Reply #148: Government of, by and for Think Tanks [View All]

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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.htm


i.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.org

with 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.html


i.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.htm


The 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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to name a few organizations