Founded in 2002 by Jewelle Bickford, the Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Council includes leaders from the business, nonprofit, and philanthropic sectors throughout the country who have a keen interest in issues related to U.S. foreign policy toward women in developing countries. If you would like more information regarding group membership, please contact Ashley Harden at aharden@cfr.org or 212.434.9539.
Linda Addison, Partner-in-Charge, Fulbright & Jaworski
Jewelle Bickford, Senior Strategist, GenSpring Family Offices
Lucy C. Billingsley, Partner, Billingsley Company
Elizabeth R. Bramwell, President and Chief Investment Officer, Bramwell Capital Management, Inc.
Wendy Breck
Laura Breyer
Peter L. Briger, Jr., Co-Chairman, Fortress Investment Group LLC
Mayree Clark, Managing Director, Aetos Capital
Michael Coles, Member, Foreign Policy Association
Linda Coughlin, Member, Great Circle Associates
Marti Dinerstein, President, Immigration Matters
Kathleen Doyle, Chief Executive Officer, Doyle New York
Connie K. Duckworth, Founder and President, Arzu Inc.
Peggy Dulany, Founder and Chair, Synergos Institute
Katie Ford, Katie Ford Foundation
Linda Gottlieb, President, Taurus Films Inc.
Agnes Gund, President Emerita of the Museum and Chairman of the International Council, Museum of Modern Art
Paula Hawkins, Member, Women's Multifaith Committee, Auburn Theological Seminary.
Marlene Hess, Philanthropic Consultant
Diane D. Jacobsen, President, Jacobsen Foundation
Lou Anne K. Jensen, Founder and President, Chrest Foundation
Susan Jonas, Board Member, Women’s Refugee Commission
Ann F. Kaplan, Chair, Circle Financial Group
Jane Katcher, Author
Maria Elena Lagomasino, Chief Executive Officer, GenSpring Family Offices
Edith Langner, New York Presbyterian Hospital
Rose P. Lynch, President, Market Strategies LLC
Jean M. Martin
Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Former Chairman, American Red Cross; Founder and CEO, Pace Communications; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Finland
Janet McKinley, Chair, Oxfam America Board of Directors
Agnes Metzger
Edward H. Meyer, State Senator, State of Connecticut
Sandy Meyer
Sally Minard, President and CEO, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Joyce L. Moss
Susan Nitze, Co-Chair, International Women's Health Coalition
Hutham Olayan, President and Chief Executive Officer, Olayan America Corporation
Susan E. Patricof, Vice Chair of the Board of Overseers, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
Barbara S. Perlmutter, Former Senior Vice President, Marsh & McLennan Companies
Marnie S. Pillsbury, Executive Director, David Rockefeller Fund
Amy Regan
Bonnie Reiss
Rosemary L. Ripley, Managing Director, NGEN
Diana R. Rockefeller, Founder and Chair, Afghan Women Leaders Connect
Lynn Shanahan, C2Group
Muriel Siebert, Founder and President, Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
Anne Stetson, President, Lighthouse Consulting
Nicki Tanner
Barbara A. Taylor, President, Alden Taylor Associates
Diana Taylor, Managing Director, Wolfensohn & Co.
Nancy H. Tilghman, Freelance Journalist, The New York Times
Patricia Weinbach
Marissa Wesely, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Anita Volz Wien, Vice Chairman, Observatory Group LLC
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