•
Gina Kay Abercrombie-Winstanley (chief diversity and inclusion officer for the
U.S. State Department) •
John Abizaid (
U.S. Army general, former head of
Centcom) •
Elliott Abrams (
lawyer, former
State Department official) •
Stacey Abrams (
Georgia representative and minority leader) •
Michael F. Adams (president of
University of Georgia) •
Stephen J. Adler (
Reuters editor-in-chief) •
Madeleine Albright (
U.S. Secretary of State, 1997–2001, and
UN Ambassador 1993–1997) •
Lamar Alexander (45th
governor of Tennessee,
U.S. senator, fifth
United States Secretary of Education) •
David Altshuler (geneticist;
Vertex Pharmaceuticals CEO) •
Anthony Clark Arend (
lawyer; academic) •
Adam Aron (president and CEO of
AMC Theatres) •
Erik Arroyo (politician and lawyer) •
Anders Åslund (former
Atlantic Council senior fellow) •
Ken Auletta (
The New Yorker media critic) •
Lloyd J. Austin III (
U.S. Secretary of Defense, 2021–2025) •
Bruce Babbitt (
governor of Arizona, 1978–1987;
U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1993–2001) •
James A. Baker III (
U.S. Secretary of State, 1989–1992,
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1985–1988;
White House Chief of Staff 1981–1985 and 1992–1993) •
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
U.S. senator and 46th
governor of Indiana) •
Warren Beatty (actor, producer, director, activist) •
Elizabeth Becker (author and journalist) •
Peter Beinart (academic; columnist) •
Robert A. Belfer (
Enron investor) •
Peter Bergen (
journalist and national security analyst for
CNN) •
Nicolas Berggruen (founder,
Berggruen Institute) •
Howard Berman (former U.S. congressman from
California) •
Michael Beschloss (presidential scholar) •
Scott Bessent (
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 2025–present; founder of Key Square Group) •
Richard E. Besser (
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation president and
CEO) •
Jeffrey Bewkes (president of
Time Warner) •
Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S.
counter-insurgency policy) •
Sanford Bishop (
U.S. congressman from Georgia) •
Leon Black (
Museum of Modern Art co-chair) •
Robert D. Blackwill (Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy •
Alan Blinken (former
U.S. Ambassador to Belgium) •
Antony Blinken (
U.S. Secretary of State, 2021–2025) •
Donald M. Blinken (former director of
Warburg Pincus) •
Michael R. Bloomberg (
mayor of New York City, 2002–2013; founder of
Bloomberg L.P.) •
Bill Bradley (former
U.S. senator from
New Jersey, 1979–1997;
NBA Hall of Fame New York Knicks player, 1967–1977) •
Lael Brainard (
Federal Reserve Board member; former
Treasury official) •
Marcus W. Brauchli (executive editor of
The Washington Post, 2008–2012) •
L. Paul Bremer (
diplomat) •
Ian Bremmer (
Eurasia Group founder and president) •
James W. (Jim) Breyer (boards of
Blackstone Group,
Harvard Corporation,
Walmart,
Facebook,
WEF) •
Stephen G. Breyer (former
U.S. Supreme Court justice, Rhodes scholar) •
Steven Brill (
CourtTV founder) •
Tom Brokaw (author,
NBC News journalist) •
Edgar Bronfman Jr. (
Seagram heir) •
Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of
The New York Times) •
Kate Brown (former
governor of Oregon) •
Erin Burnett (
CNN anchor,
journalist) •
William J. Burns (8th
Director of the CIA 2021–2025,
Deputy Secretary of State 2011–2014, 5th
U.S. Ambassador to Russia 2005–2008) •
Dan Burton (former
U.S. congressman from
Indiana) •
Sylvia Mathews Burwell (former president of
American University,
HHS Secretary 2014–2017 •
Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO) •
Craig Calhoun (president of
Berggruen Institute, Director of the
London School of Economics) •
Elizabeth Cameron (senior director for Global Health Security and Biodefense on the
U.S. National Security Council) •
Kurt M. Campbell (
State Dept. official) •
Jimmy Carter (39th
president of the United States) •
Carey Cavanaugh (
diplomat and
professor) •
Gerald L. Chan (brother of
Ronnie C. Chan, son of
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health namesake) •
Ronnie C. Chan (billionaire) •
Juju Chang (
journalist/reporter for
ABC News) •
Elaine Chao (former
Secretary of Transportation and
Secretary of Labor) •
Henry Cisneros (10th U.S.
HUD Secretary) •
Wesley Kanne Clark (
Supreme Allied Commander Europe 1997–2000) •
Bill Clinton (42nd
president of the United States) •
Chelsea Clinton (
Clinton Foundation board member) •
George Clooney (actor, director, screenwriter, producer) •
David S. Cohen (5th and 8th
Deputy Director of the CIA 2015–2017 and 2021– ) •
Richard "Dick" Cohen (
Washington Post columnist 1976–2019) •
Susan M. Collins (
U.S. senator from
Maine) •
Katie Couric (former
CBS and
NBC journalist) •
Edward F. Cox (attorney, chairman of the
New York Republican Party) •
Michael Crow (president of
Arizona State University) •
Kenneth Cukier (ex-
Red Herring journalist) •
William M. Daley (
White House chief of staff 2011–2012, U.S.
Commerce Secretary 1997–2000) •
John J. "Jack" DeGioia (
Georgetown University president 2001–present) •
Michael Douglas (actor) •
James S. Doyle (journalist and activist) •
Kimberly Dozier (journalist for BBC, CBS, AP, CNN,
Daily Beast) •
David Dreier (chairman of the
Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation, former chairman of
Tribune Publishing, former U.S. congressman from California) •
Richard Dreyfuss (actor, writer) •
Kenneth Duberstein (13th
White House chief of staff) •
Joseph Duffey (academic, educator) •
Regina Dugan (Wellcome Leap CEO 2020–,
DARPA director 2009–2012) •
Peggy Dulany (heiress, philanthropist) •
Mervyn M. Dymally (former
Democratic U.S. congressman from
California) •
Jesse Dylan (film director) •
Esther Dyson (philanthropist, technology analyst) •
Jen Easterly (director,
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) •
John Edwards (former
U.S. senator from
North Carolina) •
Blair Effron (CFR vice chair) •
Karl Eikenberry (
U.S. Army general, former
U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan) •
Luigi R. Einaudi (former secretary-general of the
OAS) •
Jessica Einhorn (ex-director of
CFR, ex-managing director at
World Bank, dean of
SAIS) •
Christopher Elias (president of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Global Development Program 2011– ) •
Keith Ellison (30th
Attorney General of Minnesota, former
U.S. congressman from
Minnesota) •
Larry Ellison CEO of
Oracle Corporation •
Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel (
COVID-19 Advisory Board member) •
Richard Engel (
NBC News foreign correspondent) •
Dianne Feinstein (
U.S. senator from
California 1992–2023,
mayor of San Francisco 1978–1988) •
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 (
BlackRock CEO 1988–) •
John B. Fitzgibbons (businessman and philanthropist) •
Michèle Angélique Flournoy (
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 2009–2012) •
Tom Foley (
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives 1989–1995) •
Kristin Forbes,
CBE (
MIT professor) •
Abe Foxman (
Anti-Defamation League national director
emeritus) •
Donald M. Fraser (former
U.S. congressman from
Minnesota) •
Mikhail Fridman (
Russian oligarch) •
Tom Frieden (16th director of the
CDC 2009–2017) •
Thomas Friedman (columnist for
The New York Times) •
Bill Frist (former
U.S. Senate Majority Leader from
Tennessee) •
Ann M. Fudge (board member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) •
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) •
Peter W. Galbraith (
U.S. Ambassador to Croatia 1993–1998) •
Pamela Gann (president of
Claremont McKenna College, former dean of
Duke University School of Law) •
Eric Garcetti (
U.S. Ambassador to India, 2023–2025;
Mayor of Los Angeles, 2013–2022) •
Lulu Garcia-Navarro (
NPR host) •
Henry Louis Gates (
PBS host,
Harvard professor) •
Robert M. Gates (
U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006–2011,
Director of Central Intelligence 1991–1993) •
David Geffen (president of
Universal Music Group) •
Timothy Geithner (
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013 under
Obama, President of the
N.Y. Fed 2003–2009) •
Sam Gejdenson (former
Democratic U.S. congressman from
Connecticut) •
Barton Gellman (
Washington Post journalist) •
Robert P. George (academic, professor at
Princeton University, theologian, philosopher) •
Dick Gephardt (
Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives 1989–1995 from
Missouri) •
Julie Gerberding (
CDC director 2002–2009) •
David Gergen (
Harvard Kennedy School professor, presidential advisor) •
James S. Gilmore III (
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
New York State senator) •
Michael R. Gordon (national security correspondent for
The Wall Street Journal) •
Al Gore -
U.S. Senator and
U.S. Vice President •
Jamie Gorelick (28th
U.S. Deputy Attorney General) •
Porter Goss (former
U.S. congressman from
Florida,
Director of CIA 2004–2006) •
Bob Graham (38th
governor of Florida and
U.S. senator) •
Elizabeth (Lally) Graham Weymouth (journalist,
Washington Post editor) •
Evan G. Greenberg (
Chubb Limited president and CEO 2004–) •
Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg (
CFR board member 1992–2002 and 2004–2009) •
Jonathan Greenblatt (director and CEO of
ADL 2015–present) •
Alan Greenspan,
KBE (
chairman of the Federal Reserve 1987–2006) •
Janet G. Mullins Grissom (
lobbyist, former
U.S. State Department official) •
Tenzin Gyatso (14th
Dalai Lama) •
Richard N. Haass (CFR president 2003–present,
Director of Policy Planning at
U.S. State Department 2001–2003 under
George W. Bush,
Rhodes scholar) •
Morton Halperin (
Open Society Foundations senior adviser,
Director of Policy Planning 1998–2001 under
Clinton, formerly at
Brookings Institution,
Carnegie Endowment,
ACLU, colleague of
Kissinger at
Harvard 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,
Aspen Strategy Group) •
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) •
Fiona Hill (
The Globalist writer, former Senior Director for Europe and Russia of the
NSC under
first Trump administration,
Trilateral Commission member) •
Carla Anderson Hills (
CFR co-chair 2007–2017, U.S.
HUD Secretary 1975–1977 under
Ford,
U.S. Trade Representative 1989–1993 under
George H. W. Bush,
Trilateral Commission member) •
Malcolm Hoenlein (vice chairman of the
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) •
Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur) •
Reid Hoffman (founder of
LinkedIn) •
Robert Hunter (former Ambassador to
NATO) under
Presidency of Bill Clinton 1993–1998)) •
Will Hurd (
GOP U.S. congressman from
Texas 2015–2021, ex-
CIA clandestine officer 2000–2009) •
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,
Aspen Strategy Group,
Trilateral Commission member) •
Bobby Ray Inman (retired admiral, former
NSA Director under
Carter 1977–1981) •
Walter Isaacson (
Tulane professor 2018–,
Amanpour & Co. correspondent 2018–,
Aspen Institute president and CEO 2003–2018,
LRA vice chair,
CNN chair and CEO 2001–2003,
Time editor 1996–2001,
Rhodes scholar, author of
Code Breaker,
Kissinger, etc.) •
Roberta S. Jacobson (former
NSC "border czar" under
Biden) •
James E. Johnson (
NYC corporation counsel 2019–present,
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 and
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") •
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–present under
Biden,
Trilateral Commission ex-member) •
Robert P. Kadlec (
HHS ASPR 2017–2021 under
Trump, oversaw 2019
Crimson Contagion pandemic exercise) •
Joseph Kahn (managing editor of
The New York Times) •
C.S. Eliot Kang (diplomat) •
Walter H. Kansteiner III (diplomat, founding principal of
The Scowcroft Group) •
Jonathan Karl (
ABC News journalist) •
Nancy Kassebaum (former
GOP U.S. senator from
Kansas, daughter of
Alf Landon, and wife of
Howard Baker) •
Rebecca Katz (director of the
Center for Global Health Science & Security at
Georgetown University Medical Center, CFR pandemic task force member) •
Peter J. Katzenstein,
FBA (political scientist,
Cornell academic) •
Thomas Kean (
GOP politician,
governor of New Jersey 1982–1990, and chair of the
9/11 Commission, 2002–2004) •
Raymond W. Kelly (37th and 41st police commissioner of NYC under
Mayor Dinkins and
Mayor Bloomberg,
KBE) •
Frederick Kempe (
Atlantic Council president and CEO) •
Muhtar Kent (ex-CEO and chairman of
The Coca-Cola Company) •
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) •
Vanessa Kerry (
M.D., director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change 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) •
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,
Aspen Strategy Group,
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) •
Richard W. Lariviere (scholar, president of the
University of Oregon) •
Leonard Lauder (elder brother of
Ron Lauder, son of
Estée Lauder) •
Ronald S. Lauder (
World Jewish Congress president 2007– succeeding
Edgar Bronfman Sr.) •
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 and 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) •
Nigel Lythgoe (ex-producer of
American Idol,
So You Think You Can Dance judge) •
Greg Maffei (president and CEO of
Liberty Media, chairman of
Live Nation Entertainment,
Sirius XM and
TripAdvisor, former
CFO of
Oracle and
Microsoft) •
Katherine Maher (formerly at
Wikimedia Foundation,
WEF,
World Bank,
UNICEF,
HSBC) •
Fred Malek (businessman, former president of
Marriott Hotels and
Northwest Airlines) •
David Malpass (economist,
GOP politician) •
James Manyika (academic, business executive, SVP
Google-Alphabet, Chair emeritus
Mckinsey Global Institute) •
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) •
William F. Martin (6th
Deputy Secretary of Energy and Executive Secretary of the
National Security Council under
Reagan) •
Alejandro Mayorkas (
DHS Secretary 2021–present under
Biden) •
Barry McCaffrey (retired
U.S. Army general, analyst,
"Drug Czar" 1996–2001 under
Clinton) •
Stan McChrystal (retired
U.S. Army general,
JSOC commander 2003–2008 for
Afghanistan, central figure in
War Machine) •
David McCormick (CEO of
Bridgewater Associates,
Aspen Strategy Group) •
Cynthia McFadden (
NBC News legal correspondent 2014–present,
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) •
William H. McRaven (retired admiral,
USSOC commander 2011–2014,
JSOC commander 2008–2011 succeeding
McChrystal) •
Lisa O. Monaco (
U.S. Deputy Attorney General 2021– under
Biden) •
Walter Mondale (
VPOTUS 1977–1981 under
Carter,
Democratic presidential candidate for the
1984 election) •
Les Moonves (ex-president and CEO of
CBS 2003–2018) •
Terry Moran (
ABC News journalist) •
Robert Mosbacher Jr. (businessman, son of
Robert Mosbacher) •
Langhorne A. Motley (former diplomat and
U.S. State Department official) •
David Mulford (21st
U.S. Ambassador to India under
George W. Bush, ex-executive at
Credit Suisse,
Hoover Institution fellow) •
Rupert Murdoch (founder, chairman and 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) •
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) •
Robert Pastor (
national security adviser, son-in-law to
Robert McNamara) •
George Pataki (53rd
governor of New York) •
Henry Paulson (74th U.S.
Treasury Secretary under
George W. Bush) •
Christina H. Paxson (19th president of
Brown University) •
Federico Peña former Secretary of
United States Department of Transportation under the Clinton Administration, former Mayor of Denver •
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,
Aspen Strategy Group) •
Daniel Pipes (academic, writer, historian, son of
Richard Pipes) •
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) •
Jared Polis current
Governor of Colorado and retired congressman from Boulder •
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) •
Maury Povich - News media,
The Maury Povich Show •
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) •
Susan Rice (
Domestic Policy Council director under
Biden) •
Bill Richardson (senior managing director of
Kissinger McLarty Associates,
governor of New Mexico 2003–2010,
UN Ambassador 1997–1998 and
U.S. Energy Secretary 1998–2001 under
Clinton,
Chinese spy exposé source) •
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
CFR chairman
David Rockefeller, and father of
Ariana Rockefeller) •
John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV (
Democratic U.S. senator from
West Virginia 1985–2015,
governor of West Virginia 1977–1985, husband of
Sharon Rockefeller) •
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) •
Charlie Rose (former journalist at
CBS and
PBS, host of
The Charlie Rose Show 1991–2017) •
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) •
Gary N. Ross (energy economist) •
David J. Rothkopf (author, former managing director of
Kissinger Associates, former
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health advisory board member) •
Lynn Forester de Rothschild (businesswoman) •
Cecilia Elena Rouse (30th
chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under
Biden, former dean of the
Woodrow Wilson School) •
David Rubenstein (
CFR chair,
Carlyle Group founder, namesake of
HKS building,
Trilateral Commission member,
WEF trustee) •
Sheryl Sandberg (
Facebook COO) •
David E. Sanger (
New York Times White House and national security correspondent,
Aspen Strategy Group member) •
Ruth Savord (
CFR librarian) •
Diane Sawyer (journalist,
ABC News) •
Raj Shah (White House deputy press secretary 2017–2019 under
Trump,
Fox Corp. senior vice president 2019– ) •
Rajiv J. (Raj) Shah (
Rockefeller Foundation president 2017–,
Trilateral Commission member) •
Bob Schieffer (author,
CBS News journalist) •
Eric E. Schmidt (ex-CEO of
Google,
Trilateral Commission member) •
Michael N. Schmitt (
G. Norman Lieber Distinguished Scholar at
West Point) •
Kurt Schmoke (46th
mayor of Baltimore,
Rhodes scholar) •
Peter Schwartz (
Global Business Network co-founder) •
Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of
FedEx) •
Olympia 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) •
George Soros (CFR board 1995–2004, currency speculator, investor, businessman) •
Alexander Soros half-brother of Jonathan Soros, son of George Soros •
Jonathan Soros fund manager and son of George Soros •
John Spratt (former
Democratic U.S. congressman from
South Carolina) •
Lesley Stahl (
CBS News journalist) •
James E. "Jes" Staley (
Barclays ex-CEO) •
James Stavridis (
Carlyle Group vice chair and managing director,
Rockefeller Foundation chair 2021, co-author of
2034: A Novel of the Next World War) •
James B. Steinberg (
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State 2009–2011 under
Obama,
Deputy National Security Advisor 1997–2001 under
Clinton,
Trilateral Commission,
Aspen Strategy Group,
Bilderberg attendee) •
Paul Tagliabue (
NFL Commissioner 1989–2006, Rhodes scholar) •
Jake Tapper (
CNN journalist) •
Dina Temple-Raston (
NPR news correspondent) •
George Tenet (
CIA Director 1996–2004 under
Clinton and
George W. Bush) •
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) •
Timothy E. Wirth (ex-
Democratic U.S. senator from
Colorado 1987–1993,
ex-congressman 1975–1987,
Wirth chair namesake) •
Frank G. Wisner II (businessman and former diplomat) •
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) •
R. James Woolsey (16th
Director of Central Intelligence under
Clinton,
Rhodes scholar) •
Janet Yellen (
U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 2021– under
Biden,
Fed chair 2014–2018) •
Glenn Youngkin (74th
governor of Virginia 2022–,
Carlyle Group 1995–2020, Carlyle co-CEO 2018–2020,
McKinsey 1994–1995) •
Janine Zacharia (journalist at
The Jerusalem Post,
Bloomberg News and
The Washington Post and lecturer in journalism at
Stanford University) •
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,
Atlantic Council board) •
Philip D. Zelikow (
9/11 Commission executive director and chair,
Aspen Strategy Group) •
Robert J. Zimmer (
University of Chicago president 2006– ) •
Robert B. Zoellick (
president of the World Bank 2007–2012,
Aspen Strategy Group) •
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)
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==