During the administration of President
George W. Bush, the PIAB had 16 members selected from among distinguished citizens outside the government who were qualified "on the basis of achievement, experience, independence, and integrity." The members were not paid. and the Trump Administration issued a press release announcing the nominations of new members.
George W. Bush In August 2002, Randy Deitering, the executive director of PFIAB, confirmed the membership list released by the White House press office in October 2001: •
Cresencio S. Arcos Jr.,
AT&T executive and former US ambassador •
Jim Barksdale, former head of the internet company
Netscape •
Robert Addison Day, chairman of the TWC Group, a money management firm •
Stephen Friedman, past chairman of
Goldman Sachs •
Rita Hauser, lawyer •
Ray Lee Hunt, scion of the Texas oil fortune •
David E. Jeremiah, retired admiral •
Arnold Kanter, national security official in the
George H. W. Bush administration and a founding member of the Scowcroft Group •
James C. Langdon Jr., a power-lawyer in Texas •
Alfred Lerner, chief executive of
MBNA •
Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, chair of Management Science and Engineering at
Stanford University •
Brent Scowcroft, the chair •
John Harrison Streicker, real estate magnate •
Pete Wilson, former governor of
California •
Philip Zelikow, National Security Council staffer during the George H.W. Bush administration and later a counselor to Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice In 2003, there were indications of spying on members of the board by a foreign intelligence asset.
Barack Obama The entire PIAB membership that served under the administration of George W. Bush resigned as part of an agreed-upon move in the presidential transition of Barack Obama. President Obama appointed
Chuck Hagel, former
United States Senator from
Nebraska, and former
University of Oklahoma President
David Boren as PIAB co-chairs. The following other members were appointed to the board under President Obama: •
Roel Campos •
Richard Danzig appointed on December 1, 2010 •
Lee H. Hamilton •
Rita Hauser •
Paul G. Kaminski •
Ellen Laipson, president and CEO of the
Henry L. Stimson Center •
Les Lyles •
Daniel Meltzer appointed on December 1, 2010 •
Mona Sutphen appointed on September 6, 2011 •
Tom Wheeler appointed on April 27, 2011 •
Philip Zelikow appointed on September 6, 2011 The four remaining members of the PIAB were: •
James S. Crown • Scott Davis • Jamie Dos Santos •
Julius Genachowski •
Shirley Ann Jackson •
Neal Wolin Donald Trump (first administration) President
Donald Trump named the following persons to the PIAB during his first term in office: •
Safra Catz •
Saxby Chambliss •
Jim Donovan •
Steve Feinberg, chair • Kevin Hulbert • Jeremy Katz • Samantha Ravich, vice chair • David Robertson In February 2019, President Trump named three additional members:
Joe Biden In May 2022, President
Joe Biden named the below persons to the PIAB. •
Gilman Louie •
Janet Napolitano •
Richard Verma •
Sandy Winnefeld In June 2022, he named
Evan Bayh to the PIAB. In October 2022, he named
Anne Finucane to the PIAB. In November 2022, he named
Mark Angelson to the PIAB. In January 2023, he named
Margaret Hamburg,
Kim Cobb, and
Kneeland Youngblood to the PIAB. In March 2023, he named
Hamilton E. James and Julia Santucci to the PIAB.
Donald Trump (second administration) President
Donald Trump named the following persons to the PIAB at the beginning of his second term in office on February 11, 2025: • Wayne Berman • Sander R. Gerber • Scott Glabe •
Thomas Ollis Hicks Jr. • Jeremy Katz •
Amaryllis Fox Kennedy • Joshua Lobel •
Katie Miller •
Devin Nunes, chair •
Robert C. O'Brien •
Reince Priebus •
Brad Wenstrup In March 2025, he named
Alex Nelson Wong, former
Deputy National Security Advisor, to the PIAB. == PIAB chairs ==