Members of the Council on Foreign Relations

Membership in the Council on Foreign Relations comes in two types: Individual; and Corporate. Individual memberships are further subdivided into two types: Life Membership; and Term Membership, which is for a single period of five years and is available to those between the ages of 30 and 36 at the time of their application. Only U.S. citizens (native born or naturalized) and permanent residents who have applied for U.S. citizenship are eligible. A candidate for life membership must be nominated in writing by one Council member and seconded by a minimum of three others (strongly encouraged to be other CFR members).^[1]

Corporate membership (250 in total) is divided into three levels: "Founders" (US$100,000); "President's Circle" (US$60,000); and "Affiliates" (US$30,000). All corporate executive members have opportunities to hear distinguished speakers, such as overseas presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of multinational corporations, and US officials and Congressmen. President's Circle and Founders are also entitled to other benefits, including attendance at small, private dinners or receptions with senior American officials and world leaders.^[2]

Board of directors[]

The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed in total of thirty-five officers. It also has an International Advisory Board consisting of thirty-five distinguished individuals from across the world.^[3][4][5]

Notable council members[]

• Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley (Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the U.S. State Department 2021– under Biden)
• John Abizaid (U.S. Army General, former head of Centcom)
• Morton I. Abramowitz (diplomat, ex-president of the Carnegie Endowment, founder of Soros-funded International Crisis Group)
• Elliott Abrams (international lawyer, former State Department official under Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Stacey Abrams (Democratic nominee in 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election)
• Peter Ackerman (founder, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict)
• Michael F. Adams (President of University of Georgia)
• Stephen J. Adler (Reuters editor-in-chief)
• Fouad Ajami (academic, middle east analyst)
• Madeleine Albright (U.S. Secretary of State 1997–2001 under Clinton, UN Ambassador 1993–1997 under Clinton, CFR board 2004–2014)^[18]
• Lamar Alexander (45th Governor of Tennessee, GOP U.S. Senator, 5th U.S. Education Secretary under George H. W. Bush)
• David Altshuler (geneticist, Broad Institute co-founder, Vertex Pharmaceuticals CEO)
• Anthony Clark Arend (international lawyer, academic)
• Adam Aron (President/CEO of AMC Theatres)^[19]
• Anders Åslund (former Atlantic Council senior fellow)^[20]
• Ken Auletta (The New Yorker media critic)
• Lloyd J. Austin III (U.S. Secretary of Defense 2021– under Biden)^[21][22]
• Bruce Babbitt (Governor of Arizona 1978–1987, U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1993–2001 under Clinton)
• James A. Baker III (U.S. Secretary of State 1989–1992 under George H. W. Bush, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 1985–1988 under Reagan, White House Chief of Staff 1981–1985 and 1992–1993 to Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush)^[23]
• Thurbert Baker (former Democratic Attorney General of Georgia)
• Michael D. Barnes (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from Maryland, and president of the Brady Campaign)^[18]
• Kara Medoff Barnett (Executive Director of American Ballet Theatre, former Director of Lincoln Center)
• Charlene Barshefsky (former U.S. Trade Representative)
• Edward H. Bastian (CEO of Delta Air Lines)
• Evan Bayh (former Democratic U.S. Senator and 46th Governor of Indiana)
• Warren Beatty (actor, producer, director, portrayed John Reed in Reds)
• Elizabeth Becker (author/journalist)^[24][25]
• Peter Beinart (academic, columnist)
• Robert A. Belfer (American oilman known for his stake in Enron, and namesake of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center)^[26]
• Peter Bergen (journalist, national security analyst for CNN)
• Nicolas Berggruen (founder, Berggruen Institute)^[27]
• Howard Berman (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from California)
• Michael Beschloss (presidential scholar, husband of C.F.R. board member Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss)
• Richard E. Besser (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president and CEO 2017– )
• Jeffrey Bewkes (president of Time Warner)
• Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S. counter-insurgency policy)
• Sanford Bishop (Democratic U.S. Congressman from Georgia)
• Leon Black (Apollo Management CEO 2007–2021, MoMA co-chair, Jeffrey Epstein confidant)^{[28][29][30][31][32]}
• Alan Blinken (uncle of Antony Blinken, defeated by Sen. Larry Craig in 2002 Idaho race)
• Antony Blinken (71st U.S. Secretary of State, son of Donald Mayer Blinken, stepson of Samuel Pisar, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[33][34][35]
• Donald M. Blinken (father of Antony Blinken, ex-director of Warburg Pincus now headed by Tim Geithner)
• Michael R. Bloomberg, KBE (Mayor of New York City 2002–2013, founder of Bloomberg L.P., Trilateral Commission member,^[36] son of Harvard Bloomberg Center's namesake, namesake of largest U.S. school of public health at Johns Hopkins)^{[37][38][39][40][41][42]}
• Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. (U.S. State Department official and defense expert)
• Lee Bollinger (19th President of Columbia University 2002– , N.Y. Fed ex-chair, Pulitzer Prize presenter/board member 2003–)^{[43][44][45][46][47][48]}
• Josh Bolten (22nd White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush)
• Max Boot (Washington Post journalist, military historian and foreign policy writer)^[49][50]
• Rudolph (Rudy) Boschwitz (GOP U.S. Senator from Minnesota 1978–1991, AIPAC board member, JINSA board member and ex-chairman)^[51]
• danah boyd [sic] (senior researcher at Microsoft)^[52]
• Bill Bradley (former Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1979–1997, NBA Hall of Fame New York Knicks player 1967–1977, Rhodes scholar)^[53]
• Lael Brainard (Federal Reserve Board member, Treasury official under Obama, wife of Biden's "Asia Czar" Kurt M. Campbell, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[33]
• Marcus W. Brauchli (executive editor of The Washington Post 2008–2012)^[54]
• L. Paul Bremer (diplomat, former managing director at Kissinger Associates)
• Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Lanny A. Breuer (Covington & Burling vice chair, former assistant Manhattan D.A. 1985–1989, U.S. Assistant A.G. for the Criminal Division 2009–2013 under Obama)^[55]
• James W. (Jim) Breyer (boards of Blackstone Group, Harvard Corporation, Walmart, Facebook, WEF, formerly at McKinsey & Co., brother-in-law of Elaine Chao)
• Stephen G. Breyer (U.S. Supreme Court justice, Rhodes scholar)^[56]
• Steven Brill (CourtTV founder)
• Edgar Bronfman, Jr. (Seagram heir, half-brother of Clare and Sara Bronfman)^[57][58]
• Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
• Kate Brown (38th Governor of Oregon 2015– , Aspen Institute "rising star")
• Erin Burnett (CNN anchor, journalist)
• William Joseph Burns (8th Director of the CIA 2021– under Biden, president of Carnegie Endowment 2014–2021, Deputy Secretary of State 2011–2014 under Obama, 5th U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2005–2008 under George W. Bush)
• Dan Burton (former GOP U.S. Congressman from Indiana)
• Sylvia Mathews Burwell (CFR board member, president of American University 2017– , former head of Walmart Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, HHS Secretary 2014–2017 under Obama, Rhodes scholar)^[59][60]
• Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush, cousin of George W. Bush)
• Craig Calhoun (President of Berggruen Institute, Director of the London School of Economics)
• Elizabeth Cameron (Biodefense expert, Senior Director for Global Health Security and Biodefense on the National Security Council under Biden)^[61]
• Kurt M. Campbell ("Asia Czar" under Biden, State Dept. official under Obama, husband of Lael Brainard)
• Jimmy Carter (39th POTUS 1977–1981)
• Carey Cavanaugh (diplomat and professor)
• Ronnie C. Chan (Asia Society co-chair, brother of Gerald Chan, son of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health namesake)^[62][63]
• Juju Chang (journalist/reporter for ABC News)
• Elaine Chao (ex-cabinet secretary, wife of Sen. Mitch McConnell, daughter of Harvard Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center namesake)^[23]
• Kenneth I. Chenault (CFR board member, former head of American Express 2001–2018)^[64]
• Henry Cisneros (10th U.S. HUD Secretary under Clinton)
• Wesley Kanne Clark (retired U.S. Army General, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1997–2000, Rhodes scholar)
• Bill Clinton (42nd POTUS 1993–2001, Rhodes scholar)^[65]
• Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Foundation board member formerly at McKinsey, only daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton)^[66]
• George Clooney (actor, director, screenwriter, producer, "UN Messenger of Peace," nephew of Rosemary Clooney, and co-star with Sir Kevin Spacey, KBE of Men Who Stare at Goats)
• David S. Cohen (5th and 8th Deputy Director of the CIA 2015–2017 and 2021– )
• Richard "Dick" Cohen (Washington Post columnist 1976–2019)^[67][68]
• (CFR board member, CEO 2019– , CRISPR Therapeutics AG senior advisor 2017– , CRISPR Therapeutics AG chairman 2015–2017, Onyx Pharmaceuticals CEO 2008–2013, Harvard Medical School board of fellows)^{[69][70][71][72][73][74]}
• Susan M. Collins (5-term GOP U.S. Senator from Maine)
• Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist, talk show host)^[75][76]
• Edward F. Cox (attorney, chairman of the New York Republican Party, son-in-law of Richard Nixon)
• (professor at American University School of International Service)^{[77][78][79][80][81]}
• Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
• William M. Daley (White House chief of staff 2011–2012 under Obama, U.S. Commerce Secretary 1997–2000 under Clinton, brother of Chicago ex-mayor Richard M. Daley, son of ex-mayor Richard J. Daley)
• John J. "Jack" DeGioia (Georgetown University president 2001– )^[23]
• John M. Deutch (Director of CIA 1995–1996 under Clinton, Trilateral Commission member)
• Jackson Diehl (Washington Post editorial page deputy editor)
• Jamie Dimon (Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase 2006– )
• Chris Dodd (Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut 1981–2011)
• Eileen C. Donahoe (spouse of PayPal chairman/Nike CEO John Donahoe)^[82]
• Thomas R. Donahue (former Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO)
• William H. Donaldson (former Chairman of the SEC)
• Joan Donovan (research director at Shorenstein Center of Harvard Kennedy School, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society affiliate)^[83]
• Michael Douglas (actor, producer of The China Syndrome released days before the Three Mile Island incident)
• James S. Doyle (journalist & activist)
• Kimberly Dozier (journalist for BBC, CBS, AP, CNN, Daily Beast)
• Richard Dreyfuss (actor, writer, co-authored The Two Georges, played Dick Cheney in W.)
• Kenneth Duberstein (13th White House chief of staff under Reagan)
• Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
• Regina Dugan (Wellcome Leap CEO 2020– , Facebook 2017–2020, Google 2012–2017, DARPA director 2009–2012 under Obama)^{[84][85][86][87][88][89]}
• Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from California)
• Jesse Dylan (film director)
• Esther Dyson (philanthropist, technology analyst, daughter of Freeman Dyson)
• (Hoover Institution senior fellow)^{[90][91][92][93]}
• John Edwards (former Democratic U.S. Senator from North Carolina, Vice Presidential nominee for the 2004 election)
• Blair Effron (CFR vice chair, formerly with Warburg Dillon Read, UBS, UBS Warburg, major supporter of presidential campaigns of John Kerry, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden)
• Karl Eikenberry (U.S. Army General, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan)
• Luigi R. Einaudi (former secretary-general of the OAS)
• Jessica Einhorn (Time Warner and BlackRock board member, ex-director of CFR, ex-managing director at World Bank, succeeded Wolfowitz as dean of SAIS)
• Christopher Elias (president of Global Development Program 2011– )^{[94][95][96][97][98][99]}
• Keith Ellison (30th Attorney General of Minnesota, former U.S. Congressman from Minnesota succeeded by Ilhan Omar)^[100]
• Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel (COVID-19 Advisory Board member under Biden, brother of Rahm and Ari Emanuel)
• Richard Engel (NBC News foreign correspondent)
• (ProPublica editor-in-chief 2013– , Pulitzer Prize board 2012– , former New York Times journalist, co-author of Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War)^[101][102]
• Sir Mallory Factor, KCNG (biotech executive)^[103]
• (Bechtel principal v.p.)^[104]
• Dianne Feinstein (Democratic U.S. Senator from California 1992– , mayor of San Francisco 1978–1988 succeeding George Moscone)
• Martin Feldstein (economist, Harvard professor)
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Bernard T. Ferrari (dean of Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School)
• Laurence "Larry" Fink (CFR board member, BlackRock CEO 1988– , Trilateral Commission member)^[36][105]
• John B. Fitzgibbons (businessman and philanthropist)
• Tom Foley (Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives 1989–1995 as a Democratic Congressman from Washington state)
• Kristin Forbes, CBE (MIT professor, Trilateral Commission)^[106]
• Abe Foxman (Anti-Defamation League national director emeritus)
• Donald M. Fraser (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from Minnesota)
• Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
• Tom Frieden (16th director of the CDC 2009–2017 under Obama)^[107]
• Thomas Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
• Bill Frist (former U.S. Senate Majority Leader as a GOP Senator from Tennessee)
• Ann M. Fudge (board member Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, N.Y. Fed, Novartis)
• Francis Fukuyama (political scientist, former state department official)
• James K. Galbraith (professor at LBJ School at UT Austin, Senior Scholar with Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, son of John Kenneth Galbraith)
• Peter W. Galbraith (U.S. Ambassador to Croatia 1993–1998 under Clinton, older brother of James K. Galbraith)
• Pamela Gann (President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law)
• Eric Garcetti (42nd mayor of Los Angeles, Rhodes scholar, son of Gil Garcetti who prosecuted O. J. Simpson)
• Lulu Garcia-Navarro (NPR host)
• Henry Louis Gates (PBS host, Harvard professor)^[108][109]
• Robert M. Gates (22nd U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006–2011 under George W. Bush and Obama, 15th Director of Central Intelligence 1991–1993 under George H. W. Bush)
• David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
• Timothy Geithner (75th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013 under Obama, 9th President of the N.Y. Fed 2003–2009)
• Sam Gejdenson (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from Connecticut)
• Barton Gellman (Washington Post journalist, Rhodes scholar)
• Robert P. George (Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher)
• Dick Gephardt (22nd Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democratic Congressman from Missouri)
• Julie Gerberding (15th director of the CDC 2002–2009 under George W. Bush)
• David Gergen (Harvard Kennedy School professor, adviser to Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton, commentator for CNN, Trilateral Commission member)^{[36][110][111][112]}
• (senior policy researcher at RAND Corporation, acting undersecretary and deputy undersecretary in DHS Science and Technology Directorate 2011–2014)^[113]
• James S. Gilmore III (68th Governor of Virginia 1998–2002)
• Bonnie Glick (Former Deputy Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development 2019-2020)
• Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. (CEO of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey 1977–1985, president of Rockefeller Foundation 1988–1997, ex-publisher of International Herald Tribune)
• Bianna Golodryga (Journalist)
• Roy M. Goodman (former GOP member of the New York State Senate)
• Michael R. Gordon (national security correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, formerly at The New York Times known for Iraqi WMD story)^{[114][115][116]}
• Jamie Gorelick (28th U.S. Deputy Attorney General under Clinton, defended BP after 2010 oil spill, 9/11 Commission member, Amazon board member, Trilateral Commission member)^[36][117]
• Porter Goss (former GOP U.S. Congressman from Florida, Director of CIA 2004–2006 under George W. Bush)
• Bob Graham (Democratic 38th Governor of Florida and U.S. Senator)
• Elizabeth (Lally) Graham Weymouth (daughter of Phil and Katharine Graham, mother of Katharine Weymouth who were all publishers of The Washington Post)
• Evan G. Greenberg (Chubb Limited president/CEO 2004– , Rockefeller University trustee)^[118][119]
• Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg (CFR board member 1992–2002 and 2004–2009, CFR vice chairman 1994–2002, CFR honorary vice chairman 2002– , Trilateral Commission ex-member, ex-head of AIG 1968–2005, Kissinger confidant)^[120]
• Jonathan Greenblatt (Director/CEO of ADL 2015– , co-founder of Starbucks subsidiary Ethos Water)^[121]
• Alan Greenspan, KBE (Chairman of the Federal Reserve 1987–2006)
• Janet G. Mullins Grissom (GOP lobbyist, former U.S. State Department official)
• Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
• Richard N. Haass (CFR president 2003– , Director of Policy Planning at U.S. State Department 2001–2003 under George W. Bush, Rhodes scholar)^[23]
• Morton Halperin (Open Society Foundation senior adviser, Director of Policy Planning 1998–2001 under Clinton, formerly at Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, ACLU, colleague of Kissinger at and NSC)
• Lee H. Hamilton (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from Indiana, 9/11 Commission vice chair)
• Jane Harman (Wilson Center president emerita 2011– , Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• David A. Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC))
• Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
• Michael Hayden (U.S. Air Force general, 15th director of the National Security Agency, National Security Adviser under Clinton and 20th director of the CIA under George W. Bush)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of The Nation, wife of Stephen F. Cohen, daughter of William vanden Heuvel)
• William vanden Heuvel (diplomat and international lawyer, father of Katrina vanden Heuvel)
• Heather Higgins (women's advocate, chairman of the Independent Women's Forum, president of the Randolph Foundation)
• Frederick Samuel "Fred" Hiatt (Washington Post editorial page editor overseeing opinions page 2000– , son of Howard Hiatt)^[122][123]
• Fiona Hill (The Globalist writer, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia of the NSC under Trump, Trilateral Commission member)^{[36][124][125]}
• Carla Anderson Hills (5th U.S. HUD Secretary under Ford, 10th U.S. Trade Representative under George H. W. Bush, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Leo Hindery (businessman, philanthropist)
• Deane R. Hinton (former diplomat)
• Mellody Hobson (president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, chairwoman of Starbucks)^[126]
• Malcolm Hoenlein (vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
• Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
• Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn)^[127][128]
• Warren Hoge (former New York Times journalist)
• Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
• OBE (Chatham House senior adviser, London Metal Exchange chairwoman)^[129]
• David A. Hunt (Democratic former Oregon House Speaker)^[130]
• Will Hurd (GOP U.S. Congressman from Texas 2015–2021, ex-CIA clandestine officer 2000–2009)^[131]
• Adi Ignatius (editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, former deputy managing editor for Time, brother of David Ignatius)
• David Ignatius (Washington Post journalist, Body of Lies author, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Martin Indyk (British-Australian CFR distinguished fellow, Brookings Institution executive v.p. 2001–2018, U.S. Ambassador to Israel 1995–1997 and 2000–2001 under Clinton)^[132]
• Bobby Ray Inman (retired admiral, former NSA Director under Carter 1977–1981)
• Walter Isaacson (Tulane professor 2018– , Amanpour & Co. correspondent 2018– , Aspen Institute president/CEO 2003–2018, LRA vice-chair, CNN chair/CEO 2001–2003, Time editor 1996–2001, Rhodes scholar, author of Code Breaker, Kissinger, etc.)^[133]
• Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
• Roberta S. Jacobson (former NSC "border czar" under Biden)
• James E. Johnson (NYC corporation counsel 2019– , Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence 1998–2001, ex-SDNY Assistant U.S. Attorney)
• Jay L. Johnson (retired U.S. Navy admiral, 26th Chief of Naval Operations 1996–2000, ex-president/CEO of General Dynamics)
• Jeh Johnson (4th DHS Secretary 2013–2017 under Obama, former SDNY Assistant U.S. Attorney)
• Nancy Johnson (former GOP U.S. Congresswoman from Connecticut)
• Sheila Johnson (businesswoman, president of the Washington Mystics)
• Robert Wood ("Woody") Johnson IV (investor, owner of the New York Jets, heir to Johnson & Johnson, ex-ambassador to the UK 2017–2021 under Trump)
• Angelina Jolie, DCMG (actor, producer, director, "UN Goodwill Ambassador")^[134]
• Alex S. Jones (Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center director 2000–2015)
• Boisfeuillet Jones Jr. (Washington Post ex-CEO and publisher, Rhodes scholar)
• Vernon Jordan (adviser to Clinton)
• Kenneth Juster (U.S. Ambassador to India 2021– under Biden, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[33]

• Robert P. Kadlec (HHS ASPR 2017–2021 under Trump, oversaw 2019 pandemic exercise)^[135]

• Joseph Kahn (managing editor of The New York Times)
• Walter H. Kansteiner III (American diplomat, founding principal of The Scowcroft Group)
• Jonathan Karl (ABC News journalist)^[136]
• Nancy Kassebaum (former GOP U.S. Senator from Kansas, daughter of Alf Landon, and wife of Howard Baker)
• Peter J. Katzenstein, FBA (political scientist, Cornell academic)
• Thomas Kean, Sr. (GOP politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey, 2nd Chair of the 9/11 Commission)
• Raymond W. Kelly (37th and 41st police commissioner of NYC under Mayor Dinkins and Mayor Bloomberg, KBE)
• Frederick Kempe (Atlantic Council president/CEO)
• Muhtar Kent (ex-CEO and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company)^[137]
• John Forbes Kerry (1st "Climate Czar" under Biden, former Democratic U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1985–2013, 68th U.S. Secretary of State 2013–2017 under Obama, and Forbes family member whose electoral history includes 2004 presidential candidacy)^[138]
• Vanessa Kerry (M.D., affiliated faculty at Harvard Medical School, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)
• Glenn Kessler ("Fact Checker" ex-columnist at The Washington Post)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (26th UN Ambassador under George W. Bush)
• Henry Kissinger, KCMG (National Security Advisor 1969–1975 under Nixon, U.S. Secretary of State 1973–1977 under Nixon and Ford, 1st Chair of the 9/11 Commission Nov.–Dec. 2002, author of NSS Memo 200, subject of The Trials of Henry Kissinger,Trilateral Commission member, mentor of Klaus Schwab)^{[36][139][140][141][142]}
• Joe Klein (Time Magazine columnist)
• Amy Klobuchar (Democratic U.S. Senator from Minnesota, ex-prosecutor in Minneapolis)
• Richard Kogan (former CEO of Schering-Plough 1996–2003, board member of Colgate-Palmolive and The Bank of New York Mellon)
• Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times columnist, Trilateral Commission member)^{[36][143][144][145]} Aspen Strategy Group member,^[146] Rhodes scholar)
• Paul R. Krugman (New York Times columnist, economist)
• Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey)
• Philip Lader (diplomat, chairman of WPP Group)
• Eric S. Lander (MIT scientist, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President 2021– under Biden)^{[147][148][149]}
• Richard W. Lariviere (scholar, president of the University of Oregon)
• (philanthropist, daughter-in-law of William P. Lauder)^[150]
• Leonard Lauder (elder brother of Ron Lauder, son of Estée Lauder)
• Ronald S. Lauder (World Jewish Congress president 2007– succeeding Edgar Bronfman Sr.)^[151]
• William P. Lauder (Estée Lauder Companies CEO, son of Leonard Lauder)
• Risa Lavizzo-Mourey (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president and CEO 2003–2017)
• Jim Leach (former GOP U.S. Congressman from Iowa, chairman of the NEH under Obama)
• Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS NewsHour)
• Jack Lew (76th U.S. Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff under Obama, ex-COO at Citigroup 2006–2008)
• John Lewis (Democratic U.S. Congressman from Georgia, civil-rights leader)
• Mara Liasson (NPR national political correspondent)
• Joe Lieberman (former Democratic/Independent U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Democratic candidate for U.S. Vice President in 2000 election)
• Lewis "Scooter" Libby (attorney, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney)
• Herbert London (academic, activist, ex-dean of NYU's Gallatin School, ex-president of Hudson Institute)
• Frank Luntz (GOP consultant, pollster)^[152]
• Nigel Lythgoe (ex-producer of American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance judge)
• Greg Maffei (president/CEO of Liberty Media, chairman of Live Nation Entertainment, Sirius XM and TripAdvisor, former CFO of Oracle and Microsoft)^[153]
• Katherine Maher (formerly at Wikimedia Foundation, WEF, World Bank, UNICEF, HSBC)^[154]
• Fred Malek (businessman, former president of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines)
• David Malpass (economist, GOP politician)
• David A. Marcus (ex-president of PayPal, ex-head of Facebook Messenger)
• Rebecca Mark-Jusbasche (ex-head of Enron International, Azurix in Argentina water suit)
• Kati Marton (author/journalist, widow of Richard Holbrooke and ex-wife of Peter Jennings)^[155]
• William F. Martin (6th Deputy Secretary of Energy and Executive Secretary of the National Security Council under Reagan)
• Alejandro Mayorkas (7th DHS Secretary under Biden)
• (Aspen Institute senior fellow, Schwab Foundation "social entrepreneur")^{[156][157][158]}
• Barry McCaffrey (retired U.S. Army General, analyst, "Drug Czar" 1996–2001 under Clinton)^[159]
• Stan McChrystal (retired U.S. Army General, JSOC commander 2003–2008 for Afghanistan, central figure in War Machine)^{[160][161][162][163]}
• Cynthia McFadden (NBC News legal correspondent 2014– , ABC News correspondent 1994–2014)
• Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane (national security advisor 1983–1985 under Reagan)
• Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty, III (White House chief of staff 1993–1994 under Clinton, ex-partner in Kissinger McLarty Associates)^[164]
• William H. McRaven (retired admiral, USSOC commander 2011–2014, JSOC commander 2008–2011 succeeding McChrystal)^[165][23]
• Christopher C. Miller (acting U.S. Defense Secretary 2020–2021 succeeding Mark Esper under Trump)
• Judith Miller (Pulitzer-winning New York Times ex-journalist known for Iraqi WMD and Plame stories, Aspen Strategy Group ex-member)^[166][167]
• William Green Miller (2nd U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under Clinton)
• Judith A. "Jami" Miscik (CFR vice chairwoman of the board, CIA Deputy Director for Intelligence 2002–2005, Global Head of Sovereign Risk at Lehman Brothers 2005–2008, PIAB chair 2014–2017 under Obama, President and Vice-Chairman of Kissinger Associates 2009– , Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Andrea Mitchell (NBC News journalist, spouse of Alan Greenspan, KBE, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• George J. Mitchell (CFR board 1995–2005, 17th Senate Majority Leader as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Maine, Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission)^[168][169]
• Lisa O. Monaco (39th U.S. Deputy Attorney General under Biden)
• Walter Mondale (42nd VPOTUS 1977–1981 under Carter, Democratic presidential candidate for the 1984 election)
• Les Moonves (ex-president and CEO of CBS 2003–2018)^[170][171]
• Terry Moran (ABC News journalist)
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr. (businessman, son of Robert Mosbacher)
• Langhorne A. Motley (former diplomat and U.S. State Department official)
• Bill Moyers (White House press secretary under LBJ, public commentator for PBS)
• David Mulford (21st U.S. Ambassador to India under George W. Bush, ex-executive at Credit Suisse, Hoover Institution fellow)
• Rupert Murdoch (founder/chairman/CEO of News Corp and Fox News)
• Janet Napolitano (CFR board 2016– , 20th president of the University of California 2013–2020, 3rd U.S. DHS Secretary 2009–2013 under Obama, 21st Governor of Arizona 2003–2009)^{[172][173][174]}
• John D. Negroponte (U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 2007–2009 under George W. Bush, UN Ambassador 2001–2004 under George W. Bush, 1st Director of National Intelligence 2005–2007 under George W. Bush, subject of The Ambassador, brother of MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Diana Villiers Negroponte (lawyer, daughter of Sir Charles English Hyde Villiers, wife of John Negroponte)
• Eleanor Holmes Norton (Delegate from the D.C. at-large district)
• Joseph S. Nye Jr. (Harvard Kennedy School academic, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs under Clinton, British Academy, Rhodes scholar, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Sandra Day O'Connor (former U.S. Supreme Court justice)
• Stan O'Neal (former Chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch)
• Peter L. Osnos (Washington Post journalist 1966–1984, father of journalist Evan Osnos)
• (chairwoman of the Center for Civilians in Conflict, wife of Peter Osnos)
• Meghan O'Sullivan (board of CFR and Raytheon, Trilateral Commission North American chair)

• Tara O'Toole (Senior Fellow and executive v.p. at In-Q-Tel, Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Science and Technology 2009–2013 under Obama, principal author and producer of Operation Dark Winter and Atlantic Storm bioterror scenarios)^[175][176]

• Robert Pastor (national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara)
• George Pataki (GOP politician, 53rd Governor of New York)
• Henry Paulson (74th U.S. Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush)
• Christina H. Paxson (19th president of Brown University)
• Peter G. Peterson (20th U.S. Commerce Secretary under Nixon)
• David Petraeus (retired U.S. Army General, former head of Centcom 2008–2010, 22nd director of the CIA 2011–2012 under Obama, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Tom Petri (GOP U.S. congressman from Wisconsin)
• Steve Pieczenik (former U.S. State Department official)
• Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
• Walter Pincus (Pulitzer-winning Washington Post national security correspondent 1975–2015, played role in Plame affair)^[177][178]
• Daniel Pipes (academic, writer, historian, son of Richard Pipes)
• (engagement manager at McKinsey 2011–2015, director for Liberia 2004–2008 at Clinton Foundation, daughter of John Podesta)^[179][180]
• Norman Podhoretz (former editor-in-chief of "Commentary", senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, Project for the New American Century (PNAC) signatory)
• Steve Poizner (California businessman and GOP politician)
• Roman Popadiuk (1st U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush and Clinton, Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation)
• Arturo C. Porzecanski (Wall Street economist and university professor)
• Colin Powell, KCB (65th U.S. Secretary of State under George W. Bush, 16th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush)^[181]
• Jerome Powell (16th Chair of the Federal Reserve 2018– )
• Laurene Powell Jobs (CFR board member, founder of Emerson Collective that owns The Atlantic, widow of Steve Jobs)^[182]
• Priscilla Presley (actress and former chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises)
• Charles Prince (former CEO of Citigroup)
• Penny Pritzker (Carnegie Endowment chairwoman, sister of 43rd governor of Illinois J. B. Pritzker, daughter of Hyatt Hotels co-founder Donald Pritzker, 38th U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Obama)
• Thomas Pritzker (executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels, son of Hyatt co-founder Jay Pritzker, and cousin of Penny and J. B. Pritzker)^[183]
• Jennifer Raab (President of Hunter College)
• (International Council at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center)^[184]
• Gina M. Raimondo (40th U.S. Secretary of Commerce 2021– under Biden, 75th Governor of Rhode Island 2015–2021, Rhodes scholar)
• Dan Rather (journalist, former CBS anchor)
• Edward Regan (former New York State Comptroller)
• L. Rafael Reif (17th president of MIT, CFR board member)^[185][186]
• Janet Reno (78th U.S. Attorney General under Clinton)
• Condoleezza Rice (66th U.S. Secretary of State under George W. Bush)
• Susan Rice (Domestic Policy Council director under Biden, daughter of Lois Dickson and Emmett Rice, Rhodes scholar)^[187]
• Bill Richardson (senior managing director of Kissinger McLarty Associates, 30th Governor of New Mexico, 21st UN Ambassador and 9th U.S. Energy Secretary under Clinton, Chinese spy exposé source)^{[188][189][190][191][192][193]}
• Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
• Chuck Robb (64th Governor of Virginia, former Democratic U.S. Senator from Virginia, son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson)
• David Rockefeller, Jr. (son of former C.F.R. chairman David Rockefeller, and father of Ariana Rockefeller)
• John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (Democratic U.S. Senator from West Virginia, 29th Governor of West Virginia, husband of Sharon Rockefeller)
• (securities trader)^[194]
• Steven C. Rockefeller (Middlebury College professor emeritus, son of Mary Clark and Nelson Rockefeller)
• Susan Cohn Rockefeller (filmmaker, spouse of David Rockefeller Jr.)
• Valerie Rockefeller (daughter of CPB ex-chair Sharon Percy and Sen. Jay Rockefeller)
• Judith Rodin (Rockefeller Foundation president 2005–2017, University of Pennsylvania president 1994–2004)^[195]
• Charlie Rose (former journalist at CBS and PBS, host of The Charlie Rose Show 1991–2017)^[196][197]
• Jack Rosen (American Jewish Congress president)
• Jeffrey A. Rosen (former U.S. Deputy Attorney General 2019–2020 under Trump)
• Liz Rosenberg (novelist, poet, columnist for The Boston Globe)
• David J. Rothkopf (author, former managing director of Kissinger Associates, former Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health advisory board member)^{[198][199][200]}
• Lynn Forester de Rothschild (businesswoman)^{[201][202][203]}
• Cecilia Elena Rouse (30th Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Biden, former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School)
• David Rubenstein (C.F.R. chair, Carlyle Group founder, namesake of HKS building, Trilateral Commission member, WEF trustee)^{[11][36][204]}
• Robert Rubin (70th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Clinton, former board co-chair of Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, spearheaded repeal of Glass-Steagall Act)
• Haim Saban (founder, Saban Capital Group)
• Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist, ex-director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University)^[205]
• Sheryl Sandberg (Facebook COO)^[206][207]

• David E. Sanger (New York Times White House and national security correspondent, Aspen Strategy Group member)^[208][209]

• Ruth Savord (CFR librarian)
• Diane Sawyer (journalist, ABC News)^[23]
• Anthony Scaramucci (SkyBridge Capital founder)^[210]
• (CEO and co-founder at IDinsight)^[211]
• Rajiv J. (Raj) Shah (Rockefeller Foundation president 2017– , Trilateral Commission member)^[36][212]
• Eric E. Schmidt (ex-CEO of Google, Trilateral Commission member)^[36]
• Eric P. Schmitt (Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter of "Russia bounty" story)^{[213][214][215][216]}
• Michael N. Schmitt (G. Norman Lieber Distinguished Scholar at West Point)^[217]
• Kurt Schmoke (46th mayor of Baltimore, Rhodes scholar)
• Peter Schwartz (Global Business Network co-founder)^[195]
• Stephen M. Schwebel (jurist, former judge on the International Court of Justice)
• Dan Senor (former foreign policy advisor under George W. Bush, former Fox News foreign policy analyst)
• Donna Shalala (18th U.S. HHS Secretary under Clinton, President of the University of Miami)
• Wendy Sherman (21st U.S. Deputy Secretary of State under Biden, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[33][218]
• Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
• Michael Shifter (academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue)
• Eric Shinseki (7th U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Obama, 34th Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army under Clinton & George W. Bush)
• Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and historian)
• Timothy Shriver (chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics, brother of Maria Shriver, and son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver)
• George Shultz (60th U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan, 62nd U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and 11th U.S. Labor Secretary under Nixon)
• Laurence H. Silberman (United States federal judge)
• Adam Silver (Commissioner of the NBA 2014– )^[219][23]
• Robert Silvers (editor of New York Review of Books)
• Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
• Bradford L. Smith (Microsoft president)^[220][221]
• Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
• Olympia J. Snowe (former GOP U.S. Senator from Maine)
• Nancy Soderberg (alternate United Nations Ambassador under Clinton 1997–2001)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin (business journalist for The New York Times and CNBC)^[222]
• George Soros (CFR board 1995–2004, currency speculator, investor, businessman)^{[223][224][225][226][227][228]}
• Jonathan Soros (fund manager, son of George Soros, and half-brother of Alexander Soros)
• John Spratt (former Democratic U.S. congressman from South Carolina)
• Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
• James E. "Jes" Staley (Barclays CEO)^[229][230]
• David Stern (4th Commissioner of the NBA)
• Adlai Stevenson III (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II)
• George Stephanopoulos (former White House press secretary under Clinton, GMA TV host, ABC News anchor, Rhodes scholar)^[231][76]
• Larry Summers (ex-cabinet secretary, ex-president of Harvard, Epstein associate)^[232][233]
• Mark Suzman (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO, Rhodes scholar)^[234]
• Paul Tagliabue (NFL Commissioner 1989–2006, Rhodes scholar)^[235]
• Jake Tapper (CNN journalist)^[236]
• Dina Temple-Raston (NPR news correspondent)
• George Tenet (CIA Director 1996–2004 under Clinton and George W. Bush)^[237]
• Linda Thomas-Greenfield (31st UN Ambassador 2021– under Biden)
• John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs)
• Frances Townsend (3rd U.S. Homeland Security Advisor)
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Democratic 6th Lieutenant Governor of Maryland 1995–2003, daughter of RFK and Ethel Kennedy)
• Laura Trevelyan (BBC America presenter, wife of ABC News president James Goldston)
• Doug Turner (GOP operative/politician)
• Cyrus Vance Jr. (Manhattan District Attorney)
• Tom Vilsack (30th and 32nd U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under Obama and Biden, 40th Governor of Iowa)
• Paul Volcker (12th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Kenneth Wainstein (4th U.S. Homeland Security Advisor succeeded by John O. Brennan)
• Peter J. Wallison (20th White House Counsel to Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
• Barbara Walters (ABC News journalist)
• Vicky Ward (British-born CNN journalist)^[238]
• Vin Weber (former GOP U.S. Congressman from Minnesota)
• David Wehner (CFO of Facebook)
• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• Susan Roosevelt Weld (ex-wife of William Weld)
• William Weld (governor of Massachusetts 1991–1997, DOJ Criminal Division head 1986–1988, 2020 GOP primary candidate, Rhodes scholar)^[239]
• Leana S. Wen (CNN medical analyst, Washington Post columnist, former president of Planned Parenthood, global health fellow at the W.H.O., Rhodes scholar)^[240][241]
• Christine Todd Whitman (50th Governor of New Jersey, 9th EPA Administrator under George W. Bush)
• Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (British member of parliament, International Advisory Board member)
• Richard S. Williamson (diplomat, lawyer, former chairman of the Republican Party of Illinois)
• (international law professor)^[242][243]
• Timothy E. Wirth (ex-Democratic U.S. Senator from Colorado 1987–1993, ex-Congressman 1975–1987, Wirth chair namesake)^[244]
• Frank G. Wisner II (son of CIA founding officer Frank Wisner)
• James D. Wolfensohn, KBE (9th President of the World Bank)
• Paul Wolfowitz (10th President of the World Bank, 28th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush)
• Bob Woodruff (ABC News journalist)
• Judy Woodruff (PBS NewsHour journalist, spouse of journalist Al Hunt)
• R. James Woolsey (16th Director of Central Intelligence under Clinton, Rhodes scholar)
• (R. James Woolsey's ex-wife, Paladin Homeland Security Fund, Washington Post editorialist)^[245]
• (retired lawyer, father of FBI Director Christopher A. Wray)^[246]
• Tadataka "Tachi" Yamada, KBE (ex-partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners)^{[247][248][249]}
• Janet Yellen (78th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Biden)
• Janine Zacharia (journalist at The Jerusalem Post, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post and lecturer in journalism at Stanford University)^[250]
• Paula Zahn (journalist, former anchor at Fox News and CNN)
• Fareed Zakaria (journalist at CNN and The Washington Post)
• Dov S. Zakheim (academic and Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 2001–2004 under George W. Bush)
• Philip D. Zelikow (9/11 Commission executive director/chair)
• Jeffrey D. Zients ("Covid Czar" under Biden)^[251]
• Robert J. Zimmer (University of Chicago president 2006– )^[23]
• Robert B. Zoellick (President of the World Bank 2007–2012)
• James Zogby (academic, political commentator and pollster)
• Mortimer B. Zuckerman (Canadian-born publisher/editor-in-chief of U.S. News & World Report, formerly owned New York Daily News, The Atlantic and Fast Company)^[252]

Current Emeritus and Honorary Officers and Directors[]

• Madeleine K. Albright (Director Emerita)
• Leslie H. Gelb (President Emeritus)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (Honorary Vice Chairman)
• Peter G. Peterson (Chairman Emeritus)
• David Rockefeller (Honorary Chairman)

Notable historical members[]

• Herbert Agar (writer, editor of The Louisville Courier-Journal)
• Harold Agnew (physicist, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Umberto Agnelli (Italian industrialist, CEO of Fiat)
• Roger Ailes (former Chairman and CEO of Fox News)
• Fouad Ajami (professor in Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins University)
• John B. Anderson (former GOP/Independent U.S. Congressman from Illinois, independent candidate in 1980 U.S. presidential election)
• Les Aspin (Democratic U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin, 18th U.S. Secretary of Defense under Clinton, Rhodes scholar)
• Kenneth Bacon (American journalist)
• Howard Baker (13th Senate Majority Leader as a GOP U.S. Senator from Tennessee, 12th White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan, husband of Nancy Kassebaum Baker)
• George Wildman Ball (American diplomat)
• Sandy Berger (19th U.S. National Security Adviser under Clinton)^[253]
• Joe Biden (46th POTUS 2021– , 47th VPOTUS 2009–2017, Democratic U.S. Senator from Delaware 1973–2009)
• Jonathan Bingham (Democratic U.S. Congressman from New York, diplomat)
• Conrad Black, The Rt Hon Lord Black of Crossharbour, KCSG (Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, International Advisory Board member)^[254]
• Shirley Temple Black (child star, U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia 1989–1992, U.S. Ambassador to Ghana 1974–1976, wife of Charles Alden Black of Stanford Research Institute)
• Lincoln P. Bloomfield (U.S. State Department official and foreign policy expert)
• David Boren (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma)
• Rudy Boschwitz (former GOP U.S. Senator from Minnesota)
• Tom Braden (former CIA agent and liberal journalist on CNN)
• Spruille Braden (American diplomat, businessman)
• Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group head, The Bail Project partner)^{[255][256][257][258][259][260]}
• Bill Brock (chairman of the Republican Party 1977–1981, U.S. Trade Representative 1981–1985, U.S. Secretary of Labor under Reagan 1985–1987, GOP U.S. Senator from Tennessee 1971–1977 succeeding Al Gore Sr.)
• Tom Brokaw (NBC journalist)
• Edgar Bronfman Sr. (Canadian-born Seagram heir, brother of Charles Bronfman and Phyllis Barbara Lambert, and president 1979–2007 of the World Jewish Congress chaired by David René de Rothschild)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (U.S. National Security Advisor 1977–1981 under Carter, academic at Columbia, organizer of The Trilateral Commission in 1973, father of Mika Brzezinski)^[261]
• William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review)
• McGeorge Bundy (National Security Advisor for Presidents JFK and LBJ)
• William Bundy (CIA officer, historian)
• George H. W. Bush (41st POTUS 1989–1993, 43rd VPOTUS 1981–1989, former Director of the CIA 1976–1977, Chief Liaison in Beijing 1974–1975 under Ford, UN Ambassador 1971–1973 under Nixon)
• Frank Carlucci (16th U.S. Secretary of Defense and 15th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 13th Deputy Director of the CIA under Carter)
• John Chafee (60th U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Nixon, and GOP U.S. Senator from Rhode Island)
• Dick Cheney (46th VPOTUS 2001–2009, White House chief of staff under Ford 1975–1977 succeeding Donald Rumsfeld, husband of Lynne Cheney, father of Mary and Liz Cheney)^[262]
• Warren Christopher (63rd U.S. Secretary of State 1993–1997 under Clinton)
• Hillary Clinton (ex-FLOTUS 1993–2001, Democratic U.S. Senator from New York 2001–2009, 67th U.S. Secretary of State 2009–2013 under Obama)
• Stephen F. Cohen (professor of Russian studies at NYU, husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel)
• Paul Cravath (lawyer, one of the founders of the CFR)
• Monica Crowley (former Richard Nixon aide, radio host, and columnist)
• Heidi Cruz (spouse of U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, former director of the Latin America Office at the U.S. Treasury Department and managing director at Goldman Sachs)
• Mario Cuomo (Democratic politician, 52nd Governor of New York 1983–1994, father of Andrew and Chris Cuomo)^[263]
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis (philanthropist)
• Thomas E. Dewey (47th Governor of New York 1943–1954, GOP nominee for the Presidency in 1944 and 1948)
• C. Douglas Dillon (57th U.S. Treasury Secretary under JFK and LBJ, Under Secretary of State under Eisenhower)
• Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, Democratic presidential nominee for the 1988 election)
• Allen Welsh Dulles (C.F.R. president 1946–1950, Director of Central Intelligence 1953–1961 under Eisenhower and JFK)
• John Foster Dulles (52nd U.S. Secretary of State 1953–1959 under Eisenhower, GOP U.S. Senator from New York 1949, drafter of UN Charter preamble, older brother of Allen Dulles)
• Fred Dutton (lawyer, lobbyist, Democratic operative)
• Michael Raoul Duval (attorney for Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford)
• Paul A. Dyster (30th Mayor of Niagara Falls, New York)
• Lawrence Eagleburger (62nd U.S. Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush)
• Jeffrey E. Epstein (financier, philanthropist, consultant)^{[264][265][266][267][268][269]}
• Rowland Evans (journalist)
• John Exter (economist)
• Noah Feldman (Harvard Law professor clerked for fellow Rhodes scholar David Souter at U.S. Supreme Court)
• Geraldine Ferraro (former Democratic U.S. Congresswoman from New York, first woman on a major party presidential ticket in 1984 election)
• Gerald Ford (38th POTUS 1974–1977, Warren Commission member)
• Leslie H. Gelb (former New York Times columnist, national security correspondent, editor of the op-ed page, former CFR president 1993–2003, president emeritus 2003–2019)
• Richard L. Gelb (CFR board 1979–1988, former chairman/CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, N.Y. Fed board, New York Times Company board, brother of Bruce Gelb, son of Lawrence M. Gelb)
• Murray Gell-Mann (co-founder of Santa Fe Institute, associate of Jeffrey Epstein)^{[270][271][272][273]}
• Newt Gingrich (58th Speaker of the House 1995–1999 as a GOP U.S. Congressman from Georgia)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1993–2020)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the USSR)
• Karenna Gore (daughter of Al Gore Jr., ex-wife of Jacob Schiff's great great grandson)^[274]
• Alexander Haig (U.S. Army General, 59th U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan)
• Sidney Harman (businessman, owner of Newsweek)
• Armand Hammer (business associate of V. I. Lenin and Al Gore Sr., and namesake of UWC whose ex-presidents include )^[275]
• W. Averell Harriman (48th Governor of New York, diplomat, 11th U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Truman)
• H. John Heinz III (former GOP U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1977–1991, first husband of Teresa Heinz Kerry)
• Richard Holbrooke (diplomat, investment banker, 22nd UN Ambassador under Clinton)
• Herbert Hoover (31st POTUS 1929–1933, appointed Eugene Meyer as Fed chair 1930–1933)^[276]
• Henry Hyde (former GOP U.S. Congressman from Illinois)
• Robert Kagan (historian, Washington Post columnist, co-founder of PNAC, husband of Victoria Nuland, brother of Frederick Kagan, son of Donald Kagan)^[277]
• Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
• Charles Krauthammer (columnist for The Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News)
• Irving Kristol (journalist, writer, "Godfather of Neoconservatism", father of Bill Kristol)
• Jack Kemp (Buffalo Bills ex-quarterback, former GOP U.S. Congressman from New York, 9th HUD Secretary under George H. W. Bush, GOP Vice Presidential nominee for 1996 election)
• George Kennan (diplomat, historian)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (diplomat, 16th UN Ambassador under Reagan)
• Winston Lord (U.S. Ambassador to China 1985–1989, ex-president of C.F.R. 1977–1985, drafter of 1972 Shanghai Communiqué, Kissinger associate)
• Ivy Lee ("father of public relations")
• Robert A. Lovett (4th U.S. Secretary of Defense under Truman)
• Robert Matsui (former Democratic U.S. Congressman from California)
• John McCain (GOP U.S. Senator from Arizona 1987–2018, GOP presidential nominee for the 2008 election)
• John J. McCloy (preceded David Rockefeller as Chairman of the C.F.R. 1954–1969, succeeded Eugene Meyer as 2nd World Bank President, Warren Commission member)
• Charles Peter McColough (businessman)
• George McGovern (former Democratic U.S. Senator from South Dakota, Democratic Presidential nominee for the 1972 election)
• Robert McNamara (8th Secretary of Defense under JFK and LBJ, 5th President of the World Bank)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (diplomat, former Democratic U.S. Senator from New York 1977–2001)
• Edmund Muskie (58th U.S. Secretary of State under Carter, U.S. Senator from Maine, 64th Governor of Maine, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate for the 1968 election)
• Richard M. Nixon (37th POTUS 1969–1974, VPOTUS 1953–1961, GOP U.S. Senator from California 1950–1953)
• Paul Nitze (Secretary of the Navy under LBJ)
• Peter G. Peterson (Blackstone Group co-founder/CEO, Lehman Brothers CEO 1973–1984, CFR president 1985–2007)
• Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
• Charles Rangel (Democratic U.S. Congressman from NYC 1971–2017)
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (former Democratic U.S. Senator from Connecticut)
• David Rockefeller (Chairman of the C.F.R. 1970–1985, chairman and CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank 1969–1981)^{[278][279][280]}
• Nelson Rockefeller (41st VPOTUS 1974–1977 under Ford, 49th Governor of New York 1959–1973)
• John D. Rockefeller III (founder of Population Council, brother of Abby, Nelson, Winthrop, Laurance and David Rockefeller)
• Felix Rohatyn (investment banker with Lazard, U.S. Ambassador to France under Clinton)
• Mark B. Rosenberg (President of Florida International University)
• Eugene Rostow (former dean of Yale Law School, legal scholar)
• Walt Rostow (7th National Security Advisor under LBJ)
• William V. Roth, Jr. (former GOP U.S. Senator from Delaware)
• Dean Rusk (54th U.S. Secretary of State under JFK and LBJ)
• Carl Sagan (American scientist)
• Arthur Schlesinger (historian, academic)
• Brent Scowcroft (9th & 17th U.S. National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
• Raymond P. Shafer (former GOP Governor of Pennsylvania)
• Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, co-founded One Jerusalem, played Alan Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, played Henry Kissinger in Kissinger and Nixon)
• Tony Snow (former press secretary under George W. Bush, journalist, radio talk-show host)
• Strobe Talbott (diplomat, chairman of Brookings Institution, journalist)
• Richard Thornburgh (76th U.S. Attorney General under Reagan and George H. W. Bush, 76th Governor of Pennsylvania)
• Stansfield Turner (U.S. Navy Admiral, 12th director of the CIA under Carter, Rhodes scholar)
• Sanford J. Ungar (president emeritus of Goucher College, All Things Considered host 1980–1982)
• Cyrus Vance (57th U.S. Secretary of State under Carter, and father of Cyrus Vance Jr.)
• Vernon A. Walters (U.S. Army General, 17th UN Ambassador under Reagan and George H. W. Bush)
• James Warburg (son of Paul Warburg, nephew of Jacob Schiff, promoter of Morgenthau Plan and "world government")^[281]
• Paul Warburg (banker, co-founder of Federal Reserve, C.F.R. board member 1921–1932)
• Rick Warren (American Christian leader, Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church)
• Andrew C. Weber, (former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs)^[282]
• Caspar Weinberger (15th U.S. Secretary of Defense under Reagan)
• John Wheeler III (Vietnam veteran, military consultant, presidential aide, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund)
• John C. Whitehead (9th U.S. Deputy Secretary of State under Reagan, chairman of the WTC Memorial Foundation, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
• Albert Wohlstetter (RAND Corporation analyst)
• Roberta Wohlstetter (RAND Corporation analyst)

List of Chairmen[]

• Russell Cornell Leffingwell, 1946–1953
• John J. McCloy, 1953–1970
• David Rockefeller, 1970–1985
• Peter G. Peterson, 1985–2007
• Carla A. Hills, 2007–2017 (co-chair)
• Robert E. Rubin, 2007–2017 (co-chair)
• David Rubenstein, 2017–present

List of presidents[]

• John W. Davis 1921–33
• George W. Wickersham 1933–36
• Norman H. Davis 1936–44
• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1944–46
• Allen Welsh Dulles 1946–50
• Henry Merritt Wriston 1951–64
• Grayson L. Kirk 1964–71
• Bayless Manning 1971–77
• Winston Lord 1977–85
• 1985–86 (Pro tempore)
• Peter Tarnoff 1986–93
• 1993
• Leslie H. Gelb 1993–2003
• Richard N. Haass 2003–

References[]

Source: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers^[283]

External links[]

• Membership Roster | Council on Foreign Relations, CFR.org
• Historical Roster of Directors and Officers | Council on Foreign Relations, CFR.org