Council on Foreign Relations – Notable current council members

Notable current council members

• Roger Ailes (Chairman and CEO of Fox News)
• Madeleine Albright (64th United States Secretary of State, 20th United States Ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton)
• Lamar Alexander (45th Governor of Tennessee, United States Republican Senator, 5th United States Secretary of Education under George H.W. Bush)
• Eliot Abrams (international lawyer, former state department official under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Morton I. Abramowitz (diplomat)
• John Abizaid (U.S Army General, former head of CENTCOM)
• Michael F. Adams (President of University of Georgia)
• John B. Anderson (former Republican/Independent congressman from Illinois)
• Anthony Clark Arend (international lawyer, and academic)
• Fouad Ajami (academic, middle east analyst)
• Bruce Babbitt {16th Governor of Arizona, 47th United States Secretary of the Interior under Clinton}
• Howard Baker (13th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate, 12th White House Chief of Staff under Ronald Reagan, husband of Nancy Kassebaum Baker)
• James Baker (61st Secretary of State of the United States under Bush-41, and 67th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under Ronald Reagan, 10th & 16th White House chief of staff to President’s Reagan and George H.W. Bush)
• Thurbert Baker (former Democratic Party attorney-general of the state of Georgia)
• Michael D. Barnes (former United States Democratic congressman from Maryland, and president of the Brady Campaign)
• Charlene Barshefsky (former United States Trade Representative)
• Evan Bayh (former Democratic U.S senator and 46th Governor from Indiana)
• Peter Bergen (journalist, national security analyst for CNN)
• Joe Biden (47th Vice-President of the United States)
• Josh Bolten (22nd White House chief-of-staff under George W. Bush)
• Rudy Boschwitz (former Republican United States Senator from Minnesota)
• Sandy Berger (19th United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
• Warren Beatty (actor, film producer, director)
• Jeffrey Bewkes (president of Time Warner)
• Stephen Biddle (theorist setting U.S. counter-insurgency policy)
• Michael R. Bloomberg (108th Mayor of New York City, founder of Bloomberg L.P.)
• Max Boot (military historian, and foreign policy expert)
• Bill Bradley (former Democratic senator from New Jersey, NBA hall of fame basketball player)
• Ian Bremmer (Eurasia Group founder and president)
• Lael Brainard (Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs, wife of Kurt M. Campbell)
• Bill Brock (50th chairman of the Republican Party, 8th U.S. trade ambassador and 18th United States Secretary of Labor under Ronald Reagan, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
• Dan Burton (former republican party United States congressman from Indiana)
• Erin Burnett (journalist, CNN anchor)
• George H.W. Bush (41st President of the United States)
• Tom Brokaw (NBC journalist)
• Howard Berman (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from California)
• Peter Beinart (academic, columnist)
• Richard Branson (founder of Virgin Group)
• L. Paul Bremer (diplomat)
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr. (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
• Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (10th United States National Security Advisor under President Jimmy Carter)
• Stephen Gerald Breyer (United States Supreme Court justice)
• Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
• Sanford Bishop (Democratic Party United States congressman from Georgia)
• David Boren (former Democrat U.S. senator from Oklahoma and president of the University of Oklahoma)
• Kurt M. Campbell {Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, husband of Lael Brainard}
• Jimmy Carter (39th President of the United States)
• Frank Carlucci (16th Secretary of Defense and 15th U.S. national security adviser under Ronald Reagan, 13th deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency under Jimmy Carter)
• Dick Cheney (46th Vice-President of the United States)
• Juju Chang (journalist, reporter for ABC News)
• Henry Cisneros (10th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bill Clinton)
• Bill Clinton (42nd President of the United States)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton(former First Lady of the United States, former United States Senator from New York, 67th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama)
• George Clooney (actor, director, screenwriter, producer, United Nations Messenger of Peace)
• Mario Cuomo (Democratic politician, 52nd Governor of New York)
• Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
• Katie Couric (former CBS and NBC journalist, talk show host)
• Stephen F. Cohen (professor of Russian studies at NYU, husband of Katrina vanden Heuvel)
• Edward F. Cox (international attorney, chairman of the New York Republican party, son-in-law of Richard Nixon)
• William M. Daley (24th White House chief of staff under Obama, 32nd secretary of commerce under Bill Clinton)
• Kathryn Wasserman Davis {American philanthropist}
• Kenneth Duberstein (13th chief of staff under Ronald Reagan)
• Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
• Joseph Duffey (academic, educator)
• Chris Dodd (Former United States Senator from Connecticut)
• Thomas R. Donahue {former Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO}
• William H. Donaldson (former chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission)
• Michael Dukakis (65th and 67th governor of Massachusetts, 1988 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Mervyn M. Dymally (former Democratic congressman from California)
• James S. Doyle (journalist & activist)
• Jesse Dylan {film director}
• Esther Dyson {philanthropist, technology analyst, daughter of Freeman Dyson}
• John Edwards (former Democratic U.S. senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee)
• Karl Eikenberry (United States Army General, former ambassador to Afghanistan)
• Ari Emanuel (head of Endeavor Agency)
• Luigi R. Einaudi {former secretary-general of the Organization of American States}
• Mallory Factor {academic, banker, conservative activist,}
• Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. (former vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Noah Feldman (academic and author)
• Dianne Feinstein (United States Democratic Party Senator from California)
• Bernard T. Ferrari (dean, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School)
• John B. Fitzgibbons, an American businessman and philanthropist
• Donald M. Fraser (former Democratic United States congressman from Minnesota)
• Bill Frist (Republican politician, former United States Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate)
• Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
• Thomas Friedman (columnist for The New York Times)
• Martin Feldstein (economist, Harvard professor)
• Tom Foley (57th speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Francis Fukuyama (political scientist, for state department official)
• Pamela Gann (President of Claremont McKenna College, former dean of Duke University School of Law).
• Robert M. Gates (22nd United States Secretary of Defense under Bush & Obama, 15th Director of Central Intelligence under George H.W. Bush)
• Robert P. George (Academic, professor at Princeton University, theologian, philosopher)
• David Geffen (president of Universal Music Group)
• Leslie Gelb (former journalist for the New York Times)
• Dick Gephardt (22nd Majority Leader of the United States House of Representatives)
• Sam Gejdenson (former Democratic Party United States Congressman from Connecticut)
• Jim Gilmore (68th Governor of Virginia)
• Bianna Golodryga (Journalist)
• Alan Greenspan (13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (former chairman and CEO of AIG)
• Bob Graham (Democratic Party 38th governor of Florida and United States Senator)
• Janet G. Mullins Grissom (Republican lobbyist,former state department official)
• Timothy Geithner {75th secretary of the treasury under Obama, 9th president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York}
• David Gergen (advisor to Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton, commentator for CNN)
• Peter C. Goldmark, Jr. (former CEO of New York Port Authority, president of Rockefeller Foundation, publisher of International Herald Tribune)
• Mikhail Gorbachev (former President of the USSR)
• Roy M. Goodman (former Republican member of the New York State Senate)
• Porter Goss {former Republican congressman from Florida, 19th Director of Central Intelligence Agency under George W. Bush}
• Newt Gingrich (58th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg (United States Supreme Court justice)
• Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
• Richard N. Haass (former State Department official)
• David A. Harris (director of the American Jewish Committee (AJC))
• Lee H. Hamilton (former United States Democratic congressman from Indiana)
• Michael Hayden (United States Air Force general, 15th director of the National Security Agency under Bill Clinton, and 20th director of the CIA under George W. Bush)
• 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)
• Heather Higgins (women’s advocate, chairman of the Independent Women’s Forum, president of the Randolph Foundation)
• Chris Heinz (heir to the H. J. Heinz Company ketchup fortune)
• Leo Hindery {businessman, philanthropist}
• Carla Anderson Hills (5th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Gerald Ford, 10th United States Trade Representative to George H.W. Bush)
• Deane R. Hinton {former diplomat}
• Kim Holmes (foreign policy and defense expert)
• Douglas Holtz-Eakin (economist)
• Auren Hoffman (investor/entrepreneur)
• Warren Hoge (American journalist, formerly of the New York Times)
• Malcolm Hoenlein (vice-chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (editor of The Nation, wife of Stephen F. Cohen, daughter of William vanden Heuvell}
• William vanden Heuvel (diplomat and international lawyer, father of Katrina vanden Heuvell)
• Frederick Iseman (businessman, inventor)
• Angelina Jolie (actress, UN Goodwill Ambassador)^[6]
• Vernon Jordan (advisor to President Bill Clinton)
• Nancy Johnson (former Republican United States congresswoman from Connecticut)
• Woody Johnson (investor, owner of the New York Jets, heir to Johnson & Johnson)
• Sheila Johnson (businesswoman, president of the Washington Mystics)
• Walter H. Kansteiner, III (American diplomat)
• Peter J. Katzenstein (political scientist, academic)
• Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
• Nancy Kassebaum (former Republican Senator from Kansas, daughter of Alf Landon, and wife of Howard Baker)
• Thomas Kean, Sr. (Republican politician, 48th Governor of New Jersey)
• John Kerry(former United States Senator from Massachusetts, 68th United States Secretary of State under Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Vanessa Kerry (doctor of medicine, liberal activist, daughter of John Kerry)
• Raymond Kelly {former police commissioner of the NYPD}
• Henry Kissinger (8th National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon and 56th United States Secretary of State under President’s Nixon and Ford)
• Joe Klein (Time Magazine columnist)
• Richard Kogan (former CEO of Schering-Plough from 1996 to 2003, board member of Colgate-Palmolive and The Bank of New York Mellon)
• Paul R. Krugman (economist, columnist for the New York Times)
• Anil Kumar (businessman, former senior partner at McKinsey)
• Charles Krauthammer (columnist for the Washington Post and political commentator at Fox News)
• Zalmay Khalilzad (26th ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush)
• Philip Lader (diplomat, chairman of WPP Group)
• Richard W. Lariviere (Scholar, President of the University of Oregon)
• Jim Leach (former Republican United States congressman from Iowa, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities under Obama)
• John Robert Lewis (Democratic United States congressman from the state of Georgia, famed civil-rights leader)
• Jim Lehrer (journalist, former anchor for PBS)
• Joe Lieberman (former United States Independent Senator from Connecticut)
• Lewis Libby (attorney, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney)
• Herbert London {academic, conservative activist, former dean of Gallatin School of Individualized Study}
• Nigel Lythgoe (television producer)
• Fred Malek (businessman, former President of Marriott Hotels and Northwest Airlines)
• David Malpass (economist, Republican Party politician)
• John McCain (United States Republican Senator from Arizona, 2008 Republican Party nominee for the Presidency)
• Bud McFarlane (13th national security advisor to Ronald Reagan)
• William Green Miller (United States Ambassador to Ukraine under Bill Clinton)
• George J. Mitchell (17th Senate Majority Leader of the United States Senate}
• Walter Mondale (42nd Vice-President of the United States)
• Robert Mosbacher, Jr. (businessman, son of Robert Mosbacher)
• Les Moonves (President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS)
• Bill Moyers (former press-secretary to Lyndon Johnson, public commentator for PBS)
• Langhorne A. Motley {former diplomat} and state department official}
• David Mulford (former United States Ambassador to India and current Vice-Chairman International of Credit Suisse)
• Rupert Murdoch (founder/chairman/CEO of News Corp and Fox News)
• Heather Nauert (journalist and anchor for Fox News)
• Janet Napolitano (3rd United States Secretary of Homeland Security under Obama, 21st Governor of Arizona)
• John D. Negroponte (former United States Deputy Secretary of State and former Director of National Intelligence under George W. Bush)
• Joseph Nye (academic)
• Sandra Day O’Connor (former United States Supreme Court justice)
• Stan O’Neal (former Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
• George Pataki (Republican politician, 53rd Governor of New York)
• Henry Paulson (74th United States Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush)
• Robert Pastor (national security adviser, son-in-law to Robert McNamara)
• David Petraeus (United States Army General, former head of CENTCOM, 22nd director of the CIA)
• Peter G. Peterson (20th United States Secretary of Commerce under Nixon)
• Steve Pieczenik (former state department official, 911 conspiracy theorist)
• Kitty Pilgrim (journalist and anchor on CNN)
• Richard Pipes (academic, father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes)
• 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 Republican politician)
• Roman Popadiuk (former United States Ambassador to Ukraine, Executive Director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation)
• Arturo C. Porzecanski (Wall Street economist and university professor)
• Colin Powell (65th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43, 16th National Security Advisor under Reagan, 12th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Bush-41)
• Tom Petri (Republican United States congressman from Wisconsin)
• Priscilla Presley (actress and former chairwoman of the board of Elvis Presley Enterprises)
• Charles Prince (former chief executive officer of Citigroup)
• Jennifer Raab {President of Hunter College}
• Janet Reno (78th United States Attorney General under Clinton)
• Condoleezza Rice (66th United States Secretary of State under Bush-43)
• Dan Rather (journalist, formerly anchor at CBS)
• Charles Rangel (United States Democratic Congressman from New York City)
• Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
• David Rockefeller, Jr.
• John D. Rockefeller, IV (United States Democratic Party Senator of West Virginia, 29th Governor of West Virginia)
• Charlie Rose (PBS journalist and The Early Show anchor)
• Liz Rosenberg (novelist, poet, columnist for The Boston Globe)
• Chuck Robb (64th Governor of Virginia, former Democratic Party U.S. Senator from Virginia, son-in-law of Lyndon B. Johnson)
• Edward Regan (former state comptroller of New york)
• Robert Rubin (70th Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton)
• Haim Saban (founder of Saban Capital Group)
• Jeffrey D. Sachs (American economist)
• Diane Sawyer (ABC News journalist)
• Stephen M. Schwebel (jurist, former judge on the International Court of Justice)
• Michael Shifter (academic, president of the Inter-American Dialogue)
• Dan Senor (former foreign policy advisor to George W. Bush, former Fox News foreign policy analyst)
• Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News columnist, and historian)
• Timothy Shriver (chairman & CEO of the Special Olympics)
• David Stern (commissioner of the NBA)
• John Spratt (former Democratic United States congressman from South Carolina)
• Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
• Olympia J. Snowe (former Republican United States Senator from Maine)
• Brent Scowcroft (9th & 17th United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
• George Shultz (60th United States Secretary of State under Reagan, 62nd United States Secretary of the Treasury and 11th United States Secretary of Labor under Richard Nixon}
• Frederick W. Smith (CEO and founder of FedEx)
• Andrew Ross Sorkin (business journalist for New York Times and CNBC)
• Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
• George Soros (currency speculator, investor, businessman)
• Lesley Stahl (CBS News journalist)
• Donna Shalala (18th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under Bill Clinton, President of the University of Miami)
• Eduard Shevardnadze (2nd President of Georgia)
• Eric Shinseki (7th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs under Obama, 34th Chief of Staff of the United States Army under Clinton & Bush)
• Adlai Stevenson III (former Democratic United States Senator from Illinois, son of Adlai Stevenson II)
• George Stephanopoulos (former White House press-secretary under Bill Clinton, Good Morning America anchor, This Week with George Stephanopoulos host)
• Laurence H. Silberman (United States federal judge)
• Robert Silvers (editor of New York Review of Books)
• Stansfield Turner (United States Navy Admiral, 12th director of the CIA under Jimmy Carter)
• Doug Turner (Republican party operative/Politician, public relations operative)
• Richard Thornburgh (76th Attorney-General of the United States of America under Reagan & Bush, 76th Governor of Pennsylvania)
• John L. Thornton (chairman of Brookings Institution, academic, former president of Goldman Sachs}
• Fred Thompson (attorney, actor, radio talk-show host, former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee,)
• Frances Townsend {former United States Homeland Security Advisor}
• Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (Former Democratic Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, member of the Kennedy family)
• Tom Vilsack (30th United States Secretary of Agriculture under Obama, 40th Governor of Iowa)
• Paul Volcker (12th Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
• Peter J. Wallison (20th White House Counsel to Ronald Reagan, former lawyer to Nelson Rockefeller)
• Barbara Walters (ABC News journalist)
• Vin Weber (former United States Republican Congressman from Minnesota)
• Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
• Juleanna Glover {American public policy consultant; former lobbyist}
• John C. Whitehead (chairman of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation, former United States Deputy Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, former Goldman Sachs chairman)
• Christine Todd Whitman (50th Governor of New Jersey, 9th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 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)
• James D. Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank)
• Paul Wolfowitz (10th President of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense under Bush-43)
• James Woolsey (16th Director of Central Intelligence under Bill Clinton)
• Dov S. Zakheim (academic and Department of Defense official under Reagan and George W. Bush)
• Paula Zahn (journalist, former anchor at Fox News and CNN)
• James Zogby (academic, political commentator and pollster)
• Robert Zoellick (11th President of the World Bank)

 

Current Emeritus and Honorary Officers and Directors[edit]

• Leslie H. Gelb (President Emeritus)
• Maurice R. Greenberg (Honorary Vice Chairman)
• Peter G. Peterson (Chairman Emeritus)
• David Rockefeller (Honorary Chairman)

Notable historical members[edit]

• Herbert Agar (writer, editor of The Courier-Journal)
• Harold Agnew (physicist, director of Los Alamos National Laboratory)
• Umberto Agnelli (Italian industrialist, ceo of Fiat)
• Les Aspin {democrat congressman from Wisconsin, 18th United States Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton}
• Kenneth Bacon (American journalist)
• Conrad Black (International Advisory Board member)
• Tom Braden (former CIA agent and liberal journalist)
• George Wildman Ball (American diplomat)
• Spruille Braden (American diplomat, businessman)
• McGeorge Bundy (National Security advisor for Presidents John F. Kennedy & Lyndon B. Johnson)
• William Bundy (Central Intelligence Agency agent, historian)
• William F. Buckley, Jr (commentator, publisher, founder of the National Review)
• Jonathan Bingham (Democratic congressman from New York, diplomat)
• Paul Cravath (lawyer, one of the founders of the Council on Foreign Relations)
• Heidi Nelson Cruz (investment banker, wife of Texas Senator Ted Cruz)
• Monica Crowley (former Richard Nixon aide, radio host, and columnist)
• John Chafee (former Secretary of the Navy, and Republican senator from Rhode Island)
• Warren Christopher (former United States Secretary of State)
• Thomas E. Dewey (47th governor of New York, former Republican nominee for President in 1944 and 1948)
• Michael Raoul Duval (attorney for Richard Nixon & Gerald Ford)
• C. Douglas Dillon (57th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States under John F. Kennedy & Lyndon Johnson, under-secretary of state under Dwight D. Eisenhower)
• Allen Dulles (former Director of the CIA)
• John Foster Dulles (52nd Secretary of State of the United States under Ike Eisenhower)
• Fred Dutton {lawyer, lobbyist, democrat party operative}
• Paul A. Dyster {mayor of Niagara Falls, New York}
• Lawrence Eagleburger (former United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush)
• Jeffrey E. Epstein (financier)^[7]
• Rowland Evans (journalist)
• John Exter (economist)
• Gerald Ford (38th President of the United States of America)
• Geraldine Ferraro (former Democratic New York congresswoman, first woman on a major party presidential ticket in 1984)
• Alexander Haig (United States Army General, 59th Secretary of State of the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• Sidney Harman (businessman, owner of Newsweek)
• Armand Hammer (businessman, investor)
• W. Averell Harriman (48th Governor of New York, diplomat, 11th United States Secretary of Commerce under Harry S Truman)
• H. John Heinz III (former Republican United States Senator from Pennsylvania)
• Richard Holbrooke (diplomat, investment banker, 22nd United States UN Ambassador)
• Herbert Hoover (31st President of the United States)
• Henry Hyde (former Republican congressman from Illinois)
• Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
• Irving Kristol (journalist, writer, dubbed “The godfather of neoconservatism, father of Bill Kristol)
• Jack Kemp (Hall of Fame quarterback, Republican congressman from New York, 9th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Bush-41, 1996 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee)
• George Kennan (diplomat, historian)
• Jeane Kirkpatrick (diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations)
• Ivy Lee (founding father of public relations)
• Robert A. Lovett (4th Secretary of Defense of the United States under Truman)
• Robert Matsui (former Democratic Party congressman from California)
• John J. McCloy (lawyer, banker)
• Charles Peter McColough (businessman)
• George McGovern (former Democratic senator from South Dakota, 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President)
• Robert McNamara (8th Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 5th President of the World Bank)
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (diplomat, former Democratic Senator from New York)
• Edmund Muskie (58th Secretary of State of the United States)
• Richard M. Nixon (37th President of the United States)
• Paul Nitze (Secretary of the Navy under Lyndon Johnson)
• David Rockefeller
• Nelson Rockefeller (41st Vice-President of the United States, and Governor of New York)
• John D. Rockefeller 3rd
• Felix Rohatyn (investment banker)
• Mark B. Rosenberg (President of Florida International University)
• Eugene Rostow (former dean of Yale law, legal scholar)
• Walt Rostow (7th National Security advisor to Lyndon Johnson)
• Dean Rusk (54th Secretary of State of the United States under Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson)
• Abraham A. Ribicoff (former Democratic United States Senator from Connecticut)
• William V. Roth, Jr. (former Republican United States Senator of Delaware).
• Carl Sagan (American scientist)
• Arthur Schlesinger (historian, academic)
• Raymond P. Shafer (former Republican governor of Pennsylvania)
• Tony Snow (former press secretary to George W. Bush, journalist, radio talk-show host)
• Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, co-founded One Jerusalem)
• Strobe Talbott (diplomat, chairman of Brookings Institution, journalist)
• Shirley Temple (actress, diplomat)
• Cyrus Vance (57th Secretary of State of the United States under Jimmy Carter)
• Rick Warren (American Christian leader, Senior Pastor of the Saddleback Church)
• Vernon A. Walters (United States Army General, 17th U.S. ambassador of the U.N.)
• John Wheeler III (Vietnam veteran, military consultant, presidential aide; found murdered on Dec. 31, 2010)
• Paul Warburg (banker)
• Caspar Weinberger (15th Secretary of Defense for the United States under Ronald Reagan)
• Albert Wohlstetter
• Roberta Wohlstetter

List of Chairmen[edit]

• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1946–53
• John J. McCloy 1953–70
• David Rockefeller 1970–85
• Peter G. Peterson 1985–2007
• Carla A. Hills (co-chairman) 2007–
• Robert E. Rubin (co-chairman) 2007–

List of presidents[edit]

• John W. Davis 1921–33
• George W. Wickersham 1933–36
• Norman H. Davis 1936–44
• Russell Cornell Leffingwell 1944–46
• Allen Welsh Dulles 1946–50
• Henry Merritt Wriston 1951–64
• Grayson L. Kirk 1964–71
• Bayless Manning 1971–77
• Winston Lord 1977–85
• John Temple Swing 1985–86 (Pro tempore)
• Peter Tarnoff 1986–93
• Alton Frye 1993
• Leslie Gelb 1993–2003
• Richard N. Haass 2003–