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, the latter of 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, chairs and CEOs of multinational corporations, and U.S. 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

• U.S. State Department
  )
• Centcom
  )
• Carnegie Endowment
  )
• State Department
  official)
• Stacey Abrams (Georgia Representative and minority leader)
• 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)
• U.S. Secretary of State, 1997–2001, and UN Ambassador
  1993–1997)
• U.S. Senator, fifth United States Secretary of Education
  )
• David Altshuler (geneticist; Vertex Pharmaceuticals CEO)
• lawyer
  ; academic)
• Adam Aron (president and CEO of AMC Theatres)^[17]
• Erik Arroyo (politician and lawyer)^[18]
• Anders Åslund (former Atlantic Council senior fellow)^[19]
• Ken Auletta (The New Yorker media critic)
• U.S. Secretary of Defense)^[20]
• U.S. Secretary of the Interior
  , 1993–2001)
• U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1985–1988; White House Chief of Staff 1981–1985 and 1992–1993)^[21]
• Thurbert Baker (former Attorney General of Georgia)
• U.S. Congressman from Maryland)^[22]
• 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)
• U.S. Senator and 46th Governor of Indiana
  )
• Warren Beatty (actor, producer, director, activist)
• Elizabeth Becker (author and journalist)^[23][24]
• Peter Beinart (academic; columnist)
• Robert A. Belfer (American 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)
• CEO
  )
• Time Warner
  )
• counter-insurgency
  policy)
• 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
• U.S. Ambassador to Belgium
  )
• U.S. Secretary of State
  )
• Donald M. Blinken (former director of Warburg Pincus)
• Michael R. Bloomberg, (Mayor of New York City, 2002–2013; founder of Bloomberg L.P.)^[25]
• U.S. State Department
  official and defense expert)
• Lee Bollinger (19th President of Columbia University; former chair, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
• Josh Bolten (22nd White House Chief of Staff
  )
• Max Boot (Washington Post journalist, military historian and foreign policy writer)
• U.S. Senator from Minnesota
  , 1978–1991)
• danah boyd (professor; senior researcher at Microsoft)^[26]
• U.S. Senator from New Jersey, 1979–1997; NBA Hall of Fame New York Knicks
  player, 1967–1977)
• Federal Reserve Board member; former Treasury official
  )
• Marcus W. Brauchli (executive editor of The Washington Post, 2008–2012)^[27]
• L. Paul Bremer (diplomat
  )
• Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president)^[25]
• U.S. Assistant A.G. for the Criminal Division 2009–2013)^[28]
• WEF
  )
• U.S. Supreme Court justice, Rhodes scholar)^[29]
• 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 (Governor of Oregon)
• Erin Burnett (CNN anchor, journalist)
• U.S. Ambassador to Russia
  2005–2008)
• U.S. Congressman from Indiana
  )
• HHS Secretary 2014–2017 ^[30]
• Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO)
• Craig Calhoun (President of Berggruen Institute, Director of the London School of Economics)
• U.S. National Security Council)^[31]
• Kurt M. Campbell (State Dept. official)
• Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States)
• Carey Cavanaugh (diplomat and professor)
• 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)
• Secretary of Labor)^[21]
• Kenneth I. Chenault (former head of American Express 2001–2018)^[32]
• 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)
• Deputy Director of the CIA
  2015–2017 and 2021– )
• Richard "Dick" Cohen (Washington Post columnist 1976–2019)^[33]
• U.S. Senator from Maine
  )
• Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist)^[34]
• New York Republican Party
  )
• Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
• Kenneth Cukier (ex-Red Herring journalist)^[35]
• Commerce Secretary
  1997–2000)
• John J. "Jack" DeGioia (Georgetown University president 2001–present)^[21]
• John M. Deutch (Director of CIA 1995–1996)
• Washington Post editorial
  page deputy editor)
• Jamie Dimon (chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase)
• U.S. Senator from Connecticut
  1981–2011)
• Eileen C. Donahoe (former U.S. Ambassador)
• AFL–CIO
  )
• William H. Donaldson (former chairman of the SEC)
• Shorenstein Center)^[36]
• Michael Douglas (actor)
• James S. Doyle (journalist & activist)
• Daily Beast
  )
• Richard Dreyfuss (actor, writer)
• White House chief of staff
  )
• Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
• Regina Dugan (Wellcome Leap CEO 2020–, DARPA director 2009–2012)^[37]
• Peggy Dulany (heiress, philanthropist)
• U.S. Congressman from California
  )
• Jesse Dylan (film director)
• Esther Dyson (philanthropist, technology analyst)
• Jen Easterly (Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency)
• U.S. Senator from North Carolina
  )
• Blair Effron (CFR vice chair)
• 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 Foundatiоn Global Development Program 2011– )^[38]
• U.S. Congressman from Minnesota)^[39]
• Ezekiel "Zeke" Emanuel (COVID-19 Advisory Board member)
• Richard Engel (NBC News foreign correspondent)
• U.S. Senator from California 1992–2023, mayor of San Francisco
  1978–1988)
• 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–)^[40]
• John B. Fitzgibbons (businessman and philanthropist)
• Michèle Angélique Flournoy (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy 2009–2012)
• Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
  1989–1995)
• MIT professor)^[41]
• Abe Foxman (Anti-Defamation League
  national director emeritus)
• U.S. Congressman from Minnesota
  )
• Russian oligarch
  )
• Tom Frieden (16th director of the CDC 2009–2017)^[42]
• Thomas Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
• U.S. Senate Majority Leader from Tennessee
  )
• Ann M. Fudge (board member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
• State Department
  official)
• UT Austin, Senior Scholar with Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
  )
• U.S. Ambassador to Croatia
  1993–1998)
• Pamela Gann (President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law)
• Eric Garcetti (Mayor of Los Angeles 2013–present)
• Lulu Garcia-Navarro (NPR host)
• Harvard professor)^[43][44]
• U.S. Secretary of Defense 2006–2011, Director of Central Intelligence
  1991–1993)
• David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
• U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 2009–2013 under Obama, President of the N.Y. Fed
  2003–2009)
• U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
  )
• Washington Post journalist)^[45]
• Robert P. George (Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher)
• Majority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives 1989–1995 from Missouri
  )
• CDC
  director 2002–2009)
• David Gergen (Harvard Kennedy School professor, presidential advisor)^{[25][46][47][48]}
• James S. Gilmore III (Governor of Virginia
  1998–2002)
• 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)^[49]
• U.S. Deputy Attorney General)^[25]
• U.S. Congressman from Florida, Director of CIA
  2004–2006)
• U.S. Senator
  )
• Washington Post
  editor)
• Evan G. Greenberg (Chubb Limited president and CEO 2004–)^[50][51]
• Maurice R. "Hank" Greenberg (CFR board member 1992–2002 and 2004–2009)^[52]
• Jonathan Greenblatt (director and CEO of ADL 2015–present)
• chairman of the Federal Reserve
  1987–2006)
• U.S. State Department
  official)
• Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama
  )
• U.S. State Department 2001–2003 under George W. Bush, Rhodes scholar)^[21]
• NSC
  )
• U.S. Congressman from Indiana, 9/11 Commission
  vice chair)
• Wilson Center president emerita 2011– , Trilateral Commission member, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53][25]
• David Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee)
• Josh Harris (co-founder of Apollo Global Management and owner of several sports teams)^[54]
• U.S. Senator from Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America
  )
• 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)
• NSC under Trump, Trilateral Commission member)^[25][55]
• U.S. Trade Representative 1989–1993 under George H. W. Bush, Trilateral Commission member)^[25]
• Leo Hindery (businessman, philanthropist)
• Deane R. Hinton (former diplomat)
• Mellody Hobson (president and co-CEO of Ariel Investments, chairwoman of Starbucks)^[56]
• Malcolm Hoenlein (vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
• Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
• Reid Hoffman (founder of LinkedIn)^[17]
• Warren Hoge (former New York Times journalist)
• Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
• Christopher B. Howard (Robert Morris University president, Harvard Board of Overseers, Rhodes scholar, Trilateral Commission, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
• David A. Hunt (Democratic former Oregon House Speaker)^[57]
• Robert Hunter (former Ambassador to NATO) under Presidency of Bill Clinton 1993-1998))
• clandestine officer 2000–2009)^[58]
• Adi Ignatius (editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, former deputy managing editor for Time, brother of David Ignatius)
• Washington Post journalist, Body of Lies author, Aspen Strategy Group, Trilateral Commission member)^[25][53]
• U.S. Ambassador to Israel 1995–1997 and 2000–2001 under Clinton)^[59]
• NSA Director under Carter
  1977–1981)
• Code Breaker, Kissinger
  , etc.)
• Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
• NSC "border czar" under Biden
  )
• Assistant U.S. Attorney
  )
• CEO of General Dynamics
  )
• Assistant U.S. Attorney
  )
• 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)
• UN Goodwill Ambassador")^[60]
• Shorenstein Center
  director 2000–2015)
• Washington Post ex-CEO and publisher, Rhodes scholar
  )
• Vernon Jordan (adviser to Clinton)
• U.S. Ambassador to India 2021–present under Biden, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[61]
• ASPR 2017–2021 under Trump, oversaw 2019 Crimsоn Contagion pandemic exercise)^[62]
• 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)^[63]
• 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)^[64][65]
• Peter J. Katzenstein, FBA (political scientist, Cornell academic)
• GOP politician, Governor of New Jersey 1982–1990, and chair of the 9/11 Commission
  , 2002–2004)
• Mayor Bloomberg, KBE
  )
• Frederick Kempe (Atlantic Council president and CEO)
• Muhtar Kent (ex-CEO and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company)^[66]
• U.S. Secretary of State 2013–2017 under Obama, and Forbes family member whose electoral history includes 2004 presidential candidacy
  )
• M.D., director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)^[67]
• Glenn Kessler ("Fact Checker" ex-columnist at The Washington Post)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (26th UN Ambassador under George W. Bush)
• mentor of Klaus Schwab)^[25][68]
• Joe Klein (Time Magazine columnist)
• Minneapolis
  )
• The Bank of New York Mellon
  )
• Nicholas D. Kristof (New York Times columnist, Trilateral Commission, Aspen Strategy Group, Rhodes scholar)^{[53][25][69][70][71]}
• Paul R. Krugman
  (New York Times columnist, economist)
• Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey
  )
• WPP Group
  )
• 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)
• Ron Lauder, son of Estée Lauder
  )
• Ronald S. Lauder (World Jewish Congress president 2007– succeeding Edgar Bronfman Sr.)^[72]
• Estée Lauder Companies CEO, son of Leonard Lauder
  )
• CEO
  2003–2017)
• U.S. Congressman from Iowa, chairman of the NEH under Obama
  )
• Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS NewsHour)
• White House chief of staff under Obama, ex-COO at Citigroup
  2006–2008)
• U.S. Congressman from Georgia
  , civil-rights leader)
• Mara Liasson (NPR national political correspondent)
• U.S. Senator from Connecticut, Democratic candidate for U.S. Vice President in 2000 election
  )
• Vice President Dick Cheney
  )
• Herbert London (academic, activist, ex-dean of NYU's Gallatin School, ex-president of Hudson Institute)
• GOP consultant, pollster)^[73]
• Nigel Lythgoe (ex-producer of American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance judge)
• TripAdvisor, former CFO of Oracle and Microsoft)^[74]
• WEF, World Bank, UNICEF, HSBC)^[75]
• Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines
  )
• GOP
  politician)
• Mckinsey Global Institute
  )
• Facebook Messenger
  )
• 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)
• DHS Secretary 2021–present under Biden
  )
• "Drug Czar" 1996–2001 under Clinton)^[76]
• Afghanistan, central figure in War Machine)^{[77][78][79][80]}
• David McCormick (CEO of Bridgewater Associates, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Cynthia McFadden (NBC News legal correspondent 2014–present, ABC News correspondent 1994–2014)
• Robert C. "Bud" McFarlane (national security advisor 1983–1985 under Reagan
  )
• Kissinger McLarty Associates)^[81]
• McChrystal)^[82][21]
• U.S. Defense Secretary 2020–2021 succeeding Mark Esper under Trump
  )
• Plame stories, Aspen Strategy Group
  ex-member)
• 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)^[25]
• Andrea Mitchell (NBC News journalist, spouse of Alan Greenspan KBE, Trilateral Commission member)^[25]
• Walt Disney Company chairman 2004–2007)^[83]
• U.S. Deputy Attorney General 2021– under Biden
  )
• VPOTUS 1977–1981 under Carter, Democratic presidential candidate for the 1984 election
  )
• Les Moonves (ex-president and CEO of CBS 2003–2018)^[84][85]
• Terry Moran (ABC News journalist)
• Robert Mosbacher Jr. (businessman, son of Robert Mosbacher)
• U.S. State Department
  official)
• U.S. Ambassador to India under George W. Bush, ex-executive at Credit Suisse, Hoover Institution
  fellow)
• News Corp and Fox News
  )
• Governor of Arizona 2003–2009)^[86][87][88]
• 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)^[25]
• Diana Villiers Negroponte (lawyer, wife of John Negroponte)
• 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)^[25]
• Merrill Lynch
  )
• Washington Post journalist 1966–1984, father of journalist Evan 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)^[89][90]
• national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara
  )
• GOP politician, 53rd Governor of New York
  )
• Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush
  )
• Christina H. Paxson (19th president of Brown University
  )
• Commerce Secretary under Nixon
  )
• director of the CIA 2011–2012 under Obama, Trilateral Commission, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53][25]
• U.S. congressman from Wisconsin
  )
• U.S. State Department
  official)
• Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
• Washington Post national security correspondent 1975–2015, played role in Plame affair)^[91][92]
• 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)
• GOP
  politician)
• George Bush Presidential Library
  Foundation)
• Arturo C. Porzecanski
  (Wall Street economist and university professor)
• 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)^[14]
• Charles Prince (former CEO of Citigroup)
• U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Obama, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Hyatt Hotels, son of Hyatt co-founder Jay Pritzker, and cousin of Penny and J. B. Pritzker
  )
• Jennifer Raab (President of Hunter College)
• U.S. Secretary of Commerce 2021– under Biden, Governor of Rhode Island 2015–2021, Rhodes scholar
  )
• Dan Rather (journalist, former CBS anchor)
• U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1997– , Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Edward Regan (former New York State Comptroller)
• MIT 2012– , CFR
  board member)
• Bill Barr under Clinton
  )
• U.S. Secretary of State 2005–2009 under George W. Bush, Aspen Strategy Group co-chair)^[93]
• Domestic Policy Council director under Biden
  )
• U.S. Energy Secretary 1998–2001 under Clinton, Chinese spy
  exposé source)
• Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
• 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)
• 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)^[94]
• The Charlie Rose Show
  1991–2017)
• Jack Rosen (American Jewish Congress president)
• U.S. Deputy Attorney General 2019–2020 under Trump
  )
• Liz Rosenberg (novelist, poet, columnist for The Boston Globe)
• Gary N. Ross (energy economist)
• Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health advisory board member)^[95][96][97]
• Lynn Forester de Rothschild (businesswoman)^[98]
• Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers under Biden, former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School
  )
• Carlyle Group founder, namesake of HKS building, Trilateral Commission member, WEF trustee)^[99][25]
• 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, Lancet COVID-19 Commission chair)^[100][101]
• COO)^[102][103]
• David E. Sanger (New York Times White House and national security correspondent, Aspen Strategy Group member)^[104][105]
• Ruth Savord (CFR librarian)
• Diane Sawyer (journalist, ABC News)^[21]
• Anthony Scaramucci (SkyBridge Capital founder)^[106]
• Fox Corp.
  senior v.p. 2019– )
• Rajiv J. (Raj) Shah (Rockefeller Foundation president 2017– , Trilateral Commission member)^{[25][101][107]}
• Bob Schieffer (author, CBS News journalist)
• Eric E. Schmidt (ex-CEO of Google, Trilateral Commission member)^[25]
• Eric P. Schmitt (Pulitzer-winning New York Times reporter of "Russia bounty" story)^{[108][109][110][111]}
• West Point)^[112]
• mayor of Baltimore, Rhodes scholar
  )
• Peter Schwartz (Global Business Network co-founder)^[94]
• 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)
• HHS Secretary under Clinton, President of the University of Miami
  )
• U.S. Deputy Secretary of State under Biden, Trilateral Commission ex-member)^[61]
• Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
• Michael Shifter (academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue)
• Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
  under Clinton & George W. Bush)
• Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and historian)
• Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver
  )
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
  1985– )
• Adam Silver (Commissioner of the NBA 2014– succeeding David Stern, Rockefeller Foundation trustee)^{[113][114][21]}
• New York Review of Books
  )
• Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
• Joseph Sigelman (American-Philippine Businessman)
• Bradford L. Smith (Microsoft president)^[115][116]
• Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
• 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)^[117]
• George Soros (CFR board 1995–2004, currency speculator, investor, businessman)
• Jonathan Soros (fund manager, half-brother of Alexander Soros, son of George Soros)
• U.S. congressman from South Carolina
  )
• Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
• James E. "Jes" Staley (Barclays ex-CEO)
• Carlyle Group vice chair & managing director, Rockefeller Foundation chair 2021– , co-author of 2034: A Novel of the Next World War)^{[118][113][119]}
• Bilderberg attendee)^[53]
• David Stern (Commissioner of the NBA 1984–2014 succeeded by Adam Silver)
• U.S. Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II
  )
• ABC News anchor, Rhodes scholar
  )
• Harvard, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Mark Suzman (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO, Rhodes scholar)^[120]
• NFL Commissioner 1989–2006, Rhodes scholar)^[121]
• Jake Tapper (CNN journalist)^[122]
• Dina Temple-Raston (NPR news correspondent)
• George Tenet (CIA Director 1996–2004 under Clinton and George W. Bush)^[58]
• Linda Thomas-Greenfield (UN Ambassador 2021– under Biden)
• John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs)
• U.S. Homeland Security Advisor 2004–2008 under George W. Bush
  )
• RFK and Ethel Kennedy
  )
• Laura Trevelyan (BBC America presenter)
• Manhattan District Attorney
  2010– )
• Governor of Iowa
  1999–2007)
• John O. Brennan
  )
• Peter J. Wallison (White House Counsel 1986–1987 to Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
• Vicky Ward (British-born CNN journalist)
• U.S. Congressman from Minnesota 1981–1993, Aspen Institute trustee)^[34]
• CFO of Facebook
  )
• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• Susan Roosevelt Weld (educator and former professor)
• DOJ Criminal Division head 1986–1988, 2020 GOP primary candidate
  , Rhodes scholar)
• Leana S. Wen (CNN medical analyst, Washington Post columnist, former president of Planned Parenthood, global health fellow at the W.H.O., Rhodes scholar)^[123][124]
• 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)
• ex-Congressman 1975–1987, Wirth chair namesake)^[125]
• Frank G. Wisner II (businessman and former diplomat)
• President of the World Bank
  )
• 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
  )
• U.S. Secretary of the Treasury 2021– under Biden, Fed chair
  2014–2018)
• McKinsey
  1994–1995)
• Janine Zacharia (journalist at The Jerusalem Post, Bloomberg News and The Washington Post and lecturer in journalism at Stanford University)^[126]
• 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)^[127]
• Philip D. Zelikow (9/11 Commission executive director and chair, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• Jeffrey D. Zients ("Covid Czar" under Biden)^[128]
• Robert J. Zimmer (University of Chicago president 2006– )^[21]
• President of the World Bank 2007–2012, Aspen Strategy Group)^[53]
• 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
  )
• David McCourt (Irish-American entrepreneur with experience within the telecom and cable television industries)^[129]

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

• 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)
• 1980 U.S. presidential election
  )
• U.S. Secretary of Defense under Clinton
  , Rhodes scholar)
• Kenneth Bacon (American journalist)
• Nancy Kassebaum Baker
  )
• George Wildman Ball
  (American diplomat)
• Sandy Berger (19th U.S. National Security Adviser under Clinton)
• U.S. Senator from Delaware
  1973–2009)
• U.S. Congressman from New York
  , diplomat)
• KCSG
  (Canadian-born British former newspaper publisher, International Advisory Board member)
• Stanford Research Institute
  )
• U.S. State Department official and foreign policy
  expert)
• U.S. Senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma
  )
• U.S. Senator from Minnesota
  )
• Harvard Center for International Affairs 1958, Counselor of the State Department 1966–1968, CIA Chief National Intelligence Officer 1977–1979, Trilateral Commission
  )
• CIA agent and liberal journalist on CNN
  )
• Spruille Braden (American diplomat, businessman)
• Sir Richard Branson (Virgin Group head, The Bail Project partner)^[130]
• Al Gore Sr.
  )
• Edgar Bronfman Sr. (Canadian-born Seagram heir, president 1979–2007 of the World Jewish Congress)
• Arthur Bronwell (president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute 1955–1962, dean of the University of Connecticut School of Engineering 1962–1970)
• The Trilateral Commission in 1973, father of Mika Brzezinski
  )
• William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review
  )
• LBJ
  )
• William Bundy (CIA officer, historian)
• Director of the CIA 1976–1977, Chief Liaison in Beijing 1974–1975 under Ford, UN Ambassador 1971–1973 under Nixon
  )
• Deputy Director of the CIA under Carter
  )
• U.S. Senator from Rhode Island
  )
• White House chief of staff under Ford 1975–1977 succeeding Donald Rumsfeld, husband of Lynne Cheney, father of Mary and Liz Cheney)^[131]
• U.S. Secretary of State 1993–1997 under Clinton
  )
• U.S. Secretary of State 2009–2013 under Obama
  )
• 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)
• 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)
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis (philanthropist)
• GOP nominee for the Presidency in 1944 and 1948
  )
• Eisenhower
  )
• Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th Governor of Massachusetts, Democratic presidential nominee for the 1988 election)
• Eisenhower and JFK
  )
• 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)
• Mayor of Niagara Falls, New York
  )
• U.S. Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush
  )
• Jeffrey E. Epstein (convicted sex offender and financier)^[132]
• Rowland Evans (journalist)
• John Exter (economist)
• U.S. Supreme Court
  )
• U.S. Congresswoman from New York, first woman on a major party presidential ticket in 1984 election
  )
• POTUS 1974–1977, Warren Commission
  member)
• Edwin Francis Gay (a co-founder of the CFR and its first secretary and treasurer, 1921 – 1933; first dean of Harvard Business School
• Leslie H. Gelb (former The 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 and CEO of Bristol Myers Squibb, N.Y. Fed board, The New York Times Company board, brother of Bruce Gelb, son of Lawrence M. Gelb)
• Murray Gell-Mann (co-founder of Santa Fe Institute)
• U.S. Congressman from Georgia
  )
• U.S. Supreme Court Justice
  1993–2020)
• President of the USSR
  )
• Al Gore Jr., ex-wife of Jacob Schiff's great-great-grandson)^[133]
• U.S. Secretary of State under Reagan
  )
• Sidney Harman (businessman, owner of Newsweek)
• Al Gore Sr., and namesake of UWC whose ex-presidents include H.R.H. Prince Charles)^[134]
• Truman
  )
• Teresa Heinz Kerry
  )
• editorial page editor overseeing opinions page 2000– , son of Howard Hiatt)^[135][136]
• Richard Holbrooke (diplomat, investment banker, 22nd UN Ambassador under Clinton)
• Fed chair 1930–1933)^[137]
• 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)^[138]
• Sergei Karaganov
  (International Advisory Board member)
• The Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News
  )
• Irving Kristol (journalist, writer, "Godfather of Neoconservatism", father of Bill Kristol)
• GOP vice presidential nominee for 1996 election
  )
• George Kennan (diplomat, historian)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (diplomat, 16th UN Ambassador under Reagan)
• 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")
• Truman
  )
• U.S. Congressman from California
  )
• GOP presidential nominee for the 2008 election
  )
• World Bank President, Warren Commission
  member)
• Charles Peter McColough (businessman)
• U.S. Senator from South Dakota, Democratic presidential nominee for the 1972 election
  )
• President of the World Bank
  )
• LBJ
  , public commentator for PBS)
• U.S. Senator from New York
  1977–2001)
• U.S. Senator from Maine, 64th Governor of Maine, Democratic vice presidential candidate for the 1968 election
  )
• U.S. Senator from California
  1950–1953)
• LBJ
  )
• U.S. Supreme Court
  justice 1981–2006)
• Blackstone Group co-founder and CEO, Lehman Brothers
  CEO 1973–1984, CFR president 1985–2007)
• Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder and director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
• U.S. National Security Advisor 1987–1989 under Reagan, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989–1993 under George H. W. Bush)^[139]
• Priscilla Presley (actress and former chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises)
• U.S. Congressman from NYC
  1971–2017)
• U.S. Senator from Connecticut
  )
• Chase Manhattan Bank
  1969–1981)
• 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)
• 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)
• LBJ
  )
• U.S. Senator from Delaware
  )
• LBJ
  )
• Carl Sagan (American scientist)
• Arthur Schlesinger
  (historian, academic)
• U.S. National Security Advisor 1975–1977 and 1989–1993 under Presidents Ford and George H. W. Bush, Aspen Strategy Group founding co-chair 1984)^[53]
• Governor of Pennsylvania
  )
• Labor Secretary 1969–1970 under Nixon
  )
• 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)
• Governor of Pennsylvania
  )
• director of the CIA under Carter, Rhodes scholar
  )
• Sanford J. Ungar (president emeritus of Goucher College, All Things Considered host 1980–1982)
• U.S. Secretary of State 1977–1980 under Carter, and father of Cyrus Vance Jr.
  )
• Chairman of the Federal Reserve
  1979–1987)
• Barbara Walters (TV journalist)
• 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")^[140]
• 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)^[141]
• U.S. Secretary of Defense under Reagan
  )
• John Wheeler III (Vietnam veteran, military consultant, presidential aide, chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
  )
• WTC Memorial Foundation, former Goldman Sachs
  chairman)
• Albert Wohlstetter (RAND Corporation analyst)
• Roberta Wohlstetter (RAND Corporation analyst)
• KBE (ex-partner of Frazier Healthcare Partners)^{[142][143][144]}

• 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, 1921–1933
• George W. Wickersham, 1933–1936
• Norman H. Davis
  , 1936–1944
• Russell Cornell Leffingwell, 1944–1946
• Allen Welsh Dulles
  , 1946–1950
• Henry Merritt Wriston, 1951–1964
• Grayson L. Kirk, 1964–1971
• Bayless Manning, 1971–1977
• Winston Lord, 1977–1985
• John Temple Swing, 1985–1986 (pro tempore)
• Peter Tarnoff, 1986–1993
• Alton Frye, 1993
• Leslie H. Gelb, 1993–2003
• Richard N. Haass, 2003–2023
• Michael Froman, 2023-Present

References

Source: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996: Historical Roster of Directors and Officers^[145]