2009
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Membership

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There are two types of membership in Council on Foreign Relations: life, and term membership, which lasts for 5 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 naturalised) 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).

Corporate membership (250 in total) is divided into “Basic”, “Premium” ($25,000+) and “President’s Circle” ($50,000+). All corporate executive members have opportunities to hear distinguished speakers, such as overseas presidents and prime ministers, chairmen and CEOs of multinational corporations, and US officials and Congressmen. President and premium members are also entitled to other benefits, including attendance at small, private dinners or receptions with senior American officials and world leaders.

Board of Directors

OFFICE NAME
Co-Chairman of the Board Carla A. Hills
Co-Chairman of the Board Robert E. Rubin
Vice Chairman Richard E. Salomon
President Richard N. Haass
Board of Directors
Director Peter Ackerman
Director Fouad Ajami
Director Madeleine K. Albright
Director Charlene Barshefsky
Director Henry S. Bienen
Director Stephen W. Bosworth
Director Tom Brokaw
Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Director Frank J. Caufield
Director Kenneth M. Duberstein
Director Richard N. Foster
Director Stephen Friedman
Director Ann M. Fudge
Director Maurice R. Greenberg
Director Richard C. Holbrooke
Director Alberto Ibargüen
Director Henry R. Kravis
Director Jami Miscik
Director Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Director Ronald L. Olson
Director James W. Owen
Director Colin L. Powell
Director David M. Rubenstein
Director Anne-Marie Slaughter
Director Joan E. Spero
Director Vin Weber
Director Christine Todd Whitman
Director Fareed Zakaria

The Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations is composed in total of thirty-six officers. Peter G. Peterson and David Rockefeller are Directors Emeriti (Chairman Emeritus and Honorary Chairman, respectively). It also has an International Advisory Board consisting of thirty-five distinguished individuals from across the world.

Some corporate members

Some of the corporate members follow, most of which are on the Fortune 500 list.

  • ABC News
  • Alcoa
  • American Express
  • AIG
  • Bank of America
  • Bloomberg
  • Boeing
  • BP
  • Chevron
  • Citigroup
  • Coca Cola
  • De Beers
  • Deutsche Bank
  • ExxonMobil
  • FedEx
  • Ford Motor
  • General Electric
  • GlaxoSmithKline
  • Google
  • Goldman Sachs
  • Halliburton
  • Heinz
  • Hess
  • IBM
  • JP Morgan Chase
  • Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
  • Lehman Brothers
  • Lockheed Martin
  • MasterCard
  • McGraw-Hill
  • McKinsey
  • Merck
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Motorola
  • Nasdaq
  • News Corp
  • Nike
  • Pepsi
  • Pfizer
  • Shell Oil
  • Sony Corporation of America
  • Tata Group
  • Time Warner
  • Total S.A.
  • Toyota Motor North America
  • UBS
  • United Technologies
  • United States Chamber of Commerce
  • U.S. Trust Corporation
  • Verizon
  • Visa

Notable current Council members

  • Madeleine Albright (former United States Secretary of State)
  • Sandy Berger (United States National Security Advisor under President Bill Clinton)
  • Michael R. Bloomberg (Current Mayor of New York City)
  • Bill Brock (former Republican United States Senator from Tennessee)
  • Tom Brokaw
  • Rick Warren
  • Edgar Bronfman (a member of the Bronfman dynasty, president of the World Jewish Congress)
  • Ethan Bronner (deputy foreign editor of The New York Times)
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski (United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter)
  • Jonathan S. Bush (healthcare CEO, son of Jonathan Bush, brother of NBC entertainment reporter Billy Bush)
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Dick Cheney
  • Warren Christopher (former United States Secretary of State)
  • Bill Clinton
  • Paul Cravath, name partner of law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore
  • Michael Crow (president of Arizona State University)
  • Peggy Dulany (fourth child of David Rockefeller)
  • Lawrence Eagleburger ( former United States Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush)
  • Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.
  • Noah Feldman (academic and author)
  • Alan H. Fleischmann (Co-Founder of ImagineNations Group)
  • Mikhail Fridman (Russian oligarch, International Advisory Board member)
  • Thomas Friedman (journalist, The New York Times)
  • Robert M. Gates (United States Secretary of Defense, former Director of Central Intelligence)
  • Leslie Gelb
  • Alan Greenspan (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
  • Gary Hart (former Democratic U.S. Senator representing Colorado, Council for a Livable World chairman, advisory board member for the Partnership for a Secure America)
  • Chris Heinz (Heir to the H. J. Heinz Company ketchup fortune)
  • Warren Hoge (American journalist)
  • Angelina Jolie (UN Goodwill Ambassador)
  • Vernon Jordan (close advisor to President William J. Clinton)
  • Robert Kagan (cofounded Project for the New American Century)
  • John Kerry
  • Henry Kissinger
  • Irving Kristol (founder of American neoconservatism, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute)
  • Paul R. Krugman
  • Paula Zahn – news media, formerly an anchor on CNN
  • John D. Negroponte (United States Deputy Secretary of State, former Director of National Intelligence, former U.S. ambassador to Honduras)
  • Stan O’Neal (Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Merrill Lynch)
  • John McCain
  • Henry Paulson (United States Treasury Secretary)
  • Kitty Pilgrim
  • Richard Pipes (father of founder/director of Middle East Forum Daniel 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)
  • Colin Powell (former United States Secretary of State, former National Security Advisor, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)
  • Charles Prince (chief executive officer of Citigroup)
  • Condoleezza Rice
  • Keith A. Ridley, IV(Washington,DC Businessman)
  • Alice Rivlin (economist, former U.S. cabinet member)
  • David Rockefeller, Jr.
  • John D. Rockefeller, IV
  • Charlie Rose
  • Frederick Iseman : A Harold Pratt Fellow
  • Karenna Gore Schiff (daughter of Al Gore)
  • Brent Scowcroft (United States National Security Advisor under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush)
  • George Shultz (former United States Secretary of State, former United States Secretary of the Treasury, former United States Secretary of Labor)
  • Ron Silver (actor, director, producer, cofounded the organization One Jerusalem)
  • Walter B. Slocombe (former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy)
  • George Soros
  • Jonathan Soros
  • Lesley Stahl
  • Fred Thompson (Actor, former Senator from Tennessee, Presidential candidate)
  • Paul Volcker (former Chairman of the Federal Reserve)
  • Barbara Walters
  • Steven Weinberg (American physicist)
  • 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)
  • Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby (International Advisory Board member)
  • Adam Wolfensohn
  • James D. Wolfensohn (former president of the World Bank)
  • Paul Wolfowitz (former president of the World Bank, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense)
  • James Woolsey (former Director of Central Intelligence and former head of the Central Intelligence Agency)
  • Robert Zoellick (President of the World Bank)

Notable historical members

  • Kenneth Bacon
  • Conrad Black (International Advisory Board member)
  • McGeorge Bundy
  • William Bundy
  • C. Douglas Dillon
  • Allen Dulles
  • John Foster Dulles
  • President Gerald Ford
  • Sergei Karaganov (International Advisory Board member)
  • George Kennan
  • Robert Lovett
  • John J. McCloy
  • Charles Peter McColough
  • Robert McNamara
  • Paul Nitze
  • Nelson Rockefeller
  • John D. Rockefeller 3rd
  • Felix Rohatyn
  • Mark B. Rosenberg
  • Eugene Rostow
  • Walt Rostow
  • Dean Rusk
  • Arthur Schlesinger
  • Strobe Talbott
  • Albert Wohlstetter
  • Roberta Wohlstetter
  • Paul Warburg
  • Caspar Weinberger

List of Chairmen

  • 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

  • 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-

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