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Board of Directors
Chairman
Cofounder and Co-chairman, The Carlyle Group
Vice Chairman
Cofounder, Centerview Partners
Vice Chairman
Senior Advisor, Lazard Geopolitical Advisory
President
President, Council on Foreign Relations
Chair, National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board, NASA
Partner, Venrock
Founder and CEO, RockCreek
Moderator, Face the Nation; Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, CBS News
President, American University
Chairman and Managing Director, General Catalyst
Executive Chairman, Cerevel Therapeutics
Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group
CEO, Citi
Chief Investment Officer, Founder, Managing Partner, Cyrus Capital Partners L.P.
Executive Chairman, Morgan Stanley
Principal, Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC
Former US FDA Commissioner; Former Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine
Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Senior Vice President, Head of Technology and Society, Google LLC
Professor of National Security, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
Chief Executive Officer, Muzinich & Co
Professor of Public Policy, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Director and Professor, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
Managing Director, Insight Partners
Managing Partner and Cofounder, Recognize
Founder and CEO, EDEN Productions
President, Chief Investment Officer, and Chief Financial Officer; Alphabet and Google
Founder and President, Emerson Collective
President Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Henry Luce Foundation
Chairman, President, and CEO, Lockheed Martin
Executive Vice President for Corporate Affairs, Corporate Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer, Activision Blizzard
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Estée Lauder Companies
Vice Chairman, S&P Global
Host, Fareed Zakaria GPS, CNN
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Emeritus and Honorary
Honorary Vice Chairman
President Emeritus
Chairman Emeritus
Chairman Emeritus
Officers
David M. Rubenstein
Chairman
Blair W. Effron
Vice Chairman
Jami Miscik
Vice Chairman
Michael Froman
President
Senior Leadership
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
Nancy D. Bodurtha
Vice President, Meetings and Membership
Irina A. Faskianos
Vice President, National Program and Outreach
Suzanne Helm
Vice President, Philanthropy and Corporate Relations
Jan Mowder Hughes
Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer
Caroline Netchvolodoff
Vice President, Education
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President and Deputy Director of Studies
Stephanie Solomon
Vice President; Chief Revenue Officer, Foreign Affairs
Iva Zorić
Vice President, Global Communications and Media Relations
Jennifer Perez
Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Jeffrey A. Reinke
Chief of Staff to the President, Secretary of the Corporation
Executive Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Blair W. Effron
Vice Chair
Jami Miscik
Vice Chair
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Tony Coles
Stephen Freidheim
Stephen J. Hadley
James Manyika
Janet Napolitano
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Richard L. Plepler
Tracey T. Travis
Audit Committee
James Manyika
Chair
Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
Frank Brosens
Michael D. Granoff
Frances Fragos Townsend
Amy Zegart
Compensation Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Blair W. Effron
Jami Miscik
Tracey T. Travis
Corporate Affairs Committee
Blair W. Effron
Chair
Jon Banner
Theresa M. Fariello
Jeffrey M. Fine
Bart Friedman
Gary L. Ginsberg
James P. Gorman
Maurice R. Greenberg
Andrew Gundlach
Donna J. Hrinak
Virginia A. Kamsky
Craig A. Kelly
Edward S. Knight
Charles Phillips
Ruth Porat
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Thakur Sharma
Fred Terrell
Graves Tompkins
Christopher H. Turner
Enzo Viscusi
Development Committee
David M. Rubenstein
Chair
Blair W. Effron
Janet Napolitano
Finance and Budget Committee
Tracey T. Travis
Chair
Roger C. Altman
Stephen Freidheim
Joachim Gfoeller Jr.
Michael D. Granoff
Henry Kaufman
Marc Lasry
Robert Millard
Joel W. Motley
Justin Muzinich
Scott L. Swid
James D. Taiclet
Foreign Affairs Committee
Jami Miscik
Chair
Jesse H. Ausubel
Peter E. Bass
John B. Bellinger III
Kenneth I. Chenault
Susan D. Chira
Cesar Conde
Jessica P. Einhorn
Francis Fukuyama
Thomas H. Glocer
Adi Ignatius
Jeh Charles Johnson
William H. McRaven
Michael J. Col. Meese
Justin Muzinich
Neal S. Wolin
Daniel H. Yergin
Investment Committee
Stephen Freidheim
Chair
Steven A. Tananbaum
Vice Chair
Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss
James P. Gorman
J. Tomilson Hill
Deven J. Parekh
Richard E. Salomon
Robert F. Wallace
Observer
Meetings Committee
Richard L. Plepler
Chair
Christina A. Bennett
Jason Bordoff
Margaret Brennan
Kenneth I. Chenault
Tony Coles
JC de Swaan
Esther Dyson
Tim Ferguson
Sheri L. Fink
Rana Foroohar
Andrew P. Heaney
Mandë N. Holford
Stephanie T. Kleine-Ahlbrandt
Scott Malcomson
Mora L. McLean
Jan Nicholson
Mustafa S. Riffat
Jeffrey R. Shafer
Mitchell D. Silber
Mariko Silver
P. J. Simmons
Sylvana Q. Sinha
Sonya Stokes
Cathy L. Taylor
Amina Tirana
Emerita Torres
Brett I.W. Zbar
Membership Committee
Tony Coles
Chair
Mona Aboelnaga Kanaan
Thad W. Allen
Mark Angelson
Nicholas F. Beim
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
Heidi Crebo-Rediker
Thomas J. Culora
Bart Friedman
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg
Joseph K. Hurd III
Robert W. Jordan
Tracy B. McKibben
Deven J. Parekh
Luis J. Perez
Jeffrey A. Rosen
Raj Shah
Mariko Silver
Frances Fragos Townsend
Vin Weber
Term Membership Subcommittee
Saj Cherian
Chair
David R. Ayón
Elisa Basnight
Mark Blumling
Michael R. Fenzel
Tressa S. Guenov
Therese Lee
Jay Lemery
Robert J. Lempert
Marcel J. Lettre
Sanjay Parekh
Jay M. Parker
Celina B. Realuyo
Lincoln C. Singleton
Angela Sun
Ruti G. Teitel
Cindy Tindell
Amina Tirana
David Trulio
National Program Committee
Janet Napolitano
Chair
Hussein Al Baya
Diana Alleva Cáceres
Barbara R. Barreno-Paschall
Ekpedeme M. Bassey
Kevin M. Brown
Dan Caldwell
Carmen Chang
Vin Gupta
Mimi L. Haas
Lyric Hughes Hale
Edward T. Hightower
Scott Holcomb
Tim K. Hsia
William Curt Hunter
Nancy A. Jarvis
Suzanne F. Johnson
Jane Kang
Michael Kavoukjian
Kathryn C. Lavelle
James Manyika
Kimberly Marteau Emerson
Susan R. McCaw
William H. McRaven
M. Diana Helweg Newton
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Ruth Porat
Laurene Powell Jobs
Kal Raustiala
L. Rafael Reif
Ana Salas Siegel
Farah Stockman
James S. Taylor
Leslie Vinjamuri
Nominating and Governance Committee
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Chair
Cesar Conde
Helima Croft
Kim Gordon Davis
Marlene Hess
Jeh Charles Johnson
Juliette Kayyem
Jon Liebman
Jami Miscik
Pamela S. Passman
Kimberly Querrey
Emily Rafferty
Stanley S. Shuman
Tracey T. Travis
Studies Committee
Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Chair
Lisa Anderson
Nicholas F. Beim
Meena Bose
Charles Boustany Jr.
Kevin J. Delaney
Jane Fraser
Stephen J. Hadley
Margaret (Peggy) Hamburg
Charles F. Kalmbach
Ann F. Kaplan
Robert Katz
Timothy M. Kingston
Michael Levi
Rebecca Patterson
Charles Phillips
L. Rafael Reif
David Shambaugh
David Shuman
James Stavridis
Fareed Zakaria
Amy Zegart
Washington Program Committee
Stephen J. Hadley
Chair
Thad W. Allen
Nicole M. Bibbins Sedaca
Ché Bolden
Margaret Brennan
Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Guillermo S. Christensen
Joy A. de Menil
Karen J. DeYoung
Kimberly Dozier
David Ensor
Betsy Fischer Martin
Tami Hultman
Patricia M. Kim
Tod Lindberg
Mary Beth Long
Kezia McKeague
Douglas A. Ollivant
Linda Robinson
Neil Shenai
Kristen Silverberg
Kehinde A. Togun
Vin Weber
Mona Yacoubian
Daniel H. Yergin
Juan C. Zarate
For past directors and officers please see our Historical Roster.