Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a think tank which describes itself as "dedicated to increasing America's understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. The Council accomplishes this mainly by promoting constructive, closed debates and discussions, clarifying world issues, and publishing Foreign Affairs."

Board of Directors

Executive

• Peter G. Peterson, Chairman
• Carla Anderson Hills, Vice Chairman
• Robert Rubin, Vice Chairman

Officers

(from http://www.cfr.org/about/board.php accessed August 05)

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• Peter G. Peterson, Chairman of the Board
  
• Carla Anderson Hills, Vice Chairman of the Board
  
• Robert E. Rubin, Vice Chairman of the Board
  
• Richard N. Haass, President
  
• James M. Lindsay, Vice President, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Director of Studies
  
• David Kellogg, Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs, and Publisher
  
• Janice L. Murray, Senior Vice President and Treasurer
  
• Irina Faskianos, Vice President, National and Outreach Programs
  
• Elise Carlson Lewis, Vice President, Membership and Fellowship Affairs
  
• Anne R. Luzzatto, Vice President, Meetings
  
• Nancy E. Roman, Vice President and Director, Washington Program
• Lisa Shields, Vice President, Communications
  
• Lilita Gusts, Secretary of the Corporation
  

Current Directors

(from http://www.cfr.org/about/board.php accessed August 05)

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• Peter Ackerman
• Fouad Ajami
• Madeline Albright
• Charlene Barshefsky
• Jeffrey Bewkes
• Henry Bienen
• Roger Boothe, Jr.
• Stephen W. Bosworth
• Tom Brokaw
• Lee Cullum
• Kenneth Duberstein
• Martin S. Feldstein
• Richard N. Foster
• Helene D. Gayle
• Maurice R. Greenberg
• Richard N. Haass (ex officio)
• Carla A. Hills
• Richard Charles Albert Holbrooke
• Karen Elliott House
• George J. Mitchell
• Michael H. Moskow
• Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
• Ronald L. Olson
• Peter G. Peterson
• Thomas R. Pickering
• Robert E. Rubin
• Warren Bruce Rudman
• Richard E. Salomon
• Anne-Marie Slaughter
• Joan E. Spero
• Laura D'Andrea Tyson
• Vin Weber
• Fareed Zakaria

Officers and Directors Emeriti

• Leslie H. Gelb, President Emeritus
• Maurice R. Greenberg, Honorary Vice Chairman
• Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.
• David Rockefeller, Honorary Chairman
• Robert A. Scalapino

Other well-known members

• William F. Buckley Jr. Founder, National Review
• Dick Cheney Current Republican Vice President 2001-present; member of the Project for a New American Century
• Bill Clinton Former President of the U.S. and a member of the Trilateral Commision and Bilderberg Group.
• Condoleezza Rice Secretary of State and former National Security Advisor
• Paul Wolfowitz current President of World Bank; former Deputy Sec. of Defense; co-founder of the Project for a New American Century
• Colin L. Powell Former Secretary of State
• Donald Rumsfeld Current Secretary of Defense; member of the Project for a New American Century
• John Bolton current U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
• Newt Gingrich Former Speaker of the House
• John Kerry Senator from Massachusetts
• George H. W. Bush former President, CIA director, Carlyle Senior Advisor Board member from April 98 to October 03.
• Henry Kissinger Former National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, co-founder of Trilateral Commision and Bilderberg Group.
• Richard Nixon Former President, Watergate scandal
• Dan Rather Former CBS Nightly News Anchor
• Timothy F. Geithner current President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• David Rockefeller former chairman, co-founder of the Trilateral Commision and Bilderberg group
• Katherine Harris current Representative in Congress
• Jimmy Carter former President of the U.S.
• Richard V. Allen, former National Security Advisor
• Paul H. Nitze Secretary of the Navy during the USS Liberty incident and the Gulf of Tonkin incident
• Dwight D. Eisenhower Former president. Richard Nixon served under Eisenhower as a Vice President during 1953?1961.
• Herbert Hoover former President
• Alan Greenspan Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
• John Edwards former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 2004 vice presidential nominee
• Jack Kemp former Congressman from New York, 1996 vice presidential nominee