Historical Roster of Directors and Officers
| Directors | |
|---|---|
| Isaiah Bowman | 1921-50 |
| Archibald Cary Coolidge | 1921-28 |
| Paul D. Cravath | 1921-40 |
| John W. Davis | 1921-55 |
| Norman H. Davis | 1921-44 |
| Stephen P. Duggan | 1921-50 |
| John H. Finley | 1921-29 |
| Edwin F. GayM | 1921-45 |
| David F. Houston | 1921-27 |
| Otto H. Kahn | 1921-34 |
| Frank L. Polk | 1921-43 |
| Whitney H. Shepardson | 1921-66 |
| William R. Shepherd | 1921-27 |
| Paul M. Warburg | 1921-32 |
| George M. Wickersham | 1921-36 |
| Allen W. Dulles | 1927-69 |
| Russell C. Leffingwell | 1927-60 |
| George O. May | 1927-53 |
| Wesley C. Mitchell | 1927-34 |
| Owen D. Young | 1927-40 |
| Hamilton Fish Armstrong | 1928-72 |
| Charles P. Howland | 1929-31 |
| Walter Lippmann | 1932-37 |
| Clarence M. Woolley | 1932-35 |
| Frank Altschul | 1934-72 |
| Philip C. Jessup | 1934-42 |
| Harold W. Dodds | 1935-43 |
| Leon Fraser | 1936-45 |
| John H. Williams | 1937-64 |
| Lewis W. Douglas | 1940-64 |
| Edward Warner | 1940-49 |
| Clarence E. Hunter | 1942-53 |
| Myron C. Taylor | 1943-59 |
| Henry M. Wriston | 1943-67 |
| Thomas K. Finletter | 1944-67 |
| William A. M. Burden | 1945-74 |
| Walter H. Mallory | 1945-68 |
| Philip D. Reed | 1945-69 |
| Winfield W. Riefler | 1945-50 |
| David Rockefeller | 1949-85 |
| W. Averell Harriman | 1950-55 |
| Joseph E. Johnson | 1950-74 |
| Grayson Kirk | 1950-73 |
| Devereux C. Josephs | 1951-58 |
| Elliott V. Bell | 1953-66 |
| John J. McCloy | 1953-72 |
| Arthur H. Dean | 1955-72 |
| Charles M. Spofford | 1955-72 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | 1958-62 |
| William C. Foster | 1959-72 |
| Caryl P. Haskins | 1961-75 |
| James A. Perkins | 1963-79 |
| William P. Bundy | 1964-74 |
| Gabriel Hauge | 1964-81 |
| Carroll L. Wilson | 1964-79 |
| Douglas Dillon | 1965-78 |
| Henry R. Labouisse | 1965-74 |
| Robert V. Roosa | 1966-81 |
| Lucian W. Pye | 1966-82 |
| Alfred C. Neal | 1967-76 |
| Bill Moyers | 1967-74 |
| Cyrus R. Vance | 1968-76, 1981-87 |
| Hedley Donovan | 1969-79 |
| Najeeb E. Halaby | 1970-72 |
| Bayless Manning | 1971-77 |
| W. Michael Blumenthal | 1972-77, 1979-84 |
| Zbigniew Brzezinski | 1972-77 |
| Elizabeth Drew | 1972-77 |
| George S. Franklin | 1972-83 |
| Marshall D. Shulman | 1972-77 |
| Martha Redfield Wallace | 1972-82 |
| Paul C. Warnke | 1972-77 |
| Peter G. Peterson | 1973-83, 1984 |
| Robert O. Anderson | 1974-80 |
| Edward K. Hamilton | 1974-83 |
| Harry C. McPherson, Jr. | 1974-77 |
| Elliot L. Richardson | 1974-75 |
| Franklin Hall Williams | 1975-83 |
| Nicholas deB. Katzenbach | 1975-86 |
| Paul A. Volcker | 1975-79, 1988 |
| Theodore M. Hesburgh | 1976-85 |
| Lane Kirkland | 1976-86 |
| George H. W. Bush | 1977-79 |
| Lloyd N. Cutler | 1977-79 |
| Philip L. Geyelin | 1977-87 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | 1977-81 |
| Winston Lord | 1977-85 |
| Stephen Stamas | 1977-89 |
| Marina v.N. Whitman | 1977-87 |
| C. Peter McColough | 1978-87 |
| Richard L. Gelb | 1979-88 |
| Graham T. Allison, Jr. | 1979-88 |
| William D. Ruckelshaus | 1979-83 |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. | 1980-84 |
| George P. Shultz | 1980-82 |
| William D. Rogers | 1980-90 |
| Walter B. Wriston | 1981-87 |
| Lewis T. Preston | 1981-88 |
| Warren Christopher | 1982-91 |
| Alan Greenspan | 1982-88 |
| Robert A. Scalapino | 1982-89 |
| Harold Brown | 1983-92 |
| Stanley Hoffmann | 1983-92 |
| Juanita M. Kreps | 1983-89 |
| Brent Scowcroft | 1983-89 |
| Clifton R. Wharton, Jr. | 1983-92 |
| Donald F. McHenry | 1984-93 |
| B. R. Inman | 1985-93 |
| Jeane J. Kirkpatrick | 1985-94 |
| Peter Tarnoff | 1986-93 |
| Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. | 1986-92 |
| Ruben F. Mettler | 1986-92 |
| James E. Burke | 1987-95 |
| Richard B. Cheney | 1987-89, 1993-95 |
| Robert F. Erburu | 1987 |
| Karen Elliott House | 1987 |
| Glenn E. Watts | 1987-90 |
| Thomas S. Foley | 1988-94 |
| James D. Robinson III | 1988-91 |
| Strobe Talbott | 1988-93 |
| John L. Clendenin | 1989-94 |
| William S. Cohen | 1989 |
| Joshua Lederberg | 1989 |
| John S. Reed | 1989-92 |
| Alice M. Rivlin | 1989-92 |
| William J. Crowe, Jr. | 1990-93 |
| Thomas R. Donahue | 1990 |
| Richard C. Holbrooke | 1991-93, 1996 |
| Robert D. Hormats | 1991 |
| John E. Bryson | 1992 |
| Maurice R. Greenberg | 1992 |
| Karen N. Horn | 1992-95 |
| James R. Houghton | 1992-96 |
| Charlayne Hunter-Gault | 1992 |
| Kenneth W. Dam | 1992 |
| Donna E. Shalala | 1992-93 |
| Alton Frye | 1993 |
| Richard N. Cooper | 1993-94 |
| Rita E. Hauser | 1993 |
| E. Gerald Corrigan | 1993-95 |
| Leslie H. Gelb | 1993 |
| Paul A. Allaire | 1993 |
| Robert E. Allen | 1993 |
| Theodore C. Sorensen | 1993 |
| Garrick Utley | 1993 |
| Carla A. Hills, | 1994 |
| Helene L. Kaplan | 1994-96 |
| Frank G. Zarb | 1994-96 |
| Robert B. Zoellick | 1994 |
| Les Aspin | 1995 |
| Mario L. Baeza | 1995 |
| Peggy Dulany | 1995 |
| Jessica P. Einhorn | 1995 |
| William J. McDonough | 1995 |
| Frank Savage | 1995 |
| George Soros | 1995 |
| Hannah Holborn Gray | 1995 |
| George J. Mitchell | 1995 |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | 1995 |
| Lee Cullum | 1996 |
| Chairmen of the Board | |
| Russell C. Leffingwell | 1946-53 |
| John J. McCloy | 1953-70 |
| David Rockefeller | 1970-85 |
| Peter G. Peterson | 1985 |
| Vice Chairmen of the Board | |
| Grayson Kirk | 1971-73 |
| Cyrus R. Vance | 1973-76, 1985-87 |
| Douglas Dillon | 1976-78 |
| Carroll L. Wilson | 1978-79 |
| Warren Christopher | 1987-91 |
| Harold Brown | 1991-92 |
| B. R. Inman | 1992-93 |
| Jeane J. Kirkpatrick | 1993-94 |
| Maurice R. Greenberg | 1994 |
| Presidents | |
| John W. Davis | 1921-33 |
| George W. Wickersham | 1933-36 |
| Norman H. Davis | 1936-44 |
| Russell C. Leffingwell | 1944-46 |
| Allen W. Dulles | 1946-50 |
| Henry M. Wriston | 1951-64 |
| Grayson Kirk | 1964-71 |
| Bayless Manning | 1971-77 |
| Winston Lord | 1977-85 |
| John Temple Swing* | 1985-86 |
| Peter Tarnoff | 1986-93 |
| Alton Frye | 1993 |
| Leslie H. Gelb | 1993 |
| Honorary President | |
| Elihu Root | 1931-37 |
| Executive Vice President | |
| John Temple Swing | 1986-93 |
| Vice Presidents | |
| Paul D. Cravath | 1921-33 |
| Norman H. Davis | 1933-36 |
| Edwin F. Gay | 1933-40 |
| Frank L. Polk | 1940-43 |
| Russell C. Leffingwell | 1943-44 |
| Allen W. Dulles | 1944-46 |
| Isaiah Bowman | 1945-49 |
| Henry M. Wriston | 1950-51 |
| David Rockefeller | 1950-70 |
| Frank Altschul | 1951-71 |
| Devereux C. Josephs | 1951-52 |
| David W. MacEachron | 1972-74 |
| John Temple Swing | 1972-86 |
| Alton Frye | 1987-93 |
| William H. Gleysteen, Jr. | 1987-89 |
| John A. Millington | 1987 |
| Margaret Osmer-McQuade | 1987-93 |
| Nicholas X. Rizopoulos | 1989-94 |
| Karen M. Sughrue | 1993 |
| Abraham F. Lowenthal | 1995 |
| Janice L. Murray | 1995 |
| David J. Vidal | 1995 |
| Ethan B. Kapstein | 1995-96 |
| Senior Vice Presidents | |
| Alton Frye | 1993 |
| Kenneth H. Keller | 1993-95 |
| Larry L. Fabian | 1994-95 |
| Michael P. Peters | 1995 |
| Secretaries | |
| Edwin F. Gay | 1921-33 |
| Allen W. Dulles | 1933-44 |
| Frank Altschul | 1944-72 |
| John Temple Swing | 1972-87 |
| Judith Gustafson | 1987 |
| Treasurers | |
| Edwin F. Gay | 1921-33 |
| Whitney H. Shepardson | 1933-42 |
| Clarence E. Hunter | 1942-51 |
| Devereux C. Josephs | 1951-52 |
| Elliott V. Bell | 1952-64 |
| Gabriel Hauge | 1964-81 |
| Peter G. Peterson | 1981-85 |
| C. Peter McColough | 1985-87 |
| Lewis T. Preston | 1987-88 |
| James E. Burke | 1988-89 |
| David Woodbridge | 1989-94 |
| Janice L. Murray | 1994 |
| Executive Directors | |
| Hamilton Fish Armstrong | 1922-28 |
| Malcolm W. Davis | 1925-27 |
| Walter H. Mallory | 1927-59 |
| George S. Franklin, Jr. | 1953-71 |
| Directors of Studies | |
| Percy W. Bidwell | 1937-53 |
| Philip E. Mosely | 1955-63 |
| Richard H. Ullman | 1973-76 |
| Abraham F. Lowenthal | 1976-77 |
| John C. Campbell | 1977-78 |
| Paul H. Kreisberg | 1981-87 |
| William H. Gleysteen, Jr. | 1987-89 |
| Nicholas X. Rizopoulos | 1989-94 |
| Kenneth H. Keller* | 1994-95 |
| Ethan B. Kapstein | 1995-96 |
| Kenneth Maxwell | 1996 |
| Editors of Foreign Affairs | |
| Archibald Cary Coolidge | 1922-28 |
| Hamilton Fish Armstrong | 1928-72 |
| William P. Bundy | 1972-84 |
| William G. Hyland | 1984-92 |
| James F. Hoge, Jr. | 1992 |
| * Pro-tempore | |
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