzz A. | John B. | Harold Brown | Henry Catto | William Coleman Jr. | David G. | C. Boyden G. | Alexander Haig | Lee H. | Donald Keough | Thomas Mann | John M. | Leon Panetta | Ross Perot | Hugh Price | Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf | Chuck R. | Pat Robertson | Anne-Marie S. | Robert Strauss | Graham A. | Anne Armstrong | Norman A. | Lester Crown | Ken Duberstein | David Eisenhower | Stuart Eizenstat | Thomas Foley | Robert Gates | John Hamre | Theodore Hesburgh | Carla H. | Richard Holbrooke | Vernon Jordan | Jack Kemp | Richard McC. | Daniel McMichael (secretary Sarah Scaife and Carthage foundations) | Ed M. III | Walter Mondale | Michael Novak | Norman O. | David Rockefeller | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Warren Rudman | Dr. Abdul Aziz Said | William Schreyer (chair Merrill Lynch) | Frederick Seitz | William Sessions | Jack Valenti | Gen. John Vessey | John Whitehead | James Woolsey | John Z. (president and CEO Zogby poll). Annual Awards Dinner: Dianne Feinstein (awarded '09) | Sen. Mark Warner (awarded '13) | Sen. Bob Corker (awarded '13) | Ashton Carter (awarded '16) | Adm. Michael Mullen (known visitor) | J. Stapleton Roy (vice chair U.S.-Asian task force). More: Egil Krogh ("Senior Fellow, Leadership and Ethics" anno 2013; Watergate) | Nicholas Platt ("Research Assistant to the President & CEO" anno 2013) | Jose Maria Aznar (also partner) and James Cicconi (speakers at a 2013 luncheon co-hosted by the CSPC). Afghanistan Study Group Report (2007-2008): Gen. James L. Jones (co-chair) and CSPC leadership. |
1965 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation William Hewlett (founder; president HP 1964-1977) | Hal Harvey (environmental program director 2002-2008; founding president Energy Foundation 1991-2002; founder and CEO ClimateWorks 2008-2011) | Larry Kramer (president; director ClimateWorks) | James Manyika (director). |
1966 |
| Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts David Packard. 1999: Hillary Clinton | James Underhill | Marcia Carlucci (wife of Frank C.) | Patrick Gross | Earle Williams. 2014: Michelle Obama. |
1966 |
| Sunnylands Walter Annenberg (founder). Visitors: Dwight Eisenhower | Richard Nixon (1974) | Ronald Reagan (annual visitor on New Year's) | George H. W. Bush with Japanese PM Toshiki Kaifu (1990) | Shah of Iran (fled here) | Queen Elizabeth II (lunch) | Prince Charles (occasional visitor) | Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping (2013) | Bill Gates | Condoleezza Rice. Annenberg-Dreier Commission at Sunnylands (founded in 2013 for promoting free trade around the Pacific): Jon Huntsman (co-chair) | Thomas McLarty (co-chair) | Albright | Chas Freeman | Lee Hamilton | Henry Kissinger | John Negroponte | Pickering | Zoellick. |
1966 |
| The Nation Institute Hamilton Fish V (president; aide to George Soros, who has provided grants to the institute) | Victor Navasky (trustee) | Katrina vanden Heuvel (trustee) | Jonathan Schell (fellow). The Nation magazine (first issue in 1865) editors: Katrina vanden H. (1995-2019, continued as "editorial director and publisher") | Marcus Raskin | Richard Falk | Robert Borosage. |
1966 |
| Rockefeller Family Fund Laurance Rockefeller (founding trustee 1967-1977) | David Rockefeller (honorary trustee anno 2013) | Richard Rockefeller (son of David R.; president) | Emily, Renee, Wendy are among today's trustees | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; investment committee) | Anne Bartley | Donald Ross (trustee 1985-1999; earlier a Ralph Nader attorney; chair Greenpeace 2002-2010; founding partner M+R Strategies). |
1967 |
| Business Committee for the Arts (BCA) Anno 2021 part of Americans for the Arts. Officers BCA: David Rockefeller (listed as sole founder) | Willard Butcher | Robert O. Anderson | C. Douglas Dillon | Kip Forbes | Robert Sarnoff | Frank Stanton | Eli Broad | Christie Hefner (Playboy) | John J. Mack (Morgan Stanley). Artist committee Americans for the Arts: Alec Baldwin (anno '21) | Tony Bennett (anno '21) | Chuck D (anno '21) | Laurence Fishburne (anno '21) | Norman Lear (anno '21) | John Legend (anno '21) | Yo-Yo Ma (anno '21) | Yoko Ono (anno '21) | Robert Redford (anno '21) | Salman Rushdie (anno '21) | Zoe Saldana (anno '21) | Martin Scorsese (anno '21) | Meryl Streep (anno '21) | Kerry Washington (anno '21) | Henry Winkler (anno '21) | Michael York (anno '21) | Paul Newman (in memoriam anno '21). |
1967 |
| Emergency Committee for American Trade (ECAT) Established at the time over "shared concern that a new worldwide trade war was in the making". Members: David Rockefeller (founder and certainly by 1980 still a listed member) | Arthur Watson (founder; IBM) | A. W. Clausen (member anno 1980) | Richard Gelb (member anno 1980) | J. Peter Grace (member anno 1980) | H. J. Heinz II (member anno 1980) | Walter Wriston (member anno 1980) | William Hewitt (member anno 1980) | William Hewlett (member anno 1980) | Howard Kauffmann (member anno 1980; Exxon) | Richard Riley (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Firestone) (member anno 1980) | Henry Ford II (member anno 1980) | Ruben Mettler (member anno 1980) | George Weyerhaeuser (member anno 1980) | William Flynn (member anno 1980; chair, president and CEO Zapata Corporation) | Robert Saeberle (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Nabisco) | Donald Kendall (member anno 1980; chair and CEO PepsiCo.) | Edmund Pratt Jr. (member anno 1980; chair and CEO Pfizer) | Harold McGraw Jr. (member anno 1980) | Harold McGraw III (chair 2000s-2010s) | William Rhodes (Citibank and Citigroup) | Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) | Rex Tillerson (ExxonMobil) | Muhtar Kent (Coca-Cola) | Jeffrey Immelt (GE) | Jeff Bewkes (Time-Warner). Early companies included represented included: Caterpillar, Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Lockheed, IBEC, and those mentioned. |
1967 |
| Urban Institute Suzanne Woolsey (researcher 1975-77). Trustees: Robert McNamara (1968-2007; chair) | Cyrus Vance (1968-1976) | John Gardner (1969-1972) | William Scranton (1969-1976) | Vernon Jordan (1972-1980) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (1973-1977) | Kingman Brewster Jr. (1975-1977) | Henry Schacht (1976-1984) | William Ruckelshaus (1974-1988; chair) | Katharine Graham (1971-2001) | William Coleman (1977-1986) | Carla Hills (1978-1988, 1993; chair) | Irving Shapiro (1979-1981) | Warren Buffett (1979-1985) | Joseph Califano Jr. (1980-87) | John Deutch (1980-1989, 1990-1993) | Ray Hunt (1981-1985) | Philip Hawley (1981-1990) | Elliot Richardson (1982-1991) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1982-1991) | George Weyerhaeuser (1983-1985) | Barber Conable (1985-1986; went on to become World Bank president) | David Stockman (1985-1990) | Anne Wexler (1988-1990) | Jack Kemp (1995-1999) | Jamie Gorelick (chair anno 2018, 2021) | Henry Cisneros (anno 2018). Rockefeller Fdn. (financing). |
1968 |
| National Alliance of Business (NAB) LBJ an Henry Ford II (co-founders) | Lloyd Hand (president and CEO 1978-1979) |
1968 |
| Institute for the Future Rand Corp. spin-off. Bettina Warburg (program manager to executive director Jul. 2012 - Aug. 2013; public foresight strategist Aug. 2013 - Oct. 2014; public engagement lead Oct. 2014 - Jan. 2016) |
1968 |
| Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies John Diebold (founder and chair) |
1968 |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Wilson Center) Trustees: Hubert Humphrey (chair 1969-1971; LBJ's VP 1965-1969; Sen. 1971-1978) | William P. Rogers (1969-1973) | John Roche (1969-1975) | Sen. Daniel Moynihan (1969-1976, vice chair 1971-1976) | Elliot Richardson (1970-1973) | Henry Kissinger (1971-1977) | William Baroody Sr. (chair 1972-1979, trustee until 1980) | Paul McCracken (1972-1977, vice chair 1977-1980) | Caspar Weinberger (1973-1975) | Dean Rusk (1975-1978) | Joseph Califano (1977-1979) | Cyrus Vance (1977-1980) | Edmund Muskie (1980-1981) | Max Kampelman (chair anno 1981) | Robert Mosbacher (vice chair anno 1981) | James Baker III (1977-1985) | Alexander Haig (anno 1981) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno 1981) | S. Dillon Ripley |(anno 1981) | William Baroody Jr. | Kenneth Clark (anno 1981) | Daniel Boorstin (anno 1981; Library of Congress) | Wilson Council: Charles Barber (anno 1981) | John Brademas (anno 1981) | William Coleman Jr. (anno 1981) | Alan Cranston (anno 1981) | Hedley Donovan (anno 1981) | Robert Ellsworth (anno 1981) | William Hewitt (anno 1981) | Donald Kendall (anno 1981) | Sol Linowitz (anno 1981) | David Packard (anno 1981) | Bruce Gelb (president) | Carla Hills | George Shultz. Members/penalists: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Kagan | Graham Allison | Janet Napolitano | Michael Chertoff | David Horovitz | J. Stapleton Roy | Norman Augustine | Brent Scowcroft | Eli S. Jacobs | Lincoln Gordon (fellow 1972-1975) | Allen Weinstein (fellowship) | Lyoma Usmavov (involved in a Chechen project) | Dr. Herbert Kelman (fellow 1980-1981) | Sherri Goodman (senior fellow 2016-) | Caitlin Werrell (listed "professional affiliation" as of 2020) | Aaron Friedberg (fellow) | Colin Powell ("public member") | Hillary Clinton ("public member"). Visitors due to corporate citizenship award: Ray Hunt | Ted Turner | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Peter Munk | Hushang Ansary | Paul Desmarais | Lee Raymond | David Koch | Vagit Alekperov | Frank Lowy | Lester Crown | Leslie Wexner | Peter Peterson | Ross Perot. Jr. | Niall Fitzgerald | David O'Reilly | T. Boone Pickens. Wilson Center's Strengthening America's Global Engagement (SAGE) project: Condoleezza Rice (founding co-chair 2010-) | William Perry (founding co-chair 2010-) | Paula Dobriansky (Gov. Subcomm. 2010-) | Joseph Nye (Gov. Subcomm. 2010-) | David Abshire (member anno 2012) | Jane H. | Anne-Marie Slaughter | John Marks (Dev. Subcomm. 2010-) | James Zogby (Program & Activities Subcomm. 2010-). More: Cynthia McClintock (expert) | James Billington (director 1973-1987) | Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker (fellow anno 1979) | Philip Odeen (fellow anno 1979) | Ernest May (fellow anno 1979) | Lee Hamilton (director/head early 2000s) | Jane Harman (director, president and CEO) | Wang Huiyao (Sep. 25, 2018 visitor) | Nina Jankowicz ("Disinformation Fellow" fellow 2019-). Donors (1980 annual report, p. 141): David Rockefeller (himself), David P. (himself), Allied Chemical, AT&T, Atlantic Richfield Foundation, Bank of America Foundation, Caterpillar, Chase Manhattan Bank, Coca-Cola, Container Corporation of America, John Deere Foundation, Dresser Industries, Exxon, Ford Fdn., Ford Motor Company, GE, General T&T, HP, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank, Luce Fdn., Richard King Mellon Charitable Trusts (and Fdn.), Metropolitan Life, Mitsubishi, Occidental Petroleum Charitable Fdn.,Procter & Gamble, Sacife Family Charitable Trusts, Sloan Fdn., Volkswagen Fdn., Time, UN Economic Commission for Latin America, Westinghouse, Xerox. |
1968 |
| Andrew W. Mellon Foundation "Liberal CIA" foundation that is a particularly heavy financier of just about all prominent and semi-prominent colleges and universities in the United States, England, South Africa and a few other places in Europe and Latin America. For decades on end between 25-50% of the board of trustees belongs to the CFR: 4 of 9 (44%) in 1999 and 2004; 5 of 10 (50%, with another joining in 2019, making 60%) in 2017; and 3 of 10 (27%) in 2022. Generally, the chair and president have been memebrs of the CFR, but exceptions have been there. Trustees also in CFR: Nathan Pusey (trustee 1969-, president 1971-1975, after stepping down as Harvard president; CFR 1953-) | John Whitehead (trustee chair 1990-1997; CFR 1978-) | Neil Rudenstine (anno '88; CFR '88-; president Harvard 1991-2001) | Hanna Holborn Gray (1980-2003, chair 1997-2003; acting president Yale 1977–1978, the first woman in that role; first female president Un. Chicago 1978-1993; CFR 1984-) | Anne Tatlock (trustee since at least the mid-1990s, chair 2003-2012; CFR 2004-) | Frank H. T. Rhodes (anno '88-99; CFR '85-) | William G. Bowen (anno 1988, president anno 2003-2004; CFR 1987-) | Paul LeClerc (trustee anno '04; CFR '97-) | Walter Massey (trustee anno '05; CFR '97-) | Earl Lewis (president and ex officia" "ex officio" trustee '16-'17; CFR '14-) | Danielle Allen (chair anno '16; CFR '15-) | Kathryn Hall (anno '16-'17, chair anno '22; CFR '17-) | Jane Mendillo (anno '16-'17; CFR '14-; director Lazard 2016-; president and CEO Harvard Management Co. 2008-2014; director GM) | Leo Rafael Reif (anno '16-'17; CFR '12-; president MIT '12-) | Jonathan Holloway (anno '22; CFR '21-; president Rutgers Un. '20-) | Glenn Lowry (anno '16-'22; CFR '19-; managing director / "The David Rockefeller Director" of MoMa 1995-, still anno '22). Other trustees: Paul Mellon (1969-1985, honorary 1985-1999; son of a CFR member; decades-long Pilgrim) | Timothy Mellon (anno 1999) | Mary Patterson McPherson (vice president) | William O. Baker (1969-, chair emeritus by the early-1990s) | Drew Gilpin Faust (trustee anno 2004; first female president Harvard 2007-2018, in an era Harvard's board of overseers was completely moved out of the CFR; never CFR herself either) | Taylor Reveley III (trustee 1990s and later president) | Richard Brodhead (anno '16-'22; dean Yale College 1993-2004; president Duke 2004-2017) | Katherine Farley (anno '16; sen. man. dir. Tishman Speyer anno '16) | Heather Gerken (anno '22; dean Yale Law School) | Sherrilyn Ifill (anno '22; president and director-counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund) | Sarah Thomas (anno '22; VP Harvard Library). More: Stephanie Bell-Rose (program officer 1988-1999; CFR 1994-; founding president and managing director GS Fdn. 1999-2009) | Harriet Zuckerman (senior advisor 1989-1991, senior VP 1991-2010; CFR '89; non-trustee). Grant-making: Predominantly finances dozens of leading universities in the United States, Oxford University in England, and even universities in South Africa and a handful in Latin America. |
1969 |
| Population Institute Directors anno 1999: Russell Hemenway. Public Advisory Committee anno 1999: Barbara Boxer | Stewart Mott | Glenn Seaborg | Russell Train | Ted Turner. More: Nancy Pelosi (2001-) | John Kerry (2001-). International advisory committee anno 1999: Joan Baez | Lester Brown | Paul Ehrlich | Sol Linowitz | Robert McNamara | Maurice Strong. |
1969 |
| United Way of America (UWA) Kenneth Dam (president and CEO) | Bill Gates (trustee co-chair emeritus) |
1970 |
| Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) Wade Rathke (key founder and chief organizer until a scandal in 2008; ran the international arm until 2010). Moved squatters into abandoned buildings against the wishes of local government, advised citizens on how to set up businesses, led voter registration drives for the poor, etc. Apart from membership fees and government grants, financiers over the years have included the: Ford, Open Society, Carnegie, Arca, Surdna, Annie E. Casey foundations; the Woods Fund of Chicago. |
1970-2010 |
| Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Ronald Spogli (endowned it). International Advisory Council (Sep. 2006): William Perry (also exec. committee) | Stephen Bechtel, Jr. | Warren Christopher | Thierry de Montbrial | Valery Giscard d'Estaing | David Hamburg | Lord Howe of Aberavon | Andrei Kokoshin | Lee Kuan Yew | Richard Lugar | Helmut Schmidt | Paul Volcker | George Shultz | John Whitehead | Michael McFaul (director and senior fellow). Advisory Board (Oct. 2007): David H. | Susan Rice | William Draper III. Other: Michael Armacost (senior fellow) | Prof. Stephen Krasner (deputy director) | Tung Chee Hwa (IAC 1995-1997). Council members anno 2019: Jared Cohen | William D. III Funders: 2010 annual report, p. 37, lists "Lifetime Giving $5 million and above": Bechtel Fdn., BP Fdn., Carnegie Corp., Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn., and MacArthur Fdn. The Ford and Hewlett fdns. are listed as having given over $1 million. Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford (1970; part of FSI): Co-founders: Sidney Drell and John Lewis. Senior fellows: William P. Other: Condoleezza Rice (employee 1981-1986). Stanford Initiative on European Security (part of CISC and FSI) researchers: Niall Ferguson | Russell Berman | Condoleezza R. | Philip Taubman. Cyber Security Center: directors: Francis Fukuyama | Alex Stamos (director Stanford Internet Observatory) | Marietje Schaake (International Policy Director). Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), Stanford (2002): Prof. Stephen K. (director ) | Larry Diamond (director; senior fellow FPI) | Francis Fukuyama (director and senior fellow anno 2020). |
1970 |
| John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Important "liberal CIA" foundation with quite a few scientists on the board in the past. Anno 2022, only 2 of 11 trustees (18%) were CFR members, with the president and chair also not being CFR. However, over 1975 - March 2022, 21 of 61 (34%) (listed/known) historical trustees, presidents and chairs combined also were members of the CFR. Historical trustees also CFR members: Thornton Bradshaw (member 1985-1988, chair 1986-1988?; chair RCA; Rockefeller friend) | Elizabeth McCormack (1970-1995, chair 1986-1995?; CFR 1974-) | William Simon (1979-1981; CFR 1973-) | Murray Gell-Mann (1979-2002; CFR 1974-) | Jerome Wiesner (1979-1994; CFR 1960-) | Jonas Salk (1979-1995; CFR '83-) Shirley Hufstedler (1984-2002; CFR 1983-) | Margaret Mahoney (1985-2002; CFR 1978-) | Adele Smith Simmons (1988-1999; CFR 1974-) | Walter Massey (1989-1991; CFR 1997-; Bush 41's National Science Fdn. director; chair Bank of America; BP) | William Foege (1991-2005; CFR 1997-) | John Holdren (1991-2005; CFR 1998-; one of Clinton's science advisors 1994-2001; Obama's chief scientist since December 2008) | Thomas Theobald (1995-2006; CFR 1978-) | Drew Saunders Days III (1996-2008; CFR 1997-) | Laura D'Andrea Tyson (1997-1999; CFR 1987-) | Robert Denham (trustee 2000-2012, chair 2007-2012; CFR 1997-) | Jamie Gorelick (director 2001-2013; CFR 1997-) | Jonathan Fanton (trustee, president 1999-2009; CFR 1991-; protege of McCormack) | Robert Gallucci (president 2009-2014 (official "ex-officio" trustee); CFR 1993-) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (anno 2021; CFR 1994-) | James Manyika (2017-; CFR 2013-, CFR director 2015-) | . Additional trustees: John MacArthur (director 1970-1978) | Paul Harvey (director 1970-2002; since 1952 friend of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, whom Harvey often asked for comment and approval before broadcasts; close friend of the extremist Senator Joseph McCarthy, as well as Rev. Billy Graham; long-time conservative ABC Radio broadcaster) | Gaylord Freeman (director 1979-1986). More: Claude Steele (2008-, still anno 2014 (not listed among "past trustees" anno 2022, so plus 1 for "past trustees" above); National Science Foundation) | Ronna Tanenbaum (advisor to president 2003-2004) | Morton Halperin (fellow 1985-1991) | Joi Ito (director 2012-2019). Grantees: The foundation has supported NPR (early on), Bill Moyers, James Randi (received a five-year grant in 1986 of $272,000 to help debunk spiritual issues; Gell-Mann is a known benefactor of Randi's work) and the National Security Archive Fund ($3.4 million 2002-2015). Source(s): macfound.org/about/our-history/past-board-members (accessed: March 5, 2022); macfound.org/about/our-history/past-presidents (accessed: March 5, 2022); macfound.org/about/people/board-directors/ (accessed: March 5, 2022). |
1970 |
| Arms Control Association Directors: Sidney Drell (once file says 1971-1993; an obituary reads "1978 until 1994") | Richard Garwin | William Coleman Jr. | Paul Warnke (anno 1997) | Susan Eisenhower (anno 1997) | Robert McNamara (anno 1997) | Robert Gallucci (anno 2005) | Andy Weber (anno 2020). Historical funding: RBF, Ford, Carnegie, MacArthur, Open Society, Ploughshares, Mott and Charles Koch foundations. |
1971 |
| LBJ Foundation Trustees: Robert Allbritton (son of Joe; owner Capitol News Company, which owns Politico.com) | Joseph Califano Jr. | Sen. Tom Daschle | Casey Wasserman. |
1971 |
| Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (KCPA) David Rubenstein (chairman) | Stephen Schwarzman (chair) | Maurice Greenberg (director) | Vladimir Potanin ($5 million grant) | Henry Catto | James Billington | Condoleezza Rice (ex officio trustee during her tenure as secretary of state) | Bryan Lourd (2015). |
1971 |
| LBJ Presidential Library Trustees LBJ Foundation: Robert Allbritton | Joseph Califano Jr. | Sen. Tom Daschle | Lloyd Hand | Luci Baines Johnson | Ms. Catherine Robb | Lynda Johnson Robb | Casey Wasserman. The Vietnam War Summit, University of Austin (participants), April 26-28, 2016: Henry Kissinger | Chuck Robb | Adm. William McRaven | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | John Kerry | Sen. Bob Kerrey | William Inboden | Dan Rather | Luci Baines Johnson | Lynda Johnson Robb. |
1971 |
| Business Roundtable Members: Philip Hawley | Ruben Mettler (chair 1982-1984) | Joseph Gorman (co-chair 1998-2001) | Riley Bechtel | David O'Reilly | Walter Shipley | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Rex Tillerson (chair and CEO ExxonMobil) | Ken Chenault | Evan Greenberg | Jim Hackett | Larry Fink | Jeff Bezos | Frederick Smith. |
1972 |
| Williamsburg Conference John D. Rockefeller III (founder) | Cyrus Vance (since 1981) | Carla Hills (one of three co-convenors in the early 2000s) | Lynn Forester and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (went in 2004 as US and UK representatives). 1983 "pre-Williamsburg" team to set the tone of the meeting: Jack Kemp | Kissinger | Rohatyn | Donald Regan. |
1971 |
| National Committee on American Foreign Policy (NCAFP) Trustees: Hans Morgenthau (founder) | Jacob Javits (1987-1988) | Nancy Soderberg (advisory board 2001-; trustee anno 2013; vice chair anno 2021) | Richard Pipes (anno 1998-2001, moved to the advisory board in 2001) | George Kennan (hon. chair anno 1998-2003) | Francis Kellogg (treasurer anno 1998-2003) | Harlan Cleveland (anno 1998-2000) | Maxwell Rabb (anno 1998-2000) | Robin Chandler Duke (anno 1998-, until 2001) | Anthony Drexel Duke (anno 1998-2001) | Kenneth Bialkin (anno 2000-2001) | Wesley Clark (no later than Aug. 2001-) | Paul Volcker (hon. vice chair 2002-, hon. chair anno 2013) | Thomas Pickering (2003-) | Nina Rosenwald. Advisory board: Jeane Kirkpatrick (anno 1998-2001) | Richard P. (2001-) | Nancy S. (2001-, later trustee) | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (anno 2002) | Winston Lord (anno 2023) | Stapleton Roy (anno 2023). Morgenthau award: Angier Biddle Duke | Sol Linowitz | Henry Kissinger (also hon. chair anno 1993) | George Shultz (Oct. 2, 1985, presented to him by Henry K.) | David Rockefeller | James Baker III | Margaret Thatcher | King Hussein of Jordan. Other NCAFP awards: Sen. George Mitchell ('90s) | Cyrus Vance. Other: David R. (awarded on March 16, 1988) | John Whitehead (speech and provided the award to David Rock. in 1988) | Ronan Farrow (2013 speaker) | Martti Ahtisaari (2013 award) | Richard Haass (provided the award to Martti in 2013) | Muhtar Kent (2013 award presenter) | Henry H. Arnhold (member). Listed financiers: Carnegie Corp, Rock. Brothers Fund, Luce Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn. Source(s): ncafp.org (accessed: May 20, 2000; the founder, award winners, officers and trustees on the frontpage). |
1974 |
| Monroe Institute Founded and headed (1974-1995) by out of body researcher Robert Monroe. Began to work with Army Intelligence in 1977. Participants: John Alexander | Joe McMoneagle | Gen. Albert Stubblebine. |
1974 |
| Miller Center of Public Affairs (MCPA) Philip Zelikow (director/head 1998-2005). Governing council: Thomas Donilon | Slade Gorton | Bob Woodward | Frances Townsend. National War Powers Commission (2007-2011): James Baker III (co-chair) | Warren Christopher (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Edwin Meese III | Brent Scowcroft | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Strobe Talbott | Carla Hills (joined later). National Commission on Federal Election Reform (2001): Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | Daniel Patrick Moynihan | Leon Panetta | Bill Richardson. National Commission on the Separation of Powers (1998): Lawrence Eagleburger | Bill Frenzel | William Webster. National Commission on the Selection of Federal Judges (1996): Fred Fielding. National Commission on Choosing and Using Vice Presidents (1992): Ed Muskie | William Coleman Jr. | Stuart Eizenstat | Max Kampelman | Melvin Laird | Donald Rumsfeld | Robert Strauss. National Commission on the Presidency and Science Advising (1989): Ashton Carter | John Deutsch. National Commission on Presidential Disability and the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (1988): Herbert Brownell (co-chair) | Warren Burger. National Commission on Presidential Transitions and Foreign Policy (1986): William P. Rogers (co-chair) | Cyrus R. Vance (co-chair) | Clark Clifford | Walter Cronkite | David Gergen | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Dean Rusk | Theodore Sorensen | Vernon Jordan. More: Arnold Schwarzenegger (debate) | Chuck Robb (speaker June 2, 2005). |
1975 |
| Paley Center for Media Trustees: William Paley | Henry Kissinger (anno '09, still anno '21; co-chair of the international council anno '23) | Mel Karmazin (vice chair anno '20) | Tim Armstrong | Les Moonves (anno '11) | Bob Iger (anno '09, still anno '21) | Sumner Redstone (anno '11) | Shari Redstone ('21; chair ViacomCBS; daughter of Sumner) | Terry Semel (anno '11) | Barbara Walters (anno '11; emeritus by '21) | David Zaslav (anno '21) | Norman Lear (emeritus by '11) | Wallis Annenberg (anno '11) | Jeffrey Katzenberg (anno '21) | James and Lachlan Murdoch (sons of Rupert Murdoch; James anno '20) | Arnaud de Puyfontaine (anno '21; CEO Vivendi 2014-) | Alex Rodriguez / A-Rod (anno '21) | Alberto Ibarguen ('21-). More: Pat Mitchell Seydel (president and CEO anno 2010, until 2014.) paleycenter.org (frontpage as accessed: Aug. 29, 2021): "The recent brutal attacks on Asian and Pacific Islanders all across America are just the latest hate crimes in a long history of discrimination and violence against the Asian and Pacific Islander communities. ... George Floyd is the most recent example in a long list of unacceptable tragedies of systemic racial inequities and injustices. ... We stand in solidarity with the Black community and the movement for inclusion, equality and social justice." Source(s): paleycenter.org/about-leadership-board-of-trustees (accessed: March 19, 2009 - July 30, 2020); paleycenter.org/about/about-leadership-board-of-trustees/ (accessed: Nov. 24, 2021). |
1975 |
| National Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI) Became part of the AEI in 2007, forming the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. Directors: Caspar Weinberger (director emeritus anno 1998) | William Webster (chair anno 1998, until 2001) | David Boren (anno 1998-2001) | Joseph Coors (anno 1998) | Dick Cheney (anno 1998-1999) | David Davenport (anno 1998; president Pepperdine Uni.) | Livio DeSimone (anno 1998; chair and CEO 3M) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (anno 1998, chair 2002-) | Jamie Gorelick (1999-2001) | Arnaud de Borchgrave (anno 1999-2002) | Fred Fielding (vice chair mid 2003-) | Stephen Gates (vice chair mid 2003-; senior VP ConocoPhilips) | Barbara Barrett (2002-). Legal Advisory Council: C. Boyden Gray (anno 2002-2003) | Ken Starr (pre-1998-2007) | Howard Krongard (pre-1998-2005; brother of the CIA executive director Buzzy) | Eugene Meyer (exec. dir. Federalist Soc.) | James Comey (2005-2007). Funding: Scaife, Olin, Bradley, ALCOA, AT&T, Chase Manhattan, Exxon, Amoco, Bethlehem Steel, Duke Power Company, Fannie Mae, H.J. Heinz Company and Procter & Gamble foundations. |
1975-2007 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Ken Lay (Enron) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss | Ken Duberstein. |
1975 |
| American Council for Capital Formation (ACCF) Robert Galvin | Ken Lay (Enron) | George Shultz | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | William Ruckelshaus | Robert Strauss |
1975 |
| Pacific Forum International, Hawaii Part of CSIS in the past. These years are not counted. International advisory board: Brent Scowcroft (chair emeritus anno 2020) | Richard Armitage (co-chair anno 2021) | Joseph Nye Jr. (co-chair anno 2021). Directors: James A. Kelly (president emeritus and chair anno 2021; former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs (Honolulu). |
1975 |
| Public Agenda Cyrus Vance (one of two main founders; chairman until 2000). Directors: Frank Stanton (1990s) | Sidney Harman (chair exec. committee anno 2000; husband of Jane Harman) | Barry Munitz (1990s-2000s)| David Gergen (1990s-2000s) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (1990s-2010s) | Peter Peterson (1990s-2010s). Policy Review Board: John Brademas | John Diebold | Sen. Dick Clark | William T. Coleman Jr. | John Gardner | Vernon Jordan | Sol Linowitz | Ruben Mettler | Elliot Richardson | Harold Brown (2001-) | Rozanne Ridgway | James Hoge Jr. | Sidney Weinberg Jr. | Adele Simmons. Funding: Open Society, Hewlett, IBM, Kaiser, Kellogg, Kettering, Knight, MacArthur, Markle, Mott, Rockefeller, Surdna and UPS foundations; Pew Charitable Trusts, the GE Fund, AT&T, BellSouth, etc. |
1975 |
| Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation Madeleine Albright (long-time president 2003-) | Betsy DeVos (2017-) |
1975 |
| Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPS) Dr. Robert Pfaltzgraff (president since at least the 1980s) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis (executive vice president from at least the 1980s until today) | Gen. John Galvin | Frank Carlucci | Charles Perry | Chung Min Lee (researcher 1985-1988). |
1976 |
| Tides Foundation Founders: Drummond Pike (founder; president 1976-2010; also founded Tides Canada in 2000) | Jane Bagley Lehman (R.J. Reynolds tobacco company heir). Directors: Joanie Bronfman (chair) | Wade Rathke. Extremely popular with West Coast liberals who do not want to set up their own foundations. For example, through the Advocacy Fund it has financed the National Wildlife Federation Action Fund, the National Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club. Openly supported the Occupy Wall Street movement and linked to its beginning through financing of Adbusters. Financiers/partners: George Soros | Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates) | Ford Fdn. | Hewlett Fdn. | Rockefeller Brothers Fund. |
1976 |
| CATO Institute Directors: Edward H. Crane (founder, director and president until Oct. '12) | Murray Rothbard (founder) | Charles Koch (founder) | Rupert Murdoch (anno '00 - until Jan. '02)| Peter Ackerman (anno '00 - until '04) | Theodore Forstmann (anno '00 - until '05) | Frederick Smith (anno '00 - until '09) | John Malone (anno '00 - until '15; chair Liberty Media Corp.) | David Koch (anno '00 - until '16) | Jeffrey Yass (mid '02 - still anno '23) | Other: Paul Craig Roberts ("distinguished fellow" 1993-1996) | Penn and Teller (fellows) | George Shultz (advisory board Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies) | Thomas McLarty (advisory board Inter-American Dialogue). Source(s): cato.org/people/directors.html (acc.: Jan. 26, 2002; last archive with RM); cato.org/board-of-directors (accessed: Jan. 29, 2016; last year with a DK on the board); cato.org/about/leadership (accessed: March 31, 2023). |
1977 |
| Alliance to Save Energy Very prestigious when set up. While still in existence anno 2023, with heavy congressional involvement, the names are insignificant. Directors (*) and listed members: Sen. Charles Percy (founding chair 1977-) | Sen. Hubert Humphrey (founding co-chair 1977-) | Carla Hills (founding co-chair for operations 1977-*) | Gerald Ford (founding hon. chair 1977-, as former U.S. president) | Walter Mondale (founding hon. chair 1977-, as U.S. vice president) | David Rockefeller (founding 1977-) | Laurance Rockefeller (founding 1977-) | Henry Ford II (founding 1977-*) | Russell Train (founding 1977-) | Thomas Watson (founding 1977-*) | Peter Peterson (founding 1977-) | Vernon Jordan (founding 1977-*) | Robert O. Anderson (founding 1977-) | John Gardner (founding 1977-) | Anne Armstrong (founding 1977-*) | Lester Brown (founding 1977-) | Charles Hitch (founding 1977-*) | Robert Ingersoll (founding 1977-) | I. L. Kenen (founding 1977-; hon. chair AIPAC) | Philip Klutznick (founding 1977-) | Sol Linowitz (founding 1977-) | George Meany (founding 1977-*) | Franklin Murphy (founding 1977-; chair LA Times) | Thomas Murphy (founding 1977-*; chair GM) | Irving Shapiro (founding 1977-) | John Swearingen (chair Standard Oil) | Rawleigh Warner (chair Mobil). Advisory board: James Schlesinger (founding hon. advisor 1977-) | Henry Kissinger (founding chair 1977-*). For the rest only 34 U.S. senators on the founding advisory board: Sen. Sam Nunn (founding 1977-) | Sen. Claiborne Pell (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Heinz III (founding 1977-) | Sen. Daniel Inouye (founding 1977-) | Sen. Henry Jackson (founding 1977-) | Sen. Richard Lugar (founding 1977-) | Sen. Jacob Javits (founding 1977-) | Sen. Edward Kennedy (founding 1977-) | Sen. Dennis DeConcini (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Glenn (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Danforth (founding 1977-) | Sen. Dick Clark (founding 1977-) | Sen. John Stennis (founding 1977-). Source(s): April 4, 1977, U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Regulation of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 'Status of Federal Energy Conservation Programs', p. 30 (pp. 31-33 list all the trustees and advisors): "Many vehicles are overpowered and are not energy efficient. Tremendous amounts of heat are lost through poor insulation in homes and commercial structures and ... manufacturing facilities allow heat and energy to escape rather than put it to productive use. ... It has been cheap to produce and cheap to use. But now, we are coming to the realization that our energy producing resources are being rapidly depleted. In fact, by some estimates, we will run out o oil and gas by early in the next century." |
1977 |
| International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Previously known as the Institute for Dispute Resolution. Executive committee: Richard Burt (anno 2001) | William Webster (anno 2001; also director; vice chair anno 2010, chair anno 2011-2013, director emeritus 2014-) | Charles Renfrew (chair 2000s; VP of legal affairs at Chevron) | Stephen Gates (2000s-2010s; senior VP and GC ConocoPhillips). Directors mostly represent major corporations: Bechtel, Microsoft, Boeing, Pfizer, J&J, Duke Energy, Fluor, McDonald's, Nestle, Du Pont de Nemours, Weyerhaeuser Co., Sull & Cromwell; Debevoise & Plimpton; Cravath, Swaine & Moore. |
1977 |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (MIPR) Previously: International Center for Economic Policy Studies (ICEPS) Trustees: William Casey (co-founder) | Sir Anthony Fisher (co-founder and first chair) | Roger Hertog (chair) | Maurice Greenberg | William Kristol | Jon Bolton | Walter Wriston | Henry Kissinger (Alexander Hamilton Award dinner in 2008) | David Gelernter (adjunct fellow; major Yale computer scientist; prominently predicted the arrival of the WWW in January 1991 in the NYT; Unabomber victim in June 1993) |
1978 |
| General Motors Cancer Research Foundation Founding board members: Laurance Rockefeller | William O. Baker | Charles Townes. |
1978 |
| UCLA Burkle Center for International Relations Ron Burkle | Gen. Wesley Clark (senior fellow 2000s-2010s) | Stephen Krasner (senior fellow, winter 2014). Speakers: Jimmy Carter ('00) | Anderson Cooper ('09 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Joseph Stiglitz ('11) | Christopher Hitchens ('11 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Janet Napolitano ('12) | Jeffrey Sachs ('13) | Condoleezza Rice ('13 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Christiane Amanpour ('16 Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture) | Ban Ki-moon ('16) | Susan Rice ('16; Q&A with students) | Bill Clinton (unknown) . |
1979 |
| Partnership for New York City (PNYC) Directors on Oct. 28, 2002: Henry Kravis (former chair; still exec. comm. anno '23) | Harold McGraw III | Richard Parsons (former chair) | James Robinson III (former chair) | Jerry Speyer (former chair). Directors on Jan. 16, 2004 (extra): Ken Chenault | Lachlan Murdoch | David Rockefeller (listed as "founding chairman" in 2010) | John Thain | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice) | Stephen Schwarzman (still exec. comm. anno '23) | Lionel Pincus (chair Warburg Pincus) | Preston Robert Tisch (former chair) | James S. Tisch (exec. comm. anno 2023) | Mortimer Zuckerman. Sep. 2005 directors (extra): Michael Cherkasky. March 2008 directors (extra): Lloyd Blankfein (co-chair; chair and CEO Goldman Sachs) | Jeffrey Kindler (chair and CEO Pfizer) | John Mack (chair and CEO Morgan Stanley) | Timothy Geithner (ex-officio). Feb. 2009 directors (extra): Rupert Murdoch (co-chair) | Jeff Bewkes. 2010 directors: Klaus Kleinfeld (president & CEO Alcoa Inc.) 2015: Philippe Dauman (co-chair; pres. and CEO Viacom) | James Gorman (co-chair; Chair and CEO Morgan Stanley). April 2020 directors (extra): David Zaslav (president and CEO Discovery, Inc). Executive committee as of anno Nov. 30, 2020: Larry Fink (still anno '23) | Jamie Dimon (still anno '23) | Ajay Banga. Exec. comm. anno March 30, 2023: Evan Greenberg (son of Maurice). More: Michael Peterson (son of Peter). 2007 brochure: "Partner Companies 2007": ABC, AT&T, Allen & Company, American Airlines, American Express, AIG, Bank of American, Bank of New York Mellon, Bear Stearns, Blackstone, Bloomberg, Bombarduier, Booz Allen Hamilton, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, CBS, etc., etc. HSBC, IBM, JPMorgan Chase, KPMG, KKR, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsui, Morgan Stanley, NASDAQ, NBC, NYSE, etc., UBS, Viacom, etc. Source(s): pfnyc.org/publications /pfnyc_brochure.pdf (accessed: March 16, 2007: "Board of Directors 2007" and May 8, 2010: "Board of Directors 2010", this url works all the way to 2022); pfnyc.org/board-of-directors/ (accessed: March 30, 2023). |
1979 |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) 1997 directors: Gen. LeRoy Manor (president; special operations) | Gen. Wayne Downing (former commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Col. Richard Dutton (treasurer; former Commandant, Special Operations School) | Adm. George Worthington (former commander, Naval Special Warfare Command) | Gen. Sam Wilson (former DIA director). Board of Advisors: Frank Carlucci | Sam Nunn. 2004 directors: Gen. Carl Stiner (chair; former commander-in-chief, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Sergeant Major Richard Davis (former commander, JSOC). Board of Advisors: Frank C. | Sam N. | John McCain III. More directors: Admiral Eric Olson (anno 2019) | Gen. Clayton M. Hutmacher (president and CEO anno 2019; former director of operations, U.S. Special Operations Command) | Ross Perot III (director 2020-). specialops.org/coporate.html (accessed: July 1, 1997): "Boeing ... Rockwell. Booz, Allen & Hamilton. ... Northrop Grumman ... Raytheon E-Systems" |
1980 |
| World Affairs Council, Washington, D.C. Patrick Gross (founding vice-chairman, chairman and still an executive) | Philip Odeen (chair) | James Roche (president) | Henry A. Dudley, Jr. (treasurer). Speakers: Larry Summers, William Cohen, Wesley Clark, Richard Haass, Perle, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Wolfensohn, Woolsey. |
1980 |
| Foreign Policy Institute of John Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Founded as the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research in 1957 by Paul Nitze. Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations financing. George Packard (founder and dean of SAIS 1979-1993). Harold Brown (chair 1984-1992) | Paul Wolfowitz (dean until 2001; fellow) | Jessica Einhorn (dean 2001-2012) | Eliot Cohen (dean 2019-) | Frank Savage (chair emeritus anno 2022). Fellows: Francis Fukuyama, Zbigniew Brzezinski (long term), Joshua Muravchik. Key funder and advisory board member of SAIS: Robert Abernethy. SAIS: Bert Koenders (visiting professor). SAIS' Center for Transatlantic Relations (in extence 2002-2018): Kurt Volker (managing director anno '10-11) | Jose María Aznar (fellow until '18) | Hans Binnendijk (fellow until '18). Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs (founded in October 2016): Henry Kissinger (at the very least congratulates appointments) | Robert Blackwill ("Diller–von Furstenberg Family Foundation Distinguished Scholar" 2018-) | Francis Gavin (director and "Giovanni Agnelli Distinguished Professor") | Jim Steinberg (senior fellow anno 2021). sais.jhu.edu/kissinger/about/donors (accessed: May 14, 2021): "Agnelli Family ... Bloomberg Philanthropies ... Diller-von Furstenberg Family Foundation [Barry Diller]. JPMorgan Chase... Kraft Group. The Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Foundation [Henry Kravis and wife Marie-Josee]. ... Rupert Murdoch. Peter G. Peterson Foundation [Peter Peterson]. David Rockefeller. Eric and Wendy Schmidt [Eric Schmidt: Google/Alphabet CEO]. The Speyer Family Foundation. The Starr Foundation. The Xerox Foundation." |
1980 |
| Baltimore Council on Foreign Affairs (BCFA) Very low-profile. Terribly-designed site, even in 2020. Trustees are not recognizable names. "Distinguised Speakers Program 1980-1984": Zbigniew Brzezinski | Anthony Lake | Fred Bergsten | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Winston Lord | Allan Gotlieb | Caspar Weinberger | Chester Crocker | William Colby | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Fred Ikle | Richard Haass. Later speakers: Daniel Pipes (Jan. 2018). |
1980 |
| Center for National Policy (CNP) Board members: Terry Sanford (founding chair) | Cyrus Vance (chair) | Edmond Muskie (chair) | Leon Panetta (chair) | Robert Rubin | Thomas Foley | Madeleine Albright (president until 1993) | Jane Harman | John Brademas | Maurice Tempelsman | Tim Roemer (president) | Dr. Stephen Flynn (president) | Peter Kovler (chair anno 2020). Speakers: Harold Brown ('13). |
1981 |
| Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Trustees: James Baker III | Rich DeVos | Carla Hills | Paul O'Neill and son Paul Jr. (also exec.) | William Coleman Jr. | Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft and later daughter Karen | Dick Cheney | Douglas DeVos (also exec.) | Richard Parsons | Donald Rumsfeld | Alan Greenspan (hon. trustee). |
1981 |
| Sundance Institute Robert Redford (founder) | George Soros (important financier since the 1990s among many other "liberal CIA" foundations) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (trustee 1996-; Turner family). |
1981 |
| Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) Directors: C. Fred Bergsten (key founder and managing director 1981-2012; director anno 2006 ("ex-officio"), 2021) | Peter Peterson (founder and chair 1981–2018) | Michael Peterson (exec. director anno 2014, chair 2018-) | David Rockefeller (anno 1993, 2010) | George Soros (not in 1996; certainly involved by 1998; not a director in Aug. 2001; director anno april 2002-until Dec. 2004) | Paul Volcker (anno 1993, 2010) | Paul O'Neill (anno 1996, 2010-2012) | Michael Blumenthal (anno 1993, 1999) | Miguel de la Madrid (anno 1993, 1999) | Maurice Greenberg (anno 1993, 2021) and son Evan (anno 2021) | Carla Hills (director 1994-, exec. director anno 2003, 2010-2013) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (2009-, still anno 2011, exec. director anno 2021) | Bill Bradley (anno 2005-2006) | David O'Reilly (anno 2006, 2010) | Jacob Frenkel (adv. board anno 1999; director anno 2006, 2021) | Timothy Geithner | David Rubenstein (anno 2003, 2006) | Edward Scott | Larry Summers (anno 2003, vice chair anno 2021) | Richard Salomon | Jessica Einhorn (anno 1999, 2003, exec. director anno 2006, 2014) | Frederick Smith (anno 2010). Honorary directors: George Shultz (hon. director anno 1993, 2010) | Alan Greenspan (honorary director 1993, 2021). Foreign directors: Raymond Barre (anno 1993, 1996) | Karl Otto Pohl (anno 1993, until Dec. 2004) | Stephan Schmidheiny (not in 1996; anno 1999) | Conrad Black (not in 1996; anno 2003, until Dec. 2004) | Sir Peter Sutherland (anno 2003, until 2005) | Jean-Claude Trichet (anno 2003, 2010) | Mario Monti (anno 2006, 2010) | Renato Ruggiero (anno 2000-2010) | Lee Kuan Yew (anno 2003, 2010) | Jacob Wallenberg (2006-, anno 2014) | Victor Pinchuk (2007-) | Ronnie Chan (2008-, anno 2021) | Ajay Banga (anno 2021) | Mark Carney (anno 2021) | Advisory board: Larry S. (anno 1994) | Robert Z. (anno 1993) | David Hale (anno 2006) | Paul Krugman (anno 1993, 2002-2016) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno 1993, 1999-2016) | Robert Zoellick (adv. board anno 1999-2000, exec. director anno 2021) | Joseph Stiglitz (not in Oct. 1999, April 2000-2016) | Nicholas Stern (anno 2002-2016) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno 2006-2016) | Daniel Yergin (anno 2006-2016). More: Dr. Adam Posen (president) | Jason Furman (senior fellow) | Anders Aslund (senior fellow 2006-2015). Speakers: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (speech) | Niall Ferguson (May 13, 2010 lecture) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (July 7, 2011 speaker on Ukraine) | Dick Gephardt (part of a January 14, 2013 conference). Funders: GMF (seed funder, with continued funding into the 1990s), Ford Fdn., Starr Fdn., Toyota, etc. Source(s): iie.com/administ/board.htm (accessed: Oct. 4, 1999, Dec. 13, 2002), iie.com/institute/board.cfm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2007 - Sep. 21, 2013), iie.com/institute/advisory.cfm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2007 - April 15, 2016), etc. Paul |
1981 |
| Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) Alan Greenspan | Jim Kolbe | Paul O'Neill | Leon Panetta | Peter Peterson | Larry Summers | Paul Volcker | Sen. Chuck Robb | Robert Strauss | Bill Frenzel (co-chair) | Jane Harman | Erskine Bowles. |
1981 |
| Renaissance Weekends Philip Lader (founder) | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Sidney Harman (his widow is Jane) | Wesley Clark | Gerald Ford | William Perry | Strobe Talbott | Buzz Aldrin | David Gergen | Joseph Stiglitz | Peter Thiel | Larry Summers | Arthur Sulzberger | Alan Greenspan | Sen. Bob Graham | Jamie Gorelick | Robert Hormats | Joseph Nye | Max Kampelman | Richard Viguerie | Jon Huntsman | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | David Miliband | Leon Panetta | Susan Rice | Jamie Dimon | Lamar Alexander | Lady Bird Johnson (widow of LBJ) | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt | Kurt Schmoke | Raj Shah | Bill Nye | Nicholas Kristof | Stephen Colbert | Pat Mitchell Seydel | Andrea Mitchell | Diane Sawyer | Ted Sorensen | Robert Gallucci | Philip Odeen | Howard Dean | Jack Gibbons | Lloyd Hand | Amory Houghton Jr. | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Maggie Grace | Jim Kolbe | Lawrence Korb | Ray Mabus | Eugene McCarthy | George McGhee | Norman Ornstein | Ann Wexler. |
1981 |
| United States Business Committee on Jamaica David Rockefeller (founder, at Reagan's request) | Gustavo Cisneros. |
1981-1984 |
| Council for Excellence in Government (CEG) Paul O'Neill (chair) | Volcker | Whitehead | Suzanne Woolsey | Elliot Richardson | Draper III | Kasputys | Patrick Gross | Frank Weil | Lee Hamilton | Macomber | John P. White | Ford | Carter | George W. Bush | Clinton. Ordinary member: Catherine Austin Fitts. |
1982 |
| Business Executives for National Security (BENS) Directors: Sidney Harman (chair executive comm. 1982-2009) | John Whitehead (anno 2001-2010) | Rick Goings (member 2002-, chair 2009-; chair and CEO of Tupperware Brands) | Maurice Greenberg (2005- still anno 2016; only noteworthy director by 2016) | Ross Perot Jr. (2001-2010) | Jeffrey Bergner (anno 2006) | Howard E. Cox, Jr. (anno 2006; listed as Greylock partner) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (CEO anno 2009) | . Advisory council (often not listen on website): Gen. James. L. Jones (anno 2009, until 2012) | Henry Kissinger (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Michael Hayden (2009-2012) | Robert Rubin (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Thomas Pickering (anno 2010-, until 2012) | Adm. Vernon Clark (anno 2010-, until 2012) | William Webster (anno 2010-2016) | Gen. Peter Pace (anno 2011-2020) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. (anno 2013-2020) | David Cohen (anno 2015-2020; listed as: "Special Advisor, C.V. Starr & Co. fmr Deputy Commissioner of Intelligence, NYPD. fmr Deputy Director for Operations, CIA."). Membership: Jeff Bezos (anno 2001) | Michael Bloomberg (anno 2001) | Matthew Bronfman (anno 2001; son of Edgar Sr.) | Norman Augustine (anno 2001-2016) | Jamie Dimon (anno 2001; still president of Bank One) | John Doerr (anno 2001) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno 2001; still unmarried) | David Koch (anno 2001) | Philip Odeen (anno 2001) | Peter Peterson (anno 2001) and son Michael | Steven Rattner (anno 2001) | Frederick W. Smith (anno 2001) | Andrew Tisch (anno 2001) | Ted Turner (anno 2001) | Frank Carlucci (anno 2007) | Jamie Gorelick (anno 2007) | Patrick Gross (anno 2007) | Philip Lader (anno 2007) | . Eisenhower Award: Jimmy Carter | Hillary Clinton (also a speaker on Nov. 30, 2009, together with keynote speaker Henry Kiss.) | Condoleezza Rice | Robert Gates (pre-2010) | Sen. Richard Lugar (pre-2010) | Sam Nunn (pre-2010) | Gen. David Petraeus (pre-2010) | Gen. John Abizaid (pre-2010) | Gen. Keith Alexander (2013). Unsorted: James Angleton Jr. | William Draper III | Gen. Thomas McInerney. Source(s): bens.org/who_board.html (accessed: June 29, 2001 - Feb. 2, 2007); bens.org/Leadership/AdvisoryCouncil (accessed: Dec. 1, 2016); bens.org/leadership (accessed: Nov. 30, 2016); bens.org/members.html (accessed: Nov. 30, 2001 - April 28, 2007); May 16, 2011, BusinessWire.com. 'Tupperware Brands Corporation Chairman and CEO Rick Goings Elected Chairman of Business Executives for National Security' (lists advisory council and past awardees); bens.org/page.aspx?pid=503 (accessed: July 3, 2013; brief listing of advisory board with Henry K., Michael H., Rick R., Thomas P., Gen. James L. J. and Adm. Vernon C. all gone; captured again on March 8, 2015 and a few times after); 2011, BENS 'Leadership Report' (contains advisors). |
1982 |
| Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Advisory Board: George Shultz (hon. chair anno 2011, 2020; co-founder) | William Perry (chair emeritus anno 2011, 2020) | Patrick W. Gross (anno 2011, 2020) | David Rubenstein (anno 2011) | Harry Kellogg (anno 2011; vice chair Silicon Valley Bank) | Condoleezza Rice (anno 2020) | Charles Schwab (anno 2020). |
1982 |
| J. Paul Getty Trust Trustees: Vartan Gregorian (1988–2000) | John Whitehead (1989–1995) | Ronald Spogli (2010-; vice chair anno 2010) | Ronald Lauder (2016-) | Anne Sweeney (anno 2020; trustee Paley Center for Media; director Netflix; history at Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox, Viacom, etc.) | Barry Munitz (president and CEO) | John F. Cook | Dr. Franklin D. Murphy. |
1982 |
| Carter Center of Emory University Jimmy Carter. Consultation on International Security & Arms Control (April 12-13, 1985): Jimmy C. (co-chair)| Gerald Ford (co-chair) | Henry Kissinger | Joseph Nye | Robert J. O'Neill | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Harold Brown | John Lehman | William Perry | Brent Scowcroft | Sen. Howard Baker | Sam Nunn | Les Aspin | Zbigniew Brzezinski | McGeorge Bundy | Robert McFarlane | James Schlesinger | Cyrus Vance | Al Gore | Harold Berman | Richard Garwin | Samuel Huntington | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Josef Joffe | Gen. David Jones | Pierre Lellouche | Christopher Makins | Gen. John Vessey | Richard Burt. Funders: Carnegie Corp., Coca-Cola, Ford Motor Co., Ritz-Carlton, Turner Broadcasting Systems, etc. |
1982 |
| Sun Valley meetings Herbert Allen | Herbert Allen III | Bill Bradley | Tom Brokaw | Charlie Rose | Vernon Jordan | Rupert Murdoch | Gordon Brown | Michael Eisner | Katharine Graham | Donald Graham | Tom Hanks | Christie Hefner | Steve Jobs | Michael Bloomberg | Edgar Bronfman, Jr | Warren Buffett | Bill Gates | Steve Ballmer | Paul Allen | Oprah Winfrey | Steven Spielberg | Richard Parsons | Niall Fitzgerald | George Tenet | Mike Pompeo ('17) | John Elkann (Agnelli) | Henry Kravis | Gustavo Cisneros | Mark Zuckerberg | Elon Musk | Martin Indyk | Sam Nunn | Jonathan Oppenheimer | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Jeb Bush | Peter Thiel | Rand Paul | Chris Christie | Andre Desmarais | David Ignatius | Mathias Dopfner | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (2003; not fully confirmed) | Robert Johnson | Henry Crumpton | Bryan Lourd | Marc Andreessen | Jeff Bewkes | Jeff Bezos | Eric Schmidt | Sergey Brin | John Hendricks | James Baker III ('21) | William J. Burns ('21). |
1983 |
| National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Financier of the NDI and IRI, together with USAID. Additional co-founders: Allen Weinstein (co-founder; exec. director of the study 'The Democracy Program' in 1983-1984 that led to the NED's founding; first visiting fellow 2011-2011 at "NED’s Democracy Resource Center") | Mark Palmer. Directors who joined in the 1980s: John Richardson Jr. (founding chair '83-'87, '91-'92; lawyer at Dulles brothers' Sullivan & Cromwell 1940s-1950s; banker Paine Webber in 1955; director CIA-tied IRC 1955-61, president 1960-61; president CIA-funded Radio Free Europe 1961-1968 (funded through Dulles-founded CIA-front Nat. Comm. for a Free Europe, which Richardson apparently also was president of); ass. sec. of state for edu. and cultural affairs 1969-1977 (note the CIA-Rockefeller elite "cultural war" at the time); at CSIS in 1977) | Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. (founding vice chair '83-'87; chair RNC 1983-1989) | Sally A. Shelton-Colby ('83-'92, treasurer anno '86, vice chair '87-'88; met former CIA director William Colby in 1982, and married him in 1984) | Charles Manatt ('83-'88, vice chair by '88-'92; chair DNC 1981-1985) | Lane Kirkland ('83-'92; founding TC member) | Carl Gershman (founding president '83-'21) | Walter Mondale ('85-'86) | Henry Kissinger ('85-'89) | Ed Muskie ('87-'88) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('88-'97). Directors who joined in the 1990s: Henry Cisneros ('90-'93) | Winston Lord ('90-'93, chair anno '92) | Madeleine Albright ('91-'93) | Thomas Kean ('91-'00) | David Gergen ('92-'93) | John Brademas ('92-'93, chair '93-'01) | Fred Ikle ('92-'01) | Stephen Solarz ('92-'01) | Richard Lugar ('92-'01) | Paula Dobriansky ('93-'01, vice chair anno '97) | Steve Forbes ('94-'99) | Paul Wolfowitz ('94-'01) | Julia Taft ('97; wife of William Taft IV) | Sen. Bob Graham (anno '97-'02). Directors who joined in the 2000s: Lee Hamilton (late '99 or early '00-'08) | Morton Abramowitz (early '00-'04) | Frank Carlucci ('01-'03) | Wesley Clark ('01-'05) | Bill Frist ('01-'06) | Sen. Jon Kyl ('01-'04) | Richard Holbrooke ('01-'08) | Francis Fukuyama ('01-, until at least '19) | Vin Weber (chair '01-'05, regular member '06-'12, vice chair anno '14-'16, co-vice chair '17, regular when leaving early '18) | Christopher Cox ('02-, until at least '08) | Michael Novak (anno '02-, until at least '08) | Dick Gephardt (anno '04-'08, chair anno '10-'12) | Ken Duberstein (anno '04-'12) | Moses Naim (anno '06-'15) | Zalmay Khalilzad (anno '10-, until '18) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno '12) | George Weigel (anno '12-'19) | Elliott Abrams (anno '14-'22) | Robert Zoellick ('14-'17; listed as advisory chair GS) | William Burns ('15-, still anno '20) | Anne Applebaum (anno 15-'22) | Will Marshall (anno '15-'17; founder and president Progressive Policy Inst.) | Victor Cha (anno '22). More: Walter Raymond, Jr. | Richard V. Allen (conference participant and public supporter) | Julie Finley (trustee) | Graham Fuller (attended a 2004 conference) | Larry Diamond (founding co-director of the NED"s International Forum for Democratic Studies (1994–2009) and founding co-editor of the NED's Journal of Democracy). More: Joe Biden (co-chair October 20, 1999 event) | John Whitehead (co-chair July 01, 2001 event) | Barbara Haig (deputy to the president for policy anno '10-'12; daugther of Alexander Haig) | Source(s): July 25, 2011, NDI.org, 'NDI Mourns the Passing of its Founding Chairman, Chuck Manatt': "As [DNC] chairman ... Manatt was instrumental in NDI's creation in 1983 when he and his Republican counterpart [chair RNC 1983-1989], Frank Fahrenkopf, joined with President Ronald Reagan and the Democratically-controlled Congress to establish the [NED]."; Nov. 6, 2003, NED document, 'Official Commemoration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the [NED]', final page: "Current board members: ... Former board members [including dates]..."; 1984-1992, 2000, 2005 annual reports; 1997, 'Promoting Democracy in a Time of Austerity: NED's Strategy for 1997 and Beyond', p. 7; 2002-2015 Form 990s; ned.org/about/board-of-directors/ (accessed: March 12, 2022). ned.org/page_1/gen_info.html (accesed: June 23, 1997; also lists board): "The Endowment makes hundreds of grants annually to civic education, media, human rights and other organizations [focused on] a democratic future. Endowment programs in the areas of labor, business and political party development are funded through four core institutes: the Free Trade Union Institute, the Center for International Private Enterprise, the [IRI], and the [NED]. In the last year Endowment grants supported programs in some 84 countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and the Republics of the Former Soviet Union." 1989 annual report, NED, p. 9: "The Democratic Revolution was the theme of the Endowment's second world democratic conference held May 1 and 2, 1989 in Washington, D.C. ... Monica Jimenez de Barros was recognized for her contributions to the democratic cause in Chile. As founder and director of the Crusade for Citizen Participation she was the catalyst behind the nonpartisan civic movement that registered and mobilized millions of Chileans to participate in the plebiscite of October 5, 1988. ... The conference was fimded entirely by private contributions. Generous support was received from the AFL-CIO ... Amway ... Bradley Foundation ... Donner Foundation, The Joyce Foundation ... Olin Foundation, Sarah Scaife Foundation, and SIFCO Industries..." ned.org/wp-content/uploads /2015/09/2013-sponsors.pdf (accessed: March 12, 2022): "Thank You! The Endowment warmly thanks the following for their generous support in 2013: ORGANIZATIONS: AFL-CIO ... Chevron. Coca-Cola... Goldman Sachs Gives. Google. .. Microsoft ... United Federation of Teachers ... United Steelworkers... INDIVIDUALS: ... James Jones [Gen. James L. Jones] ... Henry [K.] ... Thomas McLarty ... Condoleezza Rice..." |
1983 |
| Eisenhower Institute Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (chair) | Fred Fielding (chair) | Chuck Hagel (director) | Susan Eisenhower (director). |
1983 |
| Council of American Ambassadors (CAA) David Abshire (vice chair) | Madeleine Albright | Anne Armstrong | George H. W. Bush (director and hon. chair) | Henry Catto Jr. | Adm. William Crowe | Thomas Foley | Bruce Gelb | Donald Gregg | Averell Harriman | Richard Holbrooke | Philip Kaiser | Clare Boothe Luce | Richard McCormack | Lloyd Hand | Paul Nitze (hon. chair) | Felix Rohatyn | Robert Strauss | William vanden Heuvel (director and chair) | Richard Gardner | Donald Rumsfeld | Mark Brzezinski | William Farish | Philip Lader | George H. Walker III | Richard Burt | Shirley Temple Black | Walter Curley | Robin Duke | Stuart Eizenstat | Richard Fairbanks III | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Robert Ingersoll | Max Kampelman | Ronald Lauder | J. William Middendorf II | Otto Reich | Ogden Reid (director) | Bill Richardson | William Scranton | Ronald Spogli | C. Douglas Dillon | Roy Huffington (married to Arianna 1986-1997) | George McGhee. |
1983 |
| American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) Directors (Jan. 2000): Michael Armacost | Shirley Temple Black (member 1983-) | Richard Gardner | Carla Hills. Listed chairmen emeriti: Sol Linowitz (member 1983-) | Frank Carlucci (member 1983-) | Lawrence Eagleburger | Max Kampelman. Listed Founders: U. Alexis Johnson | Ellsworth Bunker | John McCloy. Members (Jan. 2000; names besides directors; "Charter Members 1983" are marked): Henry Kissinger (1983-2016) | Alexander Haig (1983-) | Robert McNamara (1983-) | William Bundy (1983-) | Warren Christopher (1983-) | C. Douglas Dillon (1983-) | Donald Rumsfeld (1983-) | George Kennan (1983-) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (1983-) | William P. Rogers (1983-) | Harold Saunders (1983-) | Robert Ingersoll (1983-) | William Scranton (1983-) | James Baker III | Robert R. Bowie | Adm. William Crowe | Kenneth W. Dam | Chas Freeman | Robert Gallucci (director anno 2005-2020s) | Charles Gillespie Jr. | Lee Hamilton | Richard Helms | Philip Kaiser | Melvin Laird | Anthony Lake | Winston Lord | William Luers | Walter Mondale | John Negroponte (director anno 2020) | Paul Nitze | Joseph Nye | Henry Owen | Robert Pelletreau | Nicholas Platt | Colin Powell | Rozanne Ridgway | William D. Rogers | James Schlesinger | Brent Scowcroft | Raymond Seitz | George Shultz (honorary member; same in '20) | Cyrus Vance | Gen. Vernon Walters | Paul Warnke | William Webster | John Whitehead | Frank Wisner II (director anno 2020) | Paul Wolfowitz. Members per June 5, 2007 (only new names): Thomas Pickering (chair 2005-2020s) | Madeleine Albright | Richard Armitage | Sandy Berger | Chester Crocker | Richard Haass | Richard Holbrooke | Martin Indyk | Sam Nunn | Felix Rohatyn | Stapleton Roy (director anno 2005) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Strobe Talbott | William vanden Heuvel. Members per May 3, 2015 (only new names): Richard Boucher | Nicholas Burns | Hillary Clinton | Paula Dobriansky (director anno 2020) | Eric Edelman | Stuart Eizenstat | John Hamre | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Stephen Kappes (2014-) | Richard Lugar | Condoleezza Rice (hon. still; later a regular member) | William Taft IV | Ashton Carter ("Now in Government Service"; member again by '20). Members per May 3, 2020 (only new names): Susan Rice | Fred Bergsten | Gordon Gray | John Kerry | Stuart Symington | Robert Zoellick. More: Richard Perle (Feb. 12, 2004 'Dialogue' speaker, alongside Henry K. and Richard H.) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (May 27, 2004 'Dialogue' luncheon speaker) | Gen. James L. Jones (anno 2011-2012) | Bruce Gelb (listed as "ex-officio" director anno 2005) | Marc Grossman (vice chair anno 2020). Members 1980s-1990s: Averell Harriman | Henry Cabot Lodge | Clare Boothe Luce | Dean Rusk. |
1983 |
| Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) Adm. Hyman Rickover (co-founder) | Joann DiGennaro (co-founder and president). Past and present honorary trustees: Colin Powell | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | Sen. Bill Frist | Jimmy Carter | Sen. Lindsey Graham | Sen. Bill Nelson. Past and present trustees: Frank Carlucci | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | Pickering. |
1983 |
| Private Sector Council (PSC) David Packard (founder) | Carlucci (chair) | Norman Augustine | Thomas Foley | Chuck Hagel | Paul O'Neill | John Hamre |
1983-2004 |
| United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Allen Weinstein (founding member) | John N. Moore (chair 1986-1991; IAC anno '21) | Chester Crocker (chair 1994-2004; IAC anno 2021) | Richard Solomon (president 1993-2012) | Max Kampelman (vice chair until 2000) | Elspeth Rostow (vice chair 1990; wife of Walt Whitman R.) | Stephen Hadley (director 1990, chair anno 2013, director anno 2021) | William Kinter (director 1990) | Evron Kirkpatrick (director 1990; husband of Jeane) | W. Scott Thompson (director 1990s) | Ronald Lehman II | Eric Edelman (director anno '21) | Stephen Krasner (director anno '21) | Ron Silver. Listed "ex officio" members over the years: Madeleine Albright | Douglas Feith | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Donald Rumsfeld | Hillary Clinton | Walter Slocombe | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel. Advisory council: Thomas Pickering. International advisory council: Chuck Robb (anno '21) | Michael Chertoff (anno '21) | Peter Ackerman (anno '21) | Robert Abernethy (anno '21) | Dr. Hans Binnendijk (anno '21) | Pat Mitchell Seydel (anno '21) | Maya Soetoro-Ng ('21; Barack Obama's half-sister). Also: George Shultz (attended a conference) | Bill Richardson (senior fellow) | David Michel (research fellow) | Gen. Charles Wald (senior advisor). Genocide Prevention Task Force (2007-): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | William Cohen (co-chair) | Thomas Daschle | Jack Kemp | Thomas P. | Stuart Eizenstat | Vin Weber | Anthony Zinni. Responsibility to Protect Working Group (2011-13): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | Sherri Goodman | Michael Abramowitz | Gen. Wesley Clark | Paula Dobriansky | Jim Kolbe | Nicholas Rostow | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Hadley |
1984 |
| Council for America's First Freedom (CAFF) Governor's honorary advisory council: Chuck Robb. National honorary advisory council: Albright | Eagleburger | Holbrooke | Sen. George Mitchell | Sandra Day O'Connor | Steven Rockefeller | Rabbi Arthur Schneier | Elie Wiesel. |
1984 |
| The Forum for the Future of Higher Education (FFHE) Norman Augustine | Gen. John Allen | David Boren | General Wesley Clark | Martin Feldstein | Niall Ferguson | Leslie Gelb | Richard Haass | Lee Hamilton | Walter Isaacson | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Gen. Jim Mattis | Adm. Michael Mullen | Joseph Nye | Steven Pinker (rent-a-skeptic) | Samantha Power | Jeffrey Sachs. Donors: Atlantic Philanthropies and the Ford, Casey, Carnegie, Hewlett, Knight, Kellogg, Luce, Andrew W. Mellon and Lumina foundations. |
1984 |
| Institute for the Study of American Wars Advisory council: Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Gen. Alexander Haig | Dean Rusk | Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr. | John Harkanson (DuPont) |
1984 |
| Santa Fe Institute George Keyworth (trustee 1986-1989) | Murray Gell-Mann (co-chair science board) | Pierre Omidyar | Stewart Brand (trustee 1989-2004) | Jeffrey Epstein (financing) | Valerie Plame (consultant) |
1984 |
| Center for Democracy Board: Allen Weinstein (founder and president and CEO 1985-2003, until merger with IFES) | Robert Livingston (co-chair) | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Richard Lugar | Sen. Chuck Robb | Jim Nicholson (chair RNC) | Henry Kissinger (2002-2003) | Thomas Pickering (2002-2003) |
1985-2003 |
| Bretton Woods Committee (BWC) Leadership: James Orr (co-founder and long-time executive director and secretary) | Henry Fowler (suggested its founding as Treasury secretary; founding co-chair 1985-) | Charles Walker (deputy Treasury secretary; founding co-chair 1985-) | Henry Owen (founding chair of the executive committee 1985 until at least 1988; co-chair anno 1990 - until 2002) | Paul Volcker (co-chair anno 1989, 1997; member '99; member until death in '19; FED chair 1979-1987) | Gerald Corrigan (member '99; co-chair 2002-2010) | James Wolfensohn (1985-, co-chair 2010-2020s) | Bill Frenzel (co-chair anno '99 - '15; special advisor on NAFTA to Bill Clinton in 1993; deep into tax NGOs) | Richard Debs (1985-; finance chair anno 2000; chair executive committee until '15, listed as chair international council '15-). Most important members (members always listed on website, since 1999; also made use of a 1985 founding membership list): George Soros (at least '99-'20) | Henry Kissinger (at least '99-'20) | George Shultz (at least '99-'20) | David Rockefeller (1985 - until death in '17) | George Ball (1985-) | Maurice Strong (1985-) | Warren Christopher (1985-) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (at least '99 - mid '17, a year before death) | Peter Peterson (member 1985 - until death in '18) | John Whitehead (1985 - until death in '15) | Harold Brown (1985-; at least '99 - until death in '19) | Alexander Haig (at least '99 - until death in '10; listed as chair "Worldwide Associates, Inc.") | Frank Carlucci (1985-, at least '99 - until death in '18) | Lawrence Eagleburger (at least '99 - until death in '11) | Brent Scowcroft (at least '99-'20) | Maurice Greenberg ('09, '20) and son Evan ('07) | Vernon Jordan (at least '99-'20) | James Baker III (at least '99-'20) | Henry Kravis ('04, '15) | Madeleine Albright ('04, '20) | Ashton Carter ('09, '15). Members who entered the Bush 43 administration: Condoleezza Rice ('99) | Colin Powell ('99, '10, '20) | Donald Rumsfeld ('96-'01) | Dick Cheney ('99). Well-known economists: D. Gale Johnson ('99) | Jeffrey Sachs ('99, '11) | Joseph Stiglitz ('07, '12) | Nouriel Roubini ('07, '20) | Larry Summers ('15, '20). More members: Thornton Bradshaw (1985-) | David Matthew Kennedy (1985-; Mormon) | Donald Kendall (1985-) | William Paley (1985-) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (1985-) | C. Douglas Dillon (co-founder; 1985-, '99) | Robert McNamara (at least '99 - until death in '09) | Cyrus Vance (1985 - until death in '02) | Paula Dobriansky ('18, '20) | Carla Hills (at least '99-'20) and husband Roderick Hills (at least '99 - until death in '14) | Jacob Frenkel ('09, '20) | Niall Ferguson ('09, '20) | Robert Hormats ('99) | David Abshire ('05; not on '09 list) | Robert Strauss (1985-, '99) | Mortimer Zuckerman ('99, '20) | Fred Bergsten (1985-, '99, '20) | John Brademas (at least '99 - until death in '16) | Morton Abramowitz ('99, '15) | Buzz Aldrin ('07-'13) | Judith Rodin ('07) | Robert O. Anderson (1985-, '99 - until death in 2007) | Michael Blumenthal ('99, '20) | Stuart Eizenstat (1985-, '07, '09) | Nicholas Brady ('99, '20) | Henry E. Catto ('99, '09) | William Coleman Jr. (1985-, '99, '09) | Harold Andersen ('03; Omaha World-Herald Company) | Katharine Graham ('99) | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman ('99, '20) | Philip Klutznick ('99) | Sol Linowitz (1985-, '99) | Ruben Mettler (1985-, '99) | John B. Rhodes ('99) | William Ruckelshaus ('99) | William Simon (1985-, '99) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt ('99) | David Stockman ('99) | William Taft IV ('99) | Lew Wasserman ('99) | Anne Wexler (1985-, '99) | Norman Augustine ('99, '03) | A. W. Clausen ('99) | Leslie Gelb ('99) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster ('99) | C. Boyden Gray ('99) | Lee Iacocca ('99, '07) | Rudolph Peterson ('99) | Frank Weil ('99, '20) | Bill Archer ('15) | David Boren ('20) | William Cohen ('09, '20) | Richard Gardner ('09, '20) | Lee Hamilton ('15, '20) | Yves-Andre Istel ('15, '20) | Thomas Kean ('15, '20) | Bill McCollum ('10, '12) | Robert McFarlane ('99) | Victor Palmieri ('99) | George Rupp ('99, '09) | Mary K. Bush ('03) | Clark Clifford (1985-, '99, '03) | Barber Conable ('99, '03) | Richard McCormack ('09, '20) | Jacques Polak ('99) | Jim Kolbe (co-chair 2014-) | Thomas McLarty III ('09, '20) | Walter Mondale ('09, '18) | George Pataki ('07, '15) | Ross Perot Jr. ('10-'18) | John Hauge ('99; "senior finance responsibilities" Perot Systems Corporation 1993-1998) | Peter Altabef ('09; "President and CEO, Perot Systems.") | Melvin Laird (1985-, '99) | John Macomber ('99, '07) | Gen. Edward C. Meyer ('99, '07) | Robert Mosbacher Sr. ('99, '07) | Irving Shapiro (member 1985-, '99) | George Weyerhaeuser (1985-, '99, '09) | Henry Louis Gates Jr. ('09, '20; Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research) | Sheikh Faisal bin Fahad Al Thani of Qatar ('18, '20) | Felix Rohatyn (1985-, '09, '20) | Robert Roosa (1985-) | Henry Schacht (1985-) | Bruce MacLaury ('99, '09) | Edmund Pratt Jr. ('99) | Vartan Gregorian ('09, '20) | Strobe Talbott ('09, '20) | John Negroponte ('18, '20) | David Miliband ('20) | Onno Ruding ('99, '20) | Anthony Lake (-'10) | Theodore Hesburgh (1985-, '99) | James Robinson III ('09, '20) | Lloyd Cutler ('99) | William Reilly ('09, '20) | Gov. Bill Richardson ('99) | Eric Kessler ('15) | William Schaefer ('99, '09) | Ken Chenault ('09, '20) | Robert Zoellick ('18, '20) | Whitney Debevoise ('99) | Walter Shipley ('99) | William Hewitt ('99) | Dan Glickman ('09, '15) | Kelsey Grammer ('04, '07) | John Birkelund ('99, '09) | Tim Wirth ('07) | Muhammad Yunus ('09, '12) | Elliot Richardson (1985-) | James Manyika (anno 2020) | Hugh Price (anno 2006). International council (consists of bank representatives around the world, from Japan to the Middle East; brettonwoods.org/council.html (accessed: 2007): Etienne Davignon ('07-; certainly a regular member in '09) | Sir Peter Sutherland ('07-; certainly a regular member in '09) | Jean-Claude Trichet ('07-; still on the advisory council anno '20; president ECB 2003-2011) | Sir David Walker ('07-; certainly a regular member in '20) | Marcus Wallenberg ('07-; certainly a regular member in '20). Advisory council: Jean-Claude T. (advisory council anno '15, '20) | Sir David W. (advisory council anno '15, '20) | William Rhodes (advisory council anno '15, '20) | David de Ferranti ('09, '15) | Mohamed El-Erian (advisory council anno '15, '20; chaired President Obama's Global Development Council) | William Dudley (advisory council '20). Honorary co-chairmen (also listed as regular members): Gerald Ford (1980s-2006) | Jimmy Carter (1980s-) | George H. W. Bush (1990s-2018). Other: Paul Wolfowitz (words at the 2005 BWC's International Council luncheon: "The multilateral institutions need and welcome outside advice and guidance and they count on the Committee's International Council for help.") |
1985 |
| International Center for Economic Growth (ICEG) Board of overseers (2000s): Gustavo Cisneros | Paul Volcker | A. W. Clausen | Stephan Schmidheiny. Others: Sol Linowitz. |
1985 |
| Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) Culturally-socially liberal, but fiscally conservative (i.e. pro-big business). Al From (founder and CEO) | Dick Gephardt | Chuck Robb | Sam Nunn | Joseph Lieberman | Bill Clinton | Al Gore (vice president) | Joe Biden (vice president) | Michael Steinhardt (chair). |
1985 |
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute (RRPFI) / Reagan Foundation Trustees: W. Glenn Campbell (founding trustee chair anno '85) | Edwin Meese (founding vice chair anno '85) | William P. Clark Jr. (founding treasurer anno '85) | William French Smith (founding trustee anno '85) | Jeffrey Immelt ('10-, anno '19) | Nancy Reagan (anno '14) | T. Boone Pickens (anno '14-'16) | Pete Wilson (anno '14-'21) | Steve Forbes (anno '10-'21) | Ted Olson (anno '10-'21) | Rudolph Giuliani (anno '10-'19)| Jon Huntsman (anno '14-'16) | Rupert Murdoch (anno '10-'21) and son Lachlan (anno '21) | George Shultz (anno '10-'21; lifetime trustee) | Condoleezza Rice (anno '21) | Paul Ryan (anno '21). Founding Governors anno '85 (board not seen in later years; *exec. comm., which includes the trustees of the time): Joe Allbritton (trustee anno '10) | Richard V. Allen | Robert O. Anderson | Walter Annenberg | Anne Armstrong | Brooke Astor | Thornton Bradshaw | Nicholas Brady* | William Brady | Arthur Burns | Willard Butcher | W. Glenn Campbell* | William P. Clark Jr.* | Joseph Coors* | Trammell Crow | Max M. Fisher* | Malcolm Forbes | Milton Friedman | Barry Goldwater | Billy Graham | Maurice Greenberg | Alan Greenspan | Bryce Harlow | Thomas V. Jones | Philip Klutznick | Clare Boothe Luce | Gordon Luce | Jack Massey | Jeremiah Milbank Jr. | Roger Milliken | Emil Mosbacher Jr. | Robert Mosbacher Sr.* | David Murdock | David Packard* | Ross Perot* | Jay Pritzker* | Maureen, Michael, Neil Reagan | James Robinson III* | David Rockefeller* | Henry Salvatori | Richard Mellon Scaife* | William Simon* | Robert Strauss* | Lew Wasserman* | Jane Weinberger (husband of Caspar W.) | Ted Welch | Pete Wilson. Staff: Roger Zakheim (man. director; son of Dov) Peace Through Strength Award Recipients: Robert Gates ('13) | Leon Panetta (Nov. '14) | John McCain III (Nov. '14) | Condi R. ('15) | Dick Cheney ('16) | Ashton Carter ('16). Freedom Award recipients: Mikhail Gorbachev | Colin Powell | King Hussein I of Jordan | Yitzhak Rabin | Bob Hope | Margaret Thatcher. "Past speakers" as of May 20, 2000: John Ashcroft | Haley Barbour | James Baker III | Tom Brokaw | William Buckley | George W. Bush | Linda Chavez | Edwin Feulner Jr. | Thomas Foley | Newt Gingrich | Charlton Heston | Fred Ikle | Max Kampelman | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Jack Kemp | Larry King of CNN | Jeane Kirkpatrick | George McGovern | Brian Mulroney | Michael Novak | Robert Novak | Sandra Day O'Connor | Richard Perle | Dan Quayle | Donald Regan | Diane Sawyer | Margaret Thatcher | Fred Thompson | Chris Wallace | Mike Wallace | Christine Whitman | Rudolph G. | Gov. Pete W. | George S. Source(s): 1985 founding list of trustees (8) and governors (dozens). |
1985 |
| Thomas J. Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Opening speakers: Sen. William Fulbright | Jimmy Carter | Cyrus Vance. Board of oversight: Vartan Gregorian | Leslie Gelb | Lee Hamilton | Philip Lader | Thomas Pickering | William Rhodes | Stephen Walt. More speakers: Queen Noor of Jordan | Eduard Schevarnadze . Others: Richard Holbrooke (professor 2007-10). Funders/partners: Ford Fdn. | Luce Fdn. | Kim Koo Fdn. |
1986 |
| Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) Past and present honorary directors/members: William D. Rogers | Alexander Haig | Cyrus Vance | Lawrence Eagleburger | Warren Christopher | Hillary Clinton | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Shultz | Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Advisory council: John Whitehead. Former directors: Adm. William Crowe | Ogden R. Reid |
1986 |
| Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE) Honorary patrons: Albright | James Baker III | Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Shultz. Also credits Reagan, the Bush family and Clinton for crucial support. |
1986 |
| World Affairs Councils of America (WACA) Chairman: Paula Dobriansky |
1986 |
| Council on Competitiveness Ruben Mettler | Peter Peterson | Robert Gates | Steve Ballmer | Sen. David Boren | Raymond Gilmartin (chair) | Richard T. Clark | Joseph Gorman (executive) | Robert Dynes (executive) | Louis Gerstner | Patrick Gross | Tom Ridge | |
1986 |
| Women in International Security (WIIS) 2020 honor roll ("served in leadership roles for the organization throughout its history"): Madeleine Albright | Christiane Amanpour | Paula Dobriansky | Rozanne Ridgway | Jane Wales | Mary Robinson. |
1987 |
| Roosevelt Institute William vanden Heuvel (president; chair emeritus) | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (chair). Directors: William Brody (presiden John Hopkins 1996-2009) | Nancy Roosevelt Ireland | Paul Rudd | Katrina vanden Heuvel. Governors: Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. (chair) | John Brademas | Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | Meera Gandhi (early Mother Teresa protege) | David A. Roosevelt | James Roosevelt, Jr. | Laura D. Roosevelt. Also: Jonathan Soros (senior fellow) | Robert Borosage (advisory board) | Joseph Stiglitz (senior fellow and chief economist anno 2010). Roosevelt Institution (founded in 2005; merged with the Roosevelt Institute in 2007) Initial press release: "Stanford students have launched The Roosevelt Institution, the nation's first student think tank..." Advisory board 2005-("people who help us and/or think we're cool"): Dee Dee Meyers (Clinton press secretary married to the national editor of Vanity Fair and the LA bureau chief of the NY Times) | William Perry | John Podesta | John Prendergast (Int. Crisis Group) | Anne, Jim and Kermit Roosevelt | Katrina vanden Heuvel (the Nation editor since 1995) | William vanden Heuvel. Senator Richard Lugar | David Rothkopf | Andrea Batista Schlesinger (deputy director of U.S. Programs at the Open Society Fdns.). Also: |
1987 |
| International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Clifton White (founder) | Allen Weinstein (senior strategist) | Bill Sweeney (president since 2009) | Robert Livingston | Ken Blackwell |
1987 |
| Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) Members: Howard Buffett (son of Warren Buffett) | Vernon Jordan Jr. | Pamela Harriman | Jim Lehrer | Paul O'Neill | Leon Panetta | Pete Wilson | Jane Harman | Richard Parsons. |
1988 |
| Richmond Forum Listed historical speakers (up to June 2020): Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft | Paul Volcker | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Newt Gingrich | Frank Carlucci | Alexander Haig | Robert McFarlane | Carla Hills | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Steve Forbes | Queen Noor of Jordan | Desmond Tutu | Adm. William Crowe | George Mitchell | Warren Rudman | Gen. Keith Alexander | Lamar Alexander | James Baker III | Jack Kemp | Brian Mulroney | Robert Mueller | George H. W., George W. and Laura Bush | Bill Clinton | Barack Obama | Mikhail Gorbachev | Margaret Thatcher | Tony Blair | John Major | Gordon Brown | Ehud Barak | Benjamin Netanyahu | Shimon Peres | Samantha Power | Ross Perot | T. Boone Pickens | Charles Krauthammer | Rudolph Giuliani | William Buckley | George McGovern | John Glenn | William Proxmire | Ben Bernanke | Walter Isaacson | Helmut Schmidt | Mohamed ElBaradei | Vicente Fox | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Benazir Bhutto | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Gen. Tommy Franks | Louis Freeh | Thomas Friedman | Hodding Carter III | Lou Dobbs | Robert Reich | Mary Robinson. Media speakers: Bill Moyers | Peter Jennings | Tom Brokaw | Anderson Cooper | Oprah Winfrey | Barbara Walters | Walter Cronkite | Ted Koppel | Larry King | Andy Rooney | Diane Sawyer | Joe Scarborough | Bob Woodward | Fareed Zakaria. Remaining past speakers: Neil Armstrong | Candice Bergen | David Blaine | Tom Clancy | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Bill Cosby | Ron Howard | Steven Spielberg | Robert Redford | Michael Douglas | Steve Martin | Jane Goodall | Quincy Jones | B.B. King | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | Carl Sagan | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Alvin Toffler | Jim Lehrer. |
1992 |
| Congressional Economic Leadership Institute (CELI) Robert Galvin (director in the 1990s) | Lloyd Hand (since 1990s; executive committee) | Maurice Greenberg (early 2000; executive committee) | Elizabeth Schwartz (Boeing) | Raymond Garcia |
1987-2007 |
| California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) Bruce Tarter | John S. Foster, Jr. (director) |
1988 |
| Senior Living Foundation of the American Foreign Service (SLF) Honorary co-chairmen: Albright | James Baker III | Frank Carlucci | Henry Kissinger | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice | George Shultz. Advisors: Shirley Temple Black. Directors: Marc Grossman (chair) | Thomas Pickering. |
1988 |
| Rebuild Together 2006 national advisory council (from annual report, not on the site): Bill Bradley | Henry Cisneros | Vernon Jordan | Thomas Kean | John McCain III. |
1988 |
| National Constitution Center (NCC) Trustees: Sandra Day O'Connor | Doug DeVos (chair) | David Rubenstein | Miguel "Mike" Bezos. |
1988 |
| Forstmann Little Conferences Ted Forstmann (founder) Forstmann Little & Co./Gulfstream Corp. directors in the 1990s (and conference visitors): George Shultz | Henry Kissinger | Donald Rumsfeld | Colin Powell | Lynn Forester de Rothschild. Other visitors: Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Nat Rothschild | Nelson Mandela | Richard Branson | Prince Turki al Faisal | Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa (Bahrain) | Jeff Bezos | Michael Eisner | Herbert Allen | Steve Ballmer | Sandy Berger | Benazir Bhutto | Joe Biden | Conrad Black | Tony Blair | Michael Bloomberg | Paul Bremer | Tom Brokaw | Jeb Bush | Dick Cheney | Richard A. Clarke | Bill Clinton | Peter Coors | Kevin Costner | Sheryl Crow | Lester Crown | Sir Richard Dearlove | Michael Dell | Barry Diller | John Doerr | Stanley Druckenmiller (while chief investment officer of Soros' Quantum Fund) | Michael Eisner | Ari Emanuel | Elizabeth Hurley | Walter Isaacson | Steve Forbes | Newt Gingrich | Sen. John Glenn | Alan Greenspan | Peter Jennings | Paul Tudor Jones | Queen Noor and King Abdullah of Jordan | Paul Kagame | Martin Luther King III | Jeane Kirkpatrick | William Kristol | Sen. John McCain | Leslie Moonves | Nathan Myhrvold | Sam Nunn | Dean Ornish | Michael Ovitz | David Petraeus | Sydney Pollack | Tom Ridge | Lord George Robertson | Charlie Rose | Karl Rove | Eric Schmidt | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Terry Semel | Martha Stewart | Robert Strauss | Jack Straw | Iraq president Jalal Talabani | George Tenet | Meg Whitman | Oprah Winfrey | Prince Andrew Windsor | Bob Woodward. |
1989 |
| Henry L. Stimson Center Directors: Barry Blechman (co-founder and chair) | Condoleezza Rice (director in 1990s) | Gen. Larry Welch (director in 1990s and 2000s) | Thomas Pickering (vice chair) | Philip Odeen | Adm. Kevin Cosgriff. Financing : Carnegie Corp., MacArthur Fdn., Peterson Fdn., Smith Richardson Fdn., Tides Fdn., etc. |
1989 |
| Business Enterprise Trust Focuses on "celebrating socially responsible companies", including the "creation of opportunities for women and minorities". Hevay "Lib CIA" presence. Failed to gather steam. Trustees: James E. Burke (founding chair, still anno '96; co-founder; Partnership for a Drug-Free America) | Norman Lear (founding, still anno '96-'00; co-founder who put in $10 million of his own money, but saw the endeavor fail) | Robert Reich ('89-'93) | Katharine Graham ('89-'00; friend of Lear through Ben Bradlee) | Warren Buffett ('89-'00; involved with Katherine in the WaPo) | Sen. William T. Coleman Jr. (anno '96-'00) | Sol Linowitz (anno '96-'00) | James Lynn (anno '96-'00; Lazard) | Bob Iger (anno '96) | Henry Schacht (anno '96-'00) | John T. Walton (anno '96-'00; of the Walton Family Fdn.). Annual NYC Rainbow Room dinner (March 1991-1996) participants: David Rockefeller ('91; one of 200 original participants) | Peter Peterson ('91) | Laurence Tisch ('91) | Jack Welch ('91) | Barbara Walters ('91) | Bill Bradley | Bill Clinton | Al Gore | Bill Moyers | Diane Sawyer. Awardees: Frank Stanton ('91) | Robert Haas ('95; CEO Levi Strauss). Source(s): betrust.org/board.html (accessed: Oct. 30, 1996); betrust.org/brd.html (accessed: Oct. 17, 2000); Dec. 31, 2000, fastcompany.com, 'Norman Lear's Not Laughing'; 2014, N. Lear, 'Even This I Get to Experience', chapter 6; etc. |
1989-1996, site listed until 2000 |
| Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (DLC-tied) Will Marshall (founder and president) | Bill Clinton (chair) | Sen. Dick Gephardt (chair) | Al From (chair) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (chair) | Jay Rockefeller (task force member). Has co-founded a task force on Iran with Freedom House. |
1989 |
| Third Way Foundation / Third Way (DLC-tied) Al From (chair of the foundation). Later known simply as Third Way: Rachel Pritzker (trustee anno 2020; co-chair Energy Program ). |
1989 |
| Center for Public Integrity Advisory board: Rev. Theodore Hesburgh | Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. | William Schneider | Paul Volcker. Directors: Arianna Huffington. Financed by: Carnegie, Ford, MacArthur, Omidyar, Tides, Threshold, Soros's OSF. |
1989 |
| David Rockefeller Fund Dr. Richard Rockefeller | Abby Rockefeller (David's oldest daughter) and husband Lee Halprin | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller | Lukas Haynes (executive director). Mainly "liberal CIA" causes. |
1989 |
| Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Directors emeritus: Kissinger, Shultz |
1990 |
| Financial Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC) Directors: Cyrus Vance (co-founder and chair) | John Whitehead (co-founder and chair) | Henry Kissinger | Paul Volcker (chair) | Kenneth Dam | Carla Hills | John Thornton |
1990 |
| George Bush Presidential Library Foundation (GBPLF) Trustees (2014): Jeb, Jonathan, Neil, William H. T. and Marvin B. | Dorothy Bush Koch | Hushang Ansary | James Baker, III | Nicholas Brady | Andrew Card | James Cicconi | William Draper, III | Laurie Firestone | C. Boyden Gray | Ray Hunt | John Lindsey | John Macomber | Brian Mulroney | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Brent Scowcroft (also president) | Steve Wynn. Trustees (2001): Joe Allbritton | Walter Annenberg | Dick Cheney | William Farish, III | Max M. Fisher | Richard Gelb | Ken Lay | Robert Mosbacher | Dan Quayle | Arnold S. | Robert Strauss | Jack Valenti | Jerry Weintraub | George W. Bush Presidential Center: Craig Stapleton (director) | Dina Habib Powell (advisory council). George W. Bush Institute: Joshua Muravchik (fellow 2012-2013) | Laura B. (anno '17) | Ray H. | Harlan Crow (anno '17) | Craig Stapleton (anno '17) | David Kramer (exec. director anno '23). Source(s): bushcenter.org/about-the-center/our-team.html (Nov. 19, 2017). |
1991 |
| Milken Institute / Milken Institute Global Conference Conference speakers: Tony Blair | Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia | Suzy Cameron (wife of James Cameron) | Susan Eisenhower | Robert Gates | Jane Goodall | Al Gore | Goldie Hawn | Tommy Hilfiger | Arianna Huffington | Ashley Judd | Mikhail Khodorkovsky | John Kluge, Jr. | Nicholas Kristof | Lord Peter Mandelson | Patrick Moynihan (CEO Blockchain Industries) | Petra Nemcova | Sean Parker | Gen. David Petraeus | Thomas Pritzker | Steven Rattner | Sumner Redstone | Bill Richardson | Nouriel Roubini | Paul Ryan | Tim Ryan | Eric Schmidt | Rutherford and Vasser Seydel (UN and Ted Turner Foundation) | Laura Turner Seydel (daughter of Ted Turner) | Larry Summers | Casey Wasserman | Eyal Ofer | Jane Harman | David Rubenstein | Stephen Schwarzman | Tom Hanks | Bill Clinton | George W. Bush | Paul Kagame | Christine Lagarde | Elon Musk | Jamie Dimon | Steven Mnuchin | Bill Gates | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Richard Haass | ka Trump | Meg Whitman | Reese Witherspoon | Laurene Powell Jobs ('13). Present: Les Moonves. |
1991 |
| Robert Trent Jones Golf Club, Virginia William Simon (founding board member) | Vernon Jordan (president 1996-2003) | Barack Obama (joined in 2017) | Bill Clinton. Secret membership. |
1991 |
| Citizens for a Free Kuwait (CFK) Set up by Hill & Knowlton of Robert Keith Gray. Conspired with Kuwaiti elites and the Bush administration to sell the 1st Gulf War by spreading the disinformation that Iraqi soldiers took babies out of their incubators and left them to die on the cold floor. "Nayirah", secretly the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S., was given acting lessons and told this story to congress. President Bush himself kept repeating this story and the press refused to expose it until after the U.S. invasion. Interestingly, there was no need for this disinformation, as Iraqi soldiers pillaged, raped, tortured and murdered at will. At the same time, Kuwait had been ruled by a dictatorial emir and an elite with spoiled rich kids. The emir employed large-scale immigrant labor under virtually slave conditions. |
1991 |
| Connecticut Forum Listed historical penalists (up to June 2020): Henry Kissinger | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Michael Bloomberg | Richard Perle | Richard Armitage | Richard Holbrooke | Walter Isaacson | Karl Rove | Newt Gingrich | Katharine Graham | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Francis Fukuyama | David Gergen | Ed Meese III | George Mitchell | Col. Oliver North | Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf | Elie Wiesel | Jimmy Wales | Jack Kemp | Ben Bradlee | Arianna Huffington | Michael Moore | Rob Reiner | Bill Moyers | Ralph Nader | Nicholas Kristof | Robert Reich | Nicholas Negroponte | Joi Ito | Larry Brilliant | Bob Weir | Danny Glover | Jason Alexander | Charlie Rose | Samantha Power | Joseph Califano | William Proxmire | Sen. Christopher Dodd | Tom Ridge | William Bennett (former drug czar) | William Buckley Jr. | Pat Buchanan | Neil deGrasse Tyson | Steven Pinker | Spike Lee | Julian Bond | Howard Dean | Ben Wattenberg | Salman Rushdie | Benazir Bhutto | Barbara Ehrenreich | Thomas Friedman | Bill Cosby | Yo-Yo Ma | Anthony Bourdain | Ann Coulter | Andrew Cuomo | Mario Cuomo | Alec Baldwin | Ashley Judd | Adam Savage | Christopher Buckley | Christopher Hitchens | Check D | Craig Newmark | Dan Quayle | Ezra Klein | Fareed Zakaria | Gene Wilder | George McGovern | Gloria Steinem | Mia Farrow | Henry Winkler | Hodding Carter | Jean-Michel Cousteau | Joan Rivers | Joel Klein | John Legend | Jose Antonio Vargas (producer of the 2015 white privilige MTV documentary 'White People') | Michelle Obama | Walter Cronkite. Source(s): ctforum.org/panelists/ (accessed: June 6, 2022; historic panelists). |
1992 |
| Concord Coalition Peter Peterson (founder) | Warren Rudman (founder) | Paul Volcker | Sen. Bob Kerrey (co-chair) | Sam Nunn (co-chair) | Sen. Chuck Robb | John P. White | Robert Rubin | Evan Greenberg | Harvey Meyerhoff |
1992 |
| Forum for International Policy (FFIP) Eagleburger | Scowcroft | Robert Gates | Carla Hills | Haass | Condoleezza Rice | Colin Powell | Deutch |
1993 |
| Virginia Neurological Institute (VNI) Robert Gates | Scowcroft | Eagleburger | Carla Hills | Gen. Paul Gorman | Edgar Bronfman | John Kluge |
1993 |
| Warren Buffett's annual classic golf tournaments, Omaha, Nebraska Adm. Hank Chiles (known to have went in 1995 and 1996; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1994-1996) | Adm. Richard Mies (hosted the 2001 tournament breakfast at Offutt; Stratcom commander at Offutt 1998-2001) | Col. Bob Smith (went in 1995; general manager, Officers Club at Offutt) | Dan Chao | Anne Tatlock. Visitors consist of leading U.S. businessmen, but not necessarily politically connected. |
1993 |
| Republican Leadership Council (RLC) Christine Whitman (founder and long-time chair) | Eisenberg (co-founder and chair) | Jon Kyl | Henry Kravis (co-chair) | Bob Dole (co-chair) |
1993 |
| Character Education Partnership (CEP) David Abshire | Norman Augustine | Brzezinski | Barbara Bush | William Webster |
1993 |
| Center for the National Interest (CFTNI) Henry Kissinger | James Schlesinger | Maurice and Evan Greenberg | Brent Scowcroft | Peter Peterson | Zbigniew Brzezinski | William Kristol | Richard Perle | Conrad Black | Daniel Pipes | Morton Abramowitz | Josef Joffe | Martin Feldstein | Francis Fukuyama | Richard Burt. Nixon Center: Henry K. (hon. chair) | Maurice G. (chair) | Peter P. | Brent S. | James S. (adv. council chair) | C. Black | Jonathan Aitken | Julie Eisenhower | Robert Ellsworth | Joseph Lieberman | John McCain III | Walter Annenberg | Robert Blackwill | Paula Dobriansky | John Deutch | David and Susan Eisenhower | Rita Hauser | Charles Krauthammer | Evan Greenberg | Lee Hamilton | Robert McFarlane | Joseph Nye | Dov Zakheim | Robert Zoellick | Leslie Gelb | William V. Roth Jr. | Richard V. Allen | David Abshire | Fritz Ermarth (director of national security programs since 2002) |
1994 |
| Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS) Board: General Martin Dempsey. Honorary Board: Adm. Michael Mullen | Gary Sinise | General Colin Powell | Gen. James Conway | Gen. Richard Myers | Jeremy Renner | Joan Shalikashvili (wife of Gen. John Shalikashvili) | Kyra Phillips (CNN News Anchor) | Sen. Barbara Mikulski | Sen. Bob Dole (chair) | Jimmy Carter | Sen. John McCain | Sen. Kit Bond |
1994 |
| Pacific Council on International Policy (PCIP) Directors 2000-2001: Robert Abernethy | Michael Armacost | Ronnie Chan | Warren Christopher | Lewis Coleman | Rita Hauser | Irwin Jacobs | Jim Steinberg Members per Dec. 12, 2001 (as listed in 'PCIP 2000-2001: From Start-up to Institution' report): George Shultz | Brent Scowcroft | John McCain III | Condoleezza Rice | William Perry (member 2001-) | Peter Peterson | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Nicholas Rockefeller | Lawrence Eagleburger | Robert Gates | Sidney and Jane Harman | Carla Hills | William Ruckelshaus | Paul Wolfowitz | David Gergen | Leslie Gelb | Robert Hormats | Ronald Lehman II | Jon Huntsman Jr. | Francis Fukuyama | Arianna Huffington | Paula Dobriansky | William Draper III | Sol Linowitz | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Thomas V. Jones | Henry Cisneros | A. W. Clausen | Thierry de Montbrial | Henry Catto Jr. | William Simon Jr. | Roberta Wohlstetter (wife of Albert Wohlstetter) | Robert O. Anderson | Bill Bradley | Murray Gell-Mann | Marvin Goldberger | Donald Gregg | Robert Ingersoll | Abraham Sofaer | Bill Neukom | Jim Kolbe | Eli Broad | Shirley Temple Black | Stephen Bosworth | A. Lawrence Chickering | Kenneth Derr | Stephen Krasner | Lawrence Krause | Ruben Mettler | George Montgomery Jr. | Bill Neukom | Adm. Bill Owens | Robert Pastor | Rudolph Peterson | Elspeth Rostow | Heidi and Alvin Toffler | Robert Van Dine. Speakers: Richard Garwin ('00) | Walter Russell Mead ('00) | Sen. Bob Graham ('00) | Lawrence Korb ('00) | Gary Hart ('00) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('01) | George Soros (May 2, '01) | Gareth Evans (speaker '01) | Richard Haass ('01). More: Gen. John Shalikashvili | Dianne Feinstein | Norman Pattiz | Bruce Tarter | Janet Yellen | Nicolas Berggruen (director anno 2011) | Howard Berman | Nancy Rubin | Robert O'Brien (member 2007-; civilian observer here for the pre-trial hearings of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani (member) | John F. Cook (director). |
1995 |
| U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC) April 14, 2020 Google search on "Global Leadership Coalition": just 88 links, with maybe 2-3 newspaper articles. usglc.org/about-us/advisory-councils/advisory-council/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): Colin Powell (hon. chair) | Madeleine Albright | Gov. George Allen | Richard Armitage | James Baker | Sen. Bill Bradley | Hillary Clinton | William Cohen | Sen. Tom Daschle | Sen. Christopher Dodd | Sen. Bill Frist | Robert Gates | Stephen Hadley | Lee Hamilton | Sen. Gary Hart | Carla Hills | Thomas Kean | John Kerry | Henry Kissinger | Jim Kolbe | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Sen. Sam Nunn | Paul O'Neill | Gov. Tim Pawlenty (Minnesota) | William Perry | Condoleezza Rice | Susan Rice | Gov. Bill Richardson | Tom Ridge | Sen. Rick Santorum | George Shultz | Larry Summers | Sen. John Warner | Sen. Tim Wirth | James Wolfensohn | Robert Zoellick. NOTE: Quite a few congressmen and senators left out. usglc.org/advisory-councils/ (accessed: April 16, 2010; only names not seen in the 2020 list): Sam Berger | Harold Brown | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Frank Carlucci | Warren Christopher | Lawrence Eagleburger | Thomas Foley | Chuck Hagel | James Schlesinger | Steve Solarz. EXTRA: Richard Lugar (per March 29, 2015) More: Robert O'Brien (member national advisory council March 2022-). Other: George W. Bush and wife Laura (hosted by USGLC before June 2007 G8 departure) usglc.org/about-us/advisory-councils/national-security-advisory-council/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): "The U.S. Global Leadership Coalition's National Security Advisory Council (NSAC) includes more than 200 retired three and four-star generals and admirals..." Gen. Keith Alexander | Gen. Wesley Clark | Gen. James Conway | Adm. Edmund Giambastiani Jr. | Gen. Michael Hayden | Gen. Patrick Hughes | Gen. Barry McCaffrey | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Adm. Mike McConnell | Gen. H.R. McMaster (joined after retiring as Trump's NSA 2017-2018) | Gen. Richard Myers | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. Carl Stiner | Gen. Charles Wald | Gen. Charlie Wilhelm. This list of dozens of generals contains past leaders of U.S. Pacific Command, U.S. European Command, U.S. Africa Command, Iraq and Afghanistan commanders, National Counterterrorism Center, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, global U.S. Air Forces, U.S. Coast Guard, Cyber Command, NORAD, NATO, DIA, NSA, CIA, USSOCOM, JSOC, etc. usglc.org/national-security-advisory-council/ (accessed: April 16, 2010; only names not seen in the 2020 list; only about 60 names at this point): Gen. John Abizaid usglc.org/about-us/partners/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): "Funders: Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn]. Andrew H. Tisch. Hewlett [Fdn]. ... National Geographic Society. Citi." usglc.org/about-us/our-board/ (accessed: April 13, 2020): Center for U.S. Global Leadership ("education arm"): Norm Coleman (chair) | Dan Glickman (chair) | Andrew Tisch (vice chair) | George Ingram (treasurer) | Norman Ornstein (AEI) | Nancy Ziuzin Schlegel (Lockheed). U.S. Global Leadership Campaign ("advocacy arm"): Sean Callahan (co-chair; Catholic Relief Services) | Selina Jackson (co-chair; Procter & Gamble) | Karan Bhatia (Google) | Jeffrey Colman (AIPAC) | Ryan Guthrie (Coca-Cola) | Jeff Hofgard (Boeing) | Barbara Humpton (Siemens USA) | Heather Kulp (Chevron) | Laura Lane (UPS) | David Miliband (IRC) | Michelle Nunn (CARE USA) | George Pickart (GE) | Kishore Rao (Deloitte) | Caroline Roan (Pfizer) | Janti Soeripto (president and CEO Save the Children) | Sarah Thorn (Walmart) | Kathryn Unger (Cargill) | Candi Wolff (Citigroup) | Peter Yeo (UN Foundation/Better World Campaign) | Robert Zachritz (World Vision). usglc.org/about/our-leadership (accessed: Jan. 7, 2015): "Hunter Biden [on board: 2012-2018]." usglc.org/index.php?option=com_content (November 1, 2007): "ACTION ALERT: Urge Congress to support full funding for the International Affairs Budget! The U.S. Global Leadership Campaign consists of businesses, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and community leaders from across the country. Members of the USGLC – a vibrant, influential network of over 400 organizations and thousands of individuals – engage policy-makers in the nation's capital and educate the public around the country to build support for the U.S. International Affairs Budget. ... A: ... 3M ... Aerospace Industries Association ... Africa-America Institute ... Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. ... American Airlines ... American Center for International Labor Solidarity ... American Foreign Service Association ... American Friends Service Committee. American Institute for Foreign Study. American International Group. ... AIPAC ... American Jewish Committee. American Jewish Congress. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. ... American Near East Refugee Aid ... American Red Cross. American Refugee Committee. American Security Council. ... American Turkish Council. American University of Beirut. ... Anti-Defamation League. Arab American Institute. Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. ... Armenian Assembly of America. Armenian National Committee of America. ... AT&T. [NOTE: This is just PART of "A", in 2007!]" |
1995 |
| New Democrat Network (NDN) Thomas McLarty (advisory council) |
1996 |
| Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, City College of New York Originally known as the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies. Advisory board 2012 (known as the Board of Visitors anno 2020): Madeleine Albright (still anno 2020) | James Baker III | Tom Brokaw | Harold Evans (president and publisher Random House) | Carly Fiorina (chair and CEO HP) | Vartan Gregorian (still anno 2020) | Vernon Jordan (still anno 2020) | Henry Kissinger (still anno 2020) | Colin Powell (chair; member anno 2020) and daughter Linda Powell (still anno 2020) | Richard Haass | Barbara Walters | Elie Wiesel | Fareed Zakaria (still anno 2020). Also in 2020: David Rubenstein | Stephen Schwarzman | Ken Duberstein | Cesar Conde (chair NBC Universal News Group). |
1997 |
| New York-Presbyterian Hospital Life trustees anno 2000: C. Douglas Dillon, Maurice Greenberg (later chair and chair emeritus), Ogden Phipps, Laurance Rockefeller. Trustees: Edward H. Auchincloss | George F. Baker | Joseph Califano Jr. | Michel David-Weill | Jeffrey G. | Ogden Mills Phipps | William Rhodes | Sidney Weinberg. Anno 2003 trustee: Jerry Speyer. David Koch |
1997 |
| CEO Summit Participants (as far as is known): Bill Gates (organizer, as part of his Microsoft company; '97 and on) | Al Gore ('97) | Gen. Kenneth Minihan ('97; director NSA 1996-1999) | Steve Forbes ('97) | Riley Bechtel ('97) | William Esrey ('97; Sprint) | Frank Biondi ('97; Universal Studios) | Seigfried Hecker ('97; director Los Alamos) | Paul Hazen ('97; CEO Wells Fargo) | Katherine Graham ('98) | Nicholas Negroponte ('98) | Gerald Levin ('98) | Rupert Murdoch ('99) | Warren Buffet ('99, '03, '04, '08, '10, '11, '15, '18) | Jeff Bezos ('99, '03, '04, '08, '10, '18) | Steve Ballmer ('04, '10, '11; co-host) | Martha Stewart ('99) | Jack Welch ('99, '08; chair and CEO GE) | Jacques Nasser ('99; Ford Motor) | Michael Dell ('99) | Noboyuki Idei ('99; Sony) | John Chambers ('99; Cisco) | David Glass ('99; Wal-Mart) | Abudllah Juma'ah ('02; director Aramco, Halliburton and Saudi Investment Bank) | Carly Fiorina ('03, '04; HP) | Hasso Plattner ('03; SAP) | Ross Perot Jr. ('03) | Ray Kurzweil ('04) | Barry Diller ('04, '10) | Paul Vivek ('04; CEO Wipro in India) | Thomas Friedman ('08) | Tom Brokaw ('08) | Charlie Rose ('08) | Michael Kinsley ('08; Slate) | Rob Walton ('10; Wal-Mart) | Jamie Dimon ('10, '11; CEO JPMorgan Chase) | Timothy Geithner ('10) | Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud ('11, '15) | Ursula Burns ('11; CEO Xerox) | Mike Duke ('11; CEO Wal-Mart) | Robin Li ('11; Baidu) | Alan Mulally ('11; CEO Ford Motors) | Bob McDonald ('11; CEO Procter & Gamble) | Jim Sinegal ('11; CEO Costco) | Walter Isaacson ('12) | Sal Khan ('12) | Justin Trudeau ('17) | Lei Zhang ('18; CEO of China's Envision). Interests represented in 1997: NSA | Defense Information Systems Agency | MITRE | Sandia | U.S. government | U.S. Navy | America Online | AT&T | Cisco | Bankers Trust | Compaq | Deere & Co. | Barclays | Deutsche Bank | Emirates Bank International | Banco do Brasil | Belgacom | Bell Canada | Ford Motor Company | Ernst & Young LLP | Goldman Sachs | Hoffman-La Roche | Honeywell | Hyundai | Knight-Ridder | Lexis-Nexis | Lockheed Martin | McKesson | McKinsey | Mellon Bank | Mitsubishi | Monsanto | Philips | PriceWaterhouse | Samsung | Siemens | Tata Industries | Acer | Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi | NASDAQ | United Airlines | Shell. May 9, 1997, Wired, 'The Gates List: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner': "The top-secret guest list was obtained by the Eastside Journal, a Seattle-area daily, and made available to Wired News." hotwired.com/netizen /97/19/index2a.html (accessed: Feb. 8, 1998; original: 14-15 May 1997; part of Wired): "According to another CEO who wrote me: "The purpose was to get all of us to make the trip. To show that the leaders of government and captains of industry were smaller than [Bill Gates] is. I guess we are. I was afraid not to go. My competitors would seem more important than me, and they might get to see and hear something my stockholders would expect me to see and hear. It was quite a turnout." It was. The pope could never pull so many heavyweights in a single day. Neither has any president of the United States, except at funerals." May 29, 1998, Los Angeles Times: "Microsoft was criticized for the lack of women at its first CEO summit last year." May 16, 2018, Geekwire, 'Inside the hotel where Microsoft hosted some of the world's top corporate moguls Tuesday night': "Reporters over the years have gotten very creative in their attempts to shine a light on the gathering, with the Seattle Times in 2008 digging into the registrations of planes on the tarmac at Boeing Field during the event to discern more about the attendees. More recently, however, companies have become more savvy about cloaking the identities of their corporate jets." |
1997 |
| Panetta Institute for Public Policy Directors: Leon Panetta. Trustees: Ted Balestreri (anno '01-) | Dina Eastwood ('01-; ex-wife of Clint). National advisors: Henry Cisneros (anno '22) | Clint Eastwood (anno '22) | Bill Richardson (anno '22) | Clifton Wharton Jr. (anno '22). |
1997 |
| The Constitution Project Members Task Force on Detainee Treatment: Gen. David Irvine | Thomas Pickering | William Sessions | Lee Hamilton (outside supporter) | William Taft IV (outside supporter). Members Liberty and Security Committee: Gen. Wesley Clark | Thomas P. | John Podesta | William S. | William T. IV | Col. Colby Vokey | Walter Cronkite | William D. Rogers | Paul Weyrich | Kate Martin. Also: Mondale ( Right to Counsel Committee) | Morton Halperin (board and Liberty and Security Committee) |
1997 |
| Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) Co-founders and honorary co-chairs: David Rockefeller, Paul Volcker and John Whitehead. Paul Newman (co-founder) | Henry Schacht (vice chair) | Walter Shipley (vice chair). Members: Raymond Gilmartin | Louis Gerstner | Maurice Greenberg | Harold McGraw III | Charles Schwab | Clifton Wharton Jr. | Robert Wolf |
1998 |
| Alliance for Global Justice (AGJ) Self-described as "anti-imperialist" and "anti-capitalist". Raised several hundred thousand dollars for Occupy Wall Street. George Soros (financier). |
1998 |
| Children's Scholarship Fund (CSF) National board of advisors: Ted Forstmann (anno '00; key founder) | John T. Walton (anno '00; key founder) | Will Smith (anno '00-'12) | Henry Kissinger (anno '00-'12) | George Shultz (anno '00-'12) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno '00-'10) | Sam Nunn (anno '00-'12) | Lester Crown (anno '00-'12) | Stanley Druckenmiller (anno '00-'12, also a director anno '12) | Eli Broad (anno '00-'12) | James E. Burke (anno '00) | Ron Burkle (anno '00) | Barbara Bush (hon. anno '00-'12) | Joseph Califano Jr. (anno '00-'12) | Raymond Chambers (anno '00) | Henry Cisneros (anno '00-'12) | Tom Daschle (anno '00- '12) | Dick DeVos (anno '00-'12) and Pamella DeVos (anno '12, also a director) | Peter Flanigan (anno '00-'12; advisor UBS Warburg) | Tom Freston (anno '00-'12; chair and CEO MTV) | Robert L. Johnson (anno '00-'12; chair and CEO BET Holdings) | Martin Luther King III (anno '00-'12; president SCLC) | Sen. Trent Lott (anno '00-'12) | Daniel Moynihan (anno '00) | Nathan Myhrvold (anno '00-'12) | Michael Ovitz (anno '00) | Warren Rudman (anno '00-'12) | Jim C. Walton (anno '00). Source(s): scholarshipfund.org/index.asp (accessed: Aug. 15, 2000); scholarshipfund.org/ drupal1/?q=board (accessed: Jul. 24, 2012); etc. |
1998 |
| Cordell Hull Institute (CHI) Directors in Feb. 2003: Harald Malmgren (vice chair; co-founder) | William D. Rogers (vice chair; acting chair 2004-2006; vice chair Kiss. Assoc. until death in '07) | Hugh Corbett | Norman Augustine | Lawrence Eagleburger (co-founder; pres. Kiss. Assoc.) | Thomas Foley | Brent Scowcroft (vice chair Kiss. Assoc.) | Joseph Stiglitz | Robert Strauss | Brandon Sweitzer (president Marsh Inc. and chair of Marsh & McLennan Securities). Funding: Hewlett Fdn. |
1998-2006 |
| MoveOn George Soros (important financier). Created the Occupy Wish List website in support of Occupy Wall Street. |
1998 |
| New America Foundation (NAF) / New America Began life as Vision Trust, financed by the Schumann Foundation of Bill Moyers. James Fallows (founding chair) | Ted Halstead (founding president and CEO 1999-2007) | Eric Schmidt (founding director in 1999; chair 2008-) | Francis Fukuyama (founding director) | Walter Mead (founder; senior fellow CFR; 2000s)| Steven Rattner (long-time director) | Fareed Zakaria (early director; later co-chair of its National Security Advisory Council) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (early director; member National Security Advisory Council) | Tom Freston (member National Security Advisory Council) | John Whitehead (early chair Leadership Council) | Jonathan Soros (son of George; Leadership Council Nov. 2006-) | Craig Newmark (Leadership Council in 2008-) | Christine Whitman | Rita Hauser | Scott Malcomson (fellow) | Peter Beinart (senior fellow anno 2012). Finciers: Peter Peterson (major financier) | Rock., Ford, Open Society, Gates ($6,500,000 in 2009-2013 period), Hewlett, Surdna, Nathan Cummings, Tides, Arca, etc. foundations. Bill Gates. |
1999 |
| Goldman Sachs Foundation John Whitehead (founding chair GSF; became a partner in GS in 1956, co-chair 1976-1984, became a limited partner in 1989; founder of the bank's board of international advisors in 1982; still a "senior director" anno 2005, until 2014; member TC 1982-1985; frequent BB visitor '84-'97, also steering comm.) | Stephanie Bell-Rose (founding president and managing director GSF 1999-2009; CFR 1994-) | John Thornton (director GSF; co-CEO GS Int. 1995-1996, chair GS Asia 1995-1996, co-president 1999-2003) | Dina Habib Powell (president GSF 2010-; man. dir. GS 2007-). Goldman Sachs bank itself: Robert Rubin (partner 1971-1992, vice chair 1987-1990, co-chair 1990-1992) | Henry Kissinger (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-) | Robert McNamara (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-) | Henry Fowler (founding chair board of int. adv. 1982-; limited partner in GS; former treasury secretary) | Sir David Orr (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-; chair Unilever) | Otmar Emminger (founding member board of int. adv. 1982-; chair Deutsche Bundesbank) | Geoffrey Boisi (partner 1978-) | Sen. Mike Mansfield (member board of int. adv. 1989-2001) | Lord Brian Griffiths (joined GS in 1990; member board of int. adv.) | Romano Prodi (board of int. adv. 1990-1993) | Victor Halberstadt (board of int. adv. 1991-, still anno 2005 and 2014; BB steering comm. and sec.-gen. '81-) | Sir Peter Sutherland (member board of int. adv. 1990-1995; chair GS Int. 1995-2015) | Hank Paulson (partner GS 1982, COO GS 1994-1998, co-chair and co-CEO 1998-1999, sole chair and CEO 1999-2006) | Walter Mondale (member board of int. adv. anno 1999) | Donald Gregg (member board of int. adv. anno 1999, 2002) | Karel van Miert (member board of int. adv. anno 2001, 2005) | Thomas Foley (member board of int. adv. anno 2001, 2005) | Mario Monti (member board of int. adv. anno 2005, 2010; long-time BB visitor; EU chair TC until '12) | Lloyd Blankfein (COO GS -2006, CEO 2006-) | Chester Crocker (member board of int. adv. anno 1999, 2005) | Richard Mnuchin | Robert Hormats (vice chair GS Int.) | John Thain (president and COO GS 1999-2004) | Graham Thomas (exec. director in the Investment Banking Division 1993-2001) | Robert Zoellick (international vice chair; chair board of int. adv. 2006-2007, 2013-2016) | Sen. Judd Gregg (board of int. adv. 2011-). GS at the Federal Reserve: William Dudley | Robert S. Kaplan (partner GS 1990-, also served as vice chair) | Stephen Friedman (partner GS 1973-, co-COO 1987-1990, chair and co-chair 1990-1994, director 2005- after serving as PFIAB chair) | E. Gerald Corrigan (partner and managing director GS and chair GS Bank USA 2008-2016). GS in the Trump administration: Anthony Scaramucci (transition team member) | Dina H. P. (advised ka on "women empowerment", then deputy NSA for strategy 2017-18) | Steve Bannon (early chief strategist) | Steve Mnuchin (treasury sec.; partner GS) | Gary Cohn (top economic advisor; president GS). Notes: Nickname is "Government Sachs", with claims that the bank is "a political organization masquerading as an investment bank." \ |
1999 |
| Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Directors: Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot (co-founders; new left activist economists) | Julian Bond (2009-2015; radical black leader; co-founder MLK-allied SNCC in 1960; 1st president SPLC 1971-1979; trustee elite AAI 1970s-1980s; chair NAACP 1998-2010) | Danny Glover (2010-2020s). Advisory board: Joseph Stiglitz (2006-2020s) | Richard Freeman (2006-2020s) | Robert Solow (2006-2020s). Funders: Ford, Bauman, RBF, RFF, Nathan Cummings, Arca Streisand, Kellogg and Streisand foundations. |
1999 |
| Amery Heritage Center (AHC) Advisory board: Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (anno 2020) | Leslie Nicole Smith (anno 2020; ambassador to the Gary Sinise Foundation). Awarded: H. Ross Perot (2011). |
1999 |
| Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) Board of directors: George Soros (non-exec. director anno 2002-2020s) | Ethan Nadelmann (exec. member and director anno 2002, 2015, etc.; founder 1994 Soros-backed Lindesmith Center, which became the DPA in 2000) | Ira Glasser (exec. member and president anno 2002, 2018; former exec. director ACLU) | Dr. Robert Newman (exec. member; anno 2002, 2012; "Director, Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center") | Dr. Mathilde Krim (non-exec. member anno 2002, exec. member anno 2003, 2012; founding chair amfAR) | Jodie Evans (anno 2002, 2018; "Co-founder, CODEPINK") | Michael Skolnik (non-exec. director 2013-; "Political Director to Russell Simmons"). U.S. honorary board (founded in 2005 and listed until at least Nov. 2017): Walter Cronkite (2005 - d. 2009) | Arianna Huffington (2005-, anno 2017) | Dr. Richard Alpert / Ram Dass (2005-, anno 2012) | Gov. Gary Johnson (2005-, anno 2017) | Harry Belafonte (2005-, anno 2017) | Nicholas Katzenbach (2005 - d. 2012) | Kurt Schmoke (2005-, anno 2017) | Frank Carlucci (2006-, anno 2017) | Paul Volcker (2006-, anno 2017) | Alexander Shulgin (2006- d. 2014) | Dr. Charles Schuster (2006 - d. 2011) | George Shultz (2007-, anno 2017) | Russell Simmons (2008-, anno 2017) | Deepak Chopra (late 2012-, anno 2017). International honorary board (from its founding in Oct. 2009 it was listed "in formation" with 3-4 members on it, even as late as 2017): Vaclav Havel (2011 - d. 2011) | Ruth Dreifuss (2010-) | Sting (2011-) | Richard Branson (2012-). Board of the Drug Policy Alliance Network (2008-2011): Hamilton Fish (president) | Ira G. (vice president) | Ethan N. Frontpage as of April 21, 2021: "Too often drug involvement is used as an excuse for police to kill Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people." |
2000 |
| Financial Services Forum (FSF) James P. Gorman (Morgan Stanley) |
2000 |
| Diplomacy Center Foundation (DCF) Honorary directors: Henry Kissinger | George Shultz | James Baker III | Hillary Clinton | John Kerry | Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Condoleezza Rice. Directors: Frank Carlucci | Leslie Gelb | Thomas Pickering | Chuck Hagel. Trustees: Bruce Gelb | Lee Hamilton | Nicholas Burns | John Negroponte | Robert Gallucci | Frances Cook (chair Lonrho; former ambassador to Burundi, Camaroon and Oman). |
2000 |
| Financial Services Leadership Forum (FSLF), NYPL Advisory committee: Maurice Greenberg | Peter Peterson | John Whitehead | Harold McGraw III. Speakers: Maurice G. | John W. | Felix Rohatyn | David Rubenstein | Robert Rubin | Stephen Schwarzman | Timothy Geithner | Warren Buffett | George Soros | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Joseph Stiglitz | Larry Summers | John Thain | James S. Tisch | Peter Thiel | Ronnie Chan | Jeff Bewkes | Eliot Spitzer | Jamie Dimon | Larry Fink. |
2001 |
| Fortune's Brainstorm technology conferences David Kirkpatrick (founder and host). Visitors: Bill Clinton (three times) | Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google founders) | Jack Valenti | Jeffrey Katzenberg (Dreamworks) | Barry Diller | Bill Joy (co-founder Sun Microsystems) | Nancy Peretsman | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Mrs. H.J. Heinz II | Bandar bin Sultan (Saudi Arabia) | Nabil Fahmy (Egypt) | Ted Turner | Shimon Peres | Jack Kemp | Sen. John McCain III | Robert Mueller (FBI) | Paul Ehrlich and Amory Lovins (ecologists) | Paul Wolfowitz | Sandra Day O'Connor. |
2001-2005 |
| Partnership for Public Service (PPS) Advisory board of governors (historic): Norman Augustine | James Baker III | Sen. Richard Blumenthal | Erskine Bowles | Sen. Bill Bradley | Jonathan Bush Sr. | Kenneth Duberstein | Hodding Carter III | Michael Eisner | Stuart Eizenstat | Thomas Foley | Harold Ford Jr. | Dan Glickman | Stephen Heintz (pres. RBF) | Gen. Paul X. Kelley | Richard Levin | Sen. Joe Lieberman | John McCain III | Sen. George Mitchell | Mario Morino | Philip Odeen | Leon Panetta | Bill Paxon | Hugh Price | Robert Rubin | Larry Summers | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead | Christine Whitman. Directors (historic): David Gergen | Lloyd Howell Jr. | Robert Ingram | Sean O'Keefe | Dina Habib Powell | Susan Rice. Plus: managers from BAH, Lockheed Martin, Lazard, Ernst & Young, Mckinsey & Company and PricewaterhouseCoopers. |
2001 |
| Reform Institute David Boren | John McCain | Sen. Lindsay Graham. |
2001 |
| American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE) Advisory council: C. Boyden Gray (anno '04-'08, in government, '09-'15) | Robert McFarlane (anno '04-'15) | James Woolsey (anno '04-'15) | Adm. Dennis McGinn (anno '08) | Gen. Wesley Clark (anno '11-'15) | Amory Lovins (anno '04-15; co-founder, chair and chief scientist Rocky Mountain Inst.) | Christopher Flavin (anno '05-'15; president Worldwatch Inst.) | Christopher Flavin (anno '05-'15; president Worldwatch Inst.) | Wolfgang Palz (anno '11-'15; president World Council on Renewable Energy). Source(s): Site only up in 2004. acore.org/gov_advisory.html (accessed: Sep. 5, 2004 - Aug. 21, 2008); acore.org/about/governance/advisory-board (accessed: Sep. 8, 2011 - Sep. 1, 2015). Advisory council disappeared from the website around 2016. 2016 annual report doesn't mention the advisory board or any of the names. |
2001 |
| Democracy Coalition Project International advisory board: George Soros (primary financier) | Madeleine Albright | Michel Rocard | congressman John Lewis | Sergey Kovalev (Russia) | Samira Omar (Kuwait). Advisory board: Morton Halperin | Fiona Hill. |
2001 |
| Yale Center for the Study of Globalization (YCSG) Strobe Talbott (founding (managing) director). "Distinguished Visiting Fellows": Chilean president Ricardo Lagos (2007) | Mark Malloch Brown (2007) | James Wolfensohn (2012-2014). Speakers: Martti Ahtisaari (April 12, 2011). Other: Jake Sullivan (assistant to Strobe early 2000s). Funders: William Draper III; Ford, Hewlett, MacArthur and Rock. foundations; Citi and Santander Bank. |
2001 |
| OpenDemocracy Foundation Contributors OpenDemocracy.net: George Soros (also financier) | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Colin Greer | Gabrielle Rifkind (most likely related to Malcolm Rifkind). Financiers: Ford Fdn., RBF, etc. |
2001 |
| Conflict Securities Advisory Group (CSAG) Roger Robinson Jr. (founder) |
2001 |
| Common Good Trustees: Philip Howard (founder and chair) | Eric Holder. Advisory board (2005-2007): Peter Peterson | John Whitehead | Newt Gingrich | Jeb Bush | Robert Kagan | Christopher DeMuth | Sen. Howard Baker | Thomas Kean | Bill Bradley | Francis Fukuyama | Charles Kolb | George Rupp | Alan Simpson. Non one interesting anno 2020. |
2002 |
| Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD), St. Mary's College of Maryland Advisory board: Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (2002-2005) | Anthony Lake (2002-2011) | Ted Koppel (2002-2013; anchor ABC's Nightline 1980-2005) | Ben Bradlee (2002-2014; executive editor Washington Post 1968-1991, vice-president-at-large until his death in 2014). No major names joined in later stages. |
2002 |
| America Abroad Media (AAM) americaabroadmedia.org/SiteTree/index.cgi/58 ("Advisory board"; accessed: Dec. 13, 2002): Michael Armacost | Sandy Berger | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Chuck Hagel | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills | Stanley Hoffmann | Samuel Huntington | John Kerry | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Anthony Lake | Richard Lugar | Ernest May | Robert McNamara | Susan Rice | Stephen Rosen | Brent Scowcroft | Jim Steinberg | Strobe Talbott | James Woolsey | Philip Zelikow. Advisory board by July 7, 2004 (extra names): William Draper III | Richard Haass | Thomas Pickering | Felix Rohatyn. americaabroadmedia.org/about-aam/advisory-board (accessed: Sep. 29, 2008; extra names): David Abshire | Richard Armitage | Norm Augustine | Henry Catto | Ken Duberstein | Marc Grossman | Stanley Hoffman | Martin Indyk | John Whitehead. americaabroadmedia.org/about/advisory-board (accessed: Oct. 18, 2011; extra names) Peter Ackerman | Madeleine Albright | Hushang Ansary | Richard Burt | Michael Chertoff | Eliot Cohen | Lester Crown | Paula Dobriansky | Bruce Gelb | Leslie Gelb | C. Boyden Gray | Thomas McLarty III | Zalmay Khalilzad | Margot Pritzker | Vin Weber. Same url on Aug. 16, 2014 (extra): Nicholas Burns | Michael Hayden | Stapleton Roy. americaabroadmedia.org/who-we-are/board-of-advisors (accessed: Sep. 16, 2017): Howard Berman | Tim Roemer. Board of directors: Enders Wimbush (anno 2020). Middle East Advisory Council: Princess Rym Ali (wife of Prince Ali bin Hussein of Jordan). |
2002 |
| Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security (CIP/HS) Gen. Bill Reno (chair) | Adm. Giambastiani | Michael Hayden | Eric Hotung | Robert McFarlane | Ed Meese | Sen. Chuck Robb | |
2002 |
| Center for American Progress (CAP) Left-leaning alternative to the Heritage Fdn. and AEI. Disliked by the Zionist right-wing. Neera Tanden (president) | John Podesta (founder; Clinton chief of staff; helped form the Obama administration) | Morton Halperin (senior vice president and director of fellows) | Van Jones | Robert Abernethy (foreign policy advisory council) | Gordon Gray (COO) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (known to have had a meeting at CAP HQ with the founder) | Jane Harman (speaker '07) | Marc Agrast (senior vice president for domestic policy 2007-, later senior fellow) | Jamie Gorelick (outside advisor and legal aide 2010s). Major financiers: George Soros | Peter Lewis | Steve Bing | Herb and Marion Sandler | Ford Fdn. | Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn. (Bill Gates) | Walmart | Citigroup. |
2003 |
| Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy (CRFP) Gary Hart | Stephen Walt. Signers: John Mearsheimer |
2003 |
| Spirit of America Jim Hake (founder and CEO). Earliest advisory board members: Adm. Jeremiah Denton (2003-2006) | Gen. Mike DeLong (2003-2010) | Jack Vaughn (2003 until death in 2012; with USIA In Central America 1949-1951 and with State Department 1951-1966; met Che Guevara 7-8x; USAID mission director in Africa 1959-1961; early leader Peace Corps 1961-1965; assistant secretary of state for inter-american affairs 1965-1966; appointed 2nd director U.S. Peace Corps 1966-1969; Nixon's ambassdor to Colombia 1969-1970; president "liberal CIA"-funded National Urban Coalition; president "liberal CIA"-funded Planned Parenthood 1974-1975). Later advisory board members: Gen. Tommy Franks (hon. co-chair 2005-2009) | Sen. John McCain (hon. co-chair 2005-2011; 2011-mid 2014) | Peter Ackerman (2010-) | Kimberly Kagan (2010-2020s; sister of Robert K.) | George Shultz (2010-2020s) | Gen. Jack Keane (2010-) | Col. Dr. John Nagl (2010-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (2012-2020s) | Nancy Soderberg | Gen. James L. Jones (2010s-2020s) | Gen. Mike Flynn (early 2015-mid 2016) | Gen. Jim Mattis (mid 2016-early 2017) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (2019-). |
2003 |
| Homeland Security Policy Institute (HSPI) David Abshire | Chertoff | William Sessions | Richard V. Allen | Ed Meese | Chuck Robb | William Webster |
2003 |
| New American Strategies for Security and Peace Congress Advisory committee of the 2003 congress: Albright | Sandy Berger | Brzezinski | Warren Christopher | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. William Crowe | Leon Fuerth | Gary Hart | Holbrooke | Walter Mondale | Perry | Bill Richardson | Felix Rohatyn | Arthur Schlesinger | Gen. John Shalikashvili | George Soros | Rabbi David Saperstein |
2003 |
| Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Founders: Bill Gates, William Ruckelshaus, John Shalikashvili. Leadership council: Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | Colin Powell (co-chair) | Lee Hamilton | Richard Blum (husband of Dianne Feinstein) | Jim Kolbe | Carla Hills | Ted Turner | James Wolfensohn. Steering committee: Adm. Bill Owens. Members: Adm. Thomas Pickering | Bill Ayer | Richard Gardner |
2003 |
| World Trade Center Memorial Foundation (WTCMF) Founding trustees: John Whitehead (acting founding chair; also founding chair Lower Manhattan Development Corporation 2001-2006; director after that) | David Rockefeller (left before 2011) | Henry Kravis (left before 2011) | Peter Peterson (until 2016) | Maurice Greenberg (still anno 2020) | Michael Bloomberg (founding hon. trustee; chair at some point in the 2010s, still anno 2020; co-appointed initial board) | Barbara Walters | Brian Mulroney | Sir John Bond | Ken Chenault (still anno 2020) | Jerry Speyer (still anno 2020) | Anne Tatlock (still anno 2020) | Craig Stapleton (still anno 2020) | Judith Rodin (until 2017) | Vartan Gregorian (still anno 2020) | Robert De Niro (still anno 2020) | Michael Eisner | Richard Parsons | Josef Ackermann. Additional trustees anno 2011: Bob Iger (anno '08, still anno 2020; succeeded Michael E. as head of Walt Disney 2005-2020, 2022-) | Billy Crystal | George Pataki (hon. chair; co-appointed initial board)| Gov. Chris Christie (hon. trustee) | Andrew Cuomo (hon. trustee) | Rudy Giuliani (hon. trustee) | Jon Stewart (famous comedian; still anno 2020). Hon. board members (anno 2011): Gerald Ford | Jimmy Carter | George W. Bush | Bill Clinton. Additional trustees anno 2020: Gov. Eliot Spitzer (hon.). Source(s): nyc.gov/html/om/pdf/ memorial_bd_list.pdf (accessed: April 12, 2023): "[WTC] Memorial Foundation Board of Directors (As of December 1, 2004):"; Jan. 5, 2005, New York Times, 'Trade Center Memorial Getting New Muscle' (David R. appointed by John W. as the "marquee ... foundation board member No. 1..." who helped recruit all subsequent members); buildthememorial.org/site/ PageServer?pagename=about_lead (accessed: May 18, 2007): "David [R.] ... John [W.] Founding Chairman..."; national911memorial.org/site/ PageServer?pagename=New_About_Board (accessed: Dec. 20, 2008); 911memorial.org/board-directors (accessed: April 30, 2011; first webarchive.). |
2004 |
| Pew Research Center 1990-origin as the Times Mirror Center. The "liberal CIA" Pew Charitable Trusts became its primary sponsor in 1996, leading to a new name: the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The Templeton Foundation has become another major financier. Pew Global Attitudes Project (2001-): international advisory board: Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Gareth Evans | Leslie Gelb | Carla Hills | Henry Kissinger | Peter Peterson | Peter Sutherland | Desmond Tutu | Queen Noor of Jordan | Yotaro Kobayashi | Tommy Koh | Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Don McHenry | John Passacantando (executive director Greenpeace USA) | Kenneth Roth | John Sweeney (president AFL-CIO) | Laura D'Andrea Tyson. ADDITIONAL FUNDING: Hewlett Fdn. |
2004 |
| GenerationEngage Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay; founder). Notable participants: Barack Obama | Bill and Hillary Clinton | Colin Powell | Newt Gingrich | Al Gore | Nancy Pelosi | Chuck Hagel | John Whitehead |
2004 |
| Global Policy Innovations (GPI) Advisory board: David Abshire | Joseph Stiglitz. Founded with RBF financing. Ceased publication of its magazine in 2016, handing it over to the Carnegie Council, and soon after disappeared. |
2004-2016 |
| Truman National Security Project (TNSP) Rachel Kleinfeld (founder and president). Robert Hunter Biden (board; son of vice president Joe B.) | Michael Breen (president and CEO). Advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Kurt Campbell | Leslie Gelb | William Perry | Gary Hart | John Podesta | Janet Napolitano | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Robert Abernethy | Jenna Ben-Yehuda (president and CEO) | Jake Sullivan (director anno 2020). Senior advisors and trustees: David Rothkopf | Peter Beinart (senior advisor). Truman Center for National Policy is its sister organization. |
2004 |
| Our Military Kids (OMK) Advisory board: William Perry | Gen. Peter Pace | Rozanne Ridgway | Walter Slocombe | James Woolsey | Dov Zakheim |
2004 |
| Princeton Project on National Security (PPNS) Produced the 2006 report 'Forging A World of Liberty Under Law: U.S. National Security In The 21st Century', which heavily influenced the upcoming Obama administration: George Shultz (founding co-chair) | Anthony Lake (founding co-chair) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (also project co-director) | Francis Fukuyama (also co-author of the Project's working paper on grand strategy) | Joseph Nye. Henry Kissinger (named as an advisor) | Samantha Power (involved). Funders: Ford and Hewlett foundations. |
2004-2006 |
| Media Matters for America (MMfA) Analyses U.S. news sources and very anti Fox News. David Brock (founder). John Podesta provided office space at his Center for American Progress. Hillary Clinton (early advisor) | George Soros ($1 million donation in 2010, but his groups have been backing MMfA since its inception) | Rachel Pritzker (founding board member). |
2004 |
| Democracy Alliance (DA) Consists of 100+ largely secret liberal financiers who donate $200,000 or more annually. Anne Bartley (co-founder; trustee of 4 Rockefeller fdns) | George Soros (co-founder) | Rob Stein (co-founder and initial CEO; former Bill Clinton Treasury official) | Drummond Pike (founding member and treasurer) | Tim Gill (co-founder) | Peter Lewis (co-founder) | Rachel Pritzker (founding board member; granddaughter of Bob (1926–2011), and a daughter of Linda (b. 1953)) | Kelly Craighead (president; Hillary Clinton aide) | Gara LaMarche (president since 2013; close to George S.) | Jonathan Soros (son of George S.). |
2005 |
| The American Interest magazine Spin-off of the National Interest. Founders: Zbigniew Brzezinski | Eliot Cohen | Francis Fukuyama | Josef Joffe. Contributor: Dov Zakheim | Niall Ferguson | Robert Kaplan |
2005 |
| Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) Warren Rudman (main founder) | Gary Hart | Zbigniew Brzezinski | George Shultz | Madeleine Albright | Sandy Berger | John Whitehead | Frank Wisner II | John Lehman | Lee Hamilton | Slade Gorton | Thomas Kean | Thomas Pickering | Sam Nunn | William Perry | Robert McFarlane | Carla Hills | Paula Dobriansky | William Cohen | Warren Christopher | Rita Hauser | Frances Townsend | Anthony Lake | Richard Lugar | Adm. Michael Mullen (anno '22) | Leon Panetta (anno '22) | David Petraeus (anno '22) | Frances Townsend (anno '22). Source(s): psaonline.org/members/ (accessed: March 13, 2022). |
2005 |
| Terror Free Tomorrow (TFT) Thomas Foley | Slade Gorton | John McCain III | Lee Hamilton | Thomas Kean | Chuck Rob | Bill First | William Koch |
2005 |
| Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) / Energy Security Leadership Council (since 2006) Leadership council: John L. Petersen | James Woolsey | Robert McFarlane | Gen. Paul X. Kelley (co-chair) | Adm. Vernon Clark | Maurice Greenberg | John Lehman (co-chair) | Frederick Smith (co-chair; chair, president and CEO) | Gen. James Conway | Peter Ackerman | Adm. Dennis Blair | Robert Hormats | Jon Stewart. Donors: AIG, Amazon, Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Unilever, Coca-Cola, GM, Leidos, Raytheon, VISA, Verizon, BlackRock, Credit Suisse, IBM, Northrop, UBS, Trump Organization, Cargill, CBS, News Corp., Nike, Wells Fargo. |
2005 |
| Progressive Forum, Houston Speakers: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ('05, '12) | Al Gore ('06) | Seymour Hersh ('06) | George Soros ('06) | Gloria Steinem ('07) | Robert Redford ('08) | Nancy Pelosi ('09) | T. Boone Pickens ('09) | Richard Dawkins ('10) | Arianna Huffington ('10) | Jane Goodall ('11) | Bill Moyers ('11) | Lester Brown ('13) | Rachel Maddow ('13) | Cecile Richards ('14; president Planned Parenthood) | John Kerry ('18) | Nicholas Kristof ('20) | Robert Reich ('20). |
2005 |
| National Security Network (NSN) Leslie Gelb | Richard A. Clarke | Sandy Berger | Wisner II | Wesley Clark | Rand Beers | Anne-Marie Slaughter. |
2006 |
| Project on National Security Reform (PNSR) David Abshire | Norman Augustine | Gen. Wesley Clark | Adm. Giambastiani | Gingrich | Adm. Mike McConnell (DNI) | Jessica Tuchman Mathews | Tom Ridge | Thomas Pickering | Brent Scowcroft | Gen. James L. Jones | Jim Steinberg. |
2006 |
| Bloomberg Philanthropies Directors: Ken Chenault (anno '21) | Bob Iger (anno '21) | Anne Tatlock (anno '21) | Mark Carney (anno '21) | Walter Isaacson (anno '21) | Emma Bloomberg (anno '21) | Mellody Hobson (anno '21) | John J. Mack (anno '21) | Adm. Michael Mullen (anno '21) | Sam Nunn (anno '21) | Hank Paulson (anno '21) | Sir Martin Sorrell (anno '21). |
2006 (separate HQ) |
| MIT Energy Initiative Energy Council: John Deutch. External Advisory Board: George Shultz (chair anno 2013) | Norman Augustine (chair anno 2020) | Stephen Bechtel Jr. | Thomas McLarty III | Sam Nunn | Susan Eisenhower | Ratan Tata | Frances Beinecke | Walter Hewlett | Robert Millard (chair MIT Corp.) | John Reed (chair MIT). Founding corporate members: BP, Shell, Saudi Aramco and ENI (Italy). Other donors: Chevron, Lockheed Martin, United Technologees, Schlumberger, Total, Bosch, Siemens, Duke Energy, Edison International, Hess Corporation. |
2006 |
| Intelligence Squared U.S. (IQ2US) Trustees (2020): Robert Rozenkranz | Max Boot | Ian Bremmer (founder and president Eurasia Group) | David Coulter (vice chair Warburg Pincus; former vice chair of JPMorgan Chase and CEO of Bank of America). Intelligence Council (2020): Max B. | Nicholas Burns | Devon Gaffney Cross (sister of Frank) | David Frum | Jonathan Soros. Mission: "IQ2US ... addresses a fundamental problem in America: the extreme polarization of our nation and our politics." |
2006 |
| The Common Good, New York City Continuation of the Show Coalition, founded in 1988 and "credited with playing a critical role in creating the Hollywood/Washington nexus of entertainment activism during that community's most politically active years." Not to be confused with "Common Good". Hon. board (2020): Nicholas Burns | James Clapper | Nouriel Roubini | Gov. Mario Cuomo (father of Gov. Andrew Cuomo). Past speakers (taken from official website on June 8, 2020): Elliott Abrams | Alec Baldwin | Carl Bernstein | Sheikh Mohammed Bin Essa Al Khalifa of Bahrain | Michael Bloomberg | Sidney Blumenthal | Bill Bradley | Tom Brokaw | Jerry Brown | Lester Brown | Mika and Zbigniew Brzezinski | President George W. Bush | Jimmy Carter | Dick Cheney | Michael Chertoff | Gen. Wesley Clark | Bill Clinton | Kellyanne Conway | Kevin Costner | Bill de Blasio | Tom Delay | Chris Dodd | Bob Dole | Barney Frank | David Frum | Leslie Gelb | David Gergen | Danny Glover | Al Gore | Lindsey Graham | Richard Haass | Chuck Hagel | Mark Halperin | Jane Harman | Gen. Michael Hayden | Katrina Vandel Heuvel | David Hogg | Robert Hormats | Arianna Huffington | Martin Indyk | Garry Kasparov | Jack Kemp | Robert Kennedy Jr. | Bob Kerrey | John Kerry | Henry Kissinger | Ted Koppel | William Kristol | Andrew McAfee | John McCain | Jenny McCarthy | Claire McCaskill | Sen. Mitch McConnell | Arnon Milchan | David Miliband | George Mitchell | Mike Morell | Markos Moulistas | Adm. Michael Mullen | Dee Dee Myers | Grover Norquist | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam Nunn) | Barack Obama | Nancy Pelosi | Gen. David Petraeus | Thomas Pickering | Erik Prince | Steve Rattner | Bill Richardson | Felix Rohatyn | Christopher Ruddy | Mark Ruffalo | Jeffrey Sachs | Maurice Sonnenberg | Arlen Specter | Eliot Spitzer | Gloria Steinem | Neera Tanden | Ted Turner | Cyrus Vance Jr. | Denzel Washington | Anthony Weiner | Christine Whitman | Byron Wien | Frank Wisner II | Bob Woodruff | Fareed Zakaria | Mort Zuckerman. |
2007 |
| Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University George H. W. Bush | Brent Scowcroft. Advisory board: Robert Gates | Kissinger | Eagleburger | Brzezinski | Inman | Deutch | Marine Corps Gen. James L. Jones | Marine Corps Gen. Bernard Trainor | Cindy Williams | Sen. Howard Baker |
2007 |
| American Security Project (ASP) Board: Gary Hart | John Kerry | Chuck Hagel | Norman Augustine | Christine Whitman. Members Consensus for American Security (2010-): Morton Abramowitz | Sandy Berger | Sidney Drell | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. Bill Owens | George Shultz | Strobe Talbott | Graham Allison | Barry Blechman | Gary Hart | Alice Hill | Lawrence Korb | Richard Burt | Madeleine Albright | Mark Brzezinski (son of Zbig) | Morton Halperin. |
2007 |
| Center for a New American Security (CNAS) Founding directors: William Perry (chair) | Madeleine Albright | Richard Armitage | Norman Augustine | Adm. Dennis Blair | William Lynn (Raytheon) | John Podesta. Founding advisory board: Rand Beers | Hans Binnendijk | Ashton Carter | Dr. Michael Green | Susan Rice. More directors: Col. John Nagl (president) | Nicholas Burns | Leo Mackey | Peter Schwartz (later also a director) | Gen. Jim Mattis (Nov./Dec. 2014-2017) | James Murdoch (son of Rupert M.) | David Schwimmer | Michael Sonnenfeldt | Jane Wales | Kurt Campbell (co-founder; chair; CEO) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman. Advisory board: Victor Cha | Paula Dobriansky | Tony Podesta | Anne-Marie Slaughter. Senior fellows: Robert Kaplan. Other: Joseph Nye (has a scholarship here named after him) | Scott Malcomson (lecture) | Gen. Mike Flynn (co-author January 2010 CNAS report) | Christine Parthemore (fellow). |
2007 |
| Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) Founders: Senators Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole, George Mitchell. Board: Sen. Chuck Robb | Norman Augustine | Jane Garvey (chairman) | Walter Isaacson | Gen. Charles Wald. More: Dan Glickman (senior fellow) | Michael Chertoff (co-chair Immigration Task Force). Task Force on Turkey: Mort Abramowitz and Eric Edelman (co-chairs) | Paula Dobriansky. Project (2010-): American Energy Innovation Council (AEIC): Principals: Norman A. | Ursula Burns | Jeffrey Immelt | Bill Gates | John Doerr | Chad Holliday (chair Shell). |
2007 |
| Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) Website online in late 2007. Officially launched in 2008. Directors: Jeb Bush (founder and chair 2008-2014) | Condoleezza Rice (member and chair 2014-) | Charles Schwab | Elizabeth DeVos | Joel Klein. Speakers: Michael Bloomberg (late 2000s). Funders: Koch, Gates, Carnegie Corporation, Kellogg and other foundations. |
2007 |
| Cultural Change Institute (CCI), Tufts University "CCI Network Members": Samuel Huntington (carried out studies laying the foundation for the instituite) | Paul Ehrlich | Francis Fukuyama | Dr. Roderick MacFarquhar | Michael Novak | Jeffrey Sachs. |
2007-2011 |
| American Corporate Partners (ACP) Advisory council: John Hamre | Vernon Jordan | William Kristol | Richard Myers | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. David Petraeus | George Shultz | Paul Wolfowitz | Gen. John Keane | Larry Summers | Karl Rove | David Axelrod. |
2008 |
| Peter G. Peterson Foundation Directors: Peter Peterson (founder) and son Michael (chair and CEO) | David Walker (president and CEO). Advisory board: George Shultz (co-chair) | Robert Rubin (co-chair) | Paul Volcker | Leslie Gelb | Bill Bradley | Barry Diller | Sheryl Sandberg | Mario Cuomo | Craig Barrett (former chair Intel) | Lesley Stahl | Sylvia Burwell (anno 2010-2013). Also involved: Bill Gates | Ted Turner | Oprah. |
2008 |
| Wall Street Journal (WSJ) CEO Council The CEO Council Asia was launched in 2016. First meeting in Europe in 2018. 2009 conference: Jeff Bewkes (still a member anno 2016) | Ken Chenault | Robert Clark (chair, president and CEO Merck) | Philippe Dauman | Peter Lowy | Stephen Schwarzman. 2010 members: Michael Bloomberg | Robert Gates | Timothy Geithner | Larry Summers | Muhtar Kent | David Rubenstein | Henry Kravis (again anno 2020) | Rupert Murdoch (still anno 2020) | 2013 conference: Barack Obama. 2016 members: Marco Rubio. Almost all major names gone. Members anno 2020: Michael Chertoff | Ross Perot Jr. Oct. 2020 digital summit (due to Covid epidemic): Christine Lagarde | John Bolton | Bill Gates | Rahm Emanuel | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Paul Polman. Dec. 2020 summit: William Kristol | Elon Musk | Mike Pompeo | Justin Trudeau | Wilbur Ross | Dr. Anthony Fauci (Covid expert). |
2008 |
| American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize annual event Executive committee: Henry Kissinger (founding '08-) | Colin Powell (founding '08-) | David Rubenstein (founding '08-) | Madeleine Albright (founding '08-) | Walter Isaacson (founding '08-) | Muhtar Kent (founding '08-) | John Hamre (founding '08-) | David Bradley (founding '08-). Speakers: Condoleezza Rice (Nov. 19, 2008, about journalist Daniel Pearl) Source(s): danielpearl.org/wp-content/uploads /2014/06/08HumanitarianPrize.pdf (accessed: April 10, 2020); 2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/ rm/2008/11/112069.htm (accessed: Jan. 1, 2024; 'Remarks At the American Red Cross Humanitarian Prize Ceremony', 'Secretary [C.] Rice ... Washington, DC. November 19, 2008'): "A special welcome to someone whose courage I have admired greatly, and that is Dr. Judea Pearl, the father of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl." |
2008 |
| Invictus Foundation Tries to help PTSD victims the traditional way. Board of advisors: Gen. Robert Dees | Sen. Slade Gorton | Sen. Mike Gravel |
2010 |
| ASU + GSV Summit Annual summit organized by Arizona State University (ASU) and Global Silicon Valley (GSV). 'Summit Leaders': Julia Stiglitz (daughter of Joseph Stiglitz). Speakers: Barack Obama | Priscilla Chan (wife of Mark Zuckerberg) | George W. Bush | John Legend | Condoleezza Rice | Bill Gates | Richard Branson | Laurene Powell Jobs | Penny Pritzker | Tony Blair | Sandra Day O'Connor | Cindy McCain ('19; widow of Sen. John McCain) | Reed Hastings | Sal Khan | Gloria Steinem | Vicente Fox | Matthew McConaughey | Bill Nye | Reed Hastings. 'Sponsor Partners': Gates Fdn., Pearson, Walton Family Fdn., Google Cloud, Microsoft, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, AT&T., Goldman Sachs, McGraw Hill. |
2010 |
| Institute for America's Future (IAF) Robert Borosage (founder-president) | George Soros (founding grant of $500,000). Other financing: Tides Fdn. Runs the Campaign for America's Future. Finances liberal website TomPaine.com. |
2009 |
| Progressive Congress Co-founder/directors anno 2012: Robert Borosage | John Cavanaugh | Katrina vanden Heuvel. |
2009 |
| Good Club / The Giving Pledge (annual meetings) Initially known as the "Good Club", looking how it involves the same group of people, having their first meeting in the same month, at the same place, hosted by the same person. All participants agreed that curbing (African) overpopulation was the most important issue, and their way to deal with it is by developing the continent. Creators: Bill Gates ($102 bln anno 2020) | Warren Buffett ($73 bln anno 2020; gives most of his philanthropy money to the Bill Gates Fdn.). Present at the May 5, 2009 New York City founding meeting (40 people): David Rockefeller (host of the 1st meeting at the President's House of Rockefeller University; signed in 2010; $3.3 bln at death in 2017) | Peter Peterson ($1.8 bln at death in 2018) | Michael Bloomberg ($60 bln anno 2020) | Ted Turner (2010 signer; $2.1 bln) | George Soros (has not signed as of 2020) | Chuck Feeney (2010 signer) | Oprah Winfrey (has not signed as of 2020) | Eli Broad (2010 signer). Signatories: Nicolas Berggruen (2010 signer) | Larry Ellison ($59 bln anno 2020; Oracle founder and Tesla director 2018-) | MacKenzie Bezos ($47 bln anno 2020; ex-wife of Jeff Bezos who is worth $147 bln anno 2020)| Mark Zuckerberg (2010 signer; $83 bln; FB founder; owner IG and WhatApp) | Sheryl Sandberg (FB) | Dustin Moskovitz (FB co-founder who set up Open Philanthropy with his wife) | David Rubenstein (2010 signer; $3.3 bln anno 2020) | Charles R. Bronfman ($2.3 bln anno 2020) | Edgar M. Bronfman ($2.5 bln anno 2020) | Ted Forstmann (2010 signer) | T. Boone Pickens (2010 signer) | Vladimir Potanin ($26 bln in 2020) | Strive Masiyiwa | John Doerr (2010 signer) | Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg (2010 signers) | Jon Huntsman Sr. (2010 signer) | Jeff Skoll (2010 signer) | George Lucas (2010 signer) | Michael Milken (2010 signer) | Victor Pinchuk | Pierre Omidyar (signed in 2010). |
2009 |
| Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Founding financiers: George Soros ($50 million founding financier) | Paul Volcker | David Rockefeller | Alfred P. Sloan Fdn. | Carnegie Corp. Founding advisory board: Joseph Stiglitz (still in 2018) | Jeffrey Sachs (still in 2018) | William Janeway (co-founder and financier; vice and later advisor to Warburg Pincus; still in 2018). Governing board, Jan. 2018: Drummond Pike | Chris Canavan (Soros Fund Management) | Rohinton Medhora (president CIGI) | Gillian Tett (US managing editor FT | Eric Weinstein (official expert; executive director Thiel Capital). More: Robert Johnson (exec. director; former managing director Soros Fund Management) | Lord Adair Turner Senior fellow anno 2021) | Victor Fung and Ronnie Chan (part of the "Business Leaders Panel" of a 2013 INET/CIGI conference, with the former as moderator). Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI): founded in 2001; partnered with INET since 2011. Into blockchain. Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum founder; Jan. 2018 published Maupin interview for CIGI) | Julie Maupin (senior fellow since Jan. 2016; advised the IOTA Foundation's registration process and early behind-the-scenes advisor since mid 2017). cigionline.org/activity/partnership-institute-new-economic-thinking-inet (accessed: January 7, 2017): "CIGI - Institute for New Economic Thinking [integrated logo]: ... Initiated by CIGI Founder and Chair Jim Balsillie and INET Founding Sponsor George Soros, the agreement provides $25 million (CAD) over five years to support joint CIGI-INET activities." |
2009 |
| Robertson Foundation for Government (RFFG) Brent Scowcroft | Sen. Chuck Robb |
2010 |
| Google Ideas / Jigsaw Changed its name to Jigsaw in 2016. Founders: Eric Schmidt | Jared Cohen. Other: Scott Malcomson (editor of a book of the two founders in 2010-2011). |
2010 |
| American Action Forum (AAF) Officers: Douglas Holtz-Eakin ([president) | Sen. Norm Coleman | Gov. Jeb Bush (anno 2014) | Michael Chertoff (2016-2019) | C. Boyden Gray (2016-2020s). |
2010 |
| Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Senior fellows: James Woolsey | James Wolfensohn | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Stephen Roach. |
2010 |
| Americans Elect americanselect.org/about (accessed: Aug. 16, 2012): "Changing the system by creating the first nonpartisan, national online presidential primary..." Staff: Elliot Ackerman (COO anno 2011; Marine Corps and CIA SAD background; son of Peter). Directors: Peter Ackerman (chair anno '11, still on board anno '23) | Adm. Dennis Blair (anno '11) | Christine Whitman (anno '11) | Stephen Bosworth (anno '11). Advisory board: William Webster ("Leadership" board anno '11; anno '12-'23 on the advisory board; former FBI and CIA director) | Will Marshall (anno '12) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (anno '12-'23) | C. Fred Bergsten (anno '12-'23) | Michael Eisner (anno '12-'23; chair and CEO Walt Disney 1984-2005) | Jessica Einhorn (anno '12) | Roderick Hills (anno '12-'23) | Carla Hills (anno '12-'23) | Lawrence Lessig (anno '12-'23) | John Negroponte (anno '12-'23) | . Source(s): americanselect.org/who-we-are (accessed: Dec. 16, 2011); americanselect.org/about (accessed: Aug. 16, 2012 - April 16, 2023). |
2010 |
| Global Economic Symposium Policy council: Martin Feldstein. Advisory board: Helmut Schmidt (honorary chair) | Pascal Lamy | Martti Ahtisaari | Victor Chu | Jacob Frenkel. Speakers: George Soros ('13) | William Rhodes ('13) | Eric Weinstein (Thiel Capital; '14)) | Prince Turki al Faisal ('14) | |
2010 |
| Berggruen Institute on Governance (BIG) Founding members: Nicolas Berggruen (founder and chair) | Francis Fukuyama (council member) | Joseph Stiglitz (council member) | Pierre Omidyar (advisor-at-large). 21st Century Council members (2017): Shaukat Aziz | James Cameron | Jared Cohen | Jack Dorsey | Francis F. | John Gray | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Pascal Lamy | Elon Musk | Pierre O. | Nouriel Roubini | Kevin Rudd | Nicolas Sarkozy | Eric Schmidt | Gerhard Schroder | Stephen Schwarzman | Jeff Skoll | Joseph S. | Larry Summers | HRH Prince Turki bin Abdullah al-Saud of Saudi Arabia | Fareed Zakaria | Lei Zhang | Bijian Zheng. Additional (2020): Gordon Brown | John Elkann (Agnelli). 2011 Think Long Committee: Willie Brown | Condoleezza Rice | George Shultz | Arnold Schwarzenegger (guest) | Jerry Brown (guest) Council for the Future of Europe: Nicolas B. | Carl Bildt | Tony Blair | Jacques Delors | Niall Ferguson | Pascal L. | Alain Minc | Mario Monti | Romano Prodi | Nouriel R. | Gerhard S. | Joseph S. | Guy Verhofstadt | Alex Weber | Peter Sutherland. Transformations of the Human Advisory Board: James Manyika | Stewart B. | Reid H. | Eric S. The "Berggruen Network": Ronnie Chan (anno 2021) | Eli Broad. |
2010 |
| World Affairs Institute / World Affairs Journal Editors anno 2011: Peter Collier (once of the left-wing Ramparts) | Christopher Hitchens | Robert Kagan | Joshua Muravchik. |
2010 |
| United States Energy Security Council (USESC) Listed members: James Woolsey | George Shultz | Robert McFarlane | Wesley Clark | William Perry | Norman Augustine | John Lehman | Alan Greenspan | Gary Hart | C. Boyden Gray | James Roche | Gen. Keith Alexander | Harold Brown | Stephen Hadley | T. Boone Pickens | Tom Ridge | Christopher Cox. Interlinked with the 2003-founded Institute for the Analysis of Global Security. Source(s): usesc.org/energy_security/ ?ui=desktop (accessed: June 10, 2012 - Aug. 10, 2019). |
2011 |
| Advanced Energy Economy Institute (AEEI) George Shultz |
2011 |
| Code of Support Foundation Robert Speer (trustee chair). Advisory board: Norman Augustine | Gen. Peter Pace | James Woolsey. |
2011 |
| Americans for Campaign Reform / IssueOne.org July 2011 at acrreform.org: co-chairs: Sen. Bill Bradley | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Sen. Warren Rudman | Sen. Alan Simpson. Directors: Frank Weil. Advisory comm.: Bruce Babbitt | Frank Carlucci | Hodding Carter III | William Donaldson | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills and husband Roderick Hills | Amory Houghton | Ed Kangas | Stephen Kay | Walter Mondale | Sam Nunn | Peter Peterson | George Rupp | James Gustave Speth | Paul Volcker | Christine Whitman | Tim Wirth July 2015 at IssueOne.org: members/advisors: Gen. Wesley Clark | William Cohen |
2011 |
| Fuel Freedom Foundation Set up to promote gasoline alternatives as ethanol, methanol, natural gas and electricity. Advisory board: James Woolsey (founding, anno 2017) | Bill Richardson (anno 2013) | Peter Goldmark (anno 2013; former president Rock. Fdn.) | John Hofmeister (former president Shell). Chairmen's Council: Lester Crown (anno 2017) | George Shultz (anno 2017) | Haim Saban (anno 2017). More: Sir Richard Branson (endoresed the foundation upon its founding). |
2012 |
| Represent.US Advisory board ("Our Advisors span the political spectrum, from progressives to Tea Party conservatives."): Theodore Roosevelt IV | Lawrence Lessig | Norman Ornstein | Tom Whitmore ("DC Tea Party Patriots") | Catherine Baer ("Tea Party Network Chair") | Shawn Riegsecker ("CEO and Founder of Centro"). Directors: Jennifer Lawrence. represent.us/unbreaking-america/ (accessed: June 16, 2020): "Studies show that when just 3.5% of a population engages in sustained activism, they have the power to push the entire nation to change." |
2012 |
| McCain Institute for International Leadership Sen. John McCain (founder) | Kurt Volker (executive director). Trustees: Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Lehman | Sen. Joe Lieberman | Jeff Immelt | David Petraeus. More: Henry Kissinger (2018) | Kurt Campbell (2018 Kiss. fellow) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (chairman of the Kissinger fellowship program anno 2018). Annual Sedona Forum visitors (since 2014): "CEOs from GE, Chevron, Walmart-USA, Fedex, Freeport McMoRan and Hewlett Packard" | Hillary Clinton ('14) | Robert Kagan ('14) | Gen. David P. ('17, '18) | Gen. Jim Mattis ('14, '18) | H.R. McMaster ('17, '18) | Sir Evelyn and Lynn de R. ('17, '18) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky ('18) | Elon Musk ('15) Demi Moore ('15; for Thorn) and Ashton Kutcher ('18; for Thorn) | David Axelrod ('17) | Carl Bildt ('17) | Gen. James L. Jones ('17) | Greg Maffei ('17) | John Negroponte ('17) | Nancy Okail ('17) | Sen. Jon Kyl ('14, '17, '18) | John L. ('18) | Sen. Joe L. ('18) | Bill McCaffrey | Randy Scheunemann ('18) | Josette Sheeran ('17, '18) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('18) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('18) | Frances Townsend ('17, '18) | Jim Kolbe ('18) | Lindsey Graham ('18) | Michael Abramowitz ('18) | Elliott Abrams ('14, '18) | Paul Wolfowitz ('18) | Raed Al Saleh ('18; head Syria Civil Defence - White Helmets) | Anne Applebaum | Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia | Joe Biden | Leslie Moonves ('17) | Tony Blair ('15) | David Miliband ('15) | James Clapper ('16) | Mike Pompeo ("past speaker" anno'21) More: David Kramer ("Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy" anno '16). |
2012 |
| Freedom of the Press Foundation Daniel Ellsberg (co-founder) | John Perry Barlow (co-founder) | Rainey Reitman (co-founder; Bradley Manning Support Network; Internet Defense League) | Edward Snowden (director since Feb. 2014) | Glenn Greenwald | Laura Poitras | John Cusack | Micah Lee (The Intercept). Provides funds to Wikileaks. Itself financed by the Foundation for National Progress, the publisher of Mother Jones magazine, which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding from Soros' OSF. The MacArthur Fdn. is another important financier. A minor grant of $25,000 was received from Rockefeller Brothers Fund "for voting rights coverage of the 2014 election." |
2012 |
| New York Leadership for Accountable Government (NY-LEAD) Set up to push for public financing of elections to take big business-funded super-PACs out of the equation. MoveOn.org allied itself early on with NY-LEAD in this campaign. Members/board: David Rockefeller (founding) | Jonathan Soros (founding) | Jerome Kohlberg (founding) | Jeffrey Sachs | Sen. Bob Kerrey | Frank Weil | Edgar Bronfman Sr. | Barry Diller | William vanden Heuvel | Charles Kolb | Chris Hughes (co-founder FB) | Sen. Bill Bradley (2015-) | Theodore Roosevelt IV (2015-) | Alec Baldwin (member anno 2020). |
2012 |
| Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security (Atlantic Council) Founding chair: Gen. James L. Jones |
2012 |
| The System Risk Council Focused on regulating the U.S. financial market. Members: Paul Volcker (anno '13, until '19, also listed as "senior advisor") | Chuck Hagel | Paul O'Neill (anno '13) | Lord Adair Turner (anno '14) | Nout Wellink (anno '14) | Jean-Claude Trichet (also listed as "senior advisor" '16-, still anno '21) | Bill Bradley (anno '13-'21)| John Reed (anno '13-'21; former chair and CEO Citicorp) | Hugh Johnston (anno '16; CFO Pepsico). Source(s): systemicriskcouncil.org/members/former-src-members/ (accessed: Oct. 12, 2021; lists past members on the left and present members on the right). |
2012 |
| USC Schwarzenegger Institute for State and Global Policy Advisory board: George Shultz | Christine Whitman |
2012 |
| Clements Center for National Security (CCNS), University of Austin Statecraft board: Henry Kissinger (2013-2020s) | John Lehman (2013-2020s) | Robert Gates (2013-2020s) | Stephen Hadley (2013-2020s) | Kurt Campbell (2013-2020s) | Paula Dobriansky (2013-2020s) | Eric Edelman (2013-2020s) | Sen. Bill Frist (2013-2020s) | Sen. John Cornyn (2013-2020s) | Sen. Kelly Ayotte (2013-2020s) | Sen. Roy Blunt (2013-2020s) | Gen. Michael Hagee (2013-2020s). More (page 2 of Statecraft Board not available in WebArchive before 2016): Senator John McCain (likely 2013-; anno 2016) | Ashton Carter (2014-; remained listed while SecDef) | George Shultz (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Condoleezza Rice (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sam Nunn (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | William Lynn (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Thomas Reed (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Jim Steinberg (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Kristen Silverberg (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sen. Marco Rubio (anno 2016) | Sen. Joseph Lieberman (anno 2016; likely 2013-) | Sen. John Thune (anno 2016; likely 2013-). Advisory board: Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (2013-2020s). Academic board: Eliot Cohen (2013-2020s) | Robert Kagan (2013-2020s) | Walter Russell Mead (likely 2013-, certainly 2015-2020s) | Aaron Friedberg (anno 2020). More: William Inboden (founding executive director). |
2013 |
| Volcker Alliance (VA) Directors: Paul Volcker (founder and chair 2013-2019) | Bill Bradley (2013-) | William Donaldson (2013-) | Francis Fukuyama (2013-) | Norman Ornstein (2013-) | William Rhodes (anno 2016). |
2013 |
| Strategic Renaissance 21 (SR21) Board (just 3): Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (founding chair 2013-2020s) | Jim Hackett (founding vice chair 2013-about 2017; moved to advisory council after that; chair Anadarko Energy) | Gen. Joseph Hoar (founding director 2013-about 2017). Advisory council (just 2): Archbishop Theodore Cardinal McCarrick | Dr. Dixon Doll (co-founder and general partner DCM). Next Gen Council description: "Leaders in business, academics, government, and policy who are committed to the long-term viability of the US- China relationship." No big names among the 4 listed. |
2013 |
| Institute of Politcs, Chicago University Advisory board: William Kristol (2014-, anno 2020) | Mike Morell (anno 2020) | Penny Pritzker (anno 2020) | Neera Tanden (2014-, anno 2020). |
2013 |
| Washington Center for Equitable Growth Steering committee: John Podesta (anno 2021; 1 of 8 staffers in 2013) | Jason Furman (anno 2021) | Janet Yellen (former anno 2021) | Laura Tyson (former anno 2021). Research Advisory Board: Robert Reich (founding 2013-2020s). |
2013 |
| Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP), Columbia University Advisory board: Gen. Stanley McChrystal | Thomas Donilon | Reid Hoffman | Steven Rattner | Theodore Roosevelt IV. |
2013 |
| Service Academies Global Summit Kurt Campbell (advisor 2019 summit) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (2019' keynote speaker; 2018 speaker) | David Gergen (2018 keynote speaker). |
2014 |
| National Medal of Honor Museum Ross Perot Sr. (major founding donor). Directors: George Shultz (2014-2017) | Gary Sinise (anno 2015, later advisory board member) | Ross Perot III (anno 2020) | Craig Stapleton (anno 2020) | Alexander H. Tisch (anno 2020). Advisory board anno 2020: Sean O'Keefe | Leon Panetta | Gen. Michael Hayden | Adm. Bobby Ray Inman | Gen. Richard Myers | Adm. Eric Olson | Gen. Peter Pace | Gen. David Petraeus | Theodore Roosevelt IV. Honorable directors: All living past presidents. |
2014 |
| 30% Club U.S. members: Peter Grauer (founding chair) | Warren Buffett (founding member; not anymore anno 2020) | Muhtar Kent (2014-; not anymore anno 2020) | Larry Fink (founding member) | Dominic Barton (anno 2016; McKinsey & Co.) | Bob Bechek (global chair Bain & Co. 2012-) | Ursula Burns (anno 2016) | Henry Kravis | William Lauder | Brian Moynihan | Sheryl Sandberg | John Waldron | William McNabb III and Mortimer Buckley (Vanguard). U.K. members: Baron David de Rothschild | Douglas Flint (chair HSBC and IIF; member IMC) | John McFarlane (group chair Barclays 2015-2019; president IMC) | chair Roger Carr (chair BAE Systems) | Carl-Henric Svanberg (chair Volvo; chair BP 2010-2018) | Michael Treschow (chair Unilever 2007-; former chair Ericsson) | Sir John Parker (chair PO&O 2005-2006; chair Anglo American 2009-2017; director Airbus) | Sir Ian Davis (chair Rolls-Royce; director BP) | Sir Philip Hampton (chair Royal Bank of Scotland and GlaxoSmithKline; early Lazard history) | Simon Collins | David Cruickshank (partner Deloitte Global) | Sir Bob Kerslake (civil servant; chair Peabody Trust) | Sian Westerman (senior advisor Rothschild & Co.). us.30percentclub.org/about/ (accessed: Jan. 1, 2020): "Goal of achieving 30% female directors on S&P 100 boards by 2020. Today, 28.6% of S&P 100 directors are women, up from 20.2% at launch. Additionally, all S&P 100 boards have at least one female director. Even more encouraging, the US membership has achieved an average of 30% women on their boards, up from 21.7% when it launched..." |
2014 |
| New Establishment Summit Founded and organized by Vanity Fair (owned by Conde Nast, whose president (since 2010) and CEO (since 2015), Richard Sauerberg Jr., worked for the NYT for 18 years and is a director of the David Rockefeller-founded Partnership for New York City; CFO of Conde Nast is David Geithner, brother of superclass member Tim Geithner). Frequent participant: Graydon Carter (Vanity Fair editor 1992-2014). Speakers: Mark Zuckerberg ('15) and Priscilla Chan | Elon Musk ('15) | Lena Dunham ('15) | Katie Couric ('15) | Jeff Bezos ('16) | Barry Diller ('16) | Travis Kalanick ('16) | Sarah Jessica Parker ('16) | Rand Paul | John Kerry ('17) | Walter Isaacson ('16, '17) | Reid Hoffman ('17) | Bob Iger ('17) | Maureen Dowd ('17; NYT) | Dee Dee Myers ('17) | Shonda Rhimes ('17) | Ted Sarandos ('17) | David Zaslav ('17) | Judd Apatow ('17) | Mark Cuban ('17). summit.vanityfair.com/sponsors (accessed: May 26, 2016): "Discovery Communications... BMW... HBO... Air France-KLM..." |
2015 |
| Progressive Agenda Ultraliberal "new left" crowd. NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio | Jonathan Soros | Katrina Vanden Heuvel | Van Jones | Joseph Stiglitz |
2015 |
| Global War on Terrorism Foundation Advsiory board: Gen. Peter Pace (anno 2020) | Gen. James Conway (anno 2020). |
2015 |
| MIT: Solve 'People': Joi Ito (anno 2015). Advisors: Eric Schmidt (anno 2021) | Ursula Burns (anno 2021) | Laurene Powell Jobs (anno 2021) | Prince Henri d'Arenberg (anno 2021). |
2015 |
| Center for Cyber and Homeland Security (CCHS) Founding steering committee: Charles Allen (Homeland Security and CIA background) | Richard V. Allen (into 2020s) | Michael Chertoff (into 2020s) | Henry Crumpton (CIA background) | Leon Fuerth (into 2020s) | Bruce Hoffman | Edwin Meese III (into 2020s) | Chuck Robb | Gen. Edward Rowny | William Sessions (FBI director; into 2020s) | Michael Steinhardt | William Webster (into 2020s). Council of Executives (anno 2020 the new steering committee): Cofer Black (Crumpton's mentor) | Martin Faga | Alberto Fernandez | Frances Townsend. |
2015 |
| Service Year Alliance Gen. Stanley McChrystal (founding chair 2016-2020s) | Leadership council (same for Feb. 2018 and May 5, 2020): Madeleine Albright | Barbara Bush (daughter of George W.) | Robert Gates | David Gergen | Dan Glickman | Stephen Hadley | Arianna Huffington | Walter Isaacson | Vanessa Kerry (daughter of John Kerry) | Condoleezza Rice. |
2016 |
| Strategic and Policy Forum (SPF) Founded to advise President Donald Trump. Members resigned over the next few months over Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Climate agreement; and Trump comments in the wake of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Members: Stephen Schwarzman (key founder with President Donald Trump) | Jamie Dimon | Larry Fink | Elon Musk | Jim McNerney (retired chair, president and CEO Boeing) | Jack Welch (retired chair and CEO GE) | Mary Barra (sitting chair and CEO GE) | Bob Iger (chair and CEO Walt Disney) | Kenneth Frazier (chair and CEO Merck) | Brian Krzanich (CEO of Intel) | president and CEO of Boeing | Indra Nooyi (chair and CEO PepsiCo) | Kevin Plank (chair and CEO Under Armour) | Ginni Rometty (chair, president, and CEO IBM) | Mark Weinberger (chair and CEO EY) | Doug McMillon (president and CEO Walmart). |
Feb.-Aug. 2017 |
| National Security Institute, George Mason University Experts (anno 2020): Gen. Keith Alexander | Gen. Michael Hayden | Gen. Jack Keane | Mike McConnell | John N. Moore | congressman Mike Rogers (chair House Intelligence Comm.) | Michelle Van Cleave | David Cohen (depurty director CIA) | Paul Wolfowitz. |
2017 |
| U.S. Diplomatic Studies Foundation Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | Rand Beers (co-chair) | Chester Crocker (vice president). Funding: Carnegie Corp., RBF. |
2017 |
| UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy Advisory board: Michael Dukakis | Jane Harman | Lonnie Bunch (founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture). |
2017 |
| Climate Leadership Council (CLC) All 'Individual Founding Members': Michael Bloomberg (listed 2017-2018) | Laurene Powell Jobs (listed 2017-2019) | Larry Summers | Martin Feldstein | Ben Bernanke | Ratan Tata | Rob Walton | Christine Whitman | Janet Yellen | Paul Polman | Klaus Schwab | Ray Dalio | Ted Halstead | Stephen Hawking | Steven Chu | Christiana Figueres. Directors: Kathryn Hufschmid Murdoch (anno 2021; wife of James). "Distinguished co-authors of carbon dividend plan": James Baker III | George Shultz. 2017, CLC paper, 'The Conservative Case for Carbon Dividends' about "the need for a conservative Climate solution", (additional) authors: Geore S. | James B. | Hank Paulson. clcouncil.org/founding-members/ (acceesed: May 27, 2021): "CORPORATE FOUNDING MEMBERS: Allianz. AT&T. Ford. GM. Goldman Sachs. IBM. Johnson & Johnson. JPMorgan Chase & Co. MetLife. Microsoft. ... Pepsi Co. Santander. Schneider Electric. Unilever. ENERGY FOUNDING MEMBERS: BHP. BP. ... ConocoPhillips. ... ExxonMobil. ... Shell. Total." |
2017 |
| Two Paths America Center-right. National advisory committee: William Kristol | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Christine Whitman. |
2017 |
| National Security Action nationalsecurityaction.org (accessed: Apr. 25, 2020): "Dedicated to advancing American global leadership and opposing the reckless policies of the Trump administration. ... Instead of confronting Vladimir Putin over his brazen and ongoing attack on our democracy, Trump bows to the whims of Moscow... We reject the false choice between welcoming immigrants and refugees and ensuring our security. We can and must do both." Founders: - Ben Rhodes (co-chair; worked under Lee Hamilton 2002-2007, helping to draft the Iraq Study Group Report and the recommendations of the 9/11 Comm.; trustee Ploughshares Fund; brother David served as CBS president 2011-2019). - Jake Sullivan (co-chair). Advisory board: Howard Berman | Sen. Barbara Boxer | Nicholas Burns | Bill Burns | Kurt Campbell | Joe Cirincione (president Ploughshares Fund) | Sen. Tom Daschle | Thomas Donilon (Obama NSA) | Michelle Nunn (daughter of Sam) | Samantha Power | Penny Pritzker | Susan Rice | Jeremy Bash (CIA chief of staff 2009-2011, then DOD 2011-2013) | Rand Beers (deputy Homeland Security advisor 2014-2015) | Jenna Ben-Yehuda. |
2018 |
| When We All Vote Founding co-chairs: Michelle Obama | Tom Hanks | Megan Rapinoe | Kerry Washington | Faith Hill | Tim McGraw. Later added co-chairs: Selena Gomez (anno 2021). |
2018 |
| American Democracy Month Council (ADMC) Website URL registered in mid 2018. Mission: "[To] help educate and inspire Americans [because] research shows that fewer and fewer Americans maintain faith in our democratic system." Directors: George Mitchell (anno '20) | John Negroponte (anno '20). Advisory board: Nicholas Burns (anno '20) | Tom Daschle (anno '20) | Bob Dole (anno '20) | Lee Hamilton (anno '20) | Carl Levin (anno '20) | Norman Ornstein (anno '20) | George Stephanopoulos (anno '20) | Francis Townsend (anno '20) | Trent Lott (anno '21). Source(s): democracymonth.org/about/ (accessed: May 13, 2020; board of directors and advisory board "in formation"); etc. |
2018 |
| Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (QI) Founding directors: Stephen Heintz (president RBF) | Thomas Pickering. Seed financiers: Soros, Koch, Ford and Arca foundations; Ploughshares Fund. |
2019 |
| No One Left Behind Advisory board: Paul Wolfowitz | Gen. David Petraeus. nooneleft.org/who-we-are/our-team/ (accessed: July 8, 2020): "An all-volunteer organization working to support Special Immigrant Visa recipients (SIVs)." nooneleft.org/who-we-are/our-team/ (accessed: July 8, 2020): "[General David P.:] "What is really important here is that those who have been supported when they came here are now supporting those who are coming here. And that is hugely important because it demonstrates their own responsibility, their own gratitude, their own desire to payback, to pay it forward for all of this… Thanks for not only continuing to support those who come here, but thanks also for being an example of the newest generation of immigrants to our shores from what you do to contribute to the country."" |
2019 |
| National Infrastructure Performance Council Council: Maurice Greenberg | Gen. David Petraeus | George Pataki. |
2019 |
| U.S. Cyberdome Works to protect the U.S. elections from foreign interference. Founding advisory board: Jeh Charles Johnson (former secretary Homeland Security) | Mike Morell | Michael Chertoff | Chuck Hagel | Gen. James Clapper | Sherri Ramsay (NSA veteran). |
2020 |
| Homeland Security Experts Group (HSEG) Until Jan. 2020 known as Aspen's Homeland Security Group. Then MITRE took over funding and established it as a separate entity. Members/experts: Gen. Michael Hayden (pre-2020 co-chair) | Michael Chertoff (co-chair) | Jane Harman (co-chair) | Gen. Keith Alexander | John McLaughlin | Adm. Eric Olson | William Webster | Richard Ben-Veniste | Janet Napolitano. |
2020 |
| Defeat Disinfo Curtis Hougland (developed the initial AI tech on a grant from DARPA to counter ISIS propaganda) | Stephanie Berger (fundraiser; former DNC national finance director). Advisory board: Gen. Stanley McChrystal Its launch was in every major newspaper. DefeatDisfo.org frontpage at that point (didn't list officers): "Trump's lies about Joe Biden & Covid-19 threaten our society. Republicans and Russians weaponize these lies to divide the nation. The big tech companies can't or won't help – it's up to us to act. To defeat Trump in 2020, we must defeat disinformation. Join the digital frontline to take back the internet today." The project is using AI to analyze and spread anti-Trump "counter-disinformation" through "3.4 million influencers in the country" that are active on the internet and social media. This would theoretically mean that 1% of U.S. citizens are active Democrat-globalist propagandists. |
2020 |
| (Gary) Hart Center for Public Service Directors: Gary Hart. Advisors: David Axelrod (anno '21). Honorary advisory board: John Kerry (anno '21) | William Cohen (anno '21) | Larry Summers (anno '21) | Cindy McCain (anno '21; widow of Sen. John McCain) | Gen. Charles Boyd (anno '21) | Tom Brokaw (anno '21) | Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-lee Jackman | Arianna Huffington (anno '21) | Warren Beatty (anno '21). |
2020 |
| Center for Tech Diplomacy, Purdue University Board: Bonnie Glick (founding exec. director; former COO USAID) | Leon Panetta (founding-) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal (founding-) | Robert Hormats (founding-). |
2021 |
| Order of the Garter Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Thomas Bingham | Philip Edward Bonn | Lord Carrington | 13th Marqess of Lothian (Kerr) | Cecil family | Dukes of Devonshire | Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor | Lord Peter Inge | Lord Robert Leigh-Pemberton | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Prince Philip | Duke of Kent |
1348 |
| Privy Council | 16th century |
| Order of the Thistle (Scottish version of the Order of the Garter) 13th Earl of Airlie | Lord George Robertson | 11th Marquess of Lothian (Kerr) | Lord David Ogilvy | Prince Philip |
1687 |
| United Grand Lodge (Scottish Rite) | 1717 |
| Venerable Order of Saint John | 1831 |
| Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI) / Royal United Services Institution Duke of Kent (president) | Gen. David Petraeus (senior vice president) | Sir David Omand (vice president) | Admiral Richard Cobbold (executive director). Council chairs: Sir Michael Alexander | Sir Paul Lever | Lord Hutton. Council vice presidents: Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor (long time) | Gen. Sir Thomas Boyd-Carpenter | Adm. Sir Nicholas John Hill-Norton (son of UFO disinformer Lord Peter Hill-Norton) | Air Chief Marshal Sir Patrick Hine | Gen. Klaus Naumann | Adm. Sir Julian Oswald | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace) | Sir David Omand | Lord Levene of Portsoken | Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham. Ordinary council members: Gen. Richard Myers | Dame Pauline Neville-Jones | Nicholas Soames. Corporate Advisory Group: BAE Systems. |
1831 |
| Crown Agents | 1833 |
| Corps of Commissionaires | 1859 |
| Society for Psychical Research (SPR), London Research group into the paranormal (with a lot of rather questionable figures involved). Sir William Crookes (president 1896-1899) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1901-1903) | Arthur Balfour (president 1893) | Gerald Balfour (president 1906-1907) | William McDougall (president 1920-1921; president U.S. chapter 1921-1922) | Sir Alister Hardy (president 1965-1969; founder Religious Experience Research Unit at Oxford in 1969) | Joseph Banks Rhine (president 1980) | Louisa Ella Rhine (president 1980) | Ian Stevenson (president 1988-1989) | Archie Roy (president 1992-1995) | Gordon Creighton (member) | Sir Walter Leaf (member). In 1884 an American chapter was founded, actually by skeptics of the paranormal in this case. Eileen Garrett (tested for paranormal abilities in the 1930s by J.B. Rhine; performed experiments for the U.S. branch 1931-1951; founder and president New York Parapsychology Foundation in 1951 with Ohio congressman and oil fortune heir Frances Bolton; wealthy) |
1882 |
| Fabian Society (foundation of today's Labour Party) | 1884 |
| Anti-Socialist and Communist Union (Economic League during Cold War) Lord Walter Runciman (vice president; major Nazi appeaser) | 1st Baron McGowan (director; chair ICI and major Nazi appeaser) | Sir David Barran (president) | Sir Harry Brittain (director; appeaser) | 1st Baron Iliffe | John Dettmer (chairman) |
1908 |
| Carnegie United Kingdom Trust | 1913 |
| Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) (Chatham House) Jozef Retinger (1946 speech) | Lord Robert Cecil | Waldorf Astor | Sir Henry Philip Prince | Sir John Wheeler-Bennett | Sir Roderick Jones | Christopher Woodhouse | Sir Duncan Oppenheim (chair 1966-1971; chair BAT 1953-1966; BB '68) | Sir Andrew Shonfield (director of studies 1961-1968, (exec.) director 1972-1977; economist; BB '68) | Lord Humphrey Trevelyan | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Lord Greenhill | Lord Shackleton | Sir Frank Roberts | Sir John Birch | Lord Paddy Ashdown | Lord Hurd (co-president 2002-2009). Donors: Lord Howe | Sir Philip Goodhart | John Major | Marietje Schaake (member Comm. on Dem. and Tech. in Europe) | Chester Crocker (member IAB). Ordinary members: Lord Carrington | Sir Peter Sutherland (speech) | Niall Fitzgerald (speech) | Jack Straw (speech) | Peter Mandelson (speech) | Jaakko Kooroshy (research fellow) | Michael Shrimpton | Christopher Ashley Ford. Panel of senior advisors, established in 2008: Andre Hoffmann (anno '11) | Nicholas Burns (anno '11) | Victor Chu (anno '11) | Sir Joseph Hotung (anno '11) | Lord H. of Westwell (chair anno '11) | Lord George Robertson (anno '11) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (anno '11) | John Whitehead (anno '11; also has a lecture named after him). U.S. members: Henry Kissinger (speech 1982) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (speech) | Paul Volcker | Sir Evelyn (member RIIA's William Pitt Group anno '11) and Lynn Forester de Rothschild | John Major (speech) | James Baker III (speech) | Joseph Nye (speech) | Strobe Talbott (speech) | Madeleine Albright (speech) | Richard Haass (speech) | C. Douglas Dillon (annual speech named after him) | Jane Harman ('19 speech). - More: Kevin Rudd (fellow) | Robin Niblett (director anno 2017) | Sir Richard Branson (March 4, 2015 speaker). |
1920 |
| British United Industrialists (BUI) Funneled money to the Economic League and Aims of Industry. 1st Baron Renwick (founding chair) |
1962 |
| International Financial Services, London (British Invisibles) | 1968 |
| Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) Margaret Thatcher (co-founder) | Keith Joseph (co-founder) | Lord Thomas of Swynnerton (chair 1979-1990). Directors: Lord Blackwell | Niall Ferguson | Tessa Keswick (deputy chair; wife of Sir Henry K.) | Andrew Knight | Marquess of Salisbury (Cecil) | Lord Brian Griffiths (chair 1991-2000). Advisory board: Lord Charles Powell. |
1974 |
| Tory Reform Group Rifkind (patron) | Michael Heseltine (patron) | Lord Chris Patten (patron) |
1975 |
| Defence and Security Forum Lady Olga Maitland (founder and decades-long president) | Lord Norman Lamont (vice president and patron) | Sir John Wheeler (chair, deputy chair and patron) | . Members: Michael Shrimpton. Speakers: Sandy Berger | Prince Michael of Kent | Admiral Sir Michael Boyce | Benazir Bhutto |
1983 |
| Halo Trust Trustees: Cindy McCain (wife Sen. John McCain) | Angelina Jolie (resigned in protest) |
1988 |
| Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) Set up to offer alternatives to free market fundamentalism. David Miliband (research fellow 1989–1994) | Dr. Andrew Graham (member media advisory committee 1994-1997). |
1988 |
| Centre for Defence Studies, King's College, University of London Robert J. O'Neill (chair 1991-1996) | Audrius Butkevicius (published 'The Baltic region in the new Europe chapter' at CDS in 1993; Far West director) Anton Surikov (published 'Crime in Russia: The International Implications' at CDS in 1995; Far West founder) | |
1990 |
| Prince of Wales' Business and Sustainability Programme (BSP) Lord Alan Watson (member) |
1994 |
| UK Defence Forum Lord Guthrie (patron) | Admiral Lord Boyce (patron) | Dr. Julian Lewis (editorial board of the UKDF journal) |
1996 |
| Club of Three Founders: Lord Weidenfeld | Jacob Rothschild | Lord Alexander. Later incorporated in the Institute for Strategic Dialogue. |
1996 |
| Multinational Chairman's Group Sir John Bond | Martin Broughton | Lord John Browne | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Niall FitzGerald. |
1997 |
| Policy Network Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (primary financier to set up the think tank) | Peter Mandelson | Tony Blair (visitor of a founding conference). International council: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Michiel van Hulten, Will Marshall. |
2000 |
| The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Jamie Cooper-Hohn (founder) and billionaire husband Sir Chris Hohn (founder) | Mark Malloch-Brown (acting chair; major Soros agent) | Graeme Sweeney (chair Climate Change Advisory Board; shell; major global warming activist) |
2002 |
| European Reform Forum (ERF) Committee members: Lord Waddington (chair) | Lord Tebbit | Lord Weatherhill | Lord Rees-Mogg | Lord Blackwell | Sir Oliver Wright. Provided evidence: Lord Howell. |
Jun.-Dec. 2005 |
| Institute for Strategic Dialogue Trustees: Lord Weidenfeld (president) | Sir Ronald Grierson | Lord Guthrie | Lord Simon of Highbury | Andre Hoffmann (co-chair). Policy board: Wolfgang Ischinger | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) | Louis Schweitzer. Scholarship advisory board: Niall Ferguson. |
2006 |
| Institute for Government Governors: Lord Sainsbury of Turville | Lord Heseltine | Lord Simon of Highbury | Lord Currie of Marylebone | Dame Sandra Dawson |
2008 |
| Rothschild birthday parties (40th birthday of Nat Rothschild - confidentially agreements had to be signed by personnel) Tony Hayward | Peter Munk | Milo Djukanovic | Niall Ferguson and wife Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Peter Mandelson | Sasha Volkova (Russian model) | Sawiri family | King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi | Roman Abramovich | Oleg Deripaska |
2011 |
| Illustre Lieve Vrouwe Broederschap (Zwanenbroeders) Royal family: Willem of Orange | Queen Wilhelmina | Queen Juliana | Prince Bernhard | Queen Beatrix | King Willem Alexander of Orange. Family names: van Egmont | de Merode | de Croij | de Roy van Zuidewijn | de Roy van Zuidewyn | van Tuyll van Serooskerken | van Nassau | van Oranje / Orange | van Lanschot | Fentener van Vlissingen | de Vos van Steenwijk | Michiels van Kessenich. Other names: A.F. Philips (Anton Philips, Philips founder) | F.F. Otten (Frans Otten, son-in-law of Philips founder) | |
1318 |
| Haagsche Club Extremely private. Virtually no names are known, although they come from high nobility, the royal family circle, diplomacy, and key corporations and banks. Still doesn't allow women. Baron W.O. Bentinck van Schoonheten (president; ambassador to Spain and London); Baron Andre van Heemstra (director; director Unilever); Aarnout Loudon | Joseph Luns (speech in 1986) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije (his High Council of Nobility has been organizing diners here) Kikkoman Foods Europe diner in 2012: Mitsuo Someya (Kikkoman chair) | Paul van der Heijden (chair Leiden University) | Jaap Rost Onnes | Max van den Berg Bernard Wientjes | Maxime Verhagen | Yvonne van Mastrigt | Sibrand Poppema |
1748 |
| Hoge Raad van Adel / High Council of Nobility Chairmen: Baron Rudolph van Hoëvell van Nijenhuis (fungerend) 1866-1893 | Count Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck van Nijenhuis 1893-1907 | Baron Alexander Schimmelpenninck van der Oye 1908-1934 | Baron Jan Arend de Vos van Steenwijk 1947-1956 | Jonkheer Frans Beelaerts van Blokland 1956 - 1960 | Jonkheer Matthias Adriaan Beelaerts van Blokland 1960-1966 | Baron Albrecht Nicolaas de Vos van Steenwijk 1984-1986 | Baron Frank Wolfaert van Lynden 1986-1991 | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije 1991-. Other council members: Johan Philip de Monté ver Loren (secretary 1930-1942) | Jonkheer F.K.M. van Nispen tot Pannerden (sinds 2002) | Egbert Jan Wolleswinkel (secretary since 2003) | Baron H.C.R.M. de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteijn (sinds 2005) | Baroness R.M. van Pallandt (sinds 2010) | Baroness C.J.A. Snouckaert van Schauburg-Buchwaldt (sinds 2012). |
1814 |
| Minerva fraternity, Leiden University Modern name since 1973. December 11, 2010, Volkskrant (mainstream Dutch newspaper): "Minerva, one of the foundations of our ruling elite. At least two-thirds of influential Holland has been a member of a fraternity... Ten percent [of Minerva], followed by Rotterdam fraternities (6%), the Utrecht fraternities (5%), and Groningen fraternities (4%)...." Minerva: Queen Beatrix of Orange | Queen Juliana | King Willem Alexander | Prince Constantijn | Prince Floris | Prinsess Margriet | Crown Prince Alexander der Nederlanden | Princess Anita | Princess Aimee | Princess Prinses Astrid of Belgium | Pieter van Vollenhoven | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Hans Maarten van den Brink | Joris Demmink | Oscar Hammerstein | Benk Korthals | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Pechtold | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Rutger Schimmelpenninck | Max van der Stoel | Erica Terpstra | Maxime Verhagen | Paul Verhoeven | Gijs de Vries | Nout Wellink | Cees van Lede | Jan Wicher van Heerde | Pieter Bakker Schut | Hans van Baalen | Ard van der Steur | Youp van 't Hek (Holland's most famous comedian; grew up in the area and only knew people who were members of Minerva) Extra: Volkenrechtelijk Dispuut "Professor mr B.M. Telders", linked to Leiden University: honorary chairmen: Frans Alting von Geusau | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer | Ernst van der Beugel | Pieter Kooijmans | |
1839 |
| Dutch Red Cross Baron Guup Kraijenhoff (20 year chairman) | Elco Brinkman (president/chair until 2012) | Pita Schimmelpenninck (legal advisor) | Prince Pieter van Vollenhoven of Orange Nassau (director) | |
1864 |
| Vereniging Rembrandt Patron: Queen Beatrix of Orange. Management board: Jan Boll (chair) \ Jonkheer Aarnout Loudon (vice-chair). Advisory council: Elco Brinkman | Baroness Marion Lambert | John Leighton | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Cees Maas | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck van der Oije | Baron C. van Tuyll van Serooskerken. |
1883 |
| Dutch Carnegie Foundation and the Peace Palace Baron Samuel John van Tuyll van Serooskerken (trustee 1953-1981) | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer (chair 1958-1963) | Jan de Quay (chair 1963-1966; continued as a director into the 1970s) | Ernst van der Beugel (became a trustee in 1975) | Max van der Stoel (chair 1989-1990s) | Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1980-1993; chair 1995-1997) | Hans van den Broek (chair 2000-2007) | Ben Bot (chair) | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Geert Corstens (trustee since 2008) |
1904 |
| Netherlands-America Foundation Paul Bremer | Thomas Watson | William vanden Heuvel | Gerard Peijnenburg (friend of Cees van den H.) | Rudolf Bekink | Ewald Kist (deputy supervisory chair DSM) |
1921 |
| Nederlandsche Unie (collaborist with the Nazis) Founders: Jan de Quay | Louis Einthoven | Johannes Linthorst Homan. Wim Fockema Andreae (employee) |
1940-1941 |
| Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds Board: Ivo Opstelten | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair) | Baron Coen Schimmelpenninck |
1940 |
| Nederlands Genootschap voor International Zaken / Netherlands Society for International Affairs / Dutch Association for International Affairs Dr. Jan Rood (chair) | Anthony Ruys (b. 1943) |
1945 |
| Nationale Federatieve Raad van het Voormalige Verzet Nederland, formed (National Federal Council of the Former Resistance in the Netherlands) Borghouts (chair 1959-1965) | Cees van den Heuvel (joined in 1961 after retiring from Dutch intelligence; chair since 1965) |
1947 |
| Oude Loo Conferenties / Oude Loo Conferences 17 weekly interfaith conferences organized between 1951 and 1957 at castle Oude Loo, owned by Princess Wilhelmina of Orange-owned (Dutch queen 1890-1948). The first meeting counted 130 participants, after 200 had been invited. Later meetings counted about 180 participants. Regular conference visitor Professor Gilles Quispel (author on hermeticism and Gnostic Christianity) in 'Andere Tijden': "America and Russia were never discussed. Neither the arms race. The meetings were meant to try to find a synthesis between Christianity and the world religions. [Hofmans] was an introvert, sexless woman..." The group was inspired by Queen Julia advisor Greet Hofmans and her ally, Johan Willem Kaiser. Both were heavily inspired by the teachings of Jiddu Krishnamurti, an Indian Theosophist who each summer between 1921 and 1929 came to the Netherlands as part of the Order of the Star, the Dutch branch operating from Castle Eerde from 1924 to 1929. The castle was provided to the group by Baron Philip van Pallandt, whose cousin Rudolf was a senator. During the last "star camp" in 1929 3,000 followers from 48 countries were brought together by Krishnamurti. Krishnamurti had been raised from age 11 by Charles Webster Leadbeater and Annie Besant, the leaders of the Theosophical Society, to become the new World Teacher / Maitreya, making the Oude Loo Conferences at the very least an offshoot of the Theosophical Society. Apart from Bernhard's extramarital affairs, the conferences caused a rift between Prince Bernhard and Queen Julia. When the latter eventually told Bernhard to leave the palace, Bernhard leaked details of his wife's association with Greet Hofmans and the conferences to his journalist friend Sefton Delmer, which in turn resulted in an article in Der Spiegel, causing a political crisis. The so-called Greet Hofmans Affair forced Juliana to distance herself from the group. Afterwards, the group continued under the name "Oude Veld Conferences" until 1968. As part of her terms for leaving the Oude Loo Conferences, Juliana demanded that Bernhard withdrew himself from Bilderberg, but the investigative committee never made this public and the association between Bilderberg and the royal house of Orange continued unhindered. Participants: Greet Hofmans (central figure, but only behind the scenes, because she did not speak English; spiritual medium who advised Queen Juliana since 1948, when Bernhard brought her to Palace Soestdijk in relation to Princess Marijke's eye-disease; her spirit communications guided the content of the conferences) | Johan Willem Kaiser (conference organizer and close ally of Hofmans; former director Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland; financed by Princess Wilhelmina) | Baroness Van Heeckeren van Molecaten (member organizing committee; personal secretary of Queen Juliana; after Greet Hofmans contacted her in 1946, she provided her with a place at her domain, from which her fame grew) | Queen Julia of Orange and friends (annual conference visitor) | Queen Mother Wilhelmina (annual conference visitor) | Eleanor Roosevelt (present at the second conference, but labeled it "fanatical") | Frits Philips (of the elite Philips company) | Pierson banking family | Viruly industrial family | Fokker family (of the Dutch airplane builder) | Jiddu Krishnamurti | Martin Buber (Jewish religious philosophist) | Rabbi Jacob Soetendorp | Friedrich Würzbach (founder Nietzsche Society; half-Jew who was a complete Nazi, but still dismissed by the party) | Annemarie Schimmel (German scholar on Islam and Sufism; Harvard professor 1967-1992) | Zafrullah Khan (founding father of Pakistan). |
1951-1957 |
| Tie Club / Dassenclub Prince Bernhard's secret personal club, which held annual meetings and had one main rule, written down by Prince Bernhard himself: "[Members] should support each other at all times, in every aspect." The group wanted to see a coup in pre-WWII Dutch-owned Indonesia. Members (as far as is known): CIA director Gen. Walter Bedell Smith | Sefton Delmer | Frans Otten (president-director of Philips 1939-1961) | Paul Rijkens (founding chair Unilever) | Johan Willem Beyen (member 1948-; director Unilever; director Philips; chair Javasche Bank; Dutch director World Bank 1946- and IMF 1948-; president BIS; co-minister of foreign affairs 1952-1956; close friend of the royal family) | Dr. J.F. Nuboer (Prince Bernhard's personal physician) | Hans Teengs Gerritsen (from a wealthy family; known as "Uncle Hans" by (future) Queen Beatrix; military intelligence officer; part of the Dutch CIA-controlled Stay Behind network with a number of close friends of Prince Bernhard; good friend of CIA agent Carl Armfelt, who founded these Stay Behind networks in Sweden, the Netherlands and Belgium; also tied to CIA drug trafficking it appears; consultant for Lockheed and Northrop in the Netherlands). |
1948 |
| Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER) / Social-Economic Council Wim Kok (vice chair 1980s) | Jan van Walsem (alternate 1990-1994) | Klaas de Vries (chair 1996-1998) | Herman Wijffels (chair 1999-2006) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair 2006-2012) Wiebe Draijer (chair 2012-) | Victor Halberstadt | Bernard Wientjes (vice chair) | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Jr. (crown member) | Elco Brinkman | Paul van der Heijden (alternate) |
1950 |
| Netherlands Atlantic Association Rio Praaning (appointed director in 1978, then a 26-year-old law student; left in 1990) | Cees van den Heuvel (member; information officer since the 1970s; retired in 1986; handler of Rio P.) | Hannie van Leeuwen (president since 1979; former Christian Democrat MP). Keynote speakers at its second Round Table Conference in 1985: Lord Carrington, Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Frits Bolkestein (chair 1990-1991) | Gijs de Vries (chair 1991) | Frans Weisglas (vice chair) |
1952 |
| Institute of Social Studies (ISS) Pieter Kooijmans (trustee 1979-1993, also chair) | Frans Weisglas (trustee) | Professor Hans van Ginkel (chair anno 2014) |
1952 |
| Groep Rijkens / Rijkens Group Business lobyy that got itself involved in Dutch foreign policy towards its Indonesia colony. Paul Rijkens (founding chair of Unilever 1930-) | H.M. Hirschfeld (director Unilever and KPM) | Kees Scholtens (former chief of Shell Indonesia; director Shell; head of the Iraanse Oliemaatschappij, which would be nationalized) | Emile van Konijnenburg (director and vice-president of Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) involved with Sukarno in Indonesia politics) | Dr. Marcus van Blankenstein (Dutch-Jewish journalist at The Parool post WWII) | Prince Bernhard of Orange (very close friend of Rijkens in particular and very supportive of this group). 2004, Willem Oltmans (part of the Rijkens Group), 'Hollandse sporen in de sawa', p. 311: "Drees, Beel, Luns, Romme en andere Haagse stoerlingen, die kletsen over Indonesië en Sukarno zonder benul the hebben van hoe de kaarten in Jakarta werkelijk lagen. ... De Amerikaanse president [JFK] had direct al de beschikking over gegevens dat er in Nederland een krachtige oppositie bestond tegen het beleid van Luns, onder wie prins Bernhard, Paul Rijkens en vele anderen. ... Zelf had ik een en ander bepleit bij Walt Rostow en ook de groep-Rijkens en prins Bernhard waren eraan te pas gekomen om Washington ervan te overtuigen Nederland onder druk te zetten en Nieuw-Guinea over te dragen. ... Ik heb zes jaar in het geheim in de marge van de groep Rijkens geopereerd, tot een CIA-agent zich in het gezelschap binnendrong. In 1964 is hij bij een verkeersongeval nabij Sassenheim om het leven gekomen." 2009, Wouter Meijer, 'Ze zijn gek geworden in Den Haag', p. 95: "In april 1961 was Oltmans nog altijd in de weer om leden van de groep-Rijkens met Soekarno in contact te brengen. Hij was nooit officieel in dienst geweest bij deze groep industriëlen, maar legde in opdracht van hen in de jaren 1956-1961 vaak contacten met Indonesische politici en ambtenaren, of werd eropuit gestuurd om poolshoogte te nemen, zoals in Indonesië in 1957. De belangrijkste figuren binnen de groep-Rijkens waren Paul Rijkens zelf, Kees Scholtens, oud-chef van de Koninklijke/Shell in Indonesië, en Emile van Konijnenburg, onderdirecteur van KLM en tevens het belangrijkste contact van Oltmans binnen de groep. Het doel van de groep was, zoals Rijkens het zelf verwoordde, om de 'zich steeds verbredende kloof tussen beide landen [Nederland en Indonesië] te helpen overbruggen, waar onze regering die overbrugging niet kon beginnen." |
1952 |
| Nederlands Arabische Kring (Netherlands Arabic Circle) Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (involved from the 1950s to the 1970s) | Mahmoud Rabbani (involved in the 1970s) |
1955 |
| Instituut voor het Moderne Nabije Oosten (Institute for the Modern Near East), University of Amsterdam Nicolaas Posthumus (founder) | Kees Wagtendonk (lecturer and scientific head in the 1960s) |
1956 |
| Stichting voor Onderzoek van Ecologische Vraagstukken (Foundation for the Investigation of Ecological Problems, SOEV) Copy from the CIA's MKULTRA foundation, the Human Ecology Fund. Cees van den Heuvel (founder and head). Funds came from Prince Bernhard's friends at AKU (later AKZO), Philips, Shell (headed by John Loudon) and Unilever. |
1960 |
| Stichting ter Voorlichting over de Oost-West Verhouding (SVOWV - Institute for Information on East-West Relations) | 1962 |
| International Documentation and Information Center (Interdoc) Cees van den Heuvel (founding head) | Louis Einthoven (co-founder) | Herman Jan Rijks | J. M. Hornix. German founding members: Professor Hans Lades, Dr. C. D. Kernig and Dr. Norman von Grote. Initial financing came from Shell, head by John Loudon. British founding consultative council members (certainly still on board in 1969): Brian Crozier | Walter Bell (MI5) | Dick Ellis (MI6, co-founder OSS/CIA and Australian SIS). Others British consultative council members: Neil Elles (Common Cause) | John Dettmer. Italy: Luigi Gedda (medical advisor Pope Pius XII) |
1963-1986 |
| Oost-West Instituut (East-West Institute) Merger of the SOEV and SVOWV. Cees van den Heuvel (head) | Rio Praaning (joined the staff in 1974 and became assistant director to Cees in 1976) | The institute's Conferentie voor Veiligheid en Samenwerking in Europa: Frans Alting Von Geusau (co-founder) | Max van der Stoel (high commissioner 1993-2001) | Maarten van Traa (delegation head 1992-1994) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (temporary chair) |
1965 |
| Asser Institute: Centre for International & European Law Ernst Hirsch Ballin (president and member governing and executive board) | Dr. Janne Nijman (member governing and executive board; also: "International Gender Champion"; overseer/researcher Amsterdam Center for International Law; director The Broker; President Oikos; supervisory board PAX Voor Vrede and Spark). |
1965 |
| SNV Netherlands Development Organisation International advisory board: Jeffrey Sachs | Mohammad Yunus |
1965 |
| Nederlands Palestina Komitee (Dutch Palestine Committee) Co-founders: Kees Wagtendonk | Piet Nak | Mahmoud Rabbani |
1969 |
| Stichting Geestelijke Weerbaarheid (Institute for Psychological Defense) Cees van den Heuvel |
1969 |
| Nederlands Instituut voor Vredesvraagstukken Frans Alting von Geusau |
1969 |
| 1001 Club - Dutch members only Prince Bernhard of Orange | Queen Juliana of Orange | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Ernst van Eeghen | Ferdinand Grapperhaus, Sr. | Baroness Gabrielle Bentinck van Schoonheten | F. W. Brenninkmeijer (and family) | Anton Dreesmann | Pieter Dreesmann | Jan van den Brink | Rudolf van den Brink | Hans Melchers | Leon Melchior | Bob Schreiner | John Loudon | Frederik Loudon | George Loudon | Angela Loudon | Ruud Lubbers | Jacques Schoufour | Anton Pannenborg (Philips) | Frits Philips | Feyo Sickinghe | Allard Jiskoot | Jan Lodewijk Pierson | Wim Fockema Andreae | Van Beuningen | Fentener van Vlissingen | Cees van Lede | Marcel van Poecke | Anthony Ruys and Lucien Ruys | Johannes Kraayevelt van Heemert | Jonkheer Alidius Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer | Baron Guup Kraijenhoff | Dik Wessels | Hans Merkle | Baron Freddie van Tuyll Van Serooskerken and son | Baron van Welderen Rengers | Joke van Dieten Maasland. |
1970 |
| Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study Fellow: Beatrice de Graaf. |
1970 |
| British Atlantic Committee, Amsterdam conference Brian Crozier (important co-founder) | Prince Bernhard (chairman). Speakers/participants: Frank Barnett | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dean Rusk | Cyrus Vance | Albert Wohlstetter | Shephard Stone. Interdoc hardly involved. |
March 1973 |
| Stichting Solidariteit en Verbondenheid Nederland-Verenigde Staten (Foundation for Solidarity and Alliance Netherlands-United States) Cees van den Heuvel (founder) | Henk Hergarden (head) |
June 1973 |
| International Secretariat for Atlantic Youth (ISAY) Rio Praaning (founder) |
1975 |
| Jong Atlantisch Samenwerkings Orgaan Nederland (JASON) Rio Praaning (founder, management chair, and still on the advisory board anno 2014) | Ben Bot (director 1970s) | Cees van den Heuvel (advisory board 1970s to at least the 1990s) | Wim van Eekelen (chair advisory board 1970s; still on the board anno 2014) | Alexander Alting von Geusau (chief editor and director since about 1985); Victor Halberstadt (advisory board since about 1990; still today) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (advisory board since about 1987) | Harry Hoefnagels (advisory board since about 1987). Appeared in magazine: Wim Couwenberg (1977), Peter Kooijmans (1977-1978), Max van der Stoel (1980). Participants in JASON's 1982 Committee on Future Dutch-American Relations in the United States and its counterpart in the Netherlands: Richard Perle | Eugene Rostow | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Norman Bailey | Adm. Dennis Blair (NSC at the time and old friend Ollie North) | Frans Alting von Geusau | Anton Pannenborg |
1975 |
| Phoenix Foundation NL Promoted extreme libertaranism: the absence of any government. Robert Jan Doorn (founding chairman; secretary; magazine editor; also: major money launderer) |
1977 |
| 15th International Towing Tank Conference, Netherlands Honorary committee: Prince Claus of Orange (conference chair, probably due to Prince Bernhard's involvement in the Lockheed Affair) | Wim van Eekelen (former defense secretary) | Piet Kleyn van Willigen (Smit International) | Wim Kok | Johannes Kraaijeveld van Hemert (Boskalis) | B.E. Ruys (Nedlloyd) |
1978 |
| Komitee Kruisraketten Nee (Cruise Missiles No) Prominent anti-nuclear-tipped cruise missiles placement protest group. Maarten van Traa (secretary) |
1981-1987 |
| Nationaal Comite Verzetsherdenkingskruis Cees van den Heuvel (secretary) | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot | Adm. E. Roest |
1981-1988 |
| De Balie Supervisory board: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (chair). General director: Yoeri Albrecht. Visitors: Pussy Riot. |
1982 |
| Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael) |
1983 |
| Stichting 40-45 (Stichting Dienstencentrum 1945-2000 from 1984-1987) Club for veterans of the Dutch resistance during WWII. Founders: Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Bernhard | Louis Einthoven | Cees van den Heuvel | Hans Teengs Gerritsen | Willem "Bib" van Lanschot (chair in the 1980s) | Sen. Erik Jurgens (chair) |
1984-1987 |
| Nationale Postcode Loterij / Stichting Doen Stichting Doen was founded in 1991 and a main conduit of the Postcode Loterij. |
1989, 1991 |
| Nexus Instituut In 1996 the first Nexus conference was organized. Staff ("directie" and "bureau"): Rob Riemen (founder and managing director 1994-, still anno '24; founder Nexus magazine 1991-). Board of directors ("bestuur"): Prof. Marc Groenhuijsen (chair anno '03, still anno '24; law professor) | Prof. Ad Geelhoed (anno '03; attorney-generaal European Court of Justice) | Prof. Wim van den Goorbergh (anno '03; vice chair Rabobank) | Herman Tjeenk Willink (anno '03-'05; vice-president Raad van State / Privy Council) | Joan de Wijkerslooth (anno '03, anno '11 at the "raad van toezicht"); voorzitter College van Procureurs-Generaal 1999-2005). Supervisory board ("raad van toezicht"): Wim van den Goorbergh (chair anno '06-'08; vice chair Rabobank) | Joost Kuiper (anno '06-'08; director ABN Amro bank and supervisory board ING Group) | Alexander Rinnooy Kan ('07-'12) | Arnold Croiset van Uchelen (anno '23; partner Allen & Overy). Advisory board ("raad van advies") primary: Frits Bolkestein (anno '03-'17) | Victor Halberstadt (anno '03-'24) | Herman Wijffels (anno '03-'11) | Mark Eyskens (anno '03-'11; Belgian PM April - Dec. 1981, foreign affairs minister 1989-1982, minister of finance 1985-1988) | Tom de Swaan (anno '03-'24; director and later chair ABN AMRO bank; director Dutch Central Bank, Van Lanschold, Royal Ahold, Royal DSM, GlaxoSmithKline, Zurich Insurance; advisory chair Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis) | Ruud Lubbers (not in '03, anno '05-'17; PM NL 1982-1994) | Britta Bohler ('10-, still anno '17; advocaat, lid van de Eerste Kamer) Advisory board ("raad van advies") secondary: Dr. Otto von der Gablentz (German ambassador to the Netherlands '83-'90) | Drs. Rob Visser (anno '03, at "raad van toezicht" anno '08; directeur-general Ministry of Justice) | Peter van Walsum (anno '03; director-general political affairs at Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1991, as a protege of Hans van den B.; ambassador to Germany; UN representative; member Commissie-Davids in 2009 that investigated the Dutch role in the Iraq War) | Yvonne van Rooy (anno '03-'05; daughter of queen commissioner Charles van Rooy; secretary of state (no. 2 position) for economic affairs 1986-1989, 1990-1994; chair Tilburg University -2004, chair Utrecht University 2004-2012, chair Nederlandse Vereniging van Ziekenhuizen 2012-2018) | Dr. Dragan Klaic ('03; hoogleraar, universiteit van Amsterdam) | Pierre Audi (anno '03; artistiek directeur De Nederlandse Opera) | Dr. Ronald de Leeuw (anno '03; directeur Rijksmuseum) | John Leighton (anno '03; directeur Van Goghmuseum) | Martijn Sanders (anno '03; algemeen directeur Het Concertgebouw nv). Speakers: Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan ('04) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('04) | Sonia Gandhi (June 9, 2007, with Queen Beatrix of Orange in attendance) | Francis Fukuyama (interview published in '08) | Michael Ignatieff (interview published in '08) | Yourie Albrecht | Margaret Atwood | Anne Applebaum ('20 online symposium speaker). Sponsors: Brook Foundation (anno '23; chair anno '23 is Mevr. F. van Rappard-Wanninkhof, also on the Dutch Comm. of HRW). Source(s): nexus-instituut.nl (accessed: Oct. 25, 2003 - April 4, 2005; 'Organisatie' part): "Directie: ... Bureau: ... Bestuur: ... Raad van Advies: ..."; nexus-instituut.nl/pages.php/ organisatie_raadvadvies.html (accessed: Oct. 9, 2006 - Jan. 15, 2010); nexus-instituut.nl/pages.php/ organisatie_raadvtoezicht.html (accessed: Oct. 9, 2006 - Jan. 15, 2010); nexus-instituut.nl/person/sonia-gandhi (accessed: ): "Living Politics: 9 juni 2007 14.15 - 17.30 Tilburg University. [Picture caption:] Queen [B.] and Sonia Gandhi."; nexus-instituut.nl/organisatie_raadvanadvies (accessed: Oct. 30, 2010 (first with Britta)); nexus-instituut.nl/ organisatie_raadvtoezicht (accessed: March 10, 2012); nexus-instituut.nl/nl/7-nexus-instituut/29-wie-zijn-wij (accessed: April 2, 2016 - March 31, 2017): "Staf... Raad van Toezicht ... Raad van Advies..."; nexus-instituut.nl/wie-zijn-wij (accessed: Dec. 23, 2023; Brook Fdn. listed at the bottom). Nov. 2, 2010, bnnvara.nl/joop (Dutch "ultraleft"), ''Wilders prototype van de hedendaagse fascist'': "Morgen valt bij alle Kamerleden en bewindslieden het boek De eeuwige terugkeer van het fascisme in de bus, geschreven door cultuurfilosoof Rob Riemen. ... Rob Riemen is essayist en oprichter-directeur van het Nexus Instituut in Tilburg. In Nieuwsuur gaat hij in debat..." |
1994 |
| International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) Prince Bernhard of Orange (trustee until his death). Jozias van Aartsen (chair). International advisory board: Ingrid Hagen | Jan Pronk |
1996 |
| Confederation of Netherlands Industry and Employers (VNO-NCW) Employers federation, representing virtually all large corporations and 80% of the smaller ones. Cees van Lede (VNO chair until 1991) | Jos van Kemenade | Bernard Wientjes (chair 2005-2014) | Hans de Boer (chair 2014-) |
1996 |
| Prince Claus Fund Prince Constantijn of Orange (hon. chair) | Prince Friso of Orange (d. 2013; hon. chair) | Henk Propper (chair 2013-2019) | Ila Kasem (chair 2019-; Moroccan; Dutch Amnesty Int. and WWF chief) | Lionel Veer (former UNESCO delegate; Dutch human rights ambassador) | Clarice Gargard (Dutch representative at UN-Women; former BNN, VARA, AT5, NRC, Vogue employee; supervisory board of the Holland Festival) | Eppo van Nispen tot Sevenaer (Managing Director of Beeld en Geluid, the Dutch radio and television archive; advisory board TEDxDelft) | Alexander Ribbink (COO of TomTom navigation software; director Unilever, etc.; board member Stichting Het Nieuwe Parool (newspaper)) | Nani Jansen Reventlow (major internet rights activist) | Marietje Schaake (major internet rights activist) | Pascal Visee (treasurer; senior advisor McKinsey&Co; supervisory board roles in Rabobank, Erasmus University, etc.). |
1996 |
| Adviesraad voor International Vraagstukken (AIV) / Advisory Council on International Affairs (ACIA) Dr. Jan Rood (member Commission on European Integration) |
1997 |
| War Trauma Foundation / Stichting War Trauma Committee of recommendation: Ruud Lubbers | Morris Tabaksblat | Alexander Rinnooy Kan | Herman Wijffels | Bernard Wientjes |
1997 |
| Het Genootschap de Nalatenschap van Hendrik VIII Jan. 1, 2014 meeting (meets once a month - little info): Leo van der Kant (chairman) | Hans van den Broek | Elco Brinkman | Gerd Leers | Hans Hillen | Jan Kamminga | John-Patrick Broekhuijsen (director Van Lanschot Bankiers 1998-2008; head BNP Paribas netherlands 2008-2011; executive director Bank J. Safra Sarasin Ltd. of the Edmond Safra family 2011-) | Pierre Cnoops |
1999 |
| Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy (NIMD) Klaas Groenveld (chair) | Jos van Kemenade (president) | Ben Bot (chair) | Bert Koenders | Sharon Dijksma | Zoltan Szabo (Hungarian minister of Defense) | Jan van Laarhoven | Ingrid van Engelshoven | Wim Derksen | Uri Rosenthal |
2000 |
| Commissie van Toezicht Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdiensten (CTIVD) / Commission of Oversight Intelligence and Security Services Bert van Delden (chair) |
2003 |
| Den Haag Centrum voor Strategische Studies / The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) Grew out of a joint TNO-Clingendael project. Independent since 2007. Rob de Wijk (founder; member Senior Steering Group van het NATO Special Forces Headquarters, also founded in 2007; columnist Trouw) | Michel Rademaker (deputy director; program manager TNO) | Erik Frinking (RAND) | Jaakko Kooroshy (Chatham H.) | Roel Janssen (senior advisor; NRC editor and Rep. Soc.) | Han ten Broeke (director of Political Affairs). |
2003 |
| The Hague Process Board: HRH Prince Constantijn of Orange (chair) | Jozias van Aartsen (Secretary) Club of The Hague: Jacques Delors | Jan Pronk | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan | Erik Brenninkmeijer | Joris Demmink | Ernst Hirsch Ballin | Ruud Lubbers | Herman Wijffels | Peter Sutherland | Shimon Shamir |
2003 |
| Bouwend Nederland / Building Netherlands Elco Brinkman (chair 1995-2013, including predecessor) | Maxime Verhagen |
2004 |
| Netherlands Afghanistan Business Council (NABC) Ehsan Turabaz (founder and president) | Jan Wicher van Heerde (chair; enjoys running companies without websites) | Arno van Dijken (director; ING and Commerzbank) |
2006 |
| Round Table of the Worldconnectors Initial board: Ruud Lubbers (founding chair 2006-2009) | Paul Rosenmoller (leader Red Dawn strike group and leader GreenLeft) | Ad Melkert (leader Labor Party) | Peter Bakker (TNT) | Roel Janssen (editor NRC) | Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven (Labor Party/Red Women veteran) | Herman Wijffels (co-chair anno 2014) | Sylvia Borren (Oxfam). Later: Alexander Rinnooy Kan (co-chair since 2013). |
2006 |
| Kofi Annan Business School Foundation Prof. Hans van Ginkel (chair). Honorary patrons: Ben Bot, Viscount Etienne Davignon, and Baron Paul de Keersmaeker. Honorary advisor: Rio Praaning |
2007 |
| Denktank Nationale Veiligheid / National Security Think Tank Tightly linked to the HCSS. Rob de Wijk (chair since 2008) | Jaakko Kooroshy |
2008 (+/-) |
| The Rights Forum (pro-Palestinian) See details further down. |
2009 |
| The Hague Security Delta (HSD) Rob de Wijk (general manager of the HSD Foundation) | Twynstra Gudde (co-founder) | Jozias van Aartsen (chair; BB) | Henk Geveke (TNO Defence, Safety & Security) | Ab van der Touw (chair Siemens NL; TNO) | John van Vianen (director KPN) | Richard Franken (Hoffmann Corporate Detectives, Commercial Director Trigion) |
2010 |
| International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT) Advisory board: Richard Barrett (2010-) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2010-) | Gilles de Kerchove (2010-; former EU counter-terrorism coordinator) | Joanne Mariner (2010-; former Director of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program at HRW) | Mike Smith (executive director UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate). Beatrice de Graaf (founding research fellow). |
2010 |
| The Hague Institute for Global Justice (THIGJ) Madeleine Albright (founding chair) | Lord Chris Patten | Jozias van Aartsen (co-founder) | Igor Ivanov | Dick Benschop (advisory chair at the time it closed down). |
2011-2018 |
| Dutch Centre, London Princess Irene of the Netherlands (patron) | Ms Laetitia van den Assum (ambassador to London) | Robert Brooke (Chair Anglo-Netherlands Society) | Antony Burgmans (Unilever/BP) | Jonkheer G.E. Loudon | Geraldine Mitchell – barones van Heemstra | Jeroen van der Veer (Shell) | other aristocratic names. |
2013 |
| PubLeaks Stichting / PubLeaks Foundation Dutch "whistleblower" organization connected to all major Dutch media outlets - which set it up. Very much "liberal CIA" / social democrat leftist. Based on the Tor network. Mexican branch: (Mexicoleaks). Founding advisory board (publeaks.nl/colofon.html (accessed: April 27, 2014): Karin Spaink (long-time LGBTQ activist) | Femke Halsema | Marietje Schaake | Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm (co-founder Bureau Brandeis law firm; anti-racism crusader) | Marleen Stikker | Leon Willems (director Free Press Unlimited 2011-) | Marcel Gelauff (editor-in-chief NOS news 2011-) | Harm Taselaar (deputy editor-in-chief RTL Nieuws) | Peter Vandermeersch (editor-in-chief NRC Handelsblad) | Alexander Klopping (studied political elections in the U.S. in 2005; internet expert at De Wereld Draait Door). Directors: Teun Gautier (directeur De Groene Amsterdammer) | Mieke van Heesewijk (director Netwerk Democratie) | Corine de Vries (co-editor-in-chief De Volkskrant). publeaks.nl/colofon.html (accessed: April 27, 2014): "Publeaks.nl is een samenwerking tussen de stichting Publeaks.nl en het Hermes Centrum voor Transparantie en Digitale Rechten en het Internet Protection Lab en Greenhost. " |
2013 |
| Nationale Wetenschapsagenda Co-chairs: Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Beatrice de Graaf. |
2015 |
Peculiar opposition groups to the Dutch Bilderberg establishment:
| Republikeins Genootschap / Republican Society Founders: Ben Knapen (BB 1991) | Pieter Korteweg (BB steering committee) | Roelof J. Nelissen (BB 1979) | Martin van Amerongen | Ad Dunning | Han Kleiterp | Lense Koopmans | Sjeng Kremers | Henny de Ruiter | Albert Schuitemaker (commissioner Elsevier 1979-1997) | Loek van Vollenhoven (commissioner Elsevier since 1982; also Heineken) | Pierre Vinken | Frits Visser | Guus Zoutendijk (OBE; Order of Oranje-Nassau; Order of the Dutch Lion) ) Members: Hedy d'Ancona (the Rights Forum) | Pim Fortuyn (neocon party; assassinated) | Theo van Gogh (friend of Fortuyn; also assassinated) | Femke Halsema (Green Left party leader) | Harry van Bommel (Socialist Party; only BB critic in congress) | Tomas Ross (neocon; associate of van Gogh; disinformer on Fortuyn case) | Gerard Aalders (anti-BB author) | Hans Blom (boss of Aalders) | Rene Zwaap (anti-BB author) | Willem Oltmans (once invited a former Lee Harvey Oswald handler) | Pamela Hemelrijk (anti-establishment author) | Jan Mulder (famous tv personality; columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Frits Barend (famous tv personality) | Youp van ´t Hek (famous comedian) | Hans Teeuwen (famous comedian) | Jort Kelder (famous journalist and 13 year chief editor of Quote, the Dutch version of Forbes) | Roel Janssen (NRC editor, author and national security expert) | Eberhard van der Laan (labor party leader; director NPO and De Groene Amsterdammer) | Martijn Lindt (co-founder anarchist and anti-monarchist Provo movement in 1965 with Roel van Duijn; turned psychology professor) | Anthony Mertens (De Groene Amsterdammer) | Adriaan Morriën (Nederlandse Leeuw) | Nelleke Noordervliet (columnist Volkskrant, Trouw and Historisch Nieuwsblad) | Herman Philipse (arch-atheist who turned Ayaan Hirsi Ali from Muslim to Atheist) | Leo Platvoet (cooperated with the Radicals and Communists in the late 1980s; co-founder Groenlinks and senator 1999-2007; Oxfam Novib) | (communist; professor East Europe Institute, Amsterdam University) | Tom Rooduijn (editor NRC) | Ite Rumke (editor NRC; worked with Rita Kohnstamm, whose husband was Dolph Kohnstamm, a cousin of top TC and BB member Max Kohnstamm) | Hendrik Jan Schoo (MA in education and child development, Erikson Institute, part of the Jesuit Loyola University, Chcago; chief editor magazine Psychologie; chief editor Elsevier 1990s; child with Xandra Schutte, chief editor of De Groene Amsterdammer) | Fred van der Spek (major socialist leader 1960s-1980s) | André Spoor (chief editor NRC 1970-1983 and of Elsevier 1986-1988; bypass operation in 1987; NRC correspondent in Austria 1987-1996 on the advise of Ben Knapen) | Kees Tamboer (columnist Het Parool) | Bart Tromp (columnst Het Parool and Elsevier) | Jan van Walsem (minor D66 politician) | Wout Woltz (editor Algemeen Handelsblad in the 1970s; editor NRC 1983-1990) | Nanda van der Zee (historian; married to anaesthetist Bob Smalhout, a friend of Pim Fortuyn) | Sytze van der Zee (foreign correspondent NRC; deputy chief editor Elsevier; chief editor Het Parool 1988-1996; brother Henri was a lifelong foreign correspondent of De Telegraaf and president van de Foreign Press Association) | Piet Akkermans (dean Erasmus University 1993-2001) | Lize Alink (publisher Wolters Kluwer 1993-1996; publisher of Vrij Nederland, Psychologie, and other magazines 1996-2000; chief editor Kluwer Nederland 2000-2007) | Garmt Stuiveling (chair Rep. Soc.;) Hans van den Bergh (chair Rep. Soc.; columnist for NRC, Het Parool, Vrij Nederland and Algemeen Dagblad) | Lily van den Bergh (cousin of Sidney and Hans van den Bergh; freelancer for Vrij Nederland and De Groene Amsterdammer; also active for VPRO and VARA) | Joep Bertrams [cartoonist working for Het Parool and NOVA] | Conny Braam [founder Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland in 1971; wrote how Dutch corporations circumvented UN trade embargos on Rhodesia; met many ANC members] | Martin Bril [freelancer for Het Parool, Vrij Nederland, NRC Handelsblad, VPRO (radio) en De Morgen] | Remco Campert (columnist Volkskrant 1996-2006) | Paul Cliteur (atheist; anti-Islam; columnist Trouw) | Ton Crijnen [deputy chief editor HP/De Tijd magazine; editor for religion and philosophy Trouw 1991-2006; author 1976 book De Baader Meinhofgroep ad the 1999 Nieuwe moslims] | Maarten Doorman [editor Hollands Maandblad and KRISIS; writer NRC and Volkskrant] | Cisca Dresselhuys [journalist for Trouw; editor in chief feminist magazine Opzij 1981-2008] | Thomas von der Dunk [Labor Party member; columnist HP/De Tijd and Volkskrant] | Friso Endt [editor Het Parool 1945-1972; met JFK at the White House; 2 m from Oswald when he was shot by Jack Ruby; freelancer Newsweek, Time/Life, Daily Mirror and NRC after that] | Emile Fallaux (New York-based program creator for VARA and VPRO TV network 1982-1990; editor in chief Vrij Nederland 2005-2008) | Paul Frentrop (journalist Financieel Dagblad and NRC; secretary Pierson, Heldring & Pierson; wrote a bio of Reed Elsevier chairman and Rep. Soc. founder Pierre Vinken] | Ineke van Gent [congresswoman Groenlinks 1998-2012] | Anneke Goudsmit [congresswoman D66 1967-1974; pro-emancipaton and abortus activist] | Andre Haakmat [anti Desi Bouterse Surinam politician] | Jaap van Heerden [professor of psychology and close associate of Theo van Gogh] | Theodor Holman [journalist Propria Cures, de Volkskrant en Nieuwe Revu; anno 2005 a daily columnist for Het Parool and De Groene Amsterdammer] | Antoon van Hooff [director Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, followed up by his son] | Britta Bohler [attorney for Fortuyn murderer Volkert van der Graaf and the terrorist Hofstad Group who murdered Theo van Gogh] |
1996 |
| Het Grote Complot: De Wereld Verklaard' ('The Grand Plot: The World Explained'), Dutch televison program broadcasted on Nederland 3 in January 2004. Interviewed: Micha Kat (major conspiracy activist and disinformer allied with the Republican Society) | Ben Knapen (BB 1991; Republican Society), Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven | Dries van Agt | Bram Peper | Hans van den Broek (BB; major NGO elitists; daughter married a grandson of Prince Bernhard) | Jean Pierre van Rossum (questionable entrepeneur) | Oscar Hammerstein (questionable lawyer) and a group of professors. |
2004 |
| Klokkenluidersonline.nl (.net and .is) Foundation Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Jan Poot (financier, secret for the first 10 years) | Micha Kat (chair foundation; site operator) | Pamela Hemelrijk (secretary/treasurer of the foundation until her death in 2009; Republican Society) |
2003 |
| Bakker Schut Foundation / Bakker Schut Stichting Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Pieter Bakker Schut (died in 2007, but already involved in the Joris Demmink affair) | Adele van der Plas (wife of Bakker Schut; major disinformer on ) | Klaas Langendoen (chief suspect IRT affair) |
2010 |
| The Rusty Nail Foundation / Stichting De Roestige Spijker Campaigns against Joris Demmink. Adele van der Plas (inspiration to Robert R.) | Jan Poot (inspiration to Robert R. and financier) | Robert Rubinstein (founder and financier - close to Jack Abramoff, certainly in '12-'13) | Ben Ottens (secretary) |
2012 |
| American Society in London | 1895 |
| "Oxford: Rhodes Trust scholarships (Rhodes scholars) Rhodes Scholars: Nicholas Katzenbach | Frank Barnett | Adm. Stansfield Turner | Dean Rusk | James Woolsey | Walter Slocombe | Robert Roosa | John Brademas | Thomas Hughes | Walter Isaacson | Harold Anderson (Buffett friend) | Bill Clinton | Hedley Donovan | Philip Kaiser | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gen. Peter Dawkins | W. Scott Thompson | Sen. David Boren | Richard Dolan | Charles J. Hitch | Joseph Nye | William Y. Elliott | Prof. Robert J. O'Neill (scholar & trustee 1995-2001) | Walt Whitman Rostow | Strobe Talbott | Rick Trainor | Bob Peck | Adm. Bill Owens | Gen. David Fadok | Richard Gardner | Sir John Templeton | Walt Cooper | Gen. Wesley Clark | Sen. Bill Bradley | Sen. Richard Lugar | Lincoln Gordon | Frank Wells | Allan Gotlieb | Jared Cohen | Chesa Boudin | Jake Sullivan | Robert Reich | Gareth Penny | Susan Rice | Antonio Delgado (black Democrat congressman) | Dr. George Estabrooks (Manchurian Candidate hypnosis expert) | Sen. William Fulbright | George McGhee | Julian Ogilvie Thompson (chair De Beers/Anglo American Corp.) | Bob Hawke (PM Australia 1983-1991) | John Robert Evans (chair Rock. Fdn.) | Adm. Dennis Blair | Richard Haass | Ashton Carter | Dominic Barton (man. dir. of McKinsey & Co. 2009-2018) and later wife Geraldine Buckingham (McKinsey partner and BlackRock exec.) | Eric Lander | Pete Buttigieg (2020 presidential candidate) | Bruce Reed | Sylvia Burwell | Peter Blair Henry (black) | James Manyika (black; senior partner McKinsey & Co.; co-chair McKinsey Global Inst.) | James Gustave Speth | Eric Garcetti | Dr. Sudhir Krishnaswamy (FB Content Oversight Board 2020-) | Patrick Pichette (at McKinsey 2001-2008; CFO Google 2008-2015; chair Twitter 2020-) | Jane Nelson | Hunter Monroe (research associate Peterson Inst.) | Kurt Schmoke (black) | James Billington | Lincoln Gordon | Richard Stengel | Thomas Childs | Alfred Hayes | Charles Barber | William Yandell Elliott | Edson W. Spencer | Graham Thomas | Vivek Krishnamurthy | Matty Matthiessen (gay socialist) | Marc Agrast (gay liberal) | Christopher Ashley Ford | David Coleman | Dr. Brian Greene (C2C AM guest over "multiverse" physics) | Sir John Hood | Ben Jealous | Ronald D. Lee. Rhodes Scholars (media): Nicholas Kristof (trustee) | George Stephanopoulos | Rachel Maddow | Ronan Farrow | Naomi Wolf (Muslim-apologist feminist "lib CIA" journalist and author) | James Fallows | Jacob Weisberg | Peter Beinart | Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. (32-year career at the WaPo; publisheer and CEO WaPo 2000-2008, chair 2008-2011; director AP and Newspaper Assoc. of America) | Michael Kinsley | L. Gordon Crovitz | Rod Eddington | Rex Dee Adams. More: Malcolm Forbes Sr. (chair New Jersey Rhodes Scholarship Committee, 1976, 1978, 1979). Rhodes Trust origins: Cecil Rhodes (founder as a follow up to his "Rhodes secret society"; founder De Beers mining company in 1888; founder of the Rothschild-funded and royal chartered- British South Africa Company (BSAC) in 1889; prime minister Cape Colony 1890-1896) | Lord Nathan Rothschild (co-founder/financier De Beers and BSAC; featured in 3 of Rhodes' 7 wills as a trustee of the "Rhodes secret society", in one as the sole trustee; went along, but not preoccupied with Rhodes' empire building, however). Rhodes Trust trustees: Earl of Rosebery (chair 1902–1917; married to Hannah, the daughter of Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818-1874), from 1878 until her death in 1890; Foreign secretary 1892-1894, PM UK 1894-1895) | Lord Milner (chair 1917-1925) | Philip Kerr, 11th Marquess of Lothian (secretary 1925-1939; editor The Round Table magazine 1910-1917; close to Morgan representative Thomas Lamont since 1919) | Alfred Beit (chair 1925–1930; life-long governor De Beers, founding director BSAC, and Cecil Rhodes ally in his imperial vision) | Sir Otto Beit (Alfred's brother; director BSAC) | Leander Starr Jameson (Cape Colony PM 1904-1908; 180s conspirator of Cecil Rhodes for British control of South Africa) | Sir Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon (foreign secretary 1905-1916; UK ambassador to the US 1919-1920) | Lord Edward Grigg (politician 1920-1940s; governor of Kenya 1925-1930; privately opposed appeasement, but did not speak out) | H.A.L. Fisher (MP; governor BBC; warden of New College, Oxford 1926-1940; strongly supported a rearming of Nazi Germany to counter the communists) | Lord Leo Amery (1919-1955, chair 1933-1955; the father of Julian) | Sir Edward Robert Peacock (chair 1955-1962; director Bank of England, partner in Barclays Bank and director Hudson's Bay Company) | Baron Oliver Franks (1957-1973; director Lloyds Bank 1953–75, chair 1954–62; director Schroders 1969–1984) | 2nd Viscount Harcourt (chair 1975-; his father was part of Cecil Rhodes' inner circle; broke Cecil Rhodes' will by allowing women to the scholarship; great-grandson of Junius S. Morgan and the great-nephew of J.P. Morgan; interned at the Morgan bank; man. dir. Morgan Grenfell 1939-1968, chair 1968-1973; executive director IMF and the lending arm of the World Bank 1954-1957) | John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton (1970-1999, chair 1982-1999; grandson of the 1st Viscount Harcourt; his grandmother was a sister of J.P. Morgan; chair Barings Bank 1974-1989, director Bank of England 1983-1991, chair BP 1992-1995 and a BB visitor; his mother was a granddaughter of J.P. Morgan's father) | John Kerr, Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (1997-2010; chair Shell T&T; director Rio Tinto 2003-2015 and BB steering committee) | Lord Robert Fellowes (2000-; chair Barclays Private Bank 2000-) | Nicholas Oppenheimer (2015-) | Dominic Barton (2010-; McKinsey & Co.) | Bob Sternfels (McKinsey & Co.) | Chris Oechsli (president and CEO Atlantic Philanthropies) | Dr. Andrew Graham (also warden of Rhodes House 2012–2013; consultant BBC; director Channel 4; director Scott Trust, which owns The Guardian and The Observer). |
1902 |
| Pilgrims Society Almost the entire Morgan family over three decades | Andrew Carnegie | Cornelius Vanderbilt III | John D. Rockefeller | Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | Sir Harry Brittain (co-founder and chair) | Sir David Barran | S. Dillon Ripley II | Marshall Field | Cleveland H. Dodge | Cleveland E. Dodge | 1st Baron Iliffe | Joseph Choate | Ogden R. Reid | Sir Philip Sassoon | Daniel Coit Gilman | Bishop Henry Codman Potter (co-founder and president) | Percy Pyne II | Morris Jesup (founding member and VP) | William Taft (visitor) | Robert Bliss | Gen, Joseph Wheeler | William Hewitt | Charles Adams IV | Daniel Gilman | Dulles brothers | William Paley | William Rehnquist (guest) | Paul Peabody and many other peabodies | Raymond Fosdick | Foster Stearns | Nicholas Butler | Frank Pace, Jr. | H. J. Heinz II | Langbourne Williams | William McChesney Martin, Jr. | Warren Burgess | Henry Davison | John Cadwalader | Thomas Lamont | John W. Davis (president) | William Alton Jones | Henry Cabot Lodge | Caryl Haskins | Gabriel Hauge | Walter Bedell Smith | David McAlpin | John McCloy | Roy Larsen | Dean Acheson | Grayson Kirk | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (exec.) | Eisenhower | Shultz | Weinberger | Brzezinski | Kissinger | Haig | William Simon | Volcker | Robert Roosa | Whitehead | Peter Peterson | Robert Shafer | Vance | Rusk | Robert Knight | Detlev Bronk | Macomber | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Richard Debs | David Sarnoff | Arthur Sulzberger | George Franklin, Jr. | George Ball | Allen Sproul | George F. Baker, Sr., Jr. and III | Arthur Balfour | William Osborn | Elmo Roper | Philip Singleton | Philip Reed | Amory Houghton, Sr. and Jr. | John Beckwith Madden | Lord Nathaniel Rothschild | Anthony G. de Rothschild | James A. de Rothschild | Edmund de Rothschild | Warburg and Schiff families | Cecils | Sir Anthony Fisher | Sir John, Tony and Henry Keswick | Robert Blum | Lord Weidenfeld | 1st Viscount Monckton | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | Lord Peter Inge | Henry Luce and Henry L. III | Sir Antony Acland | Lord 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins) | John French III | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | Sir Michael Palliser | Sir Anthony Cleaver | Edward Streator (exec.) | Richard Boucher | Sandra Day O'Connor | Richard Patterson, Jr. | Alfred Sloan, Jr. | Maurice T. Moore | John Drexel III and IV | Harry Kern | Arthur Burns | John T. Connor | Walter Page II | Norris Darrell, Jr. | Taggart Whipple | Walter Gifford | Henry Schacht | Myron Taylor | George Clinton Textor | Lawrence Clarkson | Owen Young | Felix Rohatyn (guest) | Edmund Hawley | Winthrop Aldrich | Lord Arthur Salter | John Olin | Charles Horn | David H. Morris, Jr. | Lindsay Bradford | Edward Harkness (Standard Oil) | Dwight Morrow | Thomas Coolidge | James Evans | Lord Howe (exec.) | Lord Cobbold | Adm. William Crowe | William A. M. Burden | C. Douglas Dillon | Charles Tillinghast | Clarke Gilmore | Henry Catto | Russell Leffingwell | John Hay Whitney | John Train | Sir Frederic Bennett | James Day Hodgson | James Gerard | Frank Polk | Barry Bingham | Bishop James de Wolf Perry | Carrington | Lord Roll | Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly | Grierson | Sutherland (dinner) | Richard Haass (speaker) | Woolsey (speaker) | Rees-Mogg (speaker) | Gen. David Petraeus (guest) | Rifkind | Brademas | Seitz | Philip Lader | John W. Hanes, Sr. | Patrick Gross | William vanden Heuvel | Viscount De L'Isle | Helms (older brother and uncle of Richard) Thomas Watson, Sr. and Jr. | Arthur Watson | George von Mallinckrodt | Charles Adams IV | Sir David Ormsby-Gore | Viscount Harcourt | Sir David Nicolson | Sir Peter Tennant | Lord Alan Watson | Lord Brian Griffiths | John Gardner | Frank Altschul | Alger Hiss | Malcolm Muir | Lawrence Gillespie | William Payne | Frederick Kingsbury | Howard McCall | Charles Fogarty | Malcolm Forbes Sr. | Christopher Forbes | Norman Cousins | James Robinson III | James Wolfensohn | Conrad Black | Prescott Bush, Jr. | Jonathan and Elbridge Colby | Thomas Kean | John Lehman | Robert McNamara | Senator Claiborne Pell | Donald Rumsfeld | Rick Trainor (exec.) | Ronald Freeman | Charles McVeigh III | Robert Worcester (chair) | Thomas Childs | Alfred Hayes (exec.) | Charles Barber | Paul Hoffman. |
1902 |
| Round Table Movement Members: Lord Milner | Lionel Curtis | Philip Kerr (secretary; 11th Marquess of Lothian) | Lord Leo Amery | Lord Robert Brand | Sir Reginald Coupland. Later: Baron Gore-Booth | Lord Douglas Hurd | Sir Michael Howard | Sir Robert Wade-Gery. 1910-1912: local Round Table groups were set up in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Improved co-operation among nations/region soon became more popular than the idea of the more centralized imperial federation concept. Free market economics also eventually won over Imperial Preference (British goods first, second from the colonies, and lastly from outsiders). In the late 1930s a split occurred between supporters and opponents of appeasement. Publication since 1910: The Round Table Journal: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire. January 2006, The Round Table Journal, 'World War I and Anglo-American' has an interesting history on the movement." |
1909 |
| English Speaking Union (ESU) Sir Evelyn Wrench (founder) | Lord Arthur Balfour (founding president) | John W. Davis (president 1921-1938) | Henry Fisher (U.S. chair 1936-1947) | Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (chair U.S. national board) |
1918 |
| British-American Parliamentary Group (BAPG) Leadership: Ronald Tree (founder) | Michael Ancram / 13th Marquess of Lothian (vice chair anno 2005) | Lord Carrington (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | William Hague (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Michael Howard (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Howe of Aberavon (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord Hurd of Westwell (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Margaret Thatcher (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Lord David Owen (vice president anno 2005, 2011) | Jack Straw (vice president anno 2011) | David Miliband (vice president anno 2011). Prime ministers are the official chair: John Major (1990-1997) | Tony Blair (1997-2007) | Gordon Brown (2007-2010). Speeches: Dan Quayle | Colin Powell | Jack Kemp | Henry Catto. Conference attendants: Sen. William Fulbright ('63) | Sen. Hubert Humphreys ('63) | Sen. Frank Church ('66) | Sen. George McGovern ('66) | Lee Hamilton ('83, '92) | Sen. Robert Byrd ('90) | Sen. Ted Stevens ('99) | Lord Lamont of Lerwick ('99). bapg.org.uk/index.asp?id=6 (accessed: Aug. 21, 2011): "The Group acts as an autonomous body within Parliament. [provides a list of vice presidents]" Sep. 11, 2020 admin comment on the Wikipedia Talk page for this group: "I'm pretty sure this is not an all-party parliamentary group. Having checked the register of all-party parliamentary group since 2015, it does not seem to show up. The name may impy that it is, but it does not seem to be.." |
1937 |
| (William Allen) Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies (CDAAA) Set up after Hitler threatened UK and cooperation was impossible due to FDR and public opinion in England. Committee members: Nicholas Butler (Morgan representative) | Thomas Lamont (Morgan representative) | John W. Davis (Morgan and Rockefeller) | James Gerard | Frank Polk (Vanderbilt) | Henry Stimson | Bishop James de Wolf Perry. |
1940 |
| Fight for Freedom Committee (FFF) Offshoot of the CDAAA, which did not openly push for military intervention into WWII. Funded by the British Security Coordination of Sir William Stephenson. Committee members: William Donovan | Allen Dulles | Marshall Field III | James Warburg | James Conant | Laird Bell (president CCFR) | Harold Guinzburg | Spyros Skouras. |
1941 |
| Marshall Scholarships Established because the Rhodes Scholarships at the time were not available to women, as well as not to men of 25 and older. Nemed for Anglophile Gen. George Marshall. Association of Marshall Scholars: advisory board (the most recognizable scholars): Bruce Babbitt | Graham Allison | Kurt Campbell | Anne Applebaum | William Burns. Remaining interesting Marshall Scholars: Thomas Friedman | Reid Hoffman. Co-funders: Shell, GS, Google, Rhodes House / Rhodes Trust. |
1953 |
| Ditchley Foundation U.K. members: 1st Baron Sherfield (Makins; first chair) | Lord Carrington | Sir John Keswick | Lord Harold Caccia | Sir Evelyn Baring | John Major | Sir Antony Acland | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (chaired a 2004 panel discussion) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Lord Tugendhat | Sir Christopher Hogg | Sir Peter Mandelson | Sir Michael Palliser | Edward Streator | Lord Richardson of Duntisbourne | Robert Worcester | Pauline Neville-Jones | Andrew Knight | Ngaire Woods. Also named: Etienne Davignon (reported governor around 2000). Ernst van der Beugel (since 1978) U.S. members: Malcolm Muir (chair) | Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. | George Franklin, Jr. | Philip Reed | Brademas (U.S. chairman) | Nicholas Burns (vice chair) | William Farish | Philip Kaiser | Vance | Volcker | Lewis Branscomb | Robert Hormats | Kampelman | Scowcroft | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Seitz | Weinberger | Strobe Talbott (chair) | Jami Miscik (vice chair) | Jack Straw | Sen. John Warner | Joseph Califano Jr. | Richard Gardner | Philip Lader | Pickering | Robert J. O'Neill (australia) | Rita Hauser | Elspeth Rostow | Klutznick (1980s). Participated in one or more conferences: Fiona Hill | Stephen Kaplan |
1958 |
| International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), London Set up in London, with financing for the first three years provided by the Ford Fdn. Founding council members: Richard Goold-Adams (chair; writer and broadcaster) | Lord Arthur Salter (vice chair) | Denis Healey | Michael Howard | Ian Booth | Basil Liddel Hart | C. M. Woodhouse (DSO; director general RIIA 1955-) | Lord Weeks (chair Vickers) | Donald Tyerman (editor The Economist) | Sir John Slessor (chief of the Air Staff 1950-1952). Officers: Francois Duchene (director 1969-1974) | Dr. John Chipman (director-general and CEO since 1992) | Robert J. O'Neill (exec. director 1982-1987, chair 1997-2001) | Francois Heisbourg (chair 2002-2018; listed "expert" anno 2020) | Fleur de Villiers (vice chair anno 2004-2007) | Sir Robert Wade-Gery ("Honorary Treasurer and Investment Committee Chairman" anno 2004) | Sir Michael Palliser (vice president anno 2004-2007) | . Advisory council: Guthrie (anno 2020) | Lord Charles Powell (anno 2020; former trustee) | Lord George Robertson (anno 2020) | Marcus Wallenberg (anno 2020) | Tom Enders (anno 2020). Other (mainly members and visitors): Caryl Haskins | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Henry Kissinger | Lynn Forester de Rothschild | Philip Odeen | Richard Haass | Fred Ikle | Joseph Johnson | Lord Lord Chalfont | Patrick Gross | Sir Robert Wade-Gery | Pauline Neville-Jones | Dov Zakheim | Paul Bremer | Prince Turki al Faisal (participated/speech) | Lord Christopher Makins | Rita Hauser | Thomas Pickering | William Schneider, Jr. (member) | Peter Ackerman | Mortimer Zuckerman | Mikhail Kasyanov (presentation in 2006) | Dr. Jacquelyn Davis | Hubertus Hoffmann (member) | Ashton Carter (member) | Richard Burt (rose to chair US committee) | Ronald Lehman (member) | Robert Gallucci (fellowship) | Jim Steinberg (senior fellowship 1985-1987) | Frank Barnett | Leslie Gelb | Chung Min Lee (chair advisory council) | Sherri Goodman (member) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (member) | Chester Crocker (member) | Kurt Campbell (fellow) | James Lowenstein (member) | Anthony Lake | Aaron Friedberg (member) | Gordon Brown (speech) | Christopher Ashley Ford (member) | Carl Bildt ("Former Member of the Board" in official CV). 10-13 Sep. 1981, annual conference in Williamsburg, Virginia, "Members of the Conference": Caspar Weinberger (sitting U.S. sec. of defense) | Henry K. | Samuel H. | Paul Nitze | Albert Wohlstetter | Paul Wolfowitz | Joseph Nye | Leslie G. | Richard H. | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Philip O. | Morton Halperin | Joseph J. | Helmut S. | Stansfield Turner | Graham Allison | Richard Garwin | Frans Alting von Geusau | Ernst van der Beugel | Carl B. | Robert Blackwill | Robert R. Bowie | McGeorge Bundy | Richard B. | William van Cleave | James Digby | Paula Dobriansky | Francois D. | Sir James Eberle | Wim van Eekelen | Gen. J. van Elsen ("Netherlands Advisory Council on Defence Affairs") | Victor Halberstadt | Joseph Fromm | Dr. Stanley Hoffman (Harvard) | Pierre Lellouche | Lord Christopher M. | Sir Michael Palliser | L. van der Put ("director for general political affairs, Ministry of Defence, The Hague") | William Quandt | W. Scott Thompson (Tufts) | Gen. Hein du Toit | Robert Wade-Gery | David J. Walker ("Formerly Control Risks Ltd., London") | Carl-Friedrich von Weizsacker | Dr. Robert J. O'N. | . |
1958 |
| Institute for British American Cultural Exchange Michael Hollingshead (secretary). Board: Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton and wife | Huntington Hartford (offices located in his building) | Lionel Trilling, | W. H. Auden | Congressman Seymour Halpern | Gen. Frank Howley | Buell Gallagher. |
1959 |
| Atlantic Council (AC) Directors (1977): Henry Kissinger (still a director in 2020 and all the time in between) | William Casey | Donald Rumsfeld | George Franklin Jr. | David Abshire | Paul Nitze | Robert Roosa | John Irwin II | Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer | Henry Fowler (chair) | David Packard (vice chair 1972-1980) | Eugene Rostow (vice chair) | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster (vice chair; chair 1985-1997) | Anne Armstrong | George McGhee | Malcolm Muir | William A. M. Burden | Hodding Carter III | Jay Lovestone | Christian Herter (founding chair 1961-1963) | David Acheson (president 1993-1999). Honorary directors (1977): John McCloy | Nelson Rockefeller | Dean Rusk | Frank Altschul | Eugene Black | C. Douglas Dillon | Thomas Finletter | Andrew Heiskell | Amory Houghton| Hubert Humphrey | Sen. Henry Jackson | Jacob Javits | Henry Cabot Lodge | William P. Rogers | Charles Spofford. Hon. directors (1998): Cyrus Vance | Alexander Haig | Warren Christopher | James Baker III | Gen. Vernon Walters | William McChesney Martin | Gerald Ford. Directors (1998): Brent Scowcroft (director since about 1980; chair 1998-1999; chair IAB 2006-2016, emeritus after that; vice chair Kiss. Assoc.) | Chas Freeman (vice chair; later lifetime director) | John Macomber (vice chair; later lifetime director) | Henry K. | George Shultz | James Woolsey (later lifetime director) | Lawrence Eagleburger | Maurice Greenberg | John Whitehead | Condoleezza Rice | Joseph Nye (into 2020s) | Frank Carlucci | Robert McNamara | Harold Brown | James Schlesinger | William Webster | William Perry | Richard Holbrooke | William Draper III | Rita Hauser | William Taft IV (later lifetime director) | John I. II | Elliott Richardson | Eugene R. | Paul Kaminski | Philip Odeen (later lifetime director) | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Gen. Andrew G. | Gen. Bernard Rogers | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Paul Nitze | Gen. John Shalikashvili | Dwayne Andreas | Henry F. | William P. Rogers. Directors (2004 - new names only): Henry Catto Jr. (chair 1999-2007) | 2st Baron Sherfield / Lord Christopher Makins (president 1999-2005) | Walter Slocombe (secretary; later also exec. director) | Thomas Pickering (later lifetime director) | Anne-Marie Slaughter | Adm. Dennis Blair (into 2020s) | Richard Burt (into 2020s) | Gen. Wesley Clark (into 2020s) | Stuart Eizenstat (into 2020s) | Leon Fuerth | Sherri Goodman (2002-; later joined on board by husband John Goodman) | Gen. Barry McCaffrey. Directors (2009 - new names only): Chuck Hagel (chair) | Robert Abernethy (vice chair anno 2020). Directors (2014 - new names only): Jon Huntsman Jr. (chair) | C. Boyden Gray (exec. vice chair) | Ashton Carter | Stephen Hadley (exec. vice chair by 2015) | Gen. Michael Hayden | Richard Armitage | Paula Dobriansky | Robert Hormats (later lifetime director) | Gen. James L. Jones (chair 2018-) | Nicholas Burns (into 2020s) | Stephen Kappes (director; supervisor CIA's extraordinary rendition kidnap-and-torture program) | Dov Zakheim (into 2020s) | Philip Lader (later lifetime director) | Sean O'Keefe | Wolfgang Ischinger | Peter Ackerman | Zalmay Khalilzad | Leon Panetta (honorary) | Robert Gates (honorary; also awarded in '16) | Sen. John Warner (honorary) | Gen. Edward Rowny | Kenneth Dam (later lifetime director). Directors (2020 - new names only): Michael Chertoff | Gen. James Cartwright | Gen. David Petraeus | Gen. H.R. McMaster | Adm. Michael Mullen (honorary) | Colin Powell (honorary; speaker 1988 conference; awarded in 2005; introduced Prince Harry in 2012). International advisory board (2009): Brent S. (chair) | Zbig B. | Rupert Murdoch | Larry Summers | Stephen Schwarzman | Lord George Robertson | Jacob Wallenberg | Martin Sorrell | Josef Ackermann (until 2015) | Jose Maria Aznar | Tom Enders | Aleksander Kwasniewski | Victor Chu: IAB (2014 - new names only): Muhtar Kent | Shaukat Aziz | Rob Speyer | Gen. John Jumper | Robert Moritz (chair and partner PricewaterhouseCoopers) | Paul Polman (advisory board anno 2014-2015; CEO Unilever). IAB 2017 (new names only): David McCormick (joined in 2017, immediately becoming IAB chair 2017-, still anno '21; married Dina Habib Powell). IAB (2018 - new names only): Madeleine Albright | Carl Bildt | Evan Greenberg | Victor Pinchuk | Robert Zoellick. IAB (2020-; new names only): Kevin Rudd (anno 2020) | Ross Perot Jr. (anno 2021). Strategic Advisors Group (2009): Key names also on other boards | Adm. Giambastiani (later lifetime director) | Hans Binnendijk. Councillors: Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (anno 2007) | Ronald Lehman (anno 2007) | Russell Train (anno 2007) | Patrick Gross (patron councillor anno 2007) | Max Kampelman | (associate councillor anno 2007). AC's 2016 Middle East Strategy Task Force (senior advisors): Madeleine A. (co-chair) | Stephen H. (co-chair) | Shaukat A. | Wolfgang I. | Nicholas B. | Carl B. | Igor Ivanov | Frances Townsend | Prince Turki al Faisal | David Miliband | Mike Morell | Jose Manuel Barroso | Yasar Yakıs (former foreign minister of Turkey) | Kenneth Wollack (president NDI). More names: David Rockefeller (financier and at the very least co-wrote the AC's first book 'Building the American-European Market' (1967), focused on maximum exononic growth) | Rozanne Ridgway (president 1989-1993, co-chair 1993-1996) | Carla Hills (contributor and introduced Chevron CEO John Watson in '13) | George H. W. Bush (awarded '09) | George W. Bush (awarded '18) | Henry Kravis (awarded '16) | Gloria Estefan (awarded '18) | Christine Lagarde (awarded '19) | Frederick Smith (awarded '19) | Joe Biden (awarded '11) | Bono (awarded '10) | Gen. Jim Mattis (awarded '10) | Helmut Kohl (awarded '09) | Alan Greenspan (awarded '07) | Robert Rubin (awarded '02) | Paul Volcker (awarded '99) | Sam Nunn (awarded '96) | Susan Rice | George Tenet | Ian Brzezinski | Lynn Forester de Rothschild (known visitor hanging out with Henry K.) | William Nitze | Mansoor Ijaz | Donald Kerr | Lincoln Gordon | Franklin Miller | Tom Killefer | Maurice Sonnenberg | Klutznick (1970s-1980s) | David Abshire | Gen. Russell Dougherty | Eric Melby | Judith A. Miller | Alan Lee Williams | Sergei Rogov | Strobe Talbott (speech 1997) | Stapleton Roy (panel/discussion member) | William A. M. Burden | Gen. Richard G. Stilwell | Damon Wilson | Rob de Wijk (Strategic Advisors Group) | Michael Shrimpton (UK fellow) | Rajiv Shah (director) | Gen. Charles Wald (director) | David Michel (consultant) | Capricia Penevic (ambassador-in-residence) | Kurt Campbell (2005 speaker) | Warren Burgess | George Franklin, Jr. | Adolph Schmidt (Mellon) | William Simon | Bill and Hillary Clinton (both awarded) | Michael Dukakis (speaker 1988 conference) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (speaker 1988 conference) | Kurt Volker (senior advisor) | Dr. Alina Polyakova (director of Research for Europe and Eurasia). Funders (2008-2009): Ford, Mott, Open Society foundation; the GMF, and various governments. Companies: BP, ExxonMobil, Airbus, Boeing, EADS, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics,Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Blackstone, JP Morgan Chase, UBS, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Bank of New York, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch & Co., Allen & Co., Chevy Chase Bank, Booz Allen Hamilton, Deloitte & Touche, McLarty Assoc., Deutsche Bank, Daimler AG, Siemens, SAAB, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Sony, Time Warner, Viacom, WPP, FedEx. More: In 2019 Putin moved to ban the AC from Russia, similar to Soros' OSF. | Mario Monti (member of the AC's short-lived "Business and Economic Advisors Group" anno 2020) |
1961 |
| British-North American Committee (BNAC) U.K. members: Sir Anthony Cleaver | Sir Anthony Cleaver | George Mallinckrodt | Members: Niall Fitzgerald | Sir Richard Sykes. U.S. members: Richard Burt | Henry Catto | Gen. Wesley Clark | Boyden Gray | James Schlesinger |
1969 |
| Trades Union Committee for European and Transatlantic Understanding | 1976 |
| British-American Project Lord Carrington | Lord George Robertson | John Brademas | Diana Villiers Negroponte | Jonathan Powell (brother of Lord Charles Powell) |
1985 |
| Train Foundation (formerly the Northcote Parkinson Fund) John Train (founder and chair) | Edward Streator (president) | Midge Decter (founding treasurer) |
1987 |
| British American Security Information Council (BASIC) Advisors: Thomas Pickering (financiers Carnegie and Ford Fdns and Rockefeller Family Associates). |
1987 |
| British-American Business Council (BABC) Organizes the Annual Transatlantic Business Conference. International advisory board (Jan. 1998): Raymond Seitz (chair until 1998) | Margaret Thatcher | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (UK ambassador to the US 1995-1997) | Lord Renwick | Adm. William Crowe Jr. | Robert Bauman (chair British Aerospace) | Sir Colin Chandler (chair Vickers) | Robert Crandall (chair and president American Airlines) | Ken Lay (chair and CEO Enron). IAB (Dec. 1998; extra): Sir John Browne (chair; group CEO BP) | Philip Lader. IAB (1999; extra): Dick Cheney (CEO Halliburton) | Martin Sorrell (chair 2000-2020s; group CEO WPP). IAB (2000; extra): Maurice Greenberg | Douglas Daft (chair and CEO Coca-Cola). IAB (2001; extra): Sir John Bond | Robert Hormats (vice chair Goldman Sachs). IAB (2003; extra): William Farish III | Steve Forbes. IAB (2007; extra): Antony Burgmans | Harold McGraw III | James Murdoch | John Thain | Sir Peter Sutherland | Stephen Schwarzman | Sir Howard Stringer (chair and CEO Sony) | Ratan Tata (chair Tata Group) | Rex Tillerson. IAB (2008; extra): John Micklethwait | Lord Rothermere. IAB (2011; extra): Richard Branson | Evan Greenberg (son of Maurice) | David Rubenstein | Jerry Speyer. IAB (2020; extra): Ajay Banga | Jeffrey Greenberg (son of Maurice) | Jeffrey Weiner (CEO LinkedIn). Other corporations represented (almost exclusively by chairs, CEOs and presidents): British Airways, Salamon Brothers, Fluor Corporation, Chubb Corporation, National Westminster, Rio Tinto, BP Amoco, Vodafone, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citigroup, Lockheed, HSBC, Sara Lee, Boeing, New York Stock Exchange, Dow Jones & Company, Bank of England, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, AT&T, The Economist, Morgan Stanley, Lazard Freres, Rolls-Royce plc. Also: Center for Gender Equality, Pfizer, Merck, McKinsey & Co., Barclays, FedEx, Blackstone, Cadbury Schweppes, AIG, Wachovia, Reed Elsevier, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank Americas, Royal Dutch Shell, Russell Reynolds Associates. |
1993 |
| Transatlantic Business Dialogue Niall Fitzgerald (EU chair 2004-2005). Few or no top 100/200 names. Became the Trans-Atlantic Business Council (TABC) in 2013: Stuart Eizenstat (founding co-chair 2013-2017). |
1995 |
| Global Strategy Forum (GSF) Founders: 13th Marquess of Lothian / Michael Ancram (also advisory board anno 2020) and Johan Eliasch. Advisory board (anno 2020): Lord Lamont of Lerwick (since at least 2013) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild | Susan Eisenhower | William Cohen | Chuck Hagel | Jack Straw | Sir Malcolm Rifkind | Sir Kevin Tebbit | Adm. Baron West of Spithead | Christopher Wilkins ("the architect and first chairman of Hakluyt") | General Sir Richard Barrons | Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | Sir John Chilcot | Professor Michael Clarke | Adrian de Ferranti (treasurer) | Philip Hammond | Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield | William Kerr | Sir Iain Lobban | Sir David Manning | Lord Stirrup | Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Saudi Arabia (involved since the start). More advisory board members: Huseyin Gun (anno 2013). Guest speakers: Lord Mark Malloch-Brown ('07). |
2006 |
| Australian Institute of International Affairs Robert J. O'Neill (fellow 2008; also active in England) | Gareth Evans (fellow) |
1933 |
| American-Australian Association Officers: Sir Keith Murdoch (founder; father of Rupert M.) | Russell Leffingwell (co-founder) | Juan Trippe (co-founder) | Rupert Murdoch | Frank Lowy | Wolfensohn | Maurice Greenberg | David Rockefeller | William Simon | Riley Bechtel. |
1948 |
| Reserve Bank of Australia State-owned, in contrast to the U.S. Federal Reserve. Frank Lowy (director 1994-2005). |
1960 |
| American Australian Education Leadership Foundation (AAELF) Project: American Australian Council (website online in 2017): Officers: Tony Podesta. Directors: Kurt Campbell. |
1993 |
| Australian Strategic Policy Institute Robert J. O'Neill (founding chair; also active in England) |
2001 |
| Lowy Institute for International Policy (LIIP) Frank Lowy (founder chair; co-owner WTC on 9/11) | Ambassador Chan Heng Chee | Robert Ferguson | David Gonski | Air Chief Marshall Angus Houston | Martin Indyk (founding member) | David Lowy | Peter Lowy | Steven Lowy | Ian Macfarlane | Mark Ryan | Judith Sloan | James Spigelman | Michael Thawley (Australia's ambassador to the U.S. 2000-2005). International advisory council: Rita Hauser | Rupert Murdoch | James Wolfensohn | Sir Lawrence Freedman | Francois Heisbourg | Prof. Lord Robert May (director UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) | James Fallows (fellow). Founding director: Professor Robert J. O'Neill. Family members all active for Westfield Holdings Limited. In 2001 Lowy leased the WTC with Larry Silverstein. |
2003 |
| Club von Berlin Origins: 179 founding members. 673 member by 1925. Expelled all Jews in 1933-1934, leading to a crisis in the club. In the late 1930s and early 1940s the club grew close to a thousand members, countless from big business. Members/visitors: - Hjalmar Schacht (membership committee 1920s-1940s): Major globalist-oriented banker, so close to 1920-1944 Bank of England governor Montagu Norman that Norman was godfather to one of his children. President Reichsbank 1923-1930, 1933-1939. Helped create IG Farben** in 1925. Reichsminister of Economics 1934-1937. Reichsminister without portfolio 1937-1943. - Fritz Thyssen: Steel baron. Founding chair Vereinigte Stahlwerke 1926-1939. Top Hitler financier, counsel and cheerleader all the way since 1923. Persuaded Hitler to suppress the SA in 1934, leading to the Night of the Long Knives. Rifts developed in 1936, because Fritz did not support Hitler's suppression of the Catholic church and app[arently not the wholesale extermination of the Jews. However, it did not go unnoticed that Thyssen left Germany in September 1939, weeks after the August 23, 1939 Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact he greatly opposed. "I personally believe the German people are not ready for democracy." - Carl Duisberg: CEO of Bayer 1900-1914, chair and CEO 1914-1925, until the merger with IG Farben; negotiated the "dreibund" or "little IG" of 1904 with BASF and Afga, after monopolistic trust inspiration from Standard Oil; chair advisory board IG Farben** 1926; Duisberg: "[These trusts are established for the] elimination of ruinous competition, with the aim of achieving the highest possible profits." d. 1935). - Carl Bosch: Chair BASF until its merger with IG Farben in 1925. Exec. chair IG Farben** 1925-1935. - Fritz Haber (certainly a Feb. 17, 1926 discussion): Nobel Prize laureate for work done with Carl Bosch in developing chemical fertilizer. Soon after the "father of German chemical warfare" who oversaw Germany's first release of chlorine gas during the April 1915 Battle of Ypres and days later at the Eastern front. His wife killed herself at this point. Member advisory board IG Farben 1926-1933. Always defended the use of poison gas as "not at all more cruel". Eyewitness account of his initial chlorine gas attack: "My lungs felt as they were being burned out [and] burst. Red hot needles were being trust into my eyes. [The dead turn] black in the face. ... The most awful death I have ever seen." - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: Son of the founder of Siemens AG. Advisory board chair Siemens conglomerate 1919-1941. - Hermann Abs: Director Deutsche Bank 1938-1945. Director IG Farben during WWII. Not prosecuted at Nuremburg. Post-WWII went on to become Deutsche Bank chair, advisor to Konrad Adenauer and a visitor of BB. - Baron Kurt von Schroder: Partner in J.H. Stein banking house. Brokered the Jan. 4, 1933 (peace) meeting between Von Papen and Hitler, which was key in bringing Hitler to power in subsequent months and suppressing the communists. Schroder's Bank; ITT - Albert Vogler: Director Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG, following up founder Hugo Stinnes as chair in 1924. Founding chair Vereinigte Stahlwerke in 1926, alongside advisory board chair Fritz Thyssen. Chair RWE AG, Ruhrgas AG, Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG (holding company for Vereinigte Stahlwerke until at least 1932), and Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG. Director Siemens & Halske AG, Siemens Schuckert-Werke AG and Demag. Advisory board Deutsche Reichsbank. Financier of Hitler since at least 1931. Member Herman Goring's Armament Council and major munitions producer 1940-, using tons of slave labor. Committed suicide to avoid capture by the allies. - Friedrich Flick: Owner and chair of Flick KG. Wealthy Nazi-supporting industrialist who was part of the Himmler Circle. Despite receiving a 7 year prison sentence at Nuremberg, by the mid 1950s he was one of the wealthiest men of West-Germany. Secretly bought a 25% stake, the largest) in Daimler-Benz AG over 1952-1955, joining the advisory board in 1955 when it came out. Herbert Quandt, a son of Gunther Quandt, joined the advisory board at the same time. Herbert and his brother Harald were building up their 3.85% stake at the time. Around 1972, Flick owned 39%, Deutsche Bank 28.5% and the Quandt Group 14%. Flick died in 1972. - Ernst von Borsig: Manager at Borsig GmbH, founded by his father and the largest steam locomotive producer in Europe. Borsig was among the earliest financiers of Hitler's NSDAP. Chair Berlin Metal Industry Association 1906-1932, etc. Founding chair Stega 1926-, a secret rearmament group in Weimar Germany. During WWI and WWII Borsig was a major munitions producer. - Borsig family: Additional members besides Ernst were members. - Helmuth Poensgen: Cousin of major Vereinigte Stahlwerke industrialist Ernst Poensgen. Director Phoenix AG in 1926, the same year it mergen with Thyssen and other groups into Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Along with his family a member of the extreme right DNVP since 1926. Part of the Harzburger Front in 1931 alongside Hitler's NSDAP, which he joined soon after. - Max Ilgner: Protege of his uncle, Hermann Schmitz, at BASF and then IG Farben. Ardent Nazi. Worked with Goebbels for some time, trying to temper his rhetoric a bit. When that ceased working, he hired U.S. public relations expert Ivy Lee to work with Hitler in improving his image internationally. They agreed on inserting pro-Nazi newspaper articles in the U.S. press, promoting Nazi Germany as good place to invest. Came up with the idea to fund foreign press in Czechoslovakia after the Nazi annexation and informed Hitler of regions with lots of mineral wealth. Convicted at Nuremberg for "spoliation and plunder", but quickly released. Became a political lobbyist. Chair of chemical company in Zug in Switzerland 1955-. - Karl Kimmich: Director Deutsche Bank 1933-1942, CEO 1940-1942, chair 1942-1945. Member supervisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939. Deeply involved and seemingly supportive of the "Aryanization" of Jewish firms. His younger brother, Max Kimmich, was brother-in-law of Goebbels. - Wilhelm Voss: SS-Standartenfuhrer, the second-highest rank in the SS. Member Himmler Circle. Co-founder of the giant Nazi conglomerate Reichswerke Hermann Goring in 1937, serving as general director 1939-1941. Deputy chair advisory board Rheinmetall-Borsig AG. Chair Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand AG. Chair of Skoda Works in occupied Czechoslovakia 1938-1945 and corporations in Austria, all of which had been incorporated into Reichswerke Hermann Goring. - Robert Pferdmenges: Chairman of the Association of Banks and Bankers in Rhineland and Westphalia 1921-1931. Partner Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie. 1929-1953, which traded as Bankhaus Pferdmenges & Co. 1938-1947, with Pferdmenges serving as placeholder for the Jewish owners. Deputy chair advisory board of Dresdner Bank 1931-. Director Reichsbank 1931-1932. Member supervisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939, alongside Thyssen, Flick, etc. Ran the Flick Group in trust for the Nuremberg-convicted Friedrich Flick 1948-1951, together with Hermann Abs. President of the Association of German Banks 1951-1960. Anno 1954, Pferdmenges was on the advisory board of roughly 24 corporations, including August Thyssen Hutte AG, Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, Demag AG and Allgemeine Elektrizitats Gesellschaft [AEG - German General Electric] AG. Earlier he had been a director of, amongst others, Phoenix AG, Rheinische Stahlwerke, Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, Rheinische AG fur Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG - all companies tied to Nazi financing. Member of the Bundestag 1950-1962. Key financial advisor and close friend of post-war chancellor Konrad Adenauer, whom he known since 1919. - Ernst Tengelmann: Influential mining figure in the Ruhr in the 1930s. Director-general Essener Steinkohlenbergwerke AG and CEO of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG. Nazi financier. Continued his business internationally after the war. - Fritz Springorum: Son of Friedrich Springorum:, the general director and sole board member of Hoesch AG 1908-1921. Fritz: Chief engineer and head of the steelworks at Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG 1911-1915. General director and eventually chair Hoechst 1932-1937, chair advisory board 1937-. Chair Association of German Ironworkers (VDEh) in 1936-1939. Initially a DNVP supporter, a slightly less radical version of the NSDAP, but from 1933 a Nazi financier. - Julius Flechtheim (exec. comm. anno 1931): Head of the legal department and legal counsel of IG Farben 1925-1933. Director of the Reich Association of German Industry. Fell out with the Nazis in 1933 and retired to Switzerland in 1938. - Hans Luther: German chancellor 1925-1926. President Reischsbank 1930-1933. German ambassador to the U.S. 1933-1937. - Carl Merck: Listed as a member of the late 1930s/early 1940s. Likely tied to the major H. J. Merck ∓ Co. banking house; not the pharmaceutical company. - Franz von Mendelssohn: Banker of Mendelssohn & Co., founded in 1795 and forced to shut down in 1938. - Robert von Mendelssohn: Banker of Mendelssohn & Co.. - Hermann Rochling: Jew- and France-hating steel baron who joined the Nazi Party. General manager of Iron and Steel for the Lorraine and Meurthe-de-Moselle regions 1940-1942. Accused of urging Hitler to invade the Balkans in order to appropriate businesses here. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, but released within 3. Said to have always treated him employees well. - Gerson Bleichroder: Head of S. Bleichroder banking firm in Berlin 1855-, founded by his father in 1803 and official Berlin representatives of the Rothschilds 1828-1870. Banker for Otto von Bismarck from 1858, on the advice of Baron Mayer Carl von Rothschild. Second Jew to become ennobled in Prussia in 1872, due to his close ties to Von Bismarck. - Georg Solmssen: Christianized son of German-Jewish banker Adolph Salomonsohn, the owner of Disconto-Gesellschaft bank, which merged with Deutsche Bank in 1929. Director Deutsche Bank 1919-1934, chair in 1933, advisory board 1934-1937 (from Switzerland). Anno 1932 chair Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphengesellschaft, alongside vice chair Max Warburg and director Averell Harriman. Member advisory board Lufthansa AG and Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Director Reichsbank and Reichspost. Warned in an April 1933 letter that the Nazi would seize all Jewish property and subsequently, in 1934, after being ousted from the main Deutsche Bank board, moved to Switzerland. - Emil Georg von Stauss: Joined Deutsche Bank 1898-, secretary to Georg von Siemens and oil business manager for the bank 1900s, director 1915-, eventually director-general. Manager on behalf of Deutsche Bank of the Anatolian Railway Company during WWI. Also involved in the expansion of the Baghdad Railway. Director Deutsche Petroleum 1920-. Director Daimler-Benz 1925-, chair later on. Chair BMW 1926-. Chair advisory board Lufthansa AG 1926–1942. Close friend of Hjalmar Schacht. Financier of the Nazis. Had meetings with Hitler, but closer to Hermann Goring. All this while serving as a representative (more like a spy) in the German People's Party (DVP). - Herbert Gutmann: Jewish. Son of the Dresdner Bank board member Eugen Gutmann. Himself director Dresdner Bank 1910- until about 1931. Co-founder in 1906, director and later also president of the Deutsche Orientbank, which became part of Dresdner Bank in 1929. Collector of Islamic art. Held 16 advisory posts anno 1933, but was gradually ousted from them for being a Jew. Emigrated in 1936, ended up in England, and died impoverished. - Jakob Goldschmidt: Intern at the bank H. Oppenheimer early 1900s. 1909 founder of the Schwarz, Goldschmidt & Co. bank. Came to hold up to 123 advisory board positions. Director National Bank of Germany in the 1920s. Partner Danat Bank from 1922, where he pressed out Hjalmar Schacht in 1923 to become the bank's sole partner. The collapse of his Danat Bank caused a major financial cirsis in 1931. Advisory board IG Farben 1931–1932. After the Nazis came to power, he moved to Switzerland and then emigrated to the US in 1934. - Siegmund Bodenheimer: Founding director Danat Bank 1922-1931. Director Dresdner Bank after it took over Danat in 1931. Advisory board Deutsche Petroleuk AG Berlin 1929/1930, along with about two dozen other corporate positions. Moved to Switzerland in 1934 and then the U.S. in 1936. - Dr. Hans Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. Director M.M. Warburg & Co., Amsterdam, together with Siegmund Warburg, in the 1930s. - Adolf Ernst Joachim Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. - Georg Meyer: From family bank E. J. Meyer, Berlin. - "members of the banks Delbrück & Schickler, Bleichroder, Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Oppenheim and Warburg." - Julius Weltzien: Director from 1922 of the mining and chemical conglomerate that became known as Schering AG in 1937, adding the half-brother of Hermann Goring to the board in line with Nazi policy. Moved a lot of his Jewish managers abroad from 1933. Also set up a structure through Switzerland that allowed a lot of the company's overseas branches to keep the profits. Moved to the U.S. in April 1938 where he was find over anti-trust violations and accused of aiding the Nazis. - Paul Silverberg: Jewish-German manager of Rheinische AG who survived WWII in Switzerland. - Walther Rathenau: German industrialist. Foreign minister Feb.-Jun. 1922, when he was assassinated by right-winger for making a trade deal with Soviet Russia. Had some sort of an affair with the wife of industrialist Felix Deutsch, Lili, a sister of Kuhn, Loeb banker Otto Kahn. - Gustav Stresemann: Chancellor Aug.-Nov. 1923. Minister of foreign affairs 1923-1929. - Wilhelm Botzkes: Early history at Deutsche Bank in Istanbul. Expert at the 1919 Versailles Peace Conference and worked on the Dawes Plan of 1924. Founding CEO IKB Deutsche Industriebank 1924-1958. 1927 co-founder of Bank Melli, the first state bank of Iran, in coordination with the then-Shah of Iran. - Hans von Raumer: German People's Party politician. Created the Zentralverband der Deutschen elektrotechnischen Industrie with Rathenau and C. F. von Siemens in 1918. Treasury secretary 1920-1921, minister of economic affairs for 1 month in 1923. Advisory board Konigstadt AG, Berlin-Gubener Hufabrik AG, Elektrowerke AG Berlin, Koblenzer Elektrizitats- und Verkehrs-AG, Steatit-Magnesia AG, etc. in t elate 1930s and early 1940s. Never joined the NSDAP. More: Jakob von Weizsacker ('09 presentation: 'Europaische Migrationspolitik in der Krise?'; '16) | Dr. Richard von Weizsacker ('09 book presentation) | Mathias Dopfner ('12 presentation). ** IG Farben was a 1925-founded Standard Oil-inspired monopolistic trust between BASF, Bayer and Hoechst, companies which continued as usual after IG Farben was disssolved in 1945. IG Farben produced the deadly chlorine gas of WWI and Zyklon-B for the gas chambers of WWII. It became a major financier of Hitler in 1933 (already in 1931 it seems). Over the 1930s all its Jewish employees and directors were removed. During WWII it made extensive use of slave labor, most infamously at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Source(s): 2008, Max-Planck-Institut, Dahlemer Archivgesprache, band 13, pp. 162-163, 'Ariane Knackmuss, Der Club von Berlin: Treffpunkt fur die Fuhrungskreise aus Beamtentum, Wirtschaft, Bankwesen und Wissenschaft''; 2009, Irene Strenge, 'Ferdinand von Bredow: Notizen vom 20.2.1933 bis 31.12.1933.', p. 76 (Meyer family names; based on a participant list in the possession of Herrn Carl-Tasso von Bredow); Martina Steber and Bernhard Gotto, 'Visions of Community in Nazi Germany', p. 204 (original source includes: 1926, Max Wolff, 'Club von Berlin: 1864-1924' and 2007, Ariane Knackmuss, 'Willkommen im Club'); Named as a source as well: Bundesarchiv Berlin, inventory RY 56, No. 15 and No. 91 (for July 1938, April 1940 and August 1944). |
1864 |
| Ostasian Verein eV / East Asian Association Board: Carl Illies (initial chair 1900-1904) | Paul Pickenpack (initial deputy chair; d. in 1903) | Emil Helfferich (chair anno 1934, with interest in fascist Japan growing). |
1900 |
| Alldeutscher Verband / Pan-German League Ultra-nationalist, imperialist group. Members: Alfred Hugenberg (founding member; earlier also co-founded the ultra-nationalist General German League; purposely hid is affiliation; later Hitler ally) | Emil Kirdorf (founding member; later Hitler backer) | Heinrich Class (member 1897-, director 1901-; president 1908-1939; later key Hitler ally) | Max Weber. More: Gen. Erich Ludendorff (strongly supported by the league; top WWI general; met with Hitler in Berlin and reportedly recruited Hitler to infiltrate and take over the NSDAP through Reichswehr agent Karl Mayr) | Leopold Potsch (not clear if was official or unofficial membership; Hitler's (very) influential, ultraright high school teacher in Linz, Austria, in 1900-1903, followed by Adolf Eichmann around 1920). |
1891-1939 |
| Bavarian Industrialists' Association (BIV) Members: Hermann Aust (arranged for Adolf Hitler to speak here in 1922 or 1923). |
1902 |
| Palace von Aust saloon, Munchen Right across from the Siegestor. Participants: Hermann Aust (palace owner; very earlier backer of Hitler, but withdrew support after a conflict with Catholic members of the family) | Hugo Stinnes | Alfred Hugenberg. |
1900s-1940s? |
| Bavarian Industrialists' Association (BIV) Members: Hermann Aust (arranged for Adolf Hitler to speak here in 1922 or 1923). |
1902 |
| Kaiserlicher Aero-Club / Aero-Club von Deutschland Members (mainly around 1938): Heinrich Himmler | Wilhelm Keppler | Rudolf Hess | Theodor Eicke (commander of the SS Death's Head Brigade overseeing Nazi Germany's concentration camps, whose structure he largely designed) | Leonardo Conti (came to oversee the Aktion T4 program: the killing of 300,000 mental patients and other "undesirables") | Fritz Todt | Krupp family | Albert Vogler | Friedrich Flick | Gunther Quandt | Ernst Poensgen | (Ernst) Tengelmanns family | Hugo Stinnes | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Emil Georg von Stauss | Robert Bosch (uncle of Carl Bosch, the exec. chair of IG Farben 1925-1935) | Ernst Heinkel (the owner of Heinkel Flugzeugwerke, a key German aircraft designer for the Nazis) | Carl Krauch (chair supervisory board IG Farben 1940-1945, who received 6 years for "war crimes") | Hermann Rochling and family | Dornier family. Source(s): Membership lists at the Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Abt. I, Rep. 1A, Nr. 910. |
1907 |
| Industrie Club Dusseldorf / Industry Club Dusseldorf Pre-WWII members: Fritz Thyssen | August Thyssen | Gustav Krupp | Carl Duisberg | Ernst von Borsig | Edmund Stinnes and/or his brothers | Robert Pferdmenges | Hermann Rochling | Paul Reusch | Hermann Abs | Emil Kirdorf (chair 1925–1928; "the Bismarck of Ruhr Mining" as a top manager Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG (GBAG) 1873-1926; major Hitler supporter; Hitler gave a speech at his home in the Autumn of 1930) | Walther Rathenau | Heinrich Lueg. Pre-WWII guest speakers: Max Cohen (Fall 1931; Jewish social democrat at a time no political lectures were supposed to be given) | Adolf Hitler (Jan. 26, 1932; at the insistence of Thyssen in response to Cohen having been invited; made the closing remarks after the speech and cut off questions; chair Karl Haniel: "The rush of club members to the Hitler lecture actually exceeds ours wildest expectations...") | Hermann Goring (April 1932). Post-WWII guest speakers: Willy Brandt | Konrad Adenauer | Helmut Schmidt | Gerhard Schroder | Angela Merkel | Mikhail Gorbachev | Wolfgang Ischinger | Sigmar Gabriel. |
1912 |
| Gesellschaft zur Forderung des Institut fur Weltwirtschaft / Society for the Promotion of the Institute for World Economy / "German World Economic Society" Located at the University of Tiel from the beginning. Tied in with the ICC. Many gaps in information. WWII and pre-WWII German members: Bernard Harms (founding managing director 1914-1933; dismissed by the Nazis) | Jens Jenssen (managing director 1933-1934) | Andreas Predohl (managing director 1934-1945) | Karl Haushofer (member early 1930s; mentor Rudolf Hess) | Karl Lindemann (chair) | Baron Kurt von Schroeder | Dr. Hermann Schmitz (also a 1940 paper). German contributors: Emil Helfferich (1914 paper on Dutch banking) | Walter Hahn (1929 paper). Pre-WWII non-German (hon.) members: Frank Tiarks. Speakers: Lord Riverdale (1935: 'The British World Empire and World Economy') | Gen. Maxwell Taylor (Oct. 2, 1950). Funding: Rock. Fdn. (funded projects from the Harms era, the Nazi era, and beyond). Source(s): 1964, Anton Zottmann and Frieda Otto, 'Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Universität Kiel, 1914-1964', p. 52 (Rock. Fdn), etc. |
1914 |
| Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften / Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science Involved in poison gas development during WWI and Holocaust-related "science" during WWII. Presidents: Adolf von Harnack (1911–1930) | Max Planck (1930–1937, May 1945-1946) | Carl Bosch (1937–1940) | Albert Vogler (1941–1945). More: Fritz Haber (founding (managing) director Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry 1911-1933; poison gas pioneer during WWI) | Baron Otmar Verschuer (director Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics 1942-1948; leading U.S.-German eugenicist who used his former student Dr. Josef Mengele to obtain bodies of Gypsies and dead children, skeletons of Jews, blood samples of twins and other "scientific material" from Auschwitz). |
1918 |
| Anti-Bolshevik League, Germany / League for the Protection of German Culture / Antibolschewistische Liga / Liga zum Schutze der Deutschen Kultur A bit of a precursor to Hitler's NSDAP. Organized by Eduard Stadtler after communist revolutionaries sought to take over Germany, similarly as they had done in Russia is 1917. The fund spread anti-Bolshevik propaganda, called for a "national-socialist" agenda, funded the military operations of the Freikorps militia that quashed a January 1919 communist rebellion, and ordered the murder of communist leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht (through Freikorps commander Waldemar Pabst). The fund received well over $100 million from German industry for these purposes. Financiers: - Paul Mankiewitz: Organizer of industrial financing for the fund; chair Deutsche Bank 1919-1923; advisory board Phoenix AG main. - Hugo Stinnes: Major industrial heir; 1898 founding director RWE AG, and bought a majority share with Fritz Thyssen; 1901 founder of Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten-AG; worked a lot with August Thyssen as well; major WWI war profiteer and advisor to Gen. Erich Ludendorff, a later backer of Hitler; known as "The New Emperor of Germany" in Time by 1923, as well as the "Inflation King". - Albert Vogler: See above. - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: See above. - Otto Henrich: Employee and then top manager Siemens 1898-1921; had to leave after developing a relationship with the wife of Carl Friedrich von Siemens. - Ernst von Borsig: See above. - Felix Deutsch: Co-founder and, since 1915, chair AEG; died in 1928; Jewish; his wife, Lili Deutsch, was a sister of Kuhn, Loeb banker Otto Kahn and had some kind of affair with assassinated German foreign minister Walther Rathenau. - Arthur Salomonsohn: See Georg Solmssen above, who was his son (who changed his name). Jewish; as his uncle before him, a partner in the Rothschild-tied Disconto-Gesellschaft 1895-1929; advisory board chair Deutsche Bank 1929-, after the bank took over Disconto; advisory chair Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG. |
1918 |
| Thule Gesellschaft / Thule Society Thule: Germanic order very much occupied with attacking Jews and communists, pretty much as an esoteric version of the "stab in the back" theory of Gen. Ludendorff and allies that developed at the end of World War I, laying the blame for Germany's loss at the feet of socialists, communists and Jews. Members: Rudolf von Sebottendorf (founder; widely-traveled occultist with parallel membership in the anti-Jewish Germanenorder) | Dietrich Eckart | Rudolf Hess | Alfred Rosenberg | Karl Harrer | Hans Frank | Julius Lehmann | Gottfried Feder. Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (DAP) / German Workers' Party (1919-) / NSDAP (1920-): Karl H. (founder) | Dietrich E. (founder; became Hitler's mentor at the NSDAP, introducing him to Munich high society; the first volume of 'Mein Kampf' was dedicated to him) | Gottfried F. (founder) | Anton Drexler (founder; history at the ultraright German Fatherland Party) | Adolf Hitler (Reichswehr infiltrant into the DAP operating under Karl Mayr from Sep. 1919 and took over the party leadership on its orders; impressed everyone with his oratory skills; designed its Swastika logo) | Ernst Rohm (member; head SA) | Rudolf H. (member) | Alfred R. (member). Munchener Beobachter newspaper 1918-1920: Rudolf von S. (original editor). NSDAP's Volkischer Beobachter (People's Observer) 1920-1945: future SA leader Major Ernst Rohm (received 60,000 Reichsmark from Gen. Franz Ritter von Epp of the Freikorps paramilitary and Reichswehr, which came from a secret army fund) | Dietrich E. (put up his house as collateral for the loan; first editor) | Karl H. (editor). Early funders NSDAP: Emil Gansser of Siemens (member NSDAP 1921-; very close friend of Dietrich E.; got in debt in the 1930s due to lawsuits he filed against Siemens, with Hitler ceasing to financially support him in 1936) | Karl Burhenne (head of the Siemens social fund since 1919 (and thus a representative of Carl Friedrich von Siemens), first introduced to Hitler in March 1922 through Gansser; attempted additional fundraisers for Hitler with Borsig) | Ernst von Borsig (not counted for the SI here; first financed Hitler after seeing him speak at the Nationaler Club on June 5, 1922 and talking to him, with the aim of allowing Hitler to expand his party into northern Germany). Police protection: Munich police president Ernst Pohner and Wilhelm Frick (head of Munich police's political department) testified at Hitler's 1924 trial that they both had been protecting Hitler's NSDAP, because they believed his party could save the country form the communists. |
1918 |
| Organisation Consul / Viking League Anti-Jew, anti-left death squad that killed "at least 354" people, the most prominent being Walther Rathenau in 1922. Grew out of the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt, the Freicorps unit that fought a bloody civil war against communist militias over 1919, and then was involved in the 1920 Kapp Putsch. Members: Captain Hermann Ehrhardt | Munich police president Ernst Pohner (major protector of Hitler's NSDAP; embezzled money to support the O.C., falsify passports for members, etc.; sentenced to 5 years alongside Hitler in 1924 over the Beer Hall Putsch, but released within 3 months; died in a car crash in April 1925). |
1919-1923 |
| Essener Montagsgesellschaft / Essen Monday Club Precursor to the Ruhrlade. Grew to a membership of 45 in 1921, which made "confidentiality" an issue to core members. Disbanded during the 1923-1925 Ruhr occupation after Germany defaulted on paying its WWI debts. Members: Paul Reusch (official, main organizer) | Fritz Thyssen | Gustav Krupp. More: Oswald Spengler (July 1922 speaker; author of 'The Decline of the West') Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 195. |
1919-1923 |
| Lade, Magdeburg Members: - Kurt Sorge: Chair Krupp-Grusonwerke 1899-. Chair Association of Magdeburg Metal Industries 1902-, etc. Director advisory board, Krupp AG, 1919-, deputy chair 1925-1928. Reichstag member for the DVP 1920-1928. Provided Paul Reusch with the statutes of the Lade, which he largely took over for his own Ruhrlade in 1927. Died in 1928. Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', p. 195. Only one member mentioned. |
Early 1920s? |
| Reichsverband der Deutschen Industrie (RDI) / Reich Association of German Industry Board / presidium: Kurt Sorge (chair 1919–1925) | Carl Duisberg (presidium chair 1925–1931) | Gustav Krupp (presidium chair 1931–1933) | Robert Bosch | Alfred Hugenberg | Paul Reusch | Paul Silverberg | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Ernst von Borsig | Hugo Stinnes | Felix Deutsch | Julius Deutsch (AEG) | Max Fischer (Carl Zeiss Jena). |
1919-1933 |
| Nationale Vereinigung / Nationaler Club / Nationalklub Ultraright anti-Bolshevik group that set up branches in Berlin, Magdeburg, Mainz, Leipzig and Dresden. The group would become deeply tied to the Kapp Putsch. Members: Alfred Hugenberg (key organizer) | Waldemar Pabst (founding CEO) | Gen. Erich Ludendorff (actively supported the group's founding) | Col. Max Bauer (co-founder; Ludendorff's WWI political advisor) | Wolfgang Kapp (co-founder) | Ernst von Borsig (inspired by a Hitler speech here on June 5, 1922) | Heinrich Class (invited Hitler to speak here in 1922; president Pan-German League 1908-1939) | Fritz Geisler (met Hitler here with Class, soon leading to an invitation to speak; apparently transferred 150,000 RM to the NSDAP in the summer of 1922, which may have been due to a successful fundraiser of Borsig and Karl Burhenne of Siemens; executive chair ultraright Vereinigte Vaterlandische Verbande). Financiers: Hugo Stinnes | Carl Duisberg (financed and a WWI friend of Col. Bauer, but then spoke out against the Kapp Putsch (after it failed), because it led to striker workers and a bad image overseas). Speakers: Adolf Hitler (May 29, 1922 and June 5, 1922). Source(s): p. 101 (Duisberg). Also: Gilsener called it "contributions to good causes". P. 108: Hugo Stinnes (financier and Kapp correspondent before and after the Putsch); Peter Longerich, 'Hitler: A Life'. |
Oct. 2, 1919 |
| Kapp Putsch Ultraright coup attempt to undo the 1919-established social democrat Weimar Republic, which actually had allowed the Reichswehr / army to suppress the (overly militant) Bolsheviks. The Reichswer supported the coup in many places, but a massive uprising of 12 million workers prevented the coup from succeeding. Organizers / participants: Wolfgang Kapp (co-founder in 1917 and chair Fatherland Party; member DNVP by 1919) | Hermann Ehrhardt (his Freikorps brigade that marched into the center of Berlin sported swastikas on their helmets and vehicles) | Gen. Walther von Luttwitz | Gen. Erich Ludendorff | Waldemar Pabst | Ernst von Borsig (negotiated between Kapp and the legitimate government in Berlin, but was on the side of the putschists) | Adolf Hitler and Dietrich Eckart (flown into Berlin by the army to meet up with Kapp and aid the coup; however, they arrived too late). |
1920 |
| Deutscher Kampfbund / German Combat League Ultraright paramilitary organization. Members: Gen. Erich Ludendorf (key founder) | Ernst Rohm (involved) | Adolf Hitler (appointed political leader in Sep. after the new government under Gustav Stresemann sought to end passive resistance to allied occupation of the Ruhr due to it causing hyperinflation). Dissolved after the Beer Hall Putsch. |
Sep.-Nov. 1923 |
| Beer Hall Putsch Failed coup attempt involving about 2,000 SA Nazi stormtroopers against what Hitler termed "the Berlin Jew government and the November criminals of 1918." Coup opponent and eye witness Dr. Karl Alexander von Mueller: "I cannot remember in my entire life such a change in the attitude of a crowd in a few minutes, almost a few seconds [through a little speech by] Hitler... It had almost something of hocus-pocus, or magic about it." Government soldiers and police officers were able to stop the coup after a shootout that killed 16 Nazis and 4 police officers. Organizers / participants: Gen. Erich Ludendorff (together with Hindenburg, de facto dictator of Germany during WWI 1916-1918; visited Hitler several times in jail after the coup) | Adolf Hitler | Dietrich Eckart | Heinrich Himmler | Rudolf Hess | Hermann Goring | Ernst Rohm | Alfred Rosenberg | Julius Streicher | Ernst Hanfstaengl. Financiers: Fritz Thyssen (provided 100,000 Reichsmark to Ludendorff in Oct. 1923 after being sent to Hitler by Ludendorff, being similarly impressed with Hitler, and being explained their putsch plans) | Hugo Stinnes (another supporter of Ludendorff's agenda; funds provided through industrialist Friedrich Minoux, a Stinnes representative until 1923). |
Nov. 8, 1923 |
| Union Banking Corporation Set up after Fritz Thyssen told Averell Harriman he wanted a bank in the United States. Owned by the Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel and Scheepvaart (BHS; paid for Hitler's Brown House in 1928), a front for the Thyssen brothers. UBC directors lied about not being aware of this, with even Treasury researcher Erwin May, bizarrely, concluding in his August 16 1941 report: "Lievense, president of UBC, claims no knowledge as to the ownership of the Bank voor Handel but believes it possible that Baron Heinrich Thyssen, brother of Fritz Thyssen, may own a substantial interest." Already in 1920 Harriman bought the Hamburg-Amerika Line. George Herbert Walker and Harriman started visiting Germany for investments no later than 1922, mainly in relation to coal and steel. In that capacity they got to know Fritz Thyssen. Partnerships they set up also included Friedrich Flick, also of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. On July 30 1942 the New York Herald-Tribune caused trouble with its article, 'Hitler's Angel Has $3m in US Bank'. In October 1942 UBC's shares were sieged under the Trading With the Enemy act, followed by a number of interlocked companies. Recommendations to liquidate the bank and confiscate its assets were ignored. Instead, the bank was given back to its shareholders after the war, with no one being prosecuted. American board members: Roland Harriman (chair and owned almost all shares; partner BBH; brother of founder Averell) | Samuel Pryor (anno 1928; director under president Averell Harriman of the American Ship and Commerce Co. 1920- (June 6, 1920, WaPo), which controlled the reopened Hamburg-America Line; steel industrialist until 1941, when he became exec. vice president of Pan Am, founded by his Yale classmate Juan Trippe; built some 50 U.S. airbases in Africa during WWII) | Prescott Bush (later managing director, not yet on the board in 1928; partner BBH) | Harold Pennington (director anno 1942; also at BBH) | Ray Morris (not yet in 1928; partner BBH). Dutch-German board members: Cornelis Lievense (president and director anno 1928, 1942) | Johann Groninger / Johann Groeninger (anno 1928, 1942; director BHS; director August Thyssen-Hutte AG; founding advisory board member Vereinigte Stahlwerke) | Hendrick Kouwenhoven (anno 1928, 1948; director BHS; member advisory board Vereinigte Stahlwerke anno 1939; d. 1947, two weeks after informing Prescott of a Dutch investigation into the bank) | Source(s): June-July 1945, Congressional report, 'Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings', pp. 727-730 (U.S. names not mentioned); 1942 Office of Alien Property Custodian report: "Since 1939, these (steel and mining) properties [tied to UBC] have been in possession of and have been operated by the German government and have undoubtedly been of considerable assistance to that country's war effort." |
1924 |
| Deutsch-Atlantische Telegraphengesellschaft / German Atlantic Cable Company Founded in 1899, but it wasn't until 1925 that W. A. Harriman & Co. bought a stake in it. Directors anno 1932: Georg Solmssen (chair anno 1932) | Max Moritz Warburg (vice chair) | W. Frisch (vice chair) | Averell Harriman (anno 1932) | Wilhelm Cuno (German chancellor 1922-1923 during the peak of hyperinflation) | H. F. Albert (U.S.-based German espionage agent in WWI) | John von Berenberg-Gossler (FDR's former business associate) | Dr. Peter Craemer | | H. Dreisbach | Th. von Guilleaume | Dr. Karl Haniel | Dr. Hans Hesse | H. Albert O. Arendt. Source(s): 1932, Moody's Public Utility Manual, p. 1100. |
1925 |
| Deutscher Herrenklub / German Gentlemen's Club About 5,000 member in 1932. Members: Hjalmar Schacht | Baron Kurt von Schroder | Fritz Thyssen | Max Warburg | Franz von Papen | Robert Pferdmenges | Helmuth Poensgen | Kurt Schmitt | Georg von Schnitzler | Edmund Stinnes (son of Hugo Stinnes) | Hermann Voss | Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schonhausen | Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern | Prince Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | Prince Nikolaus zu Salm-Salm | Eberhard von Kalckreuth | Martin Blank | Gustav von Mallinckrodt | Georg Solmssen. More: Walther Funk (speech, likely in early 1931). |
1926 |
| Stega A secret rearmament group in Weimar Germany among industrialists to circumvent Versailles Treaty provisions. Members: Ernst von Borsig (founding chair) | Kurt Sorge (director Krupp AG) | Otto Oesterlen (director Krupp AG under Gustav Krupp) | Rudolf Krell (director Siemens-Schuckert AG) | Hans Eltze (general director Rheinmetall) | Georg Howaldt (managing director Association of German Shipyards). Involved additional members. |
1926 |
| Vereinigte Stahlwerke Directors: Albert Vogler (founding chair 1926-1935, supervisory board 1935-) | Alfred Hugenberg (reported director anno 1934; acquired (additional) VS stock in 1944 from the soon-to-be destroyed Prussian state and served as chair; on Dec. 4, 1946, the British authorities were asked why they never removed him, the answer being: "It takes a vote of the shareholders of the company to remove him as board chairman."; his VS connection is not mentioned in his superdetailed German and English Wikipedia pages anno 2021) | Ernst Poensgen (chairman anno 1939, until 1943 it appears; reappointed chair Oct. 1947) | Hermann Wenzel (deputy chair anno 1939). Supervisory / advisory board: Fritz Thyssen (founding chair 1926-1939; top Hitler financier 1923-; fled Germany in 1939) | Heinrich Thyssen (Fritz's brother operating from the Netherlands; founding board member 1926-, even though he decided to keep his part of the inheritance outside of VS) | Carl Friedrich von Siemens (founding board member 1926-, still anno 1939) | Otto Wolff (founding member 1926-, still anno 1939) | Friedrich Flick (almost founding, with a few months delay: June 1926-, anno 1939) | Hermann Schmitz (founding member 1926-, vice chair anno 1939; director and CFO IG Farben; CFO BASF; uncle of Max Ilgner) | Oscar Schlitter (founding member 1926-, not anymore in 1939; director Deutsche Bank) | Dr. Frederick H. Fentener van Vlissingen (founding board member 1926-, still anno 1939; elite Dutch family) | Johann Groninger (founding board member 1926-; listed as director Vulcaan NV, Rotterdam, Netherlands) | Jakob Goldschmidt (founding member 1926-; Jewish banker pushed out around 1933) | Albert V. (1935-, (co-)deputy chair anno 1939) | Alfred H. ((co-)deputy chair anno 1939) | Arthur Salomonsohn (Jewish banker pushed out around 1933) | Karl Kimmich (anno 1939) | Robert Pferdmenges (anno 1939) | Dr. Wilhelm Koeppel (anno 1939) | Dr. Paul Marx (anno 1939) | Carl Goetz (anno 1939) | Hendrick Kouwenhoven (anno 1939; named as a "director .. as of 1938" in U.S. congressional files ). Additional companies represented on the founding supervisory board: Dresdner Bank | Bayerischen Vereinsbank | Darmstädter und Nationalbank | Rheinischen Stahlwerke | Phoenix | Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG | Deutsch-Luxemburgische Bergwerks- und Hütten AG | Disconto-Gesellschaft. Source(s): 1957, Gerhard Gebhardt, 'Ruhrbergbau, Geschichte, Aufbau und Verflechtung seiner Gesellschaften und Organisationen', p. 226 (founding supervisory board; the version on the German Wikipedia anno 2021 using the same source, but omits a number of key names); May 1939, Deutscher Rechts-Verlag magazine National Wirtschaft, p. 125 (supervisory board). More: Adolf Hitler (reported 1929 invitation to speak at VS headquarters to about 300 industrialists; not yet confirmed by this author). 1927, Vereinigte Stahlwerke company newspaper 'Das Werk': "The history of almost all peoples is an eternal urge to expand, a never-dormant need for expansion. [Germany has] too little, far too little land..." |
1926-1951 |
| The International Steel Cartel Founded soon after Vereinigte Stahlwerke was set up, involving German, French, Belgian and Luxembourg steel producers. Austria , Hungary and Czechoslovakia joined in 1927. The union started collapsing in 1929 due to the Great Depression, but was revived in 1933. The British joined in 1935. United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel joined in an informal capacity in 1938. Anno 2021 there still doesn't exist an English-language Wikipedia page on this cartel, with information on meetings and board members being virtually non-existent. Represented: Ernst Poensgen | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Gustav Krupp. Feb. 12, 1948, U.S. Congressional report, pp. 1252-1253: "Dr. Ernst Poensgen: The spokesperson for German heavy industry, Vereinigte Stahlwerke and the coal industry ... for more than 30 years... He was retired in 1943 under the express orders of Hitler in order to use his services in case of the defeat of Nazi Germany. ... Decorated by Hitler personally... Ernst Poensgen founded the International Steel Cartel in 1926. In 1939 [he] negotiated the famous Dusseldorf agreement with the representatives of the British heavy industries, Sir Percy Mills and [Pilgrim] Sir Andrew Duncan, dividing the world into two spheres for German-British economic exploitation. Sir Percy Mills was, until recently, the head of the economic division in the British zone. Because of Poensgen's intimate tie-ups with the British heavy industry, he was reappointed head of the Vereinigte Stahlwerke 5 months ago. Thus, today he is in a position to continue his nefarious work ... He was never denazified, and now heads the reconstruction of Germany's war potential." |
1926-1931, 1933-1939 |
| Mussolini trip Visited Italy at the invitation of fascist dictator Mussolini: Fritz Thyssen | Heinrich Thyssen (Fritz's brother) | Albert Vogler (reportedly). This was while Hitler's NSDAP they were backing was still very obscure. Source(s): Not mentioned on any English or German Wikipedia anno 2021. 1942, economist Henry Junior Taylor (who interacted a lot with Fritz), 'Time Runs Out' (only mentions Fritz and hints that he and other Germans greatly influenced Mussolini's speeches and behavior); 2006, David Litchfield, 'The Thyssen Art Macabre', p. 84 (includes Frankfurter Zeitung citation mentioning Fritz and his brother); 1934, Ernest Henri, 'Hitler over Europe', p. 11 (mentions Vogler instead of Fritz's brother); 1940, George Seldes for his 'In Fact: For the Millions who Want a Free Press', Vol. 1, p. 3 (could be copied from May, whom Seldes has used as a source elsewhere). |
Feb. 1927 |
| Ruhrlade Revival and purposely smaller group (from 45 to 12 members) than the Essener Montagsgesellschaft. Based on the secretive Lade group of Industrialists in Magdeburg. First meeting took place in Jan. 1928. The group met once a month, on the first monday of each month; organizing meetings at the castles and estates of its members. Apart from managing the industry, the group made donations to right wing political parties as the DNV and DNVP and essentially tried to bribe political parties into doing their bidding. Supposedly a schism developed in June 1932 when it came out that Thyssen, Vogler and Poensgen had quietly allowed the government to buy itself into their Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, the holding company of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. The remaining members, including Reusch, bitterly complained about allowing this "state interference" and wanted it reversed. The thing is, the government paid FAR too much for the shares, with it being quite clear it would sell the shares back very cheaply, giving the Ruhrbarons in questions the massive subsidy they needed in order for Vereinigte Stahlwerke (and the economy as a whole) to survive. Subsequently all members did rally around chancellor Franz von Papen, while being very wary about chancellor Kurt von Schleicher's economic policies while cultivating ties with labor union leaders. Members: - Paul Reusch: Official, main organizer and secretary 1927-. Didn't want to finance the Nazis and thought the Bavarian People's Party (BVP) he was allied with could "moderate" the Nazis by bringing them into an alliance. Still signed a petition in 1932 to bring Hitler to power. - Fritz Thyssen: Co-organizer. Unabashed Hitler supporter since 1923. - Gustav Krupp: Co-organizer. Not much of a Nazi supporter before 1933 (if only because it had a "socialist wing"), but ended up becoming a "super-Nazi" at that point, in the words of Hjalmar Schacht. Even demanded his employees gave him the Nazi salute whenever he visited one of his steel factories. - Albert Vogler: Founding member. - Carl Bosch: Member since 1932, replacing the deceased Winkhaus. - Carl Friedrich von Siemens: Guest on May 11, 1929, but officially a member since 1935, replacing the deceased Fickler. - Herman Bucher: Member since 1935, replacing the exiled Silverberg. Managing director AEG. - Ernst Poensgen: Founding member. - Frederick Springorum: Founding member, deputy secretary and treasurer; thought it wise to "moderate" the "radical" aspects of the Nazis by making them dependent on big business funding while including them in the government. - Paul Silverberg: Founding member. Jewish. Chair Rheinische AG, Germany's largest brown coal mining firm. Turned on by the others after the Nazis wanted to get rid of him over his Jewish roots. - Fritz Winkhaus: Founding member. Manager director of Hoescht-owned Koln-Neuessener Bergwerksverein. - Peter Klockner: Founding member. Founder and head of Klockner Werke AG. - Arthur Klotzbach: Founding member. Director Freidrich Krupp AG. - Karl Haniel: Founding member. Chair Gutehoffnungshutte and member of the family that owned a controlling interest in the firm. - Erich Fickler: Founding member. Managing director Harpener Bergbau AG and advisory chair bituminous coal cartel. - Martin Blank: Berlin representative of the group. More: - Friedrich Flick: Guest on May 11, 1929. - Franz von Papen: Favorite politician of the Ruhrlade who met with members on occasion and may have been present as a guest. - Walther Funk: Received funding from the summer of 1931, right when this centre-right journalist joined the Nazi party as an economic advisor, this to influence Hitler's economic policies in favor of big business. Reich minister for economic affairs from 1938-1945. - Alfred Hugenberg: Media baron who received Ruhrlade funding for the German National People's Party (DNVP) he chaired from 1928, a pro-big business imperial party which dissolved in June 1933 with members moving over to Hitler's NSDAP. Co-founder of the imperialist Pan-German Association in 1891. Chair finance department of Krupp AG 1909-1918. During WWI he opposed calls for peace and was a major pusher for colonial annexation and exploitation of (potentially) conquered areas, this alongside Hugo Stinnes and Emil Kirdorf. Co-founder of the pro-big business imperialist German Fatherland Party in 1917. Received funds from the Ruhrlade in the early 1930s not only to aid his DNVP party in the polls, but also to keep him from being sidelined by less reactionary elements within the DNVP. Started buying up media in 1916 and "owned half of the German press" in the late 1920s and early 1930s. His newspapers gave very favorable attention to Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch, only disagreeing with the method. Urged President Hindenburg in a letter written alongside Von Papen to install Hitler as chancellor in January 1933. After this succeeded, Hitler would soon appropiate Hugenberg's media empire. Reich minister of economics under Hitler Jan.-Jun. 1933. Completely overlooked anno 2021 in his otherwise super-detailed German and English Wikipedia bios (only his old Krupp affiliation is mentioned): Reported director Vereinigte Stahlwerke (VS) by 1934 and certainly a supervisory board member anno 1939. Acquired (additional) VS stock in 1944 from the soon-to-be destroyed Prussian state and came to serve as chair around this point. On Dec. 4, 1946, the British authorities in Germany were asked why they never removed him as VS chair, the answer being: "It takes a vote of the shareholders of the company to remove him as board chairman." Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 195-196, 227. Extra, p. 199: "The Ruhrlade also functioned as a behind-the-scenes pressure group... Occasionally, the members, after consulting with each other, addressed themselves directly to the authorities, but they did so as individuals, preferring to keep the Ruhrlade as such out of public, or even official, view, although its existence unavoidably became known in the inner circles of the government.[14] More commonly, they worked through other, less secretive, industrial organizations." P. 216 mentions Funk financing. 2007, C. Edmund Clingan review at Humanities and Social Sciences Online, 'Clingan on Gehlen, 'Paul Silverberg (1876-1959): Ein Unternehmer'': "French ambassador Andre Francois-Poncet [charged] that [Paul] Silverberg, Hjalmar Schacht, Thyssen, Albert Vogler, and Franz von Papen formed a cabal to forge a Nazi-Catholic Center government. Silverberg actually feared that the left wings of both parties could unite and strike against business [so supported] the right-of-center German People's Party (DVP)... Flick conspired with Thyssen to take control of Silverberg's core businesses... Vogler ... had promised not to work against Silverberg, but at some point he broke that promise. ... When the Nazis ousted his friend [Cologne mayor] Konrad Adenauer, Silverberg was doomed. He lost his sixty-plus board positions in a matter of months. ... Nazi Kurt von Schroder offered him honorary Aryan status if he would support the Nazis, but Silverberg refused [and left the country in 1933]." |
1927-1939 |
| Bund zur Erneuerung des Reiches (BER) / Federation for the Renewal of the Reich Purpose: Big business group set up at the end of the Weimar Republic that, among other things, called for more power for the Reich President at the expense of Parliament and lower corporate taxes by cutting public spending. 1927 initial meeting: Paul Reusch | Max Warburg (leadership). 1928 founding call signers: Fritz Thyssen | Gustav Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach | Albert Vogler | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Robert Bosch | Jakob Goldschmidt | Franz von Mendelssohn | Fritz Springorum | Wilhelm Cuno | Hermann Rochling | Paul Reusch | Carl Bergmann (advisory board Deutsche Bank) | Louis Hagen | Abraham Frowein. 'Industry and banks' workgroup: Ernst von Borsig | Julius Flechtheim | Wolfgang Reuter (general director Demag) | Kurt Schmitt. 'Politics' workgroup: Konrad Adenauer. 'Agriculture' workgroup: Baron Tilo von Wilmowsky (a Krupp inlaw). 'Science and Young Conservatives' workgroup: Max Planck | Franz von Papen. |
1927 |
| Reich Committee for the German referendum against the Young Plan and the war guilt lie Big business-financed committee protesting the war reparations under the newly proposed Young Plan. Participants: Alfred Hugenberg (organizer; director Krupp AG; chair DNVP) | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Adolf Hitler (NSDAP) | Heinrich Class (Pan-German Association) | Franz Seldte and Theodor Duesterberg (both of Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten) | Rudiger von der Goltz (United Patriotic Associations) | Martin Schiele (DNVP) | Karl Hepp (DVP). |
1929 |
| Consolidated Silesian Steel Corporation (CSSC) Majority shareholder in mining firms Vereinigte Konigs und Laurahutte AG (Germany) and the Kattowitzer AG fur Bergbau und Huttenbetrieb (Poland). Owned in turn by Anaconda Copper and W. A. Harriman & Co. Charlottenhutte AG (Germany) and other companies were also owned by these interests. Effectively, one-third of this conglomerate was owned by the Harriman Bank and two-thirds by Friedrich Flick of Vereinigte Stahlwerke. Directors CSSC: Averell Harriman (chair anno 1930). Directors Ver. Konigs unde Laurahutte: Averell Harriman (anno 1930) | Friedrich Flick (anno 1930; meeting with "W.A.H." in Berlin April 22, 1931, quickly followed by "W.A.H." meeting with Wilhelm Cuno, the CEO of the Harriman-owned Hamburg-America Line.) Source(s): 1974, vol. 31, unknown issue, Polish American Studies: The Journal of Polish American History, p. 44; Sep. 27, 2004, Salon, 'The profitable business of war': "According to a New York Times article published on March 18, 1934, Flick owned two-thirds of CSSC while "American interests" held the rest." One problem is that the article cannot be found in the New York Times archive anno 2021, with no (extensive) quotes being available anywhere. The boards of directors has been confirmed, however. |
1929 |
| Economic pressure on the NSDAP In 1931 bankers and industralists applied pressure on Hitler to remove the anti-capitalist Gottfried Feder - a Thulist and economic mentor of Hitler - as newly instated chairman of the NSDAP's economic council. Hitler soon distanced himself from the views of Feder. Pressure appliers: Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Gustav Krupp | Friedrich Flick | Hjalmar Schacht | Emile Kirdorf | Walther Funk. Source(s): jewishvirtuallibrary.org/gottfried-feder (accessed: May 26, 2021) |
1931 |
| Harzburg Front gathering A meeting that brought all of Germany's antisemitic, imperialist forces together in an attempt to persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to remove Chancellor Heinrich Bruning from office, this because these elements considered him too socialist - a "Bolshevik" even. The attempt failed however, as Hitler refused to cooperate with Hugenberg (as Hugenberg's DNVP was weak in the polls and likely only wanted to "control" Hitler on behalf of big business) and because Gustav von Krupp was still advising Hindenberg to NOT remove Bruning from office. Involved: Hjalmar Schacht (denounced the Young Plan and Bruning's economic policies in his speech) | Fritz Thyssen | Ernst Brandi (Ruhr industrialist and great Hitler supporter) | Alfred Hugenberg | Adolf Hitler | Heinrich Himmler | Hermann Goring | Ernst Rohm. |
Oct. 1931 |
| Freundeskreis der Wirtschaft / Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS / Freundeskreis Himmler / Himmler Circle / Keppler Circle Most recognizable members: - Wilhelm Keppler: Chair IG Farben subsidiary Braunkohle-Benzin AG; joined the NSDAP in 1927, which he financed and served as an economic advisor of; part of the Jan. 4, 1933 meeting between Von Papen and Hitler. - Heinrich Himmler: Involved 1935-. - Baron Kurt von Schroder: Key Nazi banker. See above. - Hjalmar Schacht: President Reichsbank. See above. - Otto Steinbrinck: Vice-president Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG. - Albert Vogler: Representative of the Ruhrlade, but not a regular participant. Vereinigte Stahlwerke. See above. - Friedrich Reinhardt: Among the first 9 members of the Keppler Circle. Director of the Commerz- und Privatbak. Chief Nazi economic advisor. His 1932 economic campaign calling for rearmament and imperialism as a way towards economic recovery was terrible for consumers, merchants and exporters, but great the Ruhr producers of steel and coal. - Wilhelm Voss: SS-Standartenfuhrer. Co-founder Reichswerke Hermann Goring in 1937. See above. - Heinrich Butefisch: IG-Farben. - Emil Helfferich: Chair of the German-American Petroleum Company / Esso, owned for 94% by the Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey. - Friedrich Flick: Chair of Flick KG. See above. - Emil Heinrich Meyer: ITT. - Hans Walz: Robert Bosch GmbH; credited with saving Jews. - Kurt Schmitt: Part of a 1933 meeting; chair Allianz AG 1921-1933, supervisory board until 1945; Reich economics minister 1933-1934; afterwards chair AEG AG and the Deutsche Continental Gasgesellschaft. - Count Gottfried von Bismarck-Schonhausen: Grandson of the 19th century German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Member Reichstag for the Nazi party in the 1930s. SS brigadefuhrer by 1944, when it was discovered he was affiliated with the resistance (since 1942, mainly because Germany was beginning to lose the war) after the purges in the wake of the assassination attempt on Hitler by Col. Claus von Stauffenberg. Would have been tortured and executed like thousands of others, but was set free by the notorious People's Court of Roland Freisler due to his name and connections. Other interests represented: Dresdner Bank | Commerzbank | Wintershall | Brabag | Norddeutsche Lloyd | Ilseder Hutte. |
1932-1945 |
| Landsberg Castle meeting with Hitler This meeting took place the day after Hitler's hugely popular speech at the Industrie Club Dusseldorf. Present: August Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Ernst Poensgen | Adolf Hitler | Herman Goring | Erst Rohm. |
Jan. 27, 1932 |
| Arbeidsstelle Dr. Schacht Hjalmar Schacht-pitched idea to members of the Ruhrlade as an office to establish contacts between the Nazi Party and big business. The Ruhrlade voted on the issue in June 1932. Not all supported the idea, or for the same reasons, but the most influential members did. The office was never (fully) established, because it was canceled after Schacht learned about Hitler's support for the creation of the Keppler Circle. Agreed to finance: August Thyssen | Gustav Krupp | Albert Vogler | Frederick Springorum | Paul Reusch. Source(s): Sep. 1970, Henry A. Turner Jr. for the Cambridge University Press-published Central European History journal, 'The Ruhrlade, Secret Cabinet of Heavy Industry in the Weimar Republic', pp. 218-219: |
1932-1932 |
| Deutschen Ausschusses Letter In support of the DNVP under Alfred Hugenberg and Chancellor Franz von Papen, and against Hitler's NSDAP. Slogan: "Mit Hindenburg fur Volk und Reich." Among the 339 signers: Albert Vogler | Ernst von Borsig | Fritz Springorum | Ernst Brandi. Source(s): Nov. 17, 2007, Neues Deutschland (ND) (socialist Berlin newspaper), 'Die dringliche Bitte von Schacht & Co.': "In favor of this interpretation, reference is made to another document. At the same time, a large group of capital owners had campaigned for von Papen and the German National People's Party that supported him. Their appeal "With Hindenburg for the people and the Reich" is intended as proof of the anti-Nazism or anti-Hitlerism of the majority of the big bourgeoisie. Above all, however, it proves that this numerically stronger action also sided with the constitution-breaking head of state and thus rejected parliamentary democracy." |
Nov. 6, 1932 |
| The Industrielleneingabe Letter / The Industrial Input Letter November 19, 1932 letter to Reich president Paul von Hindenburg asking Hitler to be appointed chancellor after Franz von Papen lost this position. Literally, the signers ask Hindenburg to transfer "responsible leadership" of the government to the NSDAP of Hitler (who fits the description of "the leader of the largest national [political] group") and the smaller, pro-big business, imperialist DNVP of Alfred Hugenberg. The letter was only published for a first time in 1956 by the Marxist-Leninist-oriented Zeitschrift fur Geschichtswissenschaft / Magazine for Historical Science. All signers: Baron Kurt von Schroder (primary writer in the below copy) | Hjalmar Schacht (other sources say he is the writer, and the former only a signer) | Fritz Thyssen | Albert Vogler | Paul Reusch | Fritz Springorum | Friedrich Reinhart (banker) | Emil Helfferich (member Keppler Circle and chair Esso, owned for 94% by the Rockefeller's Standard Oil of New Jersey) | August Rosterg (member Keppler Circle and director general of Wintershall AG, a crude oil and natural gas producer that flourished under Nazi Germany) | Sen. Fritz Beindorff (member advisory board Deutsche Bank) | Sen. Franz Witthoefft (member Keppler Circle; chair advisory board Commerz- und Privat-Bank; president Hamburg Chamber of Commerce) | Engelbert Beckmann (chair Rheinische Landesbank) | Erwin Merck (chair of the banking house H. J. Merck & Co.) | Dr. Kurt von Eichborn (banker) | Carl Vincent Krogmann (Hamburg mayor) | Count Eberhard von Kalckreuth ("large landowner") | Count von Keyserlingk ("large landowner") | Joachim von Oppen-Dannenwalde ("large landowner") | Kurt Gustav Ernst von Rohr-Manze (landowner) | Ewald Hecker (member Keppler circle; chair advisory board Ilseder Hutte; president Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Hannover) | Dr. Erich Lubbert (general director of large construction firm Dywidag) | Rudolf Ventzki (general director Maschinenfabrik Esslingen AG) | Kurt Woermann (partner in shipping company Woermann Line). Source(s): glasnost.de/hist/ns/eingabe.html (accessed: May 29, 2021; letter located here in full). |
Nov. 19, 1932 |
| Hitler - Von Papen meeting Key meeting in installing Hitler as chancellor. Those present: Baron Kurt von Schroder (the meeting was arranged at his house) | Adolf Hitler | Franz von Papen. |
Jan. 4, 1933 |
| Dirksen Foundation Set up in 1933 to promote contacts between the elite and NSDAP. The Herrenklub played an important role in the founding of the foundation. Involved: Heinrich Himmler (trustee) | Ernst Rohm (trustee) | Baron Kurt von Schroder (sponsor) | Robert Pferdmenges (sponsor) | Siemens, Bosch, the Flick Group and IG Farben (sponsors) | Hermann Voss (legal advisor). |
1933 |
| Gesellschaft zum Studium des Faschismus (GSF) / Society for the Study of Fascism (SSF) Members/board: Waldemar Pabst (founder; 1919 Freikorps commander who ordered the murder of communist leaders on behalf of big business) | Hjalmar Schacht | Fritz Thyssen (membership roster) | Gunther Quandt (head of a working group on job creation measures) | Friedrich Minoux (representative of Hugo Stinnes until 1923) | Herman Goring | Walther Funk | Theodor Dusterberg | Max Hahn (head Mitteleuropaischer Wirtschaftstag). |
1933 |
| Secret Meeting of 20 February 1933 to finance Adolf Hitler's NSDAP Most well-known participants: Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (Krupp steel) | Georg von Schnitzler (director IG Farben, the second largest owner of the Rockefeller's Standard Oil, a key partner) | Fritz von Opel (director Adam Opel AG, 100% owned by General Motors/DuPont by 1931 and a major Nazi war producer)) | Albert Vogler (CEO of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG, tied-in with Wall Street) | Hjalmar Schacht (acted as host; major globalist banker) | Gunther Quandt (built up a fortune during the war with ammunition, rifles, artillery and battery supplies to the Nazi army, making extensive use of slave labor, complete with an execution area in one of its companies; wrongly labeled a "fellow traveler" and set free; came to control BMW after the war and joined the board of Deutsche Bank) | Fritz Springorum (chair Hoesch AG) | Wolf-Dietrich von Witzleben (chief representative of Carl Friedrich von Siemens) | Kurt Schmitt (chair Allianz AG 1921-1933; Reich economics minister 1933-1934) | August von Finck Sr. (son of the founder of Allianz AG and the private bank Merck Finck & Co.; took over S.M. von Rothschild in Vienna in October 1939 after the Nazi takeover of Austria) | Ernst Tengelmann. Other interests represented: Wintershall AG (major oil and gas producer) | Giesches Erben, Zink und Bergbaubetrieb | Demag | Bergbauverein | Braunkohlen- und Brikettindustrie AG | Heye Braunkohlenwerke AG | Rhenish-Westphalian Coal Syndicate | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG | Vereins Deutscher Maschinenbau-Anstalten | Reichsverbands der Deutschen Industrie | Deutschen Arbeitgeberverbande | Siemens & Halske AG | Siemens-Schuckertwerke AG. Nov. 10, 1945, Nuremberg affidavit of Von Schnitzler: "At the end of February 1933, four members of the Vorstand of I. G. Farben, including Dr. Bosch, the head of the Vorstand, and myself were asked by the office of the President of the Reichstag to attend a meeting in his house, the purpose of which was not given. ... I went to the meeting which was attended by about 20 persons, who I believe were mostly leading industrialists from the Ruhr. Among those present I remember: ... Dr. Stein [not mentioned in other accounts; possibly JH Stein banking house and a George/Baron Kurt inlaw], head of the Geworkschaft Auguste Victoida, a mine which belongs to the I. G. Dr. Stein was an active member of the Deutsche Volkspartei. ... I had expected the appearance of Goering [but] Hitler entered the room, shook hands with everybody and took a seat at the top of the table. In a long speech he talked mainly about the danger of communism over which he pretended that he just had won a decisive victory. He then talked about the Bundnis — alliance — into which his party and the Deutsch Nationale Volkspartei had entered. This latter party, in the meantime, had been reorganized by Herr von Papen. At the end he came to the point which seemed to me the purpose of the meeting. Hitler stressed the importance that the two aforementioned parties should gain the majority in the coming Reichstag election. ... After Hitler had left the room, Dr. Schacht proposed to the meeting the raising of an election fund of, as far as I remember, RM 3,000,000. The fund should be distributed between the two ‘allies’ according to their relative strength at the time being. Dr. Stein suggested that the Deutsche Volkspartei should be included." |
1933 |
| Generalrat der Wirtschaft / General Economic Council According to Fritz Thyssen in his book 'I paid Hitler', the council only met once after its establishment. Reportedly this was a double session on September 20, 1933. All members: Gustav von Krupp (head) | Albert Vogler | Fritz Thyssen | Baron Kurt von Schroder | Carl Friedrich von Siemens | Friedrich Reinhardt | Carl Bosch | August Diehn | August von Finck | Otto Christian Fischer | Carl Vincent Krogmann | Albert Hackelsberger | Carl Luer | Herbert Backe | Eugen Bohringer | Robert Ley | Hermann Reischle. 1933 picture of a 'General Economic Council' meeting shows: August Diehn (matches above) | Adolf Hitler | Hjalmar Schacht (president Reich Bank) | Friedrich Dreyse (vice president Reich Bank) | Carl Vincent Krogmann (Hamburg mayor) | Hans Posse (state secretary). Jan. 1934, no. 1, The Communist International, p. 10: "Through the decrees of Hitler it has introduced the death sentence for the instigation of economic strikes. It has given all power to the magnates of big capital -- Thyssen, Reinhardt, Schacht, Krupp, Siemens -- who take part in the meetings of the fascist 'General Economic Council,'' and who have been appointed as uncontrolled dictators over whole provinces of Germany." |
July 1933- |
| Adolf Hitler Fund of German Trade and Industry / Adolf-Hitler-Spende der Deutschen Wirtschaft Set up by Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach and Martin Bormann. Until 1945 the NSDAP collected about 700 million Reichsmark through this fund, the equivalent of over 3 billion euros in 2021. |
1933-1945 |
| Ahnenerbe / Ahnenerbe Society Nazi think tank concerned with Nazi racial ideology. Key individuals: Heinrich Himmler (founder). |
1935 |
| Anglo-German Fellowship British members: Montagu Norman | Frank Cyril Tiarks** | Geoffrey Dawson (editor The Times) | Adm. Sir Barry Domvile | Sir Ernest Bennett | Sir Peter Agnew | Douglas Douglas-Hamilton | 7th Marquess of Londonderry | 5th Duke of Wellington. Members: Hjalmar Schacht | Prince von Bismarck. Corporate membership: Lazard | Midland Bank | PriceWaterhouse | Unilever | Dunlop Rubber | Thomas Cook & Son. ** Director Bank of England 1912-1945; partner J. Henry Schroder & Co. 1923-1945, chaired by Hitler supporter Baron Bruno Schroder 1923-1940; and Schroder, Rockefeller & Co. Inc.; partner Anglo-Iranian Oil Company 1917–1948; member British Union of Fascists. |
1935-1939 |
| Wannsee Conference Conference to ensure that all Nazi government departments were cooperative in the plan to exterminate the all Jews. Members: Reinhard Heydrich (president) | Adolf Eichmann | Judge Roland Freisler | Undersecretary Martin Luther (working under former Himmler staffer and then-secretary of state (1938-1943) Ernst von Weizsacker**, the father of later German president Richard von W.). ** His son Richard aided him in trying to get off the hook in Nuremberg. After his conviction U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John McCloy ordered him out of prison (while Ernst's only superior at the State Deparment, Joachim von Ribbentrop, was hanged at Nuremberg). As later documents revealed in more detail, Erst fully supported Hitler from at least 1937 and was fully in the know of Jews being extermined. He also seems to have supported this agenda to a considerable degree. 1933, Ernst von W.: "It is hard for foreign countries to understand this anti-Jewish action because they have not personally experienced this flood of Jews. ... [Democracy is] a cancerous growth." 1938, Ernst von W. to a Swiss diplomat: "The Jews will have to leave Germany, otherwise they will, one way or the other, be simply confronted with their own destruction." |
Jan. 20, 1942 |
| League of Outlaws Communist precursor organization. |
1834-1836 |
| League of the Just / League of Just Men / Communist League Artisan-dominated secret society that spun off from the League of Outlaws (which quickly ceased to exist). Partnered with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1847 (publishing Marx's Communist Manifesto in the process), in which they agreed to become a public political movement known as the Communist League. Demands of the Communist Manifesto: - a progressive income tax; - abolition of inheritances and private property; - abolition of child labour; - free public education; - nationalisation of the means of transport and communication; - centralisation of credit via a national bank; - expansion of publicly owned land. Marx's Communist Manifesto on the abolition of the family (vague): "Abolition of the family! Even the most radical [individuals] flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. ... On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution. ... The proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family-relations. ... By the action of Modern Industry, all family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour. ... The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital." Marx's Communist Manifesto on women: "But you Communists would introduce "community of women"", screams the whole bourgeoisie in chorus. [The fact is:] the bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production [with women] to be exploited in common... Our bourgeois, not content with having the wives and daughters of their proletarians at their disposal [for workplace exploitation], not to speak of [shared] prostitutes, take the greatest pleasure in seducing each other's wives. Bourgeois marriage is in reality a system of wives in common. ... [Hence the Bourgeouis] has not even a suspicion that the real point [of us communists] is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production. ... The Communists have no need to introduce [an activist] community of women; it has existed almost from time immemorial. ... [We are for] the abolition of ... prostitution, both public and private." July 1926, The Atlantic, 'The Russian Effort to Abolish Marriage': "When the Bolsheviki came into power in 1917 they regarded the family, like every other 'bourgeois' institution, with fierce hatred, and set out with a will to destroy it. ... A law was passed which made divorce a matter of a few minutes... Chaos was the result. Men took to changing wives with the same zest... 'Some men have twenty wives, living a week with one, a month with another,' asserted an indignant woman delegate during the sessions of the Tzik. 'They have children with all of them, and these children are thrown on the street for lack of support! (There are three hundred thousand bezprizorni or shelterless children in Russia to-day... More than half of them are drug addicts and sex perverts. ... An epidemic of marriages and divorces broke out in the country districts. ... It was not an unusual occurrence for a boy of twenty to have had three or four wives, or for a girl of the same age to have had three or four abortions. ... Many women of light behavior ... formed connections with the sons of well-to-do peasants and then blackmailed the father for the support of the children." |
1836 |
| World Committee for the Relief of the Victims of German Fascism Willi Munzenberg (founder? A top communist close to Trotsky and Lenin). On August 1, 1933 it published in 17 languages 'Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag', which contained, according to Arthur Koestler, "the first comprehensive report on the concentration camps... the persecution of Jews [and others], the repression of literature, and other aspects of the terror." It became "the bible of the anti-fascist crusade", but Comintern Intelligence played a major role in its creation and distribution. Authors: Georgi Dimitrov (foreword 2nd edition; defendant in the Reichstag trial; arrested without police knowing he was a top Stalinist communist) | D. N. Pritt (foreword). |
Jun. 1933 |
| Comite Mondiale Contre la Guerre et le Fascisme / World Committee Against War and Fascism This anarchist committee defended Marinus van der Lubbe from charges in the Brown Book that he was a pawn of the Nazis, instead claiming that he was devout defender of the working classes. |
1933-1934 |
| Legal Commission of Inquiry into the Burning of the Reichstag D. N. Pritt (chair; member Labour Party) | Arthur Garfield Hays (founder ACLU; attended the Van der Lubbe trial) | Vincent de Moro-Giaferi (French lawyer) | Francesco Nitti (PM Italy) | Sen. Georg Branting (Sweden).
Evidence discussed by the commission (and above committees):
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Sep. 1933 |
| Atlantik-Brucke (AB) Max Warburg (founder) | John McCloy (co-founder) | Henry Kissinger | Nelson Rockefeller | Walter Kiep (chair 1984-2000, honorary chair since 2004) | George H. W. Bush | Gen. James L. Jones | Richard von Weizsacker | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ("Young Leader" alumni and member) | Hubertus Hoffmann (scholar) | Tom Enders (chair 2005-2009) | Nagila Warburg (director 2019-) | Sigmar Gabriel (chair 2019-) | Josef Ackermann (member) | Wolfgang Ischinger ("Young Leader" alumni) | Richard Burt ("Young Leader" alumni) | Helmut Kohl (member) | Helmut Schmidt (member) | Angela Merkel (member) | . More: Kofi Annan and Liz Mohn (present at AB's Vernon Walters Award dinner on June 13, 2008). |
1952 |
| American Council on Germany (Atlantik-Brücke's sister organization) Paul Volcker (director since 1975, chairman) | John McCloy | Richard Debs | Henry Kissinger | Richard Holbrooke | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Dick Cheney | George C. McGhee | Robert Ellsworth | Walter Slocombe | Chuck Hagel | John McCloy II | Brent Scowcroft | David Rubenstein | Marie Warburg | Robert Zoellick | Gen. Lucius Clay | John Diebold (vice chair) | Richard Burt (vice chair) | Christopher Emmet (founder and director) | Alan Greenspan (speaker) | Gen. John Galvin | James Cicconi | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Henry H. Arnhold |
1952 |
| American-German Young Leaders Conference (AB-ACG project) Once every two years until 1988. After that biennial. For 50 people of the ages between 28 and 38. Founders: John Diebold and Christopher Emmet. |
1959 |
| Munich Security Conference (MSC) / Munchner Sicherheitskonferenz ISGP analysis of participant lists from 1999 to 2013. Founder: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist (longest surviving member of the group that tried to assassinate Hitler). Anno 2020 George Soros sits on the advisory board, along with ICG employee Federica Mogherini. U.S. visitors: Caspar Weinberger (1982) | Lawrence Eagleburger (1982) | William Cohen (heads the US delegation since 1985) | William Clark (1999) | Gen. Montgomery Meigs (annual visitor until 2002) | Gen. Wesley Clark (annual until 2003) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (annual until 2006) | Walter Slocombe (regular since the 1990s) | Brent Scowcroft (virtually annual until 2009) | Bruce Jackson of Lockheed (virtually annualy since the 1990s; still anno '17) | Robert W. Helm of Northrop Grumman (annual since 1990s) | John Kornblum (occasional visitor since the 1990s) | Zoellick (regular since the 1990s) | Paula Dobriansky (2000) | Porter Goss (2000) | Sen. John Warner ('17) | Gen. James L. Jones (regular since at least 2000; still anno '17) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (2000, 2004) and his son Ian (2002, 2003, 2004) | Henry Kissinger (2001, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014 50th anniversary panel) | Richard Perle (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, 2013) | Paul Wolfowitz (1999, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2013) | Donald Rumsfeld (1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006) | Robert Pfaltzgraff (2001-2002) | John Bolton (2002) | William Kristol (2002) | Strobe Talbott ('02, '09, '10, '17) | David Ignatius (occasional visitor since 2002; still anno '17) | William Safire (2003-2004) | Niall Ferguson (2007) | Jamie McIntyre (2002-2007) | Andrew Krepinevich (2002, 2003, 2005, 2008) | Jim Steinberg (2002, 2003, 2006, 2010) | Jim Kolbe (2004) | Dov Zakheim (2013) | Chuck Hagel (2000-2005, except for 2003) | Eliot Cohen (occasionaly visitor since at least 2000; '17) | Robert Kagan ('02, '08, '17) and his brother-in-law Frederick (2007, 2010) | Jon Huntsman, Jr (2007) | James Woolsey (regular since at least 2003) | Sandy Berger (2003, 2005, 2006, 2009) | Adm. Giambastiani (2004-2005) | John Lehman (2006, 2009, 2010) | David Petraeus ('09, '16, '17, '19) | Madeleine Albright ('10, '17) | Eric Edelman (2010) | Sen. George Mitchell (2011) | Randy Scheunemann (virtually annual since 2001) | Richard Burt (regular since the 1990s, '17) | Evan Galbraith (regular 2002 until his death in 2008) | Frank Wisner II ('11, '13, '17) | Shultz (2010) | Col. John Nagl (2010) | Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (2010) | George Soros (visitor '11-'12; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting; member advisory council until April 2021) and his son Alexander (visitor '19; advisory council April 2021-) | Thomas Pickering (2006) | William Perry (2009, 2010) | Jeane Kirkpatrick (2004) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (2004) | Sam Nunn (2010, 2011, 2012) | Joseph Nye ('12, '17) | Lynn Forester de Rothschild ('13, '17) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild ('13, '17) | Hillary Clinton, secretary of state 2009-2013 (2005, 2011, 2012) | Sen. John Kerry (2012; member advisory board anno 2019, '22) | Richard Holbrooke (annual from 2003 until his death in 2010) | Sen. John McCain III (regular since at least 2001; still anno '17) and widow Cindy McCain ('22) | Sen. Jon Kyl (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (regular since at least 2000) | Sen. Lindsey Graham (regular since 2003; '17, '22) | Richard Haass (1999, 2010) | Ashton Carter (regular since 2001) | Stephen Hadley (regular since 2009) | Sean O'Keefe (2012) | Michael Chertoff ('13, '17) | Leon Panetta (2012) | Robert Gates (2007, 2008) | James Thomson (2012) | Sen. Joe Biden (2000, 2009, 2013) | Richard A. Clarke (2013) | Michael Hayden (2012, 2013) | Jane Harman (regular since 2003; member advisory board, '22) | Robert Blackwill (regular since the 1990s) | Fiona Hill ('13, '17) | Ian Robertson of BMW and Rolls Royce (2013) | Nicholas Burns | Robert Hunter | Ralph Crosby, Jr. | Terry Graham (Lockheed) | Francis Fukuyama (2020) | William Swanson, Robin Beard, Daniel Burnham and Matthew Riddle (Raytheon) | Alex Stamos ('17, '18; Facebook security director) | Bill Gates ('17, '21-'22) | Geoffrey Lamb ('17; chief economic and policy advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Fdn.) | Graham Allison ('17) | Christiane Amanpour ('17, '22) | Anne Applebaum ('17) | William Burns ('17) | Scott Carpenter ('17; managing director Google's Jigsaw) | Richard Fontaine ('17) | Stephen Heintz ('17; president Rock. Brothers Fund) | Alex Karp ('17, '22) | Peter Thiel ('17) | Ronald Lauder ('17) | Gen. James Mattis ('17) | David Rothkopf ('17) | Congressman Adam Schiff ('17) | Eric Schmidt ('22) | Kamala Harris ('22) | Nancy Pelosi ('22) | Rajiv Shah ('22; as pres. Rock. Fdn.). British visitors: Lord Guthrie ('99-'00) | Lord Charles Powell (annual since 1990s; still anno '17) | Lord Kerr of Kinlochard ('10, '12, '13, '17) | Lord Inge (2003, 2004, 2006) | Lord George Robertson (2000-2002) | Sir Henry Grierson (2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (2012) | Malcolm Rifkind ('12, '13, '17) | Dr. John Chipman (regular; still in '17) | Tony Blair (2011) | David Cameron (2011) | William Hague (2011) | John Weston (CEO British Aerospace/BAE) | David Miliband ('09, member advisory board anno 2019, '22) | Pauline Neville-Jones (2009, 2010) | Bono ('17) | Boris Johnson ('17, '22) | Sir Malcolm Rifkind ('17) | Mary Robinson ('17) | Ngaire Woods ('22). German visitors: Ewald von Kleist (founder, chair 1962-1998) | Otto Wolff von Amerongen (1982) | Horst Teltschik (chair MSC 1999-2008, participant '17) | Wolfgang Ischinger (regular visitor since the 1990s, chair MSC 2008-, still anno '22) | Joe Kaeser (chair advisory council Jan. 2021-, still anno 2024; chair Siemens AG) | Gerhard Schroder (1999, 2001) | Joschka Fischer (regular since the 1990s) | Jose Joffe (regular since the 1990s; still anno '17) | Dr. Edmund Stoiber (annual since 2002; member advisory board) | Angela Merkel (regular since 2002; '17; German chancellor 2005-) | Walter Kiep (2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('10, '12-'13, '17) | Gabriela von Habsburg, a daughter of Otto (observer in 2013) | Hubertus Hoffman (2009, 2010, observer in 2013) | Karl Kaiser (2010) | Josef Ackermann, head of Deutsche Bank (2012) | Max M. Warburg ('12, '17) | Helmut Schmidt (2014 50th anniversary panel) | Dr. Manfred Bischoff and Dr. Wolfgang Piller (DaimlerChrysler Aerospace AG) | Mathias Dopfner ('17) | Thomas Enders ('17) | Wolfgang Fink ('17; co-chair Goldman Sachs AG) | Franz Fehrenbach ('17; chair supervisory board Robert Bosch GmbH) | Sigmar Gabriel ('17) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('17) | Peter Jungen ('17) | Dr. Klaus Mangold ('17) | Paul Achleitner (advisory council anno 2019) | Ursula von der Leyen ('22) | Werner Baumann ('22; chair Bayer AG). Great many more Germans from the government, business and the military visited. Scandinavia: Carl Bildt of Sweden (regular since 2008; member advisory board) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('17) | Jens Stoltenberg ('17, '22) | Marcus Wallenberg ('17). Liechtenstein: Hans Adam II von Liechtenstein (June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting) French visitors: Francois Heisbourg (regular; '17) | Thierry de Montbrial (regular; still anno '17) | Pierre Lellouche ('17) | Nicolas Sarkozy (2009) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing (2014 50th anniversary panel). Israeli/Jewish visitors: Gen. Yaakov Amidror (2013) | Ehud Barak (2013) | Martin Indyk (2003, 2013) | Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmith ('17) | Avigdor Liberman ('17). Arab visitors: Huge Arab presence in more recent years. Examples: King Abdullah II of Jordan (2004) | Prince Ali Bin al Hussein of Jordan 2004) | Prince Faisal bin al Hussein of Jordan (2012) | Sheikh Moaz al-Khatib, a leader of the Syrian opposition against Assad (2013) | Abdah Anas ('17; leader anti-Assad opposition in Syria) | Hamid Karzai (2009-2011) | Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan (2012) | Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi, the foreign minister of Pakistan (2009) | Sheikh Hamad Al Thani of Qatar (2013; member advisory board) | Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia (2010, 2013; June 16-17, 2015 "core group" meeting; member advisory board) | Prince Turki bin Mohammed bin Saud Al-Kabeer of Saudi Arabia (2011, 2012, 2013) | Hikmet Sami Turk (minister of defense of Turkey) | Sultan Al Jaber ('22; as minister for industry, advanced technology, and climate, UAE). Former Soviet republics: Tedo Japaridze, a Georgian security chief (regular) | President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia (2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012) | Viktor Yushchenko, prime minister of Ukraine (2007) | Prince Karel Schwarzenberg, Czech ambassador (regular; still anno '17) | Gabriela von Habsburg (a daughter of Otto), ambassador of Georgia to Germany | Elmar Mammadyarov, foreign minister of Azerbaijan since 2004 (2008) | Vitaly Klitschco ('17) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('17) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('17) | Viktor Pinchuk ('17) | Volodymyr Zelensky ('22; president Ukraine). Russian visitors: Igor Ivanov, Russia's foreign minister 1998-2004 and Security Council secretary (regular visitor; '17) | Sergei Ivanov, the Russian minister of defense 2001-2007, deputy prime minister and chief of staff after that (regular since 2001) | Oleg Deripaska (2007, 2013) | Putin (speech in 2007) | Sergei Prikhodko (2007) | Aleksey Ostrovskiy, Duma member of the party of Vladimir Zhirinovsky (2008) | Sergei Rogov (2009) | Anatoly Antonov ('13) | German Gref (2010, 2013) | Vyacheslav Trubnikov, former head of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency (2011) | Eugene Kaspersky ('12, '17) | Dmitri Trenin (2012) | Andrei Kortunov ('17) | Viktor Vekselberg ('17). Other countries: Federica Mogherini ('16, '17, '20; member advisory council) | Zhijun Zhang, Chinese politician (2006, 2012)| Yesui Zhang, Chinese ambassador to the U.S. 2008-2010 (2007) | Wang Huiyao ('19) | Fu Ying (advisory board anno 2019) | Masahiko Kōmura, Japanese foreign minister 1998-1999 and 2007-2008 (2008) | Ban Ki-moon (2011) | Hans Binnendijk (2011) | Hans van den Broek (1999) | Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (2004-2008) | Bert Koenders ('17) | Frans Timmermans ('17) | Marietje Schaake ('17, '18) | Armand de Decker (2004) | Herman van Rompuy (2011) | Paul Kagame ('17) | Kevin Rudd ('17) | Javier Solana ('17; advisory council anno 2019) | Jurgen Stock ('17; secretary general Interpol) | Alina Polyakova ('22). securityconference.de/ Organisation.50+M52087573ab0.0.html (accessed: Nov. 20, 2011): "November 20-21, 2011MSC Core Group Meeting, Beijing." securityconference.org/en/about-us/partners-sponsors/: "MAIN SPONSORS: Airbus ... Google ... Johnson & Johnson. Lockheed Martin. Merck. Microsoft. Raytheon. Rheinmetall Group. ... SPONSORS: ... BAE Systems. Bayer. .... Eon ... Facebook. Goldman Sachs. ... KPMG. ... SAAB. ... INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS: ... BDI: The Voice of German Industry. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt. [various leading think tanks] ... DGAP ... PARTNER: Siemens Energy. KNOWLEDGE PARTNERS: McKinsey ∓ Company. ... ASSOCIATES: Allianz ... Siemens. T-Mobile..." |
1962 |
| Carl Duisberg Society (CDS International since 1987) Partnered with Atlantik-Brucke and Robert Bosch Foundation, while also cooperating with the GMF. Kissinger (speech in 1987) | Mohammed Atta (scholarship holder and tutor 1995-1997). |
1968 |
| Robert Bosch Foundation (controls 90% Robert Bosch GmbH shares) Hans Merkle | Kissinger (member international advisory board of Roberth Bosch GmbH 1980s-today) |
1969 |
| German Marshall Fund (GMF) Founding trustees: Guido Goldman (co-chair anno 1999-2012, trustee in the years after again) | Robert Ellsworth | no one else prominent. Founding hon. committee (in attendence during founding speech of Willy Brandt): David Rockefeller | C. Douglas Dillon (chair) | John McCloy | Gabriel Hauge | James Conant. 1999 trustees: Suzanne Woolsey (co-chair anno 1999, regular trustee 2002, 2006, 2008) | William Reilly | Vin Weber | Robert Zoellick. 2002: Adm. Bill Owens | Robert Wexler. 2006: David Ignatius (still anno 2018). 2009: Richard Powers (Managing Director, Goldman Sachs International) | Jim Quigley (CEO Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu). 2016: Annie Maxwell (president Skoll Global Threats Fund) | Marc Grossman | Robert Liberatore (director Chrysler). 2020: Congressman Will Hurd. More: 2st Baron Sherfield / Lord Makins ("longtime friend and adviser" upon death in 2006) | Richard Holbrooke | Rozanne Ridgway | Ronald Asmus, Jeffrey Bergner and Robert Kagan (Transatlantic fellows/associates) | Walther Kiep | Ian Lesser (executive director Transatlantic Center) | Jessica Einhorn (trustee). 2011 conference: Etienne Davignon | Paula Dobriansky | Count Alexander Lambsdorff | Bruce Jackson | Jim Kolbe | David Kramer | Pascal Lamy | Wilfried Martens | Randy Scheunemann. More: Enders Wimbush (senior director for foreign policy and civil society) | Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer (transatlantic fellow and Paris bureau chief; niece of Jaap) Federica Mogherini (fellow) | Michael Abramowitz (fellow) | Peter Chase (fellow) | Pavol Demes (director for Central and Eastern Europe) | Aaron Friedberg (expert) | Udo Ulfkotte (6-week U.S. "scholarship" in late 1993). |
1972 |
| International Journalists' Programmes (IJP) U.S. board of trustees: Richard Burt (president anno 1997; board anno 2020) | James Hoge (anno 1997) | Alexander Haig Jr. (anno 1997) | Henry Kissinger (anno 1997-2020) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (anno 1997) | Gen. David Petraeus (anno 2020). German board of trustees: Mathias Dopfner (anno 2007-2009) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff (anno 2020). Sponsors: Goldman Sachs | GlaxoSmithKline | Axel Springer | Guardian Media Group | Coco-Cola | Bertelsmann | BASF | BP | Ruhrgas | RWE | Siemens | Volkswagen | Robert Bosch | Rolls Royce | Daimler Chrysler | Deutsche Bank | Deutsche BP | Deutsche Post | Deutsche Telekom | Dresdner Bank | Vattenfall | foreign ministries of Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. |
1981 |
| Bundesakademie fur Sicherheitspolitik (BAKS) / Federal Academy for Security Policy (FASP) Udo Ulfkotte (involvement encouraged bu his newspaper and security services "employers"). |
1982 |
| American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) Founding trustees: John McCloy | Donald Rumsfeld | Thomas Farmer (CIA veteran) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (later Chairmen's council). Later trustees: Lawrence Clarkson (1997-1999) | Wolfgang Ischinger | Karl Otto Pohl | Jon Huntsman | John Kornblum | Michael Bloomberg | Robert Zoellick | Susan Eisenhower (anno 2020) | James Baker III (long-time honorary trustee) | Ralph Crosby, Jr. | Richard Burt (anno 2010) | Josef Joffe (anno 2010). Source(s): aicgs.org/wp-content/ uploads/2017/04/Articles-of-Incorporation.pdf (accessed: Oct. 8, 2023): "The names of the persons who are to serve as the initial trustees ... are: Donald [R.]. Steven Muller. Thomas Farmer. Guido Goldman. Joan Manley. John [M.]. Kenneth Rush. Helmut [S.]." |
1983 |
| German-British Forum Still exists anno 2021, but no big names anymore. Management board: Lord Douglas Hurd of Westwell (chair anno 1998, 2012). Advisory board: Gottfried von Bismarck (anno 1998, 2012) | Lord Weidenfeld (anno 1998, 2012) | Lord Cobbold (anno 1998, 2009) | Josef Joffe (anno 1998) | George Mallinckrodt (anno 2012). German-British Forum Awards Jury: Karl Otto Pohl (anno 1998). Forum participants: George Soros ('06 booked) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('06 booked) | Helmut Schmidt ('08 booked) | Valery Giscard d'Estaing ('08 booked) | Dr. Theo Waigel ('08). Companies represented: Ipsos Mori (polling bureau), Hakluyt, Schroders Bank, BP-Amoco, BP, Deutsche Bank, Körber AG, KCMG, Lytton, Rhone Group, Die Welt, Robert Bosch, etc. gbf.com/gbf/people.asp (accessed: Feb. 6, 2007): "The Forum would like to thank the following partners and sponsors for their support from 1995 to date: "Barclays Bank plc. BASF plc. BMW Group. ... British Chamber of Commerce in Germany. British Council. British German Association. British Petroleum plc. ... Deminex UK Oil and Gas Ltd. Deutsche Bank. Deutsch-Englische Gesellschaft. ... German Embassy, London. German-British Chamber of Industry and Commerce. ... Handelsblatt. ... Herbert Quandt Stiftung. ... Landesbank Hessen-Thuringen. ... PriceWaterhouseCoopers. ... Rheinbraun AG. Rheinmetall AG. Robert Fleming Holdings Ltd. RWE AG. Siemens plc." |
1985 |
| Carnegie Bosch Institute for Applied Studies in International Management Founded by Kissinger, Hans Merkle (CEO Bosch Group) and Richard M. Cyert (president Carnegie Mellon). |
1990 |
| European Banking Congress (EBC) Steering committee: no one special. Speakers: Robin Leigh-Pemberton ('92) | George Mallinckrodt ('92) | Romano Prodi ('92, '98, '00, '02) | Hans Tietmeyer (over '93-'04) | Jean-Claude Trichet (countless times over '94-'14) | Mario Monti ('94, '99, '07, '17) | Etienne Davignon ('95) | Cees Maas ('95, '00, '08) | Lord Howe of Aberavon ('96) | Paul Volcker ('97) | Wim Duisenberg ('97-'01) | Lord Simon of Highbury ('97) | Andrew Buxton ('98) | Sir Leon Brittan ('98) | Viktor Orban ('98, '00) | Alan Greenspan ('98, '04) | Josef Ackermann ('02-'09, '11) | Axel Weber ('04-'05, '07-'10) | Angela Merkel ('06) | Christine Lagarde ('06, '19, '20) | Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('10) | James Wolfensohn ('11) | Adam Posen ('14, '20) | Jakob von Weizsacker ('17) | Frans Timmermans ('20). frankfurt-ebc.com/idea.html (accessed: Feb. 3, 2001): "The European Banking Congress (EBC) was first held in 1991 on the initiative of the International Bankers Forum Frankfurt (IBF). Since 1992 the Congress has been run by the big three Frankfurt banks, the Bundesbank, the city of Frankfurt and the IBF; Commerzbank, Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank take turns in organizing the EBC; the chairman of the bank concerned is then also chairman of that year's Congress." |
1991 |
| American Academy in Berlin (AAB) Trustees: Richard Holbrooke (primary founder 1994-, trustee anno 2007) | Henry Kissinger (co-founder and founding co-chair 1994-, still anno 2011, unlisted anno 2007, 2022) | Thomas Farmer (founding co-chair 1994-, hon. co-chair anno 2011; CIA veteran born to German-American parents who fled Germany in 1933) | Richard von Weizsacker (co-founder and co-chairman 1994-, hon. co-chair anno 2011) | David Rubenstein (anno 2007-2011) | Niall Ferguson (anno 2011) | Wolfgang Marchow (anno 2011; Robert Bosch) | Christopher von Oppenheim (anno 2007-2011) | Vartan Gregorian (anno 2007-2011) | John Birkelund (anno 2007-2011) | Norman Pearlstine (anno 2007, also president, president and CEO anno 2011, trustee emeritus anno 2022) | Lawrence Lessig (anno 2011, not in 2007 or 2022) | Wolfgang Ischinger (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | C. Boyden Gray (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | Josef Joffe (anno 2011, still anno 2022) | Mathias Dopfner (anno 2011-, still anno 2022) | Joe Kaeser (anno 2022). More: David Rockefeller (personal donor $10,000-$50,000) | Richard Haass (distinguished visitor) | Philip Zelikow (fellow) | Francis Fukuyama ("distinguished visitor, class of 2016") | Anne Applebaum (fellow '06) | Julie Finley | Jeffrey Sachs ("Distinguished visitor"). Henry Kissinger Prize awards: Helmut Kohl (May 16, 2011). Major financiers: DaimlerChrysler AG, Allianz AG, General Motors-Adam Opel AG, Siemans AG, John W. Kluge Foundation, Robert Bosch Stiftung, etc. Source(s): Fall 2007 issue, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p. 2 (trustees); Fall 2011 issue, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p.2 (trustees and award); Sep. 2022, no. 36, The Berlin Journal of the AAB, p.2: "Founder: Richard C. [H.]. Founding Chairmen: Thomas L. [F.], Henry A. [K.], Richard von [W.]... Trustees: ..." |
1994 |
| Transatlantic Forum U.S. advisory board: Kenneth Dam | Richard Burt | Edward Djerejian | Richard Holbrooke | Henry Kissinger | Sen. Joseph Lieberman | John McCain III | Condoleeezza Rice. German advisory board: Hans D. Barbier | Roland Berger | Klaus von Klitzing | Hans-Ulrich Klose | Norbert Reithofer | Hermann Otto Solms | Lothar Späth | Dieter Stolte | Matthias Wissmann. |
1995 |
| Council on Public Policy (CPP), Bayreuth, Germany Trustees: Count Alexander Lambsdorff founding chair 2001-2009) | Roman Herzog (chair since 2009) | Wolfgang Ischinger (since at least May 2004) | Lee Hamilton (since at least May 2004) | John Kornblum (until 2007; worked under Henry Kissinger; director Bayer AG, Thyssen-Krupp, chair Lazard Freres Germany). Directors: Michael Zoller (founder and chair) | Sebastian Biedenkopf (son of Kurt B.) |
2001 |
| Transatlantic Strategy Group Oct. 6, 2003, C. Fred B. for PIIE.com, 'Restoring the Transatlantic Alliance': "[TSG,] created in early 2002 by the Bertelsmann Foundation, whose economic component we co-chair..." Not to be confused with the 2014-founded Transatlantic Strategy Group on the Future of U.S. Global Leadership, co-founded by RIIA, or a similarly-named group founded in 2019 by DGAP and Harvard. Board: C. Fred Bergsten (co-chair). |
2002 |
| Munich Economic Summit (MES) Past speakers: Jean-Claude Trichet ('10) | Theo Waigel ('10) | Alex Weber ('10, '13) | Jeffrey Sachs ('11) | Kurt Biedenkopf ('11, '12) | Bill McDermott ('15). |
2002 |
| Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Advisory board: Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg | Lord Mark Malloch Brown | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2020) | Alexander Soros (anno 2020). Funding: OSF, Robert Bosch Stiftung. |
2003 |
| Atlantic Initiative (AI) Changed its name to Atlantic Community in late 2019, after its long-term blog. After that, the AI's advisory board was not listed anymore. Advisory board: Count Alexander Lambsdorff (co-founder; anno 2007, 2019) | Carl-Eduard von Bismarck (anno 2007; head of the princely House of Bismarck; son of a Belgian countess Elizabeth Lippens; MP 1985-2007) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg (anno 2007) | Walter Kiep (anno 2007) | Thomas Farmer (anno 2007, until 2014, always representing the American Bankers Assoc., to which he was general counsel 1970-2002, senior counsel for international finance 2002-2004) | Horst Teltschik (anno 2007, 2019; "Präsident Boeing Deutschland" anno 2007) | Jurgen Chrobog (anno 2007; "Vorstandsvorsitzender, BMW Stiftung Herbert Quandt") | Mark Brzezinski (July 2007-, anno 2019) | Lord Wallace (July 2007-, anno 2019) | Dr. Charles Kupchan (anno 2007; listed as CFR representative) | Julianne Smith (CSIS representative) | Dr. Jeffrey Gedmin (anno 2007; "Direktor, Aspen Institute Berlin" | Dr. Ronald D. Asmus and Heike MacKerron (anno 2007; representatives of the GMF) | Ruprecht Polenz (anno 2007; "Präsident Deutsch-Atlantische Gesellschaft, Berlin"). "Founding members" as listed in 2007: Count Alexander | Jan Techau (Carnegie EU and DGAP) | Lars Zimmermann ("McCloy Fellow") | representative of Alliaz, Deutsche Bank and Deutsche BP. Sources: atlantic-community.org/index.php/about/ac (accessed: Oct. 11, 2007): "Advisory Board Members of the Atlantic Initiative... Founding Members of the Atlantic Initiative..."; atlantic-community.org/about (accessed: April 23, 2013): "Advisory Board..." |
2004 |
| German-American Hall of Fame, New York Trustees: Siegfried & Roy | Louis Freeh | Donald Trump | Wolfgang Ischinger | Frederick W. Hoffman (Chrysler). Inducted: Walter Cronkite (2007) | John Kluge (2007) | Walter Chrysler (2007). |
2004 |
| American-Russian Chamber of Commerce Board: Col. Charles Cooper (president anno 1933) | William Averell Harriman (anno 1933) | J. H. Rand Jr. (anno 1933; chair Remington Rand) | Reeve Schley (anno 1933; vice president Chase National Bank) | Alfred Swayne (anno 1933; vice president GM) | Loyal Osborne (anno 1933; president Westinghouse Electric) | Frederick Small (anno 1933; president American Express Co.) | James Maguire (anno 1933; director Vacuum Oil) | Allen Wardwell (anno 1933; Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed). Dais on Nov. 24, 1933: Alfred Sloan Jr. (president GM) | S. Parker Gilbert (J. P. Morgan) | Henry Harriman (president U.S. Chamber of Commerce) | Owen Young (chair GE) | Gerard Swope (president GE) | Clark Minor (president International GE) | Charles McCain (chair Chase National Bank) | Kermit Roosevelt (president Roosevelt Steam ship Co.) | Henry Morgenthau Sr. | David Sarnoff (president RCA) | Dr. Thomas Baker (president Carnegie Inst.) | Paul Cravath | Dr. Stephen Duggan | Walter Duranty (Moscow correspondent NYT) | Charles Edison (president Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) | Jackson Elliott (ass. gen. manager AP) | Ed Loomis | A. W. Robertson (chair Westinghouse Electric) | Charles Sorensen (Ford Motor Co.) | Mary van Kleeck (Russell Sage Fdn.). Source(s): Nov. 24, 1933, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, 'Testimonial Dinner tendered to The Honorable Maxim M. Litvinoff, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics': "Introductory remarks by Colonel Hugh L. Cooper, President, American-Russian Chamber of Commerce: "Mr. Josef Stalin, a man whose name will go down in history as one of the foremost leaders of all times. While I may honestly disagree in some respects with political and social philosophy ... I wholeheartedly admire his unselfish, untiring efforts to raise the standards of living of the 160,000,000 people within the confines of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union [where] there exists natural resources far greater in value than the known natural resources of the balance of Europe. ... President Roosevelt and Commissar Litvinoff have just laid an American-Soviet foundation stone of friendship [and] have finally healed the sixteen years' breach in American-Russian relations. [This is] a vital aid in the establishment of world peace. World Peace!" ... Address by Colonel Raymond Robins: "For sixteen long years we have waited for this hour. All the peoples of the world share in the gains for international peace... I revisited Russia of the Soviets in the spring and summer of this years [and was] on the Red Square of Moscow ... in 1918... I could find nowhere anyone who knew of or said he believed in any organized resistance against the Soviet Government throughout the Russian land. ... The penal system of the Soviets has abolished all punitive elements. The whole method of detention is educational and correctional. They deal with social criminals as comrades who have been ill or unfortunate."" |
1957 |
| Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs Gathering of scientists and politicians to decrease the threat of nuclear war. Bertrand Russell and Alfred Einstein (a manifesto of theirs stood at the basis of the first meeting) | Cyrus Eaton (hosted the first meeting) | Paul M. Doty (leader) | Henry Kissinger (occasional participant since at least 1967) | Robert McNamara (participant, founding trustee Pugwash Foundation in 1986)| hepard Stone (participant) | Prince Sadruddin Khan (founding trustee Pugwash Foundation). Russians: Alexander Nikitin | Sergei Oznobishchev | Georgy Arbatov (since 1969) | Yevgeny Primakov. Financiers: governments of Helmut Schmidt (Germany) and Olof Palme (Sweden). |
1957 |
| Korber Foundation's Bergedorf Round Table (BRT) / Bergedorfer Gesprachskreis Richard von Weizsacker (chair anno 2000). Participants: Pope John Paul II | Vladimir Putin | Helmut Kohl | Helmut Schmidt | Jiang Zemin ('01, first meeting in China) | Wang Chunzheng ('01; minister) | Mei Zhaoron ('01; president of the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs) | Gijs de Vries ('10, '19) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('10) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('10) | Wolfgang Ischinger ('10, '17) | Fiona Hill ('10) | Robert Kagan ('10) | Pauline Neville-Jones ('10) | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('10) | Prince Turki al-Faisal ('17) | Richard Burt ('17) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('17) | Joschka Fischer ('19) | Jakob von Weizsacker ('19) | Carl Bildt ('19) | Count Alexander Lambsdorff ('19) | Kenneth Weinstein ('17, '19) | William Burns ('20) | Francois Heisbourg ('17, '20) | David Petraeus ('20) | Marietje Schaake ('20) | Elbridge Colby ('20; son of William Colby). |
1961 |
| Dartmouth Conferences Clandestine U.S.-Russia meetings. Names and dates taken from an official history. Americans: Norman Cousins (1960) | Paul M. Doty (1961-1992) | Walt Rostow (1960-1988) | David Rockefeller (1962-1988) | Harold Saunders (1981-2010; Kiss. protege from 1973 to 1981) | George Kennan (1960) | Jerome Wiesner (1960) | Gabriel Hauge (1961) | Robert R. Bowie (CIA; 1961) | Shepard Stone (1961-1964) | John Brademas (1972) | William Ruckelshaus (1972) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (1972-1976) | Richard Gardner (1976) | Vernon Jordan (1977) | Hedley Donovan (1972-1979) | Milton Eisenhower (1971) | Sen. Frank Church (1971) | Charles Yost (1971-1979) | Helmut Sonnenfeldt (1972-1977) | Donald Kendall (1972-1976) | Paul Warnke (1975-1976) | Barry Blechman (1976) | Rita Hauser (1977) | Stephen Solarz (1979-1989) | Sen. William Coleman Jr. (1981-1984) | Brent Scowcroft (1981-1988) | Kurt Campbell (1984-1991) | Cyrus Vance 1985-1987) | Walter Slocombe (1986) | Al Gore (1986) | Sam Nunn (1986) | Ted Warner (RAND; 1986-1992) | Ashton Carter (1987) | Mortimer Zuckerman (1988-1989) | Morton Abramowitz (1989) | Richard Holbrooke (1989) | Madeleine Albright (1989) | Richard Burt (1989) | Philip Klutznick (1994) | Robert Kaiser (Washington Post; 2000-08). Russians: Oleg Bykov (1960-1989) | Mikhail Kotov (1964-1977) | Vladimir Gantman (1972-1984) | Yuri Fedorov (1972-1992) | Georgy Arbatov (1971-1992) | Alexei Arbatov (1972-1992) | Oleg Kharkhardin (1975-1992) | Aleksandr Kislov (1975-2000) | Andrei Kokoshin (1983-2000) | Viktor Kremenyuk (1984-2000) | Alexander Medvedev (1985) | Alexander Nikitin (1986-1992) | Andrey Kortunov (1986-2000) | Sergei Karaganov (1989-2000) | Yevgeny Primakov (1971-2008) | Sergei Rogov (1984-2000) | Gennady Chufrin (1988-2008) | Air Force Major-General Boris Surikov (1988) | Maj.-Gen. Vladimir Dvorkin (1992) | Victor (father) and Anton Surikov (1992) | Sergei Oznobishchev (1992) | Igor Chubais (2008; older brother of Anatoly) Sponsors: Carnegie, Ford, Hewlett, Kettering, LBJ, MacArthur, McDonnell, Meadows, Mott and Rockefeller fdns.; Open Soc. Inst. (Soros) and David R. himself. Source(s): 2010, Kettering Foundation, 'The Dartmouth Conference: The First 50 Years 1960-2010', p. 63-81 (lists all historical participants and their years), p. 82 (lists above historical donors). |
1960 |
| U.S.-USSR Trade and Economic Council David Rockefeller (initially blackballed, but included on the council through Henry Kissinger) | George Shultz | A. W. Clausen | Edward Kaiser | Armand Hammer | Willard Rockwell | Irving Shapiro (chair Du Pont) | Michael Forrestal | Donald Kendall | William Hewitt | David Packard (committee on science and technology 1975-1982) | Harold B. Scott | Yevgeny Primakov | Georgy Arbatov. Met with the Council on Oct. 7, 1975 on behalf of the White House: Brent Scowcroft | Helmut Sonnenfe1dt | Robert Hormats | Robert Ingersoll. USA '88 trade fair in Moscow: Mikhail Gorbachev (lengthy speech) | William Forrester (president USUTEC and trade fair organizer: "The Soviet Union is an extremely large untapped market with enormous potential..."). Companies represented at the fair: PepsiCo., Philip Morris, General Electric, American Express, Johnson & Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, Estee Lauder, Eastman Kodak, Federal Express, E.I. Du Pont, RJR Nabisco, Caterpillar, Colgate. |
1973 |
| American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations Members: George Kennan (known founding member) | Stephen Cohen (known founding member) | Theodore Hesburgh (known founding member) | A. W. Clausen | Robert Roosa | Donald Kendall (co-chair 1980s) | George Ball | McGeorge Bundy | Robert O. Anderson | Thomas Watson Jr. | Eugene McCarthy | Hodding Carter III | Robert McNamara | Stewart Mott | Armand Hammer | Jerome Wiesner (also a science advisor). Science advisors: Sidney Drell | Richard Garwin | Marvin Goldberger | Carl Sagan. Executive committee: Joan Warburg (wife of James P. Warburg; certainly present at a 1986 meeting). |
1974-1992 |
| Task Force on International Conflict (TFIC) William D. Rogers | Harold Saunders | Yevgeny Primakov |
1980s-1990s |
| Centre for Research into Communist Economies (CRCE) Established as a project of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), London, and focused on promoting Hayek and Friedman in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Hungary meeting: Friedrich von Hayek (founding honorary president) | Sir Anthony Fisher (founding trustee chair 1983-1988; died in 1988) | Ljubo Sirc (founding trustee and president) | Lord Ralph Harris (founding trustee; trustee chair since 1988; trustee until his death in 2006) | Lisl Biggs-Davison (administrative director since about 1986, invited by Harris; daughter of MI6 asset John Sir John Biggs-Davison) 1988 Hungarian conference: these men first met with Anatoly Chubais here and within a year also with Yegor Gaidar and "practically all the reformers in the Soviet Union" (edit: in the source below, Sirc indicates he met both of these men at the same 1988 Hungarian conference and formed strong ties with them). Source(s): Late Winter / Early Spring 2011, No. 40, CRCE newsletter, 'Ljubo Sirc's Russian Award' (mentions the founding names and connections made at the 1988 Hungarian conference in his speech). |
1983 |
| APCO Worldwide PEOPLE INVOLVED NOT (YET) ADDED TO THE SUPERCLASS INDEX. Partnership with Vladimir Gusinsky in INFEKS 1988- and Most Group 1988-. In 2001 APCO was involved in the creation of the Open Russia Foundation, followed by Kraus being appointed to Menatep's founding international advisory board in 2003. In 2009 APCO was hired by the widow of Georgian oligarch Badri Patarkatsishvili - an old Berezovsky ally - to protect a TV station of the deceased oligarch that the Georgian government wanted to seize control Founder: Margery Kraus Senior Strategists: Richard V. Allen (anno '03, for "Trade & International Relations"; wrote the Dec. 1999 article 'New Candidate, Old Derision' for APCO Intelligence and listed as "consultant" in the article) | Stuart Eizenstat (anno ' 03, for "Business and Finance" and "Trade & International Relations") | Stephen Solarz (anno ' 03, for "Developing Markets"). International advisory board: Richard V. A. (anno '21) | Stuart E. (anno '21) | Tim Roemer (anno '21) | Jane Nelson (anno '21) | Ken Blackwell (anno '21) | Dan Glickman (anno '21) | Laurens Jan Brinkhorst (anno '21) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno '21). |
1984 |
| OSF Russia Founder: Soros. |
1987 |
| Unknown economic study committee Founder: George Soros | Russian PM Vladimir Ryzhkov. Members: heads of Gosplan, Gosnab, etc. | Romano Prodi (long-time BB veteran by that point) | Wassily Leontief. Source(s): April 13, 2000, New York Review of Books (involves a Soros book), 'Who Lost Russia'. |
1988 |
| Vidrodzhennya charity, Kyiv, Ukraine Bohdan Hawrylyshyn (founder and supervisory chair 1989-1998; long involvement in Davos) | Soros (financier). |
1989 |
| Shatalin Plan study group for a market reform of the USSR The plan calls for a radical, quick transition to a market economy for the Soviet Union within 500 days, market prices, mass privatization, integration with the world economic system, and a release of the Soviet Union's East European vassal states. The plan is proposed by the George Soros-backed Grigory Yavlinsky and further developed by Stanislav Shatalin, an economic advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev. To promote the plan, Soros has Yavlinsky and Shatalin fly over to the 1990 IMF/World Bank meeting. Yeltsin is fully supportive, but Gorbachev and the Supreme Soviet eventually opting for a more gradual approach. |
1989 |
| Polish American Enterprise Fund Promoted free-market economics. George H. W. Bush (suggested the founding in 1990). Directors: John Birkelund (chair) | Zbigniew Brzezinski | John F. Smith Jr. (chair GM) | Lane Kirkland (president AFL-CIO) Project (2000-): Polish-American Freedom Foundation: directors: Colin Campbell (2000 only; president RBF 1987-2000) | Zbig (2000-2015) | John B. (2000-2019). |
1991 |
| U.S.-Ukraine Foundation December 1, 2011, 20th anniversary celebration, Washington, D.C.: George H. W. Bush (honorary co-chair; video greeting) | Brent Scowcroft (speaker; accepted the award on behalf of George B.). Secretaries of State Host Committee: Hon. Madeleine Albright, Hon. James Baker, Hon. Colin Powell, Hon. Condoleezza Rice. Friends of Ukraine Host Committee: Anders Aslund, Ariel Cohen. |
1991 |
| Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO (CEERN) William Colby | Edward Teller | Ira Straus | Alan Lee Williams | Gen. Geliy Batenin | Mihajlo Mihajlov. |
1992 |
| Russian-American Bankers Forum (RABF) David Rockefeller | Cyrus Vance | John Whitehead | Richard Debs | Gerald Corrigan | John Opel. |
1992 |
| Russian Privatization Center, Moscow (RPC) Effectively served as a governmental economic policy unit, set up by Yeltsin's presidential decree, over which the Russian Duma had no say. Directors: Anatoly Chubais (founder and chair) | Anders Aslund | Andrei Shleifer (Harvard HIID liaison) | Maxim Boycko (managing director Nov. 1992-July 1996; co-wrote 'Privatizing Russia' with Shleifer). Funders: USAID ($45 mln), European Union, European governments, Japan. Received additional loans from the World Bank ($59 mln) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ($43 mln). |
1992 |
| Colloquium on the Former Soviet Union for the Executive Directors of the World Bank Presenters: Henry Kissinger | George Soros | Larry Summers | Strobe Talbott | Richard Pipes | Anders Aslund | Edward Luttwak. Extra participants: Jeffrey Sachs (the only recognizable name among roughly 70 additional listed). |
Feb. 27-28, 1992 |
| International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) Aimed at Russia, Afghanistan and other CIS countries. Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | George Shultz (honorary co-chair) | Paul Volcker (honorary co-chair) | Bill Frenzel (executive chairman). |
1993 |
| U.S.-Russia Business Council Robert Strauss (chair) | Pickering (director) | Maurice Tempelsman (director) | John Watson (chair and CEO Chevron) | Frank Wisner II | William Rhodes. Has organized meetings with: Boris Berezovsky | Anatoly Chubais | Sergei Stepashin | Vladimir Potanin | Boris Nemtsov | Yuri Luzhkov | Gennadi Zyuganov | Gen. Alexander Lebed | Kasyanov | Putin | Igor Ivanov |
1993 |
| Russian-American Committee on Defense Industry Conversion Co-chairs: William Perry and Andrei Kokoshin |
1994-97 (+/-) |
| American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee (CUAC) Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Frank Carlucci | George Soros | Steve Forbes | Jimmy Carter (chair) |
1994 |
| European Action Council for Peace in the Balkans Princess Mabel Wisse Smit of Orange (founder) | Margaret Thatcher | Simon Wiesenthal | Valery Giscard d'Estaing. |
1994 |
| Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), Warsaw, Poland Board: Artur Radziwill (one of two board members '04-'08 (vice president anno '08, when there were three; continued as "expert"); b. 1979; scion of a family of voivodes, queens, princes, grand chancellors and generals going back to the 15th century). Advisory council: Leszek Balcerowicz (chair until Jan. '01) | Anders Aslund (chair Jan. '01 and still anno '21) | Jeffrey Sachs (anno '03-'21) | Anatoly Chubais (anno '03 until '04) | Yegor Gaidar (anno '03, until his death in 2009) | Stanley Fischer (anno '04-'09) | Lord Nicholas Stern (anno '03-'09) | Georges de Menil (anno '09-'21; director Schlumberger 1970-1988). case.com.pl/strona--ID-hyo_case _sponsorzy,nlang-710.html (accessed: Jun. 29, 2003): "Sponsors: ... AIG Powszechne Towarzystwo Emerytalne SA. Bank PEKAO SA. BRE Bank SA. ComArch SA. Commercial Union Poland Group, part of Aviva Gropu. Fortis Bank Polska SA. Ford Foundation. ING Bank [Poland]. Rabobank Polska SA. WestLB Bank Polska SA. ... Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Bank Handlowy w Warszawie SA. The Stefan Batory Foundation. ... The European Commission. The Freedom House. [GMF]. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. ... Open Society Institute. ... UNDP ... USAID. ... Verbundnetz GAS AG. Warsaw Stock Exchange SA. ... World Bank...." |
1994 |
| Economics Education and Research Consortium (EERC), Kiev, Ukraine Victor Pinchuk (honorary chair) | Anders Aslund (co-chair) | Regina Yan (co-chair) | Yuriy Yekhanurov (director; Ukrainian PM and defense minister under Viktor Yushchenko). Partners include the Ford Fdn, the Eurasia Fdn, the World Bank, Soros' Open Society Inst., Greenberg's Starr Foundation and the Citicorp Foundation. |
1995 |
| U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC) Directors (all company representatives): Cargill, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Archer Daniels Midland, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Deere & Co., Marathon Oil, Shell, Procter & Gamble. Senior advisors: Anders Aslund (anno 2008) | Ariel Cohen (anno 2008). Contributors to the Action Ukraine Report newsletter of the USUBC in 2005: Madeleine Albright | James Baker III | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Frank Carlucci | John Hamre | Henry Kissinger | Brent Scowcroft | Jaap De Hoop Scheffer. |
1995 |
| U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF) / CRDF Global Advisory board: James Collins | Susan Eisenhower | John Holdren | David Hamburg | Thomas Pickering. Listed funders in 2002: U.S. government, Carnegie Corp. and MacArthur, Open Society (Soros) and Gates foundations. Bechtel, Ploughshares Fund, Ford Fdn. and USAID added by 2006. |
1995 |
| Project Syndicate, Prague, Czech Republic Contributors: Zbignieuw Brzezinski | Joseph Stiglitz | Richard Haass | Joseph Nye | Sergei Karaganov | James Wolfensohn | Anders Aslund | Ana de Palacio | George Soros (also a key financier) | Kofi Annan | Mikhail Gorbachev | Jeffrey Sachs | Anne-Marie Slaughter ('12-) | Martin Feldstein | James Manyika | Ngaire Woods ('13-) | Carl Bildt | Zhu Min. events.project-syndicate.org/partners (accessed: March 13, 2022): "Bill & Melinda Gates [Fdn.] ... Open Society [Fdn.] ... European Commission. ... Friedrich Ebert Stiftung - New York Office. ... [WEF]..."; donations.vipulnaik.com (accessed: March 13, 2022): "Donee The Project Syndicate: ... Bill and Melinda Gates [Fdn.]: Total: 3,660,325.00 [over 2012-2016]..." |
1995 |
| American Friends of the Czech Republic (AFOCR) Directors: Tom Dine (exec. director AIPAC 1980-1993) | Michael Rokos. Advisory board (long term): Zbigniew Brzezinski | Henry Kissinger | Richard Lugar. Others on advisory board: Michael Novak | Craig Stapleton. More: Albright (speech; Czech born) | Maurice Greenberg (received award) | James Wolfensohn (received award, as World bank chief) |
1995 |
| Congress of Chechen International Organizations (CCIO) Founders: Graham Fuller (CIA) and Ruslan Tsarni (uncle of the Boston bombers) |
1995 |
| Prague Society for International Cooperation Major overlap with its partner organization The Global Panel, so names not counted double. Conference participants: F. W. de Klerk (chair '01; also honorary chair of the society anno '01-'21) | Tom Dine ('01; former exec. director AIPAC; official member anno 2022) | Gareth E. ('01) | Mark E. ('01) | Barbara McDougall ('01) | Hans van den B. ('01) | Thorvald Stoltenberg ('01). praguesociety.org/html /conference/index.htm (accessed: April 7, 2002): "Conference 2001: ... Partners: ... The Embassy of Canada ... Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Czech Airlines. Coca-Cola. DHL Worldwide Express. ... Prague Marriott. ... Mercedes-Benz. ... Prague Post. Reuters. ... Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Czech Airports Authority. KLM [Royal Dutch Airlines]. Lufthansa. Malev Hungarian Airlines." |
1997 |
| E.U.-Russia Industrialists' Roundtable Anatoly Chubais (long-time co-chair since 2000) | Gerard Mestrallet |
1997 |
| U.S.-Russia Investment Symposium (US-RIS) Set up by Harvard's Belfer Center. Overseen today by IEA by the same people running this symposium. |
1997 |
| United States-Chechen Republic Alliance (USCRA) Alvi Tsarnaev (registered at his home; brother of the father of the 2013 Boston Bombers) | Lyoma Usmanov (manager; official Chechen ambassador to the U.S. under Aslan Maskhadov 1997-2005; brought to the U.S. by Zbigniew Brzezinski). Extra: Address: 8920 Walden Road, Silver Spring, Maryland 20901. Incredibly, next door neighbor of this address used to be a young John Walker Lindh, the American captured as a Taliban soldier during the Afghanistan invasion. It can be argued that the propagandist Homeland miniserie is loosely based on the John Walker Lindh affair. |
1999 |
| European Stability Initiative (ESI) Focused on South-East Europe, with one of its offices in Istanbul. Gerald Knaus (lead analyst and founding chair '99 - still anno '21; ended up on the Strategic Advisory Group of the New Europe Center in Kiev anno '21) Donors: esiweb.org/donors (accessed: Dec. 6, 2021): "Current supporters: SIDA ... Stiftung Mercator. Open Society [Fdns; "major core funder"]... Past supporters: ... Mott Foundation. ... European Commission. ... Robert Bosch Stiftung. Rockefeller Brothers Fund. ... The [GMF] of the United States... [Same page explains that much of the funding is related to easing immigration from Turkey into Europe]" |
1999 |
| Balkan Action Council (BAC) Steering committee / executive committee as of Jan. 25, 1999: Morton Abramowitz | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Richard Burt | Frank Carlucci | Paula Dobriansky | Philip Kaiser | Max Kampelman | Lane Kirkland | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Ronald Lehman | Richard Perle | Eugene Rostow | Donald Rumsfeld | Stephen Solarz | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | William Taft IV | Elie Wiesel | Paul Wolfowitz | Adm. Elmo Zumwalt. Additional signers Jan. 29 and May 13, 1999 urging Clinton to counter Milosevic (the latter also appeared as an ad in the New York Times): Bob Dole | William Kristol | Mel Levine | William Odom | Vin Weber | Caspar Weinberger | James Woolsey | Hodding Carter III | Chester Crocker | Bianca Jagger | Robert Kagan | Rabbi Michael Lerner | Rabbi David Saperstein | Norman Podhoretz. Source(s): balkanaction.org (accessed: April 29, 1999 - Oct. 1, 2000; document 1 | document 2 | document 3. |
1999 |
| American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus (ACPC) Against the Russian invasion of Chechnya. Co-founding committee members: Brzezinski, Alexander Haig, Max Kampelman. Committee members: John Dunlop (pre-2001) | John Brademas | Richard V. Allen | Midge Decter and husband Norman Podhoretz | Frank Gaffney | Barbara Haig | Thomas Kean | Michael Ledeen | William Kristol | Robert McFarlane | Richard Perle | Caspar Weinberger | James Woolsey | Richard Pipes | Helmut Sonnenfeldt | Morton Abramowitz | Paula Dobriansky | William Taft IV | Stephen Solarz (co-chair) | Robert Kagan | Bruce Jackson | Richard Burt | William Schneider | Elliott Abrams | Joshua Muravchik | Max Kampelman | William Odom | George Weigel | Eliot Cohen | Richard Gere. Source(s): peaceinchechnya.org/about.htm (accessed: April 6, 2001) : "... founded on February 9, 2000, by the Committee's co-chairs Dr. Zbigniew [B.], General Alexander M. [H.] Jr., and Ambassador Max M. [K.]. ... The committee is housed in the Washington, DC office of Freedom House."; peaceinchechnya.org/ members.htm (accessed: April 12, 2001). |
2000 |
| Open Russia Foundation (ORF) Trustees: Mikhail Khodorkovsky | Lord Jacob Rothschild | Henry Kissinger | Dr. Mikhail Piotrovsky | Dr. Arthur Hartman. More: Leonid Nevzlin (considered himself a co-founder; took over functions after Mikhail K. was arrested in 2003). Other: Ilya Ponomarev (fellow). Open Russia Club in London (Nov. 2015-): Mikhail K. | George Soros (June '16 speech). Source(s): openrussiafoundation.org/ Board_of_Trustees.asp (accessed: Dec. 3, 2003; website up mid 2003 - Dec. 2005). |
2001 |
| Prague Security Studies Institute (PSSI) Roger Robinson Jr. (key founder and chair). International advisory board: Madeleine Albright | Elie Wiesel | Adm. Dennis Blair | James Woolsey | Michael Novak | Robert Pfaltzgraff | H.R.H. Prince El Hassan bin Talal | Karel Schwarzenberg | Dorothy Stapleton (wife of Craig). Executive committee: Frank Gaffney | Dick D'Amato | Daniel McMichael |
2002 |
| International Economic Alliance (IEA) (set up by Harvard's Belfer Center) Graham Allison | Thomas Pickering (co-chair) | Paul Volcker (co-chair) | Tim Colton | William Perry | Maurice Greenberg (founding member) | Peter Peterson | James Baker III | Jack Kemp (co-founder) | Robert Mosbacher, Sr. (founding chair) | Robert Wussler (co-founder CNN) |
2003 |
| Yalta European Strategy (YES), Ukraine Board: Victor Pinchuk (key founder and still a board member anno 2021) | Javier Solana (2010-, anno 2014) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (chair anno 2011, 2021; president Poland 1995-2005) | Pat Cox (anno 2014, 2021) | Carl Bildt (joined between mid 2016 and mid 2017; anno 2021) | Wolfgang Ischinger (joined between mid 2016 and mid 2017; anno 2021) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen (2017-, anno 2021). Annual meeting participants: Dominique Strauss-Kahn ('04, '08-'10, '12-'13, '15, '18-'19) | Boris Nemtsov ('05, '06, '08) | Leonid Kuchma ('06, '08-'15, '17-'19) | Victor Yushchenko ('06) | Viktor Yanukovych ('10, '11, '12) | Michel Rocard ('05) | Stephen Solarz ('05) | Bruce Jackson ('06, '10) | Strobe Talbott ('06, '11, '15) | Anders Aslund ('06, '08-'10, '12, '14-'16, '18-'19) | Gerhard Schroder ('07, '13) | Karl Rove ('08, '16) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('08, '15, '16) | Tony Blair ('08, '11, '14, '17, '18, '19) | Richard Haass ('08, '16-'19) | Andrei Kokoshin ('09) | Shimon Peres ('09, '11, '15) | Alan Greenspan ('09) | George Soros ('09) | James Wolfensohn ('09) | Fred Bergsten ('10) | Kofi Annan ('10) | Bill Clinton ('10) | Viktor Vekselberg ('10) | Larry Summers ('10-'11, '14-'15, '18) | Vitali Klitschko ('11-'12, '14-'15, '17-'18) | Wladimir Klitschko ('11; Klitschko Brothers Foundation) | Paul Krugman ('11, '17) | Daniel Russell ('11; U.S. State Dep.) | Marietje Schaake ('11) | Richard Branson ('12, '14) | Gordon Brown ('12) | Tayyip Erdogan ('12) | Newt Gingrich ('12, '16-'17) | Walter Isaacson ('12) | Eugene Kaspersky ('12; CEO Kaspersky Lab anti-virus) | Salman Khan ('12; founder Khan Academy, the free education non-profit) | Eric Lander ('12) | Niall Ferguson ('12-'14, '16, '18-'19) | Condoleezza Rice ('12, '17-'18) | Alec Ross ('12; Sen. Hillary Clinton aide) | Simon Shuster ('12) | Muhammad Yunus ('12) | Robert Zoellick ('12-'13) | Mario Monti ('13) | Gen. David Petraeus ('13, '15) | Ronald Noble ('13; secretary general Interpol) | Gov. Bill Richardson ('13) | Pascal Lamy ('13) | Nouriel Roubini ('13) | Michio Kaku ('13) | Ronnie Chan ('14, '15) | Jimmy Wales ('14; founder Wikipedia) | Yulia Tymoshenko ('14, '18) | Joschka Fischer ('14) | Gen. Wesley Clark ('14) | Mohamed ElBaradei ('14) | Jose Manuel Barroso ('14-'16; president EU Commission 2004-14)| Michael Birnbaum ('15; Moscow correspondent Washington Post) | Neil MacFarquhar ('15; head of the Moscow office, NYT) | Tom Parfitt ('15; Moscow Correspondent, The Times) | Noah Sneider ('15; Russia and Ukraine Correspondent, The Economist) | Walker Shaun ('15; Moscow Correspondent, The Guardian) | Stephen Sackur ('15, '18, '19; Presenter, HARDtalk, BBC) | Simon Ostrovsky (U.S. correspondet Vice News) | Gen. Stanley McChrystal ('15) | Sir Elton John ('15; along with the grants director of his AIDS Foundation) | Jamie Wylly ('15; General Manager, National Security, Microsoft) | Tereziya Yatsenyuk ('15; Head of the Supervisory Board, Open Ukraine Foundation) | Andrew Wilson ('15; senior fellow ECFR) | Justin Wolfe ('15; business Lead Ukraine, Russia & Belarus, Monsanto Ukraine) | David Rubenstein ('16, '19) | Fareed Zakaria ('16-'18) | David Axelrod ('16; chief strategist President Obama) | Barney Frank ('16) | Leon Panetta ('16) | Mikhail Fridman ('16) | Marina Abramovic ('17) | Gen. Keith Alexander ('17) | David Cameron ('17) | Robert Gates ('16, '17) | Gen. Jack Keane ('17) | John Kerry ('17) | John Bolton ('17) | Michael McFaul ('17) | Jared Cohen ('18) | Vitalik Buterin ('18; creator Ethereum) | Jacques du Puy ('18; CEO Canal+ International) | Melinda Haring ('18; editor, UkraineAlert blog, Atlantic Counc.) | Ray Kurzweil ('18) | Jeffrey Sachs ('19) | Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim Bin Jabor al Thani of Qatar ('19) | Nadia McConnell ('19; President, U.S.-Ukraine Fdn.). |
2004 |
| European Academy of Diplomacy Speakers and participants: Jeffrey Sachs | Mary Robinson | Radoslaw Sikorski. International honorary council (all participated): Zbigniew Brzezinski| Aleksander Kwasniewski | Richard Lugar | Mikheil Saakashvili |
2004 |
| Alliance for a New Kosovo Officers: Samuel Hoskinson (founding president; JWI) | Kempton Jenkins (founding executive director; JWI). Founding board of advisors: Carlucci | Janusz Bugajski | Fred Fielding | Gen. Robert Gard | Behgjet Pacolli (primary founder New Kosovo Alliance party in May 2006, but at least liaised with the Alliance for a New Kosovo). Also: Helmut Sonnenfeldt (joined advisory board in 2006) Southeast Europe Economic Development Foundation, founded in 2006 (dissolved): Behgjet Pacolli (founder) | Samuel Hoskinson (founding president). |
2005 |
| Orange Circle The name is a reference to the 2004-2005 pro-West Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Sep. 20, 2005 founding dinner participants: Zbigniew Brzezinski (also advisory board) | Carla Hills | Madeleine Albright | Vitali Klitschko | Viktor Yushchenko (keynote speaker) | John Turner (PM Canada) | Congressman Dana Rohrabacher | Polly Draper ("representing her brother, hi-tech investor Tim Draper"). Founding board: Nadia Diuk (senior director NED at the time) | Ihor Rakowsky ("of Citibank") | Julian Kulas ("Chicago attorney and banker") | James Temerty ("Canadian businessman"). Founding international advisory board: Zbig ('05-'08) | Carl Bildt ('05-'08) | Bruce Jackson ('05-'08) | Vaclav Havel ('05-'08) | Tim Draper ('05-'08) | Janusz Onyszkiewicz ('05-'08; "European Parliament Vice President") | Emma Bonino ('05-'08; "European Commissioner") | "Vitaly Klitschko" ('05-'08). Funding: orangecircle.org/sponsors.html (accessed: July 13, 2006): "Patron: Coca-Cola [only one, other companies listed as donors]. ... Supporters: Julian Baczynsky. Borys Chabursky. Julian Kulas. Iryna and Jaroslaw Kurowyckyj."; orangecircle.org/our_donors/ (accessed: May 11, 2010): "Patrons: [CC] ... Friends: JPMorgan ... Halliburton ... Delta [Airlines]... OUR PROJECTS: Ukraine Business Forum. EnergyUkraine Round Table." Source(s): orangecircle.org/news_050821oc-pr-postfd.html (accessed: July 13, 2006): "OC PRESS RELEASE: September 20, 2005. [The OC] held its Founding Meeting on September 15th at New York City's Rainbow Room... The dinner drew some 400 participants including representatives of the business community, former government leaders, and the Ukrainian diaspora. A wide array of eminent persons, including Dr. [Zbig and other names]... President [Y] expressed his appreciation for the support given to the Orange Circle by Founding Board members [lists names]... The new organization's international board now includes [Zbig], former Swedish Prime Minister Carl... The new privately funded non-governmental organization also has the support of the broad spectrum of "Orange Revolution" leaders, including Ukraine's First Lady Kateryna Yushchenko and Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, who attended the Founding Dinner, as well as Secretary of State Oleh Rybachuk and former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko." The website stayed up until late 2014, but the project actually seems to have gone defunct within 2-3 years. The "Latest News" post on the website dates to November 19, 2008. The last webarchive of the international advisory board dates to 2010 and never changed from the beginning. |
2005-2008 |
| International Centre for Democratic Transition (ICDT), Hungary International board: Madeleine Albright | Gustavo Cisneros | Paula Dobriansky | Gyorgy Habsburg | Andrei Illarionov | Thomas S. Rooney | HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal | George Herbert Walker III (cousin of Bush, Sr.) | John Whitehead | Governor George Pataki (honorary) | George Soros (honorary). Other: Istvan Gyarmati (president and CEO). |
2005 |
| Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Registered in Washington, D.C., "CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States." International advisory council: Hans Binnendijk (anno '07) | Zbigniew Brzezinski ('11-) | Carl Bildt (early '15-, amidst a large expansion of the advisory board, and still anno '23) | Eliot Cohen (early '15-) | Anne Applebaum (early '15-) | Madeleine Albright (mid '15-) | Matthew Kaminski (anno '23; editor-in-chief Politico) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves (anno '23) | David Kramer (anno '23) | Linas Linkevicius (anno '23) | Zhanna Nemtsova (anno '23; co-founder Boris Nemtsov Foundation for Freedom) | Gen. Stephen Twitty (anno ' 23; deputy commander US European Command 2018-2020) | Ine Eriksen Soreide (anno '23; minister of defense and foreign affairs) | Gen. H.R. McMaster (co-chair anno '23). Advisory council not (directly) listed anymore on the site anno 2022-2023, but exists as the "International Leadership Council". Staff: Alina Polyakova (president and CEO anno '22-'23) | Peter Doran (director of research). Fellows: Toomas H. I. (distinguished nonresident fellow anno '22; also a past forum visitor; foreign minister Estonia 1996-2002, president Estonia 2006-2016) CEPA's U.S.-Central Europe Strategy Forum (founded in 2010): Radoslaw Sikorski ('10, '15) | Marcin Zaborowski ('10; director Polish Inst. for Int. Affairs) | Ian Brzezinski ('10, May '11, Oct. '11, '12 (same panel as Elbridge), '13) | Mark Brzezinski (May '11) | Robert Kagan (May '11) | Anders Aslund (Mark '11, as senior fellow Peterson Inst.) | Kurt Volker (May '11, '12-'14, '17-'18) | Elbridge Colby ('Oct. '11 and '12 (same panel as Ian), '13, '17) | Jan Techau (Oct. '11, '13) | Zbig B. ('12) | Karel Schwarzenberg ('12, '16) | Paula Dobriansky ('14) | John Glenn ('14, as policy director USGLC) | Agnieszka Gmys-Wiktor ('14, as Assistant Program Officer, Europe, NED) | Randy Scheunemann ('14) | Anne A. ('15) | Gen. H. R. M. ('15, '16) | Robert Kaplan ('15) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('16). cepa.org/sites/default/ files/documents/CEPA Forum Agenda-1.2014.pdf: (accessed: March 17, 2015): "Strategic Partners: Visegrad Fund. Chevron. Forum Partners: Bell Helicopter. Lockheed Martin. ... Raytheon. ... Boeing. Sikorsky..." cepa.org/about/our-supporters/ (accessed: Feb 19, 2022): "Below you may find our list of contributors for the current fiscal year 2021: BAE Systems plc. ... Craig Newmark Philanthropies. ... Daimler AG. General Atomics. General Dynamics European Land Systems GmbH. Google LLC. Government of Estonia. ... Lockheed Martin ... Microsoft ... [NED] ... Russia Strategic Initiative, US European Command. Smith Richardson [Fdn]. ... US State Department ... Victor Pinchuk Foundation." Source(s): cepa.org/about/index.php (accessed: Oct. 18, 2007): "CEPA seeks to promote an economically vibrant Central Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States. ... CEPA Advisory Council: ..."; cepa.org/about/home.aspx (accessed: Dec. 29, 2011); cepa.org/contacts/Advisory Council (accessed: Aug. 13, 2015); cepa.org/program/us-central-europe-strategy-forum (accessed: May 12, 2015): "Warsaw 2010 Forum Agenda and Participants... Washington 2011... Prague 2011... Washington 2012... Washington 2013... Washington 2014..."; cepaforum.org/Speakers (accessed: Oct. 3, 2015-Oct. 27, 2018). |
2005 |
| Bled Strategic Forum (BSF), Slovenia Participants: Janez Jansa ('06, '08; '21 opening address; "populist" PM Slovenia) | Vagit Alekperov ('06) | Martti Ahtisaari ('07) | Carl Bildt ('07, '08) | Dr. Robin Niblett ('07) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('07) | Hans van der Loo ('07, '08; "Head of the European Liaison Office, Shell International") | Colin Powell ('10 keynote speaker) | Richard Boucher ('11) | Fu Ying ('11) | Peter Jungen ('11) | Danilo Turk ('11, '12, '15) | Hashim Thaci ('12) | Lionel Barber ('15) | Federica Mogherini ('17) | Tanja Fajon ('18; brought an European Parliament group to Slovenia in '21 under MEP Sophie In 't Veld to investigate "rule of law and media freedom", at which point PM Jansa claimed they were Soros puppets) | Jeffrey Sachs ('19) | Viktor Orban ('21; "populist" PM Hungary). Strategic Partners: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Toyota. Institutional Partners: BMW Fdn., RIIA, DGAP, ECFR. Source(s): bledstrategicforum.org (accessed: 2006-, etc.). Bled's Centre for European Perspective (founded in 2004): Advisory board: Zbigniew Brzezinski (anno '06-'17) | Javier Solana (anno '06-'22) | Giulio Amato (anno '06-'22) | Ban Ki-moon (anno '06-'22) | Kristiina Ojuland (anno '06-'22). Source(s): cep.si/view/3/O-CENTRU.html (accessed: Jan. 19, 2007); cep.si/about-us/organisation (accessed: May 6, 2017). |
2006 |
| Kyiv Security Forum Participants West: Karel Schwarzenberg ('12, '17-'18) | Ariel Cohen ('13, '17) | Carl Bildt ('14) | David Kramer ('14, '16, 19; McC. Inst.) | Robin Niblett ('15) | Paula Dobriansky ('15-'17) | Anders Aslund ('15) | Michael Carpenter ('16; "Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia") | Malcolm Rifkind ('16, '18) | Kurt Volker ('19; McC. Inst.) | Francis Fukuyama ('20). Participants Eastern Europe: Petro Poroshenko (regulary 2007-2020) | Linas Linkevicius ('12, '20) | Yulia Tymoshenko ('14; Ukraine PM 2005, 2007-2010). Funding: ksf.openukraine.org/en/ksf/about (accessed: April 27, 2023): "The Kyiv Security Forum was established by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation in 2007." ksf.openukraine.org/en/ksf /2020/speakers (accessed: April 27, 2023): "The Black Sea Trust ... Friedich Ebert Stiftung ... Victor Pinchuk Foundation ... Atl. Council: Eurasia Center ... Chath. House. NATO Information and Documantation Center." Source(s): ksf.openukraine.org/en (accessed: April 27, 2023): Has all visitors and agendas online from the 2009-2021 annual meetings, except for 2011. |
2007 |
| Commission on U.S. Policy toward Russia (Belfer Center/CFTNI-sponsored) Members not on the boards of the two groups that sponsored this commission: Gary Hart (co-chair), Chuck Hagel (co-chair), Thomas Pickering, Robert McFarlane, Susan Eisenhower, Lee Hamilton, Dov Zakheim. |
2009 |
| Institute of Modern Russia (IMR) Tied to Freedom House. Board: Pavel Khodorkovsky (founding president 2010-; son of Mikhail). Speakers: Boris Nemtsov (June 11, 2013 at Capitol Hill, co-sponsored by IMR and FPI; activist politician murdered in 2015, whose daughter, Zhanna Nemtsova, continued with activism). Source(s): imrussia.org/en/people (accessed: April 3, 2013 a.o.): "Pavel Khodorkovsky is the president of the Institute of Modern Russia, an organization he founded to continue the work his father Mikhail Khodorkovsky began through the Open Russia Foundation." |
2009 |
| Dialog Europe-Russia (Advisory) Board: Pyotr Aven (anno '21) | Anatoly Chubais (anno '17-'21) | Oleg Deripaska (anno '17-'21) | Wolfgang Ischinger (anno '17-'21) | Lord George Weidenfeld (until his death in 2016) | Franco Frattini (anno '17-'21; former minister Italy '02-'04, '08-'11; VP European Comm. '04-'08) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (anno '17-'21; president Poland 1995-2005)| Margarita Louis-Dreyfus (anno '21) | Dr. Wolfgang Schussel (anno '17-'21; chancellor Austria 2000-2007) | Matti Vanhanen (anno '21; PM Finland 2003-2010). More: Yevgeny Primakov (lecture '11) | Janos Martonyi (part of an adv. board meeting in 2017; foreign affairs minister of Hungary 1998-2002, 2010-2014). Source(s): dialog-europe-russia.org/board/ (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021); etc. |
2011 |
| Burisma Holdings Ltd., Kyiv, Ukraine A company founded in 2002. It was owned by Ukrainian oligarch and 2010-2014 politician (in a pro-Russian government) Nikolai Zlochevskyi and his fellow oligarch-politician partner Mykola Lisin. However, in 2011, the same year Lisin died when he crashed his Lamborghini Diablo at 270kmh into a gas station (yes, really), ownership was shifted about. Ownership went to Brociti Investments Limited, which still was controlled by Zlochevskyi. However, the offices of Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC were moved to 10a Rylyeyeva Street, Kyiv, the same address as the company Ukrnaftoburinnya, the exploiter of Ukraine's largest gas field secretly owned by notorious gangster oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi, a key financier of pro-West presidential candidates and Nazi-esque Ukrainian militias fighting Russian independence.**** In 2011-2012 Ukrnaftoburinnya CEO Oleh Kanivets eventually confirmed Ihor was the secret owner of Ukrnaftoburinnya, Burisma, Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC.[1] Since 2014, Nikolai Zlochevskyi has been continually on the run for "theft of government funds on an especially large scale". In 2014 Deutsche Bank flagged transactions totaling $24 million from his companies registered in Cyprus to Kolomoyskyi's PrivatBank, accused of laundering $5.5 billion. Management board: Leonid Petukhov (first CEO 2013-; Harvard and McKinsey background) | Denis Rudev (CFO '13-; Morgan Stanley London and McKinsey Moscow background) | Nikolay Zlochevskyi / Nikolai Zlochevsky / Mykola Zlochevsky (president anno '17, but not visible on the Burisma site in 2014-2016). Board: Alan Apter (first chair May 2013-; Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch veteran) | Aleksander Kwasniewski (Jan. '14-, but only listed on website from Jun., as the 4th director for the next few years) | Devon Archer (April '14-'18; senior adviser 2004 Kerry presidential campaign) | Hunter Biden (April '14 - April '19) | Cofer Black (Jan. 2017-; notorious CIA anti-terrorism chief at the time of 9/11). Source(s): burisma.com (accessed: July 26, 2013; translated): "Founded in 2006 [the front page of 2014 reads: "Since 2002..."]... Among the main Burisma projects currently being implemented are investments in ... Ukrainian oil and gas condensate fields developed by PARI LLC and Energy Service Company ESKO-PIVNICH LLC. ... About company: PARI LLC. Energy service company "ESCO-PIVNICH"."; burisma.com/en/ (accessed: Sep. 3, 2016; shows the 4 directors, plus moments they joined); Feb. 22, 2017, Huff Post, 'Former CIA Director Joins Burisma, and It Is Good News'. **** Ihor Kolomoyskyi:
As "Slidstvo.Info" soon discovered... "You're wasting your time waiting for them to answer".- told us the head of a department at the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources in a private conversation- "As soon as Stavytsky was appointed Minister of Environment and Natural Resources [April - Dec. 2012, under President Yanukovych], we were ordered to conceal all information on reserves and owners of gas deposits as much as possible. Moreover, even if you get true information officially, you actually cannot use it [read: "It's useless"]. Because totally different persons and companies are really behind the official owner. For example, Oleksandr Yanukovych, the President's son doesn't get licenses for his company directly, but through the Zasyadko mine." ..." The tastiest and largest morsels (gas fields) were obtained not by the president’s son, but by a more experienced businessman – Ihor Kolomoisky. ... Pari LLC and Esko-Pivnich LLC ... belonged to Mykola Zlochevsky and his deceased partner [who died in a traffic accident in 2011], Mykola Lisin some time ago. They controlled them through a Cypriot company - Burisma Holdings Limited. The website of the US Securities and Exchange Commission still mentions it. But, Burisma changed owners last year [in 2011]: ... the company was taken over by a Cypriot off-shore enterprise called Brociti Investments Ltd. Pari [LLC] and Esko-Pivnich [LLC] also changed their address: they moved from Kateryny Bilokur Street to 10a Rylyeyeva Street in Kyiv. A third company was already waiting for them in the same building - the above-mentioned Ukrnaftoburinnya. If these three companies were brought together under one roof, it’s logical to assume that they were all owned by one person. At least "Slidstvo.Info" managed to find out the name of the owner of Ukrnaftoburinnya. According to the SMIDA state system, 90% of Ukrnaftoburinnya [controls the largest gas field in Ukraine] is owned by a Cypriot company, Deripon Commercial Ltd. ... The end owner of Deripon Commercial Ltd. is a company based in the British Virgin Islands - Burrad Financial Corp. [Shows a document of Burrad owning Deripon, with "Last Date of Changes" dating to "29/12/2009"] This company has often been involved in various financial schemes of the Privat Group and especially with Ihor Kolomoisky. ... The owners of Ukrnaftoburinnya, Pari, and Esko-Pivnich were finally confirmed through first-hand sources. Oleh Kanivets worked as CEO of Ukrnaftoburinnya for two years. He confirmed who actually controlled the above-mentioned companies to "Slidstvo.Info". "- The Privat Group is the immediate owner."" |
2002/2011 |
| Vaclav Havel Library Foundation, New York Named for the last president of Czechoslovakia 1989-1992 and president Czech Rep. 1993-2003. Board: Madeleine Albright (co-chair anno '14-'20) | Laura Bush (co-chair anno '14-'20) | Vartan Gergorian (anno '14) | Tom Dine (anno '14-'20; past exec. director AIPAC) | Carl Gershman (anno '14-'20) | William Luers (anno '14-'20). Havel Conversations: Bill Clinton | Henry Kissinger (also a listed as a financial contributor / "sponsor" for '20). |
2012 |
| Center for International Relations and Sustainable Development, Belgrade, Serbia Vuk Jeremic (founding president 2013-2020s; involved in the WEF). Advisory board: Jeffrey Sachs (founding 2013-2020s; part of the founding press conference) | Shaukat Aziz (founding 2013-2020s) | Sheikh Muhammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah of Kuwait (founding 2013-2020s) | Li Wei (founding 2013-2020s) | Thierry de Montbrial (anno '20). Speakers: Richard Haass ('18) | Kevin Rudd ('18) | Ian Bremmer ('18, '20) | Sergei Karaganov ('20) | Niall Ferguson ('20). |
2013 |
| Warsaw Security Forum, Poland A project of the GMF. International advisory council: David Petraeus (anno '22) | Linas Linkevicius (anno '22; foreign minister Lithuania 2012-2020) | Norbert Rottgen (anno '22; chair Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee) | Baroness Catherine Ashton (anno '22; EU's 1st High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 2009-2014; headed Iran nuclear negotiations, etc.). Speakers: Garry Kasparov ('14, '15) | Aleksander Kwasniewski ('14, '18) | Richard Lugar ('14, '15) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('15) | Stephen Walt ('15; wrote a 2006 anti-Israel Lobby book) | Marcin Zaborowski ('15; director Polish Inst. of Int. Affairs) | Ilya Ponomarev ('15, '16, '18; YUKOS employee; Open Russia Fdn.; Russia opposition leader; "only member of the State Duma to vote against Russia’s annexation of Crimea...") | Jose Manuel Barroso ('16) | Carl Bildt ('16) | Vaira Vike-Freiberga ('16, '17; PM Latvia 1999-2007) | Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer ('16; daughter of Jaap de Hoop Scheffer; director GMF Paris Office) | Gen. Philip Breedlove ('16, 21; SACEUR of NATO 2013-2016) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves ('16; president Estonia 2006-2016) | Gen. James L. Jones ('16) | Tony Ogilvy ('16; "Sales Executive | Gripen, Sweden") | Anders Aslund ('17) | Gilles de Kerchove ('17) | Mikheil Saakashvili ('17) | Christopher Walker ('17; VP NED) | Gen. Moshe Yaalon ('17-'18) | Ian Brzezinski ('18-'19; son of Zbig) | Andrius Kubilius ('18; PM 2008-2012) | Anders Fogh Rasmussen ('18) | Radoslaw Sikorski ('19) | Gen. H.R. McMaster ('21) | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya ('21; wife of 2020 Belarussan presidential candidate Sergei Tikhanovsky, who was arrested for it; herself an activist candidate as well). warsawsecurityforum.org/partners/ (accessed: March 1, 2022): "WSF 2022 Co-Organizers: ... GMF ... Strategic Partners: NATO ... Guest Country: Germany. Guest Country Partners Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Heinrich Boll Stiftung, Warsaw. Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom. ... Institutional Partners: The Black Sea Trust. ... Open Society [Fdns.] Visegrad Fund. NED. ... General Partners: Northrop Grumman. Lockheed Martin. Raytheon." Source(s): warsawsecurityforum.org/wsf-2014-archive/wsf-2014-speakers/ (2014-2019 same urls as of March 1, 2022). |
2014 |
| Free Russia Foundation Headquartered in Washington, DC with regional officies in Kyiv, Ukraine; Tbilisi, Georgia; Prague, the Czech Republic; Berlin, Germany. Board: Alina Polyakova (anno .'22) | Toomas Hendrik Ilves (anno '22; foreign minister Estonia 1996-2002, president Estonia 2006-2016). |
2015 |
| International Advisory Group, Ukraine Sen. John McCain | Mikheil Saakashvili | Elmar Brok | Carl Bildt | Mikulas Dzurinda | Andrius Kubilius |
2015 |
| American Committee for East–West Accord Continuation of the old American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations. Members: Stephen Cohen (primary founder and founding member ACUSSR) | William vanden Heuvel | Bill Bradley | Chuck Hagel | Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. |
Nov. 2015 |
| Babi Year / Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center Shows the Ukrainian Klitschko boxing brothers mixed in with top Jewish Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs and top superclass players. See the Zionist establishment section for details. |
2016 |
| Aurora Humanitarian Initiative, Armenia Selection committee: Vartan Gregorian (d. '21; important founder) | Paul Polman (anno '21) | Mary Robinson (anno '21) | Gareth Evans (full member anno '16; hon. member anno '21) | Elie Wiesel (first co-chair; d. 2016)| George Clooney (co-chair anno '16; hon. co-chair anno '21) | John Prendergast (anno '21) | Ernesto Zedillo (anno '21) | Bernard Kouchner (anno '21). Source(s): auroraprize.com/en/ prize/2021/selection_committee (accessed: Oct. 15, 2021). |
2016 |
| New Europe Center, Kyiv, Ukraine Outgrowth of the Institute for World Policy. Its experts are regularly cited by newspapers over the West's conflict with Russia. Strategic Advisory Group: Carl Bildt (anno '21) | James Sherr (anno '21; professor Oxford; anno '21 a former head of the Russia and Eurasia programme at RIIA) | Roman Shpek (anno '21; Ukraine's ambassador to the EU 2000-2008; anno '21 a "senior advisor to PJSC "Alfa-Bank" [of Russian oligarch Mikhail Fridman] and a member of the Board of the National Bank of Ukraine") | Adrian Karatnycky (anno '21; president and exec. dir. Freedom H. 1993-2004; senior fellow Atl. Council anno '21) | Dr. Andri Veselovsky (anno '21; Ukrainian diplomat) | Gerald Knaus (long-time founding chair of the European Stability Ini., similarly OSF-funded). Donors: 2017 annual report, p. 32: "Our Donors in 2017: USAID ... The Black Sea Trust [of the GMF] ... Embassy of Latvia in Ukraine..." 2018 annual report, p. 43: "Donors: USAID ... Open Society [Fdns] ... Black Sea Trust ... Carnegie Europe..." |
Nov. 2015 |
Latin American relations
| Club de la Union, Chile Elite club in Santiagio. Financially supported Pinochet in 1999. |
1864 |
| First International Conference of American States James G. Blaine (U.S. sec. of state who came up with the idea) | Andrew Carnegie (asked by U.S. president Benjamin Harrison to become a U.S. representative). |
Oct. 1889-Apr. 1890 |
| Pan American Union Formed to promote cooperation between the U.S. and Latin American countries. Cordell Hull (chair anno 1936; also sitting secretary of state). |
1890 |
| The International Bureau of the American Republics / Organization of American States April 27, 1910, WaPo: "The President, the Secretary of State ... Cardinal Gibbons, Senator Elihu Root, Bishop Harding, and Andrew Carnegie, whose money built the bureau's new home, paid high tribute to Director Barrett..." |
1891 (est.) |
| US Pan American Committee Elihu Root (founder as sec. of state) | Andrew Carnegie (vice chair anno 1909) | Philander Knox (hon. president anno 1909 as the new sec. of state). |
1908 |
| School of the Americas Known under this name from 1963 to 2001. From 2001 known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Financed by the State Department, this is not an NGO. However, it plays an important role in covert Latin American politicans, with a decent amount of individuals involved in death squads and CIA coups and drug trafficking having trained at the School of the Americas. Students/graduates: Gen. Hugo Banzer (president Bolivia 1971-1978, 1997-2001) | Gen. Efrain Rios Montt (de facto president Guatemala 1982-1983;) | Gen. Manuel Noriega (de facto ruler of Panama 1983-1989) | Gen. Ruben Darío Paredes (right-wing dictator of Panama 1982-1983; sons became involved in Medellin Cartel drug trafficking) | Roberto d'Aubuisson ('76; founder El Salvador's ARENA Party in 1981 and Contra death squad leader who was an ASC liaison and WGF patron) | Enrique Bermudez Varela | Otto Perez Molina (head of Guatemala's army intelligence unit G-2; head presidential staff of President Ramiro de Leon in 1994; founder and candidate of Guatemale's Partido Patriota (PP) anno 2009) | Col. Byron Lima Estrada (part of Guatemala's G-2 death squad in the 1980s; later member of Guatemala's Cofradia who, along with his son, murdered Bishop Juan Jose Gerardi in 1998, two days after his commission released a human rights report about military and big business-backed death squads). |
1963 |
| Citizens Committee for a Free Cuba (CCFC) Adm. Arleigh Burke | Claire Boothe Luce | Nicholas Duke Biddle | Paul D. Bethell (CIA) | John Fisher | Leo Cherne | Edward Teller | Hans Morgenthau | Spruille Braden |
1963 |
| Council of the Americas / Americas Society These two societies operate as one these days. Throughout the year they bring together big business and the leadership of countries all over Latin America. NAFTA and CAFTA supporter and early CIA history. Business Group for Latin America (founded in 1963; became the Council of the Americas in 1965): David Rockefeller (main founder and chair on behalf of JFK to fight Cuba and communism in Latin America) | Harold Geneen (member; chair and CEO ITT; tied to Chilean coup) | Donald Kendall (member; chair of TC company PepsiCo) | Agustín Edwards (principal CIA and Business Group contact in Chile, where he owned the anti-Allende El Mercurio newspaper; close friend of Kendall) | Jay Parkinson (chair Anaconda Copper) | Enno Hobbing (CIA officer and Business Group liaison, who eventually became principal operations officer of the COA). Americas Society (founded in 1965): David Rockefeller (separately founded this group; hon. chair) | John Negroponte (chair) | William Rhodes (chair) | Conrad Black | Sol Linowitz | Gustavo Cisneros | Steve Forbes | Andre Desmarais | Thomas McLarty III | Robert Mosbacher, Jr. | Rita Hauser | David Rockefeller Jr. | Charles Barber (director, treasurer 1982-1998) Present at the 39th Washington Conference on the Americas of 2009: Hillary Clinton | Larry Summers | Jim Steinberg. Annual Spring Party attendants: Paul Desmarais | Peter Munk (awarded) | Brian Mulroney | Princess Firyal of Jordan | William Luers | Paul Volcker | William Hewitt | James Wolfensohn | Peter Peterson. More: Michael Chertoff (speaker). Source(s): Aug. 7, 1981, New York Times, 'David [R.] Announces Creation of Americas Society': "Mr. Rockefeller, who will be the chairman of the new group, said it would coordinate the activities of the Center for Inter-American Relations and the Council of the Americas, two bodies that he also helped found." |
1963 |
| Center for Inter American Relations (CIAR) Hon. trustees: Hubert Humphrey | Nelson Rockefeller | Jacob Javits | Robert Kennedy | Sol Linowitz | Marquess de Cuevas. Officers: David Rockefeller (chair anno 1967; also director) | William D. Rogers (president anno 1967; also director). Directors: Edgar Kaiser | George Meany | Arthur Ochs Sulzberger. Source(s): rbf.org/about/our-history/timeline/center-inter-american-relations (accessed: Aug. 10, 2023): "Established in 1965 by founding RBF trustee David [R.]. In 1985, CIAR was absorbed into the Americas Society/Council on the Americas, which continues to promote similar objectives."; July 31, 1977, Washington Post, 'Inter-American Relations Center Torn by Aide's Trip to Chile': "The Rockefeller-financed center for inter-American relations..." |
1965-1985 |
| Chilean Coup of 1973 David Rockefeller. |
1973 |
| Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaty, Inc. Ran a November 1, 1977 ad in the New York Times, with the following prominent names as supporters of the Panama Canal Treaty. Members/signers: Nelson Rockefeller | David Rockefeller | George Shultz | Robert O. Anderson | George Ball | Edgar Bronfman | Eugene Black | Shirley Temple Black | William McCormick Blair Jr. | Henry Catto Jr. | Gardner Cowles | Richard Debs | C. Douglas Dillon | Max M. Fisher | Peter Flanagan | Michael Forrestal | Henry Fowler | Armand Hammer | Averell Harriman | Henry Cabot Lodge | John McCloy | George Meany | Peter Peterson | Robert Roosa | FDR Jr. | Theodore Roosevelt IV | Walt Whitman Rostow | Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | Irving Shapiro | Gen. Maxwell Taylor | Lew Wasserman. Source(s): Jan. 17-18, 1978, Serial No. 95-32, U.S. Congress: House, Hearing before the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, 'Power of Congress to Dispose of U.S. Property', pp. 32-33. Copy from the Jan. 4, 1978, Congressional Record of a Dec. 15, 1977 presentation of Congressman George Hanson from Idaho, 'Carter's Canal Treaties - A Bail Out for the Big Banks': "In one advertisement for a $115 million loan to Panama, for example, the First National City Bank is listed as the agent for the loan. Other participating banks included the Bank of America, Banker's Trust, Chase Manhattan ... and of course Sol [L.]'s Marine Midland Bank [of which he was a director until March 1977]. Mr. Speaker, one might well ask, "Why did these New York banks pour all that money into Torrijos' hands?" It seems very clear that the loans were a trade off for Torrijos' decision--on the advice of leading New York banks--to reorganize Panama's banking laws in July 1970. This reorganization provided a favorable haven, free of taxes and onerous regulations, for foreign banks in Panama, much as Panama has long provided a flag of convenience for world shipping. Since the 1970 legal change, total banking asets in Panama ... have expanded enormously from a few banks with a few million dollars to 73 international banks with total assets of $8.6 billion, conducting transactions throughout the world. Prominent among the U.S. banks expanding rapidly in Panama since the 1970 legislation are the First National City Bank, the Bank of America, Chase Manhattan, and the Marine Midland Bank. ... The U.S. banks received a haven for their operations and the Torrijos regime was able to acquire great sources of funds as well as solidify its political power in Panama. But now the taxpayer is being subtly asked to bail out the banks... Mr. Speaker, [now we have] a group called the Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaty, Inc., which has been working with President [C.] ... to obtain ratification of the proposed treaties in the U.S. Senate and unconstitutionally bypass consideration by the House of Rep- resentatives ..." |
1977 |
| Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) Operated under the auspices of the Aspen Inst. under 1993, when it became fully independent. Participants in 1990: Sol Linowitz (founding chair) | Bruce Babbitt | McGeorge Bundy | Jimmy Carter | Warren Christopher | Henry Cisneros | Dianne Feinstein | Gen. Andrew Goodpaster | Hanna Holborn Gray | David Hamburg | Theodore Hesburgh | Robert McNamara | Edmund Muskie | Cyrus Vance. Members in November 1999 (some of them directors): Jimmy C. | A. W. Clausen | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Gen. John Galvin | David H. | Lee Hamilton | Carla Hills (co-vice chair anno 2002; still a director in '20) | Sol L. (founding chair) | Thomas McLarty III (still in '20) | William Reilly | Elliot Richardson | Rozanne Ridgway | Brent Scowcroft | Cyrus V. | Robert Zoellick | Bruce B. ("on leave") | Lula da Silva (future Brazilian president) | Javier Perez de Cuellar (Peru; sec.-gen. UN 1982-1991). More: David de Ferranti (member anno 2003) | Bill Richardson (member anno 2003) | Larry Summers (member anno 2003) | Martin Torrijos (director anno 2011; president Panama 2004-2009; son of Omar Torrijos, who died in a plane crash) | Francis Fukuyama (member anno 2011) | Enrique V. Iglesias (member anno 2011) | Sen. Bob Graham (member anno 2011) | Richard Haass (member anno 2011) | Jim Kolbe (member anno 2002, director anno 2011). Remaining: Peter Hakim (president). thedialogue.org/ (accessed: Jan. 17, 1999): "Funders: The Inter-American Dialogue is supported by private foundations, corporations, governments, international organizations, and individuals. Primary contributors in 1998 and 1999 include: Arca ... Chase Manhattan ... Ford ... Hewlett ... Kellogg ... MacArthur ... Andrew W. Mellon [and] Whitehead [foundations] ... U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]. U.S. Institute of Peace ... World Bank ... Canadian International Development Agency. ... American Airlines. American International Group [AIG]. ... Bank [of] America ... BP America ... Cisneros Group of Companies ... General Electric ... Inter-American Development Bank ... Johnson & Johnson ... Pfizer ... Texaco. Time-Warner, Inc." |
1983 |
| National Bipartisan Commission on Central America Argued in favor of more anti-communist aid to El Salvador and Nicaragua. Members: Henry Kissinger (chair) | Nicholas Brady | Henry Cisneros | Robert Strauss | Lane Kirkland (president AFL-CIO). More: Senior councellors: Sen. Lloyd Bentsen | Daniel Inouye | Jack Kemp | Jeane Kirkpatrick (also: "President's Representative to the Commission.") | Winston Lord | William Rogers. |
1983-1984 |
| Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (PRODEMCA) NED-supported front group to support the Nicaraguan Contras. National Council: Theodore Hesburgh | Samuel Huntington | Jeane Kirkpatrick | Maurice Sonnenberg | Ben Wattenberg | Elie Wiesel (anno 1986). |
mid 1980s |
| David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) Trustees: David R. (anno 2001) | Gustavo Cisneros (anno 2001) | Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (anno 2001) | Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (anno 2001) | Enrique V. Iglesias (anno 2001) | Andronico Luksic (anno 2001). Governing committees: Jeffrey Sachs (policy committee anno 2001). "Corporate Partners" for 2000-2001: Anheuser-Busch, Delta Airlines, Exxon, JPMorgan Chase, UBS Warburg, International Bank of Miami, Time Warner, Alfa Corporativo (Mexico), Banco Comerical (Uruguay), Banco Chile, El Mercurio (Chile), Venevision International (venezuela), Taca International Airlines (El Salvador). More funders: Andrew W. Mellon Fdn. (1996-), Hewlett Fdn. (1997-), MacArthur Fdn. (1998-). |
1992 |
| Group of 50 / G50 A group of Latin America businessmen, founded by Carnegie End. fellow Moises Naim, still chairman in the 2020s. Since 2008 the group has been operating as an independent NGO. The names of the businessmen are kept hidden on the site (g50.org), with the group apparently only having a site since 2014. Listed past speakers: George Soros | Madeleine Albright | David Rubenstein | Bill Clinton | Thomas Friedman | Reid Hoffman | Arianna Huffington | Salman Khan | Condoleezza Rice | Carlos Slim | Javier Solana | Martha Stewart | Larry Summers | Princess Mabel van Oranje | C. Fred Bergsten | Jeffrey Sachs | Joseph Stiglitz | Klaus Schwab | Richard Haass | Gen. Michael Hayden | Enrique V. Iglesias | Barry McCaffrey | John Negroponte | King Felipe VI of Spain | Adm. James Stavridis | Strobe Talbott | Paul Wolfowitz | Ernesto Zedillo | Robert Zoellick | Gary Cohn | Carla Hills | Jules Kroll (chair and CEO Kroll Inc.) | Ken Lay | Thomas Schmidheiny | Alex Weber | Byron Wien | James Woolsey | Elliott Abrams | Michael Armacost | Anders Aslund | Ian Bremmer | Paul Collier | Norman Ornstein | Brent Scowcroft | James Wolfensohn | Jose Maria Aznar | Bill Bradley | Nicholas Brady | Henry Crumpton | David Frum | Dick Gephardt | Graham Allison | Nicholas Burns | Ann Florini | Francis Fukuyama | John Holdren | Joseph Nye | Stephen Walt | Dennis Hastert | Gordon Conway (president Rock. Fdn.) | Darren Walker (Program director Rock. Fdn. 2002-2006; president Ford Fdn. 2013-) | Fareed Zakaria | Joi Ito. Meetings: New York City (2013) | Silicon Valley (2014). |
1993 |
| U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council (USCTEC) Board of directors: Kept secret. Board of advisors: Kept secret. "Member:" Dwayne Andreas. Speakers: Roberto Robaina (Cuba's foreign affairs minister; brought along 17 officials) | Jose Luis Rodriguez (Cuba's minister of economy and planning) | other Cuban officials. Funders: Chrysler, Ford, GM, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, Archer Daniels Midland, Motorola, AIG, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, 3M, Chiquita, Enron, Cable & Wireless plc, Barclays Capital, Burmah Castrol Ltd., Credit Lyonnais. Originally founded by 45 companies looking to invest in Cuba. All over Fidel Castro in 1995 during his United Nations speech. |
1994 |
| Castro meetings at the CFR and at 5th Avenue, New York This took place while Castro was allowed to visit the United Nations headquarters in New York for a speech. CFR meeting (and the days around, due to unclear reporting): Fidel Castro | David Rockefeller (photographed with Castro around or at the meeting, and again in 2001) | Robert McNamara (reportedly, so not counted here; met Castro in Jan. 1992 in Havana, where he was told by the dictator Cuba already possessed 162 nuclear warheads at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and that he, Castro, had already recommended to the USSR that these nukes would be used in case of a full-scale U.S. invasion; met Castro again in October 2002) | Dwayne Andreas (known to have had dinner with Castro on Saturday night 21st-22nd; and reportedly sat next to Castro at the CFR meeting). Fifth Avenue meeting: Mortimer Zuckerman (Castro was his guest of honor) | Henry Kravis | Laurence Tisch | Tina Brown and husband Harold Evans (head of Random House) | Diane Sawyer | Mike Wallace | Peter Jennings | Barbara Walters. |
Oct. 22, 1995 |
| Americans for Humanitarian Trade with Cuba / US-Cuba Trade Association Advisiry council: David Rockefeller (anno 1999) | Paul Volcker (anno 1999) | John Whitehead (anno 1999) | Carla Hills (anno 1999) | James Schlesinger (anno 1999) | Frank Carlucci (anno 1999) | Gen. Jack Sheehan (anno 1999) | Elliot Richardson (anno 1999) | A. W. Clausen (anno 1999) | Dwayne Andreas (anno 1999) | Lloyd Bentsen Jr. (anno 1999) | Kurt Schmoke (anno 1999) | Oliver Stone (anno 1999; producer of the pro-conspiracy 'JFK' movie and anti-conspiracy movie 'World Trade Center'; strong "liberal" bias) | Francis Ford Coppola (anno 1999) | William D. Rogers (chair anno 2005). |
1998 |
| BrazilFoundation / Brazil Foundation (BF) Headquartered in the United States, members of the BrazilFoundation's board include Brazilian representatives of JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, UBS, HSBC, Citigroup, Boeing, Bear Stearns and Coudert Brothers. The Ford Fdn. provided the BF with $350,000 in 2007. People: Leona Forman, (founder; UN veteran) | Rebecca Tavares (president and CEO anno 2019; history at the MacArthur, Levi Strauss and Ford Fdn.) | Marielle Franco (joined the BF's "project monitoring and evaluation team" as an intern in 2007; black feminist LGBTQ activist and socialist politician who was assassinated in 2018 by right-wing police officers). |
2000 |
| Cuba Policy Foundation (CPF) Set up to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba. William D. Rogers (founding chair) | Ambassador Sally Grooms Cowal (founding president) | Manny Hidalgo (policy director; founding executive director of the Miami-based Cubans and Americans for Educational Exchange) | Steven Goldstein (founding communications director; founding chair Attention America). Funding: Arca Fdn. (seed). Entire board resigned after purgings and executions of dissidents by Fidel Castro in 2003. |
2001-2003 |
| Kojunsha Club A private club that served as the unofficial headquarter's of Japan's Seiyukai Party, with the Mitsui interests being the most heavily represented. Members: . Source(s): April 14, 1934, China Weekly Review. |
1878 |
| Tokyo Club Members: Inoue Kaoru (key founder; foreign affairs minister 1885-1887; tied to the Mitsui zaibatsu) | Manzo Kushida ("manager"; president Mitsubishi Bank; ICC vice president anno 1938; d. 1919). Source(s): tokyoclub.or.jp/en/history.html (accessed in Google cache on Oct. 14, 2022): "In 1884, in line with Japan’s newly introduced Westernisation policy and in accordance with The Meiji Emperor's proposal, The Tokyo Club was established by then Minister of Foreign Affairs... Over the Club's long history, many members of the Japanese Imperial family have fulfilled the role of Patron, with the position currently held by His Imperial Highness Prince Masahito Hitachi. The Club has a total membership of 600, comprising both Japanese and international members." |
1884 |
| Japan Society Early U.S. board and regular members: John Huston Finley (founding president 1907-, director anno 1910) | Lindsay Russell (founding member, president anno 1910, chair anno 1920) | Jacob Schiff (director anno 1910) | Mortimer Schiff (member anno 1910) | Isaac Seligman (member anno 1910) | Otto Kahn ("life member" anno 1910) | Frank Vanderlip (president 1920-; president at the Standard Oil-fueled National City Bank) | August Belmont (director anno 1920) | Henry Waters Taft (president 1922-1929, 1934-) | Gerard Swope (member anno 1920). Early Japanese board members and regular members: Baron Shibusawa Eiichi (member anno 1910) | Dr. Jokichi Takamine (director anno 1910; founder Nippon Club of NYC). Activities suspended 1941-1952 due to WWII: John D. Rockefeller III (president 1952-1969, chair 1969-1978) | David Rockefeller (hon. chairman) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (centennial speech) | Caryl Haskins | Cyrus Vance (chair 1985-1993) | Ruben Mettler | Thornton Bradshaw | Dianne Feinstein (co-chair Northern California branch). Later U.S. life directors: Peter Peterson | Paul Volcker | Maurice Greenberg | Richard Debs | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Justin Rockefeller (son of Sen. Jay) | Jacqueline Novogratz (part of its Innovators Network) | Charles P. Rockefeller (received an award in 1997 alongside David and Jay) | Merit Janow. Later Japanese directors: Minoru Makihara (director; d. 2020) and son Jun Makihara (director anno 2021). Source(s): 1910 JS booklet. |
1907 |
| China Institute in America Trustees: Mary Rockefeller (first wife of Nelson) | H. Christopher Luce (son of Henry L. III) | John Thornton (also on the advisory committee) | Julie Eisenhower | Marie-Helene Weill | Washington SyCip. More: Henry Luce (speech in 1964) | Maurice Greenberg (speaker in 2013). Funders: The Luce family, with its long history with China, has been a major financial patron of the institute. |
1926 |
| United China Relief (UCR) Henry Luce (organizer) |
1940 |
| China-America Council of Commerce and Industry (CACCI) Thomas Watson (founding chair) | Richard Patterson, Sr. (founding president) |
1944 |
| American Council on Japan (ACJ) Harry Kern | James Lee Kaufmann | Joseph C. Grew. |
1948-1952 |
| National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Political advisory body tot he Chinese government. Tung Chee Hwa (vice chair 2010s). |
1949 |
| Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA) Ties into western elites thought the TC, CUSEF, BNEF and a few other NGOs. Leadership: Zhao Weiping (vice president anno '21; TC exec. anno '21) Senior advisors (7 listed in '21): Tung Chee Hwa (anno '21) | Dr. Xu Kuangdi (anno '21; vice chair 10th People's Political Consultative Conference) | Tang Jiaxuan (anno '21; former PRC state councilor). Advisors (also 7 listed in '21): Fu Ying (ambassador; China's vice foreign affairs minister for European and then Asian affairs; chair Foreign Affairs Committee of China's 12th National People's Congress 2013-2017) | Xie Zhenhua (China's Special Envoy for Climate Change) | Bijian Zheng. Council Members (about 130 listed anno '21): Zhu Yinghuang (anno '21; editor-in-chief emeritus of China Daily Newspaper Group). |
1949 |
| National Committee for a Free Asia (later the Asia Foundation) Stephen Bechtel | Henry Kaiser | Juan Trippe | Robert Knight | A. W. Clausen | Stapleton Roy | Michael Armacost | Maurice T. Moore | Caryl Haskins | Grayson Kirk | Jeffrey Bergner |
1951 |
| National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo Chung Min Lee (fellow 1994-1995) |
1952 |
| Asia Society Caryl Haskins | William Hewitt | Grayson Kirk (chair 1956-1964) | John D. Rockefeller III (chair 1964-1974) | George Ball (chair 1974-1982) | Maurice Strong (member international council 1980-1986, member president's council anno 1984) | Roy Huffington (chair 1983-1989; his son Michael was married to Arianna Huffington 1986-1997) | John Whitehead (chair 1989-1995 and honorary life trustee) | Maurice Greenberg (chair 1995-2002) | Richard Holbrooke (chair 2002-2009) | Washington SyCip (life trustee) | John Thornton (trustee anno 2000; co-chair anno 2020) | Nicholas Platt (president anno 2000) | Frank Weil (trustee anno 2000) | James Moffett (trustee anno 2000) | Leon Black (trustee anno 2000) | Eli Broad (trustee anno 2000) | Carla Hills (trustee anno 2000, until 2002) | Jon Huntsman Jr. (trustee anno 2000) | Ken Lay (trustee anno 2000; Enron) | Wendi Deng Murdoch (anno 2002; wife of Rupert Murdoch) | Hunsang Ansary (became a trustee in 2004) | Ronnie Chan (trustee 2005-) | David Rubenstein (trustee late 2006 - early 2011) | James Wolfensohn (trustee late 2009-) | Hushang Ansary (trustee anno 2011) | Tom Brokaw (trustee) | Francis Stankard (trustee emeritus anno 2009) | John Negroponte (trustee anno 2020) | Sen. Jay Rockefeller (trustee anno 2000) | James Robinson III | Nicolas Rohatyn (trustee anno 2020) | Peter Peterson (financier/member) | Stephen Schwarzman (trustee 2007-, still anno 2020) | Michael Armacost (trustee) | Cyrus Vance (visitor) | William vanden Heuvel (trustee 2008-2009) | Strive Masiyiwa (trustee anno 2020) | Josette Sheeran (president and CEO 2013-) | Nicolas Berggruen (trustee anno 2020) | Prince Turki al Faisal (trustee anno 2020) | Harold McGraw III (trustee anno 2020) | Kevin Rudd (trustee anno 2020; president Asia Society Policy Institute 2014-) | Charles P. Rockefeller (trustee anno 2020) | Merit Janow (member global council). Others: Jacqueline Novogratz and husband Chris Anderson (the former interviewing the latter on June 15, 2017) | Kurt Campbell (member Task Force on U.S.-China Policy late 2010s) | Thomas Pickering (visitor)| Frank Wisner II (visitor). Global Council: Gareth Evans (anno 2011-2014) | Muhammad Yunus (anno 2011-2014). Represented countries (often by half a dozen to a dozen members): U.S., Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam. Asia Society India: Jamshyd Godrej and wife Pheroza (founding directors) | Narayana Murthy (hon. chair anno '21). |
1956 |
| American Society for a Free Asia (CIA-funded to back Dalai Lamai) | 1956 |
| Korea Society Donald Gregg (chair 1993-2009; chair emeritus after that). Advisory board: George H. W. Bush | Haig. Director: Spencer Kim |
1957 |
| Japan-America Society Lawrence Clarkson (president 1993). Involved: Intel, Lockheed, CFR, Sasakawa Fdn. |
1957 |
| Japan-U.S. Intellectual Exchange Plan Founders: Shigeharu Matsumotu (founding TC member; chair Int. House of Japan) and John D. Rockefeller III (part of a peace mission to Japan in 1951 headed by John Foster Dulles). Evolved into the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) in 1961. Source(s): jpf.go.jp/culcon/archive/files/pdf/history_en.pdf (accessed: Jan. 21, 2022). |
1950s |
| Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) International advisors/consultants: Prince Turki al Faisal (anno 2008, 2021) | Anne-Marie Slaughter (anno 2008, 2021) | John Thornton (anno 2008, 2021) | Tung Chee Hwa (anno 2008, 2021) | Kevin Rudd (anno 2017) | Hamid Karzai (anno 2021) | Volker Perthes (anno 2008, 2021; chair German Institute for International Security Affairs (SWP)) | Jayant Prasad (anno 2017, 2021; director Institute for Defense Studies and Analysis, India). Other countries represented: Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, United Nations, Australia, Argentina, Slovenia, etc. |
1960 |
| East-West Center (EWC) Kurt Campbell (vice chair anno 2020) | Peter Ho (vice chair anno 2020; chairman, president and CEO Bank of Hawaii) | Ronnie Chan (former board member) | Ratan Tata (board). |
1960 |
| Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER) Saburo Okita (president 1964-, chair 1983-1979; foreign minister 1979-1980;co-founder TC in '73) | Hisao Kanamori (chair anno '94) | Yutaka Kosai (president anno '94; involved with Rand) | Akira Kojima (chair 2004-2008, senior fellow anno '22; trustee National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); chair World Trade Center Tokyo, Inc.; similar to Okita, involved in the TC). |
1963 |
| National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) Directors (oldest generation known): Robert O. Anderson (emeritus by '02) | Theodore Hesburgh (emeritus by '02) | William Hewitt | Michael Blumenthal (chair somewhere pre-'02) | Robert McNamara (listed as vice chair in Dec. '02, but on "old website" url, gone in'03, but again listed as regular director from April '04 (as Henry K. appears) until his death in '09) | Gerald Ford (anno '02 - until death in '06; not "honorary", listed as a regular director) | Adm. David Jeremiah (anno '02 - gone by Jan. '03) | Henry Luce III (anno '02 - until '04) | Barber Conable Jr. (anno '02 - until '04, past chair) | Peter Franz Geithner (anno '02-'09, gone in '11, rejoined in '12; father of Timothy Geithner). Directors: David Gergen (anno '02-'08) | Carla Hills (chair anno '02-'20, chair emeritus anno '23) | Maurice Greenberg (anno '02, vice chair '04-'18, one of two exec. vice chairs '18-, still anno '23) and son Evan ('09 - still anno '14, vice chair anno 2020) | Lee Hamilton (vice chair anno '02 - until '07, again '08 - June '11, replacing by Henry K.) | Thomas Kean (anno '02-'07, vice chair '07-'20) | Michael Armacost (anno '02 - until '07) | William Rhodes (vice chair no later than Jan. '03 - still anno 2020) | Stapleton Roy (vice chair no later than Jan. '03 - until '08 (gone from board), again later, still anno 2020) | Thomas Pickering (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '08) | Martin Feldstein (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '19) | James Schlesinger (no later than Jan. '03 - still anno '08) | Henry Kissinger (April '04 - July '11, vice chair July '11 (replacing Lee H.) - '18, one of two exec. vice chairs '18 - still anno '23) | Adm. Dennis Blair ('04 - still anno '20) | Louis Gerstner Jr. ('05-'11) | John Thornton ('05-'12) | Lorne Craner ('05 - still anno '09, gone by '11) | Muhtar Kent ('07 - '16) | Sen. Chuck Robb ('08-'12) | Madeleine Albright ('08-'14) | Chas Freeman III ('08-'11, gone late '11 - early '12, again '12-'18). Directors (joined between 2010 and 2019): Jim Steinberg ('12-) | Jon Huntsman Jr. ('12 - still anno '17) | Sen. David Boren ('13-, until '16 or '17) | Rob Speyer ('13-, still anno '20; president & CEO Tishman Speyer) | Kurt Campbell ('15 - still anno '20) | Bill Ford (mid '15 - still anno '23) | Ajay Banga ('15, still anno '20) | Ben Harburg ('19 - still anno '23; Kiss. protege through his father, a pilot on the flights that opened up China to the West) | Merit Janow ('16 or '17-) | Joshua Cooper Ramo ('16 or '17-; vice chair Kiss. Assoc.). 2003 "contributors": Thomas M. O'Gara | David Rockefeller. 2003 "sponsors" John Brademas | Bobby Ray Inman | Adm. David J. Speakers: Robert Zoellick | Willam Perry (Jan. 2016) | Chuck Hagel (Jan. 2016) | William Cohen (Jan. 2016) | Harold Brown (Jan. 2016). 2012 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter. Honorary vice chairs: James Baker III | Zbigniew Brzezinski | Winston Lord | John Negroponte | William Daley (vice chair) | William P. (with member Ashton Carter co-chair of a delegation that negotiates between Taiwan and China) | Colin Powell | Brent Scowcroft | George Shultz. 2011 gala sponsors: honorary chairs: George H. W. Bush. Honorary vice chairs: Dianne Feinstein | Barbara Bush | John Kerry | Richard Lugar | Paul Volcker | John Whitehead. 2007 dinner: Peter Peterson honored. 2007 "individual contributors": Louis Gerstner, Peter P., David R., Henry K., Maurice G., Chas Freeman, Richard Haass, Adm. David J., Bobby Ray I., Harold Saunders. 2008 dinner: Wang Qishan honored. Source(s): ncuscr.org/Old website/about/Board.htm (accessed: Dec. 17, 2002); ncuscr.org/About_Us/Board.htm (accessed: Jan. 19, 2003 - Oct. 2, 2007; April 23, 2004 is first archive with Kiss., with Maurice G. just having moved to vice chair); ncuscr.org/who-we-are/board-directors (accessed: Sep. 27 2008 - Dec. 23, 2014); ncuscr.org/programs/dinner-honor-vice-premier-wang-qishan (accessed: Nov. 21, 2008): "On June 18, 2008..."; ncuscr.org/about/board-directors (accessed: Feb. 12, 2015 - June 24, 2020), ncuscr.org/board-directors/ (accessed: April 25, 2022 - ). |
1966 |
| Pacific Basin Economic Council (PBEC) Willy Wiguna (director general) |
1967 |
| Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN Regional Forum) Surin Pitsuwan (sec. gen.; Rock. Fdn.) | Maurice Greenberg and William Cohen (co-chairs CSIS' US-ASEAN Strategy Commission, which presented findings at a related APEC conference) | Pak Ui Chun (North Korean foreign minister) | Condoleezza Rice (canceled in 2005 and 2007 which wasn't appreciated) | Hillary Clinton | John Kerry | Fumio Kishida (Japan's foreign minister). |
1967 |
| Japan Center for International Exchange Tadashi Yamamoto (founder and president until his death in '12; TC). International Philanthropy Project (founded 1974): David Rockefeller (speaker during the foundation's "study mission" to the U.S. in Sep. 1974) | John D. Rockefeller III (seminar speaker '74) | McGeorge Bundy ('74 "study mission" speaker; keynote seminar speaker '75; president 1st symposium in Jan. 1975) | Russell Mawby ('74 "study mission" speaker; president Kellogg Fdn.) | David Bell and Carl Green (seminar speaker '74; Ford Fdn.) | Russell A. Phllips Jr. (seminar speaker '74; RBF) | Max Kohnstamm (seminar speaker '75) | Dillon Ripley | Thomas Hughes. Source(s): jcie.org/researchpdfs/jcie-papers/philan-project/3_The First Phase.PDF (accessed: January 21, 2022). |
1970 |
| Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) (Singapore) George Soros (Conference speaker Jan. 2006) |
1971 |
| U.S.-Japan Business Council (USJBC) Maurice Greenberg | Joseph Gorman | Robert Galvin (vice chair) | James Robinson III | Walter Shipley | Minoru Makihara (chair 1997-2002). |
1971 |
| California-Asia Business Council (CABC) (the former Southeast Asia Business Council) 1972 (SRI-ran): Julius Tahija | Nik A. Kamil | Roberto Villanueva | Cho Jock Kim | Sukum Navapan | Weldon Gibson. Later: Dan Chao (chair and chair emeritus; represents Bechtel) |
1971 |
| U.S.-China Business Council (USCBC) Henry Kissinger | David Rockefeller (founding member) | Cyrus Vance (co-chair 1979 event) | Michael Blumenthal (co-chair 1979 event) | Robert Zoellick | Carla Hills (director anno 2005) | James McNerney Jr. (director anno 2006, 2011; chair, president and CEO Boeing) | William Rhodes (director anno 2008, 2011) | Joseph Gorman | Dan Chao | Hu Jintao (Jan. 2011 meeting) | Muhtar Kent (director 2006-, vice chair anno 2008, chair anno 2011, director anno 2013) | Harold McGraw III (director anno 2011, 2013) | Klaus Kleinfeld (director; chair and CEO Alcoa) | Maurice Greenberg (director anno 2013) and son Evan (director anno 2011, chair anno 2020) | John Rice (director anno 2011; vice chair GE) | David Rubenstein (director 2013-late 2010s) | William Dudley (director anno 2008 and 2013; president and COO Bechtel) | Mark Schwartz (director anno 2015; vice chair Goldman Sachs, chair of GS Asia Pacific) | William Cohen (director anno 2008 and 2020) | David Taylor (anno 2020; chair, president and CEO Procter & Gamble) | Kurt Campbell (speaker at a USCBC meeting or related meeting Jan. 2011) and wife Lael Brainard (keynote address Feb. 2011) | Penny Pritzker | Frederick Smith (chair) | Wang Huiyao (Nov. 2019 speaker). Other corporations represented by the board of directors: UPS, Dell, 3M, Fluor, Cargill, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Walmart, ExxonMobil, FedEx, Emerson, Praxair, Ford Motor Company, Motorola, NY Life Int., PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Citi, Johnson & Johnson. |
1973 |
| U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC) History: Henry Kissinger requested that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce establish the group USIBC in 1975, making the USIBC a "programme" of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Since 2010 many dominant board members have voted to split from the USCOC. Board U.S./West (later "global"): Frank Wisner II (chair '00-'02, director until at least '11) | William Cohen (anno '07-'11) | Harold McGraw III (chair '10-'12) | Paul Conway ('anno '11; Cargill) | Adm. Walter Doran (anno '11; Raytheon) | Richard Kirkland (anno '11; Lockheed Martin) | John Chambers (chair '15- (on website; only in 2018 announced in the news, so he may have been a temporary chair intially); chair and CEO Cisco) | Stephen Hadley (anno '21) | Gen. Michael Hayden (anno '21) | Sir Michael Arthur (anno '21; president Boeing Int.) | Judith McKenna (anno '21; president and CEO, Walmart) | Tim Cahill (anno ' 21; senior VP Lockheed). Board Indians (later "global"): Rajat Gupta (chair anno '04, director until at least '11; CEO McKinsey & Co. 1994-2003; jailed for money laundering in '12) | Indra Nooyi (chair '08-'09; chair and CEO Pepsi) | Ajay Banga (chair '12-'15; CEO Mastercard '10-) | Manil Bhalla (anno '11; exec. dir. JPMorgan Chase Wealth Management '12-'17, '19-) | Arun Kumar (anno '11-, adv. council anno '21; chair and CEO KPMG India) | Dr. Vas Narasimhan (anno '11; Novartis) | V.S. Gopi Gopinath (anno '11; AT&T) | Manoj Singh (anno '11; Deloitte) | Shailesh Rao (anno '11; Google) | Shantanu Narayen (anno '15; with Adobe 1998-, CEO 2007-, chair 2017-) | Raj Nair (anno '15; North American president Ford Motors until fired in '18 over "inappropiate behavior") | Sanjay Nayar (anno '15; chair and CEO KKR India) | Banmali Agrawala (anno '21; president of Infrastructure, Defence & Aerospace for Tata Sons) | Vivek Lall (anno '21; CEO General Atomics' global arm 2020-) | Mahesh Palashikar (president and CEO GE South Asia) | Kevin Lobo (anno '21; ethnic Indian; CEO Stryker 2012-). India advisory council: Sandip Patel (anno '21; general Manager, IBM India and South Asia) | Nivruti Rai (anno '21; country head, Intel India) | Simon George ('21; ethnic Indian; president Cargill India) | Anupam Pahuja (anno '21; man. dir. PayPal India) | Madhusudan Gopalan (anno ' 21; CEO Procter & Gamble India) | Nitin Prasad (chair Shell India 2016-) | Manoj Adlakha (anno '21; CEO American Express Banking Corp. India). Speakers: Kenneth Dam ('02) | Robert Blackwill (twice in '02 on U.S.-India relations) Notes: Traditionally almost exlusively American companies with local or American Indians representing them, with more and more American companies also hiring Indians to run their worldwide or North American business. Examples here include Adobe, Ford, Mastercard, McKinsey, Pepsi, Stryker (the Ford and McKinsey heads ended up in scandals). Companies also represented by board members: GS, AIG, NYSE-Euronext, IBM, Pratt & Whitney, FedEx, Dow Chemical, Warburg Pincus, Salesforce, NY Life. usibc.com/members (accessed: July 28, 2017; about one-third listed here; almost no Indian companies): State Bank of India, Barclays Bank India, 3M, AEGON, Alcoa, 21st Century Fox, Time Warner, Airbnb, Bank of America, Bank of the West, Boeing, Caterpillar, Citigroup, Apple, AMD, Intel, Dell, Microsoft, Facebook, LinkedIn, Uber, Symantec, Western Digital, Fluor, DuPont, General Mills, GM, Gilead, Pfizer, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, HP, Honeywell, John Deere, Marsh & McLennan, Monsanto, Moody's, NASDAQ, Rio Tinto, Sandisk, Shearman and Sterling, Standard Chartered, United Technolgies Corp., Walmart, Westinghouse, Western Union, UPS, Verizon, Viacom, Rolls-Royce, Northrop Grumman, Kroll Associates, Herbalife, Ericsson, Eli Lilly, eBay, BHP Billiton, Bentley Systems, BAE Systems, AT&T. |
1975 |
| U.S.-Taiwan Business Council William Cohen (chair) | Frank Carlucci | Paul Wolfowitz | Sen. Jay Rockefeller. |
1976 |
| Canada-China Business Council Founders: Paul Desmarais, Sr. (founding chair, his son Andre is honorary chair) | Maurice Strong | Paul Lin. |
1978 |
| U.S.-Japan Foundation (USJF) 1998 annual report: Ryochi Sasakawa (founder; also founding grant through to the Japan Shipbuilding Industry Foundation (now known as the Nippon Foundation), which he headed) | Jimmy Carter (hon. advisor) | Gerald Ford (hon. advisor) | John Brademas (trustee) | Ms. Robin Chandler Duke (trustee) | Gerald Curtis (trustee). More: Angier Biddle Duke (co-founder) | Robin Chandler Duke (co-founder) | Thomas Foley (trustee anno 2007 and honorary advisor from 2008) | Henry Kissinger (early advisor) | Robert Sarnoff (early advisor). More: George Packard (president 1998-2019). The US-Japan Leadership Program (USJLP), "the flagship program of the United States-Japan Foundation (USJF)": usjlp.org/advisory.html (accessed: July 18, 2011): "Walter Mondale ... William Ruckelshaus ... John Whitehead..." |
1980 |
| Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Originally known as the Asian Cultural Program, founded by John D. Rockefeller, III. Trustees: Steven Rockefeller | David Rockefeller, Jr. | Valerie Rockefeller Wayne. |
1980 |
| Pacific Economic Cooperation Council Saburo Okita (international 1986-1988) | Lawrence Clarkson (U.S. chair 1993-2000) | Spencer Kim |
1980 |
| U.S.-Japan Advisory Committee Reagan (met with the group at the White House on June 22, 1983). Directors: David Packard (chair 1983-1985) | Albert Seligmann (executive director) | Nobuhiko Ushiba | Isamu Yamashita | Akio Morita |
Early-mid 1980s (+/-) |
| Hong Kong-United States Business Council (HKUSBC) Westerners: Maurice Greenberg (US chair anno 2006, 2011) | Dr. John Hamre (speaker '09). Asians: Ronnie Chan (HK chair) | Peter Woo (HK chair anno 2006) | Victor Chu (HK chair anno 2021). |
1984 |
| U.S.-ASEAN Business Council (USABC) Maurice Greenberg (chair) and son Evan (chair 2013-) | Muhtar Kent (chair) | Roderick Hills (co-founder and chair; husband of Carla Hills) | Alexander Feldman (chair, president and CEO) | John Negroponte (member Chairman's Policy Council since founding in 2013) | J. Stapleton Roy (Chairman's Policy Council 2013-) | Stephen Bosworth (Chairman's Policy Council 2013-). Known visitors of meetings: Henry Kissinger ('09) | George Shultz ('09) | Kurt Campbell ('09) | Lee Kuan Yew ('09). |
1984 |
| Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (SEM), Beijing, China Tsinghua University was founded in 1983. Its SEM was founded in 1996 in partnership with MIT. SEM's ultra-prestigious and low-profile advisory board was founded in Oct. 2000 and meets once a year. Also see Schwarzman Scholars. Advisory council (mainly anno '21-'23): David Rubenstein (chair anno 2016; co-founder and chair Carlyle) | Stephen Schwarzman (co-founder and chair Blackstone) | Maurice Greenberg (chair and CEO AIG) and son Evan | Muhtar Kent (chair and CEO Coca-Cola) | Lloyd Blankfein (chair and CEO GS) | Jamie Dimon (chair and CEO J.P. MorganChase) | Sir John Bond (chair HSBC and Vodafone) | Mark Fields (chair and CEO Ford Motor Co.) | Henry Kravis | Michael Corbat (CEO Citigroup) | Lord John Browne of Madingley (CEO BP) | Robert Dudley (CEO BP) | Ben van Beurden (CEO Shell) | William E. "Bill" Ford (General Atlantic) | Hank Paulson | Lee Scott Jr. (president and CEO Wal-Mart) | Jacob Wallenberg | Robin Li (co-founder, chair and CEO Baidu search engine) | Jack Ma (exec. chair Alibaba) | Elon Musk (founder and CEO Tesla and Space-X) | Mark Zuckerberg (founder and/or owner FB, IG and Whatsapp) | Jim Breyer (chair anno 2020; founder and CEO Breyer Capital) | Tim Cook (CEO Apple) | Michael Dell | Christopher Galvin (chair and CEO Motorola) | Richard Levin | Satya Nadella (CEO Microsoft) | Brian Roberts (chair and CEO Comcast) | John Thornton | Larry Fink | Advisory board (Far East): Victor Fung | Nobuyuki Idei (chair and CEO Sony) | Ratan Tata. Speakers: Sir Evelyn and Lynn de Rothschild (April '12) | Dominic Barton (teaches here the "McKinsey course on global leadership" anno '23) | Yann LeCun (director of AI Research, Facebook, who teaches a course at SEM anno '23) | Peter Thiel (appears as a speaker in a '23 brochure). SEM-based Center for China in the World Economy (think tank founded in 2004): David Daokui Li ((man.) director 2015-) | Joseph Stiglitz (advisory board) | John T. (advisory board) | William Kirby (advisory board) | Roland Berger (advisory board). 2023 Tsinghua MBA brochure, pp. 42-42: "Partial List of Tsinghua MBA Recruiters: BNP Paribas ... J.P. Morgan ... HSBC ... Barclays ... Gates Foundation ... Microsoft ... Apple ... Facebook ... Amazon ... UBS ... Back of America ... Goldman Sachs ... Citibank ... KKR ... Sequoia Capital ... Hony Capital ... Bayer ... Shell ... BMW ... Johnson & Johnson ... Bain & Company... Huawei ... [TikTok owner] ByteDance ... Tencent ... Alibaba Group ... Nomura ... Fung Group ..." Source(s): sem.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/ About_SEM/Advisory_Board/ Advisory_Board_Members.htm (accessed: March 30, 2023): "Updated on 11 October, 2021."; 2023 MBA brochure, Tsinghua University, 'China Roots, Global Vision: Tsinghua's Global MBA Program', pp. 1, 10: "Since 1996 ... Tsinghua SEM [and] and MIT Sloan... have been a natural fit as partners... Initiated by SEM’s Founding Dean ZHU Rongji, who later became the 5th Premier of China, the Tsinghua SEM Advisory Board was established in October 2000. Since its establishment, the Advisory Board has met annually to offer advice on the development of Tsinghua SEM." Source(s) CCWE: www.ccwe.tsinghua.edu.cn/column/index_en and www.ccwe.tsinghua.edu.cn/column/AB (accessed: Sep. 12, 2015 - March 7, 2020; the latter url is the advisory board). |
2000 |
| Hitachi Foundation Elliot Richardson (founder and chair until 1998) | Joseph Kasputys founding member and chair since 1998) | Patrick Gross (trustee since 2003) | David Packard (advisory council 1986-1996) |
1985 |
| Sejong Institute, Seoul Chung Min Lee (employee 1989-1994). |
1986 |
| Philippines-U.S. Business Council & U.S.-Philippine Business Committee Maurice Greenberg (founding chair UPBC) | President Corazon Aquino (co-founder) |
1987 |
| US–Korea Business Council (USBC) Maurice Greenberg (chairman 2002-) | William Rhodes (chair). |
1987 |
| America-China Society (ACS) Henry Kissinger (co-chair) | Cyrus Vance (co-chair until his death in 2002) | Robert McFarlane | Richard Nixon | Jimmy Carter. Corporate members: Chase Manhattan, American Express, Coca-Cola. |
1987 |
| Tokyo Club Foundation for Global Studies (linked to G8 and G20) Henry Kissinger | Paul Volcker | Joseph Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Renato Ruggiero | Sergei Karaganov. |
1987 |
| Tibet House Robert Thurman (founder and president, who moved in the Rock. sphere) | Richard Gere (co-founder). Board: Henry Luce III (wife and son) | Peggy Hitchcock (Mellon; of Timothy Leary fame) | Uma Thurman. Artist support: David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop. |
1987 |
| International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) Richard Gere (executive chair). Board of Advisors: Robert Thurman. International Council of Advisors: Harrison Ford | Desmond Tutu | Elie Wiesel. Awarded: Dr. Christian Schwarz-Schilling | Count Otto Lambsdorff | Danielle Mitterrand (wife of Francois) | Martin Scorsese | Claiborne Pell | Charlie Rose. |
1987 |
| Praemium Imperiale (Japan Art Association) David Rockefeller | S. Dillon Ripley II | Shunichi Suzuki |
1989 |
| National Bureau of Asian Research (NBAR) Gen. John M. Shalikashvili | Michael Armacost (advisor anno 2004) | Carla Hills (advisor anno 2004) | Lee Hamilton | Sam Nunn | Zoellick | Pickering | Lawrence Clarkson (chair) | Enders Wimbush (executive director for strategy and development) | Aaron Friedberg (counselor) | Sen. Joe Lieberman (counselor anno 2017) | Joseph Nye (advisor anno 2017). |
1989 |
| Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Madeleine Albright | Colin Powell | Richard Boucher | Robert Zoellick | Fred Bergsten (chair Eminent Persons Group and Competitiveness Policy Council of APEC in the 1990s) | Andrey Kostin (chair 2011-2012, continued regular involvement) | George W. Bush (2006) | Victor Fung (member Business Advisory Council 1996, 2001). APEC CEO Summit (1996-): Min Zhu Min ('11) | Julia Gillard ('11, '12; PM Australia 2010-2013) | Eric Schmidt ('11) | Barack Obama ('11, '14-'15) | Jim McNerney Jr. ('11) | Felipe Calderon ('11; president Mexico) | Dominic Barton ('12) | Hillary Clinton ('12) | Sir John Key ('12-'13; PM New Zealand) | Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ('12, '13; president Indonesia) | Hu Jintao ('12) | Truong Tan Sang ('12; president Vietnam) | Vladimir Putin ('12, '13) | Anatoly Chubais ('12) | Igor Sechin ('12) | Oleg Deripaska ('12, '13) | Andrey K. ('12) | Fedor Lukyanov ('12) | Peter Voser ('12) | Tony Abbott ('13; PM Australia) | Sebastian Pinera ('13; president Chile) | Nouriel Roubini ('13) | Jeffrey Sachs ('13) | Shinzo Abe ('13) | Park Geun-Hyeof (president South Korea) | Najib Razak ('13; PM Malaysia) | Lee Hsien Loon ('13; PM Singapore) | Yingluck Shinawatra ('13; PM Thailand) | Enrique Pena Nieto ('13; president Mexico) | Ollanta Humala ('13; PM Peru) | Benigno Aquino III ('13, '14; president Philippines) | John Kerry ('13) | Xi Jinping ('13-'18) | U. Thein Sein ('14; president Myanmar) | Abdul Hamid (' 14; president Bangladesh) | Samdech Techo Hun Sen ('14; PM Cambodia) | Michelle Bachelet ('14; president Chile) | Stephen Harper ('14; PM Australia) | Dmitry Medvedev ('15, '18) | Jack Ma ('15) | Ian Bremmer ('15-'17) | Josette Sheeran ('15) | Mark Zuckerberg ('16) | Sheryl Sandberg ('17) | Donald Trump ('17) | Mike Pence ('18). APEC CEO Summit locations: Hawaii ('11) | Vladivostok, Russia ('12) | Bali, Indonesia ('13) | China ('14) | Philippines ('15) | Peru ('16) | Vietnam ('17) | Paupa New Guinea ('18). Companies represented: Freeport-McMoRan, Nippon Steel, Lenovo, Eli Lilly, Nomura, Caterpillar, Rio Tinto, Merck, UPS, Bank of China, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Johnson & Johnson, Deutsche Post DHL, Microsoft, Dow Chemical, Walmart, FedEx, Facebook, ExxonMobil, World Bank, etc. |
1989 |
| Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA (SPF-USA) Ryochi Sasakawa (founder) | Adm. Dennis Blair (president). Commission members of a partnership with CSIS (2013-1016): Richard Armitage | Joseph Nye | John Hamre. Awarded Paul Ehrlich of 'The Population Bomb' with its Environment Prize. Other: Kurt Campbell (keynote speaker '13). |
1990 |
| Committee of 100 Nov. 30, 2023, Committee100.org, 'Committee of 100 Mourns the Passing of Dr. Henry [K.]': "Committee of 100 was formed in the aftermath of Tiananmen Square at the recommendation of Dr. Kissinger. He urged renowned architect I.M. Pei to organize a prominent group of Chinese Americans to address issues of both domestic and international concern between the United States and Greater China. Pei teamed up with Yo-Yo Ma, Henry S. Tang, Oscar Tang, Chien Shiung Wu, and Shirley Young [who] would become the first generation of Committee of 100 members." Board: Yo-Yo Ma (governor anno 2000) | Anna Chennault (director anno 2000) | Conference visitors/speakers: Jerry Yang ('98; Co-Founder or Yahoo) | Zbigniew Brzezinski (April 30, '09, 13) | Henry Kissinger (April 30, '09, 15; co-founder) | Daniel Inouye (April 20, '09) | Indra Nooyi (April 30, '09) | Michael Bloomberg (pre-2016 speaker) | Maurice Greenberg (pre-2016 speaker) | Hank Paulson (pre-2016 speaker) | Stephen Schwarzman (pre-2016 speaker) | Quincy Jones (pre-2016 speaker) | J. Stapleton Roy (pre-2016 speaker) | Michael Milken (pre-2016 speaker) | Charlie Munger (pre-2016 speaker) | Gary Locke (again at the '16 annual conference) | Gordon Brown ('16 annual conference) | Ari Emanuel ('16 annual conference) | Bill Moyers ('16 annual conference). Source(s): committee100.org/members /default.htm (accessed: Aug. 15, 2000); committee100.org/conference/2015-annual-conference-in-new-york/: "Participating Organizations [i.e. funders]: Akin Gump... Alibaba Group ... Blackstone ... Bloomberg. Bristol-Myers Squibb ... Deloitte ... General Motors ... Goldman Sachs ... Hang Lung Properties ... McKinsey & Co. ... Newscorp [and lots of other media] ... UBS. United Airlines. United Nations ... Walmart ... Wells Fargo ... Xerox... [RBF]..." April 15-17, 2017, 'C-100 2016 Annual Conference' 1-page schedule; May 18-20, 2017, C100 1-page flyer, 'C100 2017 Annual Conference': "Highlighted Past Speakers..." |
1990 |
| Institute for Asian Democracy (IAD) Robert Thurman (founding trustee and future advisory council). |
1991 |
| China Institute for Reform and Development (CIRD) / China Reform Forum John Thornton | George Soros (financier and visiting fellow) |
1991 |
| China-Britain Business Council Founded as the China-Britain Trade Group with the 1991 merger of the 48 Group and the Sino-British Trade Council. Sir Michael Palliser (president). Anno 2015: Lord James Meyer Sassoon (chair; executive director Matheson & Co. Ltd.) |
1991 |
| Eurasia Foundation Trustees: Bill Frenzel (chair 1992-1994, vice chair 1994-2010) | Robert Zoellick (anno 1999) | Maurice Tempelsman (anno 1999, until 2001) | Thomas Pickering (2001-) | Fiona Hill. Advisory board: Martti Ahtisaari (co-chair) | Madeleine Albright (co-chair) | James Baker III (co-chair) | Lawrence Eagleburger | William Luers | Max Kampelman | Bill Bradley | Frank Carlucci | Lee Hamilton | Michael Mandelbaum | Robert Strauss | Joseph Stiglitz | Fred Bergsten | Casimir Yost | Anders Aslund. Also: Regina Yan (executive vice president and COO). eurasia.org/who/funders.html (accessed: October 14, 2001): "Boeing ... Carnegie Corporation ... Exxon ... Ford Foundation ... Government of the Netherlands ... MacArthur Foundation ... Mobil Corporation ... Mott Foundation. Open Society Institute/Soros Foundations. Phillips Petroleum. PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Renaissance Foundation/Soros Foundations. Royal Norwegian Foreign Ministry ... Swedish Foreign Ministry. Texaco, Inc. The United States Agency for International Development. The United States Information Agency. United Technologies... The World Bank." eurasia.org/where.html (accessed: Oct. 13, 2001): "The Foundation conducts the bulk of its grantmaking through field offices located in Moscow, Saratov, Vladivostok (Russia), Minsk (Belarus), Kyiv (Ukraine), Chisinau (Moldova), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic), Dushanbe (Tajikistan), Ashgabat (Turkmenistan), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Tbilisi (Georgia), Yerevan, Gyumri (Armenia), and Baku (Azerbaijan)." |
1992 |
| Pacific Century Institute (PCI) Donald Gregg (chair) | Spencer Kim (founder) |
1992 |
| Bhutan Foundation Directors: Bhutan royal family members | Tim Wirth (anno 2009) | Frank Wisner II (anno 2009, 2020) | Robert Blake Jr. (anno 2020). Advisory board: Peggy Dulany Rockefeller (daughter of David Rockefeller) | Congressman Brian Baird. |
1992 |
| Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) Kurt Campbell (member). |
1993 |
| UK-Korea Forum for the Future Lord Kerr of Kinlochard (president 2007-2013). |
1993 |
| Fudan Development Institute (FDI) Directors: Min Zhu Min (anno '21). International Advisory Committee: Adam Posen (anno '17-'20) | Robert Zoellick (anno '17-'20) | Joseph Stiglitz (anno '18-'20). Source(s): fddi.en.fudan.edu.cn/ tuandui/guojiguwen/ (accessed: April 3, 2017 to Feb. 3, 2020; IAC); etc. |
1993 |
| UK India Business Council (UKIBC) Directors: Richard Heald (director 2010-, chair 2020-; 17-year Rothschild banker, including vice chair Rothschild India). Advisory board (disappeared from site after early 2010): Sir Richard Branson (anno '08) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild (anno '08) | Sir Martin Sorrell (anno '08) | Sir John Rose (anno '08; Rolls-Royce) | Paul Skinner (anno '08; Rio Tinto). Additional companies represented: GS, Warburg Pincus, Lloyds, HSBC, Nomura PLC, KPMG, BT, Standard Chartered, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, The Economist, BNP Paribas, BMW AG, Tata Sons. |
1993 |
| Singapore-British Business Council Lord Charles Powell (founding chair 1994-Nov. 2001) |
1994 |
| United States-Indonesia Society (USINDO) J. Stapleton Roy (trustee co-chair) | Robert Blake Jr. (co-chair) | Paul M Cleveland (president; U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia and to New Zealand) | David Merrill (president; director USAID) | Roderick Hills (husband of Carla Hills) | Paul Wolfowitz (co-chair) | Richard Owen (ExxonMobil Indonesia) | George Shultz (hon. chair anno 2020) | Alexander Feldman (trustee anno 2020). Companies as BP and Freeport also represented. |
1994 |
| U.S. China Policy Foundation (USCPF) Maurice Greenberg (honorary chair) | Stapleton Roy | Chas Freeman (co-founder and co-chair) | Alexander Haig | Henry Kissinger | Dianne Feinstein | Chuck Hagel |
1995 |
| Fortune Global Forum / Fortune-Time Global Forum Often held in China. Participants undated (pre-2013): Zhu Rongji | Hu Jintao | Wang Qishan | George H. W. Bush | Shimon Peres | Manmohan Singh | Margaret Thatcher | Bandar bin Khalid Al Faisal | Ronnie Chan | Rupert Murdoch | Peter Peterson | Sir Howard Stringer | Ted Turner | Peter Voser | Ma Yun (Alibaba). Participants: Li Ka-shing (listed as "past speaker" anno '99) | Rudolph Giuliani (listed as "past speaker" anno '99) | Jacques Chirac (listed as "past speaker" anno '99, again '00) | Nobuyuki Idei (pre-'99; Sony) | Paul O'Neill (pre-'99) | Richard Parsons (pre-'99, '07, '10) | Carla Hills ('99) | Maurice Greenberg ('99) | Henry Kissinger ('99) | Lee Kuan Yew ('99) | Mickey Kantor ('99) | Jack Welch ('99) | Jiang Zemin ('99, '01-'02) | Charlie Rose ('00) | Bill Clinton ('01-'02, '10) | James Murdoch ('01) | Steve Ballmer ('01) | Mikhail Khodorkovsky (pre-'02, likely '01) | Frederick Smith (pre-'02) | Larry Summers (pre-'02, '16, '18) | Meg Whitman (early '00s speaker) | Colin Powell (early '00s speaker) | Jack Ma ('05, '17) | Sir Evelyn de Rothschild ('07) | Lloyd Blankfein ('07) | Michael Cherkasky ('07) | Michael Dell ('07) | Hank Paulson ('07, '17) | Victor Chu ('07, '15, '18) | Dominic Barton ('07, '10, '13, '16, '18) | Lord Nicholas Stern ('10) | Josef Ackermann ('10) | Shaukat Aziz ('10) | Jacob Zuma ('10) | F. W. de Klerk ('10) | Jami Miscik ('10, '18) | Jonathan Oppenheimer ('10) | Theodore Forstmann ('10) | Mo Ibrahim ('10, '16, '21) | Katie Couric ('10) | Desmond Tutu ('10) | Mary Robinson ('10) | Peter Seligmann ('10) | Sir Martin Sorrell ('10, '13, '16) | Richard Branson ("past speaker" by '13, '16) | Indra Nooyi ("past speaker" by '13, '16) | Bob Iger ('13) | Ben Keswick ('13) | Kevin Rudd ('13) | Linda McMahon ('13; owner and former CEO WWE) | Jon Huntsman ('13) | Tony Blair ('13) wife Cherie ('16) | Muhtar Kent ('13) | Francois-Henri Pinault ('13) | Zhang Gaoli ('13) | Jeffrey Katzenberg ('13, '17) | Jeffrey Immelt ('13) | Jeff Bewkes ('13) | Xi Jinping ('13 token congratulatory message) | Jamie Dimon ('13, '15) | Frans van Houten ('13, '17; chair and CEO Philips) | Larry Page ('15) | Marc Andreessen ('15) | Jerry Brown ('15) | Lord John Browne ('15) | Leon Panetta ('15) | Ron Conway ('15) | Sheryl Sandberg ('15) | Brian Chesky ('15, '21) | Rajiv Shah ('15) | Hugh Grant ('15) | Ian Bremmer ('15) | Paul Tudor Jones ('15) | Shantanu Narayen (president and CEO Adobe '15) | Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ('15, '19) | Pope Francis ('16; meeting held at the Vatican, with the forum presenting its (pro-"private sector") report to him) | Lar |