Advisory Board
Advisory Board
Spencer Abraham
Spencer Abraham was appointed Secretary of Energy in 2001 by President-elect George W. Bush. He served in that post until 2005, helping to devise America’s first national energy plan in over a...
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David Abshire
David Abshire is President of the Center of the Study of the Presidency in Washington, DC. He also holds the position of President at the Richard Lounsberry Foundation in New York. In 1962,...
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Peter Ackerman
Peter Ackerman is Founding Chair of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict and Managing Director of Rockport Capital, Inc., a private investment firm. Ackerman has lectured and written...
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Madeleine K. Albright
Madeleine K. Albright is Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy firm, and Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Dr....
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Hushang Ansary
Hushang Ansary is Chairman of Stewart & Stevenson, LLC in Houston, Texas. As a philanthropist, he has been active in the fields of education and medicine, including projects at the Weill Cornell...
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Michael Armacost
Michael Armacost is currently a Shorenstein Distinguished Fellow at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of Stanford University. From 1995 to 2002, he was President of The...
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Richard L. Armitage
Richard L. Armitage is President of Armitage International, a position he has held since 2005. Armitage, who was Deputy Secretary of State from 2001 to 2005, began his career as a commissioned...
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Norman R. Augustine
Norman R. Augustine is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Lockheed Martin Corporation, the world’s largest defense contractor. Upon retirement from Lockheed Martin in 1997,...
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Charlene Barshefsky
Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky is the Senior International Partner at WilmerHale. Barshefsky, who served as US Trade Representative from 1997-2001, is known internationally as the architect and...
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John B. Bellinger III
John B. Bellinger III is a partner in the international and national security practices of Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, DC. He advises sovereign governments and U.S. and foreign companies...
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Samuel Berger
Samuel Berger is the Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group. He served as National Security Advisor to President Bill Clinton from 1997-2000, and Deputy National Security Advisor from 1993-1996....
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski is Counselor and Trustee at The Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of...
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Nick Burns
Nicholas Burns is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School. Here, he also serves as Director of the Future of Diplomacy Project, Faculty...
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Richard Burt
Ambassador Burt is the managing director for Europe, Russia and Eurasia at McLarty Associates. McLarty Associates counsels corporations and financial institutions in the United States and abroad...
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Michael Chertoff
The Honorable Michael Chertoff is Co-founder and managing principal of The Chertoff Group, which provides strategic security and risk management advisory services to clients in business and...
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Eliot Cohen
Eliot Cohen is Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Director of the...
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Lester Crown
Mr. Crown serves as Chairman of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Lyric Opera of Chicago. He is a Life Member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and a...
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Paula J. Dobriansky
Ambassador Paula J. Dobriansky is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University's JFK Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Chair of the National Board of Directors of the World Affairs...
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William H. Draper
William H. Draper III is the Managing Director of Draper Richards, LP, and Co-Founder, Director, and Trustee of the Draper Richards Foundation. From 1981 to 1986, he served as President and...
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Ken Duberstein
Ken Duberstein is Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group. In 1987 he worked as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Ronald Reagan, and from 1988-89 he served as the White House Chief of Staff. Prior to...
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Bruce Gelb
Ambassador Bruce Gelb is Co-Chair of the council of American Ambassadors.
From 1994 to 1997, Ambassador Gelb served as Commissioner for the United Nations, Consular Corps and...
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Leslie H. Gelb
Dr. Leslie H. Gelb is President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, having served as president of the organization from 1993-2003.
Prior to joining CFR, Gelb established a...
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David Gergen
David Gergen is the Director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, as well as a Professor of Public Service. Gergen served in the...
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James K. Glassman
Ambassador Jim Glassman is founding Executive Director of the George W. Bush Institute and host of “Ideas in Action,” a weekly public television series on trends, conditions and ideas “at...
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C. Boyden Gray
Ambassador C. Boyden Gray currently serves on the board of directors for the Atlantic Council. He was appointed ambassador to the European Union in 2006, and subsequently served as Special Envoy...
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Marc Grossman
Ambassador Marc Grossman currently serves as Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group. He served as the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the State Department's third ranking...
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Lee Hamilton
Lee Hamilton has served as Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars since 1999. He joined the Wilson Center after representing Indiana in the House of Representatives from...
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Carla Hills
Carla A. Hills is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Hills & Company. Ambassador Hills served as U.S. Trade Representative (1989-93) in the Bush (41) Administration and Secretary of Housing and...
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Stanley Hoffmann
Stanley Hoffmann is the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University, where he served as Chairman of the Center for European Studies from its creation in 1969 until...
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Martin Indyk
Ambassador Martin Indyk is Acting Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution. He was previously head of The Saban Center for Middle East Policy and a senior fellow...
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James F. Jeffrey
Ambassador James F. Jeffrey is distinguished visiting fellow at The Washington Institute where he focuses on U.S. strategies to counter Iran's efforts to expand its influence in the broader Middle...
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Zalmay Khalilzad
Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad is President and CEO of Khalilzad Associates LLC, an international advisory firm that serves global businesses and non-profits.
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Kevin Klose
Kevin Klose is the Acting President and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. A former editor, and national and foreign correspondent with The Washington Post, Klose is an award-winning...
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Richard Lugar
Richard Lugar is the senior United States Senator from Indiana and the longest serving senator in Indiana history, having being elected to a fourth term in 1994. He has served on the Senate's...
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Thomas F. McLarty III
Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty III is Chairman and President of McLarty Associates, formerly Kissinger McLarty Associates. McLarty is also the Chief Executive Officer of McLarty Companies. From...
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Ron Nessen
Ron Nessen is Journalist in Residence at The Brookings Institution. From 1974 to 1976, he served as press secretary to President Gerald Ford. Prior to that position, Nessen completed five tours as...
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Thomas Pickering
Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the Vice Chairman of Hills and Company. Upon his retirement from the US State Department he served as Senior Vice President for International Relations and was a...
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Margot Pritzker
Margot Pritzker is the founder and President of WomenOnCall.org, a Chicago-area network that matches women who are committed to volunteering their professional expertise with non-profit...
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Tim Roemer
Tim Roemer, former six-term U.S. representative for Indiana’s 3rd congressional district, most recently served as U.S. ambassador to India. He has a strong background in international trade and...
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Felix Rohatyn
Ambassador Felix Rohatyn is currently the President and Chairman of Rohatyn Associates, LLC. He previously served as the US Ambassador to France under the Clinton administration from 1997-2000....
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Stephen P. Rosen
Dr. Stephen Peter Rosen is the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University and director of Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies. He has...
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Dennis Ross
Ambassador Dennis Ross returned to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as counselor in December 2011. Formerly the Institute’s Ziegler Distinguished fellow and counselor from...
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J. Stapleton Roy
Ambassador J. Stapleton (Stape) Roy is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
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Brent Scowcroft
General Brent Scowcroft is President and founder of The Scowcroft Group, an international consulting firm. He served as the National Security Advisor to President Gerald Ford from 1974-1976 and to...
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Daniel Senor
Daniel Senor is Managing Director and a founding partner of Rosemont Solebury Capital Management. He is also an adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations...
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Kristen Silverberg
Ambassador Kristen Silverberg is currently the COO of Vorbeck Materials, a nanotechnology company in Maryland. Ambassador Silverberg was nominated by President George W. Bush on April 24, 2008 and...
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James B. Steinberg
James B. Steinberg is Dean of the Maxwell School, Syracuse University and University Professor of Social Science, International Affairs and Law. Prior to becoming Dean on July 1, 2011, he served...
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Strobe Talbott
Strobe Talbott has served as President of the Brookings Institution since 2002. He was previously Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization at Yale University. From 1993-2001 Talbott...
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Margaret Tutwiler
Ambassador Margaret Tutwiler is Senior Vice President and Head of Global Communications and Public Affairs at Merrill Lynch. She was previously head of Global Communications and Government...
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Vin Weber
Vin Weber is managing partner of the Washington, D.C. branch of Clark & Weinstock and Vice-Chair of the National Endowment for Democracy. He served in the United States House of Representatives...
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John C. Whitehead
John C. Whitehead is Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Foundation. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co., in 1947 and worked there for 38 years, rising within the company to be named partner in 1956 and...
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Douglas B. Wilson
Nominated by President Obama in November 2009 and confirmed by the US Senate in February 2010 as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Mr. Wilson served until March of 2012 as the...
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Judy Woodruff
Broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff has covered politics and other news for more than three decades at CNN, NBC and PBS. After returning to the NewsHour in 2007 as a senior correspondent,...
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R. James Woolsey
R. James Woolsey is Chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC and a Venture Partner with Lux Capital Management. He also Chairs the Board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Juan C. Zarate
Juan Zarate is a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Senior National Security Analyst for CBS News, a Visiting Lecturer of Law at the Harvard Law...
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Philip Zelikow
Dr. Philip D. Zelikow is the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He served as Counselor to the US Department of State from February 2005 to December 2006. As...
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