behind, in-between, intermingling, entrenched, etc., in the Washington Media-Political-Corporate-K Street Establishment, the status quo ... where the elite, the plutocrats, finds 'non-partisanship' ~
wink, wink, nod, nod ~ and seeks ways ("policies") to profit ("problem solving") via think-tanking governmental affairs ... corporate funded
I don't think the people associated with these groups are thinking "change".
i.e., The Aspen Institute
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/where Madeleine Albright mingles with Nixon-man Fred Malek and Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Henry Kissinger
The Board of Trustees
Active Trustees | Lifetime Trustees
William E. Mayer
Chairman of the Board
Henry E. Catto
Vice Chairman
Lester Crown
Vice Chairman
Walter Isaacson
President & CEO
Active Trustees
Madeleine K. Albright
Principal
The Albright Group LLC
Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute
Chairman, RAND Board of Trustees
Mercedes Bass
Sid R. Bass Inc.
Timothy K. Krauskopf
Principal
Round Lake Designs, LLC
*Berl Bernhard
Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors
Partner
DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP (who does DLA support? - opensecrets.org)
Leonard A. Lauder
Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors
The Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.
William D. Budinger
Founder, Former Chairman and CEO
Rodel, Inc.
Elisabeth Lulin
President
Institut Aspen France
Stephen L. Carter
Professor of Law
Yale University Law School
*Frederic V. Malek
Chairman
Thayer Capital Partners
*Henry E. Catto
Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain;
Chair
Atlantic Council of the United States
Robert H. Malott
Retired Chairman and CEO
FMC Corporation
*Lester Crown
Chairman
Henry Crown and Company
Vice Chairman
The Aspen Institute
James M. Manyika
Partner
McKinsey & Company
F. Peter Cundill
Founder
Cundill Investments Research
*William E. Mayer
Chairman of the Board
The Aspen Institute;
Partner
Park Avenue Equity Partners
Andrea Cunningham
Chief Executive Officer
CXO Communication
Bonnie Palmer McCloskey
President
Cornerstone Holdings, LLC
Tarun Das
Chief Mentor
Confederation of Indian Industry
Anne Welsh McNulty
Senior Director
JBK Partners
**William L. Davis
Chairman and COO
WLD Davis Holdings, LLC
Karlheinz Muhr
Managing Director
Credit Suisse First Boston
John Doerr
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Clare Muñana
President
Ancora Associates, Inc.
Sylvia A. Earle
Chairman
Deep Ocean Exploration & Research
Elinor Bunin Munroe
President
Elinor Bunin Productions, Inc.
Michael D. Eisner
Tornante Company
Jerry Murdock
Managing Director and Co-Founder
Insight Venture Partners
Leonhard Fischer
Chairman
Aspen Institute Berlin
Roberto H. Murray
Chairman
Fundemas;
President, Agricola Industrial
Salvadorena, SA
Alan Fletcher
President and CEO
Aspen Music Festival and School
William A. Nitze
Chairman
GridPoint, Inc.
Stephen Friedman
Senior Advisor
Stone Point Capital
Her Majesty Queen Noor
Humanitarian Activist; UN Expert Advisor
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities
Harvard University
Olara A. Otunnu
President
LBL Foundation for Children
Mircea Geoana
President
Aspen Institute Romania
Elaine Pagels
Professor of Religion
Princeton University
David Gergen
Professor of Public Service
John F. Kennedy School of Government,
Harvard University;
Editor-at-Large
US News & World Report
Michel Pebereau
President
BNP Paribas;
Chairman
Institut Aspen France
*Alma L. Gildenhorn
Honorary Trustee
Kennedy Center
Lord Powell
Chairman
Sagitta Asset Management Limited
Jamshyd Godrej
Chairman
Aspen Institute India
Michael K. Powell
Chairman
The MK Powell Group
*Gerald Greenwald
Managing Partner
Greenbriar Equity Group
*Margot L. Pritzker
Chairperson
Zohar Education Project Incorporative
Patrick W. Gross
Chairman
The Lovell Group
Peter Reiling
Executive Vice President for Leadership and Policy Programs
The Aspen Institute*
Arjun Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner
Telesoft Partners
*Lynda Resnick
Co-Owner and Vice Chairman
Roll International Corporation
*Sidney Harman
Executive Chairman
Harman International Industries, Inc.
Isaac O. Shongwe
Chief Executive Officer
DNA Supply Chain of South Africa;
Chairman
Letsema Consulting Company
Hayne Hipp
Chairman and CEO
The Liberty Corporation
Albert H. Small
President
Southern Engineering Corp.
Gerald D. Hosier
Law Offices of Gerald D. Hosier Ltd.
*Robert K. Steel
Chairman
The Aspen Institute;
Under Secretary of Domestic Finance
U.S. Department of Treasury
Ann Frasher Hudson
Partner
Javelina Partners
Andrew L. Stern
International President
Service Employees International Union
Robert J. Hurst
Managing Director
Crestview Advisors, LLC
Giulio Tremonti
Chairman
Aspen Institute Italia
*Walter Isaacson
President & CEO
The Aspen Institute
Roderick von Lipsey
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Co.
William N. Joy
Partner
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Vin Weber
Managing Partner
Clark & Weinstock
Yotaro Kobayashi
Chief Corporate Advisor
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
Frederick B. Whittemore
Advisory Director
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.
David H. Koch
Executive Vice President
Chemical Technology
Koch Industries, Inc.
Alice Young, Esq.
Chair, Asia Pacific Practice (U.S.)
Kaye Scholer LLP
* Executive Committee
** Trustees on Leave of Absence
Lifetime Trustees
James C. Calaway
Chairman of Lifetime Trustees
Prince Bandar bin Sultan
Former Saudi Ambassador to the United States
John P. Mascotte
Former President and CEO
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City
Keith Berwick
Keith Berwick Chair
The Aspen Institute
Robert S. McNamara
Former President
The World Bank
John Brademas
President Emeritus
New York University
Olivier Mellerio
Institut Aspen France
Interfinexa
James C. Calaway
Chairman, Lifetime Trustees
The Aspen Institute;
Investor
Hisashi Owada
International Court of Justice
Lisle C. Carter, Jr.
Attorney
John J. Phelan, Jr.
Chairman Emeritus
The Aspen Institute
Retired Chairman and CEO
New York Stock Exchange
William T. Coleman, Jr.
Senior Partner and The Senior Counselor
O'Melveny & Myers
Thomas R. Pickering
Hills and Company
Al Dietsch
Chairman
Best Year Yet LLC
Warren B. Rudman
Partner
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
William H. Donaldson
Donaldson Enterprises
Jay Sandrich
TV and Film Director
James L. Ferguson
Retired Chairman and CEO
General Foods Corporation
Lloyd G. Schermer
Retired Chairman & CEO
Lee Enterprises
Jacqueline Grapin
President
The European Institute
Carlo Scognamiglio
Honorary Chairman
Aspen Institute Italia
Irvine O. Hockaday, Jr.
Retired President and CEO
Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Kathy D. Smith
Former Board Member
Daubert Industries
Nina Rodale Houghton
President
Wye Institute
Phillips Talbot
President Emeritus
The Asia Society
Shirley Hufstedler
Senior Counsel
Morrison & Foerster
Solomon D. Trujillo
Chairman, CEO and President
Graviton, Inc.
Jérôme Huret
Former President
Institut Aspen France
Paul A. Volcker
Former Chairman of the Board of Governors
Federal Reserve System
Robert S. Ingersoll
Former U. S. Ambassador to Japan
Leslie H. Wexner
President and Chairman of the Board
The Limited, Inc.
Henry A. Kissinger
Chairman
Kissinger Associates, Inc.
Clifton R. Wharton, Jr.
Former Chairman and CEO
TIAA/CREF
Gerald M. Levin
Retired Chairman and CEO
Time Warner, Inc.
Dolores Wharton
Founder and Chair
Fund for Corporate Initiatives
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/site/c.huLWJeMRKpH/b.612063/k.AE55/Board_of_Trustees.htmi.e., Center for Strategic and International Studies
http://www.csis.org/meeting ground for both Kissinger and Brzezinski
Chairman
Sam Nunn* ** -- Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
Vice Chairman & Co-Founder
David M. Abshire -- President, Center for the Study of the Presidency
Chairman of the Executive Committee
William A. Schreyer* -- Chairman Emeritus, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee
Anne Armstrong* -- Former U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain
President & CEO
John J. Hamre* -- President & CEO, CSIS
Trustees
* George L. Argyros -- Chairman & CEO, Arnel & Affiliates
* Richard Armitage -- President, Armitage International
* Betty Beene -- Former President & CEO, United Way of America
* Reginald K. Brack -- Former Chairman & CEO, Time, Incorporated
* William E. Brock** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Harold Brown** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Zbigniew Brzezinski** -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* William S. Cohen -- Chairman & CEO, The Cohen Group
* Ralph Cossa -- President, Pacific Forum/CSIS
* Richard Fairbanks -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* William H. Frist -- Trustee, CSIS
* Michael P. Galvin* -- President, Harrison Street Capital, LLC
* Helene D. Gayle -- President & CEO, CARE USA
* Linda W. Hart -- Vice Chairman & CEO, The Hart Group, Inc.
* Ben W. Heineman, Jr. -- CSIS Trustee and Senior Adviser
* Thomas O. Hicks -- Chairman, Hicks Holdings LLC
* Carla A. Hills** -- Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
* Ray L. Hunt -- Chairman & CEO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
* E. Neville Isdell -- Chairman & CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
* James L. Jones -- Trustee, CSIS
* Henry A. Kissinger** -- Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
* Kenneth G. Langone -- President & CEO, Invemed Associates, LLC
* Donald B. Marron -- Chairman & CEO, Lightyear Capital
* Joseph Nye -- Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
* E. Stanley O’Neal -- Former Chairman and CEO, Merrill Lynch & Company, Inc.
* Thomas Pritzker -- Chairman & CEO, The Pritzker Organization, LLC
* Joseph E. Robert -- Chairman and CEO, The J.E. Robert Companies (JER)
* Felix G. Rohatyn -- Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers
* David M. Rubenstein -- Cofounder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
* Charles A. Sanders -- Former Chairman & CEO, Glaxo Inc.
* James R. Schlesinger** -- Senior Adviser, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
* Brent Scowcroft** -- President, Forum for International Policy
* Rex Tillerson -- Chairman & CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
* Frederick B. Whittemore -- Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
TRUSTEES EMERITUS
* Amos A. Jordan -- President Emeritus, CSIS
* Murray Weidenbaum -- Hon. Chair, Weidenbaum Center, Washington University
* Dolores D. Wharton -- Retired Chairman and CEO, Fund For Corporate Initiatives, Inc.
COUNSELORS
* William E. Brock -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Harold Brown -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Frank C. Carlucci -- Counselor, CSIS
* Richard Fairbanks -- Counselor and Trustee, CSIS
* Carla A. Hills -- Chairman & CEO, Hills & Company
* Henry A. Kissinger -- Chairman & CEO, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
* Theodore McCarrick -- Counselor, CSIS
* Sam Nunn -- Cochairman & CEO, Nuclear Threat Initiative
* James R. Schlesinger -- Senior Advisor, Lehman Brothers, Inc.
* Brent Scowcroft -- President, Forum for International Policy
http://www.csis.org/about/trustees/i.e., Council on Foreign Relations
http://www.cfr.orgwith Madeleine K. Albright and Leslie Gelb and other characters
Board of Directors
Carla A. Hills
Co-Chairman; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Hills & Company
Robert E. Rubin
Co-Chairman; Director and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup, Inc.
Richard E. Salomon
Vice Chairman; Chairman, Mecox Ventures, Inc.
Richard N. Haass
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Peter Ackerman
Managing Director, Rockport Capital, Inc.
Fouad Ajami
M. Khadduri Prof. of Middle Eastern Studies, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Madeleine K. Albright
Principal, The Albright Group LLC
Charlene Barshefsky
Senior International Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Henry S. Bienen
President, Northwestern University
Stephen W. Bosworth
Dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Tom Brokaw
NBC News
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Frank J. Caufield
Co-Founder, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kenneth M. Duberstein
Chairman and CEO, The Duberstein Group, Inc.
Martin S. Feldstein
President, National Bureau of Economic Research
Richard N. Foster
Managing Partner, Millbrook Management Group LLC
Stephen Friedman
Chairman, Stone Point Capital
Ann M. Fudge
Helene D. Gayle
President & CEO, CARE
Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman & CEO, C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.
Richard C. Holbrooke
Vice Chairman, Perseus LLC
Karen Elliott House
Alberto Ibargüen
President & Chief Executive Officer, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Henry R. Kravis
Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Jami Miscik
Global Head of Sovereign Risk, Lehman Brothers
Michael H. Moskow
Senior Fellow for the Global Economy, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Distinguished Service Professor, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Ronald L. Olson
Senior Partner, Munger Tolles and Olson LLP
James W. Owens
Chairman & CEO, Caterpillar Inc.
Colin L. Powell
United States Army (Ret.)
David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Joan E. Spero
President, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Strobe Talbott
President, Brookings Institution
Vin Weber
CEO and Partner, Clark & Weinstock
Christine Todd Whitman
President, The Whitman Strategy Group
Fareed Zakaria
Editor, Newsweek International
Officers and Directors Emeriti:
Leslie H. Gelb (President Emeritus)
Maurice R. Greenberg (Honorary Vice Chairman)
Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. (Director Emeritus)
Peter G. Peterson (Chairman Emeritus)
David Rockefeller (Honorary Chairman)
Robert A. Scalapino (Director Emeritus)
International Advisory Board
Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, International Advisory Board (the Blackstone Group)
Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations;
Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, The Blackstone Group
Syed Babar Ali
(Pakistan) Chairman, Interbank; Advisor, Packages Limited; Former Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Planning, Pakistan
Khalid A. Alturki
(Saudi Arabia), Chairman, Trading and Development Company (TRADCO)
Mukesh D. Ambani
(India), Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Ltd.
Ahmad E. Bishara
(Kuwait), Secretary-General, National Democratic Movement
Mark C. Chona
(Zambia), Chairman and CEO, Sumika Consultancy and Management Services Ltd.; former Political Adviser to the President of Zambia
Gustavo A. Cisneros
(Venezuela), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cisneros Group of Companies
Gerhard Cromme
(Germany) Chairman, Supervisory Board, ThyssenKrupp AG
Abdel Raouf El Reedy
(Egypt) Chairman, Egyptian Council on Foreign Affairs
Jacob A. Frenkel
(Israel), Vice Chairman, American International Group; former Governor, Bank of Israel
Mikhail Fridman
(Russia), Chairman, Alfa Bank
Toyoo Gyohten
(Japan), President, Institute for International Monetary Affairs; former Vice Minister of Finance, Japan
Baba Gana Kingibe
(Nigeria), AU Special Representative in the Sudan; former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria
Yotaro Kobayashi
(Japan), Chief Corporate Adviser, Fuji Xerox Company, Ltd.
Rahmi M. Koç
(Turkey), Honorary Chairman, Koç Holdings A.S.
Luiz Felipe Lampreia
(Brazil), Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Centro Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais; former Foreign Minister of Brazil
Maurice Lévy
(France), Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, Publicis Groupe
Brian Mulroney
(Canada), former Prime Minister of Canada; Senior Partner, Ogilvy Renault
Sari Nusseibeh
(Palestinian Authority), President, Al Quds University
Sadako Ogata
(Japan), President, Japan International Cooperation Agency; former U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees
Lubna S. Olayan
(Saudi Arabia), Chief Executive Officer, Olayan Financing Company
Ana Palacio
(Spain), Senior Vice President and World Bank Group General Counsel
Surin Pitsuwan
(Thailand), Member of Parliament; former Foreign Minister of Thailand
Prannoy Roy
(India), President, New Delhi Television Ltd.
Zalman Shoval
(Israel), Head, Foreign Policy Bureau, Likud Party; former Israeli Ambassador to the United States
Khehla Shubane
(South Africa), Director, RMB Holdings
Washington SyCip
(Philippines), Chairman and Founder, SGV Group; Chairman, Asian Institute of Management
Horst M. Teltschik
(Germany), Chairman, Teltschik Associates GmbH
Jacob Wallenberg
(Sweden), Chairman of the Board, Investor AB
Jusuf Wanandi
(Indonesia) Senior Fellow, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (Jakarta)
Shirley V. T. Brittain Williams
(United Kingdom), Member, House of Lords
Yuan Ming
(China), Director, Institute for International Relations, Beijing University
Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León
(Mexico), former President of Mexico; Director, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
http://www.cfr.org/about/people/international_advisory_board.htmli.e., The Nixon Center
http://www.nixoncenter.org/(raise your hand if names recur)
Board of Directors
Honorary Chairman: Henry A. Kissinger
Chairman: Maurice R. Greenberg
Dwayne O. Andreas
Jeffrey L. Bewkes
Conrad M. Black
Charles G. Boyd
Tricia Nixon Cox
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Robert F. Ellsworth (Vice Chairman)
Leslie H. Gelb
Henry A. Kissinger
Eugene K. Lawson
Joseph I. Lieberman
John McCain
Lionel H. Olmer
Peter G. Peterson
Richard Plepler
Pat Roberts
James Schlesinger
Brent Scowcroft
J. Robinson West
Dimitri K. Simes, Center President (Ex Officio)
John H. Taylor, Executive Director of Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation (Ex Officio)
Advisory Council
Chairman: James Schlesinger
David Abshire
Richard V. Allen
Christopher Cox
John Deutch
David Eisenhower
Susan Eisenhower
Evan G. Greenberg
Lee H. Hamilton
Rita E. Hauser
Josef Joffe
Donald M. Kendall
Peter Kovler
Charles Krauthammer
Robert C. McFarlane
Janne Nolan
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
Alexei K. Pushkov
John E. Rielly
Peter R. Rosenblatt
William V. Roth, Jr.
Thomas A. Russo
Angela Stent
Marin Strmecki
Yuli Vorontsov
http://web.archive.org/web/20050205063607/www.nixoncenter.org/boardac.htmThe U.S.- Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
http://www.usacc.org HONORARY COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
James Baker III
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Henry Kissinger
Brent Scowcroft
John Sununu
FORMER MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL AND THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The following individuals of high distinction have previously served on the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors:
Dick Cheney
Vice President of the United States of America
Richard Armitage
Deputy Secretary of State
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